US11161185B2
Hole saw adapter (10) comprised of an adapter body (12) with a first end equipped with a spindle (14) for fastening to a drive unit, such as a drilling machine, and a second end to receive a hole saw (32) and a central drill (34), in which the adapter body (12) is extended and equipped with a longitudinally running axial groove (16) where the longitudinally running axial groove (16) is at least partially formed as a cross-wise through-running open slit in the adapter body (12). The central drill (34) is fasten to the inner axially displaceable holding part (22) so that it can be made loose, said inner axially displaceable holding part (22) can be displaced in the longitudinally running axial groove (16) in the adapter body (12) and is fastened to an external displacement part (18), as the external displacement part (18) surrounds the adapter body (12) and is set up for a forced axial displacement of the axially displaceable holding part (22) and the central drill (34) in the longitudinally running axial groove (16) for the pushing out of a core (40) that remains in the hole saw (32) after drilling.
US11161182B2
The invention relates to a four-edged drill having two long main cutting edges, arranged in a point-symmetric manner with regard to the axis of rotation, which each extend from an outer circumferential cutting corner to a chisel edge in the middle of the drill tip, and two short main cutting edges, arranged in a point-symmetric manner with regard to the axis of rotation, which each extend from an outer circumferential cutting corner in the direction of the middle of the drill tip. According to the invention, each long main cutting edge has an outer partial cutting edge, extending from the cutting corner as far as a shoulder, and an inner partial cutting edge, extending from the shoulder as far as the chisel edge, said inner partial cutting edge having a greater cutting height (Δx) than the outer partial cutting edge and the short main cutting edges.
US11161178B2
A cutting insert according includes a first surface and a cutting edge. The first surface includes a first inclined surface and a projection. The first inclined surface includes a first region located close to a first corner portion, a second region located close to a second corner portion, and a third region located between the first region and the second region. The projection includes a first projection located close to the first corner portion and a second projection located close to the second corner portion. A first top portion of the first projection is located closer to the first corner portion than a first boundary portion between the first region and the third region, and a second top portion of the second projection is located closer to the second corner portion than a second boundary portion between the second region and the third region.
US11161174B2
Method and apparatus for feeding sand molds laterally and/o between stations of differing heights. The method and apparatus of this invention utilize walking-beam-type conveyors having spaced apart fixed outboard rails and a central reciprocating rail. Walking-beam conveyors can be disposed in perpendicular directions with a junction therebetween that allows for a perpendicular change in direction. The method and apparatus of this invention include lift, leveling, and/or lateral transfer mechanisms for lateral placement of the stations relative to the conveyance path.
US11161166B2
The present invention relates to a forging method and a forging apparatus, capable of: reducing the amount of tray plates used during the forging of materials by reducing the width from front to back of the tray plates by fixing only the rear of the materials to the tray plates for fixing the materials; and minimizing the amount of materials used, by compression-molding products by fixing, to the tray plates, the materials having a minimum size necessary for the fmal products, the present invention comprising: a press having upper and lower molds; a tray plate supply means for supplying, to the top rear of the lower mold, tray plates to be vertically movable from one side to the other side by a pitch and to be spaced from the upside of the lower mold; a punching unit provided at one side of the upper and lower molds so as to continuously punch material fixing hole parts in the tray plates; a material plate supply means provided at the front of the other side of the punching unit so as to supply material plates by a pitch to under the material fixing hole parts of the tray plates and, at the same time, form penetrating protrusion parts, which penetrate into the material fixing hole parts, on the rear top of the material plate in each pitch, which is moved by a pitch; a cutting and compressive fixing unit provided on the upper and lower molds at the other side of the punching unit so as to cut the material plates, which are inserted into the material fixing hole parts of the tray plates, by a pitch and, at the same time, allow the penetrating protrusion parts formed at the rear of the cut materials to penetrate into the material fixing hole parts, thereby compressively fixing same; and a compression molding unit provided on the upper and lower molds at the other side of the cutting and compressive fixing unit so as to compression-mold the materials being transferred.
US11161157B2
An underwater cavitation jet cleaning system provided with an automatic metering feeder for cleaning solution organically integrates a cavitation jet technology with the improvement of cleaning solutions, which can not only increase bubbles can be during jet, but also is beneficial for removing hull dirt. An eddy segment of a nozzle is arranged as a spiral passage, and the eddy segment is gradually reduced from a water inlet to a water outlet, so that a speed of fluid becomes further faster. A volume of an in-pipe chamber of a barrel is different, and the fluid is pulsed while flowing through the barrel, so that the fluid is finally ejected from the nozzle of a cleaning gun, which efficiently improves the cavitation rate, and increases the generation of cavitation nucleus.
US11161153B1
A device is disclosed which includes a processor, a screen, and either or both of a camera and a microphone. The device may receive input related to a waste item, identify the waste item, classify a disposal type for the waste item, and provide a suggestion for disposing of the waste item.
US11161149B2
The invention relates to a wave-emitting device comprising an electromechanical actuator stimulated by a signal generator that allows it to generate torsional waves with a higher amplitude, and to an ultrasonic transducer comprising said device. The use of said devices allows the reconstruction of the structural characteristics of the materials subject to the waves generated by the emitter device.
US11161148B2
A vibrating device includes a tubular body including a first end, a second end, and a plurality of side surfaces that connect the first and second ends, piezoelectric vibrators that are fixed to the tubular body and vibrate the tubular body, and a light transmitting body unit that is directly or indirectly connected to the second end of the tubular body.
US11161144B1
A compounding system for use in finishing a vehicle having a vehicle body having painted surfaces. The compounding system employs a sprayer having a nozzle having a fluid opening that is substantially 3 millimeters in diameter and a reservoir in communication with the fluid opening. Compressed air carries compound paste from the reservoir to the fluid opening to atomize the compound paste into a compound spray that is used to cover all of the painted surfaces of the vehicle with a thin, uniform coating in a single step. The compound paste is removed by buffing all painted surfaces on the vehicle body to a shine in a single step.
US11161140B2
Disclosed is a slot die coater for coating an electrode active material slurry on an electrode current collector, which includes a lower die having a lower outlet, and an upper die disposed above the lower die and having an upper outlet, wherein an upper surface of the lower die and a lower surface of the upper die are at least partially in contact with each other and capable of sliding relative to one another such that the upper die and the lower die are capable of sliding relative to each other along a horizontal direction.
US11161136B2
A liquid processing apparatus includes a processing liquid supply including a nozzle configured to discharge a processing liquid; a nozzle mover configured to move the nozzle between a coating position and a standby position; a suction unit including a suction opening toward a leading end surface of the nozzle located at the standby position; a cleaning unit configured to clean the leading end surface of the nozzle located at the standby position with a cleaning liquid; and a control device. The control device controls the processing liquid supply to discharge the processing liquid in a state that the nozzle is located at the standby position. The control device controls the suction unit to suck the processing liquid. The control device controls the cleaning unit to supply the cleaning liquid toward the standby position to clean the nozzle. The control device controls the suction unit to suck the cleaning liquid.
US11161131B2
In a spray nozzle with a nozzle housing including a dosing chamber for accommodating a release agent to be sprayed into a mold via a discharge line including a check valve and a nozzle body and a venting unit integrated into the nozzle housing for venting air from the spray nozzle, the volume of the dosing chamber is adjustable and the venting unit is activatable by an activation signal by which the venting unit is moved from a dysfunctional position to a venting and opening position in which the check valve is held open by the venting unit for venting the dosing chamber and the discharge line, via the nozzle body.
US11161110B2
Microfluidic chips incorporating liquid level sensors for precise sensing of liquid levels in microfluidic system structures, e.g., channels, cavities or reservoirs without moving parts. The microfluidic system uses liquid level photosensors and use optical properties to measure liquid volumes. A light coupling emitter or waveguide transmits the light toward the fluid channel at a critical angle. Multiple light coupling emitters and photosensor array can detect light for a variety of scenarios (based on fluid refraction index) and exploit the phenomenon of critical angles to measure exact angles of reflection/refraction. The waveguide coupler(s) and photosensors are manufactured at the microscale, and use both reflected light and refracted light as monitor signals. A feedback control system (e.g., compensating for rate and tolerance drift) is devised using signals generated by the sensors upon detecting reflected or refracted sensed light for increased accuracy of detecting precise amounts of fluid volumes being dispensed.
US11161096B2
A novel mixed oxide material is disclosed which comprises molybdenum, vanadium, tellurium and niobium and the use of the mixed oxide material as catalyst for the oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane to ethene or the oxidation of propane to acrylic acid and a process for producing the mixed oxide material.
US11161089B2
A moisture adsorption composition that is a vacuum dried powder, that is a metal chloride-impregnated, nanoporous material including a crystallization reaction product of an aluminum precursor and a dicarboxylic acid organic ligand having an average particle diameter of 100 to 2,000 nm, a pore size of 0.6 to 1.7 nm, and a maximum moisture adsorption amount of from 0.2 to 0.9 g/g within a driving pressure (P/P0) that ranges from 0.1 to 0.3. The composition is prepared by synthesizing the nanoporous material by a crystallization reaction between the aluminum precursor and the dicarboxylic acid organic ligand; heat-treating to purify the nanoporous material; impregnating the nanoporous material by mixing with a metal chloride solution in water having a weight ratio of the metal chloride to the nanoporous material of 10:2.5 to 10:50; drying the mixture; crushing the dried product; and vacuum drying the crushed product to provide the moisture adsorption composition.
US11161087B2
The invention relates to methods of tagging analytes in a sample.
US11161080B2
A mixer for an exhaust system for mixing reactant injected into an exhaust gas stream with exhaust gas includes a mixer body (22). The mixer body includes a reactant passage body area (24) with a reactant passage opening (26), a mixer plate body area (30) adjoining the reactant passage body area (24) on one side in a mixer longitudinal direction (L) and a mixer main body area (36) adjoining the reactant passage body area (24) in the mixer longitudinal direction (L) on another side opposite the one side.
US11161075B2
A method (200) for desulfurization of a flue gas in a desulfurization unit of an industrial plant, includes receiving (202) a plurality of baseline parameters corresponding to the desulfurization unit of the industrial plant. The method further includes measuring (204), using a stack sensor, an emission value of sulfur oxides in the flue gas. The method also includes estimating (208), using a controller, a desirable value of a slurry parameter for desulfurization of the flue gas based on the measured emission value of the sulfur oxides. The method further includes determining (208), using the controller, at least one desulfurization parameter based on the desirable value of the slurry parameter. The method also includes controlling (210), using the controller, operation of the desulfurization unit based on the at least one desulfurization parameter to modify consumption of at least one of a slurry and an auxiliary power in the industrial plant.
US11161074B2
An apparatus and a method are provided for a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system air filter for a building ventilation system. The HVAC system air filter comprises a supportive frame configured to orient the HVAC system air filter within the building ventilation system. A composite filter medium retained within the supportive frame comprises a cotton gauze portion and an electrostatic portion. The cotton gauze portion is configured for treatment with a filter oil composition to enhance airflow and filtration of air flowing through the composite filter medium. The electrostatic portion is configured to electrostatically attract and agglomerate airborne molecular contaminants and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) as small as 0.001 microns in diameter. In some embodiments, the composite filter medium comprises substances configured to release a fragrance into air passing through the composite filter medium.
US11161058B2
A fluid separation system for separating fluids within a container includes an inlet pipe arranged within the container to receive an incoming fluid stream including first, second, and third fluids. The fluid separation system further includes a fluid distribution device coupled to the inlet pipe and including first and second distribution components for respectively separating the incoming fluid stream into first internal fluid streams and second internal fluid streams within the container. The first and second internal fluid streams each include the first, second, and third fluids. The fluid separation system further includes one or more walls arranged to guide the first and second internal fluid streams towards an outlet of the container. The fluid distribution device and the one or more walls together cause the first, second, and third fluids of the first and second internal fluid streams to separate from one another other upstream of the outlet.
US11161050B2
An immersive gaming facility has a plurality of game rooms, each with a respective interactive gaming space with electronically controlled interactive game elements, a respective entrance through which participants are admissible from a waiting area with a respective sign-in station operable to control admission of participants in a groupwise fashion. After admission, an executed game session involves controlled operation of the interactive game elements and monitoring of participant interaction therewith to identify participant completion or failure of tasks in said game session; and terminate execution of said game session upon expiry of a time limit or multiple detected failures exceeding a predetermined limit. The waiting areas are accessible independently of one another off a shared common area, allowing participation among the game rooms in any participant-selected order. The gaming spaces are darkened environments illuminated only by the interactive game elements and game status displays.
US11161039B2
A communication system includes a group setting means, a first communication means, and a second communication means. The group setting means sets groups such that each of devices belongs to one of first-type groups, and to one of second-type groups. The first communication means enables, in each of the first-type groups, each of devices belonging to a first-type group to send its own data to other devices belonging to the same first-type group as the device. The second communication means enables, in each of the second-type groups, each of devices belonging to a second-type group to send its own data and data received from other devices belonging to a same first-type group as the device, to other devices belonging to the same second-type group as the device.
US11161036B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, receiving at a computer device a plurality of stimulus signals generated by one or more gaming accessory devices of a gamer controlling a gaming application, generating a plurality of gaming stimulations based on the plurality of stimulus signals, generating a plurality of gaming action results from the gaming application responsive to the plurality of gaming stimulations, combining the plurality of gaming action results and the plurality of gaming stimulations to generate a plurality of hardware statistics associated with the gamer, and transmitting to a social network the plurality of hardware statistics associated with the gamer.
US11161035B2
A button assembly adapted for being mounted in a controller includes a pedestal, a pressure sensor module and a key cap. A middle of the pedestal has an accommodating groove penetrating upward through a top surface of the middle of the pedestal. Two opposite sides of the pedestal have two limiting portions oppositely protruded outward. The pressure sensor module is mounted in the accommodating groove of the pedestal. The key cap is covered on the pressure sensor module. A bottom surface of the key cap has a contact portion contacting with the pressure sensor module. Two opposite sides of the key cap have an active portion and a fixing portion protruded outward. The active portion and the fixing portion are mounted to the two limiting portions, respectively. In processes of pressing and releasing the key cap, the active portion move downward and upward with respect to the one limiting portion.
US11161034B1
A new trivia-based card game comprising a deck of cards with a plurality of planar playing cards. Each planar playing card has three orthogonal pieces of information on its playing surface: an index, a card value, and a topic. Each planar playing card also has an answer value list and an answer list on its playing surface. The deck of cards may be sorted into unique sub-sets based off of index, card value, or topic. All of the planar playing cards contained in each sub-set sorted by topic share an answer value list and an answer list. A trivia-based card game can be played with such a deck.
US11161018B2
A face insert for a golf club head, preferably a putter head, is disclosed herein. The face insert comprises a pair of stacked plates, each with a plurality of hinge features. The hinge features of the lower plate extend through openings in the upper plate so that the plates are locked together, and the edge surfaces of the hinge features combine to create a striking surface that increases topspin of a golf ball.
US11161015B2
A disposable and detachable pocket to hold game balls that is initially disposed on or within a game ball container, thereby allowing users to hold multiple game balls while participating in a sporting event. The pocket comprises a substantially horseshoe shaped attachment portion which is initially removably disposed on a bottom surface of a lid of a game ball container with a small netted pouch or net attached. The attachment portion which comprises an adhesive surface may be peeled off the lid and then affixed anywhere on a user's clothes. The adhesive disposed on the attachment portion is durable but does not affect or damage the fabric of the user's clothing. The adhesive is only disposed on the shaped attachment portion so the ease and accessibility of placing or removing game balls from the net is not affected. The detachable pocket is comprised of inexpensive materials can be thrown away after use.
US11161003B2
An exercise machine has a supporting frame; a resistance fan on the supporting frame, the resistance fan being configured to provide an amount of resistance to a user of the exercise machine; a housing enclosing the resistance fan, the housing having a plurality of openings through which air from the resistance fan is directed towards the user of the exercise machine; and a shroud on the housing. The shroud is movable with respect to the plurality of openings so as to redirect the air from the resistance fan without changing the amount of resistance provided to the user of the exercise machine.
US11161000B2
A portable water storage system for draining and refilling building fire protection systems is provided. The system includes a tank for storing fire protection system water, a hose connecting the building fire protection system to the tank. A vacuum pump is configured to draw a low pressure on the fire protection system. A water pump is configured to return the water of the fire protection system from the tank to the system.
US11160995B2
Systems and methods for providing a real time visualization of scattered radiation in an operating room are provided. A number of visualization devices such as augmented reality (“AR”) tracking devices, electronic displays, or projection devices are in electronic communication with a controller and configured to display a visualization of scattered radiation. Position data is received from the position sensors associated with individuals in the operating room, the AR tracking devices, radiation producing medical equipment, or an operating table and the visualization is adjusted accordingly.
US11160993B2
A control method for a light therapy device, including steps of: set a light dose range (1-4J/cm2) required by an illuminated portion under a skin surface; calculate an appropriate intensity range outputted by a light source based on the set light dose, an illuminated time, and a proportion of light beam shape variation between the light source and the skin surface; build a corresponding relation between the appropriate intensity range and an ideal illumination range for the skin surface; measure an illumination of the skin surface, and monitor an output light intensity of the light source based on the illumination, ensuring that a light intensity outputted by the light source is a set ideal light intensity whereby, a light dose transmitted from the light therapy device to the illuminated portion could be kept in the set light dose by simply controlling the illumination to be within the set illumination range.
US11160988B2
Discrete cofired feedthrough filters are provided for medical implanted device applications. A plurality of discrete vertical feedthrough filter elements are respectively associated with a plurality of signal wires or pins otherwise supported by an insulating feedthrough and a ferrule. The resulting discrete device comprises a single-element device which is cheaper to make, and which reduces cross-talk between adjacent signal wires/pins while otherwise accommodating changes in feedthrough pitch without having to redesign the filter.
US11160983B2
Devices and methods provide for the sensing of physiological signals by providing a stimulation waveform that includes a stimulation pulse followed by an active recharge pulse to clear the charge in capacitors within the stimulation path. The active recharge pulse is followed by a period of passive recharge and then a period of no recharge. Non-neurological sources of artifacts within the sensed physiological signal may be handled by providing a brief period of passive recharge followed by a lengthy period of no recharge, which is made possible by the use of the active recharge pulse prior to the passive recharge. The period of no recharge removes any low impedance path to ground from the stimulation electrodes, which allows an amplifier of the sensing circuit to provide common mode rejection of non-neurological signals, such as cardiac signals, present at the sensing electrodes.
US11160980B2
A stimulation apparatus for a patient is provided, the apparatus comprising an external system configured to transmit transmission signals and an implantable system configured to receive the transmission signals from the external system. The implantable system comprises at least one implantable lead, a first implantable device for connecting to the implantable lead during a first time period and a second implantable device for subsequently connecting to the implantable lead for a second time period.
US11160968B2
A tube coupling system serves for providing annular flow through a flexible annular double lumen tube between fluid reservoir(s) and flexible connection pieces of an annular double lumen device. The tube coupling system has a first coupling component and a second coupling component and an end fitting system. The first coupling component that has a female coupling part and a male coupling part adapted for coupling to a proximal end of the flexible annular double lumen tube. The second coupling component has a second interior pipe that axially extends inside a second exterior pipe, a first end fitting adapted for coupling to at least the female coupling part of the first coupling component, and a second end fitting adapted for coupling to any of the flexible annular double lumen tube or the flexible connection pieces of an annular double lumen device.
US11160954B2
A method for delivering fluid to the brain of a subject using an intraparenchymal catheter, the method comprising the step of inserting the catheter 5 into the brain using a posterior to anterior approach and methods of treating neurodegenerative disorders using this delivery method, as well as methods for delivering fluid to an elongate structure of the brain using an intraparenchymal catheter, the method comprising the step of inserting a catheter into the brain along an insertion axis that is substantially aligned with a long axis of the elongate structure.
US11160950B2
A distal end portion of an elongate shaft member of a catheter may be inserted into a liquid within a vessel. While the distal end portion of the elongate shaft member is inserted in the liquid in the vessel, a manipulable portion of the catheter may be manipulated within the liquid to remove an undesired fluid therefrom. The liquid may be pressurized to cause the liquid to flow into a lumen of the elongate shaft member from a distal end of the elongate shaft member at least toward a proximal end of the elongate shaft member to facilitate flushing of the undesired fluid from the lumen. The distal end portion of the elongate shaft member of the catheter may be inserted into the liquid within the vessel while at least the elongate shaft member is in a substantially horizontal orientation.
US11160947B2
A swivel elbow and connector assembly for a patient interface system includes a ring (128) configured to be sealingly secured in an aperture of the patient interface system and an elbow (125) swivably secured in the ring (128). The ring (128) includes a first side (128(1)) in an interior of the patient interface system and a second side (128(2)) at an exterior of the patient interface system when the ring (128) is secured in the aperture. The ring (128) comprises a first flange on the first side and a second flange on the second side, the first and second flanges defining a channel (128(3)) that sealingly engages the aperture of the patient interface system. An inner surface (128(4)) of the ring (128) is partially spherical and an outer surface (125(3)) of the elbow (125) is partially spherical and the elbow (125) and the ring (128) form a ball and socket connection.
US11160940B2
An electrically operated aerosol generation system has a replaceable atomizer. The system includes a housing and an atomizer that can be received within a bore in a grasp ring of the housing. A power supply unit can be connected to the housing. A reservoir contains vaporizable liquid which can be supplied to the atomizer. A mouthpiece assembly is provided and can be actuated relative to the housing in order to separate and eject the atomizer from the housing when the power supply unit is removed.
US11160938B2
An inhalant dispensing system is provided, comprising an inhalant delivery apparatus having a main body, a lower body coupled to the main body and comprising a mouthpiece, and an inhalant delivery mechanism disposed within the main body and configured to deliver an aerosolized solution to the mouthpiece for user inhalation; and a lock out system configured to selectively prevent delivery of the aerosolized solution to the mouthpiece. The inhalant delivery apparatus may be assembled by inserting a portion of the inhalant delivery mechanism into the main body. The lower body may be rotatably coupled to the main body and moveable between a dispensing position and a storage position. The system may be used to control and monitor dosages of a solution contained within a smart canister and administered from the canister via an inhaler, to prevent accidental or unwanted usage of the canister and/or over-dosing.
US11160932B2
A syringe assembly including: (1) a syringe barrel defining a chamber; (2) a plunger mounted in the chamber and moveable with respect to the barrel; and (3) a cap holder assembly containing a cap and an absorbent material removably attached to the syringe.
US11160925B1
The disclosed embodiments are directed to a wearable automatic drug delivery device configured to provide basal dosing of GLP-1 or co-formulation of GLP-1 and insulin. The size and frequency of the basal doses may be controlled by a medication delivery algorithm resident on the wearable drug delivery device based on a basal dosing history and readings from a continuous glucose monitor monitoring the glucose levels of the wearer of the device.
US11160921B2
An infusion pump system comprises a pump for infusing a drug into a patient, a storing unit for storing therapy data, drug data, protocol data, profile data, care type data, and feedback data received from said pump and/or other sources including information about particularities of therapies already carried out or currently running, an input unit for selecting therapy data, drug data, profile data, and care type data, an associating unit for associating the selected therapy data, drug data, profile data and care type data provided by said input unit and further adapted to determine based on said association specific protocol data and specific feedback data, wherein said storing unit also stores said association with said specific protocol data and said specific feedback data; and an output unit for outputting said specific protocol data with said specific feedback data.
US11160910B2
A surgical console has a receptacle for receiving a surgical fluidics cassette. The receptacle has a light source that transmits light to light pipes in the surgical fluidics cassette. The light pipes transmit light to a light transmissive optical interface surrounded by an opaque frame in the surgical fluidics cassette. The opaque frame is located at a fluid level detection system in the cassette. The system illuminates fluidic connectors on the surgical fluidics cassette without interfering with the fluid level detection system of a surgical console.
US11160909B2
A waste collection unit is provided that comprises a vacuum pump and smoke evacuation system including a blower and blower motor. The vacuum pump, the blower, and the blower motor, create noise. This noise is attenuated in first and second sound attenuating enclosures for the vacuum pump and the blower and blower motor. A cleaning system is also provided with rotating liquid delivery devices. An actuator is operatively coupled to the liquid delivery devices to rotate the liquid delivery devices.
US11160900B2
The invention is directed to a biodegradable tissue-adhesive device for sealing tissue, said device comprising a tissue-adhesive layer which comprises a blend of a tissue-reactive polymer and a biodegradable carrier polyurethane according to the formula of A-B-C-Bn, wherein A denotes a polyol, B denotes a diisocyanate moiety, C denotes a diol component and n denotes the number of recurring units, and wherein the B-C-B segment is bioresorbable.
US11160887B2
The present invention is directed to novel non-invasive diagnostic tools/compounds comprising a cyclic peptide wherein the compound binds to a MSH receptor to image and treat cancers, especially, melanoma, including metastatic melanoma in vivo. The present invention represents a clear advance in the art which presently relies on tissue biopsy for diagnoses of these cancers. The novel imaging probes are capable of detecting cancerous melanoma cells, as well as their metastatic spread in tissues. This represents a quantum step forward in the diagnosis and treatment of melanoma, including metastatic melanoma using non-invasive molecular imaging techniques. The novel probes of the present invention will also be useful to initiate therapy for melanoma as well as monitor patients response to chemotherapy treatments and other interventions or therapies used in the treatment of melanoma/metastatic melanoma. Compounds according to the present invention may be used as diagnostic tools for a number of conditions and diseases states as well as therapeutic agents for treating such conditions and disease states.
US11160884B2
The present system relates to a mains-powerable, compact and customizable alternating current magnetic field plate for magnet-assisted transfection of genes to target cells. Magnet plate is based on at least one alternating current electromagnet comprising a laminated steel stack core and a multi-layer, multi-turn coil wound longitudinally therearound. The system includes a voltage rating adjustment controller, as well as a current adjuster for selective control of magnetic force applied to genetic material for delivery. Rapid magnetic field polarity switching exacts lateral motion efficiently and uniformly, thus improving the distribution of means, such as SPIONS, used to transfect cells with genes of interest, and in turn enhancing gene delivery and tissue localization, especially for hard-to-transfect genes, compared to DC magnet plates.
US11160880B2
Compositions and methods for assessing blood vessels and organs of the body are disclosed herein, specifically methods for assessing the vasculature of the eye.
US11160879B2
Provided are a transgenic non-human mammal expressing a fusion protein, wherein the fusion protein comprises an ε subunit of an ATP synthase and two distinct fluorescent proteins as a donor and an acceptor for FRET, one of the fluorescent proteins being placed at an amino terminal moiety of the ε subunit and the other being placed at a carboxyl terminal moiety of the ε subunit, and a method of screening for an agent for preventing or treating diseases in a mammal in need thereof, comprising using an above transgenic non-human mammal.
US11160877B2
The present invention relates to a targeting-type capsule for drug delivery systems. The present invention addresses the problem of providing a capsule for drug delivery systems by utilizing the reactivity of a thiol with an alkyl halide, wherein the capsule comprises a silole-containing carbosilane dendrimer and a labeling protein containing a target recognition site (e.g., green fluorescent protein), can include a biological polymer or another molecule therein, and can deliver the biological polymer or the like selectively into a target cell.
US11160874B2
The current disclosure provides binding polypeptides (e.g., antibodies), and targeting moiety conjugates thereof, comprising a site-specifically engineered glycan linkage within native or engineered glycans of the binding polypeptide. The current disclosure also provides nucleic acids encoding the antigen-binding polypeptides, recombinant expression vectors and host cells for making such antigen-binding polypeptides. Methods of using the antigen-binding polypeptides disclosed herein to treat disease are also provided.
US11160872B2
A conjugate of formula (T): Ab-(DL)p wherein: Ah is an antibody that hinds to AXL; DL is formula (A).
US11160871B2
Conjugates of an active agent such as DM1 attached to a targeting moiety, such as a somatostatin receptor binding moiety, via a linker, and particles comprising such conjugates have been designed. Such conjugates and particles can provide improved temporospatial delivery of the active agent, improved biodistribution and penetration in tumor, and/or decreased toxicity. Methods of making the conjugates, the particles, and the formulations thereof are provided. Methods of administering the formulations to a subject in need thereof are provided, for example, to treat or prevent cancer.
US11160870B2
An improved microparticle or lyophilized or otherwise reconstitutable microparticle composition thereof for medical therapy, including ocular therapy.
US11160865B2
The invention provides novel pharmaceutical compositions based on semifluorinated alkanes which are useful as carriers for a broad range of active ingredients. Preferred active ingredients include poorly water-soluble and/or hydrolytically sensitive drug substances. The compositions are designed as suspensions and have superior physical properties which make them highly useful as pharmaceutical delivery systems. The compositions may be administered topically into the eye, or injected via the subcutaneous or intramuscular route. The invention further provides kits comprising such compositions.
US11160859B2
The subject invention pertains to isolated influenza virus that is capable of infecting canids and causing respiratory disease in the canid. The subject invention also pertains to compositions and methods for inducing an immune response against an influenza virus of the present invention. The subject invention also pertains to compositions and methods for identifying a virus of the invention and diagnosing infection of an animal with a virus of the invention.
US11160857B2
This disclosure relates to multivalent enterovirus vaccine compositions and uses related thereto. In certain embodiments, the disclosure relates to vaccine compositions comprising multivalent, mixtures of enterovirus (for example HRV) serotypes or recombinantly produced variants or recombinantly produced viral capsid proteins. In certain embodiments, the disclosure relates to methods of immunization comprising administering an effective amount of compositions disclosed herein to a subject diagnosed with, exhibiting symptoms of, or at risk of an enterovirus infection.
US11160851B2
The present invention provides compositions comprising peptide-coupled biodegradable poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLG) particles. In particular, PLG particles are surface-functionalized to allow for coupling of peptide molecules to the surface of the particles (e.g., for use in eliciting induction of immunological tolerance).
US11160843B2
The present invention relates to the discovery that co-administration of both oxytocin (OT) and at least one opioid antagonist can increase social function in a subject. In certain embodiments, the co-administration can be used to treat one or more social dysfunction disorders in a subject, including, but not limited to autism, schizophrenia, anxiety disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In other embodiments, the OT and the opioid antagonist can be co-administered to a subject as an aerosolized pharmaceutical composition.
US11160842B2
A traditional Chinese medicine composition for protecting the liver and kidney and a preparation method and use thereof. The composition is composed of 100-200 parts of Polygonatum odoratum, 100-200 parts of fructus lycii, 80-160 parts of radix ophiopogonis, 70-130 parts of Angelica sinensis, 70-130 parts of semen cassiae, 70-130 parts of white peony root, 70-130 parts of dried orange peel, 70-130 parts of prepared rehmannia root, 70-130 parts of chrysanthemum, 30-70 parts of rhizome chuanxiong, 20-40 parts of Irkutsk anemone rhizome, and 10-20 parts of bupleurum by weight.
US11160841B2
An application of a combination of traditional Chinese medicine in the preparation of a potassium ion channel modulating agent. The combination of traditional Chinese medicine is made up of traditional Chinese medicine raw materials according to the following weight proportion: Coptidis Rhizoma 250˜450; Pinelliae Rhizoma 150˜350; Poria 150˜450; Aurantii Fructus Immaturus 62˜265; Dichroae Radix 150˜350; Nelumbinis Plumula 10˜70; Sophorae Flavescentis Radix 150˜350; Artemisiae Annuae Herba 150˜350; Ginseng Radix Et Rhizoma 65˜265; Ophiopogonis Radix 150˜350; and Glycyrrhizae Radix Et Rhizoma 62˜265.
