US11820177B2
Provided is a technology of estimating a bending stiffness variation of a tire and estimating a tread wear amount of a tire using the same. A tire wear measuring apparatus wear includes a signal receiver configured to measure acceleration inside the tire with respect to an axial direction, which is a radial direction of the tire, for each point inside the tire, a signal analyzer configured to receive signal information from the signal receiver and estimate a tread wear rate of the tire by calculating a bending stiffness variation rate of the tire using axial acceleration inside the tire, a transmitter configured to receive and transmit analysis information, which is information on the tread wear rate of the tire, from the signal analyzer, and a control module configured to receive the analysis information from the transmitter and generate a control signal for a vehicle to which the tire is installed. Meanwhile, a physical change thereof is derived using a Flexible Ring tire model which is a mathematical model.
US11820172B2
A pneumatic tire comprises a tread rubber with a groove depth at a shoulder portion that comes into contact with a road surface of 10 mm or greater. A rubber composition of the tread rubber contains: 60 to 70 parts by mass of carbon black having a nitrogen adsorption specific surface area of 70 to 130 m2/g, 0.5 parts or greater by mass of sulfur, and a vulcanization accelerator per 100 parts by mass of diene rubber including 50 to 70 mass % of styrene-butadiene rubber, 20 to 30 mass % of butadiene rubber, and 10 to 30 mass % of natural rubber. The diene rubber has an average glass transition temperature of −65° C. or lower. A ratio of a compounded amount of the vulcanization accelerator to a compounded amount of the sulfur is 1.0 to 1.3. The tread rubber has a rubber hardness of 65 to 70 at 20° C.
US11820169B2
The wheel holding member for a vehicle has a rod-like shape, and includes: a thread portion, which is formed on an end portion on a proximal end side, and has a male thread threadedly engageable with a hub bolt hole formed in a wheel hub; a holding portion, which protrudes toward a distal end side with respect to the thread portion, and has no thread on an outer periphery thereof; and a tool insertion hole, which is exposed from an end surface on the proximal end side, and to which a tool for rotating the wheel holding member is insertable. A bottom surface of the tool insertion hole is located on the distal end side with respect to an end of the thread portion on the distal end side.
US11820168B2
A hub assembly includes an inner rotatable hub having inboard and outboard axial ends, a radial flange extending outwardly from the outboard axial end and connectable with the wheel, an inner circumferential surface, and an opposing outer circumferential surface providing inboard and outboard inner races. An outer hub is disposed about the inner hub, connectable with the chassis and has inboard and outboard axial ends, an outer circumferential surface and an inner circumferential surface. The inner surface provides inboard and outboard outer races and a central surface section extending between the two outer races. First and second sets of rolling elements are disposed between the inner and outer races. One or more sensors are each disposed on the central surface section of the outer hub and are each configured to sense strain within the outer hub generated by the rolling elements.
US11820167B2
There is provided a wheel device for a vehicle including: a wheel having an opening formed between adjacent spokes; a brake mechanism located inside the wheel in a vehicle width direction and having a brake caliper and a brake rotor; and an arc portion extending in a circular direction in the opening and suspended between the adjacent spokes. The arc portion has a recessed portion recessed outward in the vehicle width direction inside thereof in the vehicle width direction, and the arc portion and the brake caliper are located at such positions that they overlap with each other in a state viewed in the vehicle width direction.
US11820165B2
Disclosed is a printed object which, even if using a receptive layer that is difficult for a monomer in an active energy ray curable ink to penetrate, has excellent adhesion between the active energy ray curable ink and the receptive layer, and in which the amount of unreacted monomer dissipated from the printed object is low. This printed object includes an ink receptive layer laminated on a substrate surface and having an ink absorption rate of 100% or less, and an ink layer laminated on a surface of the ink receptive layer and made from an active energy ray curable ink which includes a polymerizable compound, wherein the glass transition temperature of the polymerizable compound is −45-25° C.
US11820156B2
In a method and system for increasing print quality, activation pulses are activated with which a nozzle of an inkjet printing device to print dots on a recording medium. The activation pulses may be adapted based on sensor data with respect to already printed dots. The method and system can further include an automatic adaptation of the activation pulses to increase print quality even given the presence of soiling at the nozzle.
US11820150B2
A device outputs a first low voltage to a first terminal at a first timing in a period in which a voltage input to a second terminal is a high voltage. After outputting the first low voltage, the device outputs a second high voltage to the first terminal at a second timing in a period in which the voltage input to the second terminal is a low voltage. After outputting the second high voltage, the device outputs a second low voltage to the first terminal at a third timing in a period in which the voltage input to the second terminal is a high voltage.
US11820137B2
A liquid discharging apparatus has an integrated circuit that controls supply of a driving signal to a first driving element and to a second driving element according to a discharge control signal. The integrated circuit has: a first switch circuit that receives the driving signal and switches between output and non-output of the driving signal to the first driving element; a second switch circuit that receives the driving signal and switches between output and non-output of the driving signal to the second driving element; and a switch control circuit that receives the discharge control signal and controls whether to cause each of the first switch circuit and the second switch circuit to output the driving signal. The switch control circuit controls the first switch circuit and the second switch circuit according to the first data.
US11820136B2
Although a conventional method of inspecting an ink discharge state in which the temperature change of the heater is detected enables accurate and high-speed inspection, due to the situation in which the inspection was performed, appropriate post-processing depending on the situation cannot be executed based on a result of the inspection. Therefore, it is necessary to determine the ink discharge state in detail. A plurality of modes are provided in accordance with the purpose of performing an inspection of the ink discharge state, and a discharge inspection threshold is provided for each of these modes. By selectively executing or continuously executing these modes, it is possible to determine the ink discharge state in more detail.
US11820108B2
A floor panel with a substrate and a decorative layer of wood veneer with a thickness of 1 millimeter or less and provided on the substrate. The decorative layer is provided on the substrate by means of a glue layer which is situated between the substrate and the decorative layer. The glue layer comprises hard particles with an average particle size which is at least one third of the thickness of the wood veneer. Methods for manufacturing such floor panels are provided.
US11820104B2
Aluminum alloy foil that, when used for battery packaging material, unlikely to develop pinholes or cracks even during molding of battery packaging material, and can exhibit excellent moldability. Aluminum alloy foil, which is for use in battery packaging material, wherein, with respect to cross section obtained by cutting aluminum alloy foil in vertical direction to rolling direction of aluminum alloy foil, which is a vertical direction to surface of aluminum alloy foil, proportion of total area of a {111} plane in total area of crystal planes of face-centered cubic structure, obtained by performing crystal analysis using EBSD method, is 10% or more; and with respect to cross section, a number average grain diameter R (μm) of crystals in face-centered cubic structure, obtained by performing crystal analysis using EBSD method, satisfies following equation: number average grain diameter R≤0.056X+2.0, where X=thickness (μm) of aluminum alloy foil.
US11820078B2
A 3D printing machine includes a first spinning part moving in directions of three axes, i.e., X-, Y-, and Z-axes, to melt and spin a base material; and a second spinning part moving along a moving direction of the first spinning part to spin reinforcing fiber onto an upper surface of the spun base material, and moving clockwise or counterclockwise so that the reinforcing fiber is spun onto the upper surface of the base material at a moment when the first spinning part changes a moving direction thereof to the X- or Y-axis direction.
US11820070B2
An additive manufacturing technique includes depositing, via a filament delivery device, a filament onto a surface of a substrate. The filament includes a binder and a high entropy alloy powder. The technique also includes sacrificing the binder to form a preform and sintering the preform to form a component.
US11820046B2
A modular molding device for creating a mold for a blade segment of a wind turbine blade of a wind turbine, the modular molding device including: a flexible support plate forming the mold for the blade segment, at least one bending apparatus including at least a first end and a second end, the at least one bending apparatus attached to the support plate and configured to bend the support plate from a first support plate shape to at least one second support plate shape, and at least one connection means, which is configured to removably connect the flexible support plate of the modular molding device with at least one connection of a flexible support plate of another modular molding device is provided. Moreover, a molding system and a method for creating a mold for a blade segment of a wind turbine blade of a wind turbine is also provided.
US11820044B2
A thermoplastic composite sheet may be composed of a polymer material matrix and a lightweight material that is disposed throughout the polymer material matrix. The polymer material matrix may extend continuously throughout a length, width, and thickness of the thermoplastic composite sheet. The polymer material matrix may be a fully polymerized thermoplastic material. The lightweight material may be fully saturated by the thermoplastic material of the polymer material matrix. The thermoplastic composite sheet may include between 50 and 99 weight percent of the thermoplastic material and between 1 and 50 weight percent of the lightweight material. The thermoplastic composite sheet may be free of reinforcing fibers.
US11820043B2
A display device includes a display member configured to display an image in a first direction and a cover member on the display member. The cover member includes a flexible member including a front part defining a front plane perpendicular to the first direction, and a first side part connected to a first side of the front part and defining a first side plane different from the front plane, and a rigid member partially overlapping the flexible member and on the front part.
US11820039B2
A taper jig that provides a woodworker with multifunctional use for orientating and maintaining a workpiece in order to make a tapered cut in a workpiece at desired incremental angles. The taper jig includes a first track and a second track that operably engages the first track wherein the second track is pivotably moveable relative to the first track. The taper jig also includes at least one measurement scale assembly that operably secures the first track and the second track to one another at a predetermined angle. The taper jig also includes at least one clamping handle assembly that operably engages one of the first track and the second track, wherein the at least one clamping handle assembly being adapted to clamp a workpiece. The taper jig may also include a first sled and a second sled that operably engage with the first and second tracks.
US11820031B2
The disclosure relates to a shaving cartridge for a razor head, the shaving cartridge comprising one or more blades adapted to be secured within slots of a housing of the razor head, and a core matrix partially encasing the blades, the core matrix comprising a water-soluble material, wherein the core matrix is configured to hold the blades together before use thereby forming the shaving cartridge that is configured to be removably incorporated in the housing of the razor head.
US11820026B2
A displaceable robot for performing operations using a tool near a high temperature furnace containing molten metal, wherein the robot is displaceable using a vehicle. The robot comprising: a frame having a ground interface for coming into contact with a ground surface while defining a clearance under a portion of the frame for engaging with the vehicle to displace the robot about the furnace when the ground interface is off the ground; an arm mounted to the frame, the arm comprising an end effector which is adapted for mounting the tool; a sensor for collecting at least one of exteroceptive data in a vicinity of the robot and proprioceptive data from the robot; and a controller receiving the collected data from the sensor and controlling a movement of at least the arm based on the collected data.
US11820025B2
Systems and methods monitor a workspace for safety purposes using sensors distributed about the workspace. The sensors are registered with respect to each other, and this registration is monitored over time. Occluded space as well as occupied space is identified, and this mapping is frequently updated. Based on the mapping, a constrained motion plan of machinery can be generated to ensure safety.
US11820022B2
Examples provide a system for system for customized item decanting. A robotic picker device is configured to remove a selected item from a selected case in an open configuration on a conveyor device. A decan manager, implemented on a processor, is configured to identify a destination tote in a set of totes for placement of the selected item, The robotic picker device places the selected item into the destination tote and the decant manager analyzes sensor data and item data associated with the selected item to confirm an identification of the selected item placed into the destination tote for inventory update.
US11820019B2
There is provided a robot control apparatus including a determination unit configured to determine whether or not an end condition of a task is satisfied when a robot performs the task, and a switching unit configured to perform switching to a next task corresponding to the end condition in a case where the end condition is satisfied. With this configuration, it is possible to optimally switch tasks of the robot depending on the situation.
US11820018B1
A method includes: compiling images, captured by an end effector traversing a scan path over a workpiece, into a virtual model of the workpiece; generating a toolpath based on a geometry of the workpiece represented in the virtual model; and assigning a target force to the workpiece. The method also includes, during a processing cycle: navigating a sanding head, arranged on the end effector, across the workpiece according to the toolpath; based on force values output by a force sensor coupled to the sanding head, deviating the sanding head from the toolpath to maintain forces of the sanding head on the workpiece proximal the target force; and tracking a sequence of positions of a reference point on the sanding head, traversing the workpiece, in contact with the workpiece. The method also includes transforming the virtual model into alignment with the sequence of positions of the reference point.
US11820006B2
Embodiments of present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for calibrating a laser displacement sensor for use with a robot. The apparatus comprises an auxiliary object arranged in a work space of the robot or held by the robot and comprising a planar surface adapted to be detected by the laser displacement sensor; and a controller configured to: determine a characteristic point on the planar surface of the auxiliary object based on a detection result from the laser displacement sensor; cause the laser displacement sensor to point at the characteristic point for plural times with the same angle and different distances to obtain an orientation of the laser displacement sensor; and cause the laser displacement sensor to point at the characteristic point for plural times with different angles and the same distance to obtain a relative position relationship between the laser displacement sensor and the robot.
US11820001B2
An autonomous working system, an autonomous working method, and a computer readable recording medium are provided. The autonomous working system includes a master working robot and at least one slave working robot, in which the master working robot including a data receiving unit to receive information on space targeted for working, a sensing unit to sense the space targeted for working, a sensing setting unit to set a movement path of the master working robot, a sensing position, and a sensing angle of the sensing unit, and a first position determination unit to determine a position of the master working robot by comparing sensing data obtained through the sensing unit at the sensing position with reference map data, and the at least one slave working robot includes a second position determination unit that determines the position of the at least one slave working robot.
US11819995B1
An inanimate magnetically attractable object retrieval apparatus configured to retrieve small, inanimate, magnetically attractable objects from confining spaces with magnetic forces. The apparatus comprises a head comprising magnetic material permanently attached to a first end region of a flexible body that has a tail with a width and a length. The length is able to be reversibly bent in a 180 degree arc with a diameter of 1 inch only in a plane perpendicular to a plane containing the width and the length of the tail and unable to be reversibly bent in a 180 degree arc with a diameter of 1 inch in a plane parallel to the plane containing the width and the length of the tail.
US11819982B2
Disclosed is a high-loading ratchet tool, which has a main body, a braking structure and a working part, wherein the main body forms a first receiving groove, a second receiving groove and a third receiving groove, and the second receiving groove and the third receiving groove are mainly composed of two circular surfaces, and the braking structure is disposed on the main body. The braking structure has a ratchet, and the two ends of the ratchet respectively form a first shaft segment and a second shaft segment. The first shaft segment is disposed in the second receiving groove, and the second shaft segment is disposed in the third receiving groove. According to this, the relative force of the first shaft segment and the second shaft segment and the main body is dispersed, and enhancing the working part restrictions on external torsion.
US11819976B2
Methods and apparatuses for dispensing polishing fluids onto a polishing pad within a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) system are disclosed herein. In particular, embodiments herein relate to a CMP polishing method including urging a substrate against a surface of a pad of a polishing system using a carrier assembly. A fluid is dispensed onto the pad from a fluid delivery assembly at a variable flow rate and a first flow rate of the variable flow rate is pulsed at a frequency and a duty cycle. The frequency refers to a number of pulses of the fluid at the first flow rate per rotation of the pad. The term duty cycle refers to a percentage of the pad exposed to fluid per rotation of the pad. The carrier assembly is translated across a surface of the pad while rotating the carrier assembly about a rotational axis.
US11819974B2
One example provides a grinding positioning plate for a reel-type mower unit including a cutting reel having a rotational axis. The grinding positioning plate includes a main body including a pivot element having a pivot axis, and at least one pair of clamping assemblies, each clamping assembly to clamp to a corresponding mounting flange of the reel-type mower unit to mount the main body to reel-type mower unit such that the pivot axis is in parallel with the rotational axis and at a known horizontal distance from the rotational axis.
US11819972B1
A pneumatic machine tool comprises a handle with one end being a first pivot connecting end, and a tool head. The handle comprises a main flow channel extending to the first pivot connecting end, and a switch assembly provided in the main flow channel. The tool head comprises a main body, a tool driving assembly disposed in the main body, and two pivot connecting arms formed on the main body and disposed side by side. The two pivot connecting arms are served as a second pivot connecting. The main body is formed with a chamber provided for disposing the tool driving assembly, and at least one secondary flow channel communicating with the chamber and extending to the two pivot connecting arms. The pivot shaft comprises a transfer flow channel and two transfer ports communicating with the channel.
US11819968B2
A rotary hammer includes a housing, a first motor supported by the housing and defining a first motor axis, a second motor supported by the housing and defining a second motor axis that is coaxial with the first motor axis, and a spindle coupled to the first motor for receiving torque from the first motor, causing the spindle to rotate. The rotary hammer further includes a reciprocation mechanism operable to create a variable pressure air spring within the spindle. The reciprocation mechanism includes a piston configured to reciprocate within the spindle in response to receiving torque from the second motor, a striker that is selectively reciprocable within the spindle in response to reciprocation of the piston, and an anvil that is impacted by the striker when the striker reciprocates towards the tool bit. The anvil imparts axial impacts to the tool bit.
US11819964B2
Provided is a nut and a bolt tightening method for fastening an object, wherein a tightening force is applied on the object by rotating a nut or a bolt in a state in which a predetermined tension force is applied on the bolt in the axial direction of the bolt. When the tensile force exerted on the bolt decreases as the tightening force increases and after a timing when an inflection point occurs in a time course change in a ratio of an amount of change in the tensile force exerted on the bolt to an amount of change in an angle of rotation of the nut or the bolt, the tightening resulting from the rotation of the nut or bolt is terminated and the tensile force applied on the bolt is removed.
US11819960B2
Methods and apparatus to communicate via a weld cable are disclosed. An example welding accessory includes a first port to receive input power via a first weld cable, a power converter to convert the input power to output power, a second port to output the input power via a second weld cable, and one or more output switches to selectively divert the input power from the power converter to the second port.
US11819956B2
An aluminum alloy brazing sheet used for brazing in an inert gas atmosphere without using a flux includes a brazing material cladded onto at least one side surface of a core material. An oxide is formed on a surface of the aluminum alloy brazing sheet by brazing heating, the oxide including any one or two or more of Mg, Li, and Ca and having a volume change ratio of 0.990 or less to a surface oxide film formed before brazing heating, and an atomic molar ratio of Mg, Li, and Ca to Al in the oxide formed on the surface of the aluminum alloy brazing sheet before brazing heating is 0.50 or less. The present invention provides an aluminum alloy brazing sheet having excellent brazability in brazing in an inert gas atmosphere without using a flux, and a method for manufacturing the same.
US11819954B2
A metallic part is disclosed. The part may comprise a functionally graded monolithic structure characterized by a variation between a first material composition of a first structural element and a second material composition of at least one of a second structural element. The first material composition may comprise an alpha-beta titanium alloy. The second material composition may comprise a beta titanium alloy.
US11819951B2
A resistance soldering system includes a power input receiving an alternating current from a power source and a controller circuit generating a control signal indicative of a desired power level delivered for a desired time. The resistance soldering system further includes a silicon-controlled rectifier connected to the power input and the controller circuit and producing a control voltage proportional to the control signal and a transformer having a primary side receiving the control voltage and a secondary side having output leads configured to apply an output voltage to a solder joint disposed between the output leads. The controller circuit determines the control signal applied to the silicon-controlled rectifier required to melt the solder joint based on the desired power level and the desired time. The controller circuit controls the desired power level independent of the desired time. A method of operating a resistance soldering system is also presented.
US11819942B2
A pressing device for a laser welding apparatus includes an arm member with opposite mounting and pressing ends. A pressing pad at the pressing end has an opening for allowing a laser beam to irradiate a workpiece assembly that is being pressed by the pressing device. The mounting end has a mounting structure for detachably securing the pressing device to the laser welding apparatus. The arm member is shaped to position the opening at a known fixed distance from a laser source of the laser welding apparatus. The pressing pad has a pressing surface on a workpiece-facing side thereof for applying a joining force to the workpiece assembly at a welding location. At least one of the size, shape and smoothness of the pressing surface allows a sliding-contact movement of the pressing surface along a surface of the workpiece assembly during application of the pressing force.
US11819938B2
A method of sealing a hole in a wall of a hollow structure comprises providing a sealed chamber that is external to the structure and that is in fluid communication with an internal space of the structure via the hole. The structure may be a pipe-in-pipe structure and the internal space may be an annulus between outer and inner pipes. Fluid flows through the hole into or out of the chamber as the pressure and/or composition of fluid in the internal space is adjusted. Then, a plug is spun and friction-welded into the hole. The plug is inserted into the hole from within the chamber.
US11819927B2
A cutting insert capable of performing front-turning and high feed back-turning according to one embodiment includes: an upper surface; a lower surface opposite to the upper surface in a vertical direction; a side portion configured to connect the upper surface and the lower surface; a mounting hole extending through the upper surface and the lower surface; and a plurality of cutting edges formed at edges where the upper surface meets the side portion, wherein the upper surface has one or more cutting corners, the plurality of cutting edges include a major cutting edge and a minor cutting edge extending from the cutting corner, and a representative inclination of the minor cutting edge used for high feed back-turning is greater than a representative inclination of the major cutting edge used for front-turning with respect to a virtual reference plane perpendicular to the vertical direction.
US11819922B2
The present invention addresses the problem of providing a method that enables easy manufacturing of silver nanowires which have an average diameter smaller than those obtained from methods in the related art and in which the proportion of large diameter silver nanowires is reduced. Provided is a method for manufacturing silver nanowires, in which the silver nanowires are obtained from a silver salt using the silver salt, a halide salt, and a growth control agent in a polyol, and at least one selected from the group consisting of α-angelica lactone, phthalide, and a compound represented by General Formula (1) below (in General Formula (1), R1 and R3 each represent an alkyl group having 1-4 carbon atoms, and R2 represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, an alkoxyl group having 1-4 carbon atoms, or a acyloxy group having 2-6 carbon atoms) is further used as a furanone derivative (a).
US11819921B2
There is provided a method of forming cutting blades using selective laser melting comprising positioning a first part of an elongate strip (30) with pre-formed teeth (32) within a powder bed (20), forming coating layers layer-by-layer to create a cutting surface on each pre-formed tooth by repeatedly depositing a layer of powder on the powder bed and scanning a laser beam over the deposited powder to fuse powder to the pre-formed teeth.
US11819919B2
Disclosed is a braze putty composition including a sacrificial binder, a first nickel alloy and a second nickel alloy, a method of making the putty, and a method for using this putty to repair castings.
US11819918B2
A method of producing a machining segment, in which a green body (51) is constructed from a machining zone (54), wherein the machining zone (54) is produced from a first metallic powder material (56) and hard material particles (58), the green body (51) is compacted under pressure with a compression pressure to result in a compact body and the compact body is sintered thermally at a sintering temperature to result in the finished machining segment, wherein the machining zone (54) is produced by layer-by-layer application of material layers of the first metallic powder material (56) and particle layers of the hard material particles (58), wherein the hard material particles (58) in one particle layer are placed into the previously applied material layer of the first metallic powder material (56).
US11819914B2
A silver powder containing: silver particles; and an adherent that is attached to surfaces of the silver particles and contains a metal oxide that has a melting point lower than a melting point of silver.
US11819911B2
A die-casting machine has a casting mould, a casting chamber, a casting piston arranged in an axially movable manner in the casting chamber, a melt inlet channel which leads into the casting chamber, a shut-off valve in the melt inlet channel, a melt outlet channel which leads from the casting chamber to the casting mould, and a control unit for controlling the casting piston. The control unit and the shut-off valve are configured, after completing a filling phase in a subsequent refilling phase firstly to bring the shut-off valve into an open position and to control the casting piston to move back into the casting start position, in order to supply the casting chamber with melt material via the melt inlet channel, and to control the shut-off valve into its closed position again before the casting piston has reached its casting start position by virtue of its return movement, and to control the casting piston to back-suction melt material in the melt outlet channel by virtue of the further return movement of the casting piston.
US11819906B2
A press machine comprises a moveable press ram, an actuator, a first motor system, a second motor system, and a belt system. The moveable press ram holds a tool that forms a part. The actuator linearly moves the moveable press ram by use of a male-female thread mechanism. The actuator includes an actuator sprocket coupled to the male-female thread mechanism. The first motor system produces a high-force linear movement condition to the press ram, and includes a clutch coupled to a first motor and a first motor sprocket coupled to the clutch. The second motor system produces a high-speed linear movement condition to the press ram. The belt system couples the actuator sprocket, the first motor sprocket, and the second motor sprocket. The clutch allows the first motor to partially or fully disengage from rotational movement of the first sprocket when the belt is being driven by the second motor.
US11819905B2
According to a first aspect of the invention there as provided a method of forming a riveted joint comprising a UHSS layer and a non-UHSS layer using a self-piercing rivet comprising a head and a shank, an outer diameter of a top of the shank being greater than an outer diameter of a bottom of the shank before insertion of the rivet, the method comprising pushing the self-piercing rivet into the UHSS layer such that the lower portion of the shank flares outwards and cuts a slug from the UHSS, and pushing the flared shank of the self-piercing rivet and the slug into the non-UHSS layer such that the non-UHSS layer deforms into a die recess and flows around an outer surface of the flared shank.
US11819894B2
A method and device of embossing individually light-reflecting areas on a foil material, the method and device comprising feeding a foil material into a roller nip between a pair of rollers, wherein the pair of rollers comprises a first roller and a second roller, providing each of the first roller and second roller at their respective surfaces at least in a determined perimeter, respectively with a plurality of polyhedron-shaped positive projections and a plurality of negative projections complementary to the positive projections, whereby the plurality of positive projections are arranged according to a 2-dimensional grid. The plurality of polyhedron-shaped positive projections seamlessly and gaplessly join with those corresponding negative projections at the intended embossing of the foil material, hence enabling a homogeneously jointed embossed polyhedron-like shape in the foil. The method and device further comprise, for the purpose of providing a plurality of light-reflecting areas on the foil material, that are intended to reflect light in line with a table of reflectivity values for the 2-dimensional grid, according to an orientation and shape of each of the plurality of light-reflecting areas, and enabling a perception by the human eye of a user, of the intended reflected light on a determined wide viewing angle covered by reflected light from any of the light-reflecting areas, a step of adjusting for each of the plurality of light-reflecting areas to be provided, an orientation and shape of the corresponding positive projection in the 2-dimensional grid, that is intended to emboss the light-reflecting area.
US11819887B2
An automated or manual laser ablation system and method of use to enable safe, non-user-contact, rapid, and remote cleaning of industrial tubular equipment, e.g. heat-exchangers and reactors. The laser ablation system comprises: a fiber optic cable (12) with a laser probe output end (20), connected to an optics unit (5 or 6) enclosed within a laser probe housing (14). The optics unit comprises: a double convex and/or one or two plano-convex lens; and an Axicon prism, mirror cone, and/or galvo-scanning mirror to emit a rotating or a fixed circular beam. The laser beam cleans a plurality of reactor tubes' internal wall to cause the evaporation of deposit buildups and rust. The laser ablation system further comprises: an air vacuum system (30) positioned to cool the ablation system while removing the debris to a vacuum generator (35); and/or a push motor (60) that pushes and pulls the system through the tubes.
US11819885B2
Provided is a method for processing electronic and electrical device component scraps, which can selectively recover a substrate scrap including a substance intended to be recovered. A method for processing electronic and electrical device component scraps, including separating a substrate with lead wires contained in the electronic and electrical device component scraps before sorting the electronic and electrical device component scraps by magnetic sorting.
US11819875B2
Provided is an adhesive application system configured to apply a necessary and sufficient amount of an adhesive to a thin steel strip without causing an increase in the equipment cost. The adhesive application system comprises an adhesive application device having adhesive dispensing nozzles (26, 27) for dispensing an adhesive to an adhesive application surface of a thin steel strip; a mechanism configured to elevate and lower the adhesive application device; and adhesive supply ports (17, 18) for supplying the adhesive at a predetermined pressure to the adhesive application device, wherein the adhesive application device has an end face that is to be brought into abutment against the thin steel strip, and wherein outlets of the adhesive dispensing nozzles (26, 27) are spaced inwardly away from the end face of the adhesive application device so that the outlets of the adhesive dispensing nozzles (26, 27) are maintained at a predetermined distance from a lower surface of the thin steel strip.
US11819871B2
Disclosed are methods and wearable electronic devices for dispensing substances, it being possible to release the substances by means of a diffuser or atomiser system. The device, which has a function that allows the wearing of swappable capsules containing substances, comprises specific connectors that allow the complete modularity of the capsules, of the display/control pane and of the straps, thereby permitting the device to be fully personalised and optimised. The tightening/loosening and attachment system allows the device to be secured to a body automatically and intuitively. Of note is the inclusion of motors, sensors, readers and antennas in the system, which allow sensory impact to be integrated into the use experience (emission of visual, haptic or olfactory signals). In addition, communication and identification systems integrated into the elements provide interoperability between same, with other devices and between users.
US11819864B2
A method for applying thin film material onto a substrate comprises: forming microdroplets of a solvent and a solute material forming the thin film material; depositing the microdroplets on an upper surface of a micro-structured mesh, wherein the microdroplets are deposited to allow coalescing into droplets extending into the micro-structured mesh; and arranging a surface of the substrate in close relation to a bottom surface of the micro-structured mesh such that a capillary force draws liquid of the droplets onto the surface of the substrate, whereby forced dynamic wetting of the surface of the substrate is provided to form a liquid film on the surface of the substrate.
US11819863B2
A reversible paint spray tip, including a barrel portion configured to be inserted into a barrel bore of a tip holder, and a tip flag portion attached to the barrel portion and positioned generally transversely of the barrel portion. The tip flag portion includes a handle portion defining a handle axis, integrally formed with a first end of the tip flag portion, and an alignment portion defining an alignment axis, integrally formed with a second and opposing end of the tip flag portion. The handle axis and the alignment axis are non-collinear and intersect at an angle relative to the handle portion to prevent interference of the handle portion and barrel portion with one or more guards of the tip holder when the alignment portion is positioned in the barrel bore while in an alignment position.
US11819859B2
A field-flow fractionation device includes a separation channel, a carrier fluid supplier, a separation membrane, a waste liquid chamber, a cross-flow flow rate adjuster, and a carrier fluid adder. The carrier fluid adder is configured to add, to a flow of a carrier fluid having passed through the separation membrane, a flow of another carrier fluid at a carrier fluid adding position set on an upstream side of the cross-flow flow rate adjuster so that the flow rate of the carrier fluid flowing into the cross-flow flow rate adjuster is larger than the flow rate of the carrier fluid having passed through the separation membrane.
US11819854B2
A placement holder 1 for an analysis according to the present invention includes a frame portion 10 for placing an analysis plate, and a coupling portion 11; wherein the analysis plate includes, respectively at opposite ends in a longitudinal direction thereof, protrusions protruding in the longitudinal direction; the frame portion 10 includes a pair of wall portions that are opposed to each other, and a space surrounded by the frame portion 10 has an area 12 in which the analysis plate is to be placed; the pair of wall portions have a pair of cavities 13 into which the protrusions of the analysis plate are to be inserted, and at least one of the pair of cavities 13 is a through hole; the wall portion having the through hole has, on an inner surface thereof, an inclined surface 14 formed such that an interval between inner surfaces of the pair of wall portions gradually decreases from an upper end side toward the through hole of the wall portion; and the coupling portion 11 is disposed below the pair of cavities 13 so as to couple one of the wall portions to the other wall portion.
