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US11617722B2	Two-stage microparticle-based therapeutic delivery system and method A system for delivery of a therapeutic agent to a site in mucosal tissue is provided. The system includes a porous, mucoadhesive polymeric matrix having a first and a second opposed surfaces. The matrix is formed by a composition including chitosan. The composition may also include any or all of a hydration promotor, a microparticle adhesion inhibitor, and a microparticle aggregation inhibitor. A plurality of microparticles having an average diameter between 500 nm and 2000 nm are embedded within the matrix. The microparticles contain a therapeutic agent and have a coating around the therapeutic agent. The first surface of the matrix is configured to be attached to the site in the mucosal tissue and the matrix is configured to provide controlled release of the microparticles through the first surface. The coating of the microparticles includes chitosan so as to provide controlled release of the agent from the microparticles.
US11617716B2	Dry powder formulations of epinephrine and associated methods Provided herein are dry powder formulations comprising epinephrine alone or in combination with at least one enabling agent suitable for nasal application. Also provided are unit dose forms and devices comprising such formulations and methods of using such formulations for the treatment of various conditions including anaphylaxis, anaphylactoid reaction, respiratory conditions, hemodynamic collapse, and for administration during cardiopulmonary arrest and other life-threatening conditions.
US11617712B2	Abuse deterrent immediate release formulations comprising non-cellulose polysaccharides The present disclosure provides pharmaceutical compositions that provide immediate release of active ingredients and have abuse deterrent properties. In particular, the pharmaceutical compositions comprise at least one pharmaceutically active ingredient, at least one non-cellulose polysaccharide, at least one hydrophilic gelling polymer, and an effervescent system.
US11617707B2	Nail varnish composition containing embossed effect pigments and surface-modified embossed effect pigments The invention relates to a nail varnish composition comprising: a) an embossed effect pigment comprising a metallic substrate in platelet form with embossed structure having a periodic pattern with diffractive elements, said substrate having been produced by PVD methods, and optionally at least one coating applied to the substrate, wherein the substrate has an elemental metal content of 80% to 100% by weight, based on the substrate, and wherein the effect pigment has been treated with a leafing additive for surface modification, b) at least one hydrocarbon resin as binder, c) at least one solvent or solvent mixture and d) optionally further auxiliaries. The invention further relates to a process for producing the nail varnish composition.
US11617701B2	Assist device An assist device includes a body mounting fixture, an actuator, an operation state detector, and a controller. The controller is configured to control drive of the actuator. The controller is configured to acquire an estimated posture of the wearer, which is estimated based on operation detection information detected by the operation state detector, when the actuator generates the assist torque. The controller is configured to determine whether or not the estimated posture is an unreasonable posture in which an excessive force is applied to a lower back portion.
US11617693B2	Protective cast cover The Protective Cast Cover is a cover you wear over your cast. It is made of fabric, any kind of fabric, waterproof, warm, breathable, what ever kind of fabric will work for an individual's needs. For arms it covers the whole arm with a mitten hand over the top of the shoulder. Some of them are shirts, just depends on what the individual request. The cover for legs covers the foot to the top of thigh and can be made as pants, or as shorts on the opposite side of the leg with the cast. If they are in double casts, then both sides would be made the same. This works for arms or legs. Again, just depends on what the individual request. The protective cast cover is meant to keep sand, or debris or even water out of the cast, and give people less stress about their situation.
US11617685B2	Wound dressing The present invention relates to a wound dressing composition that is capable of gelling upon contact with a fluid derived from a human or animal body, and which is able to maintain the integrity of the gel for a period of time that is longer than about 24 hours.
US11617678B2	Device for obtaining male contraception The present invention relates to a male contraception apparatus for obtaining a time-limited sterility of a male mammalian individual. The apparatus comprises a restriction device adapted to restrict the lumen of a vas deferens of the mammalian, and a controller operable to control the restriction device to restrict the lumen of the vas deferens during a controlled period to prevent sperms from reaching the urethra of the mammalian. The apparatus further comprises an implantable constriction device configured to gently constrict at least one portion of a tissue wall of the vas deferens to restrict the lumen of the vas deferens such that the flow of sperms in the vas deferens is restricted, and a stimulation device configured to stimulate the constricted wall portion of the tissue wall.
US11617668B2	Branched stent and stent system A branched stent includes a main branch having a tubular main lumen and a side branch that branches off from the main branch. The main branch and the side branch are made from a strand-shaped starting material. The side branch is configurable between a first state in which the side branch lies within the main lumen and a second state in which the side lies outside the main lumen. In the second state, the side branch defines a tubular side branch fluidically connected to the main lumen. The side branch is formed at least in part of a shape-memory material.
US11617658B2	Expandable inter-body device, system and method Expandable spinal implants, systems and methods are disclosed. An expandable spinal implant may include a first endplate, a second endplate, and a moving mechanism that is operably coupled to the first and second endplates. The moving mechanism may include a wedge, a first sliding frame and a second sliding frame disposed on opposite sides of the wedge, a screw guide housing a rotatable first set screw and a rotatable second set screw opposite the first set screw. The first set screw may be operably coupled to the second sliding frame and the second set screw may be operably coupled to the wedge. The moving mechanism may operably adjust a spacing between the first and second endplates upon simultaneous rotation of the first and second set screws and operably adjust an angle of inclination between the first and second endplates upon translating the first set screw or second set screw.
US11617655B2	Expandable intervertebral implant An expandable intervertebral implant is provided for insertion into an intervertebral space defined by adjacent vertebrae. The expandable intervertebral implant includes a pair of outer sleeve portions and an inner core disposed between the outer sleeve portions. Movement of the inner core relative to the outer sleeve portions causes the outers sleeve portions to deflect away from each other, thereby engaging the expandable intervertebral implant with the vertebrae and adjusting the height of the intervertebral space.
US11617653B2	Magnetic prosthetic The present invention is directed generally to (1) an articulating junction, and articulation method thereof, wherein articulation is facilitated by a plurality of magnetic particles; (2) an articulating junction, and articulation method thereof, wherein the stability and fluidity of the junction is based, at least in part, on the magnetic field(s) of the plurality of magnetic particles; and (3) reducing the resistance to articulation and/or increasing the structural integrity and support, of the articulating junction, via electro-magnetism. Further, the present invention is directed generally to the synergistic combination of magnetic particles and preferred bio-implant-materials and additive-manufacturing methods along with Baker correlation codes. Further, the present invention is directed to an artificial joint for implantation into a living body and methods for constructing such an artificial joint.
US11617648B2	Prosthetic heart valve devices, prosthetic mitral valves and associated systems and methods Prosthetic heart valve devices for percutaneous replacement of native heart valves and associated systems and method are disclosed herein. A prosthetic heart valve device configured in accordance with a particular embodiment of the present technology can include an anchoring member having an upstream portion configured to engage with tissue on or near the annulus of the native heart valve and to deform in a non-circular shape to conform to the tissue. The device can also include a mechanically isolated valve support coupled to the anchoring member and configured to support a prosthetic valve. The device can further include an atrial extension member extending radially outward from the upstream portion of the anchoring member and which is deformable without substantially deforming the anchoring member. In some embodiments, the upstream portion of the anchoring member and the extension member may be deformed while the valve support remains sufficiently stable.
US11617638B2	Implantable prosthesis for soft tissue repair An implantable prosthesis for mending anatomical defects, including a groin hernia. The prosthesis includes a prosthetic repair patch that may be implanted in different tissue planes to mend a defect. The patch may include a medial portion configured to be positioned in a first tissue plane and a lateral portion configured to be positioned in a second tissue plane offset from the first tissue plane. The patch may include a transition region configured to extend through tissue and/or muscle, such as fascia, separating the tissue planes and transition the patch from one tissue plane to the other tissue plane. The transition region may be configured to inhibit buckling and/or bunching of the patch when implanted through the fascia. The lateral portion of the patch may have a level of stiffness that facilitates implantation of the patch in different tissue planes while inhibiting patient sensation to the implanted patch.
US11617634B2	Orthodontic bracket having ligating member Disclosed is an orthodontic bracket including a bracket body having a slot into which an orthodontic wire is inserted, a bracket cover mounted on the bracket body and configured to open and close the slot, and a ligating member provided in the bracket cover and configured to selectively block the slot so as to confine the orthodontic wire in the slot. The orthodontic bracket may precisely and consistently transmit force, for example, torque, of the orthodontic wire to a tooth, and minimize or prevent factors contributing to failure, such as deformation of or damage to the ligating member due to opening and closing of the slot.
US11617628B2	Increased usable instrument life in telesurgical systems A telesurgical system operates in a first operating mode and in a second operating mode. In the first operating mode, a moveable component is driven within a first range of an operating parameter. In the second operating mode, the moveable component is driven with a second range of the operating parameter, less than the first range. Usable instrument life is increased by decreasing mechanical degradation of the moveable component as a result of operating in the second range. A surgeon may select either operating mode.
US11617603B2	Modular surgical instrument system with ratcheting reduction mechanism A modular surgical instrument is provided that includes a tower having a first end, a second end and a ratchet segment between the first end and the second end. The instrument includes a ratchet reduction mechanism. The ratchet reduction mechanism includes a ratchet lever, a linear ratchet rack integrated into a ratchet segment of the tower at a location between the first end and the second end, and a ratchet collar coupled to the ratchet lever. The ratchet collar is configured to slide along the ratchet segment by application of an applied force. The instrument includes a reducer that may be affixed to the ratchet reduction mechanism. The reducer is configured to move in unison with the slide of the ratchet collar.
US11617596B2	Arthroscopic devices and methods An arthroscopic cutting probe includes an outer sleeve having a longitudinal bore and an outer cutting window at its distal end. An inner sleeve is rotationally disposed in a bore of the outer sleeve, and the inner sleeve has a distal end, a proximal end, a longitudinal passageway, and an inner cutting window at its distal. An active electrode sleeve is disposed on an outer surface of the inner sleeve in a position opposed to the inner cutting window. Rotation of the inner sleeve relative to the outer sleeve causes the inner cutting window to rotate past the outer cutting window to resect tissue received through the cutting windows as they pass each other. Radiofrequency current can be applied to the active electrode to enhance tissue cutting then the cutting windows are being rotated or to able or cauterize tissue when the cutting windows are held stationary with the active electrode disposed through the outer cutting window.
US11617591B2	Patient-specific glenoid guide with a reusable guide holder A glenoid device for preparing a shoulder joint of a patient includes a reusable guide holder having a body between an upper surface and a lower surface and a bore passing through the body of the guide holder. The glenoid device also includes a patient-specific glenoid guide having a body with an upper and lower surface. The lower surface of the patient-specific glenoid guide is configured as a negative surface of a glenoid face based on preoperative image scans of the shoulder joint of the patient. The upper face of the patient-specific glenoid guide is configured to be coupled and contact the lower face of the guide holder, such that the bore of the guide holder is aligned along a patient-specific bore through the body of the patient-specific glenoid guide and along a corresponding alignment axis of the patient-specific glenoid guide.
US11617590B2	Arthroscopic tunnel guide for rotator cuff repair A drill guide assembly for drilling a tunnel having a fixed, non-zero radius of curvature, where the drill guide assembly includes a housing and a sleeve, or cutting tube, configured to reciprocate within the distal portion where the sleeve, or cutting tube, is configured to receive a bone cutting instrument.
US11617588B2	Graft filter with locking graft filter element and graft extractor A device for collecting a bone graft material comprises a canister extending defining a filter-receiving space therein, the canister including a connection for connecting to a vacuum source, a proximal end of the canister including a first locking feature and a filter element sized and shaped to be received within the filter-receiving space of the canister, the filter element including a channel extending therethrough, the channel defined via a mesh material and a proximal end of the filter element including a second locking feature releasably engageable with the first locking feature of the canister via a rotation of the filter element about a longitudinal axis thereof relative to the canister in combination with an extractor sized and shaped to be received within the channel of the filter element, the extractor defining a graft material receiving space therein and being releasably engageable with the extractor.
US11617584B2	Staple line reinforcement for anvil and cartridge A surgical buttress for use in a surgical stapling apparatus is provided and includes an elongate rectangular body portion defining a width; a neck portion integrally formed with and extending from a distal end of the body portion, the neck portion defining a width; a head portion integrally formed with and connected to a distal end of the neck portion, the head portion defining a width; and a tail portion integrally formed with and extending from a proximal end of the body portion, the tail portion defining a width. The width of the tail portion is less than the width of the body portion.
US11617579B2	Ultra low profile surgical stapling instrument for tissue resections A surgical stapling instrument including a stapling end effector configured for unilateral sealing of tissue. The stapling end effector includes an anvil assembly, a cartridge assembly coupled to the anvil assembly such that stapling end effector is movable between open and closed positions; and a clamping member slidably disposed about the anvil assembly and the cartridge assembly between an initial position in which the stapling end effector is in the open position and subsequent advanced positions in which the stapling end effector is in the closed position. The clamping member includes a substantially “C”-shaped cross-section with a leading edge. The leading edge includes a blade portion positioned outwards of the anvil and cartridge assemblies.
US11617572B2	Soft tissue repair device and associated methods A soft tissue repair device. The device includes an inserter having a distal portion, a first anchor carried externally onto the distal portion, a second anchor carried externally onto the distal portion, and a flexible strand coupling the first and second anchors and forming an adjustable knotless loop.
US11617570B2	Threaded knotless anchor A knotless suture anchor assembly for engaging a bone tunnel and holding suture therein to knotlessly secure said suture to soft tissue including an elongated generally cylindrical hollow outer member having an axial lumen, an outer surface with projections for engaging the wall of the bone tunnel, a distal end and a proximal end; and an elongated, generally cylindrical inner member having an axis, a proximal end and a distal end, the distal end having a transverse passage for receiving suture therethrough, the transverse passage having a proximal and distal end and adapted to receive a plurality of sutures in said eyelet, the inner member adapted to move coaxially relative to the outer member between a distal, suture-unlocked position and a proximal, suture-locked position.
US11617560B2	Method for imaging a sample with blood and associated devices The present invention aims at improving the Doppler imaging of a biological sample comprising blood. For this, it is proposed a method for imaging a biological sample (10), the sample (10) comprising blood (14) comprising diffusors and solid tissue (16), the method comprising obtaining observation, each observation being characterized by a different point spread function associating a signal to each location of the region of interest, the signal comprising a first contribution representative of the diffusors of blood vessels within the location, a second contribution representative of the tissue diffusors and a third contribution representative of blood signal associated to blood diffusors outside of the location, and estimating, for each location, the blood flow by using a statistical analysis.
US11617552B2	Medical imaging systems and associated devices and methods Systems, methods, and devices for medical imaging are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method for imaging an anatomic region includes receiving, from a detector carried by an imaging arm of an x-ray imaging apparatus, a plurality of images of the anatomic region. The images can be obtained during manual rotation of the imaging arm. The imaging arm can be stabilized by a shim structure during the manual rotation. The method can also include receiving, from at least one sensor coupled to the imaging arm, pose data of the imaging arm during the manual rotation. The method can further include generating, based on the images and the pose data, a 3D representation of the anatomic region.
US11617551B2	X-ray detector unit having at least one analysis unit and an adjustable voltage supply and method for operating an X-ray detector unit An X-ray detector unit is disclosed. In an embodiment, the X-ray detector unit includes: at least one analysis unit to process electrical signals delivered from a coupled converter unit and operatable by an operating voltage; an adjustable voltage supply, coupled to the at least one analysis unit, to provide an adjustable supply voltage; an identification unit, assigned to the at least one analysis unit, to provide identification information about the at least one analysis unit in a readable manner; and a communication unit, coupled to the adjustable voltage supply, to read the identification information provided from the identification unit, and based upon the identification information provided, to adjust the adjustable voltage supply to equate the provided supply voltage to the operating voltage of the at least one analysis unit.
US11617539B2	Electronic device and method for measuring vital signal Methods and apparatuses are provided for measuring a biometric signal by an electronic device. An object having an animation effect for inhalation and exhalation is displayed. The animation effect includes the object being expanded to guide the inhalation of a user and the object being contracted to guide exhalation of the user. A sensor unit obtains at least one biometric signal related to a heart rate of the user while the object is displayed. A motion of the electronic device is detected having a strength that is greater than or equal to a threshold strength. Based on the motion ceasing before exceeding a predetermined time, display of the object and obtaining of the at least one biometric signal is continued. Based on the motion lasting longer than or equal to the predetermined time, the obtaining of the at least one biometric signal and the displaying of the object is terminated.
US11617538B2	Proximity based processing systems and methods An ambulatory medical device is provided. The ambulatory medical device includes at least one sensor configured to acquire data descriptive of a patient, a memory, a user interface, and at least one processor coupled with the memory, the at least one sensor, and the user interface. The at least one processor is configured to determine whether the ambulatory medical device is within a predefined range of a reference location and to initiate location-specific processing in response to determining that the ambulatory medical device is within the predefined range. The location-specific processing includes at least one of issuing a notification and adapting the user interface.
US11617533B2	Visualization of arrhythmia detection by machine learning Techniques are disclosed for explaining and visualizing an output of a machine learning system that detects cardiac arrhythmia in a patient. In one example, a computing device receives cardiac electrogram data sensed by a medical device. The computing device applies a machine learning model, trained using cardiac electrogram data for a plurality of patients, to the received cardiac electrogram data to determine, based on the machine learning model, that an episode of arrhythmia has occurred in the patient and a level of confidence in the determination that the episode of arrhythmia has occurred in the patient. In response to determining that the level of confidence is greater than a predetermined threshold, the computing device displays, to a user, a portion of the cardiac electrogram data, an indication that the episode of arrhythmia has occurred, and an indication of the level of confidence that the episode of arrhythmia has occurred.
US11617531B2	Circuit applied to biopotential acquisition system The present invention provides a circuit applied to a biopotential acquisition system, wherein the circuit includes an active current source and an amplifier. In the operations of the circuit, the active current source is configured to provide a current to two input terminals of the circuit, wherein the two input terminals of the circuit are coupled to two input electrodes of the biopotential acquisition system; and the amplifier is configured to receive input signals from the two input terminals to generate an output signal.
US11617530B2	Apparatus and methods for removing a large-signal voltage offset from a biomedical signal Apparatus and methods remove a voltage offset from an electrical signal, specifically a biomedical signal. A signal is received at a first operational amplifier and is amplified by a gain. An amplitude of the signal is monitored, by a first pair of diode stages coupled to an output of the first operational amplifier, for the voltage offset. The amplitude of the signal is then attenuated by the first pair of diode stages and a plurality of timing banks. The attenuating includes limiting charging, by the first pair of diode stages, of the plurality of timing banks and setting a time constant based on the charging. The attenuating removes the voltage offset persisting at a threshold for a duration of at least the time constant. Saturation of the signal is limited to a saturation recovery time while the saturated signal is gradually pulled into monitoring range over the saturation recovery time.
US11617527B2	Muscle load monitoring A system for monitoring muscle load, is configured to perform operations including: obtaining, from at least one sensor, measurement data on an exerciser; determining, based on the measurement data, a number of repetitions of a macroscopic movement performed during a physical exercise; determining, based on a conversion entry corresponding to a type of the physical exercise, muscle load coefficient of one or more muscles loaded in the physical exercise; utilizing the muscle load coefficient of the one or more muscles and the number of repetitions in determining muscle load data indicating muscle specific muscle load caused by the physical exercise performed by the exerciser; and outputting the muscle load data.
US11617525B2	Blood contaminant sequestration device with passive fluid control junction A blood sequestration device includes an inlet path, an outlet path, a sequestration chamber, and a sampling channel. The sequestration chamber is connected with the inlet path by a junction and is configured to receive a first portion of blood through the inlet path. The sequestration chamber has a vent that allows air to be displaced by the first portion of blood, the junction being configured to inhibit a return to the inlet path of any of the first portion of blood received by the sequestration chamber. The sampling channel is connected between the inlet path and the outlet path, and configured to convey subsequent amounts of blood between the inlet path and the outlet path after the first amount of blood is received by the sequestration chamber.
US11617517B2	System and method for non-invasive instantaneous and continuous measurement of cardiac chamber volume A system and method for non-invasive and continuous measurement of cardiac chamber volume and derivative parameters including stroke volume, cardiac output and ejection fraction comprising an ultrawideband radar system having a trans-mitting and receiving antenna for applying ultrawideband radio signals to a target area of a subject's anatomy wherein the receiving antenna collects and transmits signal returns from the target area which are then delivered to a data processing unit, such as an integrated processor or PDA, having software and hardware used to process the signal returns to produce a value for cardiac stroke volume and changes in cardiac stroke volume supporting multiple diagnostic requirements for emergency response and medical personnel whether located in the battlefield, at a disaster site or at a hospital or other treatment facility.
US11617515B2	Measurement of cardiac first phase ejection fraction Embodiments of the invention provide a method and system for measuring first phase ejection fraction where simultaneous measurement of the systolic pressure during systole of a subject is undertaken at the same time as measurement of the left ventricle volume (LVV). The pressure waveform is then analyzed, for example using automated signal processing techniques, to find a time T1 which corresponds to the point at which the rate of change of systolic pressure during systole begins to reduce. The left ventricle volume at this time T1 is then found from the previous measurements of LVV obtained at the same time as the systolic pressure measurement, and the first phase ejection fraction then calculated in dependence on the LVV at time T1 and the LVV at the start of systole i.e. the end diastolic volume (EDV). In particular embodiments, the first phase ejection fraction is the difference between LVV at EDV and LVV at time T1.
US11617510B2	Method for detecting glaucoma A method for assessing glaucoma in a patient may involve measuring an intraocular pressure of the patient and measuring an intracranial pressure in the patient, using a noninvasive eye tracking system. The method may then involve comparing the intraocular pressure to the intracranial pressure and assessing glaucoma in the patient, based on the comparing of the intraocular pressure to the intracranial pressure.
US11617509B2	Ophthalmic device An ophthalmic device including an illumination module which scans light across a region of the retina of an eye when the pupil is disposed at a focal point of the illumination module. The ophthalmic device further comprises components (2, 3-1, 4-1) for: aligning the pupil with the focal point; monitoring a position of the pupil relative to the focal point and maintaining the alignment based on the monitored position; aligning a scan location of the illumination module on the retina to a target scan location while the alignment of the pupil with the focal point is being maintained, wherein the illumination module performs a scan at the target scan location. The ophthalmic device further maintains the scan location at the target scan location while the alignment of the pupil with the focal point is being maintained, using scan location correction information based on retinal feature information.
US11617508B2	Eye-tracking fundus imaging system A fundus illumination system includes an array of light sources, a first optical combiner, and a second optical combiner. The array of light sources are configured to be selectively enabled to emit non-visible light to illuminate a fundus of an eye. The first optical combiner is configured to receive reflected non-visible light that is reflected by the eye, direct a first component of the reflected non-visible light to a first camera to generate an image of the eye, and pass a second component of the reflected non-visible light. The second optical combiner is configured to receive a fundus imaging light responsive to the second component of the reflected non-visible light, and to direct the fundus imaging light to a second camera to generate an image of the fundus.
US11617502B2	Adjustable laryngoscope system and method of use A laryngoscope system that consists of a blade assembly and a handle assembly. The blade assembly has a blade body with multiple handle attachment points. The handle can attach to any of the handle attachment points using a standard ISO 7376 connection. By attaching the handle to different handle attachment points the functional length of the laryngoscope blade can be adjusted. The handle that attaches to the blade body can contain an internal lighting unit. If so, the blade body contains optical elements at the handle attachment points that direct light from the handle to a forward facing output. If the handle does not hold a light, a lighting unit can be added to the blade body.
US11617496B2	Medical devices and related methods According to one aspect, a medical device may be configured for use with an endoscope and may include a tool. The tool may include an actuator, at least one extension at a distal portion of the actuator, and a distal end. The at least one extension may extend radially outward from the actuator and may have an edge configured to fragment debris within a body. The medical device may also include a cap configured for coupling to a distal end of the endoscope, and the cap may include a body defining an opening and a cavity. The opening may be configured to align with optics of the endoscope, and the at least one extension may be positioned within the cavity of the body.
US11617492B2	Medical three-dimensional (3D) scanning and mapping system Systems and methods for three-dimensional imaging, modeling, mapping, and/or control capabilities in compact size suitable for integration with and/or augmentation of robotic, laparoscopic, and endoscopic surgical systems. The systems including at least one optical source configured to project onto a surgical or endoscopic environment, and at least one camera positioned to capture at least one image of the surgical or endoscopic environment.
US11617490B2	Dishwasher, method for operating a dishwasher, and computer program product A dishwasher includes a memory unit for storing a number of washing programs, a control device configured to carry out a washing program from the number of washing programs; and a communication unit configured to retrieve a specific washing program from an external device in accordance with a status information relating to an external household appliance, and to store the retrieved specific washing program in the memory unit, said control device carrying out the stored specific washing program.
US11617485B2	Cleaning robot A cleaning robot includes a main body, a drive assembly and a cleaning assembly. The main body includes a bottom part. The cleaning assembly includes a mounting part, a wiping part and a release part. The mounting part is positioned on the bottom part. The mounting part includes a first rail, a second rail, and a first positioning part. The wiping part is positioned on the mounting part and includes a second positioning part, the wiping part is movable from first ends of the first rail and the second rail to second ends thereof until the second positioning part abuts against the first positioning part whereby the wiping part is fixed on the mounting part. The release part is positioned on the mounting part and configured to separate the second positioning part from the first positioning part whereby the wiping part is detached from the mounting part.
US11617477B1	Total-use dispenser A total-use dispenser for dispensing a fluid product therefrom. A total-use dispenser may have a body forming an enclosure having both a top opening and a bottom outlet and a tapering portion that tapers down toward the bottom outlet and a pump configured in the top opening to dispense the fluid product from the dispenser. The pump may be configured in the top opening to pump air into the rigid body to force fluid product therefrom. The fluid product may be dispensed from a bottom outlet or from a spout coupled with a spout conduit that extends into the squeezable body of the total-use dispenser. The total-use dispenser enables substantially all the fluid product to be dispensed from the enclosure, such as at least 90% by weight, at least 97% by weight and most preferably 99% or more by weight.
US11617472B2	Removable ash clean out assembly Disclosed is an ash clean out mechanism including a burn pot removable from the remainder of the appliance to allow easier cleaning of the auger or other functional components within the appliance. The burn pot can include a handle that a user can pull to remove the burn pot from an adapter collar located within the interior of the appliance. The user can then clean the interior of the appliance and thereafter insert the burn pot into the appliance. For example, the user can push the burn pot by guiding a lower plate of the burn pot along a lip of the appliance and into a landing area where a body of the burn pot can rest on the adapter collar. The burn pot can also form a flow channel around the burn pot body to provide improved airflow during the cooking process.
US11617467B2	Combined air fryer and slow cooker lid The present invention provides a combination pressure cooker and air fryer lid that may be attached to a vessel. The lid may be adjustable between two general cooking positions. In the first cooking position, the lid may operate with the vessel as a pressure cooker. In the second cooking position, the may operate with the vessel as an air fryer. In performing either of the pressure cooking or air fryer cooking functions, the lid need not be replaced.
US11617461B2	Food product storage and serving assembly The disclosure relates to a butter dish that has at least two separate and independent compartments that are each individually capable of storing or serving a full stick of butter or other food product. The butter dish has two compartments and can hold a full stick of butter in each compartment or two sticks of butter in total. The compartments may include a rotatable lid or the compartment may be itself rotatable from the body of the device. An upper compartment comprises a rotatable lid and a bottom compartment is rotatable from the body of the device. The compartments may be located on opposite sides of the device and open from opposite ends. The device may further include one or more additional features such as an angled base to assist in ease of cutting and serving the butter as well as notches along the body for storing a butter knife.
US11617452B2	Sleep apparatus for infants and method A sleep apparatus for an infant comprises an upstanding enclosure surrounding a sleeping platform. The enclosure has front and rear walls, the front wall being moveable between an upper position for preventing the infant from rolling off the sleeping platform and a lower position allowing access to the infant. A biasing mechanism biases the front wall to return automatically in to the upper position in the absence of a barrier to upward movement, and a latch automatically engages when the front wall is in its upper position. The latch prevents movement of the front wall from the upper position towards the lower position until and unless the latch is released.
US11617446B2	Footrest extension device, frame and chair having the same A footrest extension device for a chair includes eight connecting rods: a first connecting rod is connected to a main frame, and pivotally connected to a second connecting rod and a third connecting rod, respectively; the second connecting rod is connected to the main frame, and pivotally connected to a fourth connecting rod; the third connecting rod is pivotally connected to the fourth connecting rod, a sixth connecting rod and a eighth connecting rod, respectively; a fifth connecting rod is pivotally connected to the fourth connecting rod and the sixth connecting rod, respectively; the sixth connecting rod is pivotally connected to a seventh connecting rod; the seventh connecting rod is pivotally connected to the eighth connecting rod; and the second connecting rod, driven by a driving device, drives the other connecting rods to move, so the footrest extension device is folded or extended.
US11617439B2	Shelf for a climate cabinet and set and climate cabinet comprising said shelf A shelf is provided which has a placement surface for objects to be treated in the climate cabinet and an underside opposite the placement surface, wherein the shelf can be mounted in a climate chamber of the climate cabinet. At least one reinforcing rib is detachably fastened to a base plate of the shelf.
US11617424B2	Secure slider for a zip fastener “A slide (100) for a zip fastener has a hasp (115) and a pull tab (120). This assembly is being moulded into a single block. The pull tab (120) has an eyelet (121) for connecting to the hasp of the slider. The pull tab (120) has a locking eyelet (122) the opening plane of which is parallel to the opening plane of the connection eyelet (121). The pull tab (120) has a portion (125) for connection between the two eyelets (121, 122), called the pull tab body, the width of the cross-section of the pull tab body in a direction perpendicular to the opening planes of the eyelets is greater than or equal to the height of the cross-section in the plane parallel to the opening planes of said eyelets.”
US11617420B2	Strap system for article of footwear An article of footwear includes an upper defining a throat configured to receive a foot. The article of footwear also includes a sole structure coupled to the upper. The article of footwear further includes a panel having a first side coupled to the upper for movement between an open position and a closed position. The panel exposes a portion of the throat in the open position and covers the portion of the throat in the closed position. The article of footwear also includes a strap having a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The first end and the second end are disposed on a first side of the upper with a body portion of the strap disposed between the first end and the second end surrounding the upper.
US11617409B2	Surface structure for sports boots with increased ball contact properties and method for preparing the structure A surface structure for sports boots used for ball games having increased ball-contact properties where each boot has an upper part and a sole and the upper part has an outer surface used for shooting a ball, wherein at least a part of said ball shooting outer surface comprises a coating that has an adhesive substance covering said outer surface and a grained structure embedded in and kept by the adhesive. The grained structure comprises discrete granules of a resilient material, wherein between the adhesive and the outer surface of the upper part and between the adhesive and the granules a stable and durable bonding is provided, and the granules have outer surfaces that provide an improved contact with the ball when getting in contact with it.
US11617402B2	Protective face mask A protective face mask has a first panel, a second panel and a plurality of head attachment features. The first panel is configured to cover the facial area below the eyes with a mouth opening for the mouth region to allow the wearer to eat, drink or smoke. The second panel is configured to cover the mouth opening when not used for passing food, drink or smoking. The plurality of head attachment features are located at outer edges of the face mask panels.
US11617399B2	Multi-layer nursing garment The present invention teaches a multi-layered nursing garment. The multi-layered nursing garment includes breasts support having a pair of breast cups, shoulder straps and a chest band. Each breast cup is comprised of two or more layers. Further a clasp for attaching an outer removable layer with a shoulder strap and a clip is configured for attaching another, inner layer. The invention provides a number of combinations of clips, clasps, and layers but which a breastfeeding woman can selectively open the nursing garment to accomplish breastfeeding and/or milk pumping from either breast, and has the capacity to engage in said events simultaneously.
US11617397B2	Pant-type wearable article A wearable article includes a front and back elastic belts, a crotch region, a waist opening, and leg openings. Each elastic belt is a laminate having an inner sheet, an outer sheet, and an elastic member. Elastic adhesive bonding continuously bonds the elastic member for at least about 10 mm in the direction of stretch adjacent the side edges of the belts. A discrete patterned adhesive bonding is applied to at least one of the inner and outer sheets to intermittently bond the inner and outer sheets. The discrete patterned adhesive bonding extends substantially along the transverse direction between the elastic adhesive bonding, and substantially along the longitudinal direction between the distal and proximal edges of the elastic belts. The same adhesive agent provides the elastic adhesive and discrete patterned adhesive bonding. Heat bonds form side seams, and the remainder of the laminate is free of heat bonds.
US11617393B2	Electronic atomizing device and atomizer thereof The invention discloses an electronic atomizing device and an atomizer thereof. The atomizer includes a main body unit and a suction nozzle unit. The main body unit includes a liquid storage cavity, an atomization assembly fluidly connected to the liquid storage cavity and a first pipe fluidly connected to the atomization assembly. The liquid storage cavity includes a liquid injection port. The suction nozzle unit is detachably disposed on an upper end of the first pipe and seals the liquid injection port. The suction nozzle unit includes a second pipe, an operating member and an elastic member. The second pipe is detachably screwed to the first pipe and fluidly connected to the first pipe. The operating member is sleeved on the second pipe and axially movable relative to the second pipe between a first position and a second position, and rotatable around an axis of the second pipe.
US11617390B2	Child resistant pre-roll case and related methods Disclosed is a child resistant pre-roll case for storing pre-rolls, lighters, and other accessories or personal items.
US11617386B2	Bubble sterilizing cleaner Provided is a bubble sterilizing cleaner capable of automatically sterilizing and objects to be cleaned to be cleaned, such as fruits and vegetables. The bubble sterilizing cleaner includes a bubble supply unit for spraying microbubbles into a cleaning tank and an aeration unit for discharging water or air to the cleaning tank to improve sterilizing and cleaning efficiency and reduce cleaning time, and includes a fluid supply means connected with a water inlet of the cleaning tank and the aeration unit to supply a fluid so that the water supply rate is adjustable in accordance with a condition of an installation location thereof.
US11617380B2	Lignin containing microcellulose as an animal feed additive According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an animal feed additive, which contains lignin-containing microcellulose, especially lignin-containing microcrystalline cellulose, for improving feed conversion rates of production animals, such as poultry.
US11617368B2	Stable S-(+)-abscisic acid nonaqueous liquid solutions Stable S-(+)-abscisic acid (S-ABA) non-aqueous liquid solutions are generally achieved without the use of an effective amount of an antioxidant and/or an ultraviolet absorber to S-(+)-abscisic acid. In a preferred embodiment, the stable S-(+)-abscisic acid (S-ABA) nonaqueous liquid solutions includes at least one organic solvent, such as at least one polyethylene glycol, at least one glycol, and/or at least one lactamide and/or at least one pentanoate.