US11160835B2
A composition for use in treating penile defects, including erectile dysfunction and Peyronie's disease, is provided. The composition includes adipose tissue and stem cells. The stem cells may be derived from adipose tissue. In embodiments the composition includes additional additives such as growth factors, anti-inflammatories, antioxidants, compositions useful for wound healing, and collagenases. Also provided is a method of treating a penile defect in a patient. The method includes providing a composition containing adipose tissue and stem cells, and implanting that composition into a patient in need of treatment for a penile defect. In some embodiments the patient has Peyronie's disease. In other embodiments, the patient has erectile dysfunction.
US11160831B2
The invention provides a fusion protein for use in the treatment of HvG disease in a patient having received a transplant, for use in suppressing the host's immune response directed against the transplant. The fusion protein is adapted for use in suppressing the immune rejection of a transplant which contains or expresses HLA-A*02 or SLA-01*0401 in a recipient patient who is negative for HLA-A*02 or SLA-01*0401, i.e. the patient prior to transplantation does not express HLA-A*02 or SLA-01*0401. The fusion protein is a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), which upon expression in regulatory T-cells (Treg) causes a specific suppressor activity of the regulatory T-cells in the presence of HLA-A*02 or SLA-01*0401.
US11160825B2
This document provides methods and materials for treating diabetes and/or liver steatosis. For example, methods for using compositions containing a potato polysaccharide preparation to reduce one or more symptoms of diabetes or liver steatosis are provided. In some cases, a composition containing a potato polysaccharide preparation provided herein can be used to treat fatty liver disease.
US11160821B2
Antibiotics having intrinsic anti-mitochondrial properties may be chemically modified to target the antibiotics to mitochondria, and the resulting “antimitoscins” may have enhanced anti-cancer properties, among other advantageous properties. Also described are methods for identifying antimitoscins, methods of using antimitoscins to target cancer stem cells, and pharmaceutical compositions for treating cancer containing one or more antimitoscins as the active ingredient. Specific antimitoscins compounds and groups of antimitoscins are also disclosed.
US11160820B2
The present invention discloses a pharmaceutical use of argininyl fructosy glucose (AFG), and belongs to the field of research and development of pharmaceutical products. The pharmaceutical use refers to application of the AFG as an active ingredient in preparation of a drug for treating or preventing an acute hepatic failure disease (AHFD). The AHFD is an oxidative stress injury caused by use of a combination of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and D-galactosamine (D-GalN), and the drug is used for protecting liver cells from injuries, and reducing apoptosis caused by LPS/D-GalN. The purity of the AFG is 80%-99.99%. The present invention proposes the use of the AFG in prevention or treatment of the acute hepatic failure for the first time, which provides a new raw material for the preparation of the drug for the acute hepatic failure, and also provides a new method for the prevention and treatment of the acute liver failure.
US11160796B2
Described herein are methods of treating non-metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer using an approved drug product comprising apalutamide, enzalutamide or darolutamide. Also described here are drug products containing apalutamide enzalutamide or darolutamide, and methods of selling or offering for sale an anti-androgen drug product.
US11160788B2
Described herein are methods for preventing, delaying the onset or reducing the severity of, preventing or reversing the progression of, or treating a neurological condition (e.g., a neurodegenerative disease (e.g., Alzheimer's disease)) in a subject, based on caspase-1 inhibition. Also described herein are methods for preventing, delaying the onset or reducing the severity of, preventing or reversing the progression of, or treating cognitive impairment in a subject, based on caspase-1 inhibition. Corresponding uses and kits are also described. In an embodiment, the caspase-1 inhibitor is VX-765 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US11160787B2
4-(4-Chlorophenyl)-5-methylene-pyrrol-2-one and 5-methylene-4-(p-tolyl)pyrrol-2-one for use in the treatment of gram-negative bacterial infections, in particular infections in which Pseudomonas is implicated.
US11160784B1
The invention provides therapeutic methods and kits for treating brain metastases using a particular dosing regimen of the organonitro compound ABDNAZ, radiation therapy, and optionally an additional anti-cancer agent.
US11160781B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for extraction, isolation, purification, and conversion of various cannabinoids, and modifications of whole-plant hemp extracts therewith are presented. A method for preparing a whole-plant hemp extract based product includes extracting cannabinoids from plant materials, such as one or more hemp varieties of Cannabis sativa. The method also includes separating and purifying CBD from the extracted cannabinoids, converting purified CBD to Δ9-THC and Δ8-THC and concurrently converting Δ9-THC to CBN, purifying and separating the CBN, and combining the purified CBN with a whole-plan hemp extract. Products and supplements related to the method are also described.
US11160772B2
In various embodiments, the present invention is directed to oral pharmaceutical compositions. For example, in some embodiments, the present invention is directed to taste-masked compositions. In some embodiments, the taste masked compositions comprise a highly water soluble drug such as amphetamine, e.g., in the form of a salt such as amphetamine sulfate. In various embodiments, the present invention is directed to taste-masked, orally disintegrating compositions.
US11160769B2
This invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treating (including managing) or preventing metabolic syndrome related conditions using one or more RAR e.g., RAR agonists. Such conditions include, but are not limited to, diseases in pancreas, liver, kidney, testes, muscle, or adipose tissue, as well as other organs that are associated with high fat diet and/or vitamin A deficiency, as well as other conditions associated with abnormal level of triglyceride, cholesterol and/or glucose.
US11160768B2
The method comprising melting a composition of matter comprising paraffin wax, mineral oil, aloe vera and CBD, placing a body member into said melted composition several times, withdrawing the body member from said composition, allowing the composition to solidify on the body member and peeling the solidified composition from said body member, said composition being solid, non-tacky, non-sticky and essentially non-material depositing at room temperature.
US11160760B2
A method for producing starch soft capsules comprises the following steps: preparing a mixture comprising starch, plasticizer and water, wherein more than 50 weight percent of the starch is present in the form of particles of granular starch; shaping the mixture to form a film in a shaping process; solidifying the mixture by increasing the temperature of the mixture during and/or after the shaping process by more than 5° C.; and shaping the film to form a soft capsule. Soft capsules produced by this method have starch particles bonded to one another. A device for performing this method comprises a shaping device to enable shaping of the starch material to form a film, and a heating device to perform a heat treatment to destructure the starch during and/or after the shaping. It comprises a rotary die device.
US11160755B2
The present application relates to an amphiphilic polymer and a method for producing the same. The present application also relates to micelles comprising the amphiphilic polymer and a method for producing the same. The amphiphilic polymer of the present application can have excellent dispersion properties while effectively encapsulating the drug.
US11160754B2
Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for treating lung disorders including lung tumors by pulmonary administration of compositions comprising taxane particles such as docetaxel or paclitaxel particles.
US11160753B2
Provided herein are transmucosal and transdermal delivery systems comprising: at least one non-ionic surfactant; at least one polyol; and at least one active agent; and optionally further comprising at least one oil. In particular embodiments, the delivery system has an average particle size of from about 5 nm to about 200 nm.
US11160751B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods for treating a subject in need of treatment with testosterone, including introducing testosterone into the subject subcutaneously, intradermally, or intramuscularly, from a needle assisted jet injection device.
US11160749B2
A cosmetic including an acryl silicone copolymer having a (meth)acrylic chain in the main chain and a structure containing at least a silicone macromonomer shown by the following general formula (1) as the monomer unit (the acryl silicone copolymer has a refractive index of 1.47 or more). A novel glossy cosmetic that is free from tautness or stiffness unlike previous silicone resin coatings, excellent in feeling of use, adherence, and flexibility, as well as good in effect for preventing color transfer.
US11160747B2
Provided is a cosmetic product that has excellent unevenness correction effect, feel on use, spread (spreadability), and adherability, and that leaves no powdery residues. This unevenness correction cosmetic comprises (a) a partially crosslinked organopolysiloxane, (b) oil-absorbing silicone composite spherical powder, and 8-85 mass % of (c) an oil solution having a viscosity of 1-100 mm2/s at 25° C., wherein the total amount of component (a) and component (b) is 10-35 mass %, and the mass ratio of component (a) to component (b) as represented as (a)/(b) is 0.02-0.55.
US11160740B2
A water-based liquid cosmetic containing diethylhexyl sodium sulfosuccinate, an inorganic coloring pigment, a water-soluble dispersant, and a film-forming polymer emulsion, wherein a content of diethylhexyl sodium sulfosuccinate is 0.01 to 1 mass % and a content of the inorganic coloring pigment is 3 to 20 mass %, based on a total amount of the cosmetic, and wherein the inorganic coloring pigment contains carbon black.
US11160733B2
The invention relates to a dental adhesive composition comprising ethylenically unsaturated component(s) with acidic moiety, ethylenically unsaturated component(s) without acidic moiety, water, sensitizing agent(s), reducing agent(s), a silane composition comprising (meth)acrylate functional silane(s) and amino functional silane(s). This composition is in particular useful for adhesively fixing dental restorations based on lithium disilicate and other glass ceramic materials to dental surfaces.
US11160729B1
The dual spout pill storage and swallowing assist bottle device disclosed herein is intended to be carried by a user and provide a mobile source of fluids, as in the case of a fluid bottle. The device provides two distinct drinking spouts and is configured to allow a user to both drink from the bottle as normal and drink from the bottle in a way to assist the user with swallowing pills. To perform these dual functions the dual spout pill storage and swallowing assist bottle device comprises a standard drinking spout and a pill straw with a reversibly deployable spout incorporated into the lid of the device. By this design the device may be used to drink fluids without hindrance as desired, and to also facilitate a straw-assisted vacuum swallowing of a pill when needed. The device may further comprise a storage compartment for carrying pills and other items, and may further comprise a pill retaining insert for the standard spout.
US11160715B2
Provided are a support rehabilitation training robot and an operation method thereof. The support rehabilitation training robot includes a crawler-type walking machine, a pedestal, a lifting lead screw mechanism, a manipulator and a counterweight mechanism. The manipulator includes a shoulder joint, a revolute joint, an elbow joint and a wrist joint. Each of the joints includes a motor, a harmonic reducer and an output terminal.
US11160714B2
A foot for a robotic exoskeleton includes three rigid foot segments, namely a middle foot segment arranged to be connected to a leg of the robotic exoskeleton, a front foot segment elastically connected to the front end of the middle foot segment by a first set of leaf springs and a rear foot segment elastically connected to the rear end of the middle foot segment by a second set of leaf springs. The foot has laces for fastening the foot to a person's shoe. In the condition where the front foot segment and the rear foot segment are both in contact with the ground, and no load is applied onto the foot, the middle foot segment is not in contact with the ground, but is elastically suspended by the first and second sets of springs.
US11160705B2
An adjustable patient support apparatus comprises a base, a support frame, and a patient support deck. The patient support deck comprises articulating deck sections, such as a leg section, seat section, and a back section pivotally coupled together. One or more actuators may be configured to move the leg and/or back section between a lowered position and one or more raised positions. The seat section may include one or more articulating seats to assist with ingress and egress from the patient support apparatus. The one or more seats may be articulated manually or electrically via a lever or actuator.
US11160699B2
The absorbent article comprises at least a topsheet layer and a backsheet layer, each layer having a body facing surface and a garment facing surface, and longitudinal and transversal edges, the article having a longitudinal front portion, a longitudinal back portion and a crotch portion located between the front and the back portion. The article comprises a first and a second zone of microencapsulated phase change material on a surface of a layer of the article. The first and second zones are selected form zones having different microencapsulated phase change materials, different concentrations of a microencapsulated phase change material or comprise microencapsulated phase change material having different phase change temperature intervals.
US11160698B2
A diaper band for ensuring that a toddler cannot remove a diaper secured thereby. The diaper band has central inner-facing hook fabric that can be attached to the fabric on the front of a typical diaper (disposable or reusable). The diaper band also has ends bearing hook and loop material that are securable to the back of the diaper behind the back of the toddler, to ensure that the toddler cannot detach the diaper band. The diaper band securely covers the attachment tabs of the diaper, so that the toddler cannot undo the diaper tabs. The central inward-facing hook fabric can be one or more material patches that are big enough to grab onto the front fabric of the diaper, the same front fabric for attaching the diaper tabs. Alternatively, the central inward-facing hook material region can extend along the entire length of the diaper band.
US11160696B2
The present invention discloses an absorbent article for attachment to the interior of a child potty/bed pan or to be worn on an user. The absorbent article composes an absorbent core, first absorbent channel layer, intermediate channel layer and top permeable layer composes made up of permeable materials and further includes a material capable of converting a liquid substance to a gel-like substance. Specifically, regions of the absorbent core first absorbent channel layer and intermediate channel layer may include a super absorbent polymer (SAP) material such as hydrogel, sodium polyacrylate, polyacrylate absorbents, or a biodegradable material such as a powder corn starch or wheat mixture or a combination of super absorbent polymer (SAP) and a biodegradable material.
US11160695B2
The present invention relates to disposable absorbent articles such as sanitary napkins, panty liners, baby diapers, adult incontinence articles and sweat pads. According to the present invention the absorbent article in the region designated for liquid deposition on its wearer facing surface has a single layer topsheet onto which liquid to be absorbed is provided during use of the article. The absorbent article includes a backsheet forming the liquid barrier surface and a unitary absorbent core between the topsheet and the backsheet. Importantly the unitary core provides improved liquid handling to the absorbent article and increases the masking, i.e. ability to hide stains due to absorbed liquid, of the article. This is particularly beneficial in the context of articles for absorption of liquids with high color intensity, such as menstrual liquid or urine of older adults.
US11160692B2
An apparatus for manufacturing an article including an absorbent body includes: first and second rolls, in cooperation with each other, for trimming a continuous laminate to be the absorbent body so as to successively form the narrowed portions along the continuous laminate; a third roll for rotating in contact with the second roll to receive the continuous laminate from the second roll; and a separating cutter for successively severing the continuous laminate being carried by the third roll into units of individual articles, thereby obtaining the absorbent body.
US11160683B2
A method can be provided that includes measuring sound waves using a sound measuring device, determining, at a central controller of an air mattress system, one or more parameter values of the sound waves, comparing the one or more parameter values with values, ranges, or patterns indicative of snoring, identifying a snoring state of a user, and initiating, with the central controller, a change to one or more adjustable features of the air mattress system.
US11160677B2
A method is used to reduce a volume of a stomach of a patient. The method includes inverting a portion of a stomach wall to thereby create an inverted portion. An expandable member is positioned adjacent to the outer surface of the inverted portion. The expandable member is expanded to thereby expand the inverted portion. The expanded expandable member has a first outer diameter. A base region of the inverted portion is cinched to thereby capture the expanded expandable member in the expanded inverted portion. The expanded expandable member has a first outer diameter. Expanding and cinching provide a cinch diameter to first outer diameter ratio from approximately 0.5:1 to approximately 0.9:1.
US11160671B2
A kit for preparing an intervertebral disc space for receiving an implant (100) includes a plurality of trials (152) having different sizes. Each trial (152) includes a body (154) insertible into an intervertebral disc space, the body (154) having a leading end (162), a trailing end (164), a top surface (156) and a bottom surface (160), the top surface of the body having a first groove (176) formed therein. Each implant also includes a flange (166) secured to the trailing end (164) of the body (154), the flange (166) having a first channel (180) aligned with the first groove (176), wherein each of the different sized trials has a different flange thickness. The flange thickness controls advancement of a cutting tool such as a chisel (192) into the first groove at the top surface of the trial body, which controls the depth of the cut into vertebral bone.
US11160669B2
An expandable housing for an interbody fusion system has movable tapered external helical threaded members that travel along tracking to operably engage against the top and bottom shell members, urging them apart to cause expansion in the height of the housing. In an embodiment, the tapered members are disposed in a dual arrangement such that independent engagement of the tapered members along lateral portions of the top and bottom shells cause an angular tilt to the exterior surface of the housing when the tapered members are moved to different degrees. This function permits adjustment in the angular relationship between adjacent vertebrae and assists the lordotic adjustment of the patient's spine. When the functions of the device are used in combination by the surgeon, the device provides an effective tool for in situ adjustment when performing lateral lumbar interbody fusion.
US11160668B2
An implant including a first body member and a second body member and a first bone contacting element extending from the first body member to the second body member. The first bone contacting element may have a spiral configuration forming a plurality of arched members including at least two arched members extending substantially parallel to and offset with respect to one another.
US11160666B2
An intervertebral implant for implantation in an intervertebral space between vertebrae. The implant includes a body having a front end, a rear end and a pair of spaced apart first and second side walls extending between the front and rear ends. The front and rear ends extend in a transverse direction and a central axis of the body extends from the rear end to the front end. The rear end defines a first fastener hole having a first central axis and a second fastener hole having a second central axis. The first and second central axes extend parallel to one another at an acute angle relative to the body central axis in the transverse direction.
US11160665B2
A surgical balloon composed of an aseptically recovered umbilical cord vessel is provided. Methods of preparing a balloon and methods of using the same are also provided.
US11160656B2
The invention relates to a device for use in the transcatheter treatment of mitral valve regurgitation, specifically a coaptation assistance element for implantation across the valve; a system including the coaptation assistance element and anchors for implantation; a system including the coaptation assistance element and delivery catheter; and a method for transcatheter implantation of a coaptation element across a heart valve.
US11160654B2
Apparatus and method are described including identifying a subject as suffering from a condition that causes the subject to have elevated central venous pressure. In response thereto, a device is placed inside the subject's vena cava such that an upstream end of the device is placed at a location upstream of junctions of the vena cava with all of the subject's renal veins. The device defines a passage through the device, at least a portion of the passage converging in a direction from an upstream end of the device to downstream end of the device. Other applications are also described.
US11160650B2
Various embodiments are described herein for an ocular device implantable in a user's eye and which has an adjustable optical element for varying one or more optical properties for the eye such as, but not limited to, providing a dynamically adjustable aperture stop to control the amount of incoming light, filtering incoming light, polarizing incoming light, and/or varying a depth of field for the eye.
US11160649B2
A flexible integral intracorneal ring for the treatment and correction of vision disorders and corneal malformations, which is annular, continuous or integral and flexible, all of which allows to inject the ring into the stroma thanks to its outstanding flexibility due to its structural design and also allows to increase your rigidity when inserted.
US11160643B2
Disclosed are a system and method for dental implant planning. The method for dental implant planning includes: detecting a region in which a plurality of teeth has been lost based on a teeth image; placing a plurality of virtual crowns in the region in which the plurality of teeth has been lost; receiving a user's confirmation for the plurality of virtual crowns; and setting up a plan for a plurality of implant objects, to be placed in the region in which the plurality of teeth has been lost, based on the plurality of virtual crowns.
US11160636B2
A masticatory orthodontic device includes a masticatory unit with a rigid body. The masticatory unit is configured to be removably worn on a dental arch, wherein when worn during mastication, the shape of the masticatory unit is maintained even under a stress from occlusal forces. The masticatory unit includes a teeth-receiving surface with several recesses for accommodating teeth of the dental arch. A shape memory mesh is disposed between the teeth-receiving surface and the dental arch, configured to remember the shape of the teeth in target teeth positions to guide teeth movements from initial teeth positions toward the target teeth positions. A buffering member is disposed between the teeth-receiving surface and the shape memory mesh. Occlusal forces loading on the masticatory unit are transmitted to the shape memory mesh and the teeth through the buffering member, to achieve teeth movements in the recesses.
US11160628B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a caddy configured to receive medical implants coupled to respective holders. The medical implants and holders may be oriented and/or located in the caddy based on one or more of size, shape, and other configuration of the medical implants and holders and the openings in the caddy through which the medical implants are received. Another embodiment of the invention includes a medical implant having an implant body portion and a detachable marking portion that is connected to the implant body portion by a frangible region structured to provide selective separation of the implant body portion from the detachable marking portion upon application of a force or torque to the implant body portion, and the detachable marking portion including one or more markings that correspond to identifying information associated with features or characteristics of the implant body portion.
US11160618B2
A medical instrument may comprise a flexible shaft and a sensing coil extending within the flexible shaft. The sensing coil may include an electrical conductor wound around a flexible core. The flexible core may comprise adjacent flexible pieces of magnetically permeable material that are configured to slide relative to each other in response to a bending of the flexible core.
US11160617B2
A system and method for navigating to a target site in a patient is provided. The system includes an extended working channel and a tool usable with an electromagnetic navigation system. In particular, the extended working channel and the tool contain an electromagnetic sensor configured to provide location information within a patient of the extended working channel and the tool to the electromagnetic navigation system. The distance from the tool and the target site can then be determined and displayed to a clinician on a display device.
US11160611B2
A system and method for performing a procedure is disclosed. The procedure may include preparing one or more bones for a prosthetic implant. The method may include provide instructions to a user for using identified instruments to perform a procedure. Instructions and may be provided for settings of adjustable instruments.
US11160608B2
The invention provides for a medical instrument (700, 800) comprising: a first display device (200), a second display device (754), a database (768), and a processor (746). Execution of instructions cause the processor to: receive (900) a medical image (102, 102′, 102″, 102′″); display (902) the medical image in a physician graphical user (202, 1000) interface using the first display device and on a technician graphical user interface (100, 1000) using the second display device. Execution of the instructions causes the processor to repeatedly: receive (906) planning data (764) from the physician graphical user interface, display (908) the planning data on the technician graphical user interface; receive (910) treatment plan data (766) from the technician graphical user interface; store (912) the treatment plan data in the database; and generate (914) control data (770, 772) for controlling a treatment system using the treatment plan data in the database.
US11160599B2
A control device for use with a treatment tool that includes a heating element to apply heat to a treatment target. The control device comprises a processor configured to set a target temperature for the heating element and to control the heating element so that temperature of the heating element follows the target temperature. The processor is configured to switch the control of the heating element from a first phase to a second phase. A first followability of the temperature of the heating element in the first phase is higher than a second followability of the temperature in the second phase. The processor is configured to terminate the controlling of following the temperature of the heating element to the target temperature when a parameter is beyond a predetermined range wherein the parameter being defined as a fluctuation between the temperature of the heating element and the target temperature.
US11160597B2
A method and system of providing therapy to a patient's uterus. The method can include the steps of inserting a uterine ablation device into the uterus; expanding a distal anchor; inflating a proximal balloon to pull the distal anchor proximally and seat the distal anchor against the internal os of the uterus; inflating a central balloon to seal the cervix; delivering vapor from the uterine ablation device into the uterus; and condensing the vapor on tissue within the uterus. The system can include a cervical collar adapted to place a distal portion of the device within the uterus when the cervical collar contacts an external os of the cervix.
US11160585B2
A surgical instrument system comprises surgical instruments for use with an implantable interspinous device having at least one pair of wings for securing the implantable device to a spinous process. The instrument system may include a surgical instrument for expanding or spreading the pair of wings to accommodate the spinous process. Further, a surgical instrument may be provided for crimping or compressing the pair of wings against the spinous process for secure attachment of the device to a vertebra. The surgical instruments may be configured similar to pliers and apply force to the pair of wings within a predetermined range so as to avoid damage, weakening or breakage of the pair of wings. The surgical instrument system may also include interspinous devices of differing sizes.
US11160584B2
A method for attaching a flat and flexible band on at least one bone part is disclosed. The band includes two end portions. A rigid base body crossed by an opening, and a retaining part that can be inserted in the opening is employed. The retaining part is at least partially in the shape of a squeezable wedge comprising a central bore for passage of the end portions facing the flexible band, the bore having a transverse cross-section that can be deformed between a first cross-section for free passage of the end portions when the part has not been inserted in the opening and a second cross-section for locking the end portions by compression when the part is entirely or substantially entirely inserted in the opening.
US11160583B2
Devices and methods that allow a rod to be offset in a relatively small amount of space are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, first and second offset rods can be joined by a plate-type connector having a reduced thickness suitable for insertion into a small space, e.g., between adjacent bone anchors. In some embodiments, first and second offset rods can be joined by a curved connector that conforms to adjacent bone anchors and likewise has a reduced thickness.
US11160581B2
A pivotal bone anchor assembly includes a shank having an upper capture portion and a lower anchor portion for fixation to the bone of a patient, and a receiver having an open channel for receiving a rod and a lower cavity for pivotably supporting the capture portion in a non- locked configuration. The assembly also includes an insert positionable into the receiver separate from the capture portion and thereafter downwardly deployable by tooling to apply a frictional force toward the capture portion that holds the angular position of the shank relative to the receiver prior to locking the assembly with a closure, with exterior surfaces of the insert entering into a non-threaded frictional biased engagement with interior surfaces of the receiver to maintain the insert in the deployed position. The exterior surfaces of the insert are further disengageable from the interior surfaces of the receiver by tooling to re-establish pivotal movement between the shank and the receiver.
US11160577B2
A lateral disc cutter for morcellating and decorticating tissue of an intervertebral disc from between adjacent vertebrae. The device can be arranged in a retracted configuration for insertion via an access tube, and in an extended configuration for cutting of tissue in the target region. The blades may be extended to contact the concave endplate in an orientation that is substantially parallel to a mid-plane of the intervertebral disc. Blades of the device may be configured with a convex profile that substantially conforms to the concave shape of the endplate for enhanced contact length between the blade and the endplate.
US11160576B1
An amputation system includes a cutting element having a cutting blade traversing a V-shape. The V-shape has a vertex and an angle in a range of 90-120°. A rod, rigidly coupled to the cutting element, has its longitudinal axis aligned with the vertex so it bisects the angle of the V-shape. A barrel having a bore receives at least a portion of the rod therein wherein the rod's outboard end resides in the bore. An energetic energy source, positioned in the bore adjacent to the rod's outboard end, generates a pressure force that is incident on the rod's outboard end. The pressure force is one that peaks within 0.5 milliseconds to propel the rod from the bore at a velocity in a range of 300 to 1000 feet per second.
US11160568B1
A cutting jig and corresponding method of manufacture is provided. The jig comprises a unitary piece combining a bone cutting guide defining a cut plane and a set of fins projecting from a jig substrate and terminating in curvilinear bone-jig contact surfaces for abutting articular surface features. The curvilinear surfaces are characterized by custom patient-specific parameters derived from measurements obtained from selected image slices of a patient's joint region such that the curvilinear surfaces establish one and only one mechanical self-locking position for the unitary piece. One obtains a series of image slices of a patient's joint region, then selects a set of slices that show specified articular surface features in the joint region. Patient-specific parameters obtained from measurements of the slices specify curvilinear bone-jig contact surfaces and a cut plane. The contact surfaces at the ends of the fins may be extruded as stepped set of line segments that follow curves along the articular surface features.
US11160558B2
A system for treating tissue includes an applicator including a catheter and a control member extending therethrough, the control member longitudinally movable relative to the catheter and including an abutment structure proximate a distal end thereof, and a clip assembly releasably coupleable to a distal end of the applicator, the clip assembly including a pair of clip arms, a proximal end of each of the clip arms slidably received within a channel of a capsule and configured to be releasably coupled to the distal end of the control member so that the clip arms are movable relative to the capsule between a tissue receiving configuration and a tissue clipping configuration, the capsule including proximal tabs movable between a biased non-engaging and an engaging configuration, in which the proximal tabs engage an engaging portion of the lumen of the catheter, when the abutment structure is received within the capsule.
US11160549B2
A medical securing device for securing an object with a securing member into a tissue comprises an elongated sheath with proximal and distal ends, and a securing member introduction device having proximal and distal ends. The securing member comprises first and second ends. The distal end of the securing member introduction device is configured to extend the second end of the securing member from the sheath and introduce it to or through the tissue via an introduction movement so to secure the portion of the securing member to the object and/or to the tissue. This is advantageously configured to happen without extending the securing member introduction device through the tissue whereupon no extra hole is made to the tissue by the securing member introduction device.
US11160542B2
A biomaterial collection device can include a wire that includes a functional member including a proximal end, a distal end, a first flat surface and a second flat surface opposing the first surface. The functional member can be configured to fit within a body lumen. The functional member can include binding elements configured to bind circulating biomolecules and cells. The functional member can include curved portions that form revolutions around the longitudinal axis of the device.
US11160529B2
A method of assembling an intravascular imaging device (102) is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes obtaining a support member having a body portion including a plurality of recesses longitudinally spaced from one another (405); positioning a flex circuit around the support member such that the flex circuit is radially spaced from the body portion of the support member (410); and filling a space between the flex circuit and the support member with a backing material through the plurality of recesses of the body portion (420). In one embodiment, an intravascular imaging device includes a flexible elongate member; an imaging assembly including: a flex circuit; and a support member (330) around which the flex circuit is disposed, the support member having a body portion including plurality of recesses (339), wherein the support member defines lumen in fluid communication with a space between the flex circuit and the support member via the plurality of recesses.
US11160520B2
A detector used for tomography imaging is mobile, allowing the detector to move about an object (e.g., patient to be imaged). A swarm of such detectors, such as a swarm of drones with detectors, may be used for tomography imaging. The trajectory or trajectories of the mobile detectors may account for the pose and/or movement of the object being imaged. The trajectory or trajectories may be based, in part, on the sampling for desired tomography. An image of an internal region of the object is reconstructed from detected signals of the mobile detectors using tomography.
US11160519B2
Methods and apparatus for imaging with detectors having moving heads are provided. One apparatus includes a gantry and a plurality of detector units mounted to the gantry. At least some of the plurality of detector units are movable relative to the gantry to position one or more of the detector units with respect to a subject. The detector units are movable along parallel axes with respect to each other.
US11160515B2
An X-ray CT scanner generates CT imaging information on an imaging region, and has a revolution arm positioning an X-ray generator and an X-ray detector to face one another with a subject therebetween, directing the revolution arm to move so X-ray beam radiation is offset from the center of the imaging region. An axial direction changing mechanism changes an imaging target from a first imaging region to a second imaging region in an axial direction of the imaging central axis, and a controller controls offset CT imaging, and an X-ray imaging information generator to generate first and second CT imaging information based on projection data of the first and second imaging region and to generate a stitch imaging information comprising the first and second CT imaging information.
US11160493B2
Provided is a non-invasive system and method for determining a fuel value for a target muscle and potentially at least one indicator muscle. The method includes receiving an ultrasound scan of a target muscle; evaluating at least a portion of the ultrasound scan to determine fuel value within the target muscle; recording the determined fuel value for the muscle as an element of a data set for the muscle; evaluating the fuel data set to determine a value range; and in response to the range being at least above a pre-determined threshold, establishing a target score for the muscle as based on an upper portion of the value range. The method may be repeated to identify ranges for a plurality of muscles, the muscle with the greatest range being identified as an indicator muscle. Based on these findings the muscles estimated fuel level, fuel rating and energy status may be determined. An associated system is also disclosed.
US11160488B2
The present invention provides reagents and methods for modulating cone photoreceptor activity, and devices for assessment of cone photoreceptor activity.
US11160486B2
According to one embodiment, an electrocardiographic (ECG) waveform timing detector includes an ECG waveform receiving circuit, a threshold value determining circuit, and a comparator. The threshold value determining circuit includes a heart rate calculating circuit, a threshold value setting circuit, and a comparing/determining circuit. The heart rate calculating circuit calculates the heart rate based on ECG waveform received by the ECG waveform receiving circuit. The threshold value setting circuit sets a threshold value. The comparing/determining circuit compares the heart rate with the number of R wave detection triggers detected using the threshold value to determine a threshold value for R wave detection trigger. The comparator compares the ECG waveform output from the ECG waveform receiving circuit with the threshold value for R wave detection trigger to output an R wave detection trigger.
