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| US11503059B2 |
Predicting a next alert in a pattern of alerts to identify a security incident
Disclosed herein is a system for predicting, given a pattern of triggered alerts, a next alert in order to identify malicious activity that is about to occur on resource(s) being monitored by a security operations center. A resource can include a server, a storage device, a user device (e.g., a personal computer, a tablet computer, a smartphone, etc.), a virtual machine, networking equipment, etc. Accordingly, the next alert is speculatively triggered in advance and a security analyst can be notified of a pattern of activity that is likely to be malicious. The security analyst can then investigate the pattern of triggered alerts and the speculatively triggered alert to determine whether steps to mitigate the malicious activity before it occurs should be taken. |
| US11503058B2 |
Security server for dynamic verification of web content, end users remote device, system comprising said end users remote device and server, and method implemented by said system
A security server for dynamic verification of web content located on a platform in the cloud or in the edge which runs artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms including a collector receiving collection of user interactions from an adapted browser of a remote to simulate content of pages loaded on the device based on user interactions from an adapted browser located on the end-user device navigating on the web and for sampling the outcome of these interactions at irregular time intervals, this sample resulting a fixed image such as JPG or PNG, a data mining and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm relying on image processing executed while sample interval to detect object or patterns on the displayed content, a heartbeat generator generates heartbeat at regular interval and transmits at a continuous interval to the end-user's device to indicate to the adapted browser of the device it may display the content. |
| US11503057B2 |
Intrusion detection method and system for internet of vehicles based on spark and combined deep learning
An intrusion detection method and system for Internet of Vehicles based on Spark and combined deep learning are provided. The method includes the following steps: S1: setting up Spark distributed cluster; S2: initializing the Spark distributed cluster, constructing a convolutional neural network (CNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) combined deep learning algorithm model, initializing parameters, and uploading collected data to a Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS); S3: reading the data from the HDFS for processing, and inputting the data to the CNN-LSTM combined deep learning algorithm model, for recognizing the data; and S4: dividing the data into multiple resilient distributed datasets (RDDs) for batch training with a preset number of iterations. |
| US11503054B2 |
Systems and methods for identifying access anomalies using network graphs
In some instances, the disclosure provides a method for identifying access anomalies using network graphs. The method comprises obtaining access data for an entity, generating a network graph baseline profile based on the plurality of data elements, generating a network graph current profile based on the plurality of data elements, generating comparison data based on comparing the plurality of baseline network graphs with the one or more current network graphs and comparing the plurality of baseline nodes and the plurality of baseline edges with the plurality of current nodes and the plurality of current edges, determining, based on the comparison data, anomaly data comprising one or more flagged network accesses to the enterprise system, and providing the anomaly data indicating the flagged network accesses to an authentication system. |
| US11503050B2 |
Systems and methods for determining individual and group risk scores
Embodiments disclosed herein describe a server, for example a security awareness server or an artificial intelligence machine learning system that establishes a risk score or vulnerable for a user of a security awareness system, or for a group of users of a security awareness system. The server may create a frequency score for a user, which predicts the frequency at which the user is to be hit with a malicious attack. The frequency score may be based on at least a job score, which may be represented by a value that is based on the type of job the user has, and a breach score that may be represented by a value that is based on the user's level of exposure to email. |
| US11503048B2 |
Prioritizing assets using security metrics
This disclosure describes techniques for identifying the criticality of an asset in a network. In an example method, a first security metric of a first asset in a network, as well as network data that identifies data flows associated with a second asset in the network are identified. The second asset is a nearest neighbor of the first asset in the network. The method includes determining, based on the network data, a number of hosts in the network that exchanged data traffic with the second asset during a time period and generating a second security metric of the second asset based on the first security metric and the number of hosts. A security policy of the second asset is adjusted based on the security metric. |
| US11503045B2 |
Scalable hierarchical abnormality localization in cyber-physical systems
A cyber-physical system may have monitoring nodes that generate a series of current monitoring node values over time that represent current operation of the system. A hierarchical abnormality localization computer platform accesses a multi-level hierarchy of elements, and elements in a first level of the hierarchy are associated with elements in at least one lower level of the hierarchy and at least some elements may be associated with monitoring nodes. The computer platform may then determine, based on feature vectors and a decision boundary, an abnormality status for a first element in the highest level of the hierarchy. If the abnormality status indicates an abnormality, the computer platform may determine an abnormality status for elements, associated with the first element, in at least one level of the hierarchy lower than the level of the first element. These determinations may be repeated until an abnormality is localized to a monitoring node. |
| US11503040B2 |
Distributed content uploading and validation
In accordance with one or more embodiments, aspects of the disclosure provide efficient, effective, and convenient ways of uploading and authenticating content. In particular, a user device may receive validating information from a wireless networking device. The user or client device may record a content item, and may insert a validation tag based on the validating information. The user or client device may then send the content item to the wireless networking device. The wireless networking device may receive the content item at a first location and may determine the validity of the content item based on the validating information. The user device may continually interact with wireless networking devices as it travels to continually upload content items while establishing the validity of the time and location of the content items. |