US11617367B2	Antimicrobial polymers capable of supramolecular assembly Techniques regarding chemical compounds with antimicrobial functionality are provided. For example, one or more embodiments describe herein can comprise a monomer that can comprise a molecular backbone. The molecular backbone can comprise a bis(urea)guanidinium structure covalently bonded to a functional group, which can comprise a radical. Also, the monomer can have supramolecular assembly functionality.
US11617366B2	Solvents for agricultural applications and pesticide formulations Embodiments of the present invention relate to solvents for pesticides and pesticide formulations. In one aspect, a solvent for pesticides comprises (a) an ether ester of Formula 1: wherein R1 and R2 are each independently one of an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or an aryl group, wherein R3 is hydrogen, methyl, or ethyl, and wherein n is 1 to 6; and (b) a polar amide of Formula 2: R4—C(O)—NR5R6 (Formula 2) wherein R4 is an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and wherein R5 and R6 are each independently an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms.
US11617359B2	Reel seat for fishing rod, fishing rod, and movable hood for reel A tubular reel seat for fishing rod includes a tubular movable hood and a trigger. The tubular movable hood is disposed on a front side of the reel seat, and includes a hood portion configured to cover a front-end portion of a reel foot of the fishing rod. The trigger is disposed in part of a circumference of an outer circumferential surface of the movable hood on an opposite side of the hood portion, the trigger is configured to be hooked by a finger from the front side.
US11617354B2	Multi-phasic integrated super-intensive shrimp production system A method for shrimp aquaculture, in which, all growth phases and essential operations are modularized and integrated to form a multi-phasic synchronous super-intensive shrimp production system controlled by a custom designed cyber-physical platform. Modular components include, for example, post-larvae nursery modules, grow-out production modules, recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) modules, feed distribution modules, and regulatory elements comprised of Program Logic Controllers (PLCs) integrated with Human Interface Modules (HIMs).
US11617351B2	Pet treat holder and safety device A single piece pet treat holder. The holder having an outer perimeter shape with a first thickness. An inner perimeter shape having an opening with a central aperture located therein. The opening extending through the first thickness and having a plurality of flexible projections extending toward the central aperture. Each of the flexible projections terminating in an enlarged tip. The flexible projections and the enlarged tips are configured to restrict removal of an object when the object is twisted in a first direction through the opening. The flexible projections and the enlarged tips are configured to release the object when the object is twisted in a second direction opposite the first direction.
US11617348B2	Liquid dispenser having filter assembly A liquid dispenser may include a container having an upper opening, a pump provided in the container, a pipe through which liquid discharged from the pump is transferred, a top plate having an upper surface over which liquid flows, a filter assembly provided below the top plate, a base provided below the container, and a thermoelectric element provided in the base to cool the liquid in the container.
US11617346B2	Smart feeder A smart feeder includes a food storage chamber and a rotating push plate mechanism. The food storage chamber conveys food to the rotating push plate mechanism through a conveying device, and the rotating push plate mechanism is configured to rotate and hit the food. The rotating push plate mechanism includes a rotating push plate, a first driving mechanism and a food passage. The food passage is in communication with an outlet of the food storage chamber, and the rotating push plate is rotatably installed inside the food passage. The first driving mechanism is configured to drive the rotating push plate to rotate. The food passage includes an outlet segment and a hitting cavity, and the outlet segment is tangent to the hitting cavity. The hitting cavity is in communication with the outlet of the food storage chamber. The rotating push plate is rotatably installed in the hitting cavity.
US11617341B2	Tomato hybrid SVTH3532 The invention provides seeds and plants of tomato hybrid SVTH3532. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid SVTH3532 and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a tomato plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid SVTH3532 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
US11617334B2	Cotton variety 11PYKG43 The disclosure relates to a cotton variety, designated 11PYKG43, the plants and seeds of the cotton variety 11PYKG43, methods for producing a cotton plant, either varietal or hybrid, produced by crossing the cotton variety 11PYKG43 with itself or with another cotton plant, hybrid cotton seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 11PYKG43 with another cotton variety or plan, methods for producing a cotton plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes, and the transgenic cotton plants produced by that method. This disclosure also relates to cotton varieties derived from cotton variety 11PYKG43, to methods for producing other cotton varieties derived from cotton variety 11PYKG43, and to the varieties derived by the use of those methods.
US11617333B2	Soybean cultivar 08150606 A soybean cultivar designated 08150606 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 08150606, to the plants of soybean cultivar 08150606, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 08150606, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 08150606. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 08150606. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 08150606, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 08150606 with another soybean cultivar.
US11617327B1	Maize inbred PH4DR7 A novel maize variety designated PH4DR7 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH4DR7 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH4DR7 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety PH4DR7 or a locus conversion of PH4DR7 with another maize variety.
US11617317B2	Lettuce variety SVLD0033 The invention provides seed and plants of the lettuce line SVLD0033. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of lettuce line SVLD0033, and to methods for producing a lettuce plant produced by crossing a plant of lettuce line SVLD0033 with itself or with another lettuce plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of lettuce line SVLD0033, including the gametes of such plants.
US11617313B2	Controlling agricultural production areas An irrigation system for an area receives wide-area meteorological prediction data and sensors deployed within the area collect local-area sensor data. A processor stores received data as historical wide-area meteorological prediction data and data from the sensors as historical local-area sensor data. The processor determines a relationship between the historical wide-area meteorological prediction data and the historical local-area sensor data based on the historical wide-area meteorological prediction data and the historical local-area sensor data, and calculates a prediction on a local-area parameter for a future point in time based on current wide-area meteorological prediction data, and the calculated relationship. The area is then controlled based on the prediction.
US11617311B2	Light-selective mulch Lignin formulations for making light-selective mulch, methods of making such lignin formulations, light-selective mulches comprising substrates treated with lignin formulations, and methods of making such light-selective mulches. Some methods involve preparing aqueous lignin formulations that can be used as coatings that, in turn, can be applied to a substrate, such as a paper web, to form a biodegradable, light-selective mulch. Some such mulches blocks at least some light in the ultraviolet and blue/green ranges (350 nm to 500 nm) of the visible light spectrum to inhibit weed growth below the mulch, while also transmitting light in the red/infrared ranges to heat the soil below the mulch.
US11617298B2	Agricultural product delivery applicator with a pneumatic conveying system having a distributor assembly An agricultural product delivery applicator for delivering particulate product to a field. The applicator includes a supply compartment to hold the product and a pneumatic conveying system. The system includes an airflow source to provide an airflow, and a delivery line operably connected to the airflow source and to the supply compartment. The delivery line includes a supply line and a plurality of distribution lines. The system further includes a distributor coupling the supply line with the plurality of distribution lines, a plurality of distributor outlets providing outlet channels for the distributor, and a motor mount disposed away from the aperture along an axis and supported by one or more of the plurality of distributor outlets. A motor is disposed on a delivery lines side of the distributor and fastened to the motor mount.
US11617294B2	Orientation control system for an agricultural implement An orientation control system for an agricultural implement includes a first sensor configured to be positioned at a left end portion of a frame. The first sensor is configured to emit a first output signal toward a soil surface and to receive a first return signal indicative of a first height of the left end portion. The orientation control system also includes a second sensor configured to be positioned at a right end portion of the frame. The second sensor is configured to emit a second output signal toward the soil surface and to receive a second return signal indicative of a second height of the right end portion. In addition, the orientation control system includes a controller configured to control first, second, and third actuators such that a difference between the first height and the second height is less than a threshold value.
US11617292B2	Method for controlling the operation of an attachment A method is provided for controlling the operation of an attachment that is coupled to a tractor via a top link and two bottom links of a powerlift. The method includes selecting a point of action from at least one of a pull point as a geometric intersection of imaginary extensions of both bottom links and a pole point as a geometric intersection of imaginary extensions of the top link and a bottom link. The method also includes determining a position of the selected point of action, and signaling the determined position of the point of action by a display unit or adjusting the determined position depending on a comparison with a setpoint setting.
US11622490B2	Method for manufacturing organic light-emitting diode display substrate The present disclosure relates to the display technology, and provides an OLED display substrate, a method for manufacturing the OLED display substrate and a display device. The method includes: forming pixel definition layer transition patterns with metal; and oxidizing the pixel definition layer transition patterns to form an insulative pixel definition layer.
US11622488B2	Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method thereof The present application provides a semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof, and relates to the field of display technology. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate. The substrate includes an array region and a peripheral circuit region surrounding the array region. Multiple capacitors are arranged in an array in the array region. Virtual lines connecting centers of any three consecutively adjacent capacitors among the multiple capacitors located at an edge of the array region define a virtual angle greater than 90°.
US11622487B2	Component shortage detection device A component shortage detection device detects a component shortage of a tape feeder installed in a component mounting device. The component shortage detection device includes a sensor, configured to detect the tape, and provided at a position that is a midpoint of a tape transportation path of the tape feeder and upstream of a component extraction position by a component mounting head in a tape transportation direction. The component shortage detection device further includes a residual quantity calculation unit configured to calculate a component residual quantity of the tape during a mounting operation; and a determination unit configured to determine whether a component shortage occurs on a basis of output information from the sensor and the component residual quantity when the head fails in extraction of the component.
US11622473B2	Electrical connection apparatus The present disclosure provides an electrical connection apparatus which includes a receptacle and a plug. The receptacle includes a cage, a heat sink, a thermal interface material layer, and an elastic sheathing member. The heat sink is provided to the cage and has a base portion. The base portion has a lower surface, a first side edge close to the port, and a second side edge spaced apart from the first side edge. The heat sink further has two first convex portions positioned on the lower surface and adjacent to the first side edge and a first concave portion positioned on the lower surface and adjacent to the second side edge. The thermal interface material layer is provided to the lower surface of the base portion. The elastic sheathing member sheathes the heat sink and the cage. The plug includes a second convex portion positioned on an upper surface.
US11622471B2	Cooling method for a cold plate module A cooling device for a computing system is disclosed. The cooling device includes an inlet conduit, a first cold plate, a connecting conduit, a second cold plate, an outlet conduit, and a heat conductor. Coolant flows through the inlet conduit. The first cold plate has a first inlet surface and a first outlet surface. The inlet conduit is coupled to the first inlet surface. The inlet conduit transfers the coolant into the first cold plate. The connecting conduit is coupled at one end to the first outlet surface. The coolant flows from the first cold plate through the connecting conduit. The second cold plate has a second inlet surface and a second outlet surface, the connecting conduit being coupled at another end to the second inlet surface. The outlet conduit is coupled to the second outlet surface. The coolant flows from the second cold plate through the outlet conduit.
US11622470B2	Thermal management system for portable electronic devices A wearable electronic device is disclosed. The device can include a support structure and an electronic component disposed in or on the support structure. A heat exchanger element can be thermally coupled with the electronic component, the heat exchanger element comprising a fluid inlet port and a fluid outlet port. A first conduit can be fluidly connected to the fluid inlet port of the heat exchanger, the first conduit configured to convey, to the heat exchanger, liquid at a first temperature. A second conduit can be fluidly connected to the fluid outlet port of the heat exchanger, the second conduit configured to convey, away from the heat exchanger, liquid at a second temperature different from the first temperature.
US11622468B1	Modular data center A modular data center and a method of building a modular data center. The modular data center includes a site microgrid including at least one power converter connected to a direct current (DC) bus and a digital power system. The digital power system includes at least one digital power transmitter, a set of transmission lines, and at least one digital power receiver. The modular data center design uses an adiabatic cooling system to cool the modular data center.
US11622467B2	Network switch mounting system An assembly includes: a server rack; first side and second side outer rails attached to the rack and positionally fixed relative to the rack; a support device attached to the rack adjacent to a rear of the rack; a computer network switch having a port side positioned adjacent to the rear of the rack; and first side and second side inner rails attached to the network switch and positionally fixed relative to the network switch, the inner rails being slidably attached to the outer rails. The network switch is movable between a retracted position and an extended position, and the support device is located such that the support device physically blocks the network switch from being removed from the rear of the server rack.
US11622456B2	Methods and systems for a cable management system Various methods and systems are provided for a cable management device. In one example, the cable management device has a planar base with a plurality of mounting holes, a first wing framing a first slot positioned along a first side of the base, and a second wing framing a second slot along a second side of the base. The wings may flex from a first configuration to a second configuration in response to a contact force.
US11622451B2	Systems and methods for solder paste printing on components Systems and methods in which dot-like portions of a material (e.g., a viscous material such as a solder paste) are printed or otherwise transferred onto an electronic component at a first printing unit, and the electronic component is subsequently placed onto a substrate with the portions of viscous material between the electronic component and the substrate. Optionally, a printing unit which prints the dots of material onto the electronic component includes a coating system that creates a uniform layer of the material on a donor substrate, and the material is transferred in the individual dot-like portions from the donor substrate onto the electronic component by the printing unit. The system may also include imaging units to aid in the overall process.
US11622440B2	Cooling plasma cutting system consumables and related systems and methods In some aspects, electrodes can include a front portion shaped to matingly engage a nozzle of the plasma cutting system, the front portion having a first end comprising a plasma arc emitter disposed therein; and a rear portion thermally connected to a second end of the front portion, the rear portion shaped to slidingly engage with a complementary swirl ring of the plasma cutting system and including: an annular mating feature extending radially from a proximal end of the rear portion of the electrode to define a first annular width to interface with the swirl ring, the annular mating feature comprising a sealing member configured to form a dynamic seal with the swirl ring to inhibit a flow of a gas from a forward side of the annular mating feature to a rearward side of the annular mating feature.
US11622435B2	Lighting device and power switching circuit The present disclosure provides a lighting device and a power switching circuit. The power switching circuit of the lighting device includes a plurality of power input circuits and a logic control circuit. The logic control circuit is configured to receive a first electrical signal, a second electrical signal, or a third electrical signal, and control a first-switching circuit electrically connected with an Nth power input terminal to be turned on according to the first electrical signal, control the first-switching circuit electrically connected with the Nth power input terminal to be turned off according to the second electrical signal, and control a first-switching circuit electrically connected with first to (N−1)th power input terminals to be turned off according to the third electrical signal; N is a positive integer less than or equal to a number of the power input circuits.
US11622430B2	Control circuit, control method and power converter A control circuit for controlling a power converter can include: a constant voltage output module, a constant current output module, and a power stage circuit; and where the control circuit is configured to select one of a first feedback signal representative of output information of the constant current output module, and a second feedback signal representative of output information of the constant voltage output module as a feedback input signal based on operation states of the constant current output module and the constant voltage output module, in order to control a switching state of a power switch of the power stage circuit.
US11622429B1	QR-operated switching converter current driver In an embodiment, a control circuit includes: an output terminal configured to be coupled to a control terminal of a transistor that is coupled to an inductor; a logic circuit configured to control the transistor using a first signal; a zero crossing detection circuit configured to generate a freewheeling signal indicative of a demagnetization of the inductor; a comparator having first and second inputs configured to receive a sense voltage indicative of a current flowing through the transistor and a reference voltage, respectively, and an output configured to cause the logic circuit to deassert the first signal; and a reference generator configured to generate the reference voltage and including: a current generator, a capacitor and a resistor coupled to the output of the reference generator, and a switch coupled in series with the resistor and configured to be controlled based on the first signal and the freewheeling signal.
US11622421B2	Electric heaters with low drift resistance feedback A heater system is provided. The system includes a resistive element with a temperature coefficient of resistance (TCR) of at least about 1,000 ppm such that the resistive element functions as a heater and as a temperature sensor and the resistive element is a material having greater than about 95% nickel. The system also includes a heater control module including a two-wire controller with a power control module that is configured to periodically compare a measured resistance value of the resistive element against a reference temperature to adjust for resistance drift over time during operation such that a temperature drift of the resistive element is less than about 1% over a temperature range of about 500° C.-1,000° C.
US11622416B2	Group-based relay selection for wireless network communication A radio device configures a group of further radio devices as candidate relay nodes for communication with the wireless communication network. Further, the radio device selects one or more of the further radio devices from the group as relay node for communication with the wireless communication network. Further, the radio device communicates with the wireless communication network via said one or more selected further radio devices.
US11622409B2	User equipment relay procedure Aspects presented herein may enable a UE to notify a base station about the availability of a relay UE that is not connected to the base station. In one aspect, a first UE or a second UE transmits or receives a relay request of the first UE via sidelink, the first UE being in an RRC connected mode with a base station. The first UE or the second UE receives or transmits, via the sidelink, an indication of relay availability of a second UE in an RRC inactive mode in response to the relay request. The first UE and the second UE receive a configuration from the base station for relay of communication from the base station over the sidelink between the first UE and the second UE.
US11622404B2	Reliable wireless communication with a source using relayed communication This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for reliable communication between a source device, and two or more sink devices. In one aspect, a sink device closest in proximity to the source device can establish a wireless data transfer with the source device. In another aspect, the sink device having the more favorable radio channel conditions can establish a wireless data transfer with the source device. In some aspects, the sink devices can forward audio data received from the source device over a secondary communication link. The audio data can be forwarded to the other sink device automatically, or upon request from the other sink device. The secondary communication link can be implemented as a magnetic communication link, or as a Bluetooth communication link.
US11622403B2	Data sending method, apparatus, and system Embodiments of this application provide a data sending method, apparatus, and system, and relate to the communications field, so that an SN change in dual connectivity does not affect performance of a network in which an MN is located. The data sending method specifically includes: determining, by a source node device, whether direct data forwarding is supported between the source node device and a destination node device; and sending, by the source node device, a first message including a first indication to a first node device, where the first indication is used to indicate whether the direct data forwarding is supported between the source node device and the destination node device. This application is used for data sending.
US11622402B2	Relay of superpositioned sidelink and uplink transmission Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating relay of superpositioned sidelink and uplink transmission are disclosed herein. An example method for wireless communication at a first communication device includes receiving, from a UE, a MUST transmission including a base layer and an enhancement layer, the base layer comprising a first message for a second communication device and the enhancement layer comprising a second message for the first communication device. The example method also includes decoding the base layer of the MUST transmission to obtain the first message. Additionally, the example method includes receiving a feedback message from the second communication device indicating that the second communication device did not successfully receive the first message. The example method also includes retransmitting the first message to the second communication device in response to the feedback message from the second communication device.
US11622401B2	Method and device for wireless communication node The present disclosure discloses a method and a device in a node for wireless communications. A first node judges whether the first node is in coverage; and then transmits Q second-type radio signals; herein, the Q second-type radio signals respectively comprise Q pieces of first-type information; whether each of the Q second-type radio signals can be selected as a synchronization reference is related to its comprised first-type information; the Q pieces of first-type information are independently generated, or, whether the Q pieces of first-type information are independently generated is related to whether the first node is in coverage, Q being a positive integer greater than 1. The present disclosure improves transmission reliability of Sidelink.
US11622396B2	Method and network node of setting up a wireless connection A method of setting up a wireless connection for a communication device. The method is performed in a network node and comprises receiving, from the communication device, a service request, the request comprising a destination identifier of a destination providing a service, and configuring, based on the destination identifier, the communication device for one of: multi-connectivity and single-connectivity.
US11622390B2	Method and apparatus for determining whether to perform transmission on a random access or a configured grant in wireless communication system A method and apparatus for determining whether to perform transmission on a random access or a configured grant in wireless communication system is provided. The wireless device leaves a connected state with a network. The wireless device determines whether to perform transmission on a random access (RA) or a configured grant based on data available for transmission, wherein the configured grant is received from the network. The wireless device performs the transmission of the data based on the determination.
US11622386B2	Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and communication method A terminal apparatus includes: a measurement unit configured to measure a first radio link quality based on at least part of a plurality of reference signals and a second radio link quality based on at least part of the plurality of reference signals in a certain serving cell; and a processing unit configured to trigger a report in a case that the first radio link quality and the second radio link quality satisfy a predetermined condition.
US11622384B2	Hybrid carrier sense multiple access system with collision avoidance for IEEE 802.15.4 to achieve better coexistence with IEEE 802.11 A wireless smart utility network (Wi-SUN) device participating in a Wi-SUN network for coexistence with a Wi-Fi HaLow network sharing frequency spectra between the networks is provided. The Wi-SUN device includes a receiver to receive packets of neighbor Wi-SUN devices, a memory configured to store computer executable programs including a hybrid carrier-sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) control program and Wi-SUN backoff control program, a processor configured to execute the hybrid CSMA/CA control program including instructions that steps of estimating a severity of Wi-Fi Halow interference based on one or combination of the severity metrics, selecting a CSMA/CA mode between predetermined CSMA/CA modes in response to the estimated severity, detecting a channel status based on the hybrid carrier-sense multiple access, wherein if the channel status is not idle, a maximum limited number of times for re-attempting a packet transmission is checked to determine an allowability of re-attempting the packet transmission, and a transmitter to transmit packets according to a determination result of the allowability.
US11622380B2	Semi-persistent reservations of medium for interference management and medium access Methods related to wireless communications systems and medium access in a radio frequency band of a shared spectrum are provided. A device contends for a first reserved time interlace including a plurality of channel occupancy times (COTs). The device transmits a first communication signal in a first COT of the plurality of COTs in response to winning the first reserved time interlace. The device transmits a second communication signal in a second COT of the plurality of COTs, the second COT spaced in time from the first COT, in response to winning the first reserved time interlace.
US11622367B2	Cross-carrier scheduling in wireless communication Aspects relate to cross-carrier scheduling in wireless communication. A scheduling entity generates scheduling information that schedules a plurality of data transmissions to or from a user equipment (UE) on a first carrier having a first numerology. The scheduling entity then transmits the scheduling information to the UE on a second carrier having a second numerology different than (e.g., less than) the first numerology. The scheduling information is transmitted using control resources allocated based on slot indexes of a plurality of slots configured for communicating the data transmissions on the first carrier.
US11622361B2	Mission critical data support in self-contained time division duplex (TDD) subframe structure Various aspects of the present disclosure provide for enabling at least one opportunity to transmit mission critical (MiCr) data and at least one opportunity to receive MiCr data in a time division duplex (TDD) subframe during a single transmission time interval (TTI). The single TTI may be no greater than 500 microseconds. The TDD subframe may be a downlink (DL)-centric TDD subframe or an uplink (UL)-centric TDD subframe. How much of the TDD subframe is configured for the at least one opportunity to transmit the MiCr data and how much of the TDD subframe is configured for the at least one opportunity to receive the MiCr data may be adjusted based on one or more characteristics of the MiCr data. The MiCr data may have a low latency requirement, a high priority requirement, and/or a high reliability requirement. Various other aspects are provided throughout the present disclosure.
US11622360B2	Terminal and communication method to provide communication services A communication method and a terminal and a base station adapted to the method are provided. The communication method of a terminal includes: receiving a message containing information regarding a semi-persistent scheduling (SRS) configuration from a base station; determining whether a sub-frame configured with a non-adaptive re-transmission is identical to a sub-frame configured with an uplink grant according to the SPS configuration; and when: a sub-frame configured with a non-adaptive re-transmission is identical to a sub-frame configured with an uplink grant according to the SPS configuration; and the terminal does not have data to be first transmitted via the sub-frame configured with an uplink grant according to the SPS configuration, performing the non-adaptive re-transmission.
US11622358B2	Network node and method in a wireless communications network A method performed by a network node for deciding whether or not to trigger short Semi Persistent Scheduling (SPS) reactivation of a short SPS activated User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication network is provided. The network node receives Uplink, UL, data from the UE over a radio resource. The radio resource comprises any one out of: an SPS resource and a dynamically granted resource. The network node determines a difference of signal quality of the radio resource used for the received UL data compared to a previous signal quality calculated when last of any one out of: deactivation and reactivation of short SPS was triggered. The network node then decides whether or not to trigger short SPS reactivation of the UE based on the determined difference of the signal quality.
US11622354B2	Power control method, reception method, power allocation method, user equipment, and network device The present disclosure provides a power control method, a reception method, a power allocation method, a User Equipment (UE) and a network device. The power control method includes performing transmission power control over uplink transmission on a first target Bandwidth Part (BWP) in accordance with one or more target uplink power control parameters corresponding to the first target BWP.
US11622351B2	Configuration of frequency bands for full-duplex slots Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A frequency band configuration for a full-duplex slot may be indicated, where a frequency band configuration may include one or more downlink frequency bands and one or more uplink frequency bands. In some cases, a frequency band configuration may also include one or more guard bands. A user equipment (UE) may determine the frequency band configuration for a full-duplex slot based on a frequency configuration indication, which may include an index for a table of frequency band configurations, one or more bitmaps, or respective start and length indications for each frequency band. A frequency band configuration may apply to one slot or to multiple slots.
US11622343B2	User equipment and communication methods considering interference Provided are user equipment (UE) and communication methods. The UE includes: a receiver, operative to receive transmissions of a TB performed by another UE using each of a first set of beams respectively; circuitry, operative to perform measurement on the received transmissions, and to select resource for sidelink transmission among candidate resources based on a measurement result; and a transmitter, operative to perform the sidelink transmission with the selected resource, wherein, the circuitry is further operative to preclude, from the candidate resources, one or more candidate resources associated with a transmission using a beam of the first set of beams, if the measurement result of the transmission using the beam fulfills a predetermined condition.
US11622342B2	Sidelink feedback channel repetitions Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may receive, from a second UE, a sidelink communication via a sidelink channel between the first UE and the second UE. The UE may transmit, to the second UE and based at least in part on the sidelink communication, a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) with a quantity of repetitions. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11622335B2	Priority-based transmit power control Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for priority-based transmit power control. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes communicating with at least a second UE via a link, determining a transmission power for transmitting information via the link based, at least in part, on a priority corresponding to the information, and outputting the information for transmission via the link in accordance with the determined transmission power.
US11622326B2	Reducing mobile device power consumption through predictive speed-based geofence location tracking A method including receiving, at a mobile device, a request to provision a first geofence. The first geofence has a first predicted duration that expires before a second predicted geofence is provisioned by the mobile device. Provisioning the first geofence and the second predicted geofence together consume a first amount of power. The method also includes determining a predictive geofence radius based on a predicted speed of the mobile device. The method also includes provisioning a first predictive geofence having the predictive geofence radius and further having a second predicted duration that is different than the first predicted duration and that expires before a second predictive geofence is provisioned by the mobile device. Provisioning the first predictive geofence and the second predictive geofence together consume a second amount of power, the second amount of power less than the first amount of power.
US11622325B2	Medical device with control circuitry to improve communication quality A method for managing power during communication with an implantable medical device, including establishing a communications link, utilizing a power corresponding to a session start power, to initiate a current session between an implantable medical device (IMD) and external device. A telemetry break condition of the communications link is monitored during the current session. The power utilized by the IMD is adjusted between low and high power levels, during the current session based on the telemetry break condition. The number of sessions is counted, including the current session and one or more prior sessions, in which the IMD utilized the higher power level, and a level for the session start power to be utilized to initiate a next session following the current session is adaptively learned based on the counting of the number of sessions.
US11622319B2	Electronic device for providing AP list and method for operating electronic device An electronic device and method are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes a communication module, a display, a memory and a processor which implements the method. The method includes receiving access point (AP) information from at least one AP through the communication module, generating an AP list including an AP communicatively connectable with the electronic device based on the received AP information, storing the AP list in the memory, identifying a state of the electronic device, determining an arrangement criterion for arranging a display order of Aps included in the AP list based on state information about the electronic device, and controlling the display to arrange the AP list according to the determined arrangement criterion.
US11622318B2	SMF service area information provision A method to operate a Network Function, Repository Function, NRF, to manage NF profiles of Session Management Functions (SMFs) in a communication system is provided that is configured to communicate with other network functions of the communications system through a network interface. The NRF receives NF profiles for the SMFs, wherein at least some of the NF profiles each include both a SMF identifier and a service area information for a respective one of the SMFs. After receiving the NF profiles, the NRF stores the SMF identifiers and the service area information of the NF profiles in a repository in memory. The NRF may also receive a NF discovery request for discovering SMFs. After receiving the NF discovery request, the NRF may retrieve from the repository at least one of the NF profiles respectively for at least one SMF based on content of the NF discovery request. The NRF communicates a NF discovery response containing the SMF identifier and the service area information of the at least one SMF.
US11622304B1	Preferred pcell mode support in 4G and 5G cellular network Systems and methods are provided for supporting a preferred cell mode of a telecommunications network includes a user device and a cell site. The cell site includes a cell mode system communicatively coupled to the user device. The cell mode system is structured to receive a preferred cell mode request and a management notification, generate a cell switch request based on the preferred cell mode request and the management notification, receive a cell switch confirmation based on the cell switch request, and provide a handoff request responsive to the cell switch confirmation. The handoff request is structured to initiate the handoff of the user device to at least one preferred cell, the at least one preferred cell structured to adjust an uplink data speed.
US11622301B2	Predictive client mobility session management Systems and methods are disclosed that enable predictive device mobility session management in a wireless network. A wireless communications network is able to maintain IP session continuity as a wireless device roams among wireless access points of the communications network by ensuring that the wireless device maintains communications with its home wireless access gateway.
US11622298B2	Apparatuses and methods for managing and regulating power consumption and resource allocations in communication systems and networks Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, computing a first time gap associated with a completion of a first transfer of first data via a first network connection and a completion of a second transfer of second data via a second network connection that is different from the first network connection, determining, based on the computing of the first time gap, that the first time gap exceeds a threshold, and adjusting, based on the determining, respective shares of third data that are to be transferred via the first network connection and the second network connection. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11622282B2	Secondary operator integration with a cellular network Various arrangements for operating a cellular network with advanced secondary operator privacy are presented herein. A first set of user equipment may communicate using a first radio unit and a first radio spectrum with a cellular network. A second set of user equipment may communicate with the cellular network using a second radio unit and a second radio spectrum. The second radio unit may be operated by a secondary operator distinct from the cellular network operator. The second radio unit may encrypt the second communications such that the cellular network cannot decrypt the second communications. The cellular network, can route the encrypted second communications of the second cellular network slice from the second radio unit to a data center operated by the secondary operator separate and distinct from the cellular network.
US11622279B2	Method for downlink reception in unlicensed band and user equipment using the same An aspect of the disclosure includes a method for downlink reception in unlicensed band used by a UE, including: after a data burst transmitted in a unlicensed band, stopping monitoring a downlink channel in response to ending of the data burst; and in response to receiving a reference signal or in response to expiration of a time period, starting monitoring the downlink channel, wherein the data burst is transmitted via a first bandwidth part (BWP) and initiated by a base station.
US11622277B2	Communication apparatus, communication method, and storage medium A communication apparatus reads an image relating to a first other communication apparatus and acquires information on the first other communication apparatus from the image. The communication apparatus reads an image relating to a second other communication apparatus and acquires information on the second other communication apparatus from the image. The communication apparatus transmits information on a communication channel to the first other communication apparatus. The communication channel is for use in a role determination process for determining roles of the first other communication apparatus and the second other communication apparatus in direct wireless communication. The communication apparatus transmits the information on the communication channel and the information on the first other communication apparatus to the second other communication apparatus.
US11622275B2	Geo-radius based mobile device management A mobile device management system and method. The mobile device includes a global positioning system (GPS) tracker for locating the mobile device. The method includes establishing a zone boundary defining a first zone and a second zone in a monitoring area using the GPS tracker, wherein the mobile device is maintained in a first operating mode when the mobile device is located in the first zone and a second operating mode when the mobile device is located in the second zone; sending one or more characteristics of the zone boundary to a management system; receiving at least one change to the one or more characteristics of the zone boundary from the management system; and upon the mobile device being located outside the first zone for longer than a predetermined time period, performing alert actions.
US11622267B2	Conducting secure transactions by detecting credential message with audio between first appliance and second appliance Provided is a system, method, and computer program product for conducting secure transactions with at least two appliances. The method includes monitoring audio data with a first appliance including a processor, a speaker, and a microphone; detecting, with the first appliance, an audible request to initiate a transaction from a user from the audio data; communicating, with the first appliance, a transaction request to at least one remote server in response to detecting the audible request to initiate the transaction; detecting, with the first appliance, a credential message received by the first appliance directly from a second appliance via an audio transmission, the credential message corresponding to the transaction request and including a limited use key provided to the second appliance from the at least one remote server or another remote server; and in response to detecting the credential message, initiating, with the first appliance, the transaction based on the limited use key.
US11622252B2	Methods and systems for management and control of communication network There is provided methods, apparatus and systems for management and control of a communication network. The system includes a plurality of service providers, wherein each of the plurality of service providers belongs to a consortium and all the service providers in the consortium trust each other for actions under a rule corresponding to the consortium, wherein the rule indicates how to manage a record of the actions performed by each of the plurality of service providers. Each of the plurality of service providers is configured to provide a set of services in the communication network, wherein a set of services provided by one service provider in the consortium is in one service type and manage a creation of a record indicative of actions associated with a particular set of services that the service provider provides and a distribution of the record to one or more other service providers in the consortium.
US11622246B2	Methods and apparatus for communication an uplink signaling in a target subframe The present invention discloses a method and a system for transmitting an uplink signal between a plurality of carriers, user equipment, and a base station, so that channel reciprocity can be effectively utilized. The method in embodiments of the present invention includes: receiving indication signaling sent by a base station; and transmitting an uplink signal in a target subframe of a corresponding target carrier based on the indication signaling.
US11622245B2	Multi-channel caller ID database updates A call pattern associated with a telephone number of a subscriber of a wireless carrier network is monitored. The call pattern is then analyzed via a machine-learning algorithm to classify the subscriber into a subscriber classification category of multiple subscriber classification categories. A determination is made as to whether the subscriber classification category of the subscriber corresponds to a service plan type of a specific wireless service plan subscribed to by the subscriber for the telephone number. When the subscriber classification category fails to correspond to the plan type, an offer of an additional wireless service plan that corresponds to the subscriber classification category of the subscriber is sent to a user device of the subscriber. When the subscriber classification category corresponds to the service plan type, a caller category label is assigned to the subscriber that indicates the subscriber classification category of the subscriber.
US11622243B2	Many-to-many communication techniques for mobile devices Certain embodiments are directed to techniques (e.g., a device, a method, or a non-transitory computer readable medium storing code or instructions executable by one or more processors) for many-to-many communication techniques for coordinating communications among a group of mobile devices that can be performed by a first mobile devices. The first mobile device can transmit a request to establish outgoing pairwise ranging sessions with other mobile devices of the group. Each of the mobile devices of the group of mobile devices can establish ranging sessions with the other mobile devices. Each mobile device can act as both an initiating device and a responding device for the ranging session. The first mobile device can detect one or more redundant ranging sessions the mobile devices. The first mobile device can identify whether to keep or terminate each of the one or more redundant ranging sessions based on a common criterion.