US11160485B2
A method includes storing an anatomical map of at least a portion of a surface of a heart. Respective electrogram (EGM) signal amplitudes measured at respective positions on the surface of the heart are stored. Based on the on the EGM signal amplitudes, defined are: one or more first regions of the surface in which the EGM signal amplitudes are fractionated, and one or more second regions of the surface in which the EGM signal amplitudes are non-fractionated. A first surface representation is generated for the fractionated EGM signal amplitudes in the first regions. Propagation times are extracted from the non-fractionated EGM signal amplitudes in the second regions, and a second surface representation of the propagation times is derived. The first and second surface representations of the respective first and second regions of the surface are simultaneously presented, overlaid on the anatomical map.
US11160478B2
Specially designed collection strips and their processing. By using specially designed collection strips, having a backer and one or more absorbent pads, in conjunction with a unique processing method, the processes of analyzing biological samples such as blood, or the like, may be done efficiency with the elimination of cross contamination risk. Identification of the sample stays with the sample throughout the process as it resides on the collection strip. The strip absorbs a known volume. The sample with identification is placed directly in an elution solution, without mechanically separating the sample from its identification information. Elimination of the need for mechanical separation tends to reduce cross contamination, as well as reducing sample processing time.
US11160476B2
A fully integrated small size implantable sensing device is described, which can include a sensor and an electronic circuit to interface with the sensor and communicate with an external device. Various fabrication methods for the sensing device are described, including provision of wells, created using same fabrication technology as the electronic circuit, to contain electrodes of the sensor and corresponding functionalization chemicals. Such implantable sensing device can be used for a variety of electrochemical measuring applications within a living body as well as actuation by injecting a current into the living body.
US11160474B2
Provided herein is a stabilized oxygen transport matrix that includes a reversible oxygen binding protein, such as hemoglobin, immobilized throughout the stabilized oxygen transport matrix. The stabilized oxygen transport matrix is used to transport oxygen and can be used as an oxygen transport region and a reaction region of an analyte sensor, such as an implantable glucose sensor. The reversible binding protein can also function as an oxygen probe within the analyte sensor.
US11160473B2
A biological information measurement device includes a correction unit that receives a first signal expressing a change in an amount of light of a first wavelength detected from a living body and a second signal expressing a change in an amount of light of a second wavelength detected from the living body, and corrects at least one of the first signal and the second signal to reduce a difference between an amount of change in the first signal and an amount of change in the second signal associated with a change in an amount of arterial blood of the living body, and a computing unit that computes a change in a blood oxygen concentration in the living body on a basis of the first signal and the second signal of which at least one is corrected by the correction unit.
US11160472B2
A notification system is provided that provides notification of patient events such as movement and/or incontinence. The notification system provides for a plurality of different pressure sensor pads as well as an incontinence pad to be used in association with a single monitor.
US11160471B2
A device for being ingested by a patient, which includes a disintegration matrix designed to disintegrate in a digestive segment and a plurality of independent passive RFID markers that are housed together in the disintegration matrix. The disintegration matrix isshaped so that when it disintegrates, the RFID markers separate from one another and are no longer mechanically connected, so that each RFID marker is able to move independently of the other RFID markers in several segments of the digestive system of the patient. The RFID markers each being, in the disintegration matrix, protected by a hermetic encapsulation in a biocompatible material.
US11160447B2
A pixel light source apparatus, system and method are disclosed for a stimulus source for visual pathway testing. A representative system includes a plurality of pixel light sources and a control and driver circuit. The pixel light sources are coupled to each other to form a partially-spherical dome, with each pixel light source arranged to emit light directed to a convergent location of the partially-spherical dome. The control and driver circuit implements a selected stimulus protocol to selectively energize each pixel light source to generate light stimulation to any arbitrary or selected portion of the retina of an eye of a human subject. A representative pixel light source comprises at least one elongated and optically opaque side wall; a rear wall; an illumination source; a first optical element defining a first light chamber; and a second optical element defining a second light chamber.
US11160441B2
An endoscope operation portion includes: an operation portion body provided being connected to a grasping portion; a joystick-type bending operation lever provided on a back side of the operation portion body, including a lever shaft body, and configured to perform a bending operation of a bending portion; and a suction button provided on a front side of the operation portion body so that an angle formed by an operation axis in a pressing-down operation direction relative to a central axis of the lever shaft body is an obtuse angle, and an intersection point between the central axis and the operation axis is positioned inside the operation portion body.
US11160437B2
A permeable mat provides a two-state mat; one in which the mat has an impervious layer when laid flat during use, so water gets captured by an upper fabric layer. And a second state in which the mat becomes permeable when it is rolled and tumbled in the washer and drier, to allow the through-flow of air and water to effectively clean and dry the mat. A pattern of permeable elements may be included as part of the rubber backing to improve washing and drying by allowing easier passage through the mat by water and washing chemicals, allowing water drainage through the rubber layer during spinning cycle, reducing the need for very high spinning forces and speeds, allowing for air flow through the mat layers, improving drying time and efficiencies and lowering the structure of the mat unit, thereby allowing for better unrolling and tumbling during washing cycles.
US11160426B1
An amalgamated handheld vacuum dusting attachment having a housing shaped similar to a computer mouse for hand or distant cleaning featuring a crevice tool, a bristled brushing tool, and a non-bristled detachable cap having an ergonomically shaped top. Separated suction vents are provided for the crevice and bristled tools in order to provide maximum suction, and 360° rotatable wheels, lights, battery chamber, on/off switch, and battery recharge pin port are also provided. Also provided is a padded wrist support end cap and integrated swiveling end coupling nozzle, which can be detached for use as an independent brushless vacuum dusting device. An additional 360° manually rotating stabilizing wand, and independent accordion hose with ergonomic grip disk and handled vacuum attachment for use with aforesaid dusting attachment, are provided.
US11160425B2
A hand vacuum cleaner has a main body having an upper end having a dirty air inlet conduit and a handle. The handle has a hand grip portion that extends upwardly and forwardly. An assembly comprising an air treatment member and a pre-motor filter media is removably mounted to the main body.
US11160418B1
A grilling insert is adapted for use in a barbecue grill having a recessed cooking chamber. The grilling insert comprises a double-wall thermal barrier and a radiant heat chamber. The double-wall thermal barrier is adapted for extending across the recessed cooking chamber of the barbecue grill, and for dividing the cooking chamber into direct-heating and indirect-heating cooking sections. The radiant heat chamber is formed adjacent the double-wall thermal barrier, and is designed for holding loose combustible material within the direct-heating cooking section of the barbecue grill. The cooking temperature in the direct-heating cooking section is relatively high, and is reduced in the indirect-heating cooking section by the double-wall thermal barrier.
US11160415B2
A microwave reheating container for food including a concave base and a cover. The base and cover both have a core formed of PET sheet material, formed into the appropriate base and cover shapes. The PET cores are crystallized to CPET on their interior. Each core is overmolded on its exterior with TPC capable of injection molding and having greater strength. The cover may include an elastomeric seal about its periphery. The cover may be secured to the base by one or more locking clips.
US11160396B2
An adjustable pillow includes an inner cover defining a pocket and removable stuffing within the pocket. A related method of manufacture includes forming the inner cover having a pocket from a sheet and placing stuffing within the pocket.
US11160391B2
A child containment system or playard can include a frame and soft goods panels. The frame can include a top frame assembly and one or more legs extending down therefrom in a use configuration. The legs can be pivotable with respect to the top frame assembly to a stored configuration, where the legs are substantially parallel with portions of the top frame assembly. The playard can also include top rail soft goods attached to at least a portion of the top frame assembly. A first portion of the bassinet base can be stored in a cavity of a first portion of the top rail soft goods and a second portion of the bassinet base can be stored in another cavity of a second portion of the soft goods. The first and second base portions can be coupled together when needed and stored in the cavities when not in use.
US11160390B2
A mattress cover, comprising a top layer; a first side layer comprising a first air-impermeable portion, a first air-permeable portion, a first air-impermeable flap, and first affixing apparatus, wherein the first affixing apparatus is configured to reversibly affix the first air-impermeable flap over the first air-permeable portion; a second side layer comprising a second air-impermeable portion, a second air-permeable portion, a second air-impermeable flap, and second affixing apparatus, wherein the second affixing apparatus is configured to reversibly affix the second air-impermeable flap over the second air-permeable portion; a head layer; and a foot layer.
US11160389B2
A seating furniture support arrangement (6) for a seat or a backrest, suitable, e.g., for a sofa, comprises a first (8) and a second (10; 12) load-carrying longitudinal beam, each being mountable to a seating furniture frame comprising one or more parts; an elastic sheet (16; 14); and a mechanism for stretching the elastic sheet (16; 14) between the first longitudinal beam (8) and the second longitudinal beam (10; 12). The mechanism comprises a first longitudinal beam (8) pivotable on the frame. The elastic sheet (16; 14), with the said seating furniture support arrangement (6) in installed position, is connected to the first longitudinal beam (8) in such a way that the first longitudinal beam (8) pivoting with respect to the frame, in response to an application of an external force or torque, stretches the elastic sheet (16; 14), the external force or torque working against the tension force of the elastic sheet (16; 14) until a point of maximum tension is reached, past which point of maximum tension the tension force facilitates further pivoting of said first longitudinal beam (8), acting to keep the first longitudinal beam (8) in place in a final position.
US11160385B2
A foldable bed includes first and second base frames, first and second rods fixed respectively to the first and second base frames, a first support frame mounted turnably to the first base frame, a first jack member coupled between the first rod and the first support frame for driving movement of the first support frame, and at least one reinforcing unit. The reinforcing unit includes a first reinforcing plate mounted on one of the first and second rods. When the first and second base frames are in an unfolded position, the first reinforcing plate is brought into abutting engagement with the other one of the first and second rods so as to distribute a pressure from the first jack member to the second base frame through the second rod.
US11160383B2
A convertible lounge sofa system for seating, lounging, and working having a sofa seat bottom having a dual armrest/headrest positioned on one end, sofa seat bottom is configurable thereto a side facing chaise lounge seat having a back support segment, a center segment, a seat pan segment, and a lower leg support segment, and a sofa seat back configured to be opened, with deployable working surface, a storage feature, a power/data feature, and a lighting feature, and, thus, functions to enable seating configurations that utilize reduced floor space with smaller foot prints, and enable multi-person seating as in 1-2 or more and then conversion into a single person lounge or work seating by rotating 90 degrees.
US11160382B2
A chair support assembly is provided which can comprise a bracket assembly having a horizontal bracket and a vertical bracket, the vertical bracket extending from the horizontal bracket at a substantially perpendicular orientation relative to the vertical bracket, and an adjustable arm telescopically coupled to the horizontal bracket, the adjustable arm slideably moveable in a longitudinal direction of the chair support assembly. The chair support assembly can also comprise a shin support assembly slideably coupled to the vertical bracket, the shin support assembly including a shin rest that is sized and shaped to rest against a shin of a user. Related methods of use are also provided.
US11160380B1
An easy assembly outdoor sofa is disclosed, comprising such components of a base and a backrest (or armrest). The plane of the base extends horizontally to form a seat, and the periphery of the base is formed with a bar portion having oval section. The bar portion extends downward to form a frame, wherein the bottom of the backrest (or armrest) extends laterally to form an L-shaped connecting portion. A C-shaped opening is formed at the intersection part between the bottom and the L-shaped connecting portion. The C-shaped opening is to receive the oval bar portion of the base; as a characteristic feature, both the upper edge and lower edge of the bar portion of the base are configured with a positioning tenon, and corresponding to the positioning tenon, the L-shaped connecting portion is configured with a positioning mortise with larger width. Moreover, the base and the L-shaped connecting portion are configured with fixing holes matching each other.
US11160373B2
A joining and levelling system for furniture and furnishing items with a bottom and a shoulder positionable on a floor includes a front body and a rear body each having a connection group and a blocking group, adapted to stably interconnect the bottom and the shoulder, and a levelling group. The connection group, the blocking group and the levelling group can be actuated from the front of the furniture, the front body and the rear body being each positionable in lateral contact with the shoulder and beneath the bottom, actuation points of the connection group, the blocking group and the levelling group of the front and rear bodies being positionable on a horizontal plane parallel to the floor and to the bottom, adjacent to each other. A symmetry axis of the connection group coincides with or is substantially close to a center line of the front and rear bodies.
US11160369B2
A shelf system (1) comprises: a frame (5) for forming at least one shelf (70), and a plurality of primary and secondary rails (40, 50). The frame comprises a plurality of mounting portions (20, 30), to each of which at least one of a primary rail (40) and a secondary rail (50) is removably mountable to form lanes of different widths. Each lane includes a primary rail on one side and a secondary rail on the other side for supporting and guiding at least one item (60) in the lane, and the primary rails each comprise at least one sensor (700) for sensing the item (60) in the lane.
US11160364B2
A filament-transportation device has a plurality of tube elements for transporting filaments from an intake area to an outtake area via an airstream generated by underpressure or overpressure. Each tube element has an end orifice. A baffle-plate unit has a baffle plate having a through-hole, a top surface opposite to the end orifices to stop the transport of the filaments, and a bottom surface opposite to the top surface. The baffle plate includes baffle plate elements associated with the end orifices. Each of the baffle-plate elements has a top surface forming part of the top surface of the baffle plate, a bottom surface forming part of the bottom surface of the baffle plate, and a side surface extending between the top and bottom surface. There is a plurality of bridge elements, each having a top surface forming part of the top surface of the baffle plate, a bottom surface forming part of the bottom surface of the baffle plate, and a side surface extending from the top surface of the bridge element to the bottom surface of the bridge element. The through-hole is defined either by the side surfaces of at least two baffle plate elements or by the side surfaces of at least one baffle plate element and of a side surface of at least one bridge element not facing an end orifice of a tube element, which bridge element connects two spaced apart baffle plate elements from the plurality of baffle plate elements.
US11160360B2
An oral care implement that delivers a fluid from a reservoir to an applicator by capillary action. The oral care implement may include a head and a handle, the head having tooth cleaning elements extending therefrom. There may also be a reservoir storing a fluid and an applicator on the head. Finally, a delivery member may extend from the reservoir to the applicator. The delivery member may include a capillary tube that draws the fluid from the reservoir to the applicator by capillary action.
US11160359B2
An oral care implement that includes a head having a face with a tuft hole therein. A plurality of bristles are disposed within the tuft hole and arranged in a bristle tuft that extends from the face of the head. The bristle tuft includes a first subset of the bristles and a second subset of the bristles. Each of the bristles has a longitudinal axis and a transverse cross-sectional profile having a major axis and a minor axis, the major axes of the bristles being longer than the minor axes of the bristles. The major axes of the bristles of the first subset may be non-parallel to the major axes of the bristles of the second subset.
US11160346B2
A hair styling apparatus includes a first and a second arm each having a heatable plate and an arm member. The first and second arms are moveable between a closed position, in which the heatable plate of the first arm is adjacent the heatable plate of the second arm, and an open position, in which the heatable plates of each arm are spaced apart. The heatable plate of at least one of the arms is coupled to a respective arm member about a pivot arranged to allow the heatable plate to move relative to the respective arm member about an axis transverse to the length of said respective arm member such that the plate pivots.
US11160335B2
In one embodiment, a collar attachment comprising a disk having a first collar band loop integrally formed with the disk along a first arcuate perimeter portion of the disk and a second collar band loop integrally formed with the disk along a second arcuate perimeter portion of the disk that is opposite the first arcuate perimeter portion of the disk; a keyhole in the disk; friction attachment means formed in an underside of the disk and configured to receive at least a first tab of an attached device and to snugly hold the first tab against the underside of the disk after rotation of the attached device in the keyhole.
US11160334B2
A touch fastener product having a base sheet with a resin side surface and a male touch fastener element having a head disposed at a distal end of a resin stem and overhanging the base sheet. The head has an overall shape, as projected in a plane parallel to the base sheet, with a perimeter that defines spaced apart extremities corresponding to head sections of different engagement characteristics and disposed at different distances from a centroid of the overall shape. In one example, the head projection has a polygonal perimeter consisting of straight edges of differing lengths connected at radiused corners. In another, the perimeter comprises an unbroken series of at least three arc segments of different curvatures, with centers of the arc segments disposed at different distances from the centroid.
US11160332B2
A buckle includes two coupling modules coupled separably to each other. Each of the coupling modules includes a main unit including a hook member and a coupling member that has a retaining portion, and an operating member having an operating portion and a pushing portion. The hook member of each of the coupling modules is engaged with the retaining portion of the other one of the coupling modules. The operating portions of the operating members of the coupling modules are movable toward each other, during which the pushing portion of each of the coupling modules pushes the hook member of the other one of the coupling modules to disengage said hook member from the retaining portion of the coupling module.
US11160322B2
Various embodiments comprise systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms or apparatus for a helmet for reducing concussive injuries and an alarm system providing an indication of potential concussive impacts.
US11160320B2
The invention addresses the problem of providing a cloth, a multilayered cloth, and a textile product, which have flame retardancy and heat insulation and develop a relief structure when exposed to flame or heat. As a means for resolution, a cloth characterized in that a yarn A having a high thermal shrinkage rate and a yarn B having a low thermal shrinkage rate are alternately arranged in the warp direction or weft direction is obtained, then, as necessary, a multilayered cloth is obtained using the cloth as an intermediate layer, and further, as necessary, a textile product is formed using the multilayered cloth.
US11160315B2
A compression charging device includes a cigarette case charging part and a cigarette set charging part. The cigarette case charging part includes a positive electrode cover, a positive spring, a negative spring, a charging insulation sleeve, and a PCB. The cigarette set charging part includes a filter holding seat, a charging base, and an insulation fixing sleeve. The compression charging device is configured for cigarette set charging. The negative spring and the positive spring have a double function of electrical conduction and bouncing.
US11160309B2
There is provided a cartridge for an electrically heated aerosol-generating system, the electrically heated aerosol-generating system including an aerosol-generating device, the cartridge being configured to be used with the device, wherein the device includes a device housing; an inductor coil positioned in the device housing; and a power supply connected to the inductor coil and configured to provide a high-frequency oscillating current to the inductor coil; the cartridge includes a cartridge housing containing an aerosol-forming substrate, the housing having an internal surface surrounding an internal passage through which air can flow; and a susceptor element configured to heat the aerosol-forming substrate.
US11160307B2
An applicator made from stainless steel comprising an elongated handle, a chamber, and a blade. The handle having a longitudinal axis and comprising a first end and a second end, a first section, a second section, a third section, and a fourth section, each in substantial alignment along the longitudinal axis of the handle. The chamber is substantially cylindrical and is coupled to the first end of the handle for collecting a calibrated volume of material. The chamber has an open end distal to the first end of the handle and a closed end proximate the first end of the handle, and is in substantial alignment with the longitudinal axis of the handle. The blade is coupled to the second end of the handle, the blade having a curved profile and a tip with a rounded facial contour, and being in substantial alignment with the longitudinal axis of the handle.
US11160303B2
A device for changing operative portions for tobacco industry machines including a receiving portion made in a structural part of a tobacco industry machine; a plug member attached to an operative portion of the tobacco industry machine, a locking member, housed in the structural part of the machine and configured to adopt a locked position, where it locks the plug member in the receiving portion, and a released position, where it releases the plug member from the receiving portion and actuating means acting on the locking member at least to move the locking member from the locked position to the released position.
US11160301B2
The present invention relates to method for production of a slurry for homogenized tobacco material, said method comprising: Selecting tobacco of one or more tobacco types; Coarse grinding said tobacco; Blending said tobacco of one or more tobacco types; and Fine grinding said tobacco of one or more tobacco types.
US11160297B2
A system and method for processing a coextruded meat product including a casing enclosing a meat batter after brining in which a heated, high velocity air stream is applied to the coextruded meat product thereby mechanically removing moisture from a surface of the casing and cooking the coextruded meat product. This system and method can further improve the ability for a liquid coating to be added to the coextruded meat product in a non-drenching manner because of the superior surface preparation of the casing by the jets.
US11160294B2
The present invention relates to a silage inoculant consisting essentially of a) at least one obligatory heterofermentative lactic acid bacterial species or strain and b) at least one homofermentative bacterial species or strain which (i) does not reduce growth of a), and (ii) reduces pH fast without producing an excess amount of lactic acid. Further, the invention relates to a method for producing a fermented feed product, said method comprising inoculating a plant material with the silage inoculant according to the invention. It has surprisingly been found that the silage inoculant is effective even if the silage has only been incubated for a period of up to 2 or up to 4 days.
US11160292B2
An protein-polysaccharide macromolecular complex article of manufacture containing encapsulated ethyl alcohol and/or other spirits serving as an entertaining and novel non-beverage method of consuming alcohol. The article of manufacture encapsulates ethyl alcohol and/or other spirits in the amorphous regions of the complex macromolecular structure releasing it only upon chewing and exposure to the environment of the oral cavity. The article of manufacture is stable and capable of retaining shape and form for extended periods of time at ambient temperature allowing for relatively low-cost commercial manufacture and distribution.
US11160289B2
The present invention relates to novel strains of Streptococcus thermophilus, compositions comprising said strains and to methods for the preparation of such compositions.
US11160286B2
The present invention has demonstrated that microorganisms present in a liver can be killed by washing the bile duct and the portal vein with hot water, and then disinfecting the liver using a chlorine-based disinfectant. It has also been demonstrated that sterilizing effects can be enhanced by freezing the liver after disinfection with a chlorine-based disinfectant.
US11160279B2
The present invention can provide a method having a high control effect on the removal of herbicide resistant weeds in a cultivation area for crops. The method includes a step of treating weeds with one or more of herbicides selected from the group consisting of saflufenacil, trifludimoxazin, flumioxazin, and ethyl [3-[2-chloro-4-fluoro-5-(1-methyl-6-trifluoromethyl-2,4-dioxo-1,2,3,4-tetrahydropyrimidine-3-yl)phenoxy]-2-pyridyloxy]acetate, wherein the herbicide resistant weeds are PPO-inhibitor resistant weeds having one or more mutations selected from the group consisting of an Arg128Met mutation, Arg128Gly mutation, Arg128His mutation, and Gly399Ala mutation in PPO.
US11160275B2
The present invention is directed to methods of improving yield in cereal grain crops by applying an effective amount of a mixture of abscisic acid and malic acid to the cereal grain crop. The present invention is further directed to methods of improving growth in cereal grain crops by applying an effective amount of a mixture of abscisic acid and malic acid to the cereal grain crop.
US11160274B1
Disclosed is an anti-algal agent to inhibit algal growth on articles treated with the anti-algal agent. Initially, a Supramolecular Macrocyclic Inorganic Polymer (SMIP) having multiple voids is derived. The voids are in a crystal structure of the SMIP. The SMIP is derived from a metallic element having a multiple valance. The metallic element may have a differential polarity, a hydrogen bonding ability, and an imbalanced electronic orbital energy disposition. Further, a Technical Grade Active Ingredient (TGAI) may be infused in the voids of the SMIP to obtain an anti-algal agent. The anti-algal agent may act as at least one of a biocides or as a preservative to inhibit algal growth on the articles treated. Furthermore, the anti-algal agent when used for treating on properties of treated articles may avoid deterioration of the article from microbial attacks.
US11160266B2
In accordance with various embodiments of the disclosed subject matter, an apparatus for killing insects generally comprising a backplate, having pivotally mounted thereto a first flange comprising an electrically conductive material and a second flange, the first and second flange being of similar shape; a flange operating mechanism, operably coupled to the first and second flanges, and configured for causing a position of the first and second flanges to move from an open position to a closed position; and a power switch, for selectively providing electrical energy to the electrically conductive material of the first flange such that an insect in contact therewith may be killed.
US11160263B2
A system for detecting the presence of pests, the system comprising: at least one remote camera system, each of the at least one remote camera system comprising an image capture device coupled to a processor and a wireless transmitter, each of the at least one remote camera system having a pest detection surface and being configured to: capture one or more image of the pest detection surface; process the captured one or more image to recognise the potential presence of a target pest on the pest detection surface; and transmit data from the captured one or more image in response to recognising the potential presence of one or more target pests; and a server configured to: receive the transmitted data; process the transmitted data to verify the potential presence of the target pest on the pest detection surface; and provide an output indicating the verification.
US11160260B2
Methods for protecting porcine fetuses from infection with Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV). The methods comprise breeding a female porcine animal with a male porcine animal. The female porcine animal comprises modified chromosomal sequences in both alleles of its CD163 gene, wherein the modified chromosomal sequences reduce the susceptibility of the female porcine animal to infection by PRRSV, as compared to the susceptibility to infection by PRRSV of a female porcine animal that does not comprise any modified chromosomal sequences in the alleles of its CD163 gene. The male porcine animal comprises at least one wild-type CD163 allele.
US11160257B2
A poultry holding system that can be erected tool-free by assembling lengthwise and crosswise members on support posts. Multiple upright support posts are set up in an evenly spaced grid. The crosswise members and lengthwise members are constructed as U-profile rails, with through-holes in the horizontal sections of the U-profiles that allow the members to be assembled and supported on the support posts. The poultry holding system thus constructed can have at least two tiers, one above the other. The assembly components are designed to be particularly economical, which allows greater flexibility in the design and construction of the poultry holding system to accommodate the constraints of the particular facility.
US11160256B2
The present technology generally relates to animal restraint systems with cinching mechanisms and associated devices and methods. A restraint system, such as a harness for a dog, in accordance with the present technology can include a back strap, a sternum strap, a chest strap assembly, and a cinching mechanism coupled to the chest strap assembly. When an animal or person pulls on a free-end portion of a cinching strap, the cinching mechanism draws opposing sides of the chest strap assembly closer together and, thereby, tightens the harness across the chest of the animal. Cinching mechanisms in accordance with the present technology avoid substantial shifting or rotation of the harness on the neck or torso of the animal in response to a lunging, pulling, tugging, or other force.
US11160252B2
The invention called hand washing device for pets refers to a compact self-adjusting device connected to a water supply hose, whereby any animal owner can wet, shampoo and rinse any pet using a single hand. The hand washing device for pets according to the invention consists of a Subassembly (A) cast main body containing the shampoo supply container and continuing with a feeding pipe connected also used as a handle for handling provided with a valve for closing, dosing and opening the water circuit, which can be connected to a water hose, and a Subassembly (B) consisting of two detachable hose-type arms closed at the detachable ends, laterally connected to the main body by normal screwing, wrapped in a flat spiral provided on the inner side of the winding direction with water and shampoo sprinkling holes that extend in length to an adjustable semi-elliptical shape depending on the force of the water introduced therein, resulting from clamping a wrapped arched steel strip fastened to the inside of the winding direction all over their length, which allows automatic winding of the arms after stopping the water circuit.
US11160251B2
An animal ear tag contains control circuitry for generating data. An antenna in the tag emits a wireless signal including the data, and an energy storage provides electric energy to the control circuitry and the antenna. The energy storage is arranged in a first part of the tag and the antenna is arranged in a second part of the tag. When attached to the animal, the first and second parts are interconnected via a shaft member inserted through an ear of the animal in such a manner that the first part is located on a first side of the ear and the second part is located on a second side of the ear. When the first and second parts are interconnected, the energy storage is located off-centered from a symmetry axis of the shaft member. As a result, the tag becomes relatively fixed in a well-defined orientation.
US11160247B2
A cartridge and a teatcup to be attached to the teat of an animal to be milked are disclosed. The cartridge includes an elongated sleeve, having an upper end section and a lower end section, and a teatcup liner pre-mounted in the elongated sleeve. The teatcup liner includes an upper end portion located at the upper end section, a lower end portion located at the lower end section, and a barrel portion extending between the upper and lower end portions. The barrel portion has a polygonal cross-sectional shape defining a plurality of corner portions and a plurality of side portions. The elongated sleeve includes a primary locking member. The teatcup liner includes a primary complementary locking member. The two locking members engage each other to prevent rotation of the teatcup liner in relation to the elongated sleeve.
US11160243B1
A novel soybean variety, designated AV33306584 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety AV33306584, cells from soybean variety AV33306584, plants of soybean AV33306584, and plant parts of soybean variety AV33306584. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety AV33306584 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety AV33306584, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety AV33306584, and methods of characterizing soybean variety AV33306584. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety AV33306584 are further provided.
US11160241B2
A novel soybean variety, designated 5PDFB77 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PDFB77, cells from soybean variety 5PDFB77, plants of soybean 5PDFB77, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PDFB77. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PDFB77 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PDFB77, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PDFB77, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PDFB77. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PDFB77 are further provided.
US11160236B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH100409. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH100409, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH100409 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH100409.
US11160231B2
A rice cultivar designated CLM04 is disclosed herein. The present invention provides seeds, plants, and plant parts derived from rice cultivar CLM04. Further, it provides methods for producing a rice plant by crossing CLM04 with itself or another rice variety and methods for combating undesired vegetation by contacting the disclosed rice seeds with an AHAS-inhibiting herbicide. The invention also encompasses any rice seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by the methods disclosed herein, including those in which additional traits have been transferred into CLM04 through the introduction of a transgene or by breeding CLM04 with another rice cultivar.
US11160224B2
The present invention relates to the production of a non-transgenic plant resistant or tolerant to a herbicide of the phosphonomethylglycine family, e.g., glyphosate. The present invention also relates to the use of a recombinagenic oligonucleobase to make a desired mutation in the chromosomal or episomal sequences of a plant in the gene encoding for 5-enol pyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSPS). The mutated protein, which substantially maintains the catalytic activity of the wild-type protein, allows for increased resistance or tolerance of the plant to a herbicide of the phosphonomethylglycine family, and allows for the substantially normal growth or development of the plant, its organs, tissues or cells as compared to the wild-type plant irrespective of the presence or absence of the herbicide. The present invention also relates to a non-transgenic plant cell in which the EPSPS gene has been mutated, a non-transgenic plant regenerated therefrom, as well as a plant resulting from a cross using a regenerated non-transgenic plant having a mutated EPSPS gene.
US11160220B2
In an embodiment, yield data representing yields of crops that have been harvested from an agricultural field and field characteristics data representing characteristics of the agricultural field is received and used to determine a plurality of management zone delineation options. Each option, of the plurality of management zone delineation options, comprises zone layout data for an option. The plurality of management zone delineation options is determined by: determining a plurality of count values for a management class count; generating, for each count value, a management delineation option by clustering the yield data from and the field characteristics data, assigning zones to clusters, and including the zones in a management zone delineation option. One or more options from the plurality of management zone delineation options are selected and used to determine one or more planting plans. A graphical representation of the options and the planting plans is displayed for a user.
US11160213B2
A baler includes a housing forming a baling chamber. The baling chamber has an inlet that defines an inlet width perpendicular to a central longitudinal axis of the baler. A pre-cutter is disposed forward of the inlet along the central longitudinal axis and includes a cutter width perpendicular to the central longitudinal axis. The cutter width is substantially less than the inlet width. A crop distributor is disposed between the pre-cutter and the inlet and conveys the crop material from the pre-cutter to the inlet. A pick-up head is disposed forward of the pre-cutter and lifts the crop material from the ground and conveys it to the pre-cutter.
