Document	Document Title
US11622337B2	Power allocation in new radio and long term evolution dual connectivity Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for determining dynamic power sharing in a dual connectivity network. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US11622330B2	Indication method and apparatus for control signaling, and terminal, base station and storage medium An indicating method includes: configuring detection indicating information for indicating a terminal that needs to detect the control signaling within a time window; and sending a message carrying the detection indicating information to the terminal.
US11622328B2	Techniques for discontinuous reception cycle based measurement gaps Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may establish a communication connection with a serving cell associated with a first discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle configuration, determine, based at least in part on at least one of a first on duration of a first DRX cycle indicated by the first DRX cycle configuration or a type of traffic of one or more communications received during the first DRX cycle, an autonomous measurement gap associated with a neighboring cell, and perform a measurement of the neighboring cell during the autonomous measurement gap. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11622324B2	Network node power control A method is disclosed for a centralized unit (CU) of a wireless communication network, wherein the CU is associated with each of one or more remote units (RU) of the wireless communication network via a respective communication interface. The CU is adapted to operate in one of a plurality of modes including at least a normal operation mode and a power saving operation mode, and the normal operation mode defines a plurality of functions to be performed by the CU. The method comprises (when the CU is in the normal operation mode) determining that a traffic load associated with the one or more RU fulfills a power saving operation criterion, configuring—via the respective communication interface each of the RU for autonomous operation, whereby each of the RU is configured to execute at least one of the plurality of functions, and transferring from the normal operation mode to the power saving operation mode. Corresponding method for a remote unit, computer program products, network node, and arrangements for CU and RU, respectively, are also disclosed.
US11622323B2	Slice allocation and interface to applications A user equipment (UE) modem stores a route selection policy (URSP), the URSP associating each of a plurality of data network name (DNN) identifiers and a corresponding slice, wherein a first DNN identifier (ID) is associated with a first DNN and a first slice and a second DNN ID is associated with the first DNN and a second slice different than the first slice. The modem establishes a first protocol data unit (PDU) session with the first DNN and the first slice in response to receiving a first indication to start a first network interface associated with the first DNN ID. The modem establishes a second PDU session with the first DNN and the second slice in response to receiving a second indication to start a second network interface associated with the second DNN ID.
US11622322B1	Systems and methods for providing satellite backhaul management over terrestrial fiber A device may receive capacity information associated with a plurality of base stations, and may receive user equipment demands associated with the plurality of base stations. The device may receive, from a satellite, a satellite backhaul demand associated with the satellite, and may calculate excess backhaul capacities associated with the plurality of base stations, based on the user equipment demands and the capacity information. The device may identify a base station, of the plurality of base stations, to provide a satellite backhaul path for the satellite, based on the excess backhaul capacities and the satellite backhaul demand, and may provide, to the base station, a message instructing the base station to activate a satellite antenna associated with the base station. The device may provide, to the satellite, data identifying the base station, and may establish the satellite backhaul path for the satellite, via the base station.
US11622313B1	Methods and systems for transitioning between client-less and client-based network connectivity to a secure access service edge (SASE) domain Method and systems for transitioning a wireless device between client-less connectivity and client-based connectivity are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for transitioning a wireless device between client-less connectivity and client-based connectivity involves forwarding traffic from a wireless device through a SASE domain, receiving a request for information related to a SASE gateway in the SASE domain from the wireless device, transmitting information related to the SASE gateway from the SASE domain to the wireless device in response to the request, and transitioning the wireless device between client-less connectivity to the SASE gateway and client-based connectivity to the SASE gateway.
US11622312B2	Overlapping subdags in a RPL network A method by a wireless network device in a wireless data network comprises: joining a non-storing mode destination-oriented directed acyclic graph (DODAG) in response to receiving a multicast DODAG information object (DIO) message originated by a root device; generating and transmitting a unicast destination advertisement (DAO) message destined for the root device and indicating the wireless network device has joined the DODAG; advertising as a subroot of a subDAG in the DODAG, based on outputting a second message specifying subDAG information identifying the subDAG; receiving a second unicast DAO message generated by a child network device in the subDAG and addressed to the wireless network device, the second unicast DAO message indicating the child network device has joined the subDAG; and generating and sending a third unicast DAO message to the root device specifying the child network device is reachable via the wireless network device.
US11622309B2	Optimizations to support enhanced handover procedures Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, techniques that may help optimize enhanced handover procedures, such as MBB and CHO handover procedures.
US11622306B2	Dynamically changing the primary cell (PCell) for fifth generation (5G) carrier aggregation A telecommunication network associated with a wireless telecommunication provider can be configured to dynamically switch the primary cell (PCell) used by user equipment (UE) for carrier aggregation (CA) in 5G cellular networks. Instead of remaining anchored to an initially selected PCell, a different PCell may be dynamically selected based on different network conditions. The network conditions may include network congestion, network capacity, uplink speed, location of the UE, an activity of the UE (e.g., is the UE uploading or planning to upload data), and the like. As an example, the PCell may be selected from an n41 (2.5 GHz) cell and an n71 (600 MHz) cell. When the UE is close to the n41 cell, the n41 cell may be selected. When the UE is moving away from the cell center and toward the cell edge, the PCell may be switched from the n41 cell to the n71 cell.
US11622297B2	System and method for dynamic variable compression of Aircraft Communications, Addressing, and Reporting System (ACARS) protocol messaging An Aircraft Communication and Addressing Reporting System (ACARS) compatible transmitter is disclosed. In embodiments, the transmitter receives outbound (e.g., downlink or uplink) ACARS messages from aircraft end systems and compresses the header/trailer (H/T) and/or text payloads of ACARS blocks (e.g., text messages) or ACARS acknowledgements (ACK)) prior to transmission. For example, the transmitter compresses ACARS blocks by removing fixed markers and encoding variable fields. The transmitter parses incoming text payloads to determine their character distribution and selects a radix alphabet including the ASCII characters used in the text payload. The transmitter converts the ASCII characters to binary characters of the corresponding alphabet based on the selected radix base, assembling a compressed message block for transmission based on the compressed H/T component and/or text payload, adding a link layer header to indicate the selected radix base to the ACARS destination for decompression of the received compressed message.
US11622294B2	Fronthaul physical layer split in a cellular telecommunications network This disclosure provides a method of operating a base station in a cellular telecommunications network, and a base station unit for implementing the method, the base station having a central base station unit and a distributed base station unit, wherein the central base station unit and distributed base station unit communicate over a fronthaul link having a first and second capacity configuration, and the cellular telecommunications network further includes a User Equipment (UE) consuming a service via the base station.
US11622290B2	Common PDCCH configuration The present disclosure describes example techniques for configuring and utilizing common control channels and configuration thereof in wireless communication systems. For instance, in an aspect, the present disclosure describes an example method performed by a network node (106) (also referred to herein as a base station, eNB, next-generation NodeB (gNB), or the like) that includes generating resource location information identifying one or more candidate time-frequency resource locations for a common control channel utilized in the cell. In addition, the example method can include transmitting the resource location information to one or more UEs and/or one or more other network nodes.
US11622286B2	Vehicle-to-infrastructure communication control A system includes an infrastructure element having a computer. The computer is programmed to receive one or more communication metrics, and node identification data including node location data, from each of a plurality of stationary communication nodes coverage area. The computer is programmed to generate a communication metrics table that identifies locations of the stationary communication nodes and specifies their respective communication metrics. The computer is programmed, based on the communication metrics table, to adjust a transmission parameter of the infrastructure element, the transmission parameter including at least one of a transmission power or a data throughput rate.
US11622283B2	Wireless communication system with discrimination between extraneous received signals A wireless communication system having base stations and remotely located terminal units. The base stations and the remotely located terminal units communicate data over operational wireless communication links assigned to respective sub-channels having tiles separated by frequency and time. Detectors for analyzing extraneous received signals in unassigned tiles of the communication links discriminate between a first type of extraneous signals detected in unassigned tiles of one sub-frame and also detected in other unassigned tiles, and a second type of extraneous signals detected in the unassigned tiles but not detected in other unassigned tiles. The reaction of the base stations is different based on the type of extraneous signals.
US11622274B2	Tamper-resistant datalink communications system This application relates to a tamper-resistant datalink communications system. The system may include a ground-based communications module configured to be coupled to a radio controller configured to remotely control a drone comprising one or more actuators and a remote-mounted communications module configured to communicate data with the ground-based communications module. The ground-based communications module may include a ground processor configured to: receive a plurality of first signals modulated with a first modulation scheme from the radio controller, convert the plurality of first signals to a second signal modulated with a second modulation scheme different from the first modulation scheme, and generate a plurality of second duplicated signals comprising two or more duplicate signals of the second signal. The ground-based communications module may also include a plurality of ground transmitters configured to operate in different frequencies and respectively transmit the plurality of second duplicated signals to the remote-mounted communications module.
US11622269B2	Methods and systems of head end based wireless device authentication Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method of communications involves at a head end (HE), receiving an authentication message from a wireless access point (AP) deployed at a customer site and at the HE, receiving an authentication response from an authentication server in response to the authentication message.
US11622259B2	Rsp platform selection for providing esim profiles to user devices Telecommunication services are received at a user device using an embedded subscriber identity module (eSIM) profile stored on the user device while the user device is located in a first geographical area. A list of preferred remote SIM provisioning (RSP) platforms that provide eSIM profiles specific to a partner MNO of the MNO in a second geographical area is also received from an eSIM management platform of an MNO; The user device is then determined to have moved to a second geographical area based on a geolocation of the user device. Subsequently, an additional eSIM profile specific to the partner MNO of the MNO is downloaded to the user device from an RSP platform of one or more RSP platforms included in the list of preferred RSP platforms.
US11622234B2	Passive asset tracking using observations of Wi-Fi access points A method of passive asset tracking using observations of Wi-Fi access points includes associating unique identifying information of a Wi-Fi access point with a moveable asset in an asset tracking database, where the Wi-Fi access point is disposed on, attached to, or integrated, receiving observation data from a Wi-Fi AP Database including the unique identifying information of the Wi-Fi access point and location information of the Wi-Fi access point, determining a location of the moveable asset based, at least in part, on the observation data of the Wi-Fi access point, and storing the location of the moveable asset in the asset tracking database. There is no communication between the asset tracking database and one or more wireless devices that report an encounter with the Wi-Fi access point, comprising observation data, to the Wi-Fi AP Database.
US11622232B2	Positioning of vehicles and pedestrians leveraging ranging signal A target user equipment (UE), which may be a vehicle or UE carried by a pedestrian, may receive sequentially broadcast ranging signals from a set of ranging source entities (SEs), which may be road side units or other vehicles. The target UE further receives location information separately broadcast by each SEs. The location information, for example, may include the position for the SE, the time of transmission of the ranging signals transmitted by the SE and/or a sequence identifier for the SE. The target UE may determine ranges to the SEs using time of arrival measurements for the ranging signals and the time of transmissions of the ranging signals or the sequence identifier received in the location information. The position of the target UE may be determined using the determined ranges to the SEs and the positions of the SEs received in the location information.
US11622222B2	Location information through directional sound provided by mobile computing device A mobile computing device that provides location information through directional sound is described herein. The mobile computing device includes a location detection system that provides location signals corresponding to a user location and a destination location, such as a vehicle location or a vertex of a predefined travel route, to a spatial audio generation system to define a spatial audio signal based on a direction from the user location to the destination location. The spatial audio signal is provided to an audio device of the mobile computing device that outputs the spatial audio signal as directional sound having a locus at the destination location.
US11622220B2	System and method for loudspeaker position estimation Embodiments of systems and methods are described for estimating a position of a loudspeaker and notifying a listener if an abnormal condition is detected, such as an incorrect loudspeaker orientation or an obstruction in a path between the loudspeaker and a microphone array. For example, a front component of a multi-channel surround sound system may include the microphone array and a position estimation engine. The position estimation engine may estimate the distance between the loudspeaker and the microphone array. In addition, the position estimation engine may estimate an angle of the loudspeaker using a first technique. The position estimation engine may also estimate an angle of the loudspeaker using a second technique. The two angles can be processed to determine whether the abnormal condition exists. If the abnormal condition exists, a listener can be notified and be provided with suggestions for resolving the issue in a graphical user interface.
US11622218B2	Method and apparatus for processing multimedia signals The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for processing a signal, which are used for effectively reproducing a multimedia signal, and more particularly, to a method and an apparatus for processing a signal, which are used for implementing filtering for multimedia signal having a plurality of subbands with a low calculation amount. To this end, provided are a method for processing a multimedia signal including: receiving a multimedia signal having a plurality of subbands; receiving at least one proto-type filter coefficients for filtering each subband signal of the multimedia signal; converting the proto-type filter coefficients into a plurality of subband filter coefficients; truncating each subband filter coefficients based on filter order information obtained by at least partially using characteristic information extracted from the corresponding subband filter coefficients, the length of at least one truncated subband filter coefficients being different from the length of truncated subband filter coefficients of another subband; and filtering the multimedia signal by using the truncated subband filter coefficients corresponding to each subband signal and an apparatus for processing a multimedia signal using the same.
US11622212B2	Systems and methods for suppressing sound leakage A bone conduction speaker includes a housing, a vibration board and a transducer. The transducer is located in the housing, and the vibration board is configured to contact with skin and pass vibration. At least one sound guiding hole is set on at least one portion of the housing to guide sound wave inside the housing to the outside of the housing. The guided sound wave interfaces with the leaked sound wave, and the interfacing reduces a sound pressure level of at least a portion of the leaked sound wave. A frequency of the at least a portion of the leaked sound wave is lower than 4000 Hz.
US11622193B2	Limiter system and method for avoiding clipping distortion or increasing maximum sound level of active speaker The present disclosure provides a limiter system. The limiter system includes a first equalization filter, a low-pass filter, a first limiter, a high-pass filter, a second limiter, and a mixer. The limiter system provided by the present disclosure further includes a second equalization filter. An audio signal from a signal source first passes through the first equalization filter, the signal equalized for the first time is divided into two signals, one signal is processed by the low-pass filter and the first limiter, the other signal is processed by the high-pass filter and the second limiter, and then the two processed signals enter the mixer to be mixed and outputted. The mixed output signal is subjected to second equalization filtering by the second equalization filter to avoid clipping distortion or to obtain a higher maximum sound level.
US11622189B2	Speaker and mobile terminal This application provides a speaker and a mobile terminal. The speaker includes a housing and a kernel located in the housing, where there is a front cavity and a rear cavity in the housing, the front cavity is in communication with the outside, and the rear cavity is an isolated cavity. In addition, to reduce a space area occupied by the entire speaker, the front cavity and the rear cavity are disposed in a stacked manner when being disposed. Specifically, the front cavity and the rear cavity are at least partially stacked along a thickness direction of the kernel. Therefore, the rear cavity is disposed in space of the entire speaker in the thickness direction of the kernel, to reduce an area occupied by the entire speaker in the mobile terminal on the premise that a size of the rear cavity meets a requirement.
US11622186B2	Acoustic output apparatus and methods thereof The present disclosure provides an acoustic output apparatus. The acoustic output apparatus may include an acoustic output component and a supporting structure forming an acoustically open structure that allows the acoustic output component to acoustically communicate with the surroundings. The acoustic output component may include a plurality of acoustic drivers, each of which may be configured to output a sound with a frequency range. At least one of the acoustic drivers may include a magnetic system for generating a first magnetic field. The magnetic system may include a first magnetic component for generating a second magnetic field and at least one second magnetic component. A magnetic gap may be formed between the first magnetic component and the at least one second magnetic component. A magnetic field intensity of the first magnetic field in the magnetic gap may be greater than that of the second magnetic field in the magnetic gap.
US11622180B2	Commercial lighting integrated with loudspeakers for sound masking, paging or music A commercial lighting system, the system comprising, an integral housing adapted to be coupled to a ceiling of a building, a lighting unit mounted to the integral housing and a loudspeaker assembly mounted to the integral housing, the loudspeaker assembly comprising a low directivity index, and oriented to provide an acoustic sound signal from the integral housing to a listener in an area of the building comprising the ceiling.
US11622164B2	System and method for streaming video/s Aspects of the invention are directed towards a system and a method for streaming video. One or more embodiments of the invention describe a method comprising steps of transmitting a request to a server by a user device for streaming a video and receiving one or more video segments of the video from the server. One or more embodiments of the invention further describe creating object uniform resource locators (URLs) for each of the one or more video segments and transmitting the created object URLs to the server, wherein an in-memory playlist is created on the server including the object URLs of the one or more video segments. The user device receives the playlist URL of the in-memory playlist from the server and streams the one or more video segments of the video at the user device by using the playlist URL.
US11622162B2	Determining points of interest in a content item Aspects discussed herein relate to systems, apparatuses, and methods to identify points of interest of viewers of a content item concurrently being transmitted in a linear stream to the viewers. A point of interest may refer to a segment of the content item that caused a surge in user reactions. During a subsequent transmission of the content item, identified points of interests may be displayed to the viewer. The viewer may select the point of interest in the content item to begin playback of the point of interest in the content item.
US11622161B2	Method for operating a distributed video production system and architecture of a distributed video production system A new architecture of a distributed video production system is suggested. The distributed video production system enables distributed execution of one or more workflows that are operated by one or more operators at the same time. The present disclosure suggests mechanisms for synchronizing workflows and data streams within the distributed video production system. A workflow orchestrator is aware of all workflows currently executed on the distributed video production system and selects the required processing resources. A run time orchestrator ensures that the blocks are available for processing by controlling the receiving broadcast functionality such that it requests the block only after it is available by taking into account a network delay.
US11622160B2	Merging permissions and content access Aspects of the disclosure relate to determining that a wireless device associated with one user account is proximate to a computing device associated with another user account. In response to determining the proximity of the two devices, one or more of the devices may receive merged access to permissions and/or content associated with the two user accounts. In response to determining that the wireless device is not proximate to the computing device, the devices may no longer receive merged access to permissions and/or content associated with the two user accounts.
US11622151B2	Methods and systems for recommending media assets based on the geographic location at which the media assets are frequently consumed Methods and systems are provided herein for recommending a media asset based on a geographic location at which that media asset was frequently consumed. For example, the system may monitor a location, such as New York City or Times Square, to determine popular media assets watched there, such as “The Avengers,” and when another user visits New York City, the system may then notify the user that the movie, such as “The Avengers,” is associated with New York City. The system stores the geographic locations associated with the media asset in the database based on the consumption of the media asset so that other users may be notified which media assets are associated with each geographic location.
US11622142B2	Dynamic scheduling and channel creation based on external data A system is provided for dynamic scheduling and channel creation based on external data. A media item to be inserted in a first media feed of a first channel is determined based on a plurality of pre-encoded media content, metadata, audience-based parameters received from external data source and defined parameters. The plurality of pre-encoded media content comprises live feed and is segmented into a plurality of media segments, each corresponding to different quality level and content encryption mode. A second channel is generated from first channel based on audience-based parameters, insertion of media item, and a second programming schedule. The second programming schedule is generated from modification of first programming schedule based on content recognition-based information that corresponds to the live feed of one of a plurality of channels. The media item is delivered, in viewable format, in second media feed of second channel to a consumer device.
US11622131B2	Luma based secondary transform matrix selection for video processing A video processing method is provided to include: performing a conversion between a current video block of a video and a coded representation of the video, wherein the coded representation conforms to a format rule that specifies a last non-zero coefficient in a residual of the current video block and controls whether or how side information about a secondary transform tool is included in the coded representation, and 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.
US11622104B2	Camera holder for economical and simplified test alignment A test fixture for holding and testing portions of an optical device, such as a plurality of cameras of an eyewear device. The test fixture includes a relay lens such that the fixture can be positioned close to a test screen displaying a patterned test image and reducing the size and cost of parts. The test fixture includes one or more lasers configured to easily and quickly align the test fixture. The test fixture includes an actuator for selectively positioning the cameras behind the relay lens to check for image quality.
US11622099B2	Information-processing apparatus, method of processing information, and program An information-processing apparatus generates camera path information that represents changes with time in the position and posture of a virtual viewpoint and provides another apparatus with the generated camera path information.
US11622093B1	Pixel array for reducing image information loss and image sensor including the same A pixel array is provided. The pixel array includes: a plurality of color filter array (CFA) cells. Each of the plurality of CFA cells includes a plurality of CFA blocks provided along a width direction and a length direction. Each of the plurality of CFA blocks includes a first sub block and a second sub block. The first sub block includes mn pixels having an interpolation distance of 0 during conversion into a Bayer pattern. The second sub block includes at least one pixel having the interpolation distance of 0 during conversion into the Bayer pattern among pixels outside the first sub block, where “m” and “n” are integers of at least 2. The mn pixels of the first sub block include pixels corresponding to a first color, a second color and a third color. Respective second sub blocks of the plurality of CFA blocks form an inter-sub block in each of the plurality of CFA cells.
US11622083B1	Methods, systems, and devices for presenting obscured subject compensation content in a videoconference A conferencing system terminal device includes an image capture device capturing images of a subject during a videoconference occurring across a network and a communication device transmitting the images to at least one remote electronic device engaged in the videoconference. The conferencing system terminal device includes one or more sensors determining that one or more portions of the subject are obscured in the images and one or more processors. The one or more processors apply obscured subject compensation content to the images at locations where the one or more portions of the subject are obscured, during the videoconference, and prior to the communication device transmitting the images to the at least one remote electronic device engaged in the videoconference.
US11622081B2	Imaging systems for generating HDR images and operating methods thereof An imaging system for generating a high dynamic range (HDR) image includes a pixel array that includes first pixels and second pixels, a driver circuit configured to control the first pixels based on a first exposure time and control the second pixels based on a second exposure time, an output circuit configured to output first pixel values of the first pixels and second pixel values of the second pixels from the pixel array, and a processing device configured to generate the HDR image based on a first Bayer image and a second Bayer image, where the first Bayer image is generated based on the first pixel values and the second Bayer image is generated based on the second pixel values and third pixel values of the first Bayer image. The quantity of pixels of the first pixels may be greater than the quantity of pixels of the second pixels.
US11622071B2	Follow-up shooting method and device, medium and electronic device A follow-up shooting method and device, a medium and an electronic device are provided. The follow-up shooting method includes: acquiring a video image in a live classroom, wherein the video image comprises at least one object; analyzing the video image to obtain a gesture image for controlling a camera; and determining whether to control the camera to track and shoot an execution object related to the gesture image based on the gesture image.
US11622067B2	Connected bathroom components A camera system that includes a camera having a main body having a front surface and a back surface; a lens disposed within the main body and configured to view objects in front of the front surface; a magnet coupled to the back surface, wherein the magnet is configured to removably couple the camera to a ferromagnetic material; a shutter adjustably coupled to the main body, so that the shutter is moveable relative to the lens between a closed position and an open position; and a controller disposed within the main body and configured to control operation of the camera.
US11622065B2	Motorized optical component interface systems and methods Various techniques are provided for interfacing motorized and non-motorized optical assemblies with imaging systems. In one example, a method includes receiving an optical assembly at a lens mount assembly of an imaging system. The method also includes receiving a rotation of the optical assembly from a first position to a second position to secure the optical assembly to the lens mount assembly. The rotation causes one or more electrical connections of the lens mount assembly to translate toward and engage with one or more complementary electrical connections of the optical assembly to couple an electrical component of the optical assembly with the imaging system. Additional methods and systems are also provided.
US11622063B2	Camera housing comprising movable thermal bridge for temperature regulation Example implementations include a camera and a thermal management apparatus for a camera including an outer housing walls, an inner bracket for mounting a camera component. The camera and thermal management apparatus further includes a thermal bridge assembly for selectively increasing a thermal conductivity between the inner bracket and the outer housing walls.
US11622046B2	System for cloud-enabling a premise PBX In an example embodiment, a solution that allows a PBX to utilize bridged mobile or desktop applications for collaboration and softphone use is provided. The solution works in conjunction with existing hardwired PBX devices without requiring additional hardware such as an edge router to be integrated with the PBX hardware. Incoming calls are able to ring a user's hardwired device, such as a desk phone at an office, while simultaneously ring mobile device or desktop applications (apps). App users can place outbound PSTN calls and dial PBX extensions just as if they were using their hardwired device. Additionally, PSTN services are utilized from the existing PBX rather than bypassing the existing PBX, which makes tracking and billing more straightforward. A Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) tie trunk is used between the existing PBX and a software bridge controller.
US11622043B1	Apparatuses and methods involving data-communications virtual assistance Apparatuses and methods concerning providing a data-communications virtual assistant are disclosed. As an example, one apparatus includes a data-communications server. The data communications server is configured to process user-data-communication between a client station and another client station participating in data-communications via the data-communications server, where each client station is associated with one client entity. The server is also configured to identify a context for each user-data-communication between the client station and the other client station, where the context corresponds to at least one communications-specific characteristic associated with the user-data-communication. The server is further configured to apply call routing based on the identified context.
US11622038B2	Handling calls on a shared speech-enabled device In some implementations, an utterance that requests a voice call is received, the utterance is classified as spoken by a particular known user, the particular known user is determined to be associated with a personal voice number, and in response to determining that the particular known user is associated with a personal voice number, the voice call is initiated with the personal voice number.
US11622032B2	Switch assembly for engaging a switch of an electronic device A switch assembly for engaging a switch of an electronic device includes a rotatable knob having an axis of rotation, a pin mechanism engaged with the rotatable knob, and a slider body. The pin mechanism includes a pin, the pin being offset from the axis of rotation of the rotatable knob. The slider body is shaped to include a slot in which the pin of the pin mechanism is positioned and a switch recess shaped to receive and selectively contact the switch of the electronic device. Rotation of the rotatable knob in a first direction causes the slider body toward contact with a first portion of the switch to urge the switch into a first position, and rotation of the rotatable knob in a second direction causes the slider body toward contact with a second portion of the switch to urge the switch into a second position.
US11622030B2	Method and apparatus processing of message data Data messages such as data packets in an IPv4 or IPv6 format are processed with a view to compression/decompression, using information obtained from sources other than the data packet itself, or the stream to which it belongs. This may involve additional dynamic processing defined in specifications identified by a shared marker, or obtained from an additional data source such as a static file, database application or the like. Embodiments described herein enhance this approach with a dynamic determination of data components.
US11622013B2	Methods and systems for multi-access server orchestration An illustrative multi-access server orchestration system determines a subset of a set of multi-access servers associated with a communication network. The subset corresponds to a service area of a network anchor point through which network traffic on the communication network is routed to a client device. The multi-access server orchestration system orders the multi-access servers included within the subset to form an ordered listing of multi-access servers from a most-preferred to a least-preferred multi-access server for fulfilling a service request for the client device. The ordered listing designates a first multi-access server included in the subset and located more proximate to the network anchor point than to the client device to be more highly preferred for fulfilling the service request than a second multi-access server included in the subset and located more proximate to the client device than to the network anchor point. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
US11622012B2	System and method for network migration with minimal traffic impact Migrating data traffic from legacy networks to packet networks by inserting a first circuit emulation device (CEM) at a first endpoint and a second circuit emulation device (CEM) at a second endpoint of a connection in the legacy network, duplicating data traffic provided to the first CEM by routing one copy of the data traffic over the connection in the legacy network to the second CEM and one copy of the data traffic over a packet network from the first CEM to a comparison server, duplicating data traffic provided to the second CEM over the legacy network from the first CEM by routing one copy of the data traffic to customer communication equipment and one copy of the data traffic to the comparison server, comparing the data traffic routed to the comparison server and validating that the packet network can be used to replace the connection in the legacy network.
US11622004B1	Transaction-based reliable transport A method for communication includes receiving in a network device work requests posted by a host processor to perform a series of communication transactions, including at least a first transaction and a second transaction comprising first and second operations to be executed in a sequential order in response to corresponding first and work requests posted by the host processor. In response to the work requests, data packets are transmitted over a network from the network device to a destination node and corresponding responses are received from the destination node. Based on the received responses, completion of the first operations in the first transaction is reported from the network device to the host processor according to the sequential order, and completion of the second operation in the second transaction is reported from the network device to the host processor regardless of whether the first transaction has been completed.
US11622002B2	Synchronizing virtual reality notifications In an approach to synchronize notifications created in a VR environment to be presented in a physical environment at another time, notifications may be mapped across all relevant environments and associated with conditions that, when triggered, cause a notification to be presented to the user. Computer-implemented methods may include receiving natural language requests at a computing device in a first environment at a first time; parsing the natural language request into semantic components comprising an alert component and a content component; determining one or more conditions based on the alert component and the content component; mapping the semantic components to the plurality of environments; and executing a notification by the computing device, the notification representing the alert component and the content component in a second environment of the plurality of environments if the one or more conditions is satisfied at a second time that is later than the first time.
US11621990B2	Convergence sublayer for use in a wireless broadcasting system A method of encapsulating data and a single frequency network configured to perform the method are disclosed. A content stream of data packets is received, and the data packets in the content stream are formatted in accordance with a first protocol. Information identifying a container size established for the content stream is received. The data packets formatted in accordance with the first protocol are fragmented and packed to form data units formatted in accordance with a second protocol, and the data units are sized based on the container size. The data units formatted in accordance with the second protocol are encapsulated to form second protocol data packets. The second protocol data packets are provided to a transmitter that is synchronized to one or more transmitters in a single frequency network so that each transmitter in the single frequency network broadcasts a same signal that includes the second protocol data packets.
US11621989B2	Tiered content streaming Techniques for providing live content at different quality levels to a user device include advertising content availability at multiple quality levels for selection by the user device, receiving a quality level selection from the user device, wherein the quality level selection matches one of the advertised multiple quality levels, determining whether the received quality level selection differs from a currently used quality level, when it is determined that the received quality level selection is different from the currently used quality level, reconfiguring a transcoder to transcode the live content to only the received quality level, and updating a metafile to include a first quality level at a first bitrate lower than a bitrate for the received quality level selection and a second quality level at a second bitrate higher than the bitrate for the received quality level selection.
US11621988B1	Adaptable internet-of-things (IoT) computing systems and methods for improved declarative control of streaming data Adaptable internet-of-things (IoT) computing systems and methods are disclosed for improved and flexible declarative control of streaming data, such as Big Data, in compute intense environments. A declarative scripting engine determines an input data stream based on a first declarative statement defining input data stream variable(s) of a declarative scripting language in declarative scripting module(s). The input data stream is bound to a stream controller and is ingested into computer memory. The declarative scripting engine generates a snapshot data stream based on a second declarative statement in the declarative scripting module(s), and is derived from the input data stream. A stream model is defined, where a listener entity comprising an event is triggered based on the input data stream or the snapshot data stream as ingested into the stream model.
US11621979B1	Method and apparatus for repositioning meeting participants within a virtual space view in an online meeting user interface based on gestures made by the meeting participants A virtual space view is provided in an online meeting user interface associated with a videoconferencing system that is changeable by gestures of meeting participants. The virtual space view displays avatars or video feeds of the meeting participants on their respective participant computers. The videoconferencing system captures video feeds of all meeting participants, including meeting participants being displayed as avatars. Software of the videoconferencing system recognizes a specific gesture of a meeting participant. The specific gesture is associated with a predefined directional movement of the meeting participant's avatar or video feed within the virtual space view during the online meeting, and the predefined directional movement is requested by the meeting participant via the specific gesture. The specific gesture of the meeting participant is a physical body gesture of the meeting participant which is captured in the video feed of the meeting participant. The videoconferencing system automatically repositions the video feed of the meeting participant who made the specific gesture within the virtual space view during the online meeting in accordance with the associated predefined directional movement.
US11621977B2	Network forensic system for performing transmission metadata tracking and analysis A method for extracting, correlating, consolidating and presenting metadata from transmissions is provided. The method may include receiving a TCP/IP transmission. The transmission may include a header and a body. The method may include extracting an originating IP address from a location of the transmission. The location may be in the header or in the body. The IP address may be extracted in binary form. The method may include determining an accuracy and validity metric of the transmission using an artificial intelligence module. The method may include converting the extracted IP address from binary form into hexadecimal form. The method may include embedding the hexadecimal form of the IP address into one or more unused options of the header. The method may include processing the transmission. The processing may be completed upon determination that the transmission is a valid transmission.
US11621968B2	Intrusion detection using a heartbeat A variety of techniques are disclosed for detection of advanced persistent threats and similar malware. In one aspect, the detection of certain network traffic at a gateway is used to trigger a query of an originating endpoint, which can use internal logs to identify a local process that is sourcing the network traffic. In another aspect, an endpoint is configured to periodically generate and transmit a secure heartbeat, so that an interruption of the heartbeat can be used to signal the possible presence of malware. In another aspect, other information such as local and global reputation information is used to provide context for more accurate malware detection.
US11621962B2	Video signaling for user validation in online join scenarios An online meeting service is configured to determine whether a prospective meeting participant is among a known group of trusted users (e.g., logged in to a trusted domain). If the prospective meeting participant is validated as a trusted user, they may join a meeting without additional steps. If the prospective meeting participant is not validated as a trusted user, they may consent to have the meeting organizer view them through their camera in order to confirm that they may have meeting access. If the organizer recognizes the prospective participant through the camera image (still or video), the organizer may admit them to the meeting.
US11621961B2	Method for managing a cloud computing system A method for managing a cloud computing system, capable of allocating computing and network resources to a plurality of clients, each client being associated with at least one user likely to access the computing and network resources allocated to the client by the cloud computing system. This method includes, for at least one client of the cloud computing system: providing to the client a meta-model having a plurality of elements defining an access control model and an access control policy for the client; receiving an instance of the meta-model provided by the client, this instance defining, for the client, an access control model and an access control policy based on this access control model; and applying the access control policy to control an access of a user of the client to at least one resource allocated to the client by the cloud computing system.
