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| US11065613B2 |
Pipetting device, pipette tip coupler, and pipette tip: devices and methods
Pipette tip couplers, pipette tips, coupler and tip combinations, and methods for coupling and decoupling a pipette tip to or from, respectively, a pipette tip coupler mounted on a pipette device. The pipette tip couplers include an elastomeric element, a discrete segment assembly, and a coupler stop shoulder surface. The pipette tips include a groove in a first cylindrical section, a second cylindrical section, a tip stop shoulder surface at the interface of the first and second cylindrical sections, a third cylindrical section, a sealing seat surface at the interface of the second and third cylindrical sections, and a fourth section adjacent to the third cylindrical section. When the pipette tip is mounted on the pipette tip coupler, the discrete segment assembly abuts the tip groove, the coupler stop shoulder surface abuts the tip stop shoulder surface, and the elastomeric element abuts the sealing seat surface. |
| US11065607B2 |
Vinylpyridine resin for catalyst supports, production method therefor, and catalyst for methanol carbonylation reaction
A vinylpyridine resin for a catalyst support; a method for producing thereof; and a catalyst for carbonylation of methanol are disclosed. The vinylpyridine resin has: content of nitrogen derived from a pyridine group of 3.00% by mass or more and 8.00% by mass or less; degree of crosslinking of 35% by mole or more and 70% by mole or less; molar ratio C/N of carbon atoms to nitrogen atoms of 12.00 or more and 36.00 or less; total pore volume of 0.20 cc/g or more and 0.45 cc/g or less; specific surface area of 70.0 m2/g or more and 280 m2/g or less; average pore diameter of 5.0 nm or more and 25.0 nm or less; and proportion of a volume of pores having a pore diameter of 10 nm or more to a volume of the whole pores of 4.0% or more and 90.0% or less. |
| US11065605B2 |
Method of preparing a multi-component alloy catalyst
A method for preparing a multi-component alloy catalyst on which a catalytic metal is supported includes preparing a carbon composite having a carbon support coated with a cationic polymer, supporting a catalytic metal containing at least two metal elements on the carbon composite to prepare an alloy catalyst precursor, and washing the alloy catalyst precursor to remove the cationic polymer. |
| US11065604B2 |
Catalyst for producing light aromatics with heavy aromatics, method for preparing the catalyst, and use thereof
A catalyst for producing light aromatics with heavy aromatics, a method for preparing the catalyst, and a use thereof are disclosed. The catalyst comprises a carrier, component (1), and component (2), wherein component (1) comprises one metal element or more metal elements selected from a group consisting of Pt, Pd, Ir, and Rh, and component (2) comprises one metal element or more metal elements selected from a group consisting of IA group, IIA group, IIIA group, IVA group, IB group, IIB group, IIIB group, IVB group, VB group, VIB group, VIIB group, La group, and VIII group other than Pt, Pd, Ir, and Rh. The catalyst can be used for producing light aromatics with heavy aromatics, whereby heavy aromatics hydrogenation selectivity and light aromatics yield can be improved. |
| US11065599B2 |
Resin beads and use in processing of aqueous solutions
Provided is a resin bead comprising functional groups of structure (S1). |
| US11065597B2 |
Xenon adsorbent
A xenon adsorbent capable of efficiently adsorbing xenon, even at a low concentration, from a mixture gas is Provided.A xenon adsorbent comprising a zeolite having a pore size in the range of 3.5 to 5 Å and a silica alumina molar ratio in the range of 10 to 30. |
| US11065594B2 |
Continuous flow process for preparing conducting polymers
The present disclosure relates to a continuous flow process for preparing conducting polymers, for example polyaniline. The continuous flow process can provide a controlled synthesis of a conducting polymer from an emulsion comprising a polymerizable organic monomer and a free radical initiator in flow within a temperature controlled continuous flow reactor comprising at least one mixing element. The present disclosure also relates to the conducting polymers prepared by the continuous flow process. |
| US11065593B2 |
Microcapsules encapsulating a reflective agent
Microcapsules encapsulating a reflective agent are provided herein. The microcapsules are comprised of an inner core, which comprises the reflective agent and optionally an oily substance, and an outer shell formed of wall-forming polymeric materials. The microcapsules may further comprise an opaque substance and/or a fatty acyl salt in the outer shell. Processes of preparing the microcapsules are also provided. |
| US11065586B2 |
Porous support-zeolite membrane composite and process for producing porous support-zeolite membrane composite
The present invention relates to a process for producing a porous support-zeolite membrane composite, which comprises forming a CHA type zeolite membrane on a porous support by a hydrothermal synthesis in the presence of seed crystals, wherein an FAU type zeolite is used as the seed crystals. |
| US11065585B2 |
Synthetic membranes and methods of use thereof
The present invention relates to synthetic membranes and use of these synthetic membranes for isolation of volatile organic compounds and purification of water. The synthetic membrane includes a hydrophobic polymer layer located on a polymeric membrane support layer. The invention includes a method of isolating volatile organic compounds with the synthetic membrane by contacting a volatile organic mixture with the hydrophobic polymer layer of the synthetic membrane and removing volatile organic compounds from the polymeric membrane support layer of the synthetic membrane by a process of pervaporation. The invention also includes a method of purifying water with the synthetic membrane by contacting an ionic solution with the hydrophobic polymer layer of the synthetic membrane and removing water from the polymeric membrane support layer of the synthetic membrane by a process of reverse osmosis. The invention also relates to methods of isolating non-polar gases by gas fractionation. |
| US11065582B2 |
Computer-readable recording medium on which clogging location specification program for separation membrane module is recorded, water production system, and water production method
The present invention relates to a computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a clogging location determination program for a separation membrane module, in which, in order to determine a clogging location of a separation membrane module in a fresh water generation system for obtaining treated water by filtrating water to be treated by a separation membrane module having a separation membrane, a computer is caused to function as a clogging location determination means for determining a clogging location of the separation membrane module from a resistance in a lower part of the separation membrane module, a filtration resistance of a hollow-fiber membrane, and a resistance in an upper part of the separation membrane module. |
| US11065579B2 |
Catalytic combustion in low temperature, humid conditions
Methods are disclosed for achieving the catalytic combustion of a gaseous species in low temperature humid environments. The methods comprise the steps of obtaining a combustion catalyst composition comprising an amount of a precious metal supported on an ion-exchangeable alkali metal titanate substrate, and then exposing the species to the combustion catalyst composition in the presence of an oxygen containing gas and water vapour at a catalysis temperature below 200° C. and at a relative humidity above 0.5%. A novel desiccant-coupled catalytic combustion process and system are also disclosed. |
| US11065578B2 |
Control of wet scrubber oxidation inhibitor and byproduct recovery
The present disclose is directed to a method for controlling iodine levels in wet scrubbers, and, in particular, recirculating wet scrubbers by removing the iodine from the scrubbing solution, such as by using ion exchange, absorption, adsorption, precipitation, filtration, solvent extraction, ion pair extraction, and an aqueous two-phase extraction. |
| US11065577B2 |
Process for the production of copper sulfide
A process for preparing a copper sulfide of the formula CuxSy, wherein the process comprises the following steps: (i) reacting an aqueous solution of a copper salt with a molar excess of a sulfiding agent so as to precipitate copper sulfide from the solution; (ii) isolating the copper sulfide precipitate from the reaction mixture; and (iii) drying the copper sulfide precipitate at a temperature of less than 100° C., wherein x and y are integer or non-integer values. |
| US11065572B2 |
Integrated treatment system for composite waste gas including nitrogen oxides, chlorofluorocarbons, hydrochlorofluorocarbons, hydrofluorocarbons, and perfluorinated compounds
Disclosed is a system for integrally treating a composite waste gas including nitrogen oxides (NOx and N2O), chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), and perfluorinated compounds (PFCs). The system includes a first wet processor configured to wash and adsorb dust including gases, SOx, and ash dissolved in water, a decomposing reactor configured to receive waste gas processed in the first wet processor and process nitrogen oxides (NOx and N2O), fluorocarbons (CFCs), hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), and perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) in the waste gas, and a second wet processor configured to receive the waste gas processed in the decomposing reactor and wash and adsorb the received waste gas. The system can efficiently treat a large amount of composite waste gas. |
| US11065571B2 |
Honeycomb filter
Provided is a honeycomb filter, including: a pillar-shaped honeycomb substrate having an inflow end face and an outflow end face and including a porous partition wall surrounding a plurality of cells; and a plugging portion disposed at any one of ends of the cells at the inflow end face and at the outflow end face. In a cross section orthogonal to an extending direction of the cells, inflow cells have a pentagonal or a hexagonal shape, and outflow cells have a square shape. The cells are configured that the inflow cells surround one outflow cell and one side of an inflow cell and one side of an adjacent outflow cell are parallel to each other. The partition wall is configured that thickness of a first partition wall disposed between the inflow cells and the outflow cells is larger than thickness of a second partition wall disposed between the inflow cells. |
| US11065568B2 |
Smart filter module analysis system and associated methods
A filter module analysis system configured for the analysis of a filter module having a filter element contained within a housing, the housing having an inlet, a clean outlet and a waste outlet. A clean outlet sensor assembly can be provided about the clean outlet, and a waste outlet sensor assembly can be provided about the waste outlet. A data collection and network communication mechanism can be configured to receive process and receive data from the clean and waste outlet sensor assemblies and transmit the data over a network to a server form storage and processing filter module statuses based on flow detected flow parameters. |
| US11065564B2 |
Pressure control device
A pressure control device reliably preventing foreign matter from flowing beyond a filter unit to the downstream side. The pressure control device includes a body and a cylindrical filter unit. The body has a flow path including a groove and a widened part. A depth of the groove from an upper surface to a bottom is a first depth. The widened part is connected to the groove, extends from the upper surface to the bottom, and has a width larger than a width of the groove. The filter unit is housed along a depth direction of the widened part to capture foreign matter mixed in a fluid passing through the flow path. A depth of the widened part from the upper surface to a bottom surface is a second depth larger than the first depth. The widened part includes a receiving part that a part of the filter unit enters. |
| US11065561B2 |
Sample degasser dilution control system
A degasser system may comprise a mass flow controller device and a sample pump coupled to a sample degasser for controlling the dilution of gases extracted from drilling fluid in the sample degasser by a dilution fluid, such as nitrogen gas. The mass flow controller may inject the dilution fluid into the tank of the sample degasser to dilute the gases extracted from the drilling fluid. The dilution fluid may be aspirated or sparged into the sample degasser. The sample pump may extract a sample of the gases separated from the drilling fluid by the sample degasser. The rate of injection of the dilution fluid into the sample degasser and the rate of extraction of the gas sample from the drilling fluid may be adjustable to control the dilution of the gas sample for analysis. |
| US11065559B2 |
Cyclonic inlet diverter
A cyclonic inlet diverter for initiating the separation of a multi-phase inlet fluid flow comprises an enclosed tubular body mounted crosswise within a larger separator vessel. The inlet diverter includes a splitter plate positioned within a center portion of the tubular body and configured to split the inlet flow into a first stream and a second stream, and a swirl plate positioned on each side of the splitter plate with angled surfaces configured to increase the cyclonic motion of the first and second streams within the tubular body. The inlet diverter further includes elongate apertures formed through bottom sidewall portions of the tubular body on each side of the splitter plate, an axial aperture formed through opposing end caps of the tubular body, and at least one radial aperture formed through lateral sidewall portions of the tubular body proximate each opposing end cap. |
| US11065554B2 |
Toy with ejectable fitting
A toy (1000) includes a toy body (100) and an accessory (200). The toy body (100) includes an accessory locking member (4) which cooperates with or is separated from the accessory (200) to position or eject the accessory (200). The accessory (200) is provided with a first clamping part (204) configured to clamp a toy disc (300). |
| US11065553B2 |
Systems and methods for securing a movable arm of a ride vehicle
The ride vehicle system includes a ride vehicle having a ride vehicle base configured to interface with a ride track and move along the ride track. The ride vehicle also has a movable arm having a base end and a free end. The moveable arm moves along one or more motion-controlled axes. The movable arm is mounted to the ride vehicle at the base end. A ride seat is attached to the free end of the movable arm. A coupling device couples a first portion of the movable arm to the ride vehicle base, the ride seat to a second portion of the movable arm, the ride seat to the ride vehicle base, or some combination thereof. |
| US11065551B2 |
Virtual reality presentation of real world space
Methods and systems are provided for delivering a virtual reality (VR) experience of a real world space to a remote user via a head mounted display (HMD). A method provides for sending a request for the VR experience of the real world space and identifying a viewing location made by the user. The method includes operations for mapping the viewing location to a real world capture system for capturing video and audio at a location that corresponds to the viewing location and receiving real world coordinates for the real world capture system. Further, the method accesses a user profile of the user and receives a video stream of the real world space captured by the real world capture system. The method is able to identify and reskin a real world object with a graphical content element by overlaying the graphical content item in place of the image data associated with the real world object. |
| US11065546B1 |
Distributed authority for peer gaming
An application can be executed for multiple peers using a peer-to-peer network structure. State data for the peers can be compared to provide for authority on the session even though there is no dedicated authority component. Such an approach can help to maintain consistency across the distributed network, as well as to minimize the occurrence of cheating or manipulation of the data on the session. A set of state variables is selected, and peers use their local values for those variables to generate hashes to be sent to the other peers. The hash values are compared and any variations addressed accordingly. For any outlier peers that report different hash values, their state values can be adjusted to attempt to bring those outliers back in sync with the other peers. This can involve updating or rolling back specific parameter values for the outlier or all peers. |
| US11065542B2 |
Method and apparatus for determining user engagement in a videogame
A method of determining user engagement in a game includes: receiving data from a plurality of remote entertainment devices at a server, the data from a respective entertainment device associating at least a first feature state of the game with an action by a user of that respective entertainment device indicative of a predetermined degree of engagement by the user with the game, aggregating the data received from the plurality of entertainment devices, and determining a level of correspondence between one or more feature states and user actions indicative of the predetermined degree of engagement. |
| US11065532B2 |
Split-screen presentation based on user location and controller location
A method for managing multi-player interactivity with an interactive application is provided, including the following operations: determining locations of a first controller, a second controller, a first user, and a second user; pairing the first controller to the first user based on the location of the first controller and the location of the first user; pairing the second controller to the second user based on the location of the second controller and the location of the second user; presenting a split-screen view of the interactive application, wherein presenting the split-screen view includes setting positions of a first view and a second view within the split-screen view based on one or more of the locations of the first user, the second user, the first controller, or the second controller. |
| US11065531B2 |
Multi-layered game board
A portable board game that allows the player to journey through different terrains, providing a fun and educational foundation for learning all types of information with a unique game board; the multidimensional game board allows for choice within the gaming experience. The polarities of game components all have a secure, designated spot within the board game case. This platform provides an addition outlet for absorbing information while having fun at the same time. |
| US11065530B2 |
Overlay for collectible trading cards
An overlay having artwork printed thereon in a strategic location such that when placed over the front face of a card changes the look and appearance of the original artwork on the front face of the card. The overlay may be used with any type of card, but is preferably used with playing cards and trading cards, and is most preferably used with collectible trading cards. |
| US11065529B2 |
Method of and apparatus for changing a shape of a gliding surface of a gliding device
A method of changing a shape of a gliding surface of a gliding device may involve, in response to longitudinal deflection of the gliding device, causing at least one force transfer element to move longitudinally relative to the gliding device. Causing the at least one force transfer element to move longitudinally relative to the gliding device may involve causing the at least one force transfer element to deflect first and second laterally opposite side elements of the gliding device along a portion of the gliding device extending longitudinally along a binding region of the gliding device. Apparatuses and gliding devices are also disclosed. |
| US11065524B2 |
Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture to measure, analyze and share golf swing and ball motion characteristics
Disclosed herein is an electronic device holder comprising a body having a back portion, a first body end, a second body end, and a first and second side portion. The device holder further comprises a clamp on the back portion of the body that is configured to removably attach and secure the body of the electronic device holder to a golf club shaft. The clamp comprises a first and second arm portion each comprising a support portion, an arcuate portion, and a guide portion. The guide portions assist in aligning and inserting the electronic device holder onto the golf club shaft. Furthermore the first body end, the first side portion, and the second side portions of the holder body comprise curved portions that assist in securing the electronic device into the holder. Other embodiments and systems are described herein. |
| US11065518B2 |
Handle grip control device
A handle grip control device configured to be removably secured to a handle of an instrument includes a body having a first outer surface and an inner surface, and a protrusion extending radially outwardly from a respective proximal end at the first outer surface of the body to a distal tip. The inner surface defines a cavity configured to receive handles of instruments, and the protrusion can define a second outer surface that includes a first and second sloped surfaces opposite to a bottom surface. A slope of the first sloped surface defines a first angle relative to a plane that is perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the body, and a slope of the second sloped surface defines a second angle relative to the plane that is greater than the first angle. |
| US11065517B2 |
Golf club and golf club head structures
A golf club head has a body having a ball striking face, a rear opposite the ball striking face, a crown, a sole, a heel, and a toe, the body having a void defined by a peripheral edge on the sole. The body further defines a cover that extends over the void and forms at least a portion of the crown. At least a portion of the peripheral edge of the void includes a lip extending from the peripheral edge inwardly into the void. The golf club head may additionally or alternately include one or more weight receptacles connected to the sole and having an opening in the sole, such that each weight receptacle is configured to receive insertion of a weight through the opening. |
| US11065513B2 |
Set of golf club heads and method of manufacture
A co-forged iron type golf club is disclosed. More specifically, the present invention discloses an iron type golf club head from a pre-form billet that already contains two or more materials before the actual forging process resulting in a multi-material golf club head that doesn't require any post manufacturing operations such as machining, welding, swaging, gluing, and the like. The resultant golf club head may be capable of achieving center of gravity locations previously unachievable without utilizing this co-forging technique. The resultant golf club head may be used to create a set of golf club heads with center of gravity locations that are more advantageous throughout a set of golf clubs. |
| US11065512B2 |
Golf club head with heel-side weight plug
A golf club head comprising a body with a heel-side sole opening in communication with a hosel bore, a removable shaft sleeve with a tip sized to fit within the hosel bore, and a weight plug sized to fit within, and at least partially fill, the heel-side opening is disclosed herein. The weight plug, which has a base end with a through-opening, a tip end with a flange, and a side opening in communication with the through-opening, is connected to the shaft sleeve with a screw. When the golf club head is fully assembled, a hosel flange is trapped between the weight plug and the tip end of the shaft sleeve, and tightening the screw causes the weight plug and the shaft sleeve to move towards one another. |
| US11065510B2 |
Golf ball
An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball having a low spin rate on driver shots. The present invention provides a golf ball comprising a spherical core and at least one cover layer covering the spherical core, wherein the spherical core is formed from a rubber composition containing (a) a base rubber, (b) a co-crosslinking agent, (c) a crosslinking initiator, and (d) a RAFT agent, (b) the co-crosslinking agent contains an α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acid having 3 to 8 carbon atoms and/or a metal salt thereof, and (d) the RAFT agent is a compound represented by the formula (1): in the formula (1), R represents a monovalent organic group, and Z represents a monovalent organic group. |
| US11065509B2 |
Golf ball
An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball having improved ball speed or aerodynamic performance on a rainy day or the like by controlling the formulation of the paint film. The present invention provides a golf ball comprising a golf ball body and a paint film covering the golf ball body, wherein a paint film surface of the golf ball has a water contact angle A1 of 70° or more and a water sliding angle B1 of less than 50°. The present invention also provides a golf ball comprising a golf ball body and a paint film covering the golf ball body, wherein when a sheet consisting of a slab formed from a composition constituting a golf ball body surface and a coating film formed by applying a paint constituting the paint film on the slab is prepared, a coating film surface of the sheet has a water contact angle A2 of 90° or more and a water sliding angle B2 of less than 52°. |
| US11065507B2 |
Multifunctional balance exercise machine
A multifunctional balance exercise machine comprises a balancing mechanism including loading board, spring, elastic column, and motion-tracking sensor; a first display unit and an electronic control device loaded with motion sensor game program arranged on the exercise equipment; whereby when the fitness user stands on the loading board, the user body weight and the stress applied by feet transmit to the elastic column and the spring via the loading board, cause the elastic column and the spring compressed or stretched, and force the loading board to oscillate, then achieve the effect of balance exercise; furthermore, the motion tracking sensor transmit signal of oscillation data to electronic control device, the processor unit operates the data, and present the image of the motion sensor game via the first display unit to achieve entertaining effect of virtual reality game. |
| US11065504B2 |
Variable-resistance exercise machine with wireless communication for smart device control and interactive software applications
A variable-resistance exercise machine with communication for smart device control and interactive software applications, comprising a network interface that receives input from a user device and provides output to a user device; a plurality of moving surfaces that each provide an independent degree of resistance to movement based on received input and that detect movement and provide output to a user device based on the movement; and a plurality of rigid rails that provide a rigid support for a human user to grasp, and that provide attachment points for a user to affix a variety of devices. |
| US11065502B2 |
Position adjusting device for exercising apparatus
A height adjustment mechanism for exercising apparatus includes a first frame body and a second frame body being slidable relative to the first frame body in an adjusting direction. The second frame body has a series of positioning holes. A pressing member is disposed at one side of the first frame body for tightening or loosening the second frame body. A slidable block is limitedly movable along the first frame body in the adjusting direction. A pin member is received in the slidable block and operable to be engaged in a selected one of the positioning holes so that movement of the second frame body causes movement of the slidable block within a limited range. When the slidable block moves toward bottom of the limited range, the pressing member is pulled inward by at least one connecting arm to a tightening position to clamp the second frame body. |
| US11065499B2 |
Adjustable dumbbell
An adjustable dumbbell assembly includes a dumbbell mechanism having two or more weight members engaged in a receptacle, and a handle bar engaged between the weight members, two catches slidably engaged in the handle bar and extendible out and engageable with the weight members for detachably attaching the weight members to the handle bar, two followers slidably engaged in the receptacle and each having a protrusion for engaging with the catches and for moving the catches to engage with the weight members, and for detachably attaching the weight members to the handle bar, and an actuating member engaged with the followers for actuating the followers to move the catches to engage with the weight members. |
| US11065495B1 |
Spring anchor bar and carriage stop assembly
A coil spring anchor bar and carriage stop is disclosed for use in a reformer exercise apparatus to fasten ends of one or more coil springs extending from the movable carriage to the foot end of the reformer frame. The anchor bar and carriage stop includes an elongated metal plate having a longitudinally flat straight portion extending between first and second ends, a first longitudinally straight curved portion curved in a first direction and extending between and forming part of the first and second ends, and a second curved portion between the first and second ends curved in a direction opposite the first direction. A pair of spaced apart carriage stops extend orthogonally from the straight portion engage the movable carriage to maintain a predetermined minimum distance between the anchor bar and the carriage when the anchor bar is supported from the foot end of the reformer frame. |
| US11065492B2 |
Controlled medication denaturing composition and method
In one aspect, a composition for decomposing pharmaceutically active agents comprises an oxidizer comprising a permanganate, and an isocyanurate; and an immobilizer. In another aspect, a composition comprises up to 50 wt. % of an oxidizer comprising potassium permanganate and sodium dichloroisocyanurate dehydrate, wherein the wt. % is based on a total weight of the composition. |
| US11065489B2 |
Fire protection sprinkler assemblies and installations with adjustable push-to-connect fittings
Adjustable fire protection assemblies and methods are provided. The assembly includes a sprinkler having a body with an outer encasing surface and a deflector supported from the body. An escutcheon having a receiver and a rim surround the fire protection sprinkler to define an aperture between the receiver and the sprinkler. A push-to-connect fitting of the assembly includes a tubular member with an end for connection to a pipe and an internal conduit that receives the sprinkler body. A seal member and a retaining ring are disposed within the tubular member to form an adjustable seal and grip about the sprinkler body. A releasing member translates to disengage the retaining ring from the sprinkler body; and the escutcheon translates with respect to the tubular member in a sliding surface engagement to define an adjustable deflector-to-rim distance between the rim of the escutcheon and the deflector of the sprinkler. |
| US11065488B2 |
Repositionable console
A vehicle includes a turntable rotatably coupled to a chassis, a platform coupled to the turntable, and a railing coupled to the platform. A control console includes a base section coupled to the turntable and spaced from the railing and a movable section that is movably coupled to the base section. An access opening is defined between the railing and the base section. The platform is accessible by an operator through the access opening. The movable section of the control console is selectively repositionable relative to the base section between a stowed position and an operating position. An operator interface of the movable section is configured to be accessed by the operator when the movable section is in the operating position. The movable section of the control console extends across the access opening when in the operating position, thereby limiting operator accessibility through the access opening. |
| US11065485B2 |
Fixed systems and methods for extinguishing industrial tank fires, with and without fixed roof, including aerated foam projecting nozzles and center directed nozzles
Fixed systems and method for extinguishing large scale industrial tank fires, with and without fixed roofs, and featuring aerated foam projecting nozzles and including fixed center directed nozzles. |
| US11065483B2 |
Systems and methods for fire containment
An apparatus for containing fires including a fire containment pouch that includes an upper portion and a lower portion, the fire containment pouch is a flame-resistant material. The upper portion includes a pouch section that is coated with an intumescent material and the lower portion including a cuff section. The upper portion and the lower portion juxtaposed one against each other to define an outer containment portion of elongate length from a top of the pouch section and a bottom of the cuff section. The fire containment pouch is adaptable to be pulled inside out thereby transforming the outer containment portion to an inner containment portion and a fastener secured to the bottom of the cuff section to seal an object within the inner containment portion after the fire containment pouch has been pulled inside out. |
| US11065474B2 |
Patient alignment method and system using light field and light reflector during radiation therapy
A system to align an object using a light reflector, including: an input unit for pre-setting a first region in which radiation is to be emitted to the object; a display unit for displaying information on the first region; a radiation unit for emitting radiation to the first region; a reflector formed to correspond to the shape of the first region and configured to be attached to the first region; a light unit for emitting light in the same direction as the radiation to the first region; a camera for photographing a region of the reflector when the reflector reflects light emitted by the light unit; and a control unit for controlling the display unit to display the region of the light reflector which reflects light photographed by the camera, and determining whether the radiation is aligned to the first region of the object based on whether the region of the light reflector is included in the shape of the first region. |
| US11065473B2 |
Methods and systems for checking alignment of components of a radiotherapy system
A method of operating a radiotherapy system mounted on a gantry surrounding a magnetic resonance imaging system is provided, the radiotherapy system comprising a radiotherapy beam generator, and a radiotherapy imaging system, wherein the gantry is arranged to rotate the radiotherapy beam generator around the magnetic resonance imaging system. The method comprises obtaining a reference image, the reference image including a predetermined feature of the magnetic resonance imaging system located near the radiotherapy imaging system; rotating the gantry relative the magnetic resonance imaging system; obtaining a second image, the second image including the predetermined feature of the magnetic resonance imaging system located near the radiotherapy imaging system; and determining changes in the relative positions of the radiotherapy beam generator, the radiotherapy imaging system, and the magnetic resonance imaging system based on differences in the position of the predetermined feature in the reference image and in the further image. |
| US11065471B2 |
Systems and methods for automatic, customized radiation treatment plan generation for cancer
Systems and methods for automatic, customized radiation treatment plan generation for cancer are disclosed. According to an aspect, a method includes receiving data indicating anatomy information of a patient and radiation beam characteristics of a radiation therapy system. Further, the method includes determining energy levels for application of radiation beams to the patient. |
| US11065470B2 |
Tissue sampling and catheter selection cancer treatment methods
A catheter treatment apparatus comprises an elongate tubular member and an expandable support. The expandable support comprises a radioactive substance to treat cancerous tissue and is configured to expand from a narrow profile for insertion to a wide profile to engage and treat tissue remaining after resection. The expandable support can be sized to fit within a volume of removed tissue to place the radioactive substance in proximity to the capsule and remaining tissue, to spare the capsule and proximate nerves and vessels to treat tissue in proximity to the capsule. The elongate tubular member may comprise a channel such as a lumen to pass a bodily fluid such as urine when the expandable support engages the tissue to treat the patient for a plurality of days. The treatment apparatus can be used to resect and diagnose tissue concurrently. Based on the diagnosis, targeted segmental treatment may be given. |
| US11065466B2 |
Shock determination based on prior shocks
A system for managing care of a person receiving emergency cardiac assistance is disclosed that includes one or more capacitors for delivering a defibrillating shock to a patient; one or more electronic ports for receiving signals from sensors for obtaining indications of an electrocardiogram (ECG) for the patient; a patient treatment module executable on one or more computer processors to provide a determination of a likelihood of success from delivering a future defibrillating shock to the person with the one or more capacitors, using (a) information about a prior defibrillating shock, and (b) a value that is a function of current ECG signals from the patient. |
| US11065464B2 |
Methods for wearable system
A wearable system includes a support structure with optionally one or more electrodes in an unbiased state. Different sensor modules may monitor, for the long-term, different patient parameters such as the patient's motion, a physiological parameter, a patient sound etc., other than the patient's ECG. The sensor modules can be worn by the patient concurrently, or only one at a time as convenient, and may provide respective sensor signals. The system may determine from one or more of the available received signals whether a certain threshold has been reached, such as when the patient is having an actionable episode. If so, at least one electrode may become mechanically biased against the patient's body, for making good electrical contact. Then, an ECG reading may be taken and/or therapy may be administered. |
| US11065462B2 |
Wireless recharging system and method for flexible implantable subcutaneous medical device
Subcutaneous implantable medical device (IMD) recharging system, including a flexible rechargeable subcutaneous IMD and a charger transmitter, the flexible rechargeable subcutaneous IMD implanted in a patient and including at least one receiver antenna and at least one rechargeable battery, the charger transmitter including at least one transmitter antenna and a modulator, the charger transmitter for providing electromagnetic (EM) radiation to the receiver antenna wirelessly for recharging the rechargeable battery, the transmitter antenna being encased in a structure for temporarily coupling the transmitter antenna to the skin of the patient and the modulator being for modulating the EM radiation and for simultaneously transmitting programming information to the flexible rechargeable subcutaneous IMD as modulated EM radiation. |
| US11065461B2 |
Implantable power adapter
An apparatus includes a power adapter having a housing and a circuit at least partially disposed in the housing. The housing is configured to be coupled to an implantable device for disposition in a body. The circuit is configured to be electrically connected to a power circuit of the implantable device when the housing is coupled to the implantable electrical conductor. When the housing is coupled to the implantable electrical conductor and implanted in a body, the circuit is configured to (1) receive, transcutaneously from a power supply, a first energy, (2) convert the first energy to a second energy, and (3) transfer, to the implantable device, the second energy such that the second energy powers the implantable device. |
| US11065459B2 |
Implantable medical device with pressure sensor
An implantable medical device (IMD) is configured with a pressure sensor. The IMD includes a housing and a diaphragm that is exposed to the environment outside of the housing. The diaphragm is configured to transmit a pressure from the environment outside of the housing to a piezoelectric membrane. In response, the piezoelectric membrane generates a voltage and/or a current, which is representative of a pressure change applied to the housing diaphragm. In some cases, only changes in pressure over time are used, not absolute or gauge pressures. |
| US11065456B2 |
Apparatus and method for implanting an implantable device
In various examples, an apparatus is configured for subcutaneously inserting an implantable device within a patient. The apparatus includes a dilator portion including a dilator including a dilator length. The dilator portion is configured to separate tissue to create a subcutaneous pocket within the patient sized and shaped to accommodate an implantable device within the subcutaneous pocket. A sheath portion includes a sheath sized and shaped to accommodate the dilator within a sheath lumen. The sheath is configured to accommodate an antenna of the implantable device with the dilator removed from within the sheath. The sheath includes a sheath length that is at least substantially as long as an antenna length. The sheath is configured to separate to allow removal of the sheath around the implantable device to remove the sheath from and leave the implantable device within the subcutaneous pocket within the patient. |
| US11065453B2 |
Extra-cardiovascular cardiac pacing system
An extra-cardiovascular medical device is configured to select a capacitor configuration from a capacitor array and deliver a low voltage, pacing pulse by discharging the selected capacitor configuration across an extra-cardiovascular pacing electrode vector. In some examples, the medical device is configured to determine the capacitor configuration based on a measured impedance of the extra-cardiovascular pacing electrode vector. |
| US11065449B2 |
Systems and methods for enhancing or affecting neural stimulation efficiency and/or efficacy
Systems and methods for enhancing or affecting neural stimulation efficiency and/or efficacy are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system and/or method may apply electromagnetic stimulation to a patient's nervous system over a first time domain according to a first set of stimulation parameters, and over a second time domain according to a second set of stimulation parameters. The first and second time domains may be sequential, simultaneous, or nested. Stimulation parameters may vary in accordance with one or more types of duty cycle, amplitude, pulse repetition frequency, pulse width, spatiotemporal, and/or polarity variations. Stimulation may be applied at subthreshold, threshold, and/or suprathreshold levels in one or more periodic, aperiodic (e.g., chaotic), and/or pseudo-random manners. In some embodiments stimulation may comprise a burst pattern having an interburst frequency corresponding to an intrinsic brainwave frequency, and regular and/or varying intraburst stimulation parameters. Stimulation signals providing reduced power consumption with at least adequate symptomatic relief may be applied prior to moderate or significant power source depletion. |
| US11065445B2 |
Transcranial stimulation with real-time monitoring
Closed-loop transcranial stimulation and monitoring is disclosed that includes generating a stimulation signal having a set of first oscillation parameters; applying the stimulation signal transcranially to a patient; monitoring the stimulation signal as applied to the patient; receiving a brain activity signal from the patient; generating a feedback signal based on the monitored stimulation signal as applied to the patient; and generating a modified activity signal by subtracting the feedback signal from the brain activity signal; determining one or more second oscillation parameters of the modified activity signal; and adjusting the set of first oscillation parameters of the stimulation signal based on the one or more second oscillation parameters of the modified activity signal. Closed-loop transcranial stimulation and monitoring is also disclosed in which the patient is engaged in a cognitive task. |
| US11065442B2 |
Implantable medical device which may be controlled from central station
An implantable electrical stimulating device and system provides for a remote determination of the identity of the person in whom the stimulating device is implanted. The stimulating device may be a pacemaker, a defibrillator, another medical device or a non-medical device. The bases for the remote identification are (1) the comingling of (A) biologic identification information of the person linked to the stimulating device, and (B) information pertaining to a physiologic parameter (e.g. heart rate information) of that person, and (2) the modulation of the physiologic parameter by external information. Embodiments of the invention in which the stimulating device is external to the person are possible. By utilizing the apparatus providing for the remote identification of a person plus stimulating device, one aspect of secure communication—that based on reliable mutual identification of each participant in a communication—is achieved. |
| US11065441B2 |
Electrode fixation in interventional medical systems
An implantable medical device assembly includes a mounting structure, an electrode protruding from a surface of the structure, between opposing sides thereof, and tissue-penetrating fixation tines, each extending from a corresponding shoulder of the structure surface, adjacent to the opposing sides. In a relaxed condition, each tine extends away from the surface and then bends toward a proximal end of the structure and back toward the surface. In an extended condition, each tine bends toward a distal end of the structure and extends along the corresponding shoulder. A holding member of a delivery tool has opposing sidewalls defining a cavity, wherein each sidewall includes a rail-like edge that fits in sliding engagement with a corresponding shoulder, to deform a corresponding tine into the extended condition, when an operator passes the assembly into the cavity. Applying a push force, to move the assembly back out form the cavity, releases the tines. |