US11819850B2
A fluid handling device includes a sample channel configured to carry a sample; a dispersion medium channel configured to carry dispersion medium; a dispersion liquid generation part connected to the sample channel and the dispersion medium channel, and configured to generate dispersion liquid by dividing the sample by the dispersion medium, the dispersion liquid being liquid in which droplets of the sample are dispersed in the dispersion medium; and a dispersion liquid channel connected to the dispersion liquid generation part. The dispersion liquid generation part includes a protrusion.
US11819849B2
Microfluidic structures and methods for manipulating fluids and reactions are provided. Such structures and methods may involve positioning fluid samples, e.g., in the form of droplets, in a carrier fluid (e.g., an oil, which may be immiscible with the fluid sample) in predetermined regions in a microfluidic network. In some embodiments, positioning of the droplets can take place in the order in which they are introduced into the microfluidic network (e.g., sequentially) without significant physical contact between the droplets. Because of the little or no contact between the droplets, there may be little or no coalescence between the droplets. Accordingly, in some such embodiments, surfactants are not required in either the fluid sample or the carrier fluid to prevent coalescence of the droplets. Structures and methods described herein also enable droplets to be removed sequentially from the predetermined regions.
US11819846B2
In order to induce aging while cutting the costs associated with adding cytokines at different aging stages, in a system for aging induction including a first culture chamber for perfusing, with a culture medium, a subject of aging-induction, the subject of aging-induction being derived from a living organism; a second culture chamber for perfusing, with a culture medium, a secretor that secretes a cytokine; and a control device for aging induction including a detection unit, a memory unit and a control unit, a protocol for aging induction defining a procedure of aging induction is stored, and in the control unit, an aging state of the subject of aging-induction is detected with a detection unit, and based on the protocol for aging induction, a flow rate at which the culture medium containing the cytokine secreted by the secretor is supplied to the subject of aging-induction is controlled according to the aging state of the subject of aging-induction.
US11819844B2
A process for evaluating efficacy of a deodorant product includes: introducing sweat into a main channel formed in a fluidic device satisfying particular requirements; measuring a flow rate of the sweat in the main channel and transmitting the flow rate to a controller; imposing a pressure set point on the pressure actuator by closed-loop control so the flow rate of the sweat in the main channel is controllable; contacting the sweat and a deodorant product and reacting the sweat and the deodorant product with each other, the deodorant product being provided in a particular manner, wherein while the sweat and the deodorant product react with each other, the flow rate of the sweat in the main channel is maintained at substantially zero; and determining at least one of a physicochemical parameter and a biological parameter of a product of the reaction between the sweat and a the deodorant product.
US11819842B2
A system for buoyant separation includes a separation container. Additionally or alternatively, the system can include an automated instrument, one or more processing components, and/or any other components. A method for buoyant separation can include any or all of: manipulating the separation container; adding materials to the separation container; removing materials form the separation container; otherwise processing the separation container; and/or any other processes.
US11819841B2
The invention relates to an apparatus for receiving a body fluid, wherein the apparatus comprises a first chamber with a displaceable wall and a second chamber of a constant effective size, said second chamber being movable with respect to the displaceable wall, wherein the apparatus is designed to connect the first chamber and the second chamber during a longitudinally axial movement of the second chamber with respect to the displaceable wall and to transfer body fluid from the first chamber to the second chamber during a movement of the second chamber together with the displaceable wall.
US11819839B2
Methods of sulfurizing metal containing particles in the absence of hydrogen are described. One method includes contacting a bed of metal containing particles with a gaseous stream comprising hydrogen sulfide and inert gas under reaction conditions sufficient to produce sulfided metal containing particles. The gaseous stream is introduced into a vertical reactor at an inlet positioned at the bottom portion of the reactor and any unreacted hydrogen sulfide and inert gas is removed at an outlet positioned above the inlet. The sulfided metal containing particles can be removed from the reactor and stored.
US11819838B2
The present invention provides a supply system enabling a precursor of a solid material or a precursor of a liquid material to be supplied to a latter process at no higher concentration than required and also at or above a predetermined concentration. A supply system 1 comprises: a vessel 11 for receiving a precursor material; a vessel heating unit for heating the vessel at a set temperature; a carrier gas heating unit which is disposed in an introduction line L1 and heats a carrier gas; a main measurement unit which is disposed in an outward conduction line L2 and obtains data relating to a gas of the precursor; and a carrier gas temperature control unit for controlling the temperature of the carrier gas heating unit in accordance with a measurement result of the main measurement unit.
US11819837B2
The invention relates to monocarbonyl complexes of ruthenium and osmium with bi- and tridentate nitrogen and phosphine ligands. The invention relates to methods for preparing these complexes and the use of these complexes, isolated or prepared in situ, as catalysts for reduction reactions of ketones and aldehydes both via transfer hydrogenation or hydrogenation with hydrogen.
US11819836B2
The disclosure is related to the field of preparation of nanometer materials, and, in particular, to a method for synthesizing a 2D ultrathin zeolitic imidazolate framework-67 (ZIF-67) with a hierarchical porous structure, the method converting ZIF-67 from nanoparticles into 2D ultrathin nanosheets with a hierarchical porous structure by controlling a dropping amount of water and the reaction time. With the method, the 2D ultrathin ZIF-67 with a hierarchical porous structure can be made from readily available starting materials in a one pot synthesis. The method is feasible on industrial scale and has both economic and environmental benefits due to the simple process and low cost.
US11819835B2
Described herein are heterogeneous catalysts for removing impurities, such as halogen oxyanions (e.g., ClO4− and ClO3−), from a fluid, the catalyst can comprise: an oxygen atom transfer (OAT) transition metal, a Group VIII metal, and a support, where the transition metal, and the Group VIII metal can be in physical communication with the support either directly or indirectly through each other, whereby the catalyst can chemically remove impurities from the fluid. Certain embodiments provide catalysts that further comprise nitrogen donor ligand(s). Accordingly, such catalysts that comprise the OAT transition metal in the form of a complex with one or more nitrogen donor ligands have enhanced efficiency in reducing halogen oxyanion (e.g., ClO4−) to Cl−. Also described are methods or kits for making the catalysts and methods or reactor for the treatment of a fluid utilizing the catalyst.
US11819833B2
A nanocomposite photocatalyst is provided. The nanocomposite photocatalyst contains carbon nitride particles, a polymer composite comprising a conducting polymer and a carbon nanomaterial, the polymer composite being disposed on the carbon nitride particles, and noble metal nanoparticles disposed on both the polymer composite and the carbon nitride particles. Also provided is a method of forming the nanocomposite photocatalyst and a method of photodegrading an organic pollutant in water using the nanocomposite photocatalyst and visible light irradiation.
US11819823B2
Thermo-responsive hydrogel composite (TRHC) desiccants having high adsorption capacities, fast adsorption/desorption rates, and low regeneration temperatures (Treg) compared to traditional desiccants. TRHC desiccants may be synthesized by freeze drying. The porous structures resulting from freeze drying copolymers of thermo-responsive polymers and/or hygroscopic agents may be combined with hygroscopic inorganic salts, resulting in TRHC desiccants having superior performance properties.
US11819811B2
A premixing device includes: a gas flow passage forming member in which an x direction is used as an axial length direction, and a Venturi-shaped gas flow passage into which air can flow in from the outside is formed inside; and a blade portion positioned in the gas flow passage, extending in a y direction, and equipped with a fuel gas outlet. The blade portion includes first and second blade portions spaced apart from each other in a z direction, and an air flow path near the center through which a part of the air flows is formed between these first and second blade portions. At least one of a pair of surfaces of the first and second blade portions facing each other is equipped with an inner bulging portion that bulges in the z direction so as to squeeze a part of the air flow path near the center.
US11819806B1
Methods for manufacturing a solid state ionic conductive membrane on a macro porous support scaffold
A method for manufacturing a solid state ionic conductive membrane includes forming a solid state ionic conductive membrane on a support scaffold and treating the support scaffold to be macro porous.
US11819805B2
The pressure of fluid being conveyed through a fluid flow path during a biological fluid procedure is detected during the procedure. The fluid is conveyed through the fluid flow path 1) at a first pre-determined rate if pressure is zero to a first pressure threshold; 2) at the first pre-determined rate if pressure is greater than the first pressure threshold but less than or equal to a second pressure threshold and if an immediately preceding rate is equal to the first pre-determined rate; 3) at a second pre-determined rate if pressure is greater than the first pressure threshold but less than or equal to the second pressure threshold and if an immediately preceding rate is equal to the second pre-determined rate; and 4) at the second pre-determined rate if pressure value is greater than the second pressure threshold but less than or equal to a third pressure threshold.
US11819803B2
A method for calculating carbon credits includes obtaining sensor data associated with at least a portion of a deployment for cultivating a target product in a body of water, executing at least one model based at least in part on the sensor data to generate an output predicting at least one characteristic associated with the target product, the deployment, or a portion of the body of water, and inputting the output into a quantification model. The quantification model is executed to generate an output associated with a predicted capacity of the target product to sequester carbon dioxide. An accuracy of the predicted capacity resulting from the output of the quantification model is greater than an accuracy of a predicted or inferred capacity resulting from the output of each model individually. Carbon dioxide offset credits are determined based on the predicted capacity resulting from the output of the quantification model.
US11819799B2
An acid gas absorber includes a co-current flue gas-lean solution section and a packed counter-current flue gas-liquid phase section useful in a method of capturing an acid gas from flue gas in a more efficient and cost effective manner.
US11819794B2
The present invention discloses a gas hydrate-based particulate/waste gas simultaneous removal system and method. R134a can be used to synthesize particulates/coking waste gases into gas hydrate, which can realize the simultaneous removal of particulates/coking waste gases with no pollution and low energy consumption. The system comprises a waste heat recovery device, a gas hydrate primary dust removal tower, a solid-liquid separation primary tower, a gas hydrate secondary dust removal tower, a solid-liquid separation secondary tower, a gas hydrate decomposition pool, a gas-solid separation tower and a low temperature fractionation device. The present invention can achieve the removal of harmful substances such as heavy metals and coking waste gases while removing particulates. Compared with the current particulate control and waste gas treatment device, the gas hydrate method-based device is greatly simplified and can effectively remove multiple pollutants and realize energy saving and environmental protection.
US11819785B2
Filtration head (1) for a filter system, comprising base (2) including filter support (3) for removable filter element (4) and a fluid path from one side of filter element (4) on filter support (3), through filter element (4), and to drainage outlet (5) of base (2), and holder device (6) for removably attaching funnel (7) to base (2) to form a sample fluid reservoir on one side of filter element (4), wherein holder device (6) comprises ring-shaped element (8) configured to extend about bottom peripheral flange (7a) surrounding a lower end of funnel (7) and to selectively apply a biasing force on a radially outward protruding portion (7b) of bottom peripheral flange (7a) of funnel (7) to press funnel (7) against base (2). The filtration head allows the use of cardboard funnels without risk of liquid leakage between the funnel and the base.
US11819781B2
Disclosed is a device for a solid phase extraction comprising two or more of the sorbents to remove phospholipids and salts from a sample, to thereby eliminate matrix effects during mass spectrometry analysis. In particular, the sorbents includes at least one sorbent which is water-wettable and contains at least one hydrophobic component and at least one hydrophilic component and at least one of sorbent having a specific affinity for a matrix interference like phospholipids. Further disclosed is a method using the device of the present invention.
US11819780B2
Fittings for capillaries, such as those in chromatographic systems, can be difficult to reliably assemble. The invention relates to a connector for providing a fluid connection between a capillary and a fluid conduit, said connector comprising: a capillary holder for receiving an end of the capillary, said capillary comprising inner capillary tubing, wherein the inner capillary tubing of the received end of the capillary is located within a compliant material sleeve; a deformable portion configured for deforming so that the compliant material of the sleeve in the capillary holder is deformed to create a seal between the inner capillary tubing and the connector; and a receiving portion configured to receive a fitting at an end of the fluid conduit; wherein the capillary holder and the receiving portion are connected so that the connector is configured to fluidly connect the capillary and the fluid conduit.
US11819779B2
A chromatographic separation method for separating plural components contained in a liquid to be separated by a chromatography, with a separating device 1 including plural filling portions 10 filled with a separating agent for separating the plural components contained in the liquid to be separated, a supply portion 20 provided in each of the plural filling portions 10 to supply the liquid to be separated or an eluent for extracting any component contained in the liquid to be separated to the filling portion 10, and an extraction portion 30 to extract any component contained in the liquid to be separated from the filling portion 10, the method including: an upward supplying and extracting step of extracting any component contained in the liquid to be separated from an upward stream extraction portion while supplying the eluent to at least one filling portion 10 from an upward stream supply portion by an upward stream.
US11819776B1
The solar-powered system for generating steam and distilled water includes a first conduit having an inlet for receiving a feed stream of water and an outlet for dispensing heated water. The first conduit has at least one steam vent for releasing at least a first volume of steam. At least one evacuated tube collector is in fluid communication with the first conduit for solar heating of the feed stream of water to produce the heated water and the at least first volume of steam. At least one boiler is in fluid communication with the first conduit for receiving a portion of the heated water for boiling thereof to produce a second volume of steam. At least one photovoltaic panel is in electrical communication with the at least one boiler for providing power thereto, and a condenser receives the second volume of steam for condensation thereof into distilled water.
US11819775B1
A single-shot/repeating switching device is provided for a toy gun that includes an outer casing, a bolt seat, a trigger link, and a trigger section. The single-shot/repeating switching device includes: an adjustment hole formed between the outer casing and the bolt seat, an adjustment seat having a toothed rail, a pinion rod rotatably arranged on the toothed rail, an operating portion arranged on the pinion rod and extended to outside of the adjustment hole, a coupling portion formed on the adjustment seat and opposite to the toothed rail, and a movable arrestor joined by a joining part to the coupling portion. A user may push, from the outside the operating portion to cause corresponding motions of the pinion rod and the toothed rail so as to drive the movable arrestor by means of the adjustment seat to selectively block a movement of the trigger link for efficient single-shot/repeating switchability.
US11819772B2
A method and system for activating and cancelling a first or second turn signal indicator for an R/C vehicle are provided. The method may include determining that the R/C vehicle is stationary and reading a rotation of a steering input to a stationary activation threshold. In addition, the method may include activating the turn signal indicator on a side of the R/C vehicle and setting an active turn signal indicator to on. Further actions in the method may involve determining that the R/C vehicle is in motion and reading a rotation of the steering input to a moving initiation threshold. Still further actions may include reading a rotation of the steering input in another direction to a moving cancellation threshold and deactivating the first or second turn signal indicator and setting the active turn signal indicator to off.
US11819766B2
A game of a type progressing through presentation of physical game items is enabled to be held or watched online. A game watching system enables watching of a competitive game progressing through presentation of physical game items between players. The game watching system includes: a playing terminal that is associated with a player, and includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information on a physical game item of the player, a first display control unit configured to control displaying of information on a first display unit, and a first information communication unit; a watching terminal that is associated with a spectator, and includes: a second display control unit configured to control displaying of information on a second display unit, and a second information communication unit; and a connection device including a connection unit configured to establish communicable connection between a plurality of the playing terminals associated with players participating in the competitive game, and the watching terminal associated with the spectator of the competitive game. For the competitive game for which the communicable connection is established by the connection unit, the first display control unit of the playing terminal associated with each of the players participating causes the first display unit to display information on the physical game item acquired by the acquisition unit of the playing terminal associated with another one of the players participating, when progress of the competitive game reaches a predetermined stage, whereas the second display control unit of the watching terminal associated with the spectator of the competitive game causes the second display unit to display the information on the physical game item acquired by the acquisition unit of the playing terminals associated with the players participating, regardless of the progress of the competitive game.
US11819765B2
Systems and methods for transfer of rights pertaining to game assets operate between users of an online gaming platform. Exemplary implementations may: tokenize a game asset into a tokenized game asset; record, on a distributed blockchain, ownership of a beneficiary right to a share resulting from selling the game asset; responsive to a sale of the game asset, transfer the share resulting from the sale to a first beneficiary; responsive to a transfer of ownership of a particular virtual item from the first beneficiary to a second beneficiary, and responsive to a second sale of the game asset, transferring a second share resulting from the second sale to the second beneficiary in accordance with the beneficiary right.
US11819764B2
Technology is described for surfacing contextually related resources to a player of a video game by way of a surfacing platform. In a method embodiment, an operation processes a query from a player of a video game that is related to completing an objective. The method includes operations for processing game data of the player for determining a current state and processing game data of other players that have completed the objective. The method further includes operations for identifying successful attempts of completing the objective by other players and the resources used in doing so. The method selects a resource that is usable by the player to complete the objective based on those resources by the other players in the successful attempts and presents the resource to the player for immediate use.
US11819763B2
Embodiments of this disclosure describe a method and an apparatus for controlling a virtual object to interact with a projectile, and a storage medium, and belong to the field of computer technologies. The method includes: controlling the virtual object to pick up the projectile in a virtual scene; determining a position of the projectile as an initial position, and determining a shooting direction of a camera of the virtual scene as a throwing direction of the projectile; determining a motion trajectory of the projectile according to the initial position, the throwing direction, an initial throwing speed of the projectile, and a motion law of an object under an influence of gravity acceleration, so that the motion trajectory is a curve conforming to the motion law; and displaying, in the virtual scene, the motion trajectory. The determined motion trajectory takes into account the influence of gravity, and conforms to the motion law of an object under the influence of gravity acceleration, so that accuracy is improved, and an effect of simulating a realistic scene can be achieved.
US11819760B2
Methods and systems for tracking a game asset used in a video game includes generating a non-fungible token for the game asset used in the video game. Use of the game asset in the video game is monitored during gameplay to identify a qualifying event occurring in the video game in which the game asset is used. The NFT is updated using metadata associated with the qualifying event. The metadata is used to build legacy of the game asset and to track use of the digital asset in the video game.
US11819759B2
A server-side gaming method performed by a framework for the delivery of remotely-rendered content to a user device, where the framework comprises a provisioning server for generating and managing impression content; a remote server for generating a plurality of frames of remotely-rendered content, wherein the plurality of frames of remotely-rendered content comprises gaming content and the impression content; and an API, for sending and receiving data between the user device and the remote server. The method comprises monitoring connection characteristics between the user device and the remote server, representing at least a quality of the transmission of data from the remote server to the user device, and determining whether the connection characteristics meet a threshold. When it is determined that the connection characteristics do not meet the threshold, an indication comprising at least event data associated with the remotely-rendered content is transmitted from the remote server to the provisioning server.
US11819757B2
A system according to one or more embodiments of the invention includes a first game medium set organization unit organizing a first game medium set for a first event according to a first organization rule, and a second game medium set organization unit organizing a second game medium set for a second event. The second game medium set organization unit includes: a game medium set application unit applying the first game medium set organized according to the first organization rule to the second game medium set, a determination unit determining whether the second game medium set or the first game medium set to be applied to the second game medium set follows the second organization rule, and a conformance unit conforming, when the determination unit determines that the second organization rule is not followed, to the second organization rule, the second game medium set or the first game medium set.
US11819744B2
A golf club head has a body defining a ball striking face. The body further has a rear portion comprising a plurality of side walls and a planar lower portion. The plurality of side walls extend downward from a top of the golf club head towards the planar lower portion. The body further comprises a cover extending over the rear. The body further defines a gap between the cover and the planar portion.
US11819741B2
Golf clubs and golf club heads having a weight member that is configurable in multiple positions to alter the performance characteristics of the golf club head are presented. In some examples, the weight member may be arranged in a sole of the golf club head and may include ends having different weighting characteristics. For instance, one end may be heavier or denser than another end of the weight member. The difference in weight characteristics may be due to different materials used to form the different ends, different construction of the ends, and the like. The position of the weight member may be adjusted to alter the performance characteristics of the golf club head. For instance, the weight member may be removed and rotated to position a heavier end where a lighter end was previously positioned.
US11819733B2
A golf swing tracking system includes a wearable device. The wearable device has a camera, a processor and a signal transceiver. The camera is connected to the processor. The processor is in connected to the signal transceiver. The golf swing tracking system further includes an electronic device. The electronic device includes a signal receiver. The signal receiver is designed to receive a collection of data from the signal transceiver of the wearable device. The electronic device has a display and is programmed to execute an application. The application is designed to display the collection of data and to transmit the collection of data to a network, such as a social media network.
US11819725B2
An exercise apparatus for use with a bed. The exercise apparatus may be configured with a base and a rod. The base is held in place by a leg of the headboard or a leg of the bed frame. The rod connects to the base and the rod extends through a space between the mattress and the headboard above a top surface of the mattress. At the top of the rod an elastic exercise band or other exercise accessory may be attached.
US11819721B2
Systems and methods for remote monitoring of mechanical fire suppression systems are provided. For example, some embodiments generally provide for a smart fire suppression system with integrated sensors and communication technology to monitor the current state of the fire suppression system and notify various monitoring platforms, service providers, equipment manufacturers and/or others of the current state. In some embodiments, various sensors (e.g., micro switches) can be used to detect and report the status of the cartridge, activation status of the system, and/or the status of the detection line. Additional sensors and actuators may be also be included within the smart fire suppression system to allow monitoring of different states (e.g., temperature) and control the appliance and/or building utilities.
US11819707B2
A light generated by arc discharge is efficiently and widely used for preventing and treating diseases such as viral infectious disease by optimally enhancing and adjusting a wavelength region of light of a light therapy device and increasing usability of the light therapy device. A light therapy device includes: a pair of electrodes containing carbon, titanium nitride and at least one of potassium and potassium compounds; a support portion for supporting the pair of electrodes so that the pair of electrodes is arranged at a predetermined distance from each other; and an electric circuit configured to apply a voltage between the pair of electrodes for generating arc discharge between the pair of electrodes.
US11819706B2
A method, system, and apparatus for monitoring a magnetic field related to magnetic stimulation may be provided. A system for monitoring a pulsing magnetic field related to magnetic stimulation therapy may include a magnetic stimulation component, a sensor, and a processor. The magnetic stimulation component may be configured to generate the pulsing magnetic field for the magnetic stimulation therapy. The sensor may be configured to generate a signal associated with the pulsing magnetic field. The processor may be configured to estimate a first characteristic associated with a first peak of the signal, estimate a second characteristic associated with a second peak of the signal, and determine a third characteristic of the signal based on the first characteristic and the second characteristic. The processor may be configured to determine whether a failure occurred based on the third characteristic of the signal.
US11819705B2
A wearable device for detection of a posture deviation of a body of a user, and to provide proper alignment thereon, comprises a resting pad adapted to cover a back region of the body of the user, wherein the resting pad includes an internal surface oriented towards the back region, and an external surface oriented away from the back region, a supporting unit adapted to be attached with the resting pad, at the external surface, wherein the supporting unit further includes a back stretcher adapted to be deformed through flexure, and a flexing mechanism adapted to cause the flexure of the back stretcher and a sensor unit configured to determine deviation in the posture of the body of the user. Further, the resting pad is made of a flexible material to accommodate the flexure of the back stretcher.
US11819668B2
An injector apparatus includes a housing (101, 102) for a cartridge or syringe, a plunger (40) for cooperating in use with the cartridge or syringe to express successive doses, a dose setting arrangement (16, 20) to select a dose volume, and a drive mechanism (22, 24) releasable to advance the plunger in respective predetermined increments of magnitude to express the successive doses. The drive mechanism includes a drive spring (22) for imparting movement directly or indirectly to the plunger (40), and the dose setting arrangement includes a dose setting element (16) moveable in a dose setting routine to define a magnitude of an increment of movement of the plunger for a given dose. The drive mechanism further includes a clutch arrangement (56) operable during the dose setting routine to inhibit forward movement of the plunger and/or to isolate the dose setting element from the force of the drive spring.
US11819667B2
A liquid delivery system cap device is provided. In some embodiments, an example cap device includes a body defining a cavity configured to receive at least a portion of a liquid delivery device, a first sensor configured to output a first sensor signal indicative of a plunger of the liquid delivery device, and a processor configured to detect a plunger of the liquid delivery device based on a variation in the sensor signal of the first sensor.
US11819663B2
The invention relates to an automatic injector device comprising a single-use, disposable, drug delivery assembly comprising a housing and a syringe assembly located at least partially within the housing, said syringe assembly including a plunger, a pre-filled unit-dose drug containing chamber, and needle, said plunger, drug containing chamber and needle being configured and dimensioned to function as an injection syringe; a reusable motorized transmission assembly comprising a housing, a motor and transmission assembly located within the housing, said transmission assembly being configured and dimensioned to engage the plunger of said syringe in the drug delivery assembly and expel said unit dose drug from the drug containing chamber, into the needle and out of the drug delivery assembly; said single-use disposable drug delivery assembly and said reusable motorized transmission assembly are in substantial axial alignment along a longitudinal axis defined by the syringe, plunger, pre-filled unit-dose drug containing chamber, and needle.
US11819661B2
A flow controller having an internal tubing is provided. The flow controller may include an upper housing having a plurality of graduations, a lower housing engaged with and slidably coupled to the lower housing, and a cavity defined between the upper and lower housings for accommodating at least a portion of internal tubing. The flow controller may further include a flexible clamp having an upper section mounted in the upper housing and a lower section slidably disposed in the lower housing. The upper and lower housings may be slidably coupled relative to each other to transition the internal tubing from (i) an open position where a lumen of the internal tubing is uncompressed by the flexible clamp to (ii) a closed position where the lumen of the tubing is at least partially constricted by the flexible clamp.
US11819656B2
An extension set may include a clamp, which may include a housing and an actuator. The actuator may be movable between a raised position and a depressed position with respect to the housing. The actuator may include a bump profile. The extension set may include an extension tube, which may be disposed within the housing. The extension tube may include a loop. In response to movement of the actuator between the raised position and the depressed position with respect to the housing, the bump profile may progressively clamp the extension tube along the loop. The loop may facilitate an increased fluid volume flowing distally towards a catheter in response to actuating the clamp.
US11819654B2
A check valve includes an upper housing defining an inlet of the check valve, a lower housing defining an outlet of the check valve, and a cavity interposed between and defined by the upper and lower housings for fluidly connecting the inlet and the outlet. The check valve further includes a valve member mounted in the cavity to selectively permit fluid flow in a first direction, and prevent fluid backflow in a second direction opposite to the first direction. The valve member includes a valve body and a valve stem portion extending axially through a central axis of the valve body. The valve member may further include a plurality of feet disposed about and extending longitudinally from an outer circumferential perimeter of the valve body.
US11819647B2
Provided is a dilator capable of increasing the diameter of a hole formed on the wall of a digestive tract and the like while ensuring distal-end flexibility and maintaining pushability and torquability even when a shaft is longer and curved. A dilator includes a hollow shaft having an outer diameter that is smaller at a distal end than at a proximal end, and a grip portion connected to the proximal end of the shaft. A spirally-arranged protruding portion protruding outwardly is provided on an outer peripheral surface of the shaft. The spirally-arranged protruding portion has gaps between adjacent portions along a longitudinal axis of the shaft.
US11819646B2
Providing a method for producing a balloon catheter, that is capable of uniformly heating and cooling the entire mold and less likely to cause temperature unevenness. A method for producing a balloon catheter which comprises a shaft extending in a longitudinal direction and a medical resin balloon provided at a distal end portion of the shaft, comprising the steps of inserting a resin tubular body (10) into a mold (20), and placing the mold (20) inside a thermal jacket (30) wherein a porous metal body (50) is disposed outside the mold (20) and inside the thermal jacket (30).
US11819635B2
A steerable catheter suitable for left-hand operation includes a tube, a handle assembly, and a Luer connector. The handle assembly comprises a holding handle, a slide mechanism, and a slide control mechanism; a proximal end of the tube passes through a cavity of the holding handle to be connected with the Luer connector; the slide mechanism comprises a slide base body, and a slide member axially sliding along the holding handle and fitted on the slide base body; the slide member is fixedly connected to a pull wire; the slide control mechanism comprises a connecting member connected with the slide member, and a drive adjustment member connected with the connecting member and adjusting the position of the slide member; the drive adjustment member is provided at the proximal end of the holding handle for convenient left hand operation.
US11819622B2
Breathable medical circuit components and materials and methods for forming these components incorporate breathable foamed materials that are permeable to water vapor and substantially impermeable to liquid water and the bulk flow of gases. The materials and methods can be incorporated into a variety of components, including tubes, Y-connectors, catheter mounts, and patient interfaces and are suitable for use in a variety of medical circuits, including insufflation, anesthesia, and breathing circuits.
US11819621B2
A connector for connecting an oxygen delivery device to a patient interface. The connector includes a housing with a first lumen for delivering oxygen and a second lumen to allow pressure to be measured. A third optional lumen may allow for gas sampling. The housing surrounding the first and second lumen has a portion that includes encoding for determining the type of patient interface being used, as well as a depth indicator sensor.
US11819614B2
The present invention discloses a patient interface having an adaptive system, a respiratory mask and a cushion module adapted with the adaptive system. The adaptive system includes a forehead pressure diffusing portion, a cheek buffering portion and a connecting portion. The forehead pressure diffusing portion is disposed in a frame module. The cheek buffering portion is disposed in a cushion module. The connecting portion is positioned between the forehead pressure diffusing portion and the cheek buffering portion. The connecting portion is configured to transmit pressure between the forehead pressure diffusing portion and the cheek buffering portion. Thus, when a user wears a mask or other devices with the adaptive system, a force received by the face of the user could be automatically and appropriately distributed, further improving comfort of the wearer.
US11819604B2
A breathing airflow detecting device for a nebulizing device is disclosed. The breathing airflow detecting device includes a case, wherein a light switching module and a light blocking element are arranged in the case. The light blocking element is arranged between optical routes of a light emitting element and a light receiving element. When airflow from an inlet blows and swings the light blocking element, the light blocking element blocks light or passes light to the light receiving element. When the light receiving element detects the variation of light, the light receiving element emits a signal from the output port of the light switching module to drive or stop driving a nebulizing device. As a result, when a patient breathes, the nebulizing device is driven such that the volume of the nebulized medicine is accurately inhaled into the patient's lungs.
US11819603B2
Embodiments include a vacuum assisted venous drainage (VAVD) system, including a regulator valve assembly configured to facilitate application of vacuum to a reservoir; a control unit configured to control the regulator valve assembly to facilitate controlling application of the vacuum; at least one pressure sensor coupled to the reservoir and configured to obtain pressure measurements of pressure in the reservoir; a heating element configured to heat the regulator valve assembly to a target temperature; and at least one temperature sensor configured to determine a temperature of the regulator valve assembly.
US11819602B2
A chemical pump assembly useful for negative pressure therapy includes a chemical pump housing having an inner chamber, a reactor located within the inner chamber, an opening provided in the chemical pump housing, a first pull tab which extends from the inner chamber to ambient through the opening, and a removable layer connected to the first pull tab. The reactor is configured to react with a selected gas found in air so as to consume the selected gas when exposed to air in the inner chamber. The removable layer shields the reactor from air in the inner chamber atmosphere until the removable layer is removed.
US11819597B2
A dialyzer for an extracorporeal blood treatment includes an elongated, preferably cylindrical dialyzer housing, and at least one dialysis membrane that separates an internal space of the dialyzer housing into a dialysis liquid chamber and a blood chamber. The dialysis liquid chamber has a dialysis liquid supply port and a dialysis liquid discharge port. The blood chamber has a blood supply port and a blood discharge port. The dialyzer includes an additional ventilation outlet for ventilating the blood chamber. The additional ventilation outlet is located with respect to a blood flow direction in the blood discharge port between an exit area of the blood discharge port and the dialysis liquid supply port. A corresponding dialysis device includes a ventilation outlet on a dialyzer housing or on a hose connected to a blood discharge port.