US11621960B2	System and method to update aircraft maintenance records using blockchain technology A method in a peer-to-peer network for recording maintenance data is provided. The method comprises receiving troubleshooting summary secured data (TSSD) from a plurality of sources; entering the TSSD from the plurality of sources using a Blockchain framework, wherein TSSD from a source is entered as a unique transaction in the Blockchain framework when a set of smart maintenance keys possessed by the source authorizes the entry of the TSSD; providing a first level of controlled access to a first subset of entered TSSD to an entity possessing a first level controlled access set of keys; providing a second level of controlled access to a second subset of the entered TSSD to an entity possessing a second level controlled access set of keys; and providing a third level of controlled access to all of the entered TSSD to an entity possessing a third level controlled access set of keys.
US11621957B2	Identity verification for network access This disclosure describes techniques for authentication related to verification of identity for network access. The techniques may include sending a challenge associated with authentication to a network to a mobile device. In response to sending the challenge, the techniques may include receiving a challenge response from the mobile device. The challenge response may include biometric credential information associated with a user of the mobile device. The challenge response may also include an indication of an authorization assertion associated with the authentication to the network. In some examples, the techniques may include tailoring access to the network for the mobile device based on the biometric credential information.
US11621956B2	Method for securely connecting a watch to a remote server A method for securely connecting a watch to a remote server of a service provider including the following steps: authenticating the wearer of the watch authorizing access to use the functions of this watch, and selecting one of the functions from an input interface of the watch aiming at establishing a connection between the watch and the remote server; identifying the wearer of the watch from at least one biometric information element included in a portion of this wearer's skin; transmitting to the remote server an authentication element relating to the selected function once the wearer is identified, and carrying out an authentication of the wearer by the remote server from the authentication element in order to authorize an exchange of data between the watch and this remote server.
US11621951B2	System and method for capturing information Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for capturing information. In addition, embodiments of the present disclosure relate to solutions for capturing information using a web browser extension. Embodiments of the present disclosure further relate to securely transmitting captured information to a server for association with an application or form being completed by an individual.
US11621949B2	Conducting secure interactions utilizing reliability information Embodiments of the invention are directed assessing reliability between two computing devices. A distributed database may maintain reliability associations between pairs of computing devices. Each reliability association may indicate a particular device has determined (e.g., locally) that another device is reliable. In order to determine an amount of reliability between a first computing device and a second computing device, an ordered combination of the reliability associations may be determined utilizing the distributed database. The ordered combination of reliability associations may identify a reliability path between the first computing device and the second computing device. An amount of reliability may be determined based on the reliability path. An interaction between the devices may be allowed or restricted based at least in part on the amount of reliability between the computing devices.
US11621948B2	Detecting digital certificate expiration through request processing A computer system detects that a digital certificate is set to expire within a threshold amount of time. In response to detecting that the digital certificate is set to expire, the computer system generates an update to cause a second computer system to perform operations to indicate an upcoming expiration of the digital certificate. The computer system provides the update to the second computer system to cause the second computer system to perform the operations.
US11621946B2	Method and system for secure sharing of aerial or space resources using multilayer encryption and hosted payloads A method and system for providing secure aerial or space communications. A general payload and a hosted payload are provided on a vehicle. The hosted payload encrypts a data packet that contains restricted data using a secure key to create an encrypted packet. The general payload encrypts the encrypted packet using a general key to create a multilayer-encrypted packet. The multilayer-encrypted packet is transmitted from the vehicle to a destination.
US11621928B2	Reducing toil in chat environments A computer-implemented method reduces toil in chat systems. The method includes receiving, from a sending account, a message to be sent in a chat environment, where the chat environment includes a plurality of accounts including the sending account. The method also includes determining, by a learning model, a category of the message. The method further includes generating, for each account of the plurality accounts in a channel of the chat environment, a score, where the score indicates a likelihood an associated account will respond to a post with relevant information. The method includes recommending, based on the score, one or more accounts of the plurality of accounts to an at message, where the at message is configured to cause a notification to the associated account. The method further includes posting the message in the channel of the chat environment while at-mentioning the one or more accounts.
US11621922B2	System for network delay guarantee based on flow aggregates and interleaved regulators The present disclosure provides a system for network delay guarantee based on flow aggregates and interleaved regulators according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: at least one unit network configured to guarantee first-in-first-out (FIFO) for flow aggregates; and at least one interleaved regulator per flow aggregate located at input port or an output port of the at least one unit network, wherein among flows passing through the unit network, flows having the same network input port and the same network output port are aggregated into a single flow aggregate.
US11621918B2	Techniques to manage data transmissions A transmitter can manage when a transmit queue is permitted to transmit and an amount of data permitted to be transmitted. After a transmit queue is permitted to transmit, the transmit queue can be placed in a sleep state if the transmit queue has exceeded its permitted data transmission quota. The wake time of the transmit queue can be scheduled based on a token accumulation rate for the transmit queue. The token accumulation rate can be increased if the transmit queue has other data to transmit after the data transmission. The token accumulation rate can be decreased if the transmit does not have other data to transmit.
US11621909B2	Systems and methods for providing a dynamic-hybrid forwarding information base (DHFIB) A routing system can provide a Dynamic-Hybrid Forwarding Information Base (DHFIB). A control component of the routing system can build a routing table that includes routing information (e.g., prefixes, addresses, etc.) for use by a first routing component. The routing table can be ordered or ranked based on traffic information from the first routing component. Then, the control component can create the DHFIB from the routing table, wherein the DHFIB is a portion of the routing table and related to the first routing component. As such, the portion of the routing table selected for the DHFIB can be the set of prefixes in the routing table that represent the most frequently routed or most important prefixes in the routing table. Finally, the control component can forward the DHFIB to the first routing component to allow the routing component to route communications.
US11621903B2	Combining measurements based on beacon data Methods and systems for determining usage are described. Initially, site-centric data and panel-centric data are accessed and pre-processed. Initial usage measurement data is determined based on the pre-processed site-centric data. One or more adjustment factors are determined based on the pre-processed panel-centric data. The one or more adjustment factors are applied to the initial usage measurement data to generate an adjusted usage measurement data. Reports based on the adjusted usage measurement data are generated.
US11621902B2	System, method, utility, and governance for distributed data routing over the internet A method is disclosed for distributed routing data with latencies using relay nodes. The method includes automatically measuring one-way latencies between a plurality of nodes comprising a first node, a second node, and a relay node, producing a first signal associated with a proof of uptime for the relay node, producing a second signal associated with a proof of bandwidth for the relay node, after the proof of uptime and the proof of bandwidth of the relay node are validated, automatically identifying a relayed data routing path from the first node to the second node via the relay node based on the one-way latencies between the plurality of nodes, in response to a command to transfer data from the first node to the second node, and transferring data from the first node to the second node along the relayed data routing path.
US11621895B2	Computing systems with off-load processing for networking related tasks Computing systems with off-load processing for networking related tasks are disclosed. A first mobile electronic device includes first wireless communication circuitry to support cellular communication; and second wireless communication circuitry to support wireless communication. The first electronic device includes processor circuitry to: identify a first one of a first cellular network or a second cellular network based on availability of the first and second cellular networks; initiate establishment of a first communication link between a second mobile electronic device and the first one of the first cellular network or the second cellular network via the first wireless communication circuitry and the second wireless communication circuitry; and initiate establishment of a second communication link between the second mobile electronic device and a second one of the first cellular network or the second cellular network based on a change in the availability of the first and second cellular networks.
US11621889B2	Channel reconfiguration in a communications network Embodiments include methods for channel reconfiguration by a network node in a communications network. Such methods include obtaining received signal strength indicator (RSSI) measurements from wireless devices served by the network node at a current channel in a current frequency interval within a current frequency band. the RSSI measurements trigger perform channel reconfiguration to select a new channel for serving the wireless device. the new channel is the current frequency interval in the current frequency band, a new frequency interval in the current frequency band, or a new frequency interval in a new frequency band. The new channel is selected based on RSSI measurements are performed by the network node on one or more of the following: the current channel in the current frequency interval, a different channel in the current frequency interval, or a different channel in the new frequency interval.
US11621884B2	High resolution time domain reflectometry (TDR) in fault location measurement in a cable network A test instrument connectable to a cable television (CATV) network to provide a high resolution time domain reflectometry (TDR) in a fault location measurement is disclosed. The test instrument may have a port connectable to a test point in the CATV network. The test instrument may also have a processing circuit to perform a calibration measurement and a fault location measurement by transmitting frequency-chirped probe pulses into a closed calibration circuit within the test instrument, and receiving return signals at an analog-digital converter in the test instrument. The processing circuit may resample the calibration measurement and the fault location measurement at a high sampling rate, cross-correlate the fault location with the calibration measurement to generate a cross-correlation TDR waveform, and generate a new TDR waveform using a refinement processing technique to remove echoes from the cross-correlation TDR waveform.
US11621883B1	Monitoring state information for incidents in an IT environment including interactions among analysts responding to other similar incidents Described herein are systems, methods, and software to enhance the management of responses to incidents in an information technology (IT) environment. In one example, a management system identifies an incident in an IT environment, identifies an initial status for the incident for an analyst of the IT environment, and provides the initial status for display to the analyst. The management system further monitors state information for the incident in the IT environment, identifies a second status of the incident based on the monitored state, and provides the second status for display to the analyst.
US11621882B1	Automated remedial actions for service level objective thresholds Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to an automated remediation system that can receive service level objective (SLO) alerts or notifications and, based on the type, take automated remedial actions. The automated remediation system can perform automated responses to various SLO alerts such as latency alerts, error budget alerts, burn rate alerts, etc. The automated remediation system can utilize a mapping to select which automated response to perform; can measure the effectiveness of the automated response using a metric defined for the alert type; and, until the issue is resolved or no further actions are mapped to the alert type, can repeat the initial automated response or can take secondary automated responses. The automated remediation system can also report the alert and the remedial actions taken.
US11621881B2	Error detection and broadcasting using partner sensors A method that includes joining, by a first node, a network connecting a set of nodes, where each node has an agent and is associated with a sensor, and where the sensor generates sensor data, and where each agent sends and receives broadcast messages, and generating, by the sensor, sensor data associated with a second node. The method also includes analyzing, by the agent, the sensor data, where the analyzing causes a detection of a first fault condition of the second node, and where the first fault condition is an indication of a problem with the second node, generating, by the agent, a broadcast message, where the broadcast message includes the first fault condition, and sending, by the first node, the broadcast message to at least one member of the set of nodes via the network.
US11621872B2	Decision feedback equalization tap systems and related apparatuses and methods Decision feedback equalization (DFE) tap systems and related apparatuses and methods are disclosed. An apparatus includes output nodes to provide output signals, a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) DFE tap electrically connected to the output nodes, and a current integrating summer electrically connected to the output nodes. The current integrating summer is to reset the output nodes to a common mode voltage potential.
US11621867B2	Method and apparatus for network device detection A method and apparatus for detecting remote network devices. In one embodiment, the method comprises detecting an event and a) transmitting a message requesting a response from one or more remote network devices, the message comprising a first network identification code, and b) determining whether a response to the message has been received, the response transmitted by a remote network device after receiving the message and determining that the first network identification code matches a second network identification code stored within the remote network device, the response comprising identification information of the remote network device. If c) a response has not been received, terminating the method for detecting remote network devices if a pre-determined time period has elapsed since transmitting the message. If d) a response has been received, storing identification information associated with the responding remote network device and repeating steps a-d until no further responses are received.
US11621865B2	Systems and methods for automated platform-based algorithm monitoring Systems and methods for feature-based alert triggering are disclosed herein. The system can include memory including a model database containing a machine-learning algorithm. The system can include a user device that can receive inputs from a user; and at least one server. The at least one server can: receive electrical signals from the user device, the electrical signals corresponding to a plurality of user inputs provided to the user device; automatically generate input-based features from the received electrical signals; input the input-based features into the machine-learning algorithm; automatically and directly generate a risk prediction with the machine-learning algorithm from the input-based features; and generate and display an alert when the risk prediction exceeds a threshold value.
US11621856B2	Generating a domain name system container image to create an instance of a domain name system container A method is provided for storing at least one domain name system container image, wherein the domain name system container image is configured to create at least one domain name system container instance in a domain name system infrastructure. The method includes: creating at least one item of signed domain name system information, wherein the at least one item of signed domain name system information is created by a cryptographic signature of an item of domain name system information, wherein the cryptographic signature is created outside the domain name system server infrastructure; creating at least one domain name system container image, wherein the at least one domain name system container image has the signed domain name system information and at least one item of domain name system server software; and storing the at least one domain name system container image in a container registry.
US11621855B2	Electronic device and method for managing blockchain address using the same An electronic device that performs a digital signature for a blockchain address and first information associated with the blockchain address using a private key, associates and stores signature data obtained as a result of performing the digital signature with at least one of the blockchain address or the first information, performs authentication for the blockchain address and the first information using a public key corresponding to the private key, based on the stored signature data, and displays the blockchain address and the first information, based on the result of performing the authentication is provided.
US11621853B1	Protocol-independent multi-table packet routing using shared memory resource A system and method for protocol independent multi-flow table routing includes a first flow table, a second flow table, and a shared hash table accessible by both the first flow table and the second flow table. Upon receipt of a packet, a first secure signature of a first lookup key is generated for the first flow table, and a second secure signature of a second lookup key is generated for the second flow table. The shared hash table stores both the first secure signature in association with a first value corresponding to the first secure signature, and the second secure signature along with a second value corresponding to the second secure signature. The first and second values indicate destination information for the packet.
US11621843B2	Trusted remote proving method, apparatus and system The method includes receiving a challenge request sent by a first service trusted server and obtaining to-be-verified information of the first service trusted server in the challenge request; sending a verification request to a trusted remote proving server, wherein the verification request includes the to-be-verified information of the first service trusted server; and obtaining a verification response returned by the trusted remote proving server.
US11621830B1	Systems and methods for facilitating asynchronous secured point-to-point communications Systems and methods for facilitating asynchronous secured point-to-point communications between a first user and a second user are disclosed. Particularly, the communications do not require centralized storage. Exemplary implementations may: store information electronically, including different types of client-specific information, hardware information, key information, and permission information; receive a communication request from a first user; transfer a response to the communication request; receive a status check request from the second user; transfer a response to the status check request; receive a transfer request from the second user; transfer a response to the transfer request; receive a status request from the first user; and transfer a response to the status request.
US11621816B2	Method and device in UE and base station used for wireless communication The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station used for wireless communications. The UE receives first information; determines first sub-information out of the M piece(s) of sub-information; receives a first radio signal in a first time-frequency resource set; the first information comprises the M piece(s) of sub-information, each of the M piece(s) of sub-information indicates a reference signal group, and a reference signal group comprises at least one reference signal. The first sub-information indicates a first reference signal group. A reference signal in a reference signal group indicated by at least one of the M piece(s) of sub-information is transmitted by a first serving cell, and the first serving cell is not added by the UE. The above method not only obtains performance advancement brought by serving cell handover, but also avoid time delay and service interrupt.
US11621812B2	SSB pattern and DMRS design for PBCH in 5G NR Devices, systems and methods for a fifth generation (5G) or new radio (NR) system comprising multiplexing, by a gNodeB (gNB), a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) and an associated demodulation reference signal (DMRS) in a time division multiplexing (TDM) manner; and transmitting, by the gNB, the PBCH by employing a Discrete Fourier Transform-spread-orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (DFT-s-OFDM) waveform and its associated DMRS.
US11621808B1	Machine learning based methodology for signal waveform, eye diagram, and bit error rate (BER) bathtub prediction Apparatus and associated methods relate to predicting various transient output waveforms at a receiver's output after an initial neural network model is trained by a receiver's transient input waveform and a corresponding transient output waveform. In an illustrative example, the machine learning model may include an adaptive-ordered auto-regressive moving average external input based on neural networks (NNARMAX) model designed to mimic the performance of a continuous time linear equalization (CTLE) mode of the receiver. A Pearson Correlation Coefficient (PCC) score may be determined to select numbers of previous inputs and previous outputs to be used in the neural network model. In other examples, corresponding bathtub characterizations and eye diagrams may be extracted from the predicted transient output waveforms. Providing a machine learning model may, for example, advantageously predict various data patterns without knowing features or parameters of the receiver or related channels.
US11621807B2	Data transmission method and device The present disclosure provides a data transmission method and device, and relates to the technical field of communications. The data transmission method is applied to the data transmission device and includes: determining a transmission type used when performing data transmission, where the transmission type includes one of a single transmission of target data in one slot and multiple repetitive transmissions of target data in one slot; determining the number of repetitive transmissions of the target data in each slot, when the transmission type is multiple repetitive transmissions of target data in one slot; transmitting the target data according to the number of repetitive transmissions of the target data in each slot.
US11621801B2	Hybrid distributed retry mechanism A method may include determining at a first AP that a first original packet sent from a second AP to a STA failed to decode at the STA. The method may include sending from the first AP a first retransmission packet that includes error correction information for the first original packet the STA. The method may include the first AP coordinating with a third AP that is sending an ongoing communication to another STA to avoid interference between the first retransmission packet and the ongoing communication. The method may include sending a second original packet from the first AP to the STA or the other STA.
US11621799B2	Peak-to-average power ratio reduction Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may interleave a signal, that is to be transmitted using discrete Fourier transform (DFT) spread orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (DFT-s-OFDM), and a negative of the signal to obtain an interleaved signal prior to performing a DFT on the interleaved signal. The UE may transmit a DFT-s-OFDM signal that is based at least in part on the interleaved signal. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11621791B2	Apparatus and method for precise positioning based on deep learning Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for precise positioning based on deep learning. The method performed by the apparatus includes setting a collection location and a collection environment, collecting wireless signal data based on the collection location and the collection environment, generating a magnitude map image for training from the wireless signal data, and generating a positioning DB model by learning the image characteristics of the magnitude map image for training through deep-learning-based training.
US11621778B2	Optical communication system and optical communication method An optical communication system having an optical transmission line, where a first section of the optical transmission line is connected to a first optical communication device; and a second section of the optical transmission line is connected to a second optical communication device. The optical communication system further includes: a Raman light source; an incident device connected to same end of the second section of the optical transmission line as the second optical communication device; and a separating device interconnecting the first section of the optical transmission line to the second section of the optical transmission line. The incident device causes excitation light output from the Raman light source to be incident to the second section of the optical transmission line and performs distributed Raman amplification on the optical signal; and the separating device separates the excitation light that is caused to be incident by the incident device.
US11621773B2	Method and device for forwarding a digital signal There is provided a method and device for forwarding a digital signal arranged into portions that each contain a timestamp and an error detection code. Duplicates of the digital signal are received on a first optical path and a second, separate optical path. Corresponding timestamps are identified in the signals and used to synchronize corresponding portions of the signals. The error detection codes in the synchronized portions are used to allow one and only one of the corresponding portions to be selected for forwarding. The selected portions are then forwarded.
US11621766B2	Prose relay UE activation The present disclosure relates to a method for activating a relay functionality of a ProSe capable and relay-capable user equipment within a mobile communication network. The radio base station, to which the relay UE is connected, determines whether further relays are necessary in the radio cell controlled by the radio base station. In case further relays are necessary in the radio cell, the radio base station selects a persistence check value and transmits a broadcast message in the radio cell. The broadcast message at least indicates that further relays are necessary and comprises the selected persistence check value. Upon receiving the broadcast message, the relay UE activates its relay functionality in case it determines that relay requirements for activating its relay functionality in the radio cell are fulfilled and in case a persistence check performed by the relay UE based on the received persistence check value is successful.
US11621762B2	Cell selection for beam failure reporting of candidate beams A wireless device may detect beam failure of a number of cells. In response to the number of the cells being greater than a maximum number that a beam failure recovery medium-access control control element (BFR MAC CE) accommodates, the wireless device may select one or more cells of the cells based on an ascending order of cell indexes of the cells. The wireless device may transmit the BFR MAC CE comprising a candidate reference signal index or a reserved bit for each of the one or more cells.
US11621754B2	Analog beamforming method for mitigating beam squint effect in wideband phased array antennas A method of beam steering is provided to address the squint effect that occurs in phased array antennas when wideband signals are transmitted. Beam steering weights are computed based on an optimization that takes into account performance at a set of frequencies across a bandwidth of interest, including at least endpoints of the bandwidth, and a design frequency.
US11621752B1	Transmit power violation protection mechanism in a radio unit of a disaggregated base station This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for protecting against transmit power violations in a radio unit (RU) of a disaggregated base station. For example, when a distributed unit (DU) provides frequency domain samples to the RU, the DU may set a reference input level that causes the RU scale a gain lineup to avoid saturation or sensitivity issues in a signal processing chain while ramping up to a required transmit power. Accordingly, to avoid signal saturation or clipping at the RU, the RU may monitor energy estimation measurements and take remedial action when a transmit power violation occurs. For example, the RU may provide one or more system alarms to the DU or prevent transmission over an air interface in cases where the energy estimation measurements fail to satisfy one or more thresholds.
US11621731B2	Client wireless device that merges functions of upper and lower MAC layers to support WLAN modules operating simultaneously in different wireless bands A simultaneous client wireless device includes wireless modules configured to perform communication functions of a PHY (physical) layer for wireless radios operable in different bands. The simultaneous client wireless device also includes a communication module configured as an intermediate layer between the PHY layer of the wireless modules and a network layer. The communication module is configured to use an application programming interface to retrieve information from the PHY layer and write information to the PHY layer of the wireless modules, perform communication functions of upper MAC (media access control) and lower MAC layers for the wireless bands, and manage simultaneous communications over the wireless bands. The communications over the wireless bands can use a local area network protocol.
US11621729B2	Packet prioritization for network-based software-defined radio Disclosed in some examples are systems, methods, devices, and machine-readable mediums for improved communications between a software-defined radio front-end device and a network-based computing device. Rather than packetize samples together, same bit positions from multiple ADC samples may be packetized together. If a Quality of Service (QoS) metric of the network connection between the RF front-end device and the network-based processing computing drops below a threshold, the RF front-end device may prioritize sending packets with the more significant bits over packets with less significant bits. In other examples, the RF front-end device may prioritize samples corresponding to certain data types over other data types.
US11621728B2	Concatenated error correcting codes Systems and methods are provided for concatenated error-correcting coding. An apparatus may include a Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) decoder configured to perform an iterative LDPC decoding process on bits of an LDPC codeword, a Bose—Chaudhuri—Hocquenghem (BCH) decoder coupled to the LDPC decoder and a BCH scheduler coupled to the LDPC decoder and the BCH decoder. The LDPC codeword may be generated by LDPC encoding a Bose—Chaudhuri—Hocquenghem (BCH) codeword and the BCH codeword may be generated by BCH encoding a data unit. The BCH scheduler may be configured to determine whether a triggering condition for the BCH decoder is met after each iteration of the iterative LDPC decoding process and activate the BCH decoder to operate on an intermediate decoding result of the LDPC decoder if the triggering condition for the BCH decoder is met.
US11621727B2	Decoding systems and methods for local reinforcement Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a scheme for decoding over a small subgraph which highly likely includes some errors. A controller is configured to: control the first decoder to decode the data, read from the memory device, using a parity check matrix for the error correction code; extract one or more subgraphs from the entire bipartite graph of the parity check matrix, which is defined by a plurality of variable nodes and a plurality of check nodes when a particular condition satisfied; and control the second decoder to decode the decoding result of the first decoder using a submatrix of the parity check matrix corresponding to the extracted subgraphs.
US11621722B2	Multi quantizer loops for delta-sigma converters The number of bits in the quantizer can be decoupled from the number of bits in the feedback digital-to-analog converter (DAC) A delta-sigma analog-to-digital converter circuit can include a first quantizer to generate an output having a first number of bits and a second quantizer coupled to an output of the first quantizer, where the second quantizer can receive the output of the first quantizer and generate an output having a second number of bits. The feedback DAC can be coupled to the second quantizer to receive a representation of the output of the second quantizer, where the output of the feedback digital-to-analog converter circuit has the second number of bits. These techniques can reduce the area of the feedback DAC, e.g., 4 or 5 bits, and the techniques can achieve a higher maximum stable amplitude (MSA) because it is effectively a second order loop.
US11621710B2	Capacitance switch A capacitance switch includes an electrode portion having a first electrode and a second electrode, a moving member, and a pressing member having a projecting portion. A distance between the moving member and the electrode portion is changed by displacing the projecting portion. The moving member has a first moving surface and a second moving surface. The projecting portion includes a first projecting portion and a second projecting portion. The first projecting portion is to be displaced by first pressing of the pressing member and brings the first moving surface close to the electrode portion. The second projecting portion is to be displaced by second pressing larger than the first pressing and brings the second moving surface close to the electrode portion.
US11621709B2	Power module with built-in drive circuits A power module, including a high-side switching element and a low-side switching element connected to form a half bridge circuit, a high-side drive circuit which drives the high-side switching element, a low-side drive circuit which drives the low-side switching element, and a high-side current detection circuit which detects a current of the high-side switching element. The high-side drive circuit includes a high-side variable delay circuit which adjusts, according to a value detected by the high-side current detection circuit, a length of a high-side delay time from a time when a signal is inputted to the high-side drive circuit to a time when the high-side switching element is driven.
US11621705B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit device and level shifter circuit A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes: first and second transistors provided between a first power source and an output terminal; a step-down circuit that generates a second power source from the first power source; a power source switch circuit that outputs, as a fourth power source, a higher one of potentials of the second power source and a third power source; and a level shifter circuit that transits between the first power source and a fourth power source. The first transistor has a gate connected to an output of the level shifter circuit; the second transistor has a gate connected to the fourth power source.
US11621700B2	Non-reciprocal RF-bandpass filters RF co-designed bandpass filters/isolators (BPFIs) are based on series-cascaded non-reciprocal resonant stages, microwave resonators and multi-resonant cells. The non-reciprocal stages are shaped by an in-parallel cascaded transistor-based path and a transmission line (TL) that result in a zero-phase resonance in the forward direction and high isolation in the reversed one. This includes coupling routing diagrams (CRDs) of BPFs that result in low- and high-order transfer functions with and without transmission zeros in their forward direction and high levels of isolation in the reverse one. BPFIs provide alternative-type of filtering responses (e.g., flat-passband, quasi-elliptic) with and without gain in the forward direction and high levels of isolation in the reversed one. BPFIs include five planar microstrip/lumped element (LE) prototypes using hybrid combinations of non-reciprocal resonant stages, microwave resonators and multi-resonant cells.
US11621691B2	Reflective structures for surface acoustic wave devices Interdigital transducer (IDT) and reflective structure arrangements for surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices are disclosed. Representative SAW devices are described herein with reduced overall size while maintaining good quality factors. In certain embodiments, a SAW device may include an IDT arranged between reflective structures on a piezoelectric material. The reflective structures may include reflective IDTs that are configured to have a phase difference with the IDT to reflect and confine acoustic waves in the piezoelectric material. In certain embodiments, the reflective structures may be electrically connected to at least one of an input signal or an output signal. In this manner, the reflective structures may be configured with reduced size as compared to conventional reflective structures such as gratings, thereby providing a SAW device with reduced dimensions without a negative impact on device performance.
US11621687B2	Acoustic wave device In an acoustic wave device, an interdigital transducer electrode is disposed on a piezoelectric substrate with a reverse velocity surface having an elliptic shape, and a dielectric film is disposed to cover the interdigital transducer electrode. Assuming an electrode density (%) of the interdigital transducer electrode to be y (%) and a wavelength-normalized film thickness 100h/λ (%) of the interdigital transducer electrode to be x (%), the wavelength-normalized film thickness x of the interdigital transducer electrode takes a value not less than x satisfying y=0.3452x2−6.0964x+36.262 depending on the electrode density of the interdigital transducer electrode.
US11621683B2	Current sensing circuitry A system may include a front end differential amplifier having two input terminals, two input resistors, each of the two input resistors coupled to a respective one of the two input terminals, and an input common mode biasing circuit for an output stage of the front end differential amplifier, the input common mode biasing circuit comprising two current sources configured to generate currents for biasing the output stage of the front end differential amplifier.
US11621680B2	Power amplifier A power amplifier includes an active device and an output matching circuit operably connected with the active device. The output matching circuit includes a bandpass impedance transformer, in particular, a multimode bandpass impedance transformer. The multimode bandpass impedance transformer may include a multimode resonator and coupling feed lines.
US11621678B2	Semiconductor device and power amplifier module A circuit element is formed on a substrate made of a compound semiconductor. A bonding pad is disposed on the circuit element so as to at least partially overlap the circuit element. The bonding pad includes a first metal film and a second metal film formed on the first metal film. A metal material of the second metal film has a higher Young's modulus than a metal material of the first metal film.
US11621676B2	Auto-linearizing amplifier Examples of the disclosure include an amplifier system comprising an amplifier having an input to receive an input signal, and an output to provide an amplified output signal, the amplifier having a power level indicative of at least one of the input signal power and the amplified output signal power, and a linearizer coupled to the amplifier and having a plurality of modes of operation including a fully disabled mode and a fully enabled mode, the linearizer being configured to determine the power level of the amplifier, select a mode of operation of the plurality of modes of operation based on the power level of the amplifier, determine one or more linearization parameters corresponding to the selected mode of operation, and control linearization of the amplified output signal based on the determined one or more linearization parameters.
US11621675B2	Amplifier and image sensor device including the same An amplifier includes a first capacitor connected between an input node and a floating node, a second capacitor connected between the floating node and an output node, an amplifying element connected between a power supply voltage and the output node and operating in response to a voltage level of the floating node, a current bias source connected between the output node and a ground voltage, a first reset switch connected between the floating node and an intermediate node and operating in response to a reset bias, a second reset switch connected between the intermediate node and the output node and operating in response to the reset bias, and a reset bias generator circuit that outputs the reset bias in response to a reset signal. The reset bias is one of a reset voltage of the intermediate node, the power supply voltage, and the ground voltage.
US11621674B2	High-efficiency amplifier A high-efficiency amplifier is configured so that short stubs are provided in a line between a first substrate end and a second substrate end of a substrate, and among the short stubs, short stubs provided at locations other than both ends of the line include two short stubs and which are adjacent to each other, and which are provided at locations at which the two short stubs are to be electromagnetically coupled to each other.
US11621668B2	Solar array fault detection, classification, and localization using deep neural nets Solar array fault detection, classification, and localization using deep neural nets is provided. A fault-identifying neural network uses a cyber-physical system (CPS) approach to fault detection in photovoltaic (PV) arrays. Customized neural network algorithms are deployed in feedforward neural networks for fault detection and identification from monitoring devices that sense data and actuate each individual module in a PV array. This approach improves efficiency by detecting and classifying a wide variety of faults and commonly occurring conditions (e.g., eight faults/conditions concurrently) that affect power output in utility scale PV arrays.
US11621664B2	Systems and methods for array level terrain based backtracking A system and method for array level terrain based backtracking includes a tracker configured to collect solar irradiance and attached to a rotational mechanism for changing a plane of the tracker and a controller in communication with a rotational mechanism. The controller is programmed to determine a position of the sun at a first specific point in time, retrieve height information, execute a shadow model based on the retrieved height information and the position of the sun, determine a first angle for the tracker; collect an angle for each tracker in a plurality of trackers in an array; adjust the first angle based on executing the shadow model with the first angle and the plurality of angles associated with the plurality of trackers; transmit instructions to the rotational mechanism to change the plane of the tracker to the adjusted first angle.
US11621662B2	Battery and motor system for replacing internal combustion engine A battery-powered motor may include an electric motor, a controller, and a housing. The electric motor may be wound to enable the battery-powered motor to achieve a non-limited motor maximum motor revolutions per minute (RPM) for at least one specified battery. The controlling current may include limiting current to the electric motor at lower RPMs, and limiting the current to prevent the RPM of the electric motor from exceeding a limited maximum motor RPM which is lower than the non-limited motor maximum RPM. The housing may enclose the electric motor and the controller and the specified battery. The housing may have a form factor to engage with a machine that engages with an internal combustion engine that has a maximum engine RPM that is approximately the same as the limited maximum motor RPM.
US11621657B1	Current sense calibration in a motor control system A motor control system includes a gate driver motor controller and a microcontroller configured to generate a commutation command signal for coupling to the gate driver motor controller. The gate driver motor controller includes a current measurement circuit to measure current in each of three current paths corresponding to three motor windings, an interface to transmit a first subset of the measured currents corresponding to a first subset of the current paths, and a calibrator to calibrate a current path that is not part of the first subset of current paths when the first subset of the measured currents is transmitted. The microcontroller includes an interface to receive the first subset of measured currents and a processor to compute the current in the current path that is not part of the first subset of current paths based on the first subset of measured currents.
US11621654B2	Vibration-wave motor and apparatus using the same A vibration-wave motor includes a vibrator having two protruding parts, a holding member configured to hold the vibrator, a movable member configured to translationally move together with the holding member, a rotating unit configured to allow the holding member to rotate around each of three axes relative to the movable member and to restrict the holding member from translating in each of the three axes relative to the movable member, a urging member configured to urge the holding member and the movable member so that the holding member and the movable member translationally move together, and a restricting unit configured to restrict the holding member from rotating around the rotating unit as a center by the urging member.
US11621651B2	High-power density, single-phase cascaded H-bridge rectifier, control method, and control system The present disclosure provides a high-power density, single-phase cascaded H-bridge rectifier, a control method, and a control system. The high-power density, single-phase cascaded H-bridge rectifier includes: an alternating current (AC) grid-side filter inductor and at least two cascaded power conversion units, where each power conversion unit includes an H-bridge power unit, a decoupling unit, and a direct current (DC)-side equivalent load that are connected in parallel; and each decoupling unit is an independent buck-type active power decoupling circuit, and the decoupling unit is configured to buffer secondary ripple power, to reduce a capacity of a DC bus capacitor.
US11621645B2	Methods and device to drive a transistor for synchronous rectification A driving circuit including a reference voltage generator to generate a reference voltage based on an operating frequency of a complementary circuit; a comparator including a first input configured to receive a drain-to-source voltage of a field effect transistor; and a second input to receive the reference voltage; and a signal generator to deliver a driving signal to a gate terminal of the field effect transistor to drive the field effect transistor to an ON state after the drain-to-source voltage of the first low side field effect transistor becomes less than the reference voltage and to an OFF state after the drain-to-source voltage of the field effect transistor becomes greater than the reference voltage.