| US11065439B1 |
Conforming modular neural interface system
Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods for better conforming to biological tissue, reducing the temperature and irritation of tissue, modulating tissue, and/or wirelessly sending and receiving power through tissue. Devices can include panels movable with respect to each other to allow the body to move between a flattened and non-flattened state. Devices can include movable parts or structures that enable improved conformance to three-dimensional surfaces of tissue. |
| US11065428B2 |
Microneedle array with active ingredient
Microneedle arrays for introducing an active ingredient through a skin surface of a subject can include a base layer, a plurality of microneedles projecting from the base layer, and an active ingredient. Each of the microneedles comprises an elongate body having a proximal portion and a distal portion, in which the proximal portion is attached to the base layer. Each of the microneedles comprises at least one dissolvable polymer. The active ingredient is incorporated in the elongate body, and the active ingredient is present only in the distal portion and at least internally in the distal portion. |
| US11065422B2 |
Devices, systems, and methods useful to engage tissue using suction and to perform medical procedures during suctional engagement
Devices, systems, and methods useful to engage tissue using suction and to perform medical procedures during sectional engagement. The present disclosure includes disclosure of a tension apparatus, comprising an elongated portion; and a head portion at a distal end of the elongated portion, the head portion comprising one or more arms, whereby a suction lumen extending along the elongated portion and the one or more arms terminates at one or more suction openings at each of the one or more arms. |
| US11065418B1 |
Bladder storage anomaly assessment
A method of assessing bladder storage anomalies via utilization of an indwelling urinary drainage catheter is provided. A urodynamic assessment assembly is provided, the assembly characterized by a pressure sensor for vesical pressure measurement, a processor/controller for receiving, processing and/or displaying select urodynamic patient parameters comprising sensed/monitored pressure data, and a catheter balloon adaptor for operably uniting the pressure sensor of the urodynamic assessment assembly to a balloon inflation valve of the indwelling urinary drainage catheter, the indwelling urinary drainage catheter operably linked with the urodynamic assessment assembly. Vesical pressure is sensed via the vesical pressure sensor during a bladder emptying event, the bladder emptying event characterized by an application of variable resistance to fluid flow from the bladder via the indwelling urinary drainage catheter with vesical pressure/outlet resistance/flow rate relationships established based upon sensed vesical pressure values. |
| US11065417B2 |
Method for manufacturing catheter and catheter manufactured by this manufacturing method
A catheter manufacturing method includes positioning a shaft in a cavity of a mold. The shaft is an elongated tubular body configured to be inserted into a living body. The mold includes a first mold die and a second mold die that contact one another to define a closed space which is the cavity. The method includes injecting a molding material into the cavity from a gate at a position between the proximal end and the distal end of the shaft in the axial direction. The injecting position is offset from the center of the shaft in the transverse direction. The method includes molding a hub onto the shaft by solidifying the injected molding material in the cavity onto the outer surface of the shaft. |
| US11065416B2 |
Therapeutic device
A therapeutic device that can diffuse essential oils, infuse frequency into liquids, emit frequency-driven lights, and produce solfeggio tones. The therapeutic device includes an enclosure, at least one oil-diffusing device, at least one frequency-infusing device, at least one frequency-tone generator, a first plurality of ambience lights, at least one vent, and a first controller. The enclosure is used to conceal and protect the electronic components. The at least one oil-diffusing device is used to diffuse fluids. The at least one frequency-infusing device is used to infuse frequency by vibration into fluids. The at least one frequency-tone generator is used to generate tones of different frequencies. The first plurality of ambience lights is used for aesthetic and therapeutic aspects. The at least one vent is used as an escape for the mist produced by the diffusion of the fluids. The first controller is used to manage the electronic components. |
| US11065412B2 |
Valsalva mask
An interface for positive pressure therapy includes a mask assembly and a headgear assembly. The mask assembly comprises a mask seal that is adapted to underlie the nose. The mask seal extends up the lateral sides of the nose. The mask seal has a primary seal below the nose and a secondary seal alongside the nose. |
| US11065410B1 |
Dental appliance using airway dialation for treating covid related breathing disorders
A molded breathing appliance for supporting a nasal oxygen tube having an upper bite rim, a lower bite rim, a moldable material disposed within the upper bite rim and lower bite rim for conforming to a patient's maxillary bite impression and mandibular bite impression, respectively, an L-shaped member extending outwardly perpendicular to the upper bite rim, and a transverse support disposed on the L-shaped member and configured with a plurality of sets of oxygen tube finger clamps to retain a nasal oxygen tube in proximity with a patient's nostrils. |
| US11065407B2 |
Resuscitation bag
Resuscitation apparatuses and methods for assisted ventilation are described herein. The apparatuses may include functional elements that allow the manual delivery of a prescribed volume to an adult or an infant lung. Furthermore, the apparatuses may inform and assure an emergency worker that an appropriate volume is being delivered and therefore lessen the possibility of barotrauma from over-delivery, or ventilatory distress from under-delivery. In some embodiments, the apparatuses include biomechanical and ergonomic functional elements that allow an adult hand to hold it in place during operation, while at the same time, allowing the user to actuate the apparatus to deliver only the necessary amount of volume suitable for an infant lung. In other embodiments, a volume-controlled design is applied to pediatric and adult resuscitation. |
| US11065405B2 |
Electronic cigarette, and method of cleaning an electronic cigarette
An electronic cigarette includes a ceramic heating element having a current conducting heating member on and/or in a body of ceramic material which is impenetrable to the liquid; a liquid delivery member to deliver liquid from a liquid storage to the heating element; a battery; and an electric circuit for electrically connecting the heating element to the battery. The body of ceramic material is to contact or be in close proximity to the liquid delivery member, to vaporize the liquid when the ceramic heating element produces heat. The electronic cigarette further includes a cartomizer part, having the liquid storage and the liquid delivery member, and a battery holding part, having the battery, the ceramic heating element, and the electric circuit. In an assembled state, the cartomizer part and the battery holding part are assembled. In a disassembled state, the cartomizer part and the battery holding part are separated. |
| US11065399B2 |
Nebulizer vibrating aperture plate drive frequency control and monitoring
A nebulizer has an aperture plate, a mounting, an actuator, and an aperture plate drive circuit (2-4). A controller measures an electrical drive parameter at each of a plurality of measuring points, each measuring point having a drive frequency; and based on the values of the parameter at the measuring points makes a determination of optimum drive frequency and also an end-of-dose prediction. The controller performs a short scan at regular sub-second intervals at which drive current is measured at two measuring points with different drive frequencies. According to drive parameter measurements at these points the controller determines if a full scan sweeping across a larger number of measuring points should be performed. The full scan provides the optimum drive frequency for the device and also an end of dose indication. |
| US11065397B2 |
Inhalation device, inhalation device set, and nozzle plate therefor
An inhalation device including a housing, which encloses a liquid reservoir in which the liquid is stored before discharge, and an applicator head with a nebulization chamber and an applicator piece connected thereto, wherein the applicator piece is designed either as a mouthpiece, to be received in the mouth of a patient, or as an inhalation mask, to sealingly cover the mouth, the nose, or the mouth and the nose. The inhalation device furthermore has a discharge channel which connects the liquid reservoir to the applicator head. The inhalation device includes at the end of the discharge channel a nozzle plate with a large number of nozzle openings which serve to generate an inhalation mist and through which the liquid from the liquid reservoir is conveyed into the nebulization chamber. |
| US11065395B2 |
Contact trigger release needle guard with elastic spring
A needle guard device mountable to a pre-filled syringe in its ready-to-fill state. The device includes a device shield interconnected to a lock collar with flexible member and biased to move relative to the lock collar. The lock collar interfaces with the syringe neck to attach the device to the syringe. As the device shield moves proximally, rotation arms of the lock collar interact with angled cutouts in the device shield, causing the device shield to rotate relative to the lock collar and disengaging one or more keys on the device shield from one or more keyways in the lock collar triggering the device shield to move from a first configuration in which the device shield is retractable to expose a syringe sharp to a second configuration in which the device shield is fixedly positioned to cover the syringe sharp. |
| US11065394B2 |
Syringe with retractable needle
The invention relates to a syringe with a retractable needle comprising a barrel (2) having a nozzle (19) integrated in a male Luer adapter element (26); a piston (3) slidably arranged in the barrel (2) and coupled to a sealing element (16), said sealing element (16) having a central channel (20); a needle assembly comprising a needle (4), a needle holder (6) and a female Luer adapter element (7); a spring assembly arranged in the piston (3) comprising a spring sleeve (12), a spring (13) mounted on the spring sleeve (12), a spring tensioning element (14) located on the spring sleeve (12) and held in position by the piston wall, and a plunger (15) mounted within the spring sleeve; and a piston cap (10); said piston (3) being coupled to the sealing element (16) by means of the spring tensioning element (14); said spring sleeve (12) being held in position within the piston (3) by a ring element (18) protruding from the inner wall of the piston (3) and supporting the proximal end of the spring sleeve (12), the spring sleeve extending into the channel (20) of the sealing element (16) to the distal end thereof; said spring sleeve (12) comprising at its distal end a circular protrusion (21) on the inside designed to engage a circular recess (22) at the proximal end of the needle holder (6); wherein the piston (3) comprises a holding ring (11) on its inner surface designed to engage with an outer flange (17) of the spring sleeve (12) after actuation of the spring (13). |
| US11065387B2 |
Activation mechanism for a medicament delivery device and a medicament delivery device using the activation mechanism
An activation mechanism for a medicament delivery device is provided having a housing elongated along a generally longitudinal axis, a spring-biased drive member, a locking unit, movable from a locked position, preventing longitudinal movement of said drive member, to an unlocked position, a first activation member movable relative to the housing; a second activation member movable relative to the housing, and wherein the locking unit comprises a key member, movable relative to the locking unit, wherein the first activation member and the second activation member are configured to move the locking unit from the locked position to the unlocked position, wherein upon actuation, the first activation member and the second activation member cooperate in interacting with the key member to move the key member to the cooperating position and to move the locking unit from the locked position to the unlocked position. |
| US11065385B2 |
Fluid bolus detection
The present disclosure provides systems that include a flow probe that senses fluid flow or mass flow of fluid delivery to a patient. Based at least in part on the sensed fluid or mass flow, the flow probe provides flow-related data (e.g., volume or mass flow rate) that the system uses to derive a volume of fluid being delivered. The fluid can be delivered from an IV bag, another in-line port, or a combination of the two. The disclosed systems provide fluid volume and/or fluid rate for display to a clinician and an informative understanding of what volume of fluid/mass a patient has received. |
| US11065384B2 |
Administration set detection and authentication using CAM profiles
An administration set for an infusion pump includes a free-flow prevention device having a movable plunger that includes a cam surface defining an uneven profile along a direction of movement of the plunger, wherein the shape of the cam surface profile indicates the administration set is authorized for use with the infusion pump and may further indicate the specific type of administration set. A sensor in the infusion pump senses movement of the plunger as a platen of the infusion pump is latched and generates a profile signal in the time domain representative of the cam surface profile. A processor evaluates the profile signal and controls operation of the pump to protect a patient from improper loading of an administration set, use of an unauthorized administration set, and/or use of an invalid type of administration set for a chosen infusion protocol. |
| US11065383B2 |
Connector and transfusion set
A connector provided with a housing which defines an insertion section into which a male connector is inserted from the outside and a flow path communicating with the insertion section and an elastic valve body which has a slit and blocks the insertion section. The housing includes a tip receiving section formed on an inner wall defining the flow path, the tip receiving section receiving a tip of the male connector inserted through the slit of the elastic valve body. The tip receiving section is formed on only a part of the inner wall in a cross section that is perpendicular to an insertion direction of the male connector and includes at least a part of the tip receiving section. |
| US11065382B2 |
Apparatus to inject fluids into bone marrow and other target sites
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for providing access to bone marrow and delivering a quantity of fluid to an intraosseous space. The apparatus may include a driver having a housing and a drive shaft, and a plunger operating and cartridge drive mechanism for releasably retaining a portion of a cartridge assembly having a plunger assembly. A plunger operating assembly may be disposed within a longitudinal bore of the plunger operating and cartridge drive mechanism. The plunger operating assembly may include a plunger barrel having a chamber configured to receive a portion of the plunger assembly of the cartridge assembly. The apparatus may also include a drive housing for transmitting rotational forces from the drive shaft to the cartridge assembly. |
| US11065379B2 |
Method and system for controlled hyperthermia
Methods and for treatment of cancer and other diseases including complications from late stage viral infections by inducing hyperthermia in a patient relying on withdrawing blood from the patient and returning the withdrawn blood to the patient to establish an extracorporeal flow circuit. Blood is heated by passing through the extracorporeal circuit at a controlled rate until a target body core temperature in is achieved. Usually, the blood will be subjected to a continuously re-circulating dialysis to balance electrolytes. Additionally, the blood will be subjected to a continuously recirculating regeneration through a carbon sorbent column where toxins and contaminants are removed. The blood temperature is maintained at the target blood temperature for a treatment period, and the blood is cooled after the treatment period has been completed. The method can also be effective in treating rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, hepatitis, sepsis, the Epstein-Barr virus, and patients with life threatening complications from other viruses, including the COVID-19 virus. A method for removing viruses from the blood supply in an external circuit is also presented. |
| US11065378B2 |
Method for extracorporeal removal of a pathogenic microbe, an inflammatory cell or an inflammatory protein from blood
The present invention relates to a method for extracorporeal removal of a pathogenic microbe, an inflammatory cell or an inflammatory protein from mammalian blood/use of a device comprising a carbohydrate immobilized on a solid substrate, said carbohydrate having a binding affinity for a pathogenic microbe, an inflammatory cell or an inflammatory protein, for extracorporeal removal of said pathogenic microbe, inflammatory cell or inflammatory protein from mammalian blood/use of a carbohydrate having a binding affinity for a pathogenic microbe, an inflammatory cell or an inflammatory protein, wherein said carbohydrate is immobilized on a solid substrate, in the preparation of a device for treatment of a condition caused or aggravated by said pathogenic microbe, inflammatory cell or inflammatory protein and a method for treatment of a mammalian subject suffering from a condition caused or aggravated by a pathogenic microbe, an inflammatory cell or an inflammatory protein. |
| US11065375B2 |
Blood oxygenator
A blood oxygenator is disclosed comprising a housing, a blood inlet, a blood outlet, a spiral volute, a gas inlet, an oxygenator fiber bundle, and a gas outlet. The housing encloses the fiber bundle and provides the structure for the blood flow path and connectors. The fiber bundle comprises gas-exchange membranes which transfer oxygen to the blood and remove carbon dioxide when the blood flows across the membranes. The spiral volute guides the blood to flow through the fiber bundle. A gas flow chamber receives sweep gas containing oxygen and distributes the sweep gas into the fiber membranes, which gas is then exchanged with the blood being oxygenated. |
| US11065374B2 |
Renal failure therapy system and method of cleaning using citric acid
A renal failure therapy system (10a, 10b) includes a dialysis fluid circuit (30) including a dialysis fluid pump (54, 58); a source (86, 90) of physiological cleaning, disinfecting, and/or decalcifying substance in fluid communication with the dialysis fluid circuit; a source (22) of purified water in fluid communication with the dialysis fluid circuit; and a logic implementer (20) in operable communication with the dialysis fluid pump (54,58), the logic implementer (20) causing the physiological cleaning, disinfecting, and/or decalcifying substance from its source (86, 90) to be added to purified water from the purified water source (22) to form a mixture and to circulate the mixture within the dialysis fluid circuit using the dialysis fluid pump (54,58) to at least one of clean, disinfect or decalcify at least a portion of the dialysis fluid circuit (30) without a subsequent rinse. |
| US11065373B2 |
Water preparation system for dialysis treatments
The invention relates to a water treatment system (1) for dialysis treatments, wherein the water treatment system (1) comprises a permeate circuit with a reverse osmosis system (RO) and at least one tap (ES1, 2 . . . N) for permeate, whereby the reverse osmosis system (RO) is fed by the reflux of the at least one tap (ES1, 2 . . . N) for dialysis treatments and/or a raw water inflow (RZ), whereby the water treatment system further comprises a heat exchanger (WT), whereby a primary circuit (PK) of the heat exchanger (WT) is connected with a buffer tank (PT) for storing thermal energy, whereby a second circuit (SK) of the heat exchanger (WT) is integrated into the permeate circuit, whereby heat is transferred in a controlled manner from the buffer tank (PT) via the heat exchanger (WT) to permeate in the permeate circuit. |
| US11065370B2 |
Device for drainage, in particular for the drainage of a chronic subdural hematoma
A device for drainage includes a tubular reservoir having a tubular pliable wall, a rigid cover, and a rigid bottom, and also includes at least one spring which applies a force that presses the cover and the bottom apart, wherein the cover is movable in the direction of the bottom in order to place the spring into a start position. One or more magnets are configured such that the magnets apply an additional force on the reservoir in such a way that a resulting force pressing the cover and the bottom apart is substantially constant across as the spring is deflected. |
| US11065366B2 |
Method for producing a fibrin-based bioartificial, primarily acellular construct, and the construct itself
The invention relates to a method for producing a bioartificial and primarily acellular fibrin-based construct, wherein a mixture of cell-free compositions containing fibrinogen and thrombin is applied to a surface and subsequently pressurised. An additional aspect of the invention is directed to such fibrin-based bioartificial acellular constructs obtained according to the invention, with improved biomechanical properties, as well as to the use of same in the field of implantology, cartilage replacement or tissue replacement. |
| US11065365B2 |
Preparation and/or formulation of proteins cross-linked with polysaccharides
Therapeutic compositions and/or formulations are provided, comprising: at least one cross-linked protein matrix, wherein the at least one cross-linked protein matrix comprises at least one protein residue and at least one saccharide-containing residue, and methods of producing the same. The cross-linked protein matrix may be derived from cross-linking a full length or substantially full length protein, such as tropoelastin, elastin, albumin, collagen, collagen monomers, immunoglobulins, insulin, and/or derivatives or combinations thereof, with a saccharide containing cross-linking agent, such as a polysaccharide cross-linking agent derived from, for example, hyaluronic acid or a cellulose derivative. The therapeutic compositions may be administered topically or by injection. The present disclosure also provides methods, systems, and/or kits for the preparation and/or formulation of the compositions disclosed herein. |
| US11065362B2 |
Viscoelastic hydrogels with fast stress relaxation
Provided are fast relaxing hydrogels that are useful for regulating cell behavior and enhancing tissue regeneration, e.g., bone regeneration. |
| US11065358B2 |
Air-blade, silencer and separator apparatus and method
Silencing and separation in a cold-air, essential-oil, diffuser apparatus and method pass flow through a channel having comparatively high aspect ratios of length to thickness and width to thickness. Curved, tapered, non-parallel, and quasi random surfaces reduce probability and power of resonant frequencies. Offsetting flow through a channel is followed by impingement against an obstructing surface, redirection elsewhere within a drift (separation) chamber, and exiting through a smaller, and differently oriented exit port. Silencing is improved by changes of cross-sectional area creating high-pass and low pass acoustic filters, changes of direction, and absorption of acoustic energy in fluid-droplet-laden air. |
| US11065357B2 |
Water dispersible fragranced film and use thereof
Fragranced films containing a water soluble a/o water dispersible polyvinyl alcohol polymer are disclosed. Uses of the fragranced films in providing a fragrance benefit and/or in controlling malodours is also disclosed, including when used in conjunction with lavatory appliances, dishwashing machines and in laundry washing machines. |
| US11065349B2 |
18F labeled BODIPY dye and its derivatives for PET imaging of heart perfusion and others
This invention provides a class of dual mode imaging tracer capable of acting both as a fluorescent imaging tracer and a positron emission tomography imaging tracer. Tracers in accordance with this invention generally have a fluorescent core with a boron-fluoride element embedded therein. Exemplary embodiments of the tracer include 18F-labeled BODIPY compounds and derivative thereof. Also provided are tracer kits containing a sterile formulation of a BODIPY dye either in a radio-labeled or pre-labeled state, and methods for imaging heart perfusion using the 18F-labeled dual mode tracers. |
| US11065347B2 |
Methods for the treatment of Danon disease and other disorders of autophagy
This disclosure provides gene therapy vectors comprising a polynucleotide encoding one or more isoforms of lysosome-associated membrane protein 2 (LAMP-2), and methods of using such gene therapy vectors for the treatment of Danon disease and other autophagy disorders. |
| US11065346B2 |
RNA for use in the treatment of ligament or tendon lesions
Described is a liquid composition containing naked RNA, such as mRNA encoding a polypeptide, for use in the treatment or prevention of ligament or tendon lesions as well as a method for treating ligament or tendon lesions comprising the administration of a liquid composition containing naked RNA, such as mRNA encoding a polypeptide, which is beneficial in the process of healing the ligament or tendon lesions. |
| US11065345B2 |
Methods for assembling scavenging particles
The disclosure provides, methods for preparing scavenging particles, as well as methods for attaching capture agents to the particles. The disclosure further provides compositions that bind to and inhibit the biological activity of soluble biomolecules, as well as pharmaceutical compositions thereof. The compositions may comprise a plurality of particles that specifically bind a target, such as a soluble biomolecule or a biomolecule on the surface of a pathogen, to inhibit the target (or pathogen) from interacting with other molecules or cells. Also provided herein are a number of applications (e.g., therapeutic applications) in which the compositions are useful. |
| US11065344B2 |
Nanocluster capped mesoporous nanoparticles, methods of making and use
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe a conjugate comprising a mesoporous nanoparticle having a plurality of pores, wherein the mesoporous nanoparticle is positively charged, wherein an active agent is disposed in the pore; and a plurality of metal nanoclusters, wherein the metal nanocluster has a negative charge, wherein a gate agent is attached to the metal nanocluster. Embodiments of the present disclosure also describe a method of using a conjugate comprising exposing a conjugate to microbes sufficient to release an active agent and treating the microbes with the released active agent. Embodiments of the present disclosure further describe a method of using a conjugate comprising exposing a conjugate to microbes and detecting a presence of the microbes. |
| US11065343B2 |
Compound bearing beta-galactoside-introduced self-immolative linker
The present invention relates to a compound bearing a self-immolative linker having β-galactoside-introduced thereto. In a compound bearing a β-galactoside-introduced self-immolative linker according to the present invention, particularly, the self-immolative linker may form a glycosidic bond with a protein (e.g., an oligopeptide, polypeptide, an antibody, etc.) or ligand which has specific affinity for a desired target or with an active agent (e.g., a drug, a toxin, a ligand, a detection probe, etc.), which has a specific function or activity so as to allow the selective release of the active agent within a target cell. |
| US11065341B2 |
DE-N-acetyl sialic acid antigens, antibodies thereto, and methods of use in cancer therapy
The present invention generally provides compositions methods and composition relating to the diagnosis and/or treatment of cancers having a cell surface de-N-acetylated sialic acid antigen, e.g., an at least partially de-N-acetylated ganglioside and/or a de-N-acetylated sialic acid-modified cell surface protein. |
| US11065340B2 |
Polyoxazoline antibody drug conjugates
In the present disclosure, polymer conjugates, including polymer-antibody-drug conjugates (polymer ADCs) are described, as well as the use of such conjugates to treat human disease. The polymer conjugates can contain a large number of polymer-bound agents, thus effectively increasing the drug antibody ration (DAR) of the antibody significantly beyond the currently available technology. This may be of particular importance when antibodies to low density antigens are used as target antibodies. The described polymer-ADCs have improved pharmacokinetics and solubility relative to traditional ADCs. The linker between agent and the polymer can be tailored to provide release of toxin at the desired site and under the desired conditions within the tumor. An additional feature of the polymer-ADCs of the current disclosure is that a purification moiety can be attached to the polymer backbone to provide ease of purification of the polymer-ADCs. |
| US11065339B2 |
FAP-activated proteasome inhibitors for treating solid tumors
Disclosed are proteasome inhibitors, fibroblast activation protein (FAP)-activated prodrugs of proteasome inhibitors, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the inhibitors and prodrugs. Also disclosed are related pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of using the inhibitors and prodrugs and compositions thereof, for example, in treating cancer or other cell proliferative diseases. In vitro and in vivo methods of quantifying the expression of FAP in a biopsy sample and a mammal, respectively, are also disclosed. |
| US11065336B2 |
Conjugates for targeting and clearing aggregates
In some embodiments, the disclosure provides for a conjugate comprising: a) a peptide that competes with an Fc fragment of an IgG for binding to an Fc receptor; and b) a targeting moiety that targets molecular aggregates. In some embodiments, the disclosure provides for methods of using the conjugates for treating a disease or disorder associated with aggregate formation. |
| US11065329B2 |
Human herpesvirus immunotherapy
An isolated protein comprises respective amino acid sequences of each of a plurality of CTL epitopes from two or more different herpesvirus antigens and further comprises an intervening amino acid or amino acid sequence between at least two of said CTL epitopes comprising proteasome liberation amino acids or amino acid sequences and, optionally, Transporter Associated with Antigen Processing recognition motifs. The isolated protein is capable of rapidly expanding human cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) in vitro and eliciting a CTL immune response in vivo upon administration to an animal as an exogenous protein. Typically, the isolated protein comprises no more than twenty (20) CTL epitopes derived from cytomegalovirus and/or Epstein-Barr virus antigens. |
| US11065319B2 |
Methods for diagnosing and reducing incidences of cardiac allograft rejection
Methods and products for diagnosing, treating and/or delaying onset of chronic allograft rejection, including cardiac allograft vasculopathy. In an exemplary embodiment of a noninvasive method of screening a cardiac allograft recipient for being at-risk for developing cardiac allograft vasculopathy of the present disclosure, the method comprises the steps of withdrawing at least one biological sample from a cardiac allograft recipient; and analyzing the at least one biological sample for one or more biomarkers indicative of the presence of fibrin deposits within the cardiac allograft microvasculature; wherein detection of the one or more biomarkers indicates that the cardiac allograft recipient is at-risk for or developing cardiac allograft vasculopathy. |
| US11065318B2 |
Yeast-MUC1 immunotherapeutic compositions and uses thereof
Disclosed are yeast-based immunotherapeutic compositions comprising mucin-1 (MUC1), as well as methods for the prevention and/or treatment of cancers characterized by the expression or overexpression of mucin-1 (MUC1). |
| US11065311B2 |
Retroviral vector with mini-promoter cassette
This disclosure provides a retroviral replicating vector for gene delivery comprising a therapeutic cassette containing at least one mini-promoter linked to a gene to be expressed. |
| US11065307B2 |
Therapeutic fusion protein comprising an alpha-n-acetylglucosaminidase and a lysosomal targeting moiety
Among other things, the present invention provides methods and compositions of treating Sanfilippo syndrome type B (Sanfilippo B) by, e.g., intrathecal (IT) administration of a Naglu protein. A suitable Naglu protein can be a recombinant, gene-activated or natural protein. In some embodiments, a suitable Naglu protein is a recombinant Naglu protein. In some embodiments, a recombinant Naglu protein is a fusion protein containing a Naglu domain and a lysosomal targeting moiety. In some embodiments, the lysosomal targeting domain is an IGF-II moiety. |
| US11065306B2 |
Methods for treating hypophosphatasia in children
The disclosure features methods for treating hypophosphatasia (HPP) in a patient (e.g., a child having HPP) exhibiting physical impairments, disability in activities of daily living (ADL), pain, and/or delayed motor development by administering a soluble alkaline phosphatase (sALP) to the patient. |
| US11065304B2 |
Peptide pharmaceuticals for insulin resistance
Described herein are methods of syntheses and therapeutic uses of covalently modified peptides and/or proteins. The covalently modified peptides and/or proteins allow for improved pharmaceutical properties of peptide and protein-based therapeutics. |
| US11065301B2 |
Pharmaceutical composition for ameliorating the symptoms and disease of the respiratory infection caused by human metapneumovirus (HMPV), which comprises at least one agent that neutralizes the function of TSLP and/or TSLPR and/or OX40L and/or CD177 molecules, and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient, and use thereof
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for ameliorating the symptoms and disease of the respiratory infection caused by human Metapneumovirus (hMPV), which comprises at least one agent that neutralizes the function of TSLP and/or TSLPR and/or OX40L and/or CD177 molecules, and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient, wherein the agent is selected from monoclonal antibodies, biological or synthetic molecules. More specifically, the neutralizing agents are humanized anti-TSLP, anti-TSLPR, anti-OX40L and anti-CD177 monoclonal antibodies. The use of said composition for preparing a medicament for treating or ameliorating the symptoms and disease of patients infected with human Metapneumovirus (hMPV) is also described. |
| US11065299B2 |
Compositions and methods for modulation of immune response
Provided herein are compositions and methods for modulation of immune response via PYRIN domain-only proteins POP1 and/or POP3. In particular, POP1 and/or POP3 are inhibited to enhance an immune response (e.g., to treat or prevent infection), or POP1 and/or POP3 are administered or activated to reduce an immune response (e.g., to treat or prevent autoimmune or inflammatory disease). |
| US11065298B1 |
Compositions and methods for treating or preventing viral infections
Compositions and methods disclosed herein may be used for treating or preventing viral infections. The compositions may be administered orally to subjects in need of preventative or therapeutic treatment and/or the compositions may be used to disinfect surfaces in order to prevent or limit the spread of disease through surface contact. |
| US11065296B2 |
Antimicrobial peptide, its analog and use
In various embodiments, a pharmaceutical composition comprising an effective amount of a peptide having the amino acid sequence represented by Formula (I) or an analog thereof, and a pharmaceutically tolerable excipient is described. In some embodiments, the analog of the peptide of Formula (I), comprises the peptide sequence of Formula (I) wherein one or more of the amino acids residues are modified by a) C-terminal modification; b) D-amino acid substitution; and/or c) deletion of one or more amino acid residues. A method of inhibiting the growth of a microorganism comprising contacting the microorganism in a medium with an effective amount of the peptide of Formula (I) or an analog thereof is also described, as are similar methods of treating a disease or disorder associated with microbial activity in a subject by administering an effective amount of a peptide of Formula (I) or an analog thereof and a pharmaceutically tolerable excipient to the subject. |
| US11065292B2 |
Feijoa fruit extract
The invention relates to a feijoa fruit extract. In particular the invention relates to therapeutic uses of a feijoa fruit extract, processes for preparing the extract, and compositions comprising the extract. The feijoa fruit extract of the invention can be used in the treatment and prevention of rheumatoid arthritis and Type-2 diabetes. |
| US11065284B2 |
Compositions for fecal floral transplantation and methods for making and using them and devices for delivering them
The present disclosure provides for acid-resistant capsules comprising compositions, e.g., formulations, used for gastric, gastrointestinal and/or colonic treatments or lavage, e.g., orthostatic lavage, e.g., for inducing the purgation (e.g., cleansing) of a gastrointestinal (GI) tract, including a colon. Compositions of the invention are used for the stabilization, amelioration, treatment and/or prevention of constipation, for the treatment of abdominal pain, particularly non-specific abdominal pain, and diarrhea, including diarrhea caused by a drug side effect, a psychological condition, a disease or a condition such as Crohn's Disease, a poison, a toxin or an infection, e.g., a toxin-mediated traveler's diarrhea, or C. difficile or the pseudo-membranous colitis associated with this infection. |
| US11065282B2 |
Coral composite extract, composition including the same and method of producing the same
The present invention relates to a coral composite extract, a composition including the same and a method of producing the same. The coral composite extract includes at least two briarane-type diterpenoid compounds from corals of Briareum violaceum, B. excavatum and B. stechei, thereby being applied as an effective ingredient of a skin external use composition, a cosmetic composition and a medicinal composition. |
| US11065279B2 |
Peptides and combination of peptides of non-canonical origin for use in immunotherapy against different types of cancers
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules. |
| US11065275B2 |
Cross-linking agents and associated methods
An ophthalmic composition or dosage form can include a therapeutically effective amount of a cross-linking agent and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. The composition or dosage form can be used to treat an ophthalmic condition by administering a therapeutically effective amount of the composition to an eye of a subject during a treatment period. |
| US11065267B2 |
Lysophosphatidylcholine compositions
The present invention provides marine lysophosphatidylcholine compositions for use in pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals and functional foods, as well as methods for making marine lysophosphatidylcholine compositions. |
| US11065266B2 |
Method of treating melanoma using an inhibitor of an atypical protein kinase C
The invention pertains to a method of treating melanoma by administering to a subject in need thereof, a composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of an inhibitor of PKC-ζ and/or PKC-ι. Non-limiting examples of an inhibitor of PKC-ζ and/or PKC-ι include ICA-1 and ACPD. The invention also provides PKC-ζ and/or PKC-ι as biomarkers for identifying a melanoma in a subject as likely to be responsive or non-responsive to a therapy using an inhibitor of PKC-ζ and/or PKC-ι. Accordingly, a method of identifying a subject having a melanoma as being responsive or non-responsive to a melanoma therapy with an inhibitor of PKC-ζ and/or PKC-ι based on the levels and/or activity of PKC-ζ and/or PKC-ι mRNA or protein in the melanoma cells from the subject are also provided. |
| US11065265B2 |
Compositions of fosaprepitant and methods of preparation
The present application and its embodiments teach stable compositions of fosaprepitant or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof with such compositions lacking polysorbate 80 and containing dual functional excipients of hydrolysis inhibition and solubility enhancement. Further described are methods of preparation of such compositions. Among other advantages of contemplated compositions, fosaprepitant hydrolysis degradation is kept low and the compositions maintain physically and chemically stable for prolonged period. |
| US11065253B2 |
Arylquinazolines
The invention relates to novel compounds of the formula (I) which can be used for the inhibition of serine-threonine protein kinases and for the sensitisation of cancer cells to anticancer agents and/or ionising radiation. |
| US11065252B2 |
Treatment of rosacea with P38 and Erk kinase pathway inhibitors
A treatment for ocular rosacea using p38 and Erk kinase pathway inhibitors, which are believed to block the initial reaction to rosacea triggers and thus make it possible to prevent or minimize the skin reaction. The treatment is premised on a careful analysis of the alteration of cell-signaling pathways that facilitate the development of rosacea, which led to the identification of discrete targets for highly specific therapeutic intervention in the management of rosacea. |
| US11065249B2 |
Diacylglycerol acyl transferase 2 inhibitor
Described herein are compounds of Formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8 and R9 are defined herein, their use as diacylglycerol acyltransferase 2 (DGAT2) inhibitors, pharmaceutical compositions containing such inhibitors and the use of such inhibitors to treat, for example, NASH. |
| US11065246B2 |
Glucomannan containing pharmaceutical compositions with extended release and abuse deterrent properties
A pharmaceutical composition comprising at least one active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a glucomannan, a first polyalkylene oxide having an average molecular weight of no more than 300,000, and a second polyalkylene oxide having an average molecular weight of at least 1,000,000 and methods of making. The pharmaceutical composition provides extended release of the API and has abuse deterrent features. |
| US11065242B2 |
Antibiotic solution and method of injection to prevent ophthalmic infections
A method of preventing post-operative endophthalmitis involves injecting a colored antibiotic solution into the anterior segment of the eye during surgery, the antibiotic solution having moxifloxacin, cefuroxime, vancomycin, or some combination thereof, and the coloring agent being preferably a cobalamin (e.g., cyanocobalamin). |
| US11065240B2 |
Drug combinations to treat multiple myeloma
This invention relates to the combination of a C-Met inhibitor and a proteasome inhibitor to treat cancer, particularly multiple myeloma. |
| US11065239B2 |
Use of EZH2 inhibitor combined with BTK inhibitor in preparing drug for treating tumor
This application describes a use of an EZH2 inhibitor combined with a BTK inhibitor in preparing a drug for treating a tumor is described. |
| US11065233B2 |
Estrogen receptor modulators
Compounds of Formula (I) are estrogen receptor alpha modulators, where the variables in Formula (I) are described in the disclosure. Such compounds, as well as pharmaceutically acceptable salts and compositions thereof, are useful for treating diseases or conditions that are estrogen receptor alpha dependent and/or estrogen receptor alpha mediated, including conditions characterized by excessive cellular proliferation, such as breast cancer. |
| US11065232B2 |
Dihydrotetrabenazine for the treatment of anxiety and psychoses
This invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing (−)-β-dihydrotetrabenazine, processes for making them and their therapeutic uses. |
| US11065231B2 |
Compounds and methods for the targeted degradation of interleukin-1 receptor- associated kinase 4 polypeptides
The present disclosure relates to bifunctional compounds, which find utility as modulators of Interleukin-1 Receptor-Associated Kinase 4 (IRAK-4); the target protein). In particular, the present disclosure is directed to bifunctional compounds, which contain on one end a Von Hppel-Lindau, cereblon, ligand which binds to the E3 ubiquitin ligase and on the other end a moiety which binds the target protein, such that the target protein is placed in proximity to the ubiquitin ligase to effect degradation (and inhibition) of target protein. The present disclosure exhibits a broad range of pharmacological activities associated with degradation/inhibition of target protein. Diseases or disorders that result from aggregation or accumulation of the target protein are treated or prevented with compounds and compositions of the present disclosure. |
| US11065230B2 |
Methods and pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of systemic mastocytosis
The present invention relates to methods and pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of systemic mastocytosis. The inventors showed the effect of KPT-251 treatment on SCF-dependent human Mast cell (MC) line without KIT mutation (WT ROSA) and on two factor-independent MC lines with KIT mutations : ROSA Δ 417-419 insY and ROSA D816V. KPT is a Selective Inhibitor of Nuclear Export (SINE) that specifically inhibits the activity of the exportin-1 (XPO1). KPT-251 treatment induces minimal toxicity in non-cancerous hematopoietic cells both in vitro and in vivo. In particular, the present invention relates a method of treating systemic mastocytosis in patient in need thereof comprising administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of a XPO1 inhibitor. |
| US11065223B2 |