US11819593B2
The present application relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing generating odors. In aspects, the disclosed methods may include generating, by a chemistry dispersion element, a signal configured to act upon a surface of a chemistry reservoir to disperse an odorous substance retained within the chemistry reservoir. The chemistry reservoir and the chemistry dispersion element may be disposed within a housing. The method also includes generating, by an air pump, a volume of air, and transporting, by an airflow pathway, the volume of air from the air pump to an air outlet. The volume of air passes through at least a portion of the housing as it flows through the airflow pathway from the air pump to the air outlet, and transports at least a portion of the odorous substance dispersed by the chemistry reservoir within the housing to the air outlet.
US11819587B2
An apparatus for measuring the steam quality is presented. The apparatus comprises a tube (1) with an open end (5) and a closed end. The open end has a fluid connection with the sterilizer chamber. At the closed end a heat sink (6) with a thermometer (7) is connected of which the temperature can be controlled. In the axial direction along the tube several thermometers (8) are attached to monitor the temperature profile along the tube. Apart from or instead of this, the device may comprise a thermal resistance (11) between the closed end of the tube and the heat sink. At different axial positions on this thermal resistance thermometers (10) may be attached to monitor the cooling power required to keep the heat sink at a predetermined temperature. Both the temperature profile and the cooling power are directly related to the fraction of non-condensable gases present in the sterilizer chamber.
US11819584B2
Methods and cleaning compositions for reduction of nucleic acid contamination on surfaces, in air, and in solutions using modified pectin are provided.
US11819579B2
Disposable absorbent articles assembled from a collection of components using an adhesive having an amorphous polyolefin composition with a random butane-α-olefin copolymer and a heterophase polyolefin copolymer composition with a first set of comonomer units and a second set of comonomer units, wherein the first set of comonomer units are propene.
US11819576B2
A process can be used for preparing nano- or microparticles containing a carrier-polymer and a biologically active ingredient. The process is a solvent emulsion process involving an organic phase (OP) and an aqueous phase (AP) to form an emulsion. In the case of an oil-in-water emulsion (O/W), the organic phase (OP) contains the biologically active ingredient dissolved or dispersed therein. Alternatively, in the case of a water-in-oil emulsion (W1/O), the aqueous phase (AP) contains the biologically active ingredient dissolved or dispersed therein. The organic phase (OP) is saturated with the salt-containing aqueous phase (AP) and vice versa.
US11819570B2
A sugar-responsive gel that is highly resistant to temperature changes, and a sugar-responsive drug delivery device including such a gel. The sugar-responsive gel, which comprises a gel composition including a monomer having a hydroxyl group in addition to a phenylboronic-acid-based monomer, can exhibit suitable temperature resistance. A sugar-responsive drug delivery device including such a sugar-responsive gel is less susceptible to the effects of temperature changes, and therefore can prevent undesirable excessive delivery of a drug such as insulin.
US11819567B2
The disclosure provides chewable nicotine formulations comprising an orally-acceptable nicotine salt, an orally-acceptable alcohol, flavor components, and an orally-acceptable binder in a water-permeable, water-insoluble pouch, together with methods of making and using the same.
US11819563B2
A cosmetic composition includes, in a physiologically acceptable medium: at least water, at least alkylcellulose, at least one first hydrocarbon-based non-volatile oil, chosen from: C10-C26 alcohols, preferably monoalcohols; optionally hydroxylated monoesters, diesters or triesters of a C2-C8 monocarboxylic or polycarboxylic acid and of a C2-C8 alcohol; esters of a C2-C8 polyol and of one or more C2-C8 carboxylic acids. At least one second non-volatile oil chosen from silicone oils and/or fluoro oils or hydrocarbon-based oils other than the said first oil; at least one stabilizer chosen from surfactants and/or hydrophilic gelling agents, preferably chosen from associative polymers, natural polymers and their mixture.
US11819549B2
The disclosure relates to the field of medicine, in particular to the field of veterinary medicine. The disclosure relates to a pharmaceutical (medicament) formulation of glucocorticoids, especially ciclesonide or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative thereof.
US11819546B2
The present invention relates to method of treating and/or preventing inflammation in a subject caused by bacteria that express HtrA. The present invention further relates to immunogenic compositions comprising an HtrA polypeptide or fragment thereof, as well as a therapeutic and/or prophylactic vaccine for treating or preventing disease.
US11819538B1
ABSTRACT: A formulation of Collagen peptides with enzyme inhibitors and hyaluronic acid would increase the levels of collagen and elastin and hyaluronic acid for a long period of time, and would decrease the rate of aging, and age-related changes in the skin and other organs. During aging, the levels of these molecules decrease because of enhanced activities of their respective enzymes. Current approach has utilized collagen peptides alone to increase the levels of collagen and elastin in order to maintain healthy skin. In the absence of inhibitors of enzymes collagenase and elastase, and hyaluronic acid, the levels of collagen peptides, elastin, and hyaluronic acid would decrease. Consequently, the beneficial effects of collagen peptides alone would be reduced within a short period of time.
US11819533B2
The disclosure features non-irritating pharmaceutical compositions containing CD101 in pharmaceutical acceptable salt (e.g., CD101 acetate) or neutral form. The pharmaceutical compositions can be intravenously administered to a subject to treat fungal infections (e.g., candidiasis) in the subject.
US11819532B2
The present invention provides compounds of formula (I) wherein X1, X2, R1 to R6 and A are as described herein, as well as pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Further the present invention is concerned with the manufacture of the compounds of formula (I), pharmaceutical compositions comprising them and their use as medicaments for the treatment of diseases and infections caused by bacteria.
US11819525B2
The present invention relates to an animal feed or an animal feed additive comprising Bacillus strains which improve the health and performance of production animals, and the use of such.
US11819521B2
The invention provides methods of making and using compositions for establishing mixed chimerism in a subject that include CD34+ cells and CD3+ cells derived from an apheresis product obtained from a subject that has previously donated a solid organ.
US11819509B2
The present invention provides improved processes for extracting and preparing lipids from biological sources for use in pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals and functional foods.
US11819500B2
A method of reducing pathogenic T-helper cell activity in a human subject in need thereof is disclosed. The method comprises administering to the human subject, known to have a condition mediated by one or more differentiated T-helper cells responsive to Cd5l, an effective amount of a nitroxide antioxidant, where the nitroxide antioxidant increases Cd5l expression, thereby reducing pathogenic T-helper cell activity. In some embodiments, the condition is an autoimmune disease.
US11819495B2
The present disclosure provides methods related to treating or preventing gastrointestinal dysfunction in a subject in need thereof, which include the use of a diacylglycerol O-acyltransferase 1 (DGAT1) inhibitor. The disclosure also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising a DGAT1 inhibitor, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or esters thereof, useful for the treatments described herein.
US11819490B2
Cannabinoid-loaded formulations are characterized by including 0.5 wt. % to 20 wt. % medium chain triglycerides, one or more hydrophilic surfactants, one or more co-surfactants and 0.1 wt. % or more of at least one cannabinoid. The formulations are in microemulsion form, and are fully dilutable by an aqueous diluent.
US11819481B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods for treating hypertension and obstructive sleep apnea utilizing hydrogel compositions comprising drug amphiphiles with TRPM 7 antagonists for use in a subject, including use on the carotid body of a subject.
US11819479B2
Embodiments relate to a method for treatment of blepharitis in a patient in need thereof comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a pharmaceutical composition comprising a pharmaceutically effective amount of at least one cannabinoid, via the topical route. Optionally, the pharmaceutical composition is administered in combination with an additional agent selected from the group consisting of: an essential oil, a steroid, an antibiotic, an anti-parasitic, a disinfectant, an anesthetic, a terpene, a moisturizer and a vitamin.
US11819471B2
A transformable physical therapy tool set is provided. The physical therapy tool set includes at least one receiving scraping tool defining a receiving tool handle portion and a receiving tool working portion. The receiving tool handle portion defines a tool insert to receive an insertable scraping tool at least partially therein and the receiving tool working portion defines a working edge for use with soft tissue mobilization. The physical therapy tool set also includes at least one insertable scraping tool defining an insertable tool handle portion and an insertable tool working portion configured to be received by the tool insert. The receiving scraping tool is operable in an instance in which the insertable scraping tool is inserted at least partially within the tool insert. A method of manufacturing the same are also provided.
US11819468B2
A rehabilitation exercise device for upper and lower limbs includes: a first support supporting a user's hand or foot; a second support supporting a user's forearm or calf; a pair of first hinges rotatably connecting the first support and the second support to each other; a third support supporting a user's upper arm or thigh; a pair of second hinges rotatably connecting the second support and the third support to each other; a drive module selectively mounted on any one of the pair of first hinges and the pair of second hinges, and configured to pivot the first support or the second support; and a mounting position detecting part detecting a mounting position where the drive module is mounted from among the pair of first hinges and the pair of second hinges.
US11819466B2
A bathroom facility transfer system, including a mobile base, a stationary base, and a removable bridge is disclosed. A user seated in a chair, is positioned adjacent to a bathroom facility with the mobile base. The removable bridge connects the mobile base to the stationary base, which is removably affixed to the bathroom facility, to allow the chair carrying the user to be moved between the mobile base and the stationary base. A chair blocking member on the removable base is movable between a) a chair blocking position, and b) a chair unblocking position. At least one opposed end of the chair blocking member interferes with movement of the chair onto the removable bridge from the mobile base or the stationary base, when the chair blocking member is in the chair blocking position. A method of assisting a user with accessing a bathroom facility is also disclosed.
US11819461B2
A surgical positioning frame for supporting a patient includes a main beam having an axis of rotation relative to support structures. The main beam rotates the patient between a prone position and a lateral position. The main beam including a conforming main beam portion extending between the first and second support arms. The conforming main beam is preferably configured to allow a surgeon access to one lateral side of the patient and a surgical assistant access to the other lateral side of the patient with limited interference thereby.
US11819458B2
A method for altering an eye color of a patient with a color alteration procedure is disclosed that may include determining a laser power to deliver to stromal pigment in an iris of the eye of the patient by at least retrieving a set of laser criteria for delivery of an exposure less than 100 times a maximum permissible exposure that causes elimination of at least a portion of the stromal pigment. A laser system may be set to deliver laser light at the laser power which is less than the set of laser criteria and the laser light may be delivered with the laser system.
US11819447B2
A urine collection device suitable for female or male use. The device may be configured to the wearer and has an open cavity with one or more one way valves through which urine may flow into an enclosed cavity. The enclosed cavity comprises a valve through which collected urine may be expelled so that the device may be reused if desired.
US11819436B2
An adjustable tension knee brace for unloading weight from a knee joint afflicted with osteoarthritis, thus reducing pain and improving mobility, comprising: an upper and lower frame connected by an unloading hinge assembly, optionally comprising a sensor and processor allowing for remote or automatic control of brace tension. In embodiments, the brace includes a user mechanism that is capable of adjusting a tensioning element while the brace is being worn. In other embodiments, electronic motors, sensors, and indicators may be included in the brace to improve brace performance and user interaction.
US11819435B2
A device for providing active assistance to a body joint including at least one spring module interconnecting first and second attachment parts. The at least one spring module including first and second elongate link members coupled to the first and second attachment parts respectively and pivotably coupled to each other at a pivot joint with a pivoting axis perpendicular to the first and second elongate link members; a coil spring extending longitudinally between the first and second elongate link members and across the pivot joint, whereby first and second ends of the coil spring are coupled to the first and second elongate link members respectively; and a coil-spring-retaining-member slidable relative to the first elongate link member in a manner so as to vary a portion of a length of the coil spring engaged and retained by the coil-spring-retaining-member to vary an effective length of the coil spring.
US11819424B2
Systems and methods are provided for robotically assisted disc prosthesis selection and implantation. The system includes a 3D modeling system for creating a 3D model of first and second vertebra adjacent the intended surgical site and identifying and storing data for the positions of the first and second vertebrae. A computing system for stores and processes the 3D model and the position data. A robot connected to the computing system attaches to a plurality of instruments including sizing templates, trials, cutters or placement instruments for intervertebral disc prostheses. An interface on the computing system allows the surgeon to sequentially deliver the plurality of instruments with the robot to a registration position to improve the speed and accuracy of the surgical procedure.
US11819410B2
Disclosed herein are methods, implants and systems for treatment of mitral valve prolapse by subannular fixation of the prolapsed mitral valve. The disclosure relates generally to the field of heart valve repair devices, methods and kits and more specifically to trans catheter methods and devices for insertion of tethers and anchors to the mitral valve leaflets for reduction the prolapsed mitral valve and subannular fixation of the prolapsed leaflet to treat mitral valve regurgitation.
US11819403B2
An expandable docking station frame includes a waist portion, a sealing portion connected to the waist portion, and a retaining portion connected to the sealing portion. The sealing portion is expandable radially outward of the waist portion to provide a seal against a first location of an inner surface of a circulatory system at a deployed position over a range of sizes of expansion. The retaining portion is expandable radially outward to engage a second location of the inner surface of the circulatory system at the deployed position, to retain the docking station at the deployed position in the circulatory system. When the expandable docking station frame is in an expanded and unconstrained state, the sealing portion and the retaining portion are joined by a concave profile portion radially inward of each of a first outermost diameter of the sealing portion and a second outermost diameter of the retaining portion.
US11819398B2
A self-expandable double-sided surgical implant including a peripheral pocket receiving an expansion ring. The surgical implant may be used for the correction of congenital diaphragmatic hernias.
US11819396B2
A feminine hygiene product wrapper, comprising a front panel having a closed side lengthwise edge, an open side lengthwise edge, a bottom widthwise edge, and a top widthwise edge; a back panel having a closed side lengthwise edge, an open side lengthwise edge, a bottom widthwise edge, and a top widthwise edge; and an expandable side panel having a lengthwise extending first side edge, a lengthwise extending second side edge, a top edge, and a bottom edge, wherein the lengthwise extending first side edge is attached to the open side lengthwise edge of the front panel, and the lengthwise extending second side edge is attached to the open side lengthwise edge of the back panel.
US11819393B2
An absorbent article is disclosed. The article includes a topsheet formed of a section of formed nonwoven web material having an ordered arrangement of zones, each zone comprising one or more attenuated regions adjacent to one or more built-up regions, wherein the attenuated regions have a first average basis weight and the built-up regions have a second average basis weight, wherein the first average basis weight is less than the second average basis weight, the difference in basis weights corresponding to disposition of the filaments according to the ordered arrangement. The attenuated region(s) may include a plurality of discrete low bulk portions arranged in a pattern disposed along a longitudinal axis of the article, which facilitate z-direction movement of fluid through the topsheet and inhibit spreading of a fluid stain along the topsheet in the x and y directions.
US11819372B2
An electric toothbrush is disclosed, having a handle including a drive motor and a head portion removably coupled to the handle. The head portion includes a brush, an exit port fed by an internal irrigation lumen, and a drive shaft operatively connecting the drive motor to the brush. A disposable irrigant reservoir is removably coupled directly to the head portion. The irrigant reservoir is in fluid communication with the internal irrigation lumen of the head portion. The head portion is configured to be replaceable with respect to the handle, and the irrigant reservoir is configured to be replaceable independent of the head portion. In some examples, the irrigant reservoir is a disposable bulb (e.g., a capsule), and is positioned such that the user can hold the handle while also squeezing the reservoir with the same hand. In some examples, the toothbrush head includes a suction mechanism.
US11819370B2
A dental prosthesis having a prosthesis base and a set of teeth, namely a full set of teeth or a partial set of teeth, is provided, wherein the prosthesis base comprises at least one dental recess for receiving the set of teeth, and wherein the set of teeth is glued into the at least one dental recess by an adhesive. In the dental recess and/or in or at the set of teeth an adhesive channel is configured which extends along the at least one dental recess or the dental arch in its main direction of extension. It starts at an adhesive filling opening whose configuration is adapted to a filling element.
US11819369B2
A spatially sensitive augmented reality system for providing resuscitative feedback in a mixed reality environment to an acute care provider during occurrence of a cardiac event in a patient includes a wearable augmented reality device having at least one three-dimensional sensor, a visual display for viewing by the acute care provider, and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to receive and process three-dimensional information of a scene of the cardiac event; produce a three-dimensional representation of a field of view of the acute care provider based on the processed three-dimensional information; identify one or more physical objects associated with the cardiac event in the three-dimensional representation; generate at least one virtual three-dimensional object within the three-dimensional representation; and generate an image of the virtual three-dimensional object within the three-dimensional representation on the visual display.
US11819367B2
A neckband-type medical headlight system includes a lighting unit and a magnifying glass provided in glasses or a headset, a control unit configured to control the lighting unit, and a battery and a power cable configured to supply electric power to the lighting unit. The control unit for controlling the lighting unit is composed of a neckband type to be seated around a user's neck. A pedal-type wireless control unit is further provided to enable a user to turn on and off the lighting unit using a foot.
US11819364B2
An ultrasound imaging probe includes an ultrasound transducer assembly configured to obtain imaging data associated with a body of a patient; a chassis (304) fixedly secured to the ultrasound transducer assembly; a plurality of heat spreader members (430, 440) positioned around the chassis and configured to provide a thermal path for heat generated by the ultrasound transducer assembly while obtaining the imaging data, wherein the plurality of heat spreader members is movably coupled to the chassis; and a housing (510, 520) positioned around the plurality of heat spreader members, wherein the plurality of heat spreader members is configured to move relative to the chassis when the housing is positioned around the plurality of heat spreader members.
US11819363B2
The current disclosure provides for mapping ultrasound images to resolution mapped ultrasound images using generative neural networks, while maintaining clinical quality of the resolution mapped ultrasound image, thereby enabling a clinician to evaluate ultrasound images in a preferred resolution without loss of clinically relevant content. In one embodiment the current disclosure provides for a method comprising, acquiring a ultrasound image of an anatomical region of a subject, wherein the ultrasound image is in a first resolution, selecting a target resolution, wherein the target resolution is distinct from the first resolution, selecting a clinical quality metric, selecting a trained resolution mapping network based on the target resolution and the clinical quality metric, mapping the ultrasound image to a resolution mapped ultrasound image using the trained resolution mapping network, wherein the resolution mapped ultrasound image is in the target resolution, and displaying the resolution mapped ultrasound image via a display device.
US11819355B2
Various methods and systems are provided for mammogram imaging. In one example, a method for an x-ray mammography system includes determining, based on a pre-exposure image of a subject acquired with the x-ray mammography system before acquisition of one or more main images, that the subject has an implant; automatically adjusting one or more imaging parameters in response to determining that the subject has the implant; and acquiring the one or more main images with the adjusted one or more imaging parameters.
US11819351B2
To obtain a predictive model that shows a diagnostic prediction result with higher accuracy and high medical validity. A medical imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit that collects an image signal of an inspection target, and an image processing unit that generates first image data from the image signal and performs image processing of the first image data. The image processing unit includes a feature quantity extraction unit that extracts a first feature quantity from the first image data, a feature quantity abstraction unit that abstracts the first feature quantity to extract a second feature quantity, a feature quantity conversion unit that converts the second feature quantity into a third feature quantity extracted by second image data, and an identification unit that uses the converted third feature quantity to calculate a predetermined parameter value.
US11819347B2
A system and a method for training and utilizing deep convolutional neural networks to perform diagnostic and image enhancement operations on images of dentition uses digital images and other auxiliary parameters as inputs for a convolutional neural network. The neural network can output a tooth segmentation map, tooth identifiers, a probability map indicating the presence of caries, cavities or other dental anomalies/conditions, and recommended parameters for use in image enhancement algorithms.
US11819340B2
A wearable breath analysis device is disclosed that may be worn, for example, around the neck or wrist of a user. The wearable device may be a stand-along device (in which case it may include a display that provides a user interface), or may operate in conjunction with a smartphone or other command device. The wearable device may include auditory and/or vibratory notice and communications features or capabilities, for example, such as a reminder or notice to conduct a breath analyte measurement, instructions to the user in the course of conducting the measurement, and notice of the breath analyte measurement results. The auditory or vibratory notice may be provided at the wearable, and/or at the command device where a command device is used. Related methods also are provided.
US11819339B2
A thermosensitive nanosensor includes a substrate having a plurality of vertically standing nanostructures attached thereto, the plurality of vertically standing nanostructure being covered with a conductive material to form conductive coated nanostructures; a thermosensitive hydrogel adjacent to the plurality of conductive coated nanostructures; and a cover layer on top of the thermosensitive hydrogel to prevent loss of moisture and mechanical stress.
US11819335B2
A method includes receiving data associated with a sleep session of a user. The method also includes determining that the user is experiencing or has experienced an event based at least in part on the data. The method also includes causing pressurized air to be directed from a respiratory device to a multi-compartment bladder in response to determining that the user is experiencing or has experienced the event to aid in modifying a position of a head of the user.
US11819333B2
A method includes implanting an implantable biosensor within a subject where the implantable biosensor has an array of light sources and an array of light detectors, activating the array of light sources to direct light signals at a targeted tissue site in the subject, capturing, with the light detectors, the light signals reflected off the targeted site, calculating a roundtrip propagation time for each of the light signals and comparing the roundtrip propagation time for each of the light signals against previous calculated respective roundtrip propagation times to determine an occurrence of a change in the targeted tissue site.
US11819331B2
A method includes receiving a first representation of an internal surface of at least a portion of a wall of an organ of a patient, and a second representation of an external surface of at least the portion of the wall of the organ. The first and second representations are registered with one another. An exploded representation is generated from the first and second representations, that shows both the internal surface and the external surface. The exploded representation is presented to a user.
US11819324B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods are provided for measuring and analyzing movements of a body and for communicating information related to such body movements over a network. In certain embodiments, a system gathers biometric and biomechanical data relating to positions, orientations, and movements of various body parts of a user performed during sports activities, physical rehabilitation, or military or law enforcement activities. The biometric and biomechanical data can be communicated to a local and/or remote interface, which uses digital performance assessment tools to provide a performance evaluation to the user. The performance evaluation may include a graphical representation (e.g., a video), statistical information, and/or a comparison to another user and/or instructor. In some embodiments, the biometric and biomechanical data is communicated wirelessly to one or more devices including a processor, display, and/or data storage medium for further analysis, archiving, and data mining. In some embodiments, the device includes a cellular telephone.
US11819322B2
Described here are systems and methods for monitoring airflow changes in a patient's airway during a medical procedure or as a general patient monitoring tool. Doppler ultrasound signals are acquired from the tracheal wall of the patient and parameters from those Doppler ultrasound signals are compared to baseline parameters. When a threshold change is detected, an alarm can be provided to a user to indicate respiratory compromise, which can include early airway compromise or airway obstruction.
US11819319B2
Devices for detecting organ contents using impedance and methods of using the same to provide various therapies. In an exemplary embodiment of a device for detecting organ contents of the present disclosure, the device comprises a body having a detector coupled thereto, the device configured for placement at or near an outside of an organ and operable to detect contents on an inside of the organ using impedance.
US11819305B1
A method for tracking assets in areas of interest includes receiving, by a first node of a wireless sensing system, a first communication and a second communication by a tape node associated with a mobile asset and receiving, by a second node of the wireless sensing system, the first communication and the second communication by the tape node associated with the mobile asset. A direction of movement of the tape node associated with the mobile asset is computed, the direction of movement based at least in part on respective signal strengths of the first communication and the second communication as received by the first node and the second node. Based on the direction of movement, a most likely path of the tape node is determined.
US11819298B2
A method for performing a surgical procedure includes planning a resection of a bone of a patient. A volume of the bone is removed according to the planned resection using a surgical tool. As the bone is removed, data corresponding to a shape and volume of the removed bone is tracked with a computer system operatively coupled to the surgical tool. A prosthesis is implanted onto the bone of the patient based on the tracked data corresponding to the shape of the removed bone.
US11819294B2
A fiber optic tracking sensor includes an outer tube, a plurality of optical fibers within the outer tube and including a central optical fiber and a plurality of additional optical fibers, and one or more structural members within the outer tube and configured to provide a spacing between the plurality of optical fibers such that the central optical fiber is positioned along a central longitudinal axis of the outer tube and the plurality of additional optical fibers are spaced apart from one another and from the central optical fiber.
US11819287B2
A device or system to adapt navigation trackers from various manufacturers to a variety of instruments to be navigated during a surgical procedure is disclosed. An adapter for coupling a navigation tracking array to an instrument including a drive shaft and a tracking device holder. The drive shaft can include a handle interface, an instrument connection, and an intermediate section including a circular locking groove extends proximally from a positioning flange. The tracking device holder can be configured to secure a navigation tracking array to the drive shaft and include an elongated body and a locking button. The elongated body can include an inner bore extending along a longitudinal length of the elongated body and adapted to receive the intermediate section of the drive shaft. The locking button can retain the tracking device holder along the drive shaft while allowing for rotation about the longitudinal axis.
US11819286B2
An apparatus for visualizing a movable radiation source, the apparatus comprising: a radiation angular position sensor arranged for generating an angular position, with respect to a sensor axis, of a radiation source emitting radiations in front of said radiation angular position sensor; a camera having a camera axis distinct from the sensor axis; a light diverter arranged in front of said radiation angular position sensor for diverting toward the camera, light originally emitted in front of said radiation angular position sensor toward the radiation angular position sensor, the light diverter being arranged to not change the direction of radiations emitted in front of said radiation angular position sensor; and a composite image generator arranged for adding to a camera image captured by the camera a radiation source marker at a position derived from said angular position and automatically scaled to the camera image size and resolution.
US11819285B2
Electromagnetic navigation systems and methods detect ambient or extraneous magnetic interference by inhibiting the navigation system from generating an electromagnetic field and measuring, with a sensor, the strength of a magnetic field at one or more frequencies of and at one or more phases associated with the electromagnetic field generated by the navigation system. The systems and methods may further determine whether the strength of the magnetic field is greater than a threshold. Based on this determination, an alert or message may be generated.
US11819268B2
Apparatus, consisting of a probe configured to be inserted into contact with a myocardium, and an electrode attached to the probe. A temperature sensor, incorporated in the probe, is configured to output a temperature signal. A pump irrigates the myocardium, via the probe, with an irrigation fluid at a controllable rate, and a radiofrequency (RF) signal generator applies RF power via the electrode to the myocardium, so as to ablate the myocardium. The apparatus also has processing circuitry that measures a temperature of the probe, based on the temperature signal, while the RF power is applied and, when the measured temperature exceeds a preset target temperature, iteratively reduces the RF power applied by the signal generator and concurrently iteratively varies a rate of irrigation of the irrigation fluid provided by the pump, until the measured temperature is reduced to the preset target temperature.
US11819262B2
The present invention describes device, method and system for providing treatment for swollen vascular structures located in a body canal of a patient. The device, method and system described in here provide an easy and, practical treatment and with minimal or without disturb to the patient, including RF emission driven directly and specifically over such vascular structure, and by means of ultrasound technology verify the position of the vascular structure and whether it is closed before, during and after the RF application. The present invention is situated in the field of medical science, more precisely in treatment of vascular structures, and medical devices.
US11819255B2
Tether tensioning instruments, such as instruments used to tension and/or lock a tether about a spinal feature to assist in spinal fixation, and related methods and systems. In some embodiments, the instrument may comprise a handle, a tensioner base coupled with the handle, at least a portion thereof being movably coupled to the handle, and a tether coupling member coupled with the tensioner base and configured to fixedly engage a tether. The instrument may further comprise a tensioner tip movably coupled with the tensioner base, wherein at least a portion of the tensioner base is biased away from the tensioner tip, and wherein the instrument is configured to allow for step-wise movement of the tensioner tip away from the tensioner base to increase tension between the tether and an element of the spinal fixation system.
US11819254B2
A surgical system may include a conductive stylet with a distal end advanceable into bone material and a proximal end coupled to a stylet hub. A handle is non-removably attached to the stylet hub, and removably attachable to an insulative cannula hub. The cannula hub is non-removably attached to a conductive cannula that surrounds the stylet when the handle is attached to the proximal end of the insulative cannula hub. An outer insulative sheath is slideably engaged to insulative cannula hub, and has a radio-opaque distal tip. An electrical signal source may be applied to the stylet hub to conduct a pedicle integrity assessment. The handle and stylet may be removed from the cannula assembly, leaving the cannula assembly in place at the surgical site.
US11819250B2
Methods and apparatus provide for coupling a spinous process plate to one lateral side of a spinous process of a spine of a patient; coupling a laminar plate to a laminar on the one lateral side of the spinous process of the spine; engaging a sub-laminar hook to the laminar on the one lateral side of the spinous process; and (iv) extending a rod toward a pedicle on the one lateral side of the spinous process of the spine of the patient, where the rod prohibits movement of bone associated with a fracture in a pars interarticularis of a vertebral arch on the one lateral side of the spinous process of the spine.
US11819244B2
Surgical instruments and methods are disclosed including a tissue removal tool for treatment of endometrial tissue on a background tissue of a patient. The tissue removal tool can optionally comprise a graspable portion, a shaft and an end effector. The shaft can be coupled to the graspable portion. The shaft can have a proximal portion and a distal portion and can be configured to access an anatomic location of the endometrial tissue. The end effector can be coupled to the distal portion of the shaft. The end effector can be configured to lift the endometrial tissue relative to the background tissue to a lifted position. The end effector can be configured to cut the endometrial tissue from the background tissue with the endometrial tissue in the lifted position.
US11819238B2
Medical systems and methods for making and using medical systems are disclosed. Example medical systems may include an atherectomy system configured to engage and remove plaque from walls in vessels of a vascular system. The atherectomy system may include a drive shaft, a rotational tip coupled to an end of the drive shaft, a motor coupled to the drive shaft to rotate the rotational tip, and a controller configured to control a motor state of the motor. The controller may adjust a range of possible load outputs from the motor and/or a maximum load output from the motor to account for external loads acting on the drive shaft and/or rotational tip rotated by the motor and facilitate passing an occlusion in a vasculature of a patient.
US11819227B2
Provided are a treatment method, a separation method, and a filter assembly capable of preventing so-called “Blue Toe syndrome” which is so-called cholesterol crystal embolism of which a fat-soluble compound such as cholesterol crystals generated during dilation of a stenosed site causes clogging in glomeruli of peripheral capillaries or kidney, acute renal failure, and the like. Cholesterol crystals generated from plaque during use of a balloon catheter are taken out of the body and removed using a centrifugal separation device or a filter, and usable living cells are returned to the body to reduce blood transfusion and reduce cholesterol crystal embolism.
US11819222B2
A disc preparation instrument for use in fusing spinal vertebrae comprises a modular scoring trial and a depth stop releasably attached to the scoring trial. The trial includes an elongate stem supporting a trial device at its distal tip. The trial device is insertable into a disc space and includes a rotatable rasp for scoring opposing vertebral endplates at a scored location. A stop, sized to engage an exterior surface of the vertebrae, is movable on the depth stop stem by rotation of an adjustment knob to a plurality of selectable distances between the proximal end of the trial device and the movable stop. An actuator releasably attached to the trial is operable to rotate the rasp. A plurality of modular trials, each having a trial device of different heights may be provided in a kit. Each scoring trial is selectively releasably attachable to a single depth stop.
