US11476959B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system identifies a plurality of performance indicators comprising device performance indicators for a plurality of communication devices on a cellular network and network performance indicators for the cellular network. The method also includes obtaining historical data regarding the plurality of performance indicators for each of a series of time points during a past time period; the historical data for each of the plurality of performance indicators form an array of values for that performance indicator. The method further includes generating from each array a set of inputs to an algorithm for predicting a throughput of the cellular network during a future time period; the set of inputs comprises quantiles of the array, and the algorithm comprises a machine learning algorithm. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11476951B2
In a particular embodiment, optical communications in a battery pack is disclosed that includes generating, by a module monitoring system of a battery management system, sensor data; encoding, by the module monitoring system, the sensor data into an optical signal; sending, by the module monitoring system, to a data aggregator, the sensor data as the optical signal; and decoding, by the data aggregator, the optical signal into the sensor data.
US11476944B1
A multi-channel transmitter includes a light source, a pulse generator and a mode splitter. The light source generates a continuous source light wave with multiple modes that are different from each other in terms of wavelength and waveform. The pulse generator generates, based on the continuous source light wave, an intermediate light pulse with multiple modes that are different from each other in terms of wavelength and waveform. The mode splitter has a plurality of output terminals, and generates, based on the intermediate light pulse and respectively at the output terminals thereof, a plurality of output light pulses that respectively correspond to the modes of the intermediate light pulse.
US11476940B2
A signal processing method of an optical transceiver is provided and has the steps of: providing a receiver optical subassembly, a transmitter optical subassembly, an amplifying module and an identifying module, the amplifying module is electrically connected to the receiver optical subassembly and the transmitter optical subassembly, the identifying module is electrically connected to the receiver optical subassembly and the amplifying module; receiving an input optical signal via the receiver optical subassembly; periodically detecting the input optical signal by the identifying module to identify, setting the amplifier module at a high-speed mode if a clock and data recovery signal is attached, amplifying the input optical signal to generate an output optical signal and outputting through the transmitter optical subassembly; setting the signal amplifier module at a low-speed mode, and amplifying the input optical signal to generate an output optical signal and outputting through the transmitter optical subassembly.
US11476933B1
Embodiments relate to a free space optical (FSO) terminal that transmits and receives optical beams. The FSO terminal includes a fore optic and a rotatable dispersive optical component. A receive (Rx) optical beam from the remote FSO communication terminal is received through the fore optic, and a transmit (Tx) optical beam is transmitted through the fore optic. The dispersive optical component is positioned along the optical paths of both the Rx and Tx optical beams. Since the Rx and Tx optical beams have different wavelengths and the dispersive optical component has a wavelength dependence, the dispersive optical component creates an angular separation between the Rx and Tx optical beams. The controller controls the rotational position of the dispersive optical component (and possibly also the wavelength of the Tx optical beam) to achieve a desired angular separation between the Rx and Tx optical beams.
US11476931B1
An electromagnetic channel emulator system is disclosed. The system includes an electromagnetic switch matrix sub-system communicatively coupled to one or more systems under test and one or more simulation control layers. The system may include a high performance computing layer including one or more processing element nodes. The electromagnetic switch matrix sub-system may include one or more electromagnetic systems under test input/output layers and one or more high performance computing input/output layers. The one or more input/output layers may include one or more signal converters. The electromagnetic switch matrix sub-system may include one or more switches communicatively coupled to the one or more input/output layers and the high performance computing layer. The one or more switches may be configured to selectively position the one or more analog signals based on the received one or more simulation control layer signals.
US11476929B2
An example system includes a transceiver and a microcontroller. The microcontroller is configured to receive, from first and second network interfaces of the transceiver, a plurality of messages from a hub node and the leaf nodes. Each of the messages corresponds to a respective one of the ingress or egress data flows. The microcontroller is also configured generate a resource assignment map based on the messages. The resource assignment map includes pairings between a respective one of the ingress data flows and a respective one of the egress data flows, and, for each of the pairings, an indication of a respective network resource assigned to exchange the egress data flow of that pairing with a respective one of the leaf nodes. The microcontroller is also configured to generate a command to cause the transceiver to transmit the egress data flows in accordance with the resource assignment map.
US11476928B2
A network element one or more network ports, network time circuitry and packet processing circuitry. The network ports are configured to communicate with a communication network. The network time circuitry is configured to track a network time defined in the communication network. In some embodiments the packet processing circuitry is configured to receive a definition of one or more timeslots that are synchronized to the network time, and to send outbound packets to the communication network depending on the timeslots. In some embodiments the packet processing circuitry is configured to process inbound packets, which are received from the communication network, depending on the timeslots.
US11476924B2
A system for data recovery using non-intrusive terrestrial and broad band connectivity of transmission of a data stream, the system having an IP distribution network for transferring the data stream from a sender to a plurality of receivers, the system having: a transmission center receiving the data stream from the sender and sending a continuous IP data stream to the IP distribution network and sending a broadcast data stream to a broadcast network; at least one registered/assigned recovery server connected to the IP distribution network and assigned to at least one of the plurality of receivers, the at least one recovery server receiving a protected IP stream from the transmission center; at least one of the plurality of receivers sending a recovery request to at least one recovery server when the respective receiver detects an erroneous/missing packet; and wherein the protected IP stream is encapsulated into RTP in the transmission center and the at least one recovery server sends a recovery data stream to the at least one of the plurality of receivers following receipt of the recovery request.
US11476911B2
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may receive at least two reference signals from a base station. The apparatus may determine CSI associated with at least one of the at least two reference signals. The apparatus may determine at least one parameter based on the CSI. The apparatus may transmit, to the base station, the at least one parameter and the CSI to enable a predicted CSI to be determined based on the at least one parameter and the CSI. The apparatus may receive data or control information from the base station based on predictive CSI determined by the base station using the transmitted at least one parameter and CSI.
US11476885B2
A transceiver includes a duobinary conversion circuit configured to determine a level of an input signal which is a duobinary signal according to an intermediate voltage, a first reference voltage higher than the intermediate voltage, and a second reference voltage lower than the intermediate voltage, and to convert the input signal into a non-return-to-zero (NRZ) signal; and a control circuit configured to generate one or more control signals to substantially remove inter-symbol interference (ISI) between symbols of the input signal, and to adjust the first reference voltage, or the second reference voltage, or both according to the level of the input signal.
US11476877B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein that relate to a wireless device that intelligently uses different reference crystal oscillators (XOs) for a Phase Locked Loop(s) (PLL(s)) in a transceiver of the wireless device. Embodiments of a method of operation of a wireless device comprising a first XO that operates at a first reference frequency and a second XO that operates at a second reference frequency that is greater than the first reference frequency are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method of operation of the wireless devices comprises making a decision as to whether to configure a receiver of the wireless device to use the first XO or the second XO and configuring the receiver of the wireless device to use the first XO or the second XO in accordance with the decision.
US11476873B2
Methods and systems described herein are directed to encoding information bits for transmission. The methods can include receiving a set of information bits (900) and determining a set of parity check bits (910). The set of information bits is concatenated with the set of parity check bits (920), and the information bits are polar encoded into a set of information bits and frozen bits (930). The encoded set of information bits is transmitted to a wireless receiver (940). In particular embodiments, each parity check bit in the set of parity check bits is the binary sum of the values of all bits in front of it. Other embodiments include generating a set of parity check bits based on a systematic block code on the least reliable bits of the set of information bits. The methods and systems described herein may be applied to 3GPP 5G mobile communication systems.
US11476872B2
A method is proposed for copying a source array into a target array, wherein both the source array and the target array have at least two elements, wherein each element has a value, in which the elements of the source array are copied into the target array in the sequence of a random permutation, wherein, after a step of copying an element of the source array into the target array, the source array, the target array or the source array and the target array are rotated. A device is also indicated accordingly.
US11476869B2
A deep neural network (DNN) module is disclosed that can dynamically partition neuron workload to reduce power consumption. The DNN module includes neurons and a group partitioner and scheduler unit. The group partitioner and scheduler unit divides a workload for the neurons into partitions in order to maximize the number of neurons that can simultaneously process the workload. The group partitioner and scheduler unit then assigns a group of neurons to each of the partitions. The groups of neurons in the DNN module process the workload in their assigned partition to generate a partial output value. The neurons in each group can then sum their partial output values to generate a final output value for the workload. The neurons can be powered down once the groups of neurons have completed processing their assigned workload to reduce power consumption.
US11476868B2
A dual-loop analog to digital converter (ADC) includes an asynchronous inner loop including first and second comparators and a state machine, where outputs of the first and second comparators are coupled to inputs of the state machine, and where outputs of the state machine are cross-coupled to enable ports of the first and second comparators. The ADC includes a synchronous outer loop including a successive approximation register (SAR), a digital to analog converter (DAC), and the first and second comparators, where the outputs of the first and second comparators are coupled to inputs of the SAR, an N-bit output of the SAR is coupled to an N-bit input of the DAC, and a differential output of the DAC is coupled to inputs of the first and second comparators, where a state of the state machine is independent of the state of the SAR.
US11476862B2
A semiconductor device with a novel structure is provided. The semiconductor device includes a sensor, an amplifier circuit to which a sensor signal of the sensor is input, a sample-and-hold circuit that retains a voltage corresponding to an output signal of an amplifier input to the sample-and-hold circuit, an analog-to-digital converter circuit to which an output signal of the sample-and-hold circuit corresponding to the voltage is input, and an interface circuit. The interface circuit has a function of switching and controlling a first control period in which the sensor signal is input to the amplifier circuit and an output signal of the amplifier circuit is retained in the sample-and-hold circuit and a second control period in which a digital signal obtained by output of the voltage retained in the sample-and-hold circuit to the analog-to-digital converter circuit is output to the interface circuit. In the first control period, the analog-to-digital converter circuit is switched to stop output of the digital signal. The first control period is longer than the second control period.
US11476860B2
A TI-ADC (50) comprising a group of sub-ADCs (A1-AM+N) is disclosed. During operation, M≥2 of the sub-ADCs (A1-AM+N) are simultaneously operated for converting M respective consecutive input signal samples of the TI-ADC (50) from an analog to a digital representation. The total number of sub-ADCs (A1-AM+N) in the group is M+N, N≥1. The TI-ADC (50) comprises error-estimation circuitry (60) for estimating errors of the sub-ADCs (A1-AM+N). Furthermore, the TI-ADC (50) comprises a control circuit (55) configured to, for each input signal sample, assign which sub-ADC (A1-AM+N) is to operate on that input signal sample. The control circuit (55) is configured to, for sub-ADCs (Ak1) in a first subset of the group of sub-ADCs (A1-AM+N), which are subject to error estimation by the error-estimation circuitry (60), perform the assignment according to a first scheme. Moreover, the control N circuit (55) is configured to, for sub-ADCs (Ak2) in a second subset of the group of sub-ADCs (A1-AM+N), which are not subject to error estimation by the error-estimation circuitry (60), perform the assignment according to a second scheme, different from the first scheme.
US11476850B1
A semiconductor relay device includes a conversion circuit configured to receive an input signal from outside and pass a first current to a first node based on the input signal. A zener diode has an anode coupled to a second node and a cathode coupled to the first node. A resistor is coupled between the second node and a third node. A number n of diodes are serially coupled. A thyristor has an anode coupled to the first node, a cathode coupled to the second node, and a control terminal coupled to the third node. A transistor has a gate coupled to the first node. An anode of a diode at a first end of the n diodes is coupled to the first node, and a cathode of a diode at a second end of the n diodes is coupled to a third node.
US11476848B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor integrated circuit device comprises first and second transistors having control terminals receiving an input signal and an inversion signal of the input signal, third and fourth transistors having control terminals receiving the input signal and the inversion signal, first and second inverters in which outputs are connected to inputs of other converters, and a fifth transistor connected to the first to fourth transistors. The third and fourth transistors are connected to outputs of the second and the first inverters. Clock signal is supplied to the fifth transistor.
US11476842B1
One example describes a superconducting current source system comprising a linear flux-shuttle. The linear flux-shuttle includes an input and a plurality of Josephson transmission line (JTL) stages. Each of the JTL stages includes at least one Josephson junction, an output inductor, and a clock input. The linear flux-shuttle can be configured to generate a direct current (DC) output current via the output inductor associated with each of the JTL stages in response to the at least one Josephson junction triggering in a sequence in each of the JTL stages along the linear flux-shuttle in response to receiving an input pulse at the input and in response to a clock signal provided to the clock input in each of the JTL stages.
US11476840B2
A comparator circuit includes: a comparator comprising: a first input terminal receiving an input voltage; a second input terminal receiving a reference voltage; an output terminal outputting an output signal according to a result of a comparison between the input voltage and the reference voltage; and a power supply terminal receiving an operating voltage; and a mode controller applying a first operating voltage and a first reference voltage to the second input terminal and the power supply terminal of the comparator for a predetermined delay time in response to a supply of power being initiated from a power supply, and applying a second operating voltage and a second reference voltage to the second input terminal and the power supply terminal of the comparator in response to the delay time elapsing, wherein the first operating voltage is higher than a ground voltage and is lower than the second operating voltage.
US11476836B1
According to one embodiment, a coupler includes first to fourth capacitors, first and second inductors, and a first Josephson junction. The first capacitor includes a first capacitor end portion and a first capacitor other-end portion. The first inductor includes a first inductor end portion, and a first inductor other-end portion. The second inductor includes a second inductor end portion, and a second inductor other-end portion. The first Josephson junction includes a first Josephson junction end portion, and a first Josephson junction other-end portion. A space is surrounded with the first inductor, the second inductor, and the first Josephson junction. The third capacitor includes a third capacitor end portion, and a third capacitor other-end portion. The fourth capacitor includes a fourth capacitor end portion, and a fourth capacitor other-end portion.
US11476824B2
Examples described herein provide selective filtering by a network device for continuous 5 GHz and 6 GHz operation. Examples may include receiving, by the network device, a first signal in a 5 GHz band, and generating, by the network device, a second signal in a 6 GHz band. Examples may include selecting, by the network device, a first filter or a second filter to be applied the first signal in the 5 GHz band, wherein the first filter allows a lower frequency band to pass than the second filter in the 5 GHz band, selecting, by the network device, a third filter or a fourth filter to be applied to the second signal in the 6 GHz band, wherein the third filter allows a lower frequency band to pass than the fourth filter in the 6 GHz band, and simultaneously applying, by the network device, the selected first or second filter to the first signal and the selected third or fourth filter to the second signal.
US11476822B2
A band-pass filter includes an unbalanced port, a first balanced port, a second balanced port, and first to third resonators provided between the unbalanced port and the first and second balanced ports. The second resonator and the third resonator each are a resonator with both ends open. The second resonator and the third resonator are adjacent to each other in a circuit configuration, and electromagnetically coupled by magnetic coupling as main coupling. The first resonator is provided closer to the second resonator than to the third resonator, and jump-coupled to the third resonator.
US11476815B2
Envelope tracking systems for power amplifiers are provided herein. In certain embodiments, an envelope tracker is provided for a power amplifier that amplifies an RF signal. The envelope tracker includes an error amplifier that controls a voltage level of a power amplifier supply voltage of the power amplifier based on amplifying a difference between a reference signal and an envelope signal indicating an envelope of the RF signal. The envelope tracker further includes a multi-level switching circuit that generates an error amplifier supply voltage based on sensing a current of the error amplifier, and uses the error amplifier supply voltage to power the error amplifier.
US11476810B2
A radio-frequency circuit includes: an amplifier; a matching circuit connected to an output side of the amplifier; and a power splitter connected to an output side of the matching circuit. The power splitter includes a differential inductor and a resistor element. The differential inductor includes an input node (ni), a first line, and a second line. The input node (ni) is connected to the matching circuit. The first line and the second line are respectively wound into coil form and connected to the input node (ni). The resistor element forms a connection between a node (n1) on an output side of the first line and a node (n2) on an output side of the second line. The first line and the second line are wound in opposite directions and have the same coil axis.
US11476807B2
A power amplifier module includes a first amplifier circuit that amplifies a radio frequency signal with a first gain corresponding to a first control signal to generate a first amplified signal; a second amplifier circuit that amplifies the first amplified signal with a second gain corresponding to a second control signal to generate a second amplified signal; and a control unit that generates the first control signal and the second control signal. The second control signal is a control signal for increasing a power-supply voltage for the second amplifier circuit as a peak-to-average power ratio of the radio frequency signal increases. The first control signal is a control signal for controlling the first gain of the first amplifier circuit so that a variation in the second gain involved in a variation in the power-supply voltage for the second amplifier circuit is compensated for.
US11476796B2
The present application provides methods for loading and unloading high capacity storage equipment to a solar power canopy. The methods and structures may include horizontal support members have mechanisms to engage corresponding mechanisms on a compartment housing the high capacity storage equipment. The mechanisms may include plates, flanged surfaces, rails, tracks, hook assemblies, and ridges. The methods and structures may include a superstructure that is coupled to an moves with respect to the solar power canopy frame. The superstructure may pivot and/or rotate to allow loading and unloading. The methods and structures also may include cabinets or cubicles sized to receive one or more compartments housing the high capacity storage equipment.
US11476794B2
Disclosed herein is a solar generation facility capable of using high power by configuring packages each including a power pump and a solar module in multiple stages. The solar generation facility includes a plurality of solar module packages connected in series to one another and stacked in multiple layers and at least one condenser corresponding to the solar module packages. At least one of the solar module packages has a solar module that supplies power to a load stage and a power pump that provides lifting power to the solar module. Here, the solar module outputs the power by reflecting the lifting power provided from the power pump.
US11476792B2
Systems and methods for estimating electrical component degradation include a processor programmed to: compute a cumulative degradation value for an electrical system component of an electrical system based on an operating parameter of the electrical system component; and to compute a corrosion compensated cumulative degradation value for the electrical system component based on the cumulative degradation value and a corrosion rating of the electrical system.
US11476790B2
An electric working machine in one aspect of the present disclosure includes two or more circuits and a control circuit. The control circuit executes two or more diagnoses one by one in order. The diagnoses at least include a first diagnosis and a second diagnosis. The first diagnosis diagnoses a first circuit. The second diagnosis diagnoses a second circuit. The control circuit executes the first diagnosis or the second diagnosis at a first diagnosis timing. The control circuit executes the first diagnosis or the second diagnosis at a second diagnosis timing. The second diagnosis timing follows the first diagnosis timing.
US11476783B1
Example systems and processes control transition of an electric motor from open-loop operation to closed-loop operation by detecting zero-crossing (ZC) locations of the back-electromotive force (BEMF). The rotor angle of the electric motor is changed, e.g., by changing acceleration of the electric motor to correct a phase difference based on the detected ZC locations and an open-loop profile of the electric motor. Detected ZC locations may be used to identify ZC-detected-based commutation points, and each detected ZC location may be used to update a next commutation point. During the control process the open-loop profile is updated. Transition may occur when a set number of ZC-detection-based commutation points are sufficiently aligned with corresponding updated commutation points, or such alignment is maintained for at least one electrical cycle.
US11476779B2
A drive control device includes: a vibration wave drive device that includes an elastic body, a vibration body including an electro-mechanical energy conversion element, and a contact body in contact with the vibration body, and a control unit of the vibration wave drive device. The drive control device includes: a first detector configured to detect an electric current that is supplied to the vibration wave drive device or consumed electric power, and a second detector configured to detect relative positions or relative speed of the vibration body and the contact body. A control mode in which the vibration wave drive device is decelerated on a basis of a detection result obtained by the first and/or the second detector is included.
US11476775B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for controlling a converter, in particular power converter of a wind power installation. The converter has a plurality of, preferably parallel, converter modules. The method includes the following steps: driving a first converter module, such that the converter module generates a first electrical AC current in a first switch position, driving a second converter module, such that the converter module generates a second electrical AC current in a second switch position, superposing the first electrical AC current and the second electrical AC current to form a total current, detecting the total current of the converter, determining a virtual current depending on the first and second switch positions, and changing the first switch position of the first converter module and/or the second switch position of the second converter module depending on the total current and the virtual current.
US11476774B2
Disclosed are a control method and control system for a modular multilevel converter and a power transmission system. The control method comprises: calculating an actual capacitor voltage and a reference capacitor voltage of the sub-module; dividing the plurality of sub-modules into a plurality of modules, wherein reference capacitor voltages of the sub-modules in the same module are the same, and reference capacitor voltages of the sub-modules among different modules are different; obtaining a first voltage sequence and a second voltage sequence; and determining the sub-modules to be switched on or switched off according to charging and discharging states of the sub-modules, the first voltage sequence and the second voltage sequence, until an actual level of the bridge arm is consistent with a desired level, wherein the desired level changes taking an insert value selected from a combination of one or more elements in a collection {INTERk} as a step.
US11476772B2
A voltage converter circuit, comprising: a bridge rectifier; a first transistor, having a first end, a second end and a third end; a second transistor, having a first end and a second end; wherein the first end of the first transistor and the first end of second transistor are electrically connected to bridge rectifier, and the second end of the first transistor is electrically connected to the first end of the second transistor; and a Zener diode, connected between the third end of the first transistor and the second end of the second transistor.
US11476765B2
An illustrative example embodiment of a buck-boost converter includes at least three input/output ports, at least three sets of switches, and at least two ripple current limiters. One of the sets of switches is associated with each of the input/output ports. Each of the ripple current limiters is associated with a respective one of the sets of switches between the associated set of switches and another one of the sets of switches.
US11476763B2
A trans-inductor voltage regulator (TLVR) circuit has multiple phases and a regulator block for each phase. Each regulator block is connected to an output capacitor of the TLVR circuit by way of a first winding of a corresponding nonlinear transformer. A second winding of the nonlinear transformers are connected in series with a compensation inductor. The first winding of the corresponding nonlinear transformer has a first inductance when a load current is at a first level, and the first winding of the corresponding nonlinear transformer has a second inductance that is less than the first inductance when the load current is at a second level that is higher than the first level.
US11476751B2
The present invention discloses a flying capacitor converter, a short circuit current suppression circuit for the same and an energy storage system. The flying capacitor converter comprises a controller, and has a high voltage side connected to a first power source and a low voltage side connected to a second power source. The short circuit current suppression circuit comprises: at least one current detection unit connected to the low voltage side and/or the high voltage side of the flying capacitor converter; and at least one switch set connected in series to the high voltage side and/or the low voltage side of the flying capacitor converter, wherein the controller controls the switch set to cut off a connection between the flying capacitor converter and the first power source and/or between the flying capacitor converter and the second power source, when the current detection unit detects a short circuit.
US11476748B2
A method for controlling a resonance type power converter including a first resonance circuit (L0, C0) and a shunt circuit (3), which converts and outputs the power of the DC power supply, shunting a current flowing into a first capacitor (CS) by controlling a second switching element (S2) during a predetermined period within turn-off period of a first switching element (S1), the first capacitor connected in parallel to the first switching element (S1), the second switching element (S2) included in the shunt circuit (3), and the first switching element (S1) operated in response to the resonance of the first resonance circuit (L0, C0).
US11476741B2
A rotary electric machine includes: a rotary shaft member; first and second rotor including first and second rotor core, respectively, including first and second permanent magnets having first and second polarity, first and second magnet-based magnetic pole portions having the first and the second polarities and being formed by the first and the second permanent magnets, and first and second iron core portions having the second and the first polarities and being formed by iron pole portions of the first and the second rotor core, are alternately arranged in a circumferential direction of the first rotor core; a stator; and a field yoke. Further, the first magnet-based magnetic pole portion and the second iron pole portion face each other and the first iron pole portion and the second magnet-based magnetic pole portion face each other in the axial direction.
US11476736B2
An electric motor includes a rotation shaft formed in a hollow shape, a rotor attached to the rotation shaft, a stator provided on an outer periphery side of the rotor, and a case having the rotor and the stator housed therein. The electric motor 1 is capable of cooling by a cooling-fluid flowing in a cooling-fluid flow passage which includes an inner flow passage formed inside the rotation shaft, an outer flow passage formed between an outer periphery of the stator and an inner periphery of the case, and a first communication flow passage isolated from a housing space of the case in which the rotor is housed. The first communication flow passage provides communication between the inner flow passage and the outer flow passage.
US11476735B2
An electric work machine with a product structure that effectively reduces noise caused by a brushless motor without changing the motor specifications. A hammer drill includes a brushless motor including a stator including an insulator, a cylindrical stator core, and a coil wound around the stator core via the insulator, and a rotor rotatable relative to the stator, a cylindrical member fixed along an entire outer circumference of the stator core and made of material with a Young's modulus higher than a Young's modulus of the insulator, and a housing accommodating the brushless motor and the cylindrical member.
US11476729B2
A salient pole machine (30) comprises a rotor (20) rotating about a machine axis, said rotor (20) having at its circumference a rotor rim (21) with a predetermined outer radius (29), whereby a plurality of salient poles (22), each extending in radial direction, is attached to said rotor (20) at said rotor rim (21) at a respective pole-rim interface (24). The mechanical properties of the configuration are improved by providing at said pole-rim interface (24) a plurality of axial rib-like rim extensions (25) projecting radially from said rotor rim (28) with a predetermined circumferential distance (d) between neighboring rim extensions (25), by each salient pole (22) having a plurality of axial pole grooves (26) matching and receiving said rib-like rim extensions (25) at the respective pole-rim interface (24), and by providing fixing elements (27) to fix said rib-like rim extensions (25) in said pole grooves (26).
US11476725B2
Wireless power transfer systems, disclosed, include one or more circuits to facilitate high power transfer at high frequencies. Such wireless power transfer systems include a transmission integrated circuit which includes a damping circuit and a transmitter controller, configured to dampen a wireless power signal such that communications fidelity is upheld at high power. The damping circuit includes at least a damping transistor that is configured to receive, from the transmitter controller, a damping signal for switching the transistor to control damping during transmission of the wireless data signals. Utilizing such systems enables wireless power transfer at high frequency, such as 13.56 MHz, at voltages over 1 Watt, while maintaining fidelity of in-band communications associated with the higher power wireless power signal.
US11476722B2
A power transmitter for wireless power transfer includes a control and communications unit configured to provide power control signals to a power supply external to the power transmitter for controlling a power level of a power signal configured for transmission to a power receiver, the power supply configured to configure a direct current (DC) power based on the power control signals. The power transmitter further includes an inverter circuit configured to receive the DC power from the power supply external to the power transmitter and convert the input power to a power signal. The power transmitter further includes a coil formed of wound Litz wire and including at least one layer, the coil defining, at least, a top face and shielding comprising a ferrite core and defining a cavity, the cavity configured such that the ferrite core substantially surrounds all but the top face of the coil.
US11476720B2
A power transmitter (101) for a wireless power transfer system comprises a transmitter coil (103) and a driver (201) generates a drive signal) for the transmitter coil (103) employing a repeating time frame with a power transfer time interval and a reduced power time interval during which a power level of the power transfer signal is reduced. A driver (201) generates a drive signal for the transmitter coil (103) to generate the power transfer signal. A communicator (205) receives messages from the power receiver (105) and an adapter (213) adapts a timing property of the reduced power time interval in response to at least a first message received from the power receiver (105). A synchronizer (206) for synchronizing a foreign object detection and the generation of a test signal to occur during the reduced power time interval. The operation may typically be a foreign object detection or communication, and the timing property may e.g. be a duration of the reduced power time interval.
US11476717B2
An example system includes a power collection engine. The power collection engine is to convert wireless electromagnetic energy into wired electrical energy. The system also includes a connection management engine. The connection management engine is to communicate with a first transmitter to cause the first transmitter to provide first power to the power collection engine. The connection management engine is to communicate with a second transmitter to cause the second transmitter to provide second power that avoids interference with the first power to the power collection engine.
US11476715B2
Systems and methods are presented for wireless energy transfer by scalar-longitudinal electromagnetic propagating waves. The scalar wave beam antenna is further enhanced with additional active and parasitic resonant elements for increasing the penetrating and far field distance transfer of energy. A receiving antenna module is designed for effective capture of longitudinal and transverse waves. Presented are uses for this system to illuminate areas without the need for wires, powering electronic devices, charging batteries remotely, new style communications, and military applications.
US11476710B2
An electronic device according to an embodiment may include: a wireless charging coil; a power transmission circuit configured to be electrically connected to the wireless charging coil; a wireless communication circuit configured to communicate with an external electronic device; and a control circuit. The control circuit may be configured to: transmit power to an external electronic device; obtain data corresponding to power received by the external electronic device in response to the transmitted power using the wireless communication circuit; obtain power loss based on the obtained data; stop transmitting the power to the external electronic device when the power loss exceeds a first threshold; and stop transmitting the power to the external electronic device according to whether an event related the power loss occurs even when the power loss is lower than the first threshold.
US11476706B2
A wireless device charger configured to be installed within a passenger cabin of a vehicle includes a source coil configured to generate an alternating magnetic field and a housing in pneumatic communication with the passenger cabin. The housing defines an inlet port that is configured to induct air from the passenger cabin into the housing. The wireless device charger further incorporates an air movement device configured to produce an air flow into the inlet port and through the housing.
US11476705B2
A power harvesting device is provided that may supply low voltage power to operate devices in remote locations. The power harvesting device may be connected to a medium to high voltage power line. First and second capacitors divide the voltage to a lower voltage sufficient to power a device, such as a monitoring device. The power harvesting device and monitoring device may be connected to an electric tower with the power harvesting device being connected to a power line supported by the tower.
US11476704B2
A power supply control system controls a redundant power supply system that includes a first power supply system and a second power supply system connected in parallel to a power supply unit. The first power supply system includes a first power supply and a first system. The second power supply system includes a second power supply and a second system. The power supply control system includes a first switch that is a MOSFET provided between the power supply unit and the first power supply, a second switch that is a MOSFET provided between the power supply unit and the second power supply, a wiring configured to supply a dark current flowing from the first power supply to the second system, a first relay of a normally-on type provided on the wiring, and a second relay of a normally-off type provided between the second power supply and the second switch.
US11476688B2
Provided is a power supply device which includes a plurality of battery modules and in which the battery modules are connected in series with one another in accordance with a gate driving signal from a controller. The power supply device includes a disconnecting part configured to forcibly isolate the battery module from a series connection regardless of the gate driving signal, and limits, in accordance with a target output voltage value, a number of the battery modules to be forcibly isolated by the disconnecting part.
US11476682B2
A server device is provided, the server device comprising a processing circuitry, a memory circuitry, an interface circuitry configured to connect to a communication network. The server device is configured to obtain machine data indicative of one or more features of a machine. The machine is configured to be powered by a battery device. The server device is configured to obtain usage data indicative of a usage of the machine. The server device is configured to obtain, for one or more battery devices, battery data indicative of one or more battery parameters of a battery device. The server device is configured to determine, for the one or more battery devices, a predicted impact on the one or more battery parameters based on the battery data, the usage data, and the machine data.
US11476679B2
A battery pack system and methods for operating the battery pack system are disclosed. In one example, the battery pack system may simultaneously output two different voltages from a stack of battery cells. One voltage may be applied to a first group of electric power consumers and the second voltage may be applied to a second group of electric power consumers.
US11476676B1
A system for battery management for electric aircraft batteries includes an energy storage system configured to provide energy to the electric aircraft via a power supply connection, the energy storage system including: a battery pack, a sensor configured to detect a condition parameter of the battery pack and generate a battery datum based on the condition parameter, a pack monitoring unit (PMU) configured to receive the battery datum, and a high voltage disconnect configured to terminate the power supply connection between the battery pack and the electric aircraft; a high voltage bus electrically connected to the high voltage disconnect; a primary functional display configured to display information based on battery datum; and a first controller area network (CAN) bus and a second CAN bus communicatively connected to the PMU, the high voltage bus, and the primary functional display.
