US11855444B2
A system topology may use intentional signal injection to monitor one or more power supply circuits that may supply electrical power to components of the system. The system topology may include voltage monitoring circuitry to monitor the output of the power supply. In some examples, a power supply rail fault may happen either inside or outside of the power supply circuit, but not be detectable by the voltage monitoring circuitry. Injecting a check signal in the presence of an actual fault, may cause oscillations at the output node of the power supply detectable by the voltage monitoring circuitry. Once the check signal, combined with the fault signal, at the output node reaches the monitoring threshold detectable by the voltage monitoring circuitry, the voltage monitoring circuitry may output an indication of the fault to processing circuitry of the system.
US11855442B2
A grounded neutral fault detector that includes induction circuits and a controller is provided. The controller is configured to determine a frequency of a test signal by measuring load noise based on a first leakage signal corresponding to a first current imbalance between the line conductor and the neutral conductor for the load without the test signal being injected, analyzing a frequency spectrum of the load noise, and selecting the frequency of the test signal. The controller is further configured to inject the test signal at the selected frequency to the neutral conductor, measure impedance of a current loop formed by a potential grounded neutral fault based on a second leakage signal corresponding to a second current imbalance with the test signal being injected, and determine a grounded neutral fault.
US11855436B2
An electrical wiring device including a housing assembly including a plurality of terminals at least partially disposed therein, the plurality of terminals including a HOT/LOAD terminal, a NEUTRAL terminal, a first traveler terminal, and a second traveler terminal, wherein, when in use, at least one of the terminals is connected to line hot; a first series FET and a second series FET disposed in series between the HOT/LOAD terminal and one of the first traveler terminal or the second traveler terminal; at least one of a first sensor producing a first sensor output according to current flow or a voltage at the one of the first traveler terminal or the second traveler terminal and a second sensor producing a second sensor output according to current flow through the NEUTRAL terminal or according to a voltage between the first series FET and second series FET; and a controller configured to determine to which of the plurality of terminals line hot is connected based, at least, on the first sensor output or the second sensor output and to provide, during operation, at least one of a first control signal to the first series FET and a second control signal to the second series FET according to a user adjustable load setting.
US11855429B2
An electric junction box assembly includes a case, a housing and a cover. A housing is disposed on an outer surface of the case. The housing includes a back wall and a pair of supports disposed on the back wall. The supports are spaced apart from each other and each support includes an upper support member and a lower support member spaced apart from each other so as to define an opening. The upper support member has an arcuate inner surface and the lower support member has an arcuate inner surface each having a radius greater than the opening. The cover includes an axial rod having a thickness smaller than a height of the opening and a width greater than the height of the opening, wherein a rotation of the axial rod prevents the cover from being dislodged from the opening.
US11855427B2
An insert for a clamping device for clamping an armour layer of a cable in a cable gland is disclosed. The insert comprises a body (54) adapted to be received in a cable gland and defining an aperture (60) for receiving an inner part of a cable. A clamping portion (62) is adapted to engage an armour layer of the cable to clamp the armour layer between the clamping portion and a clamping member of the clamping device when the clamping member is arranged outwardly of the clamping portion. At least part of the clamping portion is displaceable inwards as a result of engagement of the clamping portion with the armour layer clamped between the clamping portion and the clamping member.
US11855416B2
A laser for a distributed fiber sensing system may have a frequency discriminator integrated with the laser. The laser may be an external cavity laser, with at least a portion of the laser cavity on a planar lightwave circuit, which also includes the frequency discriminator.
US11855412B1
A method, apparatus, and system for an external cavity laser with a Michelson Interferometer.
US11855407B2
Aspects of the present disclosure describe techniques for fast stabilization of multiple controller beams with continuous integrating filter. For example, a method is described for intensity stabilization of laser beams (e.g., ion controller beams) in a trapped ion system, where the method includes applying a linear array of laser beams to respective ions in a linear array of ions in a trap, performing, in response to the laser beams being applied, parallel measurements on the ions, the parallel measurements including multiple, separate measurements on each of the ions to identify fluctuations in intensity in the respective laser beams at each ion, and adjusting the intensity of one or more of the laser beams in response to fluctuations being identified from the parallel measurements. A corresponding system for intensity stabilization of laser beams in a trapped ion system is also described.
US11855400B2
A connection structure of a superconducting layer of an embodiment incudes a first superconducting member including a first superconducting layer, and extends in a first direction, a second superconducting member including a second superconducting layer facing the first superconducting layer, and extends in the first direction, the second superconducting member having a first region, a second region, and a third region which is separated in the second direction from the second region, and a connection layer that contains a rare earth element (RE), barium (Ba), copper (Cu), and oxygen (O), and connects the first superconducting layer and the second superconducting layer. The first superconducting layer is present in a third direction between the second region and the third region, the third direction being perpendicular to the first direction and perpendicular to the second direction.
US11855398B2
A multipart connector for electrical connection to a conductor to convey AC power having a frequency greater than 60 Hz. The connector includes a plurality of metal plates. Each metal plate has opposing planar surfaces and includes a pair of legs separated by a space. A plurality of insulation layers adjoin the planar surfaces of the metal plates, respectively. The insulation layers include a pair of legs separated by a space. The metal plates and the insulation layers are arranged in a stack such that the spaces of the metal plates and the insulation layers are aligned to form a groove extending through the stack. The conductor is disposed in the groove.
US11855394B2
An electrical plug connector, having an insulating part and an inner-conductor contact element pair for differential signal transmission. The inner-conductor contact element pair comprises first and second inner-conductor contact elements, which extend through the insulating part. The inner-conductor contact elements, proximate a first end of the insulating part, have a contact section for contacting an inner conductor of a corresponding counterpart plug connector and proximate a second end of the insulating part, have a press-in pin for pressing into a metal-plated recess of an electrical assembly. The inner-conductor contact elements each have one support shoulder via which a pressing-in force can be introduced for pressing the press-in pin into the metal-plated recess. The support shoulder is along the central axis of the inner-conductor contact element. The inner-conductor contact elements each have a support surface averted from the support shoulder to support the inner-conductor contact element in the insulating part.
US11855391B2
An electrical connector comprising a terminal module, which comprises a ground terminal and a signal terminal disposed side by side with the ground terminal. The ground terminal comprises a first contacting part. The signal terminal comprises a second contacting part. An outer diameter of the first contacting part is greater than an outer diameter of the second contacting part. The contacting end of the ground terminal is wider than the contacting end of the signal terminal. By increasing the width of the contacting end of the ground terminal, the distance between the contacting end of the signal terminal and the contacting end of the adjacent ground terminal can be shortened. In this way, the return path for the signal terminal can be shorter, and more energy can be bound between the signal terminal and the ground terminal to avoid excessive interference from the surrounding magnetic field.
US11855390B2
A system of mated connectors includes a connector having one or more connector quadrants comprising electrical contacts and a mating connector detachably secured to the connector. The mating connector includes one or more mating quadrants and electrical contacts. The mating connector configured to provide electrical coupling to the connector detachably secured thereto. The electrical contacts of a first quadrant of connector quadrants have a first predetermined pin-out and the electrical contacts of a second quadrant of the connector quadrants have a second predetermined pin-out. The electrical contacts of each quadrant of a first pair of the mating quadrants have the first predetermined pin-out and the electrical contacts of each quadrant of a second pair of the mating quadrants have the second predetermined pin-out.
US11855386B2
A coaxial cable connector comprises an inner sleeve comprising a first and second outer flange; metal inner sleeve comprising a second inner ring having a ring portion and plurality of elastic portions and a first inner ring having a second inner flange and plurality of wings; an outer sleeve comprising a fourth inner flange and engaging bump; and a nut comprising a first inner flange and threaded portion adapted to engage with an electronic device. One end of the plurality of elastic portions is connected with the ring portion and the other end comprises a fifth outer flange. One end of the plurality of wings is connected to the second inner flange and the other end to the ring portion. When the outer sleeve moves toward the nut, the engaging bump presses and enables the fifth outer flange to move toward the outer surface of the inner sleeve.
US11855382B2
A female electrical connector for use in a separable connector assembly is provided. The female electrical connector includes an elongate insulative body and a female contact disposed within the body. The female electrical connector also includes a tubular support sleeve extending between a first end and a second end. The first end of the tubular support sleeve is connected to the female contact. The tubular support sleeve defines a cavity at the second end. The female electrical connector further includes an insulating coupling connected to the second end of the tubular support sleeve. The insulating coupling includes an insulating sleeve that is moveable between a retracted position, where the insulating sleeve is retracted within the cavity of the tubular support sleeve, and an extended position, where the insulating sleeve extends outward from the cavity and away from the second end of the tubular support sleeve.
US11855380B2
A plug connector assembly comprises a plug connector having an elastic locking structure for locking to a socket connector. The elastic locking structure is movable between a locking position engaged with the socket connector, and an unlocking position separated from the socket connector. An adapter of the assembly includes a pressing structure and a pull stop structure. The plug connector is received within the adapter for mating with the socket connector slidably inserted into the adapter. When the plug connector is received within the adapter, the pressing structure presses and holds the elastic locking structure in the unlocking position, and the pull stop structure abuts the elastic locking structure for preventing the plug connector from being pulled out of the adapter.
US11855376B2
An example contact head includes coaxial contacts configured for transmission of radio frequency (RF) signals or digital signals between a test system and a device under test (DUT). Each of the coaxial contacts is configured to target a specific impedance. Each of the coaxial contacts includes a coaxial structure having an open-curve shape. The coaxial structure includes a spring material that bends in response to applied force and that returns to the open-curve shape absent the applied force. The coaxial structure includes a center conductor terminating in a contact pin and a return conductor separated by a dielectric from the center conductor. At least part of the center conductor and the return conductor include an electrically-conductive material. Flexible contacts on the coaxial contact include the electrically-conductive material.
US11855374B2
A connector includes a housing and a flat flexible cable disposed in the housing. The housing has a base and a cover movable with respect to the base between an open position and a closed position. The cover has a body and a protrusion protruding from the body. The flat flexible cable has an insulation material and a plurality of flat flexible conductors embedded in the insulation material. The flat flexible cable has an opening extending through the insulation material. The protrusion extends through the opening and abuts the base in the closed position of the cover.
US11855369B2
A connector assembly includes multiple terminals. Each terminal includes a conductive portion. The terminals include first and second high speed signal terminals and a low speed signal terminal. The conductive portions of the first and second high speed signal terminals and the low speed signal terminal are correspondingly defined as first, second and third conductive portions. An adapter board is located above a circuit board to be conductively connected to a cable directly or indirectly. The adapter board includes first and second signal circuit layers located at different heights. The first signal circuit layer includes a first high speed signal circuit conductively connecting the first conductive portion and a conductive wire of the cable. The second signal circuit layer includes a second high speed signal circuit conductively connecting the second conductive portion and another conductive wire of the cable. The third conductive portion is conductively connected to the circuit board.
US11855360B1
Disclosed herein is a method for communicating between platforms, comprising the steps of initializing a first platform and a second platform; optically tracking a movement of the second platform by the first platform; and optically communicating bi-directionally between the first platform and the second platform. Disclosed herein is an optical communication device comprising various elements including but not limited to: a processor configured to provide at least a tracking mode and a communications mode; an input-output interface coupled to the processor; an electro-optic controller coupled to the input-output interface; an acquisition-tracking portion coupled to the electro-optic controller; and a communication portion coupled to the electro-optic controller. Disclosed herein is a method for communicating between platforms, comprising forming a phase array antenna, wherein the phase array antenna comprises a plurality of platforms arranged in a platform community; and synchronizing a time measurement at each of the platforms, wherein each platform comprises an optical communication device.
US11855359B2
Disclosed is a high performance low cost multiband antenna configuration that has a low band dipole having dipole arms formed of stamped sheet metal with a plurality of inductor structures. The plurality of inductor structures are oriented along a longitudinal axis of the low band dipole arm, and others are oriented orthogonal to the longitudinal axis. The plurality of the inductor structures act as cloaking structures that make the low band dipole substantially transparent to high band RF energy without inhibiting the performance of the dipole in the low band.
US11855350B2
A millimeter-wave (mmWave) assembly (1) comprising a first mmWave module (2), a second mmWave module (3), and a connector (4) configured to releasably interconnect the first mmWave module (2) and the second mmWave module (3). The connector (4) comprises a first connector element (5) associated with the first mmWave module (2). The first mmWave module (2) comprises a first substrate (7) and an mmWave radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) (8), and the second mmWave module (3) comprises a second substrate (9) and an mmWave antenna array (10). The connector (4) is configured to transmit at least one signal between the mmWave RFIC (8) and the mmWave antenna array (10) when the first mmWave module (2) and the second mmWave module (3) are interconnected.
US11855348B2
Cascaded metasurfaces can control the phase, amplitude and polarization of an electromagnetic beam, shaping it in three dimensional configuration not achievable with other methods. Each cascaded metasurface has dielectric or metallic scatterers arranged in a period array. The shape of the scatterers determines the three dimensional configuration of the output beam and is determined with iterative calculations through computational simulations.
US11855344B2
The present disclosure in at least one embodiment provides a wireless communication device, comprising a lower case, an upper radome, coupled to the lower case, creating a storage space between the lower case and the upper radome, an antenna disposed in the storage space, and a plurality of internal substrates, disposed between the antenna and the lower case in the storage space, of which one of the plurality of internal substrates is connected to the antenna, wherein each internal substrate of the plurality of internal substrates is disposed along a first direction parallel to a surface of the lower case facing the plurality of internal substrates.
US11855341B2
Embodiments herein describe a capillary containing a eutectic conductive liquid (e.g., EGaIn) and an electrolyte (e.g., NaOH) that is integrated into a printed circuit board (PCB). In one embodiment, the PCB includes a capillary, a negative electrode, a positive electrode, a plurality of insulation layers, and a conductive layer. The capillary extends through the PCB. The capillary includes a side surface forming an annular cylinder. A eutectic conductive liquid and an electrolyte are disposed within an aperture formed by the side surface. An electrode extends through the side surface and contacts at least the eutectic conductive liquid or the electrolyte. The negative electrode is disposed at a first end of the capillary. The positive electrode is disposed at a second end of the capillary. The conductive layer is disposed between two of the plurality of insulation layers. The electrode forms an electrical connection with the conductive layer.
US11855332B2
The TIC environmental event sensor is a nickel-sized, ultra-thin circuit assembly, containing an extremely compact array of both environmental sensors and physical sensors, along with local and wireless access to all the sensor data, including BTLE & LoRa, as well as an electronic ink display for limited field access to sensor events in real time. The TIC is designed to capture changes in the sensor data in real time, and then log it for future examination. The most recent change will remain on the device's display. The changes can then be transmitted to a smart phone or tablet via BTLE, networked as an asset via LoRa, or locally scrolled at the device. The TIC is Ideal for tracking any variations in the surrounding conditions of an asset's travel, storage or use.
US11855331B2
An antenna assembly comprises: a dielectric substrate; a first ground region disposed on one side of a feed line disposed on the dielectric substrate; a radiator region in which a first side and a second side corresponding to the opposite side of the first side form end portions of conductive patterns such that the conductive patterns having different widths are formed in a plurality of step structures; and a second ground region disposed on the other side of the feed line, wherein the first ground region may be formed to have a length greater than or equal to that of the second ground region in one axial direction. The number of steps on the second side may be greater than or equal to the number of steps on the first side.
US11855330B2
A reflector for a multi-radiator antenna which comprises electrically conducting reflector parts and one or more connector device. At least two reflector parts are each provided with at least one connecting portion. At least one connector device is adapted to provide an electrical interconnection between at least two of the reflector parts. At least one connector device comprises a metallic film and one or more holding elements. The metallic film is adapted to be arranged in abutment with connecting portions of the at least two of the reflector parts to achieve the electrical interconnection. At least one of the holding elements has at least one holding portion adapted to connect to a connecting portion of a reflector part with said metallic film sandwiched therebetween. The electrical interconnection is indirect by means of a dielectric coating or layer arranged on the metallic film and/or on the connecting portions, or by means of a dielectric film arranged between the metallic film and the connecting portions.
US11855326B2
High speed waveguide-based data communication systems are disclosed. Such systems may include separable electrical connectors, forming signal propagation paths between electronic assemblies with one or more waveguides.
US11855325B2
A fuel cell stack includes a plurality of fuel cells received between two end plates, at least one end plate of which has flow channels formed therein with ports for the anode fresh gas and the anode exhaust gas as well as ports for the cathode fresh gas and the cathode exhaust gas, wherein a hygroscopic material forms the wall between the ports for the anode exhaust gas and the cathode fresh gas.
US11855320B2
The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for detecting a hydrogen leak in a fuel cell system including initiating a shutdown process of a fuel cell stack in the fuel cell system by a controller, measuring a volume of hydrogen in a reservoir, pulsing a volume of hydrogen into the reservoir or pulsing hydrogen directly into the fuel cell stack if the volume of hydrogen is insufficient to sustain a voltage discharge process during the shutdown process, making the fuel cell system enter a discharge state by the controller, wherein hydrogen and oxygen in the fuel cell stack are consumed in an electrochemical reaction to discharge voltage in the fuel cell stack, measuring a rate of the voltage discharge by the controller, and detecting the hydrogen leak based on the rate of the voltage discharge or via negative pressure measurements made at the anode inlet.
US11855308B2
A bipolar plate for a PEM hydrogen fuel cell is coated with a carbon-containing coating, the carbon-containing coating comprising in order: a) a titanium seed layer; b) a titanium nitride interfacial layer; and c) a a-C top layer, and wherein the bipolar plate is formed from stainless steel. Methods for making such coated plates are described. The a-C has a density of greater than 2.0 g/cm3, a molar hydrogen content of 5% or less, an sp2 carbon content of 40% to 80% and an sp3 carbon content of 20% to 60%. The coated plates possess good electrical conductivity and are resistant to corrosion.
US11855307B2
There is provided a metal member capable of effectively preventing a coating layer from peeling off from a base. The metal member in an embodiment is a metal member that is used in a solid-oxide type electrochemical stack, and includes: a base formed of ferritic stainless steel; and a metal film provided on the base, in which the metal film includes a first metal layer containing Co and a second metal layer made of Mn, and is a stack in which the first metal layer and the second metal layer are sequentially stacked from the side of the base.
US11855300B2
Electric vehicle battery packs with external side enclosures for containing electrical connectors and other components therein. Each enclosure is sized to support various connectors or other components as desired, and may have a number of openings formed to provide interfaces for connecting various electric vehicle systems to the battery pack. The enclosures may be placed at various locations along one or more sides of the battery pack, and connectors may be routed over an upper surface of a battery pack frame or through a gap formed between the pack frame and cover. Enclosures may be made of any material, including plastic for lower weight applications and metal for improved electromagnetic interference shielding.
US11855299B2
The disclosure provides an electric energy storage device which includes four energy units with a substantially same voltage value. Each energy unit is provided with a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The electric energy storage device comprises a socket with eight independently arranged electrode terminals that are connected with the four energy units. The disclosure also provides an electric tool system using the electric energy storage device. The electric tool is provided with plugs that may be connected with the four energy units in different states, allowing the electric energy storage device to output multiple voltages.
US11855284B2
A positive electrode active material precursor for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, including-nickel composite hydroxide particles, is provided, wherein a cross section of each nickel composite hydroxide particle includes voids, and an average value of a ratio of an area of the voids in an area of each of the plurality of regions partitioned by predetermined boundary lines, is greater than or equal to 0.5% and less than or equal to 5.0%, and a standard deviation of the ratio of the area of the voids in the area of each of the plurality of regions partitioned by the predetermined boundary lines, is less than or equal to 1.0.
US11855282B2
Provided are compositions, systems, and methods of making and using pre-lithiated cathodes for use in lithium ion secondary cells as the means of supplying extra lithium to the cell. The chemically or electrochemically pre-lithiated cathodes include cathode active material that is pre-lithiated prior to assembly into an electrochemical cell. The process of producing pre-lithiated cathodes includes contacting a cathode active material to an electrolyte, the electrolyte further contacting a counter electrode lithium source and applying an electric potential or current to the cathode active material and the lithium source thereby pre-lithiating the cathode active material with lithium. An electrochemical cell is also provided including the pre-lithiated cathode, an anode, a separator and an electrolyte.
US11855279B2
Provided herein are nanostructures for lithium ion battery electrodes and methods of fabrication. In some embodiments, a nanostructure template coated with a silicon coating is provided. The silicon coating may include a non-conformal, more porous layer and a conformal, denser layer on the non-conformal, more porous layer. In some embodiments, two different deposition processes, e.g., a PECVD layer to deposit the non-conformal layer and a thermal CVD process to deposit the conformal layer, are used. Anodes including the nanostructures have longer cycle lifetimes than anodes made using either a PECVD or thermal CVD method alone.
US11855276B2
An electrode using a carbon nanotube as a conductive material, and excellent in resistance characteristics is provided. An electrode for a secondary battery herein disclosed has a collector, and an active material layer formed on the collector. The active material layer includes an active material and a carbon nanotube. At least a part of the surface of the carbon nanotube is coated with a material including an element with a lower electronegativity than that of carbon.
US11855274B2
Provided are hard carbon beads, their preparation method, and an energy storage device comprising the same. Microwave heating is used to synthesize cross-linked phenolic formaldehyde for reducing energy consumption and controlling the crosslinking density of cured phenolic formaldehyde. The problems caused by high temperature heating and hydrothermal process for curing resin can be solved by the instant disclosure, which can increase the economic values of electrode and energy storage device comprising the hard carbon beads.
US11855271B2
A metal-air battery includes: a cathode formed of a co-continuous body having a three dimensional network structure formed by an integrated plurality of nanostructures having branches; a foil- or plate-like anode formed of a metal; a separator that absorbs a liquid, which is to be an electrolytic solution; and a foil- or plate-like current collector formed of a metal. The metal-air battery is formed with a wound structure in which the current collector, the cathode, the separator, the anode, and the separator are superimposed and wound in this order.
US11855267B1
A vapor-compression multi-evaporator cooling system comprises a cooling control system and two or more evaporators each coupled to an expansion valve. Each evaporator is selectively enabled or disabled during operation. When an evaporator is enabled, the evaporator transfers heat into a working fluid within the system. When an evaporator is disabled, the evaporator does not exchange any appreciable amount of heat within the system. The cooling control system includes a cooling controller, an adjustable compressor, a condenser, and a variable speed fan that provides selectable amounts of cooling to the condenser. During operation, the cooling controller adjusts the compressor operation and fan speed to maintain stable operation of the cooling system. To compensate for enabling or disabling of evaporators, the cooling controller adjusts compressor operation and fan speed to provide more or less compression and more or less condenser cooling to maintain stable and efficient operation of the cooling system.
US11855265B2
Systems and methods for acoustic signal based analysis, include obtaining acoustic response signal data of at least a portion of a battery cell, the acoustic response signal data comprising waveforms generated by transmitting one or more acoustic excitation signals into at least the portion of the battery cell and recording response vibration signals to the one or more acoustic excitation signals. One or more metrics are determined from at least the acoustic response signal data, the one or more metrics being determined based on correlation of the one or more metrics to one or more characteristics of battery cells and a reference model is generated from the one or more metrics. A test battery can be evaluated using the reference model. Actionable insights or recommendations can be generated based on the evaluation. The reference model can also be updated based on the evaluation.
US11855260B2
Nonincendive electrolyte for lithium secondary battery, and lithium secondary battery including same
Disclosed is a nonincendive electrolyte for lithium secondary battery, the electrolyte using an organic solvent mixture including a first solvent containing fluorine and sulfur, a second solvent that is a linear carbonate-based compound containing fluorine, a third solvent that is a linear ester-based compound containing fluorine, and a fourth solvent that is a cyclic carbonate-based compound. Thus, the electrolyte is nonflammable or flame-retardant, thereby preventing a lithium secondary battery from catching on fire or exploding. That is, the electrolyte greatly improves the safety of a lithium secondary battery, allows the high voltage charge of a lithium secondary battery, and prevents the degradation of battery performance of a lithium secondary battery. In addition, a lithium secondary battery including the electrolyte is disclosed.
US11855254B2
Provided is a solid electrolyte which contains a composition expressed by 3LiOH·Li2SO4. The solid electrolyte has a lithium ion conductivity of 0.1×10−6 S/cm or more at 25° C. and an activation energy of 0.6 eV or more.
US11855253B2
A solid electrolyte, in which an occupied impurity level that is formed by a part of elements contained in a mobile ion-containing material being substituted and that is occupied by electrons is included in a band gap of the mobile ion-containing material, and an amount of charge retention per composition formula of the occupied impurity level is equal to or greater than an amount of charge retention of mobile ions per composition formula of the mobile ion-containing material.
US11855252B2
A multimodal solid electrolyte for a solid-state lithium electrochemical device comprises a first layer formed of first rows each having an anode-facing base with an apex extending opposite an anode, the first layer being a first inorganic lithium conducting oxide material, and a second layer formed of second rows each having a cathode-facing base with an apex extending opposite a cathode, the second layer being a second inorganic lithium conducting oxide material, wherein the second rows are offset from the first rows such that the apex of each second row nests within the first rows. A solid polymer electrolyte layer is sandwiched between the first layer and the second layer.
US11855242B2
A light emitting device includes: a light emitting element; a wavelength conversion member including: a wavelength conversion portion arranged on or above an upper surface of the light emitting element, and a light-transmissive portion, wherein, in a plan view, the light-transmissive portion surrounds at least one or more lateral surfaces of the wavelength conversion portion; a sealing member comprising a lens portion that is arranged on or above an upper surface of the wavelength conversion member; and a light reflection member that surrounds one or more lateral surfaces of the wavelength conversion member. In a plan view, the wavelength conversion member is inside a perimeter of the lens portion.
US11855235B2
Disclosed in embodiments of the present disclosure are a display panel and a manufacturing method therefor, and a display apparatus. The display panel includes: a base substrate; an organic functional film layer provided on the base substrate; an insulating layer provided on the organic functional film layer, a plurality of dents distributed at intervals are provided on one side of the insulating layer distant from the organic functional film layer; and an amorphous silicon solar cell film layer provided at one side of the insulating layer distant from the organic functional film layer, the amorphous silicon solar cell film layer has the same morphology as the surface of the insulating layer where the dents are provided.
US11855231B2
A distributed power harvesting system including multiple direct current (DC) power sources with respective DC outputs adapted for interconnection into a interconnected DC power source output. A converter includes input terminals adapted for coupling to the interconnected DC power source output. A circuit loop sets the voltage and current at the input terminals of the converter according to predetermined criteria. A power conversion portion converts the power received at the input terminals to an output power at the output terminals. A power supplier is coupled to the output terminals. The power supplier includes a control part for maintaining the input to the power supplier at a predetermined value. The control part maintains the input voltage and/or input current to the power supplier at a predetermined value.
US11855229B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method. The semiconductor structure includes an N-type doped region in a substrate; a metal structure on a surface of the substrate and including a middle portion and an edge portion, wherein the middle portion is in contact with the N-type doped region so as to form an SBD; a first P-type well region which is located in the N-type doped region, in contact with the edge portion and separates the edge portion from the N-type doped region; a first P-type contact region located in the first P-type well region and separated from the edge portion. When the first P-type contact region is grounded, the first P-type well region receives an anode voltage of the SBD. Low voltage drop and high frequency characteristics of the SBD are maintained on a premise of improving the breakdown voltage reducing the leak current.
US11855218B2
A transistor structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a gate structure, a channel region, and a first conductive region. The semiconductor substrate has a semiconductor surface. The gate structure is above the semiconductor surface, and a first concave is formed to reveal the gate structure. The channel region is under the semiconductor surface. The first conductive region is electrically coupled to the channel region, and a second concave is formed to reveal the first conductive region. A mask pattern in a photolithography process is used to define the first concave, and the mask pattern only defines one dimension length of the first concave.
US11855214B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same are provided. A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes a first semiconductor channel member and a second semiconductor channel member over the first semiconductor channel member and a porous dielectric feature that includes silicon and nitrogen. In the semiconductor device, the porous dielectric feature is sandwiched between the first and second semiconductor channel members and a density of the porous dielectric feature is smaller than a density of silicon nitride.
US11855209B2
A semiconductor device including a substrate that includes first to third regions; a first channel structure on the first region and including first channel patterns that are vertically stacked on the substrate; a second channel structure on the second region and including a second channel pattern on the substrate; a third channel structure on the third region and including third channel patterns and fourth channel patterns that are vertically and alternately stacked on the substrate; first to third gate electrodes on the first to third channel structures; and first to third source/drain patterns on opposite sides of the first to third channel structures, wherein the first, second, and fourth channel patterns include a first semiconductor material, and the third channel patterns include a second semiconductor material different from the first semiconductor material.
US11855202B2
A MOS transistor includes a substrate, a first region, a second region, a source region, a drain region, an active gate stack, and a dummy gate stack. The substrate has a first conductivity. The first region having the first conductivity is formed in the substrate. The second region having a second conductivity is formed in the substrate and is adjacent to the first region. The source region with the second conductivity is formed in the first region. The drain region with the second conductivity is formed in the second region. The active gate stack is disposed on the first region. The dummy gate stack is disposed on the second region, and the dummy gate stack is electrically coupled to a variable voltage.
US11855199B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating such semiconductor device, specifically a High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) with a back barrier layer for blocking electron leakage and improve threshold voltage. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device, includes: a Gallium Nitride (GaN) layer; a front barrier layer over the GaN layer; a source electrode, a drain electrode and a gate electrode formed over the front barrier layer; a 2-Dimensional Electron Gas (2-DEG) in the GaN layer at a first interface between the GaN layer and the front barrier layer; and a back barrier layer in the GaN layer, wherein the back barrier layer comprises Aluminum Nitride (AlN).
US11855194B2
A highly reliable semiconductor device which includes a thin film transistor having stable electric characteristics, and a manufacturing method thereof. In the manufacturing method of the semiconductor device which includes a thin film transistor where a semiconductor layer including a channel formation region is an oxide semiconductor layer, heat treatment which reduces impurities such as moisture to improve the purity of the oxide semiconductor layer and oxidize the oxide semiconductor layer (heat treatment for dehydration or dehydrogenation) is performed. Not only impurities such as moisture in the oxide semiconductor layer but also those existing in a gate insulating layer are reduced, and impurities such as moisture existing in interfaces between the oxide semiconductor layer and films provided over and under and in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer are reduced.
US11855187B2
A semiconductor device comprises a fin structure disposed over a substrate; a gate structure disposed over part of the fin structure; a source/drain structure, which includes part of the fin structure not covered by the gate structure; an interlayer dielectric layer formed over the fin structure, the gate structure, and the source/drain structure; a contact hole formed in the interlayer dielectric layer; and a contact material disposed in the contact hole. The fin structure extends in a first direction and includes an upper layer, wherein a part of the upper layer is exposed from an isolation insulating layer. The gate structure extends in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The contact material includes a silicon phosphide layer and a metal layer.
US11855186B2
A method includes forming a first multilayer interconnection structure over a carrier substrate. A first interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer is deposited over the first multilayer interconnection structure. A first source/drain contact is formed in the first ILD layer. After forming the first source/drain contact, a semiconductive layer is formed over the first source/drain contact and the first ILD layer. The semiconductive layer is patterned to form a semiconductor fin over the first source/drain contact. A gate structure is formed across the semiconductor fin. The semiconductor fin is patterned to form a first recess and a second recess in the semiconductor fin, such that the first recess exposes the first source/drain contact. First and second source/drain epitaxial structures are respectively formed in the first and second recesses of the semiconductor fin such that the first source/drain epitaxial structure is electrically connected to the first source/drain contact.
US11855183B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, including: acquiring a substrate, wherein a gate structure is formed on the substrate; implanting first ions into the substrate to form pre-amorphized regions at two sides of the gate structure respectively; implanting second ions into the pre-amorphized regions to form amorphized regions in the pre-amorphized regions respectively; forming first sidewalls each at a respective one of the two sides of the gate structure; performing a second doping process to form first doped regions in the amorphized regions; forming second sidewalls each at a side of a respective first sidewall; and forming a heavily-doped source region and a heavily-doped drain region in the first doped regions respectively.