US11160211B2
A grass mower includes a frame that extends in a front/rear direction of a machine body, a mower deck supported to/under the frame, the mower deck extending in a transverse direction of the machine body, a side edge of the mower deck protruding laterally from the machine body, a tilt detector for detecting a rolling angle of the machine body, a display device for displaying the rolling angle, a first informing device for effecting a first informing for calling attention to grass scraping by the side edge when a rolling angle detected by the tilt detector exceeds a first tilt angle and a second informing device for effecting a second informing for calling attention to traveling danger when the rolling angle detected by the tilt detector exceeds a second tilt angle.
US11160205B2
A lawnmower with a mulch plug with a plurality ramps for deflecting lawn clippings out of a cutting deck with more than one depth planes. The mulch plug is configured to attach to the lawnmower by one or more attachment points to block a collector opening of the lawnmower. The plurality of ramps comprises a first ramp and a second ramp on the lower plane of the cutting deck extending downward from the mulch plug. The second ramp is positioned further in the cutting rotation of the lawnmower on a trailing edge of the mulch plug. The secure attachment of the mulch plug with a plurality of ramps provides a more even distribution of grass clippings.
US11166396B2
Provided is a box-type vehicle-mounted control device that effectively increases the amount of heat transfer from electronic components and a circuit board to a casing (base and cover) and that accordingly has achieved excellent heat dissipation property. The box-type vehicle-mounted control device includes a circuit board 12, a base 13, and a cover 14. In addition, a first heat radiating coating layer 31 is formed on at least one surface of the circuit board 12, and a second heat radiating coating layer 32 is formed on an inner surface of one or both of the base 13 and the cover 14 facing the first heat radiating coating layer 31.
US11166384B2
A fabrication method achieves bump bonds (to connect two electronic devices) with a pitch of less than 20 μm using UV-curable conductive epoxy resin cured with an array of nano-LEDs. Nano-LEDs are devices with sizes less than or equal to 5 μm, typically arranged in an array. After deposition of the uncured conductive epoxy layer, the nano-LED array enables a fast curing of the bumps with high spatial resolution. Next, the uncured resin is washed off and the chips are assembled, before final thermal curing takes place.
US11166379B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards techniques and configurations for dual surface finish package substrate assemblies. In one embodiment a method includes depositing a first surface finish on one or more electrical routing features located on a first side of a package substrate and on one or more lands located on a second side of the package substrate, the second side being opposite the first side of the substrate. The method may further include removing the first surface finish on the first side of the package substrate; and depositing a second surface finish on the one or more electrical routing features of the first side. The depositing of the second surface finish may be accomplished by one of a Direct Immersion Gold (DIG) process or an Organic Solderability Preservative (OSP) process. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11166369B2
A light radiation emitting device including at least one LED-type device capable of generating a light radiation in a predefined wavelength range and having two electrical contact pads, and a support delimited by first and second opposite sides defining together a thickness of the support, the support supporting at least one LED luminous device and at least one conductive electric track. The electric track is formed of conductive wires. All or part of the conductive wires are bonded to the support along all or part of their length. All or part of the conductive wires have at least one contact portion exposed towards at least one of the first and second sides of the support. Each of the contact pads of the LED-type device is positioned opposite a contact portion of one of the conductive wires and is electrically connected to the contact portion.
US11166367B2
A circuit board has an edge connector with signal traces. The signal traces are formed on a dielectric layer of the circuit board. A reference trace is formed within the dielectric layer or on another surface of the dielectric layer. Parameters of the reference trace are adjusted to set an impedance of a single-ended signal trace or a differential impedance of two adjacent signal traces.
US11166366B2
A heat dissipating circuit board assembly includes a heat sink having a first wall, a second wall spaced from the first wall, and an end wall extending between the first and second walls. The first wall, the second wall, and the end wall collectively define a cavity. The assembly additionally includes a printed circuit board having a first face and a second face opposite the first face. The printed circuit board is located within the cavity such that the first wall of the heat sink extends over the first face and the second wall of the heat sink extends over the second face to allow heat to be transferred from the printed circuit board to the heat sink. The heat sink is configured to interface with a connector socket when the circuit board is connected to the connector socket for stabilizing the printed circuit board.
US11166352B2
A system is configured to perform an operation that results in increasing a thermal energy of a load. The system includes a radio frequency signal source configured to supply a radio frequency signal, an electrode coupled to the radio frequency signal source, and a variable impedance network that includes at least one variable passive component. The variable impedance network is coupled between the radio frequency signal source and the electrode. The system includes a controller configured to determine an operation duration based upon a configuration of the variable impedance network, and to cause the radio frequency signal source to supply the radio frequency signal for the operation duration.
US11166349B2
An induction hob includes a main body with an upper main surface on which in use at least one pan to be heated can be placed, and a lower main surface. The induction hob also includes at least one inductor coupled to the main body at the lower main surface, and a flexible body, fixed to the lower main surface. The flexible body has alternating first, electrically insulating layers and second layers each including at least one electrically conductive track. The inductor has a plurality of such electrically conductive tracks, which are positioned at different second layers and are electrically connected to each other in series and/or parallel to form a plurality of loops.
US11166345B2
The invention relates to a method for monitoring the temperature of the sleeve part of a tool holder, which sleeve part is inserted into the induction coil of a contraction device, wherein the instantaneous inductance of the induction coil is measured during the inductive heating and the current supply to the induction coil is influenced if the instantaneous inductance approaches, reaches, or exceeds a specified value.
US11166341B2
An intelligent controller of electronic cigarette includes a switch module, a voltage acquisition module coupled to a heating wire, a control module coupled to the switch module and the voltage acquisition module, respectively, a display module electrically connected to an output of the control module, and a battery electrically connected to the switch module, the voltage acquisition module, the control module and the display module, respectively. The control module sends a control signal to the voltage acquisition module to make the voltage acquisition module acquire a terminal voltage of the heating wire. After receiving a signal from the switch module, whether the heating wire of an atomizer is in a short-circuit condition, an open-circuit condition or a normal condition is detected based on the acquired signal, and a detection result is output such that these conditions of the heating wire are observed directly by users.
US11166339B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method for providing data protection to members of a Vertical Application Layer (VAL) group is provided. The method includes creating, by a group management server, the VAL group based on a VAL group creation request from a VAL server, announcing, by the group management server, a VAL group creation information to at least one group management client from a plurality of group management clients, registering, by the group management server, at least one group management client as a VAL group member from a plurality of group management clients, and sharing, by the group management server, VAL group member information comprising an identity list with the at least one group management client.
US11166331B2
Embodiments of a system and method for reporting channel state information (CSI) in a wireless network are generally described herein. In some embodiments, an apparatus of a User Equipment (UE) can include physical layer circuitry to receive, in a first subframe, a first aperiodic CSI request from a first cell group, and a second aperiodic CSI request from a second cell group. The UE can include processing circuitry to determine a number of requested CSI processes corresponding to the first aperiodic CSI request and the second aperiodic CSI request. Additionally, the processing circuitry can select a subset of the requested CSI processes when the determined number of requested CSI processes is more than five. Furthermore, the processing circuitry can calculate CSI for the selected CSI processes.
US11166328B2
This disclosure relates to techniques for supporting narrowband device-to-device wireless communication, including possible techniques for performing control and data communications between wireless devices that have performed discovery. A first device may transmit first control information to a second wireless device. The first control information may indicate a buffer status of the first wireless device. The first device may receive second control information from the second wireless device. The second control information may include an acknowledgement indication for the first control information. The first device may transmit a data communication to the second wireless device based at least in part on the first control information and the second control information.
US11166327B1
Systems may establish a Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) session during a Home Subscriber Server (HSS) outage. The systems may include Network Functions (NF) that perform steps for establishing the SIP session and/or bypassing the HSS experiencing the outage. For instance, an Interrogating (I)-Call Session Control Function (CSCF) may modify a terminating message received from a User Equipment (UE) to generate a modified terminating message, and send one or more instances (e.g., forks) of the modified terminating message to one or more candidate Serving (S)-CSCFs. A particular S-CSCF of the candidate S-CSCFs may comprise the registered S-CSCF and may respond to an instance of the modified terminating message. In some embodiments, the I-CSCF may establish the SIP session by sending an instance of the modified terminating message to a designated S-CSCF. The designated S-CSCF may determine which candidate S-CSCF comprises the registered S-CSCF, for instance, by querying the candidate S-CSCFs.
US11166323B2
One disclosure of the present specification provides a method for using packet switching (PS) data off function in user equipment (UE). The method can comprise the steps of: determining whether a session management (SM) delay time timer or a mobility management (MM) delay time timer is being operated, in a state in which the transmission of a non-access stratum (NAS) request message for an SM is required according to a request for the activation or the inactivation of the PS data off function; and, according to the result of the determination, allowing an NAS layer of the UE to include activation or inactivation state information of the PS data off function in the NAS request message for an SM and transmit the same.
US11166322B2
The present invention relates to a method for performing, by a terminal, a random access process in a wireless communication system supporting first and second preamble formats, and an apparatus therefor. Particularly, the present invention relates to a method comprising: a step of receiving narrowband physical random access channel (NPRACH) configuration information; and a step of transmitting a random access preamble on the basis of a preamble format indicated by the NPRACH configuration information of the first and second preamble formats, wherein the length of one symbol of the second preamble format corresponds to three times the length of one symbol of the first preamble format, and the first preamble format has a frequency grid spacing of 3.75 kHz, and the second preamble format has a frequency grid spacing of 1.25 kHz, and to an apparatus therefor.
US11166313B2
A technique for transmitting on multiple frequency carriers in a radio access network (RAN) in potential coexistence with an interferer using at least one of the multiple frequency carriers is described. As to a method aspect of the technique, when there is a transmission on at least one first frequency carrier among the multiple frequency carriers in a transmit opportunity interval, a clear channel assessment (CCA) on at least one second frequency carrier among the multiple frequency carriers is performed before expiry of the transmit opportunity interval. If the at least one second frequency carrier is available according to the CCA, the transmission uses the at least one second 10 frequency carrier in the transmit opportunity interval.
US11166303B2
The present application discloses a method for transmitting data, a terminal device, and a network device. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, first resource indication information from a network device at a first moment, the first moment being located in the n-th time domain resource unit, the first resource indication information indicating a frequency domain resource allocated for transmission of a target channel in the (n+i)-th time domain resource unit, and the target channel including a data channel or a control channel of the terminal device, where n and i are positive integers; and receiving, by the terminal device, second resource indication information from the network device at a second moment after the first moment, the second resource indication information indicating a time domain resource allocated for transmission of the target channel in the (n+i)-th time domain resource unit.
US11166300B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). A terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The terminal includes a transceiver; and at least one processor configured to: receive, from a base station, configuration information for a bandwidth part, and receive, from the base station, information for a resource configuration within the bandwidth part.
US11166283B2
Disclosed are a data transmission method, a network device and a terminal device. The method comprises: sending resource configuration information to a terminal device, wherein the resource configuration information is used to indicate a plurality of resource sub-bands for transmitting data in a scheduling unit, each resource sub-band in the plurality of resource sub-bands is composed of continuous physical resource blocks in a frequency domain, and at least two resource sub-bands in the plurality of resource sub-bands have different sub-carrier intervals; and transmitting the data with the terminal device on the plurality of resource sub-bands. By means of the method, the network device and the terminal device of the embodiments of the present invention, it can be realized that the same terminal device uses a resource with different sub-carrier intervals to transmit data in one scheduling unit.
US11166282B2
Embodiments of an Evolved Node-B (eNB), radio access network (RAN) central unit (RCU) and methods for radio resource control (RRC) are generally described herein. A RAN distributed unit (RDU) at an eNB may communicate with an RCU of a cloud RAN to cooperatively perform RRC functionality for the eNB 104. The RDU 105 may receive a request for an RRC connection from a User Equipment (UE), and may request global load information from the RCU. The RDU may determine whether to establish the requested RRC connection based on the global load information when a response from the RCU is received before a predetermined time. The RDU may determine whether to establish the requested RRC connection based on local load information when the response from the RCU is not received before the predetermined time.
US11166281B2
Methods and apparatus for identification of macro-cells and subordinate transmission nodes. In one embodiment, the methods and apparatus are configured for use within a long term evolution (LTE/LTE-A) network, and include a scrambling technique which can facilitate advanced capabilities in which the subordinate nodes possess unique cell identities from the macro-cell. The use of unique scrambling sequences allows subordinate node switching and other advanced multi-antenna techniques in heterogeneous networks. The disclosed methods and apparatus further allow for distinction and detection of signals transmitted from low-power RRHs, femto-cells, etc. and advantageously achieve greater interference randomization gain.
US11166271B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). According to embodiments, a method performed by a distributed unit (DU), the method comprises generating a control plane (C-plane) message for multiple ports, the C-plane message including section information and a section extension; and transmitting the C-plane message to a radio unit (RU) via a specific port of the multiple ports. The section information includes information on a beam identifier (ID). The section extension includes beam group type information for indicating a type of beam grouping, and port information for indicating a total number of one or more extended antenna-carrier (eAxC) ports indicated by the section extension.
US11166266B2
Information sending and receiving methods are provided. The information sending method includes: determining, by a network device, configuration information of N downlink control channel regions, where the N downlink control channel regions include a first downlink control channel region, the configuration information of the N downlink control channel regions includes configuration information of the first downlink control channel region, and N is a positive integer; and sending, by the network device, the configuration information of the N downlink control channel regions to a terminal device, so that the terminal device determines the N downlink control channel regions based on the configuration information of the N downlink control channel regions.
US11166265B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station (BS) may transmit, to a user equipment (UE) for a beam sweeping procedure, at least one downlink control channel associated with at least one beam. The BS may receive, based at least in part on transmitting the at least one downlink control channel, feedback information relating to the at least one downlink control channel. The UE may receive at least one downlink control channel associated with at least one beam. The UE may transmit feedback information relating to the at least one downlink control channel. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11166264B2
Various solutions for multiplexing of short physical downlink control channel and data with respect to user equipment and network apparatus in mobile communications are described. An apparatus may receive a reuse indication from a control channel. The apparatus may determine whether a plurality of control channel elements (CCEs) are reused for a data channel according to the reuse indication. The apparatus may further receive the data channel in the CCEs in an event that the reuse indication indicates that the CCEs are reused.
US11166262B2
A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes a processor and memory in electronic communication with the processor. Instructions stored in the memory are executable to acquire a first higher layer configuration indicating at least a long uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource configuration. The instructions are also executable to acquire a second higher layer configuration indicating multiple sets of PUCCH resource configurations. One set of PUCCH resource configurations within the multiple sets of PUCCH resource configurations include the long PUCCH resource configuration. The instructions are further executable to select a set of PUCCH resource configurations from the sets of PUCCH resource configurations based on a payload size of uplink control information (UCI). The instructions are additionally executable to transmit the UCI on a PUCCH resource, the PUCCH resource corresponding to a PUCCH resource configuration within the selected set of PUCCH resource configurations.
US11166260B2
A method and an apparatus for performing a radio resource selection and contention indication in a wireless communication system are provided. The method for performing, a user equipment (UE), the radio resource selection and contention indication in the wireless communication system includes selecting a plurality of sidelink resources from a sidelink resource pool and contending at least one of the sidelink resources reserved in advance from another UE.
US11166254B2
A position relationship determining method and apparatus includes determining a position relationship between a first wireless local area network (WLAN) device and a second WLAN device based on exceeded-bandwidth wireless channel characteristic data, where the exceeded-bandwidth wireless channel characteristic data is a result obtained after combining wireless channel characteristic data corresponding to all WLAN channels in a channel set, the channel set includes at least two WLAN channels, all the WLAN channels in the channel set belong to a single WLAN frequency band, a total bandwidth occupied by all the WLAN channels in the channel set is greater than 160 megahertz and is greater than a maximum single channel bandwidth supported by the single WLAN frequency band.
US11166251B2
Generally, the described techniques provide for a device determining or receiving signaling including a packet delivery time window configuration that indicates delivery windows within which transmissions may be held and/or delivery opportunities within which communications are expected to be transmitted. For example, the device may identify a packet delivery time window configuration for communications with another device. The packet delivery window configuration may indicate a periodicity, offset, start time, end time, and/or duration of the delivery windows, among other information. Based on the identified packet delivery time window configuration, the device may delay transmission of the data packet (e.g., for the duration of one or more configured delivery windows). At, for example, the end of the respective delivery window, the device may deliver the data packet to a network device for which the information of the data packet is to be used.
US11166247B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the field of wireless communication technologies, and for example, to a method for determining a timing relationship, including: receiving a timing relationship set indication indicating a timing relationship set for use at a User Equipment (UE); determining the timing relationship set based on the timing relationship set indication; receiving timing relationship indication information indicating a timing relationship for use at the UE; and determining the timing relationship for use at the UE based on the timing relationship set and the timing relationship indication information. The disclosure implements a method and apparatus for dynamically changing a timing relationship set, saves power consumption of the UE, and ensures timely data transmission.
US11166246B2
One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for transmitting a side link signal in a wireless communication system by a UE operating in side link transmission mode 2, the method comprising: a step of receiving a predetermined signal by the UE; and a step of transmitting a side link signal on the basis of a first timing which is determined on the basis of the predetermined signal, wherein the first timing is determined differently depending on whether or not the UE establishes a connection with a relay UE. The UE is capable of communicating with at least one of another UE, a UE related to an autonomous driving vehicle, the BS or a network.
US11166245B2
A method and an apparatus for efficiently reporting user equipment (UE) are provided. A method of transmitting Power Headroom Report (PHR) of UE in a mobile communication system, includes configuring an evolved PHR including an indicator with respect of a variation factor of maximum transmission power of the UE, and transmitting the evolved PHR to an eNB. An eNB may know maximum transmission power of an UE and a variation factor thereof to enable efficient scheduling.
US11166237B2
A method and apparatus to perform determining signaling including at least one wake-up signal to indicate an occurrence or a non-occurrence of a paging request associated with a next paging occasion of a network device; and sending the signaling including the at least one wake-up signal toward a network device in a communication network, wherein the at least one wake-up signal is to cause the network device to determine whether to leave at the next paging occasion an energy saving sleep mode to receive the paging request. Further, there is performing receiving by a network device in a communication network at least one wake-up signal to indicate an occurrence or a non-occurrence of a paging request, wherein the at least one wake-up signal is for use by the network device to determine whether to leave at its next paging occasion an energy saving sleep mode.
US11166221B2
The present technology enables inter-network routing by dynamically optimizing data paths for traffic destined for wired clients attached to a wireless access point in a wireless mesh network with a plurality of wireless access points. The present technology can also influence steering of wireless device connections within the wireless mesh network when high amounts of data traffic are exchanged between nearby mesh wireless access points.
US11166218B1
When a serving base station encounters a trigger for handover of a UE to a target base station, the serving base station will responsively predict whether, before the serving base station would direct the UE to handover to the target base station, an inactivity timer for the UE will expire, and the serving base station will then control the handover based on that prediction. For instance, responsive to the predicting being that the inactivity timer will expire before the serving base station would send a handover command message to the UE, the serving base station could forgo engaging in handover-preparation signaling with the target base station for the handover, instead allowing the UE to transition to idle mode upon expiration of the timer, at which point the UE could then engage in idle-mode handover to the target base station.
US11166216B2
A method for traffic steering. The method comprises determining a first signal characteristic of a first connection between an electronic device and a first wireless communications network; determining a second signal characteristic of a second connection between the electronic device and a second wireless communications network; and based on the first signal characteristic and the second signal characteristic, preventing the electronic device from attempting to establish the second connection until one or more establishment criteria are met.
US11166211B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media described herein provide for obtaining, mobility information associated with an end device, wherein the mobility information includes a starting location and a destination location; identifying multiple mobility routes from the starting location to the destination location; identifying a set of wireless resources accessible along each of the mobility routes; selecting, from the multiple mobility routes, a predetermined mobility route based on the sets of wireless resources; selecting, from the sets of wireless resources, wireless resources handover targets in the predetermined mobility route; generating mobility control information including the set of wireless station handover targets; and transmitting a mobility control message including the mobility control information to the end device and at least one of wireless resources handover targets.
US11166203B2
Provided are a method for wireless communication and apparatus, a terminal device and an access network entity. The method includes: a first access network entity receives a transmission indication message from a terminal device, the transmission indication message carrying context information of the terminal device and/or identification information of a second access network entity; and the first access network entity acquires the context information of the terminal device according to the transmission indication message so as to establish a connection between the terminal device and the first access network entity. According to the method, the apparatus, the terminal device and the access network entity provided by the embodiments, the electricity consumption and the network overhead of a terminal can be saved and thus the mobility performance of the terminal is improved.
US11166201B1
Methods and systems are provided for dynamically reallocating user devices between two or more radio access technologies based on a current frequency allocation. It is determined that a quantity of user devices using a first radio access technology at a base station is above a threshold. A current frequency allocation is then determined between the first radio access technology and a second radio access technology. Based on the quantity of user devices using the first radio access technology being above the threshold and the current frequency allocation, one or more user devices from the quantity of user devices are reallocated from the first radio access technology to the second radio access technology.
US11166189B2
This disclosure provides a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: determining a data flow mapped onto a data radio bearer (DRB); and controlling a transmission rate of the data flow based on the transmission rate of the data flow and a first rate threshold of the data flow. This disclosure provides the data transmission method and apparatus, to control the transmission rate of the data flow mapped onto the DRB.
US11166184B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for interference mitigation. An exemplary method performed by a base station generally includes determining, based on a location of another base station and information regarding the other base station, that the other base station is likely to experience interference while receiving an uplink transmission due to a downlink transmission by the base station and forming a null in a beam of the downlink transmission in a direction matching the location of the other base station.
US11166181B2
Described is a method for performance estimation of a communication device. The method comprises: executing active probing to determine active probing data; reading operational data which includes data related to channel and its noise condition, latency and counter values related to user data traffic between the communication device and another communication device, wherein the operational data is relevant to the current settings of the communication device; and training a performance estimation algorithm for the communication device according to the active probing data and the operational data.
US11166161B2
A method and a device for controlling user access to a wireless network are provided. According to an example of the method, during master/backup changeover between an master main board and a backup main board in a switch, an AP may start a timer in case of short-term communication interruption between the AP and an master AC due to the master/backup changeover. In this way, if the interruption is within an allowable time period, the AP may maintain connections between the AP and authenticated users instead of imposing offline on the authenticated users.
US11166156B2
Disclosed are techniques for establishing an encrypted connection between a first node and a second node in a wireless mesh network. In an aspect, the first node receives, from a provisioner node in the wireless mesh network, a first value encrypted with a device-specific encryption key known only to the first node and the provisioner node, wherein the second node receives, from the provisioner node, the first value encrypted with a second device-specific encryption key, generates a friendship-specific encryption key based on the first value, an identifier of the first node, and an identifier of the second node, wherein the second node generates the friendship-specific encryption key, sends, to the second node, a first message encrypted with the friendship-specific encryption key, and receives, from the second node, a second message encrypted with the friendship-specific encryption key.
US11166155B2
Secure communication in mobile digital pages is provided. The system receives an electronic document and validates the electronic document for storage in a cache server. The system receives a request for the electronic document and provides it to a viewer component on a client computing device. The viewer component loads the electronic document in an iframe. The viewer component executes a runtime component to receive, via a secure communication channel, a tag from the electronic document. The system receives the tag and selects a data value for transmission to the viewer component. The viewer components provides the data value to cause the runtime component to execute an action with the data value.
US11166151B2
Electronic subscriber identity modules (eSIM) can be more susceptible to hackers and more vulnerable than physical subscriber identity modules. The current disclosure discusses systems and methods to facilitate eSIM security by utilizing a management software application (MSA) hosted on a mobile device. This MSA can cross-reference eSIM registration data with mobile device signature data to determine if the correct user identity is associated with mobile device prior to an eSIM being issued to the mobile device. Additionally, various degrees of data flagging can be utilized to allow an end user to properly address an indication of mobile device vulnerability.
US11166148B2
A method for resource management in a vehicle-based mobile communications unit. In the method, during a mobile communication transaction conducted via two simultaneously established mobile communication channels, the user-nonspecific data components of the currently active identity profile are compared with one another to determine the mobile communication services provider currently being used. In case of a mobile communication services provider identity determined within the context of the comparison, one of the mobile communication channels is switched off and the mobile communications are conducted via the other mobile communication channel.
US11166146B2
Some embodiments of an emergency radio frequency (RF) repeater system includes a remotely adjustable conveyance characteristic between multiple antenna nodes and a repeater. Optionally, the characteristic may be adjusted independently for each node. Optionally, adjusting the conveyance characteristic after installation of system hardware simplifies system installation and/or facilitates precise balancing of conveyance and/or improves system performance. A conductive riser cable optionally carries multiple channels, for example including an RF signal and/or a communication/control signal and/or data and/or electrical power between system components. For example, the riser may carry a command to the adjustable coupler, to adjust a coupling factor between an antenna node and the riser. Optionally the riser includes a coaxial cable and/or is fire resistant. Optionally, portable transmitter location is estimated from received signal characteristics measured at nodes at different locations. Optionally, the data (for example measured signal propagation) is used to monitor system health.
US11166145B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for controlling emergency calling. In some example embodiments, there may be provided a method that includes receiving, at a user equipment, an indication for controlling whether the user equipment makes an emergency call over a fifth generation radio access technology or over another radio access technology as a fallback; and making, by the user equipment, the emergency call based on the received indication. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also described.
US11166143B1
A lead device with positioning capabilities can be initiated. The lead device can poll wireless enabled devices within a wireless range. Device identification information associated with the polled wireless enabled devices can be removed. Density can be calculated within the wireless range based on the number of polled wireless enabled devices within the wireless range.
US11166142B1
Systems, methods, and computer-executable instructions for providing privacy to proximity data. A beacon identifier associated with a first object is received. Privacy data associated with the beacon identifier is determined. A filter determination of the beacon identifier based on the first privacy data is determined. An indication to filter the beacon identifier is provided. The beacon identifier is filtered, such that a running application is never aware of the detected beacon identifier.
US11166138B2
A wireless mesh network includes multiple low-power nodes. When functioning as a data receiving node or a data relay node, each low-power node is used to monitor data transmission at intervals. Each node performs time synchronization based on an SFN and an H-SFN of a base NB-IoT cell. At least one of the multiple low-power nodes is located in the base NB-IoT cell.
US11166131B1
Asset tracking systems and methods include one or more tracking devices that select one or more hub devices with which to pair or connect based on a state quality value of the hub devices. The tracking device transmits sensor data to a paired or connected hub device, and the paired or connected hub device transmits the senor data to a network server.
US11166122B2
Described herein are various methods of electronically managing connections between different people. In one example, a user send a request to a possible connection that identifies a distance range. The distance range represents a proposed distance at which the user and the connection will receive a notification when the user and connection are within that agreed-upon distance.
US11166121B2
Systems and methods are provided for receiving a first message associated with a first sponsor and a second message associated with a second sponsor for inclusion in a message collection. The systems and methods determine a first priority parameter associated with the first message based on sponsored content, and a second priority parameter associated with the second message based on sponsored content. Based on a determination that there is insufficient message inventory to include both the first message and the second message in the message collection, the systems and methods prioritize the first message associated with the first sponsor in the message collection and excluding the second message associated with the second sponsor in the message collection, based on an amount of consideration associated with the first priority parameter received from the first sponsor and an amount of consideration associated with the second priority parameter received from the second sponsor.
US11166120B2
A method, computer program product, and system includes a processor(s) obtaining a signal from an implanted device within a given vicinity of the one or more processors. The processor(s) identifies a device that when active, has a pre-defined probability of impacting regular functionality of the implanted device. The processor(s) determines coordinates of a perimeter around the device, where the pre-defined probability of the device impacting the regular functionality of the implanted device is realized inside the perimeter. The processor(s) generate a geofence boundary around the device. The processor(s) initiate an action to decrease the pre-defined probability of the device impacting the regular functionality of the implanted device.
US11166119B2
An auditory wearable device management system for supporting effective use of an auditory wearable device shared by a collection of people (hereinafter abbreviated as an auditory device) is provided. An auditory wearable device management system for distributing audio information from one or more information sound sources to an auditory device worn by each wearer constituting a collection of people and acting collectively includes wearing information holding means that associates the wearer with a wearing status of the auditory device worn by the wearer as wearing information, audio information distribution control means that outputs distribution control information for designating the wearer, the wearer being a distribution destination of the audio information from each of the one or more information sound sources.
US11166108B2
A display apparatus includes: a display panel configured to display an image, and at least one vibration module on a rear surface of the display panel, the at least one vibration module including a piezoelectric composite layer including a plurality of sub-modules configured to vibrate the display panel, each of the plurality of sub-modules including: a plurality of first portions including a piezoelectric characteristic, and a plurality of second portions having flexibility, each of the plurality of second portions being between a respective pair of the plurality first portions, wherein the plurality of first portions in the respective sub-modules are arranged in a same direction or are partially arranged in different directions.
US11166105B2
A movable diaphragm comprises a layer having a disc shape with undulating waves that extend from an inner diameter to an outer diameter. The layer is to be offset from a stationary surface and displaced toward the stationary surface, the displacement of the layer to effectively cause a respective compression and rarefaction of air between the layer and the stationary surface to an external environment. An annular surround is to seal outer edge portion of the layer to a transducer component, the surround having compliant properties to allow the displacement of the layer relative to the stationary surface and the transducer component without breaking the seal. The undulations increases an effective surface area of the layer to lower an overall size of the transducer that would otherwise be needed for a low frequency speaker.
US11166101B2
A system and method of providing a signal to wireless speakers. An audio stick connects to a source device and provides the audio signal to the wireless speakers. The audio stick combines the functionality of two separate devices: an audio receiver device and a transmitter device for the wireless speakers.
US11166087B2
A first computing device may receive an indication of user input that is at least a part of a conversation between a user and a first assistant executing at the first computing device. The first assistant and/or an assistant executing at a digital assistant system may determine whether to handoff the conversation from the first assistant executing at the first computing device to a second assistant executing at a second computing device. In response to determining to handoff the conversation to the second assistant executing at the second computing device, the first assistant and/or the assistant executing at the digital assistant system may send to the second computing device a request to handoff the conversation which includes at least an indication of the conversation.
US11166085B2
A method includes identifying media content items for a playlist, each media content item has an introductory segment, main segment, and ending segment, determining a length of an ending segment of a first media content item and a length of an introductory segment of a second media content item, selecting an interstitial to be added to the playlist between a main segment of the first media content item and the second media content item. A length of the interstitial exceeds a combined length of the ending segment of the first media content item and the introductory segment of the second media content item. The method also includes adding a spacing between the ending segment and the introductory segment, and inserting the interstitial in the playlist between the main segment of the first media content item and the second media content item based on the spacing.
US11166083B2
A method includes receiving a broadcast signal including one or more signal frames; parsing the one or more signal frames including one or more service components in DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) format, description information providing mapping between a service component and a DASH representation found in an MPD (Media Presentation Description), and a signaling table, the signaling table including a service identifier identifying the service and bootstrapping information to obtain the MPD and the description information, the description information including a transport session id representing a transport session carrying one or more service components, a DASH representation id representing a DASH representation corresponding to the one or more service components carried in the transport session and an IP address and port information of one or more IP packets that carry the transport session; and parsing the signaling table to obtain the description information and the MPD.