US11621638B1	Power conversion system, electronic device including the same, and integrated circuit The present invention provides a power conversion system, an electronic device including the same, and an integrated circuit, and relates to the field of power supplies. By arranging a second switch series branch connected to a switch series branch of a switch capacitor converter, and matching a switch in the second switch series branch and a switch in the switch series branch of the switch capacitor converter, a function of a three-level buck converter is achieved, so that the three-level buck converter and the switch capacitor converter are integrated. The quantity of switches is reduced. The volume is small. The costs are low, and high efficiency of a whole process of charging a battery of the electronic device is achieved while supplying power to a power consumption unit of the electronic device.
US11621636B2	Switching converter with low quiescent current and control circuit thereof A control circuit for controlling a switching converter having a low quiescent current. The control circuit has an error amplifying circuit, an on time generator, a first comparing circuit and a second comparing circuit. When the switching converter operates in a light load operation mode, the error amplifying circuit and the on time generator are deactivated. Meanwhile, the first comparing circuit compares a current sensing signal indicative of inductor current with a current reference signal to provide an off time control signal during an on state of a low side switch to determine an on moment of a high side switch. The second comparing circuit compares the voltage feedback signal with a voltage reference signal to provide an on time control signal to determine an off moment of the high side switch.
US11621634B1	Electronic device An electronic device includes a hysteresis circuit, a voltage divider circuit, a control circuit, and a discharge resistor. The hysteresis circuit has a first threshold voltage and a second threshold voltage. The hysteresis circuit generates a hysteresis voltage according to an output voltage at an output node. The voltage divider circuit generates a divided voltage according to the output voltage and the hysteresis voltage. The control circuit has a reference voltage and monitors the divided voltage. If the divided voltage is lower than the reference voltage, the control circuit will use the discharge resistor to perform a discharging operation to the output voltage at the output node.
US11621630B2	Soft-start for switching converter controller with hybrid hysteretic control (HHC) A switching converter controller includes: a control loop adapted to be coupled to an output terminal of a power stage; and a hybrid hysteretic control (HHC) circuit coupled to the control loop. The HHC circuit includes a resonant capacitor voltage (Vcr) node adapted to be coupled to a resonant capacitor (Cr) of the power stage, where the Vcr node sums a sense voltage for Cr with a frequency compensation ramp. The HHC circuit also includes a soft-start controller coupled to the Vcr node. The soft-start controller includes a clamp circuit coupled to the Vcr node.
US11621628B2	Predictive active filter for EMI attenuation Methods and apparatus for reducing electromagnetic interference (EMI) in power conversion stage line filter are provided herein. The method, for example, includes determining an estimated ripple voltage or estimated ripple current using a predictive model, generating a ripple cancellation signal of opposite polarity to the estimated ripple voltage or ripple current, while compensating for at least one of magnitude or phase distortions in a signal path, and injecting the ripple cancellation signal into a power supply's line filter to reduce a ripple voltage.
US11621627B2	Switching mode power supply with zero voltage switching, the primary control circuit and the method thereof A switching mode power supply with zero voltage switching is discussed. It adopts a primary control circuit to turn on a primary switch circuit when a current flowing through the primary switch circuit reaches an inverse current threshold or when a variation rate of a voltage signal indicative of a voltage across the primary switch circuit reaches a rate threshold.
US11621621B2	Magnets, pole shoes, and slot openings of axial flux motor An axial flux motor includes: a stator having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, the stator including: N stator core components on the first side, where N is an integer greater than two; and pole shoes attached to radial sides of the N stator core components, N slot openings between adjacent ones of the pole shoes, where each of the N slot openings extends in at least one direction non-radially on the first side; and a rotor including a third side and M permanent magnets on the third side, where the first side is parallel to the third side, and where M is an integer greater than two.
US11621620B2	Rotor winding with a neutral plate for a bearingless induction machine A rotor for a bearingless induction motor is provided. A rotor core defines rotor slots. A rotor winding includes a common connector plate, a plurality of rotor connector plates, and a slot conductor mounted within each rotor slot. The common connector plate is mounted adjacent a first end of the rotor core. The plurality of rotor connector plates is mounted adjacent a second end of the rotor core. Each slot conductor is electrically connected to the common connector plate and to one rotor connector plate of the plurality of rotor connector plates. Each rotor connector plate of the plurality of rotor connector plates is configured to connect a group of slot conductors that includes at least two slot conductors. A number of slot conductors included in the group of slot conductors is defined based on a predefined number of suspension pole pairs selected to provide a radial suspension force.
US11621619B2	Insulating a coil winding of an active part of an electrical machine In a method for insulating a coil winding of an active part of a rotating electric machine, the active part is impregnated with an insulating resin in a tub-like impregnation container by vacuum pressure impregnation. The active part is held in the impregnation container, after impregnation with the insulating resin, completely submerged in the insulating resin. The impregnation container together with the active part is introduced into a baking oven, and the active part is set in the insulating resin in rotation about a longitudinal axis of the active part. While the active part is rotating, the insulating resin is purged from the impregnation container and then the oven temperature is increased to a predetermined baking temperature which is maintained for a predetermined baking period. Rotation of the active part is terminated after expiration of the baking period.
US11621617B2	Stator for a rotating electrical machine The invention relates to a stator (2) comprising an annular body (4) having a side face (6) from which a plurality of radial teeth (8) extend, said teeth being angularly spaced in such a way as to define slots (10), and a plurality of conductive needles (15A, 15B), each conductive needle comprising two conductive segments (16A, 16B, 16C, 16D) connected by an elbow connector (18), the conductive segments being stacked one above the other in the slots (10) so as to form N layers which are parallel or substantially parallel to the side face (6) of the annular body. Each conductive needle (15A, 15B) comprises a conductive segment present in two separate slots, with one conductive segment present in a slot E in such a way as to occupy a layer (Ci) and another conductive segment present in a slot E+P in such a way as to occupy a layer (Ci+2), P being a pitch that is predetermined in a first direction of orientation.
US11621610B2	Cooling assembly for an electric machine A cooling assembly for an electric machine is disclosed. The cooling assembly may include a generally cylindrical cooling jacket for receiving a shaft, a rotor and a stator. Further, the cooling jacket jacket may be disposed in an electric machine housing. Additionally, the cooling assembly may include at least two first passages in the cooling jacket for circulating a first coolant and at least one second passage in the cooling jacket for circulating a second coolant, the second passage being disposed between the at least two first passages. Further, the cooling assembly may include a third passage on an exterior of the machine housing, the third passage extending through the housing to fluidly connect the at least two first passages and bypass the second passage.
US11621609B2	Motor One aspect of a motor of the present disclosure may include a rotor having a motor shaft disposed along a central axis extending in one direction, a stator facing the rotor via a gap in a radial direction, and a housing having an accommodating portion configured to accommodate the rotor and the stator, and to enable oil to be stored therein, wherein the housing comprises a lower wall portion facing a vertical-directional lower region in the inside of the accommodating portion, the lower wall portion comprises a cooling flow passage formed therein, and refrigerant flows in the cooling flow passage, and at least a portion of the cooling flow passage overlaps the vertical-directional lower region in the inside of the accommodating portion when viewed along a vertical direction.
US11621605B2	Integrated mechanical brake for electric motor A braking mechanism for an electric motor includes an electromagnet configured to be selectively energized in response to a control signal. The braking mechanism also includes a first braking member coupled for co-rotation with an output shaft of the electric motor. The first braking member is configured to movable relative to the output shaft between a first position and a second position. The braking mechanism also includes a second braking member rotationally fixed relative to the first braking member. When the electromagnet is energized, the electromagnet causes the first braking member to move from the first position to the second position. The first braking member engages the second braking member to brake the electric motor in one of the first position or the second position.
US11621602B2	Axial anti-backlash stepper/servo motor A motor is provided. The motor includes a motor body and a rotor assembly. The rotor assembly includes a magnetic core mounted to a rotor shaft. The rotor assembly may include standoffs for accurately axially locating the magnetic core relative to rotor bearings. A drive nut adjustment arrangement may be provided. A mechanical interconnection between the drive nut and rotor shaft may be provided. A trailing end lead screw support may be provided. An axial preload arrangement may be provided to axially locate the rotor assembly within the motor body.
US11621593B2	Magnetizing yoke and manufacturing method thereof A magnetizing yoke prevents coils from being damaged and/or broken when an object to be magnetized is magnetized, more securely as compared with any conventional arts. The magnetizing yoke includes a slot member made of thermoplastic resin and formed with slots for inserting and fixing windings of an iron core, wherein the slot member is inserted into and fixed to the iron core. The magnetizing yoke is manufactured using a simple step of mounting the slot members made of resin on the iron core.
US11621584B2	Wireless power-feeding apparatus A wireless power-feeding apparatus that enables efficient wireless feeding to a power-receiving coil embedded at the center of a spherical power-receiving device. The apparatus includes: a holding member for holding the power-receiving device; a power-transmitting coil; a driver circuit for supplying the power-transmitting coil with high-frequency current to generate a magnetic flux for wireless power-feeding to the power-receiving coil; and a wireless data receiver for receiving data transmitted regularly from a wireless data transmitter, the power-transmitting coil being positioned relative to the holding member in such a manner that the axes of the power-receiving coil and the power-transmitting coil are parallel to each other when the power-receiving device is held by the holding member in such a manner that a mark provided on the surface of the power-receiving device faces a predetermined direction.
US11621580B2	Microgrid switchover using zero-cross detection A technique enables microgrid switchover using zero cross detection. A flexible load management system includes a virtual critical load panel (vCLP) that utilizes circuit breakers in combination with companion modules configured to sense power provided to one or more loads to identify zero-crossings. When a preconfigured number of consecutive, missed zero-crossings is detected, the companion module is alerted as to potential main power loss and transitions to a virtual critical load (vCL) mode for load adjustment prior to operation under local power. Upon detection of main power loss, the companion module is configured for load activation (or deactivation) via states of one or more vCL bits that configure each load for either ON or OFF state when operating under local power.
US11621579B2	Line-interactive uninterruptible power supply with integrated charger Aspects of the disclosure provide an uninterruptible power supply comprising an input configured to receive input power from an input-power source, the input having a mains neutral connection coupled to a reference node, an energy-storage-device interface configured to be coupled to an energy-storage device to provide back-up power, the energy-storage-device interface having an energy-storage-device neutral connection coupled to the reference node, an output configured to provide output power derived from at least one of the input power and the back-up power, a power-factor-correction circuit (PFC) comprising a PFC input, a capacitor coupled to the PFC and being galvanically coupled to the energy-storage-device interface, a bidirectional converter coupled to the input and coupled to the energy-storage-device interface, and a switch coupled to the energy-storage-device interface and to the PFC input.
US11621574B2	Regulator with high speed nonlinear compensation An apparatus including a proportional gain circuit, an integral gain circuit, a limit circuit, a gain booster circuit and a combiner. The gain circuits apply a proportional gain and an integral gain to an error signal, and the combiner combines both gained error signals to provide a control signal. The limit circuit applies a limit function that limits the proportional gain to a magnitude. The gain booster circuit increases gain while the limit function is being applied. The increased gain may be applied to only the integral gain, or to both the integral and proportional gains such as by boosting gain of the error signal. The apparatus may be a regulator that may include multiple control loops providing multiple error signals, in which a mode selector selects one of the error signals to control regulation. The limit function increases stability while the boosted gain improves transient response during mode transitions.
US11621563B2	System for dynamic demand balancing in energy networks A method of controlling energy supply in an energy distribution network is disclosed. The energy distribution network comprises an energy generation facility adapted to supply energy to the energy distribution network and an energy consumer adapted to consume energy from the energy distribution network. The method comprises, at the energy generation facility: detecting a curtailment condition, the curtailment condition indicating that the energy generation facility should curtail its supply of energy to the energy distribution network; in response to the curtailment condition, transmitting, via a communications link, a request to increase energy consumption to the energy consumer; receiving a reply message from the energy consumer via the communications link; and controlling energy output from the generation facility in dependence on the reply message.
US11621559B2	Brown out mitigation apparatus and method A method for predicting when energy consumption will exceed normal production capacity for buildings including generating data sets for each of the buildings, where energy consumption values within each set are shifted by one of a plurality of lag values relative to time and temperature values, and where each lag value is different; performing a regression model analysis on each set to yield corresponding regression model parameters and a corresponding residual; determining a least valued residual indicating a corresponding energy lag for each of the buildings; using outside temperatures, regression model parameters, and energy lags for all of the buildings to estimate a cumulative energy consumption for the buildings, and to predict the time when energy consumption will exceed normal production capacity; and receiving the time when energy consumption will exceed normal production capacity, and preparing and commencing exceptional measures required to manage the energy consumption.
US11621558B2	Electric energy supply device comprising a busbar matrix, and method for operating the energy supply device The disclosure relates to an electrical energy supply device having usage units, wherein each usage unit is designed to generate or to buffer electrical energy. The disclosure proposes that the energy supply device carries out an energy exchange through a busbar assembly, wherein busbars of the busbar assembly form a busbar matrix, and in the energy supply device the usage units are divided up into strands and in each strand the usage units are hooked up in a series circuit and the series circuit is connected across a DC voltage converter to one strand end of the strand and each strand end of the strand is connected across a respective galvanically separable switching unit.
US11621557B2	Overvoltage protection for power systems Electrical protection devices, such as for use with power systems for overvoltage protection, are disclosed. One electrical protection device includes a first electrical connection, a second electrical connection, a first electrical discharge device, and a second electrical discharge device. The first electrical discharge device includes a first conductive bus connected to the first electrical connection and a second conductive bus connected to the second electrical connection. The first electrical discharge device has a first breakdown voltage. The second electrical discharge device includes a third conductive bus connected to the first electrical connection and a fourth conductive bus connected to the second electrical connection. The second electrical discharge device has a second breakdown voltage.
US11621544B1	Spark plug electrode and method of manufacturing the same A spark plug electrode with an electrode tip formed on an electrode base using an additive manufacturing process, such as a powder bed fusion technique. The spark plug electrode includes an electrode base that at least partially surrounds a heat dissipating core, an electrode tip that is formed on the electrode base and includes a precious metal-based material, and a thermal coupling zone that directly thermally couples the electrode tip to the heat dissipating core. In some examples, the electrode tip is formed on an electrode base that has been cut or severed to expose a portion of the heat dissipating core, such that the electrode tip is formed directly on the heat dissipating core using additive manufacturing.
US11621532B2	Apparatuses and methods for manipulating a wire A method of manipulating a wire, having an electrical contact, comprises clamping the wire with a predetermined force between a first gripping portion, installed in a first channel of a first tip half, and a second gripping portion, installed in a second channel of a second tip half. The method also includes pushing the electrical contact into a receptacle of a terminal block using a first internal shoulder of the first channel and a second internal shoulder of the second channel to interlock the electrical contact and the terminal block. With the wire clamped between the first gripping portion and the second gripping portion, the method includes verifying that the electrical contact and the terminal block are interlocked by pulling the first tip half and the second tip half away from the terminal block until the wire slips along the first gripping portion and the second gripping portion.
US11621529B2	DC-DC conversion system A direct current (DC)-DC conversion system including at least one DC source, at least one source cable, a DC-DC converter, at least one output cable, and at least one DC load. Each of the at least one source cable includes a source input connector, a source output connector, and a source input cable. The DC-DC converter includes a housing, a DC-DC input connector, and a DC-DC output connector. Each of the at least one output cable includes a load input connector, at least one load output connector, and a load output cable. The DC-DC converter is operable to receive energy from the at least one source via the at least one source cable, and is operable to provide energy to the at least one DC load via the at least one output cable.
US11621528B2	Connector assembly A connector assembly involving a plug connector that incorporates a photoelectric conversion element that conducts optical/electrical and electrical/optical signal conversion, and an actuation device that drives said photoelectric conversion element, and a receptacle connector mated with said plug connector, with the plug connector and the receptacle connector being electrically connected through mutual contact between terminals, wherein, in the plug connector, the front end side of a fiber optic cable used for optical signal transmission is connected to the rear end side of said plug connector and extends from the rear, lateral terminals are arranged in each of a pair of lateral edge portions that extend in the forward-backward direction, while end terminals are arranged in a front end edge portion 34 that extends perpendicular to the forward-backward direction.
US11621520B2	Electrical data connector An electrical data connector includes a socket having a socket body that defines a plug connector cavity and electrically conductive shields within the cavity. A plug connector has a plug body telescopically slid into the plug connector cavity. The plug body has an insert cavity and adjacent spring openings, each of the spring openings aligning with a respective one of the shields. A cable head has an insert module telescopically slid into the insert cavity. The cable head includes an electrically conductive fixation element that is fixed to the insert module and fixed to a cable. The fixation element includes integral spring elements that extend generally radially outwardly from the insert module and are each configured to extend through respective spring openings into contact with respective shields.
US11621516B2	Electrical connector and connector assembly The present disclosure provides an electrical connector and a connector assembly. The electrical connector comprises a first sleeve, a first cover, and a sealing member. The first sleeve comprises a first mating opening and a first connecting end surface. The first connecting end surface is disposed at the periphery of the first mating opening. The first cover is disposed in the first sleeve. The first cover comprises a first mating surface exposed from the first mating opening. The sealing member is disposed on a side surface of the first cover and surrounds the first cover. The sealing member is disposed between the first sleeve and the first cover. The sealing member comprises a sealing sheet extending from the first mating surface in a direction close to the first connecting end surface of the first sleeve.
US11621515B2	Connector assembly for active implantable medical device A connector assembly includes a cover assembly and a feedthrough assembly that couples with the cover assembly. The cover assembly receives a connector end of a lead having lead contacts, and aligns the lead contacts with pockets or apertures of the cover assembly. The feedthrough assembly may include feedthrough contacts in the form of feedthrough pins at or above a surface of a feedthrough substrate, or conductive vias on the surface of the substrate. Electrical contacts configured as leaf spring contact assemblies, torsion spring contacts, or torsion spring contact assemblies are permanently attached to the feedthrough contacts. When the cover assembly and feedthrough assembly are coupled, contact tabs of the electrical contacts are positioned in the pockets or apertures of the cover assembly. Upon complete seating of the cover assembly and feedthrough assembly, the contact tabs are compressed into contact with the lead contacts.
US11621503B2	Substrate unit Provided is a substrate unit including a case accommodating a circuit board; a bus bar electrically connected to the circuit board, and includes an extending portion extending out of the case; and an external thread portion for electrically connecting the extending portion to a connection terminal of a wire harness, the external thread portion including a shaft portion with an external thread, and a head portion that is noncircular, and protrudes at one end portion of the shaft portion in a radial direction of the shaft portion, wherein the case includes a fitting recess to which the head portion is fitted by sliding the external thread portion in a direction intersecting an axial direction of the external thread portion, and that has an abutment surface by which the head portion is stopped, and, at least on the two sides of the abutment surface, relief recesses that define a gap.
US11621497B2	Antenna assembly for a beamforming antenna and base station antenna The present invention relates to an antenna assembly for a beamforming antenna, comprising a reflector and an antenna array that includes a plurality of first radiating elements that are arranged as a first vertically extending array, the first radiating elements extending forwardly from the reflector; and a plurality of second radiating elements that are arranged as a second vertically extending array, the second radiating elements extending forwardly from the reflector. Two adjacent first radiating elements are spaced apart from one another by a first distance, and a first radiating element and an adjacent second radiating element are spaced apart from one another by a second distance. The first distance is substantially equal to the second distance. The antenna assembly further comprises a plurality of parasitic elements that are placed along sides of the first and second of the vertically extending arrays.
US11621495B2	Antenna device including planar lens According to various embodiments of the present invention, an antenna device can comprise: a substrate layer; a source antenna arranged on the substrate layer so as to include a radiating conductor for radiating electromagnetic waves in the direction in which one surface of the substrate layer is oriented; and a planar lens for converting quasi-spherical electromagnetic waves radiated from the source antenna into plane waves. The antenna device can be varied according to embodiments.
US11621491B2	Chip antenna A chip antenna includes a first substrate, a second substrate overlapping the first substrate, a first patch, provided on a first surface of the first substrate, operating as a feed patch, a second patch, provided on the second substrate, operating as a radiation patch, at least one feed via penetrating through the first substrate in a thickness direction and configured to provide a feed signal to the first patch, and a ground pad provided on the other surface of the first substrate. The first substrate comprises a ceramic sintered material. The ceramic sintered material comprises an Mg2SiO4 phase, an MgAl2O4 phase, and a CaTiO3 phase, and a content of the CaTiO3 phase in the ceramic sintered material ranges from 5.1 mol % to 15.1 mol %.
US11621486B2	Method and apparatus for an active radiating and feed structure Examples disclosed herein relate to a radiating structure. The radiating structure has a transmission array structure having a plurality of transmission paths, with each transmission path having a plurality of slots. The radiating structure also has a radiating array structure of a plurality of radiating elements, with each radiating element corresponding to at least one slot from the plurality of slots, and at least one radiating element from the plurality of radiating elements comprising an integrated reactance control device. The radiating array structure is positioned proximate the transmission array structure. A feed coupling structure is coupled to the transmission array structure and adapted for propagation of a transmission signal to the transmission array structure, the transmission signal radiated through at least one of the plurality of slots and at least one of the plurality of radiating elements, the at least one reactance control device providing a phase shift in the radiated transmission signal.
US11621485B2	Metal space frame radome A radome with constructed panels that are mechanically fastened to each other to form a truncated faceted spherical structure. Each panel is constructed of a metal frame and a membrane attached to the frame. The mechanically fastened frame beams panel-to-panel contact spaces are sealed to prevent water ingress.
US11621482B2	Antenna manufacturing method and antenna device A conductor ground plane provided on a dielectric substrate and provided with a patch antenna and a conductor ground plane provided on the side of a dielectric substrate having a through hole are bonded by solder in a state where the through hole and the patch antenna are arranged to face each other, and a conductor ground plane provided on the back side of the dielectric substrate and a conductor ground plane provided on a dielectric substrate are bonded by solder.
US11621481B2	Radio assembly with modularized radios and interconnects A radio assembly is provided. The radio assembly includes at least one radio module and a radome. The radio module has a heatsink disposed on one side and a radio module base on the other side thereof. The radio module base is disposed between the heatsink and the radome. The heatsink defines a cable channel for routing at least one power cable and at least one data cable.
US11621479B2	Electromagnetic wave transmission structure, electromagnetic wave transmission structure array, and electromagnetic wave transmission and shifting method An electromagnetic wave transmission structure adapted to cause convergence of an electromagnetic wave includes a substrate and a transmission unit provided on the substrate and including an annular metal plate. The annular metal plate has a weighted average inner radius and a weighted average outer radius each related to the wavelength of the electromagnetic wave, the distance between the electromagnetic wave transmission structure and a focal point defined as the point of convergence of the electromagnetic wave, and the distance between the source of the electromagnetic wave and the focal point. The plural inner and outer radii of the annular metal plate have the same trend of variation. Each inner or outer radius corresponds to a weight related to the reference included angle formed between the inner or outer radius and a reference axis.
US11621477B2	Antenna device and antenna apparatus Provided is an antenna device includes a base connector fixed to a support substrate, a module connector connected to the base connector to the base connector, and an antenna module fixed to the module connector and configured to transmit or receive a radio wave. The base connector includes a base-side casing, a base-side fitting portion, and multiple base-side terminals. The module connector includes a module-side casing, a module-side fitting portion, and a multiple module-side terminals. The antenna module includes an antenna substrate and an antenna element provided on a front surface of the antenna substrate. In a state in which the base connector is fixed to the support substrate and the module connector is connected to the base connector, the antenna module is fixed to the module-side casing such that the front surface of the antenna substrate faces up diagonally to the outside of the module connector.
US11621476B2	Antenna assembly for a vehicle with sleep sense command A method and system for activating and deactivating a communication module for an apparatus is disclosed herein. The method includes monitoring a power activity state for the apparatus, monitoring a power activity state for a router for the apparatus, and maintaining an activation state for the communication module as long as the power activity state of the apparatus or the router is active.
US11621472B2	Multiple-assembly antenna positioner with eccentric shaft Methods, systems, and devices are described for an antenna positioning apparatus, which includes a multiple-assembly positioner for adjusting a positioning angle about a positioning axis. The multiple-assembly positioner has two or more positioning assemblies that are coupled in series between a base structure and a positioning structure. Positioning assemblies can be individually selected based on various criteria, such as cost, complexity, angular range, and other performance, and be configured to work together to provide a desired range of adjustment to the positioning angle while simultaneously meeting precision requirements. In one example, a positioning assembly can include a shaft with an eccentric portion, which is rotated in order to provide the adjustment. A method is described where a first positioning assembly can be actuated to a first initial position, and then held, such that a second positioning assembly can be actuated to provide a selected antenna positioning angle.
US11621471B2	Resonator with a dielectric element including first and second chambers therein connected by a channel, wherein a liquid crystal having an adjustable level fills the first and second chambers and the channel A dielectric element for a resonator and a corresponding resonator are described. The dielectric element has a first chamber and a second chamber, which are fluidically connected to one another by a connecting channel. A liquid crystal is contained in the first chamber, a gas is contained in the second chamber. Changes in the volume of the liquid crystal can be compensated by a change in the volume of the gas, because the liquid crystal can move in the connecting channel. Consequently, such a resonator can be exposed to greatly fluctuating temperature ranges without requiring any further compensation for temperature-induced changes in the volume of the liquid crystal. The dielectric element can also be hermetically closed to complete the production process.
US11621466B2	Well thermalized stripline formation for high-density connections in quantum applications A stripline that is usable in a quantum application (q-stripline) includes a first polyimide film and a second polyimide film. The q-stripline further includes a first center conductor and a second center conductor formed between the first polyimide film and the second polyimide film. The q-stripline has a first pin configured through the second polyimide film to make electrical and thermal contact with the first center conductor.
US11621465B2	Circulator-based tunable delay line Systems and methods for delaying an input signal are described. A device can receive an input signal. The device can activate a state of at least one circuit element among a plurality of circuit elements. The plurality of circuit elements can be connected to a plurality of segments of a transmission line. The device can output the input signal to the transmission line. The device can receive a reflection of the input signal. A delay between the reflection and input signal can be based on the activated state of the at least one circuit element among the plurality of circuit elements. The device can output the reflection of the input signal as an output signal.
US11621461B2	Bar module terminal assemblies having pairs of elongated terminal plates A battery pack assembly includes a plurality of battery cells and a pair of elongated connector terminal plates. Each battery cell has a terminal side and an opposite floor side. A pair of terminals extend from each of the plurality of battery cells on the terminal side. Each of the pair of elongated connector terminal plates includes an upper and a lower elongated terminal connector. The upper and lower elongated terminal connector plates of each of the pair of elongated connector terminal plates are configured to independently move between an aligned position and an engaged position such that in the engaged position the pair of elongated connector terminal plates retain the plurality of battery cells and in the aligned position the pair of elongated connector terminal plates are removed from the battery pack releasing the plurality of battery cells.
US11621459B2	Batteries utilizing anode coatings directly on nanoporous separators Provided are methods of preparing a separator/anode assembly for use in an electric current producing cell, wherein the assembly comprises an anode current collector layer interposed between a first anode layer and a second anode layer and a porous separator layer on the side of the first anode layer opposite to the anode current collector layer, wherein the first anode layer is coated directly on the separator layer.
US11621457B1	Lithium oxyhalide battery separator material Methods for producing ceramic films Yttria Stabilized Zirconia (3YSZ) and aluminum titanate (Al2TiO5), and the physical properties of these films are described. The films produced have thicknesses and integrity suitable for handling and corrosion resistance to electrolytes, porosity, ion permeability and electrical resistivity suitable for use as separators between positive and negative layers for forming electrical batteries, particularly lithium batteries.
US11621456B2	Laminable, dimensionally-stable microporous webs Laminable microporous polymer webs with good dimensional stability are disclosed herein. Methods of making and using laminable microporous polymer webs with good dimensional stability are also disclosed herein.
US11621454B2	Battery assembly A battery assembly includes a battery holding unit and a battery unit removably held by the battery holding unit. The battery unit includes a battery, a first engaging portion and a second engaging portion disposed on an end portion of the battery. The battery holding unit includes a holding member selectively engaging with the first engaging portion or the second engaging portion to hold the battery unit at a first position or a second position. When the holding member and the first engaging portion relatively move away from each other, the battery unit moves from the first position to the second position at which the holding member engages with the second engaging portion, and the second engaging portion is allowed to rotate along a surface of the end portion to disengage from the holding member and to remove the battery unit from the battery holding unit.
US11621453B2	Foldable gasket with continuous sealing contour The present disclosure relates to a seal for sealing an inner chamber of a housing from an exterior of the housing, comprising at least one sealing layer that has: at least two rigid sealing layer portions having a respective support element, wherein the rigid sealing layer portions are interconnected by a flexible sealing layer portion, which consists of or comprises at least in part an elastomer; and at least one sealing contour, which extends continuously over the different sealing layer portions, wherein the support elements each comprise, in an end region adjoining the flexible sealing layer portion, at least one through-opening, through which the elastomer of the flexible sealing layer portion extends, and the end region of each support element is coined in at least one first end-side coining region and is enclosed by the elastomer in the first end-side coining region at least in some regions.
US11621450B2	Battery can and cylindrical battery A battery can has a cylindrical body section, an opening section at one end of the body section, and a bottom section closing the other end of the body section. An annularly grooved portion is formed by constriction near the open end of the opening section. The annularly grooved portion has an upper-groove section as the section closer to the open end than the narrowest section, which is positioned farthest inside, of the grooved portion, and also has a lower-groove section as the section closer to the bottom section than the narrowest section. The wall thickness T1 of the lower-groove section is larger than the wall thickness T2 of the body section.
US11621448B2	Vehicle frame mounted high voltage battery assembly A battery assembly may include a tray, a battery pack received within the tray, a cover positioned over the battery pack and a mounting assembly connected to the tray and including at least one bushing configured to establish an interface with a vehicle component.
US11621441B2	Li-Ion battery high voltage distribution system architecture Systems and methods for operating a lithium-ion battery high-voltage distribution system architecture are disclosed. A battery pack includes: a plurality of lithium-ion battery cells; a disconnect mechanism operable in an operational position between a battery bus and the plurality of lithium-ion battery cells and a bypass position between the battery bus and a bus-power pass through; and a battery management system. The battery management system is configured to monitor battery pack performance; and responsive to detecting a triggering event in the battery pack performance, cause the disconnect mechanism to be in the bypass position.
US11621439B2	Cathode for alkaline earth air batteries An electrochemical device includes an air cathode comprising a SEI (solid electrolyte interphase) layer on a carbon support.
US11621434B2	Method for manufacturing electrode assembly A method for manufacturing the electrode assembly includes: a first step of preparing a plurality of radical units, each of which is manufactured by alternately stacking an electrode and a separator; a second step of stacking the plurality of radical units to manufacture an electrode stack; and a third step of pressing an outer surface of the electrode stack to manufacture an electrode assembly on which a curved surface having a curvature radius is formed on the electrode stack, wherein, when the sum of bonding force remaining after the third step among bonding force between the electrode and the separator as bonding force generated before the third step is defined as F1, the sum of force by which the electrode and the separator are spread again so that shapes of the electrode and the separator return to shapes before the electrode stack is pressed in the third step is defined as R, and the sum of bonding force additionally generated between the electrode and the separator within the electrode assembly by the third step is defined as F2, expression: F1+R≤F2 is satisfied.
US11621433B2	Proton exchange membrane material and methods of making the same Hydrocarbon proton exchange membranes are disclosed that are composed of a material including a hydrophobic main chain, and acidic side chains. The main chain includes a polyaryl structure that is substantially free of ether linkages and also includes a fluoromethyl substituted carbon. The acidic side chains include a hydrocarbon tether terminated by a strongly acidic group, such as a fluoroalkyl sulfonate group. Chemical stability of the material is increased by removing the ether linkages from the main chain. The hydrophobic main chain and substantially hydrophilic side chains create a phase-separated morphology that affords enhanced transport of protons and water across the membrane even at low relative humidity levels. These materials are advantageous as membranes for use in fuel cells, redox flow batteries, water hydrolysis systems, sensors, electrochemical hydrogen compressors, actuators, water purifiers, gas separators, etc.
US11621426B2	Micro-porous layer and manufacturing method therefor, gas diffusion electrode substrate, and fuel battery The present invention provides a micro-porous layer which provides a fuel battery having high productivity, high power generation performance, and high durability. The present invention provides a micro-porous layer including fibrous carbohydrate having a fiber diameter of 5 nm-10 μm and an aspect ratio of 10 or more. The carbohydrate has an oxygen/carbon element ratio of 0.02 or more.
US11621417B2	Lithium ion secondary battery The present embodiment provides a lithium ion secondary battery including a positive electrode containing LiaNixCoyMzO2 (0.9≤a≤1.2, 0.3≤x≤0.8, 0.2≤y+z≤0.7, where M is a metal element other than Li, Ni, and Co) as a positive active material, and a negative electrode containing non-graphitic carbon as a negative active material. In this lithium ion secondary battery, at a portion where the positive electrode and the negative electrode face each other, a basis weight (P) of the positive active material and a basis weight (N) of the negative active material satisfy a relational expression of 0.65≤P/N≤1.05.
US11621415B2	Positive electrode active material and method of producing positive electrode active material A method of producing a positive electrode active material, the method includes: contacting first particles that contain a lithium transition metal composite oxide with a solution containing sodium ions to obtain second particles containing the lithium transition metal composite oxide and sodium element, wherein the lithium transition metal composite oxide has a layered structure and a composition ratio of a number of moles of nickel to a total number of moles of metals other than lithium in a range of from 0.7 to less than 1; mixing the second particles and a boron compound to obtain a mixture; and heat-treating the mixture at a temperature in a range of from 100° C. to 450° C.