| US11503037B2 |
Nested access privilege check for multi-tenant organizations
Techniques for managing access to content are provided that include receiving a first signal requesting an indication whether a user has an access privilege to access to a resource associated with a first tenant of an access management service or perform an operation by a data processing system using the resource, determining that a first user account associated with the user does not have an access privilege to access the resource; performing a nested access privilege check to determine whether the user is associated with a second user account that has the access privilege to access the resource; and granting via the communication network access to the resource responsive to the nested access privilege check determining that the user is associated with the second user account and the second user account is associated with the access privilege to access the resource. |
| US11503036B2 |
Methods of electing leader nodes in a blockchain network using a role-based consensus protocol
A method for electing a leader in a blockchain network using a role-based consensus protocol includes generating a new block by a node in the blockchain network and computing an effective resources metric for the node based on a role of the node, resources of the node and a role-based weight profile for the resources of the node. Eligibility proof of the node is generated based on eligibility information that includes a blockheader of the new block, an identity of the node, a difficulty target, T, of the blockchain network, and the effective resources metric. The new block and the eligibility proof is broadcast to the blockchain network, to enable one or more other nodes in the blockchain network to verify eligibility of the node as a leader. |
| US11503035B2 |
Multi-user permission strategy to access sensitive information
A system and related methods for providing greater security and control over access to classified files and documents and other forms of sensitive information based upon a multi-user permission strategy centering on organizational structure. Based on the sensitivity or classification of the information being requested by a user, approvers are selected dynamically based on the work environment (e.g., mobility, use of the computing device seeking access, access policy, and the like). The selected sets of approvers are non-repetitive in nature, making it very hard to guess which approvers will be selected for a particular request. |
| US11503034B2 |
Techniques to automatically update payment information in a compute environment
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for generating rules automatically navigate a website and perform updates of payment token information. |
| US11503033B2 |
Using one or more networks to assess one or more metrics about an entity
Described herein are systems and methods for predicting a metric value for an entity associated with a query node in a graph that represents a network. In embodiments, using a user's profile as the query node, a metric about that user may be estimated based, at least in part, as a function of how well connected the query node is to a whitelist of “good” users/nodes in the network, a blacklist of “bad” users/nodes in the network, or both. In embodiments, one or more nodes or edges may be weighted when determining a final score for the query node. In embodiments, the final score regarding the metric may be used to take one or more actions relative to the query node, including accepting it into a network, allowing or rejecting a transaction, assigning a classification to the node, using the final score to compute another estimate for a node, etc. |
| US11503029B2 |
Methods and systems for providing a customized network
In some embodiments, a system is a reverse-proxying HTTP cache server that handles user session management and dynamically forwards requests to origin/backend servers based on the content being requested. It caches data from origin servers in order to reduce the stress placed on each origin server. It uses encrypted authorization tokens to handle session management and is able to modify origin data on-the-fly in order to inject per-client authorization information into the data stream. It can enforce maximum concurrent session limits, user bans, limit exemptions, and time-limited live content previews. |
| US11503024B2 |
Physical-layer identification of controller area network transmitters
Provided herein are systems and methods for authenticating controlled area network (CAN) transmissions using physical layer characteristics. In one or more examples, a device that is configured to authenticate CAN transmissions can be connected to an existing CAN. The device can be configured to undergo a training phase in which average transition waveforms of one or more electronic control units (ECUs) are created. When the device is in operation, each CAN transmission received by the device can be compared against the average transition waveforms to determine the ECU that is most likely to have sent the transmission. In one or more examples, the identified most likely ECU can be compared against the ECU identified by an arbitration ID of the transmission. If there is a mismatch then in one or more examples the device can alert to the possibility of a suspicious ECU transmission. |
| US11503020B2 |
Queue management based on biometric authentication
A method performed by a user device may include obtaining biometric information relating to a user of the user device using a biometric sensor of the user device; determining that the biometric information is valid; generating a biometric indicator indicating that the biometric information is valid; providing a request for a callback from an entity, wherein the request includes the biometric information indicating that the biometric information is valid; and receiving the callback from the entity, wherein the callback is received based on the biometric information indicating that the biometric information is valid, and wherein the callback is associated with an entity identifier that is not provided to the user. |
| US11503017B2 |
EHN venue-specific application provisioning
In order to leverage an enterprise-hosted network (EHN) associated with an entity, a communication technique may dynamically customize an application on a portable electronic device. In particular, the portable electronic device may discover and then may connect to the EHN using a quarantine zone that restricts access to the EHN. After providing valid credentials to establish a level of trust with the EHN, the portable electronic device may receive a request for authentication and authorization information. In response to the request, the portable electronic device may provide a credential to the EHN. Next, the portable electronic device may receive provisioning information that customizes the application on the portable electronic device to a venue associated with the entity. The provisioning information may include a connection setting associated with the application on the portable electronic device, which allows the portable electronic device to connect to the EHN outside of the quarantine zone. |