US11166078B2
A method includes receiving, at a media device, media content from a media content server. A portion of the media content includes a first item concurrently depicted with a second item. The method includes receiving an input indicating a selection of the second item within the media content. The method includes, in response to the input, sending an identification request for information corresponding to the second item to an identification server in response to the input. The identification request includes data relating to a depiction of the second item. The method also includes receiving the information from the identification server in response to the identification request.
US11166077B2
Systems and methods are described herein for displaying subjects of a portion of content. Media data of content is analyzed during playback, and a number of action signatures are identified. Each action signature is associated with a particular subject within the content. The action signature is stored, along with a timestamp corresponding to a playback position at which the action signature begins, in association with an identifier of the particular subject. Upon receiving a command, icons representing each of a number of action signatures at or near the current playback position are displayed. Upon receiving user selection of an icon corresponding to a particular signature, a portion of the content corresponding to the action signature is played back.
US11166076B2
The herein disclosed technology provides methods and systems for intelligently predicting viewer sentiments invoked by a collection of digital content (e.g., a web-based digital channel) based on an assessment of channel metadata, such as channel metadata defining an association between the channel and one or more other channels; channel history data for the channel; and demographic information about the channel.
US11166074B1
A computer-implemented method of creating customized programming content for a user of a media content system includes accessing a user interest profile for the user, the user interest profile comprising a ranked list of a plurality of interest categories; locating at least one media segment corresponding to each of the interest categories of the user interest profile; calculating the correlation between the user interest profile and data describing each of the located media segment, and ranking the media segments based on the correlation; assembling the media segments into a customized media programming stream based on the ranking; and displaying the customized media programming stream to the user.
US11166073B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for displaying scenes included in media assets. The technique includes selecting a first scene included in a first video asset based on one or more preferences and metadata associated with multiple scenes. The first video asset is one of multiple video assets, and each scene included in the multiple scenes is included in one of the video assets included in the multiple video assets. The technique further includes displaying the first scene within a first portion of a display area.
US11166068B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, over a communication network, a plurality of requests for frames of video content to provide to a mobile device. Further embodiments can include determining a first portion of the plurality of requests are for pre-fetch frames of the video content, and providing, over the communication network, the pre-fetch frames to the mobile device over a default bearer path. Additional embodiments can include determining a second portion of the plurality of requests are for emergent frames of the video content, and providing, over the communication network, the emergent frames to the mobile device over a dedicated bearer path. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11166065B1
Various client devices include displays and one or more image capture devices configured to capture video data. Different users of an online system are associated with client devices that exchange information captured by their respective image capture devices. When exchanging information, presentation of content to users associated with different client device may be initially synchronized across the client devices. To synchronize content presentation, a client device initiating presentation of the content transmits a request identifying the content and an initial time to other client devices. The initial time is greater than a maximum return time or latency in a network coupling the client devices and the online system from a time when the request is transmitted. A client device determined to be out of synchronization with one or more other client devices receives a command to modify a rate at which the content is presented to reestablish synchronization.
US11166054B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for identification of local commercial insertion opportunities. Example apparatus for identification of local commercial insertion opportunities include a media comparator to compare respective instances of media conveyed in respective ones of a plurality of broadcast signals associated with affiliates of a national broadcaster to identify a broadcast interval having different media conveyed among at least some of the broadcast signals. The example apparatus also include an insertion opportunity identifier to determine whether the broadcast interval is associated with a local advertisement insertion opportunity based on a characteristic of the broadcast interval.
US11166049B2
A set-top box with an interactive portal and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the set-top box, the set-top box is deployed to provide an interactive portal in a hospitality establishment having multiple rooms, such as a hotel. The set-top box is associated with a room and includes a housing that secures a television input, a television output, a processor, a transceiver, and memory therein in an interconnected bus architecture. The set-top box generates a default interactive portal as well as a guest-specific interactive portal, which is generated from a guest configuration profile having information including guest identification, a guest channel preference presentation, and a guest service preference presentation with guest account information. The guest configuration profile may also enable the creation of a local area wireless network with substantially the same behavior as the guest's home wireless network.
US11166045B2
An image decoding method according to the present invention comprises the steps of: deriving, from a bitstream, quantized transform coefficients for a block to be decoded; deriving transform coefficients through dequantization on the basis of the quantized transform coefficients for the block to be decoded; determining a transform configuration group for the block to be decoded; deriving a horizontal transform kernel and a vertical transform kernel on the basis of the transform configuration group and transform index information acquired from the bitstream; deriving residual samples by performing a separable transform on the basis of the horizontal transform kernel and the vertical transform kernel; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the residual samples and prediction samples of the block to be decoded, wherein the transform configuration group includes an identity transform kernel as a candidate transform kernel for the horizontal transform kernel or the vertical transform kernel. According to the present invention, the efficiency of residual coding can be improved.
US11166044B2
A method of controlling residual coding for decoding or encoding of a video sequence, is performed by at least one processor and includes determining whether a small transform size of a primary transform is to be used for the residual coding of a coded block of the video sequence. The method further includes based on the small transform size of the primary transform being determined to be used, identifying, as the primary transform, a first transform set including discrete sine transform (DST)-4 and discrete cosine transform (DCT)-4, based on the small transform size of the primary transform being determined to not be used, identifying, as the primary transform, a second transform set including DST-7 and DCT-8, and performing the residual coding of the coded block, using the identified primary transform.
US11166043B2
Decoding an encoded data signal representing a multi-view video sequence representing an omnidirectional video and having a first view and a second view. The decoding includes reading from the signal parameters to obtain a homographic matrix, representing transformation of a plane of the second view into a plane of the second view. An image of the second view has an active zone including pixels which, when projected via the homographic matrix onto an image of the first view, are included in the image of the first view. An image of the second view is decoded by generating a reference image having pixel values determined from previously reconstructed pixels of an image of the first view and the homographic matrix and, for a block of the image of the second view, the reference image generated is included in the list of reference images when the block belongs to the active zone.
US11166041B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises processing circuitry to: receive, via a communication interface, a compressed video stream captured by a camera, wherein the compressed video stream comprises: a first compressed frame; and a second compressed frame, wherein the second compressed frame is compressed based at least in part on the first compressed frame, and wherein the second compressed frame comprises a plurality of motion vectors; decompress the first compressed frame into a first decompressed frame; perform pixel-domain object detection to detect an object at a first position in the first decompressed frame; and perform compressed-domain object detection to detect the object at a second position in the second compressed frame, wherein the object is detected at the second position in the second compressed frame based on: the first position of the object in the first decompressed frame; and the plurality of motion vectors from the second compressed frame.
US11166040B2
An apparatus for decoding a video signal, the apparatus comprising a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: configure a Motion Vector Prediction (MVP) candidate list for motion compensation of a current block through one of a first method and a second method, acquire a motion vector predictor of the current block, based on the configured MVP candidate list, acquire a motion vector differential value indicating a difference between a motion vector of the current block and the motion vector predictor, modify the motion vector differential value, based on a resolution of the motion vector differential value of the current block, acquire the motion vector of the current block, based on the motion vector predictor and the modified motion vector differential value, and reconstruct the current block, based on the acquired motion vector.
US11166039B2
The present invention relates to a method and a device for decoding an image, which improve encoding and decoding efficiency by performing various forms of transform and inverse transform during transform and inverse transform processes of a video coding technique.
US11166036B2
Disclosed are an image processing method and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, the image processing method comprises the steps of: obtaining an intra prediction mode; obtaining a reference sample using a neighboring sample of the current block; determining whether to perform filtering on the reference sample; filtering the reference sample if it is determined to perform the filtering; and generating a prediction block using the reference sample or the filtered reference sample on the basis of the prediction mode, wherein the current block is a non-square block, the reference sample comprises a left reference sample and a top reference sample, and whether to perform the filtering is determined on the basis of at least one of a current block parameter or a surrounding block parameter.
US11166035B1
The present disclosure discloses a method and device for transcoding a video, which belongs to the video processing technology. The method includes: acquiring a target frame image of a video to be transcoded, and generating a global feature map of the target frame image based on a feature extraction module of a semantic segmentation model; performing feature segmentation on the global feature map based on a feature segmentation module of the semantic segmentation model, and determining a multi-level ROI of the target frame image; and using different transcoding rates to transcode the multi-level ROI and other regions of the target frame image respectively.
US11166014B2
Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for video decoding and a method and apparatus for video encoding. A prediction block for a target block is generated by predicting the target block using a prediction network, and a reconstructed block for the target block is generated based on the prediction block and a reconstructed residual block. The prediction network includes an intra-prediction network and an inter-prediction network and uses a spatial reference block and/or a temporal reference block when it performs prediction. For learning in the prediction network, a loss function is defined, and learning in the prediction network is performed based on the loss function.
US11166011B2
Sample adaptive offset (SAO) in accordance with video coding. SAO filtering may be performed before de-blocking processing (e.g., in accordance with video signal decoding and/or encoding). For example, a receiver and/or decoder communication device may receive signaling from a transmitter and/or encoder communication device that includes various band offsets. Corresponding band indices may be determined via analysis of the received video signal (e.g., received from the transmitter and/or encoder communication device), inferentially without requiring signaling of such band indices from the transmitter and/or encoder communication device. Upon appropriate analysis of one or more largest coding units (LCUs) generated from the video signal to determine a pixel value distribution (e.g., which may be using a histogram in one instance), then based on that pixel value distribution, the band indices are identified and the band offsets applied thereto.
US11166008B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for displaying content. In an aspect, a plurality of content items can be displayed on one user device according to user preference. An example method can comprise positioning a first set of pixels associated with a user device so that first content displayed via the first set of pixels can be viewable in a first viewing location. A second set of pixels associated with the user device can be positioned so that second content displayed via the second set of pixels can be viewable in a second viewing location. The second content can be different from the first content.
US11166007B2
Systems, devices, and methods disclosed herein may generate captured views and a plurality of intermediate views within a pixel disparity range, Td, the plurality of intermediate views being extrapolated from the captured views.
US11165995B2
A wearable form factor wireless camera may include an image sensor for capturing video, the image sensor powered by a battery internal to the wearable form factor wireless camera. The camera may be ruggedized and attached attach to clothing worn on a user. Further, the camera may include a burst transmission unit to transmit video via a cellular network, and include video analytics software executed by an internal processor, coupled to a buffering memory and powered by the battery. The camera may also include an internal storage device powered by the battery and configured to store video information at a first fidelity, the stored video information capable of being transmitted to a base station at the first fidelity and at a second fidelity. Also, the first fidelity may provide higher video quality than the second fidelity. The camera may switch the second fidelity to the first fidelity upon a trigger.
US11165994B2
A method of displaying surveillance video streams is provided that includes receiving surveillance video streams generated by a plurality of video cameras, and displaying a selected subset of the surveillance video streams in a summary view on at least one display device, wherein, for each surveillance video stream in the summary view, only a relevant portion of each frame in the surveillance video stream is displayed, and wherein a relevant portion is a subset of a frame for at least some of the surveillance video streams in the summary view.
US11165990B2
A hub apparatus (20) is designated to be used in a video communication system comprising the hub apparatus (20) and a plurality of mobile terminals (10a-10d) configured to be wirelessly connectable to the hub apparatus (20). The hub apparatus (20) comprises: a receiving unit (24) configured to receive from each mobile terminal (10) of the plurality of mobile terminals (10a-10d) a video stream, a current speaker indicator to indicate whether the user of the mobile terminal is speaking and an association information which associates the current speaker indicator transmitted by the mobile terminal with the video stream transmitted from such mobile terminal (10), and a generation unit (40) operatively connected to said receiving unit (24) and configured to generate an output video communication stream (6) based on the plurality of video streams received from each mobile terminal (10) of the plurality of mobile terminals (10a-10d), on the plurality of current speaker indicators received from each mobile terminal (10) of the plurality of mobile terminals (10a-10d) and on the plurality of association information received from each mobile terminal (10) of the plurality of mobile terminals (10a-10d).
US11165984B2
A camera system with a complementary pixlet structure and a method of operating the same are provided. The camera system includes an image sensor that includes at least one 2×2 pixel block including a first pixel, a second pixel, and two third pixels—the two third pixels are disposed at positions diagonal to each other in the 2×2 pixel block and include deflected small pixlets, which are deflected in opposite directions to be symmetrical to each other with respect to each pixel center, and large pixlets adjacent to the deflected small pixlets, respectively, and each pixlet includes an photodiode converting an optical signal to an electrical signal and a depth calculator that receives images acquired from the deflected small pixlets of the two third pixels and calculates a depth between the image sensor and an object using a parallax between the images.
US11165982B1
A photo sensor includes a plurality of pixel blocks, each including one or more anchor pixels and one or more non-anchor pixels. The anchor pixels produce first sensor signals and the non-anchor pixels produce second sensor signals. An amplifier circuit amplifies the first and second sensor signals. A variable bit-depth analog to digital converter (ADC) circuit quantizes amplified versions of the first sensor signals into first digitized sensor signals with a first bit-depth. The ADC circuit also quantizes amplified versions of the second sensor signals into second digitized sensor signals with a second bit-depth that is lower than the first bit depth. The second bit-depth may be selected based on anchor pixel statistics derived from the one or more first digitized sensor signals.
US11165977B2
An imaging system may include an image sensor having an image sensor. The image sensor may include an image sensor pixel array coupled to row control circuitry and column readout circuitry. The image sensor pixel array may include a plurality of image sensor pixels. Each image sensor pixel may include a photosensitive element configured to generate charge in response to incident light, a first charge storage structure configured to accumulate an overflow portion of the generated charge for a low gain signal and a second charge storage structure configured to store a remaining portion of the generated charge for a high gain signal. Each image sensor pixel may also include a dedicated overflow charge storage structure interposed between the first charge storage structure and a floating diffusion region.
US11165975B2
A vehicular imaging system includes a camera with an imaging sensor. A first spectral filter is disposed at each pixel of a first set of photosensing pixels, a second spectral filter is disposed at each pixel of a second set of photosensing pixels, and each pixel of a third set of photosensing pixels senses at least near infrared radiation. Image data provided to the image processor includes output of the first set of photosensing pixels, output of the second set of photosensing pixels and output of the third set of photosensing pixels. The outputs of the photosensing pixels of the first and second sets of photosensing pixels are processed for a color camera function of the vehicle. The output of the photosensing pixels of the third set of photosensing pixels is processed for a night vision function of the vehicle.
US11165974B2
An image processing apparatus which extracts a region of a foreground object in a captured image obtained by an imaging unit, and controls a display unit to display an output image formed by superimposing, on a predetermined image, a first image formed by anonymizing the extracted region, and a second image formed by anonymizing a region designated by a user on the captured image, wherein an appearance of the second image is different from an appearance of the first image, a region of a foreground object is extracted from a region other than at least the designated region in the captured image, and even when the designated region contains the foreground object, the first image in the designated region is not displayed on the output image.
US11165969B1
A system and method for capturing images of an object upon which retroreflective materials have been applied, wherein at least some of the retroreflective materials appear to glow in the image or video being captured. An array of LEDs is provided that operates in different color frequency ranges. The color frequency ranges correspond to the reflectivity profile of the retroreflective materials that are applied to the object being imaged. The LEDs are attached to the camera, wherein the LEDs shine light in a same direction as the line of sight of the camera. The LEDs being activated during image capture can be varied. The light from the colored sets of LEDs causes retroreflective materials to appear. When recorded with the camera, the resulting images cause the retroreflective materials to glowing brightly in contrast to other objects in the captured image.
US11165959B2
Techniques are described for automated operations involving acquiring and analyzing information from an interior of a house, building or other structure, for use in generating and providing a representation of that interior. Such techniques may include using a user's mobile device to capture video data from multiple viewing locations (e.g., 360° video at each viewing location) within multiple rooms, and capturing data linking the multiple viewing locations (e.g., by recording video, acceleration and/or other data from the mobile device as the user moves between the two viewing locations), creating a panorama image for each viewing location, analyzing the linking information to model the user's travel path and determine relative positions/directions between at least some viewing locations, creating inter-panorama links in the panoramas to each of one or more other panoramas based on such determined positions/directions, and providing information to display multiple linked panorama images to represent the interior.
US11165957B2
An imagery processing system determines alternative pixel color values for pixels of captured imagery where the alternative pixel color values are obtained from alternative sources. A main imagery capture device, such as a camera, captures main imagery such as still images and/or video sequences, of a live action scene. Alternative devices capture imagery of the live action scene, in some spectra and form, and that alternative imagery is processed to provide user-selectable alternatives for pixel ranges from the main imagery.
US11165956B2
An imaging apparatus includes an imager and an image converter. The imager captures an image of a subject to generate original image data representing the image captured with a predetermined resolution. The image converter performs a predetermined conversion process on the original image data. The image converter reduces a resolution of the original image data to generate first image data representing an entire image represented by the original image data with a resolution being lower than the resolution of the original image data. The image converter clips a part of the image represented by the original image data to generate second image data representing the part of the image clipped from the entire image represented by the original image data.
US11165951B2
A method, apparatus and a machine-readable medium, for capturing an image of a subject includes moving at least one of an image capture device and the subject relative to one another; monitoring, using a processor, an orientation of the subject relative to the image capture device; and upon determining, using a processor, that the subject is oriented in a defined orientation relative to the image capture device, capturing an image of the subject in the defined orientation using the image capture device.
US11165936B2
An embodiment comprises a lens driving part including a lens, a connection substrate connected to the lens driving part, and a connector part connected to the connection substrate. The connector part comprises a substrate including, on the upper surface thereof, a cavity and a ground layer, a noise shield part located within the cavity of the substrate and contacting the ground layer, and a reinforcement member located on the noise shield part. The reinforcement member is located in the cavity of the substrate and on the upper surface of the substrate. In a top view, the length of one side of the noise shield part is less than the length of one side of the cavity of the substrate.
US11165931B2
An image forming apparatus that prints an adjustment pattern on a sheet includes a generator and an image former. The adjustment pattern is for correcting a color value obtained by reading a second patch region on the sheet with a second reader based on a color value obtained by reading a first patch region on the sheet with a first reader. The generator generates image data of the adjustment pattern, and the image former performs printing based on the image data. The adjustment pattern includes a first patch printed in the first patch region and a second patch printed in a region other than the first patch region in the second patch region. The second patch includes a common color patch in a same color as a color of the first patch, and a size of the first patch is larger than a size of the second patch.
US11165929B2
An encrypted gallery management system and an implementation method thereof, comprising a management server and at least one information device, wherein the system converts one or more sets of corresponding time digital information into a time digital information totem and an encryption key totem, the time digital information totem and the encryption key totem are synthesized into an encrypted image. After user scans the encrypted image with his information device to obtain the totems, the information device can upload the totems to the management server for verification and comparison so that the management server is enabled to respond a specific service information to the information device so as to restrict the access of the information and thus prevent other unauthorized persons from obtaining the service information.
US11165919B2
An image forming apparatus includes a communication section, an operation section, a sound generating section, and a control section. The communication section is communicably connected to an external terminal. The operation section is operated by the external terminal. The sound generating section generates sound when the operation section is operated. The control section controls the sound generating section. The operation section has an operation accepting section that accepts an operation by an operator. The control section determines whether the operation section is operated by the external terminal or operated by the operator when the operation section is operated. When determining that the operation section is operated by the external terminal, the control section prohibits generation of sound by the sound generating section. When determining that the operation section is operated by the operator, the control section permits the generation of the sound by the sound generating section.
US11165918B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to perform control of a display. The control is performed to display a sub screen on a first main screen if an execution instruction for a job is given. The sub screen includes information regarding a progress state of the job. The control is performed to display a progress state of the job on a second main screen in a case where an operation by a user is needed after the execution instruction for the job is given. The progress state displayed on the second main screen is displayed with more information than the information regarding the progress state of the job included in the sub screen.
US11165914B2
A light emitting diode (LED) which is turned ON by a local area network (LAN) controller, is controlled to be turned ON by a central processing unit (CPU), which executes a program, in accordance with an execution status of the program.
US11165908B2
Techniques for benchmarking pairing strategies in a contact center system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for benchmarking pairing strategies in a contact center system comprising: determining for each contact of a plurality of contacts, an associated plurality of historical contact assignments; determining, for each contact, an associated outcome value; partitioning, for each contact, the associated plurality of historical assignments into a first associated subset assigned using a first pairing strategy and a second associated subset assigned using a second pairing strategy; determining, for each contact, a first portion of the associated outcome value attributable to the first associated subset and a second portion of the associated outcome value attributable to the second associated subset; outputting a difference in performance between the first and second pairing strategies according to the first and second associated portions of the associated outcome value for each contact.
US11165906B1
A method and apparatus for providing prior-caller location and/or identity into a public-safety answering point is provided herein. During operation, a device such as a smart phone will store location and identity information for recently-received calls. If the device places a call to a PSAP within a predetermined amount of time from when the prior call was received at the device, a flag is sent to the PSAP operator notifying the PSAP operator of the prior call. The PSAP operator can then inquire about the prior call. The caller is then allowed to electronically transfer location and identity information related to the prior call to the PSAP operator if they wish to do so.
US11165904B2
Provided is an electronic apparatus including an in-vehicle determiner, and a notification determiner. An in-vehicle determiner executes in-vehicle determination in which whether a first user being a user of the electronic apparatus is present in a vehicle. A notification determiner executes a determination process in which whether the electronic apparatus notifies outside the electronic apparatus based on a result of the in-vehicle determination.
US11165903B1
Disclosed are an apparatus for transmitting a message and a method thereof that perform a preset message transmission function or a preset line break function by selecting a character key on a message input screen displayed on the apparatus for transmitting a message and then pressing another character key displayed in a preset color around the selected character key for a preset time or longer so that the efficiency of keyboard input is enhanced and the convenience of a user inputting text is improved.
US11165898B2
A mobile terminal includes: a shell; a display screen arranged on a surface of the shell, the display screen including first and second display regions; a first vibration component, arranged in the shell and on a back surface of the first display region; a second vibration component, arranged in the shell and on a back surface of the second display region; a processor, arranged in the shell and configured to determine a form of the display screen, the display screen having a folded and unfolded form, the first and second display regions being overlapped in the folded form and separated in the unfolded form; and a controller, arranged in the shell and connected with the processor and the first and second vibration components, the controller being configured to control vibration amplitudes of the first and the second vibration components according to the determined form of the display screen.
US11165896B2
A portable terminal is provided for operation in a first mode in which information is provided on a first curved surface area or a second mode in which information is provided on a second curved surface area, and controlling the display to provide, in response to an occurrence of an event while in the first mode, information related to the event on the first curved surface area, and provide, in response to the occurrence of the event while in the second mode, information related to the event on the second curved surface area.
US11165895B2
Modular digital camera systems, such as modular digital still and motion cameras are disclosed. Individual modules may be removed from the system and replaced, such as to benefit from upgraded technology, while preserving the remaining modules in the system. According to certain aspects, the modular camera system includes cellphone functionality and multiple cameras.
US11165890B2
A secure client-server connection method compatible with RESTful (REpresentational State Transfer) APIs (Application Programming Interface) that is resistant to cross-site scripting (XSS) and cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. The server generates a token for the client and a random value which it pairs with the token. The random value is hashed. The hash value is transmitted to the client contained in the token and the random value is transmitted to the client contained in an HTTPOnly cookie. Even if an attacker steals the token and/or the hash, security is maintained, since the server verifies communications from the client by validating the token on the basis of its hash value. Validation is performed by the server hashing the random value contained in the HTTPOnly cookie paired with the token to obtain a further hash value, and checking that this further hash value matches the token's hash value.
US11165881B2
An approach includes a system implemented in a computer infrastructure including a processor. The approach further includes the processor configured to receive dimensionally aware linkages. The approach further includes the processor configured to retrieve aggregated data from a data set. The approach further includes the processor configured to identify at least one affinity cluster related to the dimensionally aware linkages in at least two dimensions and the retrieved aggregated data by performing at least one lookup linkage which matches at least one dimension of the at least two dimensions of the dimensionally aware linkages with the retrieved aggregated data. The approach further includes the processor configured to provide personalized content to a user having same or similar user preferences as the received dimensionally aware linkages based on the identified at least one affinity cluster.
US11165879B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for providing failover and load clustering features to one or more proxy servers of a content delivery network (CDN). In one embodiment, one or more proxy servers may announce a virtual host internet protocol (IP) and, to provide a failover feature, two or more of the proxy servers may also announce a more generic virtual network IP address that includes a broader range of IP addresses associated with the virtual network IP address. In another embodiment, each of the proxy servers in communication with the router may announce a generic IP network address to the router. In response to receiving a request for content from an end user of the CDN, the router may select a proxy server and load balance the received requests among the proxy servers.
US11165878B2
Embodiments for automated content delivery to high-speed data service client using redirection of IP service flows independent of physical media delivery mechanisms add, by a backend environment, an Internet gateway media access control (MAC) address to a content triggered service; send, by the backend environment, a request to a re-direct system for the Internet gateway MAC address to be added to a re-direct list; route, by the backend environment, all Internet traffic to the content playback system; display, by the content playback system, content to a subscribing user until a quota is achieved; and instruct the re-direct system to remove the Internet gateway MAC address from the re-direct list, thereby enabling user devices operatively coupled to the Internet gateway unfettered, monitored Internet access; set a usage threshold; and, in response to the usage threshold expiring, instruct the re-direct system to add the Internet gateway MAC address to the re-direct list.
US11165874B2
Methods and apparatus for providing multi-provider services in a virtualised network. The method in a first lifecycle management, LCM component, in a virtual network; wherein the virtual network comprises trusted provider configured to provide a decentralised trust system between a plurality of LCM components controlled by different service providers in the virtual network. The method comprises storing a detailed description of one or more local services that the first service provider is capable of providing; generating a local tag representative of the one or more local services, wherein the local tag comprises less detail about the one or more local services than the detailed description; and enrolling with the decentralised trust system using the local tag.
US11165872B2
The present application provides a method, device, and system for requesting remote services. The method includes determining, by one or more processors, a special request frame, the special request frame comprising an extensible field, the extensible field comprising remote service request information, and the special request frame being a frame for terminal-access point mutual discovery according to a communication protocol for communication between a terminal and an access point, communicating the special request frame to an access point, and obtaining, by the one or more processors, information pertaining to a remote service provided by a service, the information pertaining to the remote service being based at least in part on the remote service request information.
US11165860B2
A distributed computing system uses dynamically calculates a subset size for each of a plurality of load balancers. Each of a plurality of load balancers logs requests from client devices for connections to back-end servers and periodically sends a request report to a traffic aggregator, which aggregates the report requests from the load balancers in the corresponding zone. Each traffic aggregator sends the aggregated request data to a traffic controller, which aggregates the request data to determine a total number of requests received at the system. The total request data is transmitted through each traffic aggregator to each load balancer instance, which calculates a percentage of the total number of requests produced by the load balancer and determines a subset size based on the calculated percentage.
US11165856B2
The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods of detecting a cause of anomalous load balancing among a plurality of servers. A device intermediary to a plurality of clients and a plurality of servers collects values of a plurality of counters. The device identifies a server of the plurality of servers that is an outlier. The device can identify a counter of the plurality of counters that is an outlier based on at least a comparison of values of each of the plurality of counters for each of the plurality of servers. The device can provide, responsive to the determination, an indication that a value of the counter is a factor causing the server to have uneven load balancing during the time interval.
US11165855B2
A networked computer system distributes content that is to be added to receipts by receipt issuing devices. The system includes a central server, first and second store servers communicating with the central server over a first network, first receipt issuing devices communicating with the first store server over a first local network, and second receipt issuing devices communicating with the second store server over a second local network. A first control plane is implemented in the central server to control whether or not the content is to be distributed to the first store server and whether or not the content is to be distributed to the second store server. A second control plane is implemented in the first and second store servers to control whether or not the content is to be distributed to the first and second receipt issuing devices, respectively.
US11165851B2
A system and method for providing security to a network may include identifying a message sent over a network, the message related to a data transfer from an initiator to a target node, and transmitting, over the network, at least one disruptive message that causes the data transfer to fail.
US11165849B2
An system and method of adaptively transporting large data assets to meet desired transfer speed and cost, includes selecting folders containing files having the data, receiving input of the desired transfer speed and cost, selecting a destination memory device, reading a file header of the files for the selected folders to obtain header information, determining a file type and file size based on the header information, determining a large file size threshold based on the desired transfer speed and cost and previously measured transfer speed. When the file size of a file is above the large file size threshold, dividing the file into two or more file parts in accordance with the file type, transferring the one or more files, including any of the file parts, using a number of parallel transport machine instances, measuring a total speed of the transfer, and storing the measured total speed for use as the previously measured transfer speed.
US11165845B2
Processing video for low-bandwidth transmission may be complex. At a content source embodiment of methods disclosed herein may include assigning the content identifier as a function of content in a packet of a packet stream on a packet-by-packet basis. The method may further comprise forwarding the content identifier with the packet to enable a downstream network node or device to effect prioritization of the packet within the packet stream. The downstream network node or device may make drop decisions that are guided by a content identifier. Packets, or video frames that contain useful information may be prioritized and have a higher probability of being delivered.
US11165835B2
Systems and methods for providing a dynamically expandable conference call system using load balancing are described herein. Various examples use a media replication server. The media replication server accesses state information of one or more media control units. The state information is used to instantiate one or more media control unit high availability pairs. The media replication server further replicates media received into the conference call system by transmitting the received media to both an active media control unit and a standby media control unit. The media replication server may make modifications to the media control units handling a conference call to adjust for varying conditions such as a failure of one or more of the media control units or the addition of clients to the conference call.
US11165834B2
A particular computing device providing service to a user device may become unavailable. If a computing device becomes unavailable, a backup computing device may be requested to provide services to user devices on a temporary basis to allow call completion. Messages to the backup computing device instance may indicate the basis for service issues and prompt further action by the computing device, such as registration with an alternative computing device or re-registration with a computing device that was determined to be unavailable.
US11165818B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for utilizing an access log of a proxy server device of a content delivery network (CDN) to detect and mitigate a denial of service (DOS) on a web or content server hosted by the CDN. Through an analysis of the content requests received at the proxy server listed in the access logs, one or more IP addresses may be identified as involved in a potential DOS attack or other suspicious behavior. Once identified, the suspicious activities of the one or more IP addresses may be tracked and aggregated over a particular period of time, with each detected suspicious request to the content server being counted. The count of suspicious requests to the content server may then be compared to one or more threshold values and a remediation action may occur when the thresholds are met or exceeded.
US11165811B2
Computer security vulnerability assessment is performed with product binary data and product vulnerability data that correspond with product identification data. A correspondence between the product binary data and the product vulnerability data is determined, and a binaries-to-vulnerabilities database is generated. The binaries-to-vulnerabilities database is used to scan binary data from a target device to find matches with the product binary data. A known security vulnerability of the target device is determined based on the scanning and the correspondence between the product binary data and the vulnerability data. In some embodiments, the target device is powered off and used as an external storage device to receive the binary data therefrom.
US11165809B2
A system method and computer media for detection of potential cyber security vulnerabilities in a computer network are described; the system includes an interface configured for receiving a log file of a target computer system, an analyzing module, a mapping module configured to map a plurality of potential entrance points, a code generator for generating a computer code for exterior intrusion and a testing server configured for transmitting the computer code to the target system and collecting at least one response member, transmitted in response to the computer code.