US11476675B2
A power unit including multiple generators supplies power to a load or loads that may be variable. The generators can differ, e.g., in generating capacities, rates at which their outputs can be changed, maintenance requirements, and/or different energy-conversion efficiencies. A control unit throttles the generators independently according to a digitally implemented algorithm that may, but need not, use the difference(s) in supplying power to the load. In some cases, the controller regulates monitored power delivered to the load or loads. A power combiner is connected to the outputs of the generators. If desired, a buffer can be used between the generators and the load or loads to provide energy storage that can allow for the load or loads to change at a faster rate than the generators are throttled and for peak loads that temporarily exceed the capacity of the generators.
US11476674B2
A power distribution monitoring system is provided that can include a number of features. The system can include a plurality of monitoring devices configured to attach to individual conductors on a power grid distribution network. In some embodiments, a monitoring device is disposed on each conductor of a three-phase network and utilizes a split-core transformer to harvest energy from the conductors. The monitoring devices can be configured to harvest energy from the AC power grid. In some embodiments, the monitoring devices are configured to draw a ratiometric current to maintain an output resistance that equals an input resistance. Methods of installing and using the monitoring devices are also provided.
US11476673B1
Systems, methods, and frameworks for distribution grid optimal power flow (D-OPF) are provided, to find the optimal droop and mode settings of smart inverters (SIs). The droop and mode settings of SIs can be found as per the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)-1547 in coordination with the operations of legacy voltage control devices for optimal Volt-VAR control performance. The D-OPF framework can utilize two timescale coordination of control of legacy grid voltage control devices, modes and droop settings of SIs, and active/reactive power dispatch of SIs.
US11476672B2
A system for stabilizing an alternating voltage grid has an inverter, which can be connected to the alternating voltage grid, and is configured to exchange reactive power with the alternating voltage grid. The system further has an inductor arrangement with variable inductor coils, which can be connected to the alternating voltage grid, and a control device, which is configured to control a reactive power in the alternating voltage grid by use of the inverter and by use of the inductor arrangement.
US11476667B2
A hybrid electromagnetic transient simulation method for microgrid real-time simulation, wherein a traditional node analysis method (NAM) and a highly parallel latency insertion method (LIM) are combined, so that the microgrid is firstly divided from a filter of a distributed power generation system to form one latency insertion method (LIM) network containing a power distribution line and a plurality of node analysis method (NAM) networks containing the distributed power generation system respectively, the NAM network being simulated by traditional node analysis method, the LIM network being simulated by the latency insertion method, in an initialization stage, one correlation matrix and four diagonal matrixes containing line parameters used for LIM network simulation being formed according to line topology and parameters of the microgrid, in a main cycle of the simulation, the LIM network solved simultaneously with multiple NAM networks, a parallelism of a microgrid simulation being improved.
US11476666B1
A system comprises a converter that converts a grid AC signal to a first DC signal, a bus bar that receives the first DC signal and provides a combined DC signal, power electronics in communication with electrical loads via a breaker panel, where the power electronics convert, responsive to control signals, the combined DC signal into a second AC signal having variable frequency/variable voltage, and provides the second AC signal to the electrical loads, a processor that receives sensed characteristics and provides, based in part on the sensed characteristics, the control signals to the power electronics, and sensors that sense characteristics of the second AC signal and supply the sensed characteristics to the processor. The power electronics control the variable frequency and/or variable voltage of the second AC signal based at least in part on the one or more control signals to reduce negative effects on the breaker panel.
US11476664B2
A power monitoring adapter may include a plurality of power supply unit (PSU) inputs to couple a plurality of PSUs to the power monitoring adapter. The power monitoring adapter may also include a power output to electrically couple the power monitoring adapter to a powered system. The power output includes a voltage line, and a ground. Further, the power monitoring adapter may include a side band interface to couple to the powered system. The side band interface communicates status data of the number of PSUs coupled to the power monitoring adapter.
US11476657B2
A DC power attachment device provides a convenient solution in adapting DC powers from AC sockets connected to an existing power distribution circuit. It enables multitude DC devices to concurrently access multiple DC powers at the same or at different voltages on the same power attachment device, which may be coupled to a DC power source, an existing socket, or directly connected to a DC power distribution circuit. The method on the assembly of a DC power attachment device is also addressed.
US11476655B2
Systems and methods to estimate trapped charge for a controlled automatic reclose are described herein. For example, an intelligent electronic device (IED) may calculate an analog amount of trapped charge of each phase of a power line based on voltage measurements of the power line. The IED may close a switching device of each phase at a time corresponding to a point-on-wave associated with the analog amount of trapped charge of the respective phase.
US11476650B2
An electrical user comprising: —a recessed box (7); —a frame (2) applied to the box (7); —a cover (3) for covering said frame (2). The cover (3) is removable from the frame (2) and comprises: i) a rechargeable electric battery (32); ii) an electrical device (31).
US11476644B2
The spark plug includes a cylindrical insulator, a center electrode provided in the insulator, and a cylindrical metal shell provided around the insulator. A ledge portion of the metal shell has a frontward facing surface facing a front side, a rearward facing surface facing a rear side, and a connection surface connecting the rearward facing surface and the frontward facing surface. The rearward facing surface engages with a step portion of the insulator. The metal shell includes a front cylindrical portion connected to the front side of the ledge portion. The inner circumferential surface of the front cylindrical portion is connected to the frontward facing surface of the ledge portion via a chamfered surface or a rounded surface. A corner at which the connection surface and the frontward facing surface are connected is located on the front side with respect to a front end of the insulator.
US11476632B2
There is provided a laser apparatus for a printed electronic system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention including: a laser generating unit which oscillates a laser beam; a laser changing unit which changes an intensity or a wavelength of the laser beam oscillated from the laser generating unit; a laser control unit which controls the intensity or a magnitude of the wavelength of the laser beam which is changed by the laser changing unit; and a laser steering unit which changes a traveling direction of the laser beam output from the laser changing unit to be directed to a target, and the laser control unit controls the intensity or the magnitude of the wavelength of the laser beam in accordance with a state of a printing pattern formed on the target.
US11476628B2
An automatic-robotic-system-for-cable assembly system and method is provided. The method and system are configured to use a cartridge which holds one or both ends of the cable. The cartridge moves along an automatic cable assembly line, with the line segmented into different stages, at which a process is performed by a specific machine. Different machines, such as actuators or modular machines, perform operations on the cartridge at the different stages. In preparation for or as part of the operations, the actuators or modular machines may directly physically apply one or more forces to a cable held by the cartridge, causing the cable to spool toward or away from the modular machines.
US11476617B2
A connection comprising a first plug having a first post and a conductor, a second plug having a second post and an aperture configured to receive the conductor, and a connector. The connector includes a first slot and a second slot. The first slot includes a first opening, a first protrusion, and a first end opposite the first opening, and the second slot includes a second opening, a second protrusion, and a second end opposite the second opening. The first slot is configured to at least partially receive the first post and the second slot is configured to at least partially receive the second post. The first post is positioned between the first end and the first protrusion of the first slot, and the second post is positioned between the second end and the second protrusion of the second slot.
US11476607B2
An electrical connector consists of a connector housing (10) and at least one electrical contact element (1). The connector housing (10) and/or the electrical contact element (1) have a lead content of <0.1 weight percent. A method for manufacturing a contact element from a blank which has a lead content of <0.1 weight percent, uses the following method steps: Loading the blank into a manufacturing machine; producing a pin region or a socket region for electrically contacting another, opposite contact element; producing a fixing region for fixing the contact element in an insulating body; producing a crimp region for electrically connecting a conductor to the contact element or finishing the crimp region if the blank has already been previously prepared on a different machine; and removing the finished contact element from the manufacturing machine.
US11476604B2
A solder bridge (1) for a vehicle windscreen, the solder bridge (1) comprises a first foot portion (11A) for connection to a vehicle windscreen and a second foot portion (11B) for connection to a vehicle windscreen, the first foot portion (11A) and second foot portion (11B) being interconnected by a flexible electrically conductive body (12).
US11476602B2
An eye-of-needle terminal, comprising a base portion (1), a pin portion (3), and an elastic portion (2) disposed between the base portion and the pin portion. The elastic portion is provided with an eye-of-needle hole (4), and the extension direction of the eye-of-needle hole is the same as that of the elastic portion. The eye-of-needle hole comprises flared holes (42) located at both ends and a connecting hole (41) located between the two flared holes. The width of the end of each flared hole facing the connecting hole is greater than the width of the end distant from the connecting hole. Thereby not only ensuring that the eye-of-needle terminal is very easy to insert, but also ensuring that the eye-of-needle terminal forms a good connection with a conductive through hole after being inserted and does not easily come out of the conductive through hole.
US11476595B2
The present disclosure relates to an intermediate connection structure of a power cable, which is capable of reducing heating of a connecting part of conductors of a pair of power cables connected through a joint box, enhancing a connected state of the conductors, and minimizing a diameter of the conductor connection part.
US11476593B2
An electrical connection comprises a first conductor and a second conductor electrically connected to the first conductor. The first conductor has a first contact section with a first contact face laterally delimited by a first side face. The second conductor has a second contact section with a second contact face surrounded by a rim having a second side face. The second side face limits a contact space above the second contact face and the first contact face is arranged on the second contact face. A reservoir space is arranged between the first side face of the first contact face and the second side face of the rim, the reservoir space surrounds the first contact face and a sealing material is arranged in the reservoir space. The sealing material forms a sealing ring that seals an interface between the first contact face and the second contact face.
US11476589B2
An antenna element having: a feed line for feeding in electrical power; and a first multiplicity of radiating elements situated on a first side of the feed line, and a second multiplicity of radiating elements situated on a second side of the feed line, the radiating elements being coupled in series to the feed line, being fed with electrical power by the feed line, and being designed to transmit electromagnetic radiation; the first multiplicity of radiating elements differing from the second multiplicity of radiating elements in a distribution of spatial dimensions of the radiating elements and/or in a distribution of distances of adjacent radiating elements.
US11476579B2
A wideband RF choke circuit includes an input, first and second nodes, and a splitting means coupled between the input, first node, and second node. A first all-pass filter and a first line AC blocker are coupled between the input and the splitting means. Second and third all-pass filters, and second and third line AC blockers, are coupled between the splitting means and the first and second nodes, respectively. A first RF choke has a first end, coupled to the first all-pass filter, and a second end. A second RF choke has a first end, coupled to the second end of the first RF choke, and a second end coupled to the second all-pass filter. A third RF choke has a first end, coupled to the second end of the first RF choke, and a second end coupled to the third all-pass filter.
US11476578B2
Disclosed is a dual band antenna with a first radiating element oriented at a first predetermined angle that operates in a first frequency band and a second radiating element oriented at a second predetermined angle that operates in a second frequency band. The dual band antenna has a ground plane that has a first slot that is associated with the first radiating element and a second slot that is associated with the second radiating element. The dual band antenna also has a first feed probe that is associated with the first radiating element and a second feed probe that is associated with the second radiating element.
US11476573B2
In one embodiment, an antenna assembly is described. The antenna assembly includes and antenna and an antenna positioner coupled to the antenna. The antenna positioner includes a single drive interface and a plurality of gears. The plurality of gears rotate in a first manner in response to a first drive direction applied through the single drive interface, and rotate in a second manner in response to a second drive applied through the single drive interface. The antenna positioner also includes a threaded rod that moves in a first rod direction and a second rod direction in response to rotation of the plurality of gears in the first manner and the second manner respectively. The antenna positioner also includes a tilt plate contacting the threaded rod. The tilt plate tilts about a pivot line in response to movement of the threaded rod to move a beam of the antenna in a spiral pattern.
US11476565B2
A patch antenna includes a flat-plate radiating element; and a metal wall provided outside a peripheral edge of the radiating element, such that a wall surface of the metal wall intersects a line connecting a center of the radiating element and a feeding point. An antenna device for a vehicle includes: the patch antenna; a housing installed in a predetermined orientation at a predetermined position of the vehicle; and a support supporting the patch antenna such that the patch antenna is used for vertically polarized waves when the housing is installed in the predetermined orientation at the predetermined position.
US11476562B2
A vehicle radar device includes a radar control unit, a first antenna array, a second antenna array, a first circuit board and a second circuit board. The first antenna array is communicatively connected to the radar control unit. The first antenna array includes a plurality of first transmitting elements and a plurality of first receiving elements. The second antenna array is communicatively connected to the radar control unit. The second antenna array includes a plurality of second transmitting elements and a plurality of second receiving elements. The first antenna array is a plurality of circuit board antennas and disposed on the first circuit board. The second antenna array is a plurality of circuit board antennas and disposed on the second circuit board.
US11476556B1
A heat exchanger and an antenna assembly having the same are described herein that enable a compact antenna design with good thermal management. In one example, a heat exchanger is provided that includes tube-shaped body. A main cooling volume is formed between the top and bottom surfaces proximate to the outside wall. The main cooling volume has an inlet formed through the top surface and an outlet formed through the bottom surface. A return volume is formed adjacent the inside diameter wall and is circumscribed by the main cooling volume. The return volume has an outlet formed through the top surface and an inlet formed through the bottom surface. One or more exterior fins are coupled to an exterior side of the outside wall. A plurality of fins extend into the main cooling volume. A plurality of inner fins extend into a passage from the inside diameter wall.
US11476555B1
Disclosed are electrochemically tunable metamaterials which are capable of complete reversibility such that the metamaterial itself can physically disappear (out of the active region) and reappear later, in a controllable manner. Some variations provide an electrochemically tunable, solid-state metamaterial-based device comprising a plurality of metamaterial unit cells, wherein each of the metamaterial unit cells comprises: an ion conductor containing mobile metal ions; a first electrode in contact with the ion conductor, wherein the first electrode is contained in a metasurface negative space disposed on the ion conductor; a second electrode in contact with the ion conductor, wherein the second electrode is electrically isolated from the first electrode; and a metal-containing region containing one or more metals, wherein the metal-containing region is contained within a metasurface positive space disposed on the ion conductor.
US11476541B2
A power supply device includes secondary battery cells disposed adjacent to each other and a separator that is interposed between the secondary battery cells adjacent to each other. The separator is made of a flexible material that has both a heat insulating property and restoring force such that the separator deforms when being pressed by each of the secondary battery cells and recovers an original shape of the separator. This configuration provides an improved heat insulating property between the secondary battery cells and prevents thermal propagation caused by thermal runaway. At the same time, this allows the separator to adapt to deformation of a secondary battery cell that has thermally swelled. In response to contraction of the swelled battery, the separator recovers its original shape to maintain a mechanical pressing force. This allows the power supply device to provide increased mechanical stability and maintain resistance to vibration and impact.
US11476540B2
A method of manufacturing a structure, the method comprising: obtaining a flowable liquid comprising a homogenous mixture of an active material and a binding material; generating a plurality of droplets from the flowable liquid; and depositing the plurality of generated droplets on a support, wherein the plurality of droplets self-assemble to form a continuous structure, wherein the continuous structure comprises a plurality of microstructure units, and wherein the active material and the binding material self-segregate to form a non-uniform distribution of the active material and the binding material in each of the units.
US11476539B1
Intelligent modular battery pack assemblies and associated charging and docking systems are disclosed.
US11476538B2
A pressure control valve structure includes a wall portion having a plurality of communication holes communicating with the internal space, a plurality of tubular portions surrounding the communication holes and extending outwardly from a wall surface of the wall portion as a proximal end, an elastic valve body disposed in each of the tubular portions and having a first end surface and a second surface opposite from the first surface, an outer peripheral wall surrounding the plurality of tubular portions collectively, and a cover fixed to the outer peripheral wall. The tubular portions are spaced from the cover. The tubular portions has an inner wall surface that includes an inclined surface that is inclined downwardly in a gravity direction from the proximal end of the tubular portion to a distal end of the tubular portion with a compression direction of the elastic valve body set extending horizontally.
US11476521B2
The present invention refers to a fluid connector for a battery pack of a vehicle, and to a battery pack for a vehicle. The fluid connector, with a main conduit and at least one connection conduit that protrudes from a first side of the main conduit, wherein a fluid flow path extends from the main conduit to and through the connection conduit, and wherein the fluid connector comprises a fastener with at least one latch device for fastening the fluid connector to the battery pack, the fastener being arranged at a second side of the main conduit, the second side being arranged opposite to the first side.
US11476517B2
A battery module and a method of assembling the battery module are provided. The battery module includes a cooling surface having a first area and a second area with different cooling capacities, an adhesive including a first component having a first thermal conductivity and a second component having a second thermal conductivity, and a first battery and a second battery. The first battery is secured to the first area by a first portion of the adhesive and the second battery is secured to the second area by a second portion the adhesive. The first portion of the adhesive has a first ratio of the first component to the second component and the second portion of the adhesive has a second ratio of the first component to the second component. The first and second ratios are different and compensate for the different cooling capacities of the first and second areas.
US11476512B2
A battery module includes: a module body including a cell assembly stack formed by stacking a plurality of cell assemblies and a module case configured to accommodate the cell assembly stack; and a pair of heatsinks disposed at an upper portion and a lower portion of the module body, respectively, to dissipate heat transferred from the module case. Each of the cell assemblies includes: at least one battery cell; a cartridge configured to accommodate the battery cell; and a pair of thermally conductive resin layers filled in respective empty spaces formed between a top end of the battery cell and the cartridge and between a bottom end of the battery cell and the cartridge.
US11476507B2
A solid-state switch assembly includes a base plate and an electrically insulating layer affixed to the base plate. First, second, third, and fourth power traces are affixed to the electrically insulating layer. First semiconductor devices are arranged on the first power trace to control power flow between the first power trace and the second power trace, second semiconductor devices are arranged on the second power trace to control power flow between the second power trace and the third power trace, and third semiconductor devices are arranged on the third power trace to control power flow between the third and fourth power traces. A first signal conductor communicates with the first semiconductor devices. A second signal conductor communicates with the second semiconductor devices. A third signal conductor communicates with the third semiconductor devices.
US11476494B2
Battery designs are provided that exhibit commercially suitable cycling properties for consumer electronics with silicon based active materials in the electrodes. The batteries can have stacked or wound electrodes and suitable electrode designs.
US11476478B2
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack and a control device. The control device raises the voltage of the fuel cell stack until a predetermined voltage condition is met, by supplying a cathode with an oxidant gas before current sweep is started when the fuel cell system is started and a value measured by a temperature sensor is equal to or less than a temperature determined in advance. The control device executes stand-by control, in which a current command value is kept constant, when a measured voltage value reaches a control start voltage value smaller than a voltage command value in a transition period, and ends the stand-by control by permitting a change in the current command value when the measured voltage value reaches a permission voltage value equal to or more than the voltage command value during execution of the stand-by control.
US11476465B2
Provided is an anode active material, including: an amorphous carbon material in which the ratio of moieties having a distance d002 of 3.77 Å or more between crystal planes is 4% to 15% based on the entire crystal plane distance distribution. When the anode active material is used, the lifespan characteristics of a lithium battery may be improved while exhibiting high capacity.
US11476461B2
A crystalline precursor compound for manufacturing a lithium transition metal based oxide powder usable as an active positive electrode material in lithium-ion batteries, the precursor having a general formula M(O)x(OH)2-x-y(CO3)y, with 0
US11476459B2
A lithium battery is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a lithium secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and a non-aqueous electrolyte solution, wherein the positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material represented by Formula 1, and the non-aqueous electrolyte solution includes a non-aqueous organic solvent, a lithium salt, and an additive, wherein the additive is a mixed additive which includes lithium difluorophosphate, tetravinylsilane, and a sultone compound in a weight ratio of 1:0.05:0.1 to 1:1:1.5: Li(NiaCobMnc)O2 [Formula 1] wherein, in Formula 1, 0.65
US11476457B2
The present application discloses a negative active material, a method for preparing the same, and related secondary batteries, battery modules, battery packs and apparatus. The negative active material includes a core material and a polymer-modified coating layer on at least a part of its surface; the core material includes one or more of silicon-based materials and tin-based materials; the coating layer includes sulfur element and carbon element; in the Raman spectrum of the negative active material, the negative active material has scattering peaks at the Raman shifts of 900 cm−1˜960 cm−1, 1300 cm−1˜1380 cm−1 and 1520 cm−1˜1590 cm−1, respectively, in which the scattering peak at the Raman shift of 900 cm−1˜960 cm−1 has a peak intensity recorded as Il, the scattering peak at the Raman shift of 1520 cm−1˜1590 cm−1 has a peak intensity recorded as IG, and Il and IG satisfy 0.2≤Il/IG≤0.8.
US11476455B2
A multilayer anode includes an anode collector, and a plurality of anode mixture layers sequentially stacked on at least one surface of the anode collector, and including natural graphite as an anode active material. A weight ratio of the natural graphite in innermost and outermost anode mixture layers is greater than a weight ratio of the natural graphite in an anode mixture layer located between the innermost and outermost anode mixture layers, in a stacking direction of the plurality of anode mixture layers. Performance of a cell may be improved and calendering-calender contamination occurring in a calendering process and an electrode stripping phenomenon may be prevented.
US11476452B2
A method comprises obtaining a stack for an energy storage device, the stack comprising a first electrode layer and an electrolyte layer. The method comprises depositing a first material over an exposed portion of the first electrode layer and an exposed portion of the electrolyte layer. The method comprises depositing a second material over the first material and to form a second electrode layer of the stack, and to provide an electrical connection from the second electrode layer, for connecting to a further such second electrode layer via the second material. The electrolyte layer is between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer. The first material insulates the exposed portions of the first electrode layer and the electrolyte layer from the second material. Also disclosed is an apparatus for maintaining top-down inkjet material deposition.
US11476451B2
The present disclosure provides a display substrate, a display device, a mask plate, and a manufacturing method. The manufacturing method includes forming a pattern structure on a base substrate including a first substrate portion and a second substrate portion adjacent to the first substrate portion, wherein the pattern structure is formed on the first substrate portion; forming a planarization layer on the base substrate, which includes a first planarization layer on the first substrate portion and a second planarization layer on the second substrate portion, wherein a projection of the first planarization layer on the base substrate at least partially covers that of the pattern structure on the base substrate; and removing a part of the first planarization layer to reduce a difference between a height of a surface of the first planarization layer and a height of a surface of the second planarization layer.
US11476434B2
An electroluminescent device includes a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other, and a light emitting layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, where the light emitting layer includes a first light emitting layer including a first quantum dot and a second light emitting layer including a second quantum dot and an n-type metal oxide.
US11476433B2
Provided is a light emitting device including a lower electrode, an upper electrode disposed to face the lower electrode, a quantum dot light emitting layer between the lower electrode and the upper electrode, an electron transport layer between the lower electrode and the quantum dot light emitting layer, and a hole transport layer between the upper electrode and the quantum dot light emitting layer, wherein the quantum dot light emitting layer includes a quantum dot, and a first ligand on a surface of the quantum dot, and a second ligand on the surface of the quantum dot.
US11476432B2
Provided are an inverted thick 2D hybrid perovskite solar cell insensitive to film thickness and a preparation method thereof, belonging to the field of organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite materials. The solar cell adopts a 2D hybrid perovskite thick-film material as a light absorption layer having thickness in a range of 500-800 nm, which is conducive to the full absorption of sunlight. The thick-film film material can be deposited from a precursor solution added with guanidine hydroiodide, and is composed of large grains growing along the thickness direction. The solar cell with an inverted structure prepared by using the thick-film material as a light absorption layer has an efficiency fluctuation less than 5% in a film thickness range of 500-800 nm. This is of great value for the preparation of high-performance hybrid perovskite solar cells by a large-area solution method.
US11476415B2
Aspects of the invention are directed to a method of forming an integrated circuit. Both a dielectric layer and a bottom contact are formed with the bottom contact disposed at least partially in the dielectric layer. The bottom contact is subsequently recessed into the dielectric layer to cause the dielectric layer to define two sidewalls bordering regions of the bottom contact removed during recessing. Two sidewall spacers are then formed along the two sidewalls. A landing pad is formed on the recessed bottom contact and between the two sidewall spacers. Lastly, an additional feature is formed on top of the landing pad at least in part by anisotropic etching. In one or more embodiments, the additional feature includes a magnetic tunnel junction patterned at least in part by ion beam etching.
US11476414B2
An exchange coupling film in which a magnetic field (Hex) at which the magnetization direction of a pinned magnetic layer is reversed is high, in which stability under high-temperature conditions is high, and which is excellent in strong-magnetic field resistance. The exchange coupling film includes an antiferromagnetic layer and a pinned magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic layer, the antiferromagnetic layer and the pinned magnetic layer being stacked together. The antiferromagnetic layer has a structure including a PtCr layer, a PtMn layer, and an IrMn layer stacked in this order. The IrMn layer is in contact with the pinned magnetic layer. The thickness of the PtMn layer is 12 Å or more, and the thickness of the IrMn layer is 6 Å. The sum of the thickness of the PtMn layer and the thickness of the IrMn layer is 20 Å or more.
US11476408B2
A perpendicular spin orbit torque (SOT) memory device includes an electrode having a spin orbit coupling material and a perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction (pMTJ) device on a portion of the electrode. The pMTJ device includes a free magnet, a fixed magnet and a tunnel barrier layer in between, where at least one of the fixed magnet or the free magnet includes two magnetic layers and a spacer layer comprising tungsten in between.
US11476407B2
A piezoelectric transformer and a method for producing a piezoelectric transformer are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes manufacturing a main body having an input region having electrodes and a first piezoelectric material being alternately stacked one on top of the other. An output region includes a second piezoelectric material. The first piezoelectric material is polarized and a removable contact is fitted to an output-side end side of the main body, which end side faces away from the input region. A first electrical potential is applied to the removable contact for polarizing the second piezoelectric material.
US11476401B2
Exemplary thermoelectric devices and methods are disclosed herein. Thermoelectric generator performance is increased by the shaping isothermal fields within the bulk of a thermoelectric pellet, resulting in an increase in power output of a thermoelectric generator module. In one embodiment, a thermoelectric device includes a pellet comprising a semiconductor material, a first metal layer surrounding a first portion of the pellet, and a second metal layer surrounding a second portion of the pellet. The first and second metal layers are configured proximate to one another about a perimeter of the pellet. The pellet is exposed at the perimeter. And the perimeter is configured at a sidewall height about the pellet to provide a non-linear effect on a power output of the thermoelectric device by modifying an isotherm surface curvature within the pellet. The device also includes a metal container thermally and electrically bonded to the pellet.
US11476395B2
A light source that emits light, wherein, in coordinates in a CIE 1931 chromaticity diagram, the light has a color purity included in a region of 2 to 50 in a region surrounded by a line segment WB and a line segment WG that connect coordinates W (0.33, 0.33) indicating an achromatic color with coordinates B (0.091, 0.133) of 480 nm and coordinates G (0.373, 0.624) of 560 nm on a spectral locus, and the spectral locus, and has an area occupied by a continuous spectral wavelength in a wavelength region of 480 to 540 nm, of 15% or more relative to an area of an overall spectral wavelength of the light source at 380 to 780 nm.
US11476390B2
A III-V light emitting device with pixels (mesa regions) specifically designed to enable lower cost through layer vias is disclosed for reduced cost of manufacture of the device. Reduction of cost of manufacture is achieved by having non-uniform width trench regions formed during pixel etch for the multi-pixel array part of the device. Through-layer vias are specifically formed in the wider part of the trench regions using cheaper lithography toolset enabled by the larger via critical dimension achievable in the wider part of the trench regions (as compared to narrow part of the trench regions). Larger via critical dimension enables improved electrical (and consequently optical) performance of the device due to better overlay control as well as lower via resistance.
US11476387B2
In one approach, an LED array uses a combination of a half cavity and straight reflective sidewalls to improve the power distribution so that more light falls within the collection angle of the projection optics. From the bottom upwards, the LEDs in the array include a reflector, a thinner p-layer and a thicker n-layer. An active region (such as quantum wells) between the p-layer and the p-layer generates light. Without additional structures, the generated light would have an isotropic distribution and not much of the light would fall within the collection angle of the projection optics. However, the bottom reflector and p-layer form a half cavity for the light emitted from the active region. This alters the angular power distribution. Straight reflective sidewalls extending from the active region upwards into the n-layer further reflect light from the altered power distribution into the collection angle of the projection optics.
US11476385B2
Provided is an optical device including an active layer, which includes two outer barriers and a coupled quantum well between the two outer barriers. The coupled quantum well includes a first quantum well layer, a second quantum well layer, a third quantum well layer, a first coupling barrier between the first quantum well layer and the second quantum well layer, and a second coupling barrier between the second quantum well layer and the third quantum well layer. The second quantum well layer is between the first quantum well layer and the third quantum well layer. An energy band gap of the second quantum well layer is less than an energy band gap of the first quantum well layer, and an energy band gap of the third quantum well layer is equal to or less than the energy band gap of the second quantum well layer.
US11476381B2
According to an embodiment, a single photon detector configured to reduce a dark current comprises a buffer layer, a light absorption layer, a grading layer, an electric field control layer, and a window layer sequentially formed on a substrate. An active area may be formed in the window layer. A barrier junction may be formed through the window layer up to at least a portion of the light absorption layer, around the active area.
US11476380B2
Photo-detection device (100) including a semiconductor substrate (110) made of CdxHg1-xTe, with an N-doped region (120), a P-doped region (130), and a concentrated casing (150) only located in the P-doped region and having an average cadmium concentration greater than the average cadmium concentration in the N-doped region. According to the invention, the concentrated casing (150) has a cadmium concentration gradient, defining therein at least one intermediate gap zone (151) and at least one high gap zone (152), and the intermediate gap zone (151) is in direct physical contact with an electrical contact block (170). A significant reduction in the dark current and an optimal charge carrier collection are thus combined.
US11476372B1
A method of building a moving average histogram of photon times of arrival includes, for each time interval in first and second subsets of time intervals, latching a time reference corresponding to a time of receipt of an avalanche timing output signal of a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD), and advancing a count stored at a memory address corresponding to the latched time reference. The memory address corresponds to a range of time references. The method further includes reading and clearing a first set of counts after the first subset of time intervals; phase-shifting the sequence of time references with respect to a set of memory addresses after the first subset of time intervals; reading and clearing a second set of counts after the second subset of time intervals; and building the moving average histogram using at least the first and second sets of counts.
US11476364B2
An SOI wafer contains a compressively stressed buried insulator structure. In one example, the stressed buried insulator (BOX) may be formed on a host wafer by forming silicon oxide, silicon nitride and silicon oxide layers so that the silicon nitride layer is compressively stressed. Wafer bonding provides the surface silicon layer over the stressed insulator layer. Preferred implementations of the invention form MOS transistors by etching isolation trenches into a preferred SOI substrate having a stressed BOX structure to define transistor active areas on the surface of the SOI substrate. Most preferably the trenches are formed deep enough to penetrate through the stressed BOX structure and some distance into the underlying silicon portion of the substrate. The overlying silicon active regions will have tensile stress induced due to elastic edge relaxation.
US11476356B2
A method includes: forming a dielectric fin protruding above a substrate; forming a channel layer over an upper surface of the dielectric fin and along first sidewalls of the dielectric fin, the channel layer including a low dimensional material; forming a gate structure over the channel layer; forming metal source/drain regions on opposing sides of the gate structure; forming a channel enhancement layer over the channel layer; and forming a passivation layer over the gate structure, the metal source/drain regions, and the channel enhancement layer.
US11476353B2
The invention relates to heterostructures including a layer of a two-dimensional material placed on a multiferroic layer. An ordered array of differing polarization domains in the multiferroic layer produces corresponding domains having differing properties in the two-dimensional material. When the multiferroic layer is ferroelectric, the ferroelectric polarization domains in the layer produce local electric fields that penetrate the two-dimensional material. The local electric fields modulate the charge carriers and carrier density on a nanometer length scale, resulting in the formation of lateral p-n or p-i-n junctions, and variations thereof appropriate for device functions. Methods for producing the heterostructures are provided. Devices incorporating the heterostructures are also provided.