US11621409B2	Curved two-dimensional nanocomposites for battery electrodes A battery electrode composition is provided that comprises a composite material comprising one or more nanocomposites. The nanocomposites may each comprise a planar substrate backbone having a curved geometrical structure, and an active material forming a continuous or substantially continuous film at least partially encasing the substrate backbone. To form an electrode from the electrode composition, a plurality of electrically-interconnected nanocomposites of this type may be aggregated into one or more three-dimensional agglomerations, such as substantially spherical or ellipsoidal granules.
US11621397B2	Iridium complexes containing a ligand including a (dibenzo [B,D] furanyl) pyridine skeleton having deuterium substitutions para and meta to the N ring atom and organic light emitting device comprising the same Provided is a compound of Chemical Formula 1: and to an organic light emitting device comprising the same.
US11621395B2	Resistive random-access memory devices and methods of fabrication A memory apparatus includes an interconnect in a first dielectric above a substrate and a structure above the interconnect, where the structure includes a diffusion barrier material and covers the interconnect. The memory apparatus further includes a resistive random-access memory (RRAM) device coupled to the interconnect. The RRAM device includes a first electrode on a portion of the structure, a stoichiometric layer having a metal and oxygen on the first electrode, a non-stoichiometric layer including the metal and oxygen on the stoichiometric layer. A second electrode including a barrier material is on the non-stoichiometric layer. In some embodiments, the RRAM device further includes a third electrode on the second electrode. To prevent uncontrolled oxidation during a fabrication process a spacer may be directly adjacent to the RRAM device, where the spacer includes a second dielectric.
US11621386B2	Gate voltage-tunable electron system integrated with superconducting resonator for quantum computing device A superconducting coupling device includes a resonator structure. The resonator structure has a first end configured to be coupled to a first device and a second end configured to be coupled to a second device. The device further includes an electron system coupled to the resonator structure, and a gate positioned proximal to a portion of the electron system. The electron system and the gate are configured to interrupt the resonator structure at one or more predetermined locations forming a switch. The gate is configured to receive a gate voltage and vary an inductance of the electron system based upon the gate voltage. The varying of the inductance induces the resonator structure to vary a strength of coupling between the first device and the second device.
US11621366B2	Passivation process A passivation process includes the successive steps of a) providing a stack having, in succession, a substrate based on crystalline silicon, a layer of silicon oxide, and at least one layer of transparent conductive oxide; and b) applying a hydrogen-containing plasma to the stack, step b) being executed at a suitable temperature so that hydrogen atoms of the hydrogen-containing plasma diffuse to the interface between the substrate and the layer of silicon oxide.
US11621365B2	Water soluble oxide liftoff layers for GaAs photovoltaics Disclosed herein are compositions, methods and devices that allow for water-soluble epitaxial lift-off of III-V. Epitaxial growth of STO/SAO templates on STO (001) and Ge (001) substrates were demonstrated. Partially epitaxial GaAs growth was achieved on STO/SAO/STO substrate templates.
US11621359B1	Solar cell, photovoltaic module, and method for preparing the solar cell The present disclosure provides a solar cell. The solar cell includes a substrate, where the substrate has a front surface and a rear surface, the rear surface includes a textured region and a flat region, a doped surface field is formed in the textured region of the substrate; a tunneling dielectric layer, where the tunneling dielectric layer is located on the flat region; a doped conductive layer, where the doped conductive layer is located on the tunnelling dielectric layer, the doped conductive layer has doping elements, and the doped conductive layer has the same type of the doping elements with the doped surface field; a rear electrode, where a part of a bottom surface of the rear electrode is located in the doped conductive layer and the part of the bottom surface of the rear electrode is in contact with the doped surface field.
US11621357B2	Schottky barrier diode An object of the present invention is to provide a Schottky barrier diode less liable to cause dielectric breakdown due to concentration of an electric field. A Schottky barrier diode according to this disclosure includes a semiconductor substrate made of gallium oxide, a drift layer made of gallium oxide and provided on the semiconductor substrate, an anode electrode 40 brought into Schottky contact with the drift layer, a cathode electrode brought into ohmic contact with the semiconductor substrate, an insulating layer provided on the drift layer so as to surround the anode electrode in a plan view, and a semiconductor layer provided on a surface of a part of the drift layer that is positioned between the anode electrode and the insulating layer and on the insulating layer. The semiconductor layer has a conductivity type opposite to that of the drift layer.
US11621356B2	Thin-film transistor, display device including the same, and method of manufacturing the same A thin-film transistor, a display device including a thin-film transistor, and a method of manufacturing a thin-film transistor are provided. A thin-film transistor includes: a base substrate, a semiconductor layer on the base substrate, the semiconductor layer including: a first oxide semiconductor layer, and a second oxide semiconductor layer on the first oxide semiconductor layer, the second oxide semiconductor layer having a Hall mobility smaller than a Hall mobility of the first oxide semiconductor layer, and a gate electrode spaced apart from the semiconductor layer and partially overlapping the semiconductor layer, wherein a concentration of gallium (Ga) in the second oxide semiconductor layer is higher than a concentration of gallium (Ga) in the first oxide semiconductor layer.
US11621355B2	Biomimetic 2D transistor for audiomorphic computing Embodiments relate to a computing device that may be configured as a biomimetic audiomorphic device. The device can include a field effect transistor (FET) having a split-gate architecture with different spacing between the split-gates. Embodiments of the device can include multiple split-gates. Some embodiments include the integration of delay elements and tunable resistor-capacitance (RC) circuits for imitating the interaural time delay neurons. Some embodiments include global back-gating structural features to provide neuroplasticity aspects so as to provide adaptation related changes.
US11621352B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A method comprises forming a gate structure over a substrate; forming a gate helmet to cap the gate structure; forming a source/drain contact on the substrate; depositing a contact etch stop layer (CESL) over the gate helmet and the source/drain contacts, and an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer over the CESL; performing a first etching process to form a gate contact opening extending through the ILD layer, the CESL and the gate helmet to the gate structure; forming a metal cap in the gate contact opening; with the metal cap in the gate contact opening, performing a second etching process to form a source/drain via opening extending through the ILD layer, the CESL to the source/drain contact; and after forming the source/drain via opening, forming a gate contact over the metal cap and a source/drain via over the source/drain contact.
US11621350B2	Transistor structure and method with strain effect A semiconductor structure includes a gate stack on a semiconductor substrate and an etch stop layer disposed on the gate stack and the semiconductor substrate. The etch stop layer includes a first portion disposed on sidewalls of the gate stack and a second portion disposed on a top surface of the semiconductor substrate within a source/drain region. The semiconductor structure further includes a dielectric stress layer disposed on the second portion of the etch stop layer and being free from the first portion of the etch stop layer other than at a corner area formed by the first portion intersecting the second portion. The dielectric stress layer is different from the etch stop layer in composition and is configured to apply a compressive stress to a channel region underlying the gate stack.
US11621347B2	Drain extended transistor with trench gate A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate with a trench, a body region under the trench with majority carrier dopants of a first type, and a transistor, including a source region under the trench with majority carrier dopants of a second type, a drain region spaced from the trench with majority carrier dopants of the second type, a gate structure in the trench proximate a channel portion of a body region, and an oxide structure in the trench proximate a side of the gate structure.
US11621342B2	Semiconductor device, method, and tool of manufacture In an embodiment, a method includes: performing a self-limiting process to modify a top surface of a wafer; after the self-limiting process completes, removing the modified top surface from the wafer; and repeating the performing the self-limiting process and the removing the modified top surface from the wafer until a thickness of the wafer is decreased to a predetermined thickness.
US11621339B2	Semiconductor device including capacitor Disclosed is a semiconductor device including a bottom electrode, a dielectric layer, and a top electrode that are sequentially disposed on a substrate. The dielectric layer includes a hafnium oxide layer including hafnium oxide having a tetragonal crystal structure, and an oxidation seed layer including an oxidation seed material. The oxidation seed material has a lattice constant having a lattice mismatch of 6% or less with one of a horizontal lattice constant and a vertical lattice constant of the hafnium oxide having the tetragonal crystal structure.
US11621336B2	Pyramid-shaped transistors Transistors include a pyramid-shaped gate trench defined by a triangular shape or a trapezoidal shape in a channel width plane and a trapezoidal shape in a channel length plane. Side wall portions of the pyramid-shaped gate trench form a channel having a triangular shape or a trapezoidal shape in the channel width plane. Advantageously, such transistors increase transconductance without increasing pixel width. Devices, image sensors, and pixels incorporating such transistors are also provided, in addition to methods of manufacturing the same.
US11621332B2	Wraparound contact to a buried power rail An approach to form a semiconductor structure with a buried power rail. The semiconductor structure includes a buried power rail in a semiconductor substrate where a buried contact contacts to a first portion of a top surface of the buried power rail to a source/drain of a semiconductor device. Additionally, the semiconductor structure includes a first portion of a top surface of the buried contact that is below a top surface of the source/drain of the semiconductor device and a portion of a bottom surface of the buried contact that is in a cavity formed in the source/drain of the semiconductor device.
US11621330B2	Semiconductor wafer of monocrystalline silicon and method of producing the semiconductor wafer Epitaxially coated semiconductor wafers of monocrystalline silicon comprise a p+-doped substrate wafer and a p-doped epitaxial layer of monocrystalline silicon which covers an upper side face of the substrate wafer; an oxygen concentration of the substrate wafer of not less than 5.3×1017 atoms/cm3 and not more than 6.0×1017 atoms/cm3; a resistivity of the substrate wafer of not less than 5 mΩcm and not more than 10 mΩcm; and the potential of the substrate wafer to form BMDs as a result of a heat treatment of the epitaxially coated semiconductor wafer, where a high density of BMDs has a maximum close to the surface of the substrate wafer.
US11621328B2	Nitride semiconductor device A nitride semiconductor device includes a substrate; a first nitride semiconductor layer above the substrate; a block layer above the first nitride semiconductor layer; a first opening penetrating through the block layer; an electron transit layer and an electron supply layer provided sequentially above the block layer and along an inner surface of the first opening; a gate electrode provided above the electron supply layer to cover the first opening; a second opening penetrating through the electron supply layer and the electron transit layer; a source electrode provided in the second opening; and a drain electrode. When the first main surface is seen in a plan view, (i) the first opening and the source electrode each are elongated in a predetermined direction, and (ii) at least part of an outline of a first end of the first opening in a longitudinal direction follows an arc or an elliptical arc.
US11621322B2	Die-to-die isolation structures for packaged transistor devices A transistor amplifier package includes a base, one or more transistor dies on the base, first and second leads coupled to the one or more transistor dies and defining respective radio frequency (RF) signal paths, and an isolation structure on the base between the respective RF signal paths. The isolation structure includes first and second wire bonds. The first and second wire bonds may have a crossed configuration defining at least one cross point therebetween. Related wire bond-based isolation structures are also discussed.
US11621320B2	Semiconductor device A main semiconductor device element is SiC-MOSFETs with a trench gate structure, the main semiconductor device element having main MOS regions responsible for driving the MOSFETs and main SBD regions that are regions responsible for SBD operation. The main MOS regions and the main SBD regions are adjacent to one another and each pair of a main MOS region and a main SBD region adjacent thereto share one trench. In the main SBD regions, first and second p-type regions, and Schottky electrodes at the front surface of the semiconductor substrate and forming Schottky junctions with an n−-type drift region are provided. The first p-type regions are provided along sidewalls of the trenches, in contact with the first p+-type regions at the bottoms of the trenches. The second p-type regions are provided between the first p-type regions and the Schottky electrodes, and are electrically connected to these regions.
US11621316B1	Micro OLEDs having narrow bezel A device such as a micro-OLED includes a display element having a display active area disposed over a silicon backplane and a display driver integrated circuit (DDIC) electrically coupled to the display element through at least one contact that extends through the silicon backplane. Through silicon via (TSV) technology may be used to form the contacts. A chip-on-flex architecture may be used to orient and attach the DDIC to the silicon backplane.
US11621304B2	Display panel with single crystal perovskite color conversion layer and manufacturing method thereof The present disclosure provides a display panel and a manufacturing method thereof. The display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a blue light emitting layer, and a single crystal perovskite color conversion layer. The single crystal perovskite color conversion layer includes red light single crystal perovskite units disposed on red subpixel areas and green light single crystal perovskite units disposed on green subpixel areas. The red light single crystal perovskite units receive blue light to emit red light, and the green light single crystal perovskite units receive blue light to emit green light.
US11621293B2	Multi terminal device stack systems and methods Embodiments of the present invention include multiple independent terminals for a plurality of devices in a stack configuration within a semiconductor. In one embodiment, a semiconductor comprises: a first device at a first semiconductor level within a multi terminal device stack; wherein the first device is coupled to a first terminal; a second device at a second semiconductor level within the multi terminal device stack, wherein the second device is coupled to a second terminal; and a third terminal is coupled to the first device, wherein the first terminal and second terminal are independently coupled to the first device and second device respectively. The third terminal can be coupled to the second device. The first terminal, the second terminal, and third terminal and couple components included in the multi terminal stack to components not included in the multi terminal stack.
US11621281B2	Display substrate and display device A display substrate includes a base substrate; a gate metal pattern including a gate electrode of a thin film transistor and gate lines; a source-drain metal pattern including a source electrode and a drain electrode of the thin film transistor, and data lines, where the gate line cross the data line, to define a plurality of pixel regions arranged in an array form; and a first transparent metal pattern including a common electrode pattern. A minimum distance between each gate line and common electrode patterns in a row of pixel regions located in a same row as the gate line in a first direction is a first spacing, a minimum distance between the gate line and common electrode patterns in the other row of pixel regions adjacent to the gate line in the first direction is a second spacing, and the first spacing is greater than the second spacing.
US11621277B2	Multilevel memory stack structure with tapered inter-tier joint region and methods of making thereof A joint level dielectric material layer is formed over a first alternating stack of first insulating layers and first spacer material layers. A first memory opening is formed with a tapered sidewall of the joint level dielectric material layer. A second alternating stack of second insulating layers and second spacer material layers is formed over the joint level dielectric material layer. An inter-tier memory opening is formed, which includes a volume of an second memory opening that extends through the second alternating stack and a volume of the first memory opening. A memory film and a semiconductor channel are formed in the inter-tier memory opening with respective tapered portions overlying the tapered sidewall of the joint level dielectric material layer.
US11621273B2	Integrated assemblies and methods of forming integrated assemblies Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a first structure containing semiconductor material, and having a second structure contacting the first structure. The first structure has a composition along an interface with the second structure. The composition includes additive to a concentration within a range of from about 1018 atoms/cm3 to about 1021 atoms/cm3. The additive includes one or more of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US11621266B2	Method of testing a gap fill for DRAM Methods of forming memory devices are described. Some embodiments of the disclosure utilize a low temperature anneal process to reduce bottom voids and seams in low melting point, low resistance metal buried word lines. Some embodiments of the disclosure utilize a high density dielectric cap during a high temperature anneal process to reduce bottom voids in buried word lines.
US11621263B2	Semiconductor device with short-resistant capacitor plate A method of making a semiconductor device includes steps related to forming source and drain wells of a transistor in a semiconductor substrate; forming a gate electrode of the transistor over the semiconductor substrate; forming an isolation structure in the semiconductor substrate adjacent to the transistor; and depositing a first inter-dielectric layer (ILD) material over the transistor and the isolation structure. The method also includes steps for depositing a capacitor film stack over the first ILD material, forming a pattern in the capacitor film stack over the isolation structure, and forming a capacitor plate by etching a conductive material of the capacitor film stack. Etching the conductive material includes performing a liquid etch process with a selectivity of at least 16 with regard to other materials in the capacitor film stack.
US11621262B2	Dual-directional silicon-controlled rectifier A dual-directional silicon-controlled rectifier includes: a substrate, a well region, a shallow trench isolation structure, heavily doped regions of a first conductive type, heavily doped regions of a second conductive type, and ESD implantations of the first conductive type. Four active regions are provided side by side in the well region. Forward and reverse SCRs and the ESD implantations are provided in the middle active regions. Forward and reverse diodes are provided in the active regions on both sides. One of the heavily doped regions of the first conductive type in contact with the ESD implantations is disposed between the SCRs and the diodes, so as to be electrically connected to a heavily doped region of the second conductive type of the diodes.
US11621261B2	Detection circuit and detection method The embodiments provide a detection circuit and a detection method. The detection circuit includes an ESD protection device, a first fuse and a transistor. A first terminal of the ESD protection device is connected to a first terminal of the first fuse, and a connection terminal of the ESD protection device and the first fuse serves as a first test terminal; a second terminal of the first fuse is connected to a gate electrode of the transistor, and a connection terminal of the first fuse and the transistor serves as a second test terminal; and a second terminal of the ESD protection device is connected to at least one of a source electrode, drain electrode or substrate of the transistor, and a connection terminal of the ESD protection device and the transistor serves as a third test terminal.
US11621254B2	Power supply system A power supply system includes a system board electrically connected to a load; a first package and a second package provided on an upper side of the system board; and a bridge member provided on upper sides of the first package and the second package, comprising a passive element and used for power coupling between the first package and the second package, wherein vertical projections of the first package and the second package on the system board are both overlapped with a vertical projection of the bridge member on the system board, the first package, and the second package are encapsulated with switching devices, terminals on upper surfaces of the first package and the second package are electrically connected to the bridge member, and terminals on lower surfaces thereof are electrically connected to the system board.
US11621245B2	Microelectronic device packages with EMI shielding, methods of fabricating and related electronic systems This patent application relates to microelectronic device packages with internal EMI shielding, methods of fabricating and related electronic systems. One or more microelectronic devices of a package including multiple microelectronic devices are EMI shielded, and one or more other microelectronic devices of the package are located outside the EMI shielding.
US11621237B2	Interposer and electronic package Embodiments include interposers for use in high speed applications. In an embodiment, the interposer comprises an interposer substrate, and an array of pads on a first surface of the interposer substrate. In an embodiment, a plurality of vias pass through the interposer substrate, where each via is electrically coupled to one of the pads in the array of pads. In an embodiment a plurality of heating elements are embedded in the interposer substrate. In an embodiment a first cable is over the first surface interposer substrate. In an embodiment, the first cable comprises an array of conductive lines along the first cable, where conductive lines proximate to a first end of the cable are electrically coupled to pads in the array of pads.
US11621229B2	Wiring structure and method for manufacturing the same A wiring structure and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The wiring structure includes a substrate structure, a redistribution structure, an adhesive layer and at least one conductive pillar. The redistribution structure includes at least one dielectric layer. The at least one dielectric layer defines at least one through hole extending through the dielectric layer. The adhesive layer is disposed between the redistribution structure and the substrate structure and bonds the redistribution structure and the substrate structure together. The at least one conductive pillar extends through the redistribution structure and the adhesive layer and is electrically connected to the substrate structure. A portion of the at least one conductive pillar is disposed in the through hole of the at least one dielectric layer.
US11621227B2	Power delivery for embedded bridge die utilizing trench structures Methods/structures of joining package structures are described. Those methods/structures may include a die disposed on a surface of a substrate, an interconnect bridge embedded in the substrate, and at least one vertical interconnect structure disposed through a portion of the interconnect bridge, wherein the at least one vertical interconnect structure is electrically and physically coupled to the die.
US11621217B2	Substrate structure and semiconductor package structure A substrate structure and a semiconductor package structure are provided. The substrate structure includes a first dielectric layer, a pad and a conductive structure. The first dielectric layer has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The pad is adjacent to the first surface and at least partially embedded in the first dielectric layer. The first dielectric layer has an opening exposing the pad, and a width of the opening is less than a width of the pad. The conductive structure is disposed on the pad and composed of a first portion outside the opening of the first dielectric layer and a second portion embedded in the opening of the first dielectric layer. The first portion has an aspect ratio exceeding 1.375.
US11621210B2	Thermal interface material (TIM) with thermally conductive integrated release layer A thermal interface material (TIM) includes a modified release layer having an organosilane-coated surface covalently bound to a TIM formulation layer. The modified release layer may be formed by applying an organosilane (e.g., vinyltriethoxysilane) to the surface of a thermally conductive release layer (e.g., aluminum foil). The organosilane reacts with hydroxyl groups on the surface of the thermally conductive release layer. The TIM formulation layer may be formed by applying a TIM formulation (e.g., a graphite TIM formulation) containing an unsaturated monomer (e.g., methyl acrylate) to the organosilane-coated surface of the modified release layer, and then curing the TIM formulation so that the unsaturated monomer of the TIM formulation reacts with the organosilane-coated surface of the modified release layer.
US11621208B2	Thermal management solutions that reduce inductive coupling between stacked integrated circuit devices An integrated circuit assembly may be formed having a substrate, a first integrated circuit device electrically attached to the substrate, a second integrated circuit device electrically attached to the first integrated circuit device, and a heat dissipation device comprising at least one first thermally conductive structure proximate at least one of the first integrated circuit device, the second integrated circuit device, and the substrate; and a second thermally conductive structure disposed over the first thermally conductive structure(s), the first integrated circuit device, and the second integrated circuit device, wherein the first thermally conductive structure(s) have a lower electrical conductivity than an electrical conductivity of the second thermally conductive structure. The first thermally conductive structure(s) may be formed by an additive process or may be pre-formed and attached to at least one of the first integrated circuit device, the second integrated circuit device, and the substrate.
US11621200B2	Method for making a bipolar junction transistor having an integrated switchable short This application provides a process for making a circuit of a bipolar junction transistor (BJT). The switchable short in one implementation of the invention is formed in a semiconductor wafer. A collector region is formed in the semiconductor wafer and inside of the collector region, a first base region is formed. An emitter region is formed inside the base region to form the BJT. A drain region is also formed inside the base region adjacent to the emitter region. A gate is formed over a portion of the base region adjacent to the drain region and the emitter region. The gate is connected to the collection region.
US11621194B2	Wafer dicing using femtosecond-based laser and plasma etch Methods of dicing semiconductor wafers, each wafer having a plurality of integrated circuits, are described. A method includes forming a mask above the semiconductor wafer, the mask including a layer covering and protecting the integrated circuits. The mask and a portion of the semiconductor wafer are patterned with a laser scribing process to provide a patterned mask and to form trenches partially into but not through the semiconductor wafer between the integrated circuits. Each of the trenches has a width. The semiconductor wafer is plasma etched through the trenches to form corresponding trench extensions and to singulate the integrated circuits. Each of the corresponding trench extensions has the width.
US11621154B2	Bench-top time of flight mass spectrometer A mass spectrometer comprising: a vacuum chamber; and an ion inlet assembly for transmitting analyte ions into the vacuum chamber; wherein the spectrometer is configured to operate in a cooling mode in which it selectively controls one or more gas flow to the ion inlet assembly for actively cooling the ion inlet assembly.
US11621152B2	Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate using improved shield configurations Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate using improved shield configurations are provided herein. For example, a process kit for use in a physical vapor deposition chamber comprises a shield comprising an inner wall comprising an upper portion having a first wavy fin configuration and a bottom portion having a second wavy fin configuration different from the first wavy fin configuration such that a surface area of the shield is about 1400 in2 to about 1410 in2.
US11621150B2	Mechanical suppression of parasitic plasma in substrate processing chamber A system includes an electrode. The electrode includes a showerhead having a first stem portion and a head portion. A plurality of dielectric layers is vertically stacked between the electrode and a first surface of a conducting structure. The plurality of dielectric layers includes M dielectric layers arranged adjacent to the head portion and P dielectric portions arranged around the first stem portion. The plurality of dielectric layers defines a first gap between the electrode and one of the plurality of dielectric layers, a second gap between adjacent ones of the plurality of dielectric layers, and a third gap between a last one of the plurality of dielectric layers and the first surface. A number of the plurality of dielectric layers and sizes of the first gap, the second gap, and the third gap are selected to prevent parasitic plasma between the first surface and the electrode.
US11621148B2	Plasma immersion methods for ion implantation Described are plasma immersion ion implantation methods that use multiple precursor gases, particularly for the purpose of controlling an amount of a specific atomic dopant species that becomes implanted into a workpiece relative to other atomic species that also become implanted into the workpiece during the implantation process.
US11621145B2	Method for operating a particle beam microscope Two types of operational parameters are used in a particle beam microscope. First parameters influence the image quality, and have settings that are alterable by a user in view of obtaining a better image quality. Second parameters characterize the mode of operation, and the image quality becomes poorer when these change. A mode of operation of the particle beam microscope includes: registering of settings of the first parameters and the second parameters, which the user undertakes in a period of time; analysing a plurality of recorded settings of the first parameters and of the second parameters; determining settings of the first parameters which are advantageous in view of the image quality on the basis of the current settings of the second parameters; and setting the determined advantageous settings of the first parameters.
US11621142B2	Substrate positioning device and electron beam inspection tool An electron beam apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises an e-beam source configured to generate an electron beam, a first part configured to support a substrate, the first part comprising an object table for supporting the substrate, the first part further comprising a short stroke actuator system for actuating the object table relative to the e-beam source, the short stroke actuator system comprising a short stroke forcer. The apparatus further comprises a second part configured to movably support the first part and a long stroke actuator system configured to actuate movement of the first part with respect to the second part, the long stroke actuator system comprising a long stroke forcer, wherein the short stroke forcer and/or the long stroke forcer is configured to be switched off while the electron beam is projected onto the substrate.
US11621134B1	High speed solenoid driver circuit A driver circuit for driving a solenoid, and related method, are described. A power supply charges one or more capacitors to a high voltage level sufficient to over-drive the solenoid. A switch is connected to the one or more capacitors and the solenoid. When the switch is on, the switch connects the one or more capacitors to the solenoid. When the switch is off, the switch disconnects the one or more capacitors from the solenoid. Control circuitry turns the switch on, and turns the switch off in response to sensing current through the solenoid reaches a defined maximum current.
US11621133B2	Control device configured to provide visual feedback A control device configured for use in a load control system to control an external electrical load may provide simple feedback regarding the operation of the control device. For example, the control device may comprise a base portion configured to be mounted to an electrical wallbox or over a mechanical switch, and a control unit connected to the base portion. The control unit may comprise a rotation portion rotatable with respect to the base portion, an actuation portion, and a light source. The control unit may be configured to control the light source to illuminate at least an illuminated portion of the actuation portion in response to actuations of the rotation portion and the actuation portion. In addition, the control unit may provide a limit indication on the illuminated portion by blinking the illuminated portion when the electrical load has reached a limit.
US11621131B2	Switching device with improved epoxy hermetic seal Electrical switching devices, such contactor and fuse devices, are disclosed that have improved reliability particularly through thermal cycling. One electrical switching device according to the present invention comprises an outer housing and internal operational components within the outer housing. An internal housing in included in that outer housing that surrounds at least some of the internal operational components. A sealing material is also included within the outer housing that is capable of forming a hermetic seal within the outer housing, wherein the sealing material contacts the internal housing. The internal housing has a CTE that substantially matches the CTE of the sealing material. Electrical system according to the present invention comprises an electrical circuit and an improved electrical switching device electrically connected to the electrical circuit to reliably open or close the circuit.
US11621129B2	Low inductance component A low inductance component may include a multilayer, monolithic device including a first active termination, a second active termination, at least one ground termination, and a pair of capacitors connected in series between the first active termination and the second active termination. The lead(s) may be coupled with the first active termination, second active termination, and/or the at least one ground termination. The lead(s) may have respective length(s) and maximum width(s). A ratio of the length(s) to the respective maximum width(s) of the lead(s) may be less than about 20.
US11621128B2	Capacitor unit A capacitor unit formed by a capacitor integrated structure is provided. The capacitor integrated structure is cut to form capacitor units separated from each other, and each of the capacitor units includes: a substrate; an isolation layer located on the substrate; a capacitor stacked structure located on the isolation layer, wherein the isolation layer electrically isolates the substrate from the capacitor stacked structure; and two electrode connectors located on the capacitor stacked structure and being exposed.
US11621126B2	Resonant multilayer ceramic capacitors Provided is an improved multilayered ceramic capacitor and an electronic device comprising the multilayered ceramic capacitor. The multilayer ceramic capacitor comprises first conductive plates electrically connected to first external terminations and second conductive plates electrically connected to second external terminations. The first conductive plates and second conductive plates form a capacitive couple. A ceramic portion is between the first conductive plates and said second conductive plates wherein the ceramic portion comprises paraelectric ceramic dielectric. The multilayer ceramic capacitor has a rated DC voltage and a rated AC VPP wherein the rated AC VPP is higher than the rated DC voltage.
US11621121B2	Inductor component An inductor component includes an element assembly having a first surface and a second surface located opposite to the first surface, a first direction-distinguishing layer disposed on the first surface, and a second direction-distinguishing layer disposed on the second surface. The first direction-distinguishing layer has a first cavity passing through in the thickness direction. The second direction-distinguishing layer has a second cavity passing through in the thickness direction. The element assembly has a first exposed portion that is part of the element assembly and that is exposed in the first cavity and has a second exposed portion that is part of the element assembly and that is exposed in the second cavity. The first amount of protrusion of the first exposed portion protruding in the thickness direction is less than the second amount of protrusion of the second exposed portion protruding in the thickness direction.
US11621120B2	Air-core reactor for vehicle A reactor includes a coil that has unit coils. Spacers are disposed in (i) at least one of spaces between the unit coils adjacent to each other in the central axis direction and (ii) a space between each of the support frames and the unit coil. Bolts penetrate the support frame and the spacers, and the spacers are fixed to the bolts The bolts include fitting portions to be fitted to one of the spacers on a notch or a through hole formed in a projection part of the spacer.
US11621119B2	Reactor Provided is a reactor including a coil that has wound portions formed by winding a winding wire, and a magnetic core that includes inner core portions arranged inside of the wound portions and outer core portions arranged outside of the wound portions. The reactor includes an outer resin portion covering at least outer surfaces of the outer core portions. A terminal platform is formed in one piece protruding on the outer surface of an outer resin portion among the outer resin portions and has fastening portions configured to fasten terminal fittings connected to end portions of the winding wire to terminals of an external wiring. A fixing portion is formed in one piece on the terminal platform and fixes the reactor to an installation target. The terminal platform and the fixing portion are integrated and the thickness of the terminal platform is less than that of the fixing portion.
US11621116B2	Multilayer inductor A component main body has end surface layers having a relatively high rigidity and a low-strength layer having a relatively low rigidity. The end surface layer includes a first end surface layer configuring a first end surface of the component main body, and a second end surface layer configuring a second end surface. A thickness of the first end surface layer is made thicker than a thickness of the second end surface layer. When the thickness of the first end surface layer is made larger than the thickness of the second end surface layer under a condition that a total thickness is constant, the thickness of the first end surface layer can be thickened as compared to a case where both of the thicknesses are equal to each other. Such thickened first end surface layer can give high mechanical strength to the component main body.
US11621114B2	Wire-wound coil component A coil component according to one aspect is provided with a core containing a plurality of soft magnetic metal particles, a winding wire wound on the core, and a sheathing body provided on the core so as to cover at least part of the winding wire and having a relative magnetic permeability smaller than that of the core.
US11621113B2	Electromagnetic device with thermally conductive former An electromagnetic device and method for cooling the electromagnetic device comprising a permeable magnetic core having a plurality of legs, a former located adjacent the permeable magnetic core wherein the former is thermally conductive, and at least one winding configured to conduct an electrical current there through wound on the former, the at least one winding including a coil having a plurality of turns.
US11621098B2	Methods of energy generation from a thorium molten salt system A method of generating power using a Thorium-containing molten salt fuel is disclosed. One example includes the steps of providing a vessel containing a molten salt fuel, generating a proton beam externally to the vessel, where the externally generated proton beam is of an energy level sufficient to interact with material within a fuel rod in the vessel to produce (p, n) reactions resulting in the generation of neutrons at a first energy level. Neutrons generated within the vessel through the (p, n) reactions are utilized to produce a fission reaction which increases the heat content of the molten salt within the vessel. In the example, a heat exchanger is used to extract heat from the molten salt within the vessel and power is generated from the extracted heat.
US11621092B2	Network and information systems and methods for shipyard manufactured and ocean delivered nuclear platform The systems and methods generally include a nuclear power plant unit assembled in a shipyard from a plurality of structural modules, each of the structural modules having manufactured components for use in power production when moored or fixed to a floor at least one of in and proximal to at least one of an offshore marine environment, a river environment and a coastal marine environment. The nuclear power plant unit is subdivided into at least one arrangement of structural modules that includes an electrical interface for one of transmitting electrical power generated by the nuclear unit and powering a system of the unit, a communications interface for communications internal or external to the unit, a user interface that is configured to permit a user to access a system of the unit, and a network interface for data communications to or from the unit.
US11621087B2	Machine learning for amyloid and tau pathology prediction Method and apparatus for predicting amyloid beta (Aβ) and phosphorylated tau (p-tau) biomarker levels in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients. Embodiments include determining current values for a plurality of easily-measurable attributes of a first patient. Embodiments include analyzing data associated with a cohort of patients having known measurements of Aβ and p-tau biomarker levels, including determined values for the plurality of easily-measureable attributes. Embodiments include generating a predicted value for Aβ and/or p-tau biomarker levels for the first patient. Embodiments include generating a risk of the first patient developing AD at a future time, generating a probability of a patient's predicted rate of decline, and/or generating a probability of a patient's age at the onset of dementia, based on the predicted values for Aβ and/or p-tau biomarker levels.
US11621086B2	Customization of individualized implant In accordance with one or more embodiments herein, a system 100 for customizing an implant is provided. The system 100 comprises a processor configured to: i) obtain one or more medical image stacks of a joint; ii) obtain a three-dimensional image representation of the joint based on at least one of said medical image stacks; iii) determine damage to the joint by analyzing said medical image stacks; iv) select an implant template from a predefined set of implant templates having predetermined types and sizes; v) generate a 3D model, in which the marked damage is visualized together with the selected implant template in a proposed position; vi) display the 3D model; vii) receive an approval for said selected implant template in said proposed position; and viii) determine the final shape and dimensions of a customized implant based on said selected implant template and said proposed position.