US11165802B2
Systems and methods may be used to assess network communications by generating one or more thresholds for network traffic parameters based at least in part on a generated baseline for the network traffic parameter in the supervisory control and data acquisition system based on communications within the industrial network. Network communications may be assessed by determining whether the communications in the industrial network fall within the one or more thresholds for the network traffic parameter.
US11165800B2
Provided are systems and methods for a cloud security system that learns patterns of user behavior and uses the patterns to detect anomalous behavior in a network. Techniques discussed herein include obtaining activity data from a service provider system. The activity data describes actions performed during use of a cloud service over a period of time. A pattern corresponding to a series of actions performed over a subset of time can be identified. The pattern can be added a model associated with the cloud service. The model represents usage of the cloud service by the one or more users. Additional activity data can be obtained from the service provider system. Using the model, a set of actions can be identified in the additional activity data that do not correspond to the model. The set of actions and an indicator that identifies the set of actions as anomalous can be output.
US11165790B2
A malicious communication log detection device compresses first character strings representing characteristics of a communication log that is known to be malicious or benign, and second character strings obtained by coupling the first character strings with a character string representing a characteristic of a target communication log. The malicious communication log detection device calculates a score for determining whether the target communication log is malicious or benign based on a data size of the compressed first character strings and a data size of the compressed second character strings. The malicious communication log detection device determines whether the target communication log is malicious or benign based on the calculated score and a predetermined parameter.
US11165789B1
Application interactions are seamlessly moved between clients of a software platform. An application-based interaction initiated at a first client for which use by an operator is pre-authenticated is detected. An indication of the application-based interaction is signaled to one or more other clients for which use by the operator is pre-authenticated. A determination is made to switch the application-based interaction to a second client of those other clients. The application-based interaction is switched from the first client to the second client while the application-based interaction remains in progress, such as using a communication channel opened between the first client and the second client. The operator may then continue and eventually terminate the application-based interaction at the second client.
US11165785B1
Selective validation of subgroups of users against group rule parameters is performed to validate group rule parameters for a dynamic group rule. An administrator defines the group rule parameters and selects individual user accounts which are either expected to be included within and/or excluded from a full membership list for the dynamic group rule. For example, the administrator may select first user accounts that are expected to be included within the full membership list and/or second user accounts that are expected to be excluded from the full membership list. Then, a subgroup validation report is generated to inform the administrator whether or not individual user accounts from the subgroup of user accounts satisfy the group rule parameters and, therefore, will be included within the full membership list of the dynamic group rule. The subgroup validation report reveals the efficacy of the group rule parameters.
US11165783B1
Systems and methods for quantifying permissiveness of access control policies using model counting techniques and automated policy downscaling are disclosed. A policy service receives an initial access policy and transforms the access policy into an access constraint compatible with a constraint solver. The policy service determines a degree of permissiveness of the policy based on a number of distinct solutions to the access constraint identified by the constraint solver. Using data associated with access requests precisely allowed by the initial access policy and the initial access policy, the policy service generates a modified policy by adding additional constraints to the access policy and determining that the modified policy is less permissive than the initial access policy.
US11165774B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for delegating authentication to certificate authorities. A first request for a certificate is received from a client device. Then a certificate request can be created. The certificate request may include a credential identifier for a certificate authority. The credential identifier may uniquely identify an authentication credential to use to request the certificate from certificate authority. The certificate request can then be added to a message queue. Later, a second request from another computing device is received and the message stored in the message queue is provided in response. A certificate is then received from the other computing device and is provided to the client device in response to the first request.
US11165773B2
A network device, including two interfaces for connecting to an access-protected access point of a data network and to a network component which is to be allowed access to the data network via the access point is provided. The network device is designed to be authenticated at the access point using authentication data when the access point is connected and the network component is connected and to allow the connected network component to access the data network via the access point in the event of a successful authentication at least for network components which satisfy one or more specified criteria.
US11165760B2
Provided are techniques for increasing security of objects in cloud environments by using a two-part encryption scheme. Objects to be stored in a cloud node are received. A number of keys to be used is determined. That number of keys are obtained. A sequence for the keys is obtained. The keys are concatenated using the sequence to form a concatenated key. The concatenated key is hashed to form an encryption key. Each of the objects is encrypted using the encryption key to form encrypted objects.
US11165750B1
In general, techniques are described for creating a flexible services-based pipeline for firewall filter processing. A network device may be configured to perform the techniques. In one example, a method includes receiving, by a network device, data defining a plurality of firewall filter processing services, the data defining an order in which to apply services of the plurality of firewall filter processing services to firewall filters; configuring, by the network device and based on the received data, an execution engine pipeline to include the plurality of firewall filter processing services in the defined order; prior to programming a received firewall filter to hardware of the network device for filtering network traffic, processing the firewall filter by the execution engine pipeline to produce a processed firewall filter; and programming, by the network device, the processed firewall filter to the hardware for filtering the network traffic.
US11165745B2
There is provided a technique for attaining a state in which communication can be made even when the same control program is used in controllers. Each of the controllers includes: a network setting including a corresponding relation between an IP address and an identifier; and a storage device that stores a control program for controlling a drive device. The control program includes a control instruction for controlling the drive device with the identifier being an input. Each of the controller includes: a generation module that generates an IP address to be different from an IP address of another controller on the same network, and that rewrites the IP address in the network setting; and a communication module that communicates with an information processing device on the same network in accordance with the IP address in the network setting.
US11165744B2
An example network device executes a plurality of virtual machines (VMs). The network device is configured to determine to assign a number of Internet protocol (IP) addresses to the plurality of VMs, the number of IP addresses being greater than two, determine a first IP address, determine a range value that is equal to or greater than the number of IP addresses, generate a message according to Duplicate Address Protocol (DAD) including data indicating that the message includes a range of addresses, the data further indicating the first IP address and the range value; and send the message according to DAD via the network interface to one or more network devices to determine whether any IP address in a range starting with the first IP address and through the range value is in use by the one or more network devices.
US11165737B2
An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires an information group in which an abbreviated name is used, a specification unit that specifies a position where the abbreviated name is used in the information group from a type of information group acquired, a first extraction unit that extracts the abbreviated name from the specified position, a second extraction unit that extracts a formal name on the basis of a character related to the information group, and an association unit that associates the abbreviated name and the formal name with each other.
US11165734B1
A method of sharing an item from an external resource comprises displaying a user interface for the external resource in a messaging application and navigating within the external resource based on user input received in the user interface presented in the messaging application. Upon receipt of selection of an item or state within the external resource based on user input, the identity of one or more recipients is obtained. Information representing the item or state is then transmitted to a device of at least one recipient and information representing the item or state is displayed in a chat interface of a messaging application running on a device of the recipient(s).
US11165727B2
Technologies are presented directed to uploading of attachments to a relevant group cloud storage at send time. A communication application and/or service may suggest to a user to upload an attachment of an outgoing communication to a group cloud storage upon generation of the communication. Suggestion of group may be based on last use, document type, content, user(s), which account the user is in, and comparable factors. The user (or sender) may also be provided with options to set permissions for the attachment based on the upload destination selection. In some examples, upload of work documents to personal cloud storage may be prevented and suitable groups may be selected for user that are part of multiple groups.
US11165718B2
A physical layer device for transmitting and receiving Ethernet data includes a transmit path including a first transmitter configured to operate at a first speed, communicate with a first medium access controller (MAC), and transmit first Ethernet data from the MAC on a cable. A receive path includes a first receiver configured to operate at a second speed that is different than the first speed, communicate with the first MAC, and receive second Ethernet data from the cable and output the second Ethernet data to the first MAC.
US11165715B2
In a smartphone or a personal computer, when there is an application which performs communication which a user is unconscious of, a communication volume increases unintentionally, and there arise problems in that a maximum communication volume is exceed, a network bandwidth of a base station is compressed, or communication being intentionally performed is disturbed. In order to solve the above problems, provided is a communication control method used in a communication control device capable of performing communication using an application via a communication line, and includes an application control step of switching a plurality of applications between a foreground state and a background state and a communication control step of changing an allocation amount of a network bandwidth of an application in accordance with whether the switched application is in the foreground state or the background state.
US11165701B1
A network device may receive, from a first network, a network packet of a first network packet type that encapsulates a fragment of a second network packet of a second network packet type, where the network packet is part of a flow of a plurality of network packets of the first network packet type that encapsulates fragments of the second network packet, and where the network packet includes a flow label that indicates a source port for the second network packet. The network device may perform an anti-spoof check on the fragment of the second network packet based at least in part on the source port for the second network packet that is indicated by the flow label of the network packet. The network device may, based on the fragment passing the anti-spoof check, forward the fragment of the second network packet to a second network.
US11165693B2
A network segment route and a host route are advertised to a Spine node; the network segment route advertised by the Spine node is learned; when a first packet hits the network segment route, the first packet is sent to a Spine node corresponding to a next hop of the hit network segment routes so that the Spine node sends the first packet to a Leaf node corresponding to a next hop of a host route hit by the first packet.
US11165692B2
Methods for packet forwarding using vendor extension in a software-defined networking (SDN) system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is implemented in an electronic device in a SDN system, where the electronic device serves as a network element. The method includes receiving a packet for forwarding, and determining that the packet matches a flow table entry of a flow table in the network element. The method continues with performing operations on the packet based one or more instructions of the flow table entry, where the one or more instructions contains an experimenter that matches a vendor extension identifier of a vendor extension table of the network element. Additionally, each vendor extension identifier of the vendor extension table identifies a set of function pointers for a set of functions, and the operations include execution of one or more of the set of functions.
US11165691B1
This disclosure describes techniques relating to assigning unique segment identifiers (SIDs) in a segment routing network. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes receiving, by a computing system and from a node on a network, a request to allocate a segment identifier for use in a segment routing network; allocating, by the computing system and from a block of addresses, an assigned segment identifier; responding to the request by outputting, by the computing system and over the network to the node, information about the assigned segment identifier; and maintaining the assigned segment identifier.
US11165674B2
An abnormality notification system includes a plurality of relay apparatuses that form a first ad-hoc network and communicate with other relay apparatuses, and a plurality of abnormality notification apparatuses attached to respective relay apparatuses. The abnormality notification apparatus forms a second ad-hoc network with another abnormality notifying apparatus attached to another relay apparatus, and notifies, when detecting an abnormality of the relay apparatus to which the abnormality notifying apparatus is attached, an abnormality notification indicating the abnormality via the second ad-hoc network to the other abnormality notifying apparatus attached to the other relay apparatus.
US11165672B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable for determining performance metrics of a network include obtaining, from a network assurance system, one or more network performance metrics, the network performance metrics corresponding to execution of one or more applications in a network domain. An Application Performance Management (APM) system provides one or more applications performance metrics, the applications performance metrics corresponding to execution of the one or more applications in an applications domain. The one or more network performance metrics are integrated with the one or more applications performance metrics to determine integrated performance metrics for the one or more applications across the network domain and the applications domain.
US11165669B2
An SDN communication system comprising a plurality of White Boxes and a plurality of servers, characterized in that all traffic to/from a plurality of mobile elements, to/from a plurality of broadband communication elements and to/from enterprises, is forwarded after it has been re-arranged based on pre-defined criteria via a single unified cloud, and wherein the unified cloud extends from a plurality of users to a core network, covering a Last Mile network, a Metro network and an Edge network.
US11165668B2
Methods, systems and computer program products are described for obtaining deployment signals comprising information relating to deployments of software components to a plurality of computing devices, obtaining fault signals comprising information relating to faults encountered by the plurality of computing devices, and obtaining device type information that describes a device type of each of the plurality of computing devices. Based on the deployment signals, fault signals, and device type information, a correlation score for each combination of software component, fault, and device type is obtained. Based on the correlation scores, attribution level decisions, fault type level decisions and device type level decisions are made. Based on these decisions, an overall decision is rendered whether to proceed or not proceed with a future deployment of the software component.
US11165667B2
A network-based data store maintaining storage volumes for file systems at storage clients may implement dynamic storage volume scaling. A scaling event may be detected according to a specified scaling policy for a storage volume maintained at a network-based data store that is mounted at a storage client and configured for a file system. In a least some embodiments, the scaling policy for the storage volume may be received from the storage client. In response to detecting the storage event, storage maintaining the storage volume may be modified according to the scaling policy to scale the storage volume. An indication of the scaling event may be sent to the storage client in order to update the file system at the storage client so that the file system may utilize the scaled storage volume.
US11165665B2
An apparatus obtains, from a first device, an identifier of a higher-order service for which occurrence of an abnormality or a possibility of being affected by an abnormality has been detected, where the first device searches for a range of effects of failure within a higher-order service layer that provides a higher-order service using a service provided in an object-service layer within a cloud service providing a layered structure of services. The apparatus determines a service within the object-service layer, which is reachable by tracing relations among services from the detected higher-order service, to be an in-effect-range service for which there is a possibility of being affected by an abnormality, and transmits the identifier of the in-effect-range service to a second device that searches for a range of effects of failure at a lower-order service layer that provides a lower-order service used to provide a service within the object-service layer.
US11165660B2
Provided are techniques for grouping resources based upon ownership in a cloud environment into a collection representing a composite application corresponding to a particular user; automatically monitoring the resources across two or more virtual machines and two or more physical computing devices; and displaying the monitored resources in a graphical user interface (GUI) in a context associated with the composite application for managing the composite application and the resources, wherein the resources are provided as one or more of a platform as service (PaaS) environment and an infrastructure as Service (IaaS) environment.
US11165650B1
A multi-fabric VLAN configuration system includes a first fabric with server devices that are configured to communicate using VLANs, a primary I/O module coupled to the server devices, and a first fabric management system coupled to the server devices and the primary I/O module. The first fabric management system identifies VLAN information associated with the VLANs, automatically configures the primary I/O module using the VLAN information, and causes the VLAN information to be transmitted by the primary I/O module. A second fabric in the multi-fabric VLAN configuration system includes a leaf switch device that is coupled to the primary I/O module and that receives the VLAN information, and a second fabric management system that is coupled to the leaf switch device and that receives the VLAN information from the leaf switch device, and automatically configures the leaf switch device using the VLAN information.
US11165646B1
A method may include assigning each node of a network to a different node cluster such that a number of nodes equals a number of node clusters and selecting multiple of the nodes of the network as a set of nodes. The method may further include solving a first optimization problem by reassigning one or more of the nodes of the set of nodes to a different node cluster while maintaining assigned node clusters of the nodes that are not part of the set of nodes and after solving the first optimization problem, selecting multiple of the node clusters as a set of node clusters. The method may also include solving a second optimization problem by merging two or more of the node clusters of the set of node clusters while maintaining the node clusters that are not part of the set of node clusters.
US11165645B2
Described embodiments provide systems and methods of maintaining message queues during deployments of application updates. A queue manager may maintain a first message queue including a first channel for messages between a first release and a second release. The first release and the second release may write to and read from the first message queue. The queue manager may establish, responsive to deployments, a second message queue including a second channel for messages between the first release and the second release. The queue manager may transfer, from the first message queue to the second message queue, the first channel. The first release and the second release may cease to write to and read from the first message queue.
US11165640B2
A software upgrade to be deployed by a cloud extension agent is received by a remote network management platform, the cloud extension agent running locally on a network and initiating an outbound connection to the remote network management platform through a firewall of the network. A command is generated for the software upgrade, the command comprising an identification of a source of the software upgrade. The command is provided to the cloud extension agent, wherein providing the command causes the cloud extension agent to acquire the software upgrade from the identified source and deploy the software upgrade.
US11165637B2
Systems and methods for managing a network are disclosed. One method can comprise determining presence of a first network device associated with a network. If the first network device is not present, a second network device can be configured to assume authority of the network. If the first network device is present, the second network device can be configured to join the network. Other aspects relate to providing services in an environment having multiple service providers.
US11165636B2
In one embodiment, a method is performed at a controller of a fabric that is connected to a first seed device in the fabric. The method includes obtaining a connectivity graph of the fabric including the first seed device. The method further includes causing the first seed device to send a first request to a first neighboring device in the connectivity graph via a first interface of the first seed device connectable to the first neighboring device. The method also includes assigning fabric component properties to devices in the fabric based at least in part on a first message from the first seed device, where the first seed device generates the first message based at least in part on a first response from the first neighboring device received via the first interface. The method additionally includes converting the first neighboring device to a second seed device in the fabric.
US11165632B2
Provided are a method of performing RRC establishment procedure a device supporting the method. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the method includes: configuring a master cell group (MCG) cell and a secondary cell group (SCG) cell; receiving configuration related to MCG failure; detecting the MCG failure on the MCG cell; suspending MCG bearer and MCG transmission of split bearer; and transmitting a message to the SCG cell based on the configuration.
US11165628B2
A system for secure transmission of business event notifications includes a memory, at least one processor, a service gateway configured to: publish application programming interfaces (APIs) for secure transmission of business event notifications, a notification server configured to: publish APIs for secure transmission of business event notifications corresponding to the APIs published by the service gateway, obtain a new business event to report, determine a partner to receive a notification of the new business event, transmit an event notification to the partner by way of the service gateway APIs, and register the event notification in a database.
US11165626B2
Examples described herein relate to method and system for managing events received from network devices. A management station may receive events from the network devices. Further, the management station may determine a delay based at least on a rate at which the events are received at the management station. Moreover, the management station may schedule processing of the events based on the delay.
US11165625B2
A network device intercepts, from an application associated with a user space, a request message associated with obtaining information regarding a network state from a kernel. The network device directs the request message to a service daemon of the user space based on intercepting the request message, and determines, using the service daemon, network state information regarding the network state. The network device intercepts, from the service daemon, a response message associated with providing the network state information to the application, and directs an altered response message to the application based on intercepting the response message such that the altered response message identifies the kernel as a source of the response message and not the service daemon as the source of the response message.
US11165621B2
In a mobile communication system using a mobile-type radio relay apparatus that forms a plurality of cells toward the ground or the sea while moving in an upper airspace, a deterioration in communication quality, which is caused by a Doppler shift of a reception signal due to a relative movement of a radio relay apparatus with respect to a terminal apparatus of each of a plurality of cells or a feeder station on the ground or on the sea, is suppressed. The communication system comprises a mobile-type radio relay apparatus that is disposed movably by flying in an upper airspace, forms a plurality of cells from an antenna at a predetermined altitude toward the ground or the sea, and performs a radio communication with a terminal apparatus located in each of the plurality of cells. The communication system comprises an estimation section for estimating a Doppler shift in at least one of a radio communication of a service link between the terminal apparatus located in the cell and the radio relay apparatus and a radio communication of a feeder link between the radio relay apparatus and a feeder station on the ground or on the sea, and a correction section for correcting a frequency of the at least one radio communication based on an estimation result of the Doppler shift.
US11165620B1
Physical layer processing methods for network acquisition by remote nodes in wireless communication systems are described herein. New methods for wireless network discovery and synchronization by remote nodes are described herein that utilize spatial (e.g., antenna array) processing algorithms which may achieve enhanced functioning in challenging radio frequency environments, such as those containing interference and multipath distortion effects. These methods may include advantageous use of spatial whiteners and associated pluralities of adaptive beamformers to detect network reference and synchronization signals and estimate their parameters.
US11165616B2
A base station configured to operate in accordance with a periodically repeated synchronization period is provided. The synchronization period comprises a plurality of successive pilot slots, the pilot slots being associated with groups of base stations in a one-to-one relationship. The base station is configured to be a member of a first group among the groups of base stations and to transmit, in each repetition of the synchronization period, one or more pilot signals in the pilot slot associated with the first group.
US11165612B2
A direct radiation wireless digital communication system based on a digital programmable metamaterial, including a transmitting system and a receiving system, where information transmitted by the transmitting system is loaded to a programmable metamaterial, and is directly radiated into free space in a form of an ever-changing far-field pattern under the illumination of a feeding antenna; the receiving system collects electric field values received by receiving antennas located at different positions of a far-field region to obtain a far-field pattern, and recovers the transmitted original information according to a mapping relationship between the far-field pattern and a coding sequence. The system does not require a digital-to-analog conversion module and a frequency mixing module. The system also features an inherent secrete communication in the physical level which protects the transmitted information from being intercepted at a single point or any random points, and has the capabilities of self-adaption and self-perception.
US11165611B2
Methods and systems are described for generating two comparator outputs by comparing a received signal to a first threshold and a second threshold according to a sampling clock, the first and second thresholds determined by an estimated amount of inter-symbol interference on a multi-wire bus, selecting one of the two comparator outputs as a data decision, the selection based on at least one prior data decision, and selecting one of the two comparator outputs as a phase-error decision, the phase error decision selected in response to identification of a predetermined data decision pattern.
US11165596B2
A method for inviting users to participate in activities comprises receiving from a first client device a recording of at least a part of an activity provided via the first client device to a first user and one or more parameters related to a configuration of the activity on the first client device, embedding an interactive element into the recording of the activity, thereby generating an invitation to participate in the activity, wherein the invitation is published. The method further comprises receiving from a second client device an indication of an interaction of a second user with the embedded interactive element, and providing the one or more parameters for initiating the activity on the second client device according to the configuration. Furthermore, a system enabling inviting of users to participate in activities and a corresponding client device are defined.
US11165595B2
An apparatus such as a network switch includes a power supply device configured to control power supplied through ports such as Ethernet ports to the network devices such as wireless access portions that are part of a local network. The apparatus further includes a second power supply device with one or more switched outlets for providing direct power other devices of the local network. A controller in the apparatus may be programmed to control the power supply devices to execute to a diagnostic procedure or a reset procedure that cycles power, off and then on, to devices of the local network.
US11165579B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for decentralizing the authentication or verification of data. An identity key can be generated for a data item. A request can then be sent to an authentication service for authentication of the data item, the request comprising the identity key and the data item. A verified claim for the data item can then be received in response. Subsequently, an identity document is generated, the identity document comprising the identity key for the data item and the verified claim. Finally, the identity document can be stored in a distributed ledger.
US11165572B2
A trusted measuring method including: measuring, by a trusted platform control module, itself after being powered on; measuring, by the trusted platform control module, a high-speed encryption/decryption module when the measurement of the trusted platform control module by itself is valid; and measuring, by the trusted platform control module in combination with the high-speed encryption/decryption module, the integrity of a platform and a system when the measurement of the high-speed encryption/decryption module by the trusted platform control module is valid. The measuring process includes: calculating a measurement object by using a predetermined algorithm, comparing the calculation result with a pre-stored verification reference value, and determining that the integrity of the measurement object is not destroyed if the comparison result is consistent. The present disclosure solves the technical problems of low performance of trusted measurement, insensitiveness to attack risks, and information leakage risks in conventional techniques.
US11165571B2
A method includes receiving, over an audio channel at a first audio input device, a first audio signal. The method also includes analyzing the first audio signal to identify at least a first portion of authentication data transmitted from an authentication token. The method further includes verifying transmittal of the authentication data by the authentication token utilizing at least a second audio signal. The second audio signal is received at a second audio input device, and the second audio signal comprises at least a second portion of the authentication data. The method further includes providing the authentication data to a validating application responsive to verifying transmittal of the authentication data by the authentication token.
US11165570B2
A method for operating a communications network node, the node including a first amplified optical section, a second non-optical section, and an optical bypass section the method including receiving at the node, a first optical channel at a first wavelength and a second optical channel at a second wavelength; directing the first optical channel to the first amplified optical section; directing the second optical channel to the second non-optical section during a first time period; and directing the second optical channel to the optical bypass section during a second time period.
US11165565B2
A secure key system is described that distributes a private key of a key server to an edge server for encryption on behalf of an owner of the private key when establishing a session with a client. To distribute the private key, the key server receives from the edge server a quote generated by a secure enclave of the edge server. The quote attests to code of the secure enclave. The key server verifies the quote to ensure that the code of the secure enclave is trusted code. The key server encrypts the private key using a key of the edge server and sends the encrypted private key to the code of the secure enclave. The code of the secure enclave decrypts the private key using its key. Untrusted code of the edge server then requests the code of the secure enclave to perform cryptographic actions using the private key.
US11165564B1
Embodiments are directed to managing resources over a network. Objects that each correspond to a separate key container may be provided such that each separate key container includes a region key, a shard key, a nonce key. A data center and a data store may be determined for each object based on the region key and the shard key included in each separate key container such that a value of the region key corresponds to the data center and a value of the shard key corresponds to the data store.
US11165563B2
The subject of the invention is a symmetric key stream cipher cryptographic method for encrypting plaintexts and decrypting ciphertexts during which process a text to be encrypted or an encrypted text is scanned with an input/output data buffer (5), a pseudo random number is created with a pseudo random number generator (8) with a seed (12), a key automaton (11) is used for encryption and/or decryption. It is characterized in that the procedure involves the method whereby using the characters of the text scanned by the input/output data buffer (5) and the pseudo random number generated by the pseudo random number generator (8), an element of the key automaton's (11) transition matrix is directly reached from the input/output data buffer (5); the procedure is then repeated. A symmetric key stream cipher cryptographic device for implementing the method of claim 1 is also the subject of the invention.
US11165559B2
An example operation may include one or more of connecting, by a miner node, to a blockchain network comprised of a plurality user nodes, reading, by the miner node, a smart contract generated by a user node of the plurality of the user nodes, wherein the smart contract specifies a location of a user video file, acquiring, by the miner node, the user video file from the location, generating, by the miner node, a profile vector of the user video file based on properties of the user video file, determining, by the miner node, a cluster that has similar profile vectors, applying, by the miner node, a compression algorithm associated with the cluster to the user video file to generate a compressed user video file, and sending, by the miner node, the compressed user video file to the user node of the plurality of the user nodes for a validation.
US11165557B2
In general, this disclosure describes encryption engines that shuffle data segments during decryption. By shuffling the data and using the resulting random permutation for decryption, the engines of this disclosure obfuscate hardware performance information that attackers might access and use in a side channel attack. In one example, an apparatus includes a decryption engine configured to select, for each round of multiple rounds for decrypting the block of encrypted data, a permutation of inputs to the decryption engine from multiple permutations of the inputs. The inputs include encrypted data segments of the block of encrypted data and an inverse cipher key segment, and the selected permutation of the inputs is different for at least two of the rounds. The decryption engine is further configured to iteratively compute a decrypted data segment across the plurality of rounds based on the respective selected permutation of the inputs for each round.
US11165556B2
A data processing method includes: inserting multiple alignment markers (AMs) into a first data stream, where the first data stream is a data stream that is transcoded and scrambled after being encoded at a physical layer; adaptively allocating the first data stream that includes the multiple AMs to multiple physical coding sublayer (PCS) lanes to obtain second data streams; performing forward error correction (FEC) encoding on the second data streams on the multiple PCS lanes to obtain third data streams; and delivering the third data streams to multiple physical medium attachment (PMA) sublayer lanes according to an input bit width of a serializer/deserializer (SerDes) to obtain multiple fourth data streams, each fourth data stream includes at least one complete and continuous AM, and the at least one AM is an AM in the multiple AMs.
US11165549B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting an acknowledgement/non-acknowledgment (ACK/NACK) in a wireless communication system is provided. A narrowband internet-of-things (NB-IoT) user equipment (UE) receives an indication of resources for ACK/NACK transmission from a network, and transmits the ACK/NACK to the network by using the resource for ACK/NACK transmission.
US11165541B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for implementing a retransmission protocol in a wireless local area network (WLAN). The retransmission protocol enables a sending station (STA) to communicate additional parity bits associated with an original transmission that included forward error correction (FEC) encoded codewords. Several techniques are described for a receiving STA to indicate which portions of the original transmission was not properly received. The receiving STA may store the original transmission for use with additional parity bits in a subsequent transmission. The sending STA may communicate the additional parity bits in a subsequent transmission to assist the receiving STA recover the data from the original transmission.
US11165528B1
A method and system for concurrent transmission of (i) a first bit sequence from a first access node to a UE and (ii) a second bit sequence from a second access node to the UE, when the first access node serves the UE on a first carrier according to a first radio access technology (RAT), the second access node serves the UE on a second carrier according to a second RAT, and the first and second carriers overlap in frequency. Per the disclosure, the access nodes could orthogonally encode their respective bit sequences and could concurrently transmit the resulting encoded bit sequences to the UE on the same frequency as each other.
US11165525B2
A radio recorder app which uses reconfiguration of radio software to operate the radio to carry out various functions. The radio software can record either current information or information which is airing in the future. Once recorded, the radio software automatically catalogs the information to find songs in the information to find used on artist name and song name, and beginning of the end of the song. Thereafter, users can skip songs, or delete songs, or replay songs.
US11165524B2
According to one embodiment, a social information distribution apparatus apportions and accumulates, for items classified, basic information including a position of each of a plurality of information sources and social information transmitted in time series from each of the plurality of information sources, analyzes the accumulated social information, modifies and processes the social information, updates the social information as some of the items, selects social information to be broadcast, determines a broadcast format including at least classification of broadcast ranges, a broadcasting time, and a repetition count within the broadcasting time when broadcasting the selected social information, and transmits the selected social information to a designated broadcast range by a broadcast wave.
US11165504B2
Embodiments of this application provide a wireless optical communication method and a communications apparatus, and relate to the field of mobile communications technologies. The method includes: receiving a data frame sent by a second device; obtaining coded symbols, lengths of source symbols, a quantity of source symbols, degree information of the source symbols, and index information of the source symbols based on the data frame, where the degree information of the source symbols indicates a quantity of source symbols included in each source symbol group that participates in coding processing, and the index information of the source symbols indicates indexes of the source symbols included in each source symbol group that participates in coding processing; determining a mapping relationship between the source symbols and the coded symbols based on the lengths of the source symbols, the quantity of source symbols, the degree information of the source symbols, and the index information of the source symbols; and determining the source symbols based on the mapping relationship, the coded symbols, and a preset rateless decoding algorithm. According to this application, bit rate adaptation can be implemented based on a dynamic channel at a VLC physical layer.
US11165496B2
A network analytics engine predicts impairment of one or more communications links included in a current data path being used to transmit data through a network, and transmits information indicating the predicted impairment to a network controller in a warning message. In response to receiving the warning message, the network controller identifies potential alternative data paths that exclude any communication links predicted to experience an impairment. Before setting up an alternative data path, however, the network controller waits for a fault notification confirming the predicted impairment. If the fault notification is received before expiration of a waiting period, the network controller sets up one of the potential alternative data paths in place of the current data path.
US11165484B2
A radio frequency system, a method for controlling antenna switching, and related products are provided. The radio frequency system supports a simultaneous downlink reception with four antennas and includes m antennas, a radio frequency processing circuit, and a radio frequency transceiver coupled with the radio frequency processing circuit. The m antennas are divided into at least two antenna groups, where m is greater than or equal to 4 and less than or equal to 8. The radio frequency processing circuit is coupled with the at least two antenna groups and includes modules which are the same in number as the at least two antenna groups. Each module is coupled with one antenna group and is disposed adjacent to the antenna group with which the module is coupled. The modules include at least one transmitting module, or at least one transmitting module and at least one receiving module.