US11622237B2	Method that logs locations of a mobile computing device in a log file An improved system and method for defining an event based upon an object location and a user-defined zone and managing the conveyance of object location event information among computing devices where object location events are defined in terms of a condition based upon a relationship between user-defined zone information and object location information. One or more location information sources are associated with an object to provide the object location information. One or more user-defined zones are defined on a map and one or more object location events are defined. The occurrence of an object location event produces object location event information that is conveyed to users based on user identification codes. Accessibility to object location information, zone information, and object location event information is based upon an object location information access code, a zone information access code, and an object location event information access code, respectively.
US11622231B2	System and method for identifying associated subjects from location histories Systems and methods to track the respective locations of subjects over time. The system identifies subjects who, overtime, were co-located with one another suggesting they are associated with one another, and the pairs are analyzed. For each of the subjects, the system produces a vector that quantifies the subject's location history by including a respective weight for each combination of a time interval with a geographical area. The vectors are compared using a distance metric, and any pair of subjects whose vectors are sufficiently close are flagged as being an associated pair. The respective vector belonging to each subject is normalized to account for the total number of other subjects who were co-located with the subject. For each interval-area pair, the system may compute the frequency of the interval-area pair, and then divide each weight that corresponds to the interval-area pair by the frequency of the interval-area pair.
US11622228B2	Information processing apparatus, vehicle, computer-readable storage medium, and information processing method An information processing apparatus includes an image obtaining unit which obtains an image around a moving object. The information processing apparatus includes a determining unit which determines a risk area based on an image obtained by the image obtaining unit. The information processing apparatus includes a communication unit which transmits risk area information related to a risk area determined by the determining unit to an information collecting apparatus which collects information from a plurality of moving objects. The communication unit transmits risk area information to the information collecting apparatus when the moving object is within a region where information is provided by the information collecting apparatus.
US11622227B2	Location tracking with loitering logic A location system of a mobile device may detect a first location and a second location of the mobile device. A processor of the mobile device may determine that the first location and second location are within a geofence surrounding the location of interest. The processor may determine a speed at which the mobile device traveled from the first location to the second location. The processor may determine that the mobile device is loitering at the location of interest in response to the speed being below a threshold value. In response to determining that the mobile device is loitering at the location of interest, the processor may perform check in processing to check a user of the mobile device as being on site at the location of interest.
US11622219B2	Apparatus, a method and a computer program for delivering audio scene entities In an example embodiment, method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided. The apparatus includes at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code; the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform: assign one or more audio representations to one or more audio scene entities in an audio scene; generate one or more audio scene entity combinations based on the one or more audio scene entities and the one or more audio representations; and signal the one or more audio scene entity combinations to a client, wherein the one or more audio representations assigned to the one or more audio scene entities cause the client to select an appropriate audio scene entity combination from the one or more audio scene entity combinations to render the audio scene.
US11622216B2	System and method for interactive mobile fitting of hearing aids Systems and methods for interactive mobile fitting of hearing aids are provided. The method includes a mobile device receiving a reduced size fitting data set having a set of sampling points from a hearing aid. The method includes interpolating the reduced size fitting data set into a continuous fitting curve presented at a display of the mobile device with user interface objects that each correspond with one or more sampling points. The method includes receiving a user input manipulating a user interface object. The user input adjusts a value of sampling point(s) corresponding to the user interface object to generate an updated reduced size fitting data set that is communicated to the hearing aid. The method includes generating a substitute complete fitting data set based on the updated reduced size fitting data set for application to input audio to generate modified audio that is output from the hearing aid.
US11622207B2	Generating a hearing assistance device shell Systems and methods may be used to determine a fit for a hearing assistance device shell model. For example, a method may include receiving an image of anatomy of a patient including at least a portion of a canal aperture of an ear of the patient, generating a patient model of a portion of the anatomy of the patient, the patient model indicating at least one of a height or width of the canal aperture, and determining, using the patient model, a best fit model from a set of hearing assistance device shell models generated using a machine learning technique. The method may include outputting an identification of the best fit model.
US11622198B2	Electronic device, and method for processing stereo audio signal thereof An electronic device, according to various embodiments of the present invention, comprises: a first speaker arranged on one side end of the electronic device; a second speaker arranged on the other side end of the electronic device; at least one sensor; and a processor, wherein the processor may be configured so as to receive a first audio signal, acquire a first channel signal and a second channel signal by using the first audio signal, acquire state information associated with the electronic device by using the at least one sensor, correct at least one portion of the first channel signal on the basis of at least the state information, output the corrected first channel signal using the first speaker, and output the second channel signal using the second speaker. In addition, various embodiments are possible.
US11622195B2	Active noise control system utilizing noise cancellation sounds Adaptive operations of a first noise control system and a second noise control system may include a speaker that outputs noise cancellation sound, a microphone that detects an error signal, an auxiliary filter that generates, from a noise signal, a correction signal that corrects the error signal so that a difference in a position between the microphone and a noise cancellation position is compensated, and an adaptive filter that performs an adaptive operation using the corrected error signal to generate the noise cancellation sound from the noise signal are alternately performed. A transfer function learned in a state in which the second noise control system is stopped is set in the auxiliary filter of the first noise control system, and a transfer function learned in a state in which the adaptive operation of the first noise control system is stopped is set in the auxiliary filter of the second noise control system.
US11622192B1	Systems and methods for providing in-groove beamforming microphones The disclosed device may include an optical structure configured to house various sensors directed toward a user. The sensors may be configured to gather data through at least one layer of the optical structure. The device may also a vent bracket positioned between the optical structure and an outer covering of the device. The vent bracket may be positioned to provide an opening between the optical structure and the vent bracket, allowing air to flow through the opening. The device may also include various microphones positioned in recessed ports between the optical structure and the vent bracket. These openings may allow external sounds to reach the microphones in the device. Various other methods of manufacturing, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11622191B2	Entertainment system for a vehicle including a sound emitting module An entertainment system for a vehicle, the system including: a sound emitting module including multiple sound emitting units, wherein the sound emitting module is adapted to be arranged such that the multiple sound emitting units are distributed along the transverse extension of a windshield of the vehicle and to emit sound towards the windshield, and a display device arranged between the sound emitting module and an occupant seating position, wherein the display device is arranged to cover the sound emitting module as seen from the occupant seating position. The disclosed entertainment system provides the advantage of integrating a more advanced sound system in the form of a sound emitting module including multiple sound emitting units.
US11622181B2	Display device A display device includes a display panel which includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a light emitting element layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and outputting light toward the second substrate, a first sound generator which is disposed on the first substrate and outputs a first sound by vibrating the display panel, a source circuit board which is disposed on the first substrate, and a first sound circuit board which connects the first sound generator and the source circuit board.
US11622178B2	Speaker-integration system for an electronic device, and associated devices and systems This document describes a speaker-integration system and associated devices and systems. The speaker-integration system includes a speaker that is re-workably mounted, via an elastomeric gasket, to an intermediate structure that is mountable to an outer enclosure of an electronic device. The intermediate structure forms a cavity in which the speaker is sealed, effective to use the cavity as the speaker's back volume to contain acoustic waves without impacting other structures in the electronic device. The front of the speaker is sealed against the outer enclosure by a gasket that controls, based on its placement and geometry, axial and radial directions of the speaker relative to the intermediate structure to prevent the speaker from buzzing against surrounding rigid parts. The speaker has wires that exit the back volume via a detachable grommet, which controls positioning of the wires to prevent rub and buzz against surrounding parts.
US11622177B2	Loudspeaker assembly with internal screw bosses A loudspeaker assembly includes an enclosure having an open front side and a wall having an interior surface and an exterior surface with a wall thickness defined therebetween. The wall is integrally molded with a screw boss supported by a plurality of molded ribs that extend inwardly from the interior surface. The loudspeaker assembly also includes an audio transducer positioned within the enclosure and having an output side facing the open front side of the enclosure to emit sound therefrom; and a mount for securing the transducer to the enclosure via a screw threaded into the screw boss. At a meeting point with the interior surface, each of the plurality of molded ribs has a rib thickness measured perpendicular to the wall thickness, the rib thickness being less than 50 percent of the wall thickness to avoid sink marks in the injection molded part.
US11622170B2	Systems, methods, and devices for unmanned vehicle detection Systems, methods, and apparatus for detecting UAVs in an RF environment are disclosed. An apparatus is constructed and configured for network communication with at least one camera. The at least one camera captures images of the RF environment and transmits video data to the apparatus. The apparatus receives RF data and generates FFT data based on the RF data, identifies at least one signal based on a first derivative and a second derivative of the FFT data, measures a direction from which the at least one signal is transmitted, analyzes the video data. The apparatus then identifies at least one UAV to which the at least one signal is related based on the analyzed video data, the RF data, and the direction from which the at least one signal is transmitted, and controls the at least one camera based on the analyzed video data.
US11622157B2	Display apparatus and operating method of the same A display apparatus includes a communicator configured to communicate with an external apparatus, a memory storing one or more instructions, and a processor. The processor may be configured to execute the one or more instructions to control the communicator to receive data regarding frames forming each of a plurality of pieces of broadcast content in a normal mode; extract first object information based on the data; and provide information about broadcast content corresponding to a keyword of interest of a user from among the pieces of broadcast content, based on the first object information. When entering a suspended mode from the normal mode, the processor may be configured to control the communicator to receive second object information in the suspended mode, and provide the information about the broadcast content corresponding to the keyword of interest from among the pieces of broadcast content, based on the second object information.
US11622156B1	Systems and methods for synchronizing client data structures with broadcaster events Systems and methods for synchronizing client data structures with session events are disclosed. The system can establish a session responsive to a request from a host client device associated with a host player profile. The system can configure the host player profile to share records of events performed via the host player profile during the session, and can receive requests to join the session, each request associated with a respective viewer player profile. The system can receive a request from a viewer to permit automatic population of records corresponding to events performed via the host player profile during the session. The system can detect an event performed via the host player profile during the session, and generate a record corresponding to the event in the viewer player profile, which is used to enable performance of a corresponding event having the same event parameters via the viewer player profile.
US11622154B2	Method of recommending related programs Method and system of recommending program without individually compiling subscribe profile information. The method and system being suitable for recommending television programs, movies, and any other media, including but not limited to advertisements and music.
US11622128B2	Image coding method, image decoding method, image coding apparatus, and image decoding apparatus An image coding method includes: deriving a candidate for a motion vector of a current block from a co-located motion vector; adding the candidate to a list; selecting the motion vector of the current block from the list; and coding the current block, wherein the deriving includes: deriving the candidate by a first derivation scheme in the case of determining that each of a current reference picture and a co-located reference picture is a long-term reference picture; and deriving the candidate by a second derivation scheme in the case of determining that each of the current reference picture and the co-located reference picture is a short-term reference picture.
US11622126B2	Image decoding method and apparatus based on affine motion prediction in image coding system According to the present disclosure, an image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus comprises the steps of: acquiring motion prediction information on a current block from a bitstream; generating an affine MVP candidate list including affine motion vector predictor candidates for the current block; deriving CPMVPs for CPs of the current block on the basis of one affine MVP candidate among the affine MVP candidates included in the affine MVP candidate list; deriving CPMVDs for the CPs of the current block on the basis of the motion prediction information; deriving CPMVs for the CPs of the current block on the basis of the CPMVPs and the CPMVDs; and deriving prediction samples for the current block on the basis of the CPMVs.
US11622123B1	Film grain preservation Techniques for selectively preserving film grain for video encoding are described. In certain embodiments, a content delivery system and/or service determines one or more blocks of a frame to preserve film grain in the encoding in contrast to preserving the film grain in the encoding of all of the blocks of the frame.
US11622118B2	Determination of coding modes for video content using order of potential coding modes and block classification Techniques are described for efficiently encoding video data by skipping evaluation of certain encoding modes based on various evaluation criteria. In some solutions, intra-block evaluation is performed in a specific order during encoding, and depending on encoding cost calculations of potential intra-block encoding modes, evaluation of some of the potential modes can be skipped. In some solutions, some encoding modes can be skipped depending on whether blocks are simple (e.g., simple vertical, simple horizontal, or both) or non-simple. In some solutions, various criteria are applied to determine whether chroma-from-luma mode evaluation can be skipped. The various solutions can be used independently and/or in combination.
US11622111B2	Methods and apparatus of video coding for triangle prediction A method for video coding is provided. The method includes: partitioning video pictures into a plurality of coding units (CUs), at least one of which is further portioned into two prediction units (PUs) including at least one triangular shaped PU with a partitioning orientation in one of: from top-left corner to bottom-right corner, and from top-right corner to bottom-left corner; constructing a uni-prediction motion vector candidate list; determining whether a current CU is coded as triangle prediction mode according to coded information; signaling a partition orientation flag indicating the partitioning orientation; and signaling index values that indicate selected entries in the constructed uni-prediction motion vector candidate list.
US11622110B2	Methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding video according to coding order Provided is a video decoding method including obtaining split information indicating whether to split a current block; when the split information indicates that the current block is split, splitting the current block into at least two lower blocks; obtaining encoding order information indicating an encoding order of the at least two lower blocks of the current block; determining a decoding order of the at least two lower blocks according to the encoding order information; and decoding the at least two lower blocks according to the decoding order.
US11622100B2	360-degree virtual-reality system for dynamic events A dynamic event capturing and rendering system collects and aggregates video, audio, positional, and motion data to create a comprehensive user perspective 360-degree rendering of a field of play. An object associated with a user collects data that is stitched together and synchronized to provide post event analysis and training. Through an interface actions that occurred during an event can be recreated providing the viewer with information on what the user associated with the object was experiencing, where the user was looking, and how certain actions may have changed the outcome. Using the collected data, a virtual realty environment is created that can be manipulated to present alternative courses of action and outcomes.
US11622090B2	System and method of wireless communication using destination based queueing A method and system for communication between devices includes connecting a plurality of communication devices through a communication system. At least one communication device acts as a source entity sending a plurality of data packets to an access point. A plurality of communication devices act as destination entities receiving the data packets. The data packets are distributed, by the access point, to the destination entities in such a way that the data packets are queued for receipt by each destination entity in a separate non-interdependent queue.
US11622088B2	Reception apparatus, transmission apparatus, and data processing method A reception apparatus is provided that includes circuitry configured to receive a digital data stream. The circuitry is configured to acquire closed caption information included in the digital data stream. The circuitry is configured to acquire control information including selection information indicating a selection of a specific mode from a plurality of modes for specifying when closed caption text is to be displayed. The circuitry is further configured to output the closed caption text included in the closed caption information for display to a user, at a display time according to the specific mode, based on the selection information included in the control information.
US11622087B2	Image sensor with in-pixel background subtraction and motion detection An imaging system includes a pixel array configured to generate image charge voltage signals in response to incident light received from an external scene. An infrared illumination source is deactivated during the capture of a first image of the external scene and activated during the capture of a second image of the external scene. An array of sample and hold circuits is coupled to the pixel array. Each sample and hold circuit is coupled to a respective pixel of the pixel array and includes first and second capacitors to store first and second image charge voltage signals of the captured first and second images, respectively. A column voltage domain differential amplifier is coupled to the first and second capacitors to determine a difference between the first and second image charge voltage signals to identify an object in a foreground of the external scene.
US11622082B2	Imaging apparatus capable of switching display methods An imaging apparatus comprises an image pickup unit, a cutout image generation unit for cutting out a specified area in a pickup image taken by the image pickup unit to generate a cutout image enlarged at a specified magnification, an image display unit for displaying one or both of the pickup image taken by the image pickup unit and the cutout image generated by the cutout image generation unit, a display image control unit for controlling a method of displaying an image the image display unit displays, a manual focus operation unit for the user to control through manual operation the focus position of the image pickup unit, and a manual zoom operation unit for the user to control the zoom magnification of the image pickup unit.
US11622074B2	Electronic apparatus and accessory system An electronic apparatus connectable to an external electronic apparatus and storing at least one power supply for operating the external electronic apparatus includes a connection interface that is connected to the external electronic apparatus, and at least one processor configured to control the electronic apparatus. Power of the at least one power supply is supplied to the external electronic apparatus via the connection interface. The at least one processor controls the external electronic apparatus by using power received from the external electronic apparatus via the connection interface.
US11622068B2	Elevatable webcam module An elevatable webcam module is provided. The elevatable webcam module includes a fixing base, a bearing base, a webcam unit, an elastic element, a damper and a locking unit. The fixing base is fixed in a display body. The bearing base is slidably disposed on the fixing base, the bearing base is accommodated in the display body when the bearing base is at a retracted position, and the bearing base is partially exposed from the display body when the bearing base is at a protruded position. The webcam unit is disposed on the bearing base. The elastic element abuts against the fixing base and the bearing base therebetween. The damper is disposed on the fixing base and is connected to the bearing base. The locking unit is disposed on the fixing base to fix the bearing base at the retracted position. When the locking unit is unlocked, the elastic force provided by the elastic element to the bearing base overcomes the resistance provided by the damper to the bearing base, the bearing base slides from the retracted position to the protruded position.
US11622066B2	Flash array for portable camera system A distributed light source couple-able to a mobile device, comprising, a distributed array of light emitting points and a mount connected to the distributed array and couple-able to the mobile device, the distributed array capable of light emission from a plurality of areas.
US11622062B1	Ruggedized miniaturized infrared camera system for aerospace environments A ruggedized miniaturized infrared camera system for harsh environments has an infrared camera module that is connected to a ruggedized camera mount. The camera mount has a body and a lens clamp that clamps the camera lens to the body. The camera mount and military-spec fasteners cooperate to mechanically secure the camera module from vibrations. An interface bracket is attached to the camera mount and has a central opening. A signal connector is attached to the exterior side of the bracket and configured to carry USB2 signals. Conductive pins of the signal connector extend through the central opening and are electrically coupled to a circuit board that is adjacent to the interior side of the bracket. An electrically non-conductive spacer is within the central opening and interposed between the signal connector and circuit board. Heat-conductive epoxy secures the circuit board from vibrations and creates thermal bonds that passively remove heat.
US11622056B2	Image reading system and information processing apparatus using folder-specific read setting information A personal computer 1 includes a first communication interface mechanism 16 that communicates with a first scanner 2A, and a first memory 13 that stores first reading setting information 131A in a first folder 131. The first scanner 2A includes a reception unit 221 that receives instruction data CM instructing reading of an image for which the first folder 131 is specified as the storage destination for read data, an acquisition unit 222 that, when the reception unit 221 receives the instruction data CM, accesses to the first folder 131 of the personal computer 1 and acquires the first reading setting information 131A from the first folder 131, a setting unit 223 that sets a reading condition based on the first reading setting information 131A, and a reading unit 224 that reads out an image and generates read data under the reading condition.
US11622054B2	Image reading apparatus and method for replacing cable An upper unit configured to open and close an upper portion of a lower unit includes: a first reading unit disposed in a medium transport path, the first reading unit being configured to read a surface of a transported medium; a substrate coupled to the first reading unit; a cable having one end and another end, the one end being coupled to a first coupling portion of the first reading unit, the other end being coupled to a second coupling portion of the substrate; and a facing portion facing the lower unit in a state in which the upper unit is closed, the facing portion being configured to be attached to and detached from the upper unit. The cable is disposed at a position exposed when the facing portion is detached from the upper unit.
US11622048B2	Technique for reading images on a sheet controlling sensor based on two measurements modes in which result corresponding to a wavelength range is reduced or not An image forming system includes an image forming unit, a sensor, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the sensor based on measurement modes including a first measurement mode and a second measurement mode. A sampling number of an image by the sensor while the sensor moves in the direction orthogonal to the conveying direction in the first measurement mode is less than a sampling number of an image by the sensor while the sensor moves in the direction orthogonal to the conveying direction in the second measurement mode.
US11622047B2	Real-time usage detection of software applications A system and method that allows for information relating to data and communication resource usage to be gathered and analyzed such that particular data transactions and usage of network accessible software applications can be classified based on purpose and/or type. Further, the system and method provide reporting based on amount of usage and/or purpose or type of usage so that associated costs and usage can be calculated applied and allocated to particular accounts, divisions, groups or individuals within and outside of a company or entity. Further, the system may disable features of or access to network accessible software applications based on lack or use, limited use or other metrics that fall outside of threshold ranges or values.
US11622033B2	Camera module and portable electronic device including the same A camera module includes a lens module including lenses and a reflecting module disposed in front of the lens module. The reflecting module is configured to change a path of light to direct the light toward the lens module. The reflecting module includes a holder in which a reflecting member configured to change the path of the light is mounted and a first housing supporting the holder. The holder is configured to slide with respect to the first housing to enable rotation of the reflecting member with respect to a first axis and a second axis.
US11622031B2	Communication device having a configurable housing with multiple antennas A communication device, method and computer program product enable multiple transceiver communication in a communication device having a configurable housing. A pivot mechanism is connected between first and second housing portions for relative movement of a housing assembly between open and closed positions. The closed position aligns four antenna positions in the first housing portion adjacent to one of four antenna positions in the second housing portion to present four pairings of adjacent antenna positions. Four antennas are positioned within the first housing portion or the second housing portion at a different one of the four pairings of adjacent antenna positions. A radio frequency (RF) front end is communicatively coupled to the four antennas and has two or more transceivers that utilize the four antennas to communicate without antenna-to-antenna signal cancellation in RF low band while the housing assembly is in either of the open position and the closed position.
US11622026B2	Feature activation control and data prefetching with network-connected mobile devices In some embodiments, an electronic device is disclosed for intelligently prefetching data via a computer network. The electronic device can include a device housing, a user interface, a memory device, and a hardware processor. The hardware processor can: communicate via a communication network; determine that the hardware processor is expected to be unable to communicate via the communication network; responsive to determining that the hardware processor is expected to be unable to communicate via the communication network, determine prefetch data to request prior to the hardware processor being unable to communicate via the communication network; request the prefetch data; receive and store the prefetch data prior to the hardware processor being unable to communicate via the communication network; and subsequent to the hardware processor being unable to communicate via the communication network, process the prefetch data with an application responsive to processing a first user input with the application.
US11622022B2	System and method for a multi-channel notification service A method for a communication platform includes receiving configuration data associated with an account, the configuration data identifying a plurality of communication channels to provide messages to a plurality of communication endpoints. The method also includes receiving a request associated with the account to transmit messages to a set of communication endpoints of the plurality of communication endpoints, and determining, based at least in part on the configuration data, a message payload, the set of communication endpoints, and a set of communication channel identifiers corresponding to the set of communication endpoints. The method further includes transmitting the messages to communication endpoints in the set of communication endpoints, each message including the message payload and being transmitted to a respective communication endpoint using a communication channel identified by a communication channel identifier corresponding to the respective communication endpoint.
US11622020B2	Push control In some examples, push control may include generation of a learning-based decision model based on analysis of data associated with historical usage of an application. For a request for content associated with usage of the application, the learning-based decision model may be analyzed to determine a next request for additional content expected to occur after the request for content. Further, a push operation may be performed to push the additional content associated with the next request to a source of the request for content.
US11622015B2	Method for configuring an OPC UA PubSub subscriber, automation system, computer program and computer-readable medium A method for configuring at least one OPC UA PubSub subscriber in an in particular industrial network, in which a) a virtual address space is provided for the at least one subscriber on a configuration module that is separate from the at least one subscriber, b) a configuration for the at least one subscriber is performed and/or a configuration already existing for the at least one subscriber is changed in the virtual address space of the at least one subscriber, c) the configuration module converts the configuration and/or configuration change into at least one PubSub message, d) the at least one PubSub message is transmitted to the at least one subscriber, and e) the at least one subscriber is configured according to the at least one PubSub message. In addition, the invention relates to an automation system, a computer program and a computer-readable medium.
US11622014B1	Systems and methods for integrating multiple third-party applications Systems and methods are disclosed for integrating with third-party applications. An extension module operates with a user interface application on a client computing device. The extension module enables integration of functionality of an associated middleware system. The extension module extracts data from a user interface of a third-party application system based on a regular expression template. The extension module transmits data to the middleware system and receives information from the middleware system. The extension module can alter at least a portion of the user interface based on the information received from the middleware system.
US11622010B2	Virtualizing device management services on a multi-session platform Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses may provide virtualization of device management services (e.g., device drivers) dedicated managing a particular device and designed under for or under the assumption the particular device and the device management service will be utilized in a single session/user environment, so that virtual instances of the device management services may be used in a multi-session environment. Further, a redirection and/or virtualization layer may be created for each session in the multi-session environment to perform global database redirection, object name translation, and file system translation to ensure session boundaries are maintained and global/shared resources are not inappropriately altered by a session. As an example, the redirection/virtualization layer may redirect communications associated with a session and for a global resource to access a virtual instance of the resource specific to the session.
US11622006B2	Single pair ethernet sensor device and sensor network A sensor device may include an environmental sensor configured to sense an environmental parameter and generate a signal representative thereof, a single pair ethernet (SPE) interface configured to cooperate with an SPE link, and a controller provided in communication with the environmental sensor and the SPE interface. The controller may be configured to receive the signal representative of the sensed environmental parameter and to control the SPE interface to generate at least one ethernet frame including data indicative of the sensed environmental parameter for transmission over the SPE link. The controller may be further configured to automatically configure communication with a remote server over the SPE link via the SPE interface.
US11622000B2	Grey failure handling in distributed storage systems Techniques are disclosed relating to managing distributed storage of data across availability zones and the replication of data in case of storage server failures. A distributed storage system may include storage servers distributed across availability zones with an auditor instantiated in at least one storage server. The auditor manages the replication of data in the event of one or more storage servers failure in an availability zone. In the event of the failure, the auditor may determine the extent of the failure and whether the failure involves a small number or a large number of storage servers. In the event a large number of storage servers being affected, the auditor may delay replication of data to see if the failure is temporary and avoid unwanted data transfer of large amounts of data across availability zones.
US11621998B2	Dynamic creation and execution of containerized applications in cloud computing A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium for creating and executing containerized applications in cloud computing are disclosed. For example, one method involves identifying a command. Such a command indicates an application to be executed by a compute node. The method also involves generating a job for transmission to the compute node. The job indicates a container. The compute node, upon receipt of the job, is configured to create an environment for such a container, execute the application within the container, and generate results of the execution of the application.
US11621997B2	Dynamically assigning storage locations for messaging system data Method of dynamically assigning storage locations starts with the processor updating first user's home location data. Processor selects communication session between first user and second user and determines second user's home location data. Processor determines a session location data that indicates current storage location that stores data of communication session received from first and second client devices. Processor identifies available data storage locations based on first user and second user's home location data and determines whether to update the session location data based on an average of a distance over network fiber using the first user and second user's home locations, current storage location, and available storage locations. In response to determining to update the session location data, processor updates session location data to indicate one of the available storage locations, and causes transfer of data of communication session to one of the available storage locations. Other embodiments are described.
US11621994B2	Brokering servers based on remote access performance Examples of a method for brokering remote servers are described herein. In some examples, performance data is received from a plurality of remote servers, where the performance data indicates rendering performance of a foreground application executed by at least one of the remote servers and streamed from at least one of the remote servers over a remote desktop connection. An indication of a selected application is received from a client. The client is directed to at least one of the remote servers based on the performance data and the selected application.
US11621983B1	Electronic content sharing Systems and methods are disclosed for sharing electronic content between a plurality of users. The electronic content can be accessed by the users through interactions with a virtual collaborative workspace. The members of a virtual collaborative workspace can be dependent upon the shared electronic content. Certain actions can be asked of various users with regard to the electronic content. Once the action has been performed, the electronic content can be routed to various other users in an automated fashion.
US11621980B2	System and method for providing upstream directives based on upstream signal quality of wireless network in real-time communication A method for determining and providing upstream directives in real-time communication over a wireless network is performed by an RTC/RTE application running on a mobile device and an access point application running on a Wi-Fi access point. The access point application determines the values of a set of upstream Wi-Fi signal quality parameters including at least one of an upstream RSSI parameter, an upstream SNR parameter, an upstream link speed parameter, and an upstream remaining bandwidth parameter of the mobile device. Each value is compared to a set of upstream thresholds to derive an upstream Wi-Fi connection quality measure. Each set of upstream thresholds includes at least two different values. The RTC/RTE application determines an upstream directive from the upstream Wi-Fi connection quality measure, and presents the upstream directive to a user in an audio or video form.
US11621974B2	Managing supersedence of solutions for security issues among assets of an enterprise network In an embodiment, a security auditing component obtains a solution set that is based upon a security audit of an enterprise network, the solution set characterizing a set of solutions associated with a set of security issues associated with one or more assets of the enterprise network, detects that the solution set can be condensed into a condensed solution set that mitigates the set of security issues to the same degree as the solution set, the detection being based at least in part upon (i) one or more rules applied to one or more solution texts and/or (ii) asset-specific metadata and/or (iii) static metadata, and condenses, based on the detecting, the solution set into the condensed solution set by combining two or more subsets of related solutions and/or filtering the solution set to remove one or more subsets of redundant or superseded solutions.
US11621972B2	System and method for protection of an ICS network by an HMI server therein A defense suite for an industrial control system (ICS) network is disclosed. The defense suite is installed and executed on a network server hosting the human-machine interface (HMI) function of the network, thereby gaining communication privileges of the HMI server to query and perform other operations with programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and other assets of the network. The defense suite further comprises a network protection engine (NWPE) that alerts a defense suite user of suspicious activity in the network. Normal behavior of the network is obtained by a learning engine, during a learning period. The learning engine can be reactivated after a configuration change in the network. The data suite also comprises an operating system protection engine (OSPE), for preventing removable devices from accessing the HMI server and a preventing execution of unauthorized executables. The OSPE is also trained for which programs are authorized through its own program discovery module.
US11621964B2	Analyzing an event enacted by a data entity when performing a security operation A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a security operation. The security operation includes: monitoring a data entity, the monitoring observing at least one electronically-observable data source, the data entity exhibiting a data entity behavior; deriving an observable based upon the monitoring of the electronically-observable data source, the observable comprising event information corresponding to the data entity behavior; identifying an event of analytic utility, the event of analytic utility being derived from the observable from the electronic data source and the data entity behavior; analyzing the event of analytic utility, the analyzing the event of analytic utility using the data entity behavior; and, performing the security operation in response to the analyzing the event of analytic utility.
US11621954B2	Token based one-time password security A one-time password (OTP) based security scheme is described, where a provider pre-generates a number of verification codes (e.g., OTP codes) which will be valid for a predetermined interval. The provider then encodes the verification codes (e.g., by hashing each code with a time value), and stores the verification codes into a data structure. The data structure can be provided to a verification system that can use the set of pre-generated OTP codes to authenticate requests received from users having personal security tokens.
US11621947B2	Data messaging service with distributed ledger control In a messaging server, processing circuitry receives a network packet that encapsulates a user message from a wireless User Equipment (UE) over a wireless communication network. In response to the network packet, the processing circuitry transfers the user message to ledger circuitry in the messaging server. The ledger circuitry executes a distributed ledger transaction based on a source domain and a destination domain in the user message. The ledger circuitry transfers the user message to the processing circuitry after the distributed ledger transaction. The processing circuitry receives the user message from the ledger circuitry and generates a new network packet for delivery to the destination domain that encapsulates the user message. The ledger circuitry transfers the new network packet that encapsulates the user message for delivery to the destination domain.
US11621943B1	Methods and systems for automatic network service configuration Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for automatic network service configuration involves using a packet manager of a switch in a network, receiving a packet containing dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) request information from a network device in the network, and using the packet manager of the switch in the network, obtaining routing configuration and Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) configuration of the network device in response to the packet containing the DHCP request information.
US11621939B1	Domain name suggestion and registration via chatbot Techniques for providing domain name suggestions to a user that is a prospective registrant via chatbot are disclosed. The techniques include providing a publicly available online chatbot to the user; requesting domain name generation data from the user via the chatbot and during a chatbot session with the user; receiving domain name generation data based on the requesting; generating a plurality of generated domain names using the domain name generation data; filtering registered domain names out of the plurality of generated domain names to produce a plurality of unregistered generated domain names; offering to register at least one of the unregistered generated domain names to the user; receiving an offer acceptance from the user; directing the user, via the chatbot, to provide information sufficient to register the at least one of the unregistered generated domain names; and facilitating registration of the at least one of the unregistered generated domain names.
US11621934B2	Secure forum facilitator in controlled environment An forum facilitator device is provided that allows for a controlled environment to provide a secure forum for residents to provide communications to other registered users of the secure forum. The communications are provided through posts made in the secure forum and through other types of communications from the inmate such as but not limited to emails and text messages. The forum facilitator device operates the secure forum and implements rules to control what is posted on the secure forum, who is able to access the secure forum, and what entities are allowed to view and interact with residents of the controlled environment.
US11621933B2	Systems and methods for editing, recalling, and deleting messages Systems and methods for enabling messages to be modified are disclosed. The system can enable messages that have already been sent, and even messages that have already been read, to be edited, recalled, or deleted. The system can identify incoming messages with message identifications (IDs) that are associated with previously sent or received messages, or “stored” messages, and modify the stored messages according to the content of the incoming messages. The system can include new SIP headers including X-EDIT-MessageID, X-RECALL-MessageID, and X-DELETE-MessageID. When an incoming message is received with a message ID associated with a stored message and/or one of the new commands, the receiving user equipment (UE) can replace the contents of the stored message with the contents of the incoming message or recall or delete the stored message.
US11621932B2	System and method for managing resources of an enterprise A resource managing computer system for managing at least one resource in an enterprise is disclosed. The resource managing computer system includes a communication interface for establishing at least one web based chat communication session with at least one customer. The system further includes a monitoring module for monitoring one or more parameters associated with the at least one web based chat communication session. The system further includes a computing module for computing at least one confidence score based on the one or more monitored parameters of the at least one web based chat communication session. The system further includes an allocation module for allocating the at least one resource to the at least one web based chat communication session, wherein the allocation is performed based on the at least one computed confidence score.
US11621930B2	Systems and methods for generating dynamic conversational responses using trained machine learning models Methods and systems are described herein for generating dynamic conversational responses. For example, dynamic conversational responses may facilitate an interactive exchange with users. Therefore, the methods and systems used specialized methods to enriched data that may be indicative of a user's intent prior to processing that data through the machine learning model, as well as a specialized architecture for the machine learning models that take advantage of the user interface format.