US11819212B2
A surgical instrument includes a stapling assembly and an anvil that releasably couple together to compress and staple tissue. The stapling assembly includes a body having a longitudinal axis, a deck member, and a knife member surrounding the longitudinal axis. The deck member includes a deck surface having an imaginary centerline that surrounds the longitudinal axis, a first deck surface portion extending along a first angular range of the deck surface about the longitudinal axis, and a second deck surface portion extending along a second angular range of the deck surface about the longitudinal axis. A first array of staple openings is disposed on the first deck surface portion and is arranged in a first orientation relative to the deck surface centerline. A second array of staple openings is disposed on the second deck surface portion and is arranged in a second orientation relative to the deck surface centerline.
US11819207B2
A multicomponent suture comprising first and second substantially elongate suture portions with respective first and second cross-sectional profiles, and further including respective first and second materials, one of said materials being bioabsorbable and a second of said materials being non-bioabsorbable.
US11819186B2
A compression device is used to increase intra-luminal pressure within the upper esophageal sphincter of a patient in order relieve an impact of an abnormal or defective upper esophageal sphincter anatomy, physiology, or functionality. In one implementation, the compression device is used in conjunction with an external pressure sensing device to determine the external pressure that is to be applied to the cricoid for a specific patient. The compression device can be a means for the management and/or treatment of abnormal upper esophageal sphincter functionality, or a means for strengthening an esophageal sphincter of a subject, or a means for curing esophageal reflux disease of a subject, or a means for improving vocal function in a subject, or a means for managing lung aspiration, or a means for applying cricoid pressure during anesthesia intubation, or a means for stabilizing body structures such as during medical imaging or radiation treatment.
US11819183B2
Applicant has created vacuum apparatuses with improved stability and methods for improving the stability of a wet/dry vacuum. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a motor, a removable drum adapted to store debris collected by the apparatus, and a base that can be adapted to receive the removable drum. The motor can be adapted to be interposed between the removable drum and the base. The methods can include the step of providing a base, the step of providing a removable drum adapted to be coupled to the base, and the step of coupling a vacuum motor to the base such that the vacuum motor is adapted to be disposed beneath the removable drum when the drum is coupled to the base. By relocating the motor of vacuum apparatus beneath the drum, the vacuum's center of gravity can be lowered significantly and, thus, its propensity to tip over is minimized.
US11819179B2
A cleaning tool includes a body for sucking in dust on a surface to be cleaned, a suction pipe, and a joint for connecting the suction pipe to the body. The joint is positioned closer to one end of the body with respect to a center of the body in a longitudinal direction of the body and is positioned substantially at center in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. A second rotating portion of the joint is connected to the body so as to be rotatable around a second axis of rotation being substantially parallel to the longitudinal direction. A first rotating portion of the joint is rotatably connected to the second rotating portion so as to be rotatable relative to the second rotating portion around a first axis of rotation being at an intersecting position or a skewed position with respect to the second axis of rotation.
US11819170B2
Toilet seat cleaning devices, methods and systems are described. Toilet seat cleaning systems may include a toilet, a toilet seat, a sensor, and a fluid dispenser. Toilet seats may include a flow way, at least one opening and at least one surface whereon fluids from a fluid dispenser may be communicated. Fluid dispensers may include a fluid container and a dispenser mechanism. Methods of using toilet seat cleaning systems may include a user influencing the activation of a dispenser mechanism; the dispenser mechanism influencing the communication of fluid from a fluid container to a flow way; the fluid being communicated through the flow way and out of at least one opening and onto at least one surface of a toilet seat; and the fluid on the at least one surface of the toilet seat being engaged by the user in order to clean the toilet seat.
US11819132B2
A foldable toilet footrest that includes a platform with a first leg and a second leg coupled thereto by hinges. The hinges can include a releasable locking system that allows the first leg and the second leg by to be fixed in an unfolded, use position or a folded, non-use position.
US11819128B2
A drive device includes a carrier, an ejection device for ejecting a moveable furniture part out of a closed position, and a locking device for locking the ejection device in the locked position. The locking device has a locking pin connected to the ejection device and a guide track for the locking pin in or on the carrier. The locking pin is locked in an engaging recess of the guide track in the locked position, and a synchronization device is movable relative to the carrier for synchronizing the movement of the drive device with a second drive device. The synchronization device has a transmission element to be moved by the locking pin. The transmission element remains still with the overpressure movement, can be moved by the locking pin during opening movement, can be moved by the locking pin during closing movement, and is linearly moveably mounted on the carrier.
US11819123B2
The present disclosure discloses a multifunctional picnic table with dinner plates, including a left table board and a right table board which are hinged with each other; at least two detachable first table legs and detachable second table legs are mounted on upper and lower end surfaces of both the left table board and the right table board; the first table legs and the second table legs can be spliced end to end and extend; at least one first groove is formed in the upper end surfaces of the left table board and the right table board; and chopping board surfaces are arranged on the lower end surfaces of the left table board and the right table board.
US11819122B2
A load distributing deck insert for supporting an object above the surface of a deck. The load distributing deck insert may include a body, a saddle, and a load receiving section. The load distributing deck insert may avoid contacting an upper surface of the adjacent deck boards.
US11819120B2
A locking mechanism is configured to automatically secure a first object to a second object when the objects are adjacent one another. The locking mechanism selectively releases the objects from one another in response to the movement of a third object. The locking mechanism includes a latch having a base, a pivoting portion attached to the base, with the pivoting portion configured to pivotally secure the latch to the first object about an axis (A). The latch also includes a securing portion attached to the base. A receiving surface is configured to contact the second object as it comes into proximity with the first object and pivot the latch about the axis (A) in a first direction. The securing portion also includes a hook configured to automatically secure the second object to the first object when the objects are adjacent to one another.
US11819117B2
The disclosed subject matter is directed to a hairbrush. The hairbrush comprises a plurality of heating elements protruding from a face of the brush, the heating elements defining a hair treating area. The hairbrush further comprises a plurality of self-adjustable spacers projecting from at least some of the heating elements and configured for axial displacement relative to said at least some heating elements between a projecting position and a retracted position, wherein at the retracted position the at least some spacers are partially retracted into respective heating element maintaining a space between a tip of the heating elements and the scalp, and wherein the spacers are self-adjusting to the contour of a users' scalp.
US11819111B1
A caulk tool belt including a belt assembly, pocket assemblies, and a heated pocket assembly is disclosed. These assemblies in conjunction with one another provide a convenient solution to storing an assortment of tools related to caulking as well as the caulking tubes themselves. The belt assembly wraps around a user and serves as a mounting point for the pocket assemblies and the heated pocket assembly. The caulking tubes are stored in a large front heated pocket. The heated pocket includes a heating element internally mounted between two layers of said heated pocket. During cold winter months the heating of the caulking tubes is integral to keeping the caulk malleable so that it may be more easily spread over surfaces and gaps. The heated pocket is powered by a rechargeable battery also located in its own belt mounted pocket.
US11819109B2
The present invention provides a makeup table capable of providing a refrigerating function to store cosmetics required to be refrigerated and providing a dressing table having a new function and structure such that a choice of consumer preferences is broaden, usability and functionality are improved, and competitiveness of a product increases.
US11819106B2
A container including: a first portion having an open end and a closed end, where the open end is disposed distal from the closed end; one or more first portion apertures disposed in the first portion to allow air flow into the container; a second portion having an open end and a closed end, where the open end is disposed distal from the closed end; one or more second portion apertures disposed in the second portion to allow air flow into the container; where an outer surface of the second portion is received by an inner surface of the first portion; and where the first portion is detachably attached to the second portion.
US11819100B2
A wallet assembly that receives a contactless payment card includes a wallet arranged as at least a bifold wallet with first and second wallet sides, one side configured to receive the contactless card and the other configured to receive additional items and payment cards. RFID shielding eliminates electromagnetic signals from the additional payment cards. A flap attached to the wallet side holding the contactless card has a hole or window that physically exposes a portion of the payment card.
US11819095B2
The present application provides a nose stud used for perforating and a perforating apparatus. The nose stud used for perforating comprises a needle tip and a needle bar, wherein the needle tip is connected to one end of the needle bar, and an easily bendable portion, which bends when the needle tip is subjected to a resistance force under a force applied by the needle bar, is provided at a joint. As a bendable structure is provided at the joint between the needle tip and the needle bar, the needle tip can bend relative to the needle bar after perforating the nose to avoid damaging tissues in the nasal cavity.
US11819094B2
The swivel lock quick release device is adapted to selectively attach a user to a sports equipment. The sports equipment may be watersports equipment, such as a surfboard, a kite surfing apparatus, a stand-up paddle board, sailing equipment, a wake board, etc., or land sports equipment, such as fishing, camping, climbing, animal collars or leashes, tactical rifle apparatus, and hunting equipment. The swivel lock quick release device can have a pull release and a protrusion, the pull release and the protrusion being adapted to be selectively engaged in a locked position is provided. A slide handle, a portion of the pull release, is adapted to be selectively moved in a coaxial direction by the user to disengage the pull release and the protrusion. The pull release can also be adapted to rotate or swivel around the protrusion.
US11819093B2
An airtight type zipper according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first zipper member in which first zipper protrusions and first zipper grooves are alternately and continuously formed and a second zipper member coupled to or separated from the first zipper member in a sliding manner, and includes a first closely joined rail formed to be protruded in a continuous direction of the first zipper protrusion and the first zipper grooves and a second closely joined rail formed to be protruded from the first closely joined rail in a shape corresponding to the first closely joined rail, and in which a first closely joined groove and a second closely joined groove, that are mutually coupled to the first closely joined rail and the second closely joined rail when coupled with the first zipper member, are formed in the second zipper member.
US11819087B2
An article of footwear, motorized lacing system, and method includes a motor, a transmission, operatively coupled to the motor, a power source, operatively coupled to the motor, a lace spool, operatively coupled to the motor via the transmission, configured to spool and unspool the lace based on operation of the motor, a printed circuit board, and a housing. The housing contains the motor, the transmission, the power source, the lace spool and the printed circuit board, the printed circuit board positioned between an interior surface of the housing and at least one of the power source and the motor, wherein the interior surface includes a post that extends through a hole formed in the printed circuit board. A flexing of the interior surface causes force on the housing to be at least partially imparted on the at least one of the power source, the transmission, and the motor.
US11819085B1
Example embodiments of the present disclosure comprise adjustable footwear having apertures in sole structure. The one or more apertures extend all or partially between opposing bottom and top surfaces of the sole structure. The one or more apertures are generally configured to facilitate and accommodate adjustability of the sole structure (e.g., in length and/or width).
US11819084B2
A sole structure for an article of footwear includes a component including a first bundle of fibers affixed to a substrate, a ground-engaging assembly including a first traction element, a second traction element, and a connecting member extending between and connecting the first traction element and the second traction element, and a resin consolidating the first bundle of fibers and entrapping the connecting member to fix a position of the first traction element, the second traction element, and the connecting member relative to the substrate.
US11819068B2
A duty belt for providing visibility and awareness of the user wearing the belt is disclosed. The belt is worn about the waist and generally provides a lighting element which illuminates in order to improve the visibility and awareness of a person viewed from a distance. Further, the duty belt is functionally and ergonomically designed to easily attach existing duty gear including pepper spray, firearms, flashlights, etc. without interfering or snagging with the lighting element.
US11819061B2
An e-cigarette includes a housing having a liquid section for holding a liquid and a battery section for holding a battery, which liquid section and battery section are configured to be coupled to each other, and a wick to take up the liquid, a heating member for heating the wick, wherein the liquid section includes a liquid reservoir provided with a liquid outlet to supply liquid to the wick and an air duct to create an air flow along the wick and to an air outlet.
US11819050B2
A system for manufacturing cigarettes is provided. The system can include an easily removable and/or replaceable metering device that use a cavity drum to dispense a filler material, a modular garniture format parts bank that can be removed and replaced as a single unit from the cigarette manufacturing machinery, and a cutter head having components operated with a single motor that turns a spline shaft.
US11819048B1
A method of constructing a cigar includes the providing of a plurality of frusto-conically shaped tubes, each tube being of a smokable material such as a spirally wrapped layer of tobacco material. The tubes are nested, one tube inside the other tube. The nested tubes are then attached to a mouthpiece having a socket that is internally threaded. The nested tubes and mouthpiece are packaged either filled with tobacco filler material, partially filled, or unfilled in a container.
US11819046B2
Improved juicing head of the type with juicing heads present in juicing systems, where the fruit to juice is housed in a recess of a female element and is guided to meet the head of a male element that is temporarily inserted in the recess, pressing the fruit and extracting the juice, wherein the head comprises ribs on its surface, said ribs arranged transverse to the direction of motion of the head.
US11819013B2
A spinning reel includes a reel body, a rotor, a spool shaft, and a drive body. The drive body has a shaft, a first gear disposed on the shaft for rotating the rotor, and a second gear disposed on the shaft for moving the spool shaft. The shaft, the first gear, and the second gear are integrally formed by forging. The first gear includes a first disk part disposed on an outer circumferential surface of the shaft, and a first tooth part protruding axially from the first disk part. The second gear includes a second disk part disposed on the outer circumferential surface of the shaft to be spaced apart from the first disk part, and a second tooth part protruding from the second disk part radially away from an axis of the shaft. The second tooth part has a tip diameter smaller than an inner diameter of the first tooth part.
US11819012B2
A spinning reel has a reel body, a spool shaft, a spool, a spool ring, and a drag knob. The spool ring is disposed on the external radial portion of a front flange of the spool. The drag knob is disposed in front of the spool shaft. As seen from the outside of the spool ring in the radial direction, an angle formed by a tangent line, which passes through a contact point between an external radial portion and a spherical boundary and which is tangent to the spherical boundary, and a straight line, which is orthogonal to the spool shaft and which passes through the contact point, is less than or equal to degrees. The drag knob is disposed inside the spherical boundary.
US11819007B2
A litter box comprises a body made of at least one flexible elastomeric material, the body having a wall defining a cavity with a top open end. The wall has four generally upstanding wall portions contouring the cavity. A first wall portion has a first minimum height of 8.0 inches or less, a second wall portion having a second minimum height of 10.0 inches or more and being opposite the first wall portion. Third and fourth wall portions are higher than the first minimum height and the second minimum height, the third and fourth wall portions being on opposite sides of one another and being located between the first wall portion and the second wall portion.
US11819005B2
A cleaning device includes cleaning units (3) for receiving and cleaning teatcups (7). The cleaning unit includes a cup-shaped member (10). The cup-shaped member includes an annular bottom surface (12) extending around a longitudinal central axis (x) of the cleaning unit, and a side surface (13) extending around the annular bottom surface and facing the longitudinal central axis. Ribs (14) protrude from the annular bottom surface and have an extension between an inner position (A) and an outer position (B) on the annular bottom surface. The inner position is located more closely to the longitudinal central axis than the outer position. The ribs are configured to create a gap (15) between the annular bottom surface and an end surface (8) of a teatcup received in the cleaning unit. Each of the ribs is curved along at least a part of the extension.
US11819003B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01083835. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01083835. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01083835 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01083835 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US11818996B1
A novel maize variety designated X18R499 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X18R499 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X18R499 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X18R499, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X18R499 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X18R499 and methods of using maize variety X18R499 are disclosed.
US11818991B2
A light source module for plant cultivation includes a main light source, an auxiliary light source unit, and a controller. The main light source unit emits background light which is visible light for growth of a plant. The auxiliary light source unit emits auxiliary light including UVB, UVC, or both to increase the content of phytochemicals in the plant. The controller controls operation of the main light source unit and the auxiliary light source unit based on a control signal.
US11818989B2
The present disclosure is an irrigation device for promoting the deep root growth of a plant. The irrigation device may comprise a tube and a hose, wherein the hose may have one or more slits that allow liquid to seep out if the water pressure in the hose is too high. The water pressure may get too high if the pores of the soaker hose become temporarily clogged, which may happen if a fertilizer solution is put into the irrigation system.
US11818979B2
A grass trimmer includes a trimming head, a driving device for driving the trimming head to rotate so as to cut vegetation and an operating device for a user to operate so as to control the driving device. The trimming head includes a spool and a line holding member, the spool is used to wind a cutting line, and the line holding member is formed with a line holding structure. The driving device includes a motor. The grass trimmer has an auto-winding mode. In the auto-winding mode, the motor drives at least one of the spool and the line holding member to make the spool and the line holding member rotate relatively so that the cutting line is wound on the spool automatically.
US11818972B2
The disclosure refers to a method for determining and storing surface conditions for a field, comprising: moving an agricultural machine having an earth-working roller system over a field, the earth-working roller system comprising an earth-working roller assembly; detecting sensor signals for an oscillating movement of the earth-working roller assembly; detecting position data for the movement of the earth-working roller system over the field; generating a digital surface map for the field indicative of position-dependent roughness and/or leveling information, the generating comprising assigning the sensor signals to the position data; and storing the digital surface map in a data storage device. Further, a system for determining and storing surface conditions for a field is provided.
US11825758B2
Resistive switching devices that contain lithium, including resistive switching devices containing a lithium titanate, and associated systems and methods are generally described. In some cases, the resistive switching device contains a lithium titanate-containing domain, a first electrode, and a second electrode. In some cases, the application of an electrical potential to the resistive switching device causes a change in resistance state of the lithium titanate-containing domain. The resistive switching devices described herein may be useful as memristors, and in applications that include Resistive-random access memory and neuromorphic computing.
US11825757B2
A semiconductor device includes a base structure of a memory device including a first electrode, first dielectric material having a non-uniform etch rate disposed on the base structure, a via within the first dielectric material, and a ring heater within the via on the first electrode. The ring heater has a geometry based on a shape of the via that produces a resistance gradient.
US11825742B2
An organic light-emitting device and a heterocyclic compound, the device including a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an emission layer, wherein the emission layer includes a compound represented by Formula 1A or a compound represented by Formula 1B:
US11825734B2
Ligands with fused spirocyclic substitutions and metal complexes formed with such ligands and having improved performance in OLED applications are disclosed.
US11825733B2
An organic electroluminescence device includes a first electrode, a hole transport region on the first electrode, an emission layer on the hole transport region, an electron transport region on the emission layer, and a second electrode on the electron transport region, wherein the emission layer includes a polycyclic compound represented by Formula 1: wherein in Formula 1, at least one selected from Ring A and Ring B is a substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl group having 2 to 30 carbon atoms for forming a ring.
US11825730B2
A display, including a carrying main body, a flexible carrier film, a double-sided tape, and an adhesive layer, is provided. The flexible carrier film includes a first bonding section and a second bonding section respectively disposed on two opposite sides of the carrying main body, and a bending section connected between the first bonding section and the second bonding section. The flexible carrier film has an inner surface and an outer surface opposite to each other. The inner surface has at least one first groove at the bending section. The flexible carrier film has a display layer thereon. At least a part of the display layer is connected to the outer surface at the second bonding section. The double-sided tape is disposed between the first bonding section and the carrying main body. The adhesive layer is disposed between the inner surface and the carrying main body at the bending section.
US11825712B2
An organic light emitting diode display includes a substrate including a display area and a pad area, a first thin film transistor disposed on the display area, an organic light emitting diode connected to the first thin film transistor, a pad electrode disposed on the pad area and a pad contact electrode disposed on an upper portion of the pad electrode and electrically connected to the pad electrode. The organic light emitting diode includes an anode, an organic emission layer, and a cathode. The anode includes a lower layer, an intermediate layer, and an upper layer. The pad contact electrode is formed of a material of the lower layer of the anode.
US11825708B2
A display panel includes a substrate including a component area, a display area at least partially surrounding the component area, and a first non-display area at least partially surrounding the display area. A first wiring is in the display area and extends in a first direction to face the component area. A second wiring is in the display area and extends in the first direction to face the component area. The second wiring is spaced apart from the first wiring with the component area therebetween. A pixel circuit is connected to one of the first and second wirings and includes at least one thin-film transistor. A display element is connected to the pixel circuit. A cross-sectional area of the first wiring crossing in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction is different from a cross-sectional area of the second wiring crossing in the second direction.
US11825706B2
A display apparatus includes a thin-film transistor located in a display area and including a semiconductor layer and a gate electrode; a storage capacitor located in the display area and including a first capacitor plate, a second capacitor plate, and a dummy capacitor plate overlapping each other; a light-emitting diode electrically connected to the thin-film transistor and the storage capacitor and including a pixel electrode, an interlayer, and a counter electrode; a pad located in a surrounding area adjacent to the display area; a lower electrode pattern layer disposed below the semiconductor layer, at least a portion of the lower electrode pattern layer overlapping the semiconductor layer; and a bridge electrode electrically connecting the semiconductor layer to the lower electrode pattern layer.
US11825702B2
An embodiment of the invention provides a display device including a display panel including corner portions having cut patterns defined by cut portions. The display panel includes a substrate, a light-emitting element including a pixel electrode, an emissive layer and a common electrode and disposed on the substrate in the cut pattern, a first inorganic encapsulation layer disposed on the common electrode in the cut pattern; an organic encapsulation layer disposed on the first inorganic encapsulation layer in the cut pattern; and an organic pattern disposed on the substrate in the cut portions.
US11825699B2
There is provided an organic light-emitting diode including: a pixel defining layer on a substrate and having a plurality of openings for defining pixel regions, wherein each pixel region is a region including one pixel therein; a plurality of first pixel electrodes on the substrate and in the plurality of openings, respectively, each first pixel electrode being at a peripheral portion of a corresponding opening adjacent to the pixel defining layer; and a plurality of second pixel electrodes on the substrate and in the plurality of openings, respectively, each second pixel electrode being at a central portion of the corresponding opening. Each first pixel electrode is between the pixel defining layer and a corresponding second pixel electrode, and the plurality of first pixel electrodes and the plurality of second pixel electrodes are in a same layer. Each first pixel electrode includes a shape memory alloy material.
US11825694B2
The present disclosure relates to an array substrate and a method for manufacturing the same. The array substrate includes a substrate, a thin film transistor located on the substrate, a light emitting device located on the substrate and spaced apart from the thin film transistor in a direction parallel to a surface of the substrate, and a light shielding portion located between the thin film transistor and the light emitting device for shielding a light from the light emitting device. The light shielding portion surrounds the light emitting layer.
US11825688B2
A display device includes: a first substrate; thin-film transistors disposed on a first surface of the first substrate; light emitting elements connected to corresponding ones of the thin-film transistors, respectively, and disposed on the thin-film transistors; and a lens array including lenses disposed on a second surface of the first substrate opposite to the first surface of the first substrate, wherein the light emitting elements emit light toward the first substrate.
US11825687B2
An OLED device comprises a substrate, a first electrode positioned over the substrate, a second electrode positioned over the first electrode, at least one emissive layer positioned between the first and second electrodes in a first region of the OLED device, and a multilayer dielectric reflector stack, comprising a plurality of dielectric reflector layers positioned between the substrate and the first electrode, wherein the multilayer dielectric reflector stack is configured to form an optical cavity with the emissive layer having a Purcell Factor of at least 3.
US11825678B2
A portable information handling system presents visual images in a tablet configuration having a housing in a closed position by passing the visual images through a switchable film having a transparent state and out an upper surface of housing. The housing opens to a clamshell configuration to expose the display at the inner housing surface and presents display visual images against an opaque state of the switchable film. A graphics processor or timing controller adjusts the visual image orientation based upon whether the display is viewed from the inner surface or outer surface.
US11825677B2
A display substrate has a plurality of sub-pixel regions used to display images and a non-sub-pixel region surrounding the sub-pixel regions. The display substrate includes a light-emitting device layer. The light-emitting device layer includes a first electrode layer. The first electrode includes a plurality of first electrodes electrically connected to each other and at least one hollowed-out region among part of adjacent first electrodes. The at least one hollowed-out region is located in the non-sub-pixel region.
US11825676B2
The present disclosure discloses a quantum dot light emitting device and application thereof. The quantum dot light emitting device includes: an anode and a cathode disposed oppositely, a quantum dot light emitting layer arranged between the anode and the cathode, and a hole transport layer arranged between the anode and the quantum dot light emitting layer, wherein a material of the hole transport layer is a copper-based quantum dot with a short-chain ligand on a surface.
US11825675B2
An organic light-emitting diode includes: a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other; an organic emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a hole injection layer between the first electrode and the organic emission layer, wherein the hole injection layer includes a second metal compound layer and a second metal layer, the second metal compound layer being between the first electrode and the organic emission layer, and the second metal layer being between the second metal compound layer and the organic emission layer.
US11825674B2
A display device may include a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix along a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to each other. A plurality of light-emitting layers overlap with the respective plurality of pixel electrodes. A plurality of carrier generation layers are separated from one another. Each of the plurality of carrier generation layers continuously overlap with two of the plurality of light-emitting layers. The two are next to each other in a direction oblique to both the first direction and the second direction. A common electrode is opposed to the plurality of pixel electrodes.
US11825669B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to an electroluminescent device. The electroluminescent device includes an image sensor structure, a first light blocking structure, a first insulation layer, and an electroluminescent structure, which are sequentially stacked. The electroluminescent structure includes lower electrodes, luminous layers disposed on the lower electrodes, and an upper electrode disposed on the luminous layers. The first light blocking structure has effective pinholes. The image sensor structure includes effective image sensors that overlap the effective pinholes. The lower electrodes do not overlap the effective pinholes. The electroluminescent device has a good fingerprint recognition function.
US11825668B2
A display panel, a display method thereof, and a display equipment are provided. The display panel includes a flat display part and a bending display part. A first thin film transistor is in the flat display part, and a second thin film transistor is in the bending display part. A ratio of a channel width to a channel length of an active layer of the first thin film transistor is greater than a ratio of a channel width to a channel length of an active layer of the second thin film transistor of the second thin film transistor. The display method includes a step of making a luminescence intensity of the bending display part greater than a luminescence intensity of the flat display part. The display equipment includes the display panel mentioned above.
US11825667B2
Compounds, including metal borate compounds, and electronic semiconducting devices including one or more of the compounds. Compounds may be used in a hole transport layer of the electronic semiconducting devices. Display devices, which may include a plurality of OLED pixels. The OLED pixels may include one or more compounds, including metal borate compounds.
US11825665B2
An object of one embodiment of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device with a novel structure in which stored data can be stored even when power is not supplied in a data storing time and there is no limitation on the number of times of writing. The semiconductor device includes a first transistor which includes a first channel formation region using a semiconductor material other than an oxide semiconductor, a second transistor which includes a second channel formation region using an oxide semiconductor material, and a capacitor. One of a second source electrode and a second drain electrode of the second transistor is electrically connected to one electrode of the capacitor.
US11825658B2
A method of forming a microelectronic device comprises forming a microelectronic device structure. The microelectronic device structure comprises a semiconductive base structure, and a memory array region vertically overlying the semiconductive base structure and comprising memory cells. The microelectronic device structure is attached to a base structure. A portion of the semiconductive base structure is removed after attaching the microelectronic device structure to a base structure. A control logic region is formed vertically over a remaining portion of the semiconductive base structure. The control logic region comprises control logic devices in electrical communication with the memory cells of the memory array region. Microelectronic devices, memory devices, electronic systems, and additional methods are also described.
US11825655B2
A memory structure including a substrate and memory cells is provided. The memory cells are stacked on the substrate. Each memory cell includes a first conductive layer, a first gate, a second gate, a second conductive layer, a channel layer, and a first charge storage layer. The first conductive layer, the first gate, the second gate, and the second conductive layer are sequentially stacked. The first conductive layer and the first gate are electrically insulated from each other. The first gate and the second gate are electrically insulated from each other. The second gate and the second conductive layer are electrically insulated from each other. The first gate and the second gate are electrically insulated from the channel layer. The first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are electrically connected to the channel layer. The first charge storage layer is located between the first gate and the channel layer.
US11825642B1
A memory cell, a 3D memory and a preparation thereof, and an electronic device. The memory cell includes a first transistor and a second transistor disposed on a substrate, the first transistor includes a first gate, a first electrode, a second electrode and a first semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate; the second transistor includes a third electrode, a fourth electrode, a second gate extending in a direction perpendicular to the substrate and a second semiconductor layer surrounding a sidewall of the second gate which are disposed on the substrate, the second semiconductor layer includes a second source contact region and a second drain contact region arranged at intervals, a channel between the second source contact region and the second drain contact region is a horizontal channel.
US11825639B2
An example electronic device includes a printed circuit board on which one or more circuit components are disposed, and an interposer surrounding at least some circuit components of the one or more circuit components and including an inner surface adjacent to the at least some circuit components and an outer surface facing away from the inner surface and having a plurality of through holes. The interposer is disposed on the printed circuit board such that one or more through holes of the plurality of through holes are electrically connected with a ground of the printed circuit board. The outer surface of the interposer includes a first conductive region electrically connected with at least one first through hole of the one or more through holes, and a non-conductive region, the inner surface of the interposer includes a second conductive region electrically connected with at least one second through hole of the one or more through holes, and the second conductive region includes a region facing the non-conductive region.
US11825635B2
A liquid cooling system includes a liquid coolant conduit in proximity to heat-generating electrical components within an enclosed space. The conduit allows circulation of a liquid coolant to extract heat from the heat-generating components. The heat-generating components includes at least one first heat-generating electrical component and at least one second heat-generating electrical component. The first heat-generating component produces greater heat than the second heat-generating component. The enclosed space includes an inlet and an outlet. The conduit includes a nozzle fluidly connected to the inlet. The nozzle is located within the enclosed space. The nozzle forms first and second aperture sets. The first aperture set directs the liquid coolant to the first heat-generating component. The second aperture set directs the liquid coolant to the second heat-generating component. The nozzle allows liquid coolant to pass the first heat-generating component at a faster rate than the second heat-generating component.
US11825609B1
Highly conductive electrical traces formed over mechanical steps or on non-planar surfaces with linewidths of 10 to 100 μm and a method for forming such electrical traces are disclosed. The method employs two steps, with the first step using an aerosol jet printing (AJP) process to form thin electrical traces that serve as the seed layers for the second step. The first step preferably employs multiple passes with the AJP to create multiple seed sub-layers with improved continuity and conductivity. In the second step, the seed layers are subjected to an electrodeposition process that forms the bulk of the thickness of the electrical traces. The electrodeposition process may include one, two, or three phases at corresponding low or high biases, with low biases providing denser, more highly conductive plating sub-layers, while high biases provide plating sub-layers having better gap bridging properties.
US11825603B2
A high-frequency module (1) includes a substrate (10), a first electronic component (30) and a second electronic component (40) mounted on a main surface (10a) of the substrate (10). The substrate (10) has a protruding portion (20) projecting from the main surface (10a), the first electronic component (30) is mounted in a region of the main surface (10a) different from a region in which the protruding portion (20) is provided, and the second electronic component (40) is mounted on the protruding portion (20).
US11825601B2
A substrate with a conductive layer including a substrate, which is a woven or nonwoven fabric containing polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) nanofibers; and a conductive layer formed on the substrate, the conductive layer being formed from a conductive composition with a viscosity in a range of 1 to 500 Pa·s measured at 25° C. with a rotational viscometer at a rotational speed of 50 rpm, wherein the following requirement (1) is satisfied: requirement (1); the substrate with a conductive layer has a Gurley permeability of 10 s/100 ml or less.
US11825595B2
The disclosure provides a circuit board assembly, which includes a core layer, an electronic component, a first shielding ring wall, a second shielding ring wall, a first circuit layer, a second circuit layer, a first insulating layer and a plurality of shielding columns. The core layer has an accommodating space, in which the accommodating space has an inner sidewall. The electronic component is disposed in the accommodating space. The first shielding ring wall is disposed in the accommodating space and covers the inner sidewall, in which the first shielding ring wall surrounds the electronic component and is not in contact with the electronic component. The second shielding ring wall is disposed in the core layer and surrounds the first shielding ring wall. The core layer is disposed between the first circuit layer and the second circuit layer. The shielding columns are disposed in the first insulating layer.