US11621079B2	Cerebral perfusion state classification apparatus, method and device, and model training apparatus The present disclosure discloses a cerebral perfusion state classification apparatus, method and device, and a model training apparatus. In the apparatus, a transceiver module is used for receiving physiological feature data from different data collection devices; and a processor is used for extracting physiological features from the physiological feature data; inputting the physiological features into a random forest model to cause a plurality of decision-making trees in the random forest model to predict a cerebral perfusion state type corresponding to the physiological features; and classifying a cerebral perfusion state based on the cerebral perfusion state type corresponding to the physiological features.
US11621069B2	Systems and methods for manufacturing an orthodontic appliance A distributed computer system for manufacturing an orthodontic appliance for a subject is provided. The system comprises: a server communicatively couplable to electronic devices associated with sets of users, the sets of users comprising: a first set of users for providing preliminary orthodontic treatment plans for subjects, a second set of users for providing input to the preliminary orthodontic treatment plans, and a third set of users for manufacturing orthodontic appliances to implement at least a portion of finalized orthodontic treatment plans, the finalized orthodontic treatment plans being based on a given preliminary orthodontic treatment plan and a given input from a user of the second set of users to the given preliminary orthodontic treatment plan.
US11621067B1	Method for generating personalized resistance training program A computer-implemented method of creating a personalized weight training program for users in a one-on-one fitness setting and/or group fitness setting. The method includes the input of user information by the user, input of user information by a machine learning model, or a combination thereof to create the personalized weight training program. The method includes strength and weakness assessment of the muscles of a user and progress assessment of the user and/or between users.
US11621065B2	Methods and systems for analyzing accessing of drug dispensing systems Various aspects described herein relate to presenting drug dispensing information. Data related to a plurality of dispensing events initiated by one or more employees, of an electronic drug dispensing system can be received. A set of dispensing events of the plurality of dispensing events can be determined as constituting possible misappropriation of drugs by the one or more employees. An alert related to the set of dispensing events can be provided based on determining that the set of dispensing events constitute possible misappropriation of drugs.
US11621063B2	Graphical user interface with intelligent icons A system for signaling coordinated workers in a common goal through intelligent icons transferred across networks to computer screens. The system can comprise one or more electronic data processors. The system can also include a module configured to execute on the more or more electronic data processors, where the module can be configured to display a plurality of intelligent icons, each containing authorizing information that is retained in a file associated with a authorizing entity on a computer screen. The intelligent icons can be potentially loaned to authorized individuals on a list and used to authenticate users of the system with biometric, image, machine readable codes stored surreptitiously within the intelligent icon. Also, the intelligent icon can be used for friend-foe identification in battlefield and homeland security/border control scenarios.
US11621059B2	Method for on-line prediction of conjunct polymer concentration in a hydrocarbon conversion process A method is provided for predicting conjunct polymer concentration in spent ionic liquid during a continuous hydrocarbon conversion process.
US11621057B2	Classifier generation methods and predictive test for ovarian cancer patient prognosis under platinum chemotherapy A method of generating a classifier includes a step of classifying each member of a development set of samples with a class label in a binary classification scheme with a first classifier; and generating a second classifier using a classifier development process with an input classifier development set being the members of the development set assigned one of the two class labels in the binary classification scheme by the first classifier. The second classifier stratifies the members of the set with an early label into two further sub-groups. We also describe identifying a plurality of different clinical sub-groups within the development set based on the clinical data and for each of the different clinical sub-groups, conducting a classifier generation process for each of the clinical sub-groups thereby generating clinical subgroup classifiers. We further describe an example of a hierarchical arrangement of such classifiers and their use in predicting, in advance of treatment, ovarian cancer patient outcomes on platinum-based chemotherapy.
US11621052B1	Method for testing memory device and test system A method for testing a memory device includes the following steps of: generating a first refresh command to the memory device; storing a first refresh address information into a register of the memory device according to the first refresh command; reading out the first refresh address information according to a mode register read command; comparing the first refresh address information with an expectation address information to generate a comparison result; and generating a second refresh command to the memory device or screening out the memory device according to the comparison result.
US11621010B2	Coding apparatus, coding method, program, and recording medium Efficient assignment of bit numbers is performed even under a low bit rate condition. A quantizer 12 obtains a quantized spectral sequence from a frequency spectral sequence. An integer transformer 13 obtains a unified quantized spectral sequence by obtaining, by a bijective transformation, a transformed integer for each of the sets, each being made up of integer values, obtained from the quantized spectral sequence. An integer encoder 15 obtains an integer code by encoding the unified quantized spectral sequence using a bit assignment sequence. An object-to-be-encoded estimator 18 obtains an estimated unified spectral sequence from the frequency spectral sequence by a transformation which is performed by the integer transformer 13 or a transformation that approximates the magnitude relationship between values before and after the above transformation. A bit assigner 14 obtains a bit assignment sequence and a bit assignment code from the estimated unified spectral sequence. A quantization step size obtainer 11 obtains a quantization step size from the estimated unified spectral sequence and the bit assignment sequence.
US11621009B2	Audio processing for voice encoding and decoding using spectral shaper model The present disclosure relates to an audio encoding and decoding (codec) system for voice encoding/decoding using a spectral shaper model. In an embodiment, a method of audio signal decoding comprises: receiving a bit stream associated with an audio signal, the bit stream including encoded transform coefficients, spectral envelope data and one or more parameters of a spectral shaper model, the spectral shaper model indicative of a fundamental frequency of a multi-sinusoidal signal model, where the fundamental frequency corresponds to a time domain delay; decoding the encoded transform coefficients; adjusting the decoded transform coefficients using the spectral envelope data and the spectral shaper model; reconstructing transform coefficients of the audio signal using the adjusted, decoded transform coefficients; and transforming the reconstructed transform coefficients into a time domain audio signal.
US11621006B2	Parametric joint-coding of audio sources The following coding scenario is addressed: A number of audio source signals need to be transmitted or stored for the purpose of mixing wave field synthesis, multi-channel surround, or stereo signals after decoding the source signals. The proposed technique offers significant coding gain when jointly coding the source signals, compared to separately coding them, even when no redundancy is present between the source signals. This is possible by considering statistical properties of the source signals, the properties of mixing techniques, and spatial hearing. The sum of the source signals is transmitted plus the statistical properties of the source signals, which mostly determine the perceptually important spatial cues of the final mixed audio channels. Source signals are recovered at the receiver such that their statistical properties approximate the corresponding properties of the original source signals. Subjective evaluations indicate that high audio quality is achieved by the proposed scheme.
US11621005B2	Parametric joint-coding of audio sources The following coding scenario is addressed: A number of audio source signals need to be transmitted or stored for the purpose of mixing wave field synthesis, multi-channel surround, or stereo signals after decoding the source signals. The proposed technique offers significant coding gain when jointly coding the source signals, compared to separately coding them, even when no redundancy is present between the source signals. This is possible by considering statistical properties of the source signals, the properties of mixing techniques, and spatial hearing. The sum of the source signals is transmitted plus the statistical properties of the source signals, which mostly determine the perceptually important spatial cues of the final mixed audio channels. Source signals are recovered at the receiver such that their statistical properties approximate the corresponding properties of the original source signals. Subjective evaluations indicate that high audio quality is achieved by the proposed scheme.
US11621004B2	Generation of comfort noise A User Equipment (UE) is operative to generate CN (Comfort Noise) control parameters, e.g., as part of audio-decoding processing by the UE. A buffer of a predetermined size implemented in the UE is configured to store CN parameters for SID (Silence Insertion Descriptor) frames and active hangover frames. Processing circuitry of the UE is configured to determine a CN parameter subset relevant for SID frames based on the age of the stored CN parameters and on residual energies, and use the determined CN parameter subset to determine CN control parameters for a first SID frame following an active signal frame.
US11621003B2	Multi-user devices in a connected home environment A device implementing a system for responding to a voice request includes a processor configured to receive a voice request for content, the voice request corresponding to a first user account, the device being associated with the first user account, a second user account and a default account. The processor if further configured to determine that the content is unavailable via the first user account, and provide, in response to the determining, the content via at least one of the second user account or the default account.
US11621000B2	Systems and methods for associating a voice command with a search image Embodiments described herein include systems and methods for using image searching with voice recognition commands. Embodiments of a method may include providing a user interface via a target application and receiving a user selection of an area on the user interface by a user, the area including a search image. Embodiments may also include receiving an associated voice command and associating, by the computing device, the associated voice command with the search image.
US11620997B2	Information processing device and information processing method Provided is an information processing device that includes a determination unit that determines whether an object that outputs voice is a dialogue target related to voice dialogue based on a result of recognition of an input image, and a dialogue function unit that performs control related to the voice dialogue based on the determination. The dialogue function unit provides a voice dialogue function to the object based on the determination that the object being the dialogue target. Further provided is a method that includes determining whether an object that outputs voice is a dialogue target related to voice dialogue based on a result of recognition of an input image, and performing control related to the voice dialogue based on a result of the determining. The performing of the control further includes providing a voice dialogue function to the object based on the determination that the object is the dialogue target.
US11620993B2	Multimodal intent entity resolver Interpretation of user commands is accelerated through digital user interfaces of various modalities, including generation and presentation of command modifications for rapid correction of incomplete or erroneous user commands. An embodiment detects whether the interpreted command is accurate and, if inaccurate, precisely what was the intended command or, at least, what suggested modification to the interpreted command would be sufficient to match the intent of the user. Disambiguation occurs that entails multiple recommendation generators proposing modified commands that may more accurately reflect the intent of the user. The user may provide a response that is either a confirmation of which one of several modified commands that were automatically proposed does the user intend or a correction that computer device may use to filter or replace currently offered modified commands to generate improved modified commands. By iterative refinement, the user and computer device may quickly agree on an accurate command that the computer device should execute.
US11620991B2	Speech recognition using neural networks Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech recognition using neural networks. A feature vector that models audio characteristics of a portion of an utterance is received. Data indicative of latent variables of multivariate factor analysis is received. The feature vector and the data indicative of the latent variables is provided as input to a neural network. A candidate transcription for the utterance is determined based on at least an output of the neural network.
US11620989B2	Sub-matrix input for neural network layers Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a neural network. One of the methods includes generating, by a speech recognition system, a matrix from a predetermined quantity of vectors that each represent input for a layer of a neural network, generating a plurality of sub-matrices from the matrix, using, for each of the sub-matrices, the respective sub-matrix as input to a node in the layer of the neural network to determine whether an utterance encoded in an audio signal comprises a keyword for which the neural network is trained.
US11620987B2	Generation of training data for verbal harassment detection In some cases, one or more heuristics can be automatically generated using a small dataset of segments previously labeled by one or more domain experts. The generated one or more heuristics along with one or more patterns can be used to assign training labels to a large unlabeled dataset of segments. A subset of segments representing an occurrence of verbal harassment can be selected using the assigned training labels. Randomly selected segments can be used as being indicative of a non-occurrence of verbal harassment. The selected subset of segments and randomly selected segments can be used to train one or more machine learning models for verbal harassment detection.
US11620986B2	Cold fusing sequence-to-sequence models with language models Described herein are systems and methods for generating natural language sentences with Sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) models with attention. The Seq2Seq models may be implemented in applications, such as machine translation, image captioning, and speech recognition. Performance has further been improved by leveraging unlabeled data, often in the form of a language models. Disclosed herein are “Cold Fusion” architecture embodiments that leverage a pre-trained language model during training. The Seq2Seq models with Cold Fusion embodiments are able to better utilize language information enjoying faster convergence, better generalization, and almost complete transfer to a new domain while using less labeled training data.
US11620975B2	Ambient noise reduction arrangements A feedforward ambient noise reduction arrangement includes, within a housing, a loudspeaker device for directing sound energy into an ear of a listener. Disposed externally of the housing, and positioned to sense ambient noise on its way to the listener's ear, are plural microphone devices capable of converting the sensed ambient noise into electrical signals for application to the loudspeaker to generate an acoustic signal opposing the ambient noise. Importantly, the overall arrangement is such that the acoustic signal is generated by said loudspeaker means in substantial time alignment with the arrival of said ambient noise at the listener's ear.
US11620971B2	Drum practice pad According to an aspect of the present disclosure there is provided a practice pad for practising the use of a snare drum. The practice pad includes: an upper drum surface; and a sound generating device arranged below the drum surface. The sound generating device includes: a chamber having a first surface and an opposing second surface; and a plurality of elongate rods retained inside the chamber, between the first and second surfaces, so that the plurality of elongate rods vibrate against the first and second surfaces in response to a strike of the drum surface.
US11620968B2	Apparatus and method for displaying images unto LED panels The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementations for LED display. A first signal is received that signals a timing for a next data transfer. In response to the first signal, a bit-based image block stored in a memory is transferred, via a bus connected thereto, to one of a pair of alternate buffers pointed to by a write buffer pointer, which is subsequently toggled to point to another of the pair of alternate buffers. A second signal is received that signals a timing for refreshing the LED display. In response to the second signal, the bit-based image block is retrieved from the one of the pair of alternate buffers pointed to by a read buffer pointer, which is then toggled to point to the other of the pair of alternate buffers. The lights of the LED display are then refreshed in accordance with control signals generated based on the bit-based image block.
US11620967B2	Image processing device and method An image processing device having a processor coupled to a memory. The processor is programmed to process two or more media formats stored in the memory, each media format is made up of one or more digital image layers that includes non-transparent pixels and may include transparent pixels. The processor is programmed to: set the non-transparent pixels in each of the digital image layer of the two or more media formats to a contrast state, set pixels stored in an off-screen data buffer of the memory to pixels corresponding to a predetermined color scheme, apply an image function to each media format that is drawn to the off-screen data buffer so as to allow the plurality of overlapping media formats to be displayed on the display screen as see through.
US11620966B2	Multimedia system, driving method thereof, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium A driving method, suitable for a multimedia system including a head-mounted device (HMD), includes the following operations: retrieving human factor data from a storage device, a radio signal, or an image; and according to the human factor data, automatically adjusting software for driving the HMD or hardware components of the multimedia system.
US11620965B2	Video display method, video display system, electronic device, and storage medium A video display method includes: acquiring at least one frame image corresponding to a current display time point in at least one source video; reading a stage configuration file, obtaining a stage modeling parameter of the stage space at the current display time point and a corresponding relationship between the at least one frame image and the stage space according to a specific stage related parameter in the stage configuration file; according to the stage modeling parameter and the corresponding relationship, processing the at least one frame image to obtain divided regions corresponding to all display screens included in the at least one stage plane; determining display contents corresponding to the divided regions, and copying the display contents to at least one target memory; and outputting a content in the at least one target memory to the at least one stage plane for display.
US11620963B2	Electronic display system and screen brightness adjusting method thereof An electronic display system and a screen brightness adjusting method thereof are disclosed. The electronic display system includes an electronic display device and a signal connection cable. The electronic display device is electrically connected to a computer system via the signal connection cable, and the signal connection cable can be selectively connected to a mains power supply. The electronic display device comprises a connection port, a control chip, a screen, and a screen brightness adjustment module. After connecting the signal connection cable, the control chip determines whether the signal connection cable is connected to the power supply end to cause the screen brightness adjustment module controls an adjustable maximum brightness of the screen to be equal to a maximum default brightness or lower than the maximum default brightness.
US11620962B2	Driver circuit, display device, and electronic device To suppress malfunctions in a shift register circuit. A shift register having a plurality of flip-flop circuits is provided. The flip-flop circuit includes a transistor 11, a transistor 12, a transistor 13, a transistor 14, and a transistor 15. When the transistor 13 or the transistor 14 is turned on in a non-selection period, the potential of a node A is set, so that the node A is prevented from entering into a floating state.
US11620959B2	Enhanced push-pull (EPP) waveforms for achieving primary color sets in multi-color electrophoretic displays Enhanced push pull driving waveforms for driving a four particle electrophoretic medium including four different types of particles, for example a set of scattering particles and three sets of subtractive particles. Methods for identifying a preferred waveform for a target color state when using a voltage driver having at least five different voltage levels.
US11620958B2	Display device and controlling method thereof A display device and a controlling method thereof are provided. The display device includes a display panel, a backlight unit, and a time schedule controller. The display panel is configured to display images. Areas where afterimages of dynamic images occur are identified according to comparison results of dither values. Tailing phenomenon of the dynamic images may be relieved by transmitting backlight data without brightness to a second backlight sub-area corresponding to where the afterimages occur. Furthermore, because frequency multiplication is not applied, risks of display instability will not increase.
US11620957B2	Backlight drive system, display device and backlight drive board A backlight drive system, a display device and a backlight drive board, relates to the field of display technology. The backlight drive system is used for the display device, the display device comprises a display screen (20) and a plurality of backlight units, the backlight drive system comprises: a control board (10) and a plurality of backlight drive boards (11) electrically connected to the control board (10), the plurality of backlight drive boards (11) are disposed at the edge of display screen (20), the plurality of backlight drive boards (11) electrically connected to the plurality of backlight units by a backlight drive cable (111); the control board (10) is configured to output enabling control signal and brightness adjustment signal to the plurality of backlight drive board (11), to control the plurality of backlight drive boards (11) to drive the plurality of backlight units, to achieve enabling control and brightness adjustment.
US11620947B1	Display panel and display apparatus The embodiments of present application discloses a display panel and a display apparatus. The display panel includes a pixel circuit including a driving transistor and a data writing module; a data signal line connected to the data writing module and used to provide a data signal to the pixel circuit; and a voltage control module connected to the data signal line; wherein a low-frequency data refresh cycle includes a number of data frames including a data writing frame and n holding frames; in the data writing frame, the data signal line writes the data signal into the driving transistor; in the holding frames, the data signal line does not write the data signal; in first m holding frames, the voltage control module controls the data signal line to be maintained at a first voltage value V1, V1
US11620945B2	Display panel, driving method and display device Provided are a display panel, a driving method and a display device. The display panel includes a substrate, a sub-pixel disposed on one side of the substrate and a switch device. A first terminal of the switch device is electrically connected to a first terminal of a driving device, and a second terminal of the switch device is connected to a biased compensation voltage terminal. An image update period includes a data writing stage and a holding stage, and the holding stage includes a first stage and a second stage. The driving device generates a driving current according to a data voltage transmitted by the data writing device in the data writing stage; and the driving device provides the driving current to a light emitting element in the second stage. The switch device provides a biased compensation voltage to the first terminal of the driving device in the first stage.
US11620940B1	Driving circuit having a level shifter receiving an input signal from previous-stage The present disclosure provides a driving circuit, including a transistor and a level shifter. The first terminal of the transistor is electrically connected to a light emitting diode and is configured to receive a supply voltage. The second terminal of the transistor is configured to receive a first reference voltage. The level shifter is configured to receive an input signal from a previous-stage driving circuit and adjust the voltage level of the input signal according to a voltage operating range formed by the supply voltage and the first reference voltage to generate a level-shifted signal corresponding to the voltage operating range and configured to control the transistor. The input signal varies between a second reference voltage and the supply voltage. The second reference voltage and the first reference voltage are different from each other and both lower than the supply voltage.
US11620939B2	Pixel driving circuit and driving method therefor, display panel, and display apparatus A pixel driving circuit includes: a driving control sub-circuit configured to write at least a first data signal into a first driving sub-circuit in response to a first scanning signal and cause a driving transistor to output a driving signal to an element to be driven according to the first data signal and a first power supply voltage signal in response to an enable signal, and a time control sub-circuit configured to write at least a second data signal into a second driving sub-circuit in response to a second scanning signal and cause the second driving sub-circuit to be connected to a second power supply voltage signal terminal and the element in response to the enable signal. The second driving sub-circuit is configured to output a second power supply voltage signal to the element in response to the second data signal and a common voltage signal.
US11620926B2	Abnormality detection circuit An abnormality detection circuit includes: a plurality of voltage dividing circuits; a first selector configured to select and output one of a plurality of outputs of the plurality of voltage dividing circuits; a first comparator configured to compare an output of the first selector with a reference voltage; and a first detector configured to detect an abnormality based on an output of the first comparator, wherein the selection of the first selector is switched in synchronization with a vertical synchronization signal or a horizontal synchronization signal of a liquid crystal display device.
US11620924B2	Retractable apparatus A retractable apparatus is provided. The retractable apparatus includes a stretchable mechanism. The stretchable mechanism includes a plurality of connecting portions arranged in a first plane. Adjacent connecting portions of the plurality of connecting portions are connected to each other in a retractable manner. At least three connecting portions are non-collinearly arranged.
US11620923B2	Display device A display device including a substrate; a first electrode on the substrate; a partitioning wall on the first electrode that includes a first opening that overlaps the first electrode; a touch detection electrode on the partitioning wall; a low refractive layer on the partitioning wall and the touch detection electrode, the low refractive layer including a second opening that overlaps the first opening; and a high refractive layer on the low refractive layer. Planar shapes of the first opening and the second opening are polygons, each including a series of sides, and a distance between one side of the first opening and the second opening is different than another side of the first opening and the second opening in a plan view.
US11620917B2	International student delivery and engagement platform A long-distance learning system includes an instruction studio and one or more remotely located classrooms for students. Each of the student's participation, academic performance, and use of digital resources for a class is evaluated in real time and assigned a color, so the instructor can easily assess each student's progress in the class when presented to the instructor in a display which is only for the instructor.
US11620916B1	Machine learning method and system for an on-line course The invention provides a method and system for using a machine learning technique for identifying and outputting most relevant articles for a learning program.
US11620910B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing system, vehicle, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium An information processing apparatus, an information processing system, a vehicle, an information processing method and an information processing program which improve the utility of techniques for generating a travel plan for a vehicle are provided. An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller acquires first storage information indicating a stored amount of a first storage apparatus of a first vehicle provided with the first storage apparatus for storing drainage water. The controller generates a travel plan for a second vehicle provided with a second storage apparatus for storing the drainage water collected from the first vehicle, based on predetermined information which includes the first storage information.
US11620908B2	Image processor and image processing method An image processor includes a parking area line detection portion configured to detect a parking area line from an image acquired by an imaging device, a parking frame setting portion configured to set a parking frame based on the detected parking area line, a parking frame selection portion configured to calculate a length ratio of adjacent first and second sides of the set parking frame, determine the parking frame as a display target when the length ratio falls within a predetermined range, and not to determine the parking frame as the display target when the length ratio falls outside the predetermined range, and a display control portion configured to control a display portion for displaying a parking frame image showing the parking frame determined as the display target by the parking frame selection portion so as to keep superimposing the parking frame image onto the image.
US11620907B2	Method and apparatus for vehicle maneuver planning and messaging Techniques are provided which may be implemented using various methods and/or apparatuses in a vehicle to utilize vehicle external sensor data, vehicle internal sensor data, vehicle capabilities and external CV2X input to determine, send, receive and utilize data elements to determine inter-vehicle spacing, intersection priority, lane change behavior and spacing and other autonomous vehicle behavior.
US11620903B2	Machine learning model to fuse emergency vehicle audio and visual detection According to various embodiments, systems, methods, and mediums for operating an autonomous driving vehicles (ADV) are described. The embodiments use a number of machine learning models to extract features individually from audio data and visual data captured by sensors mounted on the ADV, and then to fuse these extracted features to create a concatenated feature vectors. The concatenated feature vector is provided to a multiplayer perceptron (MLP) as input to generate a detection result related to the presence of an emergency vehicle in the surrounding environment. The detection result can be used by the ADV to take appropriate actions to comply with the local traffic rules.
US11620899B2	Remote vehicle system configuration, control, and telematics A vehicle control system (VCS) includes external communication interfaces, such as a Bluetooth interface, for communicating with a user communication and control device, such as a smart phone or a tablet. The user is enabled to operate certain features of the vehicle, such as the remote start, power locks/trunk, climate control, and security features, through the smart phone. The VCS may also communicate with a remote server via the user's smartphone, for example, providing telematics data and receiving service reminders for display to the user on the smartphone, the VCS, or a display built into the vehicle. The VCS may be custom installed in the vehicle using the user's or the installer's smartphone, without a physical connection from the VCS to the smartphone.
US11620898B2	Visual-acoustic monitoring system for event detection, localization and classification A monitoring system for locating and classifying an event in a monitoring area by a computation unit including a visual 3D capturing unit providing geometric 3D information and an acoustic capturing unit providing an acoustic information of the monitoring area. An event detector is configured with an acoustic channel and a visual channel to detect the event. The acoustic channel is configured to detect the event as a sound event in the acoustic information and to determine a localization of the sound. The visual channel is configured to detect the event as a visual event in the geometric 3D information and to derive a localization of the visual event. The event detector provides detected events with a region of interest for detected event, which is analyzed in order to assign the detected event a class within a plurality of event classes.
US11620894B2	Surveillance system and method for predicting patient falls using motion feature patterns A method and system for detecting a fall risk condition, the system comprising a surveillance camera configured to generate a plurality of frames showing an area in which a patient at risk of falling is being monitored, and a computer system comprising memory and logic circuitry configured to store motion feature patterns that are extracted from video recordings, the motion feature patterns are representative of motion associated with real alarm cases and false-alarm cases of fall events, receive a fall alert from a classifier, determine motion features of one or more frames from the plurality of frames that correspond to the fall alert; compare the motion features of the one or more frames with the motion feature patterns, and determine whether to confirm the fall alert based on the comparison.
US11620889B2	Security tracking device with zone-based alert suppression A method of triggering a security alert using a tracking device, including detecting motion using a motion sensor of the tracking device, determining that the detected motion meets a motion threshold, detecting one or more wireless access points in proximity to the tracking device, determining that the one or more wireless access points do not correspond to a recognized wireless access point, and in accordance with the determination that the one or more detected wireless access points do not correspond to a recognized wireless access point, triggering a security alert.
US11620888B2	System for detecting and tracking an unauthorized person A system includes a plurality of sensors distributed about a space. Each sensor generates sensor data associated with properties of one or more people in the space. An automated response subsystem receives the sensor data. An unauthorized activity performed by a first person in the space is detected based on at least a portion of the received sensor data. In response to detecting the unauthorized activity, tracking instructions are transmitted that identify the first person associated with the unauthorized activity. A tracking device receives the tracking instructions. A device associated with the first person is detected. Over a period of time, the tracking device sends queries to the device and receives corresponding responses from the device. The tracking device determines positions of the device within the space over the period of time.
US11620886B2	Merchandise security system with inductive charging Embodiments of the present invention are directed to security systems for securing an item of merchandise from theft or unauthorized removal. For example, the security system may include a sensor configured to be coupled to the item of merchandise and a base configured to removably support the sensor and the item of merchandise thereon. The sensor includes at least one electrical contact and an inductive coil, and the base includes at least one electrical contact and driving electronics for the inductive coil. The sensor is configured to transfer power inductively to the item of merchandise when the at least one electrical contact of the sensor contacts the at least one electrical contact of the base to thereby allow the driving electronics to energize the inductive coil, wherein the sensor is configured to cease transferring power to the item of merchandise when the sensor is lifted off of the base.
US11620885B2	Photovoltaic panel circuitry Circuits integrated or integrable with a photovoltaic panel to provide built-in functionality to the photovoltaic panel including safety features such as arc detection and elimination, ground fault detection and elimination, reverse current protection, monitoring of the performance of the photovoltaic panel, transmission of the monitored parameters and theft prevention of the photovoltaic panel. The circuits may avoid power conversion, for instance DC/DC power conversion, may avoid performing maximum power tracking to include a minimum number of components and thereby increase overall reliability.
US11620882B2	Actuator and tactile sensation providing apparatus An actuator and a tactile sensation providing apparatus that can reduce the number of elements are provided. The actuator includes a piezoelectric element and a diaphragm that has the piezoelectric element attached thereto and vibrates according to an expanding and contracting displacement of the piezoelectric element. The diaphragm converts the expanding and contracting displacement of the piezoelectric element into a vibration in a predetermined direction. The diaphragm supports a vibration object for providing a tactile sensation, in a displaceable manner.
US11620873B2	Gaming systems and methods for providing reel-spin game enhancement features The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for providing reel-spin game enhancement features. A player enrolled with a subscription service server is presented with an opportunity to enhance game features associated with a gaming device after a result of a game played on the gaming device is determined. The gaming device determines that only when the result of the game played corresponds to a predetermined outcome, a respin option becomes available for the player. This option is rendered as an offer for the player to activate a game enhancement feature for a respin during a subsequent play of the reel-spin game. The game enhancement features include holding or locking a symbol in the reels of the reel-spin game, adding a score multiplier, or adding a modified symbol to a particular position or reel, during the respin of the subsequent play of the reel-spin game.
US11620845B2	Human identifying device, human identifying method and human-presence-based illuminating system thereof A human identifying device includes a temperature sensing module, a temperature pattern recognizing module and a human body identifying module. The temperature sensing module senses temperature distribution within the target area. The temperature pattern recognizing module determines at least one matching region out of the target area based on a human-resembling temperature feature within the temperature distribution. The temperature pattern recognizing module identifies at least one matching temperature sensor that corresponds to the at least one matching region. The human body identifying module determines if distribution of the at least one matching temperature sensor resembles at least one part of a human body contour.
US11620843B2	Metamodeling for confidence prediction in machine learning based document extraction A document extraction system executed by a processor, may process documents using manual and automated systems. The document extraction system may efficiently route tasks to the manual and automated systems based on a predicted probability that the results generated by the automated system meet some baseline level of accuracy. To increase document processing speed, documents having a high likelihood of accurate automated processing may be routed to an automated system. To ensure a baseline level of accuracy, documents having a smaller likelihood of accurate automated processing may be routed to a manual system.
US11620840B2	Image processing apparatus for extracting a desired character string from a scanned image In the case of learning a printed character region selected by a user, it is determined whether a handwritten character region is present near the printed character region. If it is determined that the handwritten character region is present near the printed character region, information about the handwritten character region present near the printed character region and information about another printed character region present near the printed character region are learned in association with information about the selected printed character region. This makes it possible to appropriately determine a circled character string and a character string selected with a check mark from among a plurality of options during a scanned image analysis.
US11620839B2	Systems and methods for detecting text in images In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to detecting text in images. In some embodiments, a system for detecting text in images comprises a database configured to store images and a control circuit configured to retrieve an image, generate, based on the image, a collection of augmented images, detect characters in each of the augmented images, generate bounding boxes for the characters in each of augmented images, recognize the characters in each of the augmented images, select, based on the recognition of the characters in each of the augmented images, candidate characters, wherein the candidate characters are selected based on consistency of the recognition of the characters in each of the augmented images, detect, for the image, a color associated with the characters, and store, in the database, the image, the candidate characters, and the color associated with the characters.
US11620832B2	Image based locationing This disclosure relates to systems and methods of obtaining accurate motion and orientation estimates for a vehicle traveling at high speed based on images of a road surface. A purpose of these systems and methods is to provide a supplementary or alternative means of locating a vehicle on a map, particularly in cases where other locationing approaches (e.g., GPS) are unreliable or unavailable.
US11620828B1	Methods and devices for editing and generating videos Methods and apparatuses are provided for editing and generating a short video based upon a long video. The method includes: obtaining a plurality of short source video clips as candidate video clips; obtaining attributes of each short source video clip; obtaining a plurality of target base videos according to a target genre, processing the plurality of target base videos by splitting each target base video into a plurality of short target base video clips, and obtaining attributes of each short target base video clip; selecting short target video clips from the plurality of short source video clips, based on distribution of the attributes obtained for the plurality of the short source video clips and the plurality of short target base video clips; and editing and combining the short target video clips selected from the plurality of short source video clips, to obtain a target video.
US11620797B2	Electronic user interface with augmented detail display for resource location With the advent of augmented reality devices becoming increasingly prevalent, accessible, and cross-compatible, there is an opportunity to leverage the capabilities of such devices in order to streamline workflow and information access in number of contexts. The present invention provides an integrated, dynamic system for leveraging the capabilities of augmented reality systems in order to provide users with useful or critical information in a dependable, seamless, and secure manner.
US11620795B2	Displaying augmented reality content in messaging application Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for displaying augmented reality content. The program and method provide for receiving, from a first application running on a device, a request to switch to a second application on the device, the request identifying augmented reality content to display with image data captured by a camera of the device; providing, in response to receiving the request, for switching from the first application to the second application; providing for the second application to activate the camera to capture the image data; and providing for the second application to display the image data captured by the camera with the augmented reality content.
US11620792B2	Fast hand meshing for dynamic occlusion An augmented reality/mixed reality system that provides an immersive user experience. That experience is provided with increased speed of update with low computational resources for occlusion data representing a user's hand that can be used to occlude virtual objects. The hand occlusion data are generated by computing a hand mesh from live depth sensor data. A small amount of data is processed by masking live depth data with a model in which a hand is simply represented by multiple segments identified from key-points. The hand occlusion data may be generated by predicting changes in a hand pose between a time of capture of the depth data and the time when the hand mesh will be used for occlusion processing. The hand mesh may be distorted to represent the hand in the predicted pose.
US11620790B2	Generating a 3D model of a fingertip for visual touch detection Generating a 3D model may include determining, based on sensor data from a touch sensor on a first device, a touch event, wherein the touch event comprises a touch on the first device by a touching object. Generating a 3D model may also include, in response to a touch event, obtaining a first image of the touching object by a first camera of the first device, and obtaining, from a second device, a second image of the touching object, wherein the first image of the touching object captures a first view of the touching object, and wherein the second image of the touching object captures a second view of the touching object. A model of the touching object is generated based on the first image and the second image.
US11620784B2	Virtual scene display method and apparatus, and storage medium Embodiments of this application provide a virtual scene display method performed at a computing device. The method includes: obtaining animation data and video data; displaying an animation interface corresponding to the animation data in an animation display area of a display interface, the animation interface including a first virtual scene including a plurality of animation elements; and playing a video clip in the video data in response to an operation on the animation elements in the animation interface, the video clip presenting a picture of transformation from the first virtual scene to a second virtual scene. A virtual scene display solution provided in the embodiments of this application can reduce resource consumption of an intelligent device and reduce picture stutter.