US11621911B2	System and method for client communication in a distributed telephony network A system and method for regional routing of internet protocol based real-time communication that includes registering a set of client application endpoint routes, comprising registering at least a first client gateway route of a first endpoint in a first region; receiving a communication invitation of the first endpoint; processing a set of communication instructions associated with the communication invitation and identifying a set of communication resources and at least a second endpoint; querying the client application endpoint routes and identifying a client gateway route of the second endpoint; and dynamically directing signaling path and media path of the communication according to the regional availability of the communication resources, the client gateway route of the first endpoint, and client gateway instance route of the second endpoint.
US11621904B1	Path telemetry data collection A switch or other network device may be configured as an ingress edge telemetry node in a telemetry domain. The ingress edge telemetry node may clone certain data units it processes, for example in response to certain telemetry triggers being met. The ingress edge telemetry node may further inject telemetry and/or other data into the cloned data unit. The cloned data unit continues along the same path as the original data unit until it reaches an egress edge telemetry node in the telemetry domain. The second node extracts the telemetry data from the cloned data unit and sends telemetry information based thereon to a telemetry collector, while the original data unit continues to its final destination. Nodes along the path between the first node and the second node may be configured as transit telemetry nodes that insert or otherwise update the telemetry data.
US11621899B1	Automatic creation of related event groups for an IT service monitoring system The operation of an automatic service monitoring system (SMS) is directed by stored control information. Methods and mechanisms are provided to create control information that directs operations of the SMS regarding the grouping together of related notable events for unified display and processing. The control information directs grouping operations that automatically correlate the events without requiring, for example, a set of declarative grouping rules.
US11621897B2	Enabling a performance measurement in a packet-switched communication network It is disclosed a method for enabling a performance measurement in a packet-switched communication network. A first node and a second node exchange packets comprising a marking value, which they alternately switch between two alternative marking values. The second node in particular switches the marking value applicable to the packets addressed to the other node depending on the marking value comprised in packets received therefrom. The first node writes a sampling value in one packet addressed to the second node for each marking period. Upon reception of each packet comprising the sampling value, the second node copies the sampling value in a packet addressed to the first node. One or more measurement points may be provided between the two nodes, which provide performance parameters for the packets comprising the sampling value in both directions. Such performance parameters may be used for providing round trip time measurements.
US11621896B2	Network embedded real time service level objective validation A mechanism is disclosed for performing network embedded real time service level objective (SLO) validation. The mechanism may be implemented by a network device including a processor configured to generate a data packet as part of a data flow, the data packet including a service level objective (SLO), the SLO indicating a network service threshold and including a key performance indicator (KPI), the KPI indicating a network service metric to be compared to the network service threshold; a transmitter coupled to the processor, the transmitter configured to transmit the data packet toward a network; and a receiver coupled to the processor, the receiver configured to receive a message, the message indicating to the network device whether a service provided by the network has met or violated the SLO.
US11621894B2	Computerized systems and methods for processing high-volume log files from virtual servers A system for live analysis of testing logs. The system including a memory and a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations including receiving a plurality of log entries; processing the plurality of log entries; storing the processed plurality of log entries in a database having an inverted index; receiving a query from a user device; returning test data, metadata, and statistics related to the one or more log entries; displaying the test data, the metadata, and the statistics on a GUI; comparing an exposure ratio to a range, the exposure ratio being based on a first amount of log entries associated with a first test version and a second amount of log entries associated with a second test version; and upon determining the exposure ratio is outside of the range, directing all requests from subsequent test users to a default test version.
US11621892B2	Temporal-based network embedding and prediction Deriving network embeddings that represent attributes of, and relationships between, different nodes in a network while preserving network data temporal and structural properties is described. A network representation system generates a plurality of graph time-series representations of network data that each includes a subset of nodes and edges included in a time segment of the network data, constrained either by time or a number of edges included in the representation. A temporal graph of the network data is generated by implementing a temporal model that incorporates temporal dependencies into the graph time-series representations. From the temporal graph, network embeddings for the network data are derived, where the network embeddings capture temporal dependencies between nodes, as indicated by connecting edges, as well as temporal structural properties of the network data. Network embeddings represent network data in a low-dimensional latent space, which is useable to generate a prediction regarding the network data.
US11621888B2	Techniques for migrating worker nodes to a new manager instance Techniques for migrating worker nodes within clusters to a new manager instance. One technique includes receiving a request to migrate or update a configuration of a cluster within a container system, where the migration or update includes switching from a first communication pathway to a second communication pathway between worker nodes and a manager instance; creating a component and associated IP address for the second communication pathway; communicating a pod specification that includes the IP address for the second communication pathway to the manager instance, where the pod specification will cause a container tool to update each of the worker nodes with the IP address for the second communication pathway; receiving a notification that all worker nodes have been updated with the IP address; and removing a component and associated IP address for the first communication pathway from the cluster.
US11621886B2	Method for a wireless data communication between a sensor system and a receiver, and a system for a wireless data communication The disclosure relates to a method and a system for a wireless data communication between a sensor system and a receiver capable of receiving analyte values sensed by the sensor system in a continuous analyte monitoring. The method includes establishing an unconnected mode operation for the system. The receiver receives a first data package broadcasted by the sensor system that has first status data indicative of a device status and/or an analyte value status. The first status data is processed by a receiver controller. A connected mode operation is established for the system responsive to determining at least one of a critical device status and a critical analyte value status. The establishing includes establishing a communication channel between the sensor system and the receiver and receiving a second data package transmitted by the sensor system in the receiver, the second data package comprising one or more analyte values.
US11621880B2	Systems and methods for inserting supplemental content into a quadrature amplitude modulation signal using existing bandwidth Systems and methods are described herein for inserting supplemental content into a QAM signal. A unicast QAM signal between a server and a client device for delivery of content is established. The QAM signal has a particular frequency corresponding to the channel on which it will be transmitted to the client device. A request or other signal may be received from the client device requesting that supplemental content be inserted into the QAM signal. A portion of the bandwidth of the QAM signal is allocated for the supplemental content. The supplemental content is transcoded into a supplemental QAM signal in the particular frequency. The supplemental content may be packetized content such as internet protocol-based content and may be retrieved from a server or database. The supplemental QAM signal is then inserted into the unicast QAM signal using the allocated portion of the bandwidth.
US11621878B2	NB-IoT-u baseband definition A method performed by a network node in a wireless communications system is disclosed. The method comprises generating a time-continuous baseband signal by applying a phase compensation that removes a physical resource block (PRB)-dependent phase rotation on a subcarrier. The method comprises converting the generated time-continuous baseband signal into a radio frequency signal. The method comprises transmitting the radio frequency signal to a wireless device over a radio interface.
US11621875B2	Method and apparatus for applying optimized phase rotation in consideration of various RF capabilities in broadband with 80MHZ based preamble puncturing in WLAN system A method and an apparatus for transmitting an EHT PPDU in a WLAN system are proposed. Specifically, a transmitter generates an EHT PPDU and transmits, on the basis of an RF, the EHT PPDU to a receiver through a 320 MHz band in which an 80 MHz band is punctured. A legacy preamble includes an L-STF and an L-LTF. The legacy preamble is generated by applying a first phase rotation value. The first phase rotation value is determined on the basis of a first scheme and a second scheme. The first scheme is a scheme of obtaining an optimal PAPR in the L-STF and the L-LTF. The second scheme is a scheme of obtaining an optimal PAPR on the basis of the maximum transmission bandwidth supported by the RF. The first phase rotation value is obtained on the basis of a second phase rotation value and a third phase rotation value. The second phase rotation value is a phase rotation value that repeats a phase rotation value defined for the 80 MHz band in an 802.11ax system. The third phase rotation value is a phase rotation value defined in units of the 80 MHz band in the 320 MHz band.
US11621870B2	Sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission for positioning on flexible symbols Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) transmission for positioning can be utilized on flexible symbols. Techniques disclosed for transmitting a reference signal for positioning comprise receiving, from a serving base station, a message comprising an indication to transmit a SRS on a set of symbols of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) slot. Techniques may also comprise determining the SRS is to be used for positioning, and receiving, from the serving base station, downlink control information (DCI) having a slot format indicator (SFI) that designates a subset of the set of symbols as flexible. Techniques may also comprise transmitting the SRS on at least a portion of the subset.
US11621869B2	Enabling access to dedicated resources in a virtual network using top of rack switches Systems and methods for enabling access to dedicated resources in a virtual network using top of rack switches are disclosed. A method includes a virtual filtering platform encapsulating at least one packet, received from a virtual machine, to generate at least one encapsulated packet comprising a virtual network identifier (VNI). The method further includes a TOR switch: (1) receiving the at least one encapsulated packet and decapsulating the at least one encapsulated packet to create at least one decapsulated packet, (2) using the VNI to identify a virtual routing and forwarding artifact to determine a virtual local area network interface associated with the dedicated hardware portion, and (3) transmitting the at least one decapsulated packet to the dedicated hardware portion based on at least one policy provided by a controller, where the at least one policy comprises information related to a customer of the service provider.
US11621868B2	Device for a user station of a serial bus system, and method for communicating in a serial bus system A device for a serial bus system. The device includes a receiver for receiving a signal from a bus, in which for a message that is exchanged between user stations of the bus system, the bus states of a signal received from the bus in the first communication phase differ from bus states of the signal received in the second communication phase. The receiver generates a digital signal based on the received signal, and outputs the signal to a communication control device to evaluate the data. The receiver uses a first reception threshold and a second reception threshold in the second communication phase to generate the digital signal. The second reception threshold has a negative voltage value or has a voltage value that is greater than the largest voltage value that is driven by a user station of the bus system for a bus state in the second communication phase.
US11621863B1	Audio protection in virtual meeting One embodiment provides a method, including: identifying, at an information handling device, a point within a virtual meeting requiring a user to wear a headset; determining, using a processor, whether the user is wearing the headset after a predetermined time period from identification of the point; and preventing, responsive to determining that the user is not wearing the headset after the predetermined time period, the user from continuing with the virtual meeting. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11621862B1	Method of providing customized UX/UI for each user type during runtime of web application by using room template, and system using the same Provided is a method of providing a user-customized user experience (UX)/user interface (UI) during a runtime of a web application by using a room template, the method including: transmitting, from a user device to a service server, a room entrance-related access request; requesting, by the service server, an application programming interface (API) server to generate an access token including room template information; transmitting the access token generated by the API server to the user device via the service server; transmitting, by the user device, the access token to the API server; and providing, by the API server, a UX/UI to the user device based on the room template information.
US11621860B2	Online charging for multi-user agent instances served by different telephony application servers Techniques for allowing access based online charging in cases of multiple user agents (multi-UAs) scenarios where the instances are registered to different telephony application servers (TASs) are discussed herein. For example, a user device may support a native number and multiple virtual numbers linked via a user account. When servicing a call, the user device may determine a served number to service the call from. If the served number is not the native number but a virtual number, the native-line server may handle the call session, but the online charging session will be handled by the virtual-line server. The native-line server may use session initiation protocol (SIP) information to send updated information for charging parameters to the virtual-line server, including network access transfer for accuracy in online charging logic.
US11621859B1	Client side certificate revocation service A proxy revocation service provides a reliable service for performing revocation checks. The proxy revocation service queries public certificate authorities for the revocation status of a set of digital certificates and maintains a database of the revocation statuses. The proxy revocation service provides a singular endpoint that is Application Protocol Interface (API) accessible to web clients. Web clients communicate with the proxy revocation service through use of API message to perform revocation checks, rather than communicating with the public certificate authorities using an online certificate status protocol (OCSP). Use of the proxy revocation service provides both a reliable service for performing revocation checks as well as shifts the complexity away from the web clients.
US11621858B2	Anonymity mechanisms in permissioned blockchain networks A member of a group in a blockchain network may generate a public key and a private key, request a blockchain network group certificate, associated with the private key, from a blockchain network certificate authority, and distribute a private key to members of the group.
US11621852B1	System and method for providing a multiple-operation transaction to a blockchain Systems and methods of providing a multiple-operation transaction to a blockchain receive a plurality of related operations which collectively constitute a transaction between respective computing devices of a plurality of parties to the transaction, each of the plurality of related operations comprising a data set comprising: a value, a target, and a unique number; calculate a hash value using at least the plurality of related operations; and publish the hash value to a pool of unclaimed hash values; wherein, once a given operation of the plurality of operations is performed, the operation is published to a pool of unprocessed operations; and wherein at least one mining node is configured to sign the transaction into a block of the blockchain only if the at least one mining node has chosen, from the pool of unprocessed operations, a subset of operations whose hash value is identical to the unclaimed hash value.
US11621851B2	Block chain proof for identification Implementations efficiently verify an identity claim for an entity. An example method includes receiving a query key and a property identifying an entity and identifying a possible match for the property from graph access records, the possible match being a node in an identity chain. The method also includes verifying a complete chain from the possible match to a genesis node in the chain. The query key is used to find a next node in the chain. Failure to identify the genesis node results in an unsuccessful verification. The method also includes generating a response that indicates a successful verification request responsive to locating the genesis node and generating a response that indicates an unsuccessful verification request otherwise.
US11621849B2	Call center web-based authentication using a contactless card Systems, methods, articles of manufacture, and computer-readable media. A server may receive a phone call and generate a uniform resource locator (URL) comprising a session identifier for an account. The server may transmit the URL to a client device. The server may receive, from a web browser, a request comprising the URL. The server may determine that the session identifier in the URL of the request matches the session identifier for the account, and transmit, to the web browser, a web page at the URL. The server may receive, from the web browser, a cryptogram read by the web page via a card reader of the client device and decrypt the cryptogram. The server may authenticate the identity of the caller for the call based on decrypting the cryptogram and the session identifier of the URL matching the session identifier of the account.
US11621845B2	Resolving complaints Embodiments are disclosed for a method. The method includes generating a zero-knowledge proof that proves that a hash of the scrubbed plurality of mobile telephone numbers is computed correctly in response to a complaint about a message. The method also includes generating a zero-knowledge proof that proves that the message maps to the specific template identifier in response to a complaint about the message.
US11621838B2	Information processing device and system An information processing device includes a key generation portion that generates a first key associated with an electronic device when a processing request for the electronic device is received, a key transmission portion that transmits the first key to a request source of the processing request, a connection controller that when a second key is received from the request source, connects to the electronic device associated with the first key corresponding to the received second key, and a response notification portion that notifies the request source of response data from the electronic device when the response data is received from the electronic device, the response data including screen data used for controlling the electronic device.
US11621834B2	Systems and methods for preserving data integrity when integrating secure multiparty computation and blockchain technology Disclosed herein are systems and methods for preserving data integrity when integrating secure multiparty computation (SMPC) and blockchain technology. In one exemplary aspect, a method may split, via a data publisher, data into a plurality of data secret shares using an SMPC protocol, wherein each secret share of the plurality of data secret shares is assigned to an SMPC compute node of a plurality of SMPC compute nodes and wherein the plurality of SMPC compute nodes may be members of a blockchain network. In some aspects, the method may determine parameters of a message authentication code (MAC) condition based on the data, may generate secret shares of the MAC condition parameters, and may include a plurality of MAC secret shares with the plurality of data secret shares.
US11621832B2	Configuration systems and methods for secure operation of networked transducers A device can include an internal secure processing environment (SE) and communicate with a configuration system. The device may utilize a near field communications (NFC) radio. A mobile handset can connect with the SE in the device using NFC. The mobile handset can communicate with the configuration system and receive configuration data and a software package for the device. The SE can derive a PKI key pair and send the derived public key to the configuration system via the mobile handset. The SE and the configuration system can mutually derive an encryption key using the derived PKI key pair. The configuration data can be transmitted over the NFC radio, and the mobile handset can establish a Wi-Fi access point. The software package can be encrypted using the encryption key and transmitted to the device over the established Wi-Fi access point, thereby completing a configuration step for the device.
US11621824B2	Blockchain transaction manager A blockchain transaction manager implements a method of managing submission of blockchain transactions to a node in a blockchain network by validating a received blockchain transaction and enqueuing the validated received blockchain transaction in a transaction queue, preparing at least one transaction attribute of the received blockchain transaction and placing the received blockchain transaction in a persistence queue, digitally signing or certifying the received blockchain transaction, attempting to submit the digitally signed or certified blockchain transaction to the node, and polling a blockchain status of the submitted blockchain transaction. Processes are provided for automatically recalculating blockchain transaction processing fees in the blockchain transaction attributes. Processes are also provided for repairing transaction attributes when the blockchain transaction has been rejected and submitting the repaired blockchain transaction to the node. Also, nonces are automatically assigned to received blockchain transactions and reassigned when the associated blockchain transaction has been rejected.
US11621823B2	Method and apparatus for performing communication in mobile communication system A user equipment (UE) for performing communication, the UE including a transceiver; and a processor coupled with the transceiver and configured to: control the transceiver to receive a UE capability enquiry, determine UE capability fields, except a frequency division duplexing (FDD) additional UE capability field, a time division duplexing (TDD) additional UE capability field, a frequency range 1 (FR 1) additional UE capability field and a frequency range 2 (FR 2) additional UE capability field, to include values applicable for all duplex modes and frequency ranges, and control the transceiver to transmit UE capability information based on a result of the determination.
US11621819B2	Data-modulated demodulation reference signals Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit an indication of a capability of the UE to communicate one or more of uplink communications or downlink communications that include data-modulated demodulation reference signals (DMRSs) in which each of one or more resources of a plurality of resources of the uplink communications or the downlink communications carry both at least a portion of a DMRS sequence and data. The UE may transmit an uplink communication or receive a downlink communication that includes the data-modulated DMRSs. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11621817B2	Methods, apparatus, systems, architectures and interfaces for uplink control information (UCI) transmission via uplink shared data channel A method implemented in a transmitter/transceiver, the method including mapping any number of elements of an uplink control information (UCI) signal sequence (SS) to available subcarriers for transmitting an OFDM symbol for carrying information associated with a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), each of the subcarriers having at least two layers, precoding the mapped elements as a function of the layer of the subcarrier to which the elements are mapped, wherein a first precoding applied to a mapped element of a first layer of a subcarrier is different than a second precoding applied to a mapped element of a second layer of the same subcarrier, feeding the mapped elements of the UCI SS to an IDFT unit and transforming the mapped elements into an IDFT transformed signal that includes the mapped elements of the UCI SS carried by a plurality of resources for transmission.
US11621805B2	Uplink hybrid automatic repeat request retransmission scheduling in a network with a large propagation delay Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station, a first physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) using one or more physical layer (PHY) parameters associated with a first block error rate (BLER) target performance. The UE may receive, from the base station prior to expiration of a round trip timer associated with the first PUSCH, downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a second PUSCH and configuring one or more PHY parameters associated with a second BLER target performance. The UE may transmit, to the base station, the second PUSCH using the PHY parameter(s) associated with the second BLER target performance, wherein the second PUSCH includes a retransmission of the first PUSCH or a new transmission based at least in part on a hybrid automatic repeat request process indicated in the DCI. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11621803B2	Hybrid automatic repeat request in non-terrestrial networks Various communication systems may benefit from improved HARQ. For example, it may be helpful to improve HARQ in non-terrestrial networks. A method may include receiving at a user equipment a configuration from a network entity. The configuration may include a hybrid automatic repeat request virtual process number. The method may also include receiving at the user equipment a downlink control information from the network entity. The downlink control information may include a hybrid automatic repeat request virtual process identification. In addition, the method may include receiving at the user equipment another downlink control information. The another downlink control information may include the hybrid automatic repeat request virtual process identification. Further, the method may include determining at the user equipment a difference between a timing of a transmission indicated by the downlink control information and another timing of another transmission indicated by the another downlink control information.
US11621797B2	Information terminal and information processing device The present technology relates to an information terminal, an information processing device, and a program that make it possible to find out that an installation status has changed. The information terminal transmits information at predetermined time intervals. The information terminal causes information that is to be transmitted in a normal state of installation to be transmitted in a case where, after a return from a sleep state, a flag indicating whether or not an abnormal state of the installation has been detected indicates that the abnormal state has not been detected, and causes information different from the information that is to be transmitted in the normal state to be transmitted in a case where, after the return from the sleep state, the flag indicates that the abnormal state has been detected. The present technology can be applied to a home communication system.
US11621795B2	Polarization-diversity optical power supply Provided is an optical communication system comprising a polarization-diversity optical power supply capable of supplying light over a non-polarization-maintaining optical fiber to a polarization-sensitive modulation device. In an example embodiment, the polarization-diversity optical power supply operates to accommodate random polarization fluctuations within the non-polarization-maintaining optical fiber and enables an equal-power split at a passive polarization splitter preceding the polarization-sensitive modulation device.
US11621790B1	Over-the-air measurement system The present disclosure provides an over-the-air measurement system for testing a device under test. The over-the-air measurement system includes a single measurement antenna and a rotary antenna positioner for the measurement antenna. The over-the-air measurement system further comprises a hardware trigger that is capable of triggering a measurement. The hardware trigger is associated with the rotary antenna positioner. The over-the-air measurement system comprises at least one rotary joint attached to the antenna positioner.
US11621780B2	Emitter, communication system and method An emitter configured to output a sequence of periodic light pulses with different polarisations, the emitter comprising: a beam splitter configured to divide the pulses of a first sequence of pulses, such that each pulse is split between a first path and a second path, the first sequence of pulses having a varying phase and a first polarisation; a polarisation rotator configured to rotate the polarisation state of pulses in one of the first path or the second path with respect to the polarisation state of pulses in the other path; a time delay component configured to provide a time delay such that the first sequence of pulses in the first arm are delayed by one period with respect to the first sequence of pulses in the second arm; an optical combination component configured to combine the delayed first sequence of pulses from the first path with the first sequence of pulses from the second path to produce an output sequence of pulses where each pulse in the output sequence is a combination of a pulse from the second path and a delayed pulse from the first path and has a polarisation determined from the phase difference between combined pulses and the polarisation of the first path and the second path.
US11621779B2	Optical transmission system and optical transmission device setting method An optical transmission system (10) includes a plurality of transmission devices such as transponders (TPs) and optical cross-connects (OXCs) installed in each of stations (11-15) connected via a communication network, a control device (20), and a substitute OXC (502) serving as a substitute transmission device. The control device 20 is installed in a control station (14) of the stations. The control device (20) controls the transmission devices of the stations (11-15) in a centralized manner in accordance with physical network (NW) configuration information (20D) stored in a DB (21) and including config information. When a transmission device is replaced with a new OXC (5o3) serving as a new transmission device, the substitute OXC (5o2) operates as a substitute for the new OXC (5o3) to communicate with the control device (20) until config setting necessary for the new OXC (5o3) is completed.
US11621776B2	Systems for low power distribution in a power distribution network Systems for low power distribution in a power distribution network (PDN) contemplate using multiple low-power conductors to convey power from a power source to a remote sub-unit. The multiple conductors are isolated from one another to help prevent overcurrent conditions in a fault condition. In a first exemplary aspect, the isolation is provided by galvanic isolation. In a second exemplary aspect, the isolation is provided by diodes at the remote sub-units. Further, current sensors may be used at the power source to detect if any of the multiple low-power conductors are carrying current above a defined threshold current. By providing one or more of these safety features, a multiplexer may not be needed at the remote sub-unit, thus providing cost savings while preserving the desired safety features.
US11621772B2	Systems for mitigating service interrupts in satellite systems Embodiments disclosed herein relate generally to techniques for mitigating blockages associated with satellite systems. More specifically, techniques disclosed herein, describe solutions for minimizing service interruption during satellite handover. One or more blockages associated with one or more user terminals that connect to a satellite system may be determined by various means. Utilizing those blockages, handover times for the one or more user terminals may be determined such that service interrupts may be minimized.
US11621769B2	Multi spoke beamforming for low power wide area satellite and terrestrial networks Wireless communication method and apparatus to enable communications between a plurality of endpoints and a satellite or terrestrial gateway integrated with a plurality of oblong shaped antenna arrays. The wireless communication method leverages data symbols that are orthogonally modulated. The method permits the use of a plurality of compact oblong shaped antenna arrays to increase network capacity and reduce endpoint power consumption.
US11621767B2	Coordination of wireless avionics intra-communications (WAIC) with radio altimeter signals A method for coordinating Wireless Avionics Intra-Communication (WAIC) communications with a radio altimeter signal includes monitoring a frequency band and recording a sequence of time stamps, each time stamp of the sequence of time stamps corresponding to a time at which a strength of the radio altimeter signal exceeds a threshold signal strength in the frequency band. The method further includes calculating time stamp intervals between successive time stamps to produce a sequence of time stamp intervals, and identifying a pattern of time stamp intervals in the sequence of time stamp intervals. The method further includes coordinating the WAIC communications with the pattern of time stamp intervals to avoid interference with the radio altimeter signal.
US11621758B2	Techniques for dynamic beamforming mitigation of millimeter wave blockages Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may communicate with other network devices as part of a wireless communications system. The UE may identify a blockage corresponding to one or more antenna arrays of a set of antenna arrays based on using a first set of beam weights, which may correspond to a static beamforming codebook of the one or more antenna arrays. The UE may switch from a static beamforming codebook-based beam weight determination to a dynamic beamforming codebook-based beam weight determination. The UE may then determine a second set of beam weights to use for the one or more antenna arrays based on the dynamic beamforming codebook-based beam weight determination. The UE may then communicate using the one or more antenna arrays according to the second set of beam weights.
US11621753B2	Multi-AP coordinated beamforming (CBF) for extremely high throughput (EHT) An access point (AP) may operate as a master AP (AP1) to perform multi-AP coordinated beamforming (CBF). The AP1 may to initiate a first sounding sequence with one or more STAs associated with the AP1 (BSS STAs) and the one or more STAs associated with a second AP (AP2) (OBSS STAs). In these embodiments, initiation of the first sounding sequence triggers the AP2 to join the sounding sequence to initiate a second sound sequence with the BSS STAs and the OBSS STAs.
US11621750B2	Demodulator report for smart receiver power optimization Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). The UE implements the technique to transmit to a network entity a report that includes an indication of a desired demodulator or precoding per precoding resource block group (PRG) for a group of one or more PRGs. The UE then demodulates downlink (DL) transmissions, transmitted from the network entity on the group of one or more PRGs, in accordance with the indication included in the report.
US11621747B2	Receiver beamforming for measurements A wireless communications system may support beamforming to transmit and receive signals. A device operating within the wireless communications system may transmit a request to measure a beamformed reference signal. The device may also transmit a beamforming configuration indicating one or more beamforming options for measuring the beamformed reference signal. The beamforming options may include measuring the beamformed reference signal using a directional configuration and an omni-directional configuration. The device receiving the beamforming configuration may form a receive beam in accordance with the beamforming configuration to measure the beamformed reference signal. A device operating within the wireless communications system may determine to use a particular beamforming option for measuring a beamformed reference signal without first receiving a beamforming configuration, and may make the determination based on signal quality at the device or capabilities of the device.
US11621745B2	Multiple-input multiple-output communication system with scalable power supply An antenna system (150) with distributed power supply is disclosed. The antenna system (150) comprises a CPU (151) comprising a central power supply (152), multiple antenna units (161, 162, . . . 171, 172 . . . ) connected to the CPU by cables and at least one distributed power supply unit (180) located at someplace along a chain of antenna units. At least one antenna unit (161) receives power from the central power supply (152). In the antenna system (150), at least one antenna unit (171) receives power from another antenna unit (172), at least one antenna unit (173) receives power from the at least one distributed power supply unit (180) such that at least two power supply domains (191, 192) are set up. In each power supply domain, a number of antenna units are connected to the same power supply.
US11621744B2	Terminal for transmitting reference signal transmission device and method thereof Disclosed is technology for supporting high-speed and low-latency performance in a 5G environment through implementation of a new reference signal transmission scheme appropriate for the 5G environment, that is, a mobile communication network environment for supporting high-speed and low-latency communication, which will appear afterwards.
US11621734B2	Impedance matching A circuit device includes a directional coupler with a first port receiving a radiofrequency signal, a second port outputting a signal in response to signal received by the first port, and a third port outputting a signal in response to a reflection of the signal at the second port. An impedance matching network is connected between the second port and an antenna. The impedance matching network includes fixed inductive and capacitive components and a single variable inductive or capacitive component. A diode coupled to the third port of the coupler generates a voltage at a measurement terminal which is processed in order to select and set the inductance or capacitance value of the variable inductive or capacitive component.
US11621733B2	Radio-frequency circuit and communication device A radio-frequency circuit is used in simultaneous transfer of a radio-frequency signal of 4G and a radio-frequency signal of 5G, and includes a first transfer circuit that selectively receives the 4G radio-frequency signal or the 5G radio-frequency signal, and transfers a radio-frequency signal of a first communication band including a first transmission band and a first reception band and a radio-frequency signal of a second communication band including a second transmission band and a second reception band. The first and second transmission bands at least partially overlap. The first transfer circuit includes a first power amplifier that amplifies transmission signals of the first and second communication bands, and a first transmission filter that has a first passband including the first and second transmission bands, and passes the transmission signals of the first and second communication bands output from the first power amplifier.
US11621720B2	Quantum processing apparatus with downsampling analog-to-digital converter Systems and methods directed to a quantum processing apparatus are provided. The apparatus comprises M solid-state qubits, where M>1, and control electronics, which are connected to the solid-state qubits. The control electronics comprise one or more qubit readout circuits, where each of the qubit readout circuits is connected to at least one of the solid-state qubits and comprises a downsampling analog-to-digital converter (hereafter DSADC). Each DSADC is configured to downsample analog signals obtained from the at least one of the solid-state qubits. Such a DSADC operates in the nth Nyquist zone of the spectrum of the analog signals obtained, so as to down-convert such analog signals from the nth Nyquist zone to the mth Nyquist zone of the spectrum, where n>m≥1, prior to sampling the analog signals to convert them into digital signals, in operation. One or more embodiments of the invention are further directed to a related method of operating such a quantum processing apparatus.
US11621714B2	Superconducting logic circuits An electric circuit includes a plurality of superconducting components, each of the plurality of superconducting components having: a respective first terminal; a respective second terminal; and a respective input. The electric circuit further includes a bias current source electrically-connected to the respective first terminal of each of the plurality of superconducting components. The bias current source is configured to provide a bias current adapted to cause the electric circuit to function as a logical OR gate on the respective inputs of the plurality of superconducting components. The electric circuit further includes an output node adapted to output a state of the logical OR gate.
US11621689B2	Low-loss and wide-band acoustic delay lines using Z-cut lithium niobate piezoelectric thin films A piezoelectric thin film (PTF) is located above a carrier substrate. The PTF may be Z-cut LiNbO3 thin film adapted to propagate an acoustic wave in at least one of a first mode excited by an electric field oriented in a longitudinal direction along a length of the PTF or a second mode excited by the electric field oriented at least partially in a thickness direction of the PTF. A first interdigitated transducer (IDT) is disposed on a first end of the PTF. The first IDT is to convert a first electromagnetic signal, traveling in the longitudinal direction, into the acoustic wave. A second IDT is disposed on a second end of the PTF with a gap between the second IDT and the first IDT. The second IDT is to convert the acoustic wave into a second electromagnetic signal, and the gap determines a time delay of the acoustic wave.
US11621685B2	Digitally controlled variable gain amplifier A digitally controlled variable gain amplifier (VGA) for generating amplification output levels is disclosed. In one aspect, the digitally controlled VGA includes a positive amplification stage including at least two positive amplifiers, and a corresponding negative amplification stage coupled to the positive amplification stage. The negative amplification stage includes at least two negative amplifiers. The positive amplification stage and the corresponding negative amplification stage are digitally controlled by one or more digital codes. The corresponding negative amplification stage is coupled in parallel with the positive amplification stage and is equally weighted as the positive amplification stage, and both the positive amplification stage and the corresponding negative amplification stage selectively contribute to the generation of the amplification output levels for the digitally controlled VGA.
US11621677B2	Apparatus for preventing component burnout in electric device and method thereof An apparatus and a method are provided for, in an electronic device which generates a reference signal having a reference frequency, mixes the reference signal to an input signal for transmission, and amplifies power, outputting a control signal for turning off amplifying the power, if a frequency of a signal acquired at an arbitrary point after generating the reference signal or mixing the signals before amplifying the power is out of a designated frequency band, thus preventing burnout of a power amplifier.
US11621673B2	Power amplifier packages and systems incorporating design-flexible package platforms Embodiments of Doherty Power Amplifier (PA) and other PA packages are provided, as are systems including PA packages. In embodiments, the PA package includes a package body having a longitudinal axis, a first group of input-side leads projecting from a first side of the package body and having an intra-group lead spacing, and a first group of output-side leads projecting from a second side of the package body and also having the intra-group lead spacing. A first carrier input lead projects from the first package body side and is spaced from the first group of input-side leads by an input-side isolation gap, which has a width exceeding the intra-group lead spacing. Similarly, a first carrier output lead projects from the second package body side, is laterally aligned with the first carrier input lead, and is separated from the first group of output-side leads by an output-side isolation gap.
US11621672B2	Compensation of trapping in field effect transistors A circuit includes a field effect transistor (FET), a reference transistor having an output coupled to an output of the FET, an active bias circuit coupled to the reference transistor and configured to generate an input signal for the reference transistor in response to a change in drain current of the reference transistor due to carrier trapping and to apply the input signal to an input of the reference transistor, and a summing node coupled to an input of the FET and to the input of the reference transistor. The summing node adds the input signal to an input signal of the FET to compensate the carrier trapping effect.
US11621667B2	Aggregate off the grid power system Embodiments of the present invention comprise two or more distinct solar power systems associated with a single residence or building that together form an aggregate solar power system. Advantageously, high draw appliances can be distributed among the different systems such that the high current draw of one appliance on a first system will not negatively impact the high current draw of another high draw appliance on a second system.
US11621663B2	Solar tracker system and method for controlling amount of sunlight and maximizing solar energy in a greenhouse A solar tracker system is a system and method to integrate the solar cells to a greenhouse. The solar tracker system comprises solar tracker modules that include solar cells, racks, gears, pinons, motors, and mounting brackets to efficiently and conveniently be installed to the roofs and walls of a new greenhouse and/or an existing greenhouse for retrofit application. Additionally, the solar tracker system uses various sensors to provide real-time conditions to the greenhouse. The method uses actual or system default values to adjust the angle and position of solar cells according to various environmental factors, such as DLI, weather, date, time, direction of sunlight, or type of plant.
US11621656B2	Electric motor drive system for a vehicle An electrical drive system for a vehicle. The system includes a plurality of electric propulsion motors and a plurality of corresponding inverter circuits. The system also includes an auxiliary motor for driving an auxiliary device located in the vehicle. The auxiliary motor is connected to the propulsion motors and is driven by the inverter circuits. The system does not include a separate inverter for driving the auxiliary motor.