US11825592B2
An electronic device console includes a console body that houses a chip package, and a duct extending from the console body. An interior volume of the duct is in fluid communication with an interior volume of the console body. A first vent is at a distal end of the duct. A second vent is in a wall of the console body. The console may be oriented in a first orientation and a second orientation. The duct functions as a chimney for natural convection cooling of the chip package when the console is oriented in the first orientation. The console body functions as a chimney for natural convection cooling of the chip package when the console is oriented in the second orientation.
US11825589B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes a cooling plate having a fixing surface to which an upper electrode is fixed, the cooling plate having, on the fixing surface, an electrostatic chuck configured to attract the upper electrode by an attraction force generated by an applied voltage; a power supply configured to apply the voltage to the electrostatic chuck; and a power supply controller configured to control the power supply such that an absolute value of the voltage applied to the electrostatic chuck is increased based on a degree of consumption of the upper electrode.
US11825584B2
A heating device includes a first capacitor, a first switch, a second switch, a second capacitor, a third capacitor, a coil and a controller. The first and second switch are coupled in series at a first node, and are coupled with the first capacitor in parallel. The second capacitor is coupled to the first switch. The third capacitor is coupled to the second switch, and is coupled to the second capacitor at a second node. The coil is coupled between the first and the second node. The controller outputs a first and a second control signal to the first switch and the second switch, respectively. After the heating device received a voltage and a starting command, the controller outputs the first and the second control signal to turn on or off the first and the second switch respectively. The duty cycle of the first signal is lower than 50%.
US11825573B2
In an auto vibrancy mode, a vibrancy value for a lighting load may be automatically determined based on a selected color setting for the lighting load. The automatically determined vibrancy value may also be configured to emit light from the lighting load at or above a target CRI value for the selected color setting. The selected color setting may be a CCT value on the black-body curve or an x-y chromaticity value. If the selected color setting is CCT value on the black-body curve, the automatically determined vibrancy value may be a pre-defined vibrancy value that is configured to emit light from the lighting load at or above the target CRI value for the selected CCT value. If the selected color setting is an x-y chromaticity value, the automatically determined vibrancy value may be based on the distance between the selected x-y chromaticity value and the black-body curve.
US11825569B2
A heating element composite comprises a substrate of one or more fibers or threads and an electrically-conductive polymer coating comprising an electrically-conductive polymer material deposited onto the one or more fibers or threads. A thickness of the electrically-conductive polymer coating is at least about 100 nanometers and the electrically-conductive polymer coating covers at least about 75% of an external surface area of the one or more fibers or threads of the substrate. The resulting heating element composite has a sheet resistance of from about 2Ω/□ to about 200Ω/□.
US11825568B2
An electric cooking appliance includes a glass-ceramic substrate having a top surface for supporting cookware for heating thereon, and a bottom surface opposite the top surface. The electric cooking appliance includes a plurality of thermoresistive heating elements disposed and spaced apart on the bottom surface of the glass-ceramic substrate, with each of the plurality of thermoresistive heating elements including graphene nanoparticles embedded in a ceramic matrix for generating heat upon application of electric current to the respective thermoresistive heating element. Each thermoresistive heating element is electrically connected to a power supply such that one or more of the plurality of thermoresistive heating elements are selectively activated to receive electric current to heat localized areas of the glass-ceramic substrate.
US11825566B2
The e-vaping cartridge includes a first tube extending in a longitudinal direction, the first tube defining a first channel with a first end and a second end, a heater traversing a portion of the first end of the first channel, the heater being configured to heat a pre-vapor formulation to form a vapor, and a hydrogel spaced apart from the second end of the first channel, the hydrogel being a colloidal dispersion including at least one first flavorant.
US11825561B2
An apparatus for use in a UE includes processing circuitry coupled to a memory. To configure the UE for a 4-step random access procedure with a gNB in a 5G-NR network, the processing circuitry is to encode a first message for transmission to the gNB using a PRACH, the first message including a random access preamble. A second message received from the gNB in response to the first message is decoded. The second message includes a MAC RAR with an uplink (UL) grant and an indication of an LBT procedure type or a channel access and CP extension. An LBT procedure based on the LBT procedure type or the channel access and CP extension provided in the indication is performed. Data is encoded for transmission to the gNB based on successful completion of the LBT procedure, the transmission using a PUSCH, and a UL resource indicated by the UL grant.
US11825558B2
Provided is a wireless communication terminal that communicates wirelessly. The wireless communication terminal includes a transceiver and a processor for processing a radio signal received through the transceiver or a radio signal to be transmitted through the transceiver. The processor accesses a channel according to according to a priority of data to be transmitted to the base communication terminal by the wireless communication terminal.
US11825556B2
At switch-on or when recovering from lack of coverage, a UE determines first frequency bands corresponding to an initial MCC of a country in which the UE currently is located (402). The frequency bands include a first set of frequency bands associated with a network carrier to which the UE is subscribed and a second set of frequency bands not associated with the network carrier (404). The UE scans the first set of frequency bands (406). In response to detecting a new MCC and determining that no service is available within the first set of frequency bands (408), the UE scans a third set of frequency bands preferred by the UE within a second plurality of frequency bands corresponding to the new MCC (410). In response to determining that no service is available within the third set of frequency bands, the UE scans the second set of frequency bands (412).
US11825555B2
Systems and methods for real-time, remote-control of mobile applications are provided. A communication session between a network device and a terminal device can be established. The network device can be configured to execute a mobile application. For example, the mobile application can include an input element at an initial state. The mobile application can be remotely controlled by the terminal device. Further, a data stream including content data can be received and transmitted during the communication session. For example, the content data can include an object presented by the mobile application. The content data can be displayed on the terminal device. An input event associated with the content data can be detected. Control data can be generated based on the detected input event. The control data can be received at the network device and the initial state of the input element can be modified.
US11825551B2
Provided is a method for establishing a bidirectional communication channel between a server and a secure element cooperating with a terminal in a cellular telecommunication network for exchanging data and commands. Provided also is an improved SM-DS+ comprising comprising a SM-OS server that provisions the HSS of a MNO with a temporary IMSI transmitted to said secure element, along with an ephemeral key contained also in said secure element. Other embodiments disclosed.
US11825549B2
A method of provisioning a mobile communication device with an eSIM profile. The method comprises receiving an indication by an application executing on a computer system that a subscriber associated with a mobile communication device provisioned with a first eSIM profile associated with a first network is traveling to a second network, maintaining a pool of eSIM profiles associated with the second network by the application, designating a second eSIM profile that is one of the eSIM profiles in the pool as allocated by the application, sending a copy of the second eSIM profile to the mobile communication device, receiving an indication by the application that the mobile communication device has deactivated the second eSIM profile, and, after receiving the indication that the mobile communication device has deactivated the second eSIM profile, designating the second eSIM profile in the pool as unallocated by the application.
US11825547B2
A system, method and apparatus for integrated building operations management. Nodes in the sensor network can be configured to interface with a building control system to exchange sensor-related information.
US11825546B2
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for updating a wait timer as a result of receiving one of a release message and a suspend message and/or configuring a wireless device (WD) to update a wait timer by determining the one of the release message and the suspend message to be communicated to the WD.
US11825544B1
A wireless device receives a radio resource control (RRC) release message indicating a small data transmission (SDT) time window for an SDT in an RRC inactive state. The wireless device transmits, during the SDT time window, an initial uplink transmission using a first power control adjustment (PCA) state being reset to zero. The wireless device transmits, using a second PCA state, a second uplink transmission. In response to the second uplink transmission being subsequent to the initial uplink transmission during the SDT time window, the second PCA state is based on the first PCA state and one or more transmit power control command values received during the SDT time window.
US11825543B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may establish a unicast connection over a sidelink communications with a second UE. To establish the unicast connection over the sidelink, the first UE may transmit a request message (e.g., a first message) to the second UE, and the second UE may transmit a response message (e.g., a second message) to the first UE accepting the request. The unicast connection over the sidelink may then be established between the first UE and the second UE, and user data may then be transmitted over the sidelink on the established unicast connection. Additionally, the first UE may transmit a connection complete message (e.g., a third message) to the second UE indicating that the unicast connection has been established. The request message, the response message, and the connection complete message may be radio resource control (RRC) messages.
US11825531B2
Systems and methods are described herein for pairing wireless peripherals with networked devices. Knowledge of the location of the networked devices can be used to properly route or transmit audio to paired wireless peripherals, regardless of whether the wireless peripherals are paired with the correct networked devices provided they are networked with other potential devices. This can be accomplished by prompting users to select an input based on an audio challenge to determine which of the wireless peripherals should be mapped to which of the networked hosts.
US11825521B2
A terminal apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive an SS/PBCH block in an SS/PBCH block candidate; and a transmitter configured to transmit one random access preamble selected in a PRACH occasion. The terminal apparatus determines the PRACH occasion, based on a relationship between qSSB and the PRACH occasion. The qSSB is given by one of a remainder obtained by dividing tSSB by QSSB or a remainder obtained by dividing dSSB by QSSB. The tSSB is a timing index of the SS/PBCH block candidate. The dSSB indicates an index of a DMRS for a PBCH in the SS/PBCH block. The QSSB indicates a number included in an MIB in the PBCH.
US11825517B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify that a sidelink communication is to be transmitted by the UE prior to a next sensing results sharing opportunity associated with a collaborative sensing schedule that is associated with resource selection for sidelink communications for a group of UEs that includes the UE. The UE may select resources for the sidelink communication. The UE may transmit the sidelink communication using the resources. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11825515B2
Coordination of listen before talk (LBT) structure in new radio (NR) unlicensed (NR-U) multi-channel access operations is disclosed. In one aspect, when a base station determines to access shared communication spectrum, it may transmit an LBT structure signal that identifies the current LBT structure. The base station would then attempt access to the shared spectrum according to the LBT structure. In another aspect, a coordination server is used to manage access to the shared spectrum. Each node desiring access registers with the coordination server, which provides access parameters for the accessing node to use that increases the likelihood of successful access. The accessing nodes will transmit the selected access configuration used to access the shared spectrum, wherein the access configuration is selected based on the access parameters.
US11825500B1
Methods and systems are provided for modifying a downlink configuration of a user device in a cell to mitigate interference. The methods and systems assign, via a first cell site, a first bandwidth to the user device within a serviceable area of the first cell site. The first bandwidth is blanked such that the user device receives data on a second bandwidth that is a smaller bandwidth than the first bandwidth. In addition, the methods and systems determine that the first bandwidth has at least one interference measurement above a threshold. Upon determining that the at least one interference measurement is above the threshold, the methods and systems modify the downlink configuration of the user device to a third bandwidth. The third bandwidth is a smaller bandwidth than the second bandwidth.
US11825493B2
A method pertaining to resource unit (RU) allocation subfield designs for trigger-based and self-contained signaling in extreme high-throughput (EHT) systems involves receiving a signaling and determining allocation of one or more RUs according to a 9-bit RU allocation subfield indicated in the signaling. The method also involves performing wireless communications using the one or more RUs.
US11825491B2
A method for monitoring a PDCCH, a terminal and a network device are provided. The method includes: determining configuration information of at least one control resource set (CORESET); and transmitting the configuration information of the at least one CORESET to a terminal; where the at least one CORESET is configured per carrier or per bandwidth part (BWP), and the carrier comprises at least one BWP. In a case that the at least one CORESET is configured per carrier, one carrier is configured with at least one CORESET; and in a case that the at least one CORESET is configured per BWP, one BWP is configured with at least one CORESET.
US11825488B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for configuring, transmitting, and receiving configured grant uplink transmissions. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US11825485B2
The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for managing uplink resource grants in wireless networks. An exemplary method embodiment includes a mobile terminal: receiving from a base station a first uplink resource grant schedule including a first uplink resource grant and a second uplink resource grant, the first uplink resource grant giving the mobile terminal an exclusive right to use a first set of resource blocks on a recurring basis and the second uplink resource grant giving the mobile terminal a non-exclusive right to use a second set of resource blocks on a recurring basis; and using, by the mobile terminal, the second set of resource blocks to transmit data to the base station during at least a first time interval of the first period of time, said first period of time including multiple time intervals during which the mobile terminal has been granted the right to transmit data.
US11825481B2
Methods and apparatus are described for transmitting hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) bits in a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) by a user equipment (UE) in a communication system. A method includes receiving, from a base station, a first configuration of a plurality of cells and a second configuration of at least one offset for HARQ-ACK by higher layer signaling; obtaining HARQ-ACK bits for the plurality of cells, based on an order of cell indexes and a number of transport blocks for each of the plurality of the cells; identifying a number of coded symbols for the obtained HARQ-ACK bits based on a number of the obtained HARQ-ACK bits and an offset for HARQ-ACK corresponding to the obtained HARQ-ACK bits; and transmitting, to the base station, signals for the obtained HARQ-ACK bits on one PUSCH of multiple PUSCHs based on the number of coded symbols.
US11825465B2
A method and apparatus for positioning in a mobile communication system are provided. Method for positioning includes receiving a SIB1, acquiring the SI, transmitting a provideCapabilities, transmitting a RequestAssistanceData, receiving a ProvideAssistanceData, determining a validity of the PRS, receiving a RRCRelease, transmitting a positioning SRS in RRC_INACTIVE state and transmitting and a ProvideLocationInformation in RRC_INACTIVE state. The provideCapabilities includes a first capability information related to PRS in RRC_INACTIVE and a second capability information related to SRS in RRC_INACTIVE.
US11825464B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from another UE, a coordination message that includes resource information (e.g., a preference status) for communication resources. The UE receiving the coordination message may determine a status of one or more resources based on the resource information, an intended recipient of the coordination message (e.g., based on a destination identifier of the coordination message), or a communication connection associated with the one or more resources. The status may indicate that a respective resource of the one or more resources is available, reserved, preferred, or non-preferred, or some combination thereof. In some examples, the one or more resources may be for a sidelink connection or a unicast connection. The receiving UE may utilize the determined status to select one or more resources for a sidelink transmission.
US11825461B2
Aspects described herein relate to configuring, at a device, default beam information for determining a beam for data channel communications. The device can determine to use the default beam information for configuring the beam for a data channel communication based on determining explicit beam information is not configured. In addition, the device can transmit, based on determining to use the default beam information, the data channel communication based on the beam configured using the default beam information.
US11825456B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving a physical-layer channel in consideration of a priority in a wireless communication system.
US11825452B2
A method for performing wireless communication by a first device and a device for supporting same are provided. The method may comprise the steps of: receiving a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) from a second device; determining a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resource associated with the PSSCH; and transmitting hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback to the second device on the PSFCH resource. Here, the PSFCH resource can be determined on the basis of a sub channel associated with the PSSCH, a slot associated with the PSSCH, a cast type of communication between the first device and the second device, an ID of the first device, and a source ID of the second device.
US11825450B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for channel reservation for sidelink. In some embodiments, the disclosure describes determining a resource allocation for communicating over a plurality of subchannels within a slot, wherein the resource allocation provides: (i) a first set of subchannels of the plurality of subchannels allocated for communicating data to multiple UEs, and (ii) a first subchannel of the plurality of subchannels allocated for communicating a group reservation signal comprising communication parameters indicative of at least the resource allocation for the first set of subchannels.
US11825432B2
A cell configuration method includes: determining, by a first base station corresponding to a first cell, system information of a second cell; and notifying, by the first base station, a second base station corresponding to the second cell of the system information, so that the second base station sends and receives signals according to the system information. According to solutions provided in embodiments of the present application, system information of a cell may be dynamically or semi-statically adjusted according to user equipment distribution and service distribution.
US11825427B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a control signal scheduling the UE to receive a downlink message from the base station using a set of time and frequency resources. The UE may identify an aggressor UE attempting to receive uplink communications, downlink communications, or both, transmitted between the UE and the base station and determine a transmit power for transmitting a jamming signal to the aggressor UE during the set of time and frequency resources. The UE may apply a jamming signal power scheme to the jamming signal by either using the determined transmit power or adjusting the determined transmit power in accordance with the jamming signal power scheme.
US11825409B2
The presentation invention relates to methods and apparatus for managing cable network power consumption. An exemplary method in accordance with one embodiment includes the steps of: receiving, by a cable modem positioned between a cable modem termination system (CMTS) and a wireless base station, CMTS buffer information; receiving, by the cable modem, wireless base station buffer information; switching, by the cable modem, from a first mode of operation to a second mode of operation after performing one or both of: (i) transmitting uplink data to the CMTS, and (ii) transmitting downlink data to the wireless base station, the second mode of operation being a power savings modem of operation; remaining in the power savings mode of operation for a first time period, the first time period being based on at least one of said CMTS buffer information or said wireless base station buffer information.
US11825408B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for controlling link selection and aggregation across multiple wireless networks based on a location of a mobile device. A location of a mobile device in a physical environment can be identified. At least portions of the physical environment can be in wireless range of a first wireless network and a second wireless network. Whether to access network services through either or both the first wireless network and the second wireless network can be determined based on the location of the mobile device in the physical environment. Further, a first interface at the mobile device to the first wireless network and a second interface at the mobile device to the second wireless network can be selectively toggled according to whether it is determined to access the network services through either or both the first wireless network and the second wireless network based on the location.
US11825405B2
Proposed are a method and a device for requesting partial information from APs within a transmission MLD in a WLAN system. Particularly, a reception MLD transmits a probe request frame to a transmission MLD via a first link. The reception MLD receives a probe response frame from the transmission MLD via the first link. When the partial information regarding the first link and the partial information regarding the second link are the same, the partial information regarding the second link is requested on the basis of the first request element, and a value of a first full information profile sub-field is set to 0.
US11825402B2
The present invention provides a data processing method, a node, a structure, and an apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by an aggregation node, a first non-access stratum message sent by user equipment UE, where the aggregation node includes at least two types of interfaces, and each type of interface is used to receive a first non-access stratum message of one radio access technology RAT type; converting, by the aggregation node, the first non-access stratum message into a non-access stratum message in a first format based on a RAT type of the first non-access stratum message, where the first format is a non-access stratum message transmission format supported between the aggregation node and a core-network control plane entity; and sending, by the aggregation node, the non-access stratum message in the first format to the core-network control plane entity.
US11825391B2
A method of tracking rotations of a drum includes activating a three axis accelerometer located on a side of the drum, measuring linear accelerations along three orthogonal axes using the accelerometer, determining whether a predetermined angle of the drum has been rotated based on the measured linear accelerations from the accelerometer, activating a gyroscope when it is determined that the predetermined angle of the drum has been rotated, measuring angular speed at the gyroscope, calculating a number of rotations of the drum from the measured angular speed, and deactivating the gyroscope when it is determined that the measured angular speed is lower than a noise floor level.
US11825387B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A device in communications with a second device may receive a message from the second device. After receiving, the device selects between a decode-and-forward (DF) or an amplify-and-forward (AF) transmission scheme for forwarding the message to a base station. The selection may be made using one or more trigger conditions associated with the transmitting device, the receiving device, or the base station, such as power availability at the device, processing capability of the device, or beam parameters such as beam width, array gain, or other conditions. After selecting, the device may use the selected transmission scheme for forwarding a packet from the second device to the base station.
US11825382B2
A tracking system determines a location of a tracking device associated with a user using one or more access points at the location. Each access point at the location is configured to detect and couple with the tracking device when the tracking device is within a communicative range of the access point. An access point provides updates on the tracking device's presence, as well as the tracking device's arrival to and departure from the communicative range of the access point, to a tracking server. The tracking server determines, from these updates, whether the tracking device is at the location. The user may be notified, via a mobile device, of the tracking device's location.
US11825380B2
Wireless communications may be established between mobile computing devices via wireless protocol communication modes, using the orientation of the mobile devices to determine the communication modes in which the mobile devices are operated. Requests may be received to initiate wireless communications using a wireless protocol that supports at least two communication modes. The orientation of the mobile devices may be determined, and the communication modes to be used by the mobile devices may be based on the orientations of the mobile device. Each mobile device may be configured to operate in the determined communication mode of the wireless protocol, for establishing communications via the wireless protocol with other mobile devices.
US11825379B2
This specification generally relates to a method and system for providing curbside pickup. In one example method, an order to be fulfilled via curbside delivery is received at a merchant, where the order is associated with a first entity. The merchant receives a notification of arrival of the first entity to or within a pre-determined area associated with the merchant, where the notification includes location information associated with the first entity. The merchant can then generate a set of directions for a second entity to travel to reach the first entity based on the location information associated with the first entity, and can present the generated set of directions to the second entity for completing the curbside delivery. The merchant can then receive a confirmation of the delivery after interactions between the second entity and the first entity at the first entity's location.
US11825370B2
A method for providing for network function (NF) fallback to a recovered network function NF repository function (NRF) includes, at an NF including at least one processor, generating an NF register message including an indication to notify the NF of recovery of a first NRF after a failure of the first NRF. The method further includes transmitting the NF register message to the first NRF. The method further includes communicating with the first NRF and detecting failure of the first NRF. The method further includes, in response to detecting failure of the first NRF, initiating communications with a second NRF that is a geo-redundant mate of the first NRF. The method further includes receiving notification of recovery of the first NRF and falling back to communicating with the first NRF.
US11825367B2
A source wireless access node handsover a wireless User Equipment (UE) to a target wireless access node based on UE capability. The source node receives UE capabilities for the UE. The source node receives a source signal strength indicator for the UE and the source node. The source node receives a target signal strength indicator for the UE and the target node. The source node determines to handover the UE to the target node based on the source signal strength indicator and the target signal strength indicator. In response to the handover determination, the source node identifies a UE capability to disable. The source node signals the target node to serve the UE. The source node signals the UE to wirelessly attach to the target wireless access node without reporting the identified UE capability. The UE wirelessly attaches to the target node without reporting the identified UE capability.
US11825361B2
A target Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) switches the path for network traffic to a User Equipment (UE) in an inter-AMF mobility event. The target AMF obtains a path switch request from a target next generation Node B (gNB). The path switch request includes a UE identifier and a source AMF identifier. The target AMF compares the source AMF identifier with a target AMF identifier, and responsive to a determination that the source AMF identifier is different than the target AMF identifier, the target AMF provides a UE context transfer request to the source AMF. The target AMF obtains the UE context from the source AMF and processes the path switch request to update a core network path for a session of the UE. The target AMF also provides a path switch response to the target gNB.
US11825353B2
A system described herein may provide a technique for the assignment of Centralized Units (“CUs”) to Distributed Units (“DUs”) in a radio access network (“RAN”) that includes a distributed or hierarchical arrangement of network infrastructure equipment. Different groups of DUs may be modeled based on usage or traffic patterns, and complementary groups of DUs may be identified based on measures of usage that may vary with time. For example, one model associated with one group of DUs may experience relatively heavy usage during morning hours and light usage during evening hours, and another model associated with a complementary group of DUs may experience relatively light usage during morning hours and heavy usage during evening hours.
US11825349B2
A method for updating network function profiles in a telecommunications network includes registering, by a producer network function, a network function profile with a network function repository function (NRF), the network function profile specifying at least one serving scope or discoverable parameters by consumer NFs. The method includes determining that a load level of the producer network function has exceeded a first threshold. The method includes, in response to determining that the load level of the producer network function has exceeded the first threshold, updating the network function profile at the NRF to reduce the serving scope.
US11825345B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for the secure creation of application containers for 5G slices. A MEC application in a MEC layer of a 5G network can be associated with a specific network slice of the 5G network. A backhaul routing policy for the MEC application can be defined based on the association of the MEC application with the specific network slice of the 5G network. Further, a SID for the MEC application that associates the MEC application with a segment routing tunnel through a backhaul of the 5G network can be generated. A MEC layer access policy for the MEC application can be defined based on the SID for the MEC application. As follows, access to the MEC application through the 5G network can be controlled based on both the backhaul routing policy for the MEC application and the MEC layer access policy for the application.
US11825344B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may perform a measurement operation to attain multiple measurements to report to a base station. The measurements may correspond to a first number of bits if reported. The UE may compress the measurements using an encoder neural network (NN) to obtain an encoder output indicating the measurements. This encoder output may include a second number of bits that is less than the first number of bits. The UE may report the encoder output to the base station in this compressed form. At the base station, the encoder output may be decompressed according to a decoder NN. Once the base station decompresses the encoder output, the UE and base station may communicate according to the measurements determined from the decompression. In some cases, the base station may perform load redistribution based on the measurements.
US11825343B2
Systems and methods for pacing data transmission are described. An illustrative method includes transmitting, by a network device, a data stream at a pacing rate to a user equipment (UE) device. The method further includes accessing a metric of a radio access network (RAN) to which the UE device is connected, the metric associated with the UE device. The method further includes adjusting, based on the metric, the pacing rate at which the data stream is transmitted to the UE device.
US11825342B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for reducing network bandwidth usage by a fleet of robots. According to at least one non-limiting exemplary embodiment, robots coupled to a server collect and produce a substantial amount of data, only a portion of that data being useful for operators to monitor behavior of the robot. The present disclosure provides for, inter alia, optimized systems, apparatuses, and methods for operators to extract the useful data using only reduced bandwidth of cellular LTE networks or Wi-Fi networks.
US11825338B2
A method for dynamic link selection that comprises providing at least two wireless links between one or more network nodes and a wireless device. The at least two wireless links associated with at least two different radio access technologies. The method additionally includes obtaining control data to be sent to a first network node of the one or more network nodes. The control data is associated with a first radio access technology. The method additionally includes selecting one or more wireless links from among the at least two wireless links. The one or more links selected based on a first selection parameter. The one or more selected wireless links are to be used for the transmission of the control data to the first network node. The one or more selected wireless links comprise at least a first wireless link associated with a second radio access technology. The method further includes transmitting the control data associated with the first radio access technology to the first network node via at least the first wireless link associated with the second radio access technology. The method also includes obtaining the control data at the first network node and determining whether the received control data is duplicated control data.
US11825334B2
The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for monitoring and changing information about quality of service (QoS) allowed to be supported to a user equipment (UE) in a mobile communication system, and an operating method of a target base station (BS) in the mobile communication system includes receiving, from a source BS, alternative quality of service (QoS) profile (AQP) information, determining whether information matching QoS information allowed to be supported for a UE to be served is included in the AQP information, and when the information matching the QoS information allowed to be supported for the UE to be served is included in the AQP information, transmitting the matching information to an access and mobility management function (AMF).
US11825333B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a network node. In one embodiment, the method includes the network node configuring a UE (User Equipment) with a first DRB (Data Radio Bearer), wherein the first DRB is configured with a presence of SDAP (Service Data Adaptation Control) header and the network node is not allowed to reconfigure the first DRB with an absence of SDAP header before the first DRB is released. The method further includes the network node configuring the UE to serve a first QoS (Quality of Service) flow and a second QoS flow by the first DRB. The method also includes re-configuring the UE to serve the first QoS flow by a second DRB, which was originally served by the first DRB, if the second QoS flow is released or removed from the first DRB, wherein the second DRB is configured with an absence of SDAP header.
US11825328B2
A Wi-Fi device in a WLAN network includes a processor and a transceiver adapted to be coupled to an antenna, and a power saving medium access in congested network environments algorithm that is activated after a Wi-Fi connection is established with its access point (AP). A Traffic Indication Map (TIM) bitmap in a TIM information element received in a beacon frame from the AP is analyzed to determine whether more than a predetermined number of bits (X) are set to indicate the AP has ≥1 buffered frame for ones of the Wi-Fi devices to conclude whether the WLAN is in a congested environment. When in a congested environment, transmissions responsive to the beacon are postponed by entering a sleep mode for a random period of time (P). After P expires, the sleep mode is exited and a poll frame is transmitted to the AP to try to gain medium access.
US11825318B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a backhaul path switching method, a wireless relay, a network-side node and a terminal. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, a second backhaul path is pre-established, a backhaul path is switched in the case that a radio link fails or signal quality of a related wireless relay does not meet requirements.
US11825317B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A base station may send, to a wireless device, a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) comprising a bandwidth part identifier field and a channel state information (CSI) report configuration field. Based on the MAC CE, the wireless device may activate the CSI report configuration for a bandwidth part indicated by the bandwidth part identifier field. The wireless device may transmit one or more CSI reports based on the CSI report configuration.
US11825315B2
Magnetic field sensors of mobile devices are used for providing the mobile devices with information at a locally extremely restricted area in that, specifically, a magnetic field modulated with the information is locally generated at this position by an information signal generator.
US11825287B2
An apparatus configured to: receive at least two audio signals; determine at least one parameter associated with at least two audio signals, wherein the at least one parameter is configured to represent an ambiance energy distribution of the at least two audio signals, wherein the at least one parameter is associated with, at least, a respective energy of ambient sound of the at least two audio signals in a plurality of directions; determine at least one directional parameter; and provide, using at least one of the at least two audio signals, at least one output audio signal based on, at least, the at least one directional parameter and the at least one parameter, wherein the at least one parameter controls ambiance energy distribution of the at least one output signal according to the ambience energy distribution of the at least two audio signals in the plurality of directions.
US11825283B2
Aspects provide a wearable audio output device that provides an audio indication regarding a user's status with respect to a teleconference. The user is connected to at least one remote participant of a teleconference via the wearable audio output device. The wearable audio output device alters an audio stream to provide an indication of the user's status. Absent a visual indication, the user is intuitively aware of whether the microphone on the wearable audio output device is muted.
US11825282B1
A portable wireless sound system comprising at least two speakers is provided. A first speaker is determined to be a host speaker by having a wireless connection to a source device, such that the host speaker receives audio data from the connected source device, outputs the audio data signal, and plays audio. One or speakers are determine to be a satellite speaker by not having a connection to a source device, such that the satellite speakers receive audio data from the host speaker and play audio.
US11825281B1
Disclosed are systems and methods for performing adaptive equalization operations to reduce variations in the frequency response of audio signals at the eardrum of a wearer of an earphone. The assumption that the frequency response of the error microphone matches the frequency response at the eardrum may not be true due to signal leakage effects and the shape of the ear canal. Techniques are disclosed for the adaptive equalization operations to perform a calibration algorithm to compensate for the effects of the signal leakage and the shape of the ear canal. The earphone may estimate the transfer function from the speaker to the error microphone and may estimate the load impedance from the earphone based on a calibrated relationship between the transfer function and the load impedance. The adaptive equalization may use a calibration algorithm to adjust the frequency response at the error microphone to match that at the eardrum.
US11825277B2
A Signal acquisition device is described for acquiring three-dimensional wave field signals. The signal acquisition device comprises an acoustically reflective plate (PLT) comprising two planar sides facing oppositely and a two-dimensional array of inherently omnidirectional sensors (TSS) arranged on one of the two sides, characterized in that the sound recording device comprises another two-dimensional array of inherently omnidirectional sensors (BSS) arranged on the other of the two sides.
US11825273B2
The invention relates to a vibration module for placing on an eardrum, which vibration module has a flat sound transducer and an eardrum contact mold for contacting the eardrum.