US11476348B2
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes the following steps. First patterned structures are formed on a substrate. Each of the first patterned structures includes a first semiconductor pattern and a first bottom protection pattern disposed between the first semiconductor pattern and the substrate. A first protection layer is formed on the first patterned structures and the substrate. A part of the first protection layer is located between the first patterned structures. A first opening is formed in the first protection layer between the first patterned structures. The first opening penetrates the first protection layer and exposes a part of the substrate. A first etching process is performed after forming the first opening. A part of the substrate under the first patterned structures is removed by the first etching process for suspending at least a part of each of the first patterned structures above the substrate.
US11476346B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method of forming a semiconductor device. A non-limiting example of the method includes forming a top spacer trench adjacent to an upper region of the channel fin. An oxygen-blocking layer is deposited within the top spacer trench and over the upper region of the channel fin. A top spacer is formed within the top spacer trench and over a portion of the oxygen-blocking layer that is within the top spacer trench. The oxygen-blocking layer includes an oxygen gettering material.
US11476343B2
A high-voltage transistor device includes a semiconductor substrate, an isolation structure, a gate dielectric layer, a gate, a source region and a drain region. The semiconductor substrate has a plurality of grooves extending downward from a surface of the semiconductor substrate to form a sawtooth sectional profile. The isolation structure is disposed on the outside of the plurality of grooves, and extends from the surface downwards into the semiconductor substrate to define a high-voltage area. The gate dielectric layer is disposed on the high-voltage area and partially filled in the plurality of grooves. The gate is disposed on the gate dielectric layer. The source region and the drain region are respectively disposed in the semiconductor substrate and isolated from each other.
US11476341B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate including a first region and a second region, a first gate structure extending in a first direction on the first region of the substrate, the first gate structure including a first gate insulation film and a first work function film disposed on the first gate insulation film, and a second gate structure extending in the first direction on the second region of the substrate, the second gate structure including a second gate insulation film and a second work function film disposed on the second gate insulation film, wherein a first thickness of the first work function film in a second direction intersecting the first direction is different from a second thickness of the second work function film in the second direction, and wherein a first height of the first work function film in a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions is different from a second height of the second work function film in the third direction.
US11476338B2
Embodiments related to transistors and integrated circuits having aluminum indium phosphide subfins and germanium channels, systems incorporating such transistors, and methods for forming them are discussed.
US11476337B2
The present disclosure provides a method for forming a semiconductor structure. The method includes the following operations. A metal layer is formed. An adhesion-enhancing layer is formed over the metal layer by a silicide operation. A dielectric stack is formed over the adhesion-enhancing layer. A trench is formed in the dielectric stack by removing a portion of dielectric stack aligning with the metal layer. A barrier layer is formed conforming to the sidewall of the trench. A high-k dielectric layer is formed conforming to the barrier layer. A contact is formed in the trench and be connected to the metal layer.
US11476336B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first, second and third electrodes, first and second semiconductor layers, and a first compound member. A position of the third electrode is between a position of the second electrode and a position of the first electrode. The first semiconductor layer includes first, second, third, fourth, and fifth partial regions. The fourth partial region is between the third and first partial regions. The fifth partial region is between the second and third partial regions. The second semiconductor layer includes first, second, and third semiconductor regions. The third semiconductor region is between the first partial region and the first electrode. The first compound member includes first compound portions between the third semiconductor region and the first electrode. A portion of the first electrode is between one of the first compound portions and an other one of the first compound portions.
US11476331B2
An embodiment is a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a fin on a substrate. A gate structure is over the fin. A source/drain is in the fin proximate the gate structure. The source/drain includes a bottom layer, a supportive layer over the bottom layer, and a top layer over the supportive layer. The supportive layer has a different property than the bottom layer and the top layer, such as a different material, a different natural lattice constant, a different dopant concentration, and/or a different alloy percent content.
US11476330B2
A system and method for creating various dopant concentration profiles using a single implant energy is disclosed. A plurality of implants are performed at the same implant energy but different tilt angles to implant ions at a variety of depths. The result of these implants may be a rectangular profile or a gradient profile. The resulting dopant concentration profile depends on the selection of tilt angles, doses and the number of implants. Varying tilt angle rather than varying implant energy to achieve implants of different depths may significantly improve efficiency and throughput, as the tilt angle can be changed faster than the implant energy can be changed. Additionally, this method may be performed by a number of different semiconductor processing apparatus.
US11476322B2
A display device includes a base, an organic light-emitting element including a stacked structure that has a first electrode layer, an organic light-emitting layer, and a second electrode layer that are stacked in order on the base, a drive element that is provided on the base, and drives the organic light-emitting element, and an auxiliary electrode layer provided on the base, and including an end surface that is in contact with the second electrode layer.
US11476317B2
A display device includes a plurality of pixels that is arrayed in a first direction and a second direction. Each pixel includes; a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel that is disposed to be adjacent to the first sub-pixel in the first direction, a third sub-pixel that is disposed to be adjacent to at least one of the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel in the second direction, and a light shielding portion that is disposed corresponding to the position on which the third sub-pixel is disposed, so as to limit a viewing angle of the third sub-pixel in the first direction.
US11476314B2
A display device according to the disclosure includes a substrate, a first transistor provided on the substrate, and a second transistor provided on the substrate, not overlapping the first transistor. The first transistor includes a polycrystalline silicon layer provided on the substrate, a first insulating film provided on the polycrystalline silicon layer, a first gate electrode provided on the first insulating film, and a second insulating film provided on the first gate electrode. The second transistor includes an oxide semiconductor layer provided on the first insulating film, a third insulating film provided on the oxide semiconductor layer, and a second gate electrode provided on the third insulating film. The first and third insulating films are SiOx films. The second insulating film is an SiNx film including hydrogen, and is provided overlapping the polycrystalline silicon layer, and is provided not overlapping the oxide semiconductor layer.
US11476311B2
A display device includes a first substrate; light-emitting elements disposed on the first substrate; an encapsulation film covering the light-emitting elements; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a first outermost film disposed on the second substrate to face the encapsulation film and including AOXNY (where A is a metal or non-metal element and X>Y); and a filler material disposed between the encapsulation film and the first outermost film and placed in direct contact with the first outermost film.
US11476309B2
A display panel includes a base, at least one separation pillar, at least one protection pattern, and a light-emitting functional layer. The at least one separation pillar is disposed in the isolation region on the base, each separation pillar is disposed around the opening region, and a longitudinal section of the separation pillar perpendicular to an extending direction of the separation pillar is I-shaped. The at least one protection pattern is disposed on a surface of at least one separation pillar facing away from the base. The light-emitting functional layer is disposed at least in both the pixel region and the isolation region on a surface of the at least one protection pattern facing away from the base, wherein the light-emitting functional layer is disconnected at an inner side face and an outer side face of the separation pillar.
US11476294B2
A solid-state imaging device including: a first substrate having a pixel unit, and a first semiconductor substrate and a first wiring layer; a second substrate with a circuit, and a second semiconductor substrate and a second wiring layer; and a third substrate with a circuit, and a third semiconductor substrate and a third wiring layer. The first and second substrates are bonded together such that the first wiring layer and the second semiconductor substrate are opposed to each other. The device includes a first coupling structure for electrically coupling a circuit of the first substrate and the circuit of the second substrate. The first coupling structure includes a via in which electrically-conductive materials are embedded in a first through hole that exposes a wiring line in the first wiring layer and in a second through hole that exposes a wiring line in the second wiring layer or a film-formed structure.
US11476292B2
According to an aspect, a multi-chip packaging structure includes a first substrate having a first surface and a second surface, where the first substrate has a conductive layer portion. The multi-chip packaging structure includes an image sensor device coupled to the first surface of the first substrate, a first device coupled to the second surface of the first substrate, and a second substrate disposed apart from the first substrate, where the second substrate has a conductive layer portion. The conductive layer portion of the first substrate is communicatively connected to the conductive layer portion of the second substrate. The first device is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The multi-chip packaging structure includes a second device coupled to the second substrate, and a third device coupled to the first substrate or the second substrate.
US11476286B2
A solid-state image pickup device 1 according to the present invention includes a semiconductor substrate 2 on which a pixel 20 composed of a photodiode 3 and a transistor is formed. The transistor comprising the pixel 20 is formed on the surface of the semiconductor substrate, a pn junction portion formed between high concentration regions of the photodiode 3 is provided within the semiconductor substrate 2 and a part of the pn junction portion of the photodiode 3 is extended to a lower portion of the transistor formed on the surface of the semiconductor substrate 2. According to the present invention, there is provided a solid-state image pickup device in which a pixel size can be microminiaturized without lowering a saturated electric charge amount (Qs) and sensitivity.
US11476285B2
A light-receiving device includes at least one pixel. The at least one pixel includes a first electrode; a second electrode; and a photoelectric conversion layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. The photoelectric conversion layer is configured to convert incident infrared light into electric charge. The photoelectric conversion layer has a first section and a second section. The first section is closer to the first electrode than the second section, and the second section is closer to the second electrode than the first section. At least one of the first section and the second section have a plurality of surfaces.
US11476281B2
An electronic device comprises a panel, a driving circuit configured to drive the panel, and a transistor disposed in the panel. The transistor includes a first insulation film on a substrate, an active layer disposed on the first insulation film, a second insulation film disposed on the active layer and the first insulation film to cover the active layer, the second insulation film having a thickness smaller than a thickness of the first insulation film, a source electrode disposed on the second insulation film and spaced apart from the active layer by the second insulation film, the source electrode overlapping an end of the active layer, and a drain electrode disposed on the second insulation film and spaced apart from the active layer by the second insulation film, the drain electrode overlapping another end of the active layer.
US11476278B2
An IC is provided. The IC includes a plurality of a plurality of P-type fin field-effect transistors (FinFETs). The P-type FinFETs includes at least one first P-type FinFET and at least one second P-type FinFET. Source/drain regions of the first P-type FinFET have a first depth, and source/drain regions of the second P-type FinFET have a second depth that is different from the first depth. A first semiconductor fin of the first P-type FinFET includes a first portion and a second portion that are formed by different materials, and the second portion of the first semiconductor fin has a third depth that is greater than the first depth.
US11476274B2
A memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprises an upper stack above a lower stack. The lower stack comprises vertically-alternating lower conductive tiers and lower insulative tiers. The upper stack comprises vertically-alternating upper conductive tiers and upper insulative tiers. An intervening tier is vertically between the upper and lower stacks. The intervening tier is at least predominantly polysilicon and of different composition from compositions of the upper conductive tier and the upper insulative tier immediately-above the intervening tier and of different composition from compositions of the lower conductive tier and the lower insulative tier immediately-below the intervening tier. Channel-material strings of memory cells extend through the upper stack, the intervening tier, and the lower stack. Other structures and methods are disclosed.
US11476269B2
Embodiments described herein relate to a method for manufacturing a 1.5T SONOS flash memory. First, a first polysilicon gate layer is deposited and formed on a semiconductor substrate, then a formation area of a memory gate is defined on the first polysilicon gate layer, polysilicon in the formation area of the memory gate is etched away, and etching is stopped on a gate oxide layer. Next, an ONO layer and a second polysilicon gate layer are sequentially deposited, chemical mechanical polishing is performed on the second polysilicon gate layer, the ONO layer remaining on the top of the first polysilicon gate layer is cleaned away, and then gate structures of a logic device and a 1.5T SONOS device are formed at the same time.
US11476256B2
Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a semiconductor-containing structure with a body region vertically between an upper region and a lower region. The upper region includes a first source/drain region. The lower region is split into two legs which are both joined to the body region. One of the legs includes a second source/drain region and the other of the legs includes a body contact region. The first and second source/drain regions are of a first conductivity type, and the body contact region is of a second conductivity type which is opposite to the first conductivity type. An insulative material is adjacent to the body region. A conductive gate is adjacent to the insulative material. A transistor includes the semiconductor-containing structure, the conductive gate and the insulative material. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US11476255B2
A method used in forming an array of vertical transistors comprises forming pillars individually comprising an upper source/drain region, a channel region vertically below the upper source/drain region, and sacrificial material above the upper source/drain region. Intervening material is about the sacrificial material of individual of the pillars. The intervening material and the sacrificial material comprise different compositions relative one another. Horizontally-elongated and spaced conductive gate lines are formed individually operatively aside the channel region of the individual pillars. The sacrificial material is removed to expose the upper source/drain region of the individual pillars and thereby form an opening in the intervening material directly above the upper source/drain region of the individual pillars. Metal material is formed in individual of the openings directly against the upper source/drain region of the individual pillars and atop the intervening material laterally outside of the openings. The metal material that is atop the intervening material interconnects the metal material that is in the individual openings. The metal material is removed back to have an uppermost surface that is no higher than an uppermost surface of the intervening material and to disconnect it from interconnecting the metal material that is in the individual openings and thereby form a laterally-isolated individual metal-material plug in the individual openings.
US11476253B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a capacitor on a substrate. The capacitor includes a first electrode, a second electrode on the first electrode, and a dielectric layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. The second electrode includes a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer. The first layer is adjacent to the dielectric layer, and the third layer is spaced apart from the first layer with the second layer interposed therebetween. A concentration of nickel in the third layer is higher than a concentration of nickel in the first layer.
US11476244B2
Structures for a laterally-diffused metal-oxide-semiconductor device and methods of forming a structure for a laterally-diffused metal-oxide-semiconductor device. First and second source/drain regions are formed in a substrate, a gate electrode is formed over the substrate, an interconnect structure over the substrate, and a doped region is arranged in the substrate beneath the first source/drain region. The gate electrode is laterally positioned between the first and second source/drain regions, and the interconnect structure includes a contact connected to the first source/drain region. The doped region has a side edge that is laterally spaced from the contact by a distance.
US11476242B2
The present invention provides a packaging method and a packaging structure for a cascode power electronic device, in which a hetero-multiple chip scale package is used to replace the traditional die bonding and wire bonding packaging method. The cascode power electronic device can reduce the inductance resistance and thermal resistance of the connecting wires and reduce the size of the package; and increase the switching frequency of power density. The chip scale package of the present invention uses more than one gallium nitride semiconductor die, more than one diode, and more than one metal oxide semiconductor transistor. The package structure can use TO-220, quad flat package or other shapes and sizes; the encapsulation process of the traditional epoxy molding compounds can be used in low-power applications; and the encapsulation process of ceramic material can be used in high-power applications.
US11476238B2
An interconnect for a semiconductor device includes: a carrier; a UV programmable chip mounted on the carrier using a first array of solder connections; a UV light source mounted on the carrier using a second array of solder connections, the UV light source being in optical communication with the UV programmable chip; and a plurality of transmission lines extending on or through the carrier and providing electrical communication between the UV programmable chip and the UV light source.
US11476235B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include apparatuses and method for a stacked light emitting diode (LED) hologram display. A stacked LED hologram display can include a first array of LEDs that are configured to emit red light received by a meta-optics panel configured to display a first portion of a holographic image, a second array of LEDs that are configured to emit green light received by a meta-optics panel configured to display a second portion of a holographic image, and a third array of LEDs that are configured to emit blue light received by a meta-optics panel configured to display a third portion of a holographic image. The stacked LED hologram display can include a number of actuators configured to adjust a position of a first array of LEDs in first direction and a second direction, adjust a position of a second array of LEDs in the first direction and the second direction, and adjust a position of a third array of LEDs in the first direction and the second direction.
US11476234B2
A manufacturing method of chip package structure includes following steps. A carrier is provided. A first patterned circuit layer and a first dielectric layer covering the first patterned circuit layer have been formed on the carrier. A flat structure layer is formed on the first dielectric layer. A second dielectric layer is formed on the first dielectric layer and covers the flat structure layer and a portion of the first dielectric layer. A second patterned circuit layer is formed on the second dielectric layer. The second patterned circuit layer includes a plurality of pads. An orthographic projection of the flat structure layer on the carrier overlaps orthographic projections of the pads on the carrier. A plurality of chips are disposed on the pads. A molding compound is formed to cover the second dielectric layer and encapsulate the chips and the pads.
US11476233B2
A semiconductor package using a coreless signal distribution structure (CSDS) is disclosed and may include a CSDS comprising at least one dielectric layer, at least one conductive layer, a first surface, and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The semiconductor package may also include a first semiconductor die having a first bond pad on a first die surface, where the first semiconductor die is bonded to the first surface of the CSDS via the first bond pad, and a second semiconductor die having a second bond pad on a second die surface, where the second semiconductor die is bonded to the second surface of the CSDS via the second bond pad. The semiconductor package may further include a metal post electrically coupled to the first surface of the CSDS, and a first encapsulant material encapsulating side surfaces and a surface opposite the first die surface of the first semiconductor die, the metal post, and a portion of the first surface of the CSDS.
US11476232B2
A packaging technology in which power switching elements, such as field-effect transistors (FETs), can be oriented in a vertical position relative to the printed circuit board (PCB) on which the product is mounted. The power die including the switching element(s) can essentially stand “on end” so that they take up very little PCB area. Multiple dies can be positioned this way, and the dies can be attached to a heat sink structure, which is designed to take the heat generated by the dies onto the top of the package. The heat sink structure can be attached to a structure to route the power and analog signals properly to the desired pins/leads/balls of the finished product. Using these techniques can result in a significant increase in the power density (both PCB space and solution volume) of power switching elements, e.g., FETs.
US11476229B2
According to an embodiment, a temperature of an inside of a furnace is set to fall within a range of a reduction temperature or more of a carboxylic acid and less than a melting temperature of a solder bump, and the inside is concurrently set to have a first carboxylic acid gas concentration. Thereafter, the temperature of the inside is raised up to the melting temperature, and the inside is concurrently set to have a second carboxylic acid gas concentration. The second carboxylic acid gas concentration is lower than the first carboxylic acid gas concentration, and is a concentration containing a minimum amount of carboxylic acid gas defined to achieve reduction on an oxide film of the solder bump. The inside has the second carboxylic acid gas concentration at least at a time when the temperature of the inside reaches the melting temperature.
US11476221B2
The present disclosure relates to a radio frequency (RF) device and a process for making the same. According to the process, a precursor wafer, which includes device regions, individual interfacial layers, individual p-type doped layers, and a silicon handle substrate, is firstly provided. Each individual interfacial layer is over an active layer of a corresponding device region, each individual p-type doped layer is over a corresponding individual interfacial layer, and the silicon handle substrate is over each individual p-type doped layer. Herein, each individual interfacial layer is formed of SiGe, and each individual p-type doped layer is a silicon layer doped with a p-type material that has a doped concentration greater than 1E18cm-3. Next, the silicon handle substrate is completely removed to provide an etched wafer, and each individual p-type doped layer is completely removed from the etched wafer.
US11476220B2
Semiconductor packages may include a semiconductor chip on a substrate and an under-fill layer between the semiconductor chip and the substrate. The semiconductor chip may include a semiconductor substrate including first and second regions, and an interlayer dielectric layer that may cover the semiconductor substrate and may include connection lines. First conductive pads may be on the first region and may be electrically connected to some of the connection lines. Second conductive pads may be on the second region and may be electrically isolated from all of the connection lines. The semiconductor chip may also include a passivation layer that may cover the interlayer dielectric layer and may include holes that may expose the first and second conductive pads, respectively. On the second region, the under-fill layer may include a portion that may be in one of the first holes and contact one of the second conductive pads.
US11476217B2
A method of manufacturing an augmented LED array assembly is described which comprises providing an LED array assembly configured for inclusion in an LED lighting circuit, the LED array assembly comprising a micro-LED array mounted onto a driver integrated circuit, the driver integrated circuit comprising contact pads configured for electrical connections to a circuit board assembly; providing an essentially planar carrier comprising a plurality of contact bridges, each contact bridge extending between a first contact pad and a second contact pad; and mounting the contact bridge carrier to the LED array assembly by forming solder bonds between the first contact pads of the contact bridge carrier and the contact pads of the driver integrated circuit.
US11476215B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor package is provided and includes forming a protective layer on a passivation layer and a connection pad of a semiconductor chip exposed by a first opening of the passivation layer, forming an insulating layer on the protective layer, forming a via hole penetrating the insulating layer to expose the protective layer, forming a second opening by removing a portion of the protective layer through the via hole, and forming a connection via filling the via hole and the second opening and a redistribution layer on the connection via. The second opening and the via hole are connected to have a stepped portion. The first opening has a width narrower closer to the connection pad, and the second opening has a width wider closer to the connection pad.
US11476209B2
Various embodiments relate to a packaged radio frequency (RF) amplifier device implementing a split bondwire where the direct ground connection of an output capacitor is replaced with a set of bondwires connecting to ground in a direction opposite to the wires connecting to the output of a transistor to an output pad. This is done in order to reduce the effects of mutual inductance between the various bondwires associated with the output of the RF amplifier device.
US11476208B2
Grounding techniques for backside-biased semiconductor dice and related devices, systems and methods
Semiconductor devices may include a substrate and a backside-biased semiconductor die supported above the substrate. A backside surface of the backside-biased semiconductor die may be spaced from the substrate. The backside surface may be electrically connected to ground by wire bonds extending to the substrate. Methods of making semiconductor devices may involve supporting a backside-biased semiconductor die supported above a substrate, a backside surface of the backside-biased semiconductor die being spaced from the substrate. The backside surface may be electrically connected to ground by wire bonds extending to the substrate. Systems may include a sensor device, a nontransitory memory device, and at least one semiconductor device operatively connected thereto. The at least one semiconductor device may include a substrate and a backside-biased semiconductor die supported above the substrate. A backside surface of the backside-biased semiconductor die may be electrically connected to ground by wire bonds extending to the substrate.
US11476207B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a semiconductor substrate and a gate disposed on the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device structure also includes a source doped region and a drain doped region on two opposite sides of the gate. The semiconductor device structure further includes a source protective circuit and a drain protective circuit. From a side perspective view, a first drain conductive element of the source protective circuit partially overlaps a first source conductive element of the drain protective circuit.
US11476206B2
A semiconductor element is mounted on a die pad, and electrode pads arranged along the outer circumference of an upper surface of the semiconductor element are electrically connected to leads by wires, respectively. The semiconductor element has an element region having a high sensitivity with respect to stress, and an element region having a relatively low sensitivity with respect to stress. A low-stress resin film is provided on the element region having a high sensitivity with respect to stress. The semiconductor element, the low-stress resin film, the die pad, and the leads are covered with an encapsulating resin.
US11476201B2
A package includes a redistribution structure, a die package on a first side of the redistribution structure including a first die connected to a second die by metal-to-metal bonding and dielectric-to-dielectric bonding, a dielectric material over the first die and the second die and surrounding the first die, and a first through via extending through the dielectric material and connected to the first die and a first via of the redistribution structure, a semiconductor device on the first side of the redistribution structure includes a conductive connector, wherein a second via of the redistribution structure contacts the conductive connector of the semiconductor device, a first molding material on the redistribution structure and surrounding the die package and the semiconductor device, and a package through via extending through the first molding material to contact a third via of the redistribution structure.
US11476198B2
Disclosed embodiments include multi-level fan-out integrated-circuit package substrates that provide a low-loss path to active and passive devices, by shunting away from interconnects and inductive loops. The multi-level form factor of a molded mass, allows for the low-loss path.
US11476193B2
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate including a first surface; a dielectric layer disposed over the first surface of the substrate; a first conductive line surrounded by the dielectric layer and extended over the first surface of the substrate; a second conductive line disposed adjacent to the first conductive line, surrounded by the dielectric layer and extended parallel to the first conductive line; a conductive via disposed over the first conductive line and extended through the dielectric layer; and a cross section of the conductive via substantially parallel to the first surface of the substrate, wherein the cross section of the conductive via is at least partially protruded from the first conductive line towards the second conductive line. Further, a method of manufacturing the semiconductor structure is also disclosed.
US11476184B2
A semiconductor device includes a dielectric interposer, a first interconnection layer, an electronic component, a plurality of electrical conductors and a plurality of conductive structures. The dielectric interposer has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The first interconnection layer is over the first surface of the dielectric interposer. The electronic component is over and electrically connected to the first interconnection layer. The electrical conductors are over the second surface of the dielectric interposer. The conductive structures are through the dielectric interposer, wherein the conductive structures are electrically connected to the first interconnection layer and the electrical conductors.
US11476180B2
A semiconductor device according to the present application includes: a current carrying unit having a semiconductor element; a case enclosing the current carrying unit; a heat dissipating plate located on a back side of the current carrying unit and the case; a plurality of thread fastening holes located in at least one of the case and the heat dissipating plate for fastening to an external heat dissipating system; and a plurality of tightening order display structures located near the respective thread fastening holes to display an order in which screws are tightened into the thread fastening holes.
US11476176B2
A semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a via passivation layer disposed on an inactive surface of a substrate, a through-electrode vertically penetrating the substrate and the via passivation layer, a concave portion formed in the top surface of the via passivation layer and disposed adjacent to the through-electrode, and a via protective layer coplanar with the via passivation layer and the through-electrode and to fill the concave portion. In a horizontal cross-sectional view, the via protective layer has a band shape surrounding the through-electrode.
US11476172B2
A radio frequency module in which the loop shape of a wire can be stable by disposing a protruding electrode at a bonding ending-point portion when a bonding wire forms a shield between components is provided. A radio frequency module includes a multilayer wiring board, components to mounted on an upper surface of the multilayer wiring board, a shield member formed of a plurality of bonding wires to cover the component, and a protruding electrode provided at a bonding ending-point portion of each of the bonding wires. Since the protruding electrode is provided at the bonding ending-point portion of each of the bonding wires, undesired bending can be prevented on a second bond side of the bonding wire. The shield member to cover side surfaces and a top surface of the component can be easily formed.
US11476168B2
Disclosed herein are structures and techniques for exposing circuitry in die testing. For example, in some embodiments, an integrated circuit (IC) die may include: first conductive contacts at a first face of the die; second conductive contacts at a second face of the die; die stack emulation circuitry; other circuitry; and a switch coupled to the second conductive contacts, the die stack emulation circuitry, and the other circuitry, wherein the switch is to couple the second conductive contacts to the other circuitry when the switch is in a first state, and the switch is to couple the die stack emulation circuitry to the other circuitry when the switch is in a second state different from the first state.
US11476164B2
Integrated circuit structures having differentiated workfunction layers are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a first gate electrode above a substrate. The first gate electrode includes a first workfunction material layer. A second gate electrode is above the substrate. The second gate electrode includes a second workfunction material layer different in composition from the first workfunction material layer. The second gate electrode does not include the first workfunction material layer, and the first gate electrode does not include the second workfunction material layer. A third gate electrode above is the substrate. The third gate electrode includes a third workfunction material layer different in composition from the first workfunction material layer and the second workfunction material layer. The third gate electrode does not include the first workfunction material layer and does not include the second workfunction material layer.
US11476160B2
Methods for forming interconnects in microfeature workpieces, and microfeature workpieces having such interconnects are disclosed herein. The microfeature workpieces may have a terminal and a substrate with a first side carrying the terminal and a second side opposite the first side. In one embodiment, a method includes (a) constructing an electrically conductive interconnect extending from the terminal to at least an intermediate depth in the substrate with the interconnect electrically connected to the terminal, and (b) removing material from the second side of the substrate so that a portion of the interconnect projects from the substrate.
US11476159B2
A butted contact structure is provided. In one embodiment, a structure includes a first transistor on a substrate, the first transistor comprising a first source or drain region, a first gate, and a first gate spacer being disposed between the first gate and the first source or drain region. The structure includes a second transistor on the substrate, the second transistor comprising a second source or drain region, a second gate, and a second gate spacer being disposed between the second gate and the second source or drain region. The structure includes a butted contact disposed above and extending from the first source or drain region to at least one of the first or second gate, a portion of the first gate spacer extending a distance into the butted contact to separate a first bottom surface of the butted contact from a second bottom surface of the butted contact.
US11476156B2
In one exemplary aspect, a method for semiconductor manufacturing comprises forming first and second silicon nitride features on sidewall surfaces of a contact hole, where the contact hole is disposed in a dielectric layer and above a source/drain (S/D) feature. The method further comprises forming a contact plug in the contact hole, the contact plug being electrically coupled to the S/D feature, removing a top portion of the contact plug to create a recess in the contact hole, forming a hard mask layer in the recess, and removing the first and second silicon nitride features via selective etching to form first and second air gaps, respectively.
US11476154B2
A field effect transistor, comprising a gate contact and gate metal forming a vertical structure, such vertical structure having sides and a top surrounded by an air gap formed between a source electrode and a drain electrode of the field effect transistor.
US11476150B2
A process for sputtering a plurality of integrated circuit (“IC”) units, the process having at least the steps of: applying a layer to a holding ring; cutting an array of apertures in the layer; transferring the holding ring to a template positioned within a placement station; aligning the array of apertures with an array of recesses in the template; delivering IC units to the holding ring, each IC unit corresponding to an aligned aperture and recess, and then; applying a sputtering process to the IC units engaged with the holding ring.
US11476148B2
A wafer separating apparatus and method are provided. The apparatus includes an electrostatic chuck, a separation structure and a control device. The electrostatic chuck electrostatically supports a wafer during wafer processing using a voltage having a polarity. The separation structure mechanically separate the wafer from the electrostatic chuck. The control device controls the electrostatic chuck to, after the wafer processing is completed, reduce a magnitude of the voltage with the polarity while the separation structure applies a force to the wafer to separate the wafer from the electrostatic chuck.
US11476147B2
A wafer holding table includes a ceramic electrostatic chuck, a metal cooling plate, a resin layer having predetermined thermal resistance, and a stress relaxation layer having lower Young's modulus than the resin layer. The resin layer and the stress relaxation layer are disposed between the electrostatic chuck and the cooling plate. The resin layer is disposed closer to the electrostatic chuck, and the stress relaxation layer is disposed closer to the cooling plate. The resin layer has a multilayer structure including a plurality of resin sheets laminated one on another. The resin layer is thinner than a comparative sample with a single-layer structure made of a material identical to a material of the resin sheet and having thermal resistance identical to thermal resistance of the resin layer.
US11476142B2
A substrate loading device including a frame adapted to connect to a substrate processing apparatus, the frame having a transport opening through which substrates are transported to the processing apparatus, a cassette support connected to the frame for holding at least one substrate cassette container proximate the transport opening, the support configured so that a sealed internal atmosphere of the container is accessed from the support at predetermined access locations of the container, and the cassette support has a predetermined continuous steady state differential pressure plenum region, determined at least in part by boundaries of fluid flow generating differential pressure, so that the predetermined continuous steady state differential pressure plenum region defines a continuously steady state fluidic flow isolation barrier disposed on the support between the predetermined access locations of the container and another predetermined section of the support isolating the other predetermined section from the predetermined access locations.
US11476138B2
A diagnostic system of a substrate transfer hand including a base part coupled to a hand tip portion of a robot arm and a substrate holding part coupled to the base part to hold a substrate, includes a camera which is secured to the base part and takes an image of the substrate holding part; and a diagnostic device which obtains image information of the image taken by the camera and diagnoses normality of the substrate holding part based on the image information.
US11476116B2
Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a gallium oxide thin film for a power semiconductor using a dopant activation technology that maximizes dopant activation effect and rearrangement effect of lattice in a grown epitaxial at the same time by performing in-situ annealing in a growth condition of a nitrogen atmosphere at the same time as the growth of a doped layer is finished.