US11621650B2	Method for current limitation in the event of transient voltage variations at an AC output of a multi-level inverter and a multi-level inverter A method provides current limitation in the event of transient voltage variations at an AC output of a multilevel inverter that includes a bridge circuit with a first DC input, a second DC input, a neutral terminal and a bridge output, as well as a line filter with a choke connected between the bridge output and the AC output, and a capacitor connected between the AC output and the neutral terminal. In the method, depending on the voltage at the capacitor, when a first current threshold is exceeded by the choke current, a regular operating mode is interrupted and measures for current limitation are initiated. A multilevel inverter is further disclosed including a control circuit that is configured to carry out such a method.
US11621646B2	Adaptive gate regulation for a synchronous rectifier flyback converter A flyback converter is provided that dynamically adjusts a drain threshold voltage for a current cycle of a synchronous rectifier switch transistor based upon operating conditions in a previous cycle of the synchronous rectifier switch transistor. A differential amplifier drives a gate voltage of the synchronous rectifier switch transistor during an on-time of the current cycle so that a drain voltage of the synchronous rectifier switch transistor equals the drain threshold voltage during a regulated portion of the current cycle.
US11621639B2	Switching regulator and operating method A switching regulator generates an output voltage from an input voltage and includes; a charge sharing circuit that selectively forms one of a first charge sharing path between a first flying capacitor and a second bootstrap capacitor and a second charge sharing path between a second flying capacitor and a first bootstrap capacitor based on first and second conversion modes.
US11621635B2	Power converter in peak current mode constant-off time control Methods and apparatuses for regulating a power converter are described. A device comprising a control circuit and a logic circuit can be integrated in a controller coupled to the power converter. The control circuit can generate a constant off-time signal based on a ramp signal and an error signal. The logic circuit can generate a control signal based on the constant off-time signal and a constant on-time signal. The logic circuit can output the control signal to the power converter. In response to an on-time period of the constant off-time signal being less than an on-time period of the constant on-time signal, the control signal can vary according to the constant on-time signal. In response to the on-time period of the constant off-time signal being greater than the on-time period of the constant on-time signal, the control signal can vary according to the constant off-time signal.
US11621633B2	Transformerless stacked active bridge power converters and methods for operating the same Transformerless stacked active bridge (TSAB) direct current (DC)-to-DC power converters designed based on parent switched capacitor (SC) converter topologies. The TSAB DC-to-DC power converter includes the SC converter. The SC converter includes a plurality of switches and a plurality of capacitors. Each capacitor of the plurality of capacitors is electrically coupled to at least one of the plurality of switches. The plurality of capacitors includes tree capacitors, and link capacitors forming a loop with at least one of the tree capacitors. The TSAB DC-to-DC power converter includes at least one inductor electrically coupled in series to at least one of the link capacitors. The TSAB DC-to-DC power converters provide high efficiency bi-directional operation without requiring isolation transformers. The TSAB DC-to-DC power converters enable high power density in a wide variety of practical applications involving low, medium, or high power requirements, with comparably lower package sizes/weights and inductor component values.
US11621626B2	Driving apparatus, semiconductor apparatus, and driving method A driving apparatus includes: a driving section configured to drive a control terminal of a semiconductor device according to a control signal input from an outside, the semiconductor device including a first main terminal, a second main terminal, and the control terminal that is configured to control a connection state between the first main terminal and the second main terminal that are connected in parallel with a snubber; and a drive control section configured to lower a drive capability of the driving section during a period in which an inter-main-terminal voltage between the first main terminal and the second main terminal changes by a predetermined reference voltage difference owing to switching of the semiconductor device, compared with other at least some periods.
US11621625B2	Controller for a power supply and a power supply A burst-mode controller for a DC-DC converter includes an output module configured to provide a switch control signal to the DC-DC converter. The switch control signal includes a plurality of burst windows, each burst window corresponding to a period of a fixed-frequency burst clock and having a number of switching cycles. The burst-mode controller includes an on-time-control-module configured to receive a compensation signal based on the output voltage of the DC-DC converter, and set an on-time of the switching cycles of the switch control signal based on the compensation signal. The burst-mode controller also includes a burst-control-module configured to regulate the on-time of the switching cycles of the switch control signal by setting the number of switching cycles for each burst window of the switch control signal.
US11621622B2	Vibration generator A vibration generator includes a housing, a first vibrator, and a second vibrator. The first vibrator includes a hollow yoke having a through hole, a magnet disposed within the through hole of the yoke, and a first elastic support member. The second vibrator includes a coil disposed above or below the magnet within the through hole of the yoke, and a second elastic support member to which the coil is fixed and that is disposed to extend from the inside to the outside of the through hole of the yoke and that is fixed to the housing. The first vibrator vibrates at a first natural frequency in a direction connecting both side portions of the yoke. The second vibrator vibrates at a second natural frequency that is different from the first natural frequency, in the direction connecting the both side portions of the yoke.
US11621614B2	High-precision miniature servo with new variable reluctance and improved motor positioning The present disclosure relates to the field of servos, and in particular to a high-precision miniature servo with a new variable reluctance and improved motor positioning. Compared with conventional variable reluctances, the variable reluctance of the present disclosure has a longer service life, is lower in cost and is easier to machine. The motor component is directly assembled on the housing, so that the cost and space are saved, and the difficulty in mounting and positioning a miniature motor is mainly solved. A motor brush piece and the Ball element are directly machined on a PCBA circuit board, so that the problem on the difficulty and cost control of the conventional machining technology is solved.
US11621613B2	Electric motor and electric tool The present invention relates to an electric motor and an electric tool equipped with the electric motor. The electric motor includes a rotor, a stator, a coil module wound around the stator, a Hall unit and a wiring circuit unit. The Hall unit includes a Hall circuit board disposed around a rotating shaft of the rotor, and a Hall module for sensing rotation of the rotor. The wiring circuit unit is independent of the Hall circuit board and includes a three-phase power source interface. The wiring circuit unit electrically connects coils of the coil module to the power source interfaces respectively by groups. By separately disposing the Hall unit and the wiring circuit unit independently, a volume of the Hall circuit board can be reduced, and an area blocking an airflow path of a heat dissipation unit can be reduced, so heat dissipation effect of the electric motor and the electric tool can be improved.
US11621612B2	Electric motors having flux barriers An electric motor has a stator defining multiple stator poles with associated electrical windings, and a rotor having multiple rotor poles. The rotor has flux barriers between adjacent rotor poles, the flux barriers each having a material with an electrical conductivity higher than the rotor pole material. The flux barriers are electrically isolated from one another external to the ferromagnetic material. Eddy currents are induced in the flux barrier to cause destructive interference of an impending magnetic field, such that the flux barrier effectively acts to inhibit magnetic flux during motor operation, which in some cases will result in a repulsive force that will act to increase an induced motive force on the rotor poles.
US11621592B2	Translation unit for wireless power transfer In an embodiment, a wireless power transmitter module includes a sensing grid configured to detect a receiver, a movable wireless power transmitter unit including a wireless power transmitter coil, and a two-dimensional linear motor including a plurality of linear motor coils configured to move the movable wireless power transmitter unit in a two-dimensional plane towards a location of the receiver.
US11621591B2	Beamforming generation method in system for simultaneously transmitting wireless information and power, and recording medium and apparatus for performing same A beamforming method in a simultaneous wireless information and power transfer system and an apparatus therefor may derive a transmission signal transmitted to a plurality of information users and a plurality of energy users from a base station having an NT (here, NT is a natural number) number of antennas included in each cell, derive a SINR (Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio) of an ith (here, i is a natural number) information user by using a noise power of the ith (here, i is a natural number) information user included in a mth (here, m is a natural number) cell, derive a harvested power of a jth (here, j is a natural number) energy user included in the mth (here, m is a natural number) cell, and perform beamforming by using a transmission signal power at the base station and a total harvested power of the plurality of energy users receiving a transmission signal from the base station. Accordingly, it is possible to improve the effect of minimizing the transmission power of the base station and maximizing the harvested power of the energy users while satisfying the QoS (Quality of Service) and transmission power limitation of the information users.
US11621588B2	Integrated circuits for transmitting wireless power, receiving wireless power, and/or communicating wirelessly The disclosed technology relates to wireless communication and wireless power transmission. In some implementations, the disclosed technology is directed to an integrated circuit having a transmitter that transmits radio frequency (RF) based wireless power and receives signals for detecting the location of a client device. The disclosed technology is also directed to an integrated circuit for a client device that receives power from the transmitter and transmits beacon signals, which the transmitter can use to locate the client device.
US11621586B2	Single feed multi-pad wireless charging An apparatus for multi-pad wireless charging is disclosed. The apparatus includes a plurality of primary pad apparatuses. Each primary pad apparatus is positioned to transmit power to a secondary pad apparatus of a vehicle. The primary transmitter pad apparatuses are spaced apart sufficient for each of a plurality of vehicles to be positioned over one primary pad apparatus of the plurality of primary pad apparatuses. The apparatus includes a power converter apparatus connected to each of the plurality of primary pad apparatuses, a power feed that provides power to the power converter apparatus and a sharing controller that selectively controls which of the plurality of primary pad apparatuses transmits power to a secondary pad apparatus and/or controls power sharing between the primary pad apparatuses.
US11621582B1	Mobile accessory wirelessly powered by mobile device A method provides a mobile device positioned in a case. The mobile device has a wireless power transmitter. The case has a magnetically attractive portion. A mobile accessory having a magnetic coupling portion and a wireless power receiver is provided. The mobile accessory includes a functional component. The accessory is coupled with the case such that the wireless power transmitter of the mobile device is positioned to transfer wireless power to the wireless power receiver of the accessory. Power is wirelessly transmitted from the mobile device to the accessory. The functional component of the accessory is activated while power is transferred wirelessly.
US11621573B2	Drooping cell detection and state of cell health monitoring A method is disclosed for determining the state of health of an electric battery that includes a plurality of battery cells. The method includes the steps of measuring the cell voltage of each individual cell of the plurality of battery cells, and analyzing each measured battery cell voltage to determine the state of health of the corresponding battery cell.
US11621554B2	Fault protection configuration for a resettable transformer protector Described are curve shapes that may be implemented in a transformer protector that provide enhanced fault protection. A transformer protector curve rating structure relates response curves to the transformer size and simplifies selection of response curves implemented within a transformer protector and associated transformer.
US11621552B2	Protection circuit and photovoltaic system Provided are a protection circuit and a photovoltaic system capable of irreversibly interrupting a current path of photovoltaic units such as solar cells by a signal in an emergency such as a fire. The protection circuit includes: a photovoltaic units 26, a protection element 2 provided on a current path of the photovoltaic units 26, and a switch 3 for activating the protection element 2, wherein the protection element 2 irreversibly interrupts the current path of the photovoltaic units 26.
US11621542B2	Microsystems and semiconductor hybrid coherent light sources A laser array (100) is described herein, wherein the laser array comprises semiconductor lasers (102, 104) that are precisely controlled such that an optical beam output by the laser array has desired shape and direction.
US11621537B2	Ultrafast laser The present disclosure provides an ultrafast laser that outputs multiple wavelengths. The ultrafast laser includes a fundamental frequency ultrafast laser unit, an optical beam splitting and polarization controlling unit, a multiple frequency unit, and an optical beam combining unit. The fundamental frequency ultrafast laser generates a multiple frequency ultrafast laser by the multiple frequency unit, such as double frequency light, triple frequency light, etc., and the optical beam combining unit makes the fundamental frequency light and the double frequency light output in a light outlet, the controlling unit controls the wavelength of the laser of the light outlet by controlling the polarization state of the laser. The ultrafast laser of the present disclosure can realize fast switching output among the fundamental frequency light and multiple frequency light, and output of combined pulse fundamental frequency light and double frequency light. The present disclosure also provides a strong powerful laser tool.
US11621526B2	Communication system having a receptacle cage with an electrical connector A communication system having a circuit board with an airflow opening includes a receptacle cage configured to be mounted to the circuit board adjacent a communication connector. The receptacle cage has walls including a front wall, a rear wall and side walls defining a cavity. A module channel is defined in the cavity configured to receive a pluggable module. The module channel has a module port at the front wall that receives the pluggable module. An airflow channel is defined by at least one of the walls of the receptacle cage located between the module channel and the circuit board. The airflow channel is configured to be in flow communication with the airflow opening in the circuit board for cooling the pluggable module in the module channel. The airflow channel has an airflow port at the front wall.
US11621524B2	Electrical connecting device having a main body and a displacement body An electrical connecting device having a main body and a displacement body mounted in a linearly movable manner relative to one another in a longitudinal direction. The main body has a cavity that accommodates a longitudinal section of the displacement body or vice versa. The length of the longitudinal section accommodated in the cavity is variable by a relative longitudinal movement of the main body and the displacement body. The main body has conductor tracks extending in the longitudinal direction and insulated from one another. The displacement body has sliding elements insulated from one another and resting on and electrically contacting a contact surface of a respective one of the conductor tracks. The conductor tracks are arranged on a main body surface of the main body. The main body surface is round in a cross-sectional plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction or is formed by a plurality of surface sections angled in relation to one another. The sliding elements project from a displacement body surface of the displacement body. The displacement body surface is round in the cross-sectional plane or is formed by a plurality of surface sections angled in relation to one another. The contact surfaces of at least two of the conductor tracks are angled in relation to one another.
US11621523B2	Transceiver assembly array with fixed heatsink and floating transceivers A cage assembly includes a cage including a top wall and a bottom wall and an electrical receptacle positioned between the top wall and the bottom wall such that the electrical receptacle floats within the cage in opposite directions between the top wall and the bottom wall.
US11621514B2	Electrical connector with connector housing joined by a flexible joining member An electrical connector having a first housing and a second housing. The first housing have a first mating face and a first cable receiving face with at least one first terminal receiving cavity which extends from the first cable receiving face to the first mating face. The second housing has a second mating face and a second cable receiving face with at least one second terminal receiving cavity which extends from the second cable receiving face to the second mating face. The second housing is spaced from the first housing. A flexible joining member extends from the first housing to the second housing. The flexible joining member is configured to allow the first housing to move independently of the second housing as the electrical connector is mounted to an electrical component. The first housing can be mated independently to the electrical component from the second housing.
US11621512B2	Housing and connector A housing includes: a housing body on which a portion for abutment is formed; an assembly that is detachably assembled to the housing body; and a hinge with which the assembly is mounted on the housing body. The hinge includes (i) a connection that is arranged between the housing body and the assembly, and on which an abutment is formed, (ii) a first joint that is disposed between the housing body and the connection, and has flexibility, and (iii) a second joint that is disposed between the assembly and the connection, and has flexibility. The abutment formed on the connection is allowed to abut on the portion for abutment of the housing body by bending the first joint, and the assembly is assembled to the housing body by bending the second joint in a state in which the first joint is bent.
US11621508B2	Flat flexible conductive fluid crimp connector Described embodiments provide a crimp connector with hooks to hold a flat flexible cable (FFC). The crimp connector includes a bottom body and multiple hooks protruding outward from and coupled to the bottom body to hold the FFC. The crimp connector also includes a top clasp hingably mounted to the bottom body having multiple barbs internally mounted therein. Each of the barbs correspond with an uninsulated flat conductor of the FFC. In response to the top clasp engaging with the bottom body such that a slotted wedge of the top clasp presses the corresponding one of the first and second uninsulated flat conductors against the corresponding barbs, the crimp connector makes an electrical connection between each of the barbs and the corresponding one of first and second uninsulated flat conductors.
US11621502B2	Hybrid cable crimp A communication system is included in a work string. The communication system includes a communication cable and a crimp sleeve. The communication cable has a housing with a communication line and a metal tube therein, a free line end of the communication line and a free tube end of the metal tube extending from an open end of the housing. The crimp sleeve includes a first sleeve section having a first inner diameter configured to receive the open end of the housing, a second sleeve section having a second inner diameter configured to receive the free tube end of the metal tube, and an opening configured to allow the free line end of the communication line to pass out of the crimp sleeve.
US11621492B2	Spiral wideband low frequency antenna An antenna may include a ground plane, a tuning stub, and a shorted spiral antenna element connected to the tuning stub. The shorted spiral antenna element may include a plurality of spiral traces shorted together by a shorting element extending radially outward to contact each of the spiral traces.
US11621490B2	Antenna structure and device for metal environment The present invention provides an antenna structure for metal environment. The antenna structure comprises a radiating conductor, a first ground conductor, and a second ground conductor. The radiating conductor comprises a first opening circuit, and a second opening circuit, in which the first opening circuit is opened at a first side of the radiating conductor, and the second opening circuit is opened at a second side of the radiating conductor. The first ground conductor is electrically coupled to a third side of the radiating conductor while the second ground conductor is electrically coupled to a fourth side of the radiating conductor. Alternatively, the present invention further provides an antenna device by folding the antenna structure having RFID chip electrically attached thereon to cover a substrate, whereby the antenna device could be accessed in a metal environment.
US11621489B2	Antenna device Provided is an antenna device including a feeding antenna conductor, a non-feeding antenna conductor, a ground conductor, and an artificial magnetic conductor disposed between the feeding antenna conductor and the non-feeding antenna conductor, and the ground conductor. The antenna device further includes a conductor that electrically connects the artificial magnetic conductor to the ground conductor. The conductor is disposed at a position opposite to the feeding antenna conductor with respect to the non-feeding antenna conductor, and is separated from the non-feeding antenna conductor.
US11621488B2	Array communication device and method for controlling same Provided are an array communication device that makes phase correction between a plurality of arrays having bi-directional amplifiers possible and a method for controlling the array communication device. This array communication device comprises a plurality of array units that are connected to a common signal processing unit and each comprise an antenna, amplifier, and phase shifter. The array communication device further comprises first-directional couplers that are respectively disposed between the antennas and amplifiers of the array units and divide or combine signals, second-directional couplers that are respectively disposed between the phase shifters of the array units and the signal processing unit and divide or combine signals, and phase comparison means that each receive at least one from among a signal from a first-directional coupler and a signal from a second-directional coupler and a signal serving as a phase reference and carry out phase comparison and correction.
US11621467B2	Well thermalized microstrip formation for flexible cryogenic microwave lines in quantum applications A microstrip that is usable in a quantum application (q-microstrip) includes a ground plane, a polyimide film disposed over the ground plane at a first surface of the polyimide film, and a conductor formed on a second side of the polyimide film such that the first surface is substantially opposite to the second surface. A material of the conductor provides greater than a threshold thermal conductivity (TH) with a structure of a dilution fridge stage (stage).
US11621462B2	Battery modules with finger-proof electrical terminals for bolted busbar connections Presented are finger-proof electrical terminals for battery assemblies, methods for making/using such electrical terminals, and vehicles with battery modules having finger-proof electrical terminals for bolted busbar connections. A battery assembly includes one or more electrochemical battery cells and one or more electrical terminals each electrically connected to the battery cell(s) and having a contact face to electrically connect the battery assembly to an electrical connector. A threaded nut attaches each electrical terminal to one of the electrical connectors. An electrically insulating nut cap is attached to each threaded nut. A battery housing, which stores therein the battery cell(s), includes an electrically insulating housing wall with one or more terminal jackets each mounting therein one of the electrical terminals. Each terminal jacket has a jacket window that circumscribes one of the nut caps, spaced therefrom by a predefined clearance sufficient to expose the contact face of the electrical terminal.
US11621455B2	Vent assembly with membrane A vent assembly for a battery or a electrochemical cell may include a vent body configured to connect to a battery casing or a electrochemical cell body, a flame arrester and/or a pressure valve disposed in the vent body, a membrane disposed in the vent body between a vent opening of the battery or the electrochemical cell and the flame arrester and/or the pressure valve, and that is configured to shield the flame arrester and/or the pressure valve from electrolyte solution of the battery or the electrochemical cell, and a seal disposed between the vent body and the membrane. Also, a battery including a vent assembly.
US11621451B2	Removable tab and battery assembly having the same A battery assembly includes a battery that has a top surface surrounded by a circumferential edge; and a removable tab attached to the top surface. The removable tab includes a first tab end and an oppositely disposed second tab end; a gripping region disposed adjacent to the first tab end; and a battery cell attachment region disposed adjacent to the second tab end and attached to the top surface of the battery. The battery cell attachment region has first and second oppositely disposed sidewalls, wherein the second tab end is curved inwardly away from the circumferential edge of the battery such that a portion of the top surface of the battery is exposed between the second tab end and the circumferential edge of the battery
US11621435B2	Battery pack and manufacturing method for battery pack A battery pack includes a plurality of secondary batteries, and a binding band made of fiber reinforced plastic. The binding band has a braid member formed into a braided state with use of a plurality of bundled bodies, and a reinforcing part made of resin impregnated in the braid member. Each of the bundled bodies includes a plurality of fiber materials that have been bundled together.
US11621428B2	Anode catalyst layer for fuel cell and fuel cell using same An anode catalyst layer for a fuel cell includes: electrode catalyst particles; a carbon carrier carrying the electrode catalyst particles; water electrolysis catalyst particles; a proton-conductive binder; and a graphitized carbon, wherein the content of the graphitized carbon in the anode catalyst layer for a fuel cell is 3-70 mass % with respect to the total mass of the electrode catalyst particles, the carbon carrier, and the graphitized carbon.
US11621425B2	Positive electrode current collector, positive electrode piece, electrochemical device and apparatus A positive electrode current collector, a positive electrode piece, an electrochemical device and an apparatus, where the positive electrode current collector includes a support layer and a conductive layer provided on the support layer, where a material of the conductive layer is aluminum or aluminum alloy, and a thickness D1 of the conductive layer is 300 nm≤D1≤2 μm; an elongation at break B of the support layer is 10,000%≥B≥12%, and a volume resistivity of the support layer is greater than or equal to 1.0×10−5 Ω·m; when a tensile strain of the positive electrode current collector is 2%, a square resistance growth rate T1 of the conductive layer is T1≤10%. The positive electrode current collector provided in the present application can simultaneously take into account both high safety performance and electrical performance.
US11621420B2	High ionic conductivity rechargeable solid state batteries with an organic electrode An improved rechargeable battery may utilize materials that are entirely solid-state. The battery may utilize at least one organic active material for an electrode. The battery may utilize a cathode that comprises quinone(s). An electrolyte of the battery may be an ion-conducting inorganic compound. An anode of the battery may comprise an alkali metal. Further, a carbonyl group of the quinone(s) of the cathode may be reduced into a phenolate and coordinated to an alkali metal ion during discharge and vice versa during charging.
US11621418B2	Lithium complex oxide A lithium complex oxide includes a mixture of first particles of n1 (n1>40) aggregated primary particles and second particles of n2 (n2≤20) aggregated primary particles, the lithium complex oxide represented by Chemical Formula 1 and having FWHM (deg., 2θ) of 104 peak in XRD, defined by a hexagonal lattice having R-3m space group, in a range of Formula 1: LiaNixCoyMnzM1-x-y-zO2, [Chemical Formula 1] where M is selected from: B, Ba, Ce, Cr, F, Mg, Al, Cr, V, Ti, Fe, Zr, Zn, Si, Y, Nb, Ga, Sn, Mo, W, P, Sr, and any combination thereof, 0.9≤a≤1.3, 0.6≤x≤1.0, 0.0≤y≤=0.4, 0.0≤z≤0.4, and 0.0≤1−x−y−z≤0.4, −0.025≤FWHM(104)−{0.04+(xfirst particle−0.6)×0.25}≤0.025, [Formula 1] where FWHM(104) is represented by Formula 2, FWHM(104)={(FWHMChemical Formula 1 powder(104)−0.1×mass ratio of second particles)/mass ratio of first particles}−FWHMSi powder(220). [Formula 2]
US11621411B2	Method of insulating lithium ion electrochemical cell components with metal oxide coatings Disclosed is a method for making a lithium-ion cell by depositing from an atmospheric plasma deposition device inorganic oxide particles produced from a precursor in an atmospheric plasma as a coating on a surface of a lithium-ion electrochemical cell component. The coating formed by the inorganic oxide particles may be an insulating coating or may provide dimensional stability during a thermal runaway.
US11621405B2	Display device and electronic apparatus To provide a display device and an electronic apparatus that suppress leakage of a drive current between adjacent light emitting elements. A display device includes: a plurality of light emitting elements having an organic light emitting layer sandwiched between a first electrode disposed for each of the light emitting elements and a second electrode in a lamination direction and arrayed on a plane; and an insulating layer disposed between the first electrodes. At least a part of a film thickness region in the insulating layer contains a positively charged inorganic nitride.
US11621403B2	Core shell quantum dot and electronic device including the same A cadmium-free, core shell quantum dot, a quantum dot polymer composite, and electronic devices including the quantum dot polymer composite. The core shell quantum dot has an extinction coefficient per gram of greater than or equal to 0.3, an ultraviolet-visible absorption spectrum curve that has a positive differential coefficient value at 450 nm, wherein the core shell quantum dot includes a semiconductor nanocrystal core including indium and phosphorus, and optionally zinc, and a semiconductor nanocrystal shell disposed on the semiconductor nanocrystal core, the shell including zinc, selenium, and sulfur, wherein the core shell quantum dot has a quantum efficiency of greater than or equal to about 80%, and is configured to emit green light upon excitation.
US11621401B2	Display device Provided is a display device including a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel adjacent to the first sub-pixel. The first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel each include a semiconductor film, a gate electrode, a gate insulating film, an interlayer insulating film, and a leveling film and further possesses a light-emitting element located over the leveling film. The display device has a partition wall located between the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel and a trench passing through the leveling film.
US11621388B2	Method for manufacturing Josephson junctions The present invention relates to the manufacture of Josephson junctions. Such Josephson junctions may be suitable for use in qubits. High-quality, potentially monocrystalline, electrode and dielectric layers are formed using blanket deposition. Subsequently, the structure of one of more Josephson junctions is formed using multi-photon lithography to create openings in a resist followed by etching the electrode and dielectric layers.
US11621378B2	Optoelectronic component An optoelectronic component includes an optoelectronic semiconductor chip that, during intended operation, generates primary radiation coupled out of the semiconductor chip via an emission side of the semiconductor chip; and a first conversion element on the emission side, wherein the first conversion element includes a first matrix material and first phosphor particles in the form of quantum dots, the first phosphor particles are distributed and embedded in the first matrix material, and the first matrix material is formed by a polysiloxane in which an atomic percentage of carbon is smaller than an atomic percentage of oxygen.
US11621374B2	Light-emitting device with a plurality of electrodes on a semiconductor stack A light-emitting device includes a substrate including a top surface, a first side surface and a second side surface, wherein the first side surface and the second side surface of the substrate are respectively connected to two opposite sides of the top surface of the substrate; a semiconductor stack formed on the top surface of the substrate, the semiconductor stack including a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and an active layer formed between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer; a first electrode pad formed adjacent to a first edge of the light-emitting device; and a second electrode pad formed adjacent to a second edge of the light-emitting device, wherein in a top view of the light-emitting device, the first edge and the second edge are formed on different sides or opposite sides of the light-emitting device, the first semiconductor layer adjacent to the first edge includes a first sidewall directly connected to the first side surface of the substrate, and the first semiconductor layer adjacent to the second edge includes a second sidewall separated from the second side surface of the substrate by a distance.
US11621367B2	LED device, method of manufacturing the LED device, and display apparatus including the LED device A light-emitting diode (LED) device includes a light-emitting layer having a core-shell structure that comprises a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer; a passivation layer formed to cover at least a portion of a side surface and a portion of an upper surface of the second semiconductor layer; a first electrode formed on a portion of the passivation layer that is located on a side surface of the light-emitting layer, the first electrode electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer and including a reflective material; and a second electrode formed on a portion of the passivation layer that is located on an upper surface of the light-emitting layer, the second electrode contacting a portion of the upper surface of the second semiconductor layer that is exposed.
US11621361B2	Arrangements of flexible photovoltaic modules A photovoltaic apparatus is provided including a first photovoltaic module and a second photovoltaic module. Each photovoltaic module includes a front sheet having an outer portion and an inner portion. The outer portion is disposed around a core to form a keder. Each photovoltaic module further includes a back sheet and a photovoltaic device disposed between the front sheet and the back sheet. Each photovoltaic device includes an array of photovoltaic cells.
US11621349B2	Nano-wall integrated circuit structure with high integrated density A nano-wall integrated circuit structure with high integration density is disclosed, which relates to the fields of microelectronic technology and integrated circuits (IC). Based on the different device physical principles with MOSFETs in traditional ICs, the nano-wall integrated circuit unit structure (Nano-Wall FET, referred to as NWaFET) with high integration density can improve the integration of the IC, significantly shorten the channel length, improve the flexibility of the device channel width-to-length ratio adjustment, and save chip area.
US11621346B2	Vertical metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) and a method of forming the same A vertical metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) and a method for forming a vertical MOSFET is presented. The MOSFET comprises: a top contact; a bottom contact; a nanowire (602) forming a charge transport channel between the top contact and the bottom contact; and a wrap-around gate (650) enclosing the nanowire (602) circumference, the wrap-around gate (650) having an extension spanning over a portion of the nanowire (602) in a longitudinal direction of the nanowire (602), wherein the wrap-around gate (650) comprises a gate portion (614) and a field plate portion (616) for controlling a charge transport in the charge transport channel, and wherein the field plate portion (616) is arranged at a first radial distance (636) from the center of the nanowire (602) and the gate portion (614) is arranged at a second radial distance (634) from the center of the nanowire (602); characterized in that the first radial distance (636) is larger than the second radial distance (634).
US11621345B2	Systems and methods of fabricating gate electrode on trenched bottom electrode based molecular spintronics device A system and method comprising the steps of: depositing a first electrode metal on an insulating substrate or layer; creating a trench component, in which said trench component comprises a section of said first electrode metal or both first electrode metal and insulating substrate or layer with a depth based on at least one of, a molecular device element, a trenched bottom electrode, and a liftoff molecular device (TBELMD) to be produced; insulating said first electrode metal from a predetermined material deposited in said trench component; and depositing a second electrode metal on said predetermined material deposited in said trench component.
US11621343B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor devices and semiconductor devices A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a plurality of fin structures are formed over a semiconductor substrate. The fin structures extend along a first direction and are arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction. A plurality of sacrificial gate structures extending in the second direction are formed over the fin structures. An interlayer dielectric layer is formed over the plurality of fin structures between adjacent sacrificial gate structures. The sacrificial gate structures are cut into a plurality of pieces of sacrificial gate structures by forming gate end spaces along the second direction. Gate separation plugs are formed by filling the gate end spaces with two or more dielectric materials. The two or more dielectric materials includes a first layer and a second layer formed on the first layer, and a dielectric constant of the second layer is smaller than a dielectric constant of the first layer.
US11621341B2	Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate including a first region, and a first transistor positioned in the first region. The first transistor includes a first bottom gate structure positioned on the substrate, a first channel layer positioned on the first bottom gate structure, a first top gate structure positioned on the first channel layer, and two first source/drain regions positioned on two sides of the first channel layer.
US11621331B2	Electronic device including a charge storage component A circuit and physical structure can help to counteract non-linear COSS associated with power transistors that operate at higher switching speeds and lower RDSON. In an embodiment, a component with a pn junction can be coupled to an n-channel IGFET. The component can include a p-channel IGFET, a pnp bipolar transistor, or both. A gate/capacitor electrode can be within a trench that is adjacent to the active regions of the component and n-channel IGFET, where the active regions can be within a semiconductor pillar. The combination of a conductive member and the semiconductor pillar of the component can be a charge storage component. The physical structure may include a compensation region, a barrier doped region, or both. In a particular embodiment, doped surface regions can be coupled to a buried conductive region without the use of a topside interconnect or a deep collector type of structure.
US11621329B1	Epitaxial oxide materials, structures, and devices In some embodiments, a semiconductor structure includes: a first region comprising a first epitaxial oxide material; a second region comprising a second epitaxial oxide material; and a chirp layer located between the first and the second regions. The chirp layer can include alternating layers of a plurality of wide bandgap epitaxial oxide material layers (WBG layers) and a plurality of narrow bandgap epitaxial oxide material layers (NBG layers), wherein thicknesses of the NBG layers and the WBG layers change throughout the chirp layer. The WBG layer can comprise (Alx1Ga1−x1)y1Oz1, wherein x1 is from 0 to 1, wherein y1 is from 1 to 3, and wherein z1 is from 2 to 4. The NBG layer can comprise (Alx2Ga1x−2)y2Oz2, wherein x2 is from 0 to 1, wherein y2 is from 1 to 3, and wherein z2 is from 2 to 4, and wherein x1 and x2 are different from one another.
US11621325B2	Source or drain structures with low resistivity Integrated circuit structures having source or drain structures with low resistivity are described. In an example, integrated circuit structure includes a fin having a lower fin portion and an upper fin portion. A gate stack is over the upper fin portion of the fin, the gate stack having a first side opposite a second side. A first source or drain structure includes an epitaxial structure embedded in the fin at the first side of the gate stack. A second source or drain structure includes an epitaxial structure embedded in the fin at the second side of the gate stack. Each epitaxial structure of the first and second source or drain structures include silicon, germanium and boron. The first and second source or drain structures have a resistivity less than or equal to 0.3 mOhm·cm.
US11621319B2	SiC semiconductor device An SiC semiconductor device includes an SiC semiconductor layer including an SiC monocrystal that is constituted of a hexagonal crystal and having a first main surface as a device surface facing a c-plane of the SiC monocrystal and has an off angle inclined with respect to the c-plane, a second main surface at a side opposite to the first main surface, and a side surface facing an a-plane of the SiC monocrystal and has an angle less than the off angle with respect to a normal to the first main surface when the normal is 0°.
US11621314B2	Display device A display device includes: a substrate; a plurality of transistors disposed on the substrate; an initialization voltage line disposed on the substrate and including a first initialization voltage line that extends in a first direction, and a second initialization voltage line that extends in a second direction; and a driving voltage line disposed on the substrate and extending in the second direction, wherein each of the first initialization voltage line and the driving voltage line is connected to at least one of the plurality of transistors, and the second initialization voltage line and the driving voltage line overlap each other.
US11621308B2	Display device and method for fabricating the same A display device includes: a substrate including a front surface, side surfaces extending from sides of the front surface, and a corner between the side surfaces; a first display area at the front surface and including a first pixel electrode, a first emissive layer disposed on the first pixel electrode, and a first common electrode on the first emissive layer; a second display area at the corner and including a second pixel electrode, a second emissive layer on the second pixel electrode, and a second common electrode on the second emissive layer; a first inorganic encapsulation layer on the first common electrode and the second common electrode; an organic encapsulation layer on the first inorganic encapsulation layer in the first display area; and a second inorganic encapsulation layer on the organic encapsulation layer in the first display area and on the first inorganic encapsulation layer in the second display area.