Antimicrobial compositions and uses thereof
In some aspects, provided herein are antimicrobial compositions comprising partially esterified polygalacturonic acid and certain fatty acids (e.g., caprylic acid). In some embodiments, the antimicrobial composition may be administered (e.g., topically or orally) to a subject, such as a human patient to treat an infection (e.g., an infection comprising a biofilm). In some aspects, improved catheters are provided. |
| US11065214B1 |
Combination therapies with disulfiram
Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for increasing lifespan, for preventing or treating a disease including an aging-related disorder, for reducing a symptom of aging, and/or boosting an immune system in a mammal. Also disclosed herein are compositions and methods for improving effectiveness of a vaccine in a mammal. The compositions comprise, at least, a therapeutically effective amount of disulfiram and one or more additional ingredients. |
| US11065212B2 |
Methods and compositions for preventing or treating calciphylaxis
The invention provides methods and compositions for preventing or treating (e.g., slowing the progression of, arresting, and/or reversing) calciphylaxis in a subject in need thereof and, more particularly, the invention relates to methods of using menaquinone-7 (MK-7) and/or menaquinol-7 (MKH2-7) for preventing or treating calciphylaxis in a subject with one or more of the following: diabetes, chronic kidney disease, end stage renal failure, and COPD or a subject undergoing hemodialysis and/or receiving anticoagulant therapy and/or statin therapy. |
| US11065210B2 |
Reduction of adipose tissue
Described herein, inter alia, are compositions, formulations, methods, and systems for reducing regional fat deposits and treating fat-related conditions. |
| US11065198B2 |
Dispersible compositions
The present invention is concerned with dispersible compositions comprising rilpivirine or a pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salt thereof as an active ingredient. Such compositions are useful in the treatment of HIV infection and their dispersibility properties lend themselves to be useful in particular amongst the pediatric or geriatric population. |
| US11065194B2 |
Cosmetic use of extracts of Salvia miltiorrhiza roots, special extracts of Salvia miltiorrhiza roots and cosmetic compositions containing such extracts
Methods in which an extract of Salvia miltiorrhiza roots is applied to the skin for a soothing cosmetic topical treatment. The invention also concerns a particular extract of Salvia miltiorrhiza roots, as well as compositions containing this extract and a cosmetic treatment method providing a soothing effect to the skin. |
| US11065192B2 |
Mascara compositions including vinylpyrrolidone homopolymer and an acrylic film-forming polymer
A mascara composition includes a film-forming polymer portion. The film-forming polymer portion is stabilized in a vehicle that includes water. The film-forming polymer portion includes a high molecular weight vinylpyrrolidone homopolymer and an acrylic polymer having a glass transition temperature of 65° C. or more. The mascara composition includes at least about 10 percent by weight of the vinylpyrrolidone homopolymer and is substantially free of wax. Methods of applying makeup to the eyelashes are also provided. |
| US11065191B2 |
Method for thickening a cosmetic formulation using an alkali swellable emulsion of a polymer with amps and which is rich in acrylic acid
Process for thickening a composition, through the use of a direct emulsion in water, which is alkali-swellable, of a polymer of the ASE or HASE type, which is both rich in acrylic acid and which has a certain quantity of AMPS. The use of such emulsions simultaneously allows there to be no obligation to use surfactants and organic solvents other than water, and allows the thickening phenomenon to be activated for pHs of less than 7: this latter characteristic is particularly advantageous for formulations intended to be used in contact with skin. |
| US11065190B2 |
Cosmetic composition comprising solubilized pigment and method for preparing the same
One aspect of the present disclosure is a cosmetic composition containing a solubilized pigment and a method for preparing the same. More specifically, the cosmetic composition containing the solubilized pigment may be prepared through a process of dissolving a pigment in an aqueous phase by dispersing the pigment in the aqueous phase using a pigment dispersing thickener and stabilizing by further increasing the viscosity using a stabilizing thickener. Since the solubilized pigment exhibits dyeing properties similar to dyes, it can be widely applied to various cosmetic compositions. |
| US11065188B2 |
Applications and formulations of optimized, modified human embryonic fertility culture media with biguanides and/or functional equivalents
A dermatological preparation comprises an optimized, modified human embryonic fertility culture media with biguanides and/or functional equivalents and the use of said preparation for skin care, hair care, or body care, or dental procedures, or for regenerative medicine such as promoting wound or bone healing. The preparation is formulated to target the hypoxic microenvironment niches of the skin tissue in combination with optimal concentration of nutrients, ions and minerals; to stimulate existing stem cells to trigger the capacity of stem cells to divide and renew and differentiate into specialized cells; and to stimulate molecular and physiological processes, e.g., autophagy, to replenish the substrate pool through the recycling of organelles and the recycling of old damaged proteins and countering free-radical damage to promote anti-aging. |
| US11065187B2 |
Particle bound photosensitizer molecule with reduced toxicity
A method for forming a photosensitizer product that is resistant to absorption by living tissue that may include binding a photosensitizer compound with an oxide-containing particle to provide the photosensitizer derivative having a microscale size, and mixing the photosensitizer derivative into a lotion. The microscale size of the photosensitizer derivative obstructs absorption by cell tissue. |
| US11065184B2 |
Oil-in-water emulsion for making up and caring for the lips
The invention relates to an oil-in-water emulsion for making up or caring for the lips. This emulsion contains a high proportion of glossy oils and is very fluid while remaining stable. This emulsion contains from 35% to 60% by weight of a mixture of oils, at least 25% by weight of water and from 0.01% to 20% of coloring material, everything being stabilized by the combination of a first polyethylene glycol ether of stearyl alcohol comprising from 2 to 5 oxyethylene units, a second polyethylene glycol ether of stearyl alcohol comprising from 15 to 25 oxyethylene units, and of a copolymer of acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonate and of hydroxyethyl acrylate. |
| US11065183B2 |
Curable composition
Provided is a curable composition comprising a polymerizable monomer (A); spherical particles (B) having an average primary-particle diameter in a range of 230 nm to 1,000 nm; and a polymerization initiator (C), in which 90% or more of individual particles constituting the spherical particles (B) lies in a range of ±5% based on the average primary-particle diameter, and the refractive index of the spherical particles (B) is larger than the refractive index of a polymer of the polymerizable monomer (A). When a 1 mm-thick cured product is formed from the curable composition and the Y value (Yb) of the colored light of the cured product on a black background and the Y value (Yw) of the colored light of the cured product on a white background are each measured using a color difference meter, the ratio therebetween, Yb/Yw, being within a range of 0.2 to 0.5. |
| US11065182B2 |
Resin composite and restoration containing azole-functionalized silica
A resin composite containing azole-functionalized silica nanoparticles. The resin composite further includes a polymerizable monomer and a polymerization initiator system. A dental restoration fabricated by curing the resin composite is also specified. |
| US11065179B2 |
Therapeutic pool flotation device and therapeutic method of use thereof
A therapeutic flotation device and a therapeutic method of use thereof is disclosed. The device includes a plurality of buoyant float elements and a member (an elongated web strap) that couples each of the buoyant float elements such that the buoyant float elements are serially aligned along the member. A first end of the member is secured to a second end of the member. A mating mechanism, such as a buckle, secures the first end of the member to the second end of the member, or the two ends of the member may be permanently secured to each other using an adhesive or by being sewn together. Each of the buoyant float elements has a center aperture aligned along the center of a cross-section thereof. The member is preferably coupled to each of the buoyant float elements by being sequentially passed through the center apertures of each buoyant float element. |
| US11065176B2 |
Pressure field stimulation device
Disclosed embodiments provide an improved stimulation device, including a cup and a driver. The cup has a cavity surrounded by a rim. In use, a user positions the rim such that an opening to the cavity is over an area to be stimulated (for example, the clitoris). A sealed- or substantially-sealed, chamber is formed by the cavity walls and the user's skin (surrounding the clitoris). A driver is configured to vary a volume of a cavity of a cup from a first volume to a second volume. The cup returns from the second volume to the first volume, in between intermittent varying from the first volume to the second volume, due to a buckle region wall of the cup springing out. The varying of the volume creates a pressure field in the chamber. The springing out produces a “thud” force, also used interchangeably with “thump” force. |
| US11065170B2 |
Smart medical rehabilitation device
A smart medical rehabilitation device comprises a driving unit, a linkage unit, a sensing unit and a rehabilitation evaluating unit that are mounted on a frame, wherein the linkage unit comprises a link mechanism and a slide mechanism linked thereto so that the slide mechanism can be moved together with the link mechanism, wherein the slide mechanism is driven by the driving unit to slide along the groove plate, the link mechanism is linked to move with the slide mechanism thus the link mechanism moves to the corresponding position so that the slide mechanism can assist a training object in performing lower limb rehabilitation training, and the rehabilitation evaluating unit evaluates the physical status and rehabilitation status of the training object according to the physiological information and exercise information of the same collected by the sensing unit, and adjusts the exercise frequency and the exercise duration of the training object according to the physical status in real time. |
| US11065166B2 |
Motion-based power assist system for wheelchairs
A motion-based push activation power assist system for manual wheelchairs. The system uses motion-based measurements to determine when the user applies a push to the wheelchair handrims and brakes with the handrims. The push recognition activates a drive system that provides an assistive driving force-pulse to the wheelchair to reduce the demand on the user during propulsion. The brake recognition deactivates the power assist. The provided power assist is proportional to the sensed push and can be modulated to different proportional settings. |
| US11065163B2 |
Feminine hygiene article with improved wings
Feminine hygiene articles are disclosed herein. The feminine hygiene articles described herein can provide easily discernable placement and orientation guides which reduce the likelihood of misapplication by the user, facilitated attachment guides which can reduce the likelihood of misapplication of the feminine pad, and can also reduce the likelihood of improper attachment of the feminine pad to a panty. The feminine hygiene articles disclosed include uniquely shaped wings which can provide cues on proper attachment of the article to the panty, and may help in providing sustained coverage of the feminine hygiene article to the panty which reduces the likelihood that the pad will become detached during use. |
| US11065160B2 |
Treated nonwoven having an affinity for an active ingredient
A nonwoven having a high affinity for an active ingredient is proved, the nonwoven having at least one high surface area fiber in addition to the active ingredient. |
| US11065158B2 |
Surgical sponge
A surgical sponge including a sponge material configured an elongate sponge having multiple compressed layers and a flattened shape characterized by a generally flat upper surface, a generally flat lower surface, with the sponge having a thickness that is substantially less than a width of the sponge, one reduced dimension end of the elongate sponge having an end length and reducing in dimension distally along the end length; stitches along the length of the sponge to compress the sponge material and maintain the layers in compression to maintain the flattened shape of the sponge; and a length of stitch material extending from the reduced dimension end to provide a structure that is engageable for use in positioning or removal of the sponge during a surgical procedure. |
| US11065156B2 |
Lenticular laser incision for low myopia and/or hyperopia patients
Embodiments generally relate to ophthalmic laser procedures and, more particularly, to systems and methods for lenticular laser incisions to form a top lenticular incision, a bottom lenticular incision of a lens in the subject's eye, an added shape between the top and bottom incisions where the added shape has no corrective power and a transition ring bisecting both the top and bottom lenticular incisions. |
| US11065153B2 |
Fluidics cassette for ocular surgical system
Methods, devices, and systems for laser eye surgery generally make use of a console that interchangeably accepts multiple types of eye treatment cassettes. The cassettes enable one or both of displacement-based or vacuum-based aspiration. The console and the cassette may communicate to establish the functionality of the installed cassette by utilizing a component indigenous to the operation of the cassette. A dual-mode cassette may include a separable holding tank for enabling vacuum-based aspiration. A displacement-based pump may be provided to drain the holding tank while the vacuum system continues to aspirate fluids. A vacuum sensor for controlling the flow of aspirated fluids may have three ports for communicating with a handpiece, a displacement-based pump, a vacuum-based pump, or an irrigation source. The handpiece may be vented during vacuum-based aspiration by opening a vent valve interposed between the handpiece and the vacuum source. |
| US11065148B2 |
Heat exchanger cap
A heat exchanger cap, and method of manufacture of a heat exchanger cap configured to conform to a human head the cap comprising a first element for covering one side of the head; a second element for covering the other side of the head; and an intermediate joining element joined to, and which spaces apart, the first element and second element. Each of the elements define a single passageway for the passage of fluid through the cap. Each of the elements are provided with a flow interface in the region where the elements are joined. The flow interface defines an inlet for the passage of fluid into the passageway of one of the elements, and an outlet for the passage of fluid from the passageway out of the same element. |
| US11065146B2 |
Systems and methods for permanent female contraception
Methods and devices for treating and occluding a female patient's fallopian tubes to provide permanent or extended birth control or sterilization. |
| US11065142B2 |
Orthopedic devices and systems integrated with controlling devices
An orthopedic support and/or treatment system including a brace or sleeve comprising a power subsystem; a sensor subsystem; an adjustment mechanism; a software subsystem; a communication subsystem; and a telemedicine subsystem. The orthopedic treatment system includes and communicates over a network to a remote controlling device. The remote control device can be a computer, a mobile device, or any other controller. The sensor subsystem communicates to the remote control device, which in turn can be used to control the adjustment mechanism to adjust a tension or compression of the brace or sleeve. |
| US11065141B2 |
Reconstrainment band with reduced removal interference
The reconstrainment band includes a hollow generally tubular shaped band having proximal and distal ends and having an exterior surface for engaging a stent and an interior surface for engaging a delivery tube. The exterior surface has at least one fin projecting therefrom along the longitudinal axis of the band. The fin has at least one obtusely shaped surface relative to the longitudinal axis and facing one of the ends. The reconstrainment band is included in a delivery device for intraluminally positioning and deploying a radially distensible stent. Reconstrainment of a partially deployed stent is provided by the delivery device. |
| US11065122B2 |
Techniques for use with prosthetic valve leaflets
A prosthetic valve leaflet is placed across a bar, and the bar is positioned such that the leaflet drapes over the bar and blocks a beam of light emitted by a light source. While the leaflet remains draped over the bar, the bar is elevated at least until the leaflet stops blocking the beam. An elevation of the bar from the beam at which the leaflet stopped blocking the beam is identified. Other embodiments are also described. |
| US11065120B2 |
Method and apparatus for cardiac procedures
Described herein are methods and apparatus for approximating targeted tissue using locking sutures. The locking sutures can be configured to receive suture ends that are interweaved through portions of the locking sutures. In a pre-deployment configuration, a locking suture can slide along suture tails and can be positioned at a target location within a target region. Once a desired position and/or tension is achieved, the locking suture can be transitioned to a post-deployment configuration where the locking suture constricts around the suture tails to inhibit relative movement between the suture tails and the locking suture. |
| US11065118B2 |
Cardiac valve commissure brace
A brace for mounting to an annulus of a cardiac valve, the brace comprising: first and second bottom gripping wings for gripping the annulus; first and second top gripping wings for gripping the annulus; and a support bridge that connects the top wings to the bottom wings; wherein the brace is deformable from a delivery configuration to a deployed configuration and in the delivery configuration the top wings are oriented substantially back to back along an axis and the bottom wings are oriented substantially back to back along the same axis, and in the deployed configuration the first top and bottom gripping wings face each other to grip the annulus between them and the second top and bottom gripping wings face each other to grip the annulus between them. |
| US11065114B2 |
Frame for prosthetic valve
Apparatus and methods are described including a valve frame configured to support a prosthetic valve within a native atrio-ventricular valve. The valve frame includes a frame body that includes an atrial portion configured to be positioned such that, when the valve frame is deployed, at least a portion of the atrial portion is disposed on an atrial side of the native atrio-ventricular valve, and a ventricular portion configured to be positioned such that, when the valve frame is deployed, at least a portion of the ventricular portion is disposed within a ventricle of the subject. At least one arm is configured to extend from the ventricular portion of the frame body. Other applications are also described. |
| US11065113B2 |
Prosthetic heart valve having an improved tubular seal
A tubular seal includes an outflow end region and an inflow end region. The inflow end region is a portion of a polymeric web retaining a woven fabric, wherein the woven fabric has a non-linear edge defining an interface between the inflow end region and the outflow end region. |
| US11065111B2 |
Systems and mechanisms for deploying a docking device for a replacement heart valve
Systems and methods usable in delivering a docking device to a native valve of a patient's heart. A distal region of a delivery catheter can be positioned in an atrium of the heart and a distal tip can be positioned at or near a commissure of the native valve. The docking device can be located within the delivery catheter. A pusher, such as a pusher wire or tube, of a pusher tool can be advanced distally through the delivery catheter, wherein the pusher can push the docking device along within the delivery catheter. The docking device can be connected to the pusher tool by a line, such as a suture. A member of the pusher tool can be rotatable to change the amount of the suture extending from the pusher tool. |
| US11065110B2 |
Calcified annulus model for transcatheter aortic valve replacement
A device includes an annular, elastic band having a rectangular cross section. A foil band is affixed to a surface of the elastic band. A contiguous fabric sheath is configured to encase the elastic band and foil band. |
| US11065108B2 |
Intraocular lens having closed-loop haptic structures
An ophthalmic device includes an optic including an optic axis and a closed-loop haptic structure coupled to the optic via a frame surrounding the optic, the closed-loop haptic structure including a closed loop extending from first and second attachment points to the frame. The closed loop includes a first hinge and a second hinge. The first hinge has a first section having a first component extending in a first angular direction, a second section having a second component extending in a second angular direction opposite to the first angular direction, and a first connecting section between the first section and the second section. The second hinge has a third section having a third component extending in the second angular direction, a fourth section having a fourth component extending in the first angular direction, the fourth section being connected to the second section to form the closed loop. |
| US11065105B2 |
Reinforced biological construct and method of reinforcing biological construct
A reinforced graft construct for repairing a tendon or ligament formed by inserting a piece of material, such as suture, through the graft lengthwise. The material may be inserted along only a portion of the graft or along the entire graft. The material may be a reinforcement (reinforcing) material such as suture, tape, weave, or mesh passed lengthwise through the graft (for example, along the center of the graft). The ends of the graft may be whipstitched to provide additional fixation when implanted. The material may be bioabsorbable such that it will resorb away after a period of time in the body. |
| US11065102B2 |
Composite scaffold for the repair, reconstruction, and regeneration of soft tissues
A composite scaffold having a highly porous interior with increased surface area and void volume is surrounded by a flexible support structure that substantially maintains its three-dimensional shape under tension and provides mechanical reinforcement during repair or reconstruction of soft tissue while simultaneously facilitating regeneration of functional tissue. |
| US11065101B2 |
Fast torsional artificial muscles from twisted yarns of shape memory material
A torsional actuator formed of a yarn of twisted shape memory material. The yarn has multiple strands of homogeneous shape memory material that have been homochirally twisted. For torsional actuation, a fractional portion of the yarn is heated such as by Joule heating. Various Joule heating mechanisms include passing an electrical current through an unwound segment of the yarn, or by coating a fractional portion of the length of each homogeneous strand with a coating material of higher electrical conductivity than the electrical conductivity of the shape memory material an passing current through the length of the yarn. The shape memory material may be a shape memory alloy such as a NiTi alloy. |
| US11065100B2 |
Vascular repair devices and methods of use
A vascular repair device assembly includes a main prostheses, first internal prostheses, an optional second internal prostheses, and at least two sub-prostheses. Methods for delivering vascular repair devices include delivering a vascular repair device through a blood vessel to the aneurysm site, aligning a proximal open end of a main prosthesis cranially to the site of the aneurysm patient and directing a distal end of at least one additional one vascular repair device through a proximal end of at least a first internal lumen, and aligning the proximal end of the additional vascular repair device into a distal end of the at least one sub-prosthesis. |
| US11065099B2 |
Flexible hollow lumen composite
A composite lumen includes an extruded tube of a composite including a poly(glycerol sebacate) (PGS) matrix mixed with a PGS thermoset filler. The composite lumen also includes an overbraid structure overlying an outer surface of the extruded tube. A method of forming a composite lumen includes extruding a PGS tube of a composite including a PGS matrix mixed with a PGS thermoset filler. The method also includes applying an overbraid structure over an outer surface of the extruded tube. |
| US11065094B2 |
Biological prosthesis intended for the treatment of parastomal hernias
The subject of the invention is a biological prosthesis suitable for gastrointestinal surgery and in particular for the treatment of parastomal hernias. It has a thickness (12) of between 0.5 and 4 mm, consisting of dermis removed from a part of an animal belonging to the family of pigs, cattle or goats, with the said part of the animal corresponding to a part extending from the area (16) located at the base of the tail next to the junction of the last sacral vertebrae up to an area (18) starting at the base of the tail and encompassing the circumference of at least a part of the caudal vertebrae. |
| US11065093B2 |
Catheter mating devices
Described is a catheter for being retained inside the body for extended periods, and a catheter mating device that can connect to the catheter to move the catheter inside of the body or remove it from the body. The catheter mating device has a stem with an apparatus at its distal end. The apparatus is moveable between a first position and a second position. When in its first position, the distal end is configured to fit in the proximal end of the catheter. When in its second position, the distal end engages the proximal end of the catheter and connects the catheter mating device to the catheter. |
| US11065088B2 |
Self-ligating orthodontic bracket
An orthodontic bracket having a bracket body configured to be mounted to a tooth includes an archwire slot having a base surface defining a base plane and a slide engagement track defining a translation plane. The translation plane is angled with respect to the base plane. A ligating slide is engaged with the slide engagement track of the bracket body and movable along the slide engagement track and parallel to the translation plane between an opened position, in which an archwire is insertable into the archwire slot, and a closed position, in which the archwire is retained within the archwire slot. The translation plane is angled with respect to the base plane so as to prevent the ligating slide from contacting the gingiva surrounding the tooth when the ligating slide is moved to the opened position. |
| US11065084B2 |
Method and system for predicting shape of human body after treatment
To have convenient and highly precise prediction of the shape of a human body after a treatment by calculation processing that includes extracting a feature vector Fnew from face data of a patient as an evaluation subject, selecting a plurality of case patients having feature vectors Fpre(i), extracted from the face data of a plurality of previous patients, obtaining pre-orthodontic facial shape models Hpre(i) and a post-orthodontic facial shape models Hpost(i) in which the faces of the selected previous case patients before and after a treatment have been normalized, obtaining a facial shape model Hnew, and obtaining a three-dimensional predicted facial shape model Hprd, by modifying the facial shape model Hnew of the patient as an evaluation subject, using a vector average difference AVEpost−AVEpre between the pre-treatment and post-treatment facial shape models. |
| US11065076B2 |
Apparatus and method for applying light in ocular and periocular areas
A removable tip for a light energy handpiece comprises a hollow conduit configured to surround a light guide in the handpiece; a support extension having a length longer than a length of the hollow conduit; and a shielding extension coupled to the support extension at an angle less than 180 degrees and located in front of the hollow conduit. The shielding extension is configured to be inserted behind an eyelid and extend to the fornix, the shielding extension comprised of a thermally insulative material. |
| US11065070B2 |
Robot system and method of operating the same
A robot system which includes a manipulator configured to receive a manipulating instruction from an operator, a slave arm having a plurality of joints, and a control device configured to control operation of the slave arm. The control device is configured, while the slave arm is operating at a speed equal to or higher than a first given the threshold, even when an operational instruction value for correcting the operation of the slave arm is inputted from the manipulator during an automatic operation of the slave arm, to prevent the correction of the operation of the slave arm. |
| US11065065B2 |
Spinal implant system and methods of use
A method comprises the steps of: imaging a patient anatomy; selecting an implant strategy for at least one bone fastener having a first member; registering the imaging of the patient anatomy with imaging of a surgical driver; engaging the first member with tissue of the patient anatomy via the surgical driver according to the implant strategy; manipulating the patient anatomy; acquiring data points representative of a position of the first member relative to tissue; and retrieving the data points from a computer database for attaching a second member with the first member. Systems, spinal constructs, implants and surgical instruments are disclosed. |
| US11065061B2 |
Systems and methods for performing image guided procedures within the ear, nose, throat and paranasal sinuses
Devices, systems and methods for performing image guided interventional and surgical procedures, including various procedures to treat sinusitis and other disorders of the paranasal sinuses, ears, nose or throat. |
| US11065059B2 |
Systems and methods of continuous registration for image-guided surgery
Methods and systems of registering a model of one or more anatomic passageways of a patient to a patient space are provided herein. An exemplary method may include accessing a set of model points of the model of the passageways, the model points being associated with a model space, collecting measured points along a length of a catheter inserted into the passageways of the patient, the measured points determined by a shape of the catheter, and assigning points of the first set to a plurality of subsets. The exemplary method may further include registering each of the subsets with the model points to produce a plurality of registration candidates, comparing the candidates to identify an optimal subset associated with an optimal registration of the plurality of candidates that translates the set of model points and at least one set of the sets of measured points into a common space. |
| US11065057B2 |
Devices, systems, and methods for reducing and fixing fractured bones
A method of reducing a fractured bone of a patient is disclosed. The method may include generating a fractured bone surface image from image data of the fractured bone structure of the patient. A reduced bone surface image of the fractured bone structure of the patient may be formed. In some embodiments, an implant image may be superimposed in an installation position on the reduced bone surface image. A patient specific jig image may be superimposed proximate the implant image and the bone image, according to the installation position of the implant. In some embodiments, control data from the patient specific jig image may be generated. |
| US11065050B2 |
Methods, systems, and devices relating to surgical end effectors
The embodiments disclosed herein relate to various medical device components, including components that can be incorporated into robotic and/or in vivo medical devices, and more specifically including end effectors that can be incorporated into such devices. Certain end effector embodiments include various vessel cautery devices that have rotational movement as well as cautery and cutting functions while maintaining a relatively compact structure. Other end effector embodiments include various end effector devices that have more than one end effector. |
| US11065043B2 |
Anterior cervical spine plate
The present invention relates to an anterior cervical spine plate which is used to perform anterior fixation surgery on a cervical spine in orthopedic surgery and neurosurgery, which includes: a plate body formed to extend in a longitudinal direction thereof; two or more bone screw holes formed in the plate body to support head parts of bone screws; and a locking element configured to maintain the bone screws while being inserted into the bone screw holes, respectively. The locking element is rotatably coupled to the plate body, and the plate body has reinforcing parts formed at outer circumferences thereof. |
| US11065042B2 |
Bone plate and guide block and attachment mechanism thereof
The present invention provides systems and devices for fixing the angle of instruments passing through a bone plate, as well as methods for using the same. The devices include bone plates and complementary guide blocks having features for secure attachment, as well as features for simple detachment. |
| US11065038B2 |
Fracture reduction using implant based solution
Various angularly-adjustable spinal fixation systems are provided and generally include an articulating connector having first and second elongate rods extending therefrom, and first and second polyaxial bone screw assemblies configured to seat the first and second rods therein. The rods are configured to be seated within receiver heads of the polyaxial bone screw assemblies when the screws are implanted in opposed lateral sides of a vertebra, thereby allowing the receiver heads to be manipulated relative to the rods to reduce one or more posterior fractures. A joint on the articulating connector can also be manipulated to reduce one or more anterior fractures. The entire construct can be locked to maintain the fractures in the reduced configuration. |
| US11065036B2 |
Instrument port for minimally invasive cardiac surgery
An instrument port for introducing instruments into a surgical site, including a port body having a channel running therethrough from a proximal end to a distal end, an instrument sleeve in slidable contact with the channel, creating a gap therebetween, and fluid flow for removing emboli efficiently from the instrument port, wherein the fluid flow includes the gap is provided. A fluid flow system for use in an instrument port is provided. A method of removably securing an instrument sleeve to a port body by anchoring the instrument port to heart tissue, making at least one flood line in a channel, flushing out emboli, and performing surgery with the instrument port. |
| US11065034B2 |
Modular automatic hair implanter
An automatic hair implanter is capable of continuously performing hair transplantation work by applying a structure of a conventional manual hair implanter. The automatic hair implanter (hair transplantation device) comprises a rotating magazine therein, and several needle modules are stored in the magazine. Two pushrods, which are positioned on a rear portion of the device and capable of translational motion, play a role of pushing a needle and a shaft, which constitute a needle module, forward. The needle and the shaft may be moved backward by a spring positioned inside the magazine. |
| US11065030B2 |
Atherectomy system
Medical systems and methods for making and using medical systems are disclosed. Example medical systems may include an atherectomy system configured to engage and remove plaque from walls in vessels of a vascular system. The atherectomy system may include a drive shaft, a rotational tip coupled to an end of the drive shaft, a drive mechanism coupled to the drive shaft to rotate the rotational tip, a control unit configured to control operation of the drive mechanism, and a knob assembly configured to facilitate longitudinal movement of the drive shaft, the rotational tip, and/or the drive mechanism. In some cases, the knob assembly may be configured to initiate adjustment of a mode of the drive mechanism in response to actuation of an actuator in the knob assembly. |
| US11065023B2 |
Arthroscopic devices and methods
A medical device includes an elongated sleeve having a longitudinal axis, a proximal end and a distal end. A ceramic cutting member includes both a cutting window having sharp edges and one or more flutes with cutting burrs circumferentially spaced-apart from the cutting window. An electrode may be placed between a pair of flutes and opposite to the cutting window. A motor drive is coupled to the proximal end of the elongated sleeve to rotate the ceramic cutting member cut bone with the flute(s) and soft tissue with the cutting window. The electrode provides cautery or radiofrequency ablation of tissue when the sleeve and ceramic cutting member are not being rotated. |
| US11065014B2 |
Puncture tool guiding device
A device for guiding a puncture tool to form a pilot hole through which a pedicle screw is buried in a pedicle, the device including a linear reference pin disposed forward from a rear side of a spine toward a target point of a pedicle base; a tubular sleeve having a sleeve central axis disposed at a predetermined insertion angle to the reference pin, and having a distal end open toward the target point and through which the puncture tool is passed and guided; and a rod member that couples a proximal side of the reference pin to the sleeve and maintains the sleeve central axis at the predetermined insertion angle to the reference pin. Plural slits are formed with a cutting direction orthogonal to the reference pin. A shape of a slit portion is recognized by an X-ray fluoroscopic image, and the puncture tool can be easily guided. |
| US11065011B2 |
Tools for assisting in osteotomy procedures, and methods for designing and manufacturing osteotomy tools
The present invention relates to a surgical kit, a saw guide and other related tools used in the osteotomy for temporary removal of a piece of a first bone structure to gain temporary access for treatment of defects of a second bone structure, as well as methods for designing and manufacturing said tools. |
| US11065007B2 |
Endovascular occlusive device and associated surgical methodology
A vascular plug comprises a superstructure expandable from a collapsed percutaneous insertion configuration to an expanded deployment or use configuration. The superstructure incorporates a channel or passageway and a catheter extends through the channel or passageway from a proximal side at least to a distal side of the superstructure. The central channel allows for over-the wire plug delivery and a working aperture for secondary vascular interventions under flow arrest prior to final plug release. The plug includes spring-loaded mechanical elements or clotting-enhancement structure for closing the channel or passageway upon a withdrawal or removal of the catheter from the superstructure. |
| US11065004B2 |
Anvil assembly with sliding sleeve
An anvil assembly having a sliding sleeve is provided. The anvil assembly includes an anvil center rod assembly, a head assembly pivotally secured to the anvil center rod assembly, and a sleeve member slidably disposed about the anvil center rod assembly. The sleeve member is configured to slide relative to the anvil center rod assembly as the head assembly pivots relative to the anvil center rod assembly. |
| US11065003B2 |
Treatment method for joining biological organs
Provided is a treatment method that reduces risk factors contributing to anastomotic leakage by using a medical device. The treatment method includes placing a medical device including a sheet-like main body portion for promoting adhesion between biological tissues between one joint target site and another joint target site of a biological organ to be joined, and joining the one joint target site and the other joint target site to each other in a state where at least a portion of the main body portion is interposed between the one joint target site and the other joint target site. |
| US11065001B2 |
Anchor magazine
An anchor-storage device comprises (i) a housing, shaped to define a channel having an anchor-storage zone and an opening configured to provide access for an anchor driver to the anchor-storage zone; and (ii) a retaining member. A tissue anchor is stored in the anchor-storage zone and is slidable through the channel. The retaining member (a) has a retaining state in which the retaining member is configured to retain the tissue anchor in the anchor-storage zone, and (b) is configured, by moving in response to a proximally-directed force applied to the tissue anchor, to allow the tissue anchor to leave the anchor-storage zone in response to the proximally-directed force. The proximally-directed force is greater than a pre-determined threshold force. Other embodiments are also described. |
| US11065000B2 |
Surgical buttresses for surgical stapling apparatus
A surgical stapling apparatus includes an end effector having an anvil assembly and a staple cartridge assembly, and an anvil buttress retention system releasably disposed on the anvil assembly. The anvil buttress retention system includes an anvil buttress and a retention member including an elongated body looped around at least a portion of the anvil buttress with a free end of the elongated body extendable through a looped end of the elongated body in an untightened configuration such that the anvil buttress retention system is slidable relative to the anvil assembly. The free end of the retention member is movable relative to and through the looped end to a tightened configuration to secure the anvil buttress retention system to the anvil assembly. |
| US11064995B2 |
Surgical device with trigger operated needle
An exemplary surgical device includes a handle including a bore, and a trigger configured to advance or retract a needle through the bore of the handle. The trigger is configured to rotate about a pivot axis and is further configured to slide in distal and proximal directions. The device may be operated using one hand, and permits a user, such as a surgeon, to advance a needle through the device using intuitive, relatively easy thumb movements. While the device may be used in other techniques, it is particularly useful in meniscal repairs, including inside-out meniscal repairs. |
| US11064994B2 |
Laparoscopic suturing devices, needles, sutures, and drive systems
Devices are provided for a suturing device used during laparoscopic surgical procedures. A suturing needle includes a shaft forming a rod axis; a curved body having a piercing tip at a first end and a base at a second end; and an arm extending radially from the shaft to the base of the curved body such that the curved body is positioned in a plane orthogonal to the rod axis of the shaft and rotatable about the shaft in the plane orthogonal to the rod axis. The suturing device includes a housing, a suturing needle, one or more sutures, a suture magazine configured to hold the one or more sutures, and a drive system, whereby the drive system may actuate the suturing needle to rotate in the plane orthogonal to the drive system, allowing the suturing needle to drive in to and out of tissue to apply a suture. |
| US11064991B2 |
Tether line systems and methods for tongue or other tissue suspension or compression
Systems and methods of placing one or more suture loops into tissue, such as the base of the tongue, are described. A system can include a variable-thickness suspension line for suspending tissue, including a suture having a first thickness dimension; an elastomer surrounding a portion of the suture and defining a central segment of the suspension line having a second thickness dimension greater than the first thickness dimension, and at least one transition zone extending from the central segment of the suspension line to a lateral end of the suspension line, the transition zones having a thickness dimension that tapers from the second thickness dimension to the first thickness dimension. |
| US11064989B2 |
Multi-ply retractor/stabilizer and wound exposure device and method of use
A multi-ply adhesive retraction device is provided which comprises a top layer, a backing layer and a stretchable middle layer between the top and backing layers. A middle-ply adhesive applied to substantially the entirety of the middle layer bottom surface to removably adhere the backing layer to the middle layer bottom surface. The device includes at least one bottom ply tab integral with the device which is operable to remove at least a portion of the backing layer from the middle layer to expose the adhesive of the middle layer. Additionally, the device includes at least one top ply tab which is operable to remove the top layer from the middle layer. The device can be applied pre-operatively, and then the top layer can be removed post-operatively to remain in place during healing of, for example, an incision site. |
| US11064988B2 |
Implantable scaffold and method
A biodegradable device for maintaining the alignment of the edges of a trocar defect, consisting of two bases coupled and offset by a connector. The first base to be positioned below the defect and a second base above. The first base has a threaded hole from its upper surface but not through the lower surface. The connector attached to the bases such that there is a hole aligned with the threaded hole in the first base allowing a device to mate with the threads in the first base. The second base has a hole aligned with the hole in the connector and wide enough to allow a device to mate with the threads in the first base. The device is arranged so the distance between the lower surface of the second base and upper surface of the first base holds the fascia around the trocar defect. |