US11855169B2
A device includes a gate stack; a gate spacer on a sidewall of the gate stack; a source/drain region adjacent the gate stack; a silicide; and a source/drain contact electrically connected to the source/drain region through the silicide. The silicide includes a conformal first portion in the source/drain region, the conformal first portion comprising a metal and silicon; and a conformal second portion over the conformal first portion, the conformal second portion further disposed on a sidewall of the gate spacer, the conformal second portion comprising the metal, silicon, and nitrogen.
US11855162B2
Methods for forming contacts to source/drain regions and gate electrodes in low- and high-voltage devices and devices formed by the same are disclosed. In an embodiment a device includes a first channel region in a substrate adjacent a first source/drain region; a first gate over the first channel region; a second channel region in the substrate adjacent a second source/drain region, a top surface of the second channel region being below a top surface of the first channel region; a second gate over the second channel region; an ILD over the first gate and the second gate; a first contact extending through the ILD and coupled to the first source/drain region; and a second contact extending through the ILD, coupled to the second source/drain region, and having a width greater a width of the first contact and a height greater than a height of the first contact.
US11855148B2
The embodiments herein describe a vertical field effect transistor (FET) with a gate that includes different work function metals (WFMs). Each WFM can be made up of one material (or one layer) or multiple materials forming multiple layers. In any case, the gate includes at least two different WFMs. For example, a first WFM may have a different material or layer than a second WFM in the gate, or one layer of the first WFM may have a different thickness than a corresponding layer in the second WFM. Having different WFMs in the gate can reduce the gate induced drain leakage (GIDL) in the FET.
US11855142B2
An embodiment is a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a fin on a substrate. A gate structure is over the fin. A source/drain is in the fin proximate the gate structure. The source/drain includes a bottom layer, a supportive layer over the bottom layer, and a top layer over the supportive layer. The supportive layer has a different property than the bottom layer and the top layer, such as a different material, a different natural lattice constant, a different dopant concentration, and/or a different alloy percent content.
US11855140B2
A device includes a semiconductor nanostructure, and an oxide layer, which includes horizontal portions on a top surface and a bottom surface of the semiconductor nanostructure, vertical portions on sidewalls of the semiconductor nanostructure, and corner portions on corners of the semiconductor nanostructure. The horizontal portions have a first thickness. The vertical portions have a second thickness. The corner portions have a third thickness. Both of the second thickness and the third thickness are greater than the first thickness. A high-k dielectric layer surrounds the oxide layer. A gate electrode surrounds the high-k dielectric layer.
US11855132B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same are provided. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a contact feature in a first dielectric layer, a first passivation layer over the contact feature, a bottom conductor plate layer disposed over the first passivation layer and including a first plurality of sublayers, a second dielectric layer over the bottom conductor plate layer, a middle conductor plate layer disposed over the second dielectric layer and including a second plurality of sublayers, a third dielectric layer over the middle conductor plate layer, a top conductor plate layer disposed over the third dielectric layer and including a third plurality of sublayers, and a second passivation layer over the top conductor plate layer.
US11855110B2
A fingerprint sensor includes: a light sensing layer including a light sensing element; and an optical layer including a plurality of light transmitting areas, a light blocking area, a light transmitting member disposed in the plurality of light transmitting areas, a light blocking member disposed in the light blocking area, and a planarization member disposed on the light blocking member, wherein the light blocking area surrounds the plurality of light transmitting areas, wherein the light transmitting member includes a first organic material, wherein the light blocking member includes a second organic material, and wherein the planarization member includes a third organic material and a positive-type photosensitive material.
US11855103B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes an insulating substrate, a first semiconductor layer located above the insulating substrate, a second semiconductor layer located above the insulating substrate, an insulating layer which covers the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, and includes a first contact hole reaching the first semiconductor layer and a second contact hole reaching the second semiconductor layer, a barrier layer which covers one of the first semiconductor layer inside the first contact hole and the second semiconductor layer inside the second contact hole, and a first conductive layer which is in contact with the barrier layer.
US11855102B2
The purpose of the present invention is to improve reliability of the TFT of the oxide semiconductor. The feature of the invention is: A display device comprising: a substrate including a display area where plural pixels are formed, the pixel includes a first TFT of a first oxide semiconductor, a first gate insulating film is formed under the first oxide semiconductor, a first gate electrode is formed under the first gate insulating film, an interlayer insulating film is formed on the first oxide semiconductor; a drain wiring, which connects with the first oxide semiconductor, and a source wiring, which connects with the first oxide semiconductor, are formed on the interlayer insulating film; the drain wiring or the source wiring is a laminated structure of a second oxide semiconductor and a first metal, the second oxide semiconductor is under the first metal.
US11855100B2
A multi-level semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including integrated circuits; a second level including a structure designed to conduct electromagnetic waves, where the second level is disposed above the first level, where the integrated circuits include single crystal transistors; and an oxide layer disposed between the first level and the second level, where the integrated circuits include at least one memory circuit, where the second level is bonded to the oxide layer, and where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bonds.
US11855098B2
In an embodiment, a method includes: forming a gate dielectric layer on an interface layer; forming a doping layer on the gate dielectric layer, the doping layer including a dipole-inducing element; annealing the doping layer to drive the dipole-inducing element through the gate dielectric layer to a first side of the gate dielectric layer adjacent the interface layer; removing the doping layer; forming a sacrificial layer on the gate dielectric layer, a material of the sacrificial layer reacting with residual dipole-inducing elements at a second side of the gate dielectric layer adjacent the sacrificial layer; removing the sacrificial layer; forming a capping layer on the gate dielectric layer; and forming a gate electrode layer on the capping layer.
US11855090B2
The present disclosure describes a method for the formation of gate-all-around nano-sheet FETs with tunable performance. The method includes disposing a first and a second vertical structure with different widths over a substrate, where the first and the second vertical structures have a top portion comprising a multilayer nano-sheet stack with alternating first and second nano-sheet layers. The method also includes disposing a sacrificial gate structure over the top portion of the first and second vertical structures; depositing an isolation layer over the first and second vertical structures so that the isolation layer surrounds a sidewall of the sacrificial gate structure; etching the sacrificial gate structure to expose each multilayer nano-sheet stack from the first and second vertical structures; removing the second nano-sheet layers from each exposed multilayer nano-sheet stack to form suspended first nano-sheet layers; forming a metal gate structure to surround the suspended first nano-sheet layers.
US11855089B2
A semiconductor device includes a silicon substrate; a semiconductor fin over the silicon substrate; and an isolation structure over the silicon substrate. The semiconductor fin includes a first portion and a second portion over the first portion. The first portion is surrounded by the isolation structure, and the second portion protrudes above the isolation structure. The second portion has a different crystalline lattice constant than the first portion. The first portion includes a first dopant, and the second portion is substantially free of the first dopant. The semiconductor device further includes a gate structure above the isolation structure and engaging multiple surfaces of the second portion.
US11855084B2
Examples of an integrated circuit with FinFET devices and a method for forming the integrated circuit are provided herein. In some examples, an integrated circuit device includes a substrate, a fin extending from the substrate, a gate disposed on a first side of the fin, and a gate spacer disposed alongside the gate. The gate spacer has a first portion extending along the gate that has a first width and a second portion extending above the first gate that has a second width that is greater than the first width. In some such examples, the second portion of the gate spacer includes a gate spacer layer disposed on the gate.
US11855083B2
Gate structure, fin field-effect transistor, and method of manufacturing fin-field effect transistor
A gate structure includes a gate dielectric layer, a work function layer, a metal layer, and a barrier layer. The work function layer is surrounded by the gate dielectric layer. The metal layer is disposed over the work function layer. The barrier layer is surrounded by the work function layer and surrounds the metal layer. The barrier layer includes fluorine and silicon, or fluorine and aluminum. The barrier layer is a tri-layered structure.
US11855078B2
A semiconductor device structure, along with methods of forming such, are described. The structure includes a dielectric feature comprising a first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer, the first dielectric layer has a first sidewall and a second sidewall opposing the first sidewall, and the second dielectric layer is in contact with at least a portion of the first sidewall and at least a portion of the second sidewall. The structure also includes a first semiconductor layer adjacent the first sidewall, wherein the first semiconductor layer is in contact with the second dielectric layer. The structure further includes a first gate electrode layer surrounding at least three surfaces of the first semiconductor layer, wherein the first gate electrode layer has a surface facing the second dielectric layer, and the surface extends over a plane defined by an interface between the second dielectric layer and the first semiconductor layer.
US11855072B2
An integrated circuit includes a first standard cell having a first pFET and a first nFET integrated, and having a first dielectric gate on a first standard cell boundary. The integrated circuit further includes a second standard cell being adjacent to the first standard cell, having a second pFET and a second nFET integrated, and having a second dielectric gate on a second standard cell boundary. The integrated circuit also includes a first filler cell configured between the first and second standard cells, and spanning from the first dielectric gate to the second dielectric gate. The first pFET and the second pFET are formed on a first continuous active region. The first nFET and the second nFET are formed on a second continuous active region.
US11855069B2
A method of fabricating an integrated circuit. The method includes generating two first-type active zones and two second-type active zones, and generating a gate-strip intersecting the two first-type active zones and the two second-type active zones. The method further includes patterning one or more poly cuts intersecting the gate-strip based on a determination of a difference between the poly extension effect of a p-type transistor and the poly extension effect of an n-type transistor.
US11855061B2
A three-dimensional integrated circuit includes a first die structure having a first geometry. The first die structure includes a first region that operates with a first power density and a second region that operates with a second power density. The first power density is less than the second power density. The three-dimensional integrated circuit includes a second die structure having a second geometry. A stacked portion of the second die structure is aligned with the first region. The three-dimensional integrated circuit includes an additional die structure stacked with the first die structure and the second die structure. The additional die structure has the first geometry or the second geometry.
US11855056B1
Systems and methods are provided for a system in a package (SiP) connectivity using one or more ultra short reach (USR) chiplets. The USR chiplet can receive/transmit data at a lower throughput and transmit/receive that data at a higher throughput over ultra short distances. The USR chiplet can be connected to a main integrated circuit (IC) using a high density interconnect or integrated with the main IC in a mold material. The USR chip can enable the main IC to transfer data over a substrate at a higher speed using a fewer number of traces.
US11855048B2
Semiconductor packages with pass-through clock traces and associated devices, systems, and methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a package substrate including a first surface having a plurality of substrate contacts, a first semiconductor die having a lower surface attached to the first surface of the package substrate, and a second semiconductor die stacked on top of the first semiconductor die. The first semiconductor die includes an upper surface including a first conductive contact, and the second semiconductor die includes a second conductive contact. A first electrical connector electrically couples a first one of the plurality of substrate contacts to the first and second conductive contacts, and a second electrical connector electrically couples a second one of the plurality of substrate contacts to the first and second conductive contacts.
US11855047B2
A chip package structure is provided. The chip package structure includes a chip structure. The chip package structure includes a first ground bump below the chip structure. The chip package structure includes a conductive shielding film disposed over the chip structure and extending onto the first ground bump. The conductive shielding film has a curved bottom surface.
US11855037B2
The invention relates to a method (110) for producing an electrically conductive connection (112, 112′) on a substrate (114), comprising the following steps: a) providing a substrate (114), wherein the substrate (114) is configured for receiving an electrically conductive connection (112, 112′); b) providing a reservoir of an electrically conductive liquid alloy, wherein the reservoir has a surface at which the alloy has an insulating layer; c) providing a capillary (120) configured for taking up the electrically conductive liquid alloy; d) penetrating of a tip (122) of the capillary (120) under the surface of the reservoir and taking up of a portion of the alloy from the reservoir; and e) applying the portion of the alloy at least partly to the substrate (114) in such a manner that an electrically conductive connection (112, 112′) is formed from the alloy on the substrate (114), wherein the alloy remains on the substrate (114) by adhesion. The invention furthermore relates to a method for producing a microelectronic device (124) and to a microelectronic device (124), in particular a transistor (130).
US11855033B2
The conductive wire is bonded to the front electrode of the semiconductor device at the bonding section. The first resin member covers at least one end portion of two end portions of the bonding section, the first surface of the front electrode, and the second surface of the conductive wire. The second resin member covers the bent portion of the first resin member. The first resin member has a higher break elongation and a higher break strength than the second resin member. The second tensile elastic modulus of the second resin member is greater than the first tensile elastic modulus of the first resin member. Thereby, the reliability of the power semiconductor module is improved.
US11855030B2
A package structure includes a semiconductor die, a redistribution circuit structure, and conductive pads. The redistribution circuit structure is located on and electrically connected to the semiconductor die, the redistribution circuit structure includes a first contact pad having a first width and a second contact pad having a second width. The conductive pads are located on and electrically connected to the redistribution circuit structure through connecting to the first contact pad and the second contact pad, the redistribution circuit structure is located between the conductive pads and the semiconductor die. The first width of the first contact pad is less than a width of the conductive pads, and the second width of the second contact pad is substantially equal to or greater than the width of the conductive pads.
US11855017B2
Methods for forming under-bump metallurgy (UBM) structures having different surface profiles and semiconductor devices formed by the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first redistribution line and a second redistribution line over a semiconductor substrate; a first passivation layer over the first redistribution line and the second redistribution line; a first under-bump metallurgy (UBM) structure over and electrically coupled to the first redistribution line, the first UBM structure extending through the first passivation layer, a top surface of the first UBM structure being concave; and a second UBM structure over and electrically coupled to the second redistribution line, the second UBM structure extending through the first passivation layer, a top surface of the second UBM structure being flat or convex.
US11855012B2
Devices and methods for enhancing insertion loss performance of an antenna switch are disclosed. In one example, a semiconductor device formed to serve as an antenna switch is disclosed. The semiconductor device includes: a substrate, a dielectric layer and a polysilicon region. The substrate includes: an intrinsic substrate; a metal-oxide-semiconductor device extending into the intrinsic substrate; and at least one isolation feature extending into and in contact with the intrinsic substrate. The at least one isolation feature is disposed adjacent to the metal-oxide-semiconductor device.
US11855010B2
A semiconductor structure is provided. The semiconductor structure includes two circuit regions, two inner seal rings, an outer seal ring, a first redundant region, and an electrical circuit. Each of the inner seal rings surrounding one of the circuit regions. The outer seal ring is disposed around the inner seal rings, and each of the inner seal rings contacts the outer seal ring at different interior corners of the outer seal ring. The first redundant region is located between at least one of the inner seal rings and the outer seal ring. The electrical circuit is formed in the first redundant region and electrically connected to at least one of the circuit regions.
US11855008B2
A method includes forming a first dielectric layer, forming a first redistribution line comprising a first via extending into the first dielectric layer, and a first trace over the first dielectric layer, forming a second dielectric layer covering the first redistribution line, and patterning the second dielectric layer to form a via opening. The first redistribution line is revealed through the via opening. The method further includes forming a second via in the second dielectric layer, and a conductive pad over and contacting the second via, and forming a conductive bump over the conductive pad. The conductive pad is larger than the conductive bump, with a first center of conductive pad being offsetting from a second center of the conductive bump. The second via is further offset from the second center of the conductive bump.
US11855006B2
A memory device including a base semiconductor die, conductive terminals, memory dies, an insulating encapsulation and a buffer cap is provided. The conductive terminals are disposed on a first surface of the base semiconductor die. The memory dies are stacked over a second surface of the base semiconductor die, and the second surface of the base semiconductor die is opposite to the first surface of the base semiconductor die. The insulating encapsulation is disposed on the second surface of the base semiconductor die and laterally encapsulates the memory dies. The buffer cap covers the first surface of the base semiconductor die, sidewalls of the base semiconductor die and sidewalls of the insulating encapsulation. A package structure including the above-mentioned memory device is also provided.
US11855005B2
Disclosed is a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) chip that includes an integrated circuit (IC) area and a crackstop laterally surrounding the IC area. The crackstop includes a metallic barrier (or, alternatively, concentric metallic barriers) electrically isolated from the IC area. One or more noise suppressors and, particularly, one or more passive filters (e.g., low pass filter(s), high pass filter(s), band pass filter(s), and/or band stop filter(s)) are integrated into the structure of the metallic barrier(s) to inhibit propagation, through the crackstop, of noise signals within a specific RF range. The specific RF range can be a customer-specified operating parameter. By embedding customized noise suppressor(s) into the crackstop, local signal interference unique to the customer-specified operating parameters can be minimized while also avoiding or at least minimizing the risk of moisture ingress to the IC area. Also disclosed is a method of forming the chip.
US11855004B2
A package structure is provided. The package structure includes a first conductive pad in an insulating layer, a first under bump metallurgy structure under the first insulating layer, and a first conductive via in the insulating layer. The first conductive via is vertically connected to the first conductive pad and the first under bump metallurgy structure. In a plan view, a first area of the first under bump metallurgy structure is confined within a second area of the first conductive pad.
US11855002B2
A microelectronic device and/or microelectronic device package having a warpage control structure. The warpage control structure may be positioned over an encapsulating material, wherein the encapsulating material is positioned between the warpage control structure and a die positioned over a substrate. The warpage control structure may have a first thickness over a first portion of the encapsulating material and a second thickness over a second portion of the encapsulating material. Methods of forming the microelectronic device are also disclosed herein.
US11855000B2
An electronic device structure having a shielding structure includes a substrate with an electronic component electrically connected to the substrate. The shielding structure includes conductive spaced-apart pillar structures that have proximate ends connected to the substrate and distal ends spaced apart from the substrate, and that are laterally spaced apart from the first electronic component. In one embodiment, the conductive pillar structures are conductive wires attached at one end to the substrate with an opposing end extending away from the substrate so that the conductive wires are provided generally perpendicular to the substrate. A package body encapsulates the electronic component and the conductive spaced-apart pillar structures. In one embodiment, the shielding structure further includes a shielding layer disposed adjacent the package body, which is electrically connected to the conductive spaced-apart pillar structures. In one embodiment, the electrical connection is made through the package. In another embodiment, the electrical connection is made through the substrate.
US11854996B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes forming an alignment mark in a material layer, wherein the alignment mark has a step sidewall in the material layer, and the step sidewall of the alignment mark has a floor surface portion; forming a feature material over the material layer; and performing a planarization process at least on the feature material, wherein the planarization process stops at a level higher than the floor surface portion of the step sidewall of the alignment mark.
US11854994B2
A redistribution structure for a semiconductor device and a method of forming the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes a die encapsulated by an encapsulant, the die including a pad, and a connector electrically connected to the pad. The semiconductor device further includes a first via in physical contact with the connector. The first via is laterally offset from the connector by a first non-zero distance in a first direction. The first via has a tapered sidewall.
US11854993B2
An integrated fan-out package including an integrated circuit, an insulating encapsulation, and a redistribution circuit structure is provided. The integrated circuit includes an antenna region. The insulating encapsulation encapsulates the integrated circuit. The redistribution circuit structure is disposed on the integrated circuit and the insulating encapsulation. The redistribution circuit structure is electrically connected to the integrated circuit, and the redistribution circuit structure includes a redistribution region and a dummy region including a plurality of dummy patterns embedded therein, wherein the antenna region includes an inductor and a wiring-free dielectric portion, and the wiring-free dielectric portion of the antenna region is between the inductor and the dummy region.
US11854986B2
A semiconductor device includes a die, an encapsulant over a front-side surface of the die, a redistribution structure on the encapsulant, a thermal module coupled to the back-side surface of the die, and a bolt extending through the redistribution structure and the thermal module. The die includes a chamfered corner. The bolt is adjacent to the chamfered corner.
US11854985B2
A semiconductor package includes: a first package including a first semiconductor chip; a second package under the first package, the second package including a second semiconductor chip; and a first interposer package between the first package and the second package, the first interposer package including: a power management integrated circuit (PMIC) configured to supply power to the first package and the second package; a core member having a through-hole in which the PMIC is disposed; a first redistribution layer on the core member, and electrically connected to the first package; a second redistribution layer under the core member, and electrically connected to the second package; core vias penetrating the core member, and electrically connecting the first redistribution layer with the second redistribution layer; and a first signal path electrically connecting the first package with the second package.
US11854983B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacture are provided. In embodiments the semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first interposer bonded to the substrate, a second interposer bonded to the substrate, a bridge component electrically connecting the first interposer to the second interposer, two or more first dies bonded to the first interposer; and two or more second dies bonded to the second interposer.
US11854981B2
An electronic device including a semiconductor memory is provided. The semiconductor memory includes: a plurality of lower lines disposed over a substrate and extending in a first direction; a plurality of upper lines disposed over the lower lines and extending in a second direction crossing the first direction; a plurality of memory cells disposed between the lower lines and the upper lines and overlapping intersection regions of the lower lines and the upper lines; and an air gap located between the upper lines and extending in the second direction.
US11854979B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate including an element isolation layer, the element isolation layer defining an active region, a plurality of word lines traversing the active region in a first direction, and a plurality of bit line structures on the substrate and connected to the active region, the plurality of bit line structures extending in a second direction different from the first direction. Each of the plurality of bit line structures includes a ruthenium line wiring including a bottom surface and a top surface opposite to the bottom surface, a lower graphene layer in contact with the bottom surface of the ruthenium line wiring and extending along the bottom surface of the ruthenium line wiring, and a wiring line capping layer extending along the top surface of the ruthenium line wiring.
US11854978B2
An integrated circuit includes a device, a first interconnect structure disposed above the device and a second interconnect structure positioned below the device. The first interconnect structure includes multiple frontside metal layers. The second interconnect structure includes multiple backside metal layers, where each backside metal layer includes metal conductors routed according to diagonal routing. In some embodiments, a backside interconnect structure can include another backside metal layer that includes metal conductors routed according to mixed-Manhattan-diagonal routing. A variety of techniques can be used to route signals between metal conductors in the backside interconnect structure and cells on one or more frontside metal layers.
US11854976B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first-direction plurality of wirings extending in a first direction, and a second-direction plurality of wiring extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The first-direction plurality of wirings that extend in the first direction includes gate wirings spaced apart from each other in the second direction by a gate pitch, first wirings above the gate wirings spaced apart from each other in the second direction by a first pitch, second wirings above the first wirings spaced apart from each other in the second direction by a second pitch, and third wirings above the second wirings spaced apart from each other in the second direction by a third pitch. A ratio between the gate pitch and the second pitch is 6:5.
US11854971B2
A semiconductor storage device includes: conductive layers arranged in a first direction; a first insulating layer extending in the first direction; a first semiconductor layer between the conductive layers and the first insulating layer; and a gate insulating film between the conductive layers and the first semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer includes a first region between a first insulating portion and the first conductive layer, a second region between a second insulating portion and the second conductive layer, and a third region between the first region and the second region. The third region includes a fourth region extending in a second direction, a fifth region between the first region and the fourth region, a sixth region between the second region and the fourth region, and a seventh region between the fifth region and the first region and extending in the first direction.
US11854961B2
A package substrate includes a substrate, an insulating protective layer and an interposer. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposing to the first surface. The substrate includes a plurality of first conductive pads embedded in the first surface. The insulating protective layer is disposed on the first surface of the substrate. The insulating protective layer has an opening for exposing the first conductive pads embedded in the first surface of the substrate. The interposer has a top surface and a bottom surface opposing to the top surface. The interposer includes a plurality of conductive vias and a plurality of second conductive pads located on the bottom surface. The interposer is located in a recess defined by the opening of the insulating protective layer and the first surface of the substrate. Each of the second conductive pads is electrically connected to corresponding first conductive pad.
US11854958B2
A method includes obtaining an active feature layer having a first surface bearing one or more active feature areas. A first capacitor plate of a first capacitor is formed on an interior surface of a cap. A second capacitor plate of the first capacitor is formed on an exterior surface of the cap. The first capacitor plate of the first capacitor overlays and is spaced apart from the second capacitor plate of the first capacitor along a direction that is orthogonal to the exterior surface of the cap to form the first capacitor. The cap is coupled with the first surface of the active feature layer such that the second capacitor plate of the first capacitor is in electrical communication with at least a first active feature of the active feature layer. The cap is bonded with the passive layer substrate.
US11854955B2
A method includes forming an interposer, which includes forming a rigid dielectric layer, and removing portions of the rigid dielectric layer. The method further includes bonding a package component to an interconnect structure, and bonding the interposer to the interconnect structure. A spacer in the interposer has a bottom surface contacting a top surface of the package component, and the spacer includes a feature selected from the group consisting of a metal feature, the rigid dielectric layer, and combinations thereof. A die-saw is performed on the interconnect structure.
US11854940B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate and a first transistor on a first side of the substrate. The semiconductor device further includes a first electrode contacting a first region of the first transistor. The semiconductor device further includes a spacer extending along a sidewall of the first transistor. The semiconductor device further includes a self-aligned interconnect structure (SIS) separated from at least a portion of the first electrode by the spacer, wherein the SIS extends through the substrate. The semiconductor device further includes a second electrode contacting a surface of the first electrode farthest from the substrate, wherein the second electrode directly contacts the SIS.
US11854939B2
Disclosed is a three-dimensional integrated system for DRAM chips and a fabrication method thereof. A plurality of trench structures are etched on the front and back of a silicon wafer; then, a TSV structure is etched between the two upper and lower trenches opposite to each other for electrical connection; then, DRAM chips are placed in the trenches, and copper-copper bonding is used to make the chips electrically connected to the TSV structure in a vertical direction; finally, redistribution is done to make the chips in a horizontal direction electrically connected. The invention can make full use of silicon materials, and can avoid problems such as warpage and deformation of an interposer. In addition, placing the chips in the trenches will not increase the overall package thickness, while protecting the chips from external impact.
US11854936B2
A semiconductor device including a substrate, a semiconductor package, a thermal conductive bonding layer, and a lid is provided. The semiconductor package is disposed on the substrate. The thermal conductive bonding layer is disposed on the semiconductor package. The lid is attached to the thermal conductive bonding layer and covers the semiconductor package to prevent coolant from contacting the semiconductor package.
US11854935B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure may generally relate to systems, apparatuses, techniques, and/or processes directed to packages that include stacked dies that use thermal conductivity features including thermally conductive through silicon vias (TSVs) filled with thermally conductive material located in passive areas of a first die to route heat from a first die away from a second die that is coupled with the first die. In embodiments, the first die may be referred to as a base die. Embodiments may include thermal blocks in the form of dummy dies that include TSVs at least partially filled with thermal energy conducting material such as copper, solder, or other alloy.
US11854930B2
A semiconductor chip package includes a substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface, and a semiconductor device mounted on the top surface of the substrate. A gap is provided between the semiconductor device and the top surface of the substrate. A multi-layer laminate epoxy sheet is disposed on the top surface of the substrate and around a perimeter of the semiconductor device.
US11854925B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a plurality of stacked semiconductor chips each of which has a first surface having an electrode formed thereon, a plurality of wires each of which has one end portion connected to each of the electrodes of the plurality of semiconductor chips and extends in a stacking direction of the semiconductor chips, a sealing resin that covers the plurality of semiconductor chips, has a second surface having recesses formed therein, and is formed so that the other end portions of the plurality of wires and the recesses overlap each other when viewed from the stacking direction, and a plurality of terminals that is provided so as to fill the recesses, each of which has one end portion connected to the other end portion of each of the plurality of wires and has the other end portion exposed from the sealing resin.
US11854916B2
Disclosed is a method of evaluating placement of semiconductor devices performed by a computing device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure. The method includes receiving connection information representing a connection relationship between semiconductor devices; clustering the semiconductor devices based on the connection information; and determining a reward to train a neural network model based on clustering.
US11854913B2
A method for detecting defects in a semiconductor device including singulating a die having a substrate including a circuit region and an outer border, a plurality of detecting devices disposed over the substrate and located between the circuit region and the outer border, a first probe pad and a second probe pad electrically connected to two ends of each detecting device, and a seal ring located between the outer border of the die and the detecting devices. The method further includes probing the first probe pad and the second probe pad to determine a connection status of the detecting device, and recognizing a defect when the connection status of the detecting device indicates an open circuit.
US11854909B2
A semiconductor structure and method for manufacturing thereof are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a silicon substrate having a first surface, a III-V layer on the first surface of the silicon substrate and over a first active region, and an isolation region in a portion of the III-V layer extended beyond the first active region. The first active region is in proximal to the first surface. The method includes the following operations. A silicon substrate having a first device region and a second device region is provided, a first active region is defined in the first device region, a III-V layer is formed on the silicon substrate, an isolation region is defined across a material interface in the III-V layer by an implantation operation, and an interconnect penetrating through the isolation region is formed.
US11854908B2
A method of fabricating a device includes forming a dummy gate over a plurality of fins. Thereafter, a first portion of the dummy gate is removed to form a first trench that exposes a first hybrid fin and a first part of a second hybrid fin. The method further includes filling the first trench with a dielectric material disposed over the first hybrid fin and over the first part of the second hybrid fin. Thereafter, a second portion of the dummy gate is removed to form a second trench and the second trench is filled with a metal layer. The method further includes etching-back the metal layer, where a first plane defined by a first top surface of the metal layer is disposed beneath a second plane defined by a second top surface of a second part of the second hybrid fin after the etching-back the metal layer.
US11854901B2
A device is manufactured by providing a semiconductor fin protruding from a major surface of a silicon substrate comprising silicon. A liner and a shallow trench isolation (STI) region are formed adjacent the semiconductor fin. A silicon cap is deposited over the semiconductor fin. The resulting cap consists of crystalline silicon in the portion over the semiconductor fin and consists of amorphous silicon in the portions over the liner and STI region. An HCl etch bake process is performed to remove the portions of amorphous silicon over the liner and the STI region.
US11854897B2
A method includes forming a plurality of fins on a substrate and a dummy gate structure over the fins. A spacer layer is formed over the dummy gate structure and the fins. The spacer layer is recessed to form asymmetrically recessed spacers along sidewalls of each of the fins, thereby exposing a portion of each of the fins. A source/drain epitaxy is grown on the exposed portions of the plurality of fins, a first source/drain epitaxy on a first fin being asymmetrical to a second source/drain epitaxy on a second fin. A device includes a first and second fin on a substrate with a gate structure formed over the first and second fins. An epitaxy if formed over the first fin and the second fin on the same side of the gate structure, where the height of the first epitaxy is greater than the height of the second epitaxy.
US11854896B2
Semiconductor device and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. An exemplary semiconductor device comprises first semiconductor stack over a substrate, wherein the first semiconductor stack includes first semiconductor layers separated from each other and stacked up along a direction substantially perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate; second semiconductor stack over the substrate, wherein the second semiconductor stack includes second semiconductor layers separated from each other and stacked up along the direction substantially perpendicular to the top surface of the substrate; inner spacers between edge portions of the first semiconductor layers and between edge portions of the second semiconductor layers; and a bulk source/drain (S/D) feature between the first semiconductor stack and the second semiconductor stack, wherein the bulk S/D feature is separated from the substrate by a first air gap, and the bulk S/D feature is separated from the inner spacers by second air gaps.
US11854890B2
In a method for producing a capacitor, a dielectric structure is generated in a trench of a semiconductor substrate. The dielectric structure includes a plurality of adjacent dielectric layers having opposing material tensions.
US11854885B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure, a forming method thereof, and a semiconductor device, and relates to the technical field of semiconductor packaging processes. The method includes: providing a semiconductor substrate; forming an oxide layer on a surface of the semiconductor substrate, and etching the oxide layer to form a recess, where a through-silicon via (TSV) is provided in the semiconductor substrate and the oxide layer, and an upper end of the TSV is connected to the recess; depositing a metal layer on a surface of the recess, and forming an opening in the metal layer on a bottom surface of the recess, where the opening is connected to the TSV; and filling a second conductive material into the recess, and forming a hole in the second conductive material above the opening.