| US11503016B2 |
Method and system for the authentication of a client terminal by a target server, by triangulation via an authentication server
A method for authenticating a client terminal by a target server. The method includes: the client terminal authenticates itself with an authentication server; the target server authenticates itself with the authentication server; the authentication server and the target server share a password for the client terminal; the authentication server transmits the password to the client terminal; the client terminal transmits the password to the target server; and the target server determines whether or not there is a correspondence between the password shared with the authentication server and the password transmitted by the client terminal, and if the correspondence between passwords exists, the client terminal is authenticated by the target server. |
| US11503015B2 |
Aggregation platform portal for displaying and updating data for third-party service providers
Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are presented for an aggregation platform portal. A hardware computing device is configured to aggregate a user's data from a first plurality of third-party service providers over a data network for the user to access through a second plurality of third-party service providers. A portal module is configured to monitor electronic credentials of a user used by a hardware computing device to download the user's data and to detect similar electronic credentials for the same third-party service provider from a first plurality being used for multiple third-party service providers from a second plurality. A graphical user interface is configured to display a listing of multiple third-party service providers with user interface elements allowing a user to revoke authorization of aggregation of data from one or more third-party service providers and/or to update electronic credentials for one or more of multiple third-party service providers. |
| US11503013B2 |
Translation of client certificate authentication into authorization graph descriptors
A cloud computing environment receives a request from a client. The request relates to access of an application executing in the cloud computing environment and it encapsulates a certificate. This certificate is then translated into an authorization graph descriptor which, in turn, is used to traverse a certificate authorization graph to identify a match within a certificate repository. In response to the identification of the match, an access token is requested including the authorization graph descriptor. The access token is then encapsulated in the request which is then forwarded to an authentication service which provides access to the application if there is a match of the authorization graph descriptor against pre-defined authorization requirements. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. |
| US11503012B1 |
Client authentication using a client certificate-based identity provider
A service or load balancer may use the techniques herein to perform client authentication using a certificate-based identity provider. A client may send a request for access to a service of the provider network. In response, the service or a load balancer may redirect the request to a certificate-based identity provider in accordance with a standard identity protocol (e.g., a federated identity protocol such as the protocol for OpenID Connect (OIDC)). The certificate-based identity provider may obtain a client certificate and validate the client certificate. The identity provider may also obtain and verify other credentials. In response to validating the client certificate (and in some cases authenticating the credentials), the certificate-based identity provider may generate and sign an identity token and redirect the client back to the service in accordance with the identity protocol. |
| US11503010B2 |
Secure permissioning of access to user accounts, including secure deauthorization of access to user accounts
A permissions management system is disclosed for enabling a user to securely authorize a third-party system to access user account data and initiate transactions related to a user account, without disclosing to the third-party system account credentials. The system enables the user to also securely de-authorize the third-party system. For example, records may be automatically generated that securely store account information, including one or more permissions related to the account and/or the third-party. A token associated with a record may be shared with the third-party system, but neither the record itself, nor the user account credentials, may be shared with the third-party. Accordingly, the third-party may request user account data and/or initiate transactions by providing the token, but does not itself know, e.g., the user account credentials. Further, the user may set various permissions related to the token, and may also revoke the token (e.g., de-authorize the third-party), thus providing increased security to the user's account. |
| US11503004B2 |
Distributed IPSec gateway
The present disclosure provides technical solutions related to distributed IPSec gateway. A control plane and a data plane of the IPSec gateway are divided, a plurality of gateway processing nodes may be run in the data plane to process data packets of incoming ESP/AR traffic and/or data packets of outgoing IP traffic. IKE information interaction may be handled in the control plane and the traffic may be steered on each gateway processing node in the data plane. |
| US11503003B1 |
Enabling a hybrid mesh network
A method including receiving, at a processor, a first assigned public key from a first device included in a mesh network and an external assigned public key from an external device not included in the mesh network; determining, by the processor, that the external device is to be included in the mesh network based at least in part on determining an association between the first device and the external device; and transmitting, by the processor based at least in part on determining that the external device is to be included in the mesh network, the first assigned public key to the external device and the external assigned public key to the first device to enable the first device and the external device to set up a meshnet connection. Various other aspects are contemplated. |
| US11503001B2 |
Cryptographically enforced data exchange
A cryptographically enforced data exchange is disclosed that enables an exchange of customer travel records between a plurality of travel providers while preserving customer privacy. The disclosed system receives customer travel data from publishers, and communicates a portion of the customer travel data to one or more subscribers in response to determining a customer match, without disclosing any protected data elements between the publisher and the subscriber. |
| US11503000B2 |
Technologies for establishing secure channel between I/O subsystem and trusted application for secure I/O data transfer