US11621307B2	Flexible organic light emitting display device including a connection structure disposed in a pad region An OLED device includes a substrate including a display region including a pixel region and a peripheral region surrounding the pixel region. A pad region is spaced apart from the display region, and a bending region is disposed between the display region and the pad region. A plurality of pixel structures are disposed in the pixel region on the substrate. A touch screen structure is disposed on the pixel structures. A plurality of touch screen wirings are disposed in the bending region on the substrate. The touch screen wirings are electrically connected the touch screen structure. A connection structure is in the pad region. The connection structure electrically connects touch screen wirings to each other. A same touch sensing signal is applied to touch screen wirings that are connected to each other.
US11621305B2	Display device A display device includes a first display substrate and a second display substrate. The first display substrate includes a first base, a first electrode disposed on the first base, a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode, and a light emitting element disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The second display substrate faces the first display substrate and is configured to receive light emitted from the light emitting element. The second display substrate includes a second base, a first color filter disposed on a surface of the second base, and a first wavelength conversion pattern disposed on the first color filter. The first wavelength conversion pattern includes a first surface facing the first display substrate, and a second surface facing the first surface and the first color filter. The first surface includes a curved surface portion recessed toward the second surface.
US11621300B2	High resolution low power consumption OLED display with extended lifetime Full-color pixel arrangements for use in devices such as OLED displays are provided, in which multiple sub-pixels are configured to emit different colors of light, with each sub-pixel having a different optical path length than some or all of the other sub-pixels within the pixel.
US11621296B2	Magnetoresistive random access memory and method for fabricating the same A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming a first magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) and a second MTJ on a substrate; forming a first top electrode on the first MTJ and a second top electrode on the second MTJ; forming a first ultra low-k (ULK) dielectric layer on the first MTJ and the second MTJ; forming a passivation layer on the first ULK dielectric layer, wherein a bottom surface of the passivation layer between the first MTJ and the second MTJ is lower than a top surface of the first MTJ; and forming a second ULK dielectric layer on the passivation layer.
US11621285B2	Light detecting device with light shielding films, and electronic apparatus The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device and a driving method thereof, and an electronic apparatus that make it possible to improve the precision of phase difference detection while suppressing deterioration of resolution in a solid-state imaging device having a global shutter function and a phase difference AF function. Provided is a solid-state imaging device including: a pixel array unit including, as pixels including an on-chip lens, a photoelectric conversion unit, and a charge accumulation unit, imaging pixels for generating a captured image and phase difference detection pixels for performing phase difference detection arrayed therein; and a driving control unit configured to control driving of the pixels. The imaging pixel is formed with the charge accumulation unit shielded from light. The phase difference detection pixel is formed in a manner that at least part of at least one of the photoelectric conversion unit and the charge accumulation unit refrains from being shielded from light. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a CMOS image sensor.
US11621284B2	Solid-state imaging device and electronic device The present invention relates to a solid-state imaging device. In a pixel array section in the solid-state imaging device, a vertical signal line is provided right under power supply wiring apart from a floating diffusion region in order to reduce load capacitance of the vertical signal line. Furthermore, the power supply wiring is wired to make a cover rate of each vertical signal line with respect to the power supply wiring nearly uniform. As a result, it is possible to suppress variation of load capacitance of the vertical signal line for each pixel. It becomes possible to suppress deviation in a black level, variation of charge transfer, and variation of settling. It becomes possible to obtain an image with higher quality.
US11621282B2	Multiplexing signal processing device based on semiconductor passive element Provided is a multiplexing signal processing device based on a passive element including a plurality of signal converters that respectively process a plurality of input signals and are arranged in a matrix consisting of N rows and M columns and include N signal converter blocks respectively connected to N row unit output terminals; and M signal converter blocks respectively connected to M column unit output terminals. The signal converters each include a first diode having an input terminal connected to an input signal node, a second diode having an input terminal connected to the input signal node, and a ground resistor coupled to the input signal node.
US11621279B2	Semiconductor device having a diode formed in a first trench and a bidirectional zener diode formed in a second trench A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, a transistor cell portion, formed in the semiconductor layer, a first trench, formed in the semiconductor layer, a diode, electrically separated from the transistor cell portion and having a first conductivity type portion and a second conductivity type portion disposed inside the first trench, a second trench, formed in the semiconductor layer, and a bidirectional Zener diode, electrically connected to the transistor cell portion and having a pair of first conductivity type portions, disposed inside the second trench, and at least one second conductivity type portion, formed between the pair of first conductivity type portion.
US11621275B2	Three-dimensional memory device with hydrogen-rich semiconductor channels Embodiments of 3D memory devices and methods for forming the same are disclosed. In an example, a 3D memory device includes a memory stack including interleaved stack conductive layers and stack dielectric layers, a semiconductor layer, a plurality of channel structures each extending vertically through the memory stack into the semiconductor layer, and an insulating structure extending vertically through the memory stack and including a dielectric layer doped with at least one of hydrogen or an isotope of hydrogen.
US11621274B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the semiconductor device A semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The semiconductor device includes a well structure, a first channel pillar and a second channel pillar extending from an inside of the well structure in an upward direction, a semiconductor pattern coupled between the first channel pillar and the second channel pillar and having a gap disposed in a central region of the semiconductor pattern, and a source junction formed in the semiconductor pattern.
US11621268B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A method includes forming a first semiconductor fin over a p-well region of a substrate; forming a second semiconductor fin over an n-well region of a substrate; forming a gate structure crossing the first semiconductor fin and the second semiconductor fin; performing an implantation process to form a source/drain doped region in the first semiconductor fin; etching the second semiconductor fin to form a recess therein; performing a first epitaxy process to grow a first epitaxy layer in the recess; performing a second epitaxy process to grow a second epitaxy layer over the first epitaxy process; etching the second epitaxy layer to round a corner of the second epitaxy layer; forming an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer covering the first semiconductor fin and the second epitaxy layer, wherein no etching is performed to the first semiconductor fin after forming the gate structure and prior to forming the ILD layer.
US11621267B2	Compact electrical connection that can be used to form an SRAM cell and method of making the same An integrated circuit structure in which a gate overlies channel region in an active area of a first transistor. The first transistor includes a channel region, a source region and a drain region. A conductive contact is coupled to the drain region of the first transistor. A second transistor that includes a channel region, a source region a drain region is adjacent to the first transistor. The gate of the second transistor is spaced from the gate of the first transistor. A conductive via passes through an insulation layer to electrically connect to the gate of the second transistor. An expanded conductive via overlays both the conductive contact and the conductive via to electrically connect the drain of the first transistor to the gate of the second transistor.
US11621264B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device may include a first electrode and a second electrode, which are spaced apart from each other in a first direction, and a first semiconductor pattern, which is in contact with both of the first and second electrodes. The first semiconductor pattern may include first to fourth sub-semiconductor patterns, which are sequentially disposed in the first direction. The first and fourth sub-semiconductor patterns may be in contact with the first and second electrodes, respectively. The first and third sub-semiconductor patterns may be of a first conductivity type, and the second and fourth sub-semiconductor patterns may be of a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type. Each of the first to fourth sub-semiconductor patterns may include a transition metal and a chalcogen element.
US11621259B2	Semiconductor chip A semiconductor chip includes a first cell row constituted by I/O cells arranged in the X direction and a second cell row constituted by I/O cells arranged in the first direction, spaced from the first cell row by a predetermined distance in the Y direction. A plurality of external connecting pads include pads each connected with any of the I/O cells and a reinforcing power supply pad that is not connected with any of the I/O cells and is connected with a pad for power supply. The reinforcing power supply pad is placed to lie in a region between the first cell row and the second cell row.
US11621251B2	Device for transfer of light emitting elements, method for transferring light emitting elements, and method of manufacturing the transfer device A device for collecting and transferring light emitting elements of microscale size includes a non-magnetic plate, a plurality of magnetic probes, and a magnetic plate. The non-magnetic plate defines through holes. Each of the probes is fixed in one through holes. The magnetic plate is on a surface of the non-magnetic plate and closes one opening of each of the through holes. The magnetic plate generates a magnetic field, so that each of the probes magnetically attracts one light emitting element. A method for making the transfer device and a method for transferring light emitting elements using the transfer device are also disclosed.
US11621239B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes: a bonding substrate which includes a first chip forming portion having first metal pads provided at a semiconductor substrate and a first circuit connected to the first metal pads, and a second chip forming portion having second metal pads joined to the first metal pads and a second circuit connected to the second metal pads and being bonded to the first chip forming portion; and an insulating film which is filled into a non-bonded region between the first chip forming portion and the second chip forming portion at an outer peripheral portion of the bonding substrate. At least a part of the insulating film contains at least one selected from the group consisting of silicon nitride and nitrogen-containing silicon carbide.
US11621235B2	Structures and methods for reducing thermal expansion mismatch during integrated circuit packaging Structures and methods for reducing thermal expansion mismatch during chip scale packaging are disclosed. In one example, a semiconductor structure is disclosed. The semiconductor structure includes a first metal layer over a substrate, a dielectric region, and a polymer region. The first metal layer comprises a first device metal structure. The dielectric region is formed over the first metal layer. The polymer region is formed over the dielectric region. The dielectric region comprises a plurality of metal layers and an inter-metal dielectric layer comprising dielectric material between each pair of two adjacent metal layers in the plurality of metal layers. Each of the plurality of metal layers comprises a dummy metal structure over the first device metal structure. The dummy metal structures in each pair of two adjacent metal layers in the plurality of metal layers shield respectively two non-overlapping portions of the first device metal structure from a top view of the semiconductor structure.
US11621215B1	Semiconductor device package with isolated semiconductor die and electric field curtailment In a described example, an apparatus includes: a lead frame having a first portion and having a second portion electrically isolated from the first portion, the first portion having a side surface normal to a planar opposite surface, and having a recessed edge that is notched or chamfered and extending between the side surface and a planar device side surface; a spacer dielectric mounted to the planar device side surface and partially covered by the first portion, and extending beyond the first portion; a semiconductor die mounted to the spacer dielectric, the semiconductor die partially covered by the spacer dielectric and extending beyond the spacer dielectric; the second portion of the lead frame comprising leads coupled to the semiconductor die by electrical connections; and mold compound covering the semiconductor die, the electrical connections, the spacer dielectric, and partially covering the first portion and the second portion.
US11621213B2	Semiconductor device including a spring plate An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device in which the effect of dimensional tolerance can be reduced, and a method for manufacturing the same. The semiconductor device according to the present invention includes: a plurality of cooling plates each having a coolant passage inside; spacers disposed to stack the cooling plates with spaces; at least one semiconductor package disposed on at least one principal surface of at least one of the cooling plates; and a spring plate disposed between adjacent ones of the cooling plates, the spring plate biasing the at least one semiconductor package toward the cooling plates.
US11621205B2	Underfill structure for semiconductor packages and methods of forming the same A method for forming an underfill structure and semiconductor packages including the underfill structure are disclosed. In an embodiment, the semiconductor package may include a package including an integrated circuit die; an interposer bonded to the integrated circuit die by a plurality of die connectors; and an encapsulant surrounding the integrated circuit die. The semiconductor package may further include a package substrate bonded to the interposer by a plurality of conductive connectors; a first underfill between the package and the package substrate, the first underfill having a first coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE); and a second underfill surrounding the first underfill, the second underfill having a second CTE less than the first CTE.
US11621204B2	Molded semiconductor module having a mold step for increasing creepage distance A semiconductor module includes: a dual-gauge leadframe having thicker and thinner parts, part of the thinner part forming a high voltage lead; a semiconductor die attached to the thicker part; and a molding compound (MC) encapsulating the die. The thicker leadframe part is disposed at a bottom side of the MC. A side face of the MC has a stepped region between the high voltage lead and thicker leadframe part. A first generally vertical part of the stepped region extends from the high voltage lead to the generally horizontal part, a generally horizontal part of the stepped region extends to the second generally vertical part, and a second generally vertical part of the stepped region extends to the bottom side of the MC. A linear dimension of the generally horizontal part as measured from the first generally vertical part to the second generally vertical part is at least 4.5 mm.
US11621202B2	Electrical overlay measurement methods and structures for wafer-to-wafer bonding Alignment of a first wafer bonded to a second wafer can be determined using electrical wafer alignment methods. A wafer stack can be formed by overlaying a second wafer over a first wafer such that second metal bonding pads of the second wafer contact first metal bonding pads of the first wafer. A leakage current or a capacitance measurement step is performed between first alignment diagnostic structures in the first wafer and second alignment diagnostic structures in the second wafer for multiple mating pairs of first semiconductor dies in the first wafer and second semiconductor dies in the second wafer to determine the alignment.
US11621184B2	Laser marking device and laser marking method A laser marking device includes a laser emission unit configured to emit a laser beam to a first surface of an object to be processed, and a pressing unit configured to press a second surface that is opposite to the first surface of the object to be processed to make the first surface of the object to be flat. The pressing unit includes a first pressing portion configured to press an edge area of the second surface in a contact manner, and at least one second pressing portion configured to press a middle area of the second surface in a non-contact manner to maintain a separation distance from the second surface within a certain distance.
US11621183B2	Transfer device and transfer method for micro light-emitting diode (micro LED), and display device A transfer device for a micro light-emitting diode (micro LED) of the present application includes a collecting tube and a driving device. The collecting tube has a first end and a second end disposed oppositely, and the collecting tube includes a collecting opening and a storage tube, and the collecting opening is connected to the storage tube, and the collecting opening is disposed at the first end. The driving device is disposed at the second end, and the driving device is configured to provide a driving force, wherein the driving device is configured to provide the driving force to pick up the micro LED from the collecting opening into the storage tube so that the storage tube is able to store and stack at least two micro LEDs.
US11621168B1	Method and system for doping semiconductor materials A method and system for doping semiconductor materials using microwave exposure. In some embodiments, the surface of a semiconductor substrate coated with a layer of dopant material is exposed to a beam of microwave radiation, with the frequency of the microwave radiation chosen to coincide with a microwave absorption resonance of the dopant. A gyrotron is a preferred source of monochromatic microwaves capable of delivering the appropriate the power density. Under this microwave exposure, the dopant heats up and diffuses into the semiconductor. Since only the dopant is selectively excited, the atoms of the crystal lattice remain cooler. Additional cooling can be provided by a flow of cooling gas onto the surface. When the electric field of the microwave exposure is high enough to overcome the potential barrier of interstitial diffusion within the crystal, the dopants migrate to vacancies in the crystal lattice, and the semiconductor material becomes activated.
US11621167B2	Semiconductor device, method for manufacturing semiconductor device, inverter circuit, drive device, vehicle, and elevator A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes: a silicon carbide layer; a silicon oxide layer; and a region disposed between the silicon carbide layer and the silicon oxide layer and having a nitrogen concentration equal to or more than 1×1021 cm−3. A nitrogen concentration distribution in the silicon carbide layer, the silicon oxide layer, and the region have a peak in the region, a nitrogen concentration at a first position 1 nm away from the peak to the side of the silicon oxide layer is equal to or less than 1×1018 cm−3 and a carbon concentration at the first position is equal to or less than 1×1018 cm−3, and a nitrogen concentration at a second position 1 nm away from the peak to the side of the silicon carbide layer is equal to or less than 1×1018 cm−3.
US11621158B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor device A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, including preparing a semiconductor wafer having first and second main surfaces opposite to each other, forming a photoresist film on the first main surface of the semiconductor wafer, forming a plurality of openings at predetermined positions in the photoresist film, cleaning the semiconductor wafer with water after the openings are formed, drying the semiconductor wafer by rotating the semiconductor wafer around a center axis that is orthogonal to the first main surface of the semiconductor wafer, to thereby generate a centrifugal force to cause the water that is left in the openings of the photoresist film to fly off the semiconductor wafer, and ion-implanting a predetermined impurity by a predetermined acceleration energy from the first main surface of the semiconductor wafer, using the photoresist film as a mask, after the drying. The drying process includes setting a rotational speed of the semiconductor wafer to be at most an upper limit value.
US11621156B2	Multi-reflecting time of flight mass analyser A mass spectrometer comprising: an ion energy filter 14 arranged and configured to filter ions according to their kinetic energy and so as to only transmit ions having a component of kinetic energy in a first dimension (z-dimension) that is within a selected range; and a multi-reflecting time of flight mass analyser or mass separator 1 having an ion accelerator 6, and two gridless ion mirrors 2 that are elongated in the first dimension (z-dimension) and configured to reflect ions multiple times in a second orthogonal dimension (x-dimension), wherein the ion accelerator 6 is arranged to receive ions from the energy filter 14 and accelerate the ions into one of the ion mirrors 2.
US11621143B2	Ion milling apparatus and method of manufacturing sample An ion milling apparatus includes a pair of shielding members sandwiching a sample, and an ion source configured to irradiate the sample with an ion beam. The ion milling apparatus is configured to be capable of irradiating the sample with the ion beam in a first mode of irradiating the sample with the ion beam via one shielding member and in a second mode of irradiating the sample with the ion beam via the other shielding member.
US11621141B2	Ion milling device and ion milling method Provided is a machining technology to obtain a desired machining content while suppressing a possibility of causing a redeposition in a machining surface. The invention is directed to provide an ion milling device which includes an ion source which emits an ion beam, a sample holder which holds a sample, and a sample sliding mechanism which slides the sample holder in a direction including a normal direction of an axis of the ion beam.
US11621132B2	Bend web design for reed switches A reed switch including a cylindrical enclosure with two ends, a first blade and a second blade is disclosed. The first blade has a first lead, a first web, and a first contact, and the first web is bent at a first angle as compared to the first lead. The second blade has a second lead, a second web, and a second contact, and the second web is bent at a second angle as compared to the second lead. The first contact is disposed adjacent to the second contact with a gap between them.
US11621127B2	Method of manufacturing a multilayer ceramic capacitor A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a body having a dielectric layer and internal electrodes disposed to be alternately exposed to the third and fourth surfaces with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween. External electrodes include connection parts respectively formed on opposing surfaces of the body, band parts formed to extend from the connection parts to portions of side surfaces of the body, and corner parts in which the connection parts and the band parts are contiguous. A thickness of each of the external electrodes may be 50 nm to 2 μm. The external electrodes may be formed using a barrel-type sputtering method. A ratio t2/t1 may satisfy 0.7 to 1.2, where t1 is a thickness of each connection part and t2 is a thickness of each band part. A ratio t3/t1 may satisfy 0.7 to 1.0, where t3 is a thickness of each corner part.
US11621125B2	Variable vacuum capacitor and cooling method A variable vacuum capacitor is described in which oil inside the main bellows (21) is pumped through the bellows and through the oil circuit (8) of a heat exchanger by a pump (15). Water passes through coolant channels (6) of the heat exchanger, from inlet (7) to outlet (7′). The extendable capacitor drive shaft (14) is hollow and serves as a conduit, conveying the oil to the bottom of the (bellows 21), thereby ensuring a full circulation of the oil right through the bellows and then through the heat exchanger. Pump drive means (9) may be a gerotor hydraulic motor, coupled to a gerotor oil pump (15) via magnetic coupling (22). Pumping heat transfer fluid (oil) through the bellows allows the capacitor to operate at significantly higher currents and/or lower temperatures, and significantly extends the life of the device.
US11621124B2	Air-core inductor assembly Modern X-ray generators are required to deliver a peak power between 30 kW and 120 kW. This requirement places demanding constraints on the design of the power inverters used to supply such X-ray generators, at the same time that there exist industry incentives to reduce the size of X-ray generators. An trend towards increased frequencies of switching operation in the power stage of modern X-ray generators makes it possible to use air-core inductors, rather than magnetic-core inductors. This application discusses an air-core inductor assembly having an integral current sensor. According to this application, a current sensor can be more accurately provided, which does not drift in position over time, and in a way which reduces the overall bill of materials.
US11621117B2	Coil component and manufacturing method therefor A wire wound-type coil component with an integrated structure does not have a bonding portion where there is concern about reliability with respect to a spiral conductive wire, a terminal electrode, and an annular core. A coil component includes a core with an integrated structure, at least part of which is a winding core portion, which has an annular shape having a through-hole, and which is made of a non-conductive material; and a coil conductor with an integrated structure, which has a spiral conductive wire arranged to spirally extend around the winding core portion and first and second terminal electrodes formed at both end portions of the spiral conductive wire, respectively. The coil component is manufactured through three-dimensionally shaping the core, the coil conductor, and a shape holding member for holding a shape of a wall surface of the core defining the through-hole, by using a 3D printer.
US11621115B2	Method for assembling a magnetic core for a transformer A method is described for the assembly of a magnetic core for a transformer, with the following steps: Cutting sheet metal blanks from transformer sheet, stacking the sheet metal blanks to form magnetic core segments, placing a permanent magnet at one of the magnetic core segments so that the latter is magnetized by the permanent magnet, formation of the magnetic core by placing the remaining magnetic core segments against the permanent magnet, or against a magnetic core segment already magnetized by the permanent magnet. A magnetic core is also disclosed.
US11621112B2	Multilayer coil component A multilayer coil component includes a multilayer body formed by stacking a plurality of insulating layers in a length direction and that has a built-in coil, and first and second outer electrodes that are electrically connected to the coil. The coil is formed by a plurality of coil conductors stacked in the length direction being electrically connected to each other. The first and second outer electrodes respectively cover parts of first and second end surfaces and parts of a first main surface. A stacking direction of the multilayer body and an axial direction of the coil are parallel to the first main surface. In a plan view from the stacking direction, a repeating shape of the coil conductors is a non-circular shape, and distances between the first main surface and the parts of the coil conductors that face the first main surface are not constant.
US11621107B2	Resistor assembly and method for producing same A resistor assembly including at least two connector elements and at least one strip-like or plate-like resistor element arranged between the connector elements. The resistor element has an upper side, a lower side and two longitudinal sides parallel to each other. The at least one resistor element is of a material of which the electrical conductivity is lower than the electrical conductivity of the material of the connector elements. The resistor element has, on at least its upper side or at least its lower side, at least one shaped element as a positioning aid.
US11621106B2	Waterproof connector and device with connector A waterproof connector that is easy to design and manufacture and that can provide sufficiently close contact with respect to a through hole including a tapered opening is provided. A sealing member that provides waterproofness of the waterproof connector includes an inner tube portion and an outer tube portion, and the connector body includes a holding projection. The holding projection is configured to be inserted between the inner tube portion and the outer tube portion from a rear side in an insertion direction and configured to push the outer tube portion against an inner circumferential face of the tapered opening when the sealing member is received between the outer circumferential face of the connector body and the inner circumferential face of the tapered opening.
US11621105B2	Oxide superconducting wire An oxide superconducting wire includes a superconducting laminate including an oxide superconducting layer disposed, either directly or indirectly, on a substrate, and a stabilization layer which is a Cu plating layer covering an outer periphery of the superconducting laminate. An average crystal grain size of the Cu plating layer is 3.30 μm or more and equal to or less than a thickness of the Cu plating layer.
US11621104B1	Differential mode electrical cable to reduce sonar towed array self-noise electronically A differential mode instrumentation cable for improving the signal integrity of audio signals in different environments including use of a sonar hydrophone being towed to the water behind a ship and the sonar hydrophone signal receiver aboard ship to improve the hydrophone signal receiver signal output clarity, reducing strumming cable noises, comprising a first triaxial cable and a second triaxial cable, placed side-by-side, and surrounded by waterproof cable material fr to prevent any water from reaching the first and second triaxial cable from end to end from the hydrophone to the signal receiver aboard ship and mounted together, said first coaxial cable and said second coaxial cable including a wired connection that includes an active driven shield buffer circuit in each triaxial cable having an inner conductor for voltage in from the positive polarity and minus polarity and the voltage out driven guard shield with series breakout resistor connected to the each triaxial inner shield.
US11621097B2	System and process for purification of Astatine-211 from target materials A new column-based purification system and approach are described for rapid separation and purification of the alpha-emitting therapeutic radioisotope 211At from dissolved cyclotron targets that provide highly reproducible product results with excellent 211At species distributions and high antibody labeling yields compared with prior art manual extraction results of the prior art that can be expected to enable enhanced production of purified 211At isotope products suitable for therapeutic medical applications such as treatment of cancer in human patients.
US11621091B2	Temperature measurement sensor using material with a temperature dependent neutron capture cross section A temperature measurement sensor for use in a nuclear reactor is described. The sensor includes a first neutron detector member and a second neutron detector member. The first neutron detector includes an outer shield material with an effective neutron capture cross section that is temperature dependent. The first neutron detector member outputs a first current signal and the second neutron detector member outputs a second current signal. An electrical connection between the first and second neutron detector members produces a net current that is the difference in current between the first and second signals. The difference is proportional to changes in temperature.
US11621072B2	System, method, and computer program product for identifying device connections A system, method, and computer program product for identifying device connections in a connection area includes receiving a plurality of physical parameters of a plurality of devices from a plurality of transmission sources in a connection area, wherein the plurality of physical parameters indicates physical states of the plurality of devices. At least one physical connection state is determined between the plurality of devices based on the plurality of physical parameters of the plurality of devices.
US11621071B2	System and method for clinical quality and safety automation The system and method in accordance with the invention accepts a treatment order from a clinician, which is captured as data. The order data identifies, at a minimum, the patient to be treated, and the treatment to be administered. Additional data may be included. The data is transmitted to one or more fulfillment centers based on supply availability. The supplies are tagged with an information-carrying facet and transported to the patient point of care. At the patient point of care the supplies' data tag, the order date and the patient identity is verified. If verification is correct then the supplies are used to treat the patient. The process may be monitored and/or audited.
US11621070B2	Systems and methods for virtually integrated care delivery Disclosed herein are systems and methods for virtually integrated care delivery. In one implementation, a provider controller is disposed in a virtual care command center and has a provider care delivery interface. Patient controllers and provider user devices are in communication with the provider controller over a network and are each associated with a patient room and have a patient care delivery interface. The provider controller obtains real-time video from the patient controllers for presentation using the provider care delivery interface. The real-time video is captured using the patient care delivery interfaces and provides real-time surveillance of the patient rooms in the virtual care command center. A communication manager device is deployed in the network and configured to route communications among the controllers and user devices and routes a round coordination communication from the provider controller to a subset of the provider user devices associated with providers for a patient.
US11621062B2	Secure medical alert and medical referral delivery using a cloud computing server in an online/offline mode A method for providing secure medical alerts includes executing, using a mobile healthcare worker application executing on a mobile healthcare worker device, a Health Level 7 (HL7) compliant protocol to retrieve medical profiles from a cloud computing server. Using the mobile healthcare worker application, a medical profile of a person (e.g., child or child's mother) is identified from the medical profiles when the mobile healthcare worker device is disconnected from the cloud computing server. The identifying includes reading, using a quick response (QR) code scanner, a QR code of an immunization document of the person, or capturing, using a biometric sensor, biometric data of the person. Using the medical profile of the person, an alert is generated indicating a medical deadline for the person on a graphical user interface of the mobile healthcare worker device when the mobile healthcare worker device is disconnected from the cloud computing server.
US11621060B1	Biometric safe blood donor certification and geo-location system The system and method for biometric safe blood donor certification and geo-location system provides a safe blood donor biometric certification and geolocation tracking system that is an efficient, accurate, and portable device to acquire biometric data to authenticate identity of an individual and link the biometric identity to the blood test samples and results. This technology can unequivocally identify the person with their blood profile. The technology can track location of potential donor individuals with geo-location Global Positioning Satellite sensors and alert these individuals when a nearby patient requests their blood type. All eligible blood donors can be alerted about the opportunity to respond and accept the invitation for blood donation. Those who donate blood are removed from the eligibility list until they can safely donate again. This system eliminates the need for complex equipment and facilities to store donated blood for extended periods and eliminates waste of unused blood.
US11621053B2	Computational systems and methods for discovering allosteric sites and allosteric modulators of proteins Methods and systems are described for identification and characterization of allosteric sites in proteins and enzyme molecules. The disclosed methods allow for identification of natural and true binding sites on surface regions of protein and enzyme molecules by following the pathways of energy flow between the activity center to the surface regions. Allosteric sites are identified and ranked for their effect on target activity of the protein using computational methods. Then chemical libraries are screened to find the best candidates for drug like molecules that affect target activity of the protein or enzyme.
US11621037B2	Memory with symmetric read current profile Memories are provided. A memory includes a first memory array, a second memory array and a read circuit. The first memory array is configured to store first data. The second memory array is configured to store second data that is complementary to the first data. The read circuit includes a decoding circuit, a sensing circuit and an output buffer. The decoding circuit is configured to provide a first signal according to the first data and a second signal according to the second data in response to an address signal. The sensing circuit is configured to provide a first sensing signal according to a reference signal and the first signal, and a second sensing signal according to the reference signal and the second signal. The output buffer is configured to provide the first sensing signal or the second sensing signal as an output according to a control signal.
US11621033B2	Techniques for low power operation Methods, systems, and devices for techniques for low power operation are described. A device may be configurable to operate in a first mode and a second mode, where the first mode may include transmitting using a first modulation scheme having two logic levels and the second mode may include transmitting using a second modulation scheme having three or more (e.g., four) logic levels. The device may identify a data symbol for transmission and select, from the first mode and the second mode, the first modulation scheme for the transmission. In some example, the device may determine which of the two modes to select based on a value stored at a mode register. Here, the value stored by the mode register may indicate to utilize the first modulation scheme associated with the first mode. Thus, the device may transmit the data symbol by a signal modulated by the first modulation scheme.
US11621030B2	Protocol for memory power-mode control In one embodiment, a memory device includes a memory core and input receivers to receive commands and data. The memory device also includes a register to store a value that indicates whether a subset of the input receivers are powered down in response to a control signal. A memory controller transmits commands and data to the memory device. The memory controller also transmits the value to indicate whether a subset of the input receivers of the memory device are powered down in response to the control signal. In addition, in response to a self-fresh command, the memory device defers entry into a self-refresh operation until receipt of the control signal that is received after receiving the self-refresh command.
US11621029B2	Memory devices with selective page-based refresh Several embodiments of memory devices and systems with selective page-based refresh are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a memory device includes a controller operably coupled to a main memory having at least one memory region comprising a plurality of memory pages. The controller is configured to track, in one or more refresh schedule tables stored on the memory device and/or on a host device, a subset of memory pages in the plurality of memory pages configured to be refreshed according to a refresh schedule. In some embodiments, the controller is further configured to refresh the subset of memory pages in accordance with the refresh schedule.
US11621028B2	Memory with capability to detect rows that are prone to data loss, memory system and operation method of memory A memory may include multiple rows each coupled to multiple memory cells; a target row classification circuit suitable for classifying, as a target row, a row, among the multiple rows, that is susceptible to data loss as a result of activity of an adjacent row; and a target row signal generation circuit suitable for sequentially activating a target row active signal for activating the target row and a target row precharge signal for precharging the target row in response to a precharge command.
US11621025B1	Map creation from hybrid data A method for receiving autonomous vehicle (AV) map data associated with an AV map of a geographic location and coverage map data associated with a coverage map of the geographic location. The AV map data is associated with an AV lane of a roadway in the geographic location, and the coverage map data is associated with a coverage lane of the roadway in the geographic location. The method includes generating a hybrid map of the geographic location based on the AV map data and the coverage map data and providing hybrid map data associated with the hybrid map for routing of an AV. The hybrid map includes the AV lane linked with the coverage lane of the roadway.
US11621024B2	Calibration device A calibration device which is configured for calibrating a memory is provided. The calibration device includes an input terminal, a first pull-up circuit, and a first comparator. The input terminal is coupled to an external resistor. The first pull-up circuit is coupled to the input terminal, and configured to receive a power supply voltage. The first pull-up circuit includes a plurality of first pull-up units. The first pull-up units are coupled to each other in parallel. The first comparator is coupled to the input terminal. The first comparator is configured to receive a proportion voltage which is corresponding to the power supply voltage, and output a first control signal to the first pull-up units, such that a resistance of each of the first pull-up units is equal to a resistance of the external resistor.
US11621023B2	Media recording system A system and method for synchronizing clocks including synchronizing a first clock to a second clock, the first clock associated with a first device, the first device associated with a first device type, the second clock associated with a second device, the second device associated with a second device type; subsequent to synchronizing the first clock to the second clock, synchronizing a third clock to the first clock, where the third clock is associated with a third device, the third device associated with the first device type; synchronizing the second clock to a fourth clock, the fourth clock associated with a fourth device, the fourth device associated with a third device type; subsequent to synchronizing the second clock to the fourth clock, resynchronizing the first clock to the second clock; and subsequent to resynchronizing the first clock to the second clock, resynchronizing the third clock to the first clock.
US11621021B2	Manipulation of video time remapping A remapping space may define correspondence between times within a video and times within a time-remapped video. Responsive to user selection of a moment within the video for initiation of time remapping using a selected playback speed, a start point and an end point may be inserted at the selected moment within the remapping space. Responsive to user selection of a segment within the video to apply the selected playback speed in the time remapping, the start point and/or the end point may be moved to change the correspondence between times within the video and times within the time-remapped video.
US11621011B2	Methods and apparatus for rate quality scalable coding with generative models Described herein is a method of decoding an audio or speech signal, the method including the steps of: (a) receiving, by a decoder, a coded bitstream including the audio or speech signal and conditioning information; (b) providing, by a bitstream decoder, decoded conditioning information in a format associated with a first bitrate; (c) converting, by a converter, the decoded conditioning information from the format associated with the first bitrate to a format associated with a second bitrate; and (d) providing, by a generative neural network, a reconstruction of the audio or speech signal according to a probabilistic model conditioned by the conditioning information in the format associated with the second bitrate. Described are further an apparatus for decoding an audio or speech signal, a respective encoder, a system of the encoder and the apparatus for decoding an audio or speech signal as well as a respective computer program product.
US11621002B2	Method and device for automatically managing audio air traffic control messages on board an aircraft A device comprises a transcription unit for transcribing an audio message received from the air traffic control into a text message, a processing unit for extracting first indications from the text message, a transcription unit for transcribing, into a restated text message, a restated audio message transmitted by the pilot to the air traffic control after the reception of the audio message, a processing unit for extracting second indications from the restated text message, a comparison unit for comparing the first and second indications and a warning unit for transmitting a warning to the pilot if a difference between the first and second indications is detected, so as to notify the pilot that they have misunderstood the audio message from air traffic control.