US11854884B2
A method of forming fully aligned top vias is provided. The method includes forming a fill layer on a conductive line, wherein the fill layer is adjacent to one or more vias. The method further includes forming a spacer layer selectively on the exposed surface of the fill layer, wherein the top surface of the one or more vias is exposed after forming the spacer layer. The method further includes depositing an etch-stop layer on the exposed surfaces of the spacer layer and the one or more vias, and forming a cover layer on the etch-stop layer.
US11854880B2
This application relates to a memory device and a method for manufacturing the same, including: a substrate on which an insulation structure and a plurality of first active structures are formed is provided. The plurality of first active structures are arranged at intervals in the insulation structure. A word line conductive layer is formed on the substrate by a physical vapor deposition process. The word line conductive layer is patterned and etched to obtain a plurality of word line structures arranged in parallel and at intervals and filling slots located between adjacent word line structures. The filling slots comprise first filling slots that expose both parts of top surfaces of the first active structures and parts of the top surface of the insulation structure. Second active structures are formed in the first filling slots, and isolation structures are formed in the first filling slots.
US11854872B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device structure is provided. The method includes forming a first metal layer over a substrate, forming a dielectric layer over the first metal layer. The method includes forming a trench in the dielectric layer, and performing a surface treatment process on a sidewall surface of the trench to form a hydrophobic layer. The hydrophobic layer is formed on a sidewall surface of the dielectric layer. The method further includes depositing a metal material in the trench and over the hydrophobic layer to form a via structure.
US11854860B2
Semiconductor processing apparatuses and methods are provided in which an electrostatic discharge (ESD) prevention layer is utilized to prevent or reduce ESD events from occurring between a semiconductor wafer and one or more components of the apparatuses. In some embodiments, a semiconductor processing apparatus includes a wafer handling structure that is configured to support a semiconductor wafer during processing of the semiconductor wafer. The apparatus further includes an ESD prevention layer on the wafer handling structure. The ESD prevention layer includes a first material and a second material, and the second material has an electrical conductivity that is greater than an electrical conductivity of the first material.
US11854849B2
A method for operating a conveying system is provided. An overhead hoist transport (OHT) vehicle is provided, wherein the OHT vehicle includes a gripping member configured to grip and hold a carrier, and a receiver configured to receive a signal. The signal is transmitted to the receiver of the OHT vehicle. The OHT vehicle is moved toward the carrier, and the carrier is gripped by the gripping member of the OHT vehicle. A lifting force is determined based on a weight of a carrier, a number of workpieces in the carrier, or a vertical distance between the OHT vehicle and the carrier, and the lifting force is applied to the carrier.
US11854845B2
A system for monitoring an environment can be used for monitoring concentrations of airborne contaminants in a plurality of process areas in a clean room. The system includes: a sampling device, configured to collect environmental samples from process areas and including a system sampling pipeline, the environmental sample including air; an analysis device, connected to an output end of the system sampling pipeline; an air supply device, connected to the system sampling pipeline and configured to provide a purge gas to the system sampling pipeline; and a humidification device, configured to provide water mist and connected between the air supply device and the system sampling pipeline.
US11854831B2
The present disclosure describes a method of forming an epitaxial layer on a substrate in a chamber. The method includes cleaning the chamber with a first etching gas and depositing the epitaxial layer on the substrate. Deposition of the epitaxial layer includes epitaxially growing a first portion of the epitaxial layer with a precursor, cleaning the substrate and the chamber with a flush of a second etching gas different from the first etching gas, and epitaxially growing a second portion of the epitaxial layer with the precursor. The first portion and the second portion have the same composition. The method furthers includes etching a portion of the epitaxial layer with a third etching gas having a flow rate higher than that of the second etching gas.
US11854826B2
Some embodiment structures and methods are described. A structure includes an integrated circuit die at least laterally encapsulated by an encapsulant, and a redistribution structure on the integrated circuit die and encapsulant. The redistribution structure is electrically coupled to the integrated circuit die. The redistribution structure includes a first dielectric layer on at least the encapsulant, a metallization pattern on the first dielectric layer, a metal oxide layered structure on the metallization pattern, and a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer and the metallization pattern. The metal oxide layered structure includes a metal oxide layer having a ratio of metal atoms to oxygen atoms that is substantially 1:1, and a thickness of the metal oxide layered structure is at least 50 Å. The second dielectric layer is a photo-sensitive material. The metal oxide layered structure is disposed between the metallization pattern and the second dielectric layer.
US11854818B2
Methods of processing a feature on a semiconductor workpiece are disclosed. The method is performed after features have been created on the workpiece. An etching species may be directed toward the workpiece at a non-zero tilt angle. In certain embodiments, the tilt angle may be 30° or more. Further, the etching species may also be directed with a non-zero twist angle. In certain embodiments, the etching species may sputter material from the features, while in other embodiments, the etching species may be a chemically reactive species. By adjusting the tilt and twist angles, as well as the flow rate of the etching species and the exposure time, the LER and LWR of a feature may be reduced with minimal impact of the CD of the feature.
US11854810B1
Disclosed herein are techniques for bonding LED components. According to certain embodiments, a first component is bonded to a second component using dielectric bonding and metal bonding. The first component includes an active light emitting layer between oppositely doped semiconductor layers. The second component includes a substrate having a different thermal expansion coefficient than the first component. First contacts of the first component are aligned to second contacts of the second component. A dielectric material of the first component is then bonded to a dielectric material of the second component. The metal bonding is performed between the first contacts and the second contacts, after the dielectric bonding, and using annealing. The bonded structure has a concave or convex shape before the metal bonding. Run-out between the first contacts and the second contacts is compensated through temperature-induced changes in a curvature of the bonded structure during the metal bonding.
US11854806B2
Devices are made by self-aligned quad pitch patterning (SAQP) and methods for making devices by self-aligned quad pitch patterning (SAQP) use a single spacer in the process. An intermediate process step called self-aligned double patterning (SADP) is used to double the pitch following the spacer deposition. A pattern is formed on a substrate, the pattern having ultra-fine resolutions by repeating the SADP step twice for pitch quadrupling and introducing a reversal layer to form a fine trench pattern and hole pattern. An initial pattern is obtained by the X-Y double line exposures. Reverse material is applied on the initial pattern and subsequent etching process converts each initial trench pattern to a line. The pattern designs or pattern layouts have improved LER/LWR (line edge roughness and line width roughness respectively) for below 12 nm lines and trenches in order to create self-aligned cross pitch quad trenches.
US11854803B2
A method for protecting a gate spacer when forming a FinFET structure, the method comprising: providing a fin with at least one dummy gate crossing the fin wherein a gate hardmask is present on top of the dummy gate; providing a gate spacer such that it is covering the dummy gate and the gate hardmask; recessing the gate spacer such that at least a part of the gate hardmask is exposed; selectively growing, by means of area selective deposition, extra capping material over the exposed part of the gate hardmask.
US11854797B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor memory includes: providing a portion to be processed, and performing a preset process step on the portion to be processed at least after a minimum waiting time; before performing the preset process step, performing a thermal oxidation process on the portion to be processed; and before performing the preset process step, performing a cleaning process, the cleaning process being used to remove oxides from the surface of the portion to be processed, the oxides being wholly or partly generated by the thermal oxidation process.
US11854781B2
The invention generally relates to electrophoretic mass spectrometry probes and systems and methods of uses thereof. In certain aspects, the invention provides a mass spectrometry probe having a hollow body with a distal tip, an electrically conductive hollow conduit, and an electrode. The electrically conductive hollow conduit may be operably coupled to a reservoir and a power source, and the electrically conductive hollow conduit may be configured to transport a liquid sample into the hollow body and polarize the liquid sample as it flows through the electrically conductive hollow conduit and into in the hollow body. The electrode and the electrically conductive hollow conduit are disposed within the hollow body (e.g., at different heights within the hollow body).
US11854778B2
A method for the identification and localization of small molecule species in a histologic thin tissue section comprises the steps of: a) acquiring a mass/mobility image of the tissue section and generating a mass/mobility map of the small molecule species of interest for each pixel of the image; b) providing a second sample of the same tissue and extracting the small molecules of interest, separating them, and acquiring mass and ion mobility spectra from the separated small molecules; c) identifying the small molecules of interest using corresponding reference databases; and d) assigning identified small molecules to entries in the mass/mobility maps of the first tissue section by comparison of ion masses and mobilities of the identified species to those of the second thin tissue section.
US11854768B2
The present disclosure is directed to an in situ closed-loop radio frequency (RF) power management on RF processes such as a plasma etch process, a plasma chemical vapor deposition process, a plasma physical vapor deposition process, a plasma clean process, or the like. An RF power measurement device according to one or more embodiments of the present disclosure assists the in situ closed-loop RF power management on RF processes. In some embodiments, the RF power measurement device includes a coil-shaped current sensor that is wound around the path between an RF generator and a chamber. The coil-shaped current sensor senses the current flowing through this path so that the power of the RF generator may be calibrated without having to separate the RF generator for separate analysis and calibration. The RF power measurement device allows management of RF power in an in situ closed-loop manner.
US11854755B2
A direct current electric circuit interrupting switch assembly is disclosed that comprises a pyroswitch assembly, which comprises at least two pyroswitches, which are connected in parallel with each other and are each per se integrated in its respective electrically conductive branch together forming a second branch of the primary electric conductor the switch assembly, with a first, preceding pyroswitch and a second, subsequent, or last pyroswitch. Each of said pyroswitches comprises an interrupting member, by means of which each circuit with each of the pyroswitches is either connected during normal operation or is interrupted by displacing each corresponding interrupting member into another position, when a pre-determined condition is met.
US11854750B2
A composite electrode foil roll for manufacturing an electrolytic capacitor, including: bands of electrode foils; strips of an isolating material positioned along a width of the composite electrode foil roll at a plurality of locations. The plurality of locations are at equal distances and correspond to a length of an inner cavity of a case of the electrolytic capacitor. The bands of electrode foils and strips of an isolating material are alternating. A method of manufacturing the composite electrode foil roll including alternating bands of electrode foils and strips of an isolating material. The strips are positioned along a width of the composite electrode foil roll at repeated locations. The repeated locations are at equal distances corresponding to a length of an inner cavity of a case of the electrolytic capacitor.
US11854749B2
A method of manufacturing a capacitor assembly package structure includes providing a capacitor unit and a conductive connection layer, in which the capacitor unit includes a plurality of capacitors, and each of the capacitors includes a positive portion and a negative portion electrically connected to the conductive connection layer; partially enclosing the capacitors by an insulative package body, in which the positive portion of each of the capacitors has a positive lateral surface exposed from a first lateral surface of the insulative package body; and then enclosing a first portion of the insulative package body and electrically connecting to the positive portion of each of the capacitors by a first electrode structure, and enclosing a second portion of the insulative package body and electrically connecting to the conductive connection layer by a second electrode structure.
US11854744B2
A multilayer electronic component includes a body including a dielectric layer and internal electrodes having the dielectric layer interposed therebetween in a first direction and external electrodes disposed on the body and connected to the internal electrodes, wherein the internal electrodes include nickel (Ni) and dysprosium (Dy) and 0.02 at %≤C0≤5 at % in which C0 is an atomic percentage (at %) calculated by dividing a number of atoms of Dy by a sum of a number of atoms of Ni and Dy included in the internal electrode.
US11854741B2
A seat plate assembly for fixing a capacitor on a circuit board, including a base plate, a first guard plate, a second guard plate, a third guard plate, a fourth guard plate, a first reinforcing rib and a second reinforcing rib. The first guard plate, the second guard plate, the third guard plate and the fourth guard plate are provided spaced apart on an upper end surface of the base plate in sequence. The first reinforcing rib is configured to connect the first guard plate with the second guard plate. The second reinforcing rib is configured to connect the third guard plate with the fourth guard plate.
US11854739B2
A flexible energy storage device with a redox-active polymer hydrogel electrolyte is provided. The flexible energy storage device can include a pair of electrodes separated by the redox-active polymer hydrogel electrolyte. The redox-active polymer hydrogel electrolyte can include a polymer hydrogel, charge balancing anions and redox-active transition metal cations at least one selected from the group consisting of vanadium, chromium, manganese, cobalt, and copper. The flexible energy storage device may retain greater than 75% of an unbent specific capacitance when bent at an angle of 10° to 170°.
US11854729B2
A vehicle, a vehicle electronics power assembly, and a method for providing and cooling an inductor assembly are provided. The vehicle has provided with a vehicle electrical system with a variable voltage converter (VVC) and an inductor assembly with a core and a winding. A housing is provided with a first housing member and a second housing member. The first and second housing members cooperate to encapsulate the winding and at least a portion of the core of the inductor assembly. The first housing member defines a first inlet and a first outlet, and the second housing member defines a second inlet and a second outlet. A fluid system is connected to the first inlet, the second inlet, the first outlet, and the second outlet to provide pressurized fluid to the first and second inlets to circulate fluid through the housing.
US11854725B2
A method for producing soft magnetic metal powder includes: a raw material powder preparing step of preparing metal raw material powder having metal raw material particles including iron, silicon, and boron; a mixture step of mixing the metal raw material powder and a carbon source substance and obtaining mixed powder; and a heat treatment step of performing heat treatment on the mixed powder in a non-oxidizing atmosphere containing nitrogen at a heat treatment temperature of 1,250° C. or higher and making the metal raw material particles spherical.
US11854724B2
Metal magnetic powder and method for manufacturing same, as well as coil component and circuit board
A metal magnetic powder is constituted by metal magnetic grains that each include: a metal phase where the mass percentage of Fe at its center part is lower than that at its contour part; and an oxide film covering the metal phase so as to allow the magnetic body resistant to magnetic saturation and low in iron loss.
US11854723B2
Approaches provided herein include a protection device assembly having a protection component and a first electrode layer extending along a first main side of the protection component. The first electrode layer may include a first section separated from a second section by a first gap. The assembly may further include a second electrode layer extending along a second main side of the protection component, the second electrode layer including a third section separated from a fourth section by a second gap, wherein the first gap is aligned with the second gap. The assembly may further include a first insulation layer disposed over the first electrode layer, and a second insulation layer disposed over the second electrode layer. The assembly may further include a solder pad extending around an end of the protection component, the solder pad further extending over the first insulation layer and the second insulation layer.
US11854721B2
An apparatus includes a strength member including a core formed of a composite material, and an encapsulation layer disposed around the core. A conductor layer is disposed around the strength member. A coating is disposed on the conductor layer. The coating is formulated to have a solar absorptivity of less than 0.5 at a wavelength of less than 2.5 microns, and a radiative emissivity of greater than 0.5 at a wavelength in a range of 2.5 microns to 15 microns, at an operating temperature in a range of 60 degrees Celsius to 250 degrees Celsius. The coating may have an erosion resistance that is at least 5% greater than an erosion resistance of aluminum or aluminum alloys.
US11854718B2
The present invention discloses a preparation method of an insulating dielectric for improving energy density, including dissolving 1,4-phenylene diisothiocyanate in a polar solvent, then adding an organic diamine, and reacting at room temperature for 3 h to 6 h under a nitrogen atmosphere; then adding 4,4′-oxydianiline and pyromellitic dianhydride, and reacting at room temperature for 12 h to 18 h under a nitrogen atmosphere to obtain a random copolymer solution of polythiourea and polyamic acid; and spreading the random copolymer solution of polythiourea and polyamic acid on a copper plate, and carrying out gradient temperature elevation to obtain a random copolymer of polythiourea and polyimide.
US11854709B2
A fast reactor core includes a sodium plenum installed above the fuel. The sodium plenum is capable of reducing a void reactivity. During operation, a tip of a primary control rod is inserted in a core fuel region, and a tip of a backup control rod is arranged near an upper end of the sodium plenum.
US11854705B2
A method is for supporting clinical decisions for a diagnosis or therapy of a patient using a medical imaging system. An embodiment of the method includes receiving a procedure order; based on the received procedure order, automatically identifying a clinical context of the ordered procedure; generating preliminary imaging data of at least a part of the patients anatomy; generating feature extraction data based on the identified clinical context and on the preliminary imaging data; extracting at least one clinical context specific feature using the generated feature extraction data; annotating the at least one extracted clinical context specific feature to obtain at least one annotated extracted feature; and selecting, for the identified clinical context, a similar case data set from a reference database of case data sets based on the at least one annotated extracted feature.
US11854704B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for anatomical modeling using information obtained during a medical procedure, whereby an initial anatomical model is generated or obtained, a correspondence is determined between the initial model and additional data and/or measurements from an invasive or noninvasive procedure, and, if a discrepancy is found between the initial model and the additional data, the anatomical model is updated to incorporate the additional data and reduce the discrepancy.
US11854698B2
A medical diagnostic kit are described. In one example, a medical diagnostic kit includes a container, and a plurality of medical diagnostic test kits located within the container. Each of the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits can include equipment necessary to perform a particular self-administered medical diagnostic test. The plurality of medical diagnostic test kits can include at least a first medical diagnostic kit adapted to facilitate user completion of a first medical diagnostic test and a second medical diagnostic kit adapted to facilitate user completion of a second medical diagnostic test different from the first medical diagnostic test. The container can include a machine-readable code located on an external surface of the container.
US11854693B2
The present disclosure includes methods, devices and systems for establishing a connection between a medical device and a remote computing device, receiving an upgrade command at the medical device, storing a current version of persistent data and a current version of executable code in a first storage area of the medical device, transmitting at least the current version of the persistent data to the remote computing device, receiving a second format of the current version of the persistent data and an upgraded version of executable code at the medical device, storing the second format of the current version of the persistent data and the upgraded version of the executable code in a second storage area of the medical device, and executing the upgraded version of the executable code with the second format of the current version of the persistent data.
US11854691B1
One embodiment provides a method including receiving natural language speech from a user. The method includes automatically converting the natural language speech into a text format and executing a function corresponding to the function portion of the natural language speech. The method includes translating data returned by executing the function into natural language, wherein the translating includes modifying sensitive information within the data returned by (i) changing a selected audible output device and output volume to prevent the at least one unauthorized user from hearing the data returned and (ii) modifying the data returned. The method also includes outputting the natural language via an audible output device. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11854687B2
Devices, systems, and methods configured to assess the severity of a blockage in a vessel and, in particular, a stenosis in a blood vessel, provide measurements of a vessel that allow assessment of the vessel and, in particular, any stenosis or lesion of the vessel, simulate diagnostic visualizations a first visualization device and a second visualization device. For example, the methods can include displaying, on a first visualization device, an image of the vessel with treatment diagnostic visualizations based on obtained pressure measurements and displaying, on a second visualization device, a portion of the image of the vessel with diagnostic visualizations based on the obtained pressure measurements, wherein the portion of the image of the vessel displayed on the second visualization device is a close up of a region of interest of the vessel.
US11854676B2
Techniques are described for providing live first aid response guidance using a machine learning based cognitive aid planner. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method is provided that comprises classifying, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, a type of an injury endured by a patient. The method further comprises, employing, by the system, one or more machine learning models to estimate a risk level associated with the injury based on the type of the injury and a current context of the patient.
US11854674B2
A device may obtain identification information concerning a clinical trial, and may obtain, based on the identification information, selection information concerning the clinical trial and input information concerning the clinical trial. The device may select at least one machine learning model, of a plurality of machine learning models, based on the selection information, and may process, using the at least one machine learning model, the input information to determine predicted rate of recruitment (RoR) information concerning the clinical trial.
US11854669B1
The present invention relates to method for storing and transmitting information by employing a nucleic acid construct. The nucleic acid construct can include a lock region; a translation key region that corresponds to the identity of a key; and a message region including a nucleic sequence that corresponds to an encrypted message.
US11854668B2
Data storage is provided using double-stranded nucleic acid molecules provided on a thermal control device comprising a plurality of sites and temperature control circuitry to independently control a temperature of each of the plurality of sites. The temperature control circuitry, controls the site temperatures to provide a different temperature at a target site compared to other sites of the plurality of sites. The different temperatures at the target site and the other sites provide a greater probability of a read or write operation acting on the target site compared to the other sites. The temperature-based addressing helps to increase physical storage density.
US11854659B2
A memory system and a method of operating the memory system are provided. The memory system may determine, on a determination that the memory system enters thermal throttling mode, a target status read check period based on threshold voltage distribution offset for the target memory die, and set a timer to transmit a status read command for the target memory die to the memory device based on the target status read check period.
US11854653B2
A signal masking circuit includes a receiving circuit, a delay control circuit, and a logical operation circuit. The receiving circuit is configured to: receive a signal to be processed and a chip select (CS) signal, and output an initial processing signal and an initial CS signal. The delay control circuit is configured to perform delay and logical control operations on the initial CS signal to obtain a CS masking signal, where a pulse width of the CS masking signal is greater than or equal to two preset clock periods. The logical operation circuit is configured to perform invalid masking on the initial processing signal according to the CS masking signal to obtain a target signal.
US11854645B2
A memory system and storage device are provided, including: an auxiliary power device having at least one capacitor, wherein the at least one capacitor has a first path for leakage current; a charging circuit including a switch connected to the auxiliary power device; and a state determining circuit connected to the auxiliary power device, wherein the state determining circuit includes a path circuit connected in parallel with the at least one capacitor to form a second path having at least one of a resistance lower than a resistance of the first path or a current source.
US11854636B2
A data sampling circuit includes a frequency dividing circuit, a sampling circuit and a selection circuit. The frequency dividing circuit is configured to receive a first data sampling signal, and perform frequency dividing processing on the first data sampling signal to obtain multiple second data sampling signals associated with respective phases; the sampling circuit is configured to receive the multiple second data sampling signals and a first data signal, and sample the first data signal according to the multiple second data sampling signals to obtain multiple second data signals associated with respective phases; and the selection circuit is configured to receive preamble information and mode register set (MRS) information, and select among the multiple second data sampling signals and the plurality of second data signals according to the preamble information and the MRS information to obtain a target data sampling signal and a target data signal respectively.
US11854625B2
A device is disclosed herein. The device includes at least two transmit portions and at least one contact portion. Each of the at least two transmit portions is configured to receive a bit line signal. The at least one contact portion is couple to the at least two transmit portions respectively and configured to transmit the bit line signals from the least two transmit portions to a source line.
US11854623B2
Provided are a memory controller and memory system having an improved threshold voltage distribution characteristic and an operating method of the memory system. As a write request of data with respect to a first block is received, an erase program interval (EPI) is determined denoting a time period elapsed after erasure of the first block. When the determined EPI is equal to or less than a reference time, data is programmed to the first block based on a first operation condition selected from among a plurality of operation conditions. When the determined EPI is greater than the reference time, the data is programmed to the first block based on a second operation condition selected from among the plurality of operation conditions.
US11854622B2
An eFuse cell is provided. The eFuse cell may include a first PMOS transistor and a first NMOS transistor configured to receive a programmed state selection (BLOWB) signal, a second PMOS transistor and a second NMOS transistor configured to receive a write word line bar (WWLB) for a program operation, a first read NMOS transistor and a second read NMOS transistor configured to receive a read word line (RWL) for a read operation, a program transistor configured to control a program current to flow for a fusing operation, and an eFuse connected between the first read NMOS transistor and the second read NMOS transistor.
US11854620B2
An apparatus is provided that includes a plurality of word lines that include a plurality of word line zones, a plurality of non-volatile memory cells coupled to the plurality of word lines, and a control circuit coupled to the non-volatile memory cells. The control circuit is configured to determine a corresponding initial program voltage for each of the word line zones. Each corresponding initial program voltage is determined based on a number of program erase cycles.
US11854602B2
A memory controller monitors memory command selected for dispatch to the memory and sends commands controlling a read clock state. A memory includes a read clock circuit and a mode register. The read clock circuit has an output for providing a hybrid read clock signal in response to a clock signal and a read clock mode signal. The mode register provides the read clock mode signal in response to a read clock mode, wherein the read clock circuit provides the hybrid read clock signal as a free-running clock signal that toggles continuously when the read clock mode is a first mode, and as a strobe signal that is active only in response to the memory receiving a read command when the read clock mode is a second mode.
US11854593B2
A pocket integration for high density memory and logic applications and methods of fabrication are described. While various examples are described with reference to FeRAM, capacitive structures formed herein can be used for any application where a capacitor is desired. For instance, the capacitive structure can be used for fabricating ferroelectric based or paraelectric based majority gate, minority gate, and/or threshold gate.
US11854591B2
The present invention is directed to a nonvolatile memory device that includes one or more memory sectors and a read circuit for sensing the resistance state of a magnetic memory cell in the memory sectors. The read circuit includes first and second input nodes; a sense amplifier having first and second input terminals; a reference resistor connected to the first input node at one end and the first input terminal at the other end; a multiplexer having a first input, a second input, and an output, with the first input being connected to the second input node and the output being connected to the second input terminal; a first target resistor and an offset resistor connected in series between the second input node and the second input; and first and second current sources connected to the first and second input terminals, respectively.
US11854587B2
Disclosed herein are related to reducing power consumption of a memory device when transitioning from a sleep state to an operational state. In one aspect, the memory device includes a memory cell to store data. In one aspect, the memory device includes an output driver configured to: generate an output signal indicating the stored data, in response to a sleep tracking signal indicating that the memory cell is in the operational state, and generate the output signal having a predetermined voltage irrespective of the stored data, in response to the sleep tracking signal indicating that the memory cell is in the sleep state. In one aspect, the sleep tracking signal is delayed from a sleep control signal causing the memory cell to operate in the sleep state or the operational state.
US11854580B2
User-generated content is received from multiple user devices, including first content recorded by a first user device during a first time interval and second content recorded by a second user device during a second time interval. If the second time interval immediately precedes, or immediately follows, the first time interval, then at least a portion of the second content may be appended to the first content. For example, if a user ends recording of the first content before an interesting event occurs, then a portion of the second content may be appended to the first content so that the user has a recording including the missed event. The second content may be selected based on a location, and/or a field of view of the second user device during the second time interval being similar to that of the first user device during the first time interval.
US11854578B2
An incident recorder records original and supplemental incident information using a simplified user interface. A lead incident recorder may request any of several support tasks be accepted by other subsystems configured to Follow. Tactical support tasks may be requested. Communication support tasks may be requested. Collection support tasks may be requested. Collection support tasks may include directives for operation of an incident recorder.
US11854576B2
A headset that can detect the voice activity of a user includes an inner microphone generating an inner microphone signal; an outer microphone generating an outer microphone signal, wherein the inner microphone and outer microphone are positioned such that, when the headset is worn by a user, the inner microphone is disposed nearer to the user's head; and a voice-activity detector determining a sign of a phase difference between the inner microphone signal and the outer microphone signal and generating a voice activity detection signal representing a user's voice activity when the sign of the phase difference indicates that the outer microphone received an audio signal after the inner microphone received the audio signal.
US11854565B2
Systems and methods are described to extract desired audio from an apparatus to be worn on a user's wrist. The apparatus includes a wrist wearable device, configured to be worn on the user's wrist. The wrist wearable device includes a first microphone. The first microphone has a first response pattern. The first microphone is coupled to the wrist wearable device. The first microphone is positioned on the wrist wearable device to receive a voice signal from a user when the wrist wearable device is on the user's wrist.
US11854563B2
A method of building a new voice having a new timbre using a timbre vector space includes receiving timbre data filtered using a temporal receptive field. The timbre data is mapped in the timbre vector space. The timbre data is related to a plurality of different voices. Each of the plurality of different voices has respective timbre data in the timbre vector space. The method builds the new timbre using the timbre data of the plurality of different voices using a machine learning system.
US11854560B2
An audio scene encoder for encoding an audio scene, the audio scene having at least two component signals, has: a core encoder for core encoding the at least two component signals, wherein the core encoder is configured to generate a first encoded representation for a first portion of the at least two component signals, and to generate a second encoded representation for a second portion of the at least two component signals, a spatial analyzer for analyzing the audio scene to derive one or more spatial parameters or one or more spatial parameter sets for the second portion; and an output interface for forming the encoded audio scene signal, the encoded audio scene signal having the first encoded representation, the second encoded representation, and the one or more spatial parameters or one or more spatial parameter sets for the second portion.
US11854539B2
Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. In one example process, a speech input is received from a user. In response to determining that the speech input corresponds to a user intent of obtaining information associated with a user experience of the user, one or more parameters referencing a user experience of the user are identified. Metadata associated with the referenced user experience is obtained from an experiential data structure. Based on the metadata, one or more media items associated with the referenced are retrieved based on the metadata. The one or more media items associated with the referenced user experience are output together.
US11854527B2
An electronic device for adjusting a speech output rate (speech rate) of speech output data.
US11854526B2
Provided is an active acoustic control program that can reduce noise in a vehicle interior irrespective of the vehicle type, due to being installed in a device that is easily available to anyone. This active acoustic control program is downloaded using a communicator that transmits and receives data to and from a server, and this program causes a computation process device to execute a process for generating a control signal that causes a canceling sound to be outputted from a speaker provided in an interior of a vehicle in order to reduce noise in the vehicle interior. Said program is provided with an adaptive notch filter that processes a reference signal as an adaptive signal to generate a control signal, and a control filter coefficient update unit that continuously updates a filter coefficient of the adaptive notch filter so that an error signal is minimized.
US11854522B2
A sound absorbing structure includes a panel having a first side and a second side and at least one acoustic scatterer coupled to a first side of the panel. The panel may be at least partially transparent. The at least one acoustic scatterer has an opening and at least one channel. The at least one channel has a channel open end and a channel terminal end with the channel open end being in fluid communication with the opening. The panel may be utilized to separate an interior space from an exterior space.
US11854521B2
In an electronic musical instrument that can output stored lyrics of a song in accordance with operations by a user, a processor determines whether a pedal is on or off, and if the pedal is off, the lyric is advanced in accordance with a user operation of a keyboard, and if the pedal is on, the lyric is not advanced in accordance with a user operation of a keyboard.
US11854513B2
A video input interface receives video data on which a known character is to be drawn. A memory stores reference graphic data describing the known character. A visibility detector checks the visibility of the known character drawn on the video data based on the reference graphic data.
US11854509B2
A display substrate has a display area and a peripheral area. The display substrate includes a plurality of sub-pixels, a plurality of groups of gate scan signal lines, and a plurality of groups of data lines. Each group of gate scan signal lines includes at least one gate scan signal line, each group of data lines includes n data lines, and the plurality of sub-pixels are arranged in an array; and n is greater than or equal to 2. A group of gate scan signal lines is electrically connected to n rows of sub-pixels. A column of sub-pixels is electrically connected to a group of data lines, and includes a plurality of groups of sub-pixels. Each group of sub-pixels includes n sub-pixels. The n sub-pixels are respectively electrically connected to n data lines in the group of data lines to which this column of sub-pixels is electrically connected.
US11854507B2
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a liquid crystal display device for improving an afterimage or flicker, the liquid crystal display device comprising: a display panel where a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines are formed, and including a plurality of pixels; a gate driving unit for applying a gate signal to the plurality of gate lines; a data driving unit for applying a data voltage to the plurality of data lines, and a timing controller for generating a gate driving signal and a data driving signal corresponding to image data, modifying the generated data driving signal such that the polarity of the data voltage is reversed alternately for each per-determined frame unit with respect to the generated data driving signal, applying the generated gate driving signal to the gate driving unit, and applying the modified data driving signal to the data driving unit.
US11854498B2
Display device having a plurality of sub-pixels for displaying odd or even numbered grayscale levels
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a display device includes a display panel which includes sub pixels configured by an upper sub pixel and a lower sub pixel which share a data line and are adjacent to each other; and a data driver which converts only image data corresponding to any one of even-numbered grayscale levels and odd-numbered grayscale levels among 10-bit image data into a data voltage to supply the converted data voltage to the sub pixel, in which when the data driver converts only the even-numbered grayscale levels of image data into the data voltage and the sub pixel displays an X (X is an odd number) grayscale level, the data driver supplies an X−1 grayscale level of data voltage to the upper sub pixel and supplies an X+1 grayscale level of data voltage to the lower sub pixel.