Technologies for secure I/O data transfer includes a compute device, which includes a processor to execute a trusted application, an input/output (I/O) device, and an I/O subsystem. The I/O subsystem is configured to establish a secured channel between the I/O subsystem and a trusted application running on the compute device, and receive, in response to an establishment of the secured channel, I/O data from the I/O device via an unsecured channel. The I/O subsystem is further configured to encrypt, in response to a receipt of the I/O data, the I/O data using a security key associated with the trusted application that is to process the I/O data and transmit the encrypted I/O data to the trusted application via the secured channel, wherein the secured channel has a data transfer rate that is higher than a data transfer rate of the unsecured channel between the I/O device and the I/O subsystem. |
| US11502998B2 |
Methods and systems for provisioning and managing internet-of-thing devices over a network
Methods for provisioning and managing Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices over a network using device based tunneled nodes are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, by a first network device in a network, data originated from an Internet-of-Things (IoT) device; identifying a device type of the IoT device by analyzing data packets of the received data; obtaining, by the first network device, a device profile for the IoT device, wherein the device profile is used for provisioning the IoT device to access the network; and provisioning the IoT device using the device profile, wherein the provisioning includes at least one of (1) identifying a tunneling attribute in the device profile; and (2) identifying a constrained application protocol (CoAP) parameter in the device profile, wherein the CoAP parameter is used to zero touch provision one or more device attributes of the IoT device. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided. |
| US11502997B1 |
Device network mapping obscuration
A sender device can determine that data associated with an application is to be sent to a service via a network. The sender device can generate resource queries directed to at least two participant devices and receive responses indicating whether each of the participant devices has a resource available to host a virtual network function (“VNF”). The sender device can generate commands directed to security interface applications executed by the participant devices. The commands can instruct the participant devices to instantiate the VNFs. The sender device can partition the data into data partitions directed to the participant devices. The sender device can send the data partitions to the VNFs of the participant devices. The VNFs can forward the data partitions to a network access device that can combine the data partitions and send the data to the service via the network. |
| US11502996B2 |
Rule swapping in a packet network
In some variations, first and second rule sets may be received by a network protection device. The first and second rule sets may be preprocessed. The network protection device may be configured to process packets in accordance with the first rule set. Packets may be received by the network protection device. A first portion of the packets may be processed in accordance with the first rule set. The network protection device may be reconfigured to process packets in accordance with the second rule set. A second portion of the packets may be processed in accordance with the second rule set. |
| US11502992B1 |
Local controller and local agent for local API authorization
Some embodiments provide a local controller on a set of host computers that reduce the volume of data that is communicated between the server set and the set of host computers. The local controller executing on a particular host computer, in some embodiments, receives a portion of the namespace including only the policies (e.g., opcode) that are relevant to API-authorization processing for the applications executing on the particular host computer provided by a local agent executing on the computer to authorize the API requests based on policies and parameters. The local controller analyzes the received policies (e.g., policy opcodes) and identifies the parameters (e.g. operands), or parameter types, needed for API-authorization processing (e.g., evaluating the policy opcode upon receiving a particular API request) by the local agent. In some embodiments, the local controller performs this analysis for each updated set of policies (e.g., policy opcodes). |
| US11502990B2 |
Domain name access method and device
A domain name access method and a device are described. As described herein, a domain name server (DNS) server performs resolution on a domain name requested by the terminal device. The DNS server may then send an internet protocol (IP) address of an application server obtained through the resolution and use condition information to the terminal device. With this, communication efficiency of the terminal device can be improved, and waste of transmission resources in a communications system is also avoided. |
| US11502986B2 |
Reducing transmission delay of transmitting data in Wi-Fi
A data sending method, a sending device, a data receiving method, and a receiving device, the method including obtaining, by a sending device, a target medium access control protocol data unit (MPDU) by performing encapsulation processing on an internet protocol (IP) data packet of a specified service, where the sending device and a receiving device are connected through Wi-Fi, generating a backup MPDU of the target MPDU, and sending the target MPDU and the backup MPDU to the receiving device. |
| US11502984B2 |
Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for proactive management of notifications
A computer system has a plurality of notifications in a notification history, including a first notification of a first event of a first event type and a second notification of a second event of the first event type. The first notification and the second notification are coalesced in the notification history. In response to detecting an additional event of the first event type, a third notification is created for the additional event. After creating the third notification, in response to a request to display a wake screen, the wake screen is displayed with the third notification. The third notification is displayed without information about the first notification and the second notification. After the third notification has been displayed, in response to a request to display the notification history, the notification history is displayed with a coalesced representation of the first notification and the second notification. |
| US11502983B2 |
Reply interface with selectable stickers for messaging system