US11620992B2	Automated speech recognition confidence classifier A method of enhancing an automated speech recognition confidence classifier includes receiving a set of baseline confidence features from one or more decoded words, deriving word embedding confidence features from the baseline confidence features, joining the baseline confidence features with word embedding confidence features to create a feature vector, and executing the confidence classifier to generate a confidence score, wherein the confidence classifier is trained with a set of training examples having labeled features corresponding to the feature vector.
US11620969B1	Spring bracing system for stringed musical instruments The Spring Bracing System invention is disclosed for optimizing the musical voice of a stringed musical instrument by improving the transfer of musical string vibration energy and adding structural support and spring quality to targeted locations on the instrument's sound board. The Spring Bracing System, comprising a spring brace frame, a tensioning system, a fulcrum lever system, sound posts and sound braces, operates as a simple machine in transferring vibration energy generated when the instrument's strings are in motion. The adjustability of the system allows the musician to customize, optimize, and improve the musical voice of the instrument to his preference. On most steel string guitars, the Spring Bracing System can be installed without modification to the instrument. It can be installed in other types of stringed musical instruments, such as classical guitars, cellos and double basses, with minor modifications.
US11620960B2	Synchronous display blinking Various example embodiments described herein relate to a method for synchronizing liquid crystal display (LCD) screens. In some examples, the method includes establishing, by a first device comprising a processor, a master/slave relationship with one or more other devices; determining, by the first device, a frequency associated with turning on a first LCD screen on the first device; and sending, by the first device, a signal to each of the one or more other devices, wherein the signal comprises an instruction to turn on an LCD screen on each receiving device at a same time as the first LCD screen.
US11620954B2	Display device including a device capable of reducing power consumption in response to exposure of the display panel and method for driving the same A display device includes a display panel configured to display images, a data driver configured to supply data voltages to the display panel, and a controller configured to control the data driver, wherein the controller operates in a normal mode having normal driving conditions and a power saving mode having driving conditions for reducing power consumption and lowers a driving frequency and an environment of an interface connected to the data driver as compared to a driving frequency and an interface environment in the normal mode when operating in the power saving mode.
US11620953B2	Display substrate and display device The present disclosure provides a display substrate and a display device. The display substrate includes: a base; multiple pixel units arranged in multiple rows along a first direction and multiple columns along a second direction and arranged on the base, and each pixel unit includes multiple sub-pixels, each sub-pixel includes a pixel circuit; an active semiconductor layer including a channel region, a source doping region and a drain doping region of each transistor in each pixel circuit, the pixel circuit includes a driving transistor, a data writing transistor, a storage capacitor, a threshold compensation transistor, a first reset transistor, a light-emitting device; a first light-blocking pattern arranged on a side of the active semiconductor layer away from the base, an orthographic projection of the first light-blocking pattern on the base covers orthographic projections of channel regions of the first reset transistor and the threshold compensation transistor on the base.
US11620952B2	Display apparatus and method of driving display panel using the same A display apparatus includes a display panel, a gate driver, a data driver and a driving controller. The display panel displays an image based on input image data. The gate driver outputs a gate signal to a gate line of the display panel. The data driver outputs a data voltage to a data line of the display panel. The driving controller controls operations of the gate driver and the data driver and drive a still image display area and a video image display area of a display area of the display panel in different driving frequencies. The driving controller includes a still image determiner which divides the input image data into a plurality of still image determining blocks, respectively determines whether the still image determining blocks represent a still image or a video image and determines a boundary between the still image display area and the video image display area.
US11620951B2	Driving backplane and display panel A driving backplane includes: a base, and pixel driving circuits, data lines and first power supply voltage lines that are disposed on the base. The pixel driving circuit is electrically connected to a data line and a first power supply voltage line. The pixel driving circuit includes a driving transistor, a first switching transistor, and a first conductive pattern located on a side, away from the base, of a gate of the driving transistor and a gate of the first switching transistor. The first conductive pattern is electrically connected to the gate of the driving transistor through a first via, and to a second electrode of the first switching transistor through a second via. An orthogonal projection of the first conductive pattern on the base is located within an orthogonal projection of the first power supply voltage line on the base.
US11620946B1	Dual-mode sense circuit with enhanced dynamic range and accuracy A sensing circuit includes at least a first gain stage and a controller for controlling the operation of the first gain stage. The first gain stage includes an amplifier having at least one input and one output, and a feedback loop coupled between the input and the output of the amplifier. The feedback loop includes a first capacitor coupled between the input and the output of the amplifier, and a second capacitor having a first terminal coupled to the input of the amplifier through a first switch and a second terminal coupled to the output of the amplifier through a second switch. The second capacitor is configured to be coupled in parallel to the first capacitor during a first portion of a measurement cycle, and disconnected from the first capacitor during a second portion of the measurement cycle.
US11620941B2	DC-DC converter, method of DC-DC converting using the same and display apparatus having the same A DC-DC includes a sensor, a determiner, a reference voltage controller and an output voltage controller. The sensor is configured to sense an output voltage to generate a sensed signal. The determiner is electrically connected to the sensor and is configured to determine a difference between the sensed signal and a first protection level for generating a determiner output. The reference voltage controller is electrically connected to the determiner and is configured to generate a second reference voltage based on a first reference voltage and a value of the determiner output. The output voltage controller is electrically connected to the sensor and is configured to output the output voltage based on an input voltage, a feedback voltage of the output voltage, and the second reference voltage.
US11620933B2	IR-drop compensation for a display panel including areas of different pixel layouts A display driver includes image processing circuitry and driver circuitry. The image processing circuitry is configured to process first image data for pixels of a display panel comprising a first region and a second region to generate output voltage data. The first region and the second region have different pixel layouts. The driver circuitry is configured to update the pixels based on the output voltage data. Processing the first image data comprises IR-drop compensation based on first luminances of the pixels, each of the first luminances being determined based on the first image data and whether a corresponding pixel of the pixels is located in the first region.
US11620932B2	Displaying device and driving method thereof A displaying device and a driving method thereof, wherein the displaying device includes a first display panel, a second display panel and a driving circuit; the first display panel includes a plurality of first pixel units that are able to display a color, wherein each of the first pixel units includes a plurality of sub-pixel units; and the second display panel is provided on a light exiting side of the first display panel, including a plurality of second pixel units; wherein a distribution density of the plurality of second pixel units is greater than a distribution density of the plurality of sub-pixel units.
US11620931B2	Inverter and driving method thereof, driving circuit and display panel An inverter, a method for driving an inverter, a driving circuit and a display panel are provided. An inverter includes a first module; a second module; an initial signal input terminal; and a first level signal input terminal. The first module includes a first transistor, a second transistor, and a third transistor; control terminals of the first transistor and the second transistor are both electrically connected to the initial signal input terminal; a first terminal of the third transistor is electrically connected to the first level signal input terminal; a first terminal of the second transistor is electrically connected to a first terminal of the second transistor; a second terminal of the second transistor is electrically connected to a control terminal of the third transistor; the first module includes a leakage current control component at least electrically connected with the second terminal of the first transistor.
US11620921B2	Reusable portable foldable sign assembly A reusable, portable, foldable sign assembly. The assembly has a sign board including first and second sign board portions configured to form an open position in which the sign board portions are aligned linearly and a closed position in which the sign board portions are folded against each other, and at least one handhold to facilitate manipulation by a user. A connecting mechanism holds the first sign board portion and the second sign board portion together. A telescoping extension pole is removably and pivotably attached to the sign board, operable to support the weight of the assembly, and configured to assume an infinite number of extended lengths as desired and set by the user. A transparent cover sleeve is removably attached on one or both of the first sign board portion and the second sign board portion.
US11620906B2	Method for accessing supplemental sensor data from other vehicles One variation of a method for accessing supplemental data from other vehicles includes, at an autonomous vehicle: recording a scan image of a scene around the autonomous vehicle at a first time; detecting insufficient perception data in a region of the scan image; in response to detecting insufficient perception data in the region, defining a ground area of interest containing the region and wirelessly broadcasting a query for perception data representing objects within the ground area of interest; in response to receiving supplemental perception data—representing objects within the ground area of interest detected by the second vehicle at approximately the first time—from a second vehicle proximal the scene, incorporating the supplemental perception data into the scan image to form a composite scan image; selecting a navigational action based on objects in the scene represented by the composite scan image; and autonomously executing the navigational action.
US11620893B1	Human awareness telemetry apparatus, systems, and methods Systems and apparatus are provided for monitoring and/or collecting data regarding environmental conditions and optionally personal health information, and generating warnings for a wearer based on acceptable limits for hazards. Using the collected data, the systems and apparatus communicate recommendations to the wearer to improve or maintain personal safety in the detected environment. Methods for monitoring environmental risks and generating warnings based on acceptable limits for hazards are also provided.
US11620891B2	Method and system for determining area of fire and estimating progression of fire Disclosed is a method and system for determining an area of fire and a method and system for estimating progression of a fire in the determined area of fire. The method for determining the area of fire comprises receiving sensor data from a plurality of sensor modules and determining the area of fire based on relative locations of the sensor modules with respect to each other. The method for estimating progression of a fire comprises receiving first and second sensor data from at least one sensor module and devising a plurality of fire scenarios for each of the sensor data. The method further comprises determining a likelihood of each of the plurality of fire scenarios to identify a potential combination of fire scenarios to estimate the progression of the fire.
US11620890B2	Systems and methods for monitoring, tracking and tracing logistics A method for tracking a parcel with a tracking device is provided.
US11620884B2	Egress advisement devices to output emergency egress guidance to users A system for providing audio and visual signaling output to egress a building. A central monitoring system can determine, based on user presence information, a floormap of the building having multiple routes and exits, receive emergency indication information indicating one or more locations within the building that may have an emergency, determine, based on the floormap and emergency indication information, egress plans that can be used by the users to exit the building, transmit, to signal generators of a first of signaling devices, first signaling instructions for the first of the signal generators to emit first signals that indicate to first users a first egress plan to exit the building, and transmit, to signal generators of a second of the signaling devices, second signaling instructions for the second of the signal generators to emit second signals that indicate to second users a second egress plan to exit the building.
US11620883B2	System and method for dynamic modification and selection of emergency egress advisement A system for dynamically selecting egress plans during an emergency. A computing device can receive signals indicating an emergency in the building and user presence information, determine a type of the emergency, predict locations of the users within the building, transmit, to an emergency responders computing device, the indication of the emergency and predicted locations of the users within the building, receive, from the emergency responders computing device, an estimated responders arrival time based on a current distance of emergency responders from the building, select one or more of the determined egress plans to direct the users to exit the building, send, to signaling devices in the building, signaling instructions for the signaling devices to emit signals indicating to the users the selected one or more egress plans, and send, to the emergency responders computing device, the selected one or more egress plans.
US11620881B2	Haptic feedback fiber body, haptic feedback fabric and wearable device Provided are a haptic feedback fiber body, a haptic feedback fabric, and a wearable device. The haptic feedback fiber body can include a core fiber having a first electrode to surround the outer surface thereof, and a vibrating fiber, provided so as to intermittently contact the outer surface of the core fiber, including a second electrode on the inner surface thereof, wherein a piezoelectric polymer is provided on the outer surface of the first electrode or on the inner surface of the second electrode to generate fretting vibrations when the polymer is in close contact with the first electrode or the second electrode on which the piezoelectric polymer is disposed opposite to each other.
US11620880B2	Self checkout system Systems and methods for is provided for self-checkout at a point-of-sale. The system and method includes a plurality of radio frequency identification (RFID) transceivers, an RFID reader, wherein the RFID reader is configured to receive a response with an RFID code from each of a plurality of RFID tags activated simultaneously by at least one of the plurality of radio frequency identification (RFID) transceivers, and decode the RFID code from the response received from each of the RFID tags, and a classifier configured to determine whether each of the plurality of RFID tags is inside or outside a walk-through checkout area inside a store, wherein the system calculates an amount charged to a customer based on the cost of the items identified as within the walk-through checkout area.
US11620869B2	Device orientation based gaming experience Disclosed are various methods for determining a wagering game to play on a client device. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving data describing an orientation of a client device and determining, based at least upon the orientation of the client device, a number of symbols to display in connection with a wagering game. The number of paylines to provide may be determined based on the orientation of the client device. An outcome of the wagering game may be determined based at least in part on the determined number of symbols and the determined number of paylines.
US11620865B2	Access control in a multi-tenant environment An access control system may be deployed at a location in a multi-tenant environment. The access control system may store access control information at one or more of an access control device, an access control bridge device, or an access control server. Tenant-specific access control information may be respectively stored at tenant-specific access control devices to control access to tenant-specific areas of the location. Shared access control information may be stored at shared access control devices to control access to common areas of the location. The access control system may be selectively configured such that an access device, an access control bridge device, or the access control server processes requests for access that are received at the location.
US11620864B2	Systems and methods for viewing onboard machine data A systems and method for plotting and viewing onboard machine data with graphical user interfaces on a mobile heavy duty machine is disclosed. The method also includes displaying a list of machine systems on an onboard display of the machine. The method further includes receiving at the display a selection of a machine system from the list of machine systems. The method additionally includes displaying one or more parameters at the display based on the selected machine system. The method additionally includes receiving at the display a selection of a parameter. The method also includes displaying a graphical representation, comprising an x-axis and y-axis, of real-time data of the parameter.
US11620862B1	Method and system for reconstructing information about an accident A system and method for reconstructing information about vehicular accidents is disclosed. The system comprises an onboard computing system in a vehicle with an accident reconstruction system. Using sensed information from vehicle sensors and an animation engine, the system can generate animated videos depicting the accident. The system can also take action in response to information it learns from the animated video and/or an underlying 3D model of the accident used to generate the video.
US11620852B2	Method for detecting spoof fingerprints with an under-display fingerprint sensor A method for detecting spoof fingerprints with an under-display fingerprint sensor includes illuminating, with incident light emitted from a display, a target region of a fingerprint sample disposed on a top surface of the display; detecting a first scattered signal from the fingerprint sample with a first image sensor region of an image sensor located beneath the display, the first image sensor region not directly beneath the target region, the first scattered signal including a first portion of the incident light scattered by the target region; determining a scattered light distribution based at least in part on the first scattered signal; and identifying spoof fingerprints based at least in part on the scattered light distribution.
US11620849B2	Spectral imaging chip and apparatus, information processing method, fingerprint living body identification device and fingerprint module The present disclosure provides a spectral imaging chip and apparatus, an information processing method, a fingerprint living body identification device and a fingerprint module. The spectral imaging chip can obtain spectral information of a captured object without affecting the spatial resolution and imaging quality of the resulting image, which is convenient for grasping more comprehensive information of the object to be imaged. The fingerprint living body identification device and fingerprint module can realize fingerprint living body identification through the spectral imaging chip, which is advantageous to improve the stability of the component performance, while reducing the volume, weight and cost of the spectral components, greatly improving the anti-counterfeiting ability of the fingerprint identification system.
US11620838B2	Systems and methods for answering region specific questions Systems and methods for answering region specific questions are provided. A method includes obtaining a regional scene question including an attribute query and a spatial region of interest for a training scene depicting a surrounding environment of a vehicle. The method includes obtaining a universal embedding for the training scene and an attribute embedding for the attribute query of the scene question. The universal embedding can identify sensory data corresponding to the training scene that can be used to answer questions concerning a number of different attributes in the training scene. The attribute embedding can identify aspects of an attribute that can be used to answer questions specific to the attribute. The method includes determining an answer embedding based on the universal embedding and the attribute embedding and determining a regional scene answer to the regional scene question based on the spatial region of interest and the answer embedding.
US11620835B2	Obstacle recognition method and apparatus, storage medium, and electronic device The present disclosure describes a method, an apparatus, and a storage medium for recognizing an obstacle. The method includes acquiring, by a device, point cloud data obtained by scanning surroundings of a target vehicle by a sensor in the target vehicle. The device includes a memory storing instructions and a processor in communication with the memory. The method further includes converting, by the device, the point cloud data into a first image used for showing the surroundings; and recognizing, by the device, from the first image, a first object in the surroundings as an obstacle through a first neural network model.
US11620833B2	Vehicle driving support device A vehicle driving support device performs extraneous matter notification for notifying an occupant of a vehicle that extraneous matter is adhered to a viewing-angle window part which is a part of a window of the vehicle in a viewing angle range of an onboard camera which is mounted in the vehicle such that an outside view from the vehicle is imaged from the inside of the vehicle or a camera lens which is a lens of the onboard camera, performs a process of detecting the extraneous matter adhering to the viewing-angle window part or the camera lens when the vehicle is stopped, and does not perform the extraneous matter notification even if the extraneous matter adhering to the viewing-angle window part or the camera lens is detected when the vehicle is stopped and is not in a state in which the vehicle is predicted to be about to start traveling.
US11620826B2	Processing apparatus, processing method, and non-transitory storage medium A processing apparatus (10) including: an event extraction unit (11) that extracts, for each image of a time-series image group, an event in which a person and an object relate to each other; an event information generation unit (12) that generates event information indicating a time-series change of a first event defined by a first person, a first object, and a first relationship between a person and an object and also indicating a time-series change of a second event defined by a second person, a second object, and a second relationship between a person and an object; a causal relationship computation unit (13) that computes a score indicating a causal relationship between the first event and the second event; and an output unit (14) that outputs information indicating the first event and the second event for which the score satisfies a predetermined condition.
US11620825B2	Computerized system and method for in-video modification Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content providing, searching and/or hosting systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide a novel framework for performing automatic detection of surfaces in video frames resulting in the creation of a seamless in-video ad experience for viewing users. The disclosed framework operates by leveraging available surfaces in videos to show advertisements in compliance with publisher protection, compliance and policy in a fully automatic, end-to-end solution. The disclosed framework evidences a streamlined, automatic and computationally efficient process(es) that modifies digital content at the surface level within the frames of the content in compliance with the digital rights of the owners of the content being merged via the disclosed augmentation.
US11620814B2	Contextual grounding of natural language phrases in images Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems, methods and structures providing contextual grounding—a higher-order interaction technique to capture corresponding context between text entities and visual objects.
US11620811B2	Automated measurement of positional accuracy in the qualification of high-accuracy plotters Systems and methods for assessing plotting device accuracy in aid of a process for qualifying plotter systems. The system and process involve an ideal (virtual) test pattern consisting of digital data defining a nominal grid augmented by geometric features (e.g., closed two-dimensional geometric shapes which respectively surround intersections or vertices of the nominal grid). The plotting device under test is commanded to print a test plot having a pattern that matches the test pattern, but the test plot may deviate from the test pattern. To measure the amount of deviation, first an image of the test plot on the printed medium is captured using an accurate optical scanner. Then a mathematical measurement process, implemented in a computer vision application (e.g., a software package), is employed to detect deviations of the test plot from the test pattern. A statistical analysis is then performed to determine whether the deviations are within specifications.
US11620808B2	Method for detecting human occupancy and activity in a work area A method includes: recording an image at a sensor block, the sensor block; detecting a set of objects in the image based on an object classification model; generating a feature vector for the image based on the set of objects; accessing a workstation template for the work area, the workstation template defining a set of default objects for each workstation in the work area; identifying a subset of objects comprising an intersection of the set of default objects and the set of objects; removing the subset of objects from the feature vector; accessing an occupancy template for the work area, the occupancy template defining a set of significant objects; classifying the workstation as occupied based on the feature vector and the set of significant objects; and rendering a representation of the workstation at a work area interface, the representation indicating occupancy of the workstation.
US11620807B2	Systems and methods for Unicode homograph anti-spoofing using optical character recognition Systems and methods for Optical Character Recognition (“OCR”) based anti-spoofing for Unicode homograph. The method comprises: performing operations by a computing device to make an OCR identification on an original electronic address so as to obtain an OCR electronic address; encoding (a) the original electronic address to obtain an encoded access address and (b) the OCR electronic address to obtain an encoded OCR electronic address; comparing the encoded access address to the encoded OCR electronic address; and determining if a Unicode homograph spoofing situation exists based on results of the comparing.
US11620806B2	Optical character detection using a low-power sensor Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to optical character detection. In some aspects, a user device may receive, from a vision sensor, a first image that is associated with a first optical character image. The user device may determine, using an image processing model, that the first image depicts the first optical character image. The user device may cause, based at least in part on determining that the first image depicts the first optical character image, a camera to capture a second image that is associated with a second optical character image. The user device may perform an action associated with the second image. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11620805B2	Integrated electronic module for 3D sensing applications, and 3D scanning device including the integrated electronic module A method of manufacturing an electronic module includes providing a base substrate having a first surface, providing a first supporting element having a first portion with an inclined top surface, and affixing the first supporting element to the first surface such that the inclined top surface is inclined with respect to the base substrate. A first reflector is coupled to the inclined top surface such that a rear surface of the first reflector is in physical contact with the inclined top surface of the first portion of the first supporting element, and a spacer structure is configured to form an interface for mounting lateral walls to the base substrate. A cap is positioned over and supported by the lateral walls to thereby define a chamber. The emitter, as well as a detector, are coupled to the first surface of the base substrate.
US11620804B2	Data band selection using machine learning Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer-readable media for data band selection using machine learning. In some implementations, image data comprising information for each of multiple wavelength bands is obtained. A multi-layer neural network is trained using the image data to perform one or more classification or regression tasks. A proper subset of the wavelength bands is selected based on parameters of a layer of the trained multi-layer neural network, where the parameters were determined through training of the multi-layer neural network using the image data. Output is provided indicating that the selected wavelength bands are selected for the one or more classification or regression tasks.
US11620803B2	Work station for medical dose preparation Embodiments of work stations for use in a medical dose preparation management system are disclosed. A work station may include a camera stand. The camera stand may include a housing enclosing a camera and one or more light sources therein. As such, the camera and light sources may be directed at a medical dose preparation staging region to capture medical dose preparation images of the medical dose preparation staging region. The camera stand may include an adjustable support positionable in a plurality of positions to dispose the camera and light source relative to the medical dose preparation staging region. The work stations may facilitate improved image quality and record work flows carried out at the work station for preparation verification.
US11620802B2	System and method for providing a simulated visualization of product personalized with user selected art A method of generating garment images embellished with a personalization art image is disclosed. Creating a garment type, based on a business user input including receiving information related to garment parts available options in colors, fabrics, lighting conditions, camera viewpoints poses related to the garment, generating a garment part image for each distinct combination of garment part fabric, garment part color, lighting condition, camera viewpoint and pose, storing each garment image, receiving a selection of available customization windows corresponding to the garment, and displaying to an end-user, a user selected garment image, embellished with a selected personalization art located in a selected customization window.
US11620801B2	Information-processing device, storage medium, information-processing system, and information-processing method An information-processing device selects a worn-item object to be worn by a character object within a virtual space, controls the character object within the virtual space, deforms at least one part of the character object by a degree according to a first parameter that is associated with the selected worn-item object, the at least one part being associated with the first parameter, and generates, by use of a virtual camera, an image of the virtual space that includes the character object wearing the selected worn-item object.
US11620796B2	Expert knowledge transfer using egocentric video A method, a computer program product, and a computer system for transferring knowledge from an expert to a user using a mixed reality rendering. The method includes determining a user perspective of a user viewing an object on which a procedure is to be performed. The method includes determining an anchoring of the user perspective to an expert perspective, the expert perspective associated with an expert providing a demonstration of the procedure. The method includes generating a virtual rendering of the expert at the user perspective based on the anchoring at a scene viewed by the user, the virtual rendering corresponding to the demonstration of the procedure as performed by the expert. The method includes generating a mixed reality environment in which the virtual rendering of the expert is shown in the scene viewed by the user.
US11620791B2	Rendering 3D captions within real-world environments Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and method for rendering three-dimensional captions (3D) in real-world environments depicted in image content. An editing interface is displayed on a client device. The editing interface includes an input component displayed with a view of a camera feed. A first input comprising one or more text characters is received. In response to receiving the first input, a two-dimensional (2D) representation of the one or more text characters is displayed. In response to detecting a second input, a preview interface is displayed. Within the preview interface, a 3D caption based on the one or more text characters is rendered at a position in a 3D space captured within the camera feed. A message is generated that includes the 3D caption rendered at the position in the 3D space captured within the camera feed.
US11620789B2	Methods, systems, and apparatuses for managing transducer array placement Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for managing placement of transducer arrays on a subject/patient.
US11620783B2	3D avatar generation and robotic limbs using biomechanical analysis Systems and methods are disclosed for generating a 3D avatar or instructions for movement of robotic limbs using a biomechanical analysis of observed actions with a focus on representing actions through computer-generated 3D avatars or instructions for movement of robotic limbs. Physical quantities of biomechanical actions can be measured from the observations, and the system can analyze these values, compare them to target or optimal values, and use the observations and known biomechanical capabilities to generate 3D avatars or instructions for movement of robotic limbs.
US11620777B2	Editor for images with depth data The present disclosure provides at least an apparatus for a depth enhanced image editing. In an example, the apparatus includes memory; instructions; and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: obtain image information, the image information including edited image data, edited calibration data, and unedited original depth data; and align the original depth data to the edited image data based on the edited calibration data.
US11620772B2	System and method for automated transform by manifold approximation A system may transform sensor data from a sensor domain to an image domain using data-driven manifold learning techniques which may, for example, be implemented using neural networks. The sensor data may be generated by an image sensor, which may be part of an imaging system. Fully connected layers of a neural network in the system may be applied to the sensor data to apply an activation function to the sensor data. The activation function may be a hyperbolic tangent activation function. Convolutional layers may then be applied that convolve the output of the fully connected layers for high level feature extraction. An output layer may be applied to the output of the convolutional layers to deconvolve the output and produce image data in the image domain.
US11620766B2	Low rank matrix compression In an example, an apparatus comprises logic, at least partially including hardware logic, to implement a lossy compression algorithm which utilizes a data transform and quantization process to compress data in a convolutional neural network (CNN) layer.
US11620761B2	Depth sensing via device case Examples are disclosed that relate to displaying a hologram via an HMD. One disclosed example provides a method comprising obtaining depth data from a direct-measurement depth sensor included in the case for the HMD, the depth data comprising a depth map of a real-world environment. The method further comprises determining a distance from the HMD to an object in the real-world environment using the depth map, obtaining holographic imagery for display based at least upon the distance, and outputting the holographic imagery for display on the HMD.
US11620758B2	Electric characteristic acquisition apparatus In an electrical characteristic acquisition apparatus, a condition under which an electrical characteristic of a target object is acquired can be inputted by an operator, and an electrical characteristic of the target object is acquired under the input condition. In a case where a condition is inputted as a condition under which an electrical characteristic of the target object is acquired, an erroneous determination is made due to the different conditions that the target object is not an electrical component which complies with the nominal value, or, in a case where a difference between a value representing an electrical characteristic of the target object and a nominal value of the target object is larger than a permissible tolerance, an erroneous determination is made that the target object is defective. Here, these erroneous determinations are prevented from being made.
US11620754B2	System, method, and computer program for adjusting image contrast using parameterized cumulative distribution functions A system and method are provided for optimizing histogram cumulative distribution function curves. In use, a first cumulative distribution function for a first histogram of a first pixel region of a first image is computed, and a first set of parameters for the first cumulative distribution function is extracted. A second cumulative distribution function for a second histogram of a second pixel region of the first image is computed, and a second set of parameters for the second cumulative distribution function is extracted. An interpolated cumulative distribution function comprising interpolated parameters calculated by interpolating between the first set of parameters and the second set of parameters is created. Additionally, a first equalized pixel in a second image based on a first input pixel in the first image and the interpolated cumulative distribution function is generated.
US11620750B2	Embryo evaluation based on real-time video System, method and computer readable medium that assess characteristics of an embryo by processing video image data of the embryo. Video is obtained, typically from third parties, of a target embryo. The video has frame speed of two frames per second, or faster and includes image data representing morphokinetic movement of the embryo. The image data is processed using a trained machine learning model that assesses embryo characteristics. The video has a duration of ten minutes or less. The assessment can be a prediction of a likelihood the embryo is viable and/or will produce a pregnancy upon transfer into a recipient. Further, the assessment can predict a likelihood the embryo will: (1) produce offspring having a specific sex; (2) embody a genetic anomaly; (3) perpetuate desired traits in produced offspring and/or (4) produce undesired characteristics in produced offspring.
US11620746B2	MRI annotation Embodiments herein disclose computer-implemented methods, computer program products and computer systems for annotating magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images. The method may include receiving mammogram (MG) image data representing annotated MG images of a patient breast, the annotated MG images being one of either a craniocaudal view or of a mediolateral oblique view. The method may include identifying annotations representing an abnormality at a first location in the annotated MG images; receiving MRI image data representing MRI images of the patient breast; generating annotated MRI image data using the MRI image data and the annotations identified in the annotated MG images, the annotated MRI image data including MRI annotations at a second location based at least in part on the first location, the MRI annotations in the annotated MRI image data representing the abnormality; and storing the annotated MRI image data in a database.
US11620738B2	Hue preservation post processing with early exit for highlight recovery Embodiments relate to hue preservation post processing for highlight recovery of an input image. Intensity values for multiple color channels of a plurality of color channels of a pixel of the input image is determined using corresponding ratios of target hues for the plurality of color channels of the pixel, wherein the pixel has at least one color channel with an intensity above a predetermined threshold. A hue preserved value for a color channel of the plurality of color channels of the pixel is determined using intensity values determined for the plurality of color channels of the pixel and the target hues. A recovered version of the input image is generated by adjusting hue information of the pixel, using the hue preserved value for the channel of the plurality of color channels of the pixel.
US11620731B2	System and a method for surveying graphical objects on a screen display A method, a computer program, or a computerized system for monitoring graphical content of a screen display by the actions of receiving, by a first software program executed by a processor of a computerized device communicatively coupled to a first server via a communication network, at least one parameter characterizing a graphical object; monitoring a stream of data received by a second software program executed by the processor of the computerized device communicatively coupled to a second server via the communication network, to capture the at least one parameter characterizing a graphical object; monitoring a stream of data between the second software program and a screen display of the computerized device to capture at least one graphical object associated with the at least one parameter characterizing the graphical object; and capturing the graphical object.
US11620726B2	Methods, systems and apparatus to reduce memory latency when fetching pixel kernels Methods, systems, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to reduce memory latency when fetching pixel kernels are disclosed. An example apparatus includes first interface circuitry to receive a first request from a hardware accelerator at a first time including first coordinates of a first pixel disposed in a first image block, second interface circuitry to receive a second request including second coordinates from the hardware accelerator at a second time after the first time, and kernel retriever circuitry to, in response to the second request, determine whether the first image block is in cache storage based on a mapping of the second coordinates to a block tag, and, in response to determining that the first image block is in the cache storage, access, in parallel, two or more memory devices associated with the cache storage to transfer a plurality of image blocks including the first image block to the hardware accelerator.
US11620720B2	Prearranging location specific arrival-ready service request for passenger or driver clients A method enables a communication between a process client and a wireless process server to carry out an area-specific process in an area. The method includes a step of transmitting a message from a wireless process server to a wireless communication device operated by the process client. The message includes information related to the area-specific process for enabling the process-client to better arrange time before the area-specific process is scheduled to carry out in the area. In a specific embodiment, the wireless communication server sends a message to notify the process client about a location and an estimate time for the process client to carry out the area-specific process. In another preferred embodiment, the communication system enables the process client to employ a wireless communication device owned by the process client.
US11620717B2	Systems and methods for enhanced personal property replacement A computer system for enhanced personal property replacement may be provided. The computer system may include at least one processor in communication with at least one memory device. The at least one processor may programmed to receive a plurality of user preferences transmitted from a user computer device associated with a user, receive a request from the user to cover a claim, determine a first plurality of items for the user based upon the claim and the plurality of user preferences, and/or transmit, to a retailer computer device associated with a retailer, an order for the determined first plurality of items with the retailer to be delivered to the user at an address associated with the user.
US11620715B2	Systems and methods for generating insurance policies with predesignated policy levels and reimbursement controls A computer system for providing reimbursement controls to insurance policies is provided. The computer system may include a processor in communication with a memory device. The processor may be configured to: (i) generate a plurality of predesignated policy levels having a maximum reimbursement amount for a user based at least in part upon user data, (ii) prompt the user to select a predesignated policy level of the plurality of predesignated policy levels that includes an insurance policy covering one or more item categories up to the associated maximum reimbursement amount, (iii) store the selected predesignated policy level, (iv) receive a claim from the user, (v) determine, in response to the claim and based at least in part upon the selected predesignated policy level and the associated maximum reimbursement amount, an actual reimbursement amount for each insured item category of the one or more item categories, and (vi) provide a payment device to the user having reimbursement controls that provide the actual reimbursement amount by insured item category.
US11620712B2	Activity-based collateral modeling Techniques for performing activity-based collateral modeling (ABCM) analysis are disclosed, including: obtaining portfolio data; obtaining multiple ranked criteria for cross-asset utilization; performing an ABCM analysis on the portfolio data according to the ranked criteria for cross-asset utilization, to obtain a set of one or more recommended transactions; receiving user input indicating a decision to execute a transaction in the set of one or more recommended transactions; and responsive to the user input, updating the ABCM analysis to reflect the decision to execute the transaction.
US11620711B2	System and methods for trading in multi-modal freight shipment derivatives A system for facilitating freight transactions that includes a secure portal for receiving users' (carriers, forwarders, shippers, and market makers) data that includes orders and capacity postings between destinations. The system also includes a back-end modules configured for collecting capacity/shipping volume data to generate forecast data, managing derivative contracts, determining best possible routing given the orders and capacity postings, breaking the best possible routing into component segments that is then traded as derivative contracts, providing report, managing settlement and clearinghouse functions, and receiving risk assessment about the forecast data. The system further includes an interface layer for facilitating communications between the portal and the back-end modules. The system moreover includes a contract and capacity management module configured for enabling the carriers and the forwarders to strategically position their capacity. The system yet also includes a real time integration layer configured for enabling a external systems to interact with the system.
US11620692B2	Method and system for automated stylist for curation of style-conforming outfits An auto-styler device may provide a style-based or outfit-driven shopping experience. The auto-styler device may select a style definition that defines a style-conforming outfit based on rules that apply to a combination of a first item type and a second item type of the style-conforming outfit, and that defines a customized presentation for the style-conforming outfit. The auto-styler device may generate a style-conforming outfit with a first item of the first item type and a second item of the second item type in response to a collective style produced by the combination satisfying the rules. The auto-styler device may position and size a first image of the first item relative to a second image of the second item in a single interface based on the specified the customized presentation of the style definition, and may present or publish the resulting single interface on a merchant site.