US11854492B1
A data driver includes a buffer module and at least two data processing paths. The buffer module is configured to synchronously output image data corresponding to at least two rows of sub-pixels. Each of the at least two data processing paths is connected to the buffer module and a set of data lines and is configured to synchronously output a data signal corresponding to the image data to the at least two rows of sub-pixels.
US11854491B2
A display driver includes a GRAM, a data driver, and a control circuit. The data driver is configured to: update, in a first mode, display elements of a display panel based on a command provided to the display driver asynchronously with a display vertical sync signal; update, in a second mode, the display elements based on image data stored in the GRAM in synchronization with the display vertical sync signal; and update, in a third mode, the display elements in synchronization with an external vertical sync signal. The control circuit is configured to: switch the display drive to a second mode in response to a first command; adjust, in the second mode, the display vertical sync signal based on an external vertical sync signal; and switch the display driver to the third mode after achieving synchronization of the display vertical sync signal with the external vertical sync signal.
US11854488B1
A pixel driving circuit, a display panel and a display device. The pixel driving circuit includes a driving and compensation sub-circuit; a data writing sub-circuit; and a coupling capacitance. A ratio of a capacitance value of the coupling capacitance to the sum of the capacitance value of the coupling capacitance and the capacitance value of the storage capacitance is configured to be greater than a preset value. The preset value is determined based on the preset maximum luminance fluctuation of the display panel. In the present application, the luminance fluctuation is adjusted by adjusting the correlation relationship between the capacitance value of the coupling capacitance and the capacitance value of the storage capacitance. Thus, a new capacitance configuration is provided, the panel can be adjusted at a capacitance level, and a better display effect is provided.
US11854483B2
The present application discloses a current-driven display device of an internal compensation type in which threshold compensation of a drive transistor is appropriately performed without causing a decrease in display quality or a decrease in yield during manufacturing, and display luminance is improved while a drive voltage is maintained. A pixel circuit 15 in the display device includes first and second drive transistors M1a, M1b, and the gate terminals thereof are connected to each other and connected to a holding capacitor Cs. During the data write period, a voltage of a corresponding data signal line Dj is written to the holding capacitor Cs via the first drive transistor M1a, having been set in a diode connection mode by a threshold compensation transistor M3, to perform data writing accompanied by threshold compensation. During the emission period, a current corresponding to the sum of currents I1, I2 flowing through the first and second drive transistors M1a, M1b in accordance with the holding voltage of the holding capacitor Cs is supplied to an organic EL element OL as a drive current Id.
US11854482B1
A pixel drive circuit, including a data input circuit, a switch circuit, an energy storage circuit and a light-emitting control circuit. The light-emitting control circuit has a control end connected to the data input circuit, an input connected to a first power supply, and an output connected to an anode of a light-emitting device. A cathode of the light-emitting device is connected to a second power supply. The first power supply outputs a low-potential voltage in a reset phase, and outputs a first high-potential voltage in a compensation phase, a writing phase and a light-emitting phase. The second power supply outputs a second high-potential voltage in the reset, compensation and writing phases, and output a low-potential voltage in the light-emitting phase. The switch circuit is switched on in the reset, compensation and light-emitting phases, and is switched off in the writing phase.
US11854479B2
A display apparatus including a plurality of pixel circuit rows, where each pixel circuit row includes a plurality of pixel circuits, and each pixel circuit includes a light emitting component and a driving circuit. A gate voltage generation circuit generates a plurality of scan signals. A first scan signal and a second scan signal respectively control write circuits in driving circuits in a first pixel circuit row and a second pixel circuit row. The write circuit adjusts, based on a data voltage for controlling luminance of a light emitting component, a voltage at one end of a storage capacitor to a first voltage. The first scan signal further controls a reset circuit in a driving circuit in a second pixel circuit row, and the reset circuit resets the voltage at one end of the storage capacitor to a second voltage based on a reference voltage.
US11854475B2
Disclosed herein is a display device for preventing a luminance floatation phenomenon in a low grayscale region. The display device includes a display panel, an external input interface configured to receive an image signal from an external device, and a controller configured to adjust a gamma value when an input frequency of the image signal is less than an output frequency of the display panel and a variable refresh rate (VRR) function for changing the output frequency according to the input frequency is activated and to output the image signal to the display panel based on the adjusted gamma value.
US11854474B2
A display device includes: a display panel including display elements each including a light emitting unit and a drive circuit for driving the light emitting unit, the display elements being arranged in a two-dimensional matrix on a substrate; and a luminance correction unit for correcting luminances of the display elements in display of an image by the display panel by correcting a gradation value of a video signal, in which a partition (60) for guiding stray light from a light emitting unit to an optical sensor (4) provided on the display panel is provided between adjacent light emitting units of the display panel, and the luminance correction unit corrects a gradation value of a video signal associated with each of the display elements on the basis of a gradation value of an uncorrected video signal and a detection result from the optical sensor.
US11854471B2
The present disclosure provides a method for a display driver system and a display driver system. The method comprises: the control circuit transmitting a global signal and a first signal for a LED driver circuit in each stage to a first-stage LED driver circuit, wherein the global signal includes an command for indicating an operation mode of the LED driver circuit in each stage; the LED driver circuit in each stage determining the operation mode corresponding to the command according to the global signal, identifying a corresponding first signal of the LED driver circuit in the stage, and operating according to the determined operation mode and the corresponding first signal; and the LED driver circuit in each stage except for last stage transmitting the global signal to the LED driver circuit in its next stage, and in response to a completion of operation according to the determined operation mode and the corresponding first signal, transmitting the first signal for the LED driver circuit in each of sequential stages to the LED driver circuit in its next stage.
US11854467B2
A gate driver and a display device including the gate driver are discussed. The gate driver in one example includes a shift register configured to control charging and discharging of a Q node and a QB node, and i output buffers sequentially connected to the shift register, where i is a natural number of at least 2. Each output buffer is configured to output a gate signal to a corresponding gate line in response to a voltage of the Q node and a voltage of the QB node. The gate driver further includes a dummy output buffer connected to the last stage of the shift register and configured to output a dummy signal to a dummy line in response to the voltage of the Q node.
US11854464B2
The present disclosure provides a display device and a light-emitting panel. The light-emitting panel includes a plurality of minimal repeating units, the minimal repeating units include a driving chip and a light emitting device, and the driving chip and the light emitting device are electrically connected, wherein the driving chip includes a first driving submodule, a second driving submodule, and a capacitor, and the light emitting device includes a first light emitting device and a second light emitting device. The first driving submodule is electrically connected to a first end of the first light emitting device, and the second driving submodule is electrically connected to a first end of the second light emitting device.
US11854459B2
A method for driving a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit includes a drive transistor. The method includes: acquiring a theoretical threshold voltage of the drive transistor and actual threshold voltages of the drive transistor at a plurality of different gray levels; determining compensation data voltages of the drive transistor at the plurality of different gray levels according to the theoretical threshold voltage of the drive transistor and the actual threshold voltages of the drive transistor at the plurality of different gray levels; and driving the pixel circuit emit light according to the compensation data voltages of the drive transistor at the plurality of different gray levels.
US11854453B2
A display driving circuit includes a clock signal generator which generates a clock signal at a frequency in response to a frequency control signal, a frequency variation determiner which adaptively changes a frequency variation of the clock signal, based on a magnitude of a deviation between the frequency of the clock signal and a target frequency calculated based on a reference clock signal supplied from the outside, and a frequency controller which generates the frequency control signal which updates the frequency of the clock signal, based on the frequency variation, and provides the frequency control signal to the clock signal generator.
US11854445B2
A method for inspecting a display device includes preparing a target substrate comprising sub-pixels in which light-emitting elements are disposed, dividing each of first regions of the sub-pixels into second regions, obtaining a gray value of each of the second regions, generating a random number using the gray value, calculating a representative value of each of the first regions by reflecting variables in the random number, and summing the representative values of the first regions to calculate a number of light-emitting elements of the sub-pixels.
US11854444B2
Provided are a display device and a display method enabling to implement AR with excellent visibility by using a retinal direct drawing display device. The display device includes a display unit that projects a visual information image including visual information onto a retina of a user and displays the visual information in superimposition with a field of view of the user. The display device further includes a visual information control unit that controls displaying of the visual information by the display unit, in which the display unit displays the visual information that is blurred based on situation.
US11854442B2
A cover window includes glass including a folding portion of a folding area, a planar portion, and a boundary portion between the folding portion and the planar portion, the boundary portion having a thickness that gradually becomes greater than a thickness of the folding portion as farther from the folding portion and having inclination with respect to the planar portion, and a filler disposed on a first surface of the glass. The inclination is an acute angle defined when a virtual line which is parallel to the planar portion and meets the folding portion meets the boundary portion, and is less than about 1°. A difference between a refractive index of the filler and a refractive index of the glass is within about 0.07.
US11854437B2
A trading card protection assembly for storing trading cards for autographing includes a plurality of card frames that each receives a trading card to facilitate the trading card to be visible through the card frames. A holding panel is provided that has a receiving slot integrated into the holding panel. A respective one of the card frames is slidable into the receiving slot to facilitate the trading card in the respective card frame to be accessible for being autographed. Additionally, the holding panel has a hole extending through the holding panel to define a grip for gripping by a user to facilitate the trading card in the respective card frame to be autographed. A box is included that has a plurality of card slots for storing the card frames in an upright orientation in the box.
US11854432B1
Systems and methods are provided for processing a group of essays to develop a classifier that detects nonsensical computer-generated essays. A data structure associated with a group of essays is accessed, wherein the group of essays includes nonsensical computer-generated essays and good-faith essays. Both the nonsensical computer-generated essays and the good-faith essays are assigned feature values. The distribution of feature values between the nonsensical computer-generated essays and the good-faith essays is measured. A classifier that detects whether an essay is a nonsensical computer-generated essay is developed, wherein the classifier is developed using the distribution of feature values.
US11854426B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for an apparatus and method for practicing injection techniques through an injectable apparatus. The injectable apparatus may contain a camera that is configured to detect the intensity and color of light attenuated from a testing tool after it is injected into a simulated human or animal body parts. A training tool may be connected to a user display device to generate a display of the injection apparatus as well as the performance parameters of a trainee.
US11854424B2
One aspect of the present disclosure include a method and system for providing an interactive virtual reality simulation for virtual reality training. A headset, controllers, and/or one or more sensors communicate with a processor to display the interactive virtual reality simulation on a user display within the headset. The interactive virtual reality training for use in facilitating virtually reality simulations including a microscope simulation, a bacteria streaking simulation, and/or a visually inspecting containers simulation.
US11854417B2
A method and a system are provided herein for calculating whether or not a specific aerial vehicle at a specified point of time can maneuver over a given location in the terrain while complying with terrain clearance requirements. The system may include a computer memory configured to store a 3D model representing at least a portion of a terrain located in a vicinity of an aerial vehicle; a computer processor configured to map said portion of the terrain into at least two types: a first type indicative of a potential of the aerial vehicle to maneuver over a respective terrain while complying with terrain clearance, and a second type indicative of a non-potential of said aerial vehicle to maneuver over a respective terrain, wherein the mapping is carried out based on said parameters, the 3D model and given predefined performance of the aerial vehicle.
US11854409B2
The invention relates to an electronic device for managing the display of a head-up display system capable of being embarked in a cockpit of an aircraft piloted by at least one pilot and comprising: a display module configured to display a plurality of symbols relative to the operation of the aircraft and its environment in at least two distinct visualization planes, the visualization planes each having a distinct depth along a line of sight from the pilot, a determination module configured to determine a reference visualization plane corresponding to an accommodation plane of the eye of the pilot and a warning module configured to generate a warning to be displayed in the reference visualization plane.
US11854406B2
A control device (900) includes an acquirer (910) that acquires information expressing weather related to a port that is a location at which a landing of an aircraft is scheduled, and a controller (930) that causes an alerter to perform a behavior corresponding to the weather expressed in the acquired information. The alerter performs an alert related to the landing of the aircraft.
US11854400B2
An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided for predicting events in which drivers fail to see curbs while the drivers are maneuvering vehicles. In one example, the apparatus receives vehicle attribute data associated with a first vehicle, map data indicating one or more attributes of a road portion including a first curb, and sensor data indicating an orientation of a first driver within the first vehicle. The apparatus causes a machine learning model to render an output as a function of the vehicle attribute data, the map data, and the sensor data. The output indicates a likelihood of which the first driver will not be able to see the first curb at the road portion when the first driver is maneuvering the first vehicle. The machine learning model is trained to predict the output based on historical data indicating events in which second drivers maneuvered second vehicles to encounter the first curb or one or more second curbs.
US11854392B2
A method for an apparatus operating in a wireless communication network. The method includes: determining at least one functional safety indicator that indicates at least whether associated data, especially V2X data that comprises at least one of a vehicle operating parameter and a roadway event, or industrial data that comprises a machine operating parameter, or building technology data that comprises building operational data, is relevant according to at least one safety integrity level; and transmitting the data along with the at least one determined functional safety indicator.
US11854391B2
The invention provides systems and methods for an Intelligent Road Infrastructure System (IRIS), which facilitates vehicle operations and control for connected automated vehicle highway (CAVH) systems. IRIS systems and methods provide vehicles with individually customized information and real-time control instructions for vehicle to fulfill the driving tasks such as car following, lane changing, and route guidance. IRIS systems and methods also manage transportation operations and management services for both freeways and urban arterials. In some embodiments, the IRIS comprises or consists of one of more of the following physical subsystems: (1) Roadside unit (RSU) network, (2) Traffic Control Unit (TCU) and Traffic Control Center (TCC) network, (3) vehicle onboard unit (OBU), (4) traffic operations centers (TOCs), and (5) cloud information and computing services. The IRIS manages one or more of the following function categories: sensing, transportation behavior prediction and management, planning and decision making, and vehicle control. IRIS is supported by real-time wired and/or wireless communication, power supply networks, and cyber safety and security services.
US11854390B2
The technology relates to detecting and responding to emergency vehicles. This may include using a plurality of microphones to detect a siren noise corresponding to an emergency vehicle and to estimate a bearing of the emergency vehicle. This estimated bearing is compared to map information to identify a portion of roadway on which the emergency vehicle is traveling. In addition, information identifying a set of objects in the vehicle's environment as well as characteristics of those objects is received from a perception system is used to determine whether one of the set of objects corresponds to the emergency vehicle. How to respond to the emergency vehicle is determined based on the estimated bearing and identified road segments and the determination of whether one of the set of objects corresponds to the emergency vehicle. This determined response is then used to control the vehicle in an autonomous driving mode.
US11854389B1
Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for improving traffic safety and efficiency. The system includes various signal transmitters and receivers positioned throughout roadways, within automobiles, in smartphones, or supported by a cellular network backbone, for distributing traffic related information to users and traffic controller equipment. Embodiments of the present disclosure allow for vehicles and/or pedestrians to initiate a dual-transmission of cellular and RF signals for changing a traffic light state, where the first signal received at a traffic intersection controller unit is processed for changing the traffic light state (e.g., changing a light from red to green on-demand). Other embodiments of the present disclosure allow for users to receive visible and/or audible traffic related alerts on mobile devices, where the alerts are based on data shared between nearby drivers, pedestrians, and the traffic controlling equipment.
US11854383B2
A system to predict a startup condition of an auxiliary power unit (APU) of an aircraft includes a machine learning device configured to receive data including sensor data of the aircraft and weather forecast data of a destination airport. The machine learning device is also configured to process the data to generate a prediction regarding the startup condition and to generate a message based on the prediction. The message indicates that an alternate startup procedure of the APU is to be performed after the aircraft has landed at the destination airport to avoid an error condition associated with a primary startup procedure of the APU.
US11854382B2
An Audio/Video (A/V) receiving device includes a Radio Frequency (RF) receiving module configured to receive A/V data from an A/V transmitting device through a first frequency band, an infrared (IR) module configured to receive a power control signal from a remote control device, a wireless receiving module configured to communicate with a wireless transmitting module of the A/V transmitting device through a second frequency band, and a microcomputer configured to turn on power of the A/V receiving device according to the power control signal received from the remote control device and to transmit the power control signal to the wireless transmitting module through the wireless receiving module.
US11854376B2
A doorbell system may project an illumination on a surface. The doorbell may include a housing, a button, a camera, a microphone, a speaker, a motion detector, and a light source. In some embodiments, the doorbell includes at least one lens coupled to a bottom surface of the housing adjacent the light source. The at least one lens may be configured to allow light from the light source to pass through the at least one lens such that when the electronic doorbell is attached to a building the light source projects an illumination onto a ground surface in front of the doorbell.
US11854374B2
An evacuation guidance system is configured from multiple sensor modules, network lines, guidance indicators, and a guidance control device. Each sensor module includes multiple input/output port pairs, fire detection sensors, and a data control unit. The multiple input/output port pairs are connected to input/output port pairs of other sensor modules by means of network lines, thereby configuring a mesh-like autonomous network. The data control unit generates and outputs fire data after adding fire location data; upon receiving fire data, outputs the fire data after adding its own route flag; and stops the output of fire data when the fire data contains its own route flag. Upon identifying the location of the fire outbreak from the fire data, the guidance control device calculates optimum evacuation routes and causes the guidance indicators to turn on/off or flash.
US11854373B2
A system and method for combining the inputs of various sensors used in platforms, primarily those having a military use, having or making use of a number of inputs capable of determining information about an environment in which they are operating. Each input is configured to output a standardized set of information regarding its capabilities and the environment in which it is operating. A correlator is configured to adaptably process the information based on rules contained in at least one changeable correlation matrix and information contained in at least one changeable configuration file. The information, or simply an alert, is provided to at least one output that provides the information to a human operator.
US11854371B1
An emergency alarm activation radio device for preventing false alarms includes a radio being a handheld radio transceiver in wireless communication with a plurality of radio devices. In addition, the radio has a microprocessor containing functions of the radio. An emergency alarm is integrated within the radio for signifying an emergency when actuated. The emergency alarm includes a trigger and a cord protruding out from the trigger and enwrapping a spool for unwinding the cord thus reducing an unintentional engagement with the trigger. The spool is rotatable and a knob rotates the spool when turned by the hand of the user. A handle is attached to the cord of the trigger and is pulled to actuate the trigger.
US11854364B1
An emergency communication assembly includes a housing that is positioned in a pre-determined area such that the housing is accessible to a physically limited user in an emergency. A communication unit is integrated into the housing and the communication unit sequentially calls each of a plurality of emergency contact numbers when the communication unit is actuated until one of the emergency contact numbers answers. In this way the communication unit facilitates the physically limited user to communicate with an individual when the physically limited user is experiencing an emergency. A pull string extends outwardly from the housing and the communication unit is turned on when the pull string is pulled by the physically limited user.
US11854362B2
The present invention relates to a system for wirelessly transmitting and receiving self- powered power-free fixed temperature type fire detection, the system comprising: a self-powered fixed temperature type fire detector operating by the heat generated by fire occurrence and self- powered; a receiver for receiving and monitoring a fire occurrence signal through wireless communication according to the operation of the self-powered fixed temperature type fire detector; and an application part for allowing the signal received from the receiver to be notified in real time, wherein the fire detector is wirelessly installed, self-powered, and maximized in dust and water-resistant efficiencies.
US11854361B2
There is provided a smoke detector including a light source, a reflective surface, a light sensor and a processor. The light sensor receives reflected light when the light source emits light toward the reflective surface, and generates a reference detection signal when there is no smoke. The processor receives the detection signal from the light sensor, and automatically selects a set of predetermined condition thresholds according to a profile of the detection signal to be compared with the detection signal thereby determining whether to generate an alarm according to the comparison result.
US11854354B2
A mobile control unit adapted to move to a plurality of premises, the mobile control unit having a central monitoring system in communication with a facility system of each of the plurality of premises, such that the mobile control unit is adapted to move to one of the plurality of premises when alerted by the facility system of the one of the plurality of premises. A facility management system adapted to manage at least one of the plurality of premises, the facility management system having the mobile control unit and a facility system adapted to monitor each of the plurality of premises. A method of monitoring the plurality of premises using the mobile control unit. A facility management system having a plurality of mobile control units and a main control unit adapted to monitor the location of the plurality of mobile control units. A facility monitoring method having monitoring the location of a plurality of mobile control units from a main control unit; and communicating between the main control unit and the plurality of mobile control units.
US11854350B2
Leaderboard promotions in gaming systems which provide one or more players one or more benefits in association with maintaining one or more designated positions on a leaderboard for a designated duration.
US11854349B2
A gaming system that uses multiple ghost reels to trigger a jackpot feature. During the jackpot feature, a gaming system performs a first spin of a jackpot prize reel that includes multiple jackpot prize symbols. After the first spin, each of the displayed jackpot prize symbol replaces a jackpot symbol displayed on the same line of an adjacent first ghost reel. Afterwards, the gaming system performs a second spin of the jackpot prize reel that generates a second set of displayed jackpot prize symbols. The gaming system then replaces the jackpot symbols of an adjacent second ghost reel according to the displayed jackpot prize symbols located on the same line. If the jackpot prize symbols populated on the ghost reels and the jackpot prize reel produces a same line match, the gaming system awards a jackpot prize corresponding to the matched jackpot prize symbol.
US11854329B2
Systems and methods are provided that can include a doorbell device receiving a request signal to enter a region associated with the doorbell device from a remote control device and, responsive thereto, accessing a list identifying which of a plurality of authorized users are located within the region, identifying one of the plurality of authorized users associated with the remote control device, determining whether the list indicates that the one of the plurality of authorized users is located within the region, and determining whether to transmit a disarm command signal to a control panel device or an activation signal to an access control device based on whether the list indicates that the one of the plurality of authorized users is located within the region, wherein entries on the list can correspond to historical use of the doorbell device or the control panel device to enter and exit the region.
US11854328B2
An access management system includes a mobile device with a processor and a memory and a software platform including at least a processor and a memory. The software platform is configured to analyze data obtained from the mobile device and other devices connected to the software platform. Specifically, the software platform is operable to determine if an access key received, read, or captured by a mobile device matches an access key for an authorized account, object, device, or space for the mobile device, and to provide access to the mobile device if the access key received, read, or captured by the mobile device matches the authorized access key.
US11854322B1
A method comprises transmitting order data to at least one package configured for electronically receiving the order data and accommodating one or more items therein, wherein the at least one package is electronically locked. In the method, an access code for electronically unlocking the at least one package is generated and transmitted to a user device. The method also includes receiving a notification that the at least one package was unlocked, wherein the notification is received in response to electronically unlocking the at least one package with the access code.
US11854315B1
Subject matter disclosed herein may relate to systems, devices and/or processes for extracting one or more features of an electric current coupled to an electric vehicle in response to initiating a charging process at a first charging station, determining one or more performance characteristics of the electric vehicle based, at least in part, on the charging process, determining a charge performance model based, at least in part, on the one or more determined one or more performance characteristics of the electric vehicle and displaying a recommendation for at least a second charging station based, at least in part, on a comparison between one or more features of the at least the second charging station and the charge performance model.
US11854307B2
In the multi-target detection and tracking method, lidar (2D laser scanner) scans point cloud data of surroundings and transfers the collected data to the edge server. Then, the edge server uploads the data to the cloud. After obtaining the lidar data, point clouds of footsteps are extracted through dynamic point extraction, point clustering, and random forest model, respectively. Footsteps are matched to form human tracking trajectory by using trajectory matching. After the tracking process, the walking information is published to the users, in a visual form. Meanwhile, the gait parameters are saved into files, including walking speed and step length, when human is detected. Comparing to the visual sensor based human tracking methods, the present invention employs lidar to avoid the interference of ambient light, which leads to easier implementation and larger universality, especially for multi-target scenarios.
US11854306B1
Fitness action recognition model, method of training model, and method of recognizing fitness action
A model including an information extraction layer that obtains image information of a training object in a depth image; a pixel point positioning layer that performs position estimation on a three-dimensional coordinate of human-body key points, defines a body part of the training object as a body component, and calibrates a three-dimensional coordinate of all human-body key points corresponding to the body component; a feature extraction layer that extracts a key-point position feature, a body moving speed feature, and a key-point moving speed feature for action recognition; a vector dimensionality reduction layer that combines the key-point position feature, the body moving speed feature, and the key-point moving speed feature as a multidimensional feature vector, and performs dimensionality reduction on the multidimensional feature vector; and a feature vector classification layer that classifies the multidimensional feature vector that is performed with dimensionality reduction, to recognize a fitness action of the training object.
US11854295B2
A fingerprint acquisition device comprising, a space for receiving a finger of a user, a light source configured to emit a illumination light illuminating the space, a camera configured to acquire an image of a fingerprint of the finger, when the finger is received in the space, and, a polarization system configured to polarize the illumination light before the illumination light reaches the space and after the illumination light has passed through the space, and to polarize an ambient light emanating from outside the device and propagating towards the camera, before the ambient light reaches the space, and to polarize the ambient light after the ambient light has passed through the space.
US11854285B2
A system to extract data from regions of interest on a document is provided. The system includes a storage device storing an image derived from a document having text information. The system includes a document importer operable to perform optical character recognition to convert image data in the image to machine readable data. The system includes a neural network that identifies at least one region of interest on the image to classify an area of the at least one region of interest as a table. The neural network is operable to take as input the machine readable data and the image and combine both the machine readable data and the image to determine that the classified area is the table.
US11854280B2
A method for 3D object detection is described. The method includes detecting semantic keypoints from monocular images of a video stream capturing a 3D object. The method also includes inferring a 3D bounding box of the 3D object corresponding to the detected semantic vehicle keypoints. The method further includes scoring the inferred 3D bounding box of the 3D object. The method also includes detecting the 3D object according to a final 3D bounding box generated based on the scoring of the inferred 3D bounding box.
US11854278B2
The present disclosure relates to an information processing device and method, and a program that enable processing, related to management of a vehicle, to be performed even in a case where no vehicle registration number is recognizable. Feature information of a vehicle is extracted from a captured image on the basis of a detection result of a number plate of the vehicle in the captured image, and the feature information of the vehicle extracted by the feature extraction unit is registered in a predetermined database. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an information processing device, an image processing device, a communication device, an electronic device, an information processing method, a program, and the like.
US11854276B2
A vehicular driver monitoring system includes an interior camera viewing at least a head region of a driver of a vehicle. Driver information pertaining to the driver of the vehicle is provided to an electronic control unit (ECU). Based at least in part on (i) processing at the ECU of image data captured by the interior camera and/or (ii) the received driver information, the vehicular driver monitoring system estimates a distraction workload of the driver and a driving workload of the driver. At least in part responsive to processing at the ECU of the estimated distraction workload and the estimated driving workload, the vehicular driver monitoring system determines an amount of driver attention. The amount of driver attention is determined at least in part by weighting the driving workload and the distraction workload based at least in part on driving conditions.
US11854272B2
Computerized methods are performable by a driver assistance system while the host vehicle is moving. The driver assistance system includes a camera connectible to a processor. First and second image frames are captured from the field of view of the camera. Corresponding image points of the road are tracked from the first image frame to the second image frame. Image motion between the corresponding image points of the road is processed to detect a hazard in the road. The corresponding image points are determined to be of a moving shadow cast on the road to avoid a false positive detection of a hazard in the road or the corresponding image points are determined not to be of a moving shadow cast on the road to verify detection of a hazard in the road.
US11854271B2
Provided is a system including a record unit for recording identification information of an information terminal and appearance information of a moving object associated with the information terminal in association with each other. The system includes an acquisition unit for acquiring information representing an appearance of a moving object to be notified. The system includes an identification information specification unit for specifying the identification information recorded by the record unit in association with the appearance information matching the information acquired by the acquisition unit.
US11854270B1
A vehicle off-guard monitoring system includes an automobile vehicle having multiple sensor inputs capturing sensor data representing hazards including garage fires, excessive water or flooding, rain, snow, and at least one person loitering proximate to the automobile vehicle. A database has multiple saved images of the hazards. A computer compares the multiple saved images to the sensor data captured by the multiple inputs to identify if at least one match exists between any one of the multiple saved images of the hazards and the sensor data and when the at least one match exists generating a predefined warning signal. A smart-phone application in communication with the computer and a remote system signals the predefined warning signal to a user of the automobile vehicle to mitigate against damage occurring to the automobile vehicle.
US11854267B2
Techniques for a witness report assistant are provided. At least one camera captures at least one image of an incident scene. The incident scene is a location of an incident. A description is of the incident is received from a witness to the incident. The description of the incident includes a generic reference to an element of the incident scene. The description of the incident scene is transcribed to create a textual description. The element of the incident scene within the at least one image of the incident scene is identified. A specific identifier associated with the element of the incident scene is determined. The textual transcript of the description is supplemented with the specific identifier.
US11854262B1
A post-disaster conditions monitoring system. The system may include plurality of aircraft drones configured to take photographic images; a conditions monitoring center having a controller including a device processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions executable by the device processor to perform the following steps: receiving images from the plurality of aircraft drones in a geographic region; determining conditions in the geographic region based on the images received from the plurality of aircraft drones; and sending information regarding the determined conditions to one or more users of the system.
US11854261B2
In one embodiment, a computing system may receive, from a first electronic device associated with a first user, a first request to generate a link associated with an artificial reality application and an action to be performed by the artificial reality application. The computing system may then generate a link to instructions that are executable on an artificial reality device to cause the artificial reality device to launch the artificial reality application and perform the action. The computing system may then receive, from a second electronic device associated with a second user, an indication that the second user activated the link on the second electronic device, and send the instructions associated with the link to an artificial reality device associated with the second user to cause the artificial reality device associated with the second user to launch the artificial reality application and perform the action.
US11854258B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus for training a machine-learned model using satellite imagery and physical river gauge data as ground-truth information. Methods include receiving, from a user in a graphical user interface presented on a user device, a depth request for depth information at a geolocation. At least two satellite images are received, including the geolocation where a difference in respective capture times of each of the satellite images is within a threshold. The satellite images for the geolocation are provided to a machine-learned river gauge model. The machine-learned river gauge model determines depth information for the geolocation utilizing the satellite images, and provides, to the user in the graphical user interface, the depth information at the geolocation.
US11854246B2
A method, apparatus, device and storage medium for recognizing a bill image may include: performing text detection on a bill image, and determining an attribute information set and a relationship information set of each text box of at least two text boxes in the bill image; determining a type of the text box and an associated text box that has a structural relationship with the text box based on the attribute information set and the relationship information set of the text box; and extracting structured bill data of the bill image, based on the type of the text box and the associated text box that has the structural relationship with the text box.
US11854236B2
A fastening tool system for fastening a component part by using a supplied power includes: a camera portion mounted on a fastening tool to photograph a fastening portion of the component part; an image input portion for inputting an image photographed from the camera portion when a distance with the fastening portion measured through a distance measurement sensor is within a predetermined distance; a communication portion for transmitting data by wireless communication; and a fastening portion determining portion that recognizes the fastening portion through machine learning algorithm-based image classification work for an input image of the camera portion and sets a torque value matched with the recognized fastening portion.
US11854233B1
Described is a method for processing image data to determine if a portion of the image data is affected due to sunlight. In some implementations, image data is sent to an image data store and camera parameters are sent to a radiance detection service. The radiance detection service, upon receiving the camera parameters, retrieves the image data, converts the image data to gray-scale and processes the image data based on the camera parameters to determine a radiance value for the camera. The radiance value may be compared to a baseline radiance value to determine if sunlight is represented in the image data. In some implementations, a baseline model may be developed for the camera and used to cancel out any pixels of the image data that are overexposed under normal or baseline conditions. Likewise, a foreground model may be generated to detect any objects in the image data for which corresponding pixel values should not be considered for determining if sunlight is represented in the image data.