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing a reply interface with selectable stickers for sending in a message. The program and method provide for receiving, by a first device of a first user, a media content item provided by a second device of a second user; determining, in response to receiving the media content item, a set of stickers for displaying with the media content item; and displaying, by the first device, the media content item together with a first reply interface and a second reply interface for sending a reply message to the second device. The first reply interface includes the set of stickers, each of which is selectable by the first user for sending to the second device. The second reply interface includes an input box for sending message content to the second device. |
| US11502980B2 |
Content-item relationship messaging system
A message can be selectively provided to users of an online content management service based at least in part on a user relationship between the users and a shared content item. Users having the user relationship associated with the message can be shown the message, where users without the user relationship are not shown the message. For example, a message can be configured to be shown upon the first time a content item is opened by a user, but not on subsequent openings of the content item. |
| US11502979B2 |
System for multi-party chat technical field
A computer system analyzes an input in a chat window of a first device, wherein the chat window corresponds to a first chat session with a user of a second device and a second chat session with a user of a third device. The computer system determines, based on the analyzing the input, whether the input corresponds to an information associated with the first chat session and an information associated with the second chat session. Based on determining that the input corresponds to the information associated with the first chat session and the information associated with the second chat session, the computer system transmits the input to the second device and the third device. |
| US11502974B2 |
Timestamp-based packet switching using a trie data structure
Systems and methods of network packet switching use a table representation of a trie data structure to identify a timestamp (TS) range (or time range) for a received packet based on the packet timestamp (TS). The trie data structure is programmed with a plurality of predetermined time ranges. Each node in the trie data structure corresponds to a TS prefix and is associated with a corresponding predetermined time range. A search engine in the network switch can use the packet TS as a key to traverse the trie data structure and thereby matching the packet TS to a predetermined time range according to a Longest Prefix Match (LPM) process. Provided with the TS ranges of the incoming packets, various applications and logic engines in the network switch can accordingly process the packets, such as determining a new destination IP address and performing channel switch accordingly. |
| US11502969B2 |
Method and system for directing user between captive and open domains
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for directing users to captive and open domains. Management of communications involving captive domains and open domains may comprise permitting and/or preventing certain communications at certain times. |
| US11502966B1 |
Device-enabled access control in a mesh network
A method including receiving, by a first device in communication with a second device in a mesh network, an incoming packet from the second device; determining, by the first device, that the incoming packet is an initiation packet requesting information or a response from the first device or a response packet providing a response to an outgoing packet transmitted by the first device; and processing, by the first device, the incoming packet based at least in part on determining that the incoming packet is the initiation packet or the response packet. Various other aspects are contemplated. |
| US11502965B2 |
Burst packet preload for ABW estimation with rate limiters
Systems and methods are provided for performing burst packet preloading for Available Bandwidth (ABW) estimation, that may include: preparing a chirp train to be used for ABW estimation, the chirp train comprising a quantity of original probe packets; determining a quantity of additional probe packets that will transition the network path from a short-term mode into a long-term mode; inserting the determined quantity of additional probe packets at the beginning of the chirp train; and transmitting the chirp train, including the determined quantity of additional probe packets on the network path, to a receiver that can perform ABW estimation of the network path. |
| US11502961B2 |
TCP performance predictor
Technology is disclosed herein for monitoring a network path. In an implementation, a device on a network path obtains a burst capacity of the network path, determines a round trip time associated with a burst of traffic sent over the network path, and determines a predicted throughput of the network path based at least in part on the burst capacity of the network path and the round trip time of the burst of traffic. |
| US11502960B2 |
Method and module of priority division and queue scheduling for communication services in smart substation
A method for dividing communication services in smart substation into different priorities, the method including: determining the priority of a message to be sent according to the service type and its priority definition; the communication services includes trip message, state change message, sampled value message, device status message, time synchronization message, and file transfer message; the corresponding priority is respectively defined as 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 1; and filling the user priority field of IEEE802.1Q label in a message header with a binary value corresponding to its priority. |
| US11502959B2 |
Traffic flow based map-cache refresh to support devices and their dynamic policy updates
A traffic flow based map cache refresh may be provided. A computing device may receive a dropped packet message when a packet associated with a flow having a destination and a source was dropped before it reached the destination. Next, in response to receiving the dropped packet message, a map request message may be sent to a Map Server (MS). In response to sending the map request message, a map response message may be received indicating an updated destination for the flow. A map cache may then be refreshed for the source of the flow based on the updated destination from the received map response message. |
| US11502957B2 |
Avoiding markers for longest prefix match based on binary search tree algorithm
In one embodiment, a packet processing apparatus includes interfaces, a memory to store a representation of a routing table as a binary search tree of address prefixes, and store a marker with an embedded prefix including k marker bits providing a marker for an address prefix of a node corresponding to a prefix length greater than k, and n additional bits, such that the k marker bits concatenated with the n additional bits provide another address prefix, packet processing circuitry configured upon receiving a data packet having a destination address, to traverse the binary search tree to find a longest prefix match, compare a key with the k marker bits, extract an additional n bits from the destination address, and compare the extracted n bits with the n additional bits, and process the data packet in accordance with a forwarding action indicated by the longest prefix match. |