US11476115B2
A method for manufacturing a compound semiconductor substrate comprises: a step to form an SiC (silicon carbide) layer on a Si (silicon) substrate, a step to form a LT (Low Temperature)-AlN (aluminum nitride) layer with a thickness of 12 nanometers or more and 100 nanometers or less on the SiC layer at 700 degrees Celsius or more and 1000 degrees Celsius or less, a step to form a HT (High Temperature)-AlN layer on the LT-AlN layer at a temperature higher than the temperature at which the LT-AlN layer was formed, a step to form an Al (aluminum) nitride semiconductor layer on the HT-AlN layer, a step to form a GaN (gallium nitride) layer on the Al nitride semiconductor layer, and a step to form an Al nitride semiconductor layer on the GaN layer.
US11476112B2
Described herein is a technique capable of acquiring, monitoring and recording the progress of the reaction between a substrate and a reactive gas contained in a process gas in a process chamber during the processing of the substrate. According to the technique, there is provided a substrate processing apparatus including: a process chamber accommodating a substrate; a process gas supply system configured to supply a process gas into the process chamber via a process gas supply pipe; an exhaust pipe configured to exhaust an inner atmosphere of the process chamber; a first gas concentration sensor configured to detect a first concentration of a reactive gas contained in the process gas in the process gas supply pipe; and a second gas concentration sensor configured to detect a second concentration of the reactive gas contained in an exhaust gas in the exhaust pipe.
US11476110B2
A semiconductor device is made by: forming an ohmic electrode including Al on a semiconductor substrate; forming a SiN film covering the ohmic electrode; forming a first photoresist on the SiN film, the first photoresist having an opening pattern overlapping the ohmic electrode; performing ultraviolet curing of the first photoresist; forming an opening in the SiN film exposed through the opening pattern and causing a surface of the ohmic electrode to be exposed inside the opening; forming a barrier metal layer on the first photoresist and on the ohmic electrode exposed through the opening; forming a second photoresist in the opening pattern; performing a heat treatment on the second photoresist and covering the barrier metal layer overlapping the opening with the second photoresist; and etching the barrier metal layer using the second photoresist.
US11476102B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a real-time calibration device, a real-time calibration method and a detection apparatus. The real-time calibration device is in fluid communication with a sample injection pipeline of the apparatus to be calibrated. The real-time calibration device is configured to release a trace amount of calibration agent molecules during a sample injection of the apparatus to be calibrated, so that the trace amount of calibration agent molecules and a sample entering the apparatus to be calibrated are mixed and together enter the apparatus to be calibrated, and information of the sample and the calibration agent is detected by the apparatus to be calibrated, thereby performing a calibration.
US11476095B2
An electrostatic chuck of an embodiment includes a base, a dielectric layer, and a chuck main body. The dielectric layer is provided on the base, and is fixed to the base. The chuck main body is mounted on the dielectric layer. The chuck main body has a ceramic main body, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode. The ceramic main body has a substrate mounting region. The first electrode is provided in the substrate mounting region. The second electrode and the third electrode form a bipolar electrode. The second electrode and the third electrode are provided in the ceramic main body, and are provided between the first electrode and the dielectric layer.
US11476083B2
An electrical device for electrically measuring a sample during electron microscope imaging includes: a chip through which a slit is defined, the chip having at least one peripheral edge, the slit having an open end at the at least one peripheral edge; an electrically conductive first contact on the chip; and an electrically conductive second contact on the chip; wherein the slit is at least partially positioned between the first contacts and second contact. An electrically conductive first wire may extend along the chip electrically connected to the first contact; and an electrically conductive second wire may extend along the chip electrically connected to the second contact. The first wire and second wire may diverge from each other in extending along the chip away from the slit.
US11476079B1
Methods include providing a multi-pillar sample including at least a first pillar and a second pillar parallel with the first pillar, directing a charged particle beam to the first pillar, imaging the first pillar at a plurality of rotational positions by rotating the multi-pillar sample about a first pillar axis of the first pillar, directing the charged particle beam to the second pillar, and imaging the second pillar at a plurality of rotational positions by rotating the multi-pillar sample about a second pillar axis of the second pillar. Related apparatus for performing disclosed methods are disclosed. Multi-pillar samples are also disclosed.
US11476074B2
A vacuum channel field effect transistor includes a first insulator on a p-type semiconductor substrate, a gate electrode on the first insulator, a second insulator on the gate electrode, a drain electrode on the second insulator, and an n+ impurity diffusion layer in the surface of the p-type semiconductor substrate, the n+ impurity diffusion layer being in contact with a side wall including side faces of the first insulator, the gate electrode, and the second insulator. Application of predetermined voltages to the n+ impurity diffusion layer, the gate electrode, and the drain electrode causes charge carriers in the n+ impurity diffusion layer to travel through a vacuum or air faced by the side wall to the drain electrode, which can increase the source-drain current.
US11476062B2
A waterproof electric push button switch assembly having a closed compartment and an electric switch housed inside the closed compartment, the electric switch having connected thereto cables coming out of the compartment which is arranged inside a casing with a cavity with two openings, a first opening hermetically sealed by a compressible elastomeric body attached to the casing, and a second opening hermetically sealed by a cover. The elastomeric body extends into the cavity of the casing providing a surface supporting the electric switch and the cover has on its inner face a tubular wall which is inserted into the cavity of the casing and contacts the elastomeric body along the perimeter. The tubular wall completely surrounds the switch and assures its waterproofness.
US11476056B2
A capacitor that includes a substrate, a dielectric portion, and a conductor layer. The dielectric portion includes a thick film portion and a thin film portion. The thick film portion has a thickness larger than the average thickness of the dielectric portion in a direction perpendicular to the first main surface. The thin film portion has a thickness smaller than the average thickness of the dielectric portion in the direction perpendicular to the first main surface. The thick film portion has a larger relative permittivity than the thin film portion.
US11476054B2
A film capacitor that includes a metallized film having a metal layer on one surface of a dielectric resin film, in which, when a thermal expansion coefficient of the metallized film is αP and a thermal expansion coefficient of the metal layer is αM, a value of αP/αM is 5.1 or less.
US11476053B2
A multi-layer ceramic electronic component includes: a ceramic body including a first end surface and a second end surface facing in a direction of a first axis, and internal electrodes laminated in a direction of a second axis orthogonal to the first axis and drawn from the first end surface or the second end surface; a first external electrode disposed to cover the first end surface; and a second external electrode disposed to cover the second end surface. Each of the first external electrode and the second external electrode has an electrode end surface facing in the direction of the first axis. The electrode end surface includes a pair of first peripheral regions located at peripheral edges in the direction of the second axis, and a first concave region located between the pair of first peripheral regions and recessed from the pair of first peripheral regions.
US11476052B2
A method of manufacturing a multilayer ceramic electronic component includes preparing a ceramic green sheet, forming an internal electrode pattern by coating a paste for an internal electrode including a conductive powder including one or more of tungsten (W), molybdenum (Mo), chromium (Cr), and cobalt (Co), the sum of which is 1 to 20 wt o, and including tin (Sn), on the ceramic green sheet, forming a ceramic multilayer structure by stacking ceramic green sheets on which the internal electrode pattern is formed, and forming a body including a dielectric layer and an internal electrode by sintering the ceramic multilayer structure.
US11476035B2
A coil component includes: a magnetic body part having a first compact containing a first magnetic material and a first resin, and a second compact placed on the outside of the first compact and containing a second magnetic material and a second resin; a coil formed by a conductive wire which comprises a metal conductor covered with an insulating film, and embedded in the magnetic body part; and lead parts of the coil placed on the outside of the first compact; wherein the filling rate of the first magnetic material constituting the first compact is higher than the filling rate of the second magnetic material constituting the second compact. The filling rate of magnetic grains can be improved while also ensuring the insulating property of the coil, etc.
US11476029B2
A coil component includes a drum core and first and second wires. The first wire includes a first extending portion. The second wire includes a third extending portion. The first and third extending portions are not in contact with each other. Each of the first and second wires includes a coat including a first region and a second region. The coat in the first and third extending portions is the second region at least in part. The coat is the first region at a contacting point where the first and second wires are in contact for the first time from a first flange portion in the drum core.
US11476024B2
An insulated electric wire is composed of a conductor composed of a copper material, and an electrical insulating layer provided on an outer periphery of the conductor. For the constituent conductor of the insulated electric wire, in an orientation intensity ratio obtained by X-ray diffraction of a transverse cross section of the conductor, an intensity in a [200] crystal orientation is higher than an intensity in a [111] crystal orientation.
US11476020B2
To provide a rare earth magnet having excellent coercive force and a production method thereof. A rare earth magnet, wherein the rare earth magnet comprises a magnetic phase containing Sm, Fe, and N, a Zn phase present around the magnetic phase, and an intermediate phase present between the magnetic phase and the Zn phase, wherein the intermediate phase contains Zn and the oxygen content of the intermediate phase is higher than the oxygen content of the Zn phase; and a method for producing a rare earth magnet, including mixing a magnetic raw material powder having an oxygen content of 1.0 mass % or less and an improving agent powder containing metallic Zn and/or a Zn alloy, and heat-treating the mixed powder.
US11476019B2
The present application relates to a composition, a 3D printing method using the same, and a three-dimensional shape comprising the same, and provides a composition capable of embodying a precise formation of a three-dimensional shape using a ceramic material and a uniform curing property of the three-dimensional shape.
US11476016B2
Cable foil tape having random or pseudo-random patterns or long pattern lengths of discontinuous metallic shapes and a method for manufacturing such patterned foil tape are provided. In some embodiments, a laser ablation system is used to selectively remove regions or paths in a metallic layer of a foil tape to produce random distributions of randomized shapes, or pseudo-random patterns or long pattern lengths of discontinuous shapes in the metal layer. In some embodiments, the foil tape is double-sided, having a metallic layer on each side of the foil tape, and the laser ablation system is capable of ablating nonconductive pathways into the metallic layer on both sides of the foil tape.
US11476013B2
An anti-scatter collimator is for arrangement in a stacked construction with an X-ray detector. In an embodiment, the anti-scatter collimator includes collimator walls arranged adjacently at least along a first direction. The collimator walls are mutually spaced to provide a through-channel between each pair of adjacent collimator walls. The through-channels provided by the arrangement of the multiplicity of collimator walls are at least partially filled with a filler material.
US11476005B2
Computer-implemented methods and systems are provided for curating medical images for a medical image database. An example method for curating involves operating a processor to obtain a query medical image, assign the query medical image to an initial set of related images, and generate a similarity indicator for each image of the initial set. The similarity indicator is representative of a measure of similarity between image data of that image and the initial set. The processor is operable to define an intermediate set from the initial set based on the similarity indicators; and generate a relevancy indicator for each image of the intermediate set. The relevancy indicator is representative of a measure of the relevancy between relevance of the image and the intermediate set. The processor is operable to define a curated set of images from the intermediate set based on the relevancy indicators.
US11476002B2
A model-assisted system and method for predicting health care services. In one implementation, a model-assisted system may comprise a least one processor programmed to access a database storing a medical record associated with a patient and analyze the medical record to identify a characteristic of the patient. The processor may determine a patient risk level indicating a likelihood that the patient will require a health care service within a predetermined time period; compare the patient risk level to a predetermined risk threshold; and generate a report indicating a recommended intervention for the patient. The processor may further determine a calibration factor indicating a difference between an average patient risk level and an average actual healthcare service usage for a first group of patients; and determine, based on the calibration factor, a bias relative to a second group of patients.
US11475997B2
Healthcare services can be automated utilizing a system that recognizes at least one characteristic of a patient based on images of the patient acquired by an image capturing device. Relying on information extracted from these images, the system may automate multiple aspects of a medical procedure such as patient identification and verification, positioning, diagnosis and/or treatment planning using artificial intelligence or machine learning techniques. By automating these operations, healthcare services can be provided remotely and/or with minimum physical contact between the patient and a medical professional.
US11475995B2
A method and system for determining a recommendation for drug treatment are described herein. For example, the method includes determining drug scores based upon network-based distances for one or more target drug nodes, modeling one or more outputs based upon input data, wherein the input data comprises at least a portion of the drug scores, selecting an algorithmic output from the one or more modeling outputs based upon at least one performance criteria, determining if the selected algorithmic output of the modeling satisfies a threshold, and if the selected algorithmic output satisfies the threshold, generating the recommendation for drug treatment. The system includes a processing device and computer readable medium including programming instructions that, when executed, cause the processing device to perform the method as described herein.
US11475989B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing automated routing of medical data, comprising determining at least one rule corresponding to at least one condition and at least one receiver, receiving medical data and associated medical metadata, determining whether the medical data, the associated medical metadata, and/or associated artificial intelligence processing satisfies the at least one condition of the at least one rule, and upon determining that the at least one condition of the at least one rule is satisfied, providing, from an originating institution, the medical data to the at least one receiver.
US11475953B1
The invention provides a semiconductor layout pattern, the semiconductor layout pattern includes a substrate, a plurality of ternary content addressable memories (TCAM) are arranged on the substrate, the layout of at least two TCAM is mirror symmetric with each other along an axis of symmetry, and the two TCAM are connected to the same search line (SL) together.
US11475950B2
A process is provided to trim PCRAM cells to have consistent programming curves. Initial programming curves of PCRAM cells are measured. A target programming curve is set up for the PCRAM cells. Each PCRAM cell is then modulated individually to meet the target programming curve.
US11475944B2
Various implementations described herein are directed to an integrated circuit having a wordline driver coupled to a bitcell via a wordline. The integrated circuit may include a read assist transistor coupled to the wordline between the wordline driver and the bitcell. While activated, the read assist transistor may generate an adaptive underdrive on the wordline, the level of which depends on the process, temperature and voltage of operation of the memory, when the wordline is selected and driven by the wordline driver.
US11475941B2
The present disclosure relates to a structure including a latch circuit, a first non-volatile field effect transistor (FET) connecting to a first side of the latch circuit and a bit line, and a second non-volatile field effect transistor (FET) connecting to a second side of the latch circuit and a complementary bit line.
US11475939B2
Apparatuses and methods for saving power at an input buffer are described. An example apparatus includes an input buffer comprising an amplifier coupled to a pair of serially coupled inverters, and a de-emphasis circuit coupled to the input buffer in parallel with one of the pair of serially-coupled inverters. The de-emphasis circuit comprising a plurality of transistors coupled in parallel to a resistance. The example apparatus further includes an input buffer control circuit configured to selectively enable one of the plurality of transistors to adjust a gain across the one of the pair of inverters based on a latency setting.
US11475937B2
Methods, systems, and devices for die voltage regulation are described. A device may include a first die and second die. A component that generates voltage on the first die may be connected to a capacitor on the second die through a conductive line. The conductive line may allow the capacitor on the second die to regulate voltage generated by the component on the first die.
US11475936B2
A memory includes a plurality of rows, each of which is coupled to a plurality of memory cells; a target row determining circuit suitable for determining a row that is likely to lose data among the plurality of rows as a target row; and a transfer circuit suitable for transferring, when a number of target rows determined by the target row determining circuit is equal to or greater than a threshold value, information representing that the number of target rows reaches the threshold value to a memory controller.
US11475931B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetoresistive memory device includes: a first conductor; a layer stack; an insulator on a side surface of the layer stack; a second conductor on a second surface of the layer stack; a third conductor; and a fourth conductor on the third conductor. The layer stack includes a first ferromagnetic layer, a second ferromagnetic layer, and an insulating layer between the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer and has a first surface in contact with the first conductor. The second surface is at an opposite side of the first surface. The third conductor has a portion on the second conductor and a portion on a side surface of the insulator.
US11475929B2
Performing refresh operation in a memory device is provided. A refresh operation without address rotation is performed in a cell array of the memory device. Performing the refresh operation without address rotation is repeated for a predetermined number of times. After repeating performing the refresh operation with address rotation for the predetermined number of times, a refresh operation with address rotation is performed in the cell array.
US11475928B2
Embodiments provide a read operation circuit, a semiconductor memory, and a read operation method. The read operation circuit includes: a DBI encoder configured to read read data from a memory bank, and determine whether to invert the read data according to the number of bits of high data in the read data to output global bus data for transmission through a global bus and DBI data for transmission through a DBI signal line, a DBI port being configured to receive the DBI data; a parallel-to-serial conversion circuit configured to perform parallel-to-serial conversion on the global bus data to generate output data of the DQ port; a data buffer module connected to the memory bank through the global bus; and a precharge module connected to a precharge signal line and configured to set an initial state of the global bus to Low.
US11475911B2
In communication performed among multiple participants, at least one of a participant who will start speaking next and a timing thereof is estimated. An estimation apparatus includes a head motion information generation unit that acquires head motion information representing head motions of communication participants in a time segment corresponding to an end time of an utterance segment and synchronization information for head motions between the communication participants, and an estimation unit that estimates at least one of the speaker of the next utterance segment following the utterance segment and the next utterance start timing following the utterance segment based on the head motion information and the synchronization information for the head motions between the communication participants.
US11475902B2
An audio encoder has a first information sink oriented encoding branch such as a spectral domain encoding branch, a second information source or SNR oriented encoding branch such as an LPC-domain encoding branch, and a switch for switching between the first and second encoding branches, the second encoding branch having a converter into a specific domain different from the spectral domain such as an LPC analysis stage generating an excitation signal, and the second encoding branch having a specific domain coding branch such as LPC domain processing branch, and a specific spectral domain coding branch such as LPC spectral domain processing branch, and an additional switch for switching between the specific domain coding branch and the specific spectral domain coding branch. An audio decoder has a first domain decoder, a second domain decoder, and a third domain decoder as well as two cascaded switches for switching between the decoders.
US11475878B2
An electronic device for providing a text-to-speech (TTS) service and an operating method therefor are provided. The operating method of the electronic device includes obtaining target voice data based on an utterance input of a specific speaker, determining a number of learning steps of the target voice data, based on data features including a data amount of the target voice data, generating a target model by training a pre-trained model pre-trained to convert text into an audio signal, by using the target voice data as training data, based on the determined number of learning steps, generating output data obtained by converting input text into an audio signal, by using the generated target model, and outputting the generated output data.
US11475872B2
There is provided a semiconductor device having a timing generator that generates synchronization signals so as to match input timings of serial audio data input from an external source, a reproduction processor that, based on the synchronization signals, reads audio data from memory, performs reproduction processing, and outputs a plurality of channel information items, and a mixer that mixes the plurality of channel information items with the serial audio data, and reproduces an audio signal.
US11475867B2
A system, method and computer product for combining audio tracks. In one example embodiment herein, the method comprises determining at least one music track that is musically compatible with a base music track, aligning those tracks in time, and combining the tracks. In one example embodiment herein, the tracks may be music tracks of different songs, the base music track can be an instrumental accompaniment track, and the at least one music track can be a vocal track. Also in one example embodiment herein, the determining is based on musical characteristics associated with at least one of the tracks, such as an acoustic feature vector distance between tracks, a likelihood of at least one track including a vocal component, a tempo, or musical key. Also, determining of musical compatibility can include determining at least one of a vertical musical compatibility or a horizontal musical compatibility among tracks.
US11475865B2
A processor or other circuitry may obtain emissive element strength information for an array of emissive elements of an electronic display. The processor or other circuitry may reconstruct backlight information at multiple locations within the electronic display. The processor or other circuitry also compensates display of image data based at least in part on the reconstructed backlight information.
US11475864B2
A display panel, a method of manufacturing the display panel, a method of driving the display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes an array substrate and a plurality of micro light-emitting diodes arranged on the array substrate, and further includes: a photoelectric conversion structure in a one-to-one correspondence with a micro light-emitting diode, the photoelectric conversion structure is located on a side of the corresponding micro light-emitting diode facing the array substrate, connected to the corresponding micro light-emitting diode, and configured to convert a received light signal emitted by the micro light-emitting diode into an electrical signal, and charge the corresponding micro light-emitting diode by using the electrical signal. The display panel is used for display.
US11475859B2
A display device includes: pixel electrodes including a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode adjacent to the first pixel electrode in a first direction; switching elements including a first switching element coupled to the first pixel electrode and a second switching element coupled to the second pixel electrode; gate lines including a first gate line coupled to the first switching element and a second gate line coupled to the second switching element; a gate driver supplying a gate signal to the gate lines; and drive electrodes including a first drive electrode and a second drive electrode adjacent to the first drive electrode in the first direction. The first drive electrode overlaps the first and second pixel electrodes, and the second gate line. The second drive electrode overlaps the first gate line. The gate driver supplies the gate signal to the first and second gate lines simultaneously.
US11475841B2
A system may include buffer circuitry that receives an input signal representative of image data for display via a pixel. The buffer circuitry may provide a first driving signal during a first frame of the image data to the pixel based on the input signal. The buffer circuitry may include slew booster circuitry. The slew booster circuitry may supply a voltage boost (e.g., additional voltage) to differential pair stage circuitry of the buffer circuit in response to a difference between the input signal and a second driving signal exceeding a threshold increase a rate of change of the input signal provided. The second driving signal may be provided to the pixel during a second frame of the image data preceding the first frame.
US11475839B2
A system for controlling a display in which each pixel circuit comprises a light-emitting device, a drive transistor, a storage capacitor, a reference voltage source, and a programming voltage source. The storage capacitor stores a voltage equal to the difference between the reference voltage and the programming voltage, and a controller supplies a programming voltage that is a calibrated voltage for a known target current, reads the actual current passing through the drive transistor to a monitor line, turns off the light emitting device while modifying the calibrated voltage to make the current supplied through the drive transistor substantially the same as the target current, modifies the calibrated voltage to make the current supplied through the drive transistor substantially the same as the target current, and determines a current corresponding to the modified calibrated voltage based on predetermined current-voltage characteristics of the drive transistor.
US11475836B2
A display device includes a first pixel area having first pixels and a second pixel area having second pixels. Each first pixel includes a driving transistor initialized to a voltage of a first initialization power supply. Each second pixel includes a driving transistor initialized to a voltage of a second initialization power supply. The first initialization power supply and the second initialization power supply are set to different voltages. The first pixel area and the second pixel area have different widths.
US11475834B2
A pixel circuit comprises a light emission element; a driving transistor including a first electrode connected to the first node, a second electrode connected to a second node, and a gate electrode connected to a third node; a first transistor including a first electrode receiving a third voltage, a second electrode connected to the first node, and a gate electrode receiving a second light emission control signal; a first transistor including a first electrode connected to a first line transferring a first power voltage, a second electrode connected to the second node, and a gate electrode receiving a first light emission control signal; a first storage capacitor connected between the third node and a fourth node; and a switching transistor including a first electrode connected to a data line, a second electrode connected to the fourth node, and a gate electrode receiving a scan signal.
US11475828B2
Provided are a touch display screen and a driving method of the touch display screen. The driving method of the touch display screen includes: one frame cycle includes at least one touch control stage, the at least one touch control stage is staggered from a scanning stage of a pixel row electrically connected to at least one first scanning line and overlaps a scanning stage of a pixel row electrically connected to at least one second scanning line. The first scanning lines overlap edge regions of the touch electrode rows in the second direction, and the second scanning lines overlap center regions of the touch electrode rows in the second direction.
US11475827B2
The disclosure provides an electronic device. The electronic device includes a pixel array and a first driving circuit. The pixel array is disposed on a substrate and includes a plurality of sub-pixel rows. The first driving circuit is disposed on the substrate and located on one side of the pixel array. The first driving circuit includes a plurality of demultiplexer circuits and a plurality of switching circuits. The demultiplexer circuits include a first demultiplexer circuit. The switching circuits include a first switching circuit. The first switching circuit is coupled to the first demultiplexer circuit, and the first demultiplexer circuit is coupled to at least three of the plurality of sub-pixel rows.
US11475820B2
A method for driving an active matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) display. The method may be used to digitally drive the AMOLED display in a way that limits the susceptibility of the AMOLED display to certain problems arising out of digital driving techniques, such as image sticking or low display lifetimes. The method involves generating compensation factors corresponding to each pixel of the display and using those compensation factors to control the illumination of the display. The aspects of the method that incorporate the operation point for generating a compensation factor may also be applied to analog driving of AMOLED displays.
US11475817B2
A display, system and method of providing a display are described. The display includes sets of microLEDs. Each set of microLEDs corresponds to one of a plurality of pixels of the display and produces a combination of light that forms a color of the corresponding one of the pixels. Lenses control an emission angle and emission profile of the light emitted by the sets of microLEDs. Each set of microLEDs has a red microLED that emits red light, a green microLED that emits green light, a blue microLED that emits blue light, and another microLED that emits light along a red-green locus. The red-green locus light is selected to enhance efficiency at a white point to compensate for reduced emission from the red microLED dependent on a size of the red microLED.
US11475813B2
A scan driver circuit including shift register units and gate control circuits is provided. The shift register units are in a peripheral area of a display panel, and for receiving first clock signals. The gate control circuits are in an active area of the display panel, and for receiving second clock signals. Each shift register unit is coupled with corresponding N of the gate control circuits, and for providing a corresponding one of the first clock signals as a control signal to the corresponding N of the gate control circuits. The corresponding N of the gate control circuits are coupled with corresponding M of gate lines. The corresponding N of the gate control circuits are for providing, according to the control signal, corresponding M of the second clock signals as M gate signals to the corresponding M of gate lines, in which M and N are positive integers.
US11475809B2
A driving circuit for a display panel, a display panel, and a display device are provided. The driving circuit includes a plurality of driving units, wherein at least one of the driving units includes M dummy pins, at least one of the M dummy pins is configured to be electrically connected to at least one clock pin of the display panel, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 1.
US11475808B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a pixel array including a plurality of rows of gate lines, a plurality of columns of source lines, a plurality of switches, and a plurality of liquid crystal cells; a gate driver IC connected to the gate lines; a source driver IC connected to the source lines; a timing control IC arranged to control operation timings of the gate driver IC and the source driver IC; and a system power supply IC arranged to supply a power supply voltage to the source driver IC. Each of the timing control IC and the system power supply IC has a function of detecting an abnormality in the gate driver IC and an abnormality in the source driver IC.
US11475803B2
A flexible display device includes a flexible display screen and a plurality of first reels. The flexible display screen comprises a plurality of groups of flexible film layers corresponding to the plurality of first reels. One terminal of groups of flexible film layers connected to the corresponding first reel. Each of the groups of flexible film layers is curled on the corresponding first reel when the flexible film layer is curled.
US11475800B2
Provided is a method of displaying price tag information applied to a price tag generating apparatus in a shelf system which includes a shelf and at least one display screen arranged on the shelf. The method includes: acquiring an image of a commodity placed on the shelf; determining price tag related information based on the image of the commodity, wherein the price tag related information comprises price tag information of the commodity; and sending the price tag related information to a target display screen, which is a display screen for displaying the price tag information in the at least one display screen, and the price tag related information being configured to allow the target display screen to display the price tag information.
US11475795B2
A training device (10) for simulating a mechanical function of a medicament delivery device, which training device (10) comprises a dummy housing (20), a first element (52) comprising an actuator (70), a second element (58) comprising an indication member (60), and wherein a relative movement of the first element (52) towards the second element (58), which movement exceeds at least a distance D, causes the actuator (70) to interact with the indication member (60) such that a feedback signal is generated for indicating to a user that a simulated mechanical function has occurred.
US11475794B2
Methods for simulating effects of impairment caused by recreational consumption of marijuana using a system including optical filters and various radiant objects. The system includes i) an optical filter having a pre-defined spectral pass-band and a non-diffractive spatial pattern configured to deviate a beam of light incident onto the filter, and, optionally, ii) radiant objects at least one of which delivers light in a spectral band corresponding to color that is complementary to the color defined by the pass-band of the optical filter. Method for demonstration and analysis of impairment of cognitive function caused by using the system to affect the vision of the user.
US11475788B2
A system for administering, evaluating, and monitoring a subject's compliance with task performance requirements within an action programme comprising optical sensors for capturing subject's facial expression, eye movements, point-of-gaze, and head pose of a subject during a compliance evaluation and monitoring session; a domain knowledge data repository comprising concept data entities, each having knowledge and skill content items, and task data entities, each having lecture content material items; a subject module configured to estimate the subject's affective state and cognitive state using the sensory data collected from the optical sensors; and a trainer module configured to select a task data entity for delivery and presentment to the subject after each completion of a task data entity based on a probability of the subject's understanding of the associated concept data entity's knowledge and skill content items and a probability of the subject achieving a target compliance level.
US11475774B2
A device may include a memory storing instructions and processor configured to execute the instructions to receive information relating to a plurality of vehicles in an area. The device may be further configured to use a trained machine learning model to determine a likelihood of collision by one or more of the plurality of vehicles; identify one or more relevant vehicles of the plurality of vehicles that are in danger of collision based on the determined likelihood of collision; and send an alert indicating the danger of collision to at least one of the identified one or more relevant vehicles.
US11475770B2
An electronic device, a warning message providing method therefor, and a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium are provided. Disclosed is an artificial intelligence (AI) system using a machine learning algorithm such as deep learning and an application thereof. Disclosed, according to one embodiment, is an electronic device which can comprise: a position determination unit for determining a current position of the electronic device; a communication unit for receiving accident data and a driving situation; an output unit for outputting a warning message; and a processor for learning the received accident data to establish a plurality of accident prediction models, selecting an accident prediction model to be applied from among the plurality of accident prediction models based on the determined current position, determining possibility of accident occurrence by using the selected accident prediction model, and controlling the output unit such that the output unit provides a warning message based on determining that the possibility of accident occurrence is greater than or equal to a preset value.
US11475766B1
Disclosed herein are methods and systems that allow users to report traffic violations and obtain information concerning reported violations using mobile devices. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving, at a server, one or more images or videos captured by a mobile device of an offending vehicle committing a potential traffic violation and an extended metadata tag; storing the one or more images or videos and the extended metadata tag as unstructured content in a content lake; generating database tables on top of the content lake; receiving a request from another mobile device to view traffic violation content; querying the database tables and retrieving at least one of the one or more images or videos of the offending vehicle committing the potential traffic violation from the content lake; and generating a GUI to be displayed via the other mobile device showing the traffic violation content.
US11475764B2
The disclosed subject matter relates to an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) service station, comprising: a receiver configured to receive, from one or more sensors, information on a set of road users perceived by the sensors, wherein said road user information includes, for each road user in the set, a respective geographical position determined by the sensors; a controller connected to the receiver and configured to determine, on the basis of said geographical positions, whether a subset of road users in said set meets a predetermined criterion of mutual proximity; and a transmitter connected to the controller and configured to transmit, when said subset comprises two or more road users, a service message indicative of said subset.
US11475759B2
An aerosol delivery device is provided that includes a housing, heating element, communication interface and microprocessor. The heating element may to activate and vaporize components of an aerosol precursor composition in response to a flow of air through at least a portion of the housing, with the air being combinable with a thereby formed vapor to form an aerosol. The communication interface may effect a wireless, proximity-based communication link with a computing device. And the microprocessor may be coupled to the communication interface, may control at least one functional element of the aerosol delivery device based on a state of the proximity-based communication link, or in response to a trigger signal received from the computing device over the proximity-based communication link.
US11475756B1
A position locator with a shell with a first resonant chamber, a second resonant chamber, a buzzer element, a main board and a power supply. The first resonant chamber is located above the second resonant chamber located below, the buzzer element separates the first resonant chamber and the second resonant chamber, the main board is connected to the buzzer element for controlling the position locator power on and off, the power supply is connected to the main board for supplying power to the main board.
US11475748B2
Systems and methods for detecting a presence of a target such as a vehicle, an animal, a person, or another object in a monitored area without the use of sensors, are provided. Multiple RF field anomaly detection nodes may be spaced through the monitored area and connected, such as in a mesh network. The RF field anomaly detection nodes may include radio transceivers that communicate with one another and which monitor a signal strength of received signals. The nodes may compare the signal strengths to expected strength values. As a target enters a portion of the monitored area, the dielectric properties of the target cause at least one signal strength of at least one received signal to change. The RF field anomaly detection nodes may detect this change and trigger a further action or human readable alert corresponding to the presence of the target.