US11854231B2
Determining the position and orientation (or “pose”) of an augmented reality device includes capturing an image of a scene having a number of features and extracting descriptors of features of the scene represented in the image. The descriptors are matched to landmarks in a 3D model of the scene to generate sets of matches between the descriptors and the landmarks. Estimated poses are determined from at least some of the sets of matches between the descriptors and the landmarks. Estimated poses having deviations from an observed location measurement that are greater than a threshold value may be eliminated. Features used in the determination of estimated poses may also be weighted by the inverse of the distance between the feature and the device, so that closer features are accorded more weight.
US11854230B2
In one embodiment, a method includes the steps of capturing an image from a camera viewpoint, the image depicting a physical keyboard, detecting one or more shape features of the physical keyboard depicted in the image by comparing pixels of the image to a predetermined shape template, the predetermined shape template representing visual characteristics of spaces between keyboard keys, accessing predetermined shape features of a keyboard model associated with the physical keyboard, and determining a pose of the physical keyboard based on comparisons between (1) the detected one or more shape features of the physical keyboard and (2) projections of the predetermined shape features of the keyboard model toward the camera viewpoint.
US11854227B2
A method for correcting a bending of a flexible device is described. In one aspect, the method includes accessing feature data of a first stereo frame that is generated by stereo optical sensors of the flexible device, the feature data generated based on a visual-inertial odometry (VIO) system of the flexible device, accessing depth map data of the first stereo frame, the depth map data generated based on a depth map system of the flexible device, estimating a pitch-roll bias and a yaw bias based on the features data and the depth map data of the first stereo frame, and generating a second stereo frame after the first stereo frame, the second stereo frame based on the pitch-roll bias and the yaw bias of the first stereo frame.
US11854226B2
An object identification method is disclosed. The method includes training a first neural network for a first set of conditions regarding a first plurality of objects, training a second neural network for a second set of conditions regarding a second plurality of objects, receiving a plurality of target images associated with a target set of conditions in which to identify objects, analyzing the plurality of target images using the first and second neural networks to identify objects in the plurality of target images resulting in object identification information, and selecting the first neural network or the second neural network as a preferred neural network for the target set of conditions based on an analysis of the object identification information.
US11854213B2
An eye tracking system comprises at least one illuminator and at least one image sensor configured to produce an image of an eye of a user, the image including illuminator light reflected from the eye of a user. A Fresnel lens is positioned between the image sensor and the eye of the user, through which the image sensor views the eye. Processing circuitry receives an image from the image sensor, identifies glints in the image, assigns an angular position to each glint based on an angular relationship between each glint and a centre of the Fresnel lens and determines how many glints have the same angular position. Glints are classified as false glints if more than a predetermined number of glints have the same angular position.
US11854196B2
A real time assay monitoring system and method can be used to monitor reagent volume in assays for fluid replenishment control, monitor assays in real-time to obtain quality control information, monitor assays in real-time during development to detect saturation levels that can be used to shorten assay time, and provide assay results before the assay is complete, enabling reflex testing to begin automatically. The monitoring system can include a real time imaging system with a camera and lights to capture images of the assay. The captured images can then be used to monitor and control the quality of the staining process in an assay, provide early assay results, and/or to measure the on-site reagent volume within the assay.
US11854194B2
An image analysis method and an image analysis system are disclosed. The method may include extracting training raw graphic data including at least one first node corresponding to a plurality of histological features of a training tissue slide image, and at least one first edge defined by a relationship between the histological features and generating training graphic data by sampling the first node of the training raw graphic data. The method may also include determining a parameter of a readout function by training a graph neural network (GNN) using the training graphic data and training output data corresponding to the training graphic data, and extracting inference graphic data including at least one second node corresponding to a plurality of histological features of an inference tissue slide image, and at least one second edge decided by a relationship between the histological features of the inference tissue slide image.
US11854188B2
An image is accepted by one or more processing circuits from a user depicting the user's skin. Machine learning models stored in one or more memory circuits are applied to the image to classify acne characteristics. An acne severity grade is provided by the one or more processing circuits and a user interface displays the acne severity grade.
US11854180B2
A non-contact method of characterizing the isostatic strength of a ceramic member or article includes capturing a digital image of the ceramic article, and then forming a two-dimensional representation of the ceramic article and the web therein based on the captured digital image. The method also includes performing finite-element analysis on the two-dimensional representation of the ceramic article using a select amount of simulated isostatic pressure to determine a maximum stress value within the two-dimensional representation of the web. The method further includes using the maximum stress value to characterize the isostatic strength of the ceramic article.
US11854179B2
A camera abnormality detecting device according to an embodiment includes an acquiring section and a notifying section. The acquiring section acquires, from an image photographed by a camera provided in a conveyance body to be capable of photographing an inside of a basket placed on a basket receiving section of the conveyance body, an image of a region where an upper edge of the basket is surmised to be reflected. The notifying section notifies, based on the image acquired by the acquiring section, whether an angle of view of the camera is blocked.
US11854163B2
To improve reading accuracy by enabling a read image to be restored by machine learning while reducing a calculation load in an optical information reading device. An optical information reading device includes: a storage part that stores a structure and a parameter of a neural network generated in advance by machine learning of a plurality of defective images and a plurality of ideal images; a processor that attempts restoration by inputting a read image to the neural network configured using the structure and parameter stored in the storage part and executes decoding processing on the restored read image; and a housing that accommodates a camera, the storage part, and the processor.
US11854162B2
In a method of filtering an image from data received from a CMOS camera, image data is loaded by a computational device from the camera. Camera parameters corresponding to the CMOS camera are loaded. Fixed pattern noise associated with the camera is removed based on the camera parameters. A readout noise estimation based on characteristics of the camera and filtering estimated readout noise from the image data is generated. Sparse filtering: selecting sub-frames within the image that have similar features; applying a three-dimensional transform on the sub-frames transforming the sub-frame data into a non-two-dimensional domain and generating a first transformed data set; filtering noise data from the first transformed data set to generate a first thresholded image data set; and applying a reverse three-dimensional transform on the first thresholded image data set so as to generate an image.
US11854161B2
Various techniques are provided to reduce noise in captured images using frame-to-frame shifts of scene information. In one example, a system includes an imager and a processor. The imager is configured to capture a plurality of image frames comprising scene information. The image frames exhibit frame-to-frame shifts of the scene information caused by a motion pattern associated with the imager. The processor is configured to distinguish noise in the image frames from the frame-to-frame shifts of the scene information. The processor is also configured to update non-uniformity correction terms to reduce the noise. Additional systems and methods are also provided.
US11854158B2
Systems and methods are provided for enhancing a medical image. An initial medical image having an initial field of view is received. An augmented medical image having an expanded field of view is generated using a trained machine learning model. The expanded field of view comprises the initial field of view and an augmentation region. The augmented medical image is output.
US11854155B2
A processing device that causes a virtual-space image to be displayed on a display device mounted on a player's head is provided with a first display processor and a second display processor. The first display processor causes first external information input from outside to be displayed on a specified object included in the virtual-space image when the virtual-space image is being caused to be displayed by the HMD. The second display processor causes second external information that is second external information input from outside and includes a real-space image to be displayed along with the virtual-space image when the virtual-space image is caused to be displayed by the HMD. The virtual-space image is, for example, the virtual-space image of a game, and the real-space image is, for example, an image imaged by an imaging device installed in the surroundings of the player.
US11854149B2
The present disclosure relates to techniques for capturing and displaying partial motion in VAR scenes. VAR scenes can include a plurality of images combined and oriented over any suitable geometry. Although VAR scenes may provide an immersive view of a static scene, current systems do not generally support VAR scenes that include dynamic content (e.g., content that varies over time). Embodiments of the present invention can capture, generate, and/or share VAR scenes. This immersive, yet static, view of the VAR scene lacks dynamic content (e.g., content which varies over time). Embodiments of the present invention can efficiently add dynamic content to the VAR scene, allowing VAR scenes including dynamic content to be uploaded, shared, or otherwise transmitted without prohibitive resource requirements. Dynamic content can be captured by device and combined with a preexisting or simultaneously captured VAR scene, and the dynamic content may be played back upon selection.
US11854144B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose subsurface scattering calculation method for translucent material rendering, which relates to the clipping and polynomial fitting of brute-force Monte Carlo photon tracking experimental results to accurately represent the energy attenuation of subsurface scattering in distance. On this basis, an average free path and a single scattering rate are used to determine the relationship of each term in the multinomial fitting formula so as to facilitate the calculation and adjustment of the reflection profile. In the end, through a new real-time importance sampling solution, the outgoing radiation from any point on the object surface is calculated by the Monte Carlo method. This importance sampling solution is also applicable to any other subsurface scattering calculation model. By combining this subsurface scattering calculation result with other results, such as highlight reflection, any translucent material object can be rendered accurately and efficiently.
US11854141B2
Techniques are disclosed for improving the throughput of ray intersection or visibility queries performed by a ray tracing hardware accelerator. Throughput is improved, for example, by releasing allocated resources before ray visibility query results are reported by the hardware accelerator. The allocated resources are released when the ray visibility query results can be stored in a compressed format outside of the allocated resources. When reporting the ray visibility query results, the results are reconstructed based on the results stored in the compressed format. The compressed format storage can be used for ray visibility queries that return no intersections or terminate on any hit ray visibility query. One or more individual components of allocated resources can also be independently deallocated based on the type of data to be returned and/or results of the ray visibility query.
US11854140B2
The present disclosure describes a system for fast generation of ray traced reflections of virtually augmented objects into a real-world image, specifically on reflective surfaces. The system utilizes a standard raster graphics pipeline.
US11854138B2
Described herein is a technique for modifying a bounding volume hierarchy. The techniques include combining preferred orientations of child nodes of a first bounding box node to generate a first preferred orientation; based on the first preferred orientation, converting one or more child nodes of the first bounding box node into one or more oriented bounding box nodes; combining preferred orientations of child nodes of a second bounding box node to generate a second preferred orientation; and based on the second preferred orientation, maintaining one or more children of the second bounding box node as non-oriented bounding box nodes.
US11854137B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and systems for broadcasting virtual performance. Motion data related to a performer is received from one or more sensors during a physical performance of the performer. The motion data is processed to animate movements of at least one virtual character. A virtual performance corresponding to the physical performance is generated based, at least in part, on the animated movements of the virtual character. The virtual performance is broadcasted to a viewer device for performing a playback of the virtual performance. The virtual performance simulates an experience of viewing the physical performance for the viewer.
US11854129B2
Systems, methods and non-transitory computer readable media for generating visual content consistent with aspects of a visual brand language are provided. An indication of at least one aspect of a visual brand language may be received. Further, an indication of a desired visual content may be received. A new visual content consistent with the visual brand language and corresponding to the desired visual content may be generated based on the indication of the at least one aspect of the visual brand language and the indication of the desired visual content. The new visual content may be provided in a format ready for presentation.
US11854124B2
A method for photoacoustic imaging is performed by measuring RF time samples from transducer elements, and reconstructing an estimated initial pressure image from the measured RF time samples and a pre-calculated forward model matrix. The reconstructing involves minimizing the difference between the pre-calculated forward model matrix applied to the image estimate and the measured RF time samples by implementing a superiorized modified conjugate gradient least squares algorithm to minimize the total variation norm. The model matrix factors each of the transducer elements into sub-wavelength mathematical elements.
US11854122B2
A nuclear medicine (NM) multi-head imaging system is provided that includes a gantry, detector units, and at least one processor. The gantry defines a bore. The detector units are mounted to the gantry and configured to rotate as a group with the gantry around the bore in rotational steps, with each detector unit configured to sweep about a corresponding axis and acquire imaging information while sweeping about the corresponding axis. The at least one processor is coupled to the detector units and configured to determine a region of interest (ROI) of the object to be imaged; determine a sweeping configuration based on the size of the ROI; determine a rotational movement configuration for the gantry using the determined sweeping configuration; and control the gantry and the set of detector units to utilize the determined rotational movement and sweeping configurations during acquisition of imaging information.
US11854114B2
Apparatus and method for seamless container migration for graphics processors and associated devices
Apparatus and method for migrating a container including graphics processor state. One embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a first graphics processor coupled to a first system memory; execution circuitry of the graphics processor to execute graphics operations of processes grouped into a plurality of containers, the execution circuitry to be shared by the plurality of containers; and a first container migration engine to migrate a first container of the plurality of containers to a second graphics processor coupled to a second system memory, the first container migration engine to freeze operation of the first container at a specified execution point defined by a first container state including process-visible state data and driver-visible state data, the first container migration engine to transmit the first container state to a second container migration engine associated with the second graphics processor and second system memory, the second container migration engine to restore the first container to the specified execution point using the process-visible state data and the driver-visible state data.
US11854109B2
A scheduling device performs a method of scheduling transports by a fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles, UAVs, to enable improved utilization of the fleet. The method includes computing, for the fleet, aggregated cost data, ACM, that associates utilization cost with distributed sub-regions within a geographic region, the utilization cost of a respective sub-region representing an estimated cost for directing at least one of the UAVs to the respective sub-region. The method further includes receiving a query indicative of one or more potential locations for pick-up or delivery of a payload, determining, based on the ACM, a transportation price for at least one potential location, and presenting the transportation price for the at least one potential location. The scheduling device thereby provides an interactive ordering system that enables utilization of the fleet to be automatically optimized by swarm intelligence.
US11854106B2
An information processing apparatus includes: an information management unit that registers boarding information on a user regarding boarding acquired by a check-in procedure of the user; and a deadline setting unit that, based on the boarding information, sets a deadline for a procedure of the user up to the boarding.
US11854105B2
A system is described herein that facilitates the easy scheduling and conducting of prison visitations. The system provides a remotely-accessible means for visitors to authenticate themselves, check the availability of those they wish to visit, and schedule a visit with that individual. As part of this process, the system tracks the availability of prison inmates as well as the devices and visit sites that are available to those inmates. In this manner, the system can quickly identify the availability of different inmates in order to provide on-demand scheduling capabilities to potential visitors. The system is connected to multiple facilities as well as public networks, and therefore can be remotely accessed. Additionally, the system also functions to monitor visits while they are in progress, as well as to store visit recordings for future review. Because the system is networked, remote monitors can access the review system in order to monitor visits or review recordings. The system also employs rigorous authentication and other security measures to ensure the safety and security of the visitors, the inmates, the staff, as well as others within the prison facility.
US11854097B2
In general, intelligent fuel dispensers are provided. In at least some implementations, an intelligent fuel dispenser can determine customer identities and/or other characteristics and provide customized fueling sessions based on the determined customer identities and/or other characteristics. In at least some implementations, the fuel dispenser includes a touchless interface allowing customers to complete fueling sessions with minimal physical contact with the fuel dispenser.
US11854093B2
A method comprises generating a graphical user interface including a list of government representatives associated with a geographical indicator of a user, the list of government representatives allowing the user to select multiple government representatives for messaging simultaneously, and a plurality of links, each link of the plurality of links being associated with a corresponding government representative and configured to direct the user to a corresponding profile page of the corresponding government representative when selected. The method further comprises displaying the graphical user interface on a display of a user device associated with the user. The method further comprises receiving a selection of a link of the plurality of links from the user via the graphical user interface. The method further comprises displaying, based on the selection of the link, the corresponding profile page associated with the corresponding government representative.
US11854065B2
For each retailer in the geographic region, an online system predicts a number of orders placed at the retailer and a capacity to fulfill orders during a forecast time period. The capacity of the retailer is predicted based on a number of pickers expected to be available to the retailer during the forecast time period. The online system determines demand for the services of a picker at the retailer based on a comparison of the predicted number of orders and the predicted capacity to fulfill those orders. The online system displays a user interactive map of the geographic region to the picker. The map displays a pin at the location of each retailer in the geographic region, which describes the categorization determined for the retailer. The picker selects a pin, which causes the user interactive map to display a notification characterizing the demand for services at the retailer.
US11854064B2
A system includes one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors to perform: receiving, from a customer device, an online order for a customer, wherein the online order comprises a customer identification for the customer; receiving, from the customer device, a selection of a pick-up time for retrieval at a store; receiving an additional order for the customer; linking the additional order to the online order based on the customer identification; sending instructions to an assembler configured to (1) read identifiers of the online order and the additional order, (2) retrieve the plurality of items and the one or more additional items from a facility, and (3) place the plurality of items and the one or more additional items in a designated location. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11854063B2
Based on orders fulfilled by shoppers of an online concierge system, the online concierge system identifies items in an order that are difficult to find in a warehouse in which the order is fulfilled. When a shopper obtains a difficult to find item from the warehouse, the online concierge system prompts the shopper to provide information for finding the difficult to find item in the warehouse. The online concierge system stores the information for finding the difficult to find item from the shopper in association with the difficult to find item and with the warehouse. Subsequently, when a different shopper is fulfilling an order from the warehouse including the difficult to find item, the online concierge system displays the information for finding the difficult to find item in the warehouse to the different shopper.
US11854058B2
A kiosk for providing footcare product recommendations comprises a base, a foot mat positioned in a recess in the base, a removable cover plate positioned over the recess for covering at least a portion of the foot mat, the cover plate comprising an opening leaving at least a portion of the foot mat uncovered, and one or more spacers located in the recess for positioning the foot mat in the recess.
US11854057B2
Merchandise content is aggregated from numerous merchant sources and presented on computing devices of individual users. Users are able to purchase select individual merchandise items by performing a simplified action, such as a screen tap on a touchscreen device. When the user performs the action, a series of actions are performed programmatically and/or automatically on behalf of the user to initiate and complete the transaction for the selected merchandise item from the merchant source.
US11854050B2
Systems and methods are provided which allow for the management of multiple beacons using a network-connected primary beacon in communication with the multiple beacons. The primary beacon may be in communication with the other beacons in the network using a low power wireless technology, such as Bluetooth® low energy (BLE). The primary beacon may receive updates and content from a server over a network to which the primary beacon is in communication, and then send the received updates and content to the other beacons. Moreover, the other beacons may periodically provide updates or collect information and provide this information to the primary beacon, which can then send the updates or collected information to the server for storage and/or analysis.
US11854043B2
An on-line marketplace provides systems and methods for a mutually beneficial messaging campaign with one or more merchants, in order to promote the merchants' products. One aspect of the messaging campaign includes augmenting the merchants' budgets across multiple commercial channels. The channels may include merchant-operated channels, marketplace-operated channels, and/or third party channels. The marketplace selects when and how to augment the merchants' budgets. The augmented budget comprises an overall content budget for the messaging campaign, including a first budget portion provided by the merchant(s) and a second budget portion provided by the on-line marketplace. The augmented budget may be determined based on a weighted combination of goals of the marketplace and one or more merchants. The augmented budget may be segmented into static and dynamic portions, in which the dynamic portion is varied between channels to determine variables to optimize budget allocation and message performance.
US11854039B2
Described herein are systems and techniques for providing automatic distribution of transaction-related benefits to an account used to conduct a transaction. In certain embodiments, the system receives transaction details from a transaction processing network as transactions are conducted. The system determines an appropriate benefit provider for a transaction conducted from an account and provides a subset of transaction details to that benefit provider. The benefit provider compares the subset of transaction details to a set of limited transaction details received from a resource provider to identify the transaction and determine a benefit amount, if any, for which the transaction qualifies. The benefit provider then provides the benefit amount to the system, which then causes the transaction processing network to credit the account the benefit amount.
US11854034B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for semi-opaque sales with bundles of items. An example bundle can include hotel lodging and a bonus service, status, or item associated with that hotel. An system can identify a first bundle of a first base and bonus item, and a second bundle of a second base and bonus item. The system can present a semi-opaque offer comprising the first bundle, the second bundle, and a discount price, wherein the semi-opaque offer does not identify which of the first bundle and the second bundle will be sold at the discount price to the user upon acceptance of the semi-opaque offer, and wherein the discount price is a full price of the first base item. After receiving acceptance of the semi-opaque offer from the user, the system can disclose that the user has purchased the first bundle at the discount price.
US11854030B2
Methods and apparatus to estimate cardinality across multiple datasets represented using Bloom filter arrays are disclosed. Disclosed examples include processor circuitry to execute and/or instantiate instructions to determine an inclusion-exclusion expression that defines an audience size for a user group of interest. Terms in the inclusion-exclusion expression corresponding to either a first cardinality of a first one of at least three Bloom filter arrays or a second cardinality of a union of two or more of the Bloom filter arrays. Different ones of the Bloom filter arrays representative of different sets of users who accessed media. The at least one processor further to estimate, based on the inclusion-exclusion expression, the audience size of the user group of interest.
US11854019B2
The invention relates to securing of an article against forgery and falsifying of its associated data, and particularly of data relating to its belonging to a specific batch of articles, while allowing offline or online checking of the authenticity of a secured article and conformity of its associated data with respect to that of a genuine article.
US11854014B2
A fraud detection system may identify a suspected fraudulent transaction based on one or more criteria. The transaction may be associated with a user. Based on identifying a suspected fraudulent transaction, the fraud detection system may receive augmented reality data from an augmented reality device of the user. The fraud detection system may determine, based on the augmented reality data, whether the transaction is fraudulent, and may take an action based on the determination.
US11854009B2
A method for pooling and retrieving block rewards in a reward pool including an operator node and a set of member nodes in a distributed network extending a proof-of-space-based blockchain includes: submitting a transaction configured to generate a singleton in a set of singletons, the singleton including: an outer puzzle hash linking the singleton to a singleton puzzle hash; and an inner puzzle hash defining a pool address associated with the reward pool; generating a block including a proof-of-space and a block reward allocated to the singleton puzzle hash; detecting the block reward allocated to the singleton puzzle hash; identifying the singleton linked to the singleton puzzle hash; and submitting a transaction configured to: remove the singleton from the set of singletons; and transfer the block reward from the singleton puzzle hash to the pool address.
US11854005B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are presented for an Embedded Data Transaction Exchange Platform (EDT-X) that generates marker data about relevant data of a transaction, and reliably stores the marker data in a permanent data storage, such as a block chain distributed ledger. The EDT-X platform does not generate the actual information that explains who was involved in the transaction or what the contents of the transaction were, but rather generates marker data that can reliably lead to tracing back to that information. The marker data may be permanently stored in a permanent data storage entity, such as a block chain distributed ledger. The data about the content of the transaction may be anonymously stored in a secure database, and the marker data pointing to the content of the transaction may be retrieved from the block chain distributed ledger to look up where the content data is stored in the secure database.
US11854001B2
A device may determine information that identifies a location of a projectable transaction card. The device may determine that the location of the projectable transaction card is in proximity to a location associated with an account entity. The device may determine navigation information based on determining that the location of the projectable transaction card is in proximity to the location associated with the account entity. The navigation information includes information for navigating from the location of the projectable transaction card to the location associated with the account entity. The device may provide the navigation information for display on a display screen of the projectable transaction card. The navigation information is not provided for display on the display screen of the projectable transaction card prior to the location of the projectable transaction card being in proximity to the location associated with the account entity.
US11854000B1
A computer-implemented method for prepaid card funding for sponsored purchases includes receiving a payment request for funding a sponsored purchase using a payment vehicle, deducting funds from a financial account associated with the payment vehicle, such that the financial account has a negative balance, and loading additional funds into the financial account associated with the payment vehicle, such that the financial account has a zero balance.
US11853992B2
A settlement device includes a packing unit located near a reading unit to pack a commodity, a symbol of which is read by a reading unit, a measuring unit to measure the packed commodity, a light emitting unit, determining means for determining, using data of weight measured, whether the commodity, the symbol of which is read, is packed, and light-emission controller for, if determining that the commodity, the symbol of which is read, is packed, causing the light emitting unit to emit light in a first form and, if determining that the commodity, the symbol of which is read, is not packed, causing the light emitting unit to emit light in a second form.
US11853990B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer-readable media related to providing a point of sale platform. In some embodiment, a point of sale (POS) device may receive information associated with an order and payment information associated with the order. The POS device may generate a first object based at least in part on the information associated with the order and a second object based at least in part on the payment information. The POS device may store the first object and the second object in a queue. The POS device may transmit the first object and the second object to a remote server.
US11853986B2
Systems and methods for secure purchasing are provided in which, at a merchant device, an invoice is generated comprising a remittance amount and a merchant identification. The invoice is associated with an invoice identification. The invoice is transmitted to a remote invoice database. At a consumer device, the invoice identification is received. A request that includes the invoice identification is transmitted to the invoice database. Information about the invoice is received from the invoice database including the remittance amount and merchant identification. The remittance amount, merchant identification, and a prompt to confirm the invoice are displayed. Responsive to receiving approval from the consumer, the invoice is transmitted to a remote account database comprising an account corresponding to the consumer. At a device associated with the remote account database, after receiving the approval of the invoice from the consumer device, the amount of the invoice is remitted to the merchant.
US11853985B2
A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes: receiving, via a client device, a request to configure a resource transfer of a first type; determining a first set of themes associated with resource transfers of the first type; and providing, for display on the client device, a user interface for configuring the resource transfer with theme data for a theme, wherein providing the user interface includes: displaying at least a subset of the first set of themes; receiving, via the client device, a selection of one of the themes of the displayed subset; obtaining an indication of available multimedia content items associated with the selected theme; and graphically presenting user interface elements corresponding to the multimedia content items via the user interface.
US11853981B2
Systems and methods for progressively providing checkout options during a checkout transaction are provided. During a transaction process, a user interface with an options category having a set of checkout options is provided. Requests associated with the checkout options are transmitted, with at least one of the transmitted queries being transmitted to a remote third-party. One or more of the checkout options are identified as a first set of options and others are identified as a second set of options. The user interface is updated to display the first set of options and a selectable UI element prior to display of the second set of options, where all of the second set of options are hidden from display prior to selection of the selectable UI element. The checkout transaction is completable using one of the options from the first set of options without display of the second set of options.
US11853972B1
(#1) Green k-12 Curriculum leads to, job readiness, Green Job Trade Skill, Green Residential Repairs & Small Business Training upon Graduation. (#2) The Green Job Training process includes On the Job Training with Multi Generation Green Jobs, Job Readiness, Green Residential Repairs & Small Business Training upon Certification of completion. The Green Training Process leads to manufacturing jobs such as, (#3) Green outside shower invention for portable use for contractors, beaches & remote regions without adequate water. In addition to manufacturing jobs for (#4) Wind turbine Cover invention that protects birds. As well as (#5) Mobile Exercise Bicycle Rack for Bikers and Marathon Riders. In addition to (#6) Mobile Folding Partition for traveling distance learning coaches and educators.
US11853968B2
The present disclosure is directed toward systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating and providing team-specific collections of collaborative content items. For example, the disclosed systems can determine relationships between teams of user accounts and various collaborative content items. Based on the determined relationships, the disclosed systems can identify which collaborative content items are germane to which teams and can provide the collaborative content items to user accounts accordingly. As part of determining relationships between collaborative content items and user accounts (or teams of user accounts), the disclosed systems can determine various information pertaining to the collaborative content items, including access patterns, sharing patterns, activity information, and geographic information.
US11853966B2
A system and method for Internet-based management of displayed printed media is disclosed. The method and system receive a plurality of data files from a plurality of different sources, each of the plurality of data files comprising information about printed media at a single source, the information includes: a printed media version and a location identifier. Each of the plurality of data files are evaluated to determine that one or more of the plurality of printed media are out-of-date. A metric that identifies each location having the one or more of the plurality of printed media that are out-of-date is generated. An instruction is automatically provided to each location having the one or more of the plurality of printed media that are out-of-date to remove the one or more of the plurality of printed media that are out-of-date.
US11853959B1
Embodiments are disclosed to determine customer's prescription information and their position while waiting in a drive-thru lane. The drive-thru lane may have one or more transmitters installed at predetermined locations. By utilizing an application installed on each customer's mobile computing device, each mobile computing device may transmit customer information and ranging data when within range of one or more of the transmitters. The ranging data may include an indication of a range between each of the customer's mobile computing device and one or more proximate transmitters. By correlating the customer information to prescription information from recently filled and/or called in prescriptions, each customer's prescription order may be retrieved. Furthermore, by analyzing the ranging data, the position of each customer in the drive-thru lane may be determined. A drive-thru computing device is disclosed that may display each customer's position in the drive-thru lane along with their prescription order information.
US11853950B2
A method may include collecting data from a variety of data sources associated with a user. The data sources may include personal data sources, corporate data sources, and public data source. The data collected from the variety of data sources may be enriched through categorization and aggregation. For example, browser history may be categorized based on types of website and aggregated to reflect the quantity of interactions with each category of website. A multi-dimensional digital profile may be generated based on the enriched data. For instance, the digital profile may include a social, emotional, spiritual, environmental, occupational, intellectual, and physical dimension. One or more recommendation corresponding to one or more of a burnout prediction, wellness recommendation, learning plan, skill gap, and personality type may be generated based on the digital profile. Related systems and computer program products are also provided.
US11853944B2
Example methods and systems are directed to a managed inventory. A database may store information regarding items owned by a user. The information regarding an item may include a quantity owned and one or more triggering events. Based on the occurrence of a triggering event, an order for the item may be placed without user intervention. Data to the database may be provided by one or more sensors. Triggering events may be defined in terms of sensor data. The triggering event may be defined by a user or through machine learning. The order may be placed using a predetermined modality or a dynamically-determined modality based on one or more criteria, such as price, shipping speed, and the urgency of the order.
US11853942B2
A method of assigning a space for a ride-share vehicle includes: providing a rideshare parking space management server; providing data corresponding to a parking space available for use by a rideshare vehicle; receiving a request for one of a pick-up or drop-off of a rideshare passenger from one of a passenger device, driver device, autonomous rideshare vehicle, or rideshare server; assigning the parking space to the rideshare vehicle; transmitting with the processor a parking space code corresponding to the assigned parking space to one of a driver device, the autonomous rideshare vehicle, or rideshare server; transmitting the parking space code corresponding to the assigned parking space to a passenger device; displaying the parking space code corresponding to the request for one of a pick-up and drop-off of the rideshare passenger on the passenger device.
US11853935B2
In one embodiment, a method for providing recommendations for workflow alteration is disclosed. Task results for completion of a first set of iterations of a workflow are received. Training data may be extracted from the task results. The training data may be used to build a machine learning model for altering at least a portion of the workflow. An automation forecast that assesses the effects of altering the workflow for a second set of the iterations of the task may be generated, and a workflow alteration recommendation may be provided. Based on automation parameters, such as a minimum required level of accuracy, and the automation forecast, a recommendation regarding whether to automate the task may be included in the workflow alteration recommendation. Finally, based on the recommendation, an automated process may be generated to handle at least a portion of the task.
US11853933B1
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for completing an action requested by a customer are described herein. A requested action is received from the customer. A customer task for completion of the requested action to be performed by the customer is identified. An interaction board is generated that is accessible by the customer and accessible an employee associated with a provider. The interaction board is displayable via a graphical user interface and includes the customer task. An indication is received from the customer that the customer task has been completed prior to a customer interaction. The interaction board is updated to indicate that the customer task has been completed prior to the customer interaction. Information associated with the requested action is received from a customer device during the customer interaction. The interaction board is updated to include the information received from the customer device during the customer interaction.
US11853931B2
A method for staffing a commercial vehicle with a driver includes sending to a server, by a dispatch computing device associated with a job dispatcher, a job order to staff a commercial vehicle with a driver. The method includes receiving, from a driver computing device associated with the driver, an identification of the driver and one or more driver qualifications. The method includes verifying, by the server, the one or more driver qualifications in response to receiving the identification of the driver and the one or more driver qualifications. The method includes receiving, from the driver computing device, a request to be assigned to the job order. The method includes assigning, by the dispatch computing device, the job order to the driver by accepting the request received from the driver computing device.
US11853925B2
An information processing apparatus acquires face image data of a passenger who has disembarked from an aircraft from an image capture device, and acquires identification information corresponding to the face image data acquired from the image capture device from the storage device. In the storage device, the identification information of the passenger, which includes flight information of the passenger, and the face image data of the passenger are stored in association with each other in advance. The information processing apparatus determines, based on the flight information included in the acquired identification information, whether the passenger is a passenger who is to re-board an aircraft after disembarking from the aircraft. If the passenger is a re-boarding passenger, a tour suitable for the passenger is determined based on the acquired identification information, and the information is displayed on the display devices.