US11165483B2
A precoding matrix indicating and determining method, including determining a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) having R groups of space-frequency information corresponding to R transmission layers, where the R groups of space-frequency information are used to determine a precoding matrix of each subband, and an rth group of space-frequency information in the R groups indicates P×L space domain vectors corresponding to an rth transmission layer in the R transmission layers, K frequency domain vectors corresponding to the rth transmission layer, and P×L×K coefficients corresponding to the rth transmission layer, where each of the P×L×K coefficients indicates a linear superposition coefficient of a vector operation result of a P×L space domain vectors and one of the K frequency domain vectors, R is a quantity of transmission layers, P is a quantity of polarization directions, and R, r, P, L, and K are all positive integers, and sending the PMI.
US11165479B2
A communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT) are provided. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, The system includes a base station having a large number of transmission antennas of a two dimensional (2D) antenna array structure can prevent excessive feedback resource allocation for transmitting channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs) and increase of channel estimation complexity of a terminal, and the terminal can effectively measure channels of a large number of transmission antennas and can report to the base station feedback information configured through the measurement.
US11165475B2
An enhanced linear combination codebook framework can support power allocation between transmission layers. Scaling between the layers of the codebook can be unequal so that power allocated between the layers can depend on the channel. For example, the network can configure the codebook to use radio resource control signaling to send codebook data to the user equipment.
US11165458B2
A protective arrangement for an electronic device includes a flexible cover having a panel and a skirt that form an interior cavity to receive an electronic device; and an adapter fixedly positioned in the flexible cover and having a male plug with connectors extending into the interior cavity of the flexible cover for mating with a female socket of the device and a contactor with contacts adjacent outwardly from the flexible cover and electrically coupled to one or more of the connectors of the plug. A docking cradle or external adapter can receive the electronic device and cover.
US11165450B2
The present invention provides a wireless module applied to a wireless device, wherein the wireless module comprises a receiver, a transmitter and a control circuit. The receiver is configured to receive a receiving signal from an electronic device external to the wireless device, the transmitter is configured to transmit a transmitting signal, and the control circuit is configured to control a gain of the receiver and controlling a gain of the transmitter. In the operations of the wireless module, the controller refers to transmitter time information and a gain of a transmitter within another wireless module to determine an upper limit of the gain of the receiver, and/or the controller refers to receiver time information and a gain of a receiver within the another wireless module to determine an upper limit of the gain of the transmitter.
US11165441B2
A transmitting apparatus is provided. The transmitting apparatus includes: an encoder configured to generate a low-density parity check (LDPC) codeword by LDPC encoding based on a parity check matrix; an interleaver configured to interleave the LDPC codeword; and a modulator configured to map the interleaved LDPC codeword onto a modulation symbol, wherein the modulator is further configured to map a bit included in a predetermined bit group from among a plurality of bit groups constituting the LDPC codeword onto a predetermined bit of the modulation symbol.
US11165431B1
An apparatus is described and includes a current integrating phase interpolator core having a programmable bias current; an AC-coupled inverter circuit coupled to an output of the current integrating phase interpolator core for receiving a signal comprising a periodic sawtooth waveform therefrom; a digital-to-analog (D/A) converter for setting an input common mode voltage of the AC-coupled inverter circuit; a duty cycle measurement (DCM) circuit for measuring a duty cycle distortion (DCD) of a rectangular wave clock signal output from the AC-coupled inverter circuit; and a circuit for computing a difference in the DCD of the rectangular wave clock signal when the input common mode voltage of the AC-coupled inverter circuit is set to a high voltage and when the input common mode voltage of the AC-coupled inverter circuit is set to a low voltage.
US11165420B2
There is provided a switching apparatus (30,130) comprising: first and second nodes (32,34) operably connectable to a line voltage (44); first and second switching branches (38,40) connected in parallel between the first and second nodes (32,34), the first switching branch (38) including at least one first switching element (46,60); and the second switching branch (40) including a pair of switching assemblies connected in series between the first and second nodes (32,34), the second switching branch (40) further including a junction (48) between the pair of switching assemblies, each switching assembly including at least one second switching element (50), at least one of the switching assemblies further including at least one impedance element (52), wherein the switching apparatus (30,130) further includes a shunt impedance (42) and a third node (36), the shunt impedance (42) arranged to form a permanent electrical connection between the junction (48) and the third node (36), the third node (36) operably connectable to a voltage that is different in magnitude to the line voltage (44), the or each impedance element (52) arranged in the corresponding switching assembly to combine with the shunt impedance (36) so as to define a current path which extends between the corresponding first or second node (32,34) and the third node (36).
US11165418B2
A drive circuit includes: a control section generating a control signal; a first level shift section raising a level of a signal from the control section; a high side drive section controlling a semiconductor device; and a second level shift section lowering a level of a signal from the high side drive section for input to the control section. The high side drive section has an error detection section maintaining an output of an error detection signal when the semiconductor device is in an error status until a release signal is input, the control section has an error handling section outputting the release signal to the high side drive section via the first level shift section when the error detection signal is input via the second level shift section, and the error detection section stops the output of the error detection signal when the release signal is input.
US11165409B2
An acoustic wave device includes an interdigital transducer electrode provided on a piezoelectric substrate, the interdigital transducer electrode includes first and second electrode fingers. The second electrode fingers are connected to an electric potential different from that of the first electrode fingers. A direction orthogonal or substantially orthogonal to a direction in which the first electrode fingers and the second electrode fingers extend is an acoustic wave propagation direction, the interdigital transducer electrode includes a first area centrally provided in the acoustic wave propagation direction, second areas provided on one side and another side of the first area in the acoustic wave propagation direction, and third areas each provided on a side of each of the second areas opposite to the first area in the acoustic wave propagation direction.
US11165405B2
A diplexer having a low band filter and a high band filter is disclosed. The disclosure provides a diplexer having a low band filter and a high band filter for preventing the circuit damage due to an electrostatic discharge in the diplexer itself, and minimizing the signal loss according to addition of an electrostatic discharge prevention circuit.
US11165398B2
A circuit including an amplifier having an input and an output. The circuit also includes a current-to-voltage amplifier having an input. The circuit further includes a current mirror coupled between the output of the amplifier and the input of the current-to-voltage amplifier. The current mirror is configured to chop current flowing through the first current mirror.
US11165394B2
The disclosure provides an improved transimpedance amplifier (TIA) that can operate at a higher bandwidth and lower noise compared to conventional TIAs. The TIA employs a data path with both feedback impedance and feedback capacitance for improved performance. The feedback impedance includes at least two resistors in series and at least one shunt capacitor, coupled between the at least two resistors, that helps to extend the circuit bandwidth and improve SNR at the same time. The capacitance value of the shunt capacitor can be selected based on both the bandwidth and noise. In one example, the TIA includes: (1) a biasing path, and (2) a data path, coupled to the biasing path, including multiple inverter stages and at least one feedback capacitance coupled across an even number of the multiple inverter stages. An optical receiver and a circuit having the TIA are also disclosed.
US11165388B2
To provide an oven controlled crystal oscillator which can keep constant the temperature of a quartz resonator housed within a thermostatic oven, thereby ensuring stable operation of the quartz resonator. An oven controlled crystal oscillator has a control system for exercising control so that the temperature of a quartz resonator becomes a target temperature Ttarg of a predetermined fixed value. The quartz resonator is housed within a thermostatic oven which is configured to compare a set temperature Tr and a measured temperature Tic based on an outside air temperature measured by a temperature sensor and which is controlled so that a difference between both temperatures is narrowed. The quartz resonator has characteristics influenced by an environmental temperature. The control system adds a predetermined feedback amount δT to the target temperature Ttarg of the fixed value to generate a new set temperature Tr for comparison with the measured temperature Tic so that when the measured temperature Tic lowers, the set temperature Tr becomes high, or when the measured temperature Tic rises, the set temperature Tr becomes low.
US11165382B2
A method for controlling switched reluctance machine (SRM) utilizing a SRM control system. The method allows for adaptive pulse positioning over a wide range of speeds and loads. An initial rotor position is provided for the SRM utilizing an initialization mechanism. A pinned point on a phase current waveform is defined during an initial current rise phase of the current waveform. A slope of the current rise is determined as the current waveform reaches the pinned point. The slope is then fed to the commutation module of the SRM control system. An error signal from calculated inductance or current slope is used as an input to a control loop in the SRM control system. The time determining module determines an optimum time signal to fire a next pulse. The optimum time signal is fed to the SRM for turning the plurality of SRM switches to on and off states.
US11165378B2
A method for controlling a system for generating electric power for a power distribution network of an aircraft, the system for generating electric power comprising a generator, a rectifier, an inverter which produces a voltage according to several fixed-frequency phases, a DC voltage bus which connects the rectifier to the inverter, the control method comprising: —a correction step to determine at least one correction quantity GC, —a step of determining a signal SO for controlling the inverter from the determined correction quantity GC, —a step of determining a signal SG for controlling the generator from the determined correction quantity GC and —a step of transmitting the control signals SO, SG to the inverter and to the generator, respectively.
US11165368B2
A vibration wave motor including: a vibrator; a friction member; and a pressurizing member configured to press the vibrator and the friction member into contact with each other. The vibrator and the friction member are relatively moved in a direction orthogonal to the pressurizing direction of the pressurizing member by vibrations generated on the vibrator, the vibrator and the friction member are configured so as to move in parallel with the pressurizing direction with respect to a fixed member, and the vibration wave motor further includes at least one first restricting portion that restricts a movable amount of the friction member in the pressurizing direction and at least one second restricting portion that restricts a movable amount of the vibrator in the pressurizing direction, such that the movable amount of the friction member is smaller than the movable amount of the vibrator in the pressurizing direction.
US11165365B1
A radio-frequency (RF) power rectifier circuit is provided. The RF power rectifier circuit includes a pair of differential voltage input nodes, a pair of input transistors respectively connected to the pair of differential voltage input nodes, a current mirror including a first, a second, and a third transistors, a pair of cascode transistors electrically connected between the pair of input transistors and the first transistor, a control resistor and a control transistor, and an output node. The control resistor is electrically connected to a source of the control transistor and the ground to provide a DC bias to the control transistor, and the control transistor is electrically connected to the second transistor to provide a dynamic bias to the pair of cascode transistors. This structure can lead to an increased input voltage range and reduced power consumption.
US11165363B2
An electronic module includes a shunt resistor having one end that is connected to one end of a first ground wiring line and another end that is connected to another end of a second ground wiring line. Signal terminals are disposed to be close to the shunt resistor, the signal terminals including a first current detection terminal electrically connected to the one end of the shunt resistor, and a second current detection terminal disposed to be close to the shunt resistor and electrically connected to the other end of the shunt resistor. The shunt resistor is disposed to be close to a first side of a substrate along which the signal terminals are arranged.
US11165362B2
An AC-DC converter with synchronous rectifier (SR) architecture and method for operating the same are described. Generally, a secondary side IC controller of the AC-DC converter includes a SR-SNS pin coupled to a peak-detector block, a zero-crossing block, and a calibration block. The calibration block is configured to: measure a loop turn-around delay (Tloop), a time (Tpkpk) between two successive peak voltages detected on the SR-SNS pin, and a time (Tzpk) from when the voltage sensed on the SR-SNS pin crosses zero voltage to when a peak voltage is detected on the SR-SNS pin; and set timing for a signal to turn on a power switch in a primary side of the AC-DC converter based at least on Tloop, Tpkpk, and Tzpk.
US11165349B2
Embodiments discussed herein refer to backwards compatible charging circuits and methods for charging a battery to a relatively high voltage level regardless of whether the charging station is capable of supplying power at that relatively high voltage level. The circuitry and methods according to embodiments discussed herein can use the onboard charging system to provide a voltage boosting path to increase the charge voltage from a legacy voltage level (e.g., a relatively low voltage level) to a native voltage level (e.g., a relatively high voltage level). When a native voltage charging station is charging the battery, the circuitry and methods according to embodiments discussed herein can use a native voltage path for supplying power, received from the charging station at the native voltage, to the battery.
US11165343B2
An object of the present technology is to stably operate a power supply circuit. A charge switch is connected to a first terminal of a capacitor and charges the capacitor with an input voltage on the basis of a control signal inputted to a control terminal. A discharge switch is complementary with the charge switch, is connected to the first terminal of the capacitor, and discharges on the basis of the control signal inputted to the control terminal the voltage charged to the capacitor, thereby generating an output voltage. A charge control signal converting section converts a charge control signal that controls the charge into a control signal referenced to the input voltage and inputs the resulting control signal to the control terminal of the charge switch. A discharge control signal converting section converts a discharge control signal that controls the discharge into a control signal referenced to the output voltage and inputs the resulting control signal to the control terminal of the discharge switch. A pulse voltage supplying section supplies a pulse voltage to a second terminal. A control signal generating section exclusively generates the charge control signal and the discharge control signal and supplies the charge control signal and the discharge control signal.
US11165341B2
A noise reduction circuit is connected between at least one line of an input line and an output line of a DC-DC converter, a ground, and a ground terminal of a switching control IC included in the DC-DC converter. The noise reduction circuit includes a first capacitor connected between the at least one line and the ground terminal, a second capacitor connected between the at least one line and the ground, and an inductor connected between the ground terminal and the ground.
US11165337B2
A power supply circuit that generates an output voltage from an AC voltage. The power supply circuit includes a rectifier circuit that rectifies the AC voltage, an inductor receives a rectified voltage from the rectifier circuit, a transistor that controls an inductor current flowing through the inductor, and an integrated circuit that performs switching of the transistor. The integrated circuit includes an error output circuit that outputs an error between a feedback voltage and a reference voltage, a target value generating circuit that generates a target value of the inductor current based on the error, an adjustment circuit that adjusts the target value, first and second comparison circuits that compare the inductor current with a predetermined value and with the target value, respectively, and a drive circuit that turns on the transistor when the inductor current reaches the predetermined value, and turns off the transistor when the inductor current reaches the target value.
US11165336B1
Disclosed is a method of controlling a time parameter performed by a power controller having a power pin, a ground pin, a driving pin, a time parameter selecting pin, a feedback pin, and a current sensing pin. The power controller is in collocation with a rectification unit, a transformer, a switch unit, a power output unit, and a feedback unit. A Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) frequency of a driving signal, an Over-Voltage Protection (OVP) delay time, and an Under-Voltage Protection (UVP) delay time are preset in the power controller. An external time parameter selecting signal is received through the time parameter selecting pin to dynamically update the PWM frequency, the OVP delay time, or the UVP delay time, thereby greatly increasing efficiency of power conversion and avoiding malfunction of OVP or UVP.
US11165334B2
A power supply has a transformer with primary and secondary windings. A first terminal of the primary-winding is coupled to a power-input. A PFC includes a low-voltage circuit correcting power factor of the power signal, having a supply-input receiving a supply voltage during normal operation, a feedback-input coupled to a first terminal of the secondary-winding, and a gate-drive-output. A high-voltage startup circuit powers the low-voltage circuit during startup. Periphery circuitry includes a transient voltage suppression diode having an anode coupled to supply power to the high-voltage startup circuit and a cathode coupled to the power-input, a diode having an anode coupled to the first terminal of the secondary-winding and a cathode coupled to the supply-input of the low-voltage circuit. A capacitor is coupled between the supply-input and ground. A transistor has a drain coupled to a second terminal of the primary-winding and a gate coupled to the gate-drive-output.
US11165333B2
A snubber device to be mounted to a terminal of a semiconductor module is provided. The snubber device includes n (n: integer of 1 or greater) parallel charge paths each having a positive-side capacitor, a first diode, and a negative-side capacitor sequentially connected in series between positive-side and negative-side terminals of the semiconductor module, and configured to enable current to flow from the positive-side terminal toward the negative-side terminal; and (n+1) parallel discharge paths each of which having a second diode connected between the negative-side terminal or the negative-side capacitor of an Nth charge path (N: integer within a range of 0≤N≤n) of then charge paths and the positive-side capacitor of a (N+1)th charge path of the n charge paths or the positive-side terminal, and configured to enable current to flow from the negative-side terminal toward the positive-side terminal via at least one of the negative-side and positive-side capacitors.
US11165317B2
A manufacturing method of a core for a rotary electric machine, the method includes inserting a permanent magnet that is not yet magnetized in a magnet insertion hole that is formed in a rotor core; injecting a magnet fixing material in the magnet insertion hole; curing the magnet fixing material by heating the rotor core and the permanent magnet; and magnetizing the permanent magnet before a temperature of the rotor core and the permanent magnet decreases to a normal temperature, after the curing of the magnet fixing material.
US11165314B2
A mandrel formed of urethane is inserted into a hollow shaft and is compressed axially by a die and a pad. The shaft is then fit in a shaft through hole of a rotor core. Thereafter, compression of the mandrel is released or reduced, and the mandrel is removed from the shaft. Thus, in fitting the hollow shaft in the shaft through hole of the rotor core, deformation of the shaft is reduced.
US11165313B2
Provided is a decelerator-equipped motor unit which can achieve cost reductions in the control board and improvement of both mechanical and electrical reliability through a particular arrangement of elements on the board, thereby achieving a smaller size by realizing an appropriate board shape without increasing the size of the unit.
US11165309B2
A motor cooling system including, an engine nacelle defining a primary axis, a stator housing within the engine nacelle, a plurality of stator guide vanes attached to the stator circumferentially disposed around the primary axis, where at least one stator guide vane of the plurality of stator guide vanes includes at least one conduit configured to receive a fluid from a first engine component in the engine nacelle and wherein at least one stator guide vane of the plurality of stator guide vanes includes at least one conduit configured to pass the fluid to a second engine component in the engine nacelle.
US11165306B2
A rotating electrical machine includes: an oil reception part that has an opening opposed to an injection hole designed to inject ATF into the atmospheric pressure inside a housing; and an oil reservoir that communicates with the oil reception part via a communicating hole provided in a wall part and communicates with a rotor cooling oil channel of a shaft via a cooling oil lead-in hole provided in the wall part. Since ATF having flowed out of the oil reception part flows along an inner face of the wall part of a second housing by gravity and reaches a bearing, one ATF supply route can be used both for cooling a rotor and lubricating a bearing, whereby the ATF supply route can be simplified.
US11165291B2
A stator core support device according to an embodiment includes plural types of support members that support a stator core on a stator frame disposed radially outward. These support members are combined so as to form a closed circuit portion. Then, an insulating part for electrically insulating part of the closed circuit portion is provided.
US11165290B2
A stationary induction apparatus includes a plurality of stationary device structures, each including: a stationary induction device including a core that has a plurality of magnetic legs and yokes connecting both ends of the plurality of magnetic legs, and windings that are respectively wound around the plurality of magnetic legs of the core; and a pair of yoke supports that respectively extend along the yokes on both ends of the stationary induction device and individually support the respective yokes; and a pair of connecting support members to which both ends of the pairs of yoke supports are respectively fixed such that the plurality of stationary device structures are arranged parallel to one another to form airflow paths between the respective stationary induction device that are disposed adjacent to each other.
US11165287B2
According to various embodiments, systems and methods for wirelessly transmitting energy to a moving wireless power receiver in a network of interlinked prescribed paths. A position of a wireless power receiver in a network of interlinked prescribed paths is tracked as the wireless power receiver traverses one or more prescribed paths in the network of interlinked prescribed paths. Energy is wirelessly transmitted from one or more wireless power transmitters to the wireless power receiver based on the position of the wireless power receiver in the network of interlinked prescribed paths. Specifically, the energy is wirelessly transmitted to the wireless power receiver based on the position of the wireless power receiver in the network of interlinked prescribed paths as the wireless power receiver traverses the one or more prescribed paths in the network of interlinked prescribed paths.
US11165284B2
Wireless charging of electronic devices often requires active adjustment of impedance and power level during charging. Technical solutions described herein provide systems and methods for adjusting the impedance measured at the power amplifier according to the output power level. In particular, the power amplifier impedance decreases as the power output increases, and the power amplifier impedance increases as the power output decreases. In an embodiment, the impedance adjustment includes the addition of a phase shifter.
US11165274B1
The portable, motor-driven alternator for use in recharging a battery is configured for use with a battery. The portable, motor-driven alternator for use in recharging a battery comprises the modified chainsaw, an AC/DC converter, a selectable voltage regulator, a jumper cable, and a diode. The modified chainsaw generates electrical energy. The AC/DC converter converts the electrical energy from an AC voltage to an unregulated DC voltage. The selectable voltage regulator regulates the unregulated DC voltage from the AC/DC converter into a regulated voltage. The selectable voltage regulator generates a voltage level selected from a plurality of voltage levels. The jumper cable transfers the electrical energy from the selectable voltage regulator to the battery. The diode prevents the backflow of electrical energy from the battery into the selectable voltage regulator.
US11165269B2
The disclosure provides an electronic apparatus, a charging method and a non-volatile computer readable recording medium. The electronic apparatus includes a power module and a processor coupled to the power module. The processor is configured to: obtain a charging start time point of the power module; estimate a charging recovery time point according to usage state information; when an electric quantity of the power module is greater than or equal to a first electric quantity, stop the power module from being charged continuously; and at the charging recovery time point, enable the power module to be charged to a second electric quantity, where the second electric quantity is greater than the first electric quantity.
US11165265B2
An electronic device balances power supplied to a system load by a first battery power source and a second battery power source. A battery current sense circuit is electrically coupled to sense a first current supplied by the first battery power source to the system load. A discharge feedback controller is electrically coupled to the battery current sense circuit and configured to adjust a control voltage based on the sensed first current. A voltage converter circuit includes an input electrically coupled to the second battery power source and an output electrically coupled to the system load. The voltage converter circuit is configured to adjust current supplied by the second battery power source through the voltage converter circuit to the system load based on the control voltage.
US11165263B2
Disclosed are a wireless battery management system and a method for protecting a battery pack using the same. The battery pack includes a plurality of battery modules and at least one relay. The wireless battery management system includes a plurality of slave controllers electrically coupled to the plurality of battery modules one-to-one, and a master controller wirelessly coupled to each slave controller so as to be able to communicate with each slave controller. Each slave controller measures an operational parameter of the battery module electrically coupled thereto. Each slave controller wirelessly transmits a fault signal to the master controller when the measured operational parameter is outside of a predetermined normal range. The master controller turns off the at least one relay when the fault signal is received.
US11165261B2
A secondary battery protection circuit for protecting a secondary battery with multiple connected-in-parallel cells, includes a charging fault detection unit for each cell for prohibiting charging of the corresponding cell when overcharging and/or charging over-current for the corresponding cell is detected; a charging control element for each cell for cutting off a charging path for the corresponding cell when the charging of the corresponding cell is prohibited; a detection resistor for each cell inserted in series in the charging path; and a balance control unit for, in order to balance a first charging current flowing in a first charging path for a first cell with a second charging current flowing in a second charging path for a second cell, controlling a difference between the first and second charging currents in a saturation region of the charging control element based on a detection voltage generated by the detection resistor.
US11165256B2
A power supply system includes a plurality of solar power generation device groups, a power monitoring device group, and a power transforming device. The power monitoring device group includes a plurality of power monitoring devices, and each of the power monitoring devices includes a processing module, a serial control module, and a power detecting module. At least one power parameter detected by the power detecting module of each of the power monitoring devices is provided to the processing module. The processing module transmits the at least one power parameter to a control system through the serial control module.
US11165251B2
A symmetric method for obtaining network-power-loss components induced by sources and loads at individual buses in AC power networks is invented. Two linear expressions of bus injection active and reactive powers in terms of translation voltages and voltage angles of all buses are established at first. Then a linear symmetric matrix-equation model for the steady state of the network is built. Manipulating this model by Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse produces a linear symmetric matrix expression of translation voltages and voltage angles of all buses in terms of bus injection powers. Expressing the network power loss in terms of source's and load's powers by this matrix expression, a symmetric algebraic calculation formula for obtaining the network-power-loss components is produced after manipulating by Shapley value theorem, by which the obtaining of network-power-loss components are achieved. The set of network-power-loss components provides a new efficient tool for economic operation of AC power networks.
US11165244B2
A method and a device for detecting faults and for protection of electrical networks, the electrical networks being fed from a transformer station through a first three-phase switching device with circuit breaker, a distribution network and feeders. A second three-phase switching device with circuit breaker is connected before the feeders. The circuit breaker of the second switching device, has parallel-coupled damping impedances and is connected in series between the first three-phase switching device and the feeders when a short circuit current is detected. At least one of the damping impedances has deviating properties compared to the others, so as to create a negative sequence current detectable in the electrical networks. The damping impedances are bypassed by the circuit breaker of the second switching device after a predetermined period of time.
US11165238B2
The present disclosure pertains to systems and methods for monitoring electrical arc events in an electric power system. In one embodiment, a system may comprise an arc flash detection (AFD) unit to detect electromagnetic radiation generated by an electrical arc event, a primary protection relay to generate measurements of an electric current, and an integrator. In various embodiments, the integrator may comprise a communication port to receive the detection of the electrical arc event and the measurements of the electric current. The integrator may also comprise a processing subsystem to validate the detection of the electrical arc and generate protective actions to interrupt the flow of the current to the electrical arc event.
US11165237B2
An arc fault detection system samples a high frequency signal on a power line sequentially at different frequency regions according to a frequency hopping sequence, which is repeated a number of times over a predefined period. The different frequency regions include at least one region with a carrier for power line communication on the power line and at least one region without a carrier for power line communication on the power line. The system obtains energy measurements for each frequency region based on the sampled signals, computes an energy level for each frequency region based on the measurements for each region, and assigns a binary value to each region according to the corresponding energy level. The binary value represents a presence or absence of signal content in the frequency region. The system determines a presence or absence of an arc fault based on the binary values for the frequency regions.
US11165234B2
An electrical junction box is provided in which a wire that is drawn from a lower surface of an upper electric component block is accommodated with an excess length in an extensible tube capable of being extended and contracted in the length direction of the wire. In the extended state of the extensible tube, the upper electric component block can be separated from an upper surface of the lower electric component block by extending the excess length of the wire in the extensible tube. In the contracted state of the extensible tube, the extensible tube is accommodated between the upper electric component block and the lower electric component block in a state in which the wire meanders in the extensible tube and the excess length is absorbed.
US11165222B2
A vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) is provided. The VCSEL includes a mesa structure disposed on a substrate. The mesa structure has a first reflector, a second reflector, and an active cavity material structure disposed between the first and second reflectors. The mesa structure defines an optical window through which the VCSEL is configured to emit light. The mesa structure further includes a passivation layer disposed at least within the optical window. The passivation layer is designed to seal the mesa structure to reduce the humidity sensitivity of the VCSEL and to protect the VCSEL from contaminants. The passivation layer also provides an improvement in overshoot control, broader modulation bandwidth, and faster pulsing of the VCSEL such that the VCSEL may provide a high speed, high bandwidth signal with controlled overshoot and dumping behavior.
US11165218B2
The present application discloses a cavity dumped low repetition rate infrared tunable femtosecond laser source configured to produce pulses of 200 femtoseconds or less with a peak power of four megawatts or more for use in a variety of applications including multi-photon microscopy.
US11165197B2
A connector release assist system includes a first connector that has at least one first connector securing feature that is configured to engage a second connector to secure the second connector to the first connector, and disengage the second connector when a second connector release member on the second connector is actuated. A subsystem is located adjacent the first connector such that the subsystem inhibits access to the second connector release member when the second connector is secured to the first connector. A connector release assist device is located adjacent the first connector, extends past the subsystem, and is configured to actuate the second connector release member. In specific examples, the first connector is an RJ-45 female connector, and the second connector is an RJ-45 male connector.
US11165190B2
A waterproof sealing ring is applied to a waterproof connector. The waterproof connector is mounted to an electronic device which includes an enclosure. The waterproof sealing ring is attached to an outer surface of the enclosure. The enclosure defines an opening. The waterproof sealing ring includes a frame, and a connecting portion protruded outward and towards the enclosure from an outer peripheral surface of the frame. When the connecting portion is tightly attached to the outer surface of the enclosure, the connecting portion and the enclosure are combined with each other to form a combination space between the connecting portion and the enclosure. When fluid flows from the electronic device to the waterproof connector through the opening, the fluid flows through the combination space and generates an outward pressure on the connecting portion so as to make the connecting portion be under the outward pressure.
US11165186B2
A coaxial cable connector comprising a sleeve, nut, post, and annular flange is provided. The post is assembled to the nut, the annular flange to the post, and post, annular flange and nut to the sleeve. The nut has a plurality of nut sides, and a plurality of crests between the plurality of nut sides, each having a raised ridged pattern thereon. Each raised ridged pattern comprises a first plurality of grooves having a first groove helix angle and a second plurality of grooves having a second groove helix angle, intersecting the first plurality of grooves, forming a plurality of peaks. Following assembly, a plurality of deformed indentations is formed on an inner surface of the sleeve via the plurality of peaks of the nut.
US11165182B2
A functional contactor is provided. Provided according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is a functional contactor comprising: a conductor which has elasticity and comes into contact with a conductor of an electronic device; a functional element which is connected to the conductor having elasticity and has a first and a second electrode respectively disposed on at least a part of an upper and a lower surface thereof; and a solder through which a lower surface of the conductor having elasticity is coupled with the first electrode of the functional element. The first electrode includes a first part outwardly extending from the lower surface of the conductor having elasticity along one side surface of the conductor having elasticity, and the solder includes an exposure part formed between the first part and a partial lateral surface of the one side surface of the conductor having elasticity.
US11165174B2
A fastener for connecting an electrical conductor to a connector body includes a first portion adapted to engage an opening of the connector body and a second portion engaging the first portion. The second portion includes a head, a base coupled to the first portion and including an end adapted to engage the electrical conductor, and a shearable section positioned between the head and the base.
US11165168B2
An antenna apparatus includes a ground plane; a first patch antenna pattern having a first bandwidth and spaced apart from the ground plane; a second patch antenna pattern spaced apart from the ground plane and the first patch antenna and overlapping at least a portion of the first patch antenna pattern; and guide vias disposed between the first patch antenna pattern and the ground plane and electrically connecting the first patch antenna pattern to the ground plane. The second patch antenna pattern has a second bandwidth corresponding a frequency higher than a frequency of the first bandwidth. The guide vias are disposed along a first side of the first patch antenna pattern.
US11165163B2
The present disclosure relates to: a communication technique for converging an IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system; and a system therefor. Specifically, the present invention provides a glass structure comprising: a glass formed to be permeable to radio waves; and a lens disposed on one side of the glass so as to change the incident angle of radio waves incident to the one side of the glass.
US11165162B1
The present disclosure relates to a dichroic spherical antenna. In one embodiment of the present disclosure, a dichroic spherical antenna comprises a collector disposed within a spherically-shaped reflector; wherein the reflector comprises a coating. In some embodiments, the coating comprises a plurality of ferromagnetic particles dispersed throughout an epoxy-based medium. In some embodiments, the collector's interior is held at a pressure less than the pressure exerted on the exterior of the collector. The present disclosure also relates to a method of receiving radio signals, the method comprising the steps of receiving, at a collector disposed inside a spherical reflector, electromagnetic radiation; wherein the exterior of the reflector comprises a coating.
US11165159B2
The present subject matter describes an antenna positioned inside a frame for a display panel of an electronic device. In an example implementation, the antenna comprises a cuboidal antenna holder having a first excitation surface and a second excitation surface perpendicular to the first excitation surface.