| US11064984B2 |
Specimen containment device
A specimen containment device includes an actuation assembly, a bag assembly, a bag locking mechanism, and an articulation locking mechanism. The actuation assembly includes a handle assembly, an elongated member, a release rod, and a holding assembly. The bag locking mechanism is disposed in mechanical cooperation with the handle assembly and enables the actuation assembly to selectively retain the bag assembly. The articulation locking assembly is disposed in mechanical cooperation with the handle assembly and is configured to selectively lock the holding assembly in a first position where at least a portion of the holding assembly is disposed along a longitudinal axis defined by the elongated member. |
| US11064979B2 |
Real-time anatomically based deformation mapping and correction
A method includes generating a real-time ultrasound image of anatomy of interest. At least a sub-portion of the anatomy of interest is deformed from an initial location to a different location by pressure applied by an external force. The method further includes obtaining a 2-D slice, which corresponds to a same plane as the real-time ultrasound image, from 3-D reference image data, wherein a corresponding sub-portion is at the initial location. The method further includes determining displacement fields for the sub-portion from the sub-portion, the corresponding sub-portion and other anatomy not-deformed in the real-time ultrasound image and the 3-D reference image data. The method further includes deforming the 3-D reference image data using the displacement fields, which creates deformed 3-D reference image data based on the different location. |
| US11064978B2 |
Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and operation method of ultrasound diagnostic apparatus
An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: a beam former that drives an ultrasound transducer including two-dimensionally arranged vibration elements and that acquires ultrasound data of a three-dimensional space; a delay calculating circuit sets scan conditions including a drive delay amount of the beam former; a graphic circuit that generates an ultrasound slice image of a predetermined cut surface from the ultrasound data of the three-dimensional space; and a CPU that determines a focal length or a focal depth of the ultrasound according to a distance from the ultrasound transducer to the desirably set cut surface to set an amount of delay to cause the delay calculating circuit to change the scan conditions. |
| US11064975B2 |
Ultrasonic probe
Disclosed is an ultrasonic probe in which a supporting member is provided with a buffer unit to mitigate an outside impact. The ultrasonic probe includes a transducer rotatably provided, a shaft having the transducer mounted thereto, and a supporting member rotatably supporting the shaft, wherein the supporting member is provided with a buffer unit to mitigate an outside impact. |
| US11064974B2 |
Patient interface system
A patient interface system for scanning a volume of tissue protruding from a patient, the system comprising: a base including a planar portion configured to support the patient in a prone configuration, and a frustoconical portion extending from the planar portion and defining a base aperture configured to receive the volume of tissue; and a support assembly configured to couple to the base, including a frame and a membrane retained in tension within the frame at a peripheral portion of the membrane, wherein the membrane defines a membrane aperture configured to align with the base aperture, and wherein the membrane is configured to deflect into the frustoconical portion of the base in response to the patient's weight. The system can further include an electrical subsystem including a pressure sensor array configured to generate signals in response to a pressure distribution resulting from the patient's weight at the patient interface system. |
| US11064973B2 |
Ultrasound probe and ultrasound diagnosis apparatus
An ultrasound probe according to an embodiment includes: transducer elements, phase reversal processing circuitry, and delay processing circuitry. The transducer elements, each of which is configured to generate a first echo signal by receiving a reflected wave of a first ultrasound wave and to generate a second echo signal by receiving a reflected wave of a second ultrasound wave corresponding to an ultrasound wave obtained by reversing the phase of the first ultrasound wave. The phase reversal processing circuitry is configured to reverse the phase of the second echo signal. The delay processing circuitry is configured to delay the first echo signal and the phase-reversed second echo signal. |
| US11064970B2 |
Method and apparatus for visualizing a medical instrument under ultrasound guidance
Systems and methods of facilitating the viewing of interventional instruments (e.g., needles, catheters, guidewires, vascular filters, biopsy probes) are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a portable, handheld or cart-based ultrasound imaging machine is connected to an external laser light source that transmits laser light to a tip of an interventional instrument via one or more optical fibers. The laser light is absorbed at the distal tip of the instrument and generates a photoacoustic signal. The ultrasound imaging machine creates an image by combining data from the received photoacoustic signals with ultrasound echo data to show both tissue in a region of interest and the tip of the interventional instrument. |
| US11064967B2 |
Apparatus and method for large field-of-view measurements of geometric distortion and spatial uniformity of signals acquired in imaging systems
An apparatus and method for imaging quality assessment of an imaging system employs an aggregate phantom and a processor for imaging analysis. The aggregate phantom includes a plurality of self-contained sections configured to be moved independently and re-assembled in the imaging system. Each section includes fiducial features of known relative location. The processor: quantitatively determines location of the fiducial features within an image of the aggregate phantom; compares the determined location within the image to the known relative location of the fiducial features to produce a distortion field; and distinguishes between actual geometric distortion of the imaging system and rigid-body transformations of sections of the aggregate phantom, in the distortion field. For extended fields-of-view, the aggregate phantom may be repositioned, and sets of images combined to determine a distortion field of the extended image. A method employing virtual features for measuring spatial uniformity of an acquired signal, is also provided. |
| US11064965B2 |
Noise-robust real-time extraction of the respiratory motion signal from PET list-data
A respiratory motion signal generation method operates on emission data (22) of an imaging subject in an imaging field of view (FOV) acquired by a positron emission tomography (PET) or single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging device (10). An array of regions (32) is defined in the imaging FOV without reference to anatomy of the imaging subject. For each region of the array of regions defined in the imaging FOV, an activity position versus time curve (54) is computed from the emission data acquired by the PET or SPECT imaging device. Frequency-selective filtering of the activity position versus time curves is performed to generate filtered activity position versus time curves. At least one motion signal (66) is generated by combining the filtered activity position versus time curves of at least a selected sub-set of the regions. |
| US11064963B2 |
Medical image processing apparatus, method, and program
An image acquisition unit acquires a brain image of a subject. A cisternal region extraction unit extracts a cisternal region from the brain image by performing registration between a standard brain image and the brain image. Then, a bleeding region specifying unit specifies a bleeding region based on a first signal value distribution, which is the signal value distribution of the cisternal region extracted from the brain image, and a second signal value distribution, which is the signal value distribution of a cisternal region of the standard brain image. |
| US11064962B2 |
X-ray imaging apparatus
An X-ray imaging apparatus includes an X-ray tube, an X-ray detector, a moving body movable in a predetermined direction, a moving mechanism, a motor, an operating force detector configured to detect an operating force, and a controller configured or programmed to perform mode switching control to switch, based on whether or not an operation to enable manual movement of the moving body has been detected, a control mode to a torque control mode or a position control mode. |
| US11064954B2 |
Flattened organ display
A method for data display includes acquiring a three-dimensional (3D) map of a lumen inside a body of a subject, transforming the 3D map of the lumen into a two-dimensional (2D) image by projecting the 3D map onto an annulus, and presenting the 2D image on a display screen. |
| US11064953B1 |
Fever-causing disease outbreak detection system
A fever-causing disease outbreak detection system for an early warning of the outbreak of an infectious disease. The system uses an array of infrared detectors to measure the temperatures of individuals in a population. The measured temperatures are used to create a measured population temperature distribution. A central control unit generates a predicted population temperature distribution using environmental data such as local atmospheric conditions and compares the predicted population temperature distribution to the measured population temperature distribution. If an outbreak is detected, an alert is issued. |
| US11064952B2 |
External medical device that identifies a response activity
An external medical device is provided. The device can include monitoring circuitry configured to sense physiological information of a patient and a controller with one or more input components. The controller can be configured to: detect one or more patient events based, at least in part, on the physiological information; notify the patient of the detection of the one or more patient events; and receive a patient response to the notification. The patient response can include a response activity identifiable by the input component, which is configured to test a psychomotor ability of the patient, cognitive ability of the patient, strength, balance, stability, and flexibility of the patient, and/or to substantially confirm that a person performing the activity is the patient. |
| US11064951B2 |
Patient data management systems and querying methods
Infusion devices and related medical devices, patient data management systems, and methods are provided for monitoring a physiological condition of a patient. An exemplary database system includes a database to maintain data pertaining to a plurality of entities and a computing device coupled to the database to identify relationships between different entities of the plurality of entities, generate metadata defining a graph structure maintaining the relationships between the different entities of the plurality of entities for a plurality of different logical layers, and store the metadata in the database. |
| US11064949B2 |
Method and apparatus to remove noise from electrocardiography (ECG) sensor signal
A method and an apparatus to remove a noise from an electrocardiography (ECG) sensor signal are provided. A noise removing method includes: receiving a sensor signal collected by an electrocardiography (ECG) sensor; extracting an ECG estimation signal from the sensor signal based on a peak value of the sensor signal; determining a first comparison value between the ECG estimation signal and a first reference signal indicating an average form of ECG signals; and classifying the ECG estimation signal as one of an ECG signal and a noise by comparing the first comparison value to a first threshold value. |
| US11064946B2 |
Devices and related methods for epidermal characterization of biofluids
Skin-mounted or epidermal devices and methods for monitoring biofluids are disclosed. The devices comprise a functional substrate that is mechanically and/or thermally matched to skin to provide durable adhesion for long-term wear. The functional substrates allow for the microfluidic transport of biofluids from the skin to one or more sensors that measure and/or detect biological parameters, such as rate of biofluid production, biofluid volume, and biomarker concentration. Sensors within the devices may be mechanical, electrical or chemical, with colorimetric indicators being observable by the naked eye or with a portable electronic device (e.g., a smartphone). By monitoring changes in an individual's health state over time, the disclosed devices may provide early indications of abnormal conditions. |
| US11064943B2 |
Method and system for determining body composition
A method and apparatus to determine body composition of a subject is disclosed. Physical characteristics of a subject and water in a pool is determined. A body of the subject is completely submerged in the pool of water such that a head of the subject is just below a surface of the water in the pool. The subject completely exhales air into an air measuring device as the body of the subject is submerged just below the surface of the water. The body composition is then determined and displayed based on the determined subject characteristics, water characteristics and the amount of air exhaled into the air measuring device. |
| US11064935B2 |
Photosensitivity test device
A test device is used to test photosensitivity of a skin. The test device is provided with an irradiation unit including a plurality of light irradiation units arranged in a first direction. The plurality of light irradiation units output, in a second direction intersecting the first direction, irradiation light beams that mutually differ at least in one of wavelength characteristics and intensity. The irradiation unit is configured such that intensities of the irradiation light beams output from the plurality of light irradiation units are progressively smaller in the first direction. |
| US11064932B2 |
Intravenous line flow sensor for advanced diagnostics and monitoring in emergency medicine
A portable medical device having an intravenous line flow sensor integrated into a cable. The portable medical device may be a defibrillator having an ECG or electrode cable couple to ECG or electrode leads. The flow sensor may be integrated into the ECG or electrode cable. The portable medical device uses the flow sensor to capture and store information about fluids delivered to a patient being treated with the portable medical device. The information may include total volume provided, flow rate, and the like. The information may then be used to evaluate the treatment provided to the patient. |
| US11064926B2 |
Systems and methods for assessing the effectiveness of a therapy including a drug regimen using an implantable medical device
Systems and methods rely on feedback from an active medical device or devices (e.g., neurostimulator coupled to sensing and stimulation elements such as electrodes) to assess the effectiveness of a patient's drug regimen. Such reliance may include analyzing characteristics in physiological data acquired by the medical device(s), for example, in the form of responses evoked from the patient by electrical stimulation waveforms. Systems and methods further involved adjusting one or more parameters according to which a combination therapy consisting of at least a drug regimen and an electrical stimulation therapy are delivered to a patient, in an effort to optimize the therapeutic effect of the combination. The adjustments may be automatically by one or more implanted or external hosts working together or alone, and/or with the input of a physician. |
| US11064925B2 |
Jaw exercise system and method of using the same
Various embodiments are directed to systems and methods for evaluating jaw movement characteristics of a user, for example, in a plurality of distinct jaw motion directions. In an example implementation, a jaw exercise system as discussed herein is configured to facilitate the exercise and/or quantification of a user's jaw strength in at least one of six distinct directions. As described herein, the jaw exercise system may comprise a frame assembly to which a user may selectively attach one of a plurality of an interchangeable functional assemblies, each configured to facilitate the evaluation of the jaw movement characteristics of a user in six jaw movement directions. The jaw exercise system comprises one or more of a progressive resistance attachment assembly, a passive motion attachment assembly, a force characterization attachment assembly, and a hyoid motion attachment assembly. |
| US11064924B2 |
Wearable ultrasound device for signalling changes in a human or animal body
A wearable ultrasound device for signalling changes in human or animal body, and use of such a wearable device for signalling over a prolonged period of time. In an example the changes occur in a bladder. Such is especially relevant for elderly persons, women after delivery of a baby, lesion patients, demented people, children, and others, have a difficulty to control functioning of the bladder, and to be at the toilet on time to urinate. |
| US11064917B2 |
Analyte sensor
The present invention relates generally to systems and methods for measuring an analyte in a host. More particularly, the present invention relates to systems and methods for transcutaneous measurement of glucose in a host. |
| US11064916B2 |
Analyte sensor transmitter unit configuration for a data monitoring and management system
Method and system for providing analyte sensor alignment and retention mechanism for improved connectivity with a transmitter unit for electrical connection, and further including transmitter unit contact pins with metal components to improve electrical conductivity with the analyte sensor in an analyte monitoring and management system is provided. |
| US11064913B2 |
Impact sensing wearable device and method
A mouth guard, or wearable device, senses impact forces, calculates risk factors for injury, and displays status of risk and potential injury. A mouth guard may be used to identify, treat and prevent exacerbating brain injury. A wearable device can be programmed with biometric data to better calculate and anticipate impact thresholds and more precisely predict and prevent injury. |
| US11064912B2 |
Fall sensor
A fall sensor coupled to a necklace to detect a fall of a user is provided. The fall sensor includes a first sensing device, a second sensing device, a wireless module and a controller. The first sensing device is coupled to the necklace to detect a tension force of the necklace. The controller is coupled to the first sensing device, the second sensing device and the wireless module. When the first sensing device detects the tension force is changed, the controller activates the second sensing device to confirm whether the user is falling down, and when the user is determined to be fallen down, and the controller outputs an emergency message via the wireless module. |
| US11064911B2 |
Standing desk biometrics
A standing desk system, method, and device. A user is detected proximate a standing desk. A position and orientation of the user are determined. Time periods associated with the position and the orientation are detected. |
| US11064910B2 |
Physical activity monitoring system
An exercise system may be configured to gather and quantify data related to energy expenditure during physical activity. The exercise system may include at least one force sensing node and a portable hub that is physically separate and distinct from the at least one force sensing node. The at least one force sensing node may be configured to gather data related to energy expenditure during physical activity. The portable hub may be configured to quantify data related to energy expended during physical activity. For example, according to exemplary implementations, the portable hub may be include a processor configured to execute an exercise analysis module. The exercise analysis module may be configured to determine one or more exercise parameters based on an output signal generated at the at least one force sensing node responsive to force exerted on the at least one force sensing node during physical activity. |
| US11064909B2 |
Peripheral sensory and supersensory replacement system
A sensor-based quantification and analysis system includes an input device including a plurality of sensors that generate an input based on a force. The input device also includes a transmission device that transmits force information based on the input. The system also includes an output device that receives the force information. A processing unit selects, for each of the plurality of sensors, one of a plurality of levels of a likelihood of tissue damage based on the force and a predetermined time period. Further, the output device includes a display that presents or logs the one of the plurality of levels of the likelihood of tissue damage for each of the plurality of sensors. |
| US11064908B2 |
Apparatus and method for obtaining antioxidant index
An apparatus for obtaining an antioxidant index may include an image acquirer configured to acquire an image by capturing a correction reference object and a skin of a user and a processor configured to determine a first degree of yellowness of the correction reference object and a second degree of yellowness of the skin based on the image, and determine an antioxidant index of the user based on the first degree of yellowness and the second degree of yellowness. |
| US11064907B2 |
Method and system to amplify and measure breath analytes
A method of avoiding a contaminant which would skew an analyte result in a breath analysis method and of calibrating subject of the breath analysis includes, immediately before the breath analysis method or the collection of breath for the breath analysis method, administering to the subject a predetermined gas composition. A system for analyzing an analyte in breath of a subject while avoiding a local contaminant which would skew an analyte result and calibrating the subject of so that the result of the analyte analysis will be the same regardless of where the test is performed geographically, includes a source of a predetermined gas composition immediately before the breath analysis method or the collection of gas for the breath analysis method, administering to the subject a predetermined gas mixture. |
| US11064905B2 |
Ingestible capsule device for collecting fluid aspirates
An ingestible capsule device collects fluid aspirates from locations within the body, locations such as the small intestine, and retains the fluid aspirates free from contamination as the capsule device is expelled from the body. The device allows for microbial and metabolomics analysis for a variety of gastrointestinal, allergic, endocrinologic, and oncologic diseases. In some examples, the capsule device is a multi-stroke device that includes a capsule shell and two reservoirs located within the shell. Check valves work in conjunction with a vacuum pressure pumping mechanism to control fluid movement from one reservoir to another, where one of the reservoirs may be expandable and permeable to some fluids. In other examples, the capsule device employs a peristaltic pump fluid control with the capsule device, and a single semi-permeable bladder stores collected fluid aspirate. |
| US11064901B2 |
Method and apparatus for automated regularization tuning in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using compressed sensing (CS)
An apparatus and method are provided to simultaneously provide good image quality and fast image reconstruction from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data by selecting an appropriate value for the regularization parameter used in compressed sensing (CS) image reconstruction. In CS reconstruction a high-resolution image can be reconstructed from randomized undersampled data by imposing sparsity in multi-scale transformation (e.g., wavelet) domain. Further, in the transformation domain, a threshold can be determined between signal and noise levels of the transform coefficients. A regularization parameter based on this threshold scales the regularization term, which imposes sparsity, relative to the data fidelity term in an objective function, thereby balancing the tradeoff between noise and smoothing. |
| US11064900B2 |
Ultra-low field nuclear magnetic resonance device
Provided are an ultra-low field nuclear magnetic resonance device and a method for measuring an ultra-low field nuclear resonance image. The ultra-low field nuclear magnetic resonance device includes an AC power supply configured to supply a current to a measurement target in such a manner the current flows to the measurement target, magnetic field measurement means disposed adjacent to the measurement target, and measurement bias magnetic field generation means configured to apply a measurement bias magnetic field corresponding to a proton magnetic resonance frequency of the measurement target. A vibration frequency of the AC power supply matches the proton magnetic resonance frequency of the measurement target, and the magnetic field measurement means measures a nuclear magnetic resonance signal generated from the measurement target. |
| US11064899B2 |
Magnetic resonance projection for constructing four-dimensional image information
Apparatus and techniques are described herein for nuclear magnetic resonance (MR) projection imaging. Such projection imaging may be used for generating four-dimensional (4D) imaging information representative of a physiologic cycle of a subject, such as including generating two or more two-dimensional (2D) images, the 2D images comprising projection images representative of different projection angles, and the 2D images generated using imaging information obtained via nuclear magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, assigning the particular 2D images to bins at least in part using information indicative of temporal positions within the physiologic cycle corresponding to the particular 2D images, constructing three-dimensional (3D) images using the binned 2D images, and constructing the 4D imaging information, comprising aggregating the 3D images. |
| US11064888B2 |
Detection of biking, walking, and running
A wearable device automatically identifies an activity in which a user of the device is engaged while wearing the device. The wearable device receives motion data of the user collected during the activity and determines a magnitude and a frequency of the motion data. Based on the magnitude and frequency of the motion data, the wearable device identifies the activity in which the user is engaged. |
| US11064885B2 |
Medical telemeter, medical system, and method of controlling medical telemeter
A medical telemeter includes: a displaying section which is configured to display information; a storing section which is configured to store patient information that is information of a patient who uses the medical telemeter; and a controller which, when a predetermined event occurs, is configured to read the patient information stored in the storing section, and is configured to cause the displaying section to display a confirmation message that is based on the patient information. |
| US11064882B2 |
Screening apparatus and method
An apparatus for screening, treatment, monitoring and/or assessment of visual impairments, comprising electronic means for simultaneously applying two separate and unrelated processing methods to images presented to a patient's eyes: a first processing method being applied to an non-amblyopic eye (the eye with the better vision), and a second processing method being applied to an amblyopic eye (the weaker eye, or the impaired eye). A method for screening, treatment, monitoring and/or assessment of visual impairments, comprising: a. defining a starting point, wherein differences between a patient's eyes are completely, or as closely as practically possible, corrected, to enable two identical or similar images to be transferred to the brain from the patient's eyes; b. defining an ending point, wherein there is no correction applied to any of the patient's eyes; c. defining a screening, treatment, monitoring and/or assessment plan, for initially applying correction to images according to the starting point, then gradually reducing the correction, at a controlled and predetermined rate, towards the ending point; and d. applying the plan to images presented to the patient's eyes, while monitoring patient's performance. |
| US11064878B2 |
OCT apparatus
An OCT apparatus includes an OCT optical system that acquires an OCT signal based on measurement light applied to a subject and reference light, and a processor. The processor controls the OCT optical system based on a predetermined trigger to execute an imaging sequence in which a plurality of temporally different OCT signals are acquired in each of a first region on a subject and a second region adjacent to or partially overlapping with the first region, and imaging conditions are different from each other between the first region and the second region. The processor obtain OCT motion contrast data of the subject based on the plurality of OCT signals acquired through the imaging sequence in the first region and the second region. |
| US11064877B2 |
Laryngoscope
Improved laryngoscopes are disclosed herein which are capable of aiding operators toward successful intubation outcomes in clinical situations which would be difficult using previously existing tools. |
| US11064876B2 |
Endoscope
An endoscope includes a first flat surface formed at a distal end portion of an insertion part to be inserted into a subject, and orthogonal to an axial direction of the insertion part, an observation window provided at the distal end portion for allowing image light of the subject to be taken therethrough, with a surface of the observation window as a light incidence plane, a forceps outlet disposed on the first flat surface, a first illumination window provided at the distal end portion to irradiate a subject with illumination light, a second illumination window provided at the distal end portion to irradiate the subject with illumination light, a fluid jetting nozzle arranged at the first flat surface to jet a fluid toward the observation window and fixed at the distal end portion of the insertion part, and an inclined surface formed around the observation window. |
| US11064875B2 |
Conditioning medical equipment
A method for conditioning a flexible medical endoscope (10) having internal channels (12), so as to maintain disinfection of said endoscope (10) following processing to a state of high level disinfection, comprises the steps of: (a) connecting the internal channels (12) of the endoscope (10) to connectors (31-34) enabling fluid communication with a reservoir (24) of disinfectant fluid (25); (b) charging the internal channels (12) with disinfectant fluid (25) from the reservoir (24); (c) disconnecting the internal channels (12) from the connectors (31-34); (d) sealing the endoscope (10) in a pouch (56) having a substantially air-tight seal (57) and a valve (55) enabling connection to suction means (53); and (e) connecting and activating the suction means (53) so as substantially to reduce pressure within the pouch (56), thereby partially evacuating the pouch (56). |
| US11064873B2 |
Imaging system includes imaging probe and delivery devices
An imaging system is provided comprising an imaging probe and at least one delivery device. The imaging probe comprises an elongate shaft, a rotatable optical core and an optical assembly. The elongate shaft comprises a proximal end, a distal portion, and a lumen extending between the proximal end and the distal portion. The rotatable optical core is positioned within the lumen of the elongate shaft and comprises a proximal end and a distal end. The rotatable optical core is configured to optically and mechanically connect with an interface unit. The optical assembly is positioned in the elongate shaft distal portion and proximate the rotatable optical core distal end. The optical assembly is configured to direct light to tissue and collect reflected light from the tissue. The imaging probe is constructed and arranged to collect image data from a patient site. The at least one delivery device is constructed and arranged to slidingly engage the imaging probe. Methods of introducing the imaging probe and the at least one delivery catheter into a patient are also provided. |
| US11064870B2 |
Biopsy cap for use with endoscope
Endoscope assemblies, biopsy caps, and methods for making and using the same. An example endoscope assembly may include an endoscope having a channel formed therein and a port that provides access to the channel. A cap may be coupled to the port. The cap may include a base having a securing member for securing the cap to the port, an outer shell and a brush section disposed within the interior volume adjacent the disk shutter section, the brush section including a plurality of brushes arranged in a helical fashion. |
| US11064869B2 |
In-vivo visualization system
Several embodiments of the present invention are generally directed to medical visualization systems that comprise combinations of disposable and resuable components, such as catheters, functional handles, hubs, optical devices, etc. Other embodiments of the present invention are generally directed to features and aspects of an in-vivo visualization system that comprises an endoscope having a working channel through which a catheter having viewing capabilities is routed. the catheter may obtain viewing capabilities by being constructed as a vision catheter or by having a fiberscope or other viewing device selectively routed through one of its channels. The catheter is preferably of the steerable type so that the distal end of the catheter may be steered from its proximal end as it is advanced with the body. A suitable use for the in-vivo visualization system includes but is not limited to diagnosis and/or treatment of the duodenum, and particularly the biliary tree. |
| US11064868B2 |
Endoscope with distal linear conductor
An endoscope includes an insertion portion that has a tip portion to be inserted into an examination target from a tip side of the tip portion. The endoscope includes a lens unit that is disposed at the tip portion. The endoscope includes an image sensor that is disposed on an opposite side to the tip side of tip portion with respect to the lens unit. The endoscope includes a linear conductor that has a tip disposed at the tip side with respect to the image sensor and has a proximal end which is extended from the tip through inside the insertion portion. |
| US11064862B2 |
Dishwashing system
A dishwashing system includes: a dishwasher that washes tableware contained in a dishwashing rack, inside a washing chamber; a carry-in stand for placing the dishwashing rack that is to be carried into the washing chamber on; a carry-out stand for placing the dishwashing rack that is carried out from the washing chamber on; and a robot device including a robot arm mechanism. The carry-in stand and the dishwasher are arranged within a movable range of the robot arm mechanism. The robot arm mechanism transfers the dishwashing rack from the carry-in stand to the washing chamber, and also operates the dishwasher. |
| US11064860B2 |
Melamine foam sponge cleaning devices
A cleaning device for removing marks from a surface includes a body of melamine foam sponge having a front side and a rear side opposed to the front side, and a holding layer secured to the rear side of the body of melamine foam sponge to prevent relative movement therebetween. The holding layer is preferably a cloth and more preferably natural or synthetic chamois which can be used to wipe and/or buff the surface after rubbing the body of melamine foam sponge on the surface to remove at least one surface mark. The body of melamine foam sponge can be pre-moistened with a liquid such as a disinfecting solution. |
| US11064858B2 |
Robot cleaner and control method thereof
A robot cleaner and a traveling algorithm of the robot cleaner having wheels capable of moving in all directions to have enhanced traveling ability in various directions includes a body unit, a sensor provided to be rotatable with respect to the body unit to sense obstacles, a multi-directional moving wheel provided at a lower portion of the body unit to move the body unit in various directions, and a controller configured to determine a traveling route of the robot cleaner to avoid the detected obstacles and control the multi-directional moving wheel when the traveling route is determined so that the robot cleaner moves to the determined traveling route in a state where the body unit is not rotated. |
| US11064857B2 |
Cleaner capable of controlling motor power and control method thereof
A cleaner capable of controlling motor power and a control method thereof are disclosed. The cleaner may include a head suctioning external dirt, a stick communicating with the head, being adjustable in length, and providing a passage through which dirt that is suctioned moves, a length sensor mounted on the stick and sensing a length change of the stick, a motor providing dirt suction power to the head, a speed measurer measuring a movement speed and a movement direction of the head, and a controller controlling power of the motor. The controller may select minimum power for dirt suction of the motor on the basis of at least one of information about the length change of the stick, the movement speed of the head, and the movement direction of the head, and may control the motor to have the selected minimum power. The cleaner can transmit/receive wireless signals on a mobile communication network established in accordance with 5G (Generation) communication. |
| US11064848B2 |
Film-packaged tissue, manufacturing method for film-packaged tissue, film-packaged tissue set package, and manufacturing method for film packaged tissue set package
A tissue paper package not prone to losing shape. Film-packaged tissue paper comprising a pop-up type substantially cuboid bundle of tissue paper packaged with a flexible resin packaging film, and characterized in that air vents for providing communication between the inside and the outside of the package are formed at positions on the packaging film facing short-side surfaces of the bundle of tissue paper where no folded edges are arranged. |
| US11064847B2 |
Towel warming apparatus
Embodiments relate generally to a heated towel rack that includes at least one lateral support, at least one forced air heating unit in fluid communication with a channel within a lateral support, and at least one cross bar coupled to the at least one lateral support. The at least one cross bar including at least one vent that traverses into a conduit within the cross bar. The channel is in fluid communication with the at least one vent by way of the conduit. |
| US11064846B2 |
Liquid dispensing units
A soap dispenser can be configured to dispense an amount of liquid soap, for example, upon detecting the presence of an object. Certain embodiments of the dispenser include a housing, reservoir, pump, motor, sensor, electronic processor, and nozzle. In certain embodiments, the sensor can be configured to generate a signal based on a distance between an object and the sensor. In certain embodiments, the electronic processor can be configured to receive the signal from the sensor and to determine a dispensation volume of the liquid. The dispensation volume can vary as a function of the distance between the object and the sensor. The processor can be configured to control the motor to dispense approximately the dispensation volume of the liquid. |
| US11064845B2 |
Semi-open showering device
A semi-open bathing device (200) is provided, one aspect of which relates to multi-function showering device, comprising a chair assembly, a plurality of first dispensers (220/222), a supply assembly, a temperature regulator, and a waste water management assembly. In the semi-open bathing device (200), the chair assembly comprises a seat (202) with a hole (204) disposed in the center of the seat (202). A backrest (206) and two sidewalls (214) are coupled to the seat (202) respectively thereby forming a front opening for the chair assembly. The backrest (206) provides a support for the bather and the two sidewalls (214) are configured to contain the spillage of water. The plurality of first dispensers (220/222) is positioned onto the sidewalls (214) and/or the backrest (206) for dispensing water and/or air towards the bather. The supply assembly is located at backside of the backrest (206) for connecting to a water supply and an electricity supply. |
| US11064840B2 |
Apparatus and assembly for the cleaning and cooking of seafood and crustacea
An apparatus for cleaning and cooking seafood or crustacea has a container with an interior volume defined by wall, a basket removably received in the interior volume of the container, a pipe positioned adjacent to the wall and having a plurality of apertures adapted to direct a flow of water toward a portion of the wall spaced from the pipe such that the flow water creates a cyclonic path in the basket within the container, and a connector fluid equally connected to the pipe and having a portion extending outwardly of the wall of the container. The wall of the container has a taper that matches a taper of the wall of the basket. The basket has a slotted configuration overlying the pipe. A pot is spaced from the container and serves to removably receive the basket. |
| US11064838B2 |
Cooking apparatus
A cooking apparatus includes a heat source, a supporting device for food, a supporting frame to support the supporting device, a central edge, and two lateral edges connected to the central edge. The lateral edges have a front lower border, a front upper border and a front intermediate border that connects the front lower border with the front upper border. The supporting device for food is placed onto the front upper borders of the two lateral edges and has its lateral border in contact with the front intermediate borders of the lateral edges. |
| US11064834B2 |
Pressure cooker having bayonet mount and related manufacturing method
The invention relates to a food pressure cooking appliance including a bowl and a lid intended to be locked relative to the bowl to form with the latter a cooking chamber adapted to rise in pressure. The appliance includes bayonet locking means forming first and second series of protrusions that are integral with the envelope of the lid and the envelope of the bowl, respectively, and that are intended to cooperate with each other to ensure the locking of the lid relative to the bowl. Each protrusion of at least one of the series consists of a volume element that has opposite convex and concave faces and is formed by a localized radial deformation of the corresponding envelope. |
| US11064831B1 |
Package delivery system and method of use
A package delivery system includes a delivery pod container having a package deposit door positioned at a top of the delivery pod container, the package deposit door providing access to an interior area of the delivery pod container; and a pod door located on a front of the delivery pod container and to provide access to the interior area of the delivery pod container, the pod door having a lock; a bracket attached to the delivery pod container and to engage with a door and mount the delivery pod container thereto; the delivery pod container is to receive the package therein upon delivery from the delivery personnel. |
| US11064828B1 |
Elevated dishware having flatware receptacles
A dishware combination comprising, at least, an elevating base and a plurality of receptacles for various flatware is disclosed. The combination may further comprise a plurality of flatware rests appropriate for spoons, forks, knives, chopsticks, or the like, and the plurality of receptacles may be specifically designed to accommodate flatware appropriate to the specific dishware combination implemented. The dishware combination itself may present as a soup bowl, salad plate, coffee plate or saucer, sushi plate, drinking glass, drinking mug, or any other type of dishware. The dishware combination may further comprise the appropriate flatware itself. |
| US11064827B2 |
Pillow with gusset of open cell construction
A pillow is provided herein which includes a cover having opposing first and second panels. A gusset perimetrically bounds, and joins, the first and second panels. The gusset is formed of an open cell construction. Compliant fill material is disposed within the cover. Advantageously, with the subject invention, a pillow is provided allowing for lateral ventilation between opposing panels. This permits a cooling effect while a user is resting or sleeping. |
| US11064821B2 |
Resolving events in item-identifying carts
This disclosure is directed to item-identifying carts that may be utilized by users to automatically identify items that the users place in their carts. In addition, these carts may automatically determine the outcome of respective events that occur with respect to these identified items. For example, the carts may be configured to identify one or more items that are placed into or removed from the cart, and thereafter determine one or more actions taken with respect to the identified items and a quantity of the items involved. For example, after identifying a first item and a second item either placed into or removed from the cart, the cart may determine that the user added two instances of the first item and removed one instance of the second item. In response to making this determination, the cart may update a virtual cart of a user operating the physical cart. |
| US11064815B2 |
Apparatus and method for a child seat with adjustable crotch buckle positioner
A child safety seat, such as a car seat, booster seat, stroller seat, or high chair, can include a crotch buckle positioner that provides adjustability for the harness system as the child grows. The seat can include a seat bottom, a seat back, a harness system, and a crotch belt positioner. Crotch belt webbing, including a buckle, can extend up through a portion of the crotch belt positioner and is adjusted by the crotch belt positioner. The crotch belt positioner can be adjusted into multiple positions along the seat bottom. Adjusting the crotch belt positioner from a first position to a second position can adjust at least one of the length of the crotch belt webbing that extends about the top surface of the seat bottom and the position that the relational position that the crotch belt webbing extends up through crotch belt positioner with respect to the seat bottom. |
| US11064809B2 |
Foldable easel blank