US11853923B2
In a general aspect, a cloud-based control platform remotely controls variable settings on a remotely-controlled system. In some aspects, the platform maintains a database of data objects for assets, and the data objects include static and dynamic hyperparameters associated with the asset and a template that specifies values of a variable associated with the asset for future time points. The platform updates a template for a data object by calculating target values for the variable for the future time points based on a target criterion, communicating with remote computer systems to determine current values of the dynamic hyperparameters, calculating scaled values for the future time points by applying a determined ratio to the target values, adjusting the scaled values based on the static hyperparameters, applying an override value to the adjusted scaled values. The remotely-controlled system is updated according to the updated template at each of the future time points.
US11853922B2
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented for warranty tracking and transactions based on usage metrics by use of blockchain. The methods include, for instance: obtaining a usage report of an IoT device in a predefined format. The usage report is recorded in a blockchain network, and a warranty balance, also recorded in the blockchain network, is updated in the amount corresponding to the usage report on the IoT device. A warranty claim is resolved based on records of the usage report and the warranty balance for the IoT device as recorded in the blockchain network.
US11853916B2
A method for determining optimal path arrangements for an infrastructure link between two geographic locations. The method includes modelling a geographic terrain containing the two geographic locations; optimizing an arrangement cost and a repair rate for two or more potential paths based on the modelled geographic terrain, an arrangement cost model, and a repair rate model, taking into account at least two design levels; and determining the optimal path arrangements each including multiple path portions and respective design levels associated with the path portions based on the optimization.
US11853912B1
Described are systems and methods for determining causal connections between various metrics collected by wearable devices and using those causal connections to provide causal insights to other users. For example, some users may elect to perform one or more self-experiments to explore the impact certain changes in their behavior may have on metrics measured by the user's wearable device. Causal connections determined from those experiments may be used to provide causal insights relating to those metrics to other users who have not performed the same or similar experiments.
US11853901B2
Disclosed are a training method of an artificial intelligence (AI) model configured to provide information identifying a recommendation item and a recommended user, and an electronic apparatus for training an AI model. The training method includes obtaining user data and item data; generating a first semantic vector at a first time interval based on the user data; generating a second semantic vector at the first time interval based on the item data; generating a vector that represents a relevance between the first semantic vector and the second semantic vector at the first time interval; storing data corresponding to the generated vector, the first semantic vector, and the second semantic vector; and obtaining an updated weight for the first AI model by training the first AI model based on the stored data.
US11853897B2
Bounding box quantization can reduce the quantity of bits utilized to express numerical values prior to the multiplication of matrices comprised of such numerical values, thereby reducing both memory consumption and processor utilization. Stochastic rounding can provide sufficient precision to enable the storage of weight values in reduced-precision formats without having to separately store weight values in a full-precision format. Alternatively, other rounding mechanisms, such as round to nearest, can be utilized to exchange weight values in reduced-precision formats, while also storing weight values in full-precision formats for subsequent updating. To facilitate conversion, reduced-precision formats such as brain floating-point format can be utilized.
US11853888B2
A processor-implemented method of performing convolution operations in a neural network includes generating a plurality of first sub-bit groups and a plurality of second sub-bit groups, respectively from at least one pixel value of an input feature map and at least one predetermined weight, performing a convolution operation on a first pair that includes a first sub-bit group including a most significant bit (MSB) of the at least one pixel value and a second sub-bit group including an MSB of the at least one predetermined weight, based on the plurality of second sub-bit groups, obtaining a maximum value of a sum of results for convolution operations of remaining pairs excepting the first pair, and based on a result of the convolution operation on the first pair and the maximum value, determining whether to perform the convolution operations of the remaining pairs.
US11853887B2
A method and system for activity classification. A pressure sensor receives input data resulting from physical activity of a subject performing an activity. The input data includes pressure data from at least one pressure sensor, and may include other data acquired through other types of sensors. A deep learning neural network is applied to the input data for identifying the activity. The neural network is trained with reference to training data from a training database. The training data may include empirical data from a database of previous data of corresponding activities, synthesized data prepared from the empirical data or simulated data. The training data may include data from physical activity of the subject being monitored by the system. Different aspects of the neural network may be trained with reference to the training data, and some aspects may be locked or opened depending on the application and the circumstances.
US11853877B2
Whether to train a new neural network model can be determined based on similarity estimates between a sample data set and a plurality of source data sets associated with a plurality of prior-trained neural network models. A cluster among the plurality of prior-trained neural network models can be determined. A set of training data based on the cluster can be determined. The new neural network model can be trained based on the set of training data.
US11853873B2
A method of reducing kernel computations; the method comprising ordering a plurality of kernel channels. A first of the ordered kernel channels is then convolved with input data to produce a convolution output, and it is determined whether to convolve one or more subsequent kernel channels of the ordered kernel channels. Determining whether to convolve subsequent kernel channels comprises considering a potential contribution of at least one of the one or more subsequent kernel channels in combination with the convolution output.
US11853870B2
A manufacturing method for a photonic device includes dividing a target photonic network, which is a photonic network configured for the photonic semiconductor device, into a plurality of sub-photonic networks, forming the plurality of sub-photonic networks on a plurality of photonic chips, and connecting the plurality of sub-photonic networks on the plurality of photonic chips through a coupler to obtain the photonic semiconductor device carrying the target photonic network, wherein the coupler is configured to couple light from one photonic chip to another photonic chip. Compared with the scale of the photonic network of the existing photonic semiconductor device, which is limited due to the footprint limitation of a single chip, the scale of the photonic network of the photonic semiconductor device is increased several times.
US11853869B2
A neural network apparatus that is configured to process an operation includes neural network circuitry configured to receive a first input of an n-bit activation, store a second input of an m-bit weight, perform a determination whether to perform an operation on an ith bit of the first input and a jth bit of the second input, output an operation value of an operation performed on the ith bit of the first input and the jth bit of the second input based on the determination, and produce an operation value of the operation based on the determination.
US11853858B2
Systems and methods are disclosed to implement a chart recommendation system that recommends charts to users during a chart building process. In embodiments, when a new chart is being created, specified features of the chart are provided to a machine learned model such as a self-organizing map. The model will determine a previous chart that is the most similar to the new chart and recommend the previous chart to the user for recreation. In embodiments, newly created charts are added to a library and used to update the model. Charts that are highly popular or authored by expert users may be weighed more heavily during model updates, so that the model will be more influenced by these charts. Advantageously, the disclosed system allows novice users to easily find similar charts created by other users. Additionally, the disclosed system is able to automatically group similar charts without using human-defined classification rules.
US11853856B2
An artificial neural network device that utilizes one or more non-volatile memory arrays as the synapses. The synapses are configured to receive inputs and to generate therefrom outputs. Neurons are configured to receive the outputs. The synapses include a plurality of memory cells, wherein each of the memory cells includes spaced apart source and drain regions formed in a semiconductor substrate with a channel region extending there between, a floating gate disposed over and insulated from a first portion of the channel region and a non-floating gate disposed over and insulated from a second portion of the channel region. Each of the plurality of memory cells is configured to store a weight value corresponding to a number of electrons on the floating gate. The plurality of memory cells are configured to multiply the inputs by the stored weight values to generate the outputs. Various algorithms for tuning the memory cells to contain the correct weight values are disclosed.
US11853852B2
Systems and methods for preventing machine learning models from negatively affecting mobile devices are provided. For example, a mobile device including a camera, memory devices, and one or more processors are provided. In some embodiments, the processors may be configured to provide images captured by the camera to a machine learning model at a first rate. The processors may also be configured to determine whether one or more of the images includes an object. If one or more of the images includes the object, the processors may be further configured to adjust the first rate of providing the images to the machine learning model to a second rate, and in some embodiments, determine whether to adjust the second rate of providing the images to the machine learning model to a third rate based on output received from the machine learning model.
US11853848B2
Systems and techniques that facilitate backend quantum runtimes are provided. In various embodiments, a system can comprise a backend receiver component that can access a computer program provided by a client device, wherein the computer program is configured to indicate a quantum computation. In various aspects, the system can further comprise a backend runtime manager component that can host the computer program by instantiating a backend classical computing resource. In various instances, the backend classical computing resource can orchestrate both classical execution of the computer program and quantum execution of the quantum computation indicated by the computer program.
US11853846B2
A crossbar array includes a number of memory elements. An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is electronically coupled to the vector output register. A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) is electronically coupled to the vector input register. A processor is electronically coupled to the ADC and to the DAC. The processor may be configured to determine whether division of input vector data by output vector data from the crossbar array is within a threshold value, and if not within the threshold value, determine changed data values as between the output vector data and the input vector data, and write the changed data values to the memory elements of the crossbar array.
US11853839B2
Barcode readers with transflective mirrors are disclosed herein. An example barcode reader includes a housing and a window positioned within the housing, an imaging sensor and second imaging sensor positioned within the housing, and a transflective mirror positioned within the housing and in a path of a field-of-view of the imaging sensor. The field-of-view of the imaging sensor passes through the transflective mirror and out the window with the transflective mirror in a transmissive state and the field-of-view of the second imaging sensor is reflected off of the transflective mirror and out the window with the transflective mirror in a reflective state.
US11853838B2
An imaging assembly for capturing at least one object appearing in a field of view (FOV) is provided that includes an image capturing system, a controller operatively coupled to the image capturing system to control operation thereof, and a processor operatively coupled to the controller. The image capturing system is adapted to capture an image having at least one sub-frame and is further adapted to obtain distance information of the object. The processor analyzes the image to determine a brightness value of at least a portion of the image and analyzes the distance information of the object to determine a distance value from the imaging assembly to the object. The processor further determines an illumination characteristic based on the brightness value and the distance value.
US11853836B2
A computer-implemented method includes determining that a group of items left a space together based on RFID exit times and determining that at least one item of the group of items left the space without authorization by evaluating transactions that took place within a first time period before the at least one item left the space. A single investigation file is automatically created that includes the group of items that left the space together.
US11853834B2
The invention relates to an electronic shelf labelling system, wherein the system has a server which is designed to individually address a plurality of shelf labels in order to communicate data with them in an addressed manner, and wherein the system has at least one access point which is connected to the server and is designed for radio communication of the data with the shelf labels, and wherein the system has a near-field communication (NFC) sub-system on a shelf edge strip of a shelf, wherein the NFC sub-system is characterised in such a way that the shelf edge strip has an NFC reader which is designed for radio-based communication with the access point, and in such a way that at least one conductor loop is provided which is connected to the NFC reader, formed along the shelf edge strip and functioning for NFC communication with an NFC-enabled shelf label, wherein at least one NFC-enabled shelf label is attached to the shelf edge strip corresponding to the conductor loop, and wherein the NFC reader is designed for NFC communication of the data with the shelf label addressed by the server.
US11853826B1
An RFID IC may operate at a relatively low clock frequency while impedance matching to an antenna is being tuned to increase the amount of power that the IC can extract from an incident RF wave. A tuning circuit tunes the impedance matching by adjusting a variable impedance coupling the IC and the antenna. The IC may power-up with a low clock frequency or reduce its current clock frequency to a lower clock frequency prior to tuning or during the tuning process, and may increase its clock frequency upon completion of tuning or during the tuning process.
US11853825B2
Systems/techniques that can facilitate video/animated QR codes are provided. In various aspects, a processor can identify a QR code. In various instances, the processor can decompose the QR code into a static fragment and a plurality of dynamic fragments. The static fragment can be a portion of the QR code that contains sufficient information to facilitate an online transaction, whereas the plurality of dynamic fragments can be a plurality of portions of the QR code that collectively contain sufficient information to facilitate an offline transaction. In various instances, the processor can sequentially render a plurality of frames on an electronic display, where each frame depicts the static fragment and a corresponding one of the plurality of dynamic fragments. Accordingly, a point-of-sale device can facilitate an online transaction by scanning one frame rendered by the processor, and/or can facilitate an offline transaction by scanning all frames rendered by the processor.
US11853820B2
A terminal device includes a first application and at least one second application. The at least one second application accesses a service in the first application. The at least one second application sends an access request to the first application through cross-process communication. Because the access request includes an identifier uniquely corresponding to a target service interface of the service, the first application determines the target service interface based on the identifier, and executes a method object corresponding to the target service interface to generate an execution result.
US11853817B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that can leverage a natural language model to determine a most probable candidate sequence of tokens and thereby generate a predicted user activity. In particular, the disclosed systems can tokenize activity event vectors to generate a series of sequential tokens that correspond to recent user activity of one or more user accounts. In addition, the disclosed systems can, for each candidate (e.g., hypothetical) user activity, augment the series of sequential tokens to include a corresponding token. Based on respective probability scores for each of the augmented series of sequential tokens, the disclosed systems can identify as the predicted user activity, a candidate user activity corresponding to one of the augmented series of sequential tokens associated with a highest probability score. Based on the predicted user activity, the disclosed systems can surface one or more suggestions to a client device.
US11853812B2
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided that are configured to processor sensor data using a single component specialized sensor data processing neural network. The single component data processing system is configured to receive input data from a sensor, analyze the input data using a neural network embodied by a single trained sensor data processing component, wherein the single trained sensor data processing component is trained to product output data that approximates a plurality of task-specific transformations performed in a pipeline manner, and produce the output data following transformation of the input data. Additionally, methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for training a single trained sensor data processing component to approximate a plurality of task-specific transformations performed in a pipeline manner.
US11853806B2
A compute server receives a request from a client device that triggers execution of a third-party code piece. The compute server is one of multiple compute servers that are part of a distributed cloud computing network. The third-party code piece is executed at the compute server and causes a value to be read from a distributed key-value store and/or written to the distributed key-value store. A response is generated to the request based at least in part on the executed third-party code piece, and the generated response is transmitted to the client device.
US11853803B2
A workload compliance governor system includes a management system coupled to a computing system. A workload compliance governor subsystem in the computing system receives a workload performance request associated with a workload, exchanges hardware compose communications with the management system to compose hardware components for the workload, and receives back an identification of hardware components. The workload compliance governor subsystem then determines that the identified hardware components satisfy hardware compliance requirements for the workload, and configures the identified hardware components in the computing system based on the software compliance requirements for the workload in order to cause those identified hardware components to provide an operating system and at least one application that operate to perform the workload.
US11853790B2
A system receives a request to process data. The system uses an expression engine to apply one or more expressions to the data to perform one or more application programming interface (API) interactions, which may include one or more of: dynamic resolution of API endpoints, API payload construction, and validation of API payload data fields. The Expressions are predefined entities configured to perform actions involving the system. The system initiates the expression engine. The system executes an initial expression upon initial data to produce an expression result. Executing the initial expression can involve iteratively resolving an ordered set of related expressions.
US11853789B2
In one embodiment, a system includes first host machines implementing a public-cloud computing environment, wherein at least one of the first host machines includes a resource manager that provides a public-cloud resource interface through which one or more public-cloud clients interact with one or more virtual machines, and second host machines implementing a private-cloud computing environment, wherein at least one of the second host machines includes one or more private-cloud virtual machines, wherein at least one of the first host machines further includes a private-cloud VM resource provider through which the resource manager interacts with the private-cloud virtual machines, wherein the VM resource provider translates requests to perform virtual machine operations from a public-cloud-resource interface to a private-cloud virtual machine interface, and the private-cloud virtual machines perform the requested virtual machine operations in response to receiving the translated requests from the VM resource provider.
US11853783B1
Host systems for resuming operation of a virtual compute instance may be identified that support features enabled for the virtual compute instance. Virtual compute instance features may be enabled at runtime prior to a virtual compute instance being stopped. When a virtual compute instance is started again, these features may be used to identify a host system that supports at least these features so that when the virtual compute instance resumes operation on the identified host, the features can be enabled.
US11853781B2
A system and method that provides inter-application relevance management for resources being brokered by an application virtualization platform. A described platform includes a memory configured to store a set of relevance rules for applications hosted by the application virtualization platform, wherein each relevance rule specifies a relevance setting between a first application and a second application. Also included is a processor coupled to the memory and configured to broker resources for the application virtualization platform to avoid conflict between the applications.
US11853777B2
Specifications are input, comprising: a plurality of lanes in an environment for a controlled system; a plurality of lane maneuvers associated with the plurality of lanes; a plurality of lane subconditions associated with the controlled system; and a rule set comprising a plurality of rules, wherein a rule in the rule set specifies a rule condition and a rule action to take when the rule condition is satisfied, wherein the rule condition comprises a corresponding set of lane subconditions, and wherein the rule action comprises a corresponding lane maneuver. The controlled system is automatically navigated dynamically, at least in part by: monitoring the plurality of lane subconditions; evaluating rule conditions associated with the plurality of rules in the rule set to determine one or more rules whose corresponding rule conditions has been met; and executing one or more lane maneuvers that correspond to the one or more determined rules.
US11853774B2
A method and architecture for using dynamically loaded plugins is described herein. The dynamically loaded plugin architecture comprises a parent context and a plugin repository. The parent context may define one or more reusable software components. The plugin repository may store one or more plugins. When a plugin is loaded, a child context may be created dynamically. The child context is associated with the plugin and inherits the one or more reusable software components from the parent context.
US11853758B2
Techniques for decoupled access-execute near-memory processing include examples of first or second circuitry of a near-memory processor receiving instructions that cause the first circuitry to implement system memory access operations to access one or more data chunks and the second circuitry to implement compute operations using the one or more data chunks.
US11853753B1
Techniques are described for identifying resource bottlenecks in decomposing monolithic software applications as part of software modernization processes. An application modernization system constructs a graph model of a software application based on an analysis of application artifacts associated with the software application. The graph model includes nodes representing independent application components, and further includes edges representing identified dependency relationships among the application components. An application modernization system further generates application profile metrics associated with the identified dependencies, and weights derived from the metrics are applied to the nodes and/or the edges of the graph model to generate a weighted graph model that identifies the resource bottlenecks among the application components and the identified dependency relationships. The weighted graph model is transmitted to a computing device for display to a user.
US11853752B2
A method includes identifying a portion of a web application to be migrated from a first to a second web application framework, selecting at least one page element in the portion of the web application that is to be migrated, generating an application chunk for the selected page element as a self-contained web application that utilizes the second web application framework, and replacing a portion of software code of the web application corresponding to the selected page element with chunk definition metadata defining content of the selected page element, dependencies of the selected page element, and triggers for loading the generated application chunk. The method also includes creating an application core comprising a user interface shell configured to load the generated application chunk and one or more other application chunks of the web application responsive to activation of user interface elements of the web application corresponding to the defined triggers.
US11853744B2
Provided is a technique for analyzing connection compatibility between software applications such as OSS. An analysis device 1 includes an acquisition unit 12 that acquires a first source code of a connection source OSS (Open Source Software) application, a second source code of a connection destination OSS application, and a connection plug-in for the connection source OSS application and the connection destination OSS application; a first analysis unit 131 that calculates a first compatibility based on the number of duplicate data formats between an output plug-in of the first source code and an input plug-in of the second source code; a second analysis unit 132 that calculates a second compatibility based on the number of functions and the number of instances included in the connection plug-in; and a third analysis unit 133 that calculates a connection compatibility between the connection source OSS application and the connection destination OSS application using the first compatibility and the second compatibility.
US11853738B2
Techniques for performing an upgrade can include: defining integration points, each associated with a workflow processing point of an upgrade workflow; associating code entities with the integration points; and performing processing that performs the upgrade workflow to upgrade a system, wherein the upgrade includes upgrading a first feature, facility or service of the system from a current version to a new version, wherein the processing further includes: executing code corresponding to workflow processing points of the upgrade workflow, wherein a first workflow processing point of the upgrade workflow is associated with a first of the integration points; and in response to said executing reaching the first workflow processing point corresponding to the first integration point, invoking a first code entity associated with the first integration point, wherein said first code entity performs customized processing in connection with upgrading the first feature, facility or service in the system.
US11853730B2
This application discloses a mini program data binding method and apparatus, a device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The mini program is a program executed in a host application program. The method includes: displaying a mini program production interface including a panel region and an editing region, the panel region being provided with n types of basic user interface (UI) controls, n being a positive integer; obtaining, when receiving a user operation on a selected basic UI control, a program interface of the mini program in the editing region according to the selected basic UI control; obtaining a data source; and when receiving a data binding operation corresponding to a target basic UI control on the program interface of the mini program, binding the target basic UI control with the data source according to the data binding operation, the data source being used for displaying the target basic UI control.
US11853719B1
An exemplary random number generation system leverages the r includes at least one solar power panel of a solar power system, at least one sensor and a random number generator. The sensor senses one or more output parameters (e.g., voltage or current) from the solar power system and provides the sensed parameter to the random number generator, which uses the sensed parameter to generate a number that is truly random (i.e., is not deterministic). As an example, the random number generator may receive multiple samples of the measured parameter and generate a random number based on a difference of the multiple samples. If desired, the random number generator may include an algorithm to remove biasing in the random number.
US11853717B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include systems and methods for accelerating processing based on sparsity for neural network hardware processors. An input manager determines a pair of non-zero values from a pair of data streams in a plurality of pairs of data streams and retrieve the pair of non-zero values from the pair of data streams. A multiplier performs a multiplication operation on the pair of non-zero values and generate a product of the pair of non-zero values. An accumulator manager receives the product of the pair of non-zero values from the multiplier and sends the product of the pair of non-zero values to a corresponding accumulator in a plurality of accumulators.
US11853711B2
A translation pen includes: a pen body; and an image collector, a first processor and a second processor that are disposed in the pen body. The image collector, the first processor and the second processor are arranged in sequence in an extending direction from a pen tip to a pen tail of the pen body, and are sequentially coupled to one another. The image collector is configured to collect an image of a target translation object and transmit the image of the target translation object to the first processor. The first processor is configured to preprocess the image of the target translation object and transmit the preprocessed image to the second processor. The second processor is configured to control the image collector to collect the image of the target translation object and control the first processor to preprocess the image of the target translation object.
US11853707B1
Technologies are provided for determining deficiencies in narrative textual data that may impact decision-making in a decisional context. A candidate text document and a reference corpus of text may be utilized to generate one or more topic models and document-term matrices, and then to determine a corresponding statistical perplexity and probabilistic coherence. Statistical determinations of a degree to which the candidate deviates from the reference normative corpus are determined, in terms of the statistical perplexity and probabilistic coherence of the candidate as compared to the reference. If the difference is statistically significant, a message may be reported to user, such as the author or an auditor of the candidate text document, so that the user has the opportunity to amend the candidate document so as to improve its adequacy for the decisional purposes in the context at hand.
US11853698B2
An example computer-implemented method embodying the disclosed technology comprises digitally storing a plurality of digital objects comprising first type digital objects and second type digital objects, each digital object comprising an electronic digital representation of natural language text, and certain first type digital objects each being associated with exactly one second type digital object; programmatically generating a corpus of digital documents from the plurality of digital objects; programmatically embedding the electronic digital representation of natural language text of each first type digital object not associated with one of the second type digital objects, thereby generating a second set of vectors; programmatically determining, for each of the second set of vectors, a corresponding set of nearest neighbor vectors from the first set of vectors; programmatically generating recommendation data indicating potential new associations between first type digital objects and second type digital objects; and displaying a representation of the recommendation data.
US11853691B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for synchronizing machine vision and audio is executed on a computing device and includes obtaining encounter information of a patient encounter, wherein the encounter information includes machine vision encounter information and audio encounter information. The machine vision encounter information and the audio encounter information are temporally-aligned to produce a temporarily-aligned encounter recording.
US11853686B2
A digital display of an active window is provided. An application, separate from the application providing the digital display, is capable of identifying an artifact in the active window of the digital display without a priori knowledge or an application programming interface to the application providing the digital display. The artifacts may be alpha-numeric artifacts or non-alpha-numeric artifacts. The active window may be examined in multiple dimensions including 2 dimensions, 3 dimensions or more. Alpha-numeric artifacts, once identified, are pre-processed to remove anti-aliasing to allow for processor optical recognition.
US11853685B2
A content string can be identified from a resource file that defines one or more webpages of a web site. The content string can include particular content to be displayed in a webpage. The resource file can indicate a location associated with the particular content relative to other content to be displayed in the webpage. The webpage can be of the one or more webpages and associated with the content string. Key information for the content string can be identified. The key information can be unique relative to other key information associated with other content strings in the one or more resource files. A modified content string can be generated that includes the content, identifier of the resource file, and key information. The one or more resource files can be updated to include the modified content string. The one or more resource files can be transmitted to a receiving device.
US11853684B2
A computing system accesses an image-based document and a text document having text extracted from the image-based document and provides a user interface displaying at least a portion of the image-based document. In response to selection of a text portion of the image-based document, the system determines an occurrence of the text portion within at least a portion of the image-based document and then applies a search model on the text document to identify the same occurrence of the text portion. Once matched, alignment data indicating a relationship between a selected tag and both the text portion of the image-based document and the text portion of the text document is stored.
US11853661B2
Machine assisted systems and methods for enhancing the resolution of an IC thermal profile from a system analysis are described. These systems and methods can use a neural network based predictor, that has been trained to determine a temperature rise across an entire IC. The training of the predictor can include generating a representation of two or more templates identifying different portions of an integrated circuit (IC), each template associated with location parameters to position the template in the IC; performing thermal simulations for each respective template of the IC, each thermal simulation determining an output based on a power pattern of tiles of the respective template, the output indicating a change in temperature of a center tile of the respective template relative to a base temperature of the integrated circuit; and training a neural network. The trained predictor can be used to determine a temperature rise and then can be appended to a system level thermal profile of the IC to generate a detailed thermal profile of the IC.
US11853658B2
The present disclosure provides an information processing apparatus capable of improving the accuracy of solving a problem when an annealing algorithm is executed. An information processing apparatus 1 includes a calculation unit 2 and an arithmetic unit 4. The calculation unit 2 calculates at least one eigenvector of a coupling coefficient matrix including a coupling coefficient indicating a strength of interaction between each of a plurality of binary variables that indicate states of a plurality of respective spins in an Ising model, the coupling coefficient matrix being given in advance in accordance with a problem to be solved by an annealing algorithm. The arithmetic unit 4 executes the annealing algorithm from an initial state set based on the at least one eigenvector.
US11853656B1
Described are techniques for modeling processing performed in a data storage system. Inputs received may include a plurality of workloads each denoting a workload for one of a plurality of storage groups, a plurality of service level objectives each denoting a target level of performance for one of the plurality of storage groups, a plurality of capacities each denoting a storage capacity of one of a plurality of storage tiers, and a plurality of maximum workloads each denoting a maximum workload capability of one of the plurality of storage tiers. Using the inputs, placement of data of the plurality of storage groups on the plurality of storage tiers may be modeled. Output(s) may be generated based on the modeling where the output(s) may include an amount of each of the plurality of storage tiers allocated by modeling to each of the plurality of storage groups.
US11853655B1
A full-scale resistance prediction for ships. More particularly, the invention is directed to full-scale resistance predictions for ships using model scale resistance tests. This process involves the designing of a momentum thickness similarity simulator for a model, to accurately determine a model resistance and ultimately to predict a ship resistance. The simulator modifies the geometry of the model, and its design is optimized to accurately predict the ship resistance. The simulator may be an external device such as a wire ring (trip wire), sand paper, or a Hama strip, or the simulator may be integrally formed on the body of the model.
US11853649B2
Implementations set forth herein relate to an automated assistant that can selectively determine whether to incorporate a verbatim interpretation of portions spoken utterances into an entry field and/or incorporate synonymous content into the entry field. For instance, a user can be accessing an interface that provides an entry field (e.g., address field) for receiving user input. In order to provide input for entry field, the user can select the entry field and/or access a GUI keyboard to initialize an automated assistant for assisting with filling the entry field. Should the user provide a spoken utterance, the user can elect to provide a spoken utterance that embodies the intended input (e.g., an actual address) or a reference to the intended input (e.g., a name). In response to the spoken utterance, the automated assistant can fill the entry field with the intended input without necessitating further input from the user.
US11853645B2
A machine is configured to identify a media file that, when played to a user, is likely to modify an emotional or physical state of the user to or towards a target emotional or physical state. The machine accesses play counts that quantify playbacks of media files for the user. The playbacks may be locally performed or detected by the machine from ambient sound. The machine accesses arousal scores of the media files and determines a distribution of the play counts over the arousal scores. The machine uses one or more relative maxima in the distribution in selecting a target arousal score for the user based on contextual data that describes an activity of the user. The machine selects one or more media files based on the target arousal score. The machine may then cause the selected media file to be played to the user.
US11853634B2
Systems and methods including detachable passive or interactive display that interface with fixed size portable communication or display device providing variable size display capability. Detachable display can comprise compartment for seamlessly accommodating portable communication or display device. Interface between the portable device and the detachable display can be implemented by wired or wireless communication. Detachable display can include weatherproof body, and compartment accommodating portable device can include weatherproof seal protecting the portable device. Detachable display device can include an additional user interface providing functionality of any complexity, from basic on/off and volume control switches to complex interactive menu navigation tools and other controls such as touch pads and biometric sensors. Detachable display device can include data input and output capabilities, such as text, audio and video, to other external devices.
US11853630B1
A printing system includes a digital front end (DFE) system connected to a plurality of printing devices. The DFE system manages printing operations to the plurality of printing devices. The DFE system also includes a printing device connectivity manager to manage connections with the printing devices. Printing connectivity modules are installed at the printing device connectivity manager using application programming interfaces (APIs) that are loaded at the creation of the printing connectivity modules. The APIs allow the printing connectivity modules to interact with the printing devices. The printing connectivity modules can communicate with application modules located at the printing devices.
US11853617B2
A processing device of a memory sub-system is configured to perform a plurality of write operations on a memory device comprising a plurality of memory units; responsive to performing each write operation on a respective first memory unit of the memory device, the processing device is configured to identify a candidate memory unit that has been written to by a at least a threshold fraction of the plurality of write operations performed on the memory device; determine whether a threshold refresh criterion is satisfied; and responsive to determining that the threshold refresh criterion is satisfied, refresh data stored at one or more of the memory units that are proximate to the candidate memory unit.
US11853615B2
In some examples, a data node may provide a file system executed in a user space. The data node may invoke a device check process configured to perform a test for failure of a storage device associated with a target volume by sending a file system level request for obtaining metadata of data stored to the target volume. For instance, the target volume may be a virtual storage volume that represents storage capacity on a network storage. The user-space file system may receive the request for the metadata and may retrieve preconfigured metadata of the target volume that is stored locally in advance of the invoking of the device check process. The preconfigured metadata may be sent to the device check process in response to the request. For example, the preconfigured metadata may at least partially cause the target volume to pass the test.
US11853609B2
Methods, systems, and devices for power mode control in a multi-memory device are described. An apparatus may include a non-volatile memory and a volatile memory. The apparatus may operate the volatile memory in a first power mode and the non-volatile memory in a second power mode. The apparatus may transition the volatile memory from the first power mode to a third power mode based on a power mode command from a host device. The apparatus may transition the non-volatile memory from the second power mode to a fourth power mode that consumes less power than the second power mode irrespective of the command from the host device and based on a quantity of queued commands for the non-volatile memory being less than a threshold quantity.
US11853608B2
An information writing method is applied to an non-volatile dual in-line memory module (NVDIMM), the NVDIMM includes an NVDIMM controller and a non-volatile memory (NVM), and the method includes receiving, by the NVDIMM controller, a sanitize command from a host, where the sanitize command is used to instruct the NVDIMM controller to sanitize data in the NVM using a first write pattern, and the first write pattern is one of at least two patterns of writing information into the NVM, and writing, by the NVDIMM controller, information into the NVM according to the sanitize command.