US11620782B2	Methods and systems for determining human body model parameters, human body models based on such parameters and simulating human bodies based on such body models A method that simulates a response of a target person to one or more simulation inputs comprises: contacting a body of a first test subject with a force-sensing probe; measuring a first force applied by the probe to the body of the first test subject; obtaining a first relative movement comprising a first movement of the probe relative to the body of the first test subject; determining one or more model parameters associated with the body of the first test subject based on the measured first force and the first relative movement; incorporating the one or more model parameters into a target model of at least a portion of a body of a target person; obtaining a simulation input for application to the target model; and simulating a response of the target person in response to the simulation input using the target model.
US11620776B2	Information processing apparatus and information processing method The present technique relates to an information processing apparatus, and an information processing method in which data of content is acquired, and a first visual field image corresponding to a visual field of a first user is cut out from a content image based on the data of the content. In addition, visual field information representing a visual field of a second user viewing the content image is acquired. Furthermore, in a display apparatus, the first visual field image is displayed, and the visual field of the second user is displayed based on the visual field information of the second user. The present technique can be applied to, for example, a case where a plurality users views content, such as a spherical image and a free viewpoint image.
US11620769B2	Vehicle information photo overlay An image information overlay system retrieves an image associated with a vehicle listing and uses machine learning models to classify the image, generating identification data that may comprise a vehicle make and model, a feature or part of the vehicle present in the image, and a location of the vehicle feature or part. The identification data or an individual identifier of the vehicle, such as a Vehicle Identification Number (VIN), may be used to retrieve overlay information related to the vehicle make and model, such as recalls or known maintenance issues or information specific to the vehicle, such as mileage, accident reports, or ownership history. The overlay information is displayed on the image as an overlay at the location of the vehicle feature or part corresponding to the overlay information.
US11620765B2	Automatic detection of a calibration object for modifying image parameters Embodiments provide for automated detection of a calibration object within a recorded image. In some embodiments, a system receives an original image from a camera, wherein the original image includes at least a portion of a calibration chart. The system further derives a working image from the original image. The system further determines regions in the working image, wherein each region comprises a group of pixels having values within a predetermined criterion. The system further analyzes two or more of the regions to identify a candidate calibration chart in the working image. The system further identifies at least one region within the candidate calibration chart as a patch. The system further predicts a location of one or more additional patches based on at least the identified patch.
US11620764B1	Systems and methods for generating point-accurate three-dimensional models with point-accurate color information from a non-cosited capture Disclosed is a system and associated methods for generating a point-accurate three-dimensional (“3D”) model of a scene with point-accurate color information from a non-cosited capture of the scene. The system may define a first model based on positional measurements obtained from a first device. The system may capture images of the scene with a different set of devices, and may generate a second model from a photogrammetry modeling of the images. The system may align the models in order to determine positioning of the set of devices relative to the first model, and may select a particular device that captures descriptive characteristics from a position in the scene that is represented by the positional elements of a particular data point. The system may define non-positional elements of the particular data point based on the descriptive characteristics captured by the particular device.
US11620759B2	Systems and methods for machine learning enhanced image registration Devices, methods, and program storage devices for training and leveraging machine learning (ML) models to use in image registration, especially on unaligned multispectral images, are disclosed, comprising: obtaining aligned multispectral image data; generating a first plurality of feature descriptors for features identified in the aligned multispectral image data; generating a training set of feature descriptor pairs based on the first plurality of feature descriptors; and training a ML model based on the training set of feature descriptor pairs, wherein the trained ML model is configured to determine matches between features in unaligned multispectral image data. The techniques may then: obtain unaligned multispectral image data; generate a second plurality of feature descriptors for features identified in the unaligned multispectral image data; and use the trained ML model to determine matches between features in the second plurality of feature descriptors, which matches may be used in performing image registration and/or fusion operations.
US11620757B2	Dense optical flow processing in a computer vision system A computer vision system is provided that includes an image generation device configured to generate consecutive two dimensional (2D) images of a scene, and a dense optical flow engine (DOFE) configured to determine a dense optical flow map for pairs of the consecutive 2D images, wherein, for a pair of consecutive 2D images, the DOFE is configured to perform a predictor based correspondence search for each paxel in a current image of the pair of consecutive 2D images, wherein, for an anchor pixel in each paxel, the predictor based correspondence search evaluates a plurality of predictors to select a best matching pixel in a reference image of the pair of consecutive 2D images, and determine optical flow vectors for each pixel in a paxel based on the best matching pixel selected for the anchor pixel of the paxel.
US11620755B2	Method and system for tracking trajectory based on visual localization and odometry The trajectory tracking method for a mobile electronic device may include tracking a trajectory of the electronic device by using results of pose estimation using odometry and results of pose estimation using visual localization (VL) as camera pose information.
US11620753B2	Data segmentation using masks A vehicle can include various sensors to detect objects in an environment. Sensor data can be captured by a perception system in a vehicle and represented in a voxel space. Operations may include analyzing the data from a top-down perspective. From this perspective, techniques can associate and generate masks that represent objects in the voxel space. Through manipulation of the regions of the masks, the sensor data and/or voxels associated with the masks can be clustered or otherwise grouped to segment data associated with the objects.
US11620747B2	Method and system for image segmentation using a contour transformer network model An image segmentation method includes generating a CTN (contour transformer network) model for image segmentation, where generating the CTN model includes providing an annotated image, the annotated image including an annotated contour, providing a plurality of unannotated images, pairing the annotated image to each of the plurality of unannotated images to obtain a plurality of image pairs, feeding the plurality of image pairs to an image encoder to obtain a plurality of first-processed image pairs, and feeding the plurality of first-processed image pairs to a contour tuner to obtain a plurality of second-processed image pairs.
US11620745B2	Method and system for harvesting lesion annotations A method of harvesting lesion annotations includes conditioning a lesion proposal generator (LPG) based on a first two-dimensional (2D) image set to obtain a conditioned LPG, including adding lesion annotations to the first 2D image set to obtain a revised first 2D image set, forming a three-dimensional (3D) composite image according to the revised first 2D image set, reducing false-positive lesion annotations from the revised first 2D image set according to the 3D composite image to obtain a second-revised first 2D image set, and feeding the second-revised first 2D image set to the LPG to obtain the conditioned LPG, and applying the conditioned LPG to a second 2D image set different than the first 2D image set to harvest lesion annotations.
US11620744B2	Image inspection device, image inspection method, and image inspection instructions An image inspection device inspects an inspection image obtained by reading a sheet. The image inspection device includes a hardware processor that: performs inspection by comparing the inspection image with a reference image that is obtained by reading the original image that is printed on the sheet; determines whether a possibility of abnormality exists in the reference image based on a difference between the reference image and the inspection image; displays a difference portion between the reference image and the inspection image when determining that the possibility of abnormality exists in the reference image; receives a selection of a normality or an abnormality for each of the reference image and the inspection image; and replaces the reference image with the inspection image when the abnormality is selected for the reference image and the normality is selected for the inspection image.
US11620740B2	Quality indicators for collection of and automated measurement on ultrasound images Aspects of the technology described herein relate to techniques for calculating, during imaging, a quality of a sequence of images collected during the imaging. Calculating the quality of the sequence of images may include calculating a probability that a medical professional would use a given image for clinical evaluation and a confidence that an automated analysis segmentation performed on the given image is correct. Techniques described herein also include receiving a trigger to perform an automatic measurement on a sequence of images, calculating a quality of the sequence of images, determining whether the quality of the sequence of images exceeds a threshold quality, and performing the automatic measurement on the sequence of images based on determining that the quality of the sequence of images exceeds the threshold quality.
US11620728B2	Information processing device, information processing system, information processing method, and program An information processing device, an information processing system, an information processing method, and a program capable of appropriately reducing the amount of information of an image are provided. An information processing device includes an image acquisitor, an information amount reduction degree determiner, and an information amount reducer. The image acquisitor acquires an image acquired by imaging an actual space. The information amount reduction degree determiner determines a degree of reduction of an amount of information on the basis of an attribute of a subject shown in the image. The information amount reducer generates information reduced data acquired by reducing at least a part of the amount of information of the image in accordance with the degree of reduction of the amount of information.
US11620723B2	Handling pipeline submissions across many compute units One embodiment provides a graphics processor including a plurality of processing clusters, each processing cluster including a plurality of multiprocessors and a data interconnect coupled to the plurality of multiprocessors. At least one multiprocessor of the plurality of multiprocessors is configured to share data with another multiprocessor over the data interconnect.
US11620716B1	Recommendation engine for cost of a claim Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for providing an estimate of cost of a claim to a homeowner. One of the methods includes receiving information about damage to a home of a homeowner. The method includes retrieving a home insurance policy associated with the homeowner and home insurance claims that have been submitted by other homeowners. The method also includes analyzing the information about the damage, the home insurance policy, and the home insurance claims to determine an estimate of cost of a claim that would cover the damage. In addition, the method includes providing the homeowner with the estimate of cost of the claim.
US11620709B1	Communication system and method for communication between an administrator and a participant of a retirement plan An apparatus and method for administering and/or managing an employer sponsored retirement plan such as a 401(k) plan can include a host system that supports a graphical user interface (GUI) that is displayable to a user communicating with the host system via a user computer device. The use can manipulate one or more input devices connected to the user's computer device for facilitating the communication of data to the host system and updating of displays of the GUI. The GUI can be configured to permit employee participants to enroll and manage their retirement accounts. The GUI can also be configured for employers that sponsor a retirement plan to communicate with the host system to manage their retirement plan and oversee administration of the plan. Displays of the GUI can be generated and updated by a user computer device display based on communications with the host system.
US11620707B2	Systems and methods for prevention of manipulation and gaming in electronic intraday auctions This disclosure provides systems and methods for prevention of manipulation and gaming in electronic intraday auctions. The system includes using at least one processing device for obtaining orders related to an asset from an electronic trading system. The system includes using at least one processing device for identifying a value for the asset to be used during an intraday auction involving the asset. The identified value is based on a detected order cross within the orders. The value is identified and set prior to the intraday auction. The value is located within a best bid and best offer spread (BBO) band. The system includes using at least one processing device for initiating the intraday auction involving the asset based on the identified and set value and the detected order cross. Changes to the BBO band during the intraday auction do not affect the identified and set value.
US11620696B2	Dynamic order prioritization enablement An approach is provided in which the approach arranges a first parameter group and a second parameter group in an initial priority order on a user interface. The first parameter group includes a selection of a first parameter option that generates a restriction on a second parameter option included in the second parameter group. In response to receiving a user input, the approach dynamically modifies the user interface by rearranging the first parameter group and the second parameter group into a different priority order and removes the restriction on the second parameter option based on the different priority order.
US11620695B2	Information suggestion system, information suggestion method, program, and recording medium There are provided an information suggestion system, an information suggestion method, a program, and a recording medium capable of suggesting, to a user, information on a product matching a hobby and the preference of the user from an image group of the user. In the information suggestion system, the information suggestion method, the program, and the recording medium, an image group acquisition unit acquires an image group of a user, and an image analysis unit detects an attribute of each image. An imaging number count unit counts an imaging number of same-attribute images, and an imaging frequency calculation unit calculates an imaging frequency of the same-attribute images. An imaging purpose estimation unit estimates an imaging purpose of the same-attribute images. A suggestion decision unit decides whether or not to suggest information on a product related to the imaging purpose of the same-attribute images to the user depending on whether the imaging number and the imaging frequency of the same-attribute images satisfy a predetermined condition, and an information suggestion unit suggests information on a product decided to be suggested to the user.
US11620694B2	Systems and methods for unmanned positioning and delivery of rental vehicles A managing apparatus for positioning rental vehicles includes a memory storing instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions to cause the managing apparatus to access model information and location information for a plurality of autonomous vehicles, receive a request including a delivery location and a chosen model for renting, select an autonomous vehicle of the chosen model from among the plurality of autonomous vehicles based on the model information, the location information, and the delivery location, instruct the selected autonomous vehicle to fully-autonomously or semi-autonomously travel to the delivery location, and instruct the selected autonomous vehicle to switch to manual operation mode at the delivery location for manual operation by a vehicle rental customer.
US11620688B2	Methods and systems for dynamically determining and adapting to cost impact during a flight A method for providing cost data for a flight is provided. The method (i) obtains cost target data for the flight, under anticipated conditions; (ii) obtains real-time aircraft performance parameters affecting the actual cost of the flight, using continuous monitoring during the flight, including at least aircraft speed modes, aircraft flight level changes, tactical interventions, weather impact, and descent timing deviations; (iii) determines an actual cost of the flight, based on the real-time aircraft performance parameters affecting the actual cost; (iv) identifies flight plan change options associated with a potential cost savings over the actual cost, wherein the flight plan change options comprise potential modifications to the flight plan to complete the flight; (v) presents the flight plan change options; and (vi) adapts operation of one or more avionics systems onboard the aircraft, based on one of the flight plan change options.
US11620682B2	Apparatus and method for online data collection and processing The disclosure is directed at a method for data collection and processing within an online system which monitors a user's activity on the online system and then creates a list of business offers for display to the user. The list of business offers is not displayed to the user until the user performs an action relating to a request to review the list of business offers.
US11620671B2	Method and system for managing medical information platform by using blockchain, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for managing a medical information platform using a blockchain, the method comprising the steps of: dynamically calculating an exchange ratio between tokens and points, with reference to at least one of an amount of points that a user intends to exchange for tokens on a medical information platform, an amount of tokens that the user intends to exchange for points on the medical information platform, an amount of tokens present in a token pool managed by the medical information platform, and an amount of points previously exchanged for tokens on the medical information platform; and providing the user with the tokens or points exchanged with reference to the calculated exchange ratio.
US11620670B2	Fuel loyalty rewards A processing system for fuel transactions analyzes transactions for symbols indicating a purchase amount and directs information about the purchase to a loyalty platform. The loyalty platform may identify and communicate in real time or near real time with a personal device associated with the purchaser of the fuel. A user interface of the personal device may allow the purchaser to review and select options for processing the fuel purchase using value from a loyalty program account. The selected option may be used to modify fuel purchase parameters prior to settlement of the transaction or simply add points to the user loyalty program account.
US11620668B2	System for managing web page content display based on dynamic criteria A computer system detects that a first user has selected an element corresponding to accessing a particular web page (e.g. such as a checkout). Based on detecting that the first user has selected an element corresponding to accessing the web page, the computer system may determine if one or more particular criteria associated with the web page have been met. Based on determining that the one or more criteria associated with the web page have been met, the computer system causes a particular web page element (e.g. a promotional payment button) to be rendered on the web page to display on a device of the first user.
US11620659B2	System and method for applying image recognition and invisible watermarking to mitigate and address fraud An embodiment of the present invention is directed to utilizing image recognition technology to identify discussions and images of exposed customer information indicating compromise, site vulnerabilities, or documents on forums and social media platforms. An embodiment of the present invention is directed to utilizing invisible watermarking of digital bank statements to identify specific customers with exposed information indicating compromise, or reporting site vulnerabilities. An embodiment of the present invention is directed to including an identifier, e.g., token/beacon, that may be traced back to a compromised customer. The actual location of the QR code/beacon may be randomized.
US11620648B2	Payment method and system through generation of one-time payment-only number of real card linked with application Provided are a payment method and system through generation of a one-time payment-only number of a real card linked with an application, wherein in order to make payment safely by generating a one-time payment-only number every payment without leaving card information of a user in a provider's payment terminal or by using the generated one-time payment-only number, when a real card is linked with an application installed on a user terminal and the payment terminal recognizes the real card, a user signature input window, and transaction information about payment performed with a one-time payment-only number generated by a card company server are displayed on a screen of the application of the user terminal, and payment is performed when a signature of the user is input to the signature input window.
US11620647B2	Provisioning of access credentials using device codes Systems and methods are described for provisioning access credentials to a mobile device using device and authorization codes. Once provisioned, a mobile device can be used to conduct a transaction.
US11620645B2	Systems and methods for distributed-ledger based intercompany netting A method for distributed-ledger based intercompany netting may include: receiving, from a first entity within an organization, a deposit of a first amount of funds to a first account; tokenizing the first amount of funds and writing the first amount of funds to a first token wallet for the first entity on a distributed ledger; receiving, from a second entity within an organization, a deposit of a second amount of funds to a second account; tokenizing the second amount of funds and writing the second amount of funds to a second token wallet for the second entity on the distributed ledger; and executing a transaction involving a transfer of a transaction amount from the first entity to the second entity by deducting the transaction amount from a token balance in the first wallet and adding the transaction amount to a token balance in the second wallet.
US11620644B2	Electronic system for initiating resource distributions from a first source retainer with a token associated with a second source retainer Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for initiating resource distributions from a first source retainer with a token associated with a second source retainer. The present invention may be configured to receive instructions to link a token associated with a first resource distribution instrument to a second resource distribution instrument, where the first resource distribution instrument and the second resource distribution instrument are associated with different types of source retainers and map, based on receiving the instructions, the token to the second resource distribution instrument. The present invention may be configured to receive signals from a user device comprising information identifying the token, determine, based on receiving the signals, whether the token is mapped to the second resource distribution instrument, and initiate, based on determining that the token is mapped to the second resource distribution instrument, an interaction associated with the second resource distribution instrument.
US11620643B2	Tokenization request via access device Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method for submitting a tokenization request via an access device. Embodiments allow tokens to be retrieved for complex mobile devices as well as basic card-type devices. Token requests can be formatted as authorization request messages and transmitted along authorization communication channels.
US11620632B2	Wearable device for event access, payment for offline transactions at the event, and visual light display A wearable device receives ticket information for an event and information indicating a quantity of funds allocated from an account, associated with a user of a user device, to the wearable device, and stores the ticket information and the information indicating the quantity of funds. The wearable device utilizes a wireless component to pair the wearable device and the user device, and provides, to the user device and via the wireless component, the ticket information and information indicating access privileges for the event. The wearable device generates a token for a PoS device for a charge incurred at the event during an offline transaction with the PoS device, and provides, via a NFC component, the token to the PoS device. The wearable device provides, to the user device and via the wireless component, information indicating that that the token was provided to the PoS device.
US11620628B2	Method and system for fraud control based on geolocation A method for fraud control of a transaction account based on geolocation includes: storing, in an account database, an account profile including data related to a transaction account including a first profile rule associated with a first geographic area and a second profile rule associated with a second geographic area different from the first; receiving an authorization request for a first transaction involving a first payment card, the request including a first geographic location; receiving an authorization request for a second transaction involving a second payment card, the request including a second geographic location; determining validation for each authorization request, wherein each is determined to be valid if the geographic location is in a geographic area corresponding to the first geographic area or the second geographic area; and transmitting the determination of validation for each authorization request to a payment network for processing of the associated payment transaction.
US11620624B2	Energy-efficient systems and methods for producing and vending ice Systems and methods are provided herein for producing and vending ice in an energy-efficient manner. A system for producing and vending ice comprises: an ice-making device configured to manufacture ice; a reservoir coupled to the ice-making device and configured to store the manufactured ice manufactured; and a control circuit communicatively coupled to the ice-making device, the control circuit configured to: determine a beginning ice inventory at a first time; determine a predicted ice demand for a first period, wherein the predicted ice demand is a function of at least a historical factor, a weather factor, a customer social event factor, and a public social event factor; determine an ice manufacturing quantity based on the beginning ice inventory, the predicted ice demand, and a manufacturing capacity of the ice-making device; and cause the ice-making device to produce an amount of ice consistent with the determined ice manufacturing quantity.
US11620617B2	Compensation modeling using plan collections A system for compensation modeling includes an interface and a processor. The interface is to receive live transactional compensation data. The system processor is to determine a set of compensation assignment plans based at least in part on the live transactional compensation data, determine a compensation model based at least in part on the set of compensation assignment plans, and provide the compensation model.
US11620616B1	System and method for communication between participants and administrators for initiating temporary cessation of contributions to a retirement plan An apparatus and method for administering and/or managing an employer sponsored retirement plan such as a 401(k) plan can include a host system that supports a graphical user interface (GUI) that is displayable to a user communicating with the host system via a user computer device. The use can manipulate one or more input devices connected to the user's computer device for facilitating the communication of data to the host system and updating of displays of the GUI. The GUI can be configured to permit employee participants to enroll and manage their retirement accounts. The GUI can also be configured for employers that sponsor a retirement plan to communicate with the host system to manage their retirement plan and oversee administration of the plan. Displays of the GUI can be generated and updated by a user computer device display based on communications with the host system.
US11620615B2	Systems and methods for providing a dashboard for a collaboration work management platform Systems, methods, and storage media for providing a dashboard for a collaboration work management platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information for maintaining a collaboration environment; obtain a first set of units of work where a first user is associated with first units of work within the first set but not assigned to the first units of work; and/or effectuate presentation of a dashboard displaying work information for the first units of work within the first set and indicating titles for the first units of work within the first set, statuses of the first units of work within the first set, and user information for the one or more other users assigned to the first units of work within the first set.
US11620611B2	Systems and methods of locating and selling items at attended delivery/pickup locations A system and method for locating nearby attended delivery/pickup locations with a particular item in stock is described. The system receives a request from an individual to purchase a particular item from an on-line retailer. The system receives information associated with attended delivery/pickup locations, including location and inventory information. The system then determines which (if any) attended delivery/pickup locations (e.g., the attended delivery/pickup locations are not the on-line retailer) are near the individual and have the particular item in stock and notifies the individual. In various embodiments, the system enables the user to purchase or reserve the particular item at the particular attended delivery/pickup location.
US11620609B2	Delivery method, device, system, unmanned vehicle and computer readable storage medium A delivery method, device, system, unmanned vehicle, and computer-readable storage medium, relating to the field of logistics technology. The delivery method includes monitoring a state of the unmanned vehicle; verifying a verification code input by the user and received from the unmanned vehicle in response to the unmanned vehicle being not in an abnormal working state, and transmitting an unpacking instruction to the unmanned vehicle in response to successful verification.
US11620607B2	Delivery system, delivery method and program A delivery system includes a moving apparatus on which a parcel to be transferred to a predetermined region is loaded and that is capable of moving the parcel along a circulation route along which the moving apparatus circulates in the region. The delivery system acquires delivery information including position information about a delivery destination of the parcel, generates a delivery plan for delivering the parcel to the delivery destination, based on the acquired delivery information, and controls the moving apparatus such that the moving apparatus moves the parcel to the delivery destination on the circulation route based on the delivery plan and fulfills the transfer of the parcel when permission information indicating that the transfer of the parcel is permitted has been received.
US11620602B2	Application usage and process monitoring in an enterprise environment having agent session recording for process definition A real-time activity monitor (RTAM) operates within or in association with a machine (such as a desktop) within a back office environment to automatically track and record desktop processing activities, application usage, as well as manual processing. The real-time activity monitor provides visibility into real-time task processing at the client desktop to enable an enterprise to address back office operational inefficiencies that are exposed by the data. According to a further feature, a recording approach is used to enable a user of the system to automatically define processes and tasks to be monitored. The approach obviates manual configuration by recording application usage actions and then using these interactions as a template for a new process object to be monitored. In an alternative embodiment, the process recorder captures screenshots and enables screen element bookmarking.
US11620593B2	Systems and methods for industry chain graph generation A method for generating an industry chain graph is provided. The method may include acquiring a key word related to an industry field, and retrieving industry data corresponding to the industry field based on the key word related to the industry field from one or more information sources. The method may also include determining a plurality of components in an industry chain of the industry field based on the one or more information sources, and constructing one or more links between the plurality of components in the industry chain based on the industry data. The method may further include generating the industry chain graph related to the industry field based on the plurality of components and the one or more links.
US11620592B2	Systems and methods for planning transportation routes The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for planning transportation routes. In one implementation, a method for simulating vehicle ridesharing is provided. The method may include receiving a first input of a geographical area and accessing map information of roadways in the geographical area. The method may also include receiving a second input indicative of at least one scenario of ridesharing demand in the geographical area and receiving a third input indicative of virtual vehicles designated to transport virtual passengers associated with the scenario. The method may further include initiating a transportation simulation of scenario to simulate rides of the virtual vehicles transporting the virtual passengers along the roadways. The method may also include determining, based on the transportation simulation, a performance level associated with the virtual vehicles and providing an output representative of the determined performance level.
US11620588B2	Methods and systems for determining alternative plans A computer-implemented method for determining alternative plans for a user may include: determining an event status of an event based on one or more parameters, wherein the event status comprises a target event indicator, wherein the one or more parameters comprise event population; obtaining event data of a target event; obtaining transactional data of the user, wherein the transactional data includes transaction time and transaction location; determining, via one or more processors, a likelihood of a potential transaction of the user associated with the target event by processing the transactional data and the event data using a trained machine learning model; and transmitting, to the user, a notification based on the determined likelihood of the potential transaction, wherein the notification includes a suggestion for alternative travel plans of the user.
US11620585B2	Intelligent system for seat reservation A seating reservation system running on a network server has functionality that can be trained to detect information relating to individual seats, their locations, and different seating types in a new or modified seating plan loaded into the system. This detected seating information can be maintained in seating plan files that can be edited to include metadata. Upon request, by a client application running under control a user, portions or all of the information in a seating plan file can be transferred as a web page to the client application for display and interaction with by the client application user for the purpose of completing a seat reservation process.
US11620559B2	Reduction of spontaneous emission and thermal photon noise in quantum computing machines using a galvanically grounded filter Protecting qubits of a quantum processor from spontaneous emission and thermal photon noise includes connecting a first port of a filter to a signal line of a readout resonator of a qubit circuit of a quantum processor. The filter has a passband including a readout resonator frequency associated with the readout resonator and a first stopband including a qubit transition frequency associated with the qubit circuit. A second port of the filter is connected to a measurement device. a signal line of the filter is galvanically connected to a reference ground in thermal contact to a stage of a cryostat. The galvanic connection further makes a thermal connection to an input signal line of the qubit circuit.
US11620558B1	Iterative machine learning based techniques for value-based defect analysis in large data sets One or more defect analysis iterations are performed on a collection of records. In a given iteration, a defect presence probability is obtained using a machine learning model for a record group. An estimated audit benefit is then assigned to the record group based at least partly on a defect remediation importance score of the record group. An indication of the estimated audit benefit of the record group is provided to an auditor. An audited defect status for the record group, generated by the auditor, is used to initiate one or more automated actions.
US11620550B2	Automated data table discovery for automated machine learning Embodiments relate to a system, program product, and method for leveraging cognitive systems to facilitate the automated data table discovery for automated machine learning, and, more specifically, to leveraging a trained cognitive system to automatically search for additional data in an external data source that may be merged with an initial user-selected data table to generate a more robust machine learning model. Manual efforts to find and validate data appropriate for building and training a particular model for a particular task are significantly reduced. Specifically, a learning-based approach to leverage with machine learning models to automatically discover related datasets and join the datasets for a given initial dataset is disclosed herein. Operations that include dataset selection facilitate continued reinforcement learning of the systems.
US11620547B2	Estimating number of distinct values in a data set using machine learning Techniques for estimating the number of distinct values in a data set using machine learning are provided. In one technique, a sample of a data set is retrieved where the sample is a strict subset of the data set. The sample is analyzed to identify feature values of multiple features of the sample. The feature values are inserted into a machine-learned model that computes a prediction regarding a number of distinct values in the data set. An estimated number of distinct values that is based on the prediction is stored in association with the data set.
US11620538B1	Machine learning integration for a dynamically scaling matching and prioritization engine A system and related method are provided for dynamically modifying a rule-based matching system. A processor receives a source data entity, and then locates a matching data entity by a search based on the source data entity and a rule set. A rater assessment is provided by a rater that utilizes at least one factor that is independent of the rule set and comprises a degree of matching between the source and matching data entity. A revised rule set is dynamically created based on an output of the analyzer, which in turn is based on the source data entity, the matching data entity, the rater assessment, and the rule set. Once this is complete, a second matching data entity is located by searching for the second matching data entity based on the source data entity and the revised rule set.
US11620537B2	Optimizing gradient boosting feature selection Gradient Boosting Decision Tree (GBDT) successively stacks many decision trees which at each step try to fix the residual errors from the previous steps. The final score produced by the GBDT is the sum of the individual scores obtained by the decision trees for an input vector. Overfitting in GBDT can be reduced by removing the input values that have the least impact on the output from the training data. One way to determine which input variable has the lowest predictive value is to determine the input variable that is used for the first time in the latest decision tree in the GBDT. This method of identifying the low-predictive features to be removed does not require that earlier trees be regenerated to generate the new GBDT. Since the removed feature was already not used in the earlier trees, those trees already ignore the removed feature.
US11620534B2	Automatic generation of Ising Hamiltonians for solving optimization problems in quantum computing Configuring a quantum computing system to determine a solution to an optimization problem includes encoding the optimization problem in an encoding language to produce an encoded optimization model. The encoded optimization model is transformed into a unconstrained model. The encoded optimization model includes an objective function having one or more terms. The one or more terms are converted to one or more Pauli terms. An Ising Hamiltonian is generated using the one or more terms. The Ising Hamiltonian corresponds to the optimization problem. An instruction indicative of the Ising Hamiltonian is provided to the quantum computing system.
US11620533B2	Cyphergenics-based decoding and encoding of program data A method for executing computer programs in a trusted execution environment of a device is disclosed. The method includes retrieving a genomic differentiation object corresponding a computer program; modifying the genomic differentiation object based on genomic regulation instructions (GRI) to obtain a modified genomic differentiation object; and executing a first executable instruction of the computer program. Executing the first executable instruction includes: retrieving first encoded data that is input to the first executable instruction; extracting a sequence from metadata associated with the encoded data; generating a first genomic engagement factor (GEF) based on the first sequence, the GRI and, and the modified genomic differentiation object; decoding the first encoded data based on the first GEF to obtain first decoded data; and executing the first executable instruction using the first decoded data.
US11620530B2	Learning method, and learning apparatus, and recording medium A learning method executed by a computer, the learning method includes: learning parameters of a machine learning model having intermediate feature values by inputting a plurality of augmented training data, which is generated by augmenting original training data, to the machine learning model so that specific intermediate feature values, which are calculated from specific augmented training data augmented from a same original training data, become similar to each other.
US11620529B2	Method of continual-learning of data sets and apparatus thereof This disclosure relates to a method of sequential machine learning of data sets and an apparatus thereof. The method may include generating a first machine learning model by generating a first feature space based on a first data set, generating first predictive label information based on the first feature space, performing machine learning on a relationship between the first data set and first label information related to a first data set, and performing machine learning on a relationship between the first predictive label information and the first feature space. The method may also include generating a second machine learning model based on the first machine learning model by generating a second feature space based on a second data set, generating second predictive label information based on the second feature space, and performing machine learning on a relationship between the second data set and a second label information.
US11620524B2	Issuing alerts for storage volumes using machine learning A method is used in issuing alerts for storage volumes using machine learning. A machine learning system analyzes Input/Output (I/O) data of a storage volume in a data storage system. The machine learning system is trained with sample I/O data patterns associated with the storage volume. Based on the I/O data, the machine learning system identifies atypical behavior associated with I/O data patterns of the I/O data. The method then issues an alert.
US11620518B2	Landmark-based classification model updating Systems and methods for updating a classification model of a neural network. The methods include selecting, as a set of landmarks, a limited number of data from a set of historical data used to train a classification model. Additionally, the methods generate new training data from recently collected data. Further, the methods update the classification model with the new training data and the set of landmarks to obtain an updated classification model having a loss function configured to capture similarities in the new training data and remember similarities in the historical data represented by the set of landmarks within a predefined tolerance.
US11620516B2	Specializing neural networks for heterogeneous systems The present disclosure advantageously provides a heterogenous system, and a method for generating an artificial neural network (ANN) for a heterogenous system. The heterogenous system includes a plurality of processing units coupled to a memory configured to store an input volume. The plurality of processing units includes first and second processing units. The first processing unit includes a first processor and is configured to execute a first ANN, and the second processing unit includes a second processor and is configured to execute a second ANN. The first and second ANNs respectively include an input layer, at least one processor-optimized hidden layer and an output layer. The second ANN hidden layers are different than the first ANN hidden layers.
US11620513B2	Computing convolutions using a neural network processor Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for computing a layer output for a convolutional neural network layer, the method comprising: receiving the layer input, the layer input comprising a plurality of activation inputs, the plurality of activation inputs represented as a multi-dimensional matrix comprising a plurality of depth levels, each depth level being a respective matrix of distinct activation inputs from the plurality of activation inputs; sending each respective kernel matrix structure to a distinct cell along a first dimension of the systolic array; for each depth level, sending the respective matrix of distinct activation inputs to a distinct cell along a second dimension of the systolic array; causing the systolic array to generate an accumulated output from the respective matrices sent to the cells; and generating the layer output from the accumulated output.
US11620510B2	Platform for concurrent execution of GPU operations Computing resources may be optimally allocated for a multipath neural network using a multipath neural network analyzer that includes an interface and a processing device. The interface receives a multipath neural network. The processing device generates the multipath neural network to include one or more layers of a critical path through the multipath neural network that are allocated a first allocation of computing resources that are available to execute the multipath neural network. The critical path limits throughput of the multipath neural network. The first allocation of computing resources reduces an execution time of the multipath neural network to be less than a baseline execution time of a second allocation of computing resources for the multipath neural network. The first allocation of computing resources for a first layer of the critical path is different than the second allocation of computing resources for the first layer of the critical path.
US11620509B2	Model constructing method of neural network model, model constructing system, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium A model constructing method for a neural network model applicable for image recognition processing is disclosed. The model constructing method includes the following operation: updating, by a processor, a plurality of connection variables between a plurality of layers of the neural network model, according to a plurality of inputs and a plurality of outputs of the neural network model. The plurality of outputs represent a plurality of image recognition results. The plurality of connection variables represent a plurality of connection intensities between each two of the plurality of layers.