A foldable easel blank includes a main panel defining a first side and a second side, the first side positioned opposite from the second side, the main panel defining a locking aperture extending through the main panel from a front main surface to a rear main surface; a support panel hingedly connected to the main panel, the support panel defining a locking tab configured to engage the locking aperture; a first side panel hingedly connected to the first side of the main panel by a first side hinge; a second side panel hingedly connected to the second side of the main panel by a second side hinge; and a base panel positioned between the first side hinge and the second side hinge, the base panel configured to engage the first side panel and the second side panel to form a base stand. |
| US11064806B1 |
Combined goods support device
A combined goods support device includes at least two vertically-stacked goods support frames, wherein every two adjacent goods support frames are connected by a plurality of goods support frame connectors; the goods support frame includes four first L-shaped support plates, and goods placement racks are disposed among the four first L-shaped support plates; the goods support frame connector is presented in the form of L-shaped plate, a first insertion groove and a second insertion groove for connecting the first L-shaped support plates are opened at upper and lower ends of the goods support frame connector respectively, and the first insertion groove and the second insertion groove are mirror-symmetrically disposed relative to a middle portion of the goods support frame connector; the first insertion groove is an L-shaped groove that is wide at an outer end and narrow at an inner end, and the second insertion groove is an L-shaped groove that is wide at an outer end and narrow at an inner end. The goods support device is simple and novel in structure, high in stability and easy to assemble and disassemble. |
| US11064801B2 |
Methods of making personalized toothbrush devices
The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for creating customized dental care. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a dental model of a particular user's teeth and determining, based on the dental model of the particular user's teeth, a configuration for a set of cleaning elements to be included with the toothbrush device. The method further includes forming the toothbrush device for the particular user based on the dental model of the particular user's teeth, whereby the toothbrush device includes: (i) a cleaner body, personalized for the particular user based on the dental model of the particular user's teeth, that defines a cleaning cavity shaped for receiving the particular user's teeth, and (ii) the set of cleaning elements, integrally formed with the cleaner body, that contact and clean the particular user's teeth during application of the toothbrush device, whereby the cleaning elements have the determined configuration. |
| US11064799B2 |
Brush for washing plant
A brush for a vehicle washing system comprising: flexible elements (2) intended to come into contact with the vehicle for cleaning and/or polishing and/or drying; a central annular support (3) from which the flexible elements (2) extend; a shaft (4) rotating about its own axis (40) of rotation, the shaft (4) crossing the central support (3) and placing the central support (3) in rotation about the axis (40) of rotation; the central support (3) comprising a lateral surface (35), from which the flexible elements (2) extend, which is inclined with respect to the axis (40) of rotation of the shaft (4). |
| US11064797B2 |
Mobile device holder
An apparatus for holding a mobile device stationary within a storage region of a medium of transportation, such as the pocket of a commercial airline, includes a plurality of regions. Deformable regions of the apparatus and corresponding flaps permit a user to bend the regions to an open position, place the mobile device within the flaps, and the deformation in a reverse direction serves to snugly fit and hold the mobile device in-place. In other variations, a magnetic holder, tacky surfaces and other implementations serve to hold the mobile device in-place. In numerous designs, extensive features are provided to hold the mobile device within a pocket or other compartment of a transport vehicle. Numerous materials and combinations of materials serve to permit these implementations. |
| US11064796B1 |
Gear attachment system
A system includes knobs on an item of gear and a latch attached to a carrier. Each knob has a neck and a head with a larger diameter. First and second sliders fit into a latch frame. Hooks on the sliders form expandable apertures. To attach, the knob is pushed against the slider hooks to expand the aperture. After the head passes through the aperture, a spring biases the hooks together so the aperture width is smaller than the head diameter, capturing the knob. A carrier adapter adapts the latch to a carrier. Adapters are available for duty belts, MOLLE-equipped carriers, and horizontal slots. |
| US11064790B2 |
Applicator device or dispenser with stone tip
An applicator device or dispenser includes a stone applicator tip and a housing which may, in some examples, have a reservoir for containing a product, such as a cosmetics product or a medicinal product. The stone tip comprises a material that is capable of storing and retaining and/or transferring thermal energy during application of the product. |
| US11064784B2 |
Printing method and system of a nail printing apparatus, and a medium thereof
The present disclosure may relate to a printing method, system of a nail printing apparatus, the nail printing apparatus and a medium thereof. The nail printing apparatus may include a touch screen. The touch screen may display a first interface. The first interface may include a third region and a second region. The third region may include a plurality of second patterns. The printing method may include displaying a user's nail model in the second region. The printing method may include displaying a first pattern in the second region. The user's nail model may overlap at least a portion of the first pattern. The at least a portion of the first pattern overlapping the user's nail model may be used as a printing pattern. The printing method may include printing the printing pattern based on a printing instruction. The present disclosure may reduce the pattern to be printed, save ink, prolong a usage time of the ink cartridge, and help reduce costs. The present disclosure may reduce two processes of coating anti-overflow glue before printing and cleaning the anti-overflow glue after printing, thereby improving the nail printing efficiency. |
| US11064781B2 |
Hair coloring variegation device and method of use
A method and device for selectively entraining hair strands from the scalp having at least one hooking applicator, the at least one hooking applicator employing a hook that rotates to entrain the hair strands, a hair color container having hair color therein and a way to apply the hair color to the entrained hair stands includes a hooking applicator, hair color container, and trigger mechanism. The trigger mechanism operates to entrain hair using the hooking application and apply hair color to the hair from the hair color container. |
| US11064776B2 |
Low profile expandable ring structure
Disclosed herein is a low profile expandable ring structure comprising a plurality of coupled blocks that each have a certain degree of translational movement with respect to each other. Each block has one or more downward curved loops or tubes protruding on the front side of the block which are inserted into openings on an adjacent block. A tensioned spring, passed through an internal channel of the coupled blocks, maintains the ring structure in a closed appearance but allows for expansion of the expandable ring structure through the translational movement of the blocks. The low-profile nature allows the expandable ring structure to be comfortable for the wearer. |
| US11064772B2 |
Male member of snap fastener and snap fastener
This male member of a snap fastener is provided with a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion is composed of a plastic material, and the second portion is composed of a metal portion. In addition, the male member of the snap fastener has an engaging protrusion part working together with an eyelet of a female member, and a cover which at least partially covers the engaging protrusion part is provided to a side of the male member, the side facing the female member. |
| US11064769B2 |
Rotary belt buckle
A rotary belt buckle includes a belt fastener connection part, a belt connection part, and a spring mechanism. The belt connection part is connected with the belt fastener connection part through the spring mechanism, the belt connection part rotates around the belt fastener connection part; the belt fastener connection part has a slot, a strip unit which is located on the belt connection part fits with the slot; the belt connection part includes a cover plate and a box body, the strip unit includes an upper strip and a lower strip. The upper strip is located on the cover plate, and the lower strip is located on the box body. The upper strip is fixed with the lower strip to avoid the belt from being easily taken out of the belt buckle, to achieve a quick replacement of the belt, saving time of a user to replace the belt. |
| US11064766B2 |
Insole with customizable resilient forefoot sections and/or subsections
A removable insole for insertion into footwear, comprises a forefoot portion integral to the insole and extending at least to a metatarsal of a foot and including a resilient layer, the resilient layer including at least two non-contiguous resilient layer sections (including a big toe section). The at least two non-contiguous resilient sections include at least four resilient layer subsections in some embodiments, a continuous rear portion that includes a medial longitudinal arch support portion, a heel surrounding portion and a lateral longitudinal arch support portion; and a heel portion. In some embodiments, the forefoot is customizable by having different levels of hardness for the subsections and big toe section. The insole is therefore tailored a particular sport. The medial longitudinal arch support portion includes a detachable cushion configured to adjust a height of the medial longitudinal arch and to support the foot during pronation of the foot. |
| US11064765B2 |
Air pad assembly for shoes
An air pad assembly for shoes includes a rear air pad and a front air pad which communicates with the rear air pad. The front air pad includes a release valve and an inlet. A first tube is connected between the inlet of the front air pad and a first one-way valve of the rear air pad. When the rear air pad is compressed, air in the rear air pad flows into the front air pad. The air in the front air pad releases from the release valve gradually so as to prevent the front air pad from being overly inflated to compress the wearer's foot between the front end of the vamp and the front air pad. |
| US11064763B1 |
Contoured thin soles
A sole of a shoe includes: a rear portion; and a forward portion connected with the rear portion, the forward portion being thinner than the rear portion, the forward portion comprising a plurality of ribs that are patterned and contoured to provide different height, rigidity and flexibility characteristics at different areas of the forward portion. |
| US11064755B1 |
Safety helmet
A protective helmet comprising a head mountable shell (10) and a transparent visor (24), the head mountable shell defining a rear portion and an opposing front portion (12) when oriented for use, the front portion being recessed, the helmet further comprising a cover portion (16) mountable over the recessed front portion so as to define a cavity, the transparent visor being pivotally mounted across the recessed front portion by means of a pair of pivot mechanisms (28), the pivot mechanisms being located at opposing sides of the recessed front portion and substantially wholly within the cavity, and configured to enable the transparent visor to be pivoted from a first position substantially within the cavity to a second, operable position generally perpendicular to a user's eyeline. |
| US11064752B2 |
Protective helmet cap
The present disclosure provides an apparatus for use in reducing the impact to the head during sporting activities. The present disclosure provides a helmet cap that covers an underlying hard shell helmet. The helmet cap has a durable, energy absorbing outer shell, which lessens the initial impact to the helmet. The outer shell is formed into segments of padded material that may deform on impact. The outer shell has an inner surface that allows the outer shell to slide over the surface of a helmet thereby reducing forces applied to a wearer. The helmet cap may be securely attached to helmets without modification of the helmets. The helmet cap may include an adjustable fastener that allows the helmet cap to be securely attached to helmets of varying dimensions. |
| US11064749B2 |
Synthetic elastomeric article and method for the production thereof
The present application relates to an elastomeric article, such as a glove, comprising: (i) an elastomeric film comprising one or more film layers, and including an external surface and an internal surface, (ii) an antimicrobial agent that is effective against both beneficial and harmful microorganisms on the external surface of the elastomeric film, and (iii) a skin-protective agent selected from a probiotic, a prebiotic, or a combination thereof on the internal surface of the elastomeric film; wherein the inner surface of the film is free of an antimicrobially-effective amount of an antimicrobial agent that is effective against both beneficial and harmful microorganisms. The elastomeric articles may further comprise a barrier film layer that provides separation between the antimicrobial agent and the skin-protective agent. Also described are methods for the manufacture of such articles. |
| US11064742B2 |
Convertible bib
A bib having a first panel and a storage container. The first panel has a collar constructed in a first end. The storage container has a first and a second side, an upper opening and a lower closed end. The first panel also has a second end which is attached to an upper end of the second side of the storage container in order to capture spillage while the bib is in use. The first panel can also be folded down into the storage container and secured by a fastener about the upper opening of the storage container. |
| US11064741B2 |
Element for an electrically operated aerosol-generating system having a dual function
An aerosol-generating element includes first and second electrical connection terminals; a first electrical element being an aerosol-generator connected between the first and second electrical connection terminals; and a second electrical element connected between the first and second electrical connection terminals. A first barrier element is connected between the first electrical element and the second electrical connection terminal, and a second barrier element is connected between the second electrical element and the first electrical connection terminal. The first and second barrier elements have opposite asymmetric conductance. |
| US11064739B2 |
Electrically operated smoking device including a system for identifying smoking articles in the device
There is provided an electrically operated smoking device configured to receive a smoking article, including a housing defining a cavity configured to at least partially receive a smoking article; and a sensing system configured to detect indicia on the smoking article, the sensing system being disposed on a periphery of the cavity and including a light source, a mirror, an imaging lens, and an image detector, the mirror being disposed on an internal surface of the cavity adjacent to the light source and the imaging lens. |
| US11064737B2 |
Cartridge for an aerosol-generating system
A cartridge for an aerosol-generating system is provided, the cartridge including: a liquid storage portion including a housing containing a liquid aerosol-forming substrate; a heater assembly including an electrical heating element configured to heat the liquid aerosol-forming substrate to form an aerosol; and a capillary material disposed in contact with the electrical heating element and including a ceramic or a ceramic-based material, the capillary material being configured to convey the liquid aerosol-forming substrate to the electrical heating element, the electrical heating element being supported by a support element having an opening, and the heater assembly further includes first and second electrically conductive contact portions disposed at opposite sides of the opening and being configured to contact with an external electrical power supply. An aerosol-generating system including the cartridge is also provided. |
| US11064736B1 |
Vaporization device with heating component
In one example, a vaporization device includes a housing, a heating component disposed in the housing, and a first sleeving. The heating component includes an absorbent core element and a heating coil at least partially wound around the core element. The first sleeving includes an outer wall defining a notch leading to a through hole configured to receive and fixedly secure the core element. In another example, a vaporization device includes a bottom cap including an airflow sensor, a light source, and a light guide element. The light guide element is configured to operatively secure the bottom cap to a housing and to permit illuminated light from the light source to pass therethrough. In another example, a vaporization device includes a nozzle cap defining an air inlet, an air outlet, and an air channel and including a baffle and an oil-absorbing element. |
| US11064735B1 |
Vaporization device with bottom cap
In one example, a vaporization device includes a housing, a heating component disposed in the housing, and a first sleeving. The heating component includes an absorbent core element and a heating coil at least partially wound around the core element. The first sleeving includes an outer wall defining a notch leading to a through hole configured to receive and fixedly secure the core element. In another example, a vaporization device includes a bottom cap including an airflow sensor, a light source, and a light guide element. The light guide element is configured to operatively secure the bottom cap to a housing and to permit illuminated light from the light source to pass therethrough. In another example, a vaporization device includes a nozzle cap defining an air inlet, an air outlet, and an air channel and including a baffle and an oil-absorbing element. |
| US11064727B2 |
Sensor apparatuses and systems
A sensor apparatus may include a conduit structure including an inner surface defining a conduit extending through an interior of the conduit structure, an inlet structure coupled to an end of the conduit structure, and a plurality of sensor devices in hydrodynamic contact with the conduit. The inlet structure may couple with an outlet end of an external tobacco element to hold the outlet end of the external tobacco element in fluid communication with an inlet opening of the conduit structure, such that the conduit structure may receive a generated aerosol from the external tobacco element at the inlet opening, and draw an instance of aerosol through the conduit towards an outlet opening. The instance of aerosol may include at least a portion of the generated aerosol. Each sensor device may generate sensor data indicating a pressure of the instance of aerosol through a separate portion of the conduit. |
| US11064717B2 |
Palm-based animal feed
Animal feed formed with a base of palm fronds and combined with palm fruit, such as dates, is a sustainable and affordable feed product that can be developed in hot climates. Palm fronds with a desired moisture content are shredded, chopped, and/or ground, and mixed with palm fruit. Additives such as urea can increase the nutritional content. Feeds with palm fronds, palm fruit, and/or additives can serve as a base feed for other components. Palm fronds can also serve as a base feed for other components. Animal feeds with a variety of bases can have palm fruit added. Animal feeds with a variety of bases, including palm fronds, can include a variety of other components added. |
| US11064715B2 |
Individual frozen drink dispenser
An individual frozen drink dispenser includes a housing having a base configured to support a blender cup, a dispensing chamber disposed above the blender cup and configured to support a frozen beverage container containing frozen ingredients suitable for preparing a frozen drink, at least one dispensing mechanism configured to move from a pre-dispense position to a dispense position in which the dispensing mechanism drives the frozen ingredients from the frozen beverage container into the blender cup, and a drive mechanism coupled to the housing and configured to drive the movement of the dispensing mechanism from the pre-dispense position to the dispense position. A method of preparing a frozen drink is further disclosed. |
| US11064714B2 |
Horizontal molding system
A horizontal molding system and method can include: an ice pop stick, the ice pop stick including: an ice pop stick key, the ice pop stick key including a key top side, a key bottom side and key edges, an inner portion having a top side, the inner portion vertically below the ice pop stick key, and an external portion coupled to the ice pop stick key, the external portion having a curve extended vertically down and horizontally away from the ice pop stick key and extended below a horizontal plane defined by the top side of the inner portion; and a mold including a notch and a mold upper lip, the notch configured to seal around the key edges and the key bottom side, and the key top side being co-planar with the mold upper lip. |
| US11064712B2 |
Systems and methods for distributing and dispensing chocolate
Systems for dispensing chocolate, in one aspect including a generally fluid-tight exterior housing with first volume; a vertical support member; a base support member; a dispenser guiding member within the first volume; an extruder connection member extending through the housing and having a first end within the housing and a second end outside of the housing, defining a pivot axis; an extruder member connected to the first end; a lever connected to the second end; at least one extruder guide member within the first volume and connected to the extruder member; and at least one extruder guide rail connected to the housing within the first volume and capable of receiving the at least one extruder guide member; and where manual actuation of the lever pivots the extruder member in cooperation with the at least one extruder guide member. |
| US11064710B2 |
Method of making dairy compositions
The invention relates to a method of separating components from milk, and the apparatus used therefor. The invention also relates to compositions prepared from the separated components. The present invention relates to nutritional milk compositions and products which are designed to include per serving size a specified percentage range of one or more components separated from milk. The compositions of the present invention can optionally include non-essential but nutritionally functional components. The complete nutritional milk compositions of the present invention can be provided as unflavored milks, flavored milks, ice creams and yogurts. |
| US11064706B2 |
Apparatus and method for ventral/dorsal alignment of fish
Method and apparatus for ventral/dorsal alignment of fish. The apparatus includes a first fish conveying device, a guide roller configured for transversely positioning the fish in a feed-in channel, the guide roller extending across the width of the feed-in channel and having at least one section with reduced cross-sectional diameter, a channel floor in the center of the channel comprising a transfer recess, widening in the conveying direction, which is designed to transfer the fish by the effect of gravity to a guiding channel arranged below the first conveying plane by aligning in a predetermined ventral/dorsal position. The guiding channel includes lateral guide surfaces each arranged inclined with respect to the first conveying plane. A second conveying device, forming a second conveying plane and configured to convey the fish on their side, is provided. The second conveying device is arranged downstream of the guiding channel for taking over the fish at the end of said guiding channel. |
| US11064705B2 |
Device for aligning dough pieces
The present invention relates to a device for aligning dough pieces, comprising a first conveyor, for conveying dough pieces in a direction of conveyance; a second conveyor, for conveying dough pieces in the same direction of conveyance; wherein the second conveyor is arranged as an extension of the first conveyor, and there is a gap in between the first and the second conveyor; wherein a number of transfer units is arranged in parallel in the gap, each transfer unit for transferring dough pieces from the first conveyor to the second conveyor, wherein the transfer units are adapted for independently moving the dough pieces with a directional component perpendicular to the direction of conveyance during transfer from a front side adjacent to the first conveyor to a back side adjacent to the second conveyor. |
| US11064703B2 |
Antifungal Paenibacillus strains, fusaricidin-type compounds, and their use
The present invention relates to novel isolated bacterial strains, which are members of the genus Paenibacillus, originally isolated from soil and showing antagonistic activity against a broad range of pathogens and being capable of producing antimicrobial metabolites. It was found that the strains Lu16774 and Lu17007 belong to a novel subspecies named Paenibacillus polymyxa ssp. plantarum while the strain Lu17015 belongs to a novel species which is proposed to be Paenibacillus epiphyticus. The present invention also relates to microbial pesticide compositions comprising at least one of such novel bacterial strains, whole culture broth or a cell-free extract or a fraction thereof or at least one metabolite thereof, and/or a mutant of at least one of said novel bacterial strains having all the identifying characteristics of the respective bacterial strain or whole culture broth, cell-free extract, fraction and/or metabolite of the mutant thereof showing antagonistic activity against plant pathogens. The present invention also relates to a method of controlling or suppressing plant pathogens or preventing plant pathogen infections by applying such composition. The present invention also relates to novel fusaricidin-type compounds which are metabolites produced by the strains of the present invention. |
| US11064701B2 |
Benzoxaborole compounds
The present invention relates to the use of the compounds of formula (I) wherein the variables are defined according to the description, for controlling unwanted vegetation Further the invention relates to novel compounds of the formula (I), compositions comprising them a method for controlling unwanted vegetation which comprises allowing a herbicidal effective amount of at least one azine of the formula I to act on plants, their seed and/or their habitat. |
| US11064694B2 |
Device and method for heating or cooling a sample
A sample heating/cooling device comprises a plurality of members operable in use to heat and/or cool one or more samples. Each member has a sample contact surface and is biased towards a resting position under the operation of a biasing means. The members are movable independently of one another against said bias under the application of a force on the sample contact surface and so are able to conform to the shape of a sample placed on the members to provide a uniform heating/cooling profile. The members may be mounted in a heating/cooling element and adapted to conduct thermal energy between the sample and the element. The device is particularly suitable for thawing frozen sample bags having an irregular shape. A corresponding method is also described. |
| US11064693B2 |
Deer attraction device
An apparatus for securing licking branches to a support structure includes a body suitable for attachment to a support structure, at least one branch holder extending outwardly from the annular body, and securing means for securing a branch in place within the branch holder. The securing means may include a clamp. The body may be an annular body for fitting over the support structure. The body ma include a surface for fitting against the support structure with at least one loop operatively connected to the support structure. The angle of each of the at least one branch holder is adjustable. |
| US11064691B2 |
Fabric laying system and method
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods related to the suppression of invasive plant species by laying down a fabric over beds of such invasive plants. A watercraft with a fabric laying mechanism is provided with the mechanism automatically guiding the fabric from a fabric stockpile to a frame that spreads the fabric prior to the fabric being laid over the underwater plant bed. The watercraft may be provided with a device for dispensing material over the fabric that has been laid down to weigh down or hold down the fabric. Preferably, the fabric is biodegradable and the material is natural to the area. In one implementation, the fabric (e.g jute burlap) is coarsely woven from natural plant fibers. |
| US11064690B2 |
Sprayer
The invention relates to a sprayer of the type comprising a turbine that generates an air current, a nozzle that channels the air current and an outlet of this current to the outside, carrying with it the product dosed by a series of nozzles arranged in the area of influence of the air current, the sprayer being special in that both the air outlet opening and the turbine can be configured and act in a coordinated manner to obtain the desired air flow for each type of crop and spray application, where the optimum air flow for each spray application and the configuration of the turbine and opening are determined by the actual sprayer by means of a processor and auxiliary means. |
| US11064687B2 |
Ice fishing hole covering assembly
An ice fishing hole covering assembly includes a unitary fishing hole covering with a panel that is rigid and has a top side, a bottom side and a perimeter edge. The top side is planar and the panel is translucent with a circular shape and a central axis. A reel is rotatably coupled to the bottom side of the panel and has fishing line spooled thereon. The panel has a plurality of apertures therein extending to the top side and outwardly through the bottom side to define finger grips. A strike indicator is attached to the bottom side of the panel and includes a light emitter that is turned on when the fishing line is pulled downwardly from the bottom side. An entirety of the unitary structure is positioned no higher than 0.30 inches above a plane of the top side before and after actuation of the strike indicator. |
| US11064684B2 |
Multiplexed genome editing
A method of modulating some or all copies of a gene in a cell is provided including introducing into a cell one or more ribonucleic acid (RNA) sequences that comprise a portion that is complementary to all or a portion of each of the one or more target nucleic acid sequences, and a nucleic acid sequence that encodes a Cas protein and maintaining the cells under conditions in which the Cas protein is expressed and the Cas protein binds and modulates the one or more target nucleic acid sequences in the cell. |
| US11064675B2 |
Animal pen with removable dividers
A modular animal pen system comprises front and rear panels and opposed side panels extending between the front and rear panels to form a primary enclosure. The front panel has adjacent doorway apertures formed therein to receive respective selectively closable gates, and a mullion is disposed between the doorway apertures. The mullion has a first slot, and a second slot in the rear panel is in registration with the first slot. The animal pen system further comprises a removable divider panel whose longitudinal ends are sized to fit removably within the respective slots so that the divider panel can divide the primary enclosure into two secondary enclosures. The side and divider panels may be formed by interchangeable profile panels, and the front and rear panels may be formed by interchangeable face panels connectable end-to-end to form a junction slot therebetween sized to receive the longitudinal ends of the profile panels. |
| US11064674B1 |
Automatic cow milking device
An automatic animal processing device for automatically processing a domestic animal from its stall the animal while restraining the animal and without impeding passage in the aisle. The animal processing device, while operating, allows a person to walk-by the system with minimal constraints. The animal processing device may be a milking machine may be a milking machine having a milking head assembly and a cleaning system. The animal processing device may be mounted on a movable platform, such that the processing device may be automatically moved from one stall to the next. For installations in which the processing device is installed on tracks in the middle of two rows of animals, the processing device may be rotatable on its movable platform, such that it may process the animals of both sides of the aisle. |
| US11064671B2 |
Soybean cultivar CE1661319
The present invention is in the field of soybean variety CE1661319, CE1660344, and/or CE1660404 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety CE1661319, CE1660344, and/or CE1660404 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using CE1661319, CE1660344, and/or CE1660404 in a breeding program. |
| US11064670B2 |
Soybean cultivar CS1661278
The present invention is in the field of soybean variety CS1661395, CS1661278, CS1661219, CS1661171, CS1660654, AND/OR CS1661663 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety CS1661395, CS1661278, CS1661219, CS1661171, CS1660654, AND/OR CS1661663 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using CS1661395, CS1661278, CS1661219, CS1661171, CS1660654, AND/OR CS1661663 in a breeding program. |
| US11064668B2 |
Melon variety NUN 76307 MEM
The disclosure provides a new and distinct hybrid melon variety NUN 76307 MEM as well as seeds and plants and fruits thereof. NUN 76307 MEM is a Cantaloupe non-sutured melon variety with extended shelf life, rounded oblate shape, pale yellow green rind color, and moderate orange flesh comprising resistance to Podosphaera xanthii Race 1, Race 2, and Race 5, Fusarium oxysporum melonis Race 1, Muskmelon Necrotic Spot Virus (MNSV), and Aphis gossypii. |
| US11064665B2 |
Plant containment system having two-position valve
A plant growing, transportation, display, and maintenance system including a plant pot and corresponding container having a selectable valve that controls the flow of liquid into and out of the container. |
| US11064662B2 |
Blower
A blower has a fan, a motor, an air duct assembly having an air duct passage with an air inlet and an air outlet where the fan rotates to drive the airflow to enter into the air duct passage from the air inlet and to be exposed out of the air outlet, and an electrostatic neutralization apparatus. The electrostatic neutralization apparatus includes a first conductive end and a second conductive end wherein the first conductive end is located within the air duct passage and close to the fan and the second conductive end is also located within the air duct passage. The electrostatic neutralization apparatus of the blower effectively neutralizes electrostatic charges generated by the fan. |
| US11064661B2 |
System for optimally controlling sensory temperature based on humidity
The present invention can provide an optimum sensory temperature and can increase productivity by a system having a variable fan provided in a vinyl greenhouse, receiving optimum temperature (A) and humidity (B), detecting internal temperature (A′) and humidity (B′), calculating temperature (A″) according to the humidity, and providing the temperature (A″) suitable for the humidity (B′) detected through an operational control of the variable fan. |
| US11064659B2 |
Device and method for cultivating plants, and sowing and planting mat therefor
A device for cultivating plants is provided, comprising a watering device, an illuminating device, one or more seed mats, and a control unit configured to control the watering device and the illuminating device by means of a program controller, wherein the program controller comprises watering data and illuminating data which is individually matched to the one or more seed mats. |
| US11064656B1 |
Combine chaffer with chaffer dam
A cleaning system for an agricultural combine includes a cleaning shoe including a chaffer having an upstream extremity and a downstream extremity, a cleaning fan for establishing a flow of air upwardly through the chaffer, and a transverse chaffer dam mounted proximate to the downstream extremity transversely obstructing a crop layer flow path extending over the chaffer from the upstream extremity to the downstream extremity while permitting air and threshed crop material to flow thereover and thereunder through a transverse opening between the chaffer dam and the downstream extremity. |
| US11064645B2 |
System and method for controlling operation of a work vehicle towing an agricultural implement
A system for controlling work vehicles used for towing agricultural implements across a field includes an implement controller supported on and configured to control an operation of an agricultural implement, and at least one sensor communicatively coupled to the implement controller. The sensor(s) is configured to provide an indication of a location of the agricultural implement within the field. The implement controller is configured to: access a field map; anticipate a change in loading of one or more of the ground-engaging tools of the implement based on the location of the implement relative to the field map; and transmit a request instructing a vehicle controller of a work vehicle towing the agricultural implement to initiate a control action associated with adjusting at least one vehicle-related operational parameter to accommodate the anticipated change. |
| US11071240B2 |
Power converting apparatus
A power converting apparatus includes: a capacitor including a plurality of cells, with a number and arrangement of the cells being determined according to characteristics of a motor; power converters separately disposed on opposite sides of the capacitor; a first cooler including a plurality of cooling tubes through which cooling water flows, located between the capacitor and the power converters, and cooling the capacitor and the power converters by being brought into surface contact with the capacitor and the power converters, with a length of any one of the plurality of the cooling tubes being determined according to the characteristics of the motor; and a housing in which the capacitor, the power converters, and the first cooler are assembled. |
| US11071235B2 |
Airflow balancing assembly
Method and apparatus includes a chassis to house circuitry, the chassis having first and second surfaces and an air inlet. An airflow moving device may create an airflow in a first direction that is communicated to the chassis via the air inlet. A wall structure may have a height that extends up from a base of the wall structure in a second direction that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction of the airflow, where the base of the wall structure directly contacts the first surface and forms an elongated opening along a top surface of the wall structure and in between the second surface of the chassis. The airflow may flow over the top surface of the wall structure. |
| US11071232B2 |
Liquid immersion cooling apparatus
A liquid immersion cooling apparatus includes a first receptacle in which a refrigerant liquid is accommodated, configured to include a first tank having a first sidewall, a first lid configured to cover the first tank, and a first space provided between the refrigerant liquid and the first lid, a second receptacle in which a sealing material is accommodated, configured to include a second tank having a second sidewall facing the first sidewall, a second lid configured to cover the second tank, a second space provided between the sealing material and the second lid, and configured to communicate with the first space, and a third space provided between the sealing material and the second lid, partitioned from the second space, and configured to communicate with an outside, and a heat insulator provided between the first sidewall and the second sidewall. |
| US11071228B2 |
Computing workstation with accessible in a rack environment
A rack system for one or more computing systems is described. The rack system may include support structures, or rack structures, and a housing affixed or un-affixed to the support structures. The rack system may include rails, including telescoping rails, affixed to the support structures and coupled to the computing system. When the rack system is in a closed position, the computing system is positioned within the housing. When the rack system is in an open position, the computing system is removed from the housing and the components of the computing system are accessible. In the open position, only components on one surface of the circuit board are accessible. However, the computing system can rotate, thereby placing the components on the opposing surface of the circuit board in an accessible position. Alternatively, the housing can be affixed to the computing system, and include modifications for access to the computing system. |
| US11071221B2 |
Multi-card subsystem for embedded computing systems
A mounting frame apparatus is provided for embedding cards within an electronics system and includes a multi-card swappable subsystem. The apparatus further includes a chassis for containing the multi-card swappable subsystem. One or more heatsinks are used for cooling cards disposed in the four-card swappable subsystem. |
| US11071220B2 |
Feedthrough with flat conductor
A feedthrough assembly includes a housing part having at least two openings, respectively through which at least one conductor embedded in a glass or a glass ceramic material is fed. The conductor, in the region of a glazing area, has a substantially round cross section, and in a first and/or second region above and/or below the glazing area has a substantially rectangular cross section to form a part of a flat conductor having rectangular regions. The parts of the flat conductor arranged above and/or below the glazing area are joined adjacent to one another, resulting in a cumulative flat conductor having a rectangular common cross section with a total width expansion that extends over the at least two openings. The diameter of the openings is smaller than a width of the rectangular regions of the respective part of the flat conductor. |
| US11071218B2 |
Electronic devices having sliding expandable displays
An electronic device may have a housing with portions that slide relative to each other. A display may be supported on a surface of the housing such as on a front face of the housing. The housing portions may slide between an unexpanded state in which the display has an unexpanded viewable area on the front face and an expanded state in which the display has an expanded viewable area on the front face that is greater than the unexpanded viewable area. The housing portions may have interior regions that contain electrical components. The display may be formed from a flexible display substrate. A portion of a flexible display may be stored in an interior region of the housing when the housing is in the unexpanded state. In the unexpanded state, the flexible display may have one or more bends and may double back on itself one or more times. |
| US11071215B1 |
Case for portable electronic computing device
Systems and methods are involved with a case assembly a side; a cushion member including a side portion extending along a portion of the side, the cushion member including a first surface, a second surface, a first thickness extending a depth from the first surface to the second surface, and at least one trench having a depth from the first surface partially toward the second surface without penetrating the second surface. In addition, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. |
| US11071207B2 |
Electronic module
The present invention relates to an electronic module. In particular, to an electronic module which includes one or more components embedded in an installation base. The electronic module can be a module like a circuit board, which includes several components, which are connected to each other electrically, through conducting structures manufactured in the module. The components can be passive components, microcircuits, semiconductor components, or other similar components. Components that are typically connected to a circuit board form one group of components. Another important group of components are components that are typically packaged for connection to a circuit board. The electronic modules to which the invention relates can, of course, also include other types of components. |
| US11071206B2 |
Electronic system and processor substrate having an embedded power device module
A processor substrate includes: an electrically insulating material having a first main side and a second main side opposite the first main side; a plurality of electrically conductive structures embedded in the electrically insulating material and configured to provide an electrical interface for a processor at the first main side of the electrically insulating material and to provide electrical connections from the electrical interface to the second main side of the electrically insulating material; and a power device module embedded in the electrically insulating material and configured to convert a voltage provided at the second main side of the electrically insulating material and which exceeds a voltage limit of the processor substrate to a voltage that is within an operating range of the processor and below the voltage limit of the processor substrate. An electronic system that includes the processor substrate is also described. |
| US11071201B2 |
Method and apparatus for terminating an electrical cable to an integrated circuit
An electrical component is configured to allow electrical cables to be mounted directly to a package substrate, such that electrical traces of the package substrate directly place the electrical cables in electrical communication with an integrated circuit that is mounted to the package substrate without passing through any separable interfaces of an electrical connector. |
| US11071195B1 |