US11853600B2
A memory module with multiple memory devices includes a buffer system that manages communication between a memory controller and the memory devices. The memory module additionally includes a command input port to receive command and address signals from a controller and, also in support of capacity extensions, a command relay circuit coupled to the command port to convey the commands and addresses from the memory module to another module or modules. Relaying commands and addresses introduces a delay, and the buffer system that manages communication between the memory controller and the memory devices can be configured to time data communication to account for that delay.
US11853599B2
A memory system includes a non-volatile memory and a controller that includes a first memory and is configured to write log data to the first memory, including a history of commands for controlling the memory system. An information processing system includes the memory system and an information processing device configured to store an expected value and to transmit a signal that instructs the memory system to stop when a value of the log data transmitted from the memory system does not match the expected value. The expected value and the transmitted value are determined based on the log data of the memory system.
US11853595B2
A stream set classification process may be implemented to classify streams opened by a host device on a data storage device. The data storage device may internally classify the streams into different stream classifications using a set of performance metrics. Stream classifications that cause the data storage device to show the greatest gains when compared with a set of baseline performance metrics for the data storage device and/or when compared with other stream classifications, may be selected by the data storage device and/or the host device for subsequent write operations.
US11853594B2
A neural network computing chip includes a translation circuit and a computing circuit. After input data is processed by the translation circuit, a value of each element of the data input into the computing circuit is not a negative number, thereby meeting a value limitation condition imposed by the computing circuit on the input data.
US11853589B2
Systems and methods are described for performing persistent inflight tracking of operations (Ops) within a cross-site storage solution. According to one embodiment, a method comprises maintaining state information regarding a data synchronous replication status for a first storage object of a primary storage cluster and a second storage object of a secondary storage cluster. The method includes performing persistent inflight tracking of I/O operations with a first Op log of the primary storage cluster and a second Op log of the secondary storage cluster, establishing and comparing Op ranges for the first and second Op logs, and determining a relation between the Op range of the first Op log and the Op range of the second Op log to prevent divergence of Ops in the first and second Op logs and to support parallel split of the Ops.
US11853582B2
A first node receives a read request, determines a storage drive location where data corresponding to one or more logical addresses designated in the read request is stored, and requests transfer of the data at the one or more logical addresses, from the second node, when the storage drive location is the second node. The second node reads a data chunk containing the data designated by the one or more logical addresses, from one or more storage drives, determines whether to decompress the data chunk based on the size of the data chunk and the size of the one or more logical addresses, decompresses the data chunk based on the determination as to decompress the data chunk, extracts data at the one or more logical addresses, and transfers the extracted data to the first node.
US11853581B2
A request to restore a plurality of files to a first storage system from a backup stored at a second storage system is received. Corresponding file relocation metadata for each of the plurality of files is provided to the first storage system. The corresponding file relocation metadata for each of the plurality of files enables accessibility of contents of the plurality of files at the first storage system without storing entire contents of the plurality of files at the first storage system. A corresponding full content version for at least one of the plurality of files that is to be utilized by the first storage system is provided to enable direct access at the first storage system to contents of the at least one of the plurality of files instead of utilizing corresponding file relocation metadata for the at least one of the plurality of files to access the contents of the at least one of the plurality of files.
US11853575B1
A method and system for data consistency across failure and recovery of infrastructure. In one embodiment of the method, copies of first data blocks stored in a source memory are sent to a target site via a data link. While sending one or more of the copies of the first data blocks to the target site, source hashes for second data blocks stored in the source memory are calculated, wherein the first data blocks are distinct from the second data blocks. While sending one or more of the copies of the first data blocks to the target site, target hashes of data blocks stored in a target memory of the target site are received. While sending one or more of the copies of the first data blocks to the target site, the source hashes are compared with the target hashes, respectively. After sending the first data blocks to the target site via the data link, copies of only those second data blocks are sent to the target site with source hashes that do not compare equally with respective target hashes.
US11853567B2
A memory controller accesses a memory page in a memory block of a storage memory array of a memory device. The memory controller reads memory data stored in the accessed memory page. The memory controller determines a number of error bits associated with the memory data. The memory controller obtains an erase count corresponding to the accessed memory page, the erase count indicating a number of erase operations performed on the accessed memory page. The memory controller determines, from among one or more error threshold values, an error threshold value based at least on the erase count. The memory controller determines a relationship between the number of error bits and the error threshold value. The memory controller triggers a data refresh for the accessed memory block if the relationship between the number of error bits and the error threshold value satisfy a known criterion.
US11853565B2
A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device. The controller is configured to allocate two or more zones to a first superblock of a plurality of superblocks. The controller is further configured to allocate a zone to a second superblock, where the second superblock only stores data of the zone. The first superblock has a first priority and the second superblock has a second priority, where the second priority is greater than the first priority. Data is moved from the first superblock to another superblock dedicated for a single zone after the first superblock is closed.
US11853562B1
A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device. The controller is configured to program key value (KV) pair data to the memory device, where the KV pair data includes a key and a value, analyze the key, and generate metadata based on the analyzing. The controller is further configured to generate a metadata index for a plurality of KV pair data, where the metadata index value corresponds to a similarity or a difference between a first key and a second key, and cluster generated metadata based on the metadata index. The controller is further configured to receive a read command for the KV pair data, analyze the generated metadata of the KV pair data, generate a predicted next key, and use read look ahead (RLA) to read a predicted next KV pair data based on the predicted next key.
US11853558B2
Apparatuses and methods can be related power down workload estimations using artificial neural networks. Workload estimation can include predicting a duration of a subsequent power down event of the memory device. A quantity of maintenance operations to be performed on the memory device, may be predicted based on the predicted duration of the subsequent power down event, when the memory device is powered on after the subsequent power down event using an artificial neural network. The quantity of maintenance operations may be performed on the memory device prior to the subsequent power down event of the memory device.
US11853554B2
A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device. The controller is configured to receive a deallocation command corresponding to a plurality of deallocation requests, where each of the plurality of deallocation requests corresponds to a logical block address (LBA) range, determine that at least one of the plurality of deallocation requests is an unaligned deallocation request, generate a tag for metadata for the unaligned deallocation request, wherein the tag for the metadata includes a direction bit and a length bit, concatenate the metadata including the tag to an LBA range of the unaligned deallocation request, and complete the deallocation command using the metadata including the tag. Aligned deallocation requests are stored in a buffer. The concatenated unaligned deallocation requests are completed prior to completing the aligned deallocation requests from the buffer.
US11853549B2
The present application provides a data storage method, a data storage apparatus and a storage system, wherein the method includes: determining a data type of to-be-stored data when the to-be-stored data is obtained (S410); determining a target storage area with a data type same as that of the to-be-stored data based on the data type of data stored in each storage area in the SMR disk (S420); determining in the target storage area a target storage block into which the to-be-stored data is to be written (S430); generating the main index information and backup index information of the to-be-stored data based on the identifier of the target storage block (S440); generating the database index information of the to-be-stored data based on the to-be-stored data and the identifier of the target storage block (S450); and writing the to-be-stored data and the backup index information of the to-be-stored data into the target storage block, writing the main index information of the to-be-stored data into the CMR area or the non-SMR disk, and writing the database index information of the to-be-stored data into the non-SMR.
US11853539B2
Visualizable data (Din) are obtained that represent a scene (S) with at least one object (110, 120, 130). The visualizable data (Din) describe the scene (S) as seen from a position (P). First and second measures (L1; L2) are determined, which represent extensions of one of the objects (110) in a smallest and a largest dimension respectively. An object aspect ratio (R) is calculated that represents a relationship between the first and second measures (L1; L2). Based on the object aspect ratio (R), a selection margin (M) is assigned to the object (110). The selection margin designates a zone outside of the object (110) within which zone the object (110) is validly selectable for manipulation in addition to an area (A11) of the object (110) shown towards a view (V) thereof as seen from the position (P). Thus, it is made easier to manipulatable the visualizable data (Din) in response to user input, for instance in the form of gaze-based selection commands.
US11853532B2
Systems and methods for generating feedback for a webpage based on visual interactions on the webpage are provided. In example embodiments, a user interface (UI) displaying the webpage is presented. The system receives an indication of a selection of an edit trigger and configures the webpage to receive feedback (e.g., one or more user inputs applied to webpage) from the user in response. The user inputs are received, whereby each user input is associated with an identifier of the webpage and coordinates of a location within the webpage. The system processes the user inputs including generating a feedback preview that displays each of the user inputs organized based on a corresponding feedback type. The feedback preview is displayed to the user for approval. Approval of at least a portion of the feedback on the feedback preview will cause the approved feedback to be transmitted to a corresponding entity.
US11853527B2
While displaying a first view of a three-dimensional environment corresponding to a first viewpoint, a computer system detects user inputs specifying a navigation target in the three-dimensional environment and triggering a navigation operation toward the navigation target. The computer system displays an updated view of the three-dimensional environment corresponding to a second viewpoint closer to the navigation target than the first viewpoint, but the second viewpoint is spaced apart from the navigation target and the second viewpoint is selected in accordance with a predefined characteristic of the navigation target in conjunction with the respective position of the navigation target.
US11853518B2
A multipoint touch surface controller is disclosed herein. The controller includes an integrated circuit including output circuitry for driving a capacitive multi-touch sensor and input circuitry for reading the sensor. Also disclosed herein are various noise rejection and dynamic range enhancement techniques that permit the controller to be used with various sensors in various conditions without reconfiguring hardware.
US11853509B1
One example provides a computing device comprising a touch sensor, a camera, a logic subsystem, and a storage subsystem. The storage subsystem comprises instructions executable by the logic subsystem to receive image data from the camera; determine, based on the image data, information regarding one or more of a hand of a user or a stylus held by the user; and based at least on the information regarding one or more of the hand of the user or the stylus held by the user, control operation of the touch sensor.
US11853500B2
A touch substrate includes: a substrate, which includes a touch area and a bonding area on one side of the touch area; and a plurality of pads on the substrate, wherein the plurality of pads are arranged in the bonding area at intervals, wherein the pad includes a first metal layer, a first organic layer and a second metal layer, arranged in this order on the substrate, a first via is formed in the first metal layer, a second via is formed in the first organic layer, an orthographic projection of the first via on the substrate and an orthographic projection of the second via on the substrate do not overlap, a part of the first organic layer is in the first via, and a part of the second metal layer is in contact with the first metal layer through the second via.
US11853499B2
A display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate disposed on the first substrate, a coupling member disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate to couple the first substrate and the second substrate, a plurality of sensing patterns disposed on the second substrate, a plurality of sensing pads disposed on the second substrate and electrically connected to the sensing patterns, respectively, a plurality of protruding portions disposed on the second substrate and extending from the sensing pads, respectively, to an edge of the second substrate, and a light shielding part disposed between the edge of the second substrate and the sensing pads to overlap at least a portion of the coupling member.
US11853491B1
A touch display device (TDD) configured to function with a pointing device (PD), and a method of operating the TDD. The TDD has a processor that automatically determines if the PD is in contact with a touch display (TD) of the TDD or with a surface distinct from the TD. When the PD is in contact with the TD, a toggling signal from the PD may be received at the processor to toggle from a first input mode where a tip of the PD overlaps a visual element displayed on the TD, to a second input mode with the tip of the PD is spaced apart from the displayed visual element. When the PD is in contact with the distinct surface, the processor automatically selects a third input mode where a position of the PD on the distinct surface is reproduced as a position the sign on the TD.
US11853486B2
A stylus includes a processor that acquires first coordinate values in a pen coordinate system at an occurrence position of a pen event detected by a pen sensor and acquires second coordinate values in a device coordinate system at the occurrence position of the pen event. The processor uses a plurality of sets of coordinate value pairs to determine conversion parameters for converting coordinates from the pen coordinate system into the device coordinate system and uses the determined conversion parameters and a measured amount of movement of the stylus to calculate coordinate values of the stylus in the device coordinate system.
US11853484B2
A highly reliable waterproof electronic pen includes a board holder in a board housing including a recessed portion having an opening over a lower surface of the recessed portion. A circuit board is housed in the recessed portion of the board housing. Circuit components easily affected by heat are installed on a first surface of the circuit board, and circuit components not easily affected by heat are installed on a second surface of the circuit board. A thermosetting resin formed over the second surface of the circuit board when the circuit board is housed in the recessed portion seals the opening over the lower surface of the recessed portion of the board housing.
US11853470B2
A first avatar in a VR room can show a clickable image on its outer surface. Or it can wear a sandwich board showing clickable images. When a second avatar gets close to the first avatar, it can click the image, taking the second avatar to another room. The first avatar defines an off ramp from the first room, outside the control of the first room. An avatar can sing a link to another room. A listening avatar can decode the song and download the link and pick it, to go to the other room. A clickable link on an avatar can take both avatars to the same destination.
US11853464B2
A storage device includes a storage and a controller configured to execute control of the storage based on a command from a host device. The controller is configured to generate a verifier of data stored in the storage in response to a first command related to the data from the host device, and transmit the verifier of the data to the host device in response to a second command related to the data from the host device.
US11853457B2
The disclosure relates to a computed-implemented method, a computer program, and a computer system for selectively verifying personal data. The method comprises receiving, by an identity application of a client device, personal data of a user. The method further comprises computing, via a cryptographic hash function, one or more cryptographic hashes from elements of the personal data. The method further comprises storing the cryptographic hashes, an internal identifier and a timestamp as an entry in a distributed database. The internal identifier is unique within the distributed database. The method further comprises receiving a user request from the user. The method further comprises selecting one or more of the elements of personal data for verification. The method further comprises requesting verification of the selected elements of personal data. The method further comprises determining an authorization indication in response to the verification request. When the authorization indication indicates that the verification request has been allowed, the method further comprises verifying the selected elements of personal data using cryptographic hashes from the entry in the distributed database.
US11853456B1
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing a central location to manage permissions provided to third-parties and devices to access and use user data and to manage accounts at multiple entities. A central portal may allow a user to manage all access to account data and personal information as well as usability and functionality of accounts. The user need not log into multiple third-party systems or customer devices to manage previously provided access to the information, provision new access to the information, and to manage financial or other accounts. A user is able to have user data and third-party accounts of the user deleted from devices, applications, and third-party systems via a central portal. The user is able to impose restrictions on how user data is used by devices, applications, and third-party systems, and control such features as recurring payments and use of rewards, via a central portal.
US11853451B2
A method for providing and searching a searchable encrypted database. The system obtains plain text data and first and second encryption keys. The plain text data is parsed using a priori knowledge of the plain text data structure to identify data blocks and associated metadata components. The data blocks are encrypted using the first encryption key to provide encrypted data blocks. The metadata components are encrypted with the second encryption key to provide encrypted metadata components. The encrypted data blocks and encrypted metadata components are stored in a storage vault to provide a searchable encrypted database whilst discarding the plain text data and the first encryption key. A search term is encrypted with the second encryption key to provide an encrypted search term used to search the searchable encrypted database to determine whether it matches one or more of the encrypted metadata components, and a search result is returned.
US11853447B2
A media playback system for presenting to a user a composition of a plurality of media streams. It has a media selection component configured to receive a scenario dataset, to receive user input for selecting viewing times defining segments of media and composition selections, and to output a list of segments of media from the scenario dataset that are authorized to be viewed by the user. The system has a playback control component configured to retrieve from media storage at least the segments of media from the output list of segments, to decode the segments of media, and to compile composition instructions. The system has a media playback component configured to receive the rendered media and the composition instructions.
US11853445B2
In one embodiment, data at rest is securely stored. A data safe performing data plane processing operations in response to requests of received read data requests, received write data requests, and received read information responses, with the data safe being immutable to processing-related modifications resulting from said performing data plane processing operations. Performing these data plane processing operations does not expose any pilot keys outside the data safe in plaintext form nor in encrypted form. The pilot keys are used to encrypt information that is subsequently stored in a storage system. In one embodiment, the information encrypted and decrypted by the data safe includes data structure instances including feature-preserving encrypted entries generated using feature-preserving encryption on corresponding plaintext data items. In one embodiment, a data vault performs queries on the data structure instances including feature-preserving encrypted entries after retrieval from storage and decryption by the data safe.
US11853444B2
Embodiments described herein relate to a method for managing file based backups (FBBs). The method may include obtaining a FBB mount request for a FBB mount of a FBB from an application, wherein the application is executing in a production host environment and the FBB is stored on backup storage; in response to the FBB mount request: capturing an entity context associated with the application; authenticating the entity context; obtaining, when the authenticating is successful, access control information corresponding to the FBB from the backup storage; determining a subset of the FBB for which the access control information indicates the entity context has permission to access; and enabling access to a portion of the FBB by the application.
US11853432B2
Methods and systems for assessing a vulnerability of a network device. The systems and methods described herein combine data regarding locally discovered vulnerabilities and exposed services with data regarding what executables are provided by software installed on the network device.
US11853431B2
Exemplary embodiments may use word embeddings to enhance scanning of programming code scripts for sensitive subject matter, such as confidential subject matter. The scanning may be performed by a neural network in some exemplary embodiments. The neural network initially may be trained on a corpus of programming code scripts to identify keywords relating to sensitive subject matter, such as passwords, tokens or credentials. The neural network may not only identify instances of the keywords but also may identify related terms as well. The output of the scan may be a ranked list of terms in the programming code script that may relate to sensitive subject matter.
US11853429B2
In various examples there is a computing device comprising: a first microcontroller comprising a first immutable bootloader and first mutable firmware. The first immutable bootloader uses a unique device secret burnt into hardware of the computing device in order to generate an attestation of the first mutable firmware. The computing device has a second microcontroller. There is second mutable firmware at the second microcontroller. There is a second immutable bootloader at the second microcontroller which sends a measurement of the second mutable firmware to the first immutable bootloader whenever the second microcontroller restarts, such that the first microcontroller is able to include the measurement in the attestation.
US11853422B2
Embodiments detect malicious code in distributed software components. A detector element references a source code repository (e.g., open source, commercial) containing lines of various files of a distributed artifact. Subject to certain possible optimizations, the detector inspects the individual files and lines of the artifact file-by-file and line-by-line, to identify whether any commit history information is available from a Versioning Control System (VCS). A risk assessor element receives from the detector element, results identifying those lines and/or files for which no VCS commit history is available. The risk assessor then references code features (e.g., file extension, security-critical API calls) in the results, to generate a probability of the malicious nature of the source code lacking VCS commit history information. An analysis report including this probability and additional relevant information, is offered to a user to conduct further manual review (e.g., to detect false positives attributable to benign/legitimate source code modification).
US11853418B2
A system and method for detecting and preventing cyberintrusion of a protected system incorporates neural networks having a training mode and a host-accessible (e.g., non-training) mode. When in training mode, the neural networks observe data exchanges with a protected system via interfaces (based on test inputs) and generate system templates corresponding to observed normal behaviors of the interfaces (including “gold standard” behavior indicative of optimal performance behaviors and/or minimal threat of cyberintrusion). When in host-accessible mode, the neural networks observe operating behaviors of the interfaces for each exchange via the interfaces and apply stored system templates to the system data to most closely approximate the optimal behavior set. If the divergence between the best-fit system template and the applied best-fit system template is sufficient to indicate anomalous behavior and a potential risk of cyberintrusion or cyberattack, an event monitor takes corrective action to prevent a cyberintrusion.
US11853416B2
A system for remotely managing a medical device includes a selective shielding component, configured to (a) shield with an electronic key any portion of device information that identifies the medical device individually while maintaining unshielded with the electronic key an association between such any portion and a rest of the device information and/or (b) shield with an electronic key any portion of device information that identifies the patient individually while maintaining unshielded with the electronic key an association between such any portion and a rest of the device information, and record the selectively shielded device information; a first communication component configured to facilitate transmitting the selectively shielded device information through a network; and a server device communicatively coupled to the network and configured to use the selectively shielded device information to generate reports about the device information, and the clinical event information, but wherein the server device lacks access to the electronic key.
US11853414B2
Trampoline and return-oriented programming attacks employ a variety of techniques to maliciously execute instructions on a device in a manner different from a legitimate programmer's original intent. By instrumenting a device to detect deviations from predicted behavior, these exploits can be identified and mitigated.
US11853410B2
A control device and control method prevent an unnecessary authentication process from being executed. The control device includes a control section configured to perform an authentication process of authenticating another device by using information obtained through communication with the other device. In the case where a predetermined condition is satisfied, the control section performs control in such a manner that the authentication process is not performed.
US11853407B2
Tracking, identifying and article management systems and methods for reliably and repeatedly determining one or more physically uncopiable attribute instances (of the same or varying types) from or inherent in an article of manufacture, using the selected physical uncopiable attribute(s) to produce an unforgeable identity for the article, and then integrating that unforgeable identity into computer-based tracking systems in a way that permits the tracking system to track and monitor articles for which identity information is known. Applications include documents, fashion accessories, artwork, and other objects.
US11853406B2
A system receives an image including a live facial image of the user and an identity document including a photograph of the user. Moreover, the system calculates a facial match score by comparing facial features in the live facial image to facial features in the photograph. The system recognizes data objects and characters in the identity document using optical character recognition (OCR) and computer vision, and then identifies, based on the recognized data objects and characters, a type of the identity document. Further, the system calculates a document validity score by comparing the recognized characters and data objects to character strings and data objects known to be present in the identified type of the identity document. Additionally, the system determines and outputs the user's identity verification status based on comparing the facial match score to a facial match threshold and comparing the document validity score to a document validity threshold.
US11853387B2
A data sparse projection method, includes: randomly initializing a high-dimensional sparse two-dimensional matrix (S1); fixing the high-dimensional sparse two-dimensional matrix, and calculating an optimal output variable by using the high-dimensional sparse two-dimensional matrix (S2); fixing the optimal output variable, and calculating an optimal high-dimensional sparse two-dimensional matrix by using the optimal output variable (S3); and cyclically fixing the high-dimensional sparse two-dimensional matrix and the output variable until the optimal output variable is no longer increased when the high-dimensional sparse two-dimensional matrix is fixed (S4). The high-dimensional sparse two-dimensional matrix is optimized continuously in a randomization and iteration manner, so that the high-dimensional sparse two-dimensional matrix is more stable, similarity features of original data are protected better, and the sparsity and binarity of the method allows the method to have a faster calculation speed in practical application.
US11853386B1
The invention relates to a method for rapidly calculating a three-dimensional polarimetric dimension, including: determining that an incident light field is a coherence matrix of a partially coherent Schell-model beam, and decomposing the coherence matrix into a form of multiplying an incident electric field by a coherence structure matrix of the incident light field; obtaining an electric field near a focal field after the incident electric field passes through a tight focusing system according to the vector diffraction theory, and describing a second-order correlation characteristic of a partially coherent vector beam near a tightly focused field by using a coherence matrix; obtaining a tightly focused polarization matrix based on the tightly focused coherence matrix; and rotating the tightly focused polarization matrix into an intrinsic coordinate frame of the tightly focused polarization matrix, and calculating a three-dimensional polarimetric dimension of the partially coherent Schell-model beam in the tightly focused field.
US11853356B1
This invention relates to a System and Method for generating Primary Output and a Secondary Output programmatically. The method may include extracting a transcript, topics, a hierarchy of the topics of a video file, and generating a Primary Output and a Secondary Output programmatically. The Primary Output comprises a visual, editable, clickable, and hierarchical Mind map for the video file. It further comprises a Unique address of parent and child nodes in the hierarchical Mind map and Time-stamps of corresponding topics. The Secondary Output comprises an index table of a Proximity score, details on whether a Secondary Input is found or not in the video file, a Unique address P[u,m,n], From and To Time-stamps, and a corresponding topic in the video file.
US11853348B2
Multidimensional digital content search techniques are described that support an ability of a computing device to perform search with increased granularity and flexibility over conventional techniques. In one example, a control is implemented by a computing device that defines a multidimensional (e.g., two-dimensional) continuous space. Locations in the multidimensional continuous space are usable to different search criteria through different weights applied to the criteria associated with the axes. Therefore, user interaction with this control may be used to define a location and corresponding coordinates that may act as weights to the search criteria in order to perform a search of digital content through use of a single user input.
US11853347B2
Examples methods, apparatus/systems and articles of manufacture for auditing point-of-sale images are disclosed herein. Example methods disclosed herein include comparing a region of interest of an image displayed via a user interface with a plurality of reference product images stored in a database to identify a plurality of candidate product images from the plurality of reference product images as potential matches to a first product depicted in the image. For example, the candidate product images are associated with respective confidence levels indicating respective likelihoods of matching the first product. Disclosed example methods also include displaying, via the user interface, the candidate product images simultaneously with the image in a manner based on the respective confidence levels, and automatically selecting a first one of the candidate product images as matching the first product based on the respective confidence levels.
US11853342B2
Methods and systems for providing content are disclosed. Content may be provided to a first device. A manifest file may be generated. The content may be provided to a second device.
US11853341B2
Systems and methods for improving displays of media assets are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a system receives a plurality of text comments from a plurality of devices to which a media asset was transmitted. The system analyzes the comments to identify text strings within the text comments. The system generates interactable elements from the text strings in the text comments, such that an interaction with the text string causes display of identifiers of media assets corresponding to the text string.
US11853336B2
A technology related to a method and apparatus for providing a relation note using correlation is disclosed. The method for providing the relation note, which is performed by a relation note providing server interworking with a user terminal, comprises the steps of: receiving one or more generated notes from the user terminal; updating, according to a configurable reference, correlation between notes indicating a relation between the one or more notes; and providing the one or more notes to the user terminal on the basis of the correlation between the notes. Therefore, the method may provide a user interface which is intelligent and smart to enable a plurality of notes to be more effectively identified and managed on the basis of the correlation.
US11853332B2
A system and method of managing highly-volatile statistics of a multi-threaded application environment. The statistics are represented by one or more statistics objects. Each statistics object of the one or more statistics objects is prefixed with an object header having a version counter with an initial version count of zero. Each statistics object is associated with a statistics class instance, each statistics class instance being associated with an associative registry that is configured to allocate smallest possible objects of a size equal to or greater than to that of the statistics objects, the registry segmenting the statistics objects according to a size class. Each allocated statistics object is constructed in the object frame after the object header. Then, the object header of each allocated statistics object is initialized. Once allocated, objects can be deallocated.
US11853325B2
The systems and methods described here can reduce the storage space required (memory and/or disk) to store certain types of data, provide efficient (fast) creation, modification and retrieval of such data, and support such data within the framework of a multi-version database. In some embodiments, the systems and methods can store each field of a set of records as a vector of values, e.g., a data vector. A set of records can be represented using a vector id vector, or “vid” vector, wherein each element of the vid vector contains a reference to the memory location of a data vector. A header table can store associations between labels and “vid” vectors that pertain to those labels. Identical data vectors can be re-used between different record sets or vid vectors needing that vector, thus saving space.
US11853322B2
One embodiment provides for a method to track replication state and providing quorum visible retrievals. The method includes assigning, by a writer node performing write operations, a sequence number. The sequence number is replicated with a write operation to other replica nodes in an asynchronous fashion thru a first network channel. On a second network channel, a state of a local system is communicated by sending a latest sequence number available that has been hardened to the other replica nodes. A query is obtained by a reader node, and a sequence number limit is selected. Results up to the sequence number limit are returned.
US11853321B1
Systems and methods are disclosed to perform data replication based on an update stream from a source data store and over a communication channel that does not guarantee a correct ordering of stream events at the destination data store. In embodiments, an event sender receives the update stream and marks each event with a clock value according to the correct order. The marked events are then sent via the communication channel. In embodiments, an event replicator fetches the events from the communication channel and applies them to the destination data store. Older or duplicate events may be detected using the clock values and appropriately ignored. A tombstone object is maintained separately from the destination object to track deleted data items in order to avoid in-place tombstoning. Conditional updates and delete barriers are used to ensure that the objects are updated correctly by concurrently executing replicator nodes.
US11853318B1
A data store maintains a collection of data using a log-based storage structure. In response to a request to delete an item from the collection, the database management system adds a tombstone entry to the log-based storage structure, with additional metadata associated with the tombstone. Access to the tombstone metadata is provided to a client of the data store. The tombstone is deleted from the log-based storage structure after expiry of a time-to-live period.
US11853316B1
The system and method of the present disclosure includes creation and management of audit chains, which are distributed ledgers serving a native translation of non-native statements. The system and method further includes the application of audit chains to zk-audits, in which the provider of a service, e.g., a centralized token exchange, proves correct behavior to its clients without revealing private data.
US11853314B2
A method comprising receiving, from a first enterprise system, a series of first language commands written in a first language to control a first data flow of first data, the first data being from a first and a second data source, the first series of first language commands indicating first functions to be performed including collection of first data, storage of the first data into a first data warehouse, and application of one or more first applications on the stored first data, the first and second data sources being unrelated to each other and being remote from the first enterprise system and the data warehouse, translating the series of first language commands into first translated commands that may be provided to the first and second data sources as well as the first data warehouse to control the first data flow.
US11853312B1
A method for generating a feature store comprises receiving an indication of user input indicating a database management system and a server system hosting a target database; and in response to receiving the indication of user input: determining a connection string for the target database; using the connection string to connect to the target database via the database management system; after connecting to the target database, generating a structure of the feature store in the target database; and populating the feature store with predefined feature values.
US11853304B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein for tracking data lineage. A method for tracking data lineage comprises detecting, with a data lineage recorder module, an execution of a task of a workflow by a workflow engine on a device, the workflow comprises a plurality of ordered tasks, detecting, with a data lineage proxy, a request sent from the device, selecting, with the data lineage recorder module, request lineage data items associated with the task from a content of the request, associating, in a data lineage database, the request lineage data items with the task, and generating a data lineage graph comprising representations of the plurality of ordered tasks of the workflow including the task and the request lineage data items associated with the task.
US11853300B1
A method at an aggregator includes: storing previous search results resulting from previous client search requests, and for each previous search result, a previous handling indicator, indicating a relevance of the previous search result to the client; receiving, from the client, a search request containing search parameters; in response to the search request, selecting a subset of previous search results based on correspondence between attributes of the previous search results and the search parameters, and on the previous handling indicators; providing, to a supplier, the search request and auxiliary search parameters corresponding to the selected previous search results and indicating characteristics of the selected previous search results, for generation of current search results at the supplier employing the auxiliary search parameters as inputs; receiving, from the supplier, the current search results generated at the supplier; and returning at least one of the current search results to the client.
US11853291B2
In some embodiments, a processor may generate a request associated with a transaction, collect an anchor associated with the request, and transition the transaction into a collection of two or more hashes; the processor may submit the transaction to an ordering service. In some embodiments, a processor may receive a request associated with a transaction, identify that a first preimage associated with a first hash is known to a first shard, and generate a first identification tag associated with the transaction. In some embodiments, a processor may receive a request associated with a transaction, assign a first shard a first task, and identify that a first preimage associated with a first hash is known to the first shard; the processor may perform the task.
US11853290B2
Analyzing log data, such as security log data and machine data, is disclosed. A baseline is built for a set of machine data. The baseline is built at least in part by determining a plurality of signature profiles for a plurality of respective time slices. An occurrence of an anomaly associated with the source of the machine data is determined. The occurrence is determined at least in part by determining that received machine data does not conform to the baseline within a threshold.
US11853287B2
A system and process for tagging electronic documents or other electronic content with concepts mentioned, contained, or otherwise described in that content. Once tagged, the content may be searchable, indexable, and retrievable in order to provide that content to an end user or another recipient. The system may be configured to handle a considerable number of asset files and a large number of users, workflows, and access applications simultaneously. The system may auto-tag the content and also may include a user interface for confirming and updating those tags and for manually creating new or additional tags. Content may include documents such as medical documents relating to procedures, diagnoses, medications or other domains. Alternatively, the content may include information about various care providers, in order to allow a user to locate a physician meeting one or more desired criteria.
US11853282B2
Obtaining insights on how database system tables are evolving. In some instances, risk aware database system triggers that have read only access to the columns of interest are utilized, thereby allowing a user to fully study the changes made to the database system tables while maintaining the security and integrity of these database system tables. Additionally, these database system triggers can be used to audit changes that are happening on the database system tables using views.