US11620508B2	Vector computation unit in a neural network processor A circuit for performing neural network computations for a neural network comprising a plurality of layers, the circuit comprising: activation circuitry configured to receive a vector of accumulated values and configured to apply a function to each accumulated value to generate a vector of activation values; and normalization circuitry coupled to the activation circuitry and configured to generate a respective normalized value from each activation value.
US11620501B2	Neural network apparatus According to an embodiment, a neural network apparatus includes cores, routers, a tree path, and a short-cut path. The cores are provided according to leaves in a tree structure, each core serving as a circuit that performs calculation or processing for part of elements of the neural network. The routers are provided according to nodes other than the leaves in the tree structure. The tree path connects the cores and the routers such that data is transferred along the tree structure. The short-cut path connects part of the routers such that data is transferred on a route differing from the tree path. The routers transmit data output from each core to any of the cores serving as a transmission destination on one of routes in the tree path and the short-cut path such that the calculation or the processing is performed according to a structure of the neural network.
US11620489B2	Prospective media content generation using neural network modeling A system for prospectively identifying media characteristics for inclusion in media content is disclosed. A neural network database including media characteristic information and feature information may associate relationships among the media characteristic information and feature information. Personal characteristic information associated with target media consumers may be used to select a subset of the neural network database. A first set of nodes, representing selected feature information, may be activated. The node interactions may be calculated to detect the activation of a second set of nodes, the second set of nodes representing media characteristic information. Generally, a node is activated when an activation value of the node exceeds a threshold value. Media characteristic information may be identified for inclusion in media content based on the second set of nodes.
US11620487B2	Neural architecture search based on synaptic connectivity graphs Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting a neural network architecture for performing a machine learning task. In one aspect, a method comprises: obtaining data defining a synaptic connectivity graph representing synaptic connectivity between neurons in a brain of a biological organism; generating data defining a plurality of candidate graphs based on the synaptic connectivity graph; determining, for each candidate graph, a performance measure on a machine learning task of a neural network having a neural network architecture that is specified by the candidate graph; and selecting a final neural network architecture for performing the machine learning task based on the performance measures.
US11620477B2	Decoupled scalable data engineering architecture Provided is a process including: writing classes using object-oriented modelling of modeling topics; scanning the classes to determine class definition information; receiving from a subscribing modeling object a request for a subscription to a given modeling topic in a given modeling topic class, the subscription request including a modeling topic filter to select the given modeling topic from a plurality of modeling topics described by the given modeling topic class; registering a modeling topic accessor associated with the subscribing modeling object and a modeling topic mutator associated with the subscribing modeling object; processing, through the modeling topic filter a modeling topic that is accessed through an accessor and is described by the modeling topic class, the modeling topic being received from a modeling publisher object; notifying the subscribing object of the received modeling topic through a registered modeling topic listener; and mutating the received modeling topic.
US11620475B2	Domain translation network for performing image translation The present disclosure discloses a system and a method that includes receiving, at a decoder, a latent representation of an image having a first domain, and generating a reconstructed image having a second domain, wherein the reconstructed image is generated based on the latent representation.
US11620472B2	Unified people connector Systems and methods for identifying individuals with a user-requested expertise are provided. For example, the system can include a processor configured to receive a user input and extract one or more keywords from the input. The processor can generate search requests based upon the one or more keywords, each search request identifying at least one application programming interface (API) call configured to invoke at least one API function as exposed by a software application. The processor can transmit the search requests to the software applications and receive search responses. The processor can determine a plurality of software application users and a set of associated evidence, each set of associated evidence including user interactions with each of the software applications. The processor can aggregate the evidence into an aggregated data set and configure the aggregated data set as an input to a machine learning classifier for ranking the sets of evidence.
US11620468B2	Remotely managing a ring scanner device, and applications thereof Embodiments position a barcode reader, or other optical detector, to scan upright barcodes when the user hand is in the neutral position. To do this, embodiments rest the body of the ring scanner device on top of the index finger, with the palm facing inward toward the users body. Embodiments have integrated interactivity, including a touchscreen display and separate buttons that can be used to operate the optical detector and input data into an integrated computing device. The integrated computing device can run software applications on board the ring scanner device. Finally, the integrated computing device can be remotely managed.
US11620462B2	Reading passive wireless tags using commodity devices A method for product tagging is presented including emitting, by at least one RF backscatter transmitter, a dual-tone Radio Frequency (RF) signal embedded within a standardized RF signal on a frequency channel, reflecting and frequency shifting, by a passive RF backscatter tag associated with a product, the dual-tone RF signal to a different frequency channel, and reading, by at least one RF backscatter receiver, the product on the different frequency channel by detecting a distributed ambient backscatter signal generated by a reflection and frequency shifting of the dual-tone RF signal by the passive RF backscatter tag.
US11620458B2	Increased power tag read cycle A radio frequency identification (RFID) system first interrogates, in a first mode, one or more particular target zones of the plurality of target zones including a given target zone. Each particular target zone is interrogated with one of the antennas at a time at a first power for the particular target zone. The RFID system monitors, upon first interrogating, for a trigger condition to occur. In response to the trigger condition not occurring, the RFID system continues the first interrogation in the first mode. In response to the trigger condition occurring, the RFID system second interrogates the given target zone in a second mode at a second power with a plurality of the antennas. The second power for the given target zone is greater in an aggregate across the second interrogating antennas than the first power for the given target zone.
US11620455B2	Intelligently summarizing and presenting textual responses with machine learning This disclosure relates to methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems apply machine-learning techniques and computational sentiment analysis to summarize sentences extracted from a group of textual responses or to select representative-textual responses from the group of textual responses. By using a response-extraction-neural network to extract (and sometimes paraphrase) sentences from textual responses, the disclosed methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems can generate a response summary of textual responses based on sentiment indicators corresponding to the textual responses. By applying a machine-learning classifier to generate textual quality scores for textual responses, the disclosed methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and systems select representative-textual responses from a group of textual responses based on relevancy parameters and sentiment indicators corresponding to the textual responses. Such computational techniques generate response summaries and representative responses that provide an efficient snapshot of a group of textual responses analyzed by machine learners.
US11620452B2	Dynamic text message processing implementing endpoint communication channel selection The present disclosure relates generally to providing a concierge service to handle a wide variety of topics and user intents via a text messaging interface. The concierge service can be part of a connection management system that can dynamically manage and facilitate natural language conversations between a user making a request or providing an instruction and one or more endpoints for the purposes of fulfilling the request or instruction.
US11620445B2	System and method for implementing an automatic data collection and presentation generator module A system and method for implementing an automatic data collection and presentation generator module are disclosed. A database stores a plurality of templates and data components. A receiver receives a request from a user to automatically generate an electronic data presentation based on a template and a limited data set selected from the data components. A processor receives user's credential information corresponding to the received request. The processor also accesses the database to identify a template among a plurality of templates based on user's access permission and verified authentication; hydrates the identified template with the limited data by applying a predefined data injection algorithm that is configured to determine that the limited data set is accessible by the user based on the user's access permission and the verified authentication; and automatically generates the electronic data presentation with the hydrated identified template having the limited data.
US11620442B2	Interpretation risk detection A system and method for detecting global interpretation risks in an email. A method includes extracting data from a header of an email, the data indicative of a locale of a sender; comparing the extracted data to other data indicative of a locale of a recipient of the email; and in response to a mismatch between the locales of the sender and recipient: scanning content of the email to identify portions of content subject to misinterpretation by the recipient, and modifying display of the email in response to an identification of at least one portion of content subject to misinterpretation, the modifying to indicate possible misinterpretation of the content by the recipient.
US11620440B2	Systems and methods for conversion of documents to reusable content types Embodiments of systems and methods for the conversion of documents to reusable content types are disclosed herein. Embodiments may extract the content and metadata of the original document and identify a set of reusable resources from the content and metadata. These reusable resources can each be one of a set of content types common across a plurality of document authoring platforms. Each of the content types may be represented using a content type object associated with that content type. The reusable resources identified by the parsing of the content and metadata of the original document may thus be represented with corresponding reusable objects in a content type format common to a plurality of document authoring tools.
US11620439B2	Enhancing documents portrayed in digital images The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods that efficiently and effectively generate an enhanced document image of a displayed document in an image frame captured from a live image feed. For example, systems and methods described herein apply a document enhancement process to a displayed document in an image frame that result in an enhanced document image that is cropped, rectified, un-shadowed, and with dark text against a mostly white background. Additionally, systems and method described herein determine whether a stored digital content item includes a displayed document. In response to determining that a stored digital content item does include a displayed document, systems and methods described herein generate an enhanced document image of a displayed document included in the stored digital content item.
US11620437B2	Semantic correction of messages for groups A method, text correction system, and computer program product, one embodiment of which may comprise receiving an original first message from a first participant of a group correspondence, receiving a second message from a second participant of the group correspondence, determining, by semantically analyzing the original first message and the second message, that the second message contains a desired modification of the original first message, and in response to the determining, automatically modifying the original first message with the desired modification to produce a modified first message. The second message may be received after the original first message. Optionally, some embodiments may further comprise presenting the modified first message to the first participant of the group correspondence for approval, and in response to an approval by the first participant of the group correspondence, presenting the modified first message to one or more other participants of the group correspondence.
US11620433B2	Electronic publishing platform Disclosed herein is a web user experience improvement for digital magazines. A digital magazine viewing platform is integrated with a digital magazine publishing platform including features that leverage the integration including user interface arrangement based on viewing habits and ripped content that is insertable into draft digital magazine documents. In some embodiments, a machine learning model categorizes magazine styles and present publishing features based on those magazines viewed or subscribed to by a given user.
US11620431B2	System and method for performing depth-dependent oxidation modeling in a virtual fabrication environment Systems and methods for performing depth-dependent oxidation modeling and depth-dependent etch modeling in a virtual fabrication environment are discussed. More particularly, a virtual fabrication environment models, as part of a process sequence, oxidant dispersion in a depth-dependent manner and simulates the subsequent oxidation reaction based on the determined oxidant thickness along an air/silicon interface. Further the virtual fabrication environment performs depth-dependent etch modeling as part of a process sequence to determine etchant concentration and simulate the etching of material along an air/material interface.
US11620423B2	Attribute-point-based timing constraint formal verification Systems and methods are described herein for attribute-point-based timing formal verification of application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and system on chip (SoC) designs. A target circuit design having a first set of netlists and timing constraints is received. A plurality of key clock-pin-net-load-setting attributes are extracted from the first ported netlists and timing constraints. The clock-pin-net-load-setting attribute mismatch in the result report is checked between the target circuit design and a golden circuit design by comparing the plurality of target attributes with a plurality of golden attributes of the golden circuit design after the target design database is loaded for static timing analysis (STA). The attribute mismatch is provided for further design or timing constraint modifications and/or updates using this approach, particularly timing formal verification, at the target technology in order to enable efficient design timing sign-off based on ported netlists and synthesis design constraints (SDC).
US11620417B1	User interface for interactive skew group analysis Aspects of the present disclosure address systems, methods, and a user interface for providing interactive skew group visualizations for integrated circuit (IC) design. The method includes causing display of a user interface that includes a display of a grouped view of a clock-tree including a plurality of skew group indicators. The method further includes receiving a user selection of a skew group indicator and updating the user interface to display a detailed view of the skew group including a graphical representation of each clock sink in the skew group and corresponding timing information. The method further includes receiving a second user selection of a first clock sink and in response, the display is updated to display an indicator of a physical location of the first clock sink within the clock tree.
US11620408B2	Systems and methods of data transformation for data pooling A data anonymization pipeline system for managing holding and pooling data is disclosed. The data anonymization pipeline system transforms personal data at a source and then stores the transformed data in a safe environment. Furthermore, a re-identification risk assessment is performed before providing access to a user to fetch the de-identified data for secondary purposes.
US11620390B1	Risk rating method and system A risk rating method and system that predicts the risk likelihood, the risk impact, and the risk rating of certain threats and vulnerabilities from exploiting different component groups. In some embodiments, the system's predictions (also referred to herein as inferences) are generated based on data elements provided by a user about its organization's information systems. In further embodiments, the method and system utilizes data mining, historical records, and an AI Engine to provide the predictions for the risk likelihood, the risk impact, and the risk rating posed by the various threat occurrences.
US11620388B2	Computer system vulnerability lockdown mode Targeted lockdown of a computer system for an identified vulnerability is provided. The targeted lockdown includes configuring a vulnerability lockdown module implemented on a computer system to perform targeted actions to change a configuration of the computer system. The computer system may be scanned by a vulnerability scanner configured to identify vulnerabilities. In response to identifying a vulnerability, the vulnerability may be communicated to the vulnerability lockdown module and the vulnerability lockdown module may implement a vulnerability lockdown mode by causing the computer system to perform the targeted actions to change the configuration of the computer system by restricting functionality of portions of the computer system affected by the identified vulnerability.
US11620384B2	Independent malware detection architecture A system and method (referred to as the system) detect malware by training a rule-based model, a functional based model, and a deep learning-based model from a memory snapshot of a malware free operating state of a monitored device. The system extracts a feature set from a second memory snapshot captured from an operating state of the monitored device and processes the feature set by the rule-based model, the functional-based model, and the deep learning-based model. The system identifies identifying instances of malware on the monitored device without processing data identifying an operating system of the monitored device, data associated with a prior identification of the malware, data identifying a source of the malware, data identifying a location of the malware on the monitored device, or any operating system specific data contained within the monitored device.
US11620380B2	Method for preventing ransomware attacks on computing systems A method for preventing ransomware attacks on a computing system. By controlling the access to a calling interface through which cryptographic functions, such as the random number generator, can be accessed to generate strong encryption keys the method allows to efficiently terminate cryptographic ransomware attacks on the system before they can start doing any damage. If the access to the cryptographic functions, such as the random number generator, is not granted, the ransomware is unable to build a strong encryption key, and it is unable to deploy its intended effect.
US11620379B1	Methods and apparatus for detecting and preventing obfuscated cyberattacks using machine learning techniques The presently disclosed subject matter includes a system for monitoring a set of command lines or calls to executable scripts configured to be executed by an operating system. Each command line from the set of command lines is associated with an executable script configured to be executed by an operating system. The apparatus classifies, via a machine learning model, a command line from the set of command lines into an obfuscation category and prevents the operating system from executing the command line and generates a notification signal when the obfuscation category indicates that the command line is part of a cybersecurity attack. The apparatus allows the operating system to execute the command line or call to the executable script when the obfuscation category indicates that the command line is not part of a cybersecurity attack.
US11620377B2	Physically-tagged data cache memory that uses translation context to reduce likelihood that entries allocated during execution under one translation context are accessible during execution under another translation context A physically-tagged data cache memory mitigates side channel attacks by using a translation context (TC). With each entry allocation, control logic uses the received TC to perform the allocation, and with each access uses the received TC in a hit determination. The TC includes an address space identifier (ASID), virtual machine identifier (VMID), a privilege mode (PM) or translation regime (TR), or combination thereof. The TC is included in a tag of the allocated entry. Alternatively, or additionally, the TC is included in the set index to select a set of entries of the cache memory. Also, the TC may be hashed with address index bits to generate a small tag also included in the allocated entry used to generate an access early miss indication and way select.
US11620376B2	System and methods for generating and authenticating dynamic usernames replication A method for generating a dynamic username includes receiving a static component of a dynamic username and a selection of a dynamic parameter component of the dynamic username from a user. The static component and the selected dynamic parameter component are combined in a predetermined order, based on a user selected option. The dynamic username is produced from the combined static component and the selected dynamic parameter component based on the predetermined order. A rule for producing the dynamic username is generated. The rule defines the predetermined order of the static component and the selected dynamic parameter component. The static component and the rule are stored in a credential database with the rule being associated with the static component.
US11620368B2	Digital signature using phonometry and compiled biometric data system and method A system, method and one or more wireless earpieces for authenticating utilization of one or more wireless earpieces. A request is received through the one or more wireless earpieces. Biometric readings are performed for a user utilizing sensors of the one or more wireless earpieces. The biometric readings are analyzed to determine whether a biometric profile authorizes the one or more wireless earpieces to fulfill the request. The request is authenticated in response to determining the biometric profile authorizes fulfillment of the request.
US11620367B2	Key specific fingerprint based access control Using a biometric sensor coupled to a touchscreen, fingerprint data is collected from within a plurality of virtual key areas of the touchscreen. A virtual key area in the plurality of virtual key areas comprises an area of the touchscreen configured to display an input prompt and collect touch data responsive to the input prompt. Responsive to determining that the fingerprint data has above a threshold level of similarity with stored fingerprint data associated with each of the virtual key areas and that a sequence of the virtual key areas matches a stored key sequence, access to a protected resource is allowed.
US11620362B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an image forming mechanism, a panel serving as a user interface of the image forming mechanism, a receiver that receives an image forming instruction for the image forming mechanism from a user of an information processing apparatus, and a display controller that controls the panel to display, in response to the receiver receiving the image forming instruction, a message about management of a license related to software installed in the information processing apparatus by referring to management information of the software.
US11620361B2	Proactive privacy content hosting A set of one or more media items is identified by a first computer system configured to host media items for various users. The set of media items has a first relationship. A content analysis is performed on the set of one or more media items. The content analysis is based on a first machine-learning model. A first content pattern contained within the set of media items is determined based on the content analysis. A first set of one or more altered media items is generated in response to the first content pattern.
US11620359B2	Method, device, and computer program product for self-supervised learning of pixel-wise anatomical embeddings in medical images The present disclosure provides a method, a device, and a computer program product using a self-supervised anatomical embedding (SAM) method. The method includes randomly selecting a plurality of images; for each image of the plurality of images, performing random data augmentation to obtain a patch pair, generating global and local embedding tensors for each patch of the patch pair, and selecting positive pixel pairs from the patch pair and obtaining positive embedding pairs; for each positive pixel pair, computing global and local similarity maps, finding global hard negative embeddings, selecting global random negative embeddings, pooling the global hard negative embeddings and the global random negative embeddings to obtain final global negative embeddings, and finding local hard negative embeddings using the global and local similarity maps, and randomly sampling final local negative embeddings from the local hard negative embeddings; and minimizing a final info noise contrastive estimation (InfoNCE) loss.
US11620356B2	Methods and apparatus for providing digital item advertisements This application relates to apparatus and methods for automatically determining and providing item advertisements, such as for display on a website. In some examples, a computing device obtains a prioritized list of item advertisements for each of a plurality of item categories. The computing device also obtains an item category for each of a plurality of positions of a display interface. Each item category may correspond to one or more of the plurality of item categories. Further, the computing device determines, for each position of the plurality of positions of the display interface, an item advertisement based on the item category for the position and the prioritized list of item advertisements. The computing device generates display interface position data identifying the item advertisement determined for each position of the plurality of positions of the display interface. The computing device transmits the display interface position data to a web server.
US11620355B1	Dynamic content optimization system and associated methods Embodiments of the present invention are related to a dynamic content optimization system including a collection engine, a news server, an optimization engine including a filter engine and a markup engine, an intake module, a client setup engine, a client website with an optimized content display module, and an administrative override. The system includes a learning track and an autonomous track and is configured to create the client website using data gathered from the collection engine. The collection engine is structured to gather outside content for storage within the news server and forward it to the optimization engine. The optimization engine is operable to retrieve content from the news server, preprocess the content for comparison against previously rejected data, compare the content for rejection, markup non-rejected content and forward the marked up non-rejected content to the content display module for display on the client website.
US11620344B2	Frequent item set tracking A new transaction set is compared to a plurality of transaction sets represented in a Compressed Frequent Item Set (CFIS), wherein the CFIS maintains a count for each transaction set represented in the CFIS. When the new transaction set matches a transaction set represented in the CFIS, the count for the matching transaction set in the CFIS is incremented. When the new transaction set does not match any transaction sets represented in the CFIS, the new transaction set is added to the CFIS. If there are intersections between two or more events of the new transaction set and the events of the plurality of transaction sets represented in the CFIS, the count for the transaction sets in the CFIS that intersect with two or more of the events of the new transaction set is incremented.
US11620342B2	Relevance-based search and discovery for media content delivery A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described, which provide for calculating a first relevance score for each content item of a set of content items, wherein the first relevance scores correspond to a relevance of each content item with respect to a query term according to a term-weighting scheme; calculating, for each content item, a program title relevance score; a media personality relevance score; a media network relevance score; and a live programming event relevance score; ranking each content item based on the program title relevance scores, the media personality relevance scores, the media network relevance scores, and the live event relevance scores; receiving a user input search term; generating, based on the search term, a user interface including multiple graphic icons corresponding to a number of the ranked content items; and presenting, via the user interface, the multiple graphic icons for selection by a user.
US11620341B1	Industrial virtual assistant platform with robotic process automation for knowledge and insights management An Industrial Virtual Assistant (IVA) platform with Robotic Process Automation that operates like a Digital Knowledge Companion and allows operational staff at industrial facilities to have natural language conversations with the IVA to obtain information about, and to control operations of, industrial facilities, and which automates certain processes based in part on those natural language conversations. In an embodiment, the platform uses a Robotic Process Automater (RPA) to ingest information from documentation, human inputs, and operational data from the facility, organize that information into a knowledge graph containing comprehensive facility information, and apply machine learning algorithms to the knowledge graph to provide natural language responses to human queries and to automate certain processes of the facility.
US11620337B2	Identifying and contextualizing individuals in an organization An identification and contextualization system comprising a contextualizing engine is provided. The contextualizing engine comprises various components that are operable to analyze an information item related to a user for identifying one or more individuals associated with the information item, and interrogate a graph structure for determining whether each of the one or more individuals associated with the information item is someone whom the user has met or has worked with based on edges and weights stored in the graph structure. When an individual who is associated with the information item is identified, the contextualizing engine is further operable to discover contextual information associated with the individual, and generate an information element surfacing the contextual information associated with the individual for display to the user.
US11620335B2	Method for generating video synopsis through scene understanding and system therefor Embodiments relate to a method for generating a video synopsis including receiving a user query; performing an object based analysis of a source video; and generating a synopsis video in response to a video synopsis generation request from a user, and a system therefor. The video synopsis generated by the embodiments reflects the user's desired interaction.
US11620332B2	Transferring playback from a mobile device to a playback device A network device is configured to (i) play back a media item indicated by a remote playback queue provided by a cloud-based computing system, (ii) receive an indication that a playback device is available for playback, (iii) display a now playing screen including (a) information identifying the media item, and (b) an icon that indicates that the network device is not in a connected state with any other network device, (iv) receive a first input selecting the icon, (v) in response to the first input, display a list of one or more available network devices including the playback device, (vi) receive a second input selecting the playback device from the list (vii) after receiving the second input, update the list to indicate that the playback device is selected for playback of the remote playback queue, and (viii) transfer playback of the remote playback queue from the network device to the playback device.
US11620331B2	Textual and image based search Described is a system and method for enabling visual search for information. With each selection of an object included in an image, additional images that include visually similar objects are determined and presented to the user.
US11620325B2	Video generation system to render frames on demand using a fleet of servers Content controller system comprising rendering server system comprising a plurality of servers. The servers receiving a plurality of segment render requests that correspond respectively to segments included in a set of media content item segments. The servers render the segments corresponding to the segment render requests using a media content identification and a main user identification. Rendering the segments comprises retrieving metadata from a metadata database associated with the media content identification, rendering the segments using the metadata, generating a main user avatar based on the main user identification, and incorporating the main user avatar into the segments. The servers can upload the segments to a segment database and update segment states in a segment state database to indicate that the segments are available. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
US11620322B1	System and method for managing regulatory information Systems and methods for managing regulatory information. The system comprises a submission controller, a registration controller and a submission archive controller. The submission controller may manage a submission structure, and allow users to search for documents in a content management system and add the documents to the submission structure. The registration controller may manage product registration information and health authority interactions globally, and capture, view and take actions upon product registrations. The submission archive controller may allow users to access a complete history of regulatory submissions and correspondence globally, with an easy to use interface. The three controllers reside in a single system that allows them to interact seamlessly with each other.
US11620319B2	Search platform for unstructured interaction summaries Systems, methods, and computer program products for search platforms for unstructured interaction summaries. An application executing on a processor may receive a query comprising a term. The application may generate, based on an embedding vector and the term, an expanded query comprising a plurality of additional terms. The application may generate, based on a term frequency inverse document frequency model, a vector for the expanded query and generate an entity vector for the query. The application may generate a combined vector for the query based on the entity vector and the vector for the expanded query. The application may compute, based on the combined vector for the query and a feature matrix of a corpus, a respective cosine similarity score for a plurality of results in the corpus. The application may return one or more of the plurality of results as responsive to the query based on the similarity scores.
US11620318B2	Predictive query completion and predictive search results Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing search query suggestions. In one aspect, a search service provides query suggestions responsive to a query suggestion request from a client device, and determines if a prediction criterion is met. The prediction criterion is independent of a user selection of a query suggestion provided in response to one or more query suggestion requests. In response to determining that the prediction criterion is met, the search system provides search results to the client device. The search results are responsive to one of the query suggestions provided in response to the query suggestion request or one or more previous query suggestion requests.
US11620312B2	Method and system for processing write queries in an application programming interface based on declarative schemas for individual services Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for processing north-south queries in an application programming interface (API) generated for a plurality of associated services. The method generally includes receiving a request to invoke a function exposed by a first service in the API, wherein the function commits data to one or more data repositories. A data record is generated by the first service based on the received request based on a data object definition and a service definition for the first service. A message is generated including the generated data record and an indication that the message is to be consumed by a data lake processing system to commit data to a data lake. The message is published on a message bus for consumption by the data lake processing system.
US11620309B2	Data reconciliation and inconsistency determination for posted entries A system and a method are disclosed for receiving an entry, the entry comprising first content and a metadata tag corresponding to a classification, the first content populated by a first source. A rules engine determines that the first content comprises a data field associated with at least one of a plurality of reconciliation policies. Responsive to determining that the first content comprises a data field associated with at least one of the plurality of reconciliation policies, the rules engine selects a reconciliation policy based on the metadata tag. The rules engine retrieves, from a second source, second content associated with the data field, inputs the first content and the second content into a model, the model selected based on the reconciliation policy, the model generating an output, and performs a remediation action based on the output.
US11620296B2	Online machine learning algorithm for a data intake and query system Systems and methods are described for processing ingested data using an online machine learning algorithm as the data is being ingested. For example, the online machine learning algorithm can be an adaptive thresholding algorithm used to identify outliers in a moving window of data. As another example, the online machine learning algorithm can be a sequential outlier detector that detects anomalous sequences of logs or events. As another example, the online machine learning algorithm can be a sentiment analyzer that determines whether text has a positive, negative, or neutral sentiment. As another example, the online machine learning algorithm can be a drift detector that detects whether ingested data marks the start of a change in the distribution of a time-series.
US11620281B2	Tracking intermediate changes in database data Systems, methods, and devices for tracking a series of changes to database data are disclosed. A method includes executing a transaction to modify data in a micro-partition of a table of a database by generating a new micro-partition that embodies the transaction. The method includes associating transaction data with the new micro-partition, wherein the transaction data comprises a timestamp when the transaction was fully executed, and further includes associating modification data with the new micro-partition that comprises an indication of one or more rows of the table that were modified by the transaction. The method includes joining the transaction data with the modification data to generate joined data and querying the joined data to determine a listing of intermediate modifications made to the table between a first timestamp and a second timestamp.
US11620279B2	Extensible universal ledger Methods and systems for an extensible, universal ledger. One of the methods includes receiving at a journal manager engine a register transaction type request for a first transaction type, the journal manager engine reading and writing to a journal that stores a history of object state and of code by which object state is changed, wherein the register transaction type request is based at least in part on a template and specifies at least one action that can be performed as part of the first transaction type; writing the transaction type request to the journal including an operation definition for the first transaction type; receiving a transaction request of the first transaction type; obtaining the operation definition from the journal; executing an operation in response to the transaction request to produce a transaction result; and recording the transaction result in the journal.
US11620278B2	Managing data objects for graph-based data structures Various embodiments provide methods, systems, apparatus, computer program products, and/or the like for managing, ingesting, monitoring, updating, and/or extracting/retrieving information/data associated with an electronic record (ER) stored in an ER data store and/or accessing information/data from the ER data store, wherein the ERs are generated, updated/modified, and/or accessed via a graph-based domain ontology.
US11620270B2	Representing and managing sampled data in storage systems Example implementation relates to generating a database for a set of entities associated with sampled data units of a storage system. A first data structure in the database maps, in a bit vector, each entity with a sampled signature of a set of sampled signatures. The set of sampled signatures are associated with the sampled data units. The set of entities associated with the set of sampled signatures are managed using the first data structure.
US11620259B2	Electronic device, method for controlling electronic device, and non-transitory computer readable medium An electronic device comprising: a setting unit configured to set a search condition including a first search item and a second search item based on a user operation; a storage control unit configured to perform control to store the search condition set by the setting unit; and a search unit configured to search for a content based on the search condition set by the setting unit from a storage destination serving as a search target, wherein in a case in which a storage destination serving as a search target is changed after the search condition is stored by control of the storage control unit, the setting unit 1) uses a stored search condition as a setting candidate as for the first search item and 2) does not use a stored search condition as a setting candidate as for the second search item.
US11620255B2	Time sensitive networking device The present disclosure generally relates to a device, method, or system for time sensitive networking. In an example, the device can include a time-sensitive networking controller and a scheduler. The device also includes an enhanced gate control list maintained on the time-sensitive networking controller to include a direct memory access address, a launch time, and a pre-fetch time for a data packet. The device may also include a transmitter of the time-sensitive networking controller to transmit the data packet retrieved using the direct memory access address at the launch time identified by the scheduler.
US11620252B2	System for recorded e-book digital content playout A system allows for audio playout of e-book content data using a playout electronic device recorded by a remote recording electronic device. The system may analyse the e-book content to infer XY on-screen display coordinates for each word of the e-book and speech recognition may correlate the timing of the spoken words to the XY coordinates. As such, a read along display animation may be generated by the digital display of the playout electronic device in time with the audio and the respective on-screen position of each word. Eye tracking may be employed by the playout electronic device for the display of a gaze position indicator to the recording electronic device in substantial real-time. The system may further employ machine learning to optimise a trained machine to output at least one prosodic features for user profile specific speech emulation using a speech emulator.
US11620247B2	Conversion adapter and conversion adaptation method between PCIE and SPI realized based on FPGA An adaptation method between PCIE and SPI realized based on FPGA, comprising following steps: S01: a PCIE equipment sends PCIE information to a mapping module through a PCIE module; S02: the mapping module extracts SPI information from the PCIE information and transmits the SPI information to a SPI equipment through an SPI module; all of the PCIE module, the mapping module and the SPI module are located on a FPGA chip; S03: the SPI equipment performs a read/write operation according to the SPI information, and feeds back SPI operation information subjected to the read/write operation to the mapping module; S04: the mapping module modifies PCIE information according to the SPI operation information to obtain PCIE feedback information; S05: the PCIE equipment reads the PCIE feedback information through the PCIE module. The present invention provides a conversion adapter and a method between PCIE and SPI realized based on FPGA to realize conversion for a PCI interface and a SPI interface, so as to perform a read/write operation of an AD chip with the SPI interface or a DA chip with the SPI interface, which has universal applicability.
US11620245B2	Multi-socket network interface controller with consistent transaction ordering Computing apparatus includes a host computer, including at least first and second host bus interfaces. A network interface controller (NIC) includes a network port, for connection to a packet communication network, and first and second NIC bus interfaces, which communicate via first and second peripheral component buses with the first and second host bus interfaces, respectively. Packet processing logic, in response to packets received through the network port, writes data to the host memory concurrently via both the first and second NIC bus interfaces in a sequence of direct memory access (DMA) transactions, and after writing the data in any given DMA transaction, writes a completion report to the host memory with respect to the given DMA transaction while verifying that the completion report will be available to the CPU only after all the data in the given DMA transaction have been written to the host memory.
US11620244B2	Directed interrupt for multilevel virtualization with interrupt table An interrupt signal is provided to a first guest operating system. A bus attachment device receives an interrupt signal from a bus connected module with an interrupt target ID identifying a processor assigned for use by the guest operating system as a target processor for handling the interrupt signal. The bus attachment device translates the received interrupt target ID to a logical processor ID of the target processor using an interrupt table entry stored in a memory section assigned to a second guest operating system hosting the first operating system and forwards the interrupt signal to the target processor for handling. The logical processor ID of the target processor is used to address the target processor directly.
US11620242B2	Determining write commands for deletion in a host interface An interface of a memory sub-system can determine that a particular write command received from a host has a same address as a subsequently received write command from the host. The interface can delete the particular write command if it is still in the interface or send a signal to delete the particular write command if the write command has already been provided from the interface.
US11620237B2	Flow table aging optimized for DRAM access A flow table management system can include a hardware memory module communicatively coupled to a network interface card. The hardware memory module is configured to store a flow table including a plurality of network flow entries. The network interface card further includes a flow table age cache configured to store a set of recently active network flows and a flow table management module configured to manage a duration for which respective network flow entries in the flow table stored in the hardware memory module remain in the flow table using the flow table age cache. In some implementations, age information about each respective flow in the flow table is stored in the hardware memory module in an age state table that is separate from the flow table.
US11620231B2	Lateral persistence directory states Aspects of the invention include defining one or more processor units having a plurality of caches, each processor unit comprising a processor having at least one cache, and wherein each of the one or more processor units are coupled together by an interconnect fabric, for each of the plurality of caches, arranging a plurality of cache lines into one or more congruence classes, each congruence class comprises a chronology vector, arranging each cache in the plurality of caches into a cluster of caches based on a plurality of scope domains, determining a first cache line to evict based on the chronology vector, and determining a target cache for installing the first cache line based on a scope of the first cache line and a saturation metric associated with the target cache, wherein the scope of the first cache line is determined based on lateral persistence tag bits.