US11475724B2
Systems and methods are provided for providing access to secure-access facilities based on pairing of the secure-access facilities with a user device such as a wearable device. A pairable secure-access facility may be a public storage facility or device such as a locker that includes communications circuitry for pairing with the user device. Once paired with the user device, the locker may operate a locking mechanism to lock the locker when the user device is away from the locker and to unlock the locker when the user device is in the vicinity of the locker. The locker may include a beacon for detecting and pairing with the user devices. Pairing the user device and the locker may include entering a locker identifier into the user device to ensure that the intended user device is paired with the intended locker.
US11475703B2
A circuit, system, and method for measuring or detecting pressure or force of a fingerprint on an array of electrodes is described. Pressure or force may be measured or detected using a processed image of the fingerprint, or by measurement of capacitance of deformed variable capacitors.
US11475701B2
A fingerprint display device has plural pixel rows. Each pixel row of n pixel rows in the plural pixel rows has plural display pixel units and plural fingerprint pixel units, where n is an integer greater than 1. The n pixel rows are driven at least by corresponding n display scan lines and n select lines for performing display and fingerprint detection. Each fingerprint pixel unit has a reset end and a select end. The reset end of the fingerprint pixel unit of i-th pixel row among the n pixel rows is connected to a corresponding display scan line among the n display scan lines, and the select end of the fingerprint pixel unit of i-th pixel row among the n pixel rows is connected to a corresponding select line among the n select lines, where i is an index value between 1 and n.
US11475699B2
A display module includes a circuit substrate, a plurality of image display units and at least one optical sensor. The plurality of image display units is disposed on the circuit substrate in a matrix arrangement. The at least one optical sensor is disposed at a position of the circuit substrate where there is no image display unit disposed thereon. A quantity ratio of the image display units and the at least one optical sensor is between 1 and 100000.
US11475696B2
A display device may include a display unit, a finger print sensing unit, and a timing control unit. The display unit includes a plurality of pixel units and includes a fingerprint recognition unit, which may generate first fingerprint data related to a fingerprint. The fingerprint sensing unit may extract a plurality of maxima corresponding to ridge portions of the fingerprint from the first fingerprint data to generate second fingerprint data and may generate luminance data based on the second fingerprint data. The timing control unit may calculate a degree of deterioration of the fingerprint recognition unit based on the luminance data to generate compensation data. The fingerprint recognition unit may receive a data signal corresponding to the compensation data.
US11475695B2
Provided are an ultrasonic fingerprint recognition circuit, a display panel, a display device and a driving method. A first end of the ultrasonic fingerprint recognizer is electrically connected to an ultrasonic signal input end of the ultrasonic fingerprint recognition circuit, and a second end of the ultrasonic fingerprint recognizer is electrically connected to a first end of the acquisition device; a control end of the sampling signal device is electrically connected to a sampling control end of the ultrasonic fingerprint recognition circuit, a first end of the sampling signal device is electrically connected to a first sampling signal end of the ultrasonic fingerprint recognition circuit, a second end of the sampling signal device is electrically connected to a second sampling signal end of the ultrasonic fingerprint recognition circuit, and a third end of the sampling signal device is electrically connected to a control end of the acquisition device.
US11475690B2
A vehicle control system includes a recognizer configured to recognize first content displayed on a terminal device, and an identifier configured to identify a person carrying the terminal device with the first content displayed thereon outside the vehicle as a user scheduled to use the vehicle or a person relevant to the user on the basis of a comparison between the first content recognized by the recognizer and one or more pieces of content associated with the vehicle.
US11475682B2
A method for controlling a movable object includes detecting a live object within a proximity of the movable object, determining an operation mode to operate the movable object with the live object detected within the proximity of the movable object, and applying a control scheme associated with the operation mode to control an operation of the movable object.
US11475681B2
The present application discloses an image processing method, apparatus, electronic device and computer readable storage medium. The image processing method comprises detecting a text region in an image to be processed, recognizing the text region to obtain a text recognition result. In this application, the text recognition in the image to be processed is realized, the recognition manner for the text in the image is simplified, and the recognition effect for the text is improved.
US11475680B2
A cargo sensor system incorporates an optical cargo sensor to supply images to a convolutional neural network. In preferred embodiments, the neural network is implemented using a processor in a sensor module, and is trained by a machine learning system to determine the load state of the cargo container. Some embodiments also include a secondary sensor, such as a laser-ranging Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensor, that verifies the cargo reading determined by the optical cargo sensor.
US11475669B2
Video frames from a video are compressed into a single image or a single data structure that represents a unique visual flowprint or visual signature for a given activity being modeled from the video frames. The flowprint comprises a computed summary of the original pixel values associated with the video frames within the single image and the flowprint is specific to movements occurring within the video frames that are associated with the given activity. In an embodiment, the flowprint is provided as input to a machine-learning algorithm to allow the algorithm to perform object tracking and monitoring from the flowprint rather than from the video frames of the video, which substantially improves processor load and memory utilization on a device that executes the algorithm, and substantially improved responsiveness of the algorithm.
US11475664B2
The invention relates to a system (1) for identifying a device using a camera and for remotely controlling the identified device. The system is configured to obtain an image (21) captured with a camera. The image captures at least a surrounding of a remote controllable device (51). The system is further configured to analyze the image to recognize one or more objects (57) and/or features in the surrounding of the remote controllable device and select an identifier associated with at least one of the one or more objects and/or features from a plurality of identifiers stored in a memory. The memory comprises associations between the plurality of identifiers and remote controllable devices and the selected identifier is associated with the remote controllable device. The system is further configured to determine a control mechanism for controlling the remote controllable device and control the remote controllable device using the determined control mechanism.
US11475653B2
The present disclosure is directed to techniques for determining a perceptual importance map. The perceptual importance map indicates the relative importance to the human visual system of different portions of an image. The techniques include obtaining cost values for the blocks of an image, where cost values are values used in determining motion vectors. For each block, a confidence value is derived from the cost values. The confidence value indicates the confidence with which the motion vector is believed to be correct. A perceptual importance value is determined based on the confidence value via one or more modifications to the confidence value to better reflect importance to the human visual system. The generated perceptual importance values can be used for various purposes such as allocating bits for encoding, identifying regions of interest, or selectively rendering portions of an image with greater or lesser detail based on relative perceptual importance.
US11475648B2
The present invention relates to technology for providing eyewear recommendation and try-on services to a customer and allowing the customer to select optimal eyewear based on the eyewear recommendation and try-on services. A system for providing eyewear try-on and recommendation services according to one embodiment may include a feature data extraction unit for extracting feature data from the face mesh of a customer created using a TrueDepth camera, an eyewear adjustment unit for performing rendering by adjusting the specifications of eyewear by reflecting the extracted feature data, a matching processing unit for matching the facial image of the customer and the face mesh, and a try-on processing unit for performing a try-on process by overlapping the rendered eyewear on the facial image of the customer in an augmented reality manner with reference to the face mesh in the matching state.
US11475640B2
Image data describing a physical space is received from one or more sensor(s). A corresponding image of the physical space is output to a user. User generated control signals are received, indicating to define one or more line(s) at specific coordinates in relation to the physical space. One or more line(s) are defined in response to the received control signals. Polarity is assigned to the line(s), wherein crossing a line in a first direction is defined as an ingress and crossing a line in a second, opposite direction is defined as an egress. An image of the line(s) is superimposed on the image of the physical space, wherein the image of the line(s) graphically indicates the assigned polarity. Physical objects are monitored in relation to the one or more line(s) in the physical space. An action is automatically taken in response to activity detected by the monitoring.
US11475635B1
Systems, programs, and media for creating virtual events and presenting the virtual event content to attendees of the virtual events are described herein. A virtual event hosting system may receive input from an event creator for creating an event comprising stages, sessions, networking, and expos. The event may provide a virtual environment for presenting users to make presentations and attendees to view and interact with the presenting users and other attendees. Data associated with the event and the attendees may be collected for analysis to improve engagement in future virtual events.
US11475629B2
The invention relates to a method for 3D reconstruction of an object comprising the following steps: generating a plurality of images of an object by at least one camera; extracting features of the object from the plurality of images; generating a cloud of three dimensional points arranged in a three dimensional model representing the object; identifying the images each of which comprises at least one of a subset of said features; determining a first set of three dimensional points corresponding to the subset of said features and a second set of three dimensional points; determining a mathematical equation which corresponds to a predefined three dimensional geometric structure as a building block of the object by means of the first set and the second set of the three dimensional points; and rendering a three dimensional model of the object by means of at least the predefined three dimensional geometric structure.
US11475623B2
An apparatus and method are described for allocating local memories to virtual machines. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a command streamer to queue commands from a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) or applications, the commands to be distributed from the command streamer and executed by graphics processing resources of a graphics processing unit (GPU); a tile cache to store graphics data associated with the plurality of VMs or applications as the commands are executed by the graphics processing resources; and tile cache allocation hardware logic to allocate a first portion of the tile cache to a first VM or application and a second portion of the tile cache to a second VM or application; the tile cache allocation hardware logic to further allocate a first region in system memory to store spill-over data when the first portion of the tile cache and/or the second portion of the file cache becomes full.
US11475621B2
A computer-implemented method simulates an atmospheric phenomenon within a simulation volume. At each time step of a plurality of time steps, the method automatically determines a temperature distribution of the atmospheric phenomenon based on an assumption of fixed volume, and then automatically determines a velocity field of the atmospheric phenomenon, based on an assumption of adiabatic expansion.
US11475605B2
An encoder is configured to compress spatial information for points included in a three-dimensional (3D) volumetric content representation using an octree, predictive tree, or other geometric compression technique. For points of the 3D volumetric content that are spatially located as same or similar locations in 3D space, such duplicated points, may be signaled using a duplicate point count. The duplicate point count may be used instead of explicitly signaling (duplicated) spatial information in the predictive tree for the duplicated points, as an example. Similarly a decoder is configured to generate a reconstructed three-dimensional representation of the volumetric content that includes the duplicate points, wherein the reconstructed 3D representation is generated from a bit stream including one or more duplicate point counts.
US11475601B2
A data stream accessor seeks to simulate an uninterrupted bitstream for a decoder during network interruptions. The accessor performs a set of operations including receiving an available amount of image data and storing a current execution context of the call site, passing execution flow to the decoder, and performing a subset of operations. The subset includes receiving an indication of a desired amount of image data from the decoder. If a total amount of image data at the accessor is greater than or equal to the desired amount, the desired amount is transmitted to the decoder for decoding. Otherwise, and unless an error issues, a current execution context of the decoder is stored, execution flow is passed from the decoder to the call site, and the restorable execution context is loaded as the current execution context of the call site. The subset is repeated unless the image is completely decoded.
US11475597B1
A calibrating device of calibrating a real-time image through a dithering process including a receiving unit, a storing unit, a displacing module, a computing module, and an outputting unit is disclosed. The receiving unit receives a real-time image from an image sensor and records a time parameter of the image. The storing unit stores a hash table that records multiple hash values used to calibrate the image. The displacing module shifts the multiple hash values in the hash table to generate an adjusted hash table. The computing module obtains a corresponding hash value from the adjusted hash table for each pixel point of the image in accordance with the coordinates of each pixel point, and respectively adds the corresponding hash value to the pixel value of each pixel point of the image to generate a calibrated image. The outputting unit outputs the calibrated image.
US11475595B2
A method for extrinsic calibration of cameras in a monitoring system, performed by a calibration device, includes obtaining preliminary calibration data of the cameras, obtaining a preliminary pose for an object observed by the cameras, and determining calibration data that results in an optimization of an objective function using the preliminary calibration data and the preliminary pose as starting values for the optimization. The method further includes defining the objective function with calibration data and pose as unknown variables and including a first function yielding aggregated reprojection error, and a second function yielding pose quality based on relative orientation and relative distance between 3D points of the pose. The second function enables improved accuracy of the calibration data and may be configured to yield pose quality for individual poses or motion quality for a time sequence of poses.
US11475592B2
An ear saddle point of a subject's ear is determined to produce specifications to fit a wearable apparatus to a subject's head. A boundary of the subject's ear in a profile image is determined using a first model. A map of the subject's ear is generated indicating probable locations of a two-dimensional ear saddle point. A most probable location of the two-dimensional ear saddle point is determined based on the probability map. The two-dimensional ear saddle point is projected onto a three-dimensional mesh surface representing the subject's head. A maximum depth of the three-dimensional mesh surface is determined in a defined region around the projected two-dimensional ear saddle point. The ear saddle point is computed based on the projected two-dimensional ear saddle point and the determined maximum depth. Specifications of a wearable apparatus are generated to fit the apparatus to the subject's head based on the computed ear saddle point.
US11475585B2
An antenna adjustment device and an antenna adjustment method for a mobile vehicle, in which main structure includes the mobile vehicle having a directional antenna, a photographic element and an epipolar line analysis component. The epipolar line analysis component establishes data connection with the directional antenna and the photographic element. The photographic element includes a photographic part and an image receiving processing part. With the above structure, the user can use the photographic element with the directional antenna to define an epipolar line of optimal connection efficiency with the base station on the image receiving processing part. When the connection is needed, the mobile vehicle is moved for adjusting an image of the base station imaged by the image receiving processing part to align to the epipolar line, so as to get the optimal connection efficiency.
US11475580B2
A depth calculation processor comprises: an input port, configured to receive image data from an image sensor; a demultiplexer, connected to the input port, and configured to demultiplex the image data from the input port and output first image data into a first line and second image data into a second line; a grayscale image engine, configured to process the first image data from the first line to generate processed first image data; a depth image engine, configured to receive the second image data from the second line, and calculate depth image data based on the second image data; a multiplexer, configured to output the processed first image data from the grayscale image engine and the depth image data from the depth image engine; and an output port, configured to output the processed first image data and the depth image data from the multiplexer.
US11475567B2
Provided are an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, an image processing program, and a recording medium that stores the program, capable of finding images of different persons captured in the same age. An image is specified as a first image, a user in the image is recognized as a first person, and an age thereof is estimated. An image is specified as a second image, a user in the image is recognized as a second person, and an age thereof is estimated. In a case where the user recognized as the first person and the user recognized as the second person are not the same person and a difference between the age of the user and the age of the user is within a range of a threshold value, the first image and the second image are detected as an image combination.
US11475563B2
A benign tumor development trend assessment system includes an image outputting device and a server computing device. The image outputting device outputs first/second images captured from the same position in a benign tumor. The server computing device includes an image receiving module, an image pre-processing module, a target extracting module, a feature extracting module and a trend analyzing module. The image receiving module receives the first/second images. The image pre-processing module pre-processes the first/second images to obtain first/second local images. The target extracting module automatically detects and delineates tumor regions from the first/second local images to obtain first/second region of interest (ROI) images. The feature extracting module automatically identifies the first/second ROI images to obtain at least one first/second features. The trend analyzing module analyzes the first/second features to obtain a tumor development trend result.
US11475562B2
Embodiments of the present systems and methods may provide fissure detection in CT images, with improved performance, accuracy, and specificity. For example, in an embodiment, a method may comprise imaging, using a computed tomography system, at least one lung, to generate, at a computer system comprising a processor, memory accessible by the processor, and computer program instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor, at least one computed tomography image of the at least one lung, determining, at the computer system, at least one approximate fissure region of interest in the at least one lung image, determining, at the computer system, a more precise fissure location within the at least one region of interest, and generating an image of the lung including indication of the determined fissure location.
US11475555B2
A method for true-to-sample measurement by a mobile ingredient analysis system having a housing with a window, an interface for an external reference unit, a display and operating unit, a light source, an optical spectrometer, a camera, an internal reference unit, and an electronic control unit. The method includes: selecting a calibration product suitable for a sample to be examined; performing a plausibility check of the calibration product, an incorrect selection being signaled and an alternative calibration product being selected; outputting measurement conditions comprising the measurement point to be selected and measurement duration for the selected calibration product; capturing measured values of the sample by the spectrometer under the measurement conditions and with simultaneous monitoring of the measurement conditions; processing the captured measured values by means of an electronic control unit, each measured value captured while the measurement conditions were met being declared valid; outputting the measured values deemed valid.
US11475550B2
Vegetation change information properly indicating a time series change of a vegetation state can be generated. To this end, a data group including vegetation data of multiple time points respectively associated with ratio information which is a component ratio of ambient light is an object to be processed. This device includes an extraction section that extracts, from the data group, vegetation data for use by using ratio information, and a generation section that generates vegetation change information indicating a time series change of a vegetation state by using the vegetation data extracted by the extraction section. By use of ratio information, vegetation data obtained under similar ambient light conditions can be collected.
US11475547B2
A system and methods for contrast sensitivity compensation provides for correcting the vision of users whose vision is deficient for discerning high spatial frequencies. The system and methods use measurements of the user's contrast detection as a function of spatial frequency in the image to correct images in real time. The system includes a head-mountable device that includes a camera and a processor that can provide enhanced images at video framing rates.
US11475545B2
An image processing circuit for correcting a distorted image includes an internal memory and a correction circuit. The internal memory of the image processing circuit is configured to store a radial look-up table (LUT), a set of tangential LUTs, and co-ordinates of a correction center of the distorted image. The radial LUT and the set of tangential LUTs include first and second sets of parameters to correct radial and tangential distortion of the distorted image, respectively. The correction circuit is configured to reconstruct portions of the correction LUT on-the-fly based on the radial LUT, the set of tangential LUTs, and the co-ordinates of the correction center, and correct portions of the distorted image based on the reconstructed portions of correction LUT to generate the portions of the corrected image.
US11475542B2
A neural network-based rendering technique increases temporal stability and image fidelity of low sample count path tracing by optimizing a distribution of samples for rendering each image in a sequence. A sample predictor neural network learns spatio-temporal sampling strategies such as placing more samples in dis-occluded regions and tracking specular highlights. Temporal feedback enables a denoiser neural network to boost the effective input sample count and increases temporal stability. The initial uniform sampling step typically present in adaptive sampling algorithms is not needed. The sample predictor and denoiser operate at interactive rates to achieve significantly improved image quality and temporal stability compared with conventional adaptive sampling techniques.
US11475540B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes: a memory configured to include at least one instruction; and a processor configured to be connected to the memory to control the electronic device, and obtain an output image by upscaling an input image using an artificial intelligence model trained to upscale an image, wherein the processor is configured to control the electronic device to: obtain parameter information of the artificial intelligence model based on pre-processing related information performed on the input image, and upscale the input image using the artificial intelligence model corresponding to the obtained parameter information.
US11475536B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for context-aware synthesis for video frame interpolation are provided. Bidirectional flow may be used in combination with flexible frame synthesis neural network to handle occlusions and the like, and to accommodate inaccuracies in motion estimation. Contextual information may be used to enable frame synthesis neural network to perform informative interpolation. Optical flow may be used to provide initialization for interpolation. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11475533B2
This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for GPR optimization in a GPU based on a GPR release mechanism. More specifically, a GPU may determine at least one unutilized branch within an executable shader based on constants defined for the executable shader. Based on the at least one unutilized branch, the GPU may further determine a number of GPRs that can be deallocated from previously allocated GPRs. The GPU may deallocate, for a subsequent thread within a draw call, the number of GPRs from the previously allocated GPRs during execution of the executable shader based on the determined number of GPRs to be deallocated.
US11475530B2
A method may include receiving a search query from a computing device, the search query identifying an examiner in a patent office; in response to the receiving, gathering information associated with the examiner from at least one database, the information including experience metrics for the examiner and allowance metrics for the examiner; generating a user interface for display on the computing device; the user interface including: an experience section including a technology experience score for the examiner based on the experience metrics; and an allowance rate section that includes: allowance visualization options; and an allowance visualization based on the allowance metrics and a selected visualization option of the allowance visualization options.
US11475529B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for analyzing and extracting docket data related to a structured proceeding, for identifying docket entries associated with motions and docket entries associated with orders, and for identifying motions affected by orders. Embodiments provide for receiving docket data associated with a structured proceeding, the docket data including at least one docket entry. Embodiments also include identifying, by an automated analysis, docket entries associated with motions in the structured proceeding, and docket entries associated with orders in the structured proceeding. In embodiments, identifying the docket entries associated with orders includes identifying at least one order that includes a results-affecting decision affecting at least one motion. Embodiments further include linking, by the automated analysis, the affected at least one motion to the affecting order.
US11475523B1
A computer programmed to provide investing services is provided. Through a first computer device user interface, the computer receives first data from the user indicating the user's expected retirement spend in a plurality of spending categories at a first level of detail and stores the data at a data location. Through a second computer device user interface, the computer receives identifier data indicating the user and retrieves the first data from the data location. The first data is supplemented by second data indicating the user's expected retirement spend in the plurality of spending categories at a more detailed second level of detail. A target asset level necessary for the user to fund a retirement considering expected retirement spend for the plurality of spending categories is determined considering the first and second data. The target asset level is displayed to the user.
US11475519B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable instructions are configured to calculate an aggregated significance score for consumer goods or website interactions by aggregating historical significance scores and calculating a reference significance score for a benchmark. A relative significance score is derived for each of the consumer goods or website interactions based upon the significance score for each of the consumer goods or website interactions and the relative significance score. A consumer priority index is derived indexed to a relevant measure based on the aggregated significance scores and the reference significance score.
US11475518B2
Embodiments for determining a traded item's value are described herein. An embodiment includes identifying conditions for use in computing a value of the tradable object. The embodiment further includes determining whether a condition is satisfied based on market data, for example, and if the condition is satisfied, then determining the value of the item based on a rule associated with the condition; and if the condition is not satisfied, then determining whether a subsequent condition is satisfied. If a subsequent condition is satisfied, then determining the value of the tradable object based on a rule associated with the subsequent condition. An embodiment further includes computing an open profit and loss value based on the item's value. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US11475514B1
The described financial institution computing system provides services to customers through an application programming interface (“API”). The services include user identification services to customers. The user identification services allow the customers to verify the identity of users as non-fraudulent users. Further the user identification services allow the financial institution to provide known user information to the customers for purposes of prepopulating registration forms, completing transactions, and the like. Further services, such as user account validation services, payment services, and the like are also possible through the financial institution APIs. In some situations, users are registered with the financial institution. For example, a user may also be an account holder with the financial institution. In other situations, the users are not registered with the financial institution.
US11475511B2
Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for optimizing aggregation routing over a network. An apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to select a data aggregator server from a plurality of data aggregator servers to service a request for aggregated account data based on a plurality of factors associated with each of the plurality of data aggregator servers, format a request for the aggregated account data to be compatible with the selected data aggregator server, route the formatted request over the network to the selected data aggregator server, receive the requested aggregated account data over the network from the selected data aggregator server, populate a form for a personal financial manager (“PFM”) with the aggregated account data, output the populated form to the PFM, and present the aggregated account data to a user.
US11475508B2
A method for determining a size of a garment, comprising: receiving an image comprising a representation of the garment and a representation of a reference element, the reference element having a predefined shape and predefined dimensions; identifying the representation of the garment within the received image; identifying the representation of the reference element within the received image; determining first dimensions of the representation of the reference element within the received image and second dimensions of the representation of the garment within the received image; determining real dimensions of the garment using the first dimensions of the representation of the reference element within the received image, the second dimensions of the representation of the garment within the received image and the predefined dimensions of the reference element; and outputting the real dimensions of the garment.
US11475499B2
An apparatus for providing a bundled set of individually redeemable healthcare services in a purchase data record, determining a Good Faith Estimate (GFE) for the at least one healthcare service of the bundled set, associating the purchase data record with user debt for purchase of the healthcare services, providing a digital health asset token representing the purchase data record identified by and with a unique confirmation number, said purchase data record comprising the associated user debt of the at least one bundled set of healthcare services, and providing marketplace access to the token to finance the debt. The marketplace may use the token for buying, selling or trading the bundled set of healthcare services to finance the debt. The token and a Good Faith Estimate (GFE) may be provided to an Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) process for resolving a dispute under the No Surprises Act.
US11475498B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to presenting for selection services comprising at least one bundled set of healthcare services to be performed separately by respective providers, determining a bundle price for the at least one bundled set of healthcare services, and in response to receiving payment in an amount of the bundle price, generating a purchase data record selectively redeemable to receive each of the at least one bundled set of healthcare services, and assigning a unique confirmation number generated for the purchase data record. One or more service of the bundled set may be a dental or veterinary service. The bundle price may be based on a location or time at which at least one service will be performed and may be determined using a user's remaining insurance deductible. Payment may be disbursed to multiple providers of the bundled set of healthcare services. A payment may be virtual funds.
US11475496B1
Techniques for enhancing functionalities of a voice-based user device are described. In an example a computer system generates, from a first taxonomy, a second taxonomy for a user based on an item purchase history. The computer system also identifies items based on this history and generates a list that associates the items with categories of the second taxonomy. Based on a user utterance, the computer system generates text-to-speech content from the list. This content includes category information and item information. The category information identifies a first category from the categories. The item information identifies a first item from the items, where this item is associated with the first category. The category information and the item information are presented to the user. The computer system adds an identifier of the first item to an item checkout process based on the presentation of the item information.
US11475495B2
An information processing device calculates a quoted price to be presented to a purchase contemplation person for a vehicle. The information processing device includes a control unit that calculates a demand forecast when the purchase contemplation person uses the vehicle as a car-sharing vehicle, calculates an expected income when the purchase contemplation person uses the vehicle as the car-sharing vehicle, based on the demand forecast, and calculates the quoted price based on a vehicle price of the vehicle and the expected income, to present the quoted price to the purchase contemplation person.
US11475484B1
Personalized electronic content is generated for display on a user computer. The content is generated by first matching a targeted user online identifier to one of a plurality of user online identifiers associated with a master ID in a database. Using online user behavior associated with the user online identifiers of the master ID, a preliminary set of personalized electronic content is generated. A set of content usage parameters is applied to the preliminary set of personalized electronic content to define the personalized electronic content, which is then transmitted and displayed on a user computer. The personalized electronic content may comprise targeted advertisement utilized to populate a webpage or an email template defined by an online marketing campaign.
US11475477B2
Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for programmatically generating and/or revising promotions for a provider as well as generating and providing analytics data regarding currently offered promotions in real-time. In providing such functionality, the system can be configured to, for example, monitor and analyze various promotions, including current promotions and analytics data about promotion-related purchases, that enable the system to determine the relative successfulness of a promotion for a provider and/or category of provider. Upon determining what has been more successful or is expected to be a more successful promotion for a provider, the system can present the promotion to the provider for approval and/or make the promotion to consumers programmatically. In some embodiments, the system may be further configured to revise the promotion programmatically and/or upon receiving the provider's approval of the programmatically generated proposed edits to the promotion parameters.
US11475469B2
Some embodiments provide a method for evaluating a content segment for relevancy to several of categories. The method retrieves the content segment. For each of the several categories, the method determines the relevancy of the content segment to the category by using a scoring model for the category. The scoring model accounts for (i) the presence of key word sets in the content segment and (ii) the context of the key word sets in the content segment. For each of the several categories, the method tags the content segment when the content segment is determined as relevant to the category.
US11475457B2
A data attack detection system that includes a record host and an orchestration host. The record host stores account information for card holders. The orchestration host includes a switch interface configured to receive transaction information for a card from a network. The orchestration host further includes a velocity trap engine that stores received transaction information for the card in a cardholder file. The velocity trap engine creates entries in a velocity transaction timestamp record for the card when the number of transactions for the card in the cardholder record within a first predetermined time interval exceeds a first activity level threshold. The velocity trap engine discontinues a transaction flow between the orchestration host and the record host for the card when the number of transactions for the card in the velocity transaction timestamp record within a second predetermined time interval exceeds a second activity level threshold.
US11475453B2
Disclosed are techniques and an apparatus for accessing a smart contract library that may include a number of templates of different legal contracts implementable as a smart contract between respective parties. Each template may include a number of sections having different contractual terms and conditions and fillable fields for specific contract terms. Each respective section of the number of sections includes programming code operable to enforce conformance with specific section-related contractual terms and conditions of the respective section and with any specific contract terms input to a fillable field of the respective section. A first user address generated based on cryptographic keys may be associated with a contract-creating computing device in a private blockchain. The first user address may be associated with the first user in the private blockchain. A finalized smart contract may have a smart contract address generated from the first user address and a nonce value.
US11475449B2
A method of displaying or providing a multi-layer digital asset in a digital environment includes retrieving, from a digital blockchain ledger, data associated with a first, primary non fungible cryptographic token (NFT). The data includes a first pointer identifying a first retrieval location of a first digital graphics file representative of a primary digital asset, and further includes a reference to a second, sub-asset NFT. The sub-asset NFT includes a second pointer that identifies a second digital graphics file. The method further includes retrieving the first digital graphics file and the second digital graphics file, layering an image from the second digital graphics file on the primary digital asset to form the multi-layer digital asset, and displaying the multi-layer digital asset in a digital environment.
US11475448B2
The present application discloses a maintenance plant management method, maintenance plant management system and data management server, this method comprises: receiving, via a data management server, a transaction request of using a maintenance plant from a first user and calling a usage smart contract to grant a permission of usage of the maintenance plant to the first user according to the transaction request; calling the usage smart contract to send a transaction payment request to the first user according to transaction information when the first user finishes using the maintenance plant; performing a sharing according to the transaction sharing rule via the data management server when the payment transaction is finished by the first user; and receiving the transaction information submitted by the data management server and registering the transaction information in a block chain via the block chain node device.
US11475447B2
Provided are systems and methods for conducting secure remote transactions between mobile devices and merchants.
US11475446B2
The disclosure comprises systems, methods and computer program products for identity authentication in connection with payment account information submitted for the purpose of network based electronic payment transaction(s). The disclosure comprises (i) receiving from a merchant server, (a) a name associated with a purchaser, and (b) a payment card number, (ii) retrieving a data record comprising a payment card holder name associated with the received payment card number, (iii) comparing the payment card holder name extracted from the retrieved data record with the name associated with the purchaser that has been received at the merchant server, and (d) responsive to a match between the payment card holder name extracted from the retrieved data record with the name associated with the purchaser that has been received at the merchant server, generating a positive identity authentication decision and transmit said identity authentication decision to the merchant server.
US11475441B2
A system is provided for automated recording of evidence of delivery of a service in a service setting. The system includes a mobile communication device, a web-based interaction component, and a service control system. The system includes a service interface device to generate an electronic signal. The electronic signal includes a first SMS transmitted to the mobile communication device and a second SMS transmitted to the service control system. The electronic signal also includes a first secured hash link executable by the mobile communication device, wherein executing the link records a first electronic evidence of service delivery. The electronic signal includes a second secured hash link executable by the service control system, wherein executing the second link records a second electronic evidence of service delivery.
US11475438B2
A system, computer program product, and method for executing real-time processing of resource transfers using distributed ledger technology is provided. In particular, the system utilizes a private or semi-private blockchain to create a distributed ledger which comprises a record of all resource transfers between a number of entities. The real-time processing system addresses a number of computer technology-centric challenges associated with executing resource transfers. In particular, executing resource transfers on a real-time basis allows the nodes of the blockchain to more evenly distribute computing workload over time when compared to more traditional resource transfer systems that use batch processing to execute transfers.
US11475427B2
A server includes: a database that registers a payment instrument, associates the instrument with ephemeral tokens, and stores a payment token that associates the ephemeral tokens with the instrument in a record along with an identifier for a device; a communication circuit, that receives transaction details from a POS terminal, transmits one of the ephemeral tokens to the device, and receives the one of the ephemeral tokens from the POS terminal; and a code segment, that employs the payment token to access the identifier in the record, directs the communication circuit to send a push notification, and, upon execution of the proprietary application on the device, directs the communication circuit to transmit transaction details to the POS terminal and the device, receives transaction data from the device, completes the transaction, and directs the communication circuit to notify the POS terminal that the transaction is complete.