US11853275B2
A system, for example, a multi-tenant system performs upgrades of database management systems deployed on a cloud platform. The database management system is stored on the cloud platform in a data storage unit for storing data of the database, and an instructions storage unit for storing executable instructions. A cloud platform image comprising instructions for the database management system is received. A cloud platform image is deployed on a new instructions storage unit. An upgraded database management system is built by providing the new instructions storage unit with access to the data storage unit. In an embodiment, the database management system is used by a multi-tenant system and stores a multi-tenant schema. The structure of the multi-tenant schema is defined using a multi-tenant schema template that is included in the instructions storage unit.
US11853265B2
A system can apply file placement rules to dynamically place files and directories within file system views backed by objects in an object storage system. After detection of an update to a first file system view that causes an update of an object in a storage grid, an object manager begins evaluation of file placement rules against metadata of the object. For each file placement rule that is triggered, the object manager determines identifies gateways that export the first file system view. The object manager then instructs the gateways to update their representations of the first file system view. The disclosed embodiments may be able to scale to managing hundreds of billions of files spanning thousands of file system views, especially in the presence of disconnected operation.
US11853264B2
Embodiments are directed to managing file systems. Update information associated with a change of a metric associated with a target object may be provided. A journal that includes a base bin that includes base records that associate the metric with each object in the file system. Records that include the change of the metric associated with the ancestors of target object may be generated. Another record that includes the change of the metric associated with the target object may be generated. A level bin associated with the base bin of the journal may be provided based on the update information. The records may be stored in the level bin using a sort order based on the ordering of the base bin records. In response a query, the journal may be employed to reduce latency in generating query results.
US11853262B2
A system and method for file type identification involving extraction of a file-print of a file, the file-print being a unique or practically-unique representation of statistical characteristics associated with the distribution of bits in the binary contents of the file, similar to a fingerprint. The file-print is then passed to a machine learning algorithm that has been trained to recognize file types from their file-prints. The machine learning algorithm returns a predicted file type and, in some cases, a probability of correctness of the prediction. The file may then be encoded using an encoding algorithm chosen based on the predicted file type.
US11853254B1
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for exposing data processing unit (DPU) traffic in a smartswitch are disclosed. One example method occurs at a smartswitch controller implemented using at least one processor, the method comprising: receiving connection information for communicating with an in-line traffic processing agent; generating, using the connection information, one or more switching rules for causing traffic associated with a target DPU of a smartswitch to be directed to the in-line traffic processing agent; and providing the one or more switching rules to the smartswitch or another entity.
US11853252B2
A processing system includes a transmission terminal configured to provide a transmission signal, a reception terminal configured to receive a reception signal, a microprocessor programmable via software instructions, a memory controller configured to be connected to a memory, a serial communication interface, and a communication system. Specifically, the serial communication interface supports a CAN FD Light mode of operation and a UART mode of operation. For this purpose, the serial communication interface comprises a control register, a clock management circuit, a transmission shift register, a transmission control circuit, a reception shift register and a reception control circuit. Accordingly, the microprocessor can transmit and/or receive CAN FD Light or UART frames via the same serial communication interface.
US11853247B2
An interface switching apparatus, communication equipment, and an interface switching method. The first end of the interface converting assembly is connected to a common interface, the second end of the interface converting assembly is connected to the controller, and the interface converting assembly is configured to control the common interface to connect to a target interface of at least two peripheral interfaces according to a control signal sent by the controller; the detection assembly is connected to the controller and the at least two peripheral interfaces, respectively, the detection assembly is configured to detect voltage signals at the at least two peripheral interfaces; the controller is configured to determine, according to the voltage signal, a target interface to which an external device is connected of the at least two peripheral interfaces, generate the control signal, and send the control signal to the interface converting assembly.
US11853246B2
Communication between target devices using protocol commands being carried out by a target device includes accessing a key for mapping of a plurality of defined patterns of stimuli and defined patterns of resultant protocol commands to a plurality of messages. A defined pattern of stimuli is sent from a target device to an initiator device to prompt a resultant defined pattern of protocol commands to be sent from the initiator device to all target devices that identify as the same device. The protocol commands including Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) specification compliant commands. A selected pattern of protocol command stimuli is sent from a first target device to the initiator device to prompt a resultant pattern of protocol commands from the initiator device to all target devices that identify as the same device thereby communicating the mapped message to other target devices.
US11853241B2
In accordance with an embodiment, an electronic device includes: an interrupt controller having an input for receiving a controller clock signal, and an output, the interrupt controller configured to deliver an output interrupt signal on the output when the controller clock signal is active, and a control circuit comprising, an input interface for receiving at least one interrupt signal likely to emanate from at least one item of equipment external to the device, a clock input for receiving an external clock signal, and a first controller connected to the input interface and to the clock input, the first controller configured to automatically generate the controller clock signal from the external clock signal from when the at least one interrupt signal is asserted until a delivery of a corresponding output interrupt signal.
US11853239B2
An apparatus is provided that includes a memory system that includes a memory controller coupled to a storage device capable of streaming data at a first data rate. The memory controller is configured to read a first amount of input data from the storage device at an input data rate equals the first data rate, and provide the first amount of input data at the input data rate to a hardware circuit. The hardware circuit is configured to filter the first amount of input data to provide a second amount of output data at an output data rate, the second amount of output data less than the first amount of input data, the output data rate less than the input data rate. The hardware circuit filters the first amount of input data without repeatedly moving data back and forth between the storage device, a memory buffer, and the hardware circuit.
US11853234B2
A host can include a programmable network interface card (NIC) or “Smart NIC” which accesses host-local drives hidden from a host processor. One configuration can include a switch with a one logical partition including the NIC as a root complex (RC) and the local drives as end points (EPs), and with another logical partition including the host processor as an RC and the NIC as an EP. A second configuration can include the NIC and switch directly connected to the host processor with an access control component (ACC) configured on switch ports connected to the local drives. A third configuration can include the NIC and local drives directly connected to the host processor with the ACC configured on host processor ports connected to the local drives. The NIC can use a multi-layer driver to communicate with the ACC and local drives hidden behind the ACC.
US11853211B2
A data placement program causes a computer to execute a process of data placement in a main memory and a cache. When performing an operation using a first data groups and second data groups to generate pieces of operation result data representing operation results of the operation, based on a size of one piece of the operation result data and a size of an operation result area storing some of the plurality of pieces of operation result data in the cache memory, determining a number of the first data groups and a number of the second data groups, both corresponding to the some pieces of operation result data, and placing the plurality of first data groups and the plurality of second data groups in the main memory based on the determined number of the first data groups and the determined number of the second data groups.
US11853197B2
A method performed by a processing system including at least one processor includes monitoring a software repository for code changes, detecting a code change in a software instance that is stored in the software repository, generating a container image of the software instance in response to the detecting, creating a container for the container image, wherein the container encapsulates software needed to run a test suite on the software instance, configuring a testing platform for a development environment used to create the software instance, executing the test suite for the software instance by running the software encapsulated in the container on the testing platform, and publishing a test output of the test suite as a human-readable scorecard for the software instance.
US11853194B2
Systems and methods for universal system-to-system communication management and analysis are disclosed. According to one embodiment, in an analysis engine comprising at least one computer processor, a method for automating architecture design may include: (1) receiving, from an API database, static API information enriched with dynamic usage data; (2) generating a plurality of architecture designs based on the static API information enriched with the dynamic usage data and a plurality of rules, wherein an architect selects one of the plurality of architecture designs; (3) receiving feedback resulting from a simulation of the selected architecture; and (4) heuristically enhancing at least one of the plurality of rules based on the feedback.
US11853188B2
A method of determining power data of a system on a chip is disclosed. A plug-in module is provided for installation on the chip. The plug-in module is activated to take a snapshot of the data in power related registers of components on the chip when user provided software is executed on the system on a chip. The collected data is streamed to an external computing device. A spreadsheet of the collected register data may be displayed. A graphic representation of the collected register data may be displayed.
US11853175B2
A cluster system including a plurality of nodes, a plurality of clusters included in each node and a management module managing the cluster system and an arithmetic module, which are included in each of the clusters, wherein, among all the management modules included in the cluster system, one management module is set representative management module, in the individual clusters, one is set as a master management module, and another is set as a standby management module. Each of the management modules includes a failure monitoring unit and a failover control unit. When a failure in the representative management module is detected by any of the failure monitoring units, any of the management modules included in the non-representative management modules, is set as a new representative management module. A recovery unit restores the failure monitoring unit and the failover control unit in the management module in which a failure is detected.
US11853169B2
A data protection system configured to backup a time series database is provided. The data protection system may be integrated with or have access to consolidation policies of the time series database. The backup policy and backup retention policy are set by monitoring the consolidation policy and adjusting the backup policy to ensure that the data in the time series database is protected prior to being downscaled, discarded or otherwise consolidated.
US11853168B2
Responsive to a request from a user device, a content server may perform an electronic discovery function. The request may include information on a quantity of data objects desired from a collection of data objects stored in a repository. Objects stored in the repository may be managed by the content server. The content server may determine a number of batches and process the collection of data objects into batches, each having a batch size. An efficient selection process may be determined and utilized in selecting data objects from each of the batches such that a total number of data objects selected from the collection is not less than the quantity of data objects desired. The content server may make a disk image of the selected data objects and communicate same to the user device over a network.
US11853167B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for backup. The method includes: determining a plurality of buffer periods associated with a plurality of pending backup operations of a plurality of objects, each buffer period being a preprocessing period for a corresponding pending backup operation. The method further includes: determining a plurality of predicted execution durations of the plurality of pending backup operations based on historical execution durations of respective historical backup operations of the plurality of objects. The method further includes: determining priorities of the plurality of pending backup operations based on the plurality of predicted execution durations and the plurality of buffer periods. The method further includes: executing the plurality of pending backup operations based on the priorities.
US11853155B2
A graphics processing system for performing tile-based rendering of a scene that includes safety-related primitives has a plurality of graphics processing units (GPUs), each configured to i) receive tile data identifying one or more protected tiles comprising at least part of a safety-related primitive, ii) process two respective sets of protected tiles, and iii) based on said processing, generate two respective checksums for each respective set of protected tiles. The two respective sets of protected tiles are mutually exclusive, and each respective set and each protected tile being processed by two different GPUs. The system includes a comparison unit configured to compare one or more pairs of checksums, each pair comprising a respective checksum generated based on a same respective set of protected tiles and generated by different GPUs.
US11853154B2
Embodiments assist with dynamic repairs to the system's grammar. The system can determine the existence of errors within common configuration files. The system can use this determination to compare a common configuration file with a term replacement dictionary to determine resolution options. The system can update the term replacement dictionary if the error or resolution for the error is not in the term replacement dictionary.
US11853150B2
A method and device for detecting a memory downgrade error. The method comprises: capturing and analyzing a memory error by means of an operating system (OS); sending a memory downgrade error log to a management chip BMC on a server motherboard according to the analysis result; and after the BMC receives log information, detecting and locating an uncorrectable memory inspection error on the basis of an algorithm.
US11853147B2
A system-on-chip is provided. The system-on-chip includes a system bus, a plurality of IP units connected to the system bus, a processor unit including a plurality of cores configured to control the plurality of IP units via the system bus, a monitoring unit configured to monitor a state of the processor unit, and an error detection unit configured to operate as a master device for the plurality of IP units and monitor a register in which error information indicating whether an error has occurred in each of the plurality of IP units is stored.
US11853145B2
A power management system and method for an SRAM circuit and an FPGA chip are provided. The power management system includes a power management, a power management controller and an oscillator. The power management circuit include a power-on reset circuit used to determine whether powering-on of a core voltage and an analog input-output voltage of power supply voltages of the power management circuit is completed. The power management controller and the oscillator are used to control the power management circuit to power on the SRAM circuit after the power-on reset circuit determines that the powering-on of the core voltage and the analog input-output voltage is completed, and further used to control the power management circuit to erase the SRAM circuit after the SRAM circuit is powered on. Powering-on sequences of various internal power supplies of the FPGA chip are clear, and power consumption of the FPGA chip can be reduced.
US11853139B2
A semiconductor device includes a clock terminal to and from which a clock is allowed to be input and output, and a data terminal to and from which data is allowed to be input and output. In the semiconductor device, the data synchronized with the clock that is input to the clock terminal or is output from the clock terminal is output from the data terminal, and when the clock is output from the clock terminal, the clock is output irrespective of whether or not data transfer of the data is being executed.
US11853137B2
Methods and systems for thermal management of components of a data processing system that may be used to provide computer implemented services are disclosed. The disclosed thermal management method and systems may improve the likelihood of data processing systems providing desired computer implemented services by improving the likelihood that desired power is provided by power supplies. To improve the likelihood of power supplies providing desired power, the power supplies may proactively take into account the thermal environment and/or thermal states of components of the power supply.
US11853127B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. A first main support column and an auxiliary support column are provided between the first substrate and the second substrate in the frame area, and a length of the first main support column is greater than a length of the auxiliary support column. The second substrate includes the base, and further includes the first surface and the second surface located on a side of the second substrate facing the first substrate in the frame area. A height from the second surface to the base is greater than a height from the first surface to the base. An orthographic projection of the first main support column on the base is located within an orthographic projection of the first surface on the base.
US11853126B1
A system for configuring a server including a portable housing having a front panel, a back panel, and a cutout disposed on the front panel, a control board disposed within the portable housing, the control board having a socket configured to operably receive and couple to a network interface card that is insertable into and removable from the housing only through the cutout, and a rib disposed within the portable housing between the front panel and the back panel, the rib having a support configured and dimensioned to engage the network interface card when the network interface card is inserted within the housing in an aligned configuration with the socket, a cooling system coupled to and powered via the control board, the cooling system including one or more fans disposed at least partially disposed within the portable housing, and a power supply system coupled to the control board.
US11853118B2
A portable computer that is configurable between a plurality of display modes including a laptop mode (in which the portable computer has a conventional laptop appearance) and an easel mode in which the base of the computer and its display component stand vertically forming an inverted “V.” The portable computer includes a hinge assembly that couples the display component to the base of the computer, and allows the display component to be rotated about an axis along an interface between the display component and the base to configure the portable computer between a closed position, the laptop mode and the easel mode.
US11853117B2
In one implementation, an apparatus includes a display having a front surface and a back surface. The display includes a plurality of pixel regions that emit light from the front surface to display a displayed image and a plurality of apertures that transmit light from the front surface to the back surface. The apparatus includes a camera disposed on a side of the back surface of the display. The camera is configured to capture a captured image. The apparatus includes a processor coupled to the display and the camera. The processor is configured to receive the captured image and apply a first digital filter to a first portion of the captured image and a second digital filter, different than the first digital filter, to a second portion of the captured image to reduce image distortion caused by the display.
US11853115B1
A low-latency signaling link retimer generates an output signal transmission synchronously with respect to a core clock signal alternately selected from two or more plesiochronous or mesochronous clock sources with switchover between or among the core-clock sources executed without shrinking, extending or otherwise disrupting the edge-to-edge core clock period or clock duty cycle.
US11853113B2
A device for monitoring the execution of an application on a processor, the device comprising: a time counter, a control module configured to reset the time counter at the end of a time period if a reset command has been received by the monitoring device in a time window and to generate a sanction command of the processor otherwise, an inhibition module configured to inhibit the time counter during the reception of an inhibition command at the input of the monitoring device, and a reactivation module configured to reactivate the time counter during the reception of a reactivation command at the input of the monitoring device.
US11853088B2
Embodiments for linking separate eFuse and ORING controllers for output overvoltage protection in power conversion applications. Voltage regulators are configured in parallel. An input circuit includes an input controller, the input circuit being coupled to an input of at least one voltage regulator of the voltage regulators. An output circuit includes an output controller, the output circuit being coupled to an output of the at least one voltage regulator. The output controller is coupled to the input circuit to cause the input circuit to prevent power to the at least one voltage regulator in response to the output controller detecting an overvoltage condition.
US11853085B2
An actuator for a pilot valve, including a housing, a piston movably mounted in the housing and an actuator chamber defined between the piston and the housing. The actuator includes a control fluid feed for introducing a fluid into the actuator chamber to control fluid pressure, with the fluid pressure acting on the piston. The actuator also includes an actuation member for acting on the pilot valve and a loading spring between the piston and the actuation member. The loading spring is arranged to bias the piston against the fluid pressure in the actuator chamber. The control fluid feed controls the fluid pressure so the fluid pressure acts on the piston against the bias of the loading spring to control the biasing force.
US11853076B1
Provided is a system including at least two robots. A first robot includes a chassis, a set of wheels, a wheel suspension, sensors, a processor, and a machine-readable medium for storing instructions. A camera of the first robot captures images of an environment from which the processor generates or updates a map of the environment and determines a location of items within the environment. The processor extracts features of the environment from the images and determines a location of the first robot. The processor transmits information to a processor of a second robot and determines an action of the first robot and the second robot. A smart phone application is paired with at least the first robot and is configured to receive at least one user input specifying an instruction for at least the first robot and at least one user preference.
US11853074B2
There is provided a control device including: a control unit that performs driving control of a vehicle. The control unit temporarily continues automated traveling of the vehicle on a basis of a surrounding environment estimated by a remaining function of a compound eye camera, in a case where a malfunction of the compound eye camera used in recognition of the surrounding environment is detected during execution of automated driving control for the vehicle.
US11853070B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for updating data of a map. One of the methods includes storing a map of an environment, the map comprising surfels and a road graph; receiving new surfel data for the surfels; adjusting the surfels based on the new surfel data; determining a vector field difference between the surfels of the stored map and the adjusted surfels; adjusting a portion of the road graph based on the vector field difference; generating an updated map comprising the adjusted surfels and the adjusted portion of the road graph; and storing the updated map.
US11853065B2
A method for assisting a driver of a vehicle with driving of the vehicle is disclosed, in which the surroundings of the vehicle are detected. The detection of the surroundings comprises the course of driving paths as well as movement data relating to other road users. Historic data obtained at least from past driving maneuvers by road users in the detected surroundings are called up for the surroundings, the detected surroundings of the vehicle are analyzed and a traffic situation of the vehicle in relation to at least one second road user of the other detected road users is determined. A likely driving maneuver of the second road user is predicted based on the called-up historic data and the current traffic situation, and a control signal for assisting the driver with driving of the vehicle is generated depending on the predicted driving maneuver of the second road user.
US11853063B2
A mobile outdoor power equipment machine for performing a controlled task within a work area includes a drive system for providing movement of the machine, a working apparatus for performing the task, and a scanning system for scanning an area surrounding the machine. The scanning system is configured to provide detection of physical elements in the environment to aid in navigation of the machine. In an embodiment, the scanning system and a control system are configured to scan the area, determine the presence of a physical element in the area, determine that the physical element is located within the work area, determine the proximity of the physical element to the machine, and direct a behavior of the machine.
US11853048B2
A computer-implemented method and device for resolving closed loops in automatic fault tree analysis of a multi-component system is provided. Also provided is a method for resolving closed loops in automatic fault tree analysis of a multi-component system, the closed loops corresponding, for example, to closed-loop control circuitry of a multi-component device. The closed loops are first identified in a top-down approach within failure propagation paths. Next, the loops are resolved by setting each loop interconnection to Boolean TRUE, adjusting the fault tree in a specific way and finally setting each loop interconnection to Boolean FALSE. Embodiments of the invention are relevant for analyzing safety-critical systems. However, the present concepts are not limited to these applications and may be applied to general use cases where fault tree analysis is applicable. The proposed solution advantageously provides a method that features linear complexity.
US11853047B2
A method for identifying a fault of at least one mechanical machine, including causing a first plurality of sensors coupled to a corresponding first plurality of mechanical machines to acquire a first plurality of sets of signals emanating from the first plurality of mechanical machines, the first plurality of mechanical machines sharing at least one characteristic, supplying at least the first plurality of sets of signals of the first plurality of mechanical machines to a pre-existing fault classifier previously trained to automatically identify faults of a second plurality of mechanical machines based on signals emanating therefrom and previously acquired by a second plurality of sensors, the second plurality of sensors being of a different type than the first plurality of sensors, the second plurality of mechanical machines sharing the at least one characteristic, modifying the pre-existing fault classifier by employing transfer learning, based at least on the first plurality of sets of signals of the first plurality of mechanical machines, thereby providing a modified fault classifier, applying the modified fault classifier to at least one additional set of signals acquired by at least one sensor of the first plurality of sensors and emanating from at least one given mechanical machine sharing the at least one characteristic, the modified fault classifier being configured to automatically identify at least one fault of the at least one given mechanical machine based on the at least one additional set of signals, and providing a human sensible output, by an output device, including at least identification of the fault of the at least one given mechanical machine, at least one of a repair or maintenance operation being performed based on the human sensible output.
US11853038B1
Disclosed is an optimal control method of pollutant flux into the coastal waters based on virtual discharge amount, comprising: setting water quality control points and water quality control objectives in target sea areas; constructing response matrix of coastal water quality to pollution source discharged from land, and extracting response coefficient matrix of different pollution sources and different control points for the water quality control points through the response coefficient matrix of coastal water quality to pollution source discharged from land; and establishing a control model for total discharge amount of pollutants into the coastal waters through the response coefficient matrix; and calculating an optimal control amount of flux of the different pollution sources into the coastal waters based on the control model for total discharge amount of pollutants into the coastal waters.
US11853034B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for an exosuit activity transition control structure. In some implementations, sensor data for a powered exosuit is received. The sensor data is classified depending on whether the sensor data is indicative of a transition between different types of activities of a wearer of the powered exosuit. The classification is provided to a control system for the powered exosuit. The powered exosuit is controlled based on the classification.
US11853024B2
A computing device of an information handling system includes an environmental control component and an environmental manager. The environmental control components identifies an aggregate amount of corrosion of a component of the information handling system; obtains a rate of corrosion associated with the component; makes a determination that the rate of corrosion indicates that the component will suffer a premature failure; in response to the determination: identifies an environmental control modification that will remediate the premature failure of the component; and updates an operation of the environmental control component based on the environmental control modification.
US11853023B2
A coal management system includes a central control system and a plurality of monitoring points. The plurality of monitoring points are arranged at a plurality of pieces of production equipment. A method of controlling the coal management system includes the plurality of monitoring points acquiring monitoring data, the central control system selecting a candidate feature set and constructing a coal model according to the monitoring data, the central control system generating an operation recommendation of a controlled monitoring point of the plurality of monitoring points according to the coal model, and a piece of production equipment performing an operation according to the operation recommendation to achieve a target operation condition.
US11853021B2
Systems and methods for harmonic analysis of soil are provided herein. Some methods include converting a first frequency of an operating signal into a second, higher frequency relative to the first frequency to create a stimulating signal, transmitting the stimulating signal into soil, and determining attenuation based on a comparison of a responsive signal and the operating signal.
US11853020B2
Disclosed herein is a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a housing, a display configured to protrude out from the housing along a vertical axis, a lifting device configured to raise and to lower the display along the vertical axis with respect to the housing, and a position sensor disposed inside the housing and configured to sense a distance in which an upper portion of the display is moved along the vertical axis. The position sensor includes a first position sensor and a second position sensor spaced apart along a horizontal axis. The first position sensor and the second position sensor simultaneously sense a distance by which the display is raised.
US11853018B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining causal models for controlling environments. One of the methods includes identifying a procedural instance; determining a temporal extent for the procedural instance based on temporal extent parameters for the one or more entities in the procedural instance; selecting control settings for the procedural instance; monitoring environment responses to the control settings that are received for the one or more entities; determining which of the environment responses to attribute to the procedural instance in a causal model; and adjusting, based at least in part on the environment responses that are attributed to the procedural instance, the temporal extent parameters for the one or more entities.
US11853015B2
A wrist-worn electronic device comprises a bezel, an antenna, and an aperture tuning network. The bezel is formed at least partially from electrically conductive material and positioned along a side wall of a housing of the device. The antenna includes a first aperture and a second aperture which are formed by various portions of the bezel. The antenna is configured to operate in one of two operating modes including a dual band mode in which the first aperture receives a first global navigation satellite system (GNSS) wireless signal at a first frequency band and the second aperture receives a second GNSS wireless signal at a second frequency band, and a single band mode in which the first aperture and the second aperture each receive the first GNSS wireless signal. The aperture tuning network has an adjustable configuration wherein adjustment of the adjustable configuration changes the operating mode of the antenna.
US11853003B2
A process cartridge is provided. The process cartridge is detachably mounted in an image formation apparatus configured with a power output unit that is swingable, an outer circumference of the power output unit contains a recessed portion. The process cartridge includes: a power receiving unit, comprising a wheel hub and a power receiving member connected with the wheel hub, the power receiving member being engaged with the power output unit to receive a driving force; where the wheel hub comprises a hollow cylinder portion accommodating the power output unit; where the power receiving member includes a fixing protrusion, the fixing protrusion is engaged with the recessed portion of the power output unit to receive the driving force; where the power receiving unit further comprises a bias part, the bias part applies a bias force to drive the power output unit to move to engage with the fixing protrusion.
US11852998B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a main casing; a drum cartridge; a toner cartridge; a display; and a controller. The drum cartridge is attachable to and detachable from the main casing. The drum cartridge includes a photosensitive drum and a drum memory. The toner cartridge is attachable to and detachable from the drum cartridge. The toner cartridge includes a toner memory. The controller is configured to: determine whether an error occurs in the drum cartridge through a communication with the drum memory; determine whether an error occurs in the toner cartridge through a communication with the toner memory; and when determining that an error occurs in the drum cartridge and determining that an error occurs in the toner cartridge, display on the display an error relating to the drum cartridge in preference to displaying on the display an error relating to the toner cartridge.
US11852995B2
According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor that may identify a first period for a heated system, the first period including a first set of power events and a first zero power event for the heated system and may identify a second period for the heated system, the second period including a second set of power events and a second zero power event for the heated system. The processor may also borrow, from the second period, a portion of a second power event of the second set of power events and may apply the borrowed portion of the second power event to a first power event of the first set of power events during the first period to remove the first zero power event from the first period.
US11852983B2
An alignment nozzle jig for centering a coater photoresist arm that includes an alignment nozzle block. The alignment nozzle jig also includes an endoscope holder removably secured to a bottom of the alignment nozzle block, an endoscope, and an alignment mark removably coupled to the endoscope holder opposite the alignment nozzle block. The alignment nozzle jig is retrieved from a nozzle bath by the coater arm and transferred to a center of a chuck in an associated process chamber. Via the endoscope, the coater photoresist arm is aligned with the center of the chuck using the alignment mark.
US11852982B2
A semiconductor manufacturing system includes a semiconductor processing apparatus. The semiconductor processing apparatus includes a processing chamber configured to perform a semiconductor process on a semiconductor wafer, and a transferring module configured to transfer the semiconductor wafer into and out of the processing chamber. The semiconductor manufacturing system also includes a particle attracting member. The semiconductor manufacturing system also includes a monitoring device configured to control the transferring module to load the particle attracting member into the processing chamber in a cleaning cycle while the semiconductor wafer is not in the processing chamber, and control the transferring module to load the particle attracting member out of the processing chamber after the cleaning cycle. In the cleaning cycle, particles in the processing chamber are attracted to the surface of a coating layer of the particle attracting member due to the potential difference between the coating layer and the particles.
US11852980B2
Some implementations described herein provide an exposure tool. The exposure tool includes a reticle deformation detector and one or more processors configured to obtain, via the reticle deformation detector, reticle deformation information associated with a reticle during a scanning process for scanning multiple fields of a wafer. The one or more processors determine, based on the reticle deformation information, a deformation of the reticle at multiple times during the scanning process, and perform, based on the deformation of the reticle at the multiple times, one or more adjustments of one or more components of the exposure tool during the scanning process.
US11852956B2
The present invention relates to a camera system, comprising: a camera operative to capture an image, said camera comprising a power input port for coupling to a power supply assembly; a housing for supporting said camera, said housing comprising an opening, wherein said opening is arranged to provide access to said power input port; a removable panel engageable to said housing to cover said opening by a security fastener to secure said removable panel to said housing in a cover configuration, said removable panel comprising a formation for engaging with at least one portion of said power supply assembly in said cover configuration to restrain movement of said power supply assembly to maintain a coupled arrangement of said power supply assembly and said power input port in said cover configuration.
US11852955B2
A photo booth having detachable upper cover includes a supporting stage, a rotatable shooting stand, and a driving assembly. The driving assembly is configured to drive the rotatable shooting stand to circumferentially rotate around the supporting stage. The supporting stage includes an upper cover and a reinforcement frame, and the upper cover detachably covers the reinforcement frame. The reinforcement frame includes a supporting ring, six supporting rods, and a connecting portion. The supporting ring is generally annular, and the six supporting rings and the connecting portions are disposed in a ring of the supporting ring. A first end of each of the six supporting rods is connected to an inner wall of the supporting rings, and a second end of each of the six supporting rods is connected to the connecting portion. The six supporting rods are uniformly disposed along a circumferential direction of the supporting ring.
US11852953B2
A highly-efficient ridge waveguide includes a base substrate of a single-crystal and a core substrate made of a nonlinear optical medium, the base substrate and the core substrate being directly bonded, and includes a thin film layer formed on a surface of the core substrate on the upper side of a periodically polarization-reversed structure, and becomes a wavelength conversion element. A direct bonding method through thermal diffusion is applied to bonding. The core substrate has a ridge structure formed in a light propagating direction and a reversed structure formed by processing this. A surface of the core substrate is ground and a thin film layer is formed on the ground surface. A core formed by digging a core layer of the core substrate in an unbonded state is provided on an upper surface of an undercladding layer of the base substrate in a bonded state. Two side surfaces of the core are in contact with an air layer.
US11852932B2
In a display device having high reliability, even if being a narrow framing type, and a method for manufacturing thereof, having a display panel, being made up with a first substrate 101 and a second substrate 201, which are adhered with using a seal 301, a main SOC 302 is disposed like a wall, on a peripheral end portion of the first substrate 101 and the second substrate 201, and the seal 301 is disposed inwardly of the main SOC 302. Also, in a method for manufacturing thereof, the main SOC 302 is formed in a region including a cutting plane between the display panel regions neighboring with, and on the cutting plane is made the cutting thereof.
US11852909B2
A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a cover glass, a liquid crystal panel disposed below the cover glass and having a transparent portion, an upper polarization plate having a through hole corresponding to the transparent portion and disposed between the cover glass and the liquid crystal panel, an OCA film disposed between the cover glass and the upper polarization plate and attached thereto, and an OCR layer charged in the through hole.
US11852908B2
The embodiments relate to an electrochromic device having flexibility while achieving an excellent light transmission variable function based on the electrochromic principle. The flexible electrochromic device comprises a first base layer; a first barrier layer on the first base layer; a light transmission variable structure on the first barrier layer; a second barrier layer on the light transmission variable structure; and a second base layer on the second barrier layer.
US11852901B2
In one embodiment, an eyeglass frame includes a lens holder, a first temple with a first end close to the lens holder and a second end, a second temple, an electrical connector and a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board with at least one electrical component can be in the first temple. The connector can be close to the first end of the first temple, facing downward, and electrically connected to the at least one electrical component. In another embodiment, an eyeglass frame includes a first printed circuit board, with at least one electrical component. The first printed circuit board can be connected to an electrical component at the frame via a second printed circuit board. In an embodiment, a pair of glasses can perform hearing enhanced functions to enhance audio signals for the user to hear. One embodiment is configured to be a headset.
US11852886B2
An optical element driving mechanism includes a movable assembly, a fixed assembly, and a driving assembly. The movable assembly is configured to be connected to an optical element. The movable assembly is movable relative to the fixed assembly. The driving assembly is configured to drive the movable assembly to move relative to the fixed assembly in a range of motion. The optical element driving mechanism further includes a positioning assembly configured to position the movable assembly at a predetermined position relative to the fixed assembly when the driving assembly is not operating.