US11620228B2	Coherent memory access Apparatuses and methods related to providing coherent memory access. An apparatus for providing coherent memory access can include a memory array, a first processing resource, a first cache line and a second cache line coupled to the memory array, a first cache controller, and a second cache controller. The first cache controller coupled to the first processing resource and to the first cache line can be configured to provide coherent access to data stored in the second cache line and corresponding to a memory address. A second cache controller coupled through an interface to a second processing resource external to the apparatus and coupled to the second cache line can be configured to provide coherent access to the data stored in the first cache line and corresponding to the memory address. Coherent access can be provided using a first cache line address register of the first cache controller which stores the memory address and a second cache line address register of the second cache controller which also stores the memory address.
US11620225B1	System and method for mapping memory addresses to locations in set-associative caches A circuit and corresponding method map memory addresses onto cache locations within set-associative (SA) caches of various cache sizes. The circuit comprises a modulo-arithmetic circuit that performs a plurality of modulo operations on an input memory address and produces a plurality of modulus results based on the plurality of modulo operations performed. The plurality of modulo operations performed are based on a cache size associated with an SA cache. The circuit further comprises a multiplexer circuit and an output circuit. The multiplexer circuit outputs selected modulus results by selecting modulus results from among the plurality of modulus results produced. The selecting is based on the cache size. The output circuit outputs a cache location within the SA cache based on the selected modulus results and the cache size. Such mapping of the input memory address onto the cache location is performed at a lower cost relative to a general-purpose divider.
US11620219B2	Storage drive dependent track removal in a cache for storage In one embodiment, storage drive dependent track removal processing logic performs destage tasks for tracks cached in a cache as a function of whether the storage drive is classified as a fast class or as slow class of storage drives, for example. In one embodiment, a destage task configured for a slow class storage drive, transfers an entry for a track selected for destaging from a main cache list to a wait cache list to await destaging to the slow class drive. A destage task configured for a fast class storage drive allows the cache list entry for the selected track to remain on the main cache list while the selected track is being destaged to the fast class storage drive, thereby bypassing the transfer of the entry to a wait cache list. Other features and aspects may be realized, depending upon the particular application.
US11620211B2	Discovery crawler for application dependency discovery, reporting, and management tool Techniques for monitoring operating statuses of an application and its dependencies are provided. A monitoring application may collect and report the operating status of the monitored application and each dependency. Through use of existing monitoring interfaces, the monitoring application can collect operating status without requiring modification of the underlying monitored application or dependencies. The monitoring application may determine a problem service that is a root cause of an unhealthy state of the monitored application. Dependency analyzer and discovery crawler techniques may automatically configure and update the monitoring application. Machine learning techniques may be used to determine patterns of performance based on system state information associated with performance events and provide health reports relative to a baseline status of the monitored application. Also provided are techniques for testing a response of the monitored application through modifications to API calls. Such tests may be used to train the machine learning model.
US11620210B2	Systems and methods for local randomization distribution of test datasets Disclosed herein are systems and methods for a system for distributing user requests. The system may comprise a memory storing instructions and at least one processor configured to execute instructions to perform operations. These operations may comprise receiving from a local network device, without requesting, a data randomization scheme determining a test dataset from among a plurality of test datasets for deployment at a client device; based on the received data randomization scheme, determining test participation data for transmitting to a plurality of client devices; transmitting the test participation data to the plurality of client devices; transmitting, to the plurality of client devices, datasets configured for deployment by the plurality of client devices according to the test participation data; and receiving, from at least one of the plurality of client devices, interaction data associated with one of the datasets deployed by the at least one client device according to the test participation data.
US11620204B2	Methods and systems for determining system capacity Methods and system are provided for determining a system capacity. The system capacity may be determined by performing one or more capacity tests. The one or more capacity tests may produce capacity test results.
US11620197B2	Recovering error corrected data A plurality of storage nodes within a single chassis is provided. The plurality of storage nodes is configured to communicate together as a storage cluster. The plurality of storage nodes has a non-volatile solid-state storage for user data storage. The plurality of storage nodes is configured to distribute the user data and metadata associated with the user data throughout the plurality of storage nodes, with erasure coding of the user data. The plurality of storage nodes is configured to recover from failure of two of the plurality of storage nodes by applying the erasure coding to the user data from a remainder of the plurality of storage nodes. The plurality of storage nodes is configured to detect an error and engage in an error recovery via one of a processor of one of the plurality of storage nodes, a processor of the non-volatile solid state storage, or the flash memory.
US11620196B2	Computer duplication and configuration management systems and methods In part, the disclosure relates to systems and methods to rapidly copy the computer operating system, drivers and applications from a source computer to a target computer using a duplication engine. Once the copy is complete the source computer will resume execution, and the target computer will first alter its configuration (also referred to as a role or personality) and then resume execution conforming to its new configuration as indicated by a profile stored in protected or specialized memory. The profile can be value, a file, or other memory structure and is protected in the sense that the profile (and or the region of memory where it is stored) must not be overwritten by a state transfer from the source computer to the target computer.
US11620192B2	Hardware-assisted memory disaggregation with recovery from network failures using non-volatile memory Techniques for implementing hardware-assisted memory disaggregation with recovery from network failures/problems are provided. In one set of embodiments, a hardware controller of a computer system can maintain a copy of a “remote memory” of the computer system (i.e., a section of the physical memory address space of the computer system that maps to a portion of the physical system memory of a remote computer system) in a local backup memory. The backup memory may be implemented using a non-volatile memory that is slower, but also less expensive, than conventional dynamic random-access memory (DRAM). Then, if the hardware controller is unable to retrieve data in the remote memory from the remote computer system within a specified time window due to, e.g., a network failure or other problem, the hardware controller can retrieve the data from the backup memory, thereby avoiding a hardware error condition (and potential application/system crash).
US11620188B2	Methods, devices, and a computer readable medium for restoring a file in a virtual machine disk Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, and computer readable medium for restoring a file in a virtual machine disk. The method comprises: receiving, from a client, a user's request regarding restoring a file in a virtual machine disk. The method further comprises: determining, based on the request and from a backup disk of the virtual machine disk, files accessible to the user. In addition, the method further comprises providing the client with information related to the files accessible to the user.
US11620181B2	Utility infrastructure fault detection and monitoring A method may include obtaining, at a server or analysis device, sensor data comprising at least one of vibration data and impulse data from one or more sensor devices coupled to a first utility infrastructure; obtaining training sensor data associated with at least one of the first utility infrastructure from a previous time period and one or more second utility infrastructures; comparing the sensor data with the training sensor data associated with the at least one of the first utility infrastructure from the previous time period and the one or more second utility infrastructures; and identifying or predicting a fault occurrence associated with the first utility infrastructure based on the comparing the sensor data associated with the first utility infrastructure to the training sensor data associated with the at least one of the first utility infrastructure from the previous time period and the one or more second utility infrastructures.
US11620174B2	Autonomous transmit error detection of serial communication link receiver-transmitter and microcontroller system peripherals implementing the same A serial communication link receiver-transmitter with autonomous transmission error detection is described, and a communication peripherals including the same. Transmit data at a transmitter and transmitted data output by the transmitter and received by the receiver are observed by an error detector configured to generate an error indication in response to difference between the transmit data and corresponding observed transmit data of a transmitted data frame. If a difference is detected a transmit error indicator is asserted.
US11620171B2	Systems and methods for generating schema notifications Systems and methods for processing schemas to generate set representations of those schemas. Schema set representations can be used to generate schema coverage notifications. Set operations can be performed on schemas to compare schemas and identify whether any support changes have been made thereto.
US11620163B2	Controlling resource allocation in a data center by monitoring load on servers and network links A method controls resource allocation in a data center. The method comprises identifying a first computational task to be transferred from a first set of one or more servers. The method also comprises identifying a second set of one or more servers to which the first computational task may be transferred, by using the respective current computational load of the second set of servers to determine that the second set of servers has sufficient available computational resources to implement the computational task and identifying network links for transferring the computational task and using the respective transmission loads of the identified links to determine that there is sufficient network capacity to transfer the computational task from the first set of servers to the second set of servers. The method then comprises transferring the computational task from the first set of servers to the second set of servers.
US11620161B2	Computing task coincidence reduction via prime scheduling Systems and techniques that facilitate computing task coincidence reduction via prime scheduling are provided. In various embodiments, a system can comprise an input component that can access a periodic computing task performed by a computer system. In various instances, the system can further comprise a prime component that can assign a time period to the periodic computing task. In various cases, a duration of the time period can be a product of a common tick and a prime number. In various embodiments, the system can comprise an execution component that can periodically execute the periodic computing task according to the time period.
US11620152B2	Blockchain sharding with parallel threads A method comprises receiving from a distributed app (dApp), a shard creation transaction in a blockchain block of a blockchain. he block may comprise multiple shards. Next, the method comprises collecting, with a join block in the blockchain, transactions. The join block is adjacent to the blockchain block. Next, the method includes encapsulating the shard creation transaction; applying the block including the shard creation transaction to yield a new shard in the block; and broadcasting the block. The join block executes cross shard transactions without impacting the parallel execution of intra-shard transactions with computer threads by separating inter-shard and intra-shard transactions into different blocks. Without join block, parallel executing intra shard threads in computer threads may need to lock the database states since inter-shard transactions may also write to it from different computer thread. Not sure if we need to make this clear in our claims regarding join block.
US11620150B2	Virtual machine management method using virtual machine deployment simulation Provided is a virtual machine (VM) management method of simulating a change in deployment of VMs deployed on physical servers including a first physical server and a second physical server physically separated from the first physical server and scheduling deployment of VMs and predicting workload of VMs.
US11620148B2	Collecting capacity data of virtual machines by leveraging agent data Provided are techniques for collecting capacity data of virtual machines by leveraging agent data. A list of one or more virtual machines for which capacity data is to be retrieved is obtain from an asset server, where the one or more virtual machines are identified using a licensing measurement. Infrastructure data and hypervisor data are obtained from an infrastructure server. For each of the one or more virtual machines, the infrastructure data and the hypervisor data are used to request, from a capacity scanner on each of the one or more virtual machines, capacity data for that virtual machine. The capacity data for each of the one or more virtual machines is sent to the asset server, and the asset server performs load balancing of software that is to be executed on the one or more virtual machines using the capacity data.
US11620147B2	Metadata service provisioning in a cloud environment In an approach a computer receives a first request from a metadata service to store metadata for a virtual machine (VM). The computer validates the metadata service. The computer stores the metadata for the VM in response to the validation being successful. The computer receives a second request from the VM for the metadata. The computer sends the metadata to the VM.
US11620143B2	Interface and mode selection for digital action execution Interface and mode selection for digital action execution is provided. For example, a system loads a script library embedded in an electronic resource. The system determines a historic level of engagement between a client computing device and one or more digital assistants. The system selects, based on a first property of the client computing device and the historic level of engagement, a type of digital interface. The system generates, based on the type of digital interface, a digital interface with the call-to-action. The system determines, responsive to an instruction to execute the call-to-action, a mode of execution. The system selects a digital assistant and a second client device to execute the call-to-action. The system transmits the call-to-action to the second client device for execution.
US11620137B2	Autonomous server protection system A system and method executed by a computer server include determination that the computer server has lost network connectivity and, in response to the determination that the computer server has lost network connectivity, disabling of power to a volatile memory of the computer server. Determining that the computer server has lost network connectivity may include transmission of data to an external system and determination that a response to the data was not received from the external system. Disabling of power to the volatile memory may include transmission of a request to an operating system of the system to initiate a power-down sequence of the system.
US11620131B2	Methods and systems for illumination power, management, and control Systems and methods for illumination power, management and control can include lighting fixtures, lighting controllers, databases, and gateways. The lighting controllers can power the lighting fixtures, control the lighting fixtures, and store fixture state data and controller state data. The lighting controllers can be connected to building mains power (e.g., 240 VAC) and provide DC power to the lighting fixtures. The lighting controllers can read state data from and control the fixtures via a digital interface. The Database server can store user profiles, site profiles, fixture property data, and controller property data. The gateway can read and modify the state data stored by the lighting controllers, and can query the database server for the property data. The gateway can also provide a user interface through which users, based on authorization, can read and write the state data (e.g., fixture on/off) and the property data.
US11620125B2	Software update device, software update method, non-transitory storage medium, and vehicle A software update device connected to an in-vehicle network including a plurality of in-vehicle devices includes one or a plurality of processors configured to: perform an update of software of at least one of the in-vehicle devices; and perform a control of setting a door of a vehicle in an unlocked state before performing predetermined processing included in processing for the update, when performing the update.
US11620122B2	Automation controller for upgrading an IT infrastructure An automation controller is disclosed which provides central management of an upgrade process in an IT infrastructure. An example automation controller includes a control module configured to execute an automation code script and a corresponding automation input file. An index module is configured to index data from the automation input file to identify at least one target node in the IT infrastructure to be upgraded. The index module is further configured to associate a patch firmware bundle with the target node. An execution module is configured to execute the automation code script. A management module is configured to manage the upgrade process through to exception or successful completion of the upgrade process at the target node.
US11620112B2	Integrated simulation code and production code generation According to the invention, simulation code and production code are generated as source code from a model. The model comprises one or more blocks which specify a desired behavior of a program, in particular a control program. At least one of the blocks is marked with a simulation code attribute. Simulation code is generated for those blocks that include a simulation code attribute. Production code is generated for all other blocks. The generated source code includes both simulation code and production code. The simulation code portions are contained in the source code in a separable manner from the production code portions.
US11620107B2	Method and device for quantum random number generation The invention is directed to a Quantum Random Number Generator comprising an emitting device (110) triggered by a signal representing an input bit x and adapted to generate and send a physical system (130) characterized by one of two possible quantum states determined by said input bit x, a measurement device (120) adapted to detect said physical system, to identify the quantum state of said physical system through an unambiguous state discrimination measurement and to generate an output b first representing whether the quantum state has been identified or not and, if it has been identified, which quantum state among the two possible quantum states was detected by the unambiguous state discrimination measurement to a processing device (140), the processing device (140) being adapted to estimate the entropy of the output b given the probabilities p(b\|x) representing the probability of observing output b for a state preparation x, and a randomness extraction device (150) adapted to extract final random bit stream given the entropy estimate provided by the processing device (140).
US11620105B2	Hybrid floating point representation for deep learning acceleration In an embodiment, a method includes configuring a specialized circuit for floating point computations using numbers represented by a hybrid format, wherein the hybrid format includes a first format and a second format. In the embodiment, the method includes operating the further configured specialized circuit to store an approximation of a numeric value in the first format during a forward pass for training a deep learning network. In the embodiment, the method includes operating the further configured specialized circuit to store an approximation of a second numeric value in the second format during a backward pass for training the deep learning network.
US11620103B2	User interfaces for audio media control A method includes receiving data indicating a current media playback state of an external media playback device. The method includes, in response to receiving the data and in accordance with a determination that a set of external media playback device control criteria are met, displaying, via the display generation component, a user interface for controlling media playback at the external media playback device that includes one or more selectable user interface objects based on whether the data indicates that the external media playback device is currently performing a media playback operation.
US11620099B1	System and method for configuring a display system to color match displays A system and method is provided for color matching two or more electronic displays of a display system. The method includes: obtaining first and second spectral response readings for first and second electronic displays from spectral response device(s); determining first and second spectral response curves based on the first and second spectral response readings; determining first and second spectral power distributions based on the first and second spectral response readings; determining a first device-to-independent color mapping based on the first spectral response curve and the first spectral power distribution; determining a second device-to-independent color mapping based on the second spectral response curve and the second spectral power distribution; and configuring a display system having the first electronic display and the second electronic display to match colors being displayed based on using the first device-to-independent color mapping and the second device-to-independent color mapping.
US11620098B2	Vehicle control device, vehicle, operation method for vehicle control device, and storage medium A vehicle control device comprises: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information of outside brightness of the vehicle; and a control unit configured to control, based on the outside brightness, luminance of a plurality of display areas including a first display area displayed by a first display unit for displaying a situation of the vehicle and a second display area displayed by a second display unit for displaying a situation of the vehicle, the second display area being displayed below the first display area, wherein when the outside brightness is higher than a first threshold, the control unit suppresses luminance of the first display area in accordance with a decrease in the outside brightness, and when the outside brightness is equal to or lower than the first threshold, suppresses luminance of the second display area in accordance with the decrease.
US11620095B2	Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium for information processing An information processing apparatus includes a first printer driver, and a second printer driver. The first printer driver includes prohibition information specific to a device that is to be controlled. The second printer driver includes an association establishing unit and a receiving unit. The association establishing unit establishes an association with the first printer driver. The receiving unit receives print settings. The second printer driver transmits, to the device that is to be controlled, print data based on print settings that have been obtained through conversion performed on the basis of the prohibition information included in the first printer driver. The association establishing unit establishes the association with the first printer driver.
US11620093B2	Securing printed features using volatile determinants Securing printing systems and methods include a printer with a controller coupled to a memory and configured to perform a printer operation. The printer controller receives an instruction comprising a first font element and a second font element. An identifier corresponding to the second font element is retrieved from a memory. The printer generates and prints a graphical character that based on the first font element and an augmented symbol corresponding to the identifier.
US11620078B2	Apparatus and methods for varying output pulse-width modulation (PWM) control of an inverter Apparatus and methods of providing digital varying output, such as sinusoidal, pulse width modulation, SPWM, control for an inverter comprising at least a first switch and a second switch are disclosed. The method comprising: generating a first binary control signal at a system modulation frequency; generating a second binary control signal at an M-times higher carrier frequency; wherein generating the second binary control signal comprises: providing a periodic counter having a K-times higher reset frequency; calculating M switch-off moments; determining for each, a corresponding switch-off counter value and a corresponding counter sequence value; storing each switch-off counter value in a respective memory location corresponding to the respective counter sequence and dummy values in the remaining memory locations; and sequentially and periodically transferring the contents of the memory locations to at least one PWM value register.
US11620076B2	Accelerated non-volatile memory device inspection and forensics Example embodiments employ a selective memory swapping system for selectively placing non-volatile memory devices of a computer system offline, e.g., for background updating, and online, for use by a computer system, whereby the background updating process includes a mechanism for performing forensics analysis and updating of offline memory devices while an alternate memory device is usable by a user of the first computer system.
US11620072B2	Memory management method, memory control circuit unit and memory storage apparatus A memory management method, a memory control circuit unit and a memory storage apparatus are provided. The method includes: recording a valid count of each physical erasing unit in a plurality of physical erasing units; sequentially arranging M physical erasing units corresponding to each of chip enable groups according to the valid count to form a plurality of sorted physical erasing units; remapping the physical erasing units corresponding to M virtual blocks according to the plurality of sorted physical erasing units; calculating a total number of valid counts of the remapped M virtual blocks, and sequentially arranging the remapped M virtual blocks according to the total number of valid counts to form a plurality of sorted virtual blocks; and sequentially extracting at least one of the sorted virtual blocks as a source virtual block to perform a garbage collection operation.
US11620068B2	Data transfer optimizations Techniques for performing data transfers may include determining a first page of user data to be transferred from a source data storage system to a target data storage system, wherein the source data storage system has a source page size granularity denoting a first size of backend I/O operations on the source data storage system, wherein the target data storage system has a target page size granularity denoting a second size of backend I/O operations on the target data storage system; performing processing on the source data storage system that constructs a second page of user data that is the second size, wherein the second page of user data includes the first page of user data that is the first size and another page of user data that is the first size; and transferring the second page of user data from the source to the target data storage system.
US11620065B2	Variable length deduplication of stored data A computer-implemented method for providing tenant aware, variable length, deduplication of data stored on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium is described here. The method is performed at least in part by circuitry and the data comprises a plurality of data items. Each of the plurality of data items is associated with a particular tenant of a group of tenants that store data on the storage medium. In addition, a data deduplication data storage medium made up of one or more tenant storage areas and a deduplicated block database stored on the data deduplication data storage medium is described. The tenant storage areas comprise a plurality of data items, where each data item comprises a plurality of item blocks and each item block comprises a pointer to a storage location in a deduplicated block database. The deduplicated block database comprises a plurality of the storage locations and a plurality of data blocks, where the data blocks are unique for an individual tenant storage area, and all unique, contiguous data blocks for the individual tenant storage area are stored as a single combined block.
US11620059B1	Optimization of file system snapshot performance in hybrid storage deployments A first set of applications that require a higher performance in comparison to a second set of applications are identified, and a first set of filesets corresponding to the first set of applications are identified. In response to a copy on write based snapshot operation with respect to the first set of filesets, blocks that are overwritten are stored in a first storage device that is of a higher performance in comparison to a second storage device.
US11620058B2	Temperature-adjusted power-on data retention time tracking for solid state drives In general, embodiments of the invention relate tracking the operating temperature of the solid-state memory modules (SSMMs) in order to improve their performance.
US11620054B1	Proactive monitoring and management of storage system input-output operation limits An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to identify a number of outstanding input-output (IO) operations corresponding to at least one target of a storage system, wherein the identifying is performed periodically at designated time intervals. The processing device is further configured to determine whether the number of outstanding IO operations is trending upward and exceeds a threshold over a plurality of the designated time intervals. At least one message indicating a queue full condition is generated responsive to an affirmative determination that the number of outstanding IO operations is trending upward and an affirmative determination that the number of outstanding IO operations exceeds the threshold. The at least one message is sent to one or more host devices associated with one or more initiators corresponding to the at least one target of the storage system.
US11620049B2	Method, electronic device and computer program product for managing storage space Techniques involve: determining, based on sizes of a storage space used by a file system at a set of historical moments and a current moment, predicted sizes of a storage space to be used by the file system at a plurality of future moments. The techniques further involve: determining sizes of an available storage space and available durations of a set of candidate future moments in the plurality of future moments based on the predicted sizes. The techniques further involve: determining, based on the sizes of the available storage space and the available durations of the set of candidate future moments, predicted values that characterize available storage capacities of the set of candidate future moments. The techniques further involve: determining a target moment from the set of candidate future moments based on the predicted values to recycle at least part of an available storage space of the target moment.
US11620045B2	Alternate content insertion logic A collection management system presents, as part of a content discovery session, a first content item from a content discovery collection that includes a plurality of content items that are ordered sequentially for presentation. In response to receiving an advancement input, the collection management system determines whether a number of content items presented as part of the content discovery session meets or exceeds a threshold number of content items, and whether an amount of elapsed time of the content discovery session meets or exceeds a threshold amount of time. The collection management system presents a first alternate content item as part of the content discover session. The first alternate content item is not included in the content discovery collection. After presenting the first alternate content item, the collection management system presents a second content item from the content discover collection that is ordered after the first content item.
US11620039B2	Performant configuration user interface A process includes obtaining a set of images compositable to depict different design configurations; providing a first user interface by which members of the set are overlaid responsive to user inputs to depict different design configurations; obtaining a first design configuration specified via the first user interface; and providing a second user interface depicting a field of view having a first portion depicting the first design configuration and a second porting depicting a second design configuration, the second user interface being operative to adjust allocation in pixel space of the field of view between the first portion and the second portion responsive to user input.
US11620034B2	Systems and methods for providing tab previews via an operating system user interface Embodiments described herein are directed to simultaneously displaying proxy windows for application windows and/or tabs included in such application windows via a graphical user interface of an operating system. For instance, an application programming interface (API) associated with an application that supports a tabbed document interface (TDI) provides information associated with each tab opened within an application window associated with the application. An API of the operating system receives and utilizes such information to generate and display a proxy window for each tab. The proxy windows for the tabs may be displayed alongside proxy windows of application windows for other applications. The proxy windows may be generated and displayed in response to user invocation of various features of the operating system graphical user interface, including, but not limited to, a task switcher feature, a taskbar feature, or a window snap feature.
US11620032B2	Method and apparatus for ego-centric 3D human computer interface In the method, a processor generates a three dimensional interface with at least one virtual object, defines a stimulus of the interface, and defines a response to the stimulus. The stimulus is an approach to the virtual object with a finger or other end-effector to within a threshold of the virtual object. When the stimulus is sensed, the response is executed. Stimuli may include touch, click, double click, peg, scale, and swipe gestures. The apparatus includes a processor that generates a three dimensional interface with at least one virtual object, and defines a stimulus for the virtual object and a response to the stimulus. A display outputs the interface and object. A camera or other sensor detects the stimulus, e.g. a gesture with a finger or other end-effector, whereupon the processor executes the response. The apparatus may be part of a head mounted display.
US11620030B2	Coherent gestures on touchpads and touchscreens In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for executing gesture operations are provided. A touchpad gesture manager and a touchscreen gesture manager may be maintained. Both managers may comprise the identities of gesture operations and conditions for executing the gesture operations. The conditions for one or more touchscreen gesture operations may be the same as the conditions for one or more corresponding touchpad gesture operations. The gestures that have same conditions for the touchscreen and the touchpad may comprise application window operations and virtual desktop transition operations. In some examples, one or more display elements, animations, or intermediate operations may be different in executing the touchscreen operations than for executing the touchpad operations.
US11620028B2	Conductive film and conductive film roll, electronic paper, touch panel and flat-panel display comprising the same An object of the present invention is to provide a conductive film further improved in at least any of mechanical characteristics, electrical characteristics, and optical characteristics while enjoying improvement in transparency by the thinning of a fine metal wire, and a conductive film roll, an electronic paper, a touch panel, and a flat-panel display comprising the same. The conductive film of the present invention is a conductive film comprising a transparent substrate and a conductive part comprising a fine metal wire pattern disposed on one side or both sides of the transparent substrate, wherein: the fine metal wire pattern is constituted by a fine metal wire; the fine metal wire comprises conductive metal atom M as well as at least any atom selected from silicon atom Si, oxygen atom O, and carbon atom C; and when the maximum thickness of the fine metal wire is defined as T in STEM-EDX analysis on the cross-section of the fine metal wire perpendicular to the direction of drawing of the fine metal wire, the fine metal wire contains at least any of the silicon atom Si, the oxygen atom O, and the carbon atom C at a predetermined ratio in the thickness direction.
US11620019B1	Adaptive predictions of contact points on a screen Techniques for adaptive predictions of points on a screen are described. In an example, a device predicts a first point to be detected on a screen at a first time. At the first time, the device detects a second point on the screen. The device also predicts a set of points based at least in part on the second point. The set of points includes a third point to be detected on the screen at a second time. Based least in part on the first point and the second point, the device determines a first prediction error. The device also selects the third point from the set of points based at last in part on the first prediction error. Prior to the second time, an output is displayed on the screen at the third point.
US11620018B2	Signal driving method, signal driving apparatus and touch control chip A signal driving method is provided. One signal driving cycle includes two signal driving periods in which drive signals are applied to P detection electrodes. The method comprises, in a first period, applying non-inverting and inverting drive signals respectively to M adjacent detection electrodes and N adjacent detection electrodes. The non-inverting and inverting drive signals respectively applied to the M and N electrodes cancel each other out, M+N≤P and \|M−N\|≤Q. The method further comprises, in a second period, applying the non-inverting and inverting drive signals respectively to K adjacent detection electrodes and L adjacent detection electrodes. The non-inverting and inverting drive signals respectively applied to the K and L electrodes cancel each other out, K+L≤P, \|K−L\|≤Q and M+K≥P. Q denotes a number of detection electrodes which makes an active pen not cause moire after the cancelling, and P denotes a number of detection electrodes not greater than a number of detection electrodes on a touch control screen.
US11620006B2	Display control system using knob A display control system using a knob includes an input part which receives at least one piece of position information of a knob within a movement range in an area under a display and position information of the knob within a preset plane area, a memory in which a display control program using the position information of the knob is stored, and a processor which executes the program, and the processor controls a function in a vehicle in consideration of the position information according to movement of the knob and operation information of the knob.
US11619996B2	Content movement and interaction using a single controller Examples of systems and methods for interacting with content and updating the location and orientation of that content using a single controller. The system may allow a user to use the same controller for moving content around the room and interacting with that content by tracking a range of the motion of the controller.
US11619992B2	Method and system for eye tracking with glint space recalibration on wearable heads-up display A method of tracking an eye of a user includes generating an infrared light, scanning the infrared light over the eye, and detecting reflections of the infrared light from the eye over an eye tracking period. A plurality of glints is identified from the reflections of the infrared light detected. A glint center position of each glint in a glint space is determined and transformed to a gaze position in a display space. At least once during the eye tracking period, an image of the eye is reconstructed from a portion of the reflections of the infrared light detected. A pupil is detected from the image, and a pupil center position is determined. A glint-pupil vector is determined from the pupil center position and the glint center position of at least one glint corresponding in space to the pupil. The glint space is recalibrated based on the glint-pupil vector.
US11619991B2	Device control using gaze information The present disclosure generally relates to controlling electronic devices. In some examples, the electronic device uses gaze information to activate a digital assistant. In some examples, the electronic device uses gaze information to identify an external device on which to act. In some examples, the electronic device provides an indication that distinguishes between different speakers.
US11619982B2	Efficient calibration of circuits in tiled integrated circuits An integrated circuit includes a plurality of tiles receiving a power supply voltage, each having a corresponding analog circuit and operates in response to a first voltage, and a hardware controller receiving a voltage identification code and provides the first voltage to each of the plurality of tiles in response thereto. The hardware controller comprises a test time controller determining coefficients of a waveform that describes an average correspondence between the power supply voltage and the first voltage for the plurality of tiles, and a boot time controller determining a respective error signal indicating an error between the waveform and a respective actual waveform for each of the plurality of tiles, and providing the respective error signal to the corresponding analog circuit of each of the plurality of tiles. The corresponding analog circuit of each of the plurality of tiles adjusts the first voltage according to the respective error signal.
US11619973B2	Mobile device display and input expansion apparatus An input/output expander for a mobile device has a communications module connectible thereto. Output display signals from the mobile device and input signals to the mobile device are relayed between the mobile device and the bi-directional projection unit by the communications module. A display output projector is connected to the communications module, and the output display signal from the mobile device is converted to a first series of light outputs corresponding to the output display signal. The expander has a virtual keyboard projector generating a second series of light outputs corresponding to a virtual keyboard key arrangement. A key input sensor with a sensing coverage area encompassing the virtual keyboard key arrangement detects user input at specific positions thereon. A key input value corresponding to a specific key of the virtual keyboard key arrangement is generated.
US11619970B2	Alternating sampling method for non-echo duplex conversations on a wearable device with multiple speakers and microphones A wearable device includes a body having fasteners and a frame coupled between two fasteners. The frame includes first and second sections. A first portion of the body includes the first section of the frame and one fastener and a second portion of the body includes the second section of the frame and the other fastener. A speaker and a microphone are connected to the first portion and another speaker and another microphone are connected to the second portion. The body also includes a processor, memory accessible to the processor, and programming in the memory for configuring the processor to selectively activate the speakers and microphones such that a first speaker emits an output sound signal while a first microphone and a second speaker are deactivated and a second microphone captures an input sound signal during the emission of the output sound signal by the first speaker.
US11619965B2	Asynchronous ASIC An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device comprises a first clock configured to operate at a frequency. First circuitry of the electronic device is configured to synchronize with the first clock. Second circuitry is configured to determine a second clock based on the first clock. The second clock is configured to operate at the frequency of the first clock, and is further configured to operate with a phase shift with respect to the first clock. Third circuitry is configured to synchronize with the second clock.
US11619964B2	Methods for improving timing in memory devices, and related devices and systems Methods for improving timing in memory devices are disclosed. A method may include sampling a command signal according to a clock signal to obtain standard-timing commands. The method may also include sampling the command signal according to an adjusted clock signal to obtain time-adjusted commands. The method may also include comparing the standard-timing commands and the time-adjusted commands. The method may also include determining an improved timing for the clock signal based on the comparison of the standard-timing commands and the time-adjusted commands. The method may also include adjusting the clock signal based on the improved timing. Associated systems and methods are also disclosed.
US11619951B2	On-demand high-capacity ride-sharing via dynamic trip-vehicle assignment with future requests Described is a method and system for vehicle routing and request assignment which incorporates a prediction of future demand. The method seamlessly integrates sampled future requests into request assignments and vehicle routing.
US11619949B2	Determining and responding to an internal status of a vehicle Aspects of the disclosure relate to determining and responding to an internal state of a self-driving vehicle. For instance, an image of an interior of the vehicle captured by a camera mounted in the vehicle is received. The image is processed in order to identify one or more visible markers at predetermined locations within the vehicle. The internal state of the vehicle is determined based on the identified one or more visible markers. A responsive action is identified action using the determined internal state, and the vehicle is controlled in order to perform the responsive action.
US11619941B2	Method for controlling a driving condition for a tractor of an agricultural machine and an agricultural machine The invention relates to controlling a driving condition for an agricultural machine having a tractor, an implement for applying materials selected from the group of granular material, liquid material, and a powder-form material, the implement carried or trailed by the tractor and comprising a supply container, an application device, and a weight sensor device having at least one weight sensor and configured to sense an empty weight and a filling weight for the supply container. A tractor implement management system is provided and is operationally connected to the weight sensor device and configured for controlling driving conditions of the tractor. The method comprises driving the tractor, measuring first weight signals, indicative of a first driving condition, providing first tractor control signals, generated in response to the first weight signals and configured to apply a first control condition to the tractor driving, for controlling the tractor driving.
US11619937B2	Method and system for adaptive motion planning based on passenger reaction to vehicle motion in autonomous driving vehicles The present teaching relates to method, system, medium, and implementation of automatic motion planning for an autonomous driving vehicle. Information is obtained with respect to a current location of the autonomous driving vehicle operating in a current vehicle motion, wherein the information is to be used to estimate the operational capability of the autonomous driving vehicle with respect to the current location. Sensor data are obtained, via one or more sensors in one or more media types. A reaction of a passenger present in the vehicle with respect to a current vehicle motion is estimated based on the sensor data. Motion planning is performed based on the information with respect to the current location and the reaction of the passenger to the current vehicle motion.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10