US11825264B2
To perform an efficient and stable area sound pick-up process. The present invention relates to a sound pick-up apparatus. The sound pick-up apparatus according to the present invention includes: a means for acquiring target direction signals on the basis of beamformers of input signals supplied by a plurality of microphone arrays; a means for calculating correction coefficients for approximating target area sound components to each other, the target area sound components being included in the respective target direction signals of the plurality of microphone arrays; a means for selecting a main microphone array on the basis of the correction coefficients, the main microphone array being to be used as a criterion for extracting target area sound; and a means for correcting the target direction signals of the respective microphone arrays by using the correction coefficients with respect to the main microphone array, and extracting the target area sound on the basis of the corrected target direction signals of the respective microphone arrays.
US11825261B2
A communication method for earphones which include a first earphone and a second earphone includes: the first earphone and the second earphone synchronously monitoring data sent from an intelligent terminal in a preset time sequence and performing feedback processing according to a data receiving condition; the first earphone sending out a first response signal if receiving the data; or the first earphone sending no response signal if not receiving the data; and the second earphone sending no response signal if receiving the data or the second earphone sending a second response signal if not receiving the data. By implementing embodiments of the present disclosure, the two earphones can synchronously receive data sent from the intelligent terminal, so that the communication reliability is improved. In addition, the two earphones give responses in different manners, so that power consumption of the earphones is reduced.
US11825256B2
Provided is an electronic apparatus including a display, a frame supporting the display, and at least one actuator disposed at a rear side of the frame, the display vibrates based on driving of the at least one actuator to emit an acoustic signal to an outside, the frame includes a first portion and the and a second portion surrounding at least a part of the first portion, and the first portion and the second portion are formed of different materials. Various other embodiments are possible.
US11825252B2
Devices in a building may be identified using a combination of power monitoring and network monitoring. Power monitoring may be performed by obtaining a power monitoring signal and processing the power monitoring signal with models to determine information about one or more devices in the building. Network monitoring may be performed by receiving network packets transmitted by devices in the building and processing the data of the network packets to determine information about one or more devices in the building. For some devices and some implementations, information about a device may be determined by using both power monitoring and network monitoring.
US11825246B2
Devices in a building may be identified using a combination of power monitoring and network monitoring. Power monitoring may be performed by obtaining a power monitoring signal and processing the power monitoring signal with models to determine information about one or more devices in the building. Network monitoring may be performed by receiving network packets transmitted by devices in the building and processing the data of the network packets to determine information about one or more devices in the building. For some devices and some implementations, information about a device may be determined by using both power monitoring and network monitoring.
US11825242B2
An information processing apparatus includes a controller that acquires images captured by a camera mounted in a vehicle, and a memory that can store the images. The controller acquires travel data on the vehicle for when the image was captured and stores the image in the memory in a case in which the travel data satisfies a predetermined condition.
US11825234B2
Provided is an image processing apparatus for generating a high-resolution image. The image processing apparatus includes a memory storing one or more instructions and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory, wherein the processor is configured to extract feature information regarding a low-resolution image of a current frame by using a first convolutional neural network, generate, based on the feature information, a first high-resolution image of the current frame, remove flickering of the first high-resolution image by using a high-resolution image of a previous frame, and remove flickering of a high-resolution image of a next frame by using at least one of a flickering-removed second high-resolution image of the current frame, or the feature information.
US11825228B2
In some examples, an apparatus comprises an array of pixel cells, and processing circuits associated with blocks of pixel cells of the array of pixel cells and associated with first hierarchical power domains. The apparatus further includes banks of memory devices, each bank of memory devices being associated with a block of pixel cells, to store the quantization results of the associated block of pixel cells, the banks of memory devices further being associated with second hierarchical power domains. The apparatus further includes a processing circuits power state control circuit configured to control a power state of the processing circuits based on programming data targeted at each block of pixel cells and global processing circuits power state control signals, and a memory power state control circuit configured to control a power state of the banks of memory devices based on the programming data and global memory power state control signals.
US11825209B2
Learning-based color correction (e.g., auto while balance (AWB)) procedures may be trained based on datasets from different sensors using a pre-processing procedure. Each input pixel may be converted into a sensor-independent representation through multiplication by a sensor-specific color conversion function (e.g., a 3×3 matrix). The sensor-specific color conversion function may be obtained based on a sensor type. For example, the sensor-specific color conversion function, such as a 3×3 matrix, may be obtained by a corresponding sensor calibration procedure performed using laboratory images of a color checker chart subject to standard illuminants. Parameters of the sensor-specific color conversion function may be optimized in a chromaticity space. For instance, a sensor-specific 3×3 matrix for color conversion may be optimized using a distance in the chromaticity space between calibration data (e.g., calibration configurations) and sensor-independent targets (e.g., a target sensor-independent representation for each calibration configuration).
US11825204B2
An apparatus capable of communicating with a capturing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire an image captured by the capturing apparatus, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire first exposure information determined by the capturing apparatus based on a luminance of a first region in the image, a first determination unit configured to determine second exposure information based on a luminance of a second region, a second determination unit configured to determine correction information based on a difference between the first exposure information and the second exposure information, and an output unit configured to output the correction information to the capturing apparatus.
US11825199B2
A driving device that has a movable part which is translationally and rotationally movable within a plane with respect to a fixed part and is capable of properly restricting the translational movement and the rotational movement of the movable part while preventing the movable part from protruding outward. The driving device includes an actuator that drives the movable part, a first restricting unit configured to restrict translational movement of the movable part, and a second restricting unit configured to restrict rotational movement of the movable part. The second restricting unit is arranged at a location more remote from a center of rotation of the movable part with respect to the fixed part than the first restricting unit.
US11825187B2
A transferring preview stream method provides services to share a preview stream from one client selecting a function of taking photos or videos to another client selecting a function of preview. Clients engaging in a communication session and executing a camera function are configured to periodically receive current location information provided by their location-aware components and transfer it to system for establishing a predetermined area based on their current location information, camera function group and relationship table. The method may be intended to set up transmission sessions between clients in the camera function group for transferring preview streams from clients selecting the function of taking photos or videos to another clients selecting the function of preview. The clients selecting the function of preview may be able to adjust the camera parameters of another clients selecting the function of taking photos or videos in order to confirm user's satisfactory poses and get good quality of photos or videos.
US11825186B2
Image quality according to user preferences can be suitably reflected in an image capturing device (camera). A program causes a computer to function as an analysis-object image quality adjusting unit that generates an analysis-object image. The analysis-object image quality adjusting unit generates an adjusted analysis-object image used along with an analysis-object RAW image to decide an image quality settings parameter of a captured image acquired by an image capturing device. In this case, the adjusted analysis-object image is generated by performing image quality adjustment processing on an analysis-object RAW image that is different from an adjustment-object RAW image, on the basis of image quality adjustment information indicating an image quality adjustment value of image quality adjustment processing as to the adjustment-object RAW image.
US11825182B2
A camera module includes a housing with an opening and a portion that surrounds the opening, wherein the portion of the housing is transparent to near infrared (NIR) light. A fisheye lens is disposed within the opening such that a portion of the fisheye lens protrudes through the opening. An image sensor is disposed within the housing and optically coupled to the fisheye lens. The image sensor is sensitive to visible light and NIR light. A plurality of NIR light emitters is disposed within the housing. The NIR light emitters are configured to emit NIR light through the NIR-transparent portion of the housing. The NIR-transparent portion of the housing may include a light-diffusing structure, such as a pattern of microlenses formed on an inner surface of the NIR-transparent portion of the housing, to spread out the NIR light emitted by the NIR light emitters.
US11825181B2
Provided is a system with image sensors combination, including: a plurality of image sensors located in a same semiconductor chip package; and a controller for controlling the plurality of image sensors to operate in coordination, wherein each image sensor includes: a plurality of photosensitive pixel cells to be simultaneously exposed to generate analog photosensitive signals; an analog-to-digital converters for converting the analog photosensitive signals generated by the plurality of photosensitive pixel cells into image sensor signals; and a timing circuit for controlling the generation, readout, and transmission of electrical signals.
US11825180B2
A vibration device includes a cylindrical body including an opening, a light-transmissive cover joined to the cylindrical body, a piezoelectric element directly or indirectly joined to the cylindrical body and including first and second main surfaces, and a power feeder joined to the piezoelectric element. The power feeder includes a substrate including first and second surfaces, first and second power feeding electrodes on the first surface or the second surface, and first and second external connection electrodes. The power feeder sandwiches the piezoelectric element in a thickness direction, and the first and second power feeding electrodes are joined to the first main surface or the second main surface of the piezoelectric element. Portions of the substrate, which are not located on the first and second main surfaces of the piezoelectric element, are bent to sandwich the piezoelectric element.
US11825170B2
An apparatus configured to: receive comment information from a first device associated with audio-visual content for presentation at a second device and a comment time indicative of a time during the audio-visual content; receive timing information from the second device indicative of a time during the audio-visual content that is currently being presented; determine a relevant-comment time; and wherein if the time during the audio-visual content that is currently being presented at the second device is greater than the relevant-comment time, display the comment with the audio-visual content presented at the second device at a delayed time comprising: a) a time during the audio-visual content at which there is a reoccurrence of a first event that occurred in the audio-visual content at the comment time; or b) a time during the audio-visual content at which there is a second event, different to but similar to the first event.
US11825157B2
An operating method of a display apparatus includes transmitting a transmission request for content-related information and resolution information of the display apparatus to a server, receiving the content-related information corresponding to the transmission request from the server, obtaining a final resolution by classifying a resolution of content included in the content-related information, based on whether the display apparatus supports upscaling, and displaying information about the content, the information including the final resolution.
US11825149B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for designing a channel's interface. An embodiment operates by a client device—(i) receiving an input for designing the channel's interface; (ii) determining an input event based on the input; (iii) creating a command based on the input event; and (iv) routing the command to a host device so that the host device determines a feature of the channel therefrom. Another embodiment operates by a host device—(i) receiving a command for a design for the channel's interface from a client device, the command may comprise a unique identifier and based on user input provided on the client device; (ii) identifying the command based on the command's unique identifier; (iii) determining a response based on the command; (iv) determining a feature of the channel based on the response; and (v) incorporating the feature into the interface of the channel.
US11825146B2
Techniques and mechanisms described herein facilitate the storage of digital media recordings. According to various embodiments, a system is provided comprising a processor, a storage device, Random Access Memory (RAM), an archive writer, and a recording writer. The archive writer is configured to retrieve a plurality of small multimedia segments (SMSs) in RAM and write the plurality of SMSs into an archive container file in RAM. The single archive container file may correspond to a singular multimedia file when complete. New SMSs retrieved from RAM are appended into the archive container file if the new SMSs also correspond to the singular multimedia file. The recording writer is configured to flush the archive container file to be stored as a digital media recording on the storage device once enough SMSs have been appended by the archive writer to the archive container file to complete the singular multimedia file.
US11825142B2
Systems and methods for multimedia swarm processes in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a method for creating a multimedia project at a swarm interface device. The method includes steps for providing a first set of multimedia content to a swarm includes several swarm members, where the several swarm members includes several swarm sources. The method further includes steps for receiving a second set of multimedia content from the several swarm sources and editing multimedia content to create a multimedia project includes at least one piece of multimedia content from the first set of multimedia content and at least one piece of multimedia content from the second set of multimedia content.
US11825140B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed to correlate census measurement data with panel data. An example system includes accessing means to access a message sent from a requesting device in response to accessing media that includes a tag causing the requesting device to send the message to a monitoring entity with an identification of a geographic location of the requesting device and media identifying information. The example system also includes identification means to determine locations of a plurality of panelist homes and compare the geographic location of the requesting device with the locations of the panelist homes. The example system also includes associating means to identify a user of the requesting device as a panelist residing at the first panelist home and associate the media identifying information with panelist data associated with the first one of the panelist homes.
US11825137B2
The present invention relates to a method and a system for transmitting alternative image content of a physical display to different viewers, comprising: generating at least two different sets of image data, each set of image data comprising a sequence of individual images; displaying the images of said at least two sets of image data in a time-sliced multiplexed manner at a high frame rate on said physical display; generating at least one video stream of a scene which includes said physical display, said video stream consisting of video frames captured synchronously with the displaying of the images of one of said at least two sets of image data on said physical display, said captured video frames are transmitted to at least one video output at a standard frame rate, said video output being a physical video output of an intermediate processing unit or the physical video output of at least one camera unit; and transmitting said video stream to a sub-set of said viewers. The present invention also relates to a control interface implementing the claimed method.
US11825136B2
This disclosure relates to the field of video processing technologies. The method includes: receiving, by the media asset subsystem, an indication message, where the indication message is used to indicate to add a medium file corresponding to a second video stream to the target media asset medium; obtaining a content source medium of the target video based on the indication message; sending the content source medium of the target video to a transcoding subsystem, so that the transcoding subsystem generates the medium file corresponding to the second video stream, where first information of the second video stream is the same as first information of the first video stream, and the first information includes whether a key frame is an IDR frame and location information of the key frame; and receiving the medium file that corresponds to the second video stream and that is sent by the transcoding subsystem.
US11825120B2
A video coder may be configured to code video data by performing splitting of a coding unit (CU) of video data using intra sub-partition (ISP) to form a set of prediction blocks. The video coder may group a plurality of the prediction blocks from the set of prediction blocks into a first prediction block group (PBG). The video coder may reconstruct samples of prediction blocks included in the first PBG independently of samples of other prediction blocks included in the first PBG.
US11825113B2
The present disclosure relate to interaction between intra block copy mode and inter prediction tools A method for video processing is provided, including: determining that an Intra-Block-Copy (IBC) mode is applied to a current video block of a video, wherein in the IBC mode, at least one reference picture used by the current video block is a current picture where the current video block is located in; making a decision regarding a disabling of a specific coding mode for the current block; performing, based on the decision, a conversion between the current video block and the bitstream representation; wherein the specific coding mode uses a motion vector and a non-current picture to derive a prediction of a video block.
US11825107B2
A method of decoding an encoded video bitstream using at least one processor, including obtaining a coded video sequence from the encoded video bitstream; obtaining a picture unit from the coded video sequence; obtaining a PH NAL unit included in the picture unit; obtaining at least one coded slice NAL unit included in the picture unit; decoding a coded picture based on the PH NAL unit, the at least one coded slice NAL unit a PPS NAL unit obtained from the coded video sequence, and am SPS NAL unit obtained from the coded video sequence; and outputting the decoded picture, wherein the SPS NAL unit is available to the at least one processor before the PPS NAL unit, and wherein the PPS NAL unit is available to the at least one processor before the PH NAL unit and the at least one coded slice NAL unit.
US11825103B2
Systems and methods for gaze-driven recording of video are described. Some implementations may include accessing gaze data captured using one or more gaze-tracking sensors; applying a temporal filter to the gaze data to obtain a smoothed gaze estimate; determining a region of interest based on the smoothed gaze estimate, wherein the region of interest identifies a subset of a field of view; accessing a frame of video; recording a portion of the frame associated with the region of interest as an enhanced frame of video, wherein the portion of the frame corresponds to a smaller field of view than the frame; and storing, transmitting, or displaying the enhanced frame of video.
US11825093B2
Techniques for context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) coding with a reduced number of context coded and/or bypass coded bins are provided. Rather than using only truncated unary binarization for the syntax element representing the delta quantization parameter and context coding all of the resulting bins as in the prior art, a different binarization is used and only part of the resulting bins are context coded, thus reducing the worst case number of context coded bins for this syntax element. Further, binarization techniques for the syntax element representing the remaining actual value of a transform coefficient are provided that restrict the maximum codeword length of this syntax element to 32 bits or less, thus reducing the number of bypass coded bins for this syntax element over the prior art.
US11825090B1
Techniques are described herein for processing video data. For instance, a technique can include encoding one or more frames of video data using a video encoder, the video encoder including at least a quantization process; determining an actual bit rate of the encoded one or more frames; predicting an estimated bit rate using an encoder proxy, the encoder proxy including a statistical model for estimating a bit rate of the encoded one or more frames; determining, using the encoder proxy, a gradient of the estimated bit rate; and training the encoder proxy to predict the estimated bit rate based on the actual bit rate, the estimated bit rate, and the gradient.
US11825084B2
Provided is an encoder which includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry splits an image block into a plurality of partitions, obtains a prediction image for a partition, and encodes the image block using the prediction image. When the partition is not a non-rectangular partition, the circuitry obtains (i) a first prediction image for the partition, (ii) a gradient image for the first prediction image, and (iii) a second prediction image as the prediction image using the first prediction image and the gradient image. When the partition is a non-rectangular partition, the circuitry obtains the first prediction image as the prediction image without using the gradient image.
US11825081B2
An encoder is configured to encode a representation of a current picture of a video stream of multiple pictures. The encoder is further configured to encode, for each of a plurality of reference pictures included in a buffer description for the current picture, a respective one-bit flag according to one of two available values for the one-bit flag. The two available values for the one-bit flag include a first value explicitly indicating to a decoder to include the reference picture in a reference picture list for decoding the current picture. The two available values for the one-bit flag further include a second value explicitly indicating to the decoder not to include the reference picture in the reference picture list for decoding the current picture. The encoder is further configured to output the representation of the current picture and the one-bit flags.
US11825074B2
Generation and usage of combined affine merge candidate are described. In a representative aspect, a method of video processing includes: generating, during a conversion between a current block of video and a bitstream of the video, an updated merge candidate list by adding at least one combined merge candidate to a first merge candidate list; and performing the conversion by using the updated merge candidate list, wherein the first merge candidate list includes one or more sub-block prediction based merge candidates.
US11825069B2
Systems and methods for automated, non-supervised, parameter-free segmentation of single cells and other objects in images generated by fluorescence microscopy. The systems and methods relate to both improving initial image quality and to improved automatic segmentation on images. The methods will typically be performed on a digital image by a computer or processor running appropriate software stored in a memory.
US11825068B2
A system includes a projection device configured to project images onto a receiver surface of a viewing device. The viewing device includes a screen having the receiver surface and a viewing surface opposite the receiver surface. The screen is configured to permit transmission of the images through the screen, from the receiver surface, to the viewing surface such that the images are viewable on the viewing surface. The viewing device also includes a focusing lens configured to focus the images for a user when wearing the viewing device. Further, the system includes a tracking system configured to determine a location and orientation of the receiver surface of the viewing device. The projection device is configured to adjust image properties of the images based at least in part on the determined location and orientation of the receiver surface.
US11825064B2
A light field display method includes: generating a pixel light field information database (S1); processing, according to different depth positions of an original three-dimensional image, slice images corresponding to the different depth positions and pixel light field information at the different depth positions, to obtain recorded images of the slice images of the original three-dimensional image at the different depth positions (S2); and superimposing the recorded images of the slice images of the original three-dimensional image at the different depth positions, to obtain a microcell array image of the original three-dimensional image (S3). A light field display system has a database generator (101), a recorded image generator (102), and a superimposer (103) which implement the described functions. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium stores thereon a computer program for implementing the method. A display panel includes the non-transitory computer readable storage medium.
US11825061B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming mechanism that forms a first image on a recording medium based on an image forming condition; a detector that detects a first color of the first image and a color of a foundation under the first image from the recording medium on which the first image is formed; a storage that stores reference data for specifying a relative relationship between a position of the first color in a color space and a position of the color of the foundation in the color space; and a processing circuitry, wherein the processing circuitry corrects the image forming condition based on the reference data and the first color and the color of the foundation detected by the detector.
US11825060B2
The present invention provides a fully integrated digital workflow for the designing and production of packaging. A designer creates a package design with a special effect ink digitally, using a computer connected to a color database and a special effect ink database. Advantageously, the present workflow minimizes the complexity of the workflow by using transparent color layers printed over plain special effect additive ink layers to develop the special effect inks to be used on press. The present workflow advantageously can also be used to assess match of polychromatic inks.
US11825057B2
An apparatus for generating data includes one or more processors and one or more memories, the one or more memories including one or more programs. The one or more programs cause the one or more processors (a) to generate edge data for specifying an area that corresponds to an edge of a convex portion, based on data for specifying a position of the convex portion in unevenness, (b) to determine whether a height of the edge that the edge data represents is equal to or greater than a first threshold, and (c) to reduce a recording amount of a recording material for forming, on the recording medium, an area that corresponds to the edge the height of which is less than the first threshold.
US11825055B2
An optical module positioning method for an image processing device is provided. The image processing device includes a scanning platform and an optical module. The scanning platform includes a first region, a second region, a third region and a fourth region. The fourth region is arranged between the first region and the second region. The first region is arranged between the third region and the fourth region. The optical module positioning method includes the following steps. Firstly, the optical module is driven to perform a scanning operation to acquire a scanned image while the optical module is not moved. Then, by judging the color values of two ends of the scanned image, the region where the optical module is stayed can be recognized according to the associated color values.
US11825053B2
A storage medium storing a program causes a computer of an information processing apparatus to execute a method including obtaining information about a predetermined program stored in a communication apparatus, and controlling issuance of a predetermined notification about update of the predetermined program based on the obtained information about the predetermined program. The predetermined notification is controlled to be issued in a case where a version of the predetermined program is not a latest version, and the predetermined notification is controlled so as not to be issued in a case where the version of the predetermined program is the latest version.
US11825052B2
Disclosed is an image forming apparatus which includes: a frame with an image forming portion; an operation unit being arranged to be movable with respect to a top surface of the frame; a cable with an electric wire which connects the frame and the operation unit; and an outlet provided on the frame or the operation unit, wherein the cable includes: an elastic member provided along the electric wire from the frame to the operation unit, the elastic member having a width equal to or greater than a diameter of the electric wire; and a protruding portion with elasticity, provided on a side of the elastic member on which the electric wire is arranged such that the protruding portion protrudes from the side of the elastic member, the protruding portion having a height which is equal to or greater than the diameter of the wire.
US11825046B2
An information processing system includes an information processing apparatus and an image forming apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes first circuitry to receive a designating operation for executing lamination processing, and transmit image data and designation data indicating that the designation operation for executing lamination processing has been received. The image forming apparatus includes second circuitry to receive the image data and the designation data, form an image on a recording medium based on the image data, and execute, in response to receiving the designation data, the lamination processing on the recording medium on which the image is formed with film.
US11825030B2
The application relates to an intra block copy mode with dual tree partition. A method of video processing is disclosed. The method of video processing includes: determining, during a conversion between a current video block and a bitstream representation of the current video block, a block vector for the current video block; and performing, at least based on the block vector, the conversion, wherein when the current video block is coded with a coding mode using a reference block for prediction pointing to a same picture that the current video block is located in, and the current video block is a first type of block, the block vector is derived from at least one second type of block.
US11825013B2
An apparatus and method are provided. The method includes reproducing, by a portable phone, multimedia content via an external output device while the portable phone is coupled with the external output device, determining whether the portable phone is decoupled from the external output device, and terminating the reproducing of the multimedia content based at least in part on a determination that the portable phone is decoupled from the external output device.
US11825010B2
Embodiments are directed to controlling an electronically-controlled appliance using a software application and providing a user interface for controlling an electronically-controlled appliance. In one scenario, a computer system receives an indication from a remote computing system indicating that an electronically-controlled appliance is communicably connected to the remote computing system. The computer system provides a notification in the software application indicating that the electronically-controlled appliance is available to receive instructions, and receives a user input at the software application indicating that certain functions are to be performed by the electronically-controlled appliance. The computer system further generates instructions configured to control the electronically-controlled appliance based on the functions specified in the received user input, and sends the generated instructions to the electronically-controlled appliance to perform the specified functions. These functions are then interpreted and carried out on the electronically-controlled appliance via the hardware controller.
US11825008B2
An assisted user's (AU's) captioning device for assisting an AU during a call with a hearing user (HU) wherein the hearing user uses a HU's communication device, the captioning device comprising a display screen and a processor linked to the display screen, the processor programmed to perform the steps of upon receiving a call, automatically determining if the call is from one of a first set of HUs, upon determining that the call is from one of the first set of HUs, automatically initiating captioning and presenting captions of an HU voice signal during at least a portion of the call, and upon determining that the call is not from one of the first set of HUs, starting the call without captioning and providing an option to the AU to initiate captioning during the call.
US11825003B2
A notification apparatus and system are provided for a lost mobile device. After a notification is provided to indicate that a mobile device is still in an autonomous vehicle after arrival at a destination, user input is received for causing the autonomous vehicle to move toward, or remain within a predetermined distance from, a location of a user using a camera of the autonomous vehicle.
US11825001B2
A blockchain based numerical value ranking method includes: using, by a first participant, a public key of the first participant to encrypt a private value of the first participant to obtain an encrypted text of the first participant; obtaining encrypted texts of other participants, and generating a challenge value having a preset bit length; based on the challenge value and the private value of the first participant, and the encrypted texts and public keys of the other participants, determining mixed results of the first participant with respect to the other participants; and determining a numerical value ranking result between the first participant and a second participant based on the mixed result of the second participant with respect to the first participant.
US11825000B2
In one example, a system for asymmetric device attestation includes a physically unclonable function (PUF) configured to generate a response to a challenge. A pseudo-random number generator generates a set of random numbers based on the response. A key generator determines co-prime numbers in the set of random numbers and generates a key pair using the co-prime numbers, wherein the public key is released to a manufacturer of the component for attestation of authenticity of the component. Through extending the PUF circuitry with a pseudo-random number generator, the present techniques are able to withstand unskilled and skilled hardware attacks, as the secret derived from the PUF is immune to extraction.
US11824998B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods and systems for software module binding. Cryptographic keys and challenge elements can be exchanged between a first software module and a second software module to create a binding between the first software module and the second software module. As a result, a first software module can securely and authentically access sensitive data and functionality at a second software module, while unauthorized software modules can be prevented from accessing the sensitive data and functionality.
US11824996B2
A data synchronization method for a parachain includes a step of obtaining first block operation sequence information, synchronizing blocks of a main chain according to the first block operation sequence information to generate or update the parachain, wherein the first block operation sequence information is obtained by updating the first block after the main chain receives a plurality of transaction information sent by a client user terminal to perform consensus on the transaction information and to generate the first block and to record the operation serial number of the first block, wherein the first block operation sequence information includes an operation serial number and operation information of each block of the main chain, and an operation serial number and operation information of the block revoked by a node of the main chain when the block revoking is executed.
US11824989B2
Systems and methods are described for onboarding a new device to a blockchain secured network. A trusted device that is already enrolled on the blockchain can receive information from a new device. The new device can send an onboarding request to a server through a non-blockchain secured Application Programming Interface (“API”). The trusted device can send an onboarding request for the new device through a blockchain secured API. The server can receive the requests and match them. The server can authenticate the two devices and send a request to a blockchain consensus to add the new device to the blockchain with the trusted device as a referral. The blockchain consensus can add the new device to the blockchain and notify the server. The server can notify the new device, and the new device can begin communicating through the blockchain secured API or directly with other devices on the blockchain.
US11824987B2
An event is detected. The event is a designated event for capturing a snapshot of a blockchain where the blockchain is not replicated in a distributed ledger. For example, the event may be where a specific number of new blocks have been added to the blockchain. In response to detecting the event, a capstone block or a lock block is created. The capstone block or the lock block is added to the blockchain. A copy of the capstone block or the copy of the lock block sent to a trusted authority. The copy of the capstone block or the copy of the lock block is used to validate some or all the blockchain to detect if the blockchain has been changed. For example, validating the blockchain may be to detect if the blockchain has been tampered with or has become corrupted.
US11824983B2
The present invention relates to a method and a system for inscribing and securely storing cryptographic keys on a physical medium, and to a corresponding physical medium, comprising the following steps: from a first management entity (31), generating (1) a first pair of asymmetric cryptographic keys comprising a first user public key (pub1) and a first user private key (priv1), inscribing (2) the first user private key (priv1) onto a physical medium, and affixing (4) a first tamper-evident concealing element (hol1) to the physical medium in order to conceal the first user private key (priv1) and seal same, said first user private key (priv1) being accessible only by visibly breaking said first tamper-evident concealing element (hol1); from the second management entity (32), generating (6) a second pair of asymmetric cryptographic keys comprising a second user public key (pub2) and a second user private key (priv2), inscribing (7) the second user private key (priv2) onto the physical medium and affixing (9) a second tamper-evident concealing element (hol2) to the physical medium in order to conceal the second user private key (priv2) and seal same, said second user private key (priv2) being accessible only by visibly breaking said second tamper-evident concealing element (hol2); generating (10) at least one last user public key (pub0) and/or at least one cryptographic address (adr, adr-mult) from the first user public key (pub1) and the second user public key (pub2), inscribing (11) said at least one last public user key (pub0) and/or said at least one cryptographic address (adr, adr-mult) onto the physical medium, and verifying (12, 13) same, and finally recovering the private keys (priv1, priv2) comprising the generation of a last user private key (priv0) corresponding to the last user public key (pub0) and/or to said at least one cryptographic address (adr, adr-mult).
US11824982B1
The present application discloses a key updating method and apparatus, a file sharing method and apparatus, a device, and a computer storage medium. The key updating method includes: acquiring a target root key and an auxiliary target root key; acquiring the identity information of a data owner of target data; acquiring a target timestamp when the target data is encrypted; acquiring a key generation parameter and an auxiliary key that are generated at a timestamp previous to the target timestamp; generating a target private key of the data owner on based on the key generation parameter and auxiliary key of the timestamp previous to the target timestamp, the identity information and the target timestamp, the key generation parameter generated at the timestamp previous to a starting timestamp being the target root key, the auxiliary key generated at the timestamp previous to the starting timestamp being the auxiliary target root key.
US11824980B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to security for multi-link operations. A multi-link device (MLD) may establish a first communication link between a first device of the MLD and a first device of a second MLD, and a second communication link between a second device of the MLD and a second device of the second MLD. The MLD may generate a group-addressed message. The MLD may protect the group-addressed message using a first key or a first integrity key. The MLD may protect the group-addressed message using a second key or a second integrity key. The MLD may send, using the first communication link, the group-addressed message protected using the first key or the first integrity key, and may send, using the second communication link, the group-addressed message protected using the second key or the second integrity key.
US11824978B2
A computing device may be configured to receive a set of inputs from other computing devices. The set of inputs may include inputs derived by the computing devices utilizing cryptographic keys of the computing devices. The set of inputs may be stored in a blockchain such that the inputs are tamper resistant. A symmetric key may be generated (periodically, upon expiration of a timer, according to a protocol set, upon request, etc.) from two or more of the set of inputs. The generated symmetric key may be distributed to the computing devices. The symmetric key may be utilized to encrypt and decrypt communications between two computing devices.
US11824971B2
Aspects of the disclosure provides a secure key management and data transmission system that includes a transmission system, a data consumer network device, a user network device, and a data transmission network. The transmission management system is configured to receive user-specific data from the user network device via the data transmission network and receive a request for a service corresponding to processing the user-specific data according to a proprietary process provided by the data consumer network device. The transmission management system is also configured to generate service response data based on processing the user-specific data according to the proprietary process in response to the received request, encrypt the service response data to become single-encrypted service response data, transmit the single-encrypted service response data to the data consumer network device, and receive and store double-encrypted service response data from the user network device.
US11824967B2
An electronic device includes a memory storing data from an external source, an application processing unit (APU) transmitting a secret key and public key generation command, an isolated execution environment (IEE) generating a secret key in response to the secret key generation command, generating a public key based on the secret key in response to the public key generation command, and storing the secret key, and a non-volatile memory performing write and read operations depending on a request of the APU. When the data are stored in the memory, the APU transmits a public key request to the IEE and in response the IEE transfers the public key to the APU through a mailbox protocol. The APU generates a ciphertext by performing homomorphic encryption on the data based on an encryption key in the public key, and classifies and stores the public key and the ciphertext in the non-volatile memory.