US11165157B2
An antenna device includes a ground plate, a patch portion disposed parallel to the ground plate with a particular spacing, a plurality of short circuit portions that electrically connect the patch portion to the ground plate, and a loop portion which is a loop shaped conductor member at a particular spacing from an outer edge portion of the patch portion. The patch portion has an area which forms an electrostatic capacitance that causes parallel resonance with an inductance provided by the short circuit portions at a particular target frequency. The loop portion is formed with a perimeter length which is an integral multiple of the wavelength of radio waves at the target frequency. A feed point is disposed on the loop portion, and current is supplied to the patch portion through the loop portion.
US11165150B2
A dual-polarized antenna with high isolation is disclosed. A first differential signal feeding unit extends from a first input port toward one side of a patch radiator through a dielectric substrate, and is branched into a balun structure to provide first and second feeding probes for differentially feeding vertically polarized signals to opposite first and second portions of the patch radiator. A second differential signal feeding unit extends from a second input port toward another side of the patch radiator through the dielectric substrate, and is branched into the balun structure to provide third and fourth feeding probes for differentially feeding horizontally polarized signals to opposite third and fourth portions of the patch radiator. When feeding the vertically polarized signals through the first and second feeding probes, a virtual ground region in which there is little electric field is formed in the center portion of the patch radiator. The cross-sectional polarization components of the third and fourth probes are also greatly reduced, so that they hardly exist. A soft surface structure surrounding the patch radiator and the first to fourth probes can improve the radiation pattern deterioration caused by diffraction of surface waves.
US11165149B2
An electromagnetic band-gap (EBG) structure includes an antenna substrate layer, first conductive regions, and second conductive regions. The antenna substrate includes a first planar surface and a second planar surface. The first conductive regions are located on the first planar surface of the antenna substrate and separated from adjacent first conductive regions by a first distance. The second conductive regions are located on the first planar surface of the antenna substrate and are separated from the first conductive regions by a second distance and wherein the second conductive regions at least partially surround the first conductive regions.
US11165143B2
An antenna module includes an antenna substrate, a fan-out package and first electrical connection structures. The antenna substrate includes a pattern layer including antenna and ground patterns, and a feeding layer under the pattern layer including a feeding network that supplies power to the antenna patterns. The fan-out package is under the antenna substrate and includes a semiconductor chip driving the antenna substrate, an encapsulant encapsulating some of the semiconductor chip, a first redistribution layer on the semiconductor chip electrically connecting the semiconductor chip with the antenna substrate, and a second redistribution layer under the semiconductor chip electrically connecting the semiconductor chip with external devices. The first electrical connection structures are between and electrically connect the antenna substrate and the fan-out package. A logic layer including logic patterns electrically connecting the pattern layer with the feeding layer in the antenna substrate in the first redistribution layer in the fan-out package.
US11165138B2
An antenna element and related apparatus are provided. The antenna element includes a radiating structure configured to radiate a radio frequency (RF) signal in a defined polarization (e.g., linear polarization or circular polarization). The radiating structure is conductively coupled to a first pair of feed ports and a second pair of feed ports. In examples discussed herein, at least one selected pair of feed ports among the first pair of feed ports and the second pair of feed ports can be dynamically configured to receive a differential signal(s). By applying the differential signal(s) to the selected pair of feed ports with a proper polarity and/or a relative phase differential, it may be possible to cause the radiating structure to radiate in the defined polarization without requiring additional circuitries (e.g., switching circuit), thus helping to reduce power consumption, heat dissipation, and/or footprint in an apparatus employing the antenna element.
US11165127B2
The filter unit has a center frequency and comprises a first dielectric substrate, a first conducting plane, and at least one transmission arrangement. The at least one transmission arrangement comprises a shunt node which has a shunt connection to the conducting plane. The electrical length of the shunt connection defines the center frequency of the filter unit. The transmission arrangement further comprises a plurality of transmission lines connected in series between an input port and an output port, wherein each port is connectable to auxiliary systems with a system impedance. Moreover, each transmission line has a characteristic impedance and wherein the characteristic impedance of each transmission line is less than the system impedance.
US11165126B2
A pouch-type battery comprising: a pouch-type battery case having a joined wall and a cell space within the pouch, a battery cell within the cell space, a terminal tab extending outwardly of the cell space from the battery cell, said joined wall comprising at least a first sealing portion having a first sealing strength, and a second sealing portion having a second sealing strength that is less than the first sealing strength such that the second sealing portion is adapted to fail before said first sealing portion, and an electrical contact located with the second sealing portion and adapted to change contact state upon failure of the second sealing portion.
US11165124B2
A battery pack of the present disclosure includes: a holder case accommodating a plurality of battery cells, each of the battery cells including an electrode portion on each end thereof; a protective circuit module mounted on an outer side of the holder case; at least one first lead tab including a fixing portion and a fastening portion, the fixing portion extending from a region of the protective circuit module facing the holder case toward the holder case, the fastening portion being bent from the fixing portion in a direction parallel to the holder case and extending toward the electrode portion of the battery cell; and a second lead tab electrically connected to the electrode portion of the battery cell and placed at a position corresponding to the fastening portion of the first lead tab of the protective circuit module.
US11165111B2
A thermal barrier to maintain the temperature of a battery. The barrier includes elements with respectively cold and hot PCM materials, and elements, thermal isolators, arranged at least in case of some between two of the PCM material elements.
US11165109B2
In a cooling structure for a battery pack, a case bottom wall of a first battery case is divided into left and right case bottom walls. A first cooling medium jacket includes left and right first cooling medium jackets formed respectively in the left and right case bottom walls. Left ends of the left first cooling medium jacket and second cooling medium jacket are made to communicate with each other via a left cooling medium passage. Right ends of the right first cooling medium jacket and second cooling medium jacket are made to communicate with each other via a right cooling medium passage. Accordingly, it is possible to simplify the structure of a cooling medium passage for supplying cooling medium to a cooling medium jacket of battery cases on two levels.
US11165107B2
Disclosed is a battery device including a battery; a plurality of sensors attached to the battery; and a transceiving circuit configured to transmit a signal received from a monitoring device to the plurality of sensors and to transmit signals received from the plurality of sensors to the monitoring device. The plurality of sensors generate surface acoustic waves (SAWs) in response to the signal received from the monitoring device, when receiving the signal from the monitoring device through the transceiving circuit, and the plurality of sensors include at least one first sensor configured to output a first signal corresponding to a SAW varied depending on a temperature of the battery; at least one second sensor configured to output a second signal corresponding to a SAW varied depending on pressure of the battery; and at least one third sensor configured to output a third signal corresponding to a SAW varied depending on an electrolyte leakage state of the battery.
US11165103B2
The invention relates to a method for regenerating the capacity of an electrochemical lithium battery, including the following steps: a) evaluating the quantity of lithium ions; b) when the evaluated lithium ion quantity is less than or equal to a threshold value, applying an electric current between the cathode or the anode and the container such as to cause the delithiation of the casing, the casing is also arranged to house an element providing both electric insulation and ionic conduction between the anode and cathode electrodes of the electrochemical cell and the casing, said casing including at least one lithium ion storage zone.
US11165102B2
A power storage device includes: a power storage module in which an electrolytic solution is accommodated, the power storage module including a top face, a bottom face, and a plurality of side faces provided such that the side faces connect the top face to the bottom face; a liquid discharge valve provided on at least one of the side faces; a liquid collection unit configured to collect the electrolytic solution discharged from the liquid discharge valve; an accumulation portion in which the electrolytic solution collected by the liquid collection unit is accumulated; a corrosion portion configured to corrode due to the electrolytic solution; and a detection portion configured to detect breakage of the corrosion portion. The corrosion portion is placed in a passage route along which the electrolytic solution collected by the liquid collection unit reaches the accumulation portion.
US11165101B2
A monolithic ceramic electrochemical cell housing is provided. The housing includes two or more electrochemical sub cell housings. Each of the electrochemical sub cell housing includes an anode receptive space, a cathode receptive space, a separator between the anode receptive space and the cathode receptive space, and integrated electron conductive circuits. A first integrated electron conductive circuit is configured as an anode current collector within the anode receptive space. A second integrated electron conductive circuit is disposed as a cathode current collector within the cathode receptive space.
US11165089B2
To provide a secondary battery that is suitable to a portable information terminal or a wearable device. To provide an electronic device having a novel structure that can have various forms and a secondary battery that fits the forms of the electronic device. The secondary battery includes a film provided with depressions or projections that can ease stress on the film due to application of external force. The sizes of the depressions or projections are different between a center portion and an end portion of the film. The end portion of the film is sealed with an adhesive layer. The depressions or projections of the film are formed by pressing such as embossing.
US11165073B2
An individual solid oxide cell (SOC) constructed of a sandwich configuration including in the following order: an in oxygen electrode, a solid oxide electrolyte, a fuel electrode, a fuel manifold, and at least one layer of mesh. In one embodiment, the mesh supports a reforming catalyst resulting in a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) having a reformer embedded therein. The reformer-modified SOFC functions internally to steam reform or partially oxidize a gaseous hydrocarbon, e.g. methane, to a gaseous reformate of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, which is converted in the SOC to water, carbon dioxide, or a mixture thereof, and an electrical current. In another embodiment, an electrical insulator is disposed between the fuel manifold and the mesh resulting in a solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC), which functions to electrolyze water and/or carbon dioxide.
US11165070B2
A method for producing a metallic interconnector for a fuel cell stack, including an air guiding surface with a first gas distributor structure and a fuel gas guiding surface with a second gas distributor structure, the first gas distributor structure and the second gas distributor structure each formed by grooves and webs, includes providing a sheet metal blank, forming the sheet metal blank by a plastic molding process, the first gas distributor structure and the second gas distributor structure being formed in such a manner that the grooves and webs of the first gas distributor structure are arranged complementary to the grooves and webs of the second gas distributor structure at a predeterminable percentage of area of the air guiding surface and the fuel gas guiding surface of at least 50% and at most 99%.
US11165065B2
Provided are electrochemical secondary cells that exhibit excellent abuse tolerance, deep discharge and overcharge conditions including at extreme temperatures and remain robust and possess excellent performance. Cells as provided herein include: a cathode a polycrystalline cathode electrochemically active material including the formula Li1+xMO2+y, wherein −0.9≤x≤0.3, −0.3≤y≤0.3, and wherein M includes Ni at 80 atomic percent or higher relative to total M, an anode including an anode electrochemically active material defined by an electrochemical redox potential of 400 mV or greater vs Li/Li+.
US11165059B2
A negative electrode active material including lithium titanium oxide particles, wherein the lithium titanium oxide particles have a Na content of 50 ppm-300 ppm, a K content of 500 ppm-2400 ppm and a crystallite size of 100-200 nm, and a lithium secondary battery including the same.
US11165058B2
A negative electrode active material contains a negative electrode active material particle; the negative electrode active material particle including a silicon compound particle containing a silicon compound (SiOx: 0.5≤x≤1.6), wherein the silicon compound particle contains a Li compound, and the negative electrode active material particle contains at least one kind of salt selected from salts of polyacrylic acid and salts of carboxymethyl cellulose, together with a metal salt containing at least one kind of metal selected from Mg and Al. This provides a negative electrode active material that is capable of stabilizing slurry that is produced in production of a negative electrode for a secondary battery, and improving initial charge-discharge characteristics and cycle performance when it is used as a negative electrode active material for a secondary battery.
US11165053B2
An electrode film with a high tensile strength and a low electrical resistance is fabricated by using conductive flakes to strengthen polymer stabilized particle electrode. The new compositions and low energy methods are disclosed in this invention. The method includes mixing and blending the particulate materials and fibrilltable polymers with conductive flakes into a paste, fibrillating the polymers, and extruding and rolling the paste into self-supported electrode films.
US11165051B2
An electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, which is provided with a collector and a positive electrode active material layer that is arranged on the collector and contains a positive electrode active material. The positive electrode active material is configured to contain compound particles which have a layered structure composed of two or more transition metals, and which have an average particle diameter DSEM of from 1 μm to 7 μm (inclusive), a ratio of the 50% particle diameter D50 in a volume-based cumulative particle size distribution to the average particle diameter DSEM, namely D50/DSEM of from 1 to 4 (inclusive), and a ratio of the 90% particle diameter D90 in the volume-based cumulative particle size distribution to the 10% particle diameter D10 in the volume-based cumulative particle size distribution, namely D90/D10 of 4 or less. The positive electrode active material layer has a void fraction of 10-45%.
US11165044B2
A display device may include a substrate and a light emitting element disposed on the substrate. An encapsulation layer covers the light emitting element. The encapsulation layer includes at least two inorganic encapsulation layers and at least one organic encapsulation layer. The at least one organic encapsulation layer includes a first organic material having a permittivity less than or equal to about 3.0. A low permittivity layer is disposed on the encapsulation layer. The low permittivity layer includes a second organic material and first hollow particles dispersed in the second organic material. An input sensing layer is disposed on the low permittivity layer.
US11165043B2
A thin film encapsulation structure included in an organic electroluminescent display device includes a first inorganic barrier layer, an organic barrier layer, and a second inorganic barrier layer. The thin film encapsulation structure is formed on an active region and an active region side portion of lead wires. Each lead wire at least partially includes, at least on lowermost portions of two side surfaces thereof in contact with the first inorganic barrier layer, a forward tapering side surface portion having a tapering angle smaller than 90 degrees in a cross-section parallel to a line width direction thereof. The thin film encapsulation structure further includes an inorganic barrier layer joint portion. On portions of the lead wires having the forward tapering side surface portions, the inorganic barrier layer joint portion is formed and the active region is completely enclosed by the inorganic barrier layer joint portion.
US11165038B2
Provided are a display module and an electronic device. The display module includes an array substrate and an encapsulation layer disposed opposite to the array substrate, and the encapsulation layer includes an auxiliary electrode layer and a first electrical connector between the encapsulation layer and the array substrate; wherein the first electrical connector is used to support the encapsulation layer and is electrically connected to the auxiliary electrode layer and the cathode layer.
US11165024B2
An organic light-emitting device including a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, an emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, a hole transport region between the first electrode and the emission layer, and an electron transport region between the emission layer and the second electrode; wherein the electron transport region comprises at least one first compound, the emission layer comprises at least one second compound, the first compound is represented by Formula 1, and the second compound is represented by one selected from Formulae 2-1, 2-2, and 2-3:
US11165013B2
The disclosed technology generally relates to magnetic devices and more particularly to magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) devices in which switching can be mediated by spin-orbit torque, and further relates to a method of fabricating such devices. In an aspect, a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) device includes a spin-orbit torque (SOT) mediating layer, a hard-mask layer used to define a shape of the SOT layer, a magnetic tunnel junction arranged between the SOT layer and the hard-mask layer. The MTJ includes at least a free layer and a reference layer separated by a non-magnetic barrier layer. The device further includes at least two electrical accesses arranged to contact the SOT layer to pass a write current therethrough. To provide field-free switching of the free layer, the device further includes a ferromagnetic element as at least one of a ferromagnetic sublayer of the hard-mask and a material in the electrical accesses.
US11165012B2
A magnetic memory including a first spin-orbital-transfer-spin-torque-transfer (SOT-SIT) hybrid magnetic device disposed over a substrate, a second SOT-STT hybrid magnetic device disposed over the substrate, and a SOT conductive layer connected to the first and second SOT-STT hybrid magnetic devices. Each of the first and second SOT-STT hybrid magnetic devices includes a first magnetic layer, as a magnetic free layer, a spacer layer disposed under the first magnetic layer, and a second magnetic layer, as a magnetic reference layer, disposed under the spacer layer. The SOT conductive layer is disposed over the first magnetic layer of each of the first and second SOT-STT hybrid magnetic devices.
US11165002B2
A light-emitting device 1 comprises a base 30, a nitride semiconductor light-emitting element 10 flip-chip mounted on the base 30, and an amorphous fluororesin sealing the nitride semiconductor light-emitting element 10. The light-emitting device 1 comprises a deformation-prevention layer 60 for preventing a shape change of an amorphous fluororesin by heat treatment after shipment of the light-emitting device 1, and the deformation-prevention layer 60 is formed of a layer in which a thermosetting resin or an ultraviolet curing resin is cured, and the cured layer directly covers the surface of the amorphous fluororesin.
US11165001B2
A light emitting display apparatus includes an overcoating layer on a substrate and including a base portion and a protrusion portion. The light emitting display apparatus further includes a first electrode disposed to cover the base portion and a side portion of the protrusion portion. The light emitting display apparatus further includes a bank layer on a part of the first electrode. The light emitting display apparatus further includes a light emitting layer on the first electrode and the bank layer. The light emitting display apparatus further includes a second electrode on the light emitting layer. The bank layer includes a first part on the protrusion portion, a second part surrounding the first part and including an inclined upper surface, and a light extraction pattern on the first part adjacent to the second part.
US11164995B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus including a first three-dimensional (3-D) structure and a second 3-D structure. The first 3-D structure may include a first-type doped semiconductor material having semi-polar facets. The second 3-D structure may form a light-emitting diode (LED). The second 3-D structure may include a second-type doped semiconductor material, an active layer, and the first-type doped semiconductor material. The apparatus may also include a conductive layer which at least partially overlays and is in ohmic contact with the semi-polar facets of the first-type doped semiconductor material. The first-type doped semiconductor material of the first 3-D structure and the first-type doped semiconductor material of the second 3-D structure may be etched from a common first-type doped semiconductor epitaxial layer. In some embodiments, the first-type doped semiconductor material may include an N-type doped semiconductor material, and the second-type doped semiconductor material may include a P-type doped semiconductor material.
US11164992B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate and a buffer layer disposed on a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion of the substrate. The semiconductor device further includes a multilayer light-emitting diode (LED) stack disposed on the first portion of the substrate, and an optical sensor disposed on the second portion of the substrate. The semiconductor device further includes at least one electrode disposed on the third portion of the substrate, a first conductor in contact with the multilayer LED stack, and a second conductor in contact with the optical sensor. The at least one electrode, the first conductor, and the second conductor are formed of a glassy carbon material.
US11164990B2
[Object] To provide an optical device and a display apparatus capable of decreasing a waveguide loss, inhibiting a laser oscillation, and achieving a high-output. [Solving Means] An optical device includes a first electrode layer, a first conduction type layer, a second conduction type layer, an active layer, and a second electrode layer. The first conduction type layer includes a current injection region formed by the first electrode layer and a current non-injection region. A waveguide structure included in the first conduction type layer, the active layer, and the second conduction type layer includes a first region and a second region. The first region has a first waveguide that is the current injection region and the current non-injection region and having a first refractive index difference. The second region has a second waveguide arranged to be extended from the first waveguide to the first end and has a second refractive index difference greater than the first refractive index difference. The second waveguide has a reflection structure that reflects light entered from the first waveguide and slopes an optical axis and a taper structure that decreases a size of a beam spot of light entered from the reflection structure.
US11164989B2
Embodiments of a photovoltaic device are provided herein. The photovoltaic device can include a layer stack and an absorber layer disposed on the layer stack. The absorber layer can include a first region and a second region. Each of the first region of the absorber layer and the second region of the absorber layer can include a compound comprising cadmium, selenium, and tellurium. An atomic concentration of selenium can vary across the absorber layer. The first region of the absorber layer can have a thickness between 100 nanometers to 3000 nanometers. The second region of the absorber layer can have a thickness between 100 nanometers to 3000 nanometers. A ratio of an average atomic concentration of selenium in the first region of the absorber layer to an average atomic concentration of selenium in the second region of the absorber layer can be greater than 10.
US11164985B2
A mid-infrared detector that uses a heavily doped material (e.g., indium arsenide) as a backplane to the detector structure to improve detector performance and fabrication cost. The infrared detector includes a substrate and a backplane of heavily doped material consisting of two or more of the following materials: indium, gallium, arsenic and antimony. The backplane resides directly on the substrate. The infrared detector further includes a photodetector (e.g., type-I or type-II strained layer superlattice (SLS) nBn photodetector, type-I or type-II SLS pn junction photodetector, a quantum-dot infrared photodetector, a quantum well infrared photodetector, a homogeneous material pn junction photodetector) residing directly on the backplane. Additionally, the infrared detector may include a metal structure residing directly on the photodetector. In this manner, the absorption of electromagnetic energy in the photodetector is enhanced.
US11164984B2
An interconnecting member of a solar cell panel for connecting a plurality of solar cells, can include a core layer and a solder layer formed on a surface of the core layer, in which the core layer includes a protruding portion having a peak portion extending along a longitudinal direction of the core layer, and a reflection surface having an inclined surface or a rounded portion disposed at opposite sides of the peak portion, and a width of the protruding portion increases from the peak portion towards a center of the core layer.
US11164979B1
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a Schottky layer, a plurality of first doped regions, a plurality of second doped regions, a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer. The semiconductor substrate includes a first conductive type, and the Schottky layer is disposed on the semiconductor substrate. The first doped regions and the second doped regions include a second conductive type, and which are disposed within the semiconductor substrate. The first doped regions are in parallel and extended along a first direction, and the second doped regions are in parallel and extended along a second direction to cross the first doped regions, thereby to define a plurality of grid areas. The first conductive layer is disposed on the Schottky layer, and the second conductive layer is disposed under the semiconductor substrate.
US11164968B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first and second electrodes, first, second and third semiconductor regions, a first conductive portion, a gate electrode, and a second insulating portion. The first and second semiconductor regions are provided on the first semiconductor region. The third semiconductor regions are selectively provided respectively on the second semiconductor regions. The first conductive portion is provided inside the first semiconductor region with a first insulating portion interposed. The gate electrode is provided on the first conductive portion and the first insulating portion and separated from the first conductive portion. The gate electrode includes first and second electrode parts. The second insulating portion is provided between the first and second electrode parts. The second insulating portion includes first and second insulating parts. The second electrode is provided on the second and third semiconductor regions.
US11164966B2
Disclosed herein are single electron transistor (SET) devices, and related methods and devices. In some embodiments, a SET device may include: first and second source/drain (S/D) electrodes; a plurality of islands, disposed between the first and second S/D electrodes; and dielectric material disposed between adjacent ones of the islands, between the first S/D electrode and an adjacent one of the islands, and between the second S/D electrode and an adjacent one of the islands.
US11164964B2
Provided is a semiconductor device. The device comprises an epitaxial layer that constitutes a part of an active cell region and is doped with impurities of a first conductivity type at a first concentration; a field stop region that is located below the epitaxial layer and doped with impurities of a second conductivity type at a second concentration which are then activated; and a collector region that is located below the field stop region 70 and is doped with impurities of a second conductivity type. The field stop region is formed by repeatedly alternately arranging regions in which the activation of the impurities of the first conductivity type is relatively strong and regions in which the activation of the impurities of the first conductivity type is relatively weak.
US11164957B2
A method of making a semiconductor device includes forming an opening in a dielectric layer. The method further includes depositing a barrier layer in the opening. The method further includes depositing an adhesion layer over the barrier layer. The method further includes treating the adhesion layer using a hydrogen-containing plasma.
US11164953B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer including first and second electrode forming surfaces and side surface, an anode electrode formed on the first electrode forming surface, a cathode electrode formed on the second electrode forming surface; an insulating film continuously formed from the first electrode forming surface to the side surface so as to cover the first edge. The side surface of the semiconductor layer is covered with the insulating film, so that a leak current flowing along the side surface is reduced. Further, the side surface is protected by the insulating film, making cracking, chipping, cleavage, and the like less likely to occur.
US11164950B2
The present invention provides a Group III nitride semiconductor device in which current concentration at the corners of the trench is suppressed. The semiconductor device has a pattern in which regular hexagonal unit cells are arranged in a honeycomb pattern. The semiconductor layer is sectionalized into regular hexagonal patterns by the trench. The recess has a small regular hexagonal pattern contained in the regular hexagonal pattern of the semiconductor layer sectionalized by the trench, which is obtained by reducing the regular hexagon of the semiconductor layer with the same center. Moreover, the regular hexagonal pattern of the recess is rotated by 30° with respect to the regular hexagon of the semiconductor layer. The Mg activation ratio is lower in the vicinity of corners of the trench than that in other regions in the vicinity of side walls of the trench of the p-type layer.
US11164948B2
A field effect transistor includes a semiconductor substrate, source and drain regions, lower source and drain contacts, a metal gate, a first interlayer dielectric layer, a capping layer, and an etch stop layer. The source and drain regions are disposed on the semiconductor substrate. The lower source and drain contacts are disposed on the source and drain regions. The metal gate is disposed in between the lower source and drain contacts. The first interlayer dielectric layer encircles the metal gate and the lower source and drain contacts. The capping layer is disposed on the metal gate. The etch stop layer extends on the first interlayer dielectric layer. An etching selectivity for the etch stop layer over the capping layer is greater than 10.
US11164946B2
A manufacturing method for a flash device. A manufacturing method for a flash device, comprising: providing a substrate; forming sequentially, on the substrate, a floating gate (FG) oxide layer, an FG polycrystalline layer, and an FG mask layer; etching, at the FG location region, the FG polycrystalline layer and the FG mask layer, forming a window on the FG mask layer, and forming a trench on the FG polycrystalline layer, the window being communicated with the trench; performing second etching of the side wall of the window of the FG mask layer, enabling the width of the trench located on the FG polycrystalline layer to be less than the width of the secondarily-etched window located on the FG mask layer; and oxidizing the FG polycrystalline layer, enabling the oxide to fill the trench to form a field oxide layer; and etching an FG having sharp angles.
US11164940B2
A method of forming a semiconductor structure is provided. Trenches are formed in a first dielectric layer having a first height on a substrate. First III-V semiconductor patterns including aluminum are formed in the trenches to a second height lower than the first height. Second III-V semiconductor patterns are formed on the first III-V semiconductor patterns to a third height not higher than the first height to form fins including the first and second III-V semiconductor patterns. The first dielectric layer is completely removed to expose the fins. Selective oxidation is performed to oxidize the first III-V semiconductor patterns to form oxidized first III-V semiconductor patterns. Fin patterning is performed. A second dielectric layer is formed to cover the fins. The second dielectric layer is recessed to a level not higher than top surfaces of the oxidized first III-V semiconductor patterns. The semiconductor structure is also provided.
US11164939B2
A device includes a first epitaxial layer, a second epitaxial layer, an interlayer, a gate dielectric layer, and a gate layer. The interlayer is between the first epitaxial layer and the second epitaxial layer. The gate dielectric layer is around the interlayer. The gate layer is around the gate dielectric layer and the interlayer. The interlayer is slanted with respect to a sidewall of the gate layer.
US11164936B2
A first-layer insulating film having a barrier property against a determined element contained in a ferroelectric capacitor as well as an oxygen permeability, a hydrogen permeability, and a water permeability is formed over a surface of the ferroelectric capacitor formed over a substrate. After that, heat treatment is performed in an oxidizing atmosphere. After the heat treatment, a second insulating film having a hydrogen permeability and a water permeability lower than those of the first-layer insulating film respectively is formed over a surface of the first-layer insulating film in a non-reducing atmosphere. A third-layer insulating film is formed over a surface of the second-layer insulating film. By doing so, degradation of a ferroelectric film under and after the formation of a semiconductor device having the ferroelectric capacitor is suppressed and deterioration in the characteristics of the ferroelectric capacitor is suppressed.
US11164933B2
Disclosed is an electroluminescent display device capable of overcoming a problem related with a resistance of a low level voltage line without any loss of an aperture ratio, wherein the electroluminescent display device may include a substrate, a first electrode provided on the substrate, a bank configured to cover an end of the first electrode and to define an emission area, an emission layer provided on the first electrode in the emission area defined by the bank, a second electrode provided on the emission layer and the bank, a conductive layer provided on the second electrode, and the low level voltage line provided on the substrate and electrically connected with the second electrode or the conductive layer.
US11164930B1
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display including a display body and a chip encapsulation board is provided. The chip encapsulation board is electrically connected to the display body through a connecting component; wherein an edge of the display body is provided with a groove, and a connection of the connecting component and the display body is located at a sidewall of the display body defining of the groove.
US11164924B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus including a substrate, a first first electrode on the substrate, a first organic functional layer on the first first electrode, the first organic functional layer including a first emission layer, a first second electrode on the first organic functional layer, a second first electrode on the substrate, the second first electrode being spaced apart from the first first electrode, a second organic functional layer on the second first electrode, the second organic functional layer including a second emission layer, a second second electrode on the second organic functional layer, and a self-assembled layer between the first organic functional layer and the second organic functional layer, the self-assembled layer containing fluorine.
US11164923B2
The present invention provides a display including: a pixel definition layer having a plurality of strip-shaped openings arranged in at least two columns or at least two rows parallel to each other; and a plurality of sub-pixels, wherein at least two adjacent sub-pixels are disposed in each of the strip-shaped openings.
US11164921B2
An array substrate, a method of manufacturing thereof, and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a substrate, an array layer disposed on the substrate, an anode trace layer disposed on the array layer, a first pixel defining layer being an inorganic layer and disposed on the array layer, a first opening extending through the first pixel defining layer, a second pixel defining layer disposed on the first pixel defining layer, and a second opening extending through the second pixel defining layer. A projection of the first opening defined on the array layer completely falls within a projection of the second opening defined on the array layer. A light emitting region is defined by forming two pixel defining layers, so a color mixing problem is improved, and a pixel defining layer made of an inorganic material can improve a moisture barrier property of a pixel region.
US11164920B2
The present disclosure relates to a display substrate, a method of manufacturing the same, and a display substrate. The display substrate includes: a light-emitting portion located in a display region of the display substrate; one or more dams located in a non-display region of the display substrate, the non-display region surrounding the display region; a first stress absorbing portion arranged below at least one dam of the dams.
US11164907B2
A method may include forming two vertical transport field effect transistors stacked one atop the other and separated by a resistive random access memory structure. The two vertical transport field effect transistors may include a source, a channel, and a drain, wherein a contact layer of the resistive random access memory structure functions as the drain of the two vertical transport field effect transistors. Forming the two vertical transport field effect transistors may further include forming a first source and a second source. The first source is a bottom source and the second source is a top source. The method may include forming a gate conductor layer surrounding the channel. The resistive random access memory structures may include faceted epitaxy defined by pointed tips. The pointed tips of the faceted epitaxy may extend vertically toward each other. The faceted epitaxy may be between the two vertical transport field effect transistors.
US11164900B2
An image sensor chip-scale package includes a pixel array, a cover glass covering the pixel array, a dam, and an adhesive layer. The pixel array is embedded in a substrate top-surface of a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate includes a plurality of conductive pads in a peripheral region of the semiconductor substrate surrounding the pixel array. The dam at least partially surrounds the pixel array and is located (i) between the cover glass and the semiconductor substrate, and (ii) on a region of the substrate top-surface between the pixel array and the plurality of conductive pads. The adhesive layer is (i) located between the cover glass and the semiconductor substrate, (ii) at least partially surrounding the dam, and (iii) configured to adhere the cover glass to the semiconductor substrate.
US11164899B2
An imaging device is used that has: a substrate; a first electrode layer disposed on the substrate, and having a first electrode; a first photoelectric conversion film disposed on the first electrode layer; a pixel electrode layer disposed on the first photoelectric conversion film, and having a pixel electrode; a second photoelectric conversion film disposed on the pixel electrode layer; and a second electrode layer disposed on the second photoelectric conversion film, and having a second electrode, wherein at least part of a period from among a first accumulation period during which a signal of the first photoelectric conversion film is accumulated, and a second accumulation period during which a signal of the second photoelectric conversion film is accumulated, does not overlap the other from among the first accumulation period and the second accumulation period.