US11475422B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for blockchain-based property management are described herein. According to a first embodiment of the disclosure, a plurality of computing systems may be established at a plurality of points along a supply chain associated with the manufacture, shipment, and sale of a physical property item. At each of the plurality of points, the plurality of computing systems may identify data corresponding to the physical property item, which may be stored on a blockchain associated with a decentralized peer-to-peer (e.g., P2P) network. According to a second embodiment of the disclosure, content creator computing devices may transmit digital property item upload requests to a digital property management computing device, which may generate smart contracts corresponding to the requests. Through execution of the smart contracts, access may be granted to digital property items and fees may be provided to the content creator computing devices.
US11475417B1
Systems and methods are provided for using video/still images captured by continuously recording optical sensors mounted on waste collection vehicles used in in the waste collection, disposal and recycling industry for operational and customer service related purposes. A system is provided for auditing the fill status of a customer waste container by a waste services provider during performance of a waste service activity.
US11475395B2
Systems and methods for optimizing delivery vehicle resources (e.g. a plurality of vehicles) are described herein. Available time slots for the plurality of vehicles are determined and presented to a user. In response to receiving a delivery order indicating a selected time slot, the delivery order is assigned to a vehicle from the plurality of vehicles based on a time slot indicated in the delivery order and a set of delivery parameters. A delivery route is calculated for each vehicle having a delivery order based on the set of delivery parameters. An optimized delivery route is calculated for each vehicle having a delivery order based on the set of delivery parameters.
US11475387B2
There is disclosed a method and system for determining a productivity rate of a user in a computer-implemented crowd-sourced environment. The method comprises, in a training phase: acquiring a training project; determining, set of project-specific features indicative of one or more characteristics of the training project; acquiring, a plurality of training results; determining a set of user-task specific features; determining, a user activity history associated with the user; generating a set of training data including the set of project-specific features, the set of user-task specific features, and the user activity history; training a machine learning algorithm (MLA), the training including: determining, a set of features representative of a property of the set of training data; and generating an inferred function based on the set of features, the inferred function being configured to determine the productivity rate of the user for a given project.
US11475386B2
A system is disclosed that sends, through one or more messaging modalities, an electronic message containing a system or user genera0ted unique identifier to at least one recipient on a system or user enabled and controlled list. The system receives a response electronic message containing the unique identifier and response data identified by a symbol. The program verifies the validity of the unique identifier and optionally that a sender of the response message is on the list. If the unique identifier is verified, the program correlates the message response data with the unique identifier and sends an additional message replicating the response data to the controlled list as a reply or update concerning the message. The program repeats the receiving, verifying, and sending to allow further updates on the message using the modality of communication.
US11475381B2
Risk assessment for a computing system being developed can include receiving a user input specifying a proposed topology for a computing system. The proposed topology is defined by a first software product to be used and an architecture having a first non-functional component. A problem knowledge repository is searched using a processor for records of problems correlated with the proposed topology. A level of risk in implementing the computing system using the proposed topology is calculated according to the searching using the processor.
US11475374B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for a self-adjusting corporation-wide discovery and integration feature of a machine learning system that can review a client's data store, review the labels for the various data schema, and effectively map the client's data schema to classifications used by the machine learning model. The various techniques can automatically select the features that are predictive for each individual use case (i.e., one client), effectively making a machine learning solution client-agnostic for the application developer. A weighted list of common representations of each feature for a particular machine learning solution can be generated and stored. When new data is added to the data store, a matching service can automatically detect which features should be fed into the machine-learning solution based at least in part on the weighted list. The weighted list can be updated as new data is made available to the model.
US11475368B2
Systems and methods include training a machine learning model with data for identifying features in monitored traffic in a network; analyzing the trained machine learning model to identify information overhead therein, wherein the information overhead is utilized in part for the training; removing the information overhead in the machine learning model; and providing the machine learning model for runtime use for identifying the features in the monitored traffic, with the removed information overhead from the machine learning model.
US11475366B2
System and method of generating an executable action item in response to natural language dialogue are disclosed herein. A computing system receives a dialogue message from a remote client device of a customer associated with an organization, the dialogue message comprising an utterance indicative of an implied goal. A natural language processor of the computing system parses the dialogue message to identify one or more components contained in the utterance. The planning module of the computing system identifies the implied goal. The computing system generates a plan within a defined solution space. The computing system generates a verification message to the user to confirm the plan. The computing system transmits the verification message to the remote client device of the customer. The computing system updates an event queue with instructions to execute the action item according to the generated plan upon receiving a confirmation message from the remote client device.
US11475358B2
Techniques are provided for enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of annotating data samples for supervised machine learning algorithms using an advanced annotation pipeline. According to an embodiment, a method can comprise collecting, by a system comprising a processor, unannotated data samples for input to a machine learning model and storing the unannotated data samples in an annotation queue. The method further comprises determining, by the system, annotation priority levels for respective unannotated data samples of the unannotated data samples, selecting, by the system from amongst different annotation techniques, one or more of the different annotation techniques for annotating the respective unannotated data samples based the annotation priority levels associated with the respective unannotated data samples.
US11475355B2
A computing system for simulating allocation of resources to a plurality of entities is disclosed. The computing system can be configured to input an entity profile that describes a preference and/or demand of a simulated entity into a reinforcement learning agent model and receive, as an output of the reinforcement learning agent model, an allocation output that describes a resource allocation for the simulated entity. The computing system can select one or more resources based on the resource allocation described by the allocation output and provide the resource(s) to an entity model that is configured to simulate a simulated response output that describes a response of the simulated entity. The computing system can receive, as an output of the entity model, the simulated response output and update a resource profile that describes the at least one resource and/or the entity profile based on the simulated response output.
US11475353B2
Techniques for automated application reliability management using adaptable machine learning models are disclosed. In one example, a computer-implemented method may include identifying cloud components of an application deployed in a cloud service platform, determining relationships between the cloud components of the application and between the cloud components and other applications to generate a plurality of sub-assemblies, determining dependencies among the plurality of sub-assemblies to generate a super-assembly, generating infrastructure as code for application cloud components of the super-assembly and the plurality of sub-assemblies using metadata of the application cloud components, and performing a management operation to create a cloud infrastructure of the application using the generated infrastructure as code and verifying reliability of the created application using an adaptable machine learning model.
US11475352B2
A method for quantizing a machine learning model during an inference phase, including determining a normalization factor using a set of floating-point values and a damped value of a damped value sequence; and assigning a quantized value for each floating-point value of the set of floating-point values based on the damped value sequence and the normalization factor.
US11475349B2
Systems and methods provide a demand forecasting and network optimization for telecommunications services in a network. The systems and methods use classical and quantum computing devices. The computing devices evaluate data types using statistical symmetry recognition and operate between classical and quantum environments. Computing devices receive deposited data, batch data, and streamed data that relates to telecommunications services and segregate the data into spatial and temporal factors. The computing devices receive an analytic request for a forecast of the telecommunications services and conduct a multi-class plural-factored elastic cluster (MPEC) analysis for the telecommunications services using the segregated data. The MPEC analysis includes generating vectors comprised of slopes from plural coefficients to determine demand elasticity from plural features. The computing devices generate, based on the multi-class plural-factored elastic cluster model, a real-time demand-based forecast for the telecommunications services, and output the demand-based forecast.
US11475346B2
An optimization device includes: k first calculation circuits, N−k second calculation circuits, a selection circuit, an identification information calculation circuit and an update circuit. The first calculation circuit calculates a first energy change of an Ising model due to a change of a value of one of k first bits having values of 1 and a change of a value of a second bit having a value of 0 selected based on a generated first random number. The second calculation circuit calculates a second energy change of the Ising model due to a change of a value of one of (N−k) third bits having the values of 0 and a change of a value of a fourth bit having a value of 1 selected based on a generated second random number.
US11475339B2
A method utilizes a deep question answering (QA) system to provide an answer, to a certain type of question, that includes an unfamiliar measurement unit. An answer key is utilized to train a DeepQA system to search for passages that answer a certain type of question, where the DeepQA system outputs an answer key value and an answer key measurement unit that is associated with the answer key value. The method identifies a candidate answer that includes a candidate passage containing the answer key value but not the answer key measurement unit, where a candidate passage measurement unit in the candidate passage is associated with the answer key value. The method then matches the answer key measurement unit to the candidate passage measurement unit based on the answer key measurement unit and the candidate passage measurement unit both being associated with the answer key value.
US11475335B2
A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for training a computer implemented model. The mechanism determines an operation for which the computer implemented model is to be trained. The mechanism performs a statistical analysis of an enterprise dataset for an enterprise to generate one or more statistical distributions of cases and features correlated with the operation for which the computer implemented model is to be trained. The mechanism selects a subset of cases in the enterprise dataset for annotation based on the one or more statistical distributions of cases and features. The mechanism annotates the selected subset of cases to generate an annotated training dataset. The mechanism trains the computer implemented model, using the annotated training dataset, to perform the operation.
US11475331B2
A source of bias identification (SoBI) tool is provided that identifies sources of bias in a dataset. A bias detection operation is performed on results of a computer model, based on an input dataset, to generate groupings of values for a protected attribute corresponding to a detected bias in the operation of the computer model. The SoBI tool generates a plurality of sub-groups for each grouping of values. Each sub-group comprises an individual value, or a sub-range, for the protected attribute. The SoBI tool analyzes each of the sub-groups in the plurality of sub-groups, based on at least one source of bias identification criterion, to identify one or more sources of bias in the input dataset. The SoBI tool outputs a bias notification to an authorized computing device specifying the one or more sources of bias in the input dataset.
US11475330B2
A machine learning server is provided for predicting innovations in one or more scenarios. The machine learning server includes a processor and a memory in communication with the processor. The processor is configured to receive a user input, define a scenario profile based on the user input, apply a first trained machine learning model to the scenario profile to generate at least one target associated with the scenario, wherein the at least one target includes a measurable outcome, prompt for a user selection from the target, apply a second trained machine learning model to the scenario profile and the user selection from the at least one target to generate at least one candidate innovation predicted to achieve the measureable desired outcome, obtain descriptive information related to the at least one candidate innovation, and present the descriptive information related to the at least one candidate innovation.
US11475327B2
In a predictor device, a method for predicting a metric of a contact center includes receiving contact center operational data associated with a time duration; training a set of algorithms and their available hyperparameters with the contact center operational data to generate a set of data models; generating a score associated with each data model of the set of data models, the score quantifying a performance of each algorithm and its available hyperparameters on the contact center operational data; identifying the data model having the largest score as a best learning model for the time duration; and generating a contact center metric prediction based on the best learning model for the time duration.
US11475320B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods of overlaying a plurality of isolated collections to generate an overlaid isolated collection. In an example, a first and second isolated collection having at least one common resource may be overlaid. A first and second inference ruleset may be extracted from the first and second isolated collection, respectively. Based on the first and second inference ruleset, one or more suggestions may be generated relating to conflicting inference rules. A suggestion may comprise selecting a subset of the conflicting inference rules (e.g., none, some, or all of the rules) for inclusion in the overlay isolated collection. Another suggestion may comprise generating a new inference rule based on the conflicting inference rules. An indication relating to the suggestions may be received. The indication may be used to generate a third isolated collection and a third inference ruleset.
US11475316B2
A method for commissioning a drilling rig. The method includes detecting a first plurality of components of a drilling rig control system to control a drilling operation, obtaining a knowledge graph comprising a plurality of nodes corresponding to the first plurality of components, and a plurality of links connecting the plurality of nodes, wherein each of the plurality of links represents at least a target measure of data communication and resource utilization of each pair of components of the first plurality of components, and performing, by a drilling rig commissioning system and based on the knowledge graph, a management task of the drilling rig control system.
US11475314B2
A learning device includes a data storage unit configured to store learning data for learning a decision tree; a learning unit configured to determine whether to cause learning data stored in the data storage unit to branch to one node or to the other node of lower nodes of a node based on a branch condition for the node of the decision tree; and a first buffer unit and a second buffer unit configured to buffer learning data determined to branch to the one node and the other node, respectively, by the learning unit up to capacity determined in advance. The first buffer unit and the second buffer unit are configured to, in response to buffering learning data up to the capacity determined in advance, write the learning data into continuous addresses of the data storage unit for each predetermined block.
US11475307B2
Systems and methods for automating information extraction from piping and instrumentation diagrams is provided. Traditional systems and methods do not provide for end-to-end and automated data extraction from the piping and instrumentation diagrams. The method disclosed provides for automatic generation of end-to-end information from piping and instrumentation diagrams by detecting, via one or more hardware processors, a plurality of components from one or more piping and instrumentation diagrams by implementing one or more image processing and deep learning techniques; associating, via an association module, each of the detected plurality of components by implementing a Euclidean Distance technique; and generating, based upon each of the associated plurality of components, a plurality of tree-shaped data structures by implementing a structuring technique, wherein each of the plurality of tree-shaped data structures capture a process flow of pipeline schematics corresponding to the one or more piping and instrumentation diagrams.
US11475303B2
Techniques for training neural networks are provided. According to one set of embodiments, a first array is processed in a spreading component to produce a second array, where a first dimension of the first array corresponds to at least one sequence of approximately orthogonal numeric vectors representing tokens, and where the spreading component combines values along the first dimension. The second array is processed in a transformer neural network to determine correlations between the sequence, which produces a third array. One or more batches of the third array are processed in a de-spreading component to produce a fourth array.
US11475302B2
A method for training a baseline risk model, including: pre-processing input data by normalizing continuous variable inputs and producing one-hot input features for categorical variables; providing definitions for clean input data and dirty input data based upon various input data related to a patient condition; segmenting the input data into clean input data and dirty input data, wherein the clean input data includes a first subset and a second subset, where the first subset and the second subset include all of the clean input data and are disjoint; training a machine learning model using the first subset of the clean data; and evaluating the performance of the trained machine learning model using the second subset of the clean input data and the dirty input data.
US11475295B2
Disclosed systems and methods predict and visualize outcomes based on past events. For example, an analysis application encodes a sequence of events into a feature vector that includes, for each event, a numerical representation of a respective category and a respective timestamp. The application applies a time-aware recurrent neural network to the feature vector, resulting in one or more of (i) a set of future events in which each event is associated with a probability and a predicted duration and (ii) a sequence embedding that contains information about predicted outcomes and temporal patterns observed in the sequence of events. The application applies a support vector model classifier to the sequence embedding. The support vector model classifier computes a likelihood of a categorical outcome for each of the events in the probability distribution. The application modifies interactive content according to the categorical outcomes and probability distribution.
US11475286B2
One embodiment provides an apparatus comprising an instruction cache to store a plurality of instructions, a scheduler unit coupled to the instruction cache, the scheduler unit to schedule the plurality of instructions for execution, an instruction fetch and decode unit to decode the plurality of instructions to determine a set of operations to perform in response, one or more compute blocks to perform parallel multiply-accumulate operations based on the instruction fetch and decode unit decoding a first instruction of the plurality of instructions, and matrix multiplication logic to perform matrix multiplication operations based on the instruction fetch and decode unit decoding a second instruction of the plurality of instructions.
US11475285B2
A neural network accelerator includes an operator that calculates a first operation result based on a first tiled input feature map and first tiled filter data, a quantizer that generates a quantization result by quantizing the first operation result based on a second bit width extended compared with a first bit width of the first tiled input feature map, a compressor that generates a partial sum by compressing the quantization result, and a decompressor that generates a second operation result by decompressing the partial sum, the operator calculates a third operation result based on a second tiled input feature map, second tiled filter data, and the second operation result, and an output feature map is generated based on the third operation result.
US11475284B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor including a first operation circuit that executes a product-sum operation, a second operation circuit that executes a certain operation, and a resister. The processor executes a first operation including the certain operation in a first layer in a neural network. The processor executes the first operation by a second method of calculating the certain operation by the second operation circuit, in a case where second operation time necessary for the first operation when the certain operation is executed by the second operation circuit is less than memory transfer time. Or the processor executes the first operation by a first method of calculating the certain operation by an approximate calculation by the first operation circuit, in a case where first operation time necessary for the first operation when executed by the first method is less than the memory transfer time.
US11475280B2
A system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code and a neural network (NN) having multiple layers including a last activation layer and a loss layer. The hardware processor executes the software code to identify different combinations of layers for testing the NN, each combination including candidate function(s) for the last activation layer and candidate function(s) for the loss layer. For each different combination, the software code configures the NN based on the combination, inputs, into the configured NN, a training dataset including multiple data objects, receives, from the configured NN, a classification of the data objects, and generates a performance assessment for the combination based on the classification. The software code determines a preferred combination of layers for the NN including selected candidate functions for the last activation layer and the loss layer, based on a comparison of the performance assessments.
US11475279B2
First parameters of a variational Gaussian process (VGP) (including a positive-definite matrix-valued slack parameter) are initialized and iteratively modified change an objective function comprising an expected log-likelihood for each training data item under a respective Gaussian distribution with a predictive variance depending on the slack parameter. Modifying the first parameters comprises, for each training data item, determining a respective gradient estimator for the expected log-likelihood and modifying the first parameters in dependence on the determined gradient estimators. At an optimal value of the slack parameter, the slack parameter equals an inverse of a covariance matrix for the set of inducing variables, and the objective function corresponds to a variational lower bound of a marginal log-likelihood for a posterior distribution corresponding to the GP prior conditioned on the training data.
US11475277B2
Generally, the present disclosure is directed to novel machine-learned classification models that operate with hard attention to make discrete attention actions. The present disclosure also provides a self-supervised pre-training procedure that initializes the model to a state with more frequent rewards. Given only the ground truth classification labels for a set of training inputs (e.g., images), the proposed models are able to learn a policy over discrete attention locations that identifies certain portions of the input (e.g., patches of the images) that are relevant to the classification. In such fashion, the models are able to provide high accuracy classifications while also providing an explicit and interpretable basis for the decision.
US11475273B1
Systems and methods are provided for automatically scoring a constructed response. The constructed response is processed to generate a plurality of numerical vectors that is representative of the constructed response. A model is applied to the plurality of numerical vectors. The model includes an input layer configured to receive the plurality of numerical vectors, the input layer being connected to a following layer of the model via a first plurality of connections. Each of the connections has a first weight. An intermediate layer of nodes is configured to receive inputs from an immediately-preceding layer of the model via a second plurality of connections, each of the connections having a second weight. An output layer is connected to the intermediate layer via a third plurality of connections, each of the connections having a third weight. The output layer is configured to generate a score for the constructed response.
US11475272B2
A neural network circuit includes a memory device in which memristors being variable resistance elements are connected in a matrix and serve as memory elements of the memory device. The neural network circuit further includes a voltage application device arranged to apply a bias voltage to the memory device and current-voltage (I-V) conversion amplification circuits arranged to convert currents flowing via the memory elements into voltages and output the voltage. A feedback resistor of a respective I-V conversion amplification circuit includes a memristor. The feedback resistor of a respective I-V conversion amplification circuit and the memory elements acting as an input resistor of the I-V conversion amplification circuit are connected to align a polarity direction of the memristor of the feedback resistor and polarity directions of the memristors of the memory elements acting as the input resistor.
US11475269B2
Systems and methods of implementing a more efficient and less resource-intensive CNN are disclosed herein. In particular, applications of CNN in the analog domain using Sampled Analog Technology (SAT) methods are disclosed. Using a CNN design with SAT results in lower power usage and faster operation as compared to a CNN design with digital logic and memory. The lower power usage of a CNN design with SAT can allow for sensor devices that also detect features at very low power for isolated operation.
US11475265B2
An NFC QR code label according to the present invention comprises: a rectenna for receiving a radio frequency signal from a terminal device and converting the signal into DC power; a ring oscillator activated by receiving the DC power supplied from the rectenna, and producing an oscillation signal having a predetermined frequency; and a light-emitting QR code flickering in response to the oscillation signal. The light-emitting QR code includes a QR code pattern formed by means of gravure printing using a nonconductor ink.
US11475262B2
A unique secured product identification method, system, and apparatus for product such as precious gemstones prevent counterfeiting by incorporating a marked product with fake identification (ID) mark or fake barcode. Authentication process requires at least two identifying data sets, an overt mark or overt data and covert data. The overt data may be a unique product identifier like a barcode. Covert data may be any additional data derived from the specific product. Additional data points come from a created data point not originally part of the product, or a unique data point already existing in the product but not existing in any other similar product. Product is authenticated when the combination of data sets compared to original data sets creates positive product identification. Authentication may be done with centralized, or de-centralized databases. A partially or non-automated method may be implemented, for example, where a barcode links to a database.
US11475259B2
A method for classifying a printable image to be printed comprising: receiving, at a printing device, print data representing the printable image to be printed; generating an image of the printable image based on the print data; classifying the image to obtain a format associated with the printable image; printing the printable image according to the print data; and updating a counter associated with the format.
US11475255B2
A method of operating a network comprising an edge node and a server. The method comprises obtaining, by the edge node, a plurality of data samples, determining, by the edge node, a plurality of output labels by applying a first machine learning model using an input memory having a first input memory size to the plurality of data samples, calculating, by the edge node, an error term based on the confidence score of a first output label from the plurality of output labels, determining, by the edge node, based on the error term, whether to modify the first input memory size of the machine learning model and, if so, generating a second machine learning model based on the first machine learning model and a second input memory size.
US11475252B2
Disclosed are a system, apparatus and techniques for evaluating a dataset to confirm that the data in the dataset satisfies a data quality metric. A machine learning engine or the like may evaluate text strings within the dataset may be of arbitrary length and encoded according to an encoding standard. Data vectors of a preset length may be generated from the evaluated text strings using various techniques. Each data vector may be representative of the content of the text string and a category may be assigned to the respective data vector. The category assigned to each data vectors may be evaluated with respect to other data vectors in the dataset to determine compliance with a quality metric. In the case that a number of data vectors fail to meet a predetermined quality metric, an alert may be generated to mitigate any system errors that may result from unsatisfactory data quality.
US11475249B2
A machine-vision system obtains a trained-synthetic dataset associated with a virtual-sporting event, features of the trained-synthetic dataset including features associated with the virtual sporting event. The machine-vision system can further train by extending the trained-synthetic dataset using a real-life dataset associated with an actual sporting event including recognized results, the extending can include identifying and selecting a portion of the recognized results from the real-life dataset for annotation, an unsupervised machine-learning component annotating the portion, adding the annotated portion to the trained-synthetic dataset to obtain an extended-trained dataset, based on improvement of detection of the features from the extended-trained dataset compared to the trained-synthetic dataset, and availability of another portion of the recognized results, repeating the extending using a part of the extended-trained dataset as the trained-synthetic dataset in a next iteration, and providing the extended-trained dataset to the machine-vision system.
US11475242B2
A non-transitory computer readable medium embodies instructions that cause one or more processors to perform a method. The method includes selecting a 3D model corresponding to an object, and generating a first 2D image of the 3D model in a first pose. The method further includes generating a second 2D image of the 3D model in the first pose, the second 2D image having a different texture on the 3D model than the first 2D image. The method further includes, using an algorithm, determining a first location of a first feature on the 3D model in the first 2D image and a second location of a second feature on the 3D model in the second 2D image. The method further includes calculating a difference based on the first location and the second location. The method further includes adjusting parameters representing the algorithm based on the calculated difference.
US11475231B2
A survey machine capturing control part captures a captured image including a 2D mark on a survey object using a telescope. A survey machine recognizing control part detects a 2D mark image as a captured pattern, and recognizes a specific identification pattern by collating the detected captured pattern with an identification pattern of a 2D mark. A survey machine information displaying control part acquires and displays survey information on the captured image. A calculating control part calculates differences between a mark center position of 2D coordinates and a center position of 2D coordinates of a crosshair of the telescope. An adjusting control part adjusts a direction of the telescope so that the center position of the crosshair matches the mark center position. A ranging control part ranges the mark center position as measured values of coordinates. An information storing control part stores the measured values in the mark information table.
US11475221B2
Disclosed are techniques for determining the impact of including a token-set (e.g., text in the form of unigrams, bigrams, or trigrams) in a communication on a target outcome. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to techniques for determining the impact of the token-set based on, for example, the token-sets included in previous communications transmitted to user devices and the corresponding user responses to those previous communications.
US11475220B2
Systems and methods for natural language processing (NLP) are described. The systems may be trained by identifying training data including clean data and noisy data; predicting annotation information using an artificial neural network (ANN); computing a loss value for the annotation information using a weighted loss function that applies a first weight to the clean data and at least one second weight to the noisy data; and updating the ANN based on the loss value. The noisy data may be obtained by identifying a set of unannotated sentences in a target domain, delexicalizing the set of unannotated sentences, finding similar sentences in a source domain, filling at least one arbitrary value in the similar delexicalized sentences, generating annotation information for the similar delexicalized sentences using an annotation model for the source domain, and applying a heuristic mapping to produce annotation information for the sentences in the target domain.
US11475219B2
A method for processing information, includes: performing word segmentation on first corpus data to obtain second corpus data containing at least one word; processing, based on a first pretrained model, the at least one word contained in the second corpus data, to obtain a first eigenvector sequence corresponding to the second corpus data; processing, based on a second pretrained model, characters contained in the first corpus data, to obtain a second eigenvector sequence corresponding to the first corpus data; and obtaining a target eigenvector based on the first eigenvector sequence and the second eigenvector sequence.
US11475217B2
An information processing apparatus includes a collecting unit that collects data from communication devices, a receiving unit that receives a selection condition, a selecting unit that selects a piece of data from the collected data based on the selection condition received by the receiving unit, and an output unit that outputs the selected piece of data to a subsequent processing unit.
US11475215B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for embedding within an electronic word processing document are disclosed. The systems and methods may involve accessing the electronic word processing document, wherein the electronic word processing document contains text; detecting an in-line object inserted into the text at a particular location, the in-line object including a URL-based rule linked to a portion of the text; executing the URL-based rule to retrieve internet located data corresponding to the URL-based rule; and inserting the retrieved internet-located data into the text at the particular location.
US11475214B1
Systems and methods described herein relate to determining whether to provide auto-completed values for fields in a digital form. More specifically, for a given field in the digital form, a machine-learning model can be trained to transform an input data set into a predicted field value and can further generate a corresponding confidence metric. A relative-loss parameter can be determined for the field, where the relative-loss parameter represents a loss of responding to an inaccurate predicted field value for the field relative to a loss corresponding to a human user providing a field value for the field. A confidence-metric threshold can be determined for the field based on the relative-loss parameter. For a given usage of the digital form, it can then be determined whether to auto-complete the field with a predicted field value generated by the model by determining whether the corresponding confidence metric exceeds the confidence-metric threshold.
US11475206B1
The system and methods are disclosed to allow web page owners or administrators to create annotated storyboards relating to a user's image wherein a user can drag a pin or marker over an image that has been displayed on the web page which comprises a JavaScript code to a selected location and create a page division that can be accessed by the user to enter or edit data, save the pin and data and publish the image with the pin and associated data allowing third parties to access the webpage and related embedded data.
US11475205B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to determining locations of child elements in a user interface (UI), automatically updating the locations of the child elements in the UI, and generating an updated UI with the updated locations. A computer system may receive information specifying content of the UI and render an image of the UI based on the received information. Computer vision algorithms may be applied to the rendered of the UI to determine locations of elements in the UI. The locations of the elements may be updated to position the elements in selected locations relative to each other. The updated locations of the elements as determined by the computer vision algorithms may be implemented to generate updating information specifying content for the updated UI.
US11475203B2
Systems and methods are provided for modular loading of information on a user interface, comprising receiving, by a mobile service gateway, a request for access to a mobile application platform from a user device, transmitting, to an internal application programming interface (API) gateway, a request for a page layout associated with the mobile application platform, receiving, from the API gateway, the page layout associated with the mobile application platform, receiving one or more modules, assigning the one or more modules to the page layout, and displaying the one or more modules on the mobile application platform. The one or more modules may be developed using a fluent interface that is configured to extract data associated with a request for the one or more modules. Each module may be developed based on the extracted data.
US11475200B2
Various implementations described herein are directed to an apparatus having a processor and memory having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to identify conductive paths in a physical layout of an integrated circuit having nodal features that define a connective structure of the integrated circuit. The instructions may cause the processor to traverse the conductive paths to detect valid metals and redundant metals. The valid metals may refer to valid conductive paths between the nodal features that conjoin the nodal features. The redundant metals may refer to unused conductive paths that provide disjointed paths from the nodal features. The instructions may cause the processor to indicate the valid metals as marked with a first indicator and to indicate the redundant metals as unmarked with a second indicator that is different than the first indicator.
US11475198B2
A computer-implemented method for designing a floorplan for an integrated circuit includes determining a circuit design for the integrated circuit, wherein the circuit design for the integrated circuit has a system device and a logic device. Logical definitions for the system device and the logic device are determined. A plurality of interconnect devices are determined. A plurality of interconnect figures of merit (FOMs) associated with the plurality of interconnect devices are also determined. The method includes determining, with an optimization operation, a candidate floorplan for the circuit design based upon the logical definitions for the system device, the logic device, the plurality of interconnect devices, and the interconnect FOMs for the interconnect devices. The candidate floorplan is determined based upon parameters associated with computational performance, power consumption, and physical area of the candidate floorplan for the circuit design. The candidate floorplan is implemented as the integrated circuit.
US11475197B2
A circuit hardware emulation module is configured to identify oscillating subgraphs of an emulated graph, or to identify state-holding subgraphs of an emulated graph. The emulation module identifies one or more loops within an emulated circuit; generates an acyclic emulation of at least a portion of the emulated circuit, wherein the acyclic emulation is characterized by one or more loop breakers; generates a loop detector emulation of a hardware-based loop detector circuit based at least in part on a quantity of loop breakers n characterizing the acyclic emulation, wherein the loop detector emulation comprises at least one of an oscillation detector or a state-holding detector; and executes the loop detector emulation for a plurality of input values for the emulated circuit to generate an output indicating at least one of an oscillation status or a state-holding status of the emulated circuit.
US11475193B2
Methods and systems for verifying that logic for implementing a pipelined process in hardware correctly moves data through the pipelined process. The method includes: (a) monitoring data input to the pipelined process to determine when watched data has been input to the pipelined process; (b) in response to determining the watched data has been input to the pipelined process counting a number of progressing clock cycles for the watched data; and (c) evaluating an assertion written in an assertion based language, the assertion establishing that when the watched data is output from the pipelined process the counted number of progressing clock cycles for the watched data should be equal to one of one or more predetermined values.
US11475185B2
An inverse design machine for making a manufactured article that includes a designer Impact-mitigating architectured isotropic structure includes: an input unit that receives a primary structure; a primary structure analyzer that receives the primary structure from the input unit and determines primary properties of the primary structure; a structure adjuster that receives the primary properties from the primary structure analyzer, receives impact-mitigating properties from a structural property manager, and produces the designer Impact-mitigating architectured isotropic structure from the impact-mitigating properties; and the structural property manager that provides the impact-mitigating properties to the structure adjuster.
US11475184B1
A contact problem for characterizing physical contact between two or more bodies is solved by receiving a level-set description of a geometry in a Cartesian grid comprising a plurality of cells. The geometry includes a boundary. Thereafter, the boundary is triangularized for each cell intersecting the boundary to result in a plurality of triangles. A surfacic Gauss integration rule is generated on each triangle using an interpolation of volumetric coordinates. Subsequently, a target point is computed for each Gauss point that corresponds to a projection of such Gauss point on a target surface. The computed target points are then used to integrate contact on the triangles. The problem can then be solved to compute a displacement field respecting contact conditions. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US11475182B1
A method includes defining a simulated transportation network based on a map that represents a real-world physical transportation network. The simulated transportation network includes segments, and each segment includes information that describes operating characteristics for the segment. The method also includes defining simulated users and performing a simulation in which the simulated users are moved relative to the simulated transportation network. The simulated users are moved using control instructions, and the simulated users are moved based on the information that describes operating characteristics for the segment that corresponds to a respective current location for each of the simulated users. The method also includes identifying map errors based on the simulation.