| US11502956B2 |
Method for content caching in information-centric network virtualization
A method for content caching in information centric network virtualization includes receiving, by a first node, a first data packet; in response to a cache distance identifier hop of the first data packet being less than a preset maximum cache distance, setting hop=hop+1 and sending the first data packet to a next node by the first node; in response to the hop being not less than the preset maximum cache distance and there being available cache space in the first node, setting hop=0, storing the first data packet, and sending the first data packet to the next node by the first node. The node determines whether to cache a data packet based on the cache distance identifier of the data packet, which comprehensively considers the cache energy consumption caused by caching the data packet in the node and the transmission energy consumption caused by transmission of the data packet in the link, thereby effectively reducing the total energy consumption of the network. |
| US11502955B2 |
Dynamic internet protocol translation using port-control-protocol communication
A network device may receive, from a source device, an option request that includes a source address of the source device and a destination address of a destination device, wherein the network device is associated with an Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) network. The network device may identify a map code that is associated with an address translation for traffic associated with the destination device and may determine, based on identifying the map code, a source prefix code and a destination prefix code for the address translation. The network device may determine a source IPv6 prefix and a destination IPv6 prefix for the address translation based on the source prefix code and the destination prefix code and may provide, to the source device, an option response to the option request to permit the source device to use the source IPv6 prefix and the destination IPv6 prefix for the traffic. |
| US11502954B1 |
Processing segment routing packets with two policy processing instructions in a segment routing domain
A network device may receive a packet and may determine whether a next header of the packet is an Internet protocol (IP) header, an Internet control message protocol (ICMP) header, or a segment routing header. The network device may determine, when the next header of the packet is the IP header, whether policy processing of the packet is set to ultimate segment decapsulation and may discard the packet when the policy processing of the packet is not set to ultimate segment decapsulation. The network device may decapsulate an outer header of the packet when the policy processing of the packet is set to ultimate segment decapsulation and may process the packet after decapsulating the outer header of the packet, to generate a processed packet. The network device may forward the processed packet toward a destination. |
| US11502952B2 |
Reorder resilient transport
Devices and techniques for reorder resilient transport are described herein. A device may store data packets in sequential positions of a flow queue in an order in which the data packets were received. The device may retrieve a first data packet from a first sequential position and a second data packet from a second sequential position that is next in sequence to the first sequential position in the flow queue. The device may store the first data packet and the second data packet in a buffer and refrain from providing the first data packet and the second data packet to upper layer circuitry if the packet order information for the first data packet and the second data packet indicate that the first data packet and the second data packet were received out of order. Other embodiments are also described. |
| US11502941B2 |
Techniques for routing data in a network
A router in a switching network has input interfaces communicatively coupled to other routers and first and second output interfaces communicatively coupled to other routers in the switching network. First and second output interface queues, respectively associated with the first and second output interfaces, store data packets awaiting transmission respectively on the first and second output interfaces. A routing table maps first and second destination addresses to the first output interface as a primary interface and maps the first destination address to the second output interface as an alternate interface. A route controller assigns, using the routing table, data packets having one of the first or second destination address to the primary output interface for transmission, the primary output interface being the first output interface. The controller monitors the first output interface queue and determines whether to activate an alternate route for transmitting data packets having the first destination address over the switching network. |
| US11502940B2 |
Explicit backups and fast re-route mechanisms for preferred path routes in a network
A method implemented by a network element (NE) in a network, comprising receiving, by the NE, an advertisement comprising preferred path route (PPR) information and backup PPR information, the PPR information describing a PPR between a source and a destination in the network, the backup PPR information describing a backup PPR between the source and the destination, the PPR information comprising a PPR identifier (PPR-ID) and a plurality of PPR description elements (PPR-PDEs) each representing an element on the PPR, updating, by the NE, a local forwarding database to include the PPR information and the backup PPR information in association with a destination address of the destination, and transmitting, by the NE, a data packet based on the backup PPR information instead of the PPR information in response to an element on the PPR being unavailable due to a failure of an element along the PPR. |
| US11502934B2 |
EZ-pass: an energy performance-efficient power-gating router architecture for scalable on-chip interconnect architecture
With the advent of manycore architecture, on-chip interconnect connects a number of cores, caches, memory modules, accelerators, graphic processing unit (GPU) or chiplets in one system. However, on-chip interconnect architecture consumes a significant portion of total parallel computing chip power. Power-gating is an effective technique to reduce power consumption by powering off the routers, but it suffers from a large wake-up latency to resume the full activity of routers. Recent research aims to improve the wake-up latency penalty by hiding it through early wake-up techniques. However, these techniques do not exploit the full advantage of power-gating due to the early wake-up. Consequently, they do not achieve significant power savings. The present invention provides a new router architecture that remedies the large wake-up latency overheads while providing significant power savings. The invention takes advantage of a simple switch to transmit packets without waking up the router. Additionally, the technique hides the wake-up latency by continuing to provide packet transmission during the wake-up phase. |