Heatsink and stiffener mount with integrated alignment
A mount for connecting a heat sink to a PCB may include a threaded post extending along an axis, a first barrel adjacent to the post along an axis and having a larger axial cross-section than the post, and a threaded second barrel defining an opposite end of the mount from the post and having a larger axial cross-section than the first barrel. |
| US11071194B2 |
Longitudinally joined superconducting resonating cavities
A system and method for fabricating accelerator cavities comprises forming at least two half cavities and joining the half cavities with a longitudinal seal. The half cavities can comprise at least one of aluminum, copper, tin, and copper alloys. The half cavities can be coated with a superconductor or combination of materials configured to form a superconductor coating. |
| US11071190B2 |
Electrostatic discharge device
An electrostatic discharge device includes at least two conductive materials and at least one electrostatic eliminating circuit. The conductive materials are attached to the outer wall of an insulating hollow tube. The conductive materials separate from each other and overlap in a radial direction of the insulating hollow tube. Static charges are accumulated on the insulating hollow tube to form an electrostatic voltage across the conductive materials. The electrostatic eliminating circuit is electrically connected to the conductive materials and disconnected from a grounding terminal. The electrostatic eliminating circuit receives and eliminates the static charges through the conductive materials to reduce the electrostatic voltage. |
| US11071186B2 |
Charging an input capacitor of a load control device
A load control device for controlling the amount of power delivered to an electrical load may include a rectifier circuit configured to receive a phase-control voltage and produce a rectified voltage. A power converter may be configured to receive the rectified voltage at an input and generate a bus voltage. An input capacitor may be coupled across the input of the power converter. The input capacitor may be adapted to charge when the magnitude of the phase control voltage is approximately zero volts. The power converter may be configured to operate in a boost mode, such that the magnitude of the bus voltage is greater than a peak magnitude of the input voltage. The power converter may be configured to operate in a buck mode to charge the input capacitor from the bus voltage when the magnitude of the phase-control voltage is approximately zero volts. |
| US11071183B2 |
Lighting apparatus
A lighting apparatus is connected to a dimmer and an external power source. The lighting apparatus includes a light source and a driver. The driver is used for converting the external power source to a driving current supplied to the light source. The driver includes a rectifier module, a constant voltage module, a control module, a constant current module, and a power module. The rectifier module is connected to the dimmer for rectifying a dimming voltage to a rectified voltage. The constant voltage module is connected to the rectifier module for providing a first constant voltage power according to the rectified voltage. |
| US11071182B2 |
Methods and apparatus to control lighting effects
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to adjust device control information. The example apparatus comprises a light drive waveform generator to obtain metadata corresponding to media and generate device control information based on the metadata, the device control information to inform a lighting device to enable consecutive light pulses; an effect engine to apply an attack parameter and a decay parameter to consecutive light pulses corresponding to the device control information, the attack parameter and the decay parameter based on the metadata to affect a shape of the consecutive light pulses; and a color timeline generator to generate color information based on the metadata, the color information to inform the lighting device to change a color state. |
| US11071180B2 |
Lighting unit and driving method
A lighting unit which includes a driver, a light source and a buffer capacitor of an auxiliary circuit (such as an independent active electronic circuit). The charging current allowed to flow to the buffer capacitor is controlled based on sensed currents flowing to the light source thereby to control the charging current of the buffer capacitor. In this way, large inrush currents caused by the use of a large buffer capacitor at the output of the driver can be avoided and the triggering of a fault detection mode within the driver can be prevented. Furthermore this circuit ensures that the driver is operated within the specification limits during start-up. |
| US11071179B2 |
Dimmable LED drive circuit and control method thereof
A dimmable LED drive circuit and a control method is provided in the present disclosure. The dimmable LED drive circuit may include a thyristor dimmer, a bleeder current circuit, and an LED circuit. The bleeder current circuit may provide a current required by the thyristor dimmer when an input voltage does not reach a forward voltage of the LED circuit. The dimmable LED drive circuit may further include a thyristor chopping angle detection circuit and a bleeder current control circuit. The thyristor chopping angle detection circuit may obtain a first electrical parameter signal characterizing a thyristor chopping angle when the thyristor dimmer is in a conducting state. The bleeder current control circuit may compare the first electrical parameter signal with a first threshold, and control the bleeder current circuit according to a comparison result. Moreover, an output current compensation circuit may also be included, which may be configured to compare the first electrical parameter signal with a second threshold to control a current flowing through the LED circuit. |
| US11071178B2 |
LED lighting system, apparatus, and dimming method
The present invention provides an LED lamp, a control method and a control apparatus thereof, and an LED lamp system, each of which may achieve the function of light dimming in a current LED lamp without having to modify its original structure(s) wherein the current LED lamp originally could not have the function, or may achieve better dimming control of parallel-connected LED lamps. A method of controlling an LED lamp includes combining or synthesizing a power signal and a dimming instruction to produce an output signal, wherein the power signal comprises a constant DC, and the dimming instruction includes a control code comprising a specific sequence of high/low voltage levels for providing a manner of controlling the LED lamp. The LED lamp receives the output signal and performs control of itself according to the manner of controlling provided by the control code. |
| US11071169B2 |
Communication apparatus, control method, and storage medium
A communication apparatus and method are provided such that, if first information received by a first communication apparatus from a second communication apparatus corresponds to a first code stored in the first communication apparatus, the first code corresponding to time synchronization processing, a communication parameter for joining a network established by the first communication apparatus is provided to the second communication apparatus. If the first information does not corresponds to the first code, the communication parameter is not provided. The first communication apparatus cause the second communication apparatus participating in the network to execute the time synchronization processing using time information about the first communication apparatus. |
| US11071168B2 |
Multi-station access method, apparatus, and system
In the present disclosure, an access point obtains a current network feature and generates a matching rule and an access rule, so that a station performs uplink access according to the matching rule and the access rule. This resolves a prior-art problem of reduced quality of service of a high-priority service because in an EDCA protocol, when there are relatively many low-priority service nodes, the high-priority service has difficulty in obtaining a resource through contention, or a conflict occurs between a low-priority packet and a high-priority packet. Effects of ensuring quality of service and user experience are achieved. |
| US11071167B2 |
Method, apparatus, system, and device for managing a session corresponding to multiple session management function network elements
Embodiments of this application provide a session management method, apparatus, and system. The method includes: receiving, by a first session management network element, a session request message from a second session management network element; allocating, by the first session management network element, Internet protocol IP information of a terminal device to a first session based on the session request message, where the first session is a branch of an established second session; and sending, by the first session management network element, the IP information of the terminal device to the second session management network element, where the IP information is used to obtain policy information corresponding to the IP information. |
| US11071163B2 |
User apparatus, and resource control method
A user apparatus for use in a mobile communication system that supports Device-to-Device (D2D) communication, including a receiver that receives a resource for D2D communication assigned from a base station in the mobile communication system; a transmitter that transmits a D2D signal to another user apparatus by using the resource for D2D communication assigned from the base station; and a processor that generates a resource release request signal for requesting release of the resource for D2D communication assigned from the base station, wherein the transmitter transmits, to the base station, the resource release request signal for requesting release of the resource for D2D communication assigned from the base station, and wherein the transmitter transmits a resource request signal to the base station as the resource release request signal for requesting release of the resource. |
| US11071159B1 |
Use of group delay variation as a basis to control configuration of dual-connectivity service
When a first access node is considering setup of dual-connectivity service for a UE, the first access node could take into consideration a group delay variation of each of one or more candidate second access nodes, in order to decide whether to set up the dual-connectivity service for the UE and/or to decide which of the multiple second access nodes to use for the UE's dual-connectivity service. For instance, the first access node may decide to use a given candidate second access node for the dual-connectivity service of the UE, with the decision being based on the given candidate second access node having a lower group delay variation than one or more other candidate second access nodes. |
| US11071155B2 |
Rate control of device-to-device based relay communication
In one aspect of the disclosure, to improve the performance of device-to-device based relay communication, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus for performing rate control based on feedback from participating UEs are provided. The apparatus may be a first UE. The first UE may receive a signal from a second UE through a device-to-device communication channel. The first UE may determine a feedback based on the received signal. The first UE may transmit the feedback to adjust transmission of the signal at the second UE. In another aspect of the disclosure, a first UE may transmit a signal to a second UE through a device-to-device communication channel. The first UE may receive a feedback of the signal. The first UE may adjust transmission of the signal based on the feedback. |
| US11071153B2 |
Home appliance for information registration and method for registering information of home appliance
A home appliance for information registration includes a body, a wireless communication unit connected to a wireless router using a wireless communication method and configured to transmit information, a camera attached to the body and configured to detect registration auxiliary information generated by a mobile terminal, and a controller configured to perform control to select the wireless router based on information acquired through the registration auxiliary information and to transmit device registration information including identification information thereof to a server through the selected wireless router. |
| US11071149B2 |
Multefire design of random access channel and random access channel procedure for Internet of Things device operation in unlicensed spectrum
Systems and methods of performing a RACH procedure in a MulteFire scenario are described. An eMTC UE communicates with an eNB on an anchor channel at a predetermined frequency of an unlicensed band and data channels on other frequency hopping channels of the unlicensed band. The UE receives a PBCH signal with System Information Broadcast Anchor (SIB-A-MF) scheduling information, and a SIB-A-MF after the PBCH. The SIB-A-MF indicates a RAC) resource configuration for a RACH procedure and dwell time of the data channels. The dwell time of the anchor channel is smaller than that of the data channels. The anchor channel includes a UL RACH resource for transmission of a RACH Request. The UE transmits UL RACH messages on UL resources indicated by the SIB-A-MF and receives DL RACH messages on different data channels. |
| US11071148B2 |
System information transmission method, base station and terminal
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a system information transmission method, a base station and a terminal. The method includes: a base station configuring physical random access channel (PRACH) parameters according to an access purpose of a terminal, and transmitting to the terminal, the access purpose comprising to request system information or to request initial access, the PRACH parameters comprising a number of a PRACH occasion and a time interval for the terminal to retransmit a random access request, each of the PRACH occasion corresponding to a different PRACH resource; receiving a random access request transmitted by the terminal according to the PRACH parameters selected according to the access purpose; if the access purpose of the terminal is to request the system information, transmitting system information to the terminal. The embodiments of the present disclosure facilitate system efficiency optimization. |
| US11071145B2 |
Rach conveyance of DL synchronization beam information for various DL-UL correspondence states
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink (DL) signal from a base station on one or more DL beam(s). The UE may identify of a nature of correspondence between one or more receive beams at the UE and one or more transmit beams at the UE. The UE may identify a selected DL beam of the one or more DL beam(s) for communications from the base station to the UE. The UE may transmit a random access channel (RACH) message to the base station using a resource and/or a RACH waveform selected based on the selected DL beam based at least in part on the selected DL beam and the nature of correspondence. |
| US11071143B2 |
Data sending method and user equipment
A data sending method includes determining, by user equipment, a narrowband time-frequency resource scheduled by a base station. The method further includes performing, by the user equipment, clear channel assessment CCA channel detection on the narrowband time-frequency resource to obtain a channel energy value of the narrowband time-frequency resource. The method further includes determining, by the user equipment, whether the channel energy value is less than a preset energy threshold. When the channel energy value is less than the preset energy threshold, the method includes sending, by the user equipment, uplink data to the base station on the narrowband time-frequency resource. |
| US11071142B2 |
Uplink transmission method based on licensed-assisted access LAA system, and apparatus
An uplink transmission method based on a licensed-assisted access (LAA) system, and an apparatus, where the method includes reserving, for a transmission burst transmitted on an unlicensed carrier, at least one single-carrier frequency-division multiple access (SC-FDMA) symbol in a subframe of an uplink transmission burst corresponding to the transmission burst, where in the reserved at least one SC-FDMA symbol, user equipment (UE) accesses a channel using a listen-before-talk (LBT) access mechanism. Hence, a time gap for accessing the channel through LBT can be reserved for another UE in the uplink transmission burst. This improves a probability of successfully accessing the channel by another UE such that a plurality of UEs in an LAA communications system can perform uplink multiplexing. |
| US11071136B2 |
System and method for multiplexing traffic
A system and method for multiplexing traffic. A wireless device such as a base station may schedule a first transmission of first data (e.g., latency tolerant data) to a first UE on first resources, and transmit second data (e.g., low latency data) to a second UE on a portion of the first resources. The base station may signal a first indicator e.g. via Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling to the first UE indicating that the first UE is to monitor for a second indicator that itself indicates the presence of second data on the first resources. The base station may then signal a second indicator to the first UE to indicate the presence of the second data on the first resources. By using the first indicator to initiate the monitoring of the second indicator, the first UE can reduce the amount of monitoring it needs to perform if there is no second data traffic in a certain period of time or in a certain frequency band. |
| US11071133B2 |
Cross-link interference detection and mitigation
In some aspects, a wireless node, such as a user equipment (UE), may measure a reference signal (RS) on a first group of RS resource sets, wherein each RS resource set in the first group of RS resource sets is associated with a different set of wireless nodes; may detect interference on a first RS resource set in the first group of RS resource sets, wherein the first RS resource set is associated with a first set of wireless nodes; and may measure RS on a second group of RS resource sets based at least in part on detecting the interference, wherein the second group of RS resource sets is determined based at least in part on the first RS resource set, and wherein each RS resource set of the second group of RS resource sets is associated with a subset of the first set of wireless nodes. |
| US11071128B2 |
Techniques for signaling a channel state information request and a communication link event
Techniques are described for signaling a downlink bandwidth part (BWP) switching event and an aperiodic channel state information (A-CSI) request in a paired spectrum environment. The base station may transmit uplink scheduling downlink control information (DCI) to a user equipment (UE) that includes the A-CSI request and an identifier for the downlink BWP of the downlink BWP switching event. After receiving the A-CSI request and the downlink BWP, the UE may perform one or more CSI measurements using the downlink BWP. The UE may use physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resources associated with the uplink scheduling DCI to transmit the CSI report to the base station. Using these techniques, the base station may be configured to indicate that a downlink BWP switching event is to occur and allocate PUSCH resources to the UE to be used to transmit the CSI report associated with the downlink BWP switching event. |
| US11071127B2 |
Semi-persistent transmission scheduling
A transmitting node (110) transmits a message (210) instructing a radio node (105) that data will be transmitted to the radio node (105) according to the same Downlink Control Information (DCI) each period (250). The message (210) includes a duration of the period (250). The transmitting node (110) further transmits the DCI to the radio node (105) for the periodic transmission (260). The radio node (105) receives the message (210) and the DCI from the transmitting node (110), and decodes each of a plurality of transmissions of the periodic transmission (260) according to the DCI. |
| US11071126B2 |
Code block aware slot preemption
According to certain embodiments a method is provided for use in a wireless transmitter that includes receiving an indication to schedule a high-priority transmission to preempt a lower-priority transmission that comprises one or more code blocks. A first resource allocation is determined for the high-priority transmission. A fraction of bits in the one or more code blocks of the lower-priority transmission that will be punctured by the first resource allocation is determined. When the fraction of bits in the one or more code blocks of the lower-priority transmission that will be punctured is less than a threshold, the first resource allocation is used for the high-priority transmission. Otherwise, a second allocation for the high-priority transmission is determined and used to minimize a number of the one or more code blocks that will be punctured. |
| US11071124B2 |
Method for connecting to a base station with flexible bandwidth
The disclosure of the present invention proposes a method for connecting to a base station. The method may be performed by a user equipment (UE) and comprise: receiving information on a UE-specific bandwidth of a first cell. Here, the UE-specific bandwidth of the first cell is variable based on a bandwidth of a second cell using long term evaluation (LTE) radio access technology (RAT). The information on the UE-specific bandwidth may indicate a bandwidth between a bandwidth between a minimum bandwidth and a maximum bandwidth. |
| US11071123B2 |
Transport block boundary flexibility
Methods and apparatus for providing transport block boundary flexibility are disclosed. In some aspects, a transmitter determines a plurality of blocks within a single transmission time interval (TTI), and transmits the plurality of blocks within the single TTI. Each of the plurality of blocks spans over a pre-defined period of time that is shorter than the single TTI. Each of the plurality of blocks includes data having a same logic channel identifier and a same header. A leading boundary and a trailing boundary of each of the plurality of blocks are aligned with one of: a leading boundary and a trailing boundary of a symbol; or a leading boundary and a trailing boundary of a code block. In additional aspects, a receiver receives these plurality of blocks within a single transmission time interval (TTI), and decodes a plurality of protocol data units in the plurality of blocks. |
| US11071122B2 |
Method and unit for radio resource management using reinforcement learning
Agent node and method therein, for configuring a radio resource parameter of a radio cell of a communication system. The agent node is configured to obtain a control policy; determine a feature representing a state of at least a part of the communication system, at a first time period; determine a control action to be performed for control in the radio cell at the first time period, out of a set of available control actions associated with the radio cell, based on the obtained control policy and the determined at least one feature; and configure an of the radio cell based on the determined control action. |
| US11071121B2 |
Subslot bundling and acknowledgement
A first apparatus may puncture, in at least two subslots, a first type of data or control information with a second type of data or control information. The first apparatus may bundle the least two subslots within a subframe, and the subframe may include a portion for carrying acknowledgment (ACK)/negative acknowledgment (NACK) information associated with the second type of data or control information. The first apparatus may communicate with a user equipment (UE) during the at least two subslots within the subframe. A second apparatus may receive ACK/NACK information associated with a second type of data or control information. The second apparatus may reduce a transmission power for a first type of data or control information during a subsequent subframe when the ACK/NACK information indicates a negative acknowledgement. |
| US11071119B2 |
Apparatus for controlling device-to-device communication, base station, radio terminal, and method therefor
An apparatus (1 or 3) adjusts a bandwidth, throughput, or radio resource used for device-to-device (D2D) transmission from a remote terminal (1) to a relay terminal (2), based on an amount of pending uplink data in the relay terminal (2) to be transmitted from the relay terminal (2) to a base station (3). In this way, for example, it is possible to contribute to avoiding inconsistency of performance between sidelink transmission from the remote terminal to the relay terminal and uplink transmission from the relay terminal to the base station. |
| US11071117B2 |
Resource determination method, base station, and mobile station
Provided are a resource determination method, a base station and a mobile station. A resource determination method performed by the base station according to embodiments of the present invention includes: determining a resource configuration used for uplink transmission for each mobile station group in a plurality of mobile station groups corresponding to the base station; determining a resource offset set used for the plurality of mobile station groups, wherein the resource offset set includes a plurality of resource candidate offsets such that a mobile station connected to the base station determines uplink transmission resources for the mobile station according to the resource configuration of the mobile station group to which the mobile station belongs and resource candidate offsets in the resource offset set. |
| US11071116B2 |
Coding/decoding method, apparatus, and device
The present disclosure relates to coding/decoding methods, apparatus, and devices. One example method includes obtaining, by a sending device, positions of information bits, positions of fixed bits, and positions of assistant bits, allocating the information bits, the fixed bits, and the assistant bits in a to-be-coded sequence based on the obtained positions, obtaining a scrambling sequence, obtaining a scrambling sequence, scrambling a bit in a to-be-scrambled bit set based on the scrambling sequence to obtain a scrambled sequence, and performing polar coding to obtain a coded sequence for sending. |
| US11071109B2 |
Method for selectively operating duplex mode in wireless communication system and communication apparatus for same
A method for a communication apparatus selectively operating a duplex mode in a wireless communication system may comprise the steps of: operating in a half-duplex radio (HDR) mode in a resource including a physical channel or a signal used for initial access prior to radio resource control (RRC) connection; and operating in a full duplex radio (FDR) mode after the initial access. |
| US11071107B2 |
Control channel architecture with control information distributed over multiple subframes on different carriers
Control information (126) related to the reception of data (128) within a subframe (116) is transmitted over multiple subframes (113, 116) over multiple carrier (107, 108) from communication system infrastructure (102). A controller (134) in a mobile wireless communication device (104) reconstructs the control information (126) received over multiple subframes (113, 116) based on at least some control information (130) in a first physical control channel (118) in a first subframe (113) transmitted over a first carrier (107) and at least some other control information (132) in a second physical control channel (120) in a second subframe (116) transmitted over a second carrier (108). |
| US11071105B2 |
Method and apparatus for configuring sensing gap in frame structure for new radio access technology in wireless communication system
A sensing gap is configured among cells for inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC) mechanism. A network node listens on a reservation signal in the sensing gap from a neighbor cell, and upon listening on the reservation signal, performs downlink (DL) transmission to a user equipment (UE) or uplink (UL) reception from the UE in a cell. |
| US11071101B2 |
Method for determining transmission configuration indicator for terminal in wireless communication system and device using same method
Provided are a method for determining a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) for a terminal in a wireless communication system and a device employing the method. The method comprises: receiving a radio resource control (RRC) signal including a plurality of TCI states; receiving a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) indicating a TCI state among the plurality of TCI states; and determining a TCI relating to a control resource set (CORESET) on the basis of the RRC signal and the MAC CE. |
| US11071095B2 |
Layer 1 and layer 2 channel state information rich reporting mechanisms
A method and system for reporting multi-beam channel state information, CSI, in a wireless device are disclosed. According to one aspect, the method includes providing an indication of a plurality of beam index pairs, (lk,mk), in the UCI in a first transmission, each beam index pair corresponding to a beam k. The method also includes providing an indication of at least one of a beam power, a beam rotation and a channel quality index, CQI, in the UCI in a second transmission. The method also includes transmitting at least one of the indication of beam index pairs, beam power, beam rotation and CQI. |
| US11071094B2 |
Data transmission method, user equipment, and radio access device
A data transmission method is provided. The method includes: receiving, by user equipment, first information from a radio access device, where the first information indicates different transmission classes corresponding to a plurality of logical channels; determining, by the user equipment based on the first information, a transmission format of uplink data on at least one logical channel corresponding to at least one transmission class in the different transmission classes, and determining a transmission resource in the transmission format; and sending, by the user equipment, the uplink data by using the transmission format and the transmission resource in the transmission format. In this application, different transmission resources are allocated to uplink data on logical channels (LCHs) of different transmission classes, so that different requirements of different uplink data can be met. |
| US11071093B2 |
Link adaption by channel bundling in a wireless communication system
A method of reducing interference in a communication system supporting multiple radio channel communication scheme, where a communication link can be established between a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter first determines interference level at the transmitter, and then based on the determined interference level, performs link adaptation. The link adaptation comprises applying channel bundling for adapting the communication link so as to transmit simultaneously on at least two radio channels from the transmitter to the receiver. |
| US11071089B2 |
Dynamic switching of streaming service between broadcast and unicast delivery
Various communication systems may benefit from a dynamic streaming service. For example, certain streaming services may benefit from an improvement in the switching between broadcast delivery and unicast delivery for a streaming service in a cellular system. A method includes receiving information about a streaming service. The method also includes determining by a network entity in a radio access network whether to deliver data for the streaming service via multimedia broadcast or unicast based on the information and predetermined criteria for evaluating the information. In addition, the method includes triggering a sending of the data via the multimedia broadcast or the unicast. |
| US11071087B2 |
Network node, wireless device and methods performed therein
Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a network node (13) for handling communication of a wireless device (10) in a wireless communication network (1). The network node (13), such as an MME, pages the wireless device (10) using a first paging channel; and pages the wireless device (10) using a second paging channel, wherein paging the wireless device (10) using the first paging channel comprises selecting one or more radio network nodes to page the wireless device (10) using the first paging channel based on information relating to current knowledge of a location of the wireless device (10). |
| US11071084B2 |
Terminal device, infrastructure equipments and methods
A terminal device configured to receive a radio signal from which measurements can be used to assist in determining a position of the terminal device. The terminal device detects one or more system information blocks carrying position assistance information transmitted from the infrastructure equipment and estimates the position of the terminal device by combining the identified position assistance information with the radio signal received by the position detection receiver circuitry. Furthermore the terminal device receives from the infrastructure equipment an indication of relative risk that the position assistance information will change, and in response to the indication of the relative risk that the position assistance information will change to adapt the receiving of the one or more system information blocks to receive an updated version of the position assistance information in accordance with the relative risk. |
| US11071082B2 |
Secondary node, a central node and methods therein for positioning of a device in a wireless communications network
A method performed by a secondary node for enabling positioning of a device in a wireless communications network. First, the secondary node receives a positioning data packet from a primary node to the device. The secondary node then determines the transmitting time of the positioning data packet based on the reception time of the positioning data packet in the secondary node and the position of the primary node and the secondary node. The secondary node also receives a request response from the device to the primary node. The secondary node then enables positioning of the device based on the determined transmitting time of the positioning data packet and the reception time of the received request response. A secondary node for enabling positioning of a device in a wireless communications network is also provided. Furthermore, a central node and a method therein for positioning a device in a wireless communications network are also provided. |
| US11071081B2 |
Validation sub-system for telecommunication system
Certain aspects and features of the present disclosure relate to a validation sub-system for determining whether access points in a telecommunication system provide suitable performance for a specified configuration of the telecommunication system. For example, a wireless receiver can simultaneous receive beacon signals at a common frequency from multiple access points. Each beacon signal has a data sequence that is different than the other beacon signals. A processing device can determine, based on the data sequences received by the wireless receiver, channel responses for channels between the access points and the wireless receiver. The processing device can output, based on the channel responses, an indicator that the access points are suitable for a specified configuration of a telecommunication system for providing wireless coverage using the access points. |
| US11071076B2 |
Synchronization signal block indexing
A base station and a user equipment (UE) may communicate using a compressed synchronization signal blocks (SSB) index for over the air communications. Each of the base station and UE may determine a number of relevant SSBs with respect to a communication based at least on a maximum number of SSBs for a frequency band of the communication. Each of the base station and UE may determine a compressed index length based on the number of relevant SSBs. Each of the base station and UE may transmit or receive the communication including a compressed index value of the compressed index length. Each of the base station and UE may map between the compressed index value and an SSB index value based on the compressed index length and the number of relevant SSBs. |
| US11071072B2 |
Preamble symbol receiving method and device
A preamble symbol receiving method includes, receiving a signal, processing the received signal, determining whether the processed signal contains the preamble symbol, in response to determining that the processed signal contains the preamble symbol, determining the position of the preamble symbol and resolving signaling information carried by the preamble symbol. The preamble symbol includes at least one time-domain symbol generated using a free combination of any number of first three-segment structures and second three-segment structures according to a predefined generation rule. |
| US11071071B2 |
Method for optimizing power supply life of an industrial sensor platform
A method for optimizing power supply life time of an industrial sensor platform which includes a processing unit, a power supply, and transmission means. The method identifies a sensor connected to an industrial platform, verifies a functional setting of the platform, determines sensor power consumption and sensor measurement time ts, and determines transmission power consumption of the transmission means. The method further includes acquiring input parameter settings which includes expected battery life time, sensor reading interval Ts and periodic transmission interval Tw. Which is followed by calculating an optimum for power supply life time, sensor reading interval Ts, and periodic transmission interval Tw. And adjusting settings of the platform for sensor reading interval Ts and periodic transmission interval Tw according to the optimum calculated. |
| US11071070B2 |
Receiving a power headroom value of a reference subframe during an uplink subframe
A base station transmits, during a first subframe, an uplink grant triggered in response to transmitting a trigger during a validation duration. The uplink grant indicates resource blocks. During the validation duration, the trigger indicating an uplink subframe for reception is transmitted via the resource blocks. A power headroom value determined for a reference subframe is received during the uplink subframe and via the resource blocks. The reference subframe: is after the first subframe; and is before the uplink subframe. |
| US11071069B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting a power headroom report of a UE in a wireless communication system
A method of a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes performing a medium access control (MAC) reset; stopping a running periodic power headroom report (PHR) timer, when the MAC reset is performed; receiving, from a second cell, information for allocating an uplink resource; starting the stopped periodic PHR timer when the uplink resource is first allocated for a new transmission since the MAC reset is performed, without transmitting a PHR; triggering a PHR when the started periodic PHR timer expires; transmitting, to the second cell, the triggered PHR; and starting the expired periodic PHR timer. |
| US11071068B2 |
User terminal and radio communication method
The present invention is designed so that proper power headroom reports (PHRs) can be transmitted as feedback even when shortened processing time and/or shortened transmission time intervals (TTIs) are used. According to one aspect of the present invention, a user terminal has a transmission section that transmits an uplink signal in a shortened transmission time interval (sTTI) in a given carrier, and a control section that controls generation and transmission of a power headroom report (PHR) based on a power headroom (PH) of one or more sTTIs. |
| US11071065B2 |
Uplink power control method and apparatus
This application provides embodiments of an uplink power control method and an apparatus, so that impact of interference between network devices on uplink signal transmission can be reduced, thereby helping increase a probability of successfully receiving an uplink signal by a network device. The method includes: determining, by a network device, an uplink power adjustment parameter value of a terminal device, where the uplink power adjustment parameter value is related to cross-link interference received by the network device; and sending, by the network device, information about the uplink power adjustment parameter value to the terminal device. |
| US11071059B2 |
Preventing peak current draw in a wireless device
Preventing peak current draw in a wireless device. In an embodiment, a data payload to be transmitted is segmented into data payload segment(s) based on the data payload size and a peak current rating of the wireless device's battery, such that each data payload segment has a segment size which is estimated to result, during transmission of the data payload segment, in a maximum current draw from the battery that is less than the peak current rating of the battery. Then, each data payload segment is transmitted, such that the transmission of one data payload segment does not overlap with the transmission of any other data payload segment. |
| US11071057B2 |
Energy control devices and methods for energy management in a transmission site of a wireless communication network
According to one aspect, a method and an energy control device are provided for estimating electricity consumption during one or more transmission intervals of a transmission site or part of a transmission site. Said site comprises a scheduler for scheduling assignments, and a set of radio transmitters having known radio efficiency ηr. Said method comprises a step of estimating scheduled transmission electricity consumption ETOT based on a quotient of a sum Psch,sum of scheduled radio transmission powers Psch and the radio efficiency ηr. An energy management control method based on information from the scheduler to control the alternative energy sources on site is provided, wherein said information is depending on radio traffic load. The energy control method for every TTI for efficient and effective control that is based on the real traffic situation. |
| US11071052B2 |
Method for the transfer of radio capability information
Technology for improving the selection, transfer, and storage of user equipment (UE) radio capability information is disclosed. A cellular mobile network can be configured to identify radio-access-technology (RAT)-specific radio-capability information relating to RATs supported in the cellular mobile network and communicate the RAT-specific radio-capability information to a UE. The UE can use the RAT-specific radio-capability information to help determine which UE radio capability information to send to the network. In addition, the UE may store a list of supported frequency bands and/or supported frequency-band combinations (LOSB) indexed by network operators and use the list to help determine which UE radio capability information to send to the network. A network node may also selectively remove unnecessary information from UE radio capability information before storing the UE radio capability information at a mobility management entity (MME). |
| US11071048B2 |
Indicator-controlled utilization of outdated configuration defined in access information table for access network
A radio device receives an access information table from the cellular network. The access information table comprises parameters of a plurality of configurations for controlling access of the radio device to the cellular network. Further, the radio device receives an identifier from the cellular network. Depending on the identifier, the radio device selects one of the configurations from the access information table. In response to determining that at least one of the received access information table and the received identifier is outdated, the radio device determines, depending on an indicator associated with the selected configuration, whether to perform an access attempt to the cellular network on the basis of the selected configuration. |
| US11071036B2 |
Managing voice calls in heterogenous network environments
A method is provided for handling a voice call in a heterogeneous network environment by a wireless device. The method includes sending a registration request to a network node in a Next Generation (5G) network. The wireless device has an existing voice call on a different network in the heterogeneous network environment. The method further includes receiving a registration acceptance from the network node in the 5G network. The registration acceptance indicates that IMS voice services are supported, but existing voice calls are not supported. The method further includes determining to stop an attempt to move the existing voice call to the 5G network. |
| US11071035B2 |
Radio link monitoring and cell search techniques for high movement speeds
This disclosure relates to techniques for performing radio link monitoring and cell searching when moving at high speeds. A movement speed of a wireless device may be determined. When performing a cell search, the manner of the cell search may depend on the movement speed of the wireless device, potentially including cells that are associated with high movement speed being more highly prioritized when the wireless device is determined to be at a higher movement speed than when the wireless device is determined to be at a lower movement speed. |
| US11071030B2 |
Method and apparatus for system information acquisition, beam failure recovery and cell reselection
The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. An apparatus, a method and a system for system information acquisition, beam failure recovery, and cell reselection in wireless communication system are provided. |
| US11071028B1 |
Dynamic handover threshold adjustment for load balancing
Access nodes in a network are configured to periodically measure cell loads and exchange cell load measurements with neighbors. At each access node, cell loads are compared with load thresholds, and with neighboring loads, to determine whether or not load balancing operations should be triggered. Load balancing operations include reducing or increasing an effective coverage area of one or both of the congested cell and the neighbor cell by adjusting a handover threshold parameter, such as a threshold signal level. Adjusting thresholds at a congested cell triggers more handovers from the congested cell to the non-congested cell. Similarly, adjusting thresholds at a non-congested cell prevents handovers from the non-congested cell to the congested cell. |