US11475181B2
A mobile application for facilitating installation of the user nodes in a fixed wireless network utilizes augmented reality to provide location, usage, and recommendation information about nearby service nodes. A camera of the mobile computing device captures image data depicting the surrounding area, which is displayed on a touchscreen display of the mobile computing device with graphical elements including icons and textual information overlaid on the captured image data in different positions and with different visual characteristics based on geometric information for the mobile computing device and the surrounding area, the relative position of nearby service nodes with respect to the mobile computing device, and information about the service nodes such as typical usage and/or whether the service node is recommended or not. A virtual antenna is also overlaid on the image data, and an image depicting the virtual antenna as it would look once installed is generated and stored.
US11475166B2
Some embodiments are directed to a compiling device (100) configured for selecting of protective transformations to improve security of a computer program. The compiling device is configured to assign protective transformations to parts of the data flow graph, and obtain a compilation of the computer program representation from at least the data flow graph and the assigned protective transformations which satisfy the security and/or the performance target.
US11475163B2
A social network system that includes tools and technologies to keep the identities of the users of the system anonymous is provided. The system requires that some users use usernames that are not associated in any way with their legal names. In addition, other identifying content such as photographs are disallowed in certain circumstances. The system includes the tools to review and remove disallowed content from being published on the social network. The system also provides tools for its users to express themselves while engaging in creative endeavors such as creating artwork, creating music, creating videos, singing, journaling and creative writing, acting, inventing, interviewing, and hosting and other endeavors. In this way, the system provides a social platform that promotes creativity, unity, inclusion, self-growth, support, and healing.
US11475161B2
A device may generate a synthetic knowledge graph based on a true knowledge graph, may partition the synthetic knowledge graph into a set of synthetic data partitions, and may determine, using a plurality of teacher models, an aggregated prediction. The aggregated prediction may be based on individual predictions from corresponding individual teacher models included in the plurality of teacher models. The device may determine, using a student model and based on the synthetic knowledge graph and noise, a student prediction. The student model may be trained based on historical synthetic knowledge graphs and historical aggregated predictions associated with the plurality of teacher models. The device may determine an error metric based on the aggregated prediction and the student prediction, and may perform an action associated with the synthetic knowledge graph based on the error metric.
US11475148B2
An apparatus includes a memory device and a microcontroller device integrated with the memory device. The microcontroller device is adapted to be communicatively coupled to a processor device and is configured to manage access by the processor device to data stored on the memory device. Managing access by the processor device to the data stored on the memory device includes setting an access permission for controlled data stored by the memory device based on authorization data stored in the memory device. Managing access by the processor device further includes receiving, from the processor device, a request to access the controlled data. Managing access by the processor device further includes determining whether to initiate access to the controlled data by the processor device based on the access permission.
US11475141B1
Aspects relate to apparatuses and methods for using machine learning to verify lost user data in a resource data storage system. An exemplary apparatus includes a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the processor, the memory containing instructions configuring the processor to identify a plurality of lost user data stored in a resource data storage system potentially associated with a particular user of a plurality of users, verify, using a recovery program, the plurality of lost user data potentially associated with the particular user and link, as a function of the verification, the plurality of lost user data to the particular user.
US11475140B1
Systems and methods for providing cryptographic services. A cryptography service obtains a request to provision a computing device to perform cryptographic operations. The cryptography service generates executable code for a protected execution environment. The computing device obtains and executes the executable code. The computing device fulfills requests for cryptographic operations in the protected execution environment.
US11475136B2
In particular embodiments, a Data Transfer Risk Identification System may be configured to analyze one or more data systems (e.g., data assets), identify data transfers between/among those systems, apply data transfer rules to each data transfer record, perform a data transfer assessment on each data transfer record based on the data transfer rules to be applied to each data transfer record, and calculate a risk score for the data transfer based at least in part on the one or more data transfer risks associated with the data transfer record.
US11475132B2
A method, computing device, and non-transitory machine-readable medium for detecting malware attacks and mitigating data loss. In various embodiments, an agent is implemented in the operating system of a storage node to provide protection at the bottommost level in a data write path. The agent intercepts write requests and observes file events over time to detect anomalous behavior. For example, the agent may monitor incoming write requests and, when an incoming write request is detected, determine whether the file is associated with a malware attack risk based on an analysis of an encryption state of data in the file. If the file is associated with a malware attack risk, an entry for the file is added to a file log. The agent may analyze the chi-square values for data written to the files, the file log, and the file format to determine whether a malware attack is underway.
US11475115B2
To provide a login device including a controller, a storage that stores a user capable of a login, where the user includes a plurality of the users, a display device that displays specific displays corresponding to the users, in a display screen, and a processing device that executes a login process with a user corresponding to a specific display selected from the displayed specific displays. If job data including user information is acquired, the controller provides an identifiable display on a specific display for a user corresponding to the user information.
US11475114B2
A terminal for checking a security request level of a fingerprint verification request is provided. The terminal includes a fingerprint recognition sensor configured to acquire a fingerprint image; and a controller configured to check a security request level of a fingerprint verification request when the fingerprint verification request is received, to determine an verification level depending on the security request level, and to perform fingerprint verification in a manner corresponding to the verification level by using the fingerprint image. The controller controls the fingerprint recognition sensor to acquire a fingerprint image of a first level when the security request level is less than or equal to the security request level of a previous verification request that has been completed before the fingerprint verification request, and an elapsed time from the previous verification request is within a threshold time.
US11475103B1
Gateways for patient-responsibility portions of medical bills (PRPMB) transactions, regardless of healthcare provider or merchant services (Credit card processing) provider are disclosed. These principles provide uniform, consistent and secure devices, methods and systems that allow a patient to make PRPMB payments on one website or by one phone call or physical address regardless of the entity that is due payment, or when multiple entities are due payment.
US11475102B2
An adaptive matrix multiplier. In some embodiments, the matrix multiplier includes a first multiplying unit a second multiplying unit, a memory load circuit, and an outer buffer circuit. The first multiplying unit includes a first inner buffer circuit and a second inner buffer circuit, and the second multiplying unit includes a first inner buffer circuit and a second inner buffer circuit. The memory load circuit is configured to load data from memory, in a single burst of a burst memory access mode, into the first inner buffer circuit of the first multiplying unit; and into the first inner buffer circuit of the second multiplying unit.
US11475100B2
In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a convolution operation method. The method comprises, extracting, from a feature data with a M×N matrix (M and N are a natural number), a plurality of separate sub-matrices which have identical dimensions to a convolution kernel with a K×L matrix (K is a natural number equal to or smaller than M, and L is a natural number equal to or smaller than N); generating a first vector which includes elements of at least one of the sub-matrices as elements of the first vector, and a second vector which includes elements of the convolution kernel as elements of the second vector; extracting, from the first vector, a partial vector including all elements of the sub-matrix, for each of the sub-matrices; and deriving a result of a convolution operation by multiplying between each element of the partial vector corresponding to each of the sub-matrices and each element at a corresponding position in the second vector, and by adding results of the multiplication.
US11475098B2
In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for collecting and surfacing web content are provided. Web content from a webpage may be displayed in a web browser. A type associated with the webpage may be identified. An indication to add a new section corresponding to the webpage to a content collection pane may be received. A plurality of elements on the webpage may be identified based on the identified type associated with the webpage. A subset of web content from the webpage corresponding to the plurality of elements may be extracted. The new section may be added to the content collection pane, wherein the new section comprises the subset of web content extracted from the webpage.
US11475096B2
A system for a user to submit complying documents in response to traffic and vehicle citations wherein the user's documents are submitted via a global computerized network. The system employs a server to store the submitted information into a database. The system has verification means to ensure that the images are acceptable and the information on the documents a user submits matches the information the agency has on record for the corresponding user. The system then verifies that a user has provided payment and is able to generate emails to the users prompting them to undertake different actions and saves copies of correspondence sent to and by the user.
US11475095B2
A method includes determining a plurality of epochs from a timeline of an experiment, wherein each of the plurality of epochs corresponds to a constant traffic allocation. The method further includes calculating, by a processing device, first and second mean values corresponding to a baseline of the experiment and a variation of the experiment for each epoch, respectively. The method further includes determining, for each epoch, a difference between the first mean value and the second mean value to generate a plurality of differences. The method further includes calculating, by the processing device, a weighted sum of the plurality of differences to generate a final difference in mean values.
US11475092B2
The described technology is generally directed towards validating content selection graphs for use in an in-memory content selection graph data store. When a content selection graph data is generated, the graph nodes can correspond to prebuilt response data. The response data for any of the nodes can be verified against rules based on the type of a node, for example, as well as based on client-specific information for types of clients. The overall validation process can validate the content selection graph for subsequent use, can result in errors or warnings being logged (which may or may not render the graph unusable, e.g., depending on severity), or can fail the content selection graph. If validated, the content selection graph can be used to rapidly return response data when content from the graph is requested.
US11475090B2
A method and a system for determining affiliation of a web resource to a plurality of clusters are provided. The method includes: at a training stage: detecting a plurality of web resources; retrieving information associated with the plurality of web resources; generating a respective pattern based on the information; grouping the plurality of web resources into the plurality of clusters, based on the respective pattern; at a run-time stage: receiving an indication of a given web resource; retrieving the information about the given web resource; generating a new pattern of the given web resource; analyzing pattern affiliation of the new pattern with a specific one from the plurality of clusters of web resources; calculating an affiliation ratio therewith; in response to the affiliation ratio exceeding a predetermined threshold value, associating the given web resource with the specific one of the plurality of clusters.
US11475085B2
Machine learning based method for generating personalized query suggestions is described. Different users may have different search intent even when they are inputting the same search query. The technical problem of personalizing search query suggestions produced by a machine learning model is addressed by extending the sequence to sequence machine learning model framework to be able to take into consideration additional, personalized features of the user, such as, e.g., profile industry, language, geographic location, etc. This methodology includes an offline model training framework as well as an online serving framework.
US11475083B1
Systems and methods are described herein for generating enhanced search results utilizing third-party website content within a search engine provided by an electronic catalog of a service provider. This content may be collected in advance of query processing and analyzed to identify a category indicating some attribute of the content (e.g., terms mentioned, topics discussed, object depicted in images/videos/3D data of the content, etc.). Items may be matched to the website through analyzing the textual and/or visual representation data of the website to textual and/or visual representation data associated with an item offered within the electronic catalog. A query may be subsequently received and a third-party website may be identified as being relevant to the search query. In response to the query, the third-party website may be included in a search result list along with images and/or text identifying items pertaining to that website.
US11475081B2
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for merging the query results received for a query provided to multiple services. In one aspect, a query is transmitted to a plurality of search services. A plurality of query result sets is received from the search services in response to the query. A comparer function is generated by applying a ranking algorithm to the received query result sets that orders the query results of the query result sets without regard to a received order of the query results in the query result sets. The query result sets are merged into a merged query result set using the comparer function. In an aspect, the query result sets are merged in a manner that maintains an internal order of each received query result set in the merged query result set.
US11475080B2
A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described, which provide a natural language-based content search and discovery service. The natural language-based content search and discovery service may use query object types as a basis for interpreting a vocalized search query from a user. The natural language-based content search and discovery service may use a multi-interpretative procedure that includes use of a probabilistic grammar parser, parts of speech, and query object type identification that are configured for a media domain. The natural language-based content search and discovery service may merge different interpretations of the search query based on probability values associated with each interpretation.
US11475078B2
A facility for identifying endpoints in an environment which crawls the environment to identify landing pages. The facility identifies endpoints within the landing pages and stores an indication of the environment containing the endpoint as well as an indication of the endpoint itself.
US11475073B2
A global data aggregator for managing deployments includes persistent storage and a global data manager. The persistent storage stores globally aggregated data and an algorithm repository. The global data manager obtains deployment aggregated data from a deployment of the deployments; makes a determination that a new type of data is included in the deployment aggregated data; and in response to the determination: performs an action set, based on the new type of the data, to modify a content of future deployment aggregated data obtained from the deployment.
US11475069B2
The present disclosure relates to a corpus processing method, a corpus processing apparatus and a storage medium. The corpus processing method can include obtaining a message input by a user, retrieving a reply message matching the message input by the user from a plurality of candidate corpora, in which the plurality of the candidate corpora includes candidate corpora obtained after removing a negative emotion corpus, and sending the reply message.
US11475068B2
Disclosed are an automatic question answering method and apparatus, a storage medium, and a server. The method includes: acquiring numerical features of a sentence to be queried; querying a target sentence in a question database according to the numerical features of the sentence to be queried, the question database including a plurality of sentences and answers corresponding to the plurality of sentences; and determining a target answer according to an answer corresponding to the target sentence. In this method, the sentence is represented by the numerical features, such that it is convenient to search questions similar to a question of a user in the question database, thereby achieving an effect of improving a search speed of the question.
US11475063B2
A device, system and method for providing indications of a discrepancy between a video and a textual description of an incident. A public-safety computing device determines a discrepancy between a video of an incident and a textual description of the incident, the textual description being a component of a public-safety incident report associated with the incident. The device, in response to determining the discrepancy, controls a notification device to provide an indication of the discrepancy.
US11475058B1
Systems and methods are described herein for generating a timeline of media assets on a media guidance application that dynamically adjusts the timeline of related media assets associated with the media asset selected by a user, by comparing keywords. In another embodiment, the systems and methods are described for masking portions of headline of the media asset for increasing interests in selecting the media asset.
US11475057B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving a query; selecting one or more entities responsive to the query; providing, for display on a map portion of an interface, map-based representations of the one or more entities; providing, for display on a list portion of the interface, list-based representations of one or more of the entities; generating an additional query based on selection of a particular map-based representation of a particular entity; determining that, when the particular map-based representation was selected, a particular list-based representation was visible on the list portion; adjusting a ranking score for the particular entity; ranking the particular entity among one or more other entities identified as responsive to the additional query; and providing, for display on the list portion, list-based representations of at least one of the one or more other entities, including the particular list-based representation which remains visible on the list portion.
US11475055B2
The present disclosure disclosures an artificial intelligence based method and apparatus for determining regional information. A specific embodiment of the method comprises: acquiring to-be-determined information, and extracting a keyword set of the to-be-determined information; inputting the keyword set of the to-be-determined information into a pre-trained subject classification model for classifying, to obtain a subject category of the to-be-determined information, wherein the subject classification model is used for representing a corresponding relation between the keyword set of the information and the subject category of the information; selecting, from a pre-stored place name set, a place name corresponding to the subject category of the to-be-determined information as a target place name set; matching, in the to-be-determined information, the target place name set; and determining, based on a matching result, whether the to-be-determined information belongs to the regional information.
US11475050B2
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for providing default values for fields of data objects in an offline mode. One example method includes receiving, at a client device, a default group mapping that includes a default group identifier and a default value to be used as an initial value for a field. A field mapping can be received that includes a default group identifier and a field identifier. A request can be received while the client device is offline to create an instance of an object. A determination can be made that the field mapping includes a field identifier for a field of the object. A default value can be retrieved, from a local repository on the client device. A field value of the field in a created instance of the data object can be set to be the default value.
US11475041B2
A client can resynchronize tree data structures representing a server, local, and sync state of content items in an account. In some aspects, the client identifies a local set of content items on the account and generates a local tree representing a filesystem state and including a local node for each item in the local set. The client determines a server state for a remote set of content items on the account. Based on the server state, the client generates a remote tree representing the remote set and including a respective node for each item in the remote set. Based on the local and remote trees, the client generates a sync tree including matching nodes between the local and remote trees, the sync tree representing a synchronized state between the filesystem state and the server state. The client then stores the local, remote, and sync trees.
US11475035B2
Techniques are disclosed for migrating data objects stored by the source DDOS from the source DDOS to the target DDOS while at least the source DDOS is live and available to process requests for access to the data objects being migrated. The techniques also provide eventual consistency between data objects that are created, updated, or deleted in the source DDOS that are applicable to the migration and that occur while the migration is being performed.
US11475027B2
A two-step algorithm for conducting near real-time fuzzy searches of a target on one or more large data sets is described. This algorithm includes the simplification of the data by removing grammatical constructs to bring the target search term (and the stored database) to their base elements and then perform a Levenstein comparison to create a subset of the data set that may be a match. Then performing a scoring algorithm while comparing the target to the subset of the data set to identify any matches.
US11475021B2
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for ranking time dimensions. One example method includes receiving a request for an insight analysis for a dataset that includes a value dimension and a set of multiple date dimensions. Each date dimension is converted into a time series and a value quality factor is determined for each time series that represents a level of data quality for the time series. A time series informative factor is determined for each time series that represents how informative the time series is within a specified time window. An insight score is determined, for each time dimension, based on the determined value quality factors and the determined time series informative factors. The insight score for the time dimension is provided, for at least some of the time dimensions.
US11475018B2
Methods, systems, and devices supporting determining user and data record relationships based on vector space embeddings are described. Some database systems may receive data record access indications corresponding to data records accessed by users. A database system may generate, based on the data record access indications, user sessions for the users, data record sessions for the data records, or a combination for users and data records. For example, a user session may correspond to a respective user and include a record identifier associated with each data record accessed by the user. The system may generate, in a vector space, vectors from the sessions using an embedding operation, where each vector corresponds to a respective user or data record. The system may determine relationships between the users, data records, or both based on the vectors and may transmit an indication of at least one data record based on the relationships.
US11475017B2
A method for asynchronous data enrichment may include receiving a query that includes a request for information about an entity. The query may specify a particular time range. In response to receiving the query, event information that is associated with the entity and that corresponds to the specified time range may be combined with additional information that is relevant to the query and that corresponds to the specified time range. The event information may initially be written to a record in an append-only data store. The additional information may become available after the event information, such that the additional information is not included in the record in the append-only data store. Instead, the additional information may initially be written to one or more additional data stores. Both the event information and the additional information may be provided in response to the query.
US11475011B2
The subject technology receives, during a query compilation process, a query directed to a set of source tables, each source table from the set of source tables being organized into at least one micro-partition and the query including at least one pruning operation. The subject technology performs, during the query compilation process, a modification of the query for adjusting the at least one pruning operation, the modification being based at least in part on a set of statistics collected for previous pruning operations on at least a portion of the set of source tables and a set of heuristics. The subject technology compiles the query including the modification of the query. The subject technology provides the compiled query to an execution node of a database system for execution.
US11475008B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for monitoring user-defined metrics. A method may include: receiving, from a user device, a metric definition usable to generate queries to obtain data for a metric to be monitored; receiving, from the user device, a monitoring configuration indicative of a manner in which a metric monitoring process associated with the metric definition is to be repeatedly performed; storing the metric definition in a metric definition database; and repeatedly performing the metric monitoring process in accordance with the monitoring configuration. The metric monitoring process may include: retrieving the metric definition from the metric definition database; generating a database query based on the metric definition, the database query including one or more executable database statements defined by the metric definition; executing the database query to obtain query result data, the query result data being data for the metric; and storing the query result data.
US11475006B2
Techniques are presented herein for efficient query processing and data change propagation at a secondary database system. The techniques involve determining execution costs for executing a query at a primary DBMS and for executing the query at an offload DBMS. The cost for executing the query at the offload DBMS includes the cost of propagating changes to database objects required by the query to the offload DBMS. Based on the execution cost, the query is sent to either the primary DBMS or the offload DBMS.
US11475004B2
Various examples are directed to systems and methods optimizing database queries. A database management system may receive a first query comprising a plurality of query expressions. The database management system may determine that a first expression of the first query is nullable and that the first expression is null preserving. The database management system may generate optimized query code for the first query. The optimized query code may comprise a first code segment and a conditional jump instruction. The first code segment that, when executed by a processor, may cause the processor to perform operations comprising determining a value of the first expression. The conditional jump instruction may, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising: skipping execution of at least a portion of the first code segment and returning null for the first expression.
US11474999B2
Systems and methods are described herein for interpreting natural language search queries that account for contextual relevance of words of the search query that would ordinarily not be processed, including, for example, processing each word of the query. Each term or phrase is associated with a respective part of speech, and a frequency of occurrence of a combination of adjacent terms or phrases public domain is determined. A relevance of each term is then determined based on its respective type of term and frequency of occurrence in the public domain. The natural language search query is then interpreted based on the importance or relevance of each term.
US11474994B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that determines an updated data state of a local oracle node and reconciles, in accordance with a set of consensus rules, the updated data state with one or more remote data states corresponding to a distributed network of oracle nodes to obtain a reconciled data state. The technology may also submit a transaction to a blockchain node based on the reconciled data state.
US11474991B2
In a distributed database, a transaction is to be committed at a first coordinator server and one or more participant servers 1210. The first coordinator server is configured to receive a notification that each participant server of the transaction is prepared at a respective prepared timestamp, the respective prepared timestamp being chosen within a time range for which the respective participant server obtained at least one lock 1220. The first coordinator server computes the commit timestamp for the transaction equal or greater than each of the prepared timestamps 1230, and restrict the commit timestamp such that a second coordinator server sharing at least one of the participant servers for one or more other transactions at a shared shard cannot select the same commit timestamp for any of the other transactions 1240. The transaction is committed at the commit timestamp 1250.
US11474988B2
Methods are provided of optimizing a tree-structured distributed-index with tree-nodes including data-elements and parent-child relations between tree-nodes. The distributed-index is stored in distributed system including computer-nodes each storing tree-nodes and a tree-map structurally describing the distributed-index. The methods include: inspecting the tree-map in first computer-node to determine whether the distributed-index is imbalanced due to a first tree-node in first computer-node and, in said case: notifying to other computer-nodes that first tree-node is replicable, to provoke that any request from other computer-nodes of inserting a data-element in first-tree-node includes inserting the data-element in corresponding child-node of first-tree-node; and verifying whether the other computer-nodes have been notified and, in said case, replicating data-elements stored in first tree-node into children-nodes thereof. Methods of inserting into and/or querying such distributed indexes or similar are also provided, along with computer programs and (computing) systems that are suitable for performing said optimizing, inserting and querying methods.
US11474986B2
Data associated with storage media utilized by one or more storage systems is received. The data is provided as an input to a machine learning model executed by a processing device. The machine learning model identifies one or more deterministic characteristics from the data. The one or more deterministic characteristics associated with the storage media are received from the machine learning model. A data structure comprising the one or more deterministic characteristics is generated for use in a telemetry process to qualify types of storage media.
US11474985B2
An identification value generator included in a data processing apparatus generates, from data pieces collected from an FA device, at least one identity identification value. The identity identification value is a value for determining an identity of the data pieces. The update determiner determines whether current data and previous data are identical based on a current identification value and a previous identification value. The current data includes the data pieces currently collected, and the previous data includes the data pieces previously collected. The current identification value includes the identity identification value generated from the current data, and the previous identification value includes the identity identification value generated from the previous data. A data distribution controller distributes the current data to a data processor when the update determiner determines that the current data and the previous data are not identical.
US11474978B2
Systems and methods for searching data are disclosed. For example, the system may include one or more memory units storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include receiving a sample dataset and identifying a data schema of the sample dataset. The operations may include generating a sample data vector that includes statistical metrics of the sample dataset and information based on the data schema of the sample dataset. The operations may include searching a data index comprising a plurality of stored data vectors corresponding to a plurality of reference datasets. The stored data vectors may include statistical metrics of the reference datasets and information based on corresponding data schema. The operations may include generating, based on the search and the sample data vector, one or more similarity metrics of the sample dataset to individual ones of the reference datasets.
US11474972B2
In the field of data storage, a metadata query method and an apparatus are disclosed to improve metadata searching efficiency. The method is applied to a linked snapshot. A metadata query request is received. A first time sequence identifier is obtained from the first snapshot volume based on the volume identifier of the first snapshot volume. A historical index information is queried based on the data block identifier and the first time sequence identifier. When the data block identifier exists, and the first time sequence identifier falls within a corresponding query time sequence interval a corresponding target volume identifier is obtained from the historical index information. Address metadata corresponding to the data block identifier are obtained from a second snapshot volume indicated by the target volume identifier.
US11474963B2
A device for use in a building management system (BMS) includes a base hardware component that provides communication between the equipment and a first network associated with the BMS. The base hardware component includes a processor and a memory. The device further includes a modular hardware component connected to the base hardware component and a modular software component stored in the memory that recognizes the modular hardware component connected to the base hardware component and provides communication between the equipment and a second network using the modular hardware component. The processor executes a control application to control operation of the equipment based in part on data received from the equipment and data received from at least one of the first network and the second network.
US11474962B2
A method for initializing a bus system for a process plant includes: installing an administrative bus participant and a second bus participant at respective installation sites in the process plant; storing a list of at least two installation sites of bus participants in the administrative bus participant; connecting the administrative bus participant and the second bus participant to each other across a data bus; prompting an identification sensor of the second bus participant with an identification prompt; after detection of the identification prompt by the identification sensor, sending an identification signal identifying the second bus participant to the administrative bus participant; and after receiving the identification signal identifying the second bus participant, matching up the second bus participant with an installation site of the at least two installation sites contained in the stored list.
US11474953B2
A method of translating a virtual address into a physical memory address in an ARM System Memory Management Unit version 3 (SMMUv3) system includes searching a Configuration Cache memory for a matching tag that matches an associated tag upon receiving the virtual address and the associated tag, and extracting, in a single memory lookup cycle, a matching data field associated with the matching tag when the matching tag is found in the Configuration Cache memory. A matching data field of the Configuration Cache memory includes a matching Stream Table Entry (STE) and a matching Context Descriptor (CD), both associated with the matching tag. The Configuration Cache memory may be configured as a content-addressable memory. The method further includes storing entries associated with a multiple memory lookup cycle virtual address-to-physical address translation into the Configuration Cache memory, each of the entries including a tag, an associated STE and an associated CD.
US11474949B2
A memory management system includes a physical memory associated with a computing device and a memory manager. The memory manager is configured to manage a shared memory cache as part of a compression of the physical memory using a cache compression algorithm, wherein a compression block size for the compression is a single cache line size. The physical memory includes a sector translation table (STT) region and a sector memory region. The memory manager uses a memory descriptor defined by an STT entry having a cache line map and a plurality of sector pointers to load cache from the physical memory to a level 3 Cache. The cache line map contains cache line metadata including a size of each cache line, a location of the cache line in one of the sectors pointed to by the STT entry, and a plurality of flags.
US11474947B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor configured to allocate, to a process, a first number of first divided regions from among a plurality of divided regions obtained by division of a cache, and determine, based on an address of each data block corresponding to the process and the first number, a storage destination of the data block corresponding to the process from among the first divided regions. The processor configured to determine a second number that is a divisor of the first number, identify, for the individual first divided regions after the reduction, second divided regions from among the first divided regions before the reduction, determine data blocks to be stored in the individual first divided regions after the reduction by allocating data blocks to the first divided regions after the reduction from the corresponding second divided regions in ascending order of purging order.
US11474937B2
A computing device and an operation method thereof are provided. The computing device includes multiple memories and an indexer circuit. The indexer circuit is separately coupled to the memories through multiple memory channels. The indexer circuit determines an arrangement of at least one lookup table to at least one of the memories according to a characteristic of the at least one lookup table and a transmission bandwidth of the memory channels, so as to balance a transmission load of the memory channels.
US11474931B2
Systems and methods include reception, at an artifact editor of a process automation system, user manipulations of an artifact editor user interface displayed on a client application of a local system, creation, by the artifact editor, of an artifact based on the received user manipulations, reception, at the artifact editor, second user manipulations of the artifact editor user interface displayed on the client application, the second user manipulations to initiate debugging of the artifact, instruction, by an artifact worker of the process automation system and in response to the second manipulations, an agent of the local system to execute the artifact, and presentation, by the artifact editor user interface displayed on the client application, debug information associated with the execution of the artifact.
US11474930B2
Example methods and systems for software bug reproduction. One example method may comprise obtaining log information associated with multiple transactions processed by a control-plane node to configure a set of data-plane nodes and transform an initial network state to a first network state; and configuring a replay environment that is initialized to the initial network state, and includes a mock control-plane node and a set of mock data-plane nodes. The method may also comprise, based on the log information, replaying the multiple transactions using the mock control-plane node to configure the set of mock data-plane nodes and transform the replay environment from the initial network state to a second network state. Based on a comparison between the first network state and the second network state, a determination may be made as to whether a software bug is successfully reproduced in the replay environment.
US11474921B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods related log compression are described. In an example, a system log that identifies targeted data may be compiled in a memory resource during an execution of an operation using that memory resource. The system log may be analyzed utilizing a portion of the memory resource that would otherwise be available to be utilized in the execution of the operation. The system log may be compressed during the execution of the operation, the level or timing of such compression may be based on the analysis that occurs contemporaneous to or as a result of executing the operation. In some examples, compressing the system log may include discarding a portion of the system log. Compressing the system log may also include extracting the targeted data from the system log as the system log is being compiled and converting the extracted targeted data to structured data.
US11474912B2
Methods and systems for backing up and restoring files that have multiple hard links using master file references and index node-based mappings are described. In some cases, file fetching and restoration may be performed by a storage appliance using master file references in which a master file is identified for each multi-link file that is backed-up on the storage appliance and then referenced by one or more hard links to the multi-link file. In other cases, file fetching and restoration may be performed by a storage appliance using index node-based mappings for multi-link files that provide mappings between index node identifiers (e.g., inode numbers) for the multi-link files on a primary system and hard link paths for storing the file contents of the multi-link files on a storage appliance used for backing up the primary system.
US11474909B2
The On-demand Virtualized Data Recovery Apparatuses, Methods and Systems (“OVDR”) transforms data recovery request, mailbox backup data selection response inputs via OVDR components into mailbox backup data selection request, data recovery response outputs. A mailbox data recovery request datastructure associated with a user is obtained. Available mailbox backup data accessible to the user is determined. A selection of a subset of the available mailbox backup data to recover is obtained. A temporary mailbox environment associated with the mailbox data recovery request datastructure is spawned. A mailbox, corresponding to a mailbox account included in the selected subset of the available mailbox backup data, is created on the temporary mailbox environment. Mailbox data items, corresponding to mailbox data items associated with the mailbox account that are included in the selected subset of data, are restored to the created mailbox. An access notification indicating that the temporary mailbox environment is ready is generated.
US11474907B2
Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for cluster configuration backup and recovery. One method includes receiving, by use of a processor, configuration data for a cluster. The method includes storing the configuration data for the cluster. The method also includes forming a machine-readable code that corresponds to the stored configuration data for the cluster. The machine-readable code may be used for restoring the stored configuration data to the cluster.
US11474905B2
Methods, computer program products, and/or systems are provided that perform the following operations: obtaining data indicative of a node failure; obtaining data associated with nodes and pods started on each node; generating a causation score for each pod associated with a failed node, wherein each pod associated with the failed node is designated as a candidate pod for the node failure; determining pod rescheduling for each candidate pod associated with the failed node based, at least in part, on a pod ranking of the causation score for each pod; and providing the pod rescheduling to a node cluster to restart each pod associated with the failed node.
US11474898B2
A computer implemented method for recovering erased entries within a system of arrays includes identifying a system consisting of a plurality of arrays, wherein each array consists of m rows and n columns of entries, each entry is divided into p symbols consisting of a plurality of bits, protecting the m rows and n columns of entries in the system with an erasure-correcting code allowing the recovery of a number of erased entries in such rows and columns, detecting an erasure corresponding to an entry in the identified system, and, responsive to detecting an erasure, determining the value of the erased entry according to the p symbols of one or more non-erased entries.