US11620689B1	Methods and systems for receipt capturing process A receipt capture tool residing on a customer mobile device may be initiated when a customer completes an in-store or online purchase. The receipt capture tool may prompt the customer to capture an image of a receipt detailing a purchase and an item (e.g., product or service) purchased. For instance, the photo of a physical receipt may be taken by the mobile device, or an electronic receipt or email detailing the purchasing transmitted from a physical merchant or online merchant server may be stored. Receipt information may be extracted and saved with other information pertinent to the item purchased, including warranty information. If the customer needs to return or repair the item purchased at a future date, the receipt and warranty information may be subsequently accessed via their mobile device. The receipt and warranty information may also be stored in a searchable database to facilitate easy retrieval by the customer.
US11620680B2	Information distribution system An information distribution system with a display screen and a network computing system is disclosed. The display screen may be capable of either being manually moved by a person or move automatically under its own power. The apparatus also includes a power system, a communication subsystem, a memory and a computing device. The communication subsystem communicates with the computing device, the network computing system, and the memory. The network computing system has an end-user display screen. The network computing system is configured to receive media and media secondary information, associate the media and media secondary information to a unique identifier, and show the media and the unique identifier on the display screen. The networking computing system is further configured to receive the unique identifier and an end-user account, and then show the media secondary information on the end-user display screen.
US11620678B2	Advertising method, device and system, and computer-readable storage medium An advertising method, device and system, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring user information; sending the user information to a server that stores an advertising requirement, wherein the advertising requirement includes an advertisement content and an advertising condition of the advertisement content; receiving an advertising instruction of the advertisement content from the server, wherein the advertising instruction of the advertisement content is generated by the server when the user information meets the advertising condition of the advertisement content; and playing the advertisement content in response to the advertising instruction.
US11620677B1	Mobile device sighting location analytics and profiling system The present disclosure describes systems and methods for providing enhanced location analysis and consumer insights using mobile sightings data. An approximate geographic location is useful to mobile service providers and advertisers who wish to provide targeted content to consumers based on their location. The location analysis described herein provides more depth and detail about the detected geographic location of the consumer and also insights into business locations visited by the user of the device, consumer/market segments and patterns of behavior (for an individual consumer and/or for aggregated group of consumers), retail trends and patterns, and other profile information. For example, a location profile analytics system as described herein can determine a probability that an approximate geographic location actually corresponds to a specific geographic location, such as a business location. The analysis performed by the location profile analytics system may be further refined based on a number of additional input parameters.
US11620675B2	Detector, detection method, and detection program A feature extraction unit extracts, from an advertising request to view an online advertisement, client information on a client as a transmission source of the advertising request and publisher information on a website of a publisher who displays advertising, and calculates a predetermined feature amount using the client information and the publisher information with respect to a plurality of advertising requests including at least a benign advertising request, and a determiner generation unit generates a determiner that determines whether an advertising request is malignant or not by using the calculated feature amount.
US11620674B2	Display apparatus, server, method of controlling display apparatus, and method of controlling server A display apparatus displaying content corresponding to an installation location and a server providing content considering the installation location of the display apparatus are provided. The display apparatus includes: a display; a communication interface configured to communicate with an external server; and a processes configured to control the communication interface to receive, from the external server, content including an element with a large number of expected viewers identified based on at least one of a number of viewers or an installation location, and control the display to display the received content.
US11620673B1	Interactive estimates of media delivery and user interactions based on secure merges of de-identified records In one embodiment, a computer implemented method comprises receiving and storing in relational database tables in a secure data processing environment comprising one or more first virtual machine instances coupled to one or more first data stores, master data comprising records having first de-identified token values associated with health data and second data comprising records having second de-identified token values associated with historical media delivery data; in the secure data processing environment, executing one or more database table join operations to merge the master data and the second data to produce a joined table having records comprising third de-identified token values associated with the health data and the second data; receiving, using one or more virtual computing instances of a service provider environment, one or more filter specifications that define a target audience and a forecast request, and in real time in response to the forecast request: based on the one or more filter specifications, executing one or more queries to the joined table in the secure data processing environment; receiving, in the service provider environment, de-identified aggregated data that the secure data processing environment has generated based upon the one or more queries to the joined table; based on the de-identified aggregated data and second data, generating an estimate of media delivery reach; presenting the estimate of the media delivery reach to a user computer that is communicatively coupled to the service provider environment.
US11620672B2	Validating digital content presented on a mobile device A computer system includes a content delivery system that delivers digital content from a source to a mobile device, which in turn presents the digital content to a recipient computer system. The recipient computer system can validate that the digital content presented by the mobile device is authorized by the source of that digital content without the recipient computer system communicating with the content delivery system for such validation. Digital content presented on a mobile phone can be validated by a recipient as being authorized by a source, without a connection to a centralized database. To perform such validation, the computer system uses i) a transaction location determined at the time of a transaction based on information received from the mobile device, and ii) a time-varying, non-predictable code associated with the transaction location.
US11620667B2	Interactive gaming system A system for customizing an end user gaming experience is disclosed herein. The system includes a processor. The processor is configured to create a campaign by receiving a campaign creation request from an end user device, the campaign creation request comprising one or more parameters of a campaign associated with the campaign request, creating the campaign based on the one or more parameters associated with the campaign request, and personalizing one or more offers for an end user, each of the one or more offers comprising a game having one or more hurdles, wherein completion of each of the one or more hurdles leads to a reward. The processor is further configured to map a subset of the one or more personalized offers to the end user. The processor is further configured to monitor progress of the campaign.
US11620665B2	Methods and systems using and constructing merchant communities based on financial transaction data Systems and methods may be used to generate and use a merchant community graph generated based on merchant financial transaction data. Connections between merchants and other data within the merchant community graph can be used to detect fraud, target product offerings and or other advertisements, detect similar communities, generate dynamic attributes that may be used to develop machine learning models, and develop new user interfaces (UIs) and other features of an information service.
US11620656B2	System and method for personalization as a service A method related to customers orchestrating engagements with service providers. The method includes providing, by a facilitator entity, a customer journey orchestration service that includes: service providers affiliated with the customer journey orchestration service; a virtual datacenter in which cloud-based applications and databases are operably linked to communication devices of the customers and to the affiliated services providers; customer interface portals for enabling the customers to interact with the virtual datacenter, each customer interface portal being associated with a specific customer; and a customer profile database that stores customer profiles corresponding to respective ones of the customers. The method further includes configuring, by the facilitator entity, an account of the customer for participation in the customer journey orchestration service. The method further includes orchestrating, by the facilitator entity, a current engagement relating to a plurality of the preferred service providers.
US11620650B2	Mobile authentication method and system therefor According to one aspect of the present invention for accomplishing the aforementioned purpose, a mobile authentication method performed by a portable user device comprises the steps of extracting a telephone number of the portable user device, transmitting member information including the telephone number to an authentication server, receiving a user authentication number using the member information from the authentication server, extracting unique user identifiers (UUID) of an application (app) installed in the portable user device, and transmitting the extracted UUID of the app and the received user authentication number to a service server.
US11620649B2	Systems and methods of using the blockchain to allow music artists to raise and distribute capital Systems and methods for distributing capital between a musical artist and a fan are provided. In preferred embodiments, the method comprises creating a finite pool of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) wherein each NFT is assigned to a unique artist/song combination. Creating a finite pool of Music Tokens that are distributed to owners of the discrete NFTs based on the performance of the artist or artist/song combination over fixed intervals of time. In preferred embodiments, the distribution of the Music Tokens is at least based on the number of streams a song receives across one or more streaming platforms.
US11620646B2	Method for carrying out a transaction, terminal, server and corresponding computer program A method for processing a transaction of a communications terminal, asking a server, through a communications network, for processing of a transaction involving the use of payment data. The method is implemented within the communications terminal. The method includes: transmitting a request for obtaining a certification code to the payment method whose data is used for the transaction; receiving the certification code coming from the payment method; inserting the certification code into a transaction data structure; transmitting the transaction data structure to the server; and when the certification code received by the server is valid, receiving a piece of data representing the validation of the transaction by the server.
US11620642B2	Digital contracts in blockchain environments Digital or “smart” contracts execute in a blockchain environment. Any entity (whether public or private) may specify a digital contract via a contract identifier in a blockchain. Because there may be many digital contracts offered as virtual services, the contract identifier uniquely identifies a particular digital contract offered by a virtual machine, vendor or supplier. The blockchain is thus not burdened with the programming code that is required to execute the digital contract. The blockchain need only include or specify the contract identifier (and perhaps one or more contractual parameters), thus greatly simplifying the blockchain and reducing its size (in bytes) and processing requirements.
US11620638B2	Methods, systems, and devices for loading currency into an electronic wallet Various methods, systems, and devices for loading currency into an electronic wallet are provided. In general, a currency acceptance terminal can be configured to accept currency from a user for loading into the user's electronic wallet, which may be used to purchase products from a merchant. The currency acceptance terminal can be unmanned such that the currency can be accepted and loaded into the electronic wallet without a cashier or other employee handling the currency or the currency acceptance terminal.
US11620629B2	Sensor device and system for communicating information A sensor device for conducting electronic transactions from a vehicle including a housing including an RFID circuit operably connected to an RFID antenna, a short range communication device, the RFID circuit and short range communication device operably connected to a processor, and a power supply. The sensor device is wirelessly connectable to a mobile communication device via the Bluetooth chip and the mobile communication device runs a software application. The RFID antenna is adapted to receive a wireless signal from a transmitter. Responsive to the wireless signal, the processor causes the short range communication device to wirelessly communicate with the mobile communication device to initiate a transaction.
US11620625B2	Micromarket security system and method In an example, the present invention provides a local area network system for a micro-market application. The system has a world wide network of computers, which comprising the Internet. In an example, the system has a micro market server device coupled to the world wide network of computers. In an example, the micro market server device has a library comprising a listing of a plurality of products, a field configured with the association information, e.g., an identifier for the server device. In an example, the product information is associated with the plurality of products is provided in a product catalog file. The device has a plurality of fields associated with a plurality of micromarket identification information. The micromarket identification information is a unique identifier for the particular micromarket.
US11620622B2	Federated architecture for electronic payments using a payment bus Described herein is an Internet of payments, i.e., a loosely coupled, federated architecture for electronic payment in which payers and payees interact through an Internet-based store-and-forward payment bus to complete an electronic payment. Merchants may use any payment service or gateway and any device to place a payment request on the payment bus; similarly, payers may use any payment service or gateway from any device to make a payment toward the payment request. Embodiments describe how this invention addresses different types of payments including contactless physical payments, online payments and vending machine and kiosk payments, with scenarios illustrating voluntary donations, paying a restaurant check with tips from a mobile device, automated actions at the completion of a payment (e.g., issuing a ticket by a ticketing kiosk) etc.
US11620621B2	Enrolling a payer by a merchant server operated by or for the benefit of a payee and processing a payment from the payer by a secure server Processing a payment from a payer to a payee (operating a first computing system), by a second computing system, by receiving an electronically-generated payment transaction instruction (identifying the payer, specifying the amount of the payment, and specifying a communications link for the second computing system to obtain financial account information from the payer) from the first computing system, obtaining the financial account information from the payer via the specified communications link, generating an electronic data token representing the financial account information, outputting the electronic data token for transmittal to the first computing system (where the first computing system does not receive the financial account information and the second computing system does not provide the electronic data token to the payer), obtaining the amount from the payer using the financial account information, and forwarding at least a portion of the amount to the payee.
US11620618B2	Digital assistant for completion of timecards A method of time entry on a graphical user interface (GUI) of a computer system includes receiving via the GUI information related to an event, determining, by an electronic controller, that the event has occurred, determining, by the electronic controller, that the event relates to a name in a contact list stored in a storage device of the computer system, and arranging on the GUI a time entry interface to prompt a user to enter information related to a matter.
US11620613B2	Drone-based inventory management methods and systems Drone-based inventory management method and systems. One embodiment provides a drone-based inventory management system including one or more unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and a central management system having an electronic processor, and a transceiver configured to communicate with the one or more UAVs. The electronic processor is configured to determine a discrepancy in inventory and select a UAV for verification. The electronic processor is also configured to determine whether weather permits UAV operation and operate the UAV in a pre-determined route when the weather permits UAV operation. The electronic processor is further configured to capture images using the UAV and determine new inventory based on captured images. The electronic processor is also configured to update inventory based on the new inventory.
US11620608B2	System and method for providing uniform tracking information with a reliable estimated time of arrival A system can comprise one or more processors; and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one more processors and perform a method for providing uniform tracking information, in a standard format, based on tracking information provided by multiple delivery driver networks, each having different hardware and software platforms. The method in this embodiment can comprise: receiving a user tracking request from a customer; receiving driver tracking information from the platform of the delivery driver network of the driver selected for the grocery delivery; converting the driver tracking information into uniform tracking information in a standard format; and providing the uniform tracking information, with an accurate estimated delivery time, to be rendered on a user interface of a user device of the customer. The method in this embodiment can be configured to generate the uniform tracking information by: incorporating into the uniform tracking information, as the estimated delivery time, either (a) an estimated time of arrival, determined by the method, based on the driver geographic location, the delivery route, and the real-time traffic information of the geographic area; or (b) the estimated delivery time that is verified to be accurate based on the estimated time of arrival. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11620603B2	System and method for managing operator settings for a work machine A work machine, such as a wheel loader, operating in a worksite within a wireless control system includes an operator-specific configuration of machine settings associated with an identification for the operator. As the work machine executes a work function, the operator identification, an initial operator-specific configuration, and sensed performance metrics are transmitted to a control system for the worksite. Linking the operator identification to one or both of the initial operator-specific configuration and the metrics, the control system analyzes performance of the work machine by the operator with increased granularity and flags potential irregularities. A modified operator-specific configuration to change operator performance is returned to the work machine and made to override the initial operator-specific configuration when the operator next takes control of the work machine.
US11620601B2	System for enterprise value optimization A system and a method to optimize values delivered by an enterprise, are described. An integrated system may receive data from multiple data sources that may be processed by engines and/models. The engines and/or models may execute operations or functions, such as data processing, analysis based on rules, automated learning, machine learning and transforming the data to create value graphs associated with processes, tasks, and/or services in the enterprise. The value graphs may be generated that may provision continuous monitoring and insights to measure of KPIs and other influencing factors that may be associated with the processes, and services in the enterprise. The integrated system may generate visualizations that may be rendered via user interfaces. Further based on the value graphs, stakeholders may be able to identify opportunities associated with processes, tasks, and/or services that may be actioned to drive employee engagement, and value of the enterprise.
US11620594B2	Space utilization patterns for building optimization Occupancy data over time is received for each of several spaces within a building from occupancy sensors that are disposed within each of the spaces. An occupancy value is determined for each of at least some of the several spaces based on the received occupancy data, each occupancy value representative of a percent of time that the respective space was occupied over an identified period of time. The space that had a highest occupancy value over the identified period of time is identified. A utilization value is determined for each of the spaces, wherein the utilization value is representative of a ratio of the occupancy value of the respective space and the highest occupancy value. An operation of the building is changed based at least in part on the utilization value of at least one of the plurality of spaces.
US11620581B2	Modification of machine learning model ensembles based on user feedback Mechanisms are provided to implement an ensemble of unsupervised machine learning (ML) models. The ensemble of unsupervised ML models processes a portion of input data to generate an ensemble output and the ensemble output is output to an authorized user computing device to obtain user feedback from the authorized user via the user computing device. The user feedback indicates a correctness of the ensemble output. The mechanisms modify at least one feature of the ensemble of unsupervised ML models based on the obtained user feedback to thereby generate a modified ensemble of unsupervised ML models. Subsequent portions of input data are then processed using the modified ensemble of unsupervised ML models.
US11620580B2	Methods and systems for probabilistic filtering of candidate intervention representations Embodiments relate to systems and methods for probabilistically filtering candidate intervention representations. Systems and methods are described that receive a candidate intervention representation; specify a plurality of parameters as a function of the candidate intervention representation; identify a plurality of analytical constraints, where each analytical constraint corresponds to an analytical parameter of the plurality of parameters; generate a probabilistic output as a function of the candidate intervention representation, the plurality of analytic constraints, and training data correlating past intervention representations to a deterministic outcome; and, filter the at least a candidate intervention representation using the probabilistic output.
US11620579B2	Generalized metric for machine learning model evaluation for unsupervised classification Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for generalized metric for machine learning model evaluation for unsupervised classification including: for each unsupervised machine learning model of one or more unsupervised machine learning models: generating a first set of synthetic inputs for the model of the one or more unsupervised machine learning models; providing the first set of synthetic inputs to the model trained to output a prediction for each input of the first set of synthetic inputs, wherein the prediction indicates whether the input is of a first class; identifying, based on an output of the model, a second set of synthetic inputs predicted to be of the first class; determining, based on a set of expected normal inputs for the model and the second set of synthetic inputs, an accuracy score for the unsupervised machine learning model; and providing the accuracy score for display.
US11620578B2	Unsupervised anomaly detection via supervised methods Techniques for implementing unsupervised anomaly detection via supervised methods are provided. In one set of embodiments, a computer system can train an unsupervised anomaly detection classifier using an unlabeled training data set and classify the unlabeled training data set via the trained version of the unsupervised classifier, where the classifying generates anomaly scores for the data instances in the unlabeled training data set. The computer system can further construct a labeled training data set that includes a first subset of data instances from the unlabeled training data set whose anomaly scores are below a first threshold and a second subset of data instances from the unlabeled training data set whose anomaly scores are above a second threshold. The computer system can then train a supervised anomaly detection classifier using the labeled training data set.
US11620573B1	Totally corrective boosting with cardinality penalization Methods, systems, and apparatus, for totally corrective boosting with cardinality penalization are described. One of the methods includes obtaining initialization data identifying training examples, a dictionary of weak classifiers, and an active weak classifier matrix. Iterations of a totally corrective boosting with cardinality penalization process are performed, wherein each iteration performs operations comprising selecting a weak classifier from the dictionary of weak classifiers that most violates a constraint of a dual of the primal problem. The selected weak classifier is included in the active weak classifier matrix. The primal problem is optimized, and a discrete weight vector is determined. Weak classifiers are identified from the active weak classifier matrix with respective discrete weights greater than a threshold. The regularized risk is optimized, and a continuous weight vector is determined. The classifier is determined as an ensemble identified by the weak classifiers and the continuous weight vector.
US11620570B2	Self-learning ontology-based cognitive assignment engine A cognitive assignment engine (CAE) system attempts to infer semantic meaning from textual content of an incoming message in order to use the inferred meaning to assign the message to an appropriate responder. If the message contains insufficient textual content, the system identifies ontological structures comprised by the message's graphical content and classifies each structure as a function of the structure's location within the graphical content or of an intrinsic characteristic of the structure. The system then generates a message identifier by performing a computation on these classifications and uses the identifier to retrieve a previously stored graphical template that comprises ontological structures similar to those of the incoming message. The system associates the incoming message with a semantic meaning previously associated with the template, enabling the system to classify the message and to assign the message to the correct responder.
US11620569B2	Machine learning quantum algorithm validator The illustrative embodiments provide a method, system, and computer program product for validating quantum algorithms using a machine learning model. In an embodiment, a method includes receiving a training data set. In an embodiment, a method includes training, by a first processor, a machine learning model with the training data set for validation of quantum circuits. In an embodiment, a method includes generating, by the machine learning model, a set of rules for validation of quantum circuits.
US11620564B2	CSP-based quantum circuit modeling Method, apparatus and product for modeling of quantum circuits and usages thereof. A method comprises obtaining a model of a quantum circuit that comprises a set of decision variables, corresponding domains, and constraints, wherein the set of decision variables comprise gate assignment decision variables that define an assignment of a gate to a qubit in a cycle in the quantum circuit. The method comprises automatically determining a set of valuations for the set of decision variables. The set of valuations are selected from the corresponding domains and satisfy the constraints. Based on the set of valuations the quantum circuit is synthesized.
US11620562B2	Driving dark modes to facilitate entanglement Systems and techniques that facilitate entanglement via driving dark modes are provided. In various embodiments, a method can comprise accessing a first multi-mode qubit and a second multi-mode qubit. In various cases, the first multi-mode qubit can be coupled to the second multi-mode qubit by a mode-selective coupler. In various aspects, the method can further comprise exciting a dark mode of the first multi-mode qubit. In various cases, the exciting the dark mode can entangle the first multi-mode qubit with the second multi-mode qubit.
US11620555B2	Method and apparatus for stochastic inference between multiple random variables via common representation A method and system are herein disclosed. The method includes developing a joint latent variable model having a first variable, a second variable, and a joint latent variable representing common information between the first and second variables, generating a variational posterior of the joint latent variable model, training the variational posterior, and performing inference of the first variable from the second variable based on the variational posterior.
US11620553B2	System and method for forecasting leaks in a fluid-delivery pipeline network A system for forecasting leaks in a fluid-delivery pipeline network. The system identifies a subsystem in the pipeline network that comprises a plurality of topologically connected stations. The system accesses historical temporal sensor measurements of a plurality of variables of the stations that are directly connected and generates a temporal causal dependency model for a first control variable at the first station in the subsystem, based on the plurality of time series of sensor measurements of a second variable of the first station, and temporal delay characteristics of the plurality of time series of sensor measurements of the second variable at the stations directly connected to the first station. The system automatically calculates a normal operating value of the first control variable at the first station and the deviations between actual measured values and the normal operating value and determines a threshold deviation that indicates a leak event.
US11620551B2	Industrial automation control logic diagnostics and analysis A method includes receiving an input indicative of a selection of an object associated with an industrial automation project, each object of a plurality of objects corresponding to a respective industrial automation component, retrieving logic associated with the object from a storage component, evaluating an operability of the logic when executed by the respective industrial automation component corresponding to the object, wherein evaluating the operability of the logic comprises running one or more scripts, executing one or more algorithms, applying one or more rules, or a combination thereof, and updating a GUI to present: a first window visualization comprising a logic schematic visualization of one or more tasks that the logic is configured to cause the object to perform and a second window visualization comprising an indication of the operability of the logic when executed by the respective industrial automation component.
US11620545B2	Planning apparatus, method of generating operating plan, hydrogen production method, and computer readable storage medium The production cost of a product is reduced without reducing the production amount of a product of the electrolytic apparatus in a fixed period. There are provided a planning apparatus, a method of generating an operating plan, and a program, the planning apparatus including an electricity rate prediction unit that predicts a transition of a future electricity rate by using an electricity rate prediction model that predicts a transition of an electricity rate in a target period based on a value of a first factor available before the target period, and an operating plan generation unit that generates an operating plan of an electrolytic apparatus in a first period in a future based on a predicted transition of the future electricity rate.
US11620543B2	Identifying physical activities performed by a user of a computing device based on media consumption A method includes identifying, based on sensor data received by a motion sensor, a physical activity performed by a user of the computing system during a time period and determining whether the user consumed media during the time period that the user performed the physical activity. The method also includes responsive to determining that the user consumed the media during the time period that the user performed the physical activity, determining, based on data indicative of the media consumed by the user, an updated physical activity performed by the user during the time period; and outputting data indicating the updated physical activity.
US11620536B2	Character configuration method and apparatus, storage medium, and electronic apparatus This application discloses methods and apparatuses for configuring a character in a game. In some examples, an apparatus includes processing circuitry that detects a target event associated with a first character in the game. The first character is a non-player character that has been generated in the game. The target event is used for modifying a target attribute value of the first character. The processing circuitry obtains configuration information according to the target event. The configuration information is used for configuring a second character so that a degree of modifying a target attribute value of the second character by the target event is less than a degree of modifying the target attribute value of the first character by the target event. The second character is a non-player character to be generated in the game. The processing circuitry generates the second character based on the configuration information.
US11620532B2	Method and apparatus for generating neural network Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for generating a neural network. The method includes: acquiring a target neural network, the target neural network corresponding to a preset association relationship, and being configured to use two entity vectors corresponding to two entities in a target knowledge graph as an input, to determine whether an association relationship between the two entities corresponding to the inputted two entity vectors is the preset association relationship, the target neural network comprising a relational tensor predetermined for the preset association relationship; converting the relational tensor in the target neural network into a product of a target number of relationship matrices, and generating a candidate neural network comprising the target number of converted relationship matrices; and generating a resulting neural network using the candidate neural network.
US11620527B2	Domain adaption learning system Described is a system for adapting a deep convolutional neural network (CNN). A deep CNN is first trained on an annotated source image domain. The deep CNN is adapted to a new target image domain without requiring new annotations by determining domain agnostic features that map from the annotated source image domain and a target image domain to a joint latent space, and using the domain agnostic features to map the joint latent space to annotations for the target image domain.
US11620525B2	Dropout for accelerated deep learning in heterogeneous architectures A heterogeneous processing system includes at least one central processing unit (CPU) core and at least one graphics processing unit (GPU) core. The heterogeneous processing system is configured to compute an activation for each one of a plurality of neurons for a first network layer of a neural network. The heterogeneous processing system randomly drops a first subset of the plurality of neurons for the first network layer and keeps a second subset of the plurality of neurons for the first network layer. Activation for each one of the second subset of the plurality of neurons is forwarded to the CPU core and coalesced to generate a set of coalesced activation sub-matrices.
US11620520B2	Computer-based systems configured for detecting and splitting data types in a data file and methods of use thereof A method for training a neural network model includes generating a training dataset with a plurality of data types and word samples belonging to each data type. A plurality of character strings stored in a plurality of data fields in a first data file are received where the plurality of character strings includes at least one word belonging to at least one data type in the plurality of data types. The at least one word from each of the plurality of character strings in each of the data fields are split and matched to the at least one data type using the neural network model. An ad hoc second data file with a plurality of data vectors is constructed based on a user selection of data field labels where each data vector includes words matched to a data type with a respective data field label.
US11620512B2	Deep segment personalization Techniques for using machine learning to leverage deep segment embeddings are provided. In one technique, a set of training data is processed using one or more machine learning techniques to train a neural network and learn an embedding for each segment of multiple segments. In response to receiving a request, multiple elements are identified, such as a source entity that is associated with the request, a source embedding for the source entity, a particular segment with which the source entity is associated, a segment embedding for the particular segment, and multiple target entities. For each target entity, a target embedding is identified and the target embedding, the source embedding, and the segment embedding are input into the neural network to generate output that is associated with the target entity. Based on the output, data about a subset of the target entities is presented on a computing device.
US11620507B2	Apparatus and methods for detecting a property from electromagnetic radiation sensor data An apparatus includes a sensor module. The sensor module includes an electromagnetic radiation sensor configured to provide electromagnetic radiation sensor data. The sensor module further includes a coded mask configured to modulate electromagnetic radiation incident to the electromagnetic radiation sensor and from which the electromagnetic radiation sensor data is generated. The apparatus further includes a computation module configured to obtain the electromagnetic radiation sensor data from the electromagnetic radiation sensor. The computation module is further configured to detect a property from the electromagnetic radiation sensor data using an artificial neural network. The computation module is further configured to output information related to the detected property via an output.
US11620504B2	Neuromorphic device based on memory A neuromorphic device includes a memory cell array that includes first memory cells corresponding to a first address and storing first weights and second memory cells corresponding to a second address and storing second weights, and a neuron circuit that includes an integrator summing first read signals from the first memory cells and an activation circuit outputting a first activation signal based on a first sum signal of the first read signals output from the integrator.
US11620499B2	Energy efficient machine learning models Aspects described herein provide a method including: receiving input data at a machine learning model, comprising: a plurality of processing layers; a plurality of gate logics; a plurality of gates; and a fully connected layer; determining based on a plurality of gate parameters associated with the plurality of gate logics, a subset of the plurality of processing layers with which to process the input data; processing the input data with the subset of the plurality of processing layers and the fully connected layer to generate an inference; determining a prediction loss based on the inference and a training label associated with the input data; determining an energy loss based on the subset of the plurality of processing layers used to process the input data; and optimizing the machine learning model based on: the prediction loss; the energy loss; and a prior probability associated with the training label.
US11620490B2	Multi-layer neural network processing by a neural network accelerator using host communicated merged weights and a package of per-layer instructions In the disclosed methods and systems for processing in a neural network system, a host computer system writes a plurality of weight matrices associated with a plurality of layers of a neural network to a memory shared with a neural network accelerator. The host computer system further assembles a plurality of per-layer instructions into an instruction package. Each per-layer instruction specifies processing of a respective layer of the plurality of layers of the neural network, and respective offsets of weight matrices in a shared memory. The host computer system writes input data and the instruction package to the shared memory. The neural network accelerator reads the instruction package from the shared memory and processes the plurality of per-layer instructions of the instruction package.
US11620469B2	Bar code generation scanning, and display method, apparatus, storage medium, and electronic device This application discloses method, an apparatus, a storage medium, and an electronic device for bar code generation and display. The method includes: obtaining a target code by compiling a source code, the target code being self-contained executable code comprising target computer readable instructions and comprising logic functions, wherein the target computer readable instructions are executable by a processor; and generating a target bar code embedded with the target code by encoding the target code, wherein the target code comprises at least one of the following logical functions: a first logical function for allowing a scanning device with a read permission to run the target code, a second logical function for allowing the target code to be run within a validity period, and a third logical function for calling and configuring target hardware in the scanning device to execute a target operation.
US11620457B2	Learning to fuse sentences with transformers for summarization Systems and methods for sentence fusion are described. Embodiments receive coreference information for a first sentence and a second sentence, wherein the coreference information identifies entities associated with both a term of the first sentence and a term of the second sentence, apply an entity constraint to an attention head of a sentence fusion network, wherein the entity constraint limits attention weights of the attention head to terms that correspond to a same entity of the coreference information, and predict a fused sentence using the sentence fusion network based on the entity constraint, wherein the fused sentence combines information from the first sentence and the second sentence.
US11620447B1	Method for more accurately performing an autocomplete function An autocomplete function for textual input uses situational parameters to predict the next words the user is intending to type. Situational and temporal parameters are based on textual input and sensor data of the user. A past time window is based on the situational and temporal parameters. Historical textual input and sensor data during the time window relating to the situational parameters are retrieved from a storage device and aggregated. A pre-existing model that relates the situational parameter to the time window is used to select a situational value based on the textual input and sensor data. Words relating to the situational parameter are listed that the user is likely to input next based on the selected situational value. The words are ranked by the probability that the user is intending to type each of the words. The highest ranked word is displayed to the user on a user interface.
US11620444B2	Providing action associated with event detected within communication An action associated with an event detected within a communication is provided. A communication service initiates operations to provide the action by processing a communication to detect an event related to a transaction between a recipient and vendor. An action template is located that matches an event type and the vendor. A vendor service is queried to find the action template. An action is generated by populating the action template with an attribute of the event such as a recipient identifier and/or a transaction identifier. The action is provided to the recipient to facilitate an interaction related to the event with the vendor service.
US11620434B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium that provide a highlighting feature of highlighting a displayed character recognition area Results of character recognition processing for a scanned image of a document and a setting item set to a property attached to the scanned image of a document are obtained. Displaying on a screen having a preview area where the scanned image of a document is displayed and an editing area where information input in the setting item is edited, that is, displaying the scanned image of a document in the preview area and displaying the setting item and the information in the editing area are controlled. A selection for the setting item displayed in the editing area is detected. A verification rule set to the detected setting item is obtained. A character recognition area satisfying the verification rule is extracted from the results of the character recognition processing. A character recognition area displayed on the preview area and extracted is highlighted.
US11620429B2	Method and device for superimposing at least two images of a photolithographic mask The present invention relates to a method for superimposing at least two images of a photolithographic mask, wherein the method comprises the following steps: (a) determining at least one first difference of at least one first image relative to design data of the photolithographic mask; (b) determining at least one second difference of at least one second image relative to design data of the photolithographic mask, or relative to the at least one first image; and (c) superimposing the at least one first image and the at least one second image taking account of the at least one first difference and the at least one second difference.
US11620428B1	Post-CTS clock tree restructuring Various embodiments provide a system for performing operations that comprise accessing an integrated circuit design that includes a clock tree interconnecting a clock source to a plurality of clock sinks. The operations include receiving a request to adjust a present timing offset of the clock tree to a target timing offset. In response, a group of clock sinks to be adjusted are identified to satisfy the request. The clock tree is then modified by moving a terminal of the group from a first location in the clock tree to a second location in the clock tree to update the clock tree. An indication is provided that the updated clock tree has been modified and complies with the target timing offset.
US11620426B2	Automated system and method for circuit design A method in certain embodiments includes using a computer system that includes an EDA tool to generate a layout of an IC device; searching, using a statistical method such as Bayesian optimization process, for one or more input variable parameters, such as the dimensions of the IC device and the dimensions of the voltage areas in the IC device, that results in an optimal characteristic, such as power, performance or area (PPA) of the IC device. A computer system including one or more EDAs configured to perform the method is also disclosed.
US11620422B2	Water supply simulation method and tool for interlaced system of river system and canal system based on groundwater model A water supply simulation method for interlaced system of river and canal system based on groundwater model, includes: S1. constructing simulated water conveyance channel based on first data, and performing attribute definition on water conveyance channels; S2. acquiring initial seepage, evaporation and discharge; S3. performing reverse water demand calculation; S4. performing sequential water supply simulation; S5. acquiring corresponding water head, obtaining current seepage, evaporation, discharge, head-end water demand and water consumption demand of each water conveyance channel based on water head; S6. judging whether current iteration is converged according to water head, if yes, proceeding to S7, otherwise returning to S3 after update; S7. judging whether there is next time period, if yes, returning to S3 after update, otherwise proceeding to S8; and S8. judging whether there is a next stress period, if yes, returning to S3 after update, otherwise outputting the result obtained in S5, and ending.
US11620419B2	Systems and methods for identifying human-based perception techniques System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to identifying human-based perception techniques for analyzing a driving scene. In one embodiment, a method includes generating the driving scene as a simulated environment of a vehicle. The method includes modifying the simulated environment according to a visualization algorithm that approximates a machine vision technique to transform the simulated environment into a modified environment with redacted information in comparison to the simulated environment. The method includes displaying the modified environment on an electronic display to an operator to assess how the operator perceives the modified environment when operating the vehicle.
US11620414B2	Display apparatus, display method, and image processing system A display apparatus capable of displaying previously-displayed presented data stored in association with meeting identification information identifying each meeting, includes circuitry configured to receive particular meeting identification information stored at an information processing apparatus from the information processing apparatus; and display at least a part of particular presented data associated with the received particular meeting identification information, on a display.
US11620411B2	Elastic launch for trusted execution environments A system includes a memory, a processor in communication with the memory, and a first TEE instance. The first TEE instance is configured to maintain an encrypted secret, obtain a cryptographic measurement associated with a second TEE instance, validate the cryptographic measurement, and provision the second TEE instance with the encrypted secret. Additionally, the first TEE instance and the second TEE instance are both configured to service at least a first type of request.

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