| US11071027B2 |
Automatically modifying cell definition tables within networks
Systems and methods are described herein for modifying cell definition tables with telecommunications networks. In response to a handover failure between cells of the network, the systems and methods determine changes have been made to a network, such as changes to various identification information for cells associated with a controlling (or serving) node of the network. For example, the systems and methods utilize ANR functions to detect the changes to the network. |
| US11071025B2 |
Cell handover with minimum mobility interruption
Some of the present implementations provide a method for a user equipment (UE) for performing a handover procedure with minimum mobility interruption. In some of the present implementations, the method receives, at the UE, a reconfiguration message that has an indicator for performing a dual-connectivity based (DC-based) handover procedure. The method then performs the DC-based handover procedure. In some of the present implementations, a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity at the UE maintains different security keys to decipher PDCP packets received from at least one of a source base station and a target base station while the UE is transitioning from the source base station to the target base station, wherein a first security key is associated with the source base station and a second security key is associated with the target base station. |
| US11071024B2 |
Method and device for obtaining cell information
Embodiments of the present disclosure provides a method and device for obtaining cell information. The method incudes: when receiving measurement configuration information, according to target information, determining a target timing duration of a timer; wherein the measurement configuration information is configured to instruct the user equipment to obtain identifier information of a target cell, the target information includes at least one of frequency related information of the target cell, synchronization status of the target cell and a serving cell, capability information of the user equipment, and operation state related information of the user equipment; when the identifier information is obtained within the target timing duration, reporting the identifier information to a network device. |
| US11071021B2 |
Security key derivation for handover
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described that support security key derivation for handover. A network entity (e.g., an access and mobility function (AMF)) may establish an access stratum (AS) key to ensure secure communications between a user equipment (UE) and a base station. If the UE relocates to a new network entity (e.g., target network entity), the initial network entity (e.g., source network entity) may perform a handover procedure to the target network entity. In some aspects, the network entities may derive a unified AS key for the handover procedure. Additionally, the network entities may utilize one or more intermediate keys (e.g., refreshed intermediate keys) derived from, in part, respective freshness parameters for the handover procedure. The target network entity may then utilize the derived intermediate keys to derive the AS key for the handover procedure and establish communications with the UE. |
| US11071017B2 |
Forwarding entry generation method, controller, and network device
A forwarding entry generation method includes sending, by a controller, a plurality of resource allocation request messages to a plurality of network devices in a network slice, to trigger the plurality of network devices to allocate resources, where the resource allocation request message includes an identifier of the network slice and a resource that needs to be allocated by a corresponding network device to the network slice; receiving, by the controller, a plurality of resource allocation response messages including the identifier of the network slice and a segment identifier of a corresponding network device, and a resource allocated by each device belongs to the network slice; and generating, by the controller, a forwarding table corresponding to the network slice, where the forwarding table includes a forwarding entry for arriving at a network device in the network slice. |
| US11071016B2 |
Path switching method and terminal device
Provided are a path switching method and a terminal device. The terminal device has a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer, the PDCP layer being able to send uplink data to a first cell group or a second cell group, the first cell group and the second cell group being different cell groups, the PDCP layer currently sending the uplink data to the first cell group; the method comprises: the terminal device enabling the switching of the PDCP layer from sending the uplink data to the first cell group, to sending the uplink data to the second cell group; and the terminal device sending first uplink data to the second cell group, the first uplink data at least including first data, the first data referring to the data that the terminal device has sent to a radio link control protocol (RLC) layer of the first cell group. |
| US11071015B2 |
Access traffic steering/switching/splitting method in a network and network entity performing the same
A method for access traffic steering, switching, and splitting (ATSSS) in a network and a network entity for performing the method are disclosed. When the execution of the ATSSS from the first access network to the second access network is determined, a first message requesting the SMF to confirm the connection state of the terminals for the first access network and the second access network may be transmitted to AMF. The SMF may receive information on the connection state of the terminal from the AMF. |
| US11071010B2 |
Methods and apparatus for distributing baseband signal processing of fifth (5G) new radio uplink signals
Methods and apparatus for distributing baseband signal processing of fifth generation (5G) new radio uplink signals. In an embodiment, a method includes receiving uplink transmissions having user data, receiving configuration parameters, and performing a first portion of baseband processing that compresses the uplink transmissions using the configuration parameters to generate compressed packets. The method also includes transmitting the compressed packets over a transmission medium to the central office that performs a second portion of the baseband processing to obtain the user data. In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a radio frequency interface that receives uplink transmissions that have user data, and a first baseband processing section that receives configuration parameters, compresses the uplink transmissions using the configuration parameters to generate compressed packets, and transmits the compressed packets over a transmission medium to the central office where a second baseband processing section processes the compressed packets to obtain the user data. |
| US11071005B2 |
Congestion avoidance with adaptive QoS policy enforcement from SD-WAN controller in SD-WAN networks
According to some embodiments, a method performed by a software defined wide area network (SD-WAN) controller in a SD-WAN network comprising a plurality of aggregation edge routers and a plurality of branch edge routers comprises the following steps. The method comprises: receiving, from each of the plurality of branch edge routers, a transmit location (TLOC) publication comprising a quality of service (QoS) attribute of one or more TLOCs configured on the branch edge router; determining a QoS policy based on the received TLOC publications; transmitting the QoS policy to the plurality of aggregation edge routers; receiving, from a branch edge router of the plurality of branch edge routers, a first congestion indication indicating that bandwidth utilization on a wide area network (WAN) interface of the branch edge router exceeds a first threshold; determining an updated QoS policy based on the received TLOC publications and the first congestion indication to reduce congestion at the branch edge router; and transmitting the updated QoS policy to the plurality of aggregation edge routers. |
| US11071002B2 |
Handling of channel access problems
A configuration to enable a UE to obtain access to an unlicensed frequency channel of the unlicensed frequency spectrum in the event of channel access failures. The apparatus performs a radio link monitoring (RLM) for a first unlicensed frequency channel of an unlicensed frequency spectrum for a transmission from a first base station. The apparatus determines that the first unlicensed frequency channel is unavailable for the transmission based on a comparison of one or more of a reference signal received power (RSRP), a reference signal received quality (RSRQ), a received signal strength indicator (RSSI), a signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR), a signal to noise ratio (SNR), or a channel occupancy or interference metric to a corresponding threshold. The apparatus sends a report to the first base station indicating a failure of the transmission upon determining that the first unlicensed frequency channel is unavailable for the transmission. |
| US11071000B2 |
Method and apparatus for RRM measurement enhancement for NR unlicensed
A method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises: receiving, from a base station (BS), a set of radio resource control (RRC) parameters comprising at least one measurement object (MO); identifying, based on the at least one MO, at least one modulo value for synchronization signals and physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) blocks, and at least one bitmap indicating indices of the SS/PBCH blocks; identifying a set of SS/PBCH block locations based on the at least one modulo value and the at least one bitmap; performing radio resource management (RRM) measurement based on the identified set of SS/PBCH block locations; and transmitting, to the BS via an uplink channel, a measurement report message including a result of the RRM measurement. |
| US11070999B2 |
Gap pattern design for new radio (NR) systems
Technology for a user equipment (UE) operable to decode measurement gap patterns received from a Next Generation NodeB (gNB) is disclosed. The UE can decode a per-frequency range (per-FR) measurement gap pattern received from the gNB in a New Radio (NR) system. The per-FR measurement gap pattern can indicate a measurement gap partem for monitoring selected frequency layers within a frequency range at the UE. The UE can process one or more measurements for the selected frequency layers within the frequency range. The one or more measurements for the selected frequency layers can be measured in accordance with the per-FR measurement gap pattern. The UE can encode the one or more measurements for the selected frequency layers for reporting to the gNB. |
| US11070996B2 |
Method for controlling wireless link and wireless connection of terminal in wireless communication system, and apparatus supporting same
Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for a device to perform a measurement in a wireless communication system. According to the present invention, it may be provided the method and apparatus including receiving, from a base station, a request message requesting capability information of the device; transmitting, to the base station, a response message including the capability information; receiving first configuration information for a measurement configuration for two or more radio units included in the device based on the capability information, and the radio unit represents a unit available to perform transmission and reception of a signal and a measurement of signal strength individually; measuring a serving cell and neighboring cells through the plurality of radio units; and transmitting, to the base station, a reporting message including measurement information measuring the serving cell and the neighboring cells. |
| US11070995B2 |
Method for IoT device to stagger TX and save power
Disclosed are methods and systems for delaying packet transmissions over a wireless communication channel until a more favorable channel condition is detected. A device may measure a channel metric when it receives periodic beacon signals. The device may compare the channel metric against a programmed metric threshold. If the channel metric is less than the metric threshold, the device may delay the transmission of a packet until a later transmission window or transmit opportunity (TXOP) when the channel metric rises above the metric threshold, indicating the presence of a more favorable condition for transmission, or until a preconfigured timeout period elapses before the more favorable condition is found. |
| US11070993B2 |
Method and arrangement in a communication network
The present invention relates to methods, a user equipment and a radio base station in a communication network, in which a downlink out-of-coverage is detected based on measurements done on a common channel or on the combination of common and dedicated channels. The out-of-coverage is then reported to the network, either using resources proactively assigned to the user equipment, or by transmitting a predetermined pattern of signature sequences assigned to the user equipment. |
| US11070988B2 |
Reconfigurable network infrastructure for collaborative automated driving
Various systems and methods for a reconfigurable roadside network. Current traffic data of a road segment is received from sensors. A traffic scenario is identified based on current the traffic data. Key performance indicators are determined for the traffic scenario. The roadside network is modified based on the key performance indicators. |
| US11070987B1 |
Dynamic antenna array rotation
Methods and systems are provided for dynamically modifying a position of an antenna array having a plurality of dipole elements. Initially, it is determined that a quantity of user devices that are attached to the antenna array is at or near a capacity that is able to attach to the antenna array in its current position. An instruction is communicated to rotate the antenna array from a first position to a second position. The current quantity of user devices attached to the antenna array is continually monitored to determine when to instruct that the antenna array be rotated from the second position back to the first position. |
| US11070986B2 |
Communication processing system, method, apparatus and control program, for optimizing power consumption
This invention provides a communication processing system that appropriately manages total power consumption in a cell managed by a base station. The communication processing system includes a communication terminal, a base station, a plurality of relay stations that relay communication between the communication terminal and the base station, first measurers in the plurality of relay stations that measure strengths of first signals received from the base station, a second measurer in the communication terminal that measures strengths of second signals received from the plurality of relay stations, and selects a communication path with a smallest difference between strengths of a first signal a second signal in a plurality of communication paths on which the base station, the plurality of relay stations and the communication terminal are connected. |
| US11070984B2 |
Licensed assisted access based on low utilization of unlicensed channels
A computing device of a telecommunication network can receive crowd-sourced Wi-Fi reports submitted by user equipment based on scans for beacon signals broadcast by Wi-Fi access points. From the crowd-sourced Wi-Fi reports, the computing device can determine when Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) transmissions over channels of an unlicensed spectrum are safe and are not expected to interfere with Wi-Fi transmissions. |
| US11070980B1 |
Secondary device authentication proxied from authenticated primary device
A method of authenticating a secondary communication device based on authentication of a primary mobile communication device is disclosed. Trust is established with the primary mobile communication device by a device authentication server (DAS). The DAS receives an authorization code request from a secondary application operating on the secondary communication device, and transmits an authorization code to the secondary communication device. The DAS receives the authorization code from a primary application operating on the primary mobile communication device. The DAS authorizes the secondary application based on the trust with the primary mobile communication device and the authorization code from the primary application. The DAS transmits a secondary token to the secondary application at the secondary communication device to allow initialization of a communication session from the secondary application on behalf of the primary mobile communication device. |
| US11070973B2 |
Network-controlled WTRU address/anchor selection
A method and apparatus are provided to enable or aid network-controlled selection of an IP address (and anchor) to be used by a WTRU on an application/service basis. In one example, a method is provided for a WTRU to establish a link with a gateway, transmit a query related to a selected application via the gateway, receive an advertisement for an internet protocol (IP) address, and use the IP address to communicate via the gateway with respect to the selected application. It may be assumed that there are more than one possible IP address/anchor available for the WTRU to use, as it might be the case in a mobility environment, in which an operator can provide addresses with different mobility capabilities. |
| US11070968B2 |
System, method, and computer program for protecting against unintentional deletion of an ESIM from a mobile device
A system, method, and computer program are provided for protecting against unintentional deletion of an eSIM from a mobile device. In use, deletion of an eSIM from a mobile device is detected. Additionally, definitions of predefined scenarios indicative of unintentional deletions of eSIMs are accessed. Further, the detected deletion is analyzed, using the definitions, to determine that the detected deletion is unintentional. Still yet, a proactive care action is caused to be performed to address the unintentional deletion of the eSIM from the mobile device. |
| US11070956B2 |
System and method for managing audio cut-in policy in MCPTT communication
The present disclosure provides a method and system for managing mission critical push-to-talk (MCPTT) communication. The method includes receiving, by a floor control server, a first floor request message, from a primary floor participant, while a floor is given to a secondary floor participant and a first media transmission is performed by the secondary floor participant; in response to receiving the first floor request message, transmitting, by the floor control server, to the secondary floor participant, a first floor revoke message for stopping the first media transmission of the secondary floor participant, and transmitting, by the floor control server, a first floor grant message to the primary floor participant; and transmitting, by the floor control server, a first floor taken message to the secondary floor participant, wherein the first floor taken message includes information of the primary floor participant given the floor. |
| US11070955B2 |
Update of security for group based feature in M2M
A network node (21), which is placed within a core network, receives a message from a transmission source (30) placed outside the core network. The message includes an indicator indicating whether or not the message is addressed to a group of one or more MTC devices attached to the core network. The network node (21) determines to authorize the transmission source (30), when the indicator indicates that the message is addressed to the group. Further, the message includes an ID for identifying whether or not the message is addressed to the group. The MTC device determines to discard the message, when the ID does not coincide with an ID allocated for the MTC device itself. Furthermore, the MTC device communicates with the transmission source (30) by use of a pair of group keys shared therewith. |
| US11070954B2 |
Distributed QoS control for multicast
The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for group communication which may include a first UE and a set of UEs. In one aspect, the first UE may receive from each UE of the set of UEs a PDU including a header that includes a QoS level for the UE. The first UE can also determine a supported QoS level for the first UE. In another aspect, the first UE can set a transmission QoS level for the first UE to be a lowest QoS level of the determined supported QoS level and the QoS level from each UE of the set of UEs. In a further aspect, the first UE can transmit by multicast to the set of UEs a PDU based on the set transmission QoS level. |
| US11070950B2 |
Space characterization using electromagnetic fields
The space characterization system may obtain readings from devices with electromagnetic (EM) field radios. Based on the readings, static and moving objects may be detected. The space characterization system may allow EM-based sensing of objects and room configuration, which may be based on collaboration of devices with EM radios across different EM spectra. The EM-based sensing of objects and room configuration may be used by vehicles for navigation. |
| US11070949B2 |
Systems and methods for proactively identifying and surfacing relevant content on an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display
Systems and methods for proactively identifying and surfacing relevant content on an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display are disclosed herein. In one aspect, a method includes presenting content in a first application. At least a portion of the content is presented without requiring input from a user. The method further includes receiving a request to open a second application. In response to receiving the request, the second application is presented with an input-receiving field. Before receiving any user input at the input-receiving field, a selectable user interface object is displayed with an indication that the portion of the content was viewed in the first application, allowing the user to paste at least the portion of the content into the input-receiving field. In response to detecting a selection of the selectable user interface object, the portion of the content is pasted into the input-receiving field. |
| US11070948B2 |
Position estimation device and position estimation method
A position estimation device includes: a selector configured to select N wireless terminals and reselect N wireless terminals from M wireless terminals; a distance calculator configured to calculate distances among wireless terminals in a group consisting of a parent wireless terminal and the N wireless terminals based on information on power of radio signals of packets transmitted and received; a relative position calculator configured to calculate relative positions of the M wireless terminals based on the distances among the wireless terminals in the group for the N wireless terminals selected and reselected; and an absolute position converter configured to convert a relative position of a child wireless terminal into an absolute positon of the child wireless terminal based on the relative positions of the M wireless terminals and absolute positions of at least three of the M wireless terminals where the absolute positions are known. |
| US11070946B2 |
Method for establishing local network connection, terminal and network device
A method for establishing a local network connection, where the method includes: obtaining, by a terminal, broadcast information sent by a base station; if the broadcast information includes a first local data network (LDN) list, determining a target local network identifier based on the first LDN list, where the first LDN list includes at least one local network identifier; and establishing, by the terminal, a session connection using the target local network identifier. |
| US11070942B2 |
Angle of arrival (AOA) positioning method and system for positional finding and tracking objects using reduced attenuation RF technology
Systems and methods for determining user equipment (UE) locations within a wireless network using reference signals of the wireless network are described. The disclosed systems and methods utilize a plurality of in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) samples generated from signals provided by receive channels associated with two or more antennas of the wireless system. Based on received reference signal parameters the reference signal within the signals from each receive channel among the receive channels is identified. Based on the identified reference signal from each receive channel, an angle of arrival between a baseline of the two or more antennas and incident energy from the UE to the two or more antennas is determined. That angle of arrival is then used to calculate the location of the UE. The angle of arrival may be a horizontal angle of arrival and/or a vertical angle of arrival. |
| US11070941B2 |
Systems and methods for providing proximity as a service in a heterogeneous network of independent system components
Provided is a heterogeneous network of independently provided system components for detecting and verifying time and location of endpoints. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, at a first network component and from a second network component, a set of instructions for generating tokens in association with an application service; generating, at the first network component, the tokens based on the set of instructions; transmitting, by the first network component and according to the set of instructions, one or more of the tokens to one or more proximity emitter devices; receiving, from a user device, a message including a token received by the user device from at least one of the one or more proximity emitter devices; and validating the token to confirm that the token is from among the tokens generated by the first network component, the validation allowing the user device access to the application service. |
| US11070939B2 |
System and method for managing emergency vehicle alert geofence
A system, method and storage medium for providing an emergency vehicle (EV) alert includes a server receiving a first location of the EV, the server determining a first geofence based on the first location of the EV, the server transmitting the first geofence to a second device, the second device receiving the first geofence, the second device performing at least one alert action in response to determining that the another vehicle is located within the first geofence, the server receiving a second location of the EV at a second time, the server determining a geofence release zone based on the second location of the EV, the server transmitting the geofence release zone to the second device, the second device receiving the geofence release zone, and the second device stopping performing the at least one alert action in response to determining that the another vehicle is within the geofence release zone. |
| US11070937B2 |
Mobile device path and user association
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: recording position data for a mobile device over time, the position data being associated to an identifier of the mobile device; outputting to a user an identification code associated to the identifier; receiving input data from a user, the input data including the identification code and user identifying information from a user; responsively to the receiving the input data from a user associating the identification code and the user identifying information; based on the associating processing the position data and user profile data associated to the user identifying information; sending a message to the user based on a result of the processing. |
| US11070935B2 |
Devices for conducting social network operations
In one embodiment, a method of sharing locations of users participating in a social networking service at a geographic location and communicating app related information of users participating in the social networking service, the method executed by a computer system and comprises: receiving location information and text descriptive information from a mobile device of a first user of the social networking service, the location information representing a geographic location of the first user, the text descriptive information manually provided by the first user on an input module of the mobile device; associating the location information with the text descriptive information of the first user in a database; sending the text descriptive information and the location information of the first user to a second user for display. |
| US11070934B2 |
Tracking device location identification
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a tracking system server from a first computing device in response to an event between the first computing device and a tracking device, a location associated with the tracking device and a timestamp. The method includes receiving, by the tracking system server, a set of location updates from a set of second computing devices, each location update including a location associated with the tracking device when the second computing device detects the tracking device and a timestamp. The method includes determining, by the tracking system server, a last known location of the tracking device based on the location associated with the tracking device received from the first computing device and one or more of the locations associated with the tracking device received with the location update. |
| US11070933B1 |
Real-time acoustic simulation of edge diffraction
A computer system having an electronic device determines a listener position within a computer-generated reality (CGR) setting that is to be aurally experienced by a user of the electronic device through at least one speaker. The system determines a source position of a virtual sound source within the CGR setting and determines a characteristic of a virtual object within the CGR setting, where the characteristic include a geometry of an edge of the virtual object. The system determines at least one edge-diffraction filter parameter for an edge-diffraction filter based on 1) the listener position, 2) the source position, and 3) the geometry. The system applies the edge-diffraction filter to an input audio signal to produce a filtered audio signal that accounts for edge-diffraction of sound produced by the virtual sound source within the CGR setting. |
| US11070929B2 |
Low-cost hearing aid platforms and methods of use
Low-cost hearing aid platforms that are customizable for specific user needs are disclosed. An exemplary hearing aid platform includes an electret microphone, an amplifier, a capacitor, a printable circuit board (PCB), an audio output, and a housing for the components. The hearing aid platform may comprise customizable gain settings and safety features such as automatic gain control. In some embodiments, the hearing aid platform may connect to headphones. In some embodiments, the hearing aid platform may connect to a bone transducer. Devices described herein also may include housings that are customizable for a user's needs and/or personality. |
| US11070928B2 |
Hearing device and a method for manufacturing thereof
A hearing device to be worn in or at the ear of a user. The hearing device includes a housing for accommodating an electronic component, wherein the housing includes an electromagnetic wave shielding material and is formed with an indentation. The indentation provides a space at the outer side of the housing, allowing an antenna to be inserted into the indentation. The proposed hearing device achieves improved shielding of the antenna against electromagnetic waves radiated from at least one of the electronic components. |
| US11070924B2 |
Method and apparatus for hearing improvement based on cochlear model
There is provided an apparatus for hearing measurement based on a cochlear model comprising: a processor; and a memory connected to the processor, wherein the memory stores program instructions executable by the processor to output an interface in which n buttons corresponding to n frequency bands into which an audible frequency band is divided at 1/k octave resolution are arranged in a cochlear model, output acoustic signals corresponding to a predetermined hearing threshold in each of the n frequency bands, receive a user's input for whether each of the n frequency bands is inaudible at the predetermined hearing threshold, and output acoustic stimulation signals corresponding to the inaudible frequency band input by the user in predetermined sizes. |
| US11070923B2 |
Method for directional signal processing for a hearing aid and hearing system
A method performs directional signal processing for a hearing aid. First and second input transducers of the hearing aid generate first and second input signals, respectively, from a sound signal. A first calibration directional signal which has a relative attenuation in the direction of a first useful signal source is generated from the first and second input signals, and a second calibration directional signal which has a relative attenuation in the direction of a second useful signal source is generated from the first and second input signals. A relative gain parameter is determined from the first and second calibration directional signals. First and second processing directional signals are generated from both the first and second input signals. A source-sensitive directional signal is generated from the first and second processing directional signals and the relative gain parameter. An output signal of the hearing aid is generated from the source-sensitive directional signal. |
| US11070912B2 |
Audio system for dynamic determination of personalized acoustic transfer functions
An eyewear device includes an audio system. In one embodiment, the audio system includes a microphone array that includes a plurality of acoustic sensors. Each acoustic sensor is configured to detect sounds within a local area surrounding the microphone array. For a plurality of the detected sounds, the audio system performs a direction of arrival (DoA) estimation. Based on parameters of the detected sound and/or the DoA estimation, the audio system may then generate or update one or more acoustic transfer functions unique to a user. The audio system may use the one or more acoustic transfer functions to generate audio content for the user. |
| US11070909B2 |
Speaker apparatus, method for processing input signals thereof, and audio system
A speaker apparatus, a method for processing input signals of the speaker apparatus and an audio system are provided. The speaker apparatus includes: a first plurality of speakers, arranged at an interval in a row, where acoustic energy radiation generated by the first plurality of speakers is greater in a first zone than in a second zone in a first frequency range; a second plurality of speakers, symmetrically disposed at two sides of the first plurality of speakers with openings at the two sides facing outwardly, where acoustic energy radiation generated by the second plurality of speakers is greater in a third zone than in a fourth zone in a second frequency range; and the first frequency range overlaps with the second frequency range. Therefore, the speaker apparatus, the method and the audio system can achieve a wide spacious effect and provide a near-real surround experience to listeners. |
| US11070907B2 |
Signal matching method and device
In one embodiment, a method for matching sensors includes generating a first and second sensor signals respectively from first and second sensors, separating the sensor signals into magnitude and phase components, determining a phase difference from the phase components, and matching the magnitude of the first sensor signal to that of the second sensor signal by multiplying the magnitude of the first sensor signal by a magnitude correction value that is a function of a ratio of the phase components of the first and second sensor signals. |
| US11070904B2 |
Force-activated earphone
An earphone includes a housing that defines a force input surface opposite a touch input surface. A spring member in the housing includes a first arm that biases a touch sensor toward the touch input surface. The spring member also includes a second arm that biases a first force electrode toward the housing and allows the first force electrode to move toward a second force electrode when a force is applied to the force input surface. A non-binary amount of the force is determinable using a change in a mutual capacitance between the first force electrode and the second force electrode. The mutual capacitance between the first force electrode and the second force electrode may be measured upon detecting a touch using the touch sensor. |
| US11070898B2 |
Mutually secure optical data network and method
A digital optical data network system for improving information security in Passive Optical Networks (“PON”) by providing virtual information separation in the router, such as a premise router, or routers interfacing the entire PON, such as by utilizing virtual routing and forwarding, thus allowing safe data traffic between multiple carriers, service providers accessing the PON and multiple end users on the PON such as tenants in a building, employees of a business entity, or subscribers in a residential community. |
| US11070897B1 |
Communication system employing optical frame templates
An optical communication system comprises an optical communication device and an optical power supply configured to generate a sequence of optical frame templates directed to the optical communication device. The optical communication device may use the received optical frame templates as a light source for generating data-loaded optical frames and/or may extract from the optical frame templates control information encoded therein using one or more headers thereof. |
| US11070895B2 |
System and method for monitoring gas emission of perishable products
A system for automatically monitoring merchandise in a retail sales environment is provided. The system includes a display fixture configured to store and display for sale a group of perishable items and one or more gas emission sensors associated with the display fixture and configured to measure gas emissions from the group of perishable items. The system further includes a control circuit coupled to the one or more gas emission sensors and configured to receive a gas emission measurement taken at the display fixture, compare the gas emission measurement with stored gas emission data associated with a category of the group of perishable items; and make a determination corresponding to the group of perishable items based on the comparison. |
| US11070894B2 |
Methods, systems, and media for presenting interactive elements within video content
Methods, systems, and media for presenting interactive elements within video content are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: causing immersive video content to be presented on a user device, wherein the immersive video content includes at least a first view and a second view, and wherein the first view includes a first interactive element to be presented within the first view and the second view includes a second interactive element to be presented within the second view; receiving an indication that the first view of the immersive video content is to be presented; in response to receiving the indication, causing the first view of the immersive video content to be presented on the user device; determining that the first interactive element has been presented within the first view of the immersive video content; in response to determining that the first interactive element has been presented, identifying a content creator associated with the first interactive element; and assigning attribution information that indicates the presentation of the first interactive element to the content creator associated with the first interactive element. |
| US11070884B2 |
Controlling networked media capture devices
Disclosed embodiments allow media players and other electronic devices that operate under a first protocol to control the media capture devices that operate with a second protocol which may not be configurable to communicate with the first protocol. In one embodiment of the disclosure, a network device may store and/or render content within a Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) network and/or assist in content delivery for a DLNA device on a network. In another embodiment of the disclosure, a media capture device uses the Internet Protocol. |
| US11070883B2 |
System and method for providing a list of video-on-demand programs
A list of video-on demand (VOD) programs based on viewer selections is provided. VOD programs may be marked with a mark indicating the level of viewer interest. In one embodiment, a list of VOD programs may be displayed that includes or excludes programs having a particular mark, or sorts programs based on the marks. In another embodiment, a list of VOD programs may be displayed based on availability times. In yet another embodiment, after a viewer has played back a VOD program a list of related VOD programs may be automatically displayed. |
| US11070875B2 |
Methods and apparatus to determine a number of people in an area
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to determine the number of people at a location. An example apparatus includes a configuration changer to change a configuration setting of the base station to cause mobile devices to register with the base station, a registration manager to respond to registration requests received from the mobile devices after the configuration setting is changed by storing device identification information for the corresponding mobile devices, and a counter controller to identify a number of the mobile devices at a location of the base station based on the stored device identification information. |
| US11070874B2 |
Methods and apparatus to verify presentation of media content
Example methods and apparatus to verify presentation of media content are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus for generating media presentation information includes a comparator to periodically output a value indicative of whether media selected via a set-top box is presented at a media presentation location by comparing a first audio signal associated with the media to ambient audio received in the media presentation location via an audio system associated with a media presentation device. The example apparatus also includes a privacy protector to facilitate operation of the comparator by periodically preventing the comparator from receiving of the ambient audio. The example apparatus also includes a metering module to record presentation of the media based on the output. |
| US11070873B2 |
Locally generated spot beam replacement
Embodiments are directed toward locally generating a replacement spot beam signal to be combined with other orbital television signals, where the replacement spot beam signal is generated from locally received over-the-air television signals. Over-the-air television signals are received at a user's premises via an over-the-air antenna and orbital signals are received at the user's premises via a satellite antenna. The orbital signals include a spot beam signal and other orbital signals. The spot beam signal is specifically generated for the geographical area associated with the over-the-air television signals. One or more available local channels are extracted from the over-the-air television signals and are converted into the replacement spot beam signal that is a satellite-compatible signal. The replacement spot beam, instead of the original spot beam signal, is then combined with the other orbital signals and provided to a content receiver. |
| US11070867B2 |
Method, device, and computing apparatus for acquiring broadcasting content
A method, device, and computing apparatus for acquiring broadcasting content are provided. The method includes: in a recognition step, recognizing a type of multimedia player in a target webpage and an output mode for broadcasting multimedia resource; and in a broadcasting-content acquiring step, based on the type and the output mode, acquiring broadcasting content of a multimedia resource played by the multimedia player. |
| US11070866B2 |
Synchronizing media content tag data
Tag data is created from in-band data in a media content item by a remote location while the media content item is being broadcasted by a content provider and received by the remote location. The tag data identifies locations in the media content item which enables media devices to accurately jump to particular locations in the media content item based on the tag data. |
| US11070863B2 |
Method and system to share a snapshot extracted from a video transmission
The present invention refers to the field of television experience in particular the simultaneous use of the portable computing device and a television to share a user's experience. The present disclosure proposes a method to create a snapshot from a video transmission received by a receiver, said receiver being connected with a portable computing device and having a screen output, said method comprising the steps of receiving a video transmission by the receiver, converting by the receiver, the video transmission into a lower-bandwidth video transmission, sending the lower-bandwidth video transmission to the portable computing device, receiving from the portable computing device to the receiver, a command to execute a snapshot, producing by the receiver a snapshot from the video transmission, sending the snapshot to the portable computing device. |
| US11070861B2 |
Techniques for generating promotional plans to increase viewership
In one embodiment, a promotional subsystem generates promotional plans that include promotionals, where each promotional targets one or more pieces of scheduled content. First, the promotional subsystem generates a statistical model based on historical respondent viewership data. The statistical model model maps a respondent viewing of a promotional that targets a piece of scheduled content to a probability of the respondent viewing the piece of scheduled content. Subsequently, the promotional subsystem generates a proposed promotional plan based on the statistical model, a schedule that includes the piece of scheduled content, and a risk tolerance. Advantageously, the promotional subsystem may be configured to generate different proposed promotional plans based on different risk tolerances associated with different viewership growth strategies. Automatically generating proposed promotional plans based on probabilities reduces the time required to identify an acceptable promotional plan compared to current techniques that generate a single promotional plan based on deterministic strategies. |