| US11502932B2 |
Indirect testing using impairment rules
According to one method, the method occurs at a first test device located inline between at least one traffic source and a network and/or system under test (NSUT), wherein the first test device is implemented using at least one processor and at least one memory. The method includes receiving, from a test controller, impairment rules generated from baseline metrics based on monitored live traffic for effecting traffic impairments; receiving traffic destined to the NSUT; impairing the traffic destined to the NSUT based on the impairment rules; sending the impaired traffic towards the NSUT, wherein the NSUT processes the impaired traffic; and sending, from the test device or a related tap, response information from the NSUT to the test controller for analyzing NSUT performance. |
| US11502925B2 |
Information processing terminal and control method
An information processing terminal on which a web browser operates includes a setting unit configured to set a limitation condition for limiting transmission of local storage data to a web server providing a web application, and a determination unit configured to determine a value indicating a status of network connection of the information processing terminal in accordance with the set limitation condition when the status of the network connection of the information processing terminal is online. Even when the status of the network connection of the information processing terminal is online, the transmission of the local storage data to the web server from the web application is limited in accordance with the determined value. |
| US11502917B1 |
Virtual representation of user-specific resources and interactions within cloud-based systems
An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a processing platform that includes a plurality of processing devices each comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The processing platform is configured to implement virtual resources of at least a first cloud-based system. The processing platform further comprises a user-specific cloud infrastructure identification module configured to determine user-specific cloud infrastructure within the first cloud-based system, a virtual representation generator module configured to generate an interactive three-dimensional visualization of the first cloud-based system based on the user-specific cloud infrastructure, and a virtual representation display module configured to output the interactive three-dimensional visualization of the first cloud-based system via at least one type of interface. |
| US11502914B2 |
Systems and methods for behavioural and contextual data analytics
System and method for behavioral and contextual data analytics are disclosed. An example computer system to process observational data received from a wireless device includes a memory including machine readable instructions and a processor to execute the instructions to: process the observational data to identify temporally adjacent applications to generate usage metric data, the observational data including application usage data; build a behavior model based on the identified temporally adjacent applications, the behavior model to describe user behavior associated with the wireless device; and apply the behavior model to predict a usage duration of a second application in response to usage of a first application. |
| US11502909B2 |
Network slice management method and apparatus
Embodiments of this application disclose a network slice management method and device, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: receiving, by a first management unit, a network slice management request, where the network slice management request carries instance information or indication information of a transport network manager; and sending, by the first management unit, a transmission management request to a corresponding transport network manager based on the instance information of the transport network manager, where the transmission management request is used to deploy a transmission network. The embodiments of this application provide a method for determining a transport network manager to create a corresponding transmission network. |
| US11502900B2 |
Systems and methods for modifying device operation based on datasets generated using machine learning techniques
A configuration system may generate synthetic datasets based on machine learning, and may provide the synthetic datasets in order to configure, train, test, and/or otherwise modify operation of network equipment and/or other devices. The configuration system may receive a sampling of data used by the particular network equipment, and may determine parameters that define values for the variables represented in the sampling. The configuration system may generate different datasets based on the parameters, and may determine an accuracy of each dataset to the sampling based on the values of each dataset conforming by different amounts to the parameters that define the values for the variables represented in the sampling by different amounts. The configuration system may modify the network equipment operation using the values from a particular dataset in response to determining that the accuracy of the particular dataset is greatest to the sampling. |
| US11502898B2 |
Logical L3 processing for L2 hardware switches
A method for configuring a managed forwarding element (MFE) to perform logical routing operations in a logical network on behalf of a hardware switch is described. The method of some embodiments receives data that defines a logical router that logically connects several different end machines operating on several different host machines to different physical machines that are connected to the hardware switch. The method, based on the received data, defines a number of routing components for the logical router. In some embodiments, the method then configures the MFE to implement the routing components in order to enable the MFE to perform logical routing operations on behalf of the hardware switch. |
| US11502895B1 |
Internet failover connectivity and monitoring
The disclosed implementations relate to a network monitoring and failover system and related devices and methods. Various implementations include a network having a local area network, a firewall, a server, and an SD-WAN monitoring system. The SD-WAN monitoring system is constructed and arranged to direct network traffic over various network connections according to a set a rules. The system is constructed and arranged to monitor and detect when a primary connection is not performing optimally and automatically route sensitive traffic to a secondary connect to minimize or eliminate network interruptions. The system is further constructed and arranged to automatically transition back to the primary connection when the network issues are resolved. |
| US11502893B1 |
Short-form 5G/6G pulse-amplitude demodulation references