US11824960B2
The present disclosure relates to communication methods, communications devices, and storage medium. In one example method, a port of a first device supports a flexible Ethernet protocol and a standard Ethernet protocol, and a protocol type supported by a port of a second device includes at least one of the flexible Ethernet protocol or the standard Ethernet protocol. The first device obtains the protocol type supported by the port of the second device, determines a target protocol type based on the protocol type supported by the port of the second device and a protocol type supported by the port of the first device, and communicates with the second device based on the target protocol type. The target protocol type includes the flexible Ethernet protocol or the standard Ethernet protocol.
US11824941B2
A Representational State Transfer (REST)-Simple Message Transfer Protocol (SMTP) protocol gateway (RSPG) is disclosed that includes capabilities for accessing and processing REST Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) using SMTP. The RSPG receives a first email message, extracts information from the received first email message and constructs a REST API call based on the extracted information. The RSPG invokes the REST API call against a REST endpoint and receives a response generated from execution of the REST API call. The RSPG generates a second email message based on the response and causes the second email message to be communicated to an intended recipient of the response of the REST API call.
US11824937B2
User accounts can form any number of connections to any number of entities, enabling dynamic application functionality and data interaction regarding the user account and the connected entities. As a result, an individual can utilize the same user account and same application to access support from many entities. Entities may include social service organizations, groups of healthcare facilities, clinicians, medical devices, and other sources of support. The connection of a user account to an entity, updates the operations of the associated application system. For example, permissions regarding the transmission and modification of certain data associated with the user account and/or entity may be updated. Additionally, there may be additional functionality within software applications associated with the user account. There may be multiple possible forms of connections between a user account and a given entity, with each connection resulting in different outcomes. Connections can be removed and re-established as necessary.
US11824932B2
An information management system according to certain aspects can implement application archiving. The system may archive one or more applications on computing devices to make more storage space available on these devices. The system can determine which applications on client computing device to archive based on various factors. Some examples of factors can include frequency of use, application type, amount of application data and/or storage, user and/or device location, etc. The data to be archived can include one or more executable file(s), metadata, actual data, etc. After an application is archived, the system can generate a placeholder for the application; a placeholder can include information for restoring the archived application.
US11824931B2
Some embodiments provide a method of providing distributed storage services to a host computer from a network interface card (NIC) of the host computer. At the NIC, the method accesses a set of one or more external storages operating outside of the host computer through a shared port of the NIC that is not only used to access the set of external storages but also for forwarding packets not related to an external storage. In some embodiments, the method accesses the external storage set by using a network fabric storage driver that employs a network fabric storage protocol to access the external storage set. The method presents the external storage as a local storage of the host computer to a set of programs executing on the host computer. In some embodiments, the method presents the local storage by using a storage emulation layer on the NIC to create a local storage construct that presents the set of external storages as a local storage of the host computer.
US11824924B2
A service request message sending method, a distributed database architecture and a computer readable storage medium are disclosed. The method includes: receiving (S101) a service request message, and sending (S102) the service request message to a corresponding storage unit through N tiers of computing nodes, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and the closer the tier is to the storage unit, the larger the number of computing nodes in that tier is.
US11824922B2
Health and usage data are monitored for storage devices of a remote computing environment that is remote from a computing service provider. The remote computing environment comprises a subset of computing systems of a computing service provider that manages the remote computing environment. Based on the monitored health data, it is determined that one of the storage devices has failed. In response, it is determined whether a computing device of the remote computing environment that is associated with the failed storage device should be marked unhealthy or continue to operate at a reduced capacity. When it is determined that the computing device associated with the failed storage device should continue to operate at a reduced capacity, the computing device is reprovisioned with available storage devices and the computing device is operated at the reduced capacity.
US11824916B1
Aspects of the disclosure relate to accessing and interacting with requested web content using a modified web farm framework. A computing platform may receive a consumer request to connect to a virtual workspace. The computing platform may parse the consumer request to identify a cookie that contains server connections details associated with the virtual workspace. The computing platform may transmit the cookie to the consumer and may receive, from the consumer, a request to connect to a pod and a server that host the virtual workspace. The computing platform may monitor a server connection between the consumer and the virtual workspace to determine whether the server connection was lost and/or terminated. Based on determining the server connection was lost and/or terminated, the computing platform may transmit a notification to the consumer indicating the same. The computing platform may receive, from the consumer, a request to initiate a server re-connection loop.
US11824915B2
A system and method for streaming a video conference in a multi-point videoconferencing system includes video conferencing terminals in communication with a multipoint conferencing node (MCN), a streaming server in communication with the MCN and media stream viewers in communication with the streaming server.
US11824914B1
Techniques for streaming media to a public safety access point without incurring additional user costs are provided. A media stream from a mobile device is received at a communications network. The media stream being streamed from the mobile device to a social media platform in a first format. A request from a Public Safety Access Point to stream the media from the mobile device in a second format is received at the communications network. A request is sent to the mobile device to send the media stream in the second format. The media stream received from the mobile device in the second format is converted to the first format. The media stream received in the second format is sent to the Public Safety Access Point. The converted media stream in the first format is sent to the social media platform.
US11824910B2
Systems and methods perform a failover, handoff type of process for machines actively encoding and transcoding media content or other data, including live video. Based on dynamic analyses, including detection of needed updates due to security anomalies and encoder state evaluations, the encoder instance initially receiving a stream can restart following handoff to another encoder instance. System downtime is minimized through actions such as initializing the replacement encoder and passively migrating network resources to same, without any explicit coordination or messaging between the two instances.
US11824903B2
A particular computing device providing service to a user device may become unavailable. If a computing device becomes unavailable, a backup computing device may be requested to provide services to user devices on a temporary basis to allow call completion. Messages to the backup computing device instance may indicate the basis for service issues and prompt further action by the computing device, such as registration with an alternative computing device or re-registration with a computing device that was determined to be unavailable.
US11824900B2
Artificial intelligence (“AI”) apparatus and methods are provided for hardening security of software applications. Under the conventional approaches, additional manual investment implementing security policies does not yield proportional increases in combating cyber security threats. Using manual approaches, it is increasingly difficult to consistently apply multiple policies covering different software applications or versions. This results in increased risk and technical debt. Over time, these undesirable consequences exacerbate the likelihood of inadvertently introducing an adverse policy omission or change. As the scale of software application deployed across and organization increases, it becomes even more difficult to ensure that security policies tracked and consistently applied. This may result in ineffective, contradictory or duplicative configuration requirements. AI apparatus and methods provided herein ingest human-readable policy requirements and generate technical configuration settings that implement policy requirements across diverse technology platforms.
US11824899B2
The disclosure relates generally to methods, systems, and apparatuses for managing network connections. An example method includes receiving one or more messages from a plurality of computing devices connected through a network, the one or more messages indicating actual connections among the plurality of computing devices. The example method further includes comparing, by one or more processors, the actual connections to a list of expected connections indicated by a connections master file that comprises connection information for the plurality of computing devices. The method further includes, responsive to detecting one or more differences between the list of expected connections and the actual connections, providing a notification indicating the one or more differences to a log file or a notification area of a user interface.
US11824898B2
The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for managing a local network using an electronic device, where the electronic device is connected to a router and a plurality of external devices, including a first set of one or more external devices and a second set of one or more external devices, on the local network. The user interfaces enable a user to apply the same network access policy to the first set of one or more external devices and the second set of one or more external devices or to apply different network access policies to the first set of one or more external devices and the second set of one or more external devices, respectively.
US11824892B2
A method includes: obtaining, by a second terminal, an interface address of a first terminal, where the interface address of the first terminal is MAC1; receiving, by the second terminal, a first message sent by the first terminal, where an interface address of the first terminal in the first message is MAC3 obtained after a change, and the first message includes first identification information; and comparing, by the second terminal, the first identification information with second identification information, and if the first identification information is consistent with the second identification information, determining, by the second terminal, that the MAC3 in the first message and the MAC1 that is obtained by the second terminal are used to identify a same device, where the same device is the first terminal.
US11824885B1
Network entities of a network system are managed in an end-of-life context. A network system is scanned to determine network entities such as hardware devices and/or software applications. A network entity can be identified as vulnerable based on end-of-life data. A risk score for the vulnerable network entity is computed based on the end-of-life data and optionally other factors, and a potentially mitigating action is determined based on the risk score.
US11824884B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for generating responsive actions based on unauthorized access events associated with imitation networks. The present invention is configured to retrieve information associated with unauthorized access attempts associated with an imitation dataset; generate penetration test scenarios based on at least the types of unauthorized access attempts; initiate the penetration test scenarios on real datasets stored in data repositories within a network environment; determine automated network security responses to the penetration test scenarios; determine the unauthorized access attempts that were not successfully blocked and/or reported; determine actions to be executed in response to the unauthorized access attempts that were not successfully blocked and/or reported; and update the network security features with the actions.
US11824880B2
A method and system for detecting vulnerable wireless networks coexisting in a wireless environment of an organization are provided. The method includes receiving intercepted traffic, wherein the intercepted traffic is transmitted by at least one wireless device operable in an airspace of the wireless environment, wherein the intercepted traffic is transported using at least one type of wireless protocol; analyzing the received traffic to detect at least one active connection between a legitimate wireless device of the at least one wireless device and at least one unknown wireless device, wherein the legitimate wireless device is at least legitimately authorized to access a protected computing resource of the organization; and determining if the at least one detected active connection forms a vulnerable wireless network.
US11824879B2
A packet-filtering system configured to filter packets in accordance with packet-filtering rules may receive data indicating network-threat indicators and may configure the packet-filtering rules to cause the packet-filtering system to identify packets comprising unencrypted data, and packets comprising encrypted data. A portion of the unencrypted data may correspond to one or more of the network-threat indicators, and the packet-filtering rules may be configured to cause the packet-filtering system to determine, based on the portion of the unencrypted data, that the packets comprising encrypted data correspond to the one or more network-threat indicators.
US11824857B2
Techniques to handle calls to web services via a service proxy are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a technique includes an intermediate server receiving a request from a client device to the web service at a target server. In response to receiving the request, the intermediate server can authenticate the received request from the client device and upon successful authentication of the received request, forward the request to the targeted server and invoking the web service to process the forwarded request because the intermediate server is authenticated with the target server. The technique can also include receiving, at the intermediate server, data from the target server that represents execution results of the request by the web service at the target server. Upon receiving the data, the intermediate server can then forward to the client device, the data representing execution results of the request by the web service at the target server.
US11824843B2
A mobile device securely communicates with an electronic device within an automobile. The mobile device transmits encrypted spatial state information and the electronic device provides commands to the automobile in response. Spatial state information may include location, motion, or the like. Commands to the automobile may include door unlock commands, remote start commands, horn honk commands, or the like.
US11824838B2
Methods and systems disclosed herein relate to providing a receiving entity with a package of assertions. A package of assertions may include a group of yes or no statements (e.g., as an answer to a question). Alternatively, or additionally, a package of assertions may comprise a clustered assertion, which is a singular yes or no statement, that is itself based on a set of underlying assertions made using information from one or more sources. A particular type of package of assertions may be selected based on the relying entity requesting the assertions, based on an assertions model. The package of assertions may be cryptographically secured.
US11824832B2
Methods and systems for preventing malicious use of endpoint devices are described herein. A computing device may receive data indicative of usage of the computing device by a user. The computing device may compare the received data with other data (indicative of how an authorized user for the computing device uses the computing device) stored on the computing device to identify instances of abnormal usage of the computing device. The computing device may detect unauthorized use of the computing device based on the number of instances of abnormal usage exceeding a threshold. The computing device may prevent access to a computing environment with use of the computing device in response to detection of unauthorized use.
US11824824B2
A method for generating a comment capsule for a content segment includes receiving the comment related to the content segment, receiving data associated with the comment, the data including at least one of an identifier for the content segment to which the comment relates, an identifier for a user generating the comment, and a time at which the comment was generated, generating display data for displaying the comment in a comment capsule, and transmitting the display data for displaying the comment capsule in a user interface screen associated with the content segment. The comment capsule is displayed on the user interface screen inline with the content segment, and an appearance of the comment capsule is dynamically changeable based on at least one of a number of comments received for the content segment, a size of the content segment, and a read status of the comment.
US11824822B2
Method of generating customized graphics having reactions to electronic message content starts with application server causing a communication interface for a communication session to be displayed at a first client device and at a second client device, respectively. The communication session is between a plurality of client devices. The communication interface includes a chat presence bar that includes a plurality of presence indicators associated with the client devices, respectively. Application server receives content for an electronic message from first client device or second client device and generates a customized graphic based on the content for the electronic message and a user identifier for first client device. Application server causes the customized graphic to be displayed on the chat presence bar of the communication interface displayed on the second client device. The customized graphic included in a first presence indicator associated with the first client device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11824820B1
Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums which provide for an agent support application with a plurality of plug-in communication support assistants. Each of the plurality of plug-in communication support assistants monitors communications between the agents and customers for different conversational triggers. Conversational triggers may be any conversation, either by the agent or the customer, that the communication support assistant is trained to detect. Upon detecting one of these conversational triggers, the plug-in communication support assistant provides one or more suggestions to the agent.
US11824816B2
Methods and apparatus for sounding reference signal (SRS) power control for a wireless transmitter/receiver unit (WTRU) are disclosed. These methods and apparatus include methods and apparatus for carrier-specific and carrier-common SRS power control in WTRUs that utilize carrier aggregation techniques. These methods and apparatus also include methods and apparatus for SRS power control in WTRUs utilizing both carrier aggregation and time division multiplexing (TDM) techniques. Additionally, these methods and apparatus include methods and apparatus for SRS power control for WTRUs utilizing multiple input multiple output MIMO operation. Methods and apparatus for SRS overhead reduction and power management in a WTRU are also disclosed.
US11824814B2
Methods, systems, and storage media are described for physical resource block indexing to provide coexistence for narrow band, carrier aggregation, and wide band user equipment in new radio. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11824810B2
A base station transmits a resource assignment indicating a plurality of time intervals of a secondary cell for communicating with a wireless device. A deactivation timer associated with the secondary cell is restarted in response to communicating an uplink packet or a downlink packet with the wireless device during a first time interval of the plurality of time intervals.
US11824798B2
In some embodiments, a method stores a plurality of requests for routes in a queue based on respective priorities for the routes. The plurality of requests are for programming destinations and next hops for the destinations in a route table that is used by a device in a network to route packets. The method selects a request for a route from the queue based on a respective priority for the queue. Then, the request for the route is sent to an entity to program the route in the route table.
US11824795B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to merging virtual communication channels in a portion of a computing system. In some embodiments, a communication fabric routes first and second classes of traffic with different quality-of-service parameters, using a first virtual channel for the first class and a second virtual channel for the second class. In some embodiments, a memory controller communicates, via the fabric, using a merged virtual channel configured to handle traffic from both the first virtual channel and the second virtual channel. In some embodiments, the system limits the rate at which an agent is allowed to transmit requests of the second class of traffic, but requests by the agent for the first class of traffic are not rate limited. Disclosed techniques may improve independence of virtual channels, relative to sharing the same channel in an entire system, without unduly increasing complexity.
US11824792B2
A system for facilitating sender-side congestion control is provided. During operation, the system, on a sender node, can determine the utilization of a buffer at a last-hop switch to a receiver node based on in-flight packets to the receiver node. The receiver node can be reachable from the sender node via the last-hop switch. The system can then determining a fraction of available space in the buffer for packets from the sender node based on the utilization of the buffer. Subsequently, the system can determine whether the fraction of the available space in the buffer can accommodate a next packet from the sender node while avoiding congestion at the buffer at the receiver node. If the fraction of the available space in the buffer can accommodate the next packet, the system can allow the sender node to send the next packet to the receiver node.
US11824791B2
A switching system having input ports and output ports and comprising an input queued (IQ) switch with virtual channels. Typically, only one virtual channel can, at a given time, access a given output port. Typically, the IQ switch includes an arbiter apparatus that controls the input ports and output ports to ensure that an input port transmits at most one cell at a time, and/or that an output port receives a cell over only one virtual channel, and/or an output port receives at most one cell at a time.
US11824779B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a traffic forwarding processing method and a device. The method includes: A first network device receives a first packet that is from a second network device and that includes a MAC address of a destination device and a color identifier of the MAC address. The first network device obtains an address of a third network device, where the destination device is multi-homed to the second network device and the third network device. The first network device determines a first forwarding policy based on the address of the third network device and the color identifier, and forwards, to the third network device according to the first forwarding policy, traffic destined for the MAC address.
US11824760B2
Both wireless communication and communications via a cable modem are supported between a network node and a customer premises. Alternative communications links provide redundancy and the possibility to take advantage of the different types of links capacity to provide a level of service that would not be possible using a single communications link to a customer premises. In various embodiments a network node, such as a cable network node hubsite, has an optical connection to the Internet or another communications network and provides network access to one or a plurality of customer premises. The network node includes a wireless access point, e.g., pole mounted base station, as well as one or more cable modem interfaces to thereby allow for both wireless and cable modem based communications. This allows for packets of different applications to traverse different links and/or to switch between links in the event of maintenance or reliability issues.
US11824756B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for assessing and adjusting the composition of groups for monitoring programs. In some implementations, a computer system determines a target level of diversity for a monitoring program based on a composition of a reference group. The system determines a group level of diversity for a group based on the composition of the group, wherein the group comprises at least one of candidates or participants for the monitoring program. The system determines that the group level of diversity does not provide the target level of diversity, and in response, selects one or more actions that are configured to adjust the composition of the group to achieve the target level of diversity in the group. The system provides output data that indicates the selected one or more actions to adjust the composition of the group toward the target level of diversity for the group.
US11824753B2
In one embodiment, network node-to-node connectivity verification is performed in a network including data path processing of packets within a packet switching device. In one embodiment, an echo request connectivity test packet, emulating an echo request connectivity test packet received from a first connected network node, is inserted by the packet switching device prior in its data processing path prior to ingress processing performed for packets received from the first connected network node. A correspondingly received echo reply connectivity test packet is intercepted by the packet switching device during data path egress processing performed for packets to be forwarded to the first connected network node.
US11824745B1
A snapshot of a computer network system is taken in a virtualized environment. During a recording phase, a network message is recorded as it enters the computer network system. A logger generates log data that includes the headers of the network message as it enters and exits each server in the computer network system. An analysis server automatically analyzes the log data and determines whether there was a modification to a header of a network message and where the modification occurred. The contents of the changes reflected in the log data indicates functionality of the servers in the computer network system. The analysis server determines the dependencies between servers in the computer network system. The recorded data is used for test replays.
US11824731B2
There is provided a computer implemented method of allocating processing resources for processing by processing nodes, comprising: training predictive models, each predictive model for a respective processing node, each predictive model trained on a training dataset comprising records, each record including a historical amount of processing resources allocated to the respective processing node and a ground truth label indicating historical processing outcomes, wherein each processing node exhibits diminishing returns of processing outcomes with increasing allocated processing resources, wherein each predictive model is implemented as a monotonically increasing function that reaches a saturation level, solving an optimization allocation problem using the predictive models to identify a respective amount of processing resources for allocation to each processing node that maximizes a total of processing outcomes for a predetermined total amount of processing resources, and generating instructions for allocation of the respective amount of processing resources to each respective processing node.
US11824730B2
Described are various embodiments of methods and systems relating to impact management of IT systems, including a server-based IT management system comprising a network server having a service function object store that stores a plurality of service function objects, each service function object being a digital representation of a service function and comprising one or more service attributes and one or more service function links for linking each service function object to at least one other service function object; and a network communications interface for receiving information indicative of an operating state for each service function; wherein the operability of any given service function is determined automatically upon the reduction of operating state of any one or more other service functions based on direct and indirect linkages between the given service function and the other service functions and the respective service-loss impact values associated with each said direct and indirect linkages.
US11824728B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for emulating a state of a network environment for purposes of re-executing a network assurance appliance in the emulated state of the network environment. In some embodiments, a method can include receiving snapshot data for a network environment corresponding to a specific time in the network environment and including network events occurring in the network environment generated by a network assurance appliance. A state of the network environment at the specific time can be emulated using the snapshot data to create an emulated state of the network environment. Subsequently, the network assurance appliance can be re-executed in the emulated state of the network environment corresponding to the specific time and the network assurance appliance can be debugged outside of the network environment based on re-execution of the network assurance appliance in the emulated state of the network environment.
US11824725B2
A method for testing network interaction defines a set having a plurality of network nodes, wherein the network nodes within the set are in signal communication with each other and wherein at least one of the network nodes is emulated by a processor. A set of transactions between network nodes is defined by repeated steps of defining a request message for message transfer between at least a first node and a second node; and defining, for each request message, at least one corresponding response message for transfer between the second node and the first node. The method executes the defined set of transactions and tracks and records performance data from the set of network nodes participating in the set of transactions, and displays the recorded performance data.
US11824716B2
A method for controlling deployment of network configuration changes includes receiving, by centralized network management system executed by a processor and memory, configuration change instructions to alter a configuration of a network; computing, by the centralized network management system, a weighted impact of the configuration change instructions; determining, by the centralized network management system, whether the weighted impact of the configuration change instructions exceeds a threshold impact level; and in response to determining that the weighted impact does not exceed the threshold impact level, executing the configuration change instructions.
US11824706B2
Notification system using a blockchain system. A method of the disclosure includes determining, by a node of a blockchain system, that a notification is available for an application of a computing device. The application is associated with a service platform. The method also includes updating a ledger of the blockchain system to indicate that the notification for the application is available.
US11824703B2
A coding and modulation apparatus and method are presented. The apparatus (10) comprises an encoder (11) that encodes input data into cell words, and a modulator (12) that modulates said cell words into constellation values of a non-uniform constellation. The modulator (12) is configured to use, based on the total number M of constellation points of the constellation, the signal-to-noise ratio SNR in dB and the channel characteristics, a non-uniform constellation from a group of constellations comprising one or more of predetermined constellations defined by the constellation position vector u1 . . . v, wherein v=sqrt(M)/2−1.
US11824700B2
Systems and methods are provided for reducing peak-to-average power ratio (“PAPR”) in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (“OFDM”) signal having reference tones by introducing modified pilot tones to cancel peaks in OFDM symbols in the OFDM signal array. The modified pilot tones are added to the original OFDM signal, which in turn conditions the OFDM symbols of the signal to effectively reduce the PAPR. Such systems and methods provide PAPR reduction for OFDM signals generated by an OFDM Signal Processor through the addition of tone reservation PAPR reduction methods, which use reserved tones such as pilot tones to improve PAPR. Such methods offer an advantage of improving the PAPR without introducing distortion to the signal.
US11824696B2
Messages are transmitted in closely-spaced subcarriers in 5G and 6G, configured so that each subcarrier signal is orthogonal to the adjacent subcarrier signals. However, many effects can penetrate that orthogonality—distortion, interference, frequency variations, amplitude variations, crosstalk, etc.—collectively termed energy spill-over. To combat this problem, a receiver can determine the total energy spill-over into adjacent subcarriers by measuring a residual signal in a subcarrier with no transmission, adjacent to another subcarrier with a known transmission. The receiver can measure the amplitude, phase, temporal or spectral properties, and so forth of the residual signal. The receiver can then correct the message during signal processing, by calculating a function of the residual signal and subtracting it from each digitized subcarrier signal of a message. This can largely restore the inter-subcarrier orthogonality, improving messaging reliability while avoiding message faults and costly retransmissions.
US11824693B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may transmit signaling that configures a wireless device to use a multi-level coding (MLC) procedure to communicate with a base station. Based on receiving the signaling, the wireless device may select a channel quality indicator (CQI) index from a set of CQI indices that are associated with an MLC procedure. In some examples, the wireless device selects the CQI index from a set of CQI indices that includes both bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM)-based and MLC-based CQI indices. In other examples, the wireless device selects the CQI index from a set of CQI indices that includes solely MLC-based CQI indices. The wireless device may transmit the selected CQI index to the base station. And the base station may select a modulation and coding scheme for subsequent transmissions to the wireless device based on the received CQI index.
US11824687B2
An information processing apparatus capable of aperiodic communication and periodic communication, provided with a communication determination unit that determines a type of a communication message; a first processing determination unit that determines relatedness between aperiodic communication and periodic communication by using a first communication message for which the type is determined to be aperiodic communication, and a prediction range for an amount of time for receiving a second communication message for which the type is determined to be periodic communication; and a second processing determination unit that determines that the second communication message is legitimate communication for periodic communication in a case where the periodic communication second communication message determined to have relatedness is in the prediction range a predetermined amount of time later.
US11824679B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for managing an electronic device. The method and apparatus may allow a user to input a registration instruction to a user terminal using the user's voice without directly inputting or confirming various types of information, when the user registers an electronic device in the user's account as an electronic device to be managed. For example, the user may utter (or speak) a product family of the electronic device to be registered, and an instruction to request registration, thereby enabling the user to register the electronic device in the user's account as an electronic device to be managed as a result of manipulation performed more simply and less frequently.
US11824676B2
A home equipment management apparatus includes: an inquiry unit that inquires, in response to a registration request from a user terminal via a wide area network, a house control device that controls a standard-compatible equipment and a vendor-specific equipment connected to a home network about information of the vendor-specific equipment via the wide area network; a registration unit that registers the information of the vendor-specific equipment including at least address information transmitted from the house control device, together with identification information indicating that the equipment is a vendor-specific equipment; a confirmation unit that transmits the information of the vendor-specific equipment registered in the equipment management table to the user terminal and acquires a result of approval, correction, or addition by the user terminal; and an update unit that updates a registered content of the vendor-specific equipment according to the result of approval, correction, or addition by the user terminal.
US11824663B2
Various embodiments of the disclosure relate to an apparatus and a method for managing a communication buffer of an electronic device in the electronic device. The electronic device includes: a wireless communication circuit, an application processor, and a communication processor operatively connected to the wireless communication circuit and the application processor and including a communication buffer, wherein the communication processor is configured to: identify a Radio Link Control (RLC) retransmission time, identify an uplink transmission rate, and configure a size of an area for storing data in the communication buffer based on the RLC retransmission time and the uplink transmission rate.
US11824662B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses can comprise receiving a Sidelink (SL) grant, wherein the SL grant indicates a SL transmission, starting or restarting a first timer for a SL Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) process in a first symbol after the end of a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resource associated with the SL grant, or the SL transmission, when the first device does not transmit a SL HARQ feedback for the SL HARQ process on the PUCCH resource due to measurement gap or Listen-Before-Talk (LBT) failure, starting or restarting a second timer for the SL HARQ process in a first symbol, after the first timer expires, when the first device does not transmit the SL HARQ feedback for the SL HARQ process on the PUCCH resource due to measurement gap, or LBT failure, and the SL HARQ feedback is a negative acknowledgement, and monitoring a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) when the second timer is running.
US11824659B2
A method for optimized hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) operation. The method comprises transmitting an uplink data transmission on the shared uplink resource to a network node, and receiving a feedback message from the network node, the feedback message comprising a feedback indication indicating a reception status of the uplink data transmission from the terminal device. An explicit HARQ feedback can be provided for uplink data transmission in a wireless communication network such as a new radio (NR) network.
US11824658B2
The wireless channel of the wireless communication system is selectively disrupted or interfered with based on the logical states of the data to be transmitted by an electronic device having no wireless data signal transmitting circuitry. A host device transmits a query packet which includes a header and a series of sub-frames to be received by a receiving device. As each sub-frame is transmitted, the electronic device can selectively disrupt the wireless channel by changing its characteristics such that the receiving device can no longer decode that sub-frame based on channel estimation from the header of the frame. Wireless channel disruption occurs in response to a specific state of the bit of data of a message to be communicated by the electronic device. The receiving device then issues a status reply to the host device indicating which sub-frames are decodable and which sub-frames are undecodable based on the initial channel estimation. The host device decodes the status reply to extract the message.
US11824654B2
The disclosure proposes a technique for achieving validity decision performance of a suitable level in communication and broadcasting systems using a polar code. The polar code is a channel code in which it is difficult to use a syndrome check due to a successive cancellation (SC)-based decoding operation and coding structure. Accordingly, in the communication of the related art and broadcasting systems using the polar code, a validity check of a decoding result has been performed by using a path-metric (PM) generated during decoding and a concatenated error detection code, such as a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) code. However, it is difficult to achieve target error detection performance only via such methods when the length of the CRC code is short or when input and output lengths of a code are short. In this regard, an embodiment of the disclosure proposes a method for obtaining a Euclidean distance-based metric between a received signal and a decoded signal by using an estimated codeword output bit sequence, and performing post error detection based on this.
US11824653B2
An apparatuses for radio access network configuration for video approximate semantic communications includes a transceiver that receives from a transmitter a bitstream corresponding to a video coded data transmission wherein the received bitstream includes bitwise transmission errors and a processor that performs FEC decoding and correcting at least one bitwise transmission error of the video coded data transmission whereas at least one bitwise transmission error is left in a bit-inexact reception of the video coded data transmissions post FEC decoding, applies, by a smart video decoder in a video approximate semantic communications mode, semantic error correction to decoded video coded data transmissions to correct and conceal one or more video artifacts in response to the bit-inexact reception of the video coded data transmissions post FEC decoding, and reconstructs a video uncoded representation of concealed approximate semantic content relative to the received bitstream corresponding to the video coded data transmission.
US11824652B1
A communication device generates a legacy portion of a physical layer (PHY) preamble of a PHY data unit. The legacy portion includes a plurality of legacy training fields and a legacy signal field that indicates a duration of the PHY data unit. The communication device generates a non-legacy portion of the PHY preamble to include a multi-bit signal field header to indicate at least one of i) a particular wireless communication protocol from among the multiple wireless communication protocols, and ii) a particular version of the particular wireless communication protocol. The communication device generates the non-legacy portion of the PHY preamble to also include a non-legacy signal field having a field format that conforms to the at least one of the i) particular wireless communication protocol and ii) the particular version of the particular wireless communication protocol.
US11824651B2
A method for a user equipment (UE) to receive physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) with a first sub-carrier spacing (SCS) includes receiving a bitmap indicating symbols of a slot that are first symbols of control resource sets (CORESETs) for PDCCH receptions, determining, based on the bitmap, a first number of symbols that is a smallest number of symbols in between a first symbol of PDCCH receptions in first CORESETs and a first symbol of PDCCH receptions in second CORESETs, determining, based on the first number of symbols and the SCS, a first maximum number of non-overlapping control channel elements (CCEs), and receiving the PDCCHs with the first SCS according to the first maximum number of non-overlapping CCEs.
US11824648B2
The present invention relates to systems and methods suitable for verifying and compensating nodes for streaming multimedia. In particular, the present invention relates to systems and methods that utilize a blockchain to verify and compensate devices for computational resources contributions when streaming multimedia over a decentralized network.
US11824647B2
The techniques disclosed herein improve existing systems by monitoring data indicative of the communication session and identifying a predefined trigger indicative of a desired engagement level of a user with respect to the communication session. A promotion action is determined that corresponds to the predefined trigger. In response to confirmation of the promotion action, the user is promoted on the user interface in accordance with the promotion action.
US11824605B2
An electronic device includes a multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) antenna array comprising a plurality of antenna elements configured for MIMO communication across a network. One or more sensors detect a triggering event altering a radiation correlation pattern between at least two antenna elements of the plurality of antenna elements. One or more processors then select, in response to the one or more sensors detecting the triggering event, a quantity of antenna elements from the plurality of antenna elements available for engagement in the MIMO communication across the network as a function of the radiation correlation pattern.
US11824604B2
The present application discloses a massive MIMO wireless energy transmission method based on dynamic frame transmission. The method comprises the following steps: controlling, by a base station, each antenna to transmit a pilot signal to a user end in a time-sharing mode by using set time-sharing pilot frames; acquiring, by the user end, downlink channel state information from the antennae of the base station to the user end and feeding the downlink channel state information back to the base station; and calculating, by the base station, a precoding matrix based on the downlink channel state information, mapping data from a user layer to an antenna port by using the newly calculated precoding matrix, and performing beam forming calculation with maximization of an energy signal of the user end as a goal.
US11824598B2
In some implementations, a near field communication (NFC) device may determine whether the NFC device is to perform a wireless transaction in a powered mode or an unpowered mode, and may selectively perform the wireless transaction in the powered mode or the unpowered mode based on determining whether the NFC device is to perform the wireless transaction in the powered mode or the unpowered mode. The wireless transaction may be performed using power from a power source internal to the NFC device when the wireless transaction is performed in the powered mode. The wireless transaction may be performed without using power from the power source internal to the NFC device when the wireless transaction is performed in the unpowered mode.
US11824594B2
A server includes a communication device and a controller. The communication device receives information about whether a destination is set from a vehicle. The controller sets a radio signal recommendation scheme based on whether the destination is set, determines whether a recommended radio signal recommended in a set recommendation scheme is applicable, and transmits a radio signal recommendation list generated based on a determination result. A vehicle receives the radio signal recommendation list from the server when a strength of the received radio signal is less than a specified value, compares a strength of at least one radio signal included in the radio signal recommendation list with the strength of the received radio signal, and determines whether to receive the recommended radio signal based on the comparison result.
US11824584B2
A node device capable of optimal transfer in accordance with the traffic situation of a network irrespective of the optical signaling system is provided. The node device includes a first wavelength selective switch connected to an input-side optical fiber; a fast selective switch connected to the first wavelength selective switch for cut-through or selective switching to an OCS controller or an OFS/OPS controller; an optical coupler connected to a cut-through output of the fast selective switch, an output of the OCS controller, and an output of the OFS/OPS controller; a second wavelength selective switch connected to an output of the optical coupler; and a node controller that performs wavelength assignment control for the first and second wavelength selective switches, path/label switch control for the fast selective switch, and flow/packet switch control for the OFS/OPS controller.
US11824579B2
A chirp spread spectrum (CSS) receiver may reject, based on multiple data alignment chirps that includes an attribute identifier that is a mismatch to one or more preconfigured identifiers, a message early and before fully receiving/decoding the message. The multiple data alignment chirps may enable usage of a larger range of IDs than a single chirp signal. A receiver may receive a sequence of training chirps for symbol alignment followed by multiple opposite chirps for data alignment. Training chirps may be processed through a fast-Fourier transform (FFT) and the resulting values accumulated until a threshold is exceeded. Using symbol alignment from the training chirps, the receiver may decode multiple opposite chirps that indicate data alignment and comprise an encoded identifier. The receiver may reject the message and terminate further message processing based on the encoded identifier being a mismatch to preconfigured identifiers or attributes indicated by the encoded identifier.
US11824566B2
According to one embodiment, a data decompression device includes: a detection circuit configured to detect a boundary between a header and a payload in a compressed stream, based on boundary information in the header; a separation circuit configured to separate the header and the payload; a first decompression circuit configured to decompress a compressed coding table in the header; and a second decompression circuit configured to decompress the payload, based on an output of the first decompression circuit.
US11824558B2
An encoding apparatus is provided. The encoding includes a low density parity check (LDPC) encoder which performs LDPC encoding on input bits based on a parity-check matrix to generate an LDPC codeword formed of 64,800 bits, in which the parity-check matrix includes an information word sub-matrix and a parity sub-matrix, the information word sub-matrix is formed of a group of a plurality of column blocks each including 360 columns, and the parity-check matrix and the information word sub-matrix are defined by various tables which represent positions of value one (1) present in every 360-th column.
US11824557B2
A transmitter is provided. The transmitter includes: an outer encoder configured to encode input bits to generate outer-encoded bits including the input bits and parity bits; a zero padder configured to generate a plurality of bit groups each of which is formed of a same number of bits, maps the outer-encoded bits to some of the bits in the bit groups, and pads zero bits to remaining bits in the bit groups, based on a predetermined shortening pattern, thereby to constitute Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) information bits; and an LDPC encoder configured to encode the LDPC information bits, wherein the remaining bits in which zero bits are padded include some of the bit groups which are not sequentially disposed in the LDPC information bits.
US11824551B2
Bias adjusting circuits (1_(2k-1), 1_2k) (where k is an integer equal to or greater than 1 and equal to or less than N, and N is an integer equal to or more than 2) adjust DC bias voltage of at least one of clock signals such that a duty ratio, which is a ratio between a period in which a clock signal is High as to a clock signal and a period in which the clock signal is Low thereasto, becomes (2N−2k+1):(2k−1). Sampling circuits switch between a track mode in which an output signal tracks an input signal, and a hold mode in which a value of the input signal at a timing of switching from the track mode to the hold mode is held and output, in accordance with clock signals output from the bias adjusting circuits (2_1 to 2_2N).
US11824549B2
A reference voltage buffer circuit is provided, which could improve the reliability of the reference voltage buffer circuit, including: at least one output branch, where each output branch includes a delay control branch, a first MOSFET, and a second MOSFET; and a feedback branch, where in a first time period, the feedback branch is configured to output a first voltage to the delay control branch, and the delay control branch is configured to control the first MOSFET and the second MOSFET to be turned on, such that a source of the first MOSFET continuously outputs a reference voltage; and in a second time period, a voltage output from the feedback branch to the delay control branch is 0, the delay control branch is configured to control the second MOSFET to be turned off before the first MOSFET is turned off.
US11824543B2
A device includes a first ramp generator having a first ramp generator output configured to provide a first ramp, a second ramp generator having a second ramp generator output configured to provide a second ramp, and a third ramp generator having a third ramp generator output configured to provide a third ramp. The first ramp is a sawtooth voltage waveform having a first common mode voltage and a first peak-to-peak voltage. The second ramp is a sawtooth voltage waveform having a second common mode voltage and a second peak-to-peak voltage. The third ramp is a sawtooth voltage waveform having a third common mode voltage and a third peak-to-peak voltage. A frequency of the second ramp is approximately equal to a frequency of the third ramp, and the frequency of the third ramp is approximately double a frequency of the first ramp.
US11824542B1
A bipolar high voltage bipolar pulsing power supply is disclosed that can produce high voltage bipolar pulses with a positive high voltage pulse greater than about 2 kV followed by a negative high voltage pulse less than about −2 kV with a positive to negative dwell period between the positive high voltage pulse and the negative high voltage pulse. A high voltage bipolar pulsing power supply, for example, can reproduce high voltage pulses with a pulse repetition rate greater than about 10 kHz.
US11824529B2
An electronic device according to an embodiment includes a first touch key disposed in a first area of the electronic device, a second touch key disposed in a second area of the electronic device, an antenna, a communication circuit, electrically connected to the antenna, for transmitting or receiving a signal using the antenna, a sensing circuit for sensing an external object corresponding to the electronic device, a frequency adjustment circuit, electrically connected to the antenna, adjusting a resonance frequency of the antenna, and a processor wherein the processor detects the external object using the sensing circuit while communicating with an external device using the communication circuit, in response to detecting the external object, detects an amount of change of capacitance corresponding to the external object using the first touch key or the second touch key. If a first amount of change of capacitance detected through the first touch key is greater than a second amount of change of capacitance detected through the second touch key, the electronic device communicates using the communication circuit wherein the frequency adjustment circuit is designated in a first mode. If the second amount of change of capacitance detected through the second touch key is greater than the second amount of change of capacitance detected through the first touch key, the electronic device communicates using the communication circuit wherein the frequency adjustment circuit is designated in a second mode. In addition, various other embodiments are possible.
US11824522B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to wireless communication, and high-frequency filters with resonators configured to systematically modify phase characteristics of an antenna reflection coefficient. One example is a wireless communication apparatus for a multi-band system comprising a frequency band filter circuit having a filter passband that includes a first band of the multi-band system. The frequency band filter circuit comprises a plurality of resonators coupled between an antenna port and a signal port and a resonant structure electrically coupled to the plurality of resonators. The resonant structure has a resonance outside of the first band and a second band of the multi-band system, the resonance being closer to the second band than to the first band.
US11824515B2
An acoustic wave device that includes a spinel layer, a piezoelectric layer and an interdigital transducer electrode on the piezoelectric layer is disclosed. The piezoelectric layer is disposed between the interdigital transducer electrode and the spinel layer. The acoustic wave device is configured to generate an acoustic wave having a wavelength of λ. The piezoelectric layer can have a thickness than is less than λ. In some embodiments, the acoustic wave device can include a temperature compensating layer that is disposed between the piezoelectric layer and the spinel layer.
US11824507B2
Apparatus, systems, articles of manufacture, and methods for volume adjustment are disclosed herein. An example method includes collecting data corresponding to a volume of an audio signal as the audio signal is output through a device, when an average volume of the audio signal does not satisfy a volume threshold for a specified timespan, determining a difference between the average volume and a desired volume, and applying a gain to the audio signal to adjust the volume of the audio signal to the desired volume, the gain determined based on the difference between the average volume and the desired volume.
US11824506B2
An amplifier circuit comprises a first gain circuit path configured to provide a first signal gain to an input signal, a second gain circuit path configured to provide a second signal gain to an input signal, an auxiliary gain circuit path configured to provide an auxiliary signal gain to an auxiliary input signal, wherein the auxiliary signal gain is equal to the first signal gain minus the second signal gain, a summing circuit configured to sum the second gain signal path and the auxiliary signal path, and logic circuitry configured to change an output of the circuit between the first gain circuit path and the sum of the second gain signal path and the auxiliary signal path, and set the auxiliary input signal equal to the input signal before the changing.
US11824503B2
A charge amplifier circuit is provided. The charge amplifier circuit is couplable to a transducer that generates an electrical charge that varies with an external stimulus. The charge amplifier circuit includes an amplification stage having an input node, couplable to the transducer, and an output node. The amplification stage biases the input node at a first direct current (DC) voltage. The charge amplifier circuit includes a feedback circuit, which includes a feedback capacitor, electrically coupled between the input and output nodes of the amplification stage. The feedback circuit includes a resistor electrically coupled to the input node, and a level-shifter circuit, electrically coupled between the resistor and the output node. The level-shifter circuit biases the output node at a second DC voltage and as a function of a difference between the second DC voltage and a reference voltage.
US11824502B2
Systems comprising a low power Digital Predistortion (DPD) system and methods of operation thereof are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a system comprises a DPD system for digitally predistorting an input signal to provide an output signal. The DPD system comprises a DPD actuator comprising one or more configurable multiplication functions, each configurable to operate in different power modes. The different power modes comprise a first power mode in which the configurable multiplication function multiplies a first value related to an input sample of the input signal and a second value related to a respective DPD value to provide an output value and a second power mode in which the configurable multiplication function outputs, as the output value, are an approximation of a multiplication of the first value and the second value.
US11824499B2
A power amplifier circuit includes a first amplifier that amplifies a first signal, and a second amplifier arranged subsequent to the first amplifier. The second amplifier amplifies a second signal that is based on an output signal of the first amplifier. The first amplifier performs class inverse-F operation, and the second amplifier performs class F operation.
US11824494B2
The embodiments of the disclosure concern solar power operation controller to control a solar operated actuator system. An embodied solar controller, of a solar power operated actuator system, includes, an input for power feed from a solar panel for the solar controller powering, at least one sensor input in an ensemble of sensor inputs for providing sensor data to the solar controller, a functional connection to control a solar panel produced electricity for an accumulator charging, a functional connection to control accumulator laden charge for an actuator operation.
US11824490B2
The present invention relates to a supporting system for photovoltaic panels and, in particular, to a supporting beam for photovoltaic panels implemented so that it eases the installation phase thereof, by allowing also the use of robot for the positioning, and at the same time it allows a reduction in production and maintenance costs.
US11824481B2
A high-grade post or pile system for the foundation of a solar array, which may facilitate the installation of a solar array rack in more corrosive soils. Such a post may also satisfy the need for a foundation able to resist ground forces, in particular the effects of wind on the exterior of the array, and may reduce problems with beam refusal. The post may be used in other applications such as guardrail posts. In contrast to existing posts for solar arrays, the high-grade post may be formed from higher-grade steel.
US11824476B2
Disclosed is a circuit for converting a temperature change amount into a voltage change amount in a motor drive system, including a positive temperature change rate voltage generation module, a circuit bias module, and a temperature detection module that are integrated on a same substrate. An external power supply voltage is processed by the positive temperature change rate voltage generation module and the circuit bias module, and then inputted to the temperature detection module. The temperature detection module detects in real time the temperature change amount in the motor drive system, convert the temperature change amount into the voltage change amount, and transfer the voltage change amount to the circuit bias module, to allow the circuit bias module to output the voltage change amount. In this way, the conversion from the temperature change amount into the voltage change amount is realized.
US11824473B2
An electric working machine in one aspect of the present disclosure includes a driving device, a controller, a control power source, and an operation state determiner. The control power source includes a first converter and a second converter. The control power source transitions to a first conversion state when the operation state determiner determines that the controller is in a control operation state. The control power source in the first conversion state supplies a first control current to the controller. The control power source transitions to a second conversion state when the operation state determiner determines that the controller is in a low power operation state. The control power source in the second conversion state (i) stops operation of the first converter, and (ii) supplies a second control current to the controller.
US11824465B2
A power conversion apparatus includes a filter capacitor, a contactor to electrically connect the filter capacitor to a power source or electrically disconnect the filter capacitor from the power source, and a failure determiner to determine whether a failure occurs in the contactor. When the contactor is kept closed during a determination period since closing of the contactor and a reduction in the voltage in the filter capacitor during the determination period is greater than or equal to a reference value, the failure determiner determines occurrence of a failure in the contactor.
US11824457B2
A power conversion module is disclosed. The power conversion module includes a power conversion module includes a circuit board and a first basic power unit. The first basic power unit is disposed on the circuit board and includes a magnetic device, a primary switch circuit, a first secondary rectifying circuit and a first positive output terminal pin. The primary switch circuit, the first secondary rectifying circuit, the magnetic device and the first positive output terminal pin are sequentially arranged on the circuit board along a first direction.
US11824453B2
A secondary controller for use in a power converter includes a drive circuit coupled to a secondary side of the power converter. The drive circuit is configured to generate a first signal to enable a first switch coupled to a primary side of the primary converter. The first signal is generated in response to a feedback signal representative of an output of the power converter. A control circuit is coupled to receive the first signal and an input signal representative of a secondary winding voltage of the power converter. The control circuit is configured to generate a second signal to control a second switch coupled to the secondary side of the power converter. The control circuit is configured to generate the second signal in response to the first signal and a compare signal, and in response to an output of a latch.
US11824450B2
A power converter can include: N switching power stage circuits, where output terminals of the N switching power stage circuits are connected in parallel, and N is a positive integer; an energy storage element coupled between an input terminal and the output terminal of the power converter, where the energy storage element is configured to periodically store energy for delivery to the output terminal of the power converter; and where after a main transistor of an M-th switching power stage circuit is turned off, a main transistor of the (M+1)-th switching power stage circuit is turned on, in order to realize zero-voltage-switching (ZVS) of the main transistor of (M+1)-th switching power stage circuit, where M is a positive integer less than N.
US11824425B2
A rotor assembly for an electric machine is described herein. The rotor assembly comprises a body member, a first shaft member and a second shaft member. The body member comprises an inner wall defining a cavity in the body member. The body member is arranged between the first shaft member and the second shaft member. The first shaft member comprises a tube arranged through the first shaft member and extending at least partially in the cavity of the body member. An end of the tube exposed in the cavity comprises a medium dispersion unit configured to disperse a medium in the cavity and the medium dispersion unit comprises an impeller element configured to provide a turbulent flow of the medium.
US11824423B2
The present invention discloses a power generation system to power a cryptocurrency mining operation. The system comprises at least one power producing module having at least one first hollow member and at least one second hollow member. The second hollow member is filled with fluid, for example, water. The system further comprises at least one conductive coil disposed over the second hollow member. The system further comprises at least one movable magnet disposed within the second hollow member and a magnetic flux field of the magnet is in contact with the conductive coil. The system is configured to generate energy when the magnetic flux field of the magnet passes through the conductive coil.
US11824415B2
A coil has a winding that is coated with an epoxy resin in at least some areas, wherein a ratio of a compressive strength of the epoxy resin to the tensile strength thereof at room temperature ranges between 2 and 5, the modulus of elasticity at room temperature is at least 5000 MPa, and at a glass transition temperature of the epoxy resin, the modulus of elasticity and the tensile strength have values amounting to at least 30% of the values at room temperature.
US11824413B2
A winding arrangement for a stator of an electric motor includes winding hairpins arranged to form one or more phases. The stator includes a plurality of motor teeth forming a plurality of slots each configured to accommodate multiple layers. A first set of winding hairpins spanning of M slots are coupled in series and coupled to a phase lead, and are arranged sequentially in a first azimuthal direction. A jumper is arranged in a layer and is coupled in series with the first set of winding hairpins. A second set of winding hairpins configured to span of M slots are coupled in series between the jumper and a neutral lead. The second set of winding hairpins are arranged sequentially in the opposite azimuthal direction, and along with the first set of winding hairpins and the jumper, form a continuous electrical path between the phase lead and the neutral lead.
US11824410B1
An electrical propulsion unit (EPU) for a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is provided. The EPU includes a propeller or a fan and an electric motor. The electric motor includes a stator comprising coils configured to carry current and a rotor arranged to interact with the stator. The rotor is configured to generate a torque for driving rotation of the propeller or the fan. The coils of the stator have a cumulated conductor volume Vconductor The stator, the rotor, or the stator and the rotor include a flux guiding iron material configured to guide magnetic flux generated by the coils of the stator, wherein the flux guiding iron material has a cumulated iron volume Viron, and wherein the electric motor has a machine parameter Γ that is greater than or equal to 0.25, Γ being defined as: Γ=Vconductor/Viron.
US11824396B2
Provided are a wireless charging method, an electronic device and a wireless charging apparatus. The method includes: monitoring a present voltage of a battery of the electronic device, after communication between a wireless charging apparatus and an electronic device is established; in response to the present voltage of the battery being greater than a preset fast charging voltage, controlling a voltage and current adjusting module of the electronic device to operate, to perform step-down and current rising on a direct current power outputted by the wireless receiving module of the electronic device and provide the direct current power after the step-down and current rising to the battery; determining an initial voltage value and sending the initial voltage value to the wireless charging apparatus, to enable the wireless charging apparatus to control a voltage of an adjustable direct current power according to the initial voltage value.
US11824390B2
A battery control system is provided with battery monitoring control circuits for measuring an output voltage of an individual or secondary battery cells, which are connected in an assembled battery divided into blocks; and a control circuit for controlling the battery monitoring control circuits. Each of the batter monitoring control circuits includes a communication interface for communications between the battery monitoring control circuits or communications with the control circuit; a power converter for converting a start-up signal into a DC voltage; and a start-up circuit that receives the DC voltage and generates a start-up control signal for starting the battery monitoring control circuit. The communication interface is a daisy-chain communication interface that connects the plurality of battery monitoring control circuits in a daisy chain, and one of the plurality of battery monitoring control circuits starts another one of the plurality of battery monitoring control circuits based on the start-up signal.
US11824379B2
A power supply unit for an aerosol inhaler includes: a power supply that is able to discharge power to a load for generating an aerosol from an aerosol generation source; and a control unit that is configured to control at least one of charging and discharging of the power supply such that the power supply does not become one or both of a fully charged state and a discharging termination state.
US11824376B1
A wireless power transmitter to wirelessly transmit power applies a current or voltage to a transmitter coil based on an indication of coupling being in a predetermined range. The current or voltage which is applied causes the transmitter coil to transmit a high power (HP) DPING. A response to the HP DPING indicates that a wireless power receiver is located on a charging surface and a power signal is then transmitted to the wireless power receiver to charge or power an electronic device coupled to the wireless power receiver. Use of HP DPING improves the wireless power transmission performance including transmission area and interoperability of wireless power transmitters with low coupling to wireless power receivers.
US11824368B1
The invention discloses a fast charging device with multiple intelligent terminals and belongs to the field of charging technologies. The fast charging device includes an input power management circuit, a deception circuit, multiple boost-buck management circuits, and multiple charging modules; the input power management circuits are externally connected with a charging head and connected with the deception circuit; the deception circuit is connected with the boost-buck management circuits connected with a corresponding charging module; the charging module is externally connected with a terminal to be charged, includes a wired charging module and a wireless charging module, and further includes a fast charging protocol module and a non-fast charging protocol module; and the terminal to be charged is selectively connected with the fast charging protocol module or the non-fast charging protocol module for charging as required. The invention realizes the technical effect of improving charging compatibility and efficiency.
US11824364B2
An energy storage system comprises: an alternating-current/direct-current converter; a battery; a booster; a direct-current/alternating-current converter; a power control unit; an inductor having one terminal connected to a supply terminal to which normal alternating-current power is supplied; a switching unit having one terminal connected to the other terminal of the inductor and having the other terminal connected to an input/output terminal; a current determination unit which compares an inductor current flowing through the inductor with a power recovery limit current determined by a user; and a switching control unit.
US11824362B2
A frequency support system arranged for providing frequency support to an AC grid. The system includes an ES arrangement, and a bi-directional DC/AC power electronic converter interface configured for connecting the ES arrangement with the grid. The ES arrangement includes a plurality of series connected ES groups, each ES group including a plurality of parallel connected ES modules, each ES module including an energy storage interfaced by a bi-directional power electronic ES converter configured for connecting the ES with a DC side of the converter interface.
US11824359B2
A power management apparatus and a housing complex combination method for trading surplus power for a housing are provided. Influencing factors in analyzing a consumption pattern of an individual housing and various correlations between the influencing factors are analyzed, and an optimal sustainable housing complex through supply of new renewable energy is formed.
US11824351B2
A system and method for dynamically and automatically adjusting the load on a power grid through micro adjustments of equipment coupled to the consumer side of the power grid. The system allowing for the automatic adjustment of equipment to either decrease or increase instantaneous power demand on the grid in response to peak demands and demand valleys to smooth the demand curve on the power grid. The system able to balance demand within the grid to adjust demand within various different portions of the power grid and allowing for reducing the power buffer supplied by electric utilities to reduce waste and carbon emissions.
US11824346B2
A current cut-off device for high-voltage direct current, includes: at least one primary mechanical switch placed in a main line between a primary point and a secondary point; a primary surge arrester arranged in parallel with the primary switch; and an oscillatory circuit arranged electrically in parallel with the primary switch and electrically in parallel with the primary surge arrester. The oscillation circuit includes, electrically in series, at least an inductance, a capacitance and an oscillation trigger. The device has, in the oscillation circuit, a controllable device for varying the resistance value inserted in series into the oscillation circuit.
US11824342B2
Devices, systems, and methods are provided for compact transmission lines structure. A compact transmission lines structure may comprise a first subsystem of a pole and a crossarm, wherein the crossarm is stacked above the pole, wherein the crossarm comprises a cantilever end situated away from the pole. The compact transmission lines structure may comprise a second subsystem connected to the cantilever end. The second subsystem comprising a first diamond-shaped insulator assembly supporting a first single three-phase transmission line. The compact transmission lines structure may comprise a third subsystem connected to the cantilever end, the third subsystem comprising a second diamond-shaped insulator assembly supporting a second single three-phase transmission line, wherein the second diamond-shaped insulator assembly mirrors the first diamond-shaped insulator assembly. The compact transmission lines structure may comprise at least two shield wires configured to provide lightning protection.
US11824334B2
A wiring member includes: a main line portion in which a plurality of electric wires are gathered; a plurality of branch line portions formed by branching the plurality of electric wires from an end portion of the main line portion; a water sealing portion that closes a gap between the plurality of branch line portions at a branch portion where the plurality of branch line portions branch from the end portion of the main line portion; and a resin portion molded to cover the water sealing portion in a state in which the resin portion is in close contact with an outer peripheral portion of the main line portion adjacent to the branch portion and outer peripheral portions of the plurality of branch line portions adjacent to the branch portion.
US11824331B2
Plies have a first and a second plier limb which are rotatably held relative to one another on an axis of rotation an articulation region and form a jaw region on one side of the articulation region and handle sections on the other side of the articulation region. The jaw region has a cutting pattern with first and second cutting edges which, in the closed position of the pliers, are crossed with respect to a shear plane and which have a central plane running through the axis of rotation, perpendicularly to the shear plane in the closed position. The cutting edges are crossed to a greater degree in a region remote from the articulation, in the opening direction of the pliers, than in a region closer to the articulation.
US11824330B2
An insulator for a gas-insulated device is provided, including an injection-molded insulator disc and a conductor, wherein the insulator disc includes a first circumferential surface, a second circumferential surface disposed radially outwards from the first circumferential surface, and a web portion connecting the first circumferential surface and the second circumferential surface, characterized in that the web portion includes a wave structure, the web portion having an inner wave profile at the first circumferential surface and an outer wave profile at the second circumferential surface, and the inner wave profile and the outer wave profile have a radius of curvature of 2 mm or more and 10,000 mm or less.
US11824327B2
A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) assembly comprising a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) array and a U-turn chip. The SOA array includes an input SOA and a plurality of SOAs. The input SOA and the plurality of SOAs are arranged parallel to one another. The U-turn chip includes an optical splitter and a waveguide assembly. The optical splitter is configured to receive amplified input light propagating in a first direction from the input SOA, and divide the amplified light into beams. The waveguide assembly guides the beams to a corresponding SOA of the plurality of SOAs, and adjusts a direction of prorogation of each of the guided beams to be substantially parallel to a second direction that is substantially opposite the first direction.
US11824324B2
A diode laser arrangement has a diode laser device and at least one cooling device. The at least one cooling device is arranged on the diode laser device. The at least one cooling device is configured to cool the diode laser device. The at least one cooling device has a contact body and at least one heat conducting insert. The contact body contains a first material or consisting of a first material, and the at least one heat conducting insert has a second material, which is different from the first material, or consisting of a second material, which is different from the first material, and the contact body is arranged on the diode laser device. The at least one heat conducting insert is embedded in the contact body.
US11824322B2
A laser device with one or more active regions, such as quantum wells, gain/lighting media, or other devices, and one or more non-absorbing regions, may be formed by a first growth run (growing a first semiconductor layer), then performing selective, shallow-depth etching, and then a second growth run (growing a second semiconductor layer). The laser device may include a first portion, one or more active regions located on the first portion, and a second portion located on the active region(s). A third portion may be located on one or more ends of the first portion and on the second portion. The third portion may be formed during the second growth run, after the etching step. The non-absorbing region(s) may be formed by the third portion and the end(s) of the first portion. If desired, the non-absorbing region(s) may be produced without annealing or locally-induced quantum well intermixing.
US11824310B2
An electrical connector 1 contains a plurality of contacts 31, a first ground plate 32L and a second ground plate 32R facing the plurality of contacts 31 and arranged so as to be separated from each other in a ground plane parallel to the at least one plane in which the plurality of contacts 31 are arranged and an insulator 33 for holding the plurality of contacts 31, the first ground plate 32L and the second ground plate 32R in a state that the plurality of contacts 31, the first ground plate 32L and the second ground plate 32R are insulated from each other. Both of the first ground plate 32L and the second ground plate 32R include an extending portion extending from one of the first ground plate 32L and the second ground plate 32R toward the other one of the first ground plate 32L and the second ground plate 32R in the ground plane.
US11824309B2
The present invention comprises a method and a device for connecting and locking electrical plugs into power outlets. This prevents plugs from being shaken or accidentally withdrawn, and hence avoids any disturbance of electric current or occurrence of electric spark which may cause fires. In the case where no plug is plugged in, the current invention blocks the socket openings to prevent children from tampering with it or trying to insert any metal objects therein that might expose them to electric shocks. By this invention, an adult can connect and lock electrical plugs easily while it is impossible doing it by children. There are various embodiments of this invention making it suitable for use in many fields that need a continuous electrical feed without interruption such as medical devices, computers, factory equipment, and home appliances among many other examples.
US11824306B2
A connector for supplying electric power to a machine or other devices that require electrical energy, the connector facilitating and securing the connection, thereby preventing possible accidental disconnection. The connector comprises a male connector element, a protective piece, and a blocking device that, in a closed position of the connector, provides double blocking on a single element forming part of the male connector element, to prevent the connector of the invention from disconnecting. The blocking device is configured to block pins from tilting in the closed position of the connector, wherein the blocking device comprises rear projections solidly connected to the protective piece, and end portions solidly connected to the pins.
US11824302B2
An electrical connector includes a connector body and an outer metal shell. The connector body includes an insulating body, a conductive terminal fixed to the insulating body, and an inner metal shell at least partly covering the insulating body. The outer metal shell at least partially covers the inner metal shell. The outer metal shell includes a first metal shell and a second metal shell assembled together. The first metal shell includes a first buckle portion. The second metal shell includes a second buckle portion buckled with the first buckle portion. As a result, assembly efficiency of the electrical connector is improved.
US11824295B2
An electrical plug includes a pair of electrical energy transmission contacts that are separate from one another, a plurality of signal transmission contacts that are separate from one another, and at least eight data transmission contacts that are separate from one another. An arrangement of the electrical energy transmission contacts, the signal transmission contacts, and the data transmission contacts forms a pin arrangement of the electrical plug.
US11824294B2
An electrical connector includes a substrate that includes a plurality of ground traces at first and second surfaces of the substrate, and a ground coupling assembly that couples pairs of ground traces at each of the first and second surfaces, and further couples the ground traces at the first surface to the ground traces at the second surface.
US11824291B2
The construction of a medical device having a disposable element is disclosed. Detachable elements comprising a body having a retention feature, an electrical contactor, and sensors are also disclosed. Further disclosed are detachable elements comprising a body having a hole and a retention pocket, an electrical contactor, and a printed circuit board assembly (PCB) in contact with the innermost surface of the body that forms the retention pocket. Further disclosed are detachable elements comprising a body having an opening and a printed film comprising conductive elements, where the conductive elements comprise a sensor configured to be aligned with the opening to expose the sensor. Further disclosed are reusable components having matching retention features.
US11824283B2
An antenna element according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a radiation body including a contact part which is concave toward the transmission line, a transmission line disposed on a different layer from the radiation body and connected to the radiation body through the contact part, and a signal pad connected to an end of the transmission line.
US11824275B2
A system includes a transceiver to communicate with a predetermined target; one or more antennas coupled to the transceiver each electrically or mechanically steerable to the predetermined target; and an edge processing module coupled to the transceiver and one or more antennas to provide low-latency computation for the predetermined target.
US11824268B2
An electromagnetic, EM, apparatus includes: a unit cell having at least two dielectric resonator antennas, DRAs; wherein each one of the at least two DRAs is distinctly different from another one of the at least two DRAs; wherein each one of the at least two DRAs is not electromagnetically coupled with another one of the at least two DRAs; wherein the unit cell is configured to operate over a defined overall frequency range; wherein a first DRA of the at least two DRAs is configured to operate over a first frequency range within the overall frequency range; wherein a second DRA of the at least two DRAs is configured to operate over a second frequency range within the overall frequency range that is different from the first frequency range.