| US11070859B2 |
Apparatus for transmitting broadcast signal, apparatus for receiving broadcast signal, method for transmitting broadcast signal, and method for receiving broadcast signal
An apparatus for receiving broadcast signals includes a receiver configured to receive a broadcast signal; a time deinterleaver configured to time deinterleave a Time Interleaving (TI) block in the broadcast signal, the TI block including one or more Forward Error Correction (FEC) blocks, the broadcast signal includes information for a maximum number related to the one or more FEC blocks and information for a number of the one or more FEC blocks; a decoder configured to decode the broadcast signal, the decoded broadcast signal including a signal frame including: one or more components included in a content of a service and content information describing the content, the content information including component information including role information for at least one of an audio component, a video component or a closed caption component of the one or more components, the role information for the video component including an alternative view; and a display configured to display information related to the content based on the role information of the one or more components of the content in the decoded broadcast signal. |
| US11070858B2 |
Apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, method for transmitting broadcast signals and method for receiving broadcast signals
A broadcast transmitter for processing a broadcast signal is discussed. The broadcast transmitter includes a packetizer to generate transport packets based on a Layered Coding Transport (LCT) format, wherein the transport packets are used to transport at least one delivery object and signaling data; and a transmitter to transmit the broadcast signal comprising the transport packets, wherein the signaling data includes a real-time attribute which is a boolean flag that is set to true when the transport packets carry a real-time content that is comprised of the at least one delivery object, and wherein a header of at least one transport packet of the transport packets includes codepoint information for indicating a type of a payload that is carried by the at least one transport packet, transport object identifier information for identifying the at least one delivery object, and information for identifying a starting position of a fragment of the delivery object carried in the at least one transport packet. |
| US11070856B2 |
Data processing device and data processing method
A data processing method is provided in which a transmission frame is received from a transmitting device. The transmission frame is based on a split stream for one of a plurality of channels and channel bonding signaling information. Further, the received transmission frame is processed. The channel bonding signaling information includes signature information that uniquely identifies the input stream, and the signature information is contained in a header of the transmission frame. |
| US11070855B2 |
Apparatus and method for configuring control message in broadcasting system
The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for configuring a control message in a broadcasting system for supporting a multimedia service based on an interne protocol. To this end, control information to be recorded in a payload of a control message to be configured is generated based on a table selected from among a plurality of tables for defining the information related to the generation and consumption of a hybrid content when a message type of the control message to be configured is determined to be a type for providing information related to the generation and consumption of a hybrid content. In addition, the information related to the type of the selected table is recorded in an optional field of the control message to be configured. |
| US11070851B2 |
System and method for providing image-based video service
The present invention provides a system for providing image-based video service, including a cache system configured to store video information that matches image-related data; a fingerprint extraction unit configured to extract the fingerprint of an image corresponding to input image-related data; and a matching unit configured to determine video information that matches the fingerprint of the image extracted by the fingerprint extraction unit; wherein the system for providing image-based video service determines video information, matching image-related data received from a client terminal, via the cache system or the matching unit, and transmits video result information corresponding to the determined video information to the client terminal, and a method using the same. |
| US11070848B2 |
Method for efficient signaling of virtual boundary for loop filtering control
A method, computer program, and/or computer system is provided for coding a video sequence. Video data containing one or more faces may be received. One or more virtual boundaries between the one or more faces of the received video data may be selected. In-loop filtering may be disabled between the one or more selected virtual boundaries from among the virtual boundaries, based on the selected boundaries being discontinuous in a three-dimensional geometry. |
| US11070846B2 |
Multi-layered video streaming systems and methods
Systems and methods for enabling a video capture/encoding device to capture frames of a video sequence; obtain feedback from a video decoding/rendering device; divide each frame into an array of patches; select one or more patches of each frame for supplemental processing; cause the frames of the video sequence to be encoded by a video encoding module and cause the selected patches to be processed by one or more supplemental processing module(s); and assemble a multi-layer video transport stream wherein, for each frame of the video sequence, a base layer of the transport stream includes data corresponding to an encoded version of the current frame and one or more supplemental layers of the transport stream include meta-data corresponding to the division of the current frame into patches and data corresponding to the output of the supplemental processing of the selected patches of the current frame. |
| US11070845B2 |
Systems and methods for signaling of motion-constrained tile sets for virtual reality applications
A method of signaling a motion-constrained tile set is described. According to an aspect of an invention, a value specifying a temporal identifier associated with a replacement picture parameter set is included in SEI message. |
| US11070843B2 |
Coding of last significant coefficient flags
An apparatus for decoding a transform block that is decoded using a scan order includes a processor that is configured to decode, from an encoded bitstream, a first syntax element indicating a group of consecutive scan positions in the scan order, where the group of consecutive scan positions includes a scan position of a last non-zero coefficient; determine an offset within the group of consecutive scan positions of the last non-zero coefficient; and decode, from the encoded bitstream, coefficients up to the last non-zero coefficient of the transform block. |
| US11070841B2 |
Image processing apparatus and method for coding skip information
There is provided an image processing apparatus and method that make it possible to suppress degradation of the encoding efficiency. In the case where primary transform that is a transform process for a prediction residual that is a difference between an image and a prediction image of the image is to be skipped, also secondary transform, which is a transform process for a primary transform coefficient obtained by the primary transform of the prediction residual, is skipped. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to an image processing apparatus, an image encoding apparatus, an image decoding apparatus and so forth. |
| US11070840B2 |
Bit depth variable for high precision data in weighted prediction syntax and semantics
Particular embodiments provide a variable, BitDepth, that may be set at a value based on a number of bits used to represent pixels in pictures of a video. The variable may be used in syntax elements in HEVC, such as the HEVC range extension, but other coding standards may be used. By using the variable, different resolutions for the video may be accommodated during the encoding and decoding process. For example, the number of pixels in the pictures may be represented by 8 bits, 10 bits, 12 bits, or another number of bits depending on the resolution. Using the BitDepth variable in the syntax provides flexibility in the motion estimation and motion compensation process. For example, syntax elements used in the weighted prediction process may take into account different numbers of bits used to represent the pictures. |
| US11070839B2 |
Hybrid video coding
A further coding efficiency increase is achieved by, in hybrid video coding, additionally predicting the residual signal of a current frame by motion-compensated prediction using a reference residual signal of a previous frame. In other words, in order to further reduce the energy of the final residual signal, i.e. the one finally transmitted, and thus increase the coding efficiency, it is proposed to additionally predict the residual signal by motion-compensated prediction using the reconstructed residual signals of previously coded frames. |
| US11070837B2 |
Encoding method, decoding method, encoder, and decoder
An encoder includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry performs a primary transform on a derived prediction error, performs a secondary transform on a result of the primary transform, quantizes a result of the secondary transform, and encodes a result of the quantization as data of an image. When a current block to be processed has a predetermined shape, the encoder performs the secondary transform using, among secondary transform basis candidates that are secondary bases usable in the secondary transform, only a secondary transform basis candidate having a size that is not largest size containable in the current block. |
| US11070828B2 |
Method for decoding data, data decoding device, and method for transmitting data
A method for decoding data of the present disclosure includes: a receiving step of receiving a plurality of encoded streams on a packet basis, the encoded streams being included in encoded data and having been transmitted using a plurality of respective transmission channels; a storing step of storing a plurality of packets of the received plurality of encoded streams, in a first buffer; a rearranging step of rearranging the plurality of packets stored in the first buffer, in a decoding order; and a decoding step of decoding the plurality of packets rearranged in the decoding order. |
| US11070822B2 |
Coding of significance maps and transform coefficient blocks
A higher coding efficiency for coding a significance map indicating positions of significant transform coefficients within a transform coefficient block is achieved by the scan order by which the sequentially extracted syntax elements indicating, for associated positions within the transform coefficient block, as to whether at the respective position a significant or insignificant transform coefficient is situated, are sequentially associated to the positions of the transform coefficient block, among the positions of the transform coefficient block depends on the positions of the significant transform coefficients indicated by previously associated syntax elements. Alternatively, the first-type elements may be context-adaptively entropy decoded using contexts which are individually selected for each of the syntax elements dependent on a number of significant transform coefficients in a neighborhood of the respective syntax element, indicated as being significant by any of the preceding syntax elements. |
| US11070818B2 |
Decoding a block of video samples
A method of decoding a block of video samples from a video bitstream is provided in which the method includes decoding a DQPRP value, deriving a PQP value for a block having a non-zero residual, decoding a DDQP value for the block, deriving a SDQP value for the block from the DDQP value and the DQPRP value, deriving a block QP value for the block from the SDQP value and the PQP value, decoding at least one non-zero coefficient of the block, deriving values of a residual block for the block by first scaling the at least one non-zero coefficient using the QP value and thereafter applying an inverse transform, deriving values of a prediction block spatial or temporal prediction, and deriving decoded sample values for the block by adding the values of the residual block and the values of the prediction block. |
| US11070817B2 |
Video encoding method, computer device, and storage medium for determining skip status
A video encoding method is provided. A plurality of subunits is obtained by performing preset division on the current coding unit. A skip status of an intra-frame prediction mode corresponding to the current coding unit is determined according to differences between the plurality of subunits. In a case that the skip status of the intra-frame prediction mode corresponding to the current coding unit is determined to be skipped, execution of the intra-frame prediction mode for the current coding unit is skipped, and the current coding unit is encoded according to an inter-frame prediction mode. |
| US11070813B2 |
Global motion estimation and modeling for accurate global motion compensation for efficient video processing or coding
Methods, apparatuses and systems may provide for technology that performs global motion estimation. More particularly, implementations relate to technology that provides accurate global motion compensation in order to improve video processing efficiency. In some implementations, a highly adaptive and accurate approach may be used to address the problem of estimation and compensation of global motion in video scenes. The solution may be content adaptive as it uses adaptive modeling of motion using best of multiple models that are used to estimate global motion. |
| US11070812B2 |
Coefficient domain block differential pulse-code modulation in video coding
A video decoder may determine, based on syntax elements in a bitstream that comprises an encoded representation of the video data, residual quantized samples of a block of the video data. Additionally, the video decoder may determine quantized residual values based on the residual quantized samples. After determining the quantized residual values, the video decoder may inverse quantize the quantized residual values. The video decoder may generate predicted values by performing intra prediction for the block using unfiltered samples from above or left block boundary samples. Furthermore, the video decoder may reconstruct original sample values of the block based on the inverse-quantized quantized residual values and the prediction values. |
| US11070811B2 |
Method and device for encoding intra prediction mode for image prediction unit, and method and device for decoding intra prediction mode for image prediction unit
Methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding an intra prediction mode of a prediction unit of a chrominance component based on an intra prediction mode of a prediction unit of a luminance component are provided. When an intra prediction mode of a prediction unit of a luminance component is the same as an intra prediction mode in an intra prediction mode candidate group of a prediction unit of a chrominance component, reconstructing the intra prediction mode candidate group of the prediction unit of the chrominance component by excluding or replacing an intra prediction mode of the prediction unit of the chrominance component which is same as an intra prediction mode of the prediction unit of the luminance component from the intra prediction mode candidate group, and encoding the intra prediction mode of the prediction unit of the chrominance component by using the reconstructed intra prediction mode candidate group. |
| US11070810B2 |
Modifying bit depths in color-space transform coding
In general, this disclosure describes techniques for coding video blocks using a color-space conversion process. A video coder, such as a video encoder or a video decoder, may determine a bit-depth of a luma component of the video data and a bit-depth of a chroma component of the video data. In response to the bit-depth of the luma component being different than the bit depth of the chroma component, the video coder may modify one or both of the bit depth of the luma component and the bit depth of the chroma component such that the bit depths are equal. The video coder may further apply the color-space transform process in encoding the video data. |
| US11070807B2 |
Data encoding apparatus and data encoding method
A data encoding apparatus includes a memory storing computer-readable instructions; and one or more processors configured to execute the computer-readable instruction such that the one or more processors are configured to, receive first video data in a macroblock unit, determine a first rounding offset value using the first video data, create second video data by applying the first rounding offset value to the first video data, determine a second rounding offset value, which is different from the first rounding offset value, using the second video data, and create a quantized coefficient by applying the second rounding offset value to the first video data. |
| US11070806B2 |
Method and apparatus for performing low complexity computation in transform kernel for video compression
The present disclosure relates to a method for processing a video signal by using a linear relationship between transform types, comprising the steps of: determining a transform group on the basis of a prediction mode of a current block; parsing a transform combination index from a video signal, wherein the transform combination index indicates anyone of a plurality of transform combinations in the transform group; deriving a transform combination corresponding to the transform combination index, wherein the transform combination consists of a horizontal transform and a vertical transform, and includes DST-7 or DCT-8; performing inverse transform on the current block on the basis of the transform combination; and restoring the video signal by using the inverse transformed current block. |
| US11070799B2 |
Encoder, decoder and corresponding methods for intra prediction
Devices and methods for Intra prediction are provided. The method includes: obtaining a value of a first indication information of a current block and a value of a reference index line of the current block. When the value of the first indication information indicates the intra prediction mode of the current block is comprised in the set of most probable modes, and when the value of the reference index line indicates the closest neighboring reference line to the current block is used, the method further includes obtaining a value of a second indication information of the current block, the value of the second indication information of the current block indicating whether the intra prediction mode of the current block is Planar mode or not. The method can improve the efficiency to determine the intra prediction mode of the current block. |
| US11070797B2 |
Image decoding method and apparatus based on inter prediction in image coding system
An image decoding method that is performed by a decoding apparatus according to the present disclosure comprises the steps of: forming a merge candidate list based on neighbouring blocks of a current block; deriving costs with respect to merge candidates included in the merge candidate list; deriving a revised merge candidate list based on the costs with respect to the merge candidates; deriving movement information of the current block based on the revised merge candidate list; and performing prediction on the current block based on the movement information, wherein the neighbouring blocks include spatial neighbouring blocks and temporal neighbouring blocks. |
| US11070786B2 |
Illumination-based system for distributing immersive experience content in a multi-user environment
An immersive experience system is provided. The immersive experience system has a processor that determines a position of a first head-mounted display. Further, the processor determines a position of a second head-mounted display. The processor also generates a first image for a first immersive experience corresponding to the position of the first head-mounted display. Moreover, the process encodes the first image into a first infrared spectrum illumination having a first wavelength. In addition, the processor generates a second image for a second immersive experience corresponding to the position of the second head-mounted display. Finally, the processor encodes the second image into a second infrared spectrum illumination having a second wavelength. The first wavelength is distinct from the second wavelength. |
| US11070781B2 |
Rendering extended video in virtual reality
A method for transforming extended video data for display in virtual reality processes digital extended video data for display on a center screen and two auxiliary screens of a real extended video cinema. The method includes accessing, by a computer executing a rendering application, data that defines virtual screens including a center screen and auxiliary screens, wherein tangent lines to each of the auxiliary screens at their respective centers of area intersect with a tangent line to the center screen at its center of area at equal angles in a range of 75 to 105 degrees. The method includes preparing virtual extended video data at least in part by rendering the digital extended video on corresponding ones of the virtual screens; and saving the virtual extended video data in a computer memory. A corresponding playback method and apparatus display the processed data in virtual reality. |
| US11070780B2 |
Commercials on mobile devices
Among other things, videos and commercials are downloaded to a mobile device for storage on the mobile device and later playout on the mobile device. The downloading includes downloading of metadata associated with the commercials and based on which the mobile device can select commercials for insertion into videos being played back to the user of the mobile device. The commercials to be downloaded are selected based on one or a combination of any two or more of the location of the user, the type of mobile device, and personally-identifiable information about a user of the mobile device. |
| US11070772B2 |
Endoscope image-capturing device and endoscope device
An endoscope image-capturing device includes: a first case inside of which is sealed; an image sensor arranged inside the first case; an electro-optic conversion element arranged outside the first case and configured to convert an image signal output from the image sensor into an optical signal; and a sealing member sealing the electro-optic conversion element. |
| US11070770B2 |
Method and system for auto-calibration of multiple sensors for event tracking
A method for multiple sensor calibration and tracking, the method including identifying a non-permanent object in a first field of detection (FOD) of a sensor, wherein the sensor is one of a plurality of sensors positioned in various locations at a site, each sensor has a corresponding FOD; tracking the identified object by single-sensor tracking in the first FOD; predicting appearance of the object, and based on the predictions initiating single-sensor tracking in at least one other FOD where it is predicted that the object will appear; and outputting data captured from the tracked FODs. |
| US11070769B1 |
Collaborative security camera system and method for using
A collaborative security camera system includes a primary vehicle including a sensor to obtain data related to an object, and a first controller. The first controller classifies the object as suspicious activity or non-suspicious activity based on the obtained object data, determines a moving path of the object in response to the object being classified as suspicious activity, and broadcasts a signal including the moving path of the object if the object is classified as suspicious activity. The collaborative security camera system also includes a secondary vehicle including a sensor configured to obtain image data related to the object, and a second controller. The second controller receives the broadcasted signal, determines if the secondary vehicle is within the moving path, and captures image data of the object if the secondary vehicle is proximate the moving path. |
| US11070768B1 |
Volume areas in a three-dimensional virtual conference space, and applications thereof
Disclosed herein is a web-based videoconference system that allows for video avatars to navigate within the virtual environment. The system has a presented mode that allows for a presentation stream to be texture mapped to a presenter screen situated within the virtual environment. The relative left-right sound is adjusted to provide sense of an avatar's position in a virtual space. The sound is further adjusted based on the area where the avatar is located and where the virtual camera is located. Video stream quality is adjusted based on relative position in a virtual space. Three-dimensional modeling is available inside the virtual video conferencing environment. |
| US11070762B2 |
Imaging apparatus for use in a robotic surgery system
A stereoscopic imaging apparatus for use in a robotic surgery system is disclosed and includes an elongate sheath having a bore. First and second image sensors are adjacently mounted at the distal end to capture high definition images from different perspective viewpoints for generating three-dimensional image information. The image sensors produce an unprocessed digital data signal representing the captured images. A wired signal line transmits the unprocessed digital data signals along the sheath to a proximal end to processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to perform processing operations on the unprocessed digital data signals to produce respective video signals suitable for transmission to a host system or for driving a 3D display. A secondary camera is also disclosed and includes an elongate strip of circuit substrate sized for insertion through a narrow conduit, the strip of circuit substrate connecting between an image sensor and a processing circuit substrate. |
| US11070756B2 |
Method, device and system for image acquisition control
The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for image capturing control and a system for image capturing. The method includes: receiving environment information transmitted from one or more sensors; determining a current environment type based on the environment information; determining whether the current environment type is a predetermined harsh environment type; and controlling one or more Time-of-Flight (TOF) cameras to capture an image when it is determined that the current environment type is the harsh environment type. |
| US11070755B2 |
Imaging device and signal processing device
An imaging device includes a pixel unit where pixels including photoelectric converters are arranged, and a signal processing unit that processes signals from the pixel unit. The pixel unit includes a first region including pixels each driven in a first mode to read a signal based on charge generated by the photoelectric converters and a second region including the pixels each driven in a second mode to read more signals than in the first mode including a signal based on charges generated by a part of the photoelectric converters and a signal based on charges generated by the photoelectric converters. The signal processing unit calculates a first correction value based on an average of a first data group from the first region and a second correction value based on an average of a second data group from the second region by using the first correction value as an initial value. |
| US11070753B2 |
Imaging device and method of driving imaging device
An imaging device includes pixels arranged to form columns and each including a photoelectric conversion unit that generates charges by photoelectric conversion, column circuits provided to the columns, respectively, and each receiving a signal from a part of the pixels, a first common control line connected to each of the column circuits, and a control unit that controls the column circuits. Each of the column circuits includes an amplifier circuit whose gain is switchable and a first transistor that controls a current flowing in the amplifier circuit, and the control unit controls the column circuit so that the first transistor supplies a current of a first current value when the amplifier circuit is at a first gain and the first transistor supplies a current of a second current value different from the first current value when the amplifier circuit is at a second gain different from the first gain. |
| US11070752B2 |
Imaging device including first and second imaging cells and camera system
An imaging device includes: a first imaging cell including a first photoelectric converter that generates a first signal by photoelectric conversion, and a first signal processing circuit that is electrically connected to the first photoelectric converter and detects the first signal; and a second imaging cell including a second photoelectric converter that generates a second signal by photoelectric conversion, and a second signal processing circuit that is electrically connected to the second photoelectric converter and detects the second signal. Sensitivity of the first imaging cell is higher than sensitivity of the second imaging cell. The first signal processing circuit has a circuit configuration different from the second signal processing circuit. An operation frequency of the first signal processing circuit is different from an operation frequency of the second signal processing circuit. |
| US11070747B2 |
Segmented focal plane array architecture
Various techniques are provided for implementing a segmented focal plane array (FPA) of infrared sensors. In one example, a system includes a segmented FPA. The segmented FPA includes a top die having an array of infrared sensors (e.g., bolometers). The top die may also include a portion of a read-out integrated circuit (ROIC). The segmented FPA also includes a bottom die having at least a portion of the ROIC. The top and the bottom dies are electrically coupled via inter-die connections. Advantageously, the segmented FPA may be fabricated with a higher yield and a smaller footprint compared with conventional FPA architectures. Moreover, the segmented FPA may be fabricated using different semiconductor processes for each die. |
| US11070746B2 |
Image capturing apparatus, method of controlling image capturing apparatus, and storage medium
An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of an object and generate image data, a compression unit configured to compress the image data generated by the image capturing unit, a display control unit configured to decode the image data compressed by the compression unit and display the decoded image data on a display unit, and an instruction unit configured to issue an instruction to magnify an image to be displayed on the display unit, wherein, in a case where the instruction unit issues the instruction to magnify the image to be displayed on the display unit, the compression unit reduces a compression rate of the image data. |
| US11070745B2 |
Automatic image orientation based on use
A video imaging system is provided. The video imaging system is configured to maintain a video image displayed on a display unit in a predetermined orientation based upon a use. The video imaging system includes an endoscope, a camera head unit, a camera control unit configured to determine a focal distance, and a display control unit. The display control unit is configured to process the focal distance to determine a use. The use is processed by the display control unit so as to maintain the video image in the predetermined orientation. The contextual information may be focal distance, image data or endoscopic orientation. |
| US11070742B2 |
Optimized exposure temporal smoothing for time-lapse mode
A processor of a camera for capturing a time-lapse is configured to acquire a first frame of the time-lapse; calculate an exposure setting for a second frame of the time-lapse; and acquire the second frame of the time-lapse using the exposure setting. The exposure setting prevents a flickering effect in the time-lapse. The exposure setting is determined using one or more preview images that are previewed in a time gap between the first frame and the second frame. |
| US11070741B2 |
High dynamic range video shooting method and device
The present invention provides a high dynamic range video shooting method, comprising: acquiring corresponding images by means of shooting lenses of a multi-lens panoramic camera; determining corresponding image synthesis weights of image pixel blocks according to pixel color gray scale variations, pixel color gray scale differences and pixel color gray scale offsets of the image pixel blocks of each shot image; forming a high dynamic range panoramic shot image based on the image synthesis weights of the image pixel blocks of each shot image; and splicing all the high dynamic range panoramic shot images. |
| US11070738B2 |
Infrared-assisted pre-flash
Methods, systems, and devices for operating a camera-enabled device are described. The camera-enabled device may emit, via a first light emitting source, an infrared light in a physical environment and determine time-of-flight information associated with a target object in the physical environment based on the emitted infrared light. The camera-enabled device may estimate one or more exposure settings based on the time-of-flight information, and emit, via a second light emitting source, a visible light in the physical environment based on the estimated one or more exposure settings. As a result, the camera-enabled device may capture an image of the physical environment based on the emitted visible light and the estimated one or more exposure settings. |
| US11070735B2 |
Photographing device, photographing system, mobile body, control method and program
The present disclosure provides a control device for controlling an imaging device. The control device includes an operation unit configured to be operated by an external force; a detection unit configured to detect an operation state of the operation unit; a processor configured to execute a program to: perform a predetermined operation based on the operation state of the operation unit; and invalidate an execution of the predetermined operation performed by the processor based on the operation state of the operation unit when the imaging device is connected to an object satisfying a condition. |
| US11070734B2 |
Image pickup apparatus having grip, and image pickup lens therefor
An image pickup apparatus that is capable of taking and editing a content with satisfactory operability while holding a grip. The image pickup apparatus includes a display unit, a grip, an operation unit including a touch operation member extending in a slide direction for a slide operation that designates one of taken contents, a first instruction member to take, and a second instruction member to retake, and a controller that changes a display content on the display unit according to a slide operation to the touch operation member. The operation unit is provided between the grip and the display unit in a perpendicular direction to the slide direction. The first and second instruction members are provided between the touch operation member and the grip in the perpendicular direction. The first and second instruction members are respectively provided near one end and the other end of the touch operation member. |
| US11070732B2 |
Method for image processing, device, unmanned aerial vehicle, and receiver
An image processing method includes obtaining a current image frame. The image processing method also includes in response to feedback information, determining a reference image frame for coding the current image frame based on the feedback information. The feedback information is transmitted by a receiver based on a variable feedback time interval, and is configured to indicate a transmission status of an image frame transmitted by a transmitter to the receiver prior to the feedback information. The image processing method also includes coding the current image frame based on an inter-frame coding and the reference image frame to generate coded data. The image processing method further includes transmitting the coded data to the receiver. |
| US11070724B2 |
Image processing apparatus and method
The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus and method that are capable of more facilitating editing. The image processing apparatus includes an operation detection unit that detects an operation input by an operation unit and a display control unit that outputs, to an immersive presentation device, part or entirety of a spherical image on which an image of the operation unit is superimposed, as a presentation image, to cause the immersive presentation device to display the presentation image, the display control unit being configured to control, in a case where the operation input has been detected, the display of the presentation image such that the operation input is reflected, in which the operation detection unit detects coordinates at a position pointed by a pointer of the operation unit, in the spherical image. The present technology is applicable to an editing system that edits spherical images. |
| US11070721B2 |
Intent-based dynamic change of compute resources of vehicle perception system
The present disclosure provides perception system for a vehicle that includes a plurality of imaging devices for producing images of an environment of the vehicle; a perception filter for receiving the images produced by the imaging devices, wherein the perception filter determines compute resource priority instructions based on an intent of the vehicle and a current state of the vehicle; and a compute module for receiving the compute resource priority instructions from the perception filter and allocating compute resources among the imaging devices in accordance with the compute resource priority instructions. |
| US11070719B2 |
Image capture assist device and image capture assist method
An image capture assist device includes a moving speed determining unit that determines whether or not a moving speed of a camera is greater than or equal to a threshold, a target outline determining unit that, if the moving speed determining unit has determined that the moving speed of the camera is greater than or equal to the threshold, determines, on a basis of a capture image obtained from the camera, whether a candidate inspection target, being an object that may be a target to be inspected, appears in the capture image, a moving speed instruction unit that, if the target outline determining unit has determined that the candidate inspection target appears in the capture image, outputs an instruction to reduce the moving speed of the camera, a target type determining unit that, if the moving speed determining unit has determined that the moving speed of the camera is less than the threshold, determines a type of a target appearing in the capture image on a basis of the capture image, and a shooting location determining unit that determines whether the type of the target determined by the target type determining unit matches a type of an inspection target to be currently inspected, and if the type of the target matches the type of the inspection target, determines that a current location of the camera is a shooting location, and outputs an instruction to stop a movement of the camera. |
| US11070716B2 |
Image sensor system, image sensor, data generation method of image sensor in image sensor system, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium
Provided is a technique capable of generating data of a screen suitable for each operation terminal displaying information of an image sensor. An image sensor system has an image sensor that performs an examination of a product and an operation terminal for externally operating the image sensor. In addition, the image sensor system includes a recognition part configured to specify user information of a user who uses the operation terminal and device information of the operation terminal, a determination part configured to determine display information on the examination displayed on a display part used by the operation terminal and a disposition of the display information on the display part on the basis of the specified user information and the specified device information, and a generation part configured to generate data for displaying the display information in the determined disposition on the display part of the operation terminal. |
| US11070708B2 |
Self-contained low profile cross shooting video apparatus
A recording arrangement is provided including an outer enclosure including a plurality of video recording devices and a matching plurality of audio recording devices, at least one extender configured to deploy the plurality of video recording devices to a desired location, extender deployment hardware configured to drive the at least one extender, and electronics configured to drive the at least one extender, the electronics comprising a power supply, a timecode generator, a plurality of recorders, and an internet protocol (IP) assembly configured to facilitate interface with a remote computing device. |
| US11070705B2 |
System and method for image dynamic range adjusting
A method includes obtaining a dynamic range representation of an image including multiple color channels. The dynamic range representation includes dynamic range information of pixels of the image in the color channels. The method further includes decomposing the dynamic range representation into a smooth portion, a color portion, and a detail portion. The smooth portion includes low frequency information of the pixels in the color channels. The color portion includes color intensity information of the pixels in the color channels. The detail portion includes high frequency information of the pixels in the color channels. The method also includes adjusting the smooth portion, the color portion, and the detail portion, respectively, to obtain an adjusted smooth portion, an adjusted color portion, and an adjusted detail portion, and combining the adjusted smooth portion, the adjusted color portion, and the adjusted detail portion to generate an output image. |
| US11070704B2 |
Image processing apparatus, control method for controlling image processing apparatus, and storage medium for removing a color from image data based on specified color
In a document represented by CMYK process colors, a color that a user wishes to remove is prevented from remaining without being removed by specified color removal, and even a color that the user does not wish to remove by rights is prevented from being removed. |
| US11070699B1 |
Systems and methods for facilitating determining contextual and semantic meaning from an image scan
Disclosed herein is a system for facilitating determining contextual and semantic meaning from an image scan. The system may include a communication device configured for receiving a plurality of images from at least one source device, receiving an image scan from at least one user device and transmitting an interpretability notification to the at least one user device. Further, the system may include a processing device configured for analyzing the plurality of images, identifying an image metadata based on the analyzing, analyzing the image scan, identifying an image scan metadata based on the analyzing of the image scan, comparing the image scan metadata and the image metadata, determining an interpretability of the image scan based on the comparing, and generating the interpretability notification based on the determining. |
| US11070698B2 |
Printing apparatus and method of controlling the same that selectively perform predetermined image processing based on a detected sheet size
A printing apparatus includes an instruction unit configured to instruct a conveyance unit to convey a first sheet, and a detection unit configured to detect a size of the conveyed first sheet, the detected size being used for image processing for printing on a different sheet from the first sheet. The instruction unit is configured to instruct, before the detection unit detects the size of the first sheet, the conveyance unit to convey a sheet next to the first sheet. |
| US11070697B2 |
Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method
An information processing system includes a storage storing flow information in association with application identification information, for each application for executing a sequence of processes, the flow information defining program identification information and an execution order of the programs; a storage storing screen information in association with the application identification information for each application; a transmitter for sending, to a device, the screen information associated with the application identification information, when a first request including the application identification information is received from the device; a receiver for receiving a second request including information relating to the electronic data specified by a user in the screen displayed on the device; an acquirer for acquiring the flow information associated with the application identification information; and an executor for executing the programs identified by the program identification information. |
| US11070695B2 |
Image reading device, storage medium storing abnormality detection program, and abnormality detection method
An image reading device includes a reading unit that reads a document sheet and a reading standard surface and outputs read values corresponding to pixels arranged in a main scan direction, a control unit that processes the read values, and a storage unit storing information to be referenced by the control unit. In the storage unit, first data that is read values of the reading standard surface and serves as standards, and second data on ranges of variation, based on a change in a temperature, in the read values are stored. The control unit determines, based on the first data and the second data read from the storage unit and third data obtained by reading the reading standard surface after an acquisition of the first data, whether an abnormality exists in the pixels. |