Short-form pulse-amplitude demodulation references disclosed herein may enable low-cost receivers to demodulate wireless messages while avoiding complex 5G and 6G protocols, thereby enabling a multitude of cost-constrained applications. Despite their small footprint, the short-form pulse-amplitude demodulation references enable the receiver to determine all of the amplitude levels of the modulation scheme, including the effects of noise and interference. Mitigation of noise and interference can therefore be provided by embedding short-form pulse-amplitude demodulation references within longer messages, thereby providing an immediate refresh of the modulation calibrations, enhancing communication reliability, and avoiding costly message faults despite high background interference. Short-form pulse-amplitude demodulation references disclosed herein can be used as a default standard demodulation reference in 5G and 6G wireless messages. |
| US11502891B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting uplink control channel in wireless cellular communication system
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique and system thereof that fuses a 5G communication system with IoT technology to support a higher data rate than a 4G system. The present disclosure may be applied to an intelligent service (for example, a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or a connected car, health care, digital education, retail, a security and safety related service, etc.) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. According to the present invention, a method of a terminal in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: detecting a synchronization signal block at a synchronization signal block candidate position which is determined according to a subcarrier interval of the synchronization signal block; and performing synchronization on the basis of the synchronization signal block. |
| US11502888B2 |
Methods and apparatus for random access in multi-carrier communication systems
Methods and apparatus in a multi-carrier cellular wireless network with random access improve receiving reliability and reduce interference of uplink signals of a random access, while improving the detection performance of a base station receiver by employing specifically configured ranging signals. |
| US11502881B2 |
Channel equalization for multi-level signaling
A memory interface may include a transmitter that generates multi-level signals made up of symbols that convey multiple bits of data. The transmitter may include a first data path for a first bit (e.g., a least significant bit (LSB)) in a symbol and a second data path for a second bit (e.g., the most significant bit (MSB)) in the symbol. Each path may include a de-emphasis or pre-emphasis buffer circuit that inverts and delays signals received at the de-emphasis or pre-emphasis buffer circuit. The delayed and inverted data signals may control de-emphasis or pre-emphasis drivers that are configured to apply de-emphasis or pre-emphasis to a multi-level signal. |
| US11502880B1 |
Baseline wander cancelation
A receiver converter circuit included in a computer system may receive multiple signals that encode a serial data stream that encode multiple data symbols. To correct for baseline wander, the receiver circuit may generate a disparity signal that is used to control the application of a differential voltage to the multiple signals. The receiver circuit may also employ the disparity signal to generate a gradient against which the magnitude of differential voltage is calibrated. |
| US11502879B2 |
Multi-stage equalizer for inter-symbol interference cancellation
An equalizer includes a first feed-forward stage that provides a measure of low-frequency IS I and a second feed-forward stage that includes a cascade of stages each making an IS I estimate. The IS I estimate from each stage is further equalized by application of the measures of low-frequency IS I from the first feed-forward stage and fed to the next in the cascade of stages. The IS I estimate from the stages thus become progressively more accurate. The number of stages applied to a given signal can be optimized to achieve a suitably low bit-error rate. Power is saved by disabling stages which are not required to meet that goal. |
| US11502876B2 |
Transceiver device for a bus system and operating method therefor
A transceiver device for a bus system. The transceiver device includes a first bus terminal for connection to a first signal line of the bus system, a second bus terminal for connection to a second signal line of the bus system, and a receiving unit for receiving a bus receive signal from the first and second bus terminals. The transceiver device is designed to interconnect the first and second bus terminals via a predefinable electrical resistance for a predefinable first period of time. The predefinable first period of time is selectable as a function of at least one parameter of the receiving unit. |
| US11502874B2 |
Filtering advertising of route advertisements based on virtual network identifiers
Network identifiers are extracted from route advertisements. A table associates virtual network identifiers with provider edge devices. When a virtual network identifier extracted from a route advertisement matches a virtual network identifier in the table, the route advertisement is propagated to the provider edge devices associated with that virtual network identifier in the table. The route advertisement is not propagated to provider edge devices not associated with that virtual network identifier in the table. |
| US11502873B2 |
Switch device, vehicle-mounted communication device, vehicle-mounted communication system, time correction method, and time correction program
This switch device includes: a relay unit configured to perform a first relay process of relaying data between function units installed in a vehicle and belonging to different VLANs; a calculation unit configured to calculate time correction information on the basis of a transmission time of data from a first function unit serving as the function unit to the switch device, a reception time in the switch device of the data transmitted from the first function unit, a transmission time of data from a second function unit serving as the function unit to the switch device, and a reception time in the switch device of the data transmitted from the second function unit; and a notification unit configured to notify the second function unit of the time correction information calculated by the calculation unit. |
| US11502872B1 |
Isolation of clients within a virtual local area network (VLAN) in a fabric network
Client device blocking may be provided. A switching device may receive data from a first client device. The data may be addressed to a second client device. Then it may be determined that both the first client device and the second client device belong to a protected group. Next, in response to determining that both the first client device and the second client device belong to the protected group, the data may be blocked from being forwarding to the second client device on a network interface of the switching device. |
| US11502871B2 |
Dynamic discovery of peer network devices across a Wide