US11474897B2
Often there are errors when reading data from computer memory. To detect and correct these errors, there are multiple types of error correction codes. Disclosed is an error correction architecture that creates a codeword having a data portion and an error correction code portion. Swizzling rearranges the order of bits and distributes the bits among different codewords. Because the data is redistributed, a potential memory error of up to N contiguous bits, where N for example equals 2 times the number of codewords swizzled together, only affects up to, at most, two bits per swizzled codeword. This keeps the error within the error detecting capabilities of the error correction architecture. Furthermore, this can allow improved error correction and detection without requiring a change to error correcting code generators and checkers.
US11474881B1
Aspects of the disclosure relate to providing and maintaining efficient and effective processing of sets of work items in enterprise computing environments by optimizing distributed and parallelized batch data processing. A computing platform may initialize at least two processing workers. Subsequently, the computing platform may cause a first processing worker to perform a first query on a work queue database and initiate parallel processing of a first set of work items. Thereafter, the computing platform may cause the second processing worker to perform a second query on the work queue database and initiate parallel processing of a second set of work items. In some instances, performing the second query on the work queue database comprises reading at least one work item that was read and locked by the first processing worker.
US11474877B1
An object of the present invention is to provide a computer system and a scale-out method of the computer system that can reduce the possibility of occurrence of performance deterioration in the case where cloud bursting is executed. In the case where scale-out is executed in a public cloud, a data processing system starts a data copy process of copying data stored in an on-premises first data storage area, to a second data storage area of a storage cluster in the public cloud via a first network. When starting the data copy process, the data processing system executes the scale-out by increasing the number of processing nodes while accessing the data stored in the first data storage area.
US11474876B2
A data processing device (10), which is connectable to another data processing device (20), includes a data collector (150) to collect data from a machine (31, 32), a data processor (120) to process input data, a coordination processor (160) to provide the data collector (150) or the data processor (120) with data transmitted from the another data processing device (20) and provide the another data processing device (20) with the data collected by the data collector (150) or the data processed by the data processor (120), and an execution controller (130) to control collection of data by the data collector (150), processing of data by the data processor (120), and transmission and reception of data to and from the another data processing device (20) by the coordination processor (160) in accordance with predetermined setting information for a data processing flow.
US11474865B2
A variety of applications can include systems and methods that control a memory size of a changelog in a storage device, where the changelog is implemented to correlate virtual page addresses to physical addresses in one or more memory devices. The memory size can be controlled by an allocation schema for a scalable memory area for the changelog in the storage device. The allocation schema can include using bitmaps, lists linked to the bitmaps, and a counter to count bits asserted in the bitmaps such that the allocation of memory space in the storage device can depend on usage rather than allocating a large memory space for all possible correlations of virtual page addresses to physical addresses.
US11474850B2
A method and system for efficient virtual machine operation while recovering data. Specifically, the disclosed method and system enable the activation of virtual machines while virtual machine data, pertinent to the virtual machines, may concurrently be undergoing restoration. By activation, virtual machines may be permitted to issue input-output operations targeting their respective virtual machine data. Further, whether or not the sought virtual machine data has been recovered, fulfillment of the input-output operations may entail accessing virtual machine data either stored locally or retained remotely on a backup storage service.
US11474848B2
A hypervisor on a destination host receives a request to migrate a virtual machine (VM) from a source host to the destination host and determines a total amount of memory associated with the VM on the source host. The hypervisor on the destination host allocates one or more memory pages in a page table on the destination host to satisfy the total amount of memory associated with the VM on the source host, where the one or more memory pages are to be associated with the VM on the destination host. Responsive to determining that the one or more memory pages have been allocated on the destination host, the hypervisor on the destination host initiates migration of the VM from the source host to the destination host.
US11474842B2
Application generation and integration application generation methods are disclosed. An application generation function includes automatically providing a set of software artifacts to an application developer that may be used as an aid to providing an application with augmented capabilities for an end-user. The augmented capabilities configured to adhere to certain rules regarding certification criteria and requirements of a multi-tenant cloud infrastructure. Generated applications and plug-in capabilities may further be required to meet certification criteria applicable to an application store hosted within a cloud infrastructure.
US11474830B2
Disclosed is a method, a system and a computer readable medium for additive independent object modification. The method includes determining an association between an independent object modification and a base object of a software application, modifying at least one element of the base object based on the associated independent object modification, and configuring the software application to execute in a computer system using the modified base object.
US11474828B2
In a mobile device, processes of an application can be monitored and scored for initial data distribution. Specifically, a method can include monitoring processes of an application, and scoring objects or components used by the processes to determine placement of the objects or components in memory during initiation of the application. The method can also include, during initiation of the application, loading, into a first portion of the memory, at least partially, the objects or components scored at a first level. The method can also include, during initiation of the application, loading, into a second portion of the memory, at least partially, the objects or components scored at a second level. The objects or components scored at the second level can be less critical to the application than the objects or components scored at the first level.
US11474811B2
Data characterizing an object for deprecation and code characterizing a modification to an application is received at a code development system. The object is for deprecation and the application is deployed on a plurality of tenants of a production database management system. A first application patch is generated according to the received code. The first patch includes computer executable instructions that during deployment to a target system configure the target system to prevent further usage by tenants of the object for deprecation. The first application patch is deployed to the plurality of tenants. A second application patch is generated. The second application patch includes computer executable instructions that during deployment to the target system configure the target system to allow deletion of the object from the target system. The second application patch is deployed to the plurality of tenants. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described.
US11474810B2
An application includes main program code, but also a call handler and an update module. When a specific method or function in the operating system is called, the call is redirected to the call handler in the application. The call handler then calls the function in the operating system. The function retrieves an object to present in a user interface to the application. But before the object is rendered, program control is returned to the call handler, which calls into the update module. The update module determines whether or not the appearance of the object should be changed, for example, in accordance with an A/B test or any other type of update. If so, visual characteristics of the object are changed. Control reverts back to the operating system from the call handler and the object, in its changed form, is presented in the user interface.
US11474808B2
A vehicular software update apparatus is used to a vehicle to update software stored in an electronic control unit mounted on the vehicle. The vehicular software update apparatus includes a low power communication device configured to perform a wide area wireless communication with a low power consumption. The low power communication device is operated in an update confirmation state including a state where neither power generation in the vehicle nor power supplying to the vehicle is performed, and is caused to download software update information which is information necessary to update the software, when the software update information, is provided by the server.
US11474806B2
A mobile application development environment may be maintained in association with a computing platform. A request to produce a binary of a first mobile application may be processed. The binary and a package configurable to cause the binary to have code-sign credentials associated with a first organization when the binary is uploaded to a mobile application provider may be produced. The binary and the package may be provided to the first organization.
US11474805B2
A system capable of upgrading a firmware in the background and a method for upgrading a firmware in the background are provided. The method for upgrading the firmware in the background partitions the memory module of an electronic device, one user code sector is used to normally execute an initial firmware and an upgrade flow, and the other user code sector is used to store an upgrade firmware.
US11474789B2
A power supplier circuit supplies a power signal to a codec of an audio apparatus. The power supplier circuit includes a random sequence generation circuit, a control circuit, and a power circuit. The random sequence generation circuit generates a random sequence. The control circuit outputs a first control signal according to the random sequence, a first reference signal, and the power signal. The power circuit generates the power signal according to the first control signal, such that the power signal is spread in response to the random sequence.
US11474781B2
An electronic book using electromagnetic energy to detect page numbers includes a book and a base, the book includes a plurality of book pages, each of the book pages is respectively provided with an electromagnetic energy changing member, and the base is provided with at least one antenna coil and at least one control circuit. The electromagnetic energy changing member of each of the book pages is correspondingly disposed adjacent to a position of the antenna coil, and a magnetic flux generated by the antenna coil is transmitted to the electromagnetic energy changing members. The electromagnetic energy changing members generate magnetic variable fluxes to be received by the antenna coil for generating a page number prompt output command by conversion to control generation of a prompt function of the book page correspondingly disposed adjacent to the position of the antenna coil.
US11474778B2
An example system is configured to: (i) receive data indicating a command to play back, via a playback device of a media playback system, media content; (ii) based on the data indicating the command, detect a first playback condition comprising a first user identity; (iii) identify, from one or more user accounts associated with the playback device, a first user account corresponding to the first user identity; (iv) based at least on (1) the command and (2) one or more properties of the first user account, determine first media content for playback by the playback device; and (v) cause the playback device to play back the first media content.
US11474776B2
A mechanism is described for facilitating display-based audio splitting in media environments, according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes receiving, at a computing device, a request to split audio streams associated with audio channels in communication with the computing device serving as a host device, wherein the audio streams are generated by one or more applications; selecting a split mode to facilitate splitting of the audio streams; and splitting the audio streams based on the split mode such that the audio streams are continuously mapped to the audio channels to adjust for delays and fine tuning.
US11474773B2
Techniques enable an automatic adjustment of a muted response setting of an automated assistant based on a determination of an expectation by a user to hear an audible response to their query, despite the muted setting. Determination of the expectation may be based on historical, empirical data uploaded from multiple users over time for a given response scenario. For example, the system may determine from the historical data that a certain type of query has been associated with a user both repeating their query and increasing a response volume setting within a given timeframe. Metrics may be generated, stored, and invoked in response to attributes associated with identifiable types of queries and query scenarios. Automated response characteristics meant to reduce inefficiencies may be associated with certain queries that can otherwise collectively burden network bandwidth and processing resources.
US11474767B1
Techniques are disclosed for locally printing a print job generated by a remote web services platform. It may be that a local computer and an application of the remote web services platform that generates the print job lack a bidirectional communications link (like a VPN connection). A printer service on the web services platform presents itself as a printer to an application on the web services platform. The printer service receives a print job from the application and transmits it to a client-side print service. The client print service then sends the print job to a local printer.
US11474764B2
A management system capable of managing an apparatus with high accuracy at low cost without deteriorating productivity. The management system includes an image forming apparatus and a management apparatus that are communicatively connected. The image forming apparatus includes an obtainment unit that obtains data for items to which priorities are given, a first storage unit that stores the data, a transmission unit that transmits the data to the management apparatus, and an update unit that updates the priorities of the items according to a notification from the management apparatus. The management apparatus includes a second storage unit that stores data from the image forming apparatus, a determination unit that determines whether interpolation of defective data is possible for the items, a change unit that changes the priorities of the items according to possibility of the interpolation, and a notification unit that notifies of the priorities of the changed items.
US11474761B1
A printing system includes a printing device having an embedded digital front end (DFE) and at least one client device that sends print jobs to the printing device. The embedded DFE provides imposition functionality to define imposition settings for a job file. The DFE downloads the job file, a user interface, and an imposition engine to the client device. The client device uses the user interface to enter imposition settings and instructions that are applied to the job file. A visual representation can be made within the user interface to show the imposition setting. After imposition operations are complete, the client device uploads the imposed job file and an imposition template of the imposition settings to the DFE. The embedded DFE stores the imposed job file and the imposition template.
US11474750B2
A storage control apparatus comprising: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: receive a release request for a first storage area in a virtual storage area, release, among unit storage areas included in a physical storage area, one or more first unit storage areas allocated to the first storage area from the first storage area, execute overwrite processing of writing 0 to each of the first unit storage areas at a timing asynchronous with the release of the first unit storage areas, and when a write request is received to write data to the virtual storage area, execute write processing in which an unallocated unit storage area among the unit storage areas included in the physical storage area is allocated to a write destination area for the write data in the virtual storage area.
US11474744B2
Techniques for managing memory involve: determining a set of weights corresponding to a plurality of command queues in the memory, each weight indicating the number of commands allowed to be transmitted in a corresponding command queue; detecting whether a transmission delay occurs in the plurality of command queues; and adjusting the set of weights based on a result of the detection. Accordingly, transmission and processing efficiencies of commands in a command queue can be improved, and transmission bandwidth can be used more efficiently.
US11474741B1
Technologies are provided for supporting storage device write barriers. A host computer can be configured to transmit a write barrier command to a storage device to indicate that one or more data access commands should be processed before one or more other data access commands are processed. For example, a host computer can transmit one or more data access commands to a storage device. The host computer can then transmit a write barrier command to the storage device. The storage device can be configured to receive the write barrier command and to associate a write barrier with the one or more data access commands. The host computer can continue to transmit additional data access commands to the storage device. However, the storage device will not process the additional data access commands until after the one or more data access commands associated with the write barrier have been processed.
US11474740B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a memory system and a memory controller, in which data input/output terminals in different data input/output terminal groups corresponding to different channels may be arranged adjacent to each other, thereby preventing skew of a signal occurring during data input/output operations and interference between different signals and reducing the cost required for implementing the memory system.
US11474732B2
Backup data equivalent to the maximum number of generations to be held can be secured even when backup data is locked. When locking of prohibiting overwrite of one or more storage areas is performed, a backup server prepares a new backup management table and uses the backup management table and an archive management table, which is the past backup management table, to store the backup data equivalent to the maximum number of generations to be held into a storage system.
US11474731B1
Disclosed are techniques that provide for eventually-complete backups, and restoration thereof. For example, such methods, computer program products, and computer systems can include initiating a backup operation (where the backup operation is configured back up a dataset), detecting termination of the backup operation, detecting termination of the backup operation, and determining whether the backup operation backed up the dataset completely. In response to a determination that the backup operation did not backup the dataset completely, generating an indication that the backup is not complete. In response to a determination that the backup operation did not backup the dataset completely, generating an indication that the backup is complete.
US11474729B2
A method for updating software of storage units of a set of storage units in a storage network. In an embodiment, each storage unit of the set of storage units determines a data slice storage status for data slices stored in the storage unit (e.g., by monitoring rebuilding messages relating to the data slices). A processing module of the storage network obtains the data slice storage status of the storage units of the set of storage units and determines whether to perform a software update to software of the storage units of the set of storage units. Determining whether to perform the software update includes determining, based on the data slice storage status of the storage units, whether a threshold number of storage units are associated with a favorable data slice storage status. In response to determining that a threshold number of storage units are associated with a favorable data slice storage status, the processing module indicates to perform the software update.
US11474707B2
A secondary storage controller determines one or more tracks of one or more volumes in which data loss has occurred in the secondary storage controller. The secondary storage controller suspends a peer to peer remote copy operation between the secondary storage controller and a primary storage controller. Information on the one or more tracks of the one or more volumes in which the data loss has occurred is transmitted to the primary storage controller.
US11474704B2
A RAID controller attached to a storage network can detect the presence of multiple pathways to the same physical storage device. A path collection module can dynamically maintain all valid pathways to all attached storage devices. A path selection module can automatically and dynamically balance and rebalance desired paths to each storage device so as to simultaneously optimize data flow and provide continuity of I/O service throughout the attached storage network.
US11474703B2
An integrated circuit device includes a memory controller coupleable to a memory. The memory controller to schedule memory accesses to regions of the memory based on memory timing parameters specific to the regions. A method includes receiving a memory access request at a memory device. The method further includes accessing, from a timing data store of the memory device, data representing a memory timing parameter specific to a region of the memory cell circuitry targeted by the memory access request. The method also includes scheduling, at the memory controller, the memory access request based on the data.
US11474698B2
Methods, systems, and devices for reset verification in a memory system are described. In some examples, a memory device may perform a reset operation and set a mode register to a first value based on performing the reset operation. The first value may be associated with a successful execution of the reset command. The memory device may transmit an indication to a host device based on determining the first value. The host device may determine from the received indication or from the first value stored in the mode register that the first value is associated with the successful execution of the reset command. Thus, the memory device, or the host device, or both may be configured to verify whether the reset operation is successful.
US11474697B2
Various embodiments for optimizing memory bandwidth in a disaggregated computing system, by a processor device, are provided. Respective memory devices are assigned to respective processor devices in the disaggregated computing system, the disaggregated computing system having at least a pool of the memory devices and a pool of the processor devices. An analytic function is performed on data resident in the pool of the memory devices using memory bandwidth not currently committed to a primary compute task.
US11474696B2
Systems and methods for providing automatic document filling functionality are described. A method includes providing, by a processing device, an integrated interface that includes a document editing component having a document display area for displaying a document and one or more document editing features for editing a document and a document fill component having contents that elicit one or more inputs that are used to fill the document. The method further includes receiving, via the document fill component of the integrated interface, one or more inputs that correspond to data to be inputted into the document, determining, by the processing device, one or more locations within the document to input the data, and inserting the data into the one or more locations within the document.
US11474690B2
A method of assisting an object control comprises determining a first coordinate with reference to, as a trigger coordinate, a coordinate at a time point when a trigger event relating to movement of a control means is generated, among motion coordinates of the control means, determining a second coordinate with reference to at least one of a distance between the trigger coordinate and the motion coordinates, a straight line section specified by the trigger coordinate and the motion coordinates, a distance between the first coordinate and the motion coordinates, and a straight line section specified by the first coordinate and the motion coordinates, and determining a motion vector determined based on the first coordinate and the second coordinate as an instruction vector for determining a control position in a control object region.
US11474689B2
The disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for obtaining content, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. In response to detecting an end of a swiping on a page, the electronic device obtains a swiping speed of the swiping. The electronic device determines an object positioned by the swiping in the page based on the swiping speed and page parameters of the page, and obtains and displays content of the object.
US11474688B2
A method for creating handwriting content is provided. The method includes displaying handwriting letters being input, extracting at least one candidate handwriting word stored in advance in response to the input handwriting letters, displaying the extracted at least one candidate handwriting word, and replacing the input handwriting letters with a candidate handwriting word selected from among the displayed at least one candidate handwriting word.
US11474686B2
Disclosed are a method and a device for implementing screenshot, and a storage medium. The method includes: when a trigger condition is satisfied, a terminal entering a screenshot mode; and when the terminal detects a touch action after entering the screenshot mode, the terminal capturing, according to the touch action, part or all of the contents of a screen.
US11474680B2
In an example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a system comprising a sensor, a multimedia presentation device, and a controller. The controller may be configured to receive telemetry from the multimedia device and receive a multimedia capture from the sensor. The controller compares the multimedia capture to a control element and determines a relationship between the telemetry and the comparison. Based on the determination, the controller adjusts the configuration of the multimedia presentation device.
US11474677B2
A computer readable medium for sizing a product includes instructions, that when executed by at least one processor, cause a computing device to: retrieve from a webpage information on a product including product dimensions; present on a display of a client device a graphical button that upon access by a user activates a camera for capturing an image of an object positioned at a focal distance from the camera, the object having a surface; prompt the user to enter boundary information of an imaginary housing to be placed on the surface; generate the imaginary housing dimensions in two dimensions (2D) based on the boundary information and the focal distance; and determine whether the product fits within the imaginary housing by comparing the product dimensions against the imaginary housing dimensions.
US11474675B2
Technologies are disclosed for providing a virtual control panel for a controlled device using a controller connected to the controlled device via a near-field communications (NFC) connection. The controlled device may include a transfer memory that is connected to a wireless (NFC) port and a wired port, the wired port being coupled to other internal memory of the controlled device. The controlled device may write parameter data to the transfer memory via the wired port, which is later transmitted to the controller via the NFC connection for presentation via a user interface. The controller may receive (e.g., while the controller is connected or disconnected from the controlled device) adjustments to configurable parameters of the parameter data and transmit the adjustments to the transfer memory via the wireless port for updating the internal memory of the controlled device and thereby adjusting operation of the controlled device.
US11474673B1
Systems and methods are described for graphical user interfaces that enable users to graphically design nodes and interconnections of pipelines for preprocessing data later ingested into an indexing system. The preprocessing can include receiving messages published to a first publish-subscribe messaging system, the messages containing raw machine data generated by one or more components in an information technology environment, performing one or more processing operations on at least some of the messages to generate preprocessed messages, republishing the preprocessed messages to a second publish-subscribe messaging system, and providing to the indexing system, a subset of the messages from the second publish-subscribe messaging system. Nodes in the pipeline can specify the preprocessing operations, and interconnections in the pipeline can represent data flow through the nodes of the pipeline.
US11474672B2
Disclosed is a method implemented in software for providing digital multimodal content to a first user of an electronic device. The method includes displaying digital multimedia content to a first user, determining a digital multimodal content to be provided to the first user based on a demographic information, a psychographic information or a preference of the first user. The method may include receiving an input from the first user on a graphical user interface element that is displayed along with multimedia content, and may include triggering playback of the digital multimodal content in response to the first user performing actions on the graphical user interface element. The method has particular advantages as a method of providing a customized user-experience for a prospective or possible real estate transaction.
US11474671B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to measuring presentation aspects of portions of a user interface (UI) that have been identified to be presented neutrally and automatically generating a new UI that reduces differences in the presentation aspects of the identified portions. Portions of the UI identified to be presented neutrally may include elements or content in the UI identified to be presented neutrally. Portions for neutral presentation may include portions of UI that, for example, portions that present legal decisions, portions with survey data, forms or information displays, or portions where a user is requested to make a choice between alternative options. Presentation aspects that may be measured include, for example, visual aspects, clarity aspects, or tonal aspects. Reducing the differences in the presentation aspects may present the elements or content with more neutrality to reduce influence in decisions due to visual, clarity, or tonal aspects between the elements or content.
US11474666B2
A first electronic device with a touch-enabled display establishes a wireless connection with a second electronic device that controls display of a user interface on a second display. The first electronic device displays a first user interface on the touch-enabled display, the first user interface including a first affordance corresponding to first media content. While displaying the first user interface, the first electronic device detects a first user input at a location on the touch-sensitive display that corresponds to the first affordance in the first user interface. In response to detecting the first user input, the first electronic device transmits, to the second electronic device via the wireless connection, instructions enabling display of at least a portion of the first media content on substantially the entire second display controlled by the second electronic device.
US11474659B2
A system and methods are provided to manage gestures and positional data from a pointing device, considering an attention sensing device with known accuracy characteristics. The method uses the state of the user's attention and the pointing device data as input, mapping them against predefined regions on the device's screen(s). It then uses both the mapping results and raw inputs to affect the device, such as sending instructions or moving the pointing cursor.
US11474658B2
A display system may include a display panel and a processor. The processor is to cause the display panel to display data received from a first computing system and cause the display panel to display data received from one of the first computing system and a second computing system, in response to determining an idle state or an active state of the first computing system and the second computing system.
US11474656B2
A position detector as one electronic part is configured by clamping and holding a stacking body obtained by stacking a display comprising a resin frame and an LCD part and a position detecting sensor by a back bezel and a front bezel. By using an auxiliary member, an upper surface frame part of the front bezel is kept from covering a part, in a loop coil, that is disposed outside an effective display area and relates to detection of an indicated position at an end part of the effective display area.
US11474653B2
A device (1) includes a body (2) and a touch panel (3) supported by, integrated with, or underlying the body (2). The touch panel (3) includes a layer of piezoelectric material (5) disposed between a plurality of first electrodes (6) and at least one second electrode (7). The device (1) also includes at least one second piezoelectric input region (8) supported by, integrated with, or underlying a portion of the body (2) which does not correspond to the touch panel (3). The device (1) is configured to receive user input using the touch panel (3) and/or at least one piezoelectric input region (8).
US11474640B2
A touch sensitive processing method for reducing interference from pixel refresh, comprising: sensing horizontal electrodes of a touch screen three times for gathering three sensing values, the sensing steps are separated by a time period; summing the three sensing values as sums; according to the sums, determining an external conductive object is disposed near a N-th horizontal electrode among the horizontal electrode of the touch screen; emitting driving signal from the N-th horizontal electrode and sensing the driving signal via vertical electrodes of the touch screen for gathering an N-th sensing array; and calculating a position of a touch event according to the N-th sensing array and the position of the N-th horizontal electrode.
US11474639B2
An electronic device includes: a sensor layer having an active area and a peripheral area; a driving chip electrically connected to the sensor layer, wherein the sensor layer comprises a plurality of sensing units on the active area and a plurality of lines on the peripheral area and respectively electrically connected to the plurality of sensing units, each of the plurality of sensing units comprises a plurality of sub sensing units, the plurality of sub sensing units comprise a first sub sensing unit and a second sub sensing unit, the plurality of lines comprise a first line electrically connected to the first sub sensing unit and a second line electrically connected to the second sub sensing unit, and the plurality of switches comprises a first switch connected between the first line and the second line and a second switch connected between the first line and the driving chip.
US11474634B2
A touch sensor device includes a first panel, a second panel, and a drive-sense circuit (DSC). The first panel that includes first electrodes arranged in a first direction and second electrodes arranged in a second direction. The second panel includes third electrodes arranged in a third direction and fourth electrodes arranged in a fourth direction. The DSC is operably coupled via a single line to a coupling of a first electrode of the first electrodes and a first electrode of the third electrodes. The DSC is configured to provide the signal, which is generated based on a reference signal, via the single line to the coupling and simultaneously to sense the signal via the single line. The DSC generates a digital signal representative of the at least one electrical characteristic associated with the first electrode of the first electrodes and/or the first electrode of the third electrodes.
US11474627B2
The present disclosure discloses a method, an apparatus and a device for erasing handwriting on an electronic whiteboard. The method includes the following steps: obtaining first contact points; enabling an erasing mode when a quantity of the first contact points is greater than a preset value; obtaining second contact points in the erasing mode, and calculating an erasing region according to the first contact points and the second contact points; and deleting handwriting data in the erasing region. Using the method for erasing handwriting on an electronic whiteboard provided by the present disclosure can enter an erasing mode rapidly and erase handwriting effectively, thus improving the practicability of the electronic whiteboard.
US11474623B1
An example stylus pen may include a main body including a first battery and a writing tip attached to the main body. Further, the stylus pen may include a cap removably disposed on the main body to cover the writing tip. The cap may include a second battery. Furthermore, the stylus pen may include a controller to charge the first battery from the second battery.
US11474619B2
A head-worn computer includes a camera system positioned to capture a surrounding environment in front of a user, a processor that identifies a position of a plurality of light emitters mounted on a hand-held controller from images captured by the camera system and tracks the position of the plurality of light emitters as the hand-held controller moves in the surrounding environment and interprets the tracked position as positional changes of the hand-held controller. The processor uses the position of the plurality of light emitters as markers in three dimensional space, the markers used as an anchor for virtual content presented in a see-through display of the head-worn computer.
US11474615B2
An intelligent television can provide various interfaces for navigating processes associated with providing content. The user interfaces include unique visual representations and organizations that allow the user to utilize the intelligent television more easily and more effectively. Particularly, the user interfaces pertain to the display of media content, electronic programming guide information, television content, and other content. Further, the user interfaces provide unique process of transitioning between the content.
US11474610B2
A system includes one or more sensors configured to detect first motion data of a head mounted display (HMD) and second motion data of a hand device associated with the HMD. The system includes processing circuitry configured to identify one or more obstacles in an environment around the HMD. The processing circuitry is configured to provide, using the HMD, display data representing a warning regarding potential collision with the one or more obstacles in response to at least one of the first motion data or the second motion data and a distance between the HMD and the one or more obstacles or the hand device and the one or more obstacles.
US11474599B2
A method for predicting eye movement in a head mounted display (HMD). The method including tracking movement of an eye of a user with a gaze tracking system disposed in the HMD at a plurality of sample points. The method including determining velocity of the movement based on the movement of the eye. The method including determining that the eye of the user is in a saccade upon the velocity reaching a threshold velocity. The method including predicting a landing point on the display of the HMD corresponding to a direction of the eye for the saccade.
US11474597B2
A multiview autostereoscopic display includes a display area including an array of angular pixels, an eye tracker, and a processing system. Each angular pixel emits color that varies across a field of view of that angular pixel. The array of angular pixels displays different views in different viewing zones across the field of view of the display. The eye tracker detects the presence of the eyes of at least one viewer within specific viewing zones and produces eye tracking information including locations of the detected eyes within the specific viewing zones. The processing system renders a specific view for each detected eye based upon the location of the detected eye within the viewing zone with detected eyes, and generates control information for the array of angular pixels to cause the specific view for each detected eye to be displayed in the viewing zone in which that eye was detected.
US11474596B1
Disclosed herein are embodiments for managing a task including one or more skills. A server stores a virtual environment, software agents configured to collect data generated when a user interacts with the virtual environment to perform the task, and a predictive machine learning model. The server generates virtual entities during the performance of the task, and executes the predictive machine learning model to configure the virtual entities based upon data generated when the user interacts with the virtual environment. The server generates the virtual environment and the virtual entities configured for interaction with the user during display by the client device, and receives the data collected by the software agents. The system displays a user interface at the client device to indicate a measurement of each of the skills during performance of the task. The server trains the predictive machine learning model using this measurement of skills during task performance.
US11474595B2
Movement information indicating movement of the display device is obtained, and a warning is notified when the movement information is information indicating a sickness-inducing movement set in advance as movement likely to induce motion sickness.
US11474594B2
A virtual reality display method, device, apparatus and storage medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring multimedia data to be displayed and a visible region of a viewer on a curved display surface, wherein the visible region is obtained by projecting a visible range of the viewer to the curved display surface, and is not larger than a display area of the curved display surface; determining target curvatures of at least two positions in the visible region of the viewer, wherein in the target curvatures, target curvatures of different positions are related to a distance to a center of the visible region of the viewer; adjusting, based on the target curvatures of the at least two positions in the visible region, a curvature of a corresponding position on the curved display surface; and mapping the multimedia data to be displayed to the curved display surface having the adjusted curvature.
US11474588B2
In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a method of controlling power efficiency of a processor based on polling I/O. The method comprises checking at every predetermined time period whether a polling count is generated by a polling I/O operation for checking for a completion in response to an I/O request in storage; when it is checked that no polling count is generated, resetting a maximum frequency of the processor to have a default value; and converting a current operation frequency of the processor based on the polling count and an I/O sensitivity of the processor, when it is checked that the polling count is generated.
US11474586B2
A system, method and apparatus for configuring a person detection sensor. The person detection sensor may limit its transmissions in accordance with a pre-configured dwell time. The person detection sensor may receive a new dwell time from a personal communication device. When the new dwell time is received, it is stored in memory and is then used to regulate the number of transmissions of the person detection sensor in accordance with the new dwell time.
US11474581B2
A hot-swap controller regulates the supply of power from an input node to a load coupled to an output node. The controller includes at least one limiting circuit configured to control a first switch connected between the input node and the load to limit an output current of the first switch for application to the load. A control logic circuit determines a state of the first switch and outputs a local state signal, and a communication circuit responsive to the local state signal establishes a voltage or current level corresponding to the local state at a communication circuit output. A communication terminal is also provided that is responsive to the communication output and that is adapted to connect to a second communication terminal of a second hot-swap controller to communicate the local state to the second hot-swap controller.
US11474578B2
Data exchange using fan unit signal lines is disclosed, including receiving a pulse width modulated (PWM) signal on a PWM signal line of a fan unit; detecting that a frequency of the PWM signal is outside a frequency range used to control a fan speed of a fan in the fan unit; selecting a data output based on the frequency of the PWM signal; and sending the data output on a tachometric signal line of the fan unit.
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Cooling of an electronic device that includes a first portion and a second portion is provided. The first portion and the second portion are rotatable relative to each other. A first sensor measures a first temperature at a first location within or on the electronic device continuously or intermittently. A second sensor measures a second temperature at a second location within or on the electronic device continuously or intermittently. A processor identifies a first state of the electronic device or a second state of the electronic device. The processor controls operation of the electronic device based on the first measured temperature and the second measured temperature when the electronic device is in the identified first state and controls the operation of the electronic device based on the first measured temperatures but not based on the second measured temperatures when the electronic device is in the identified second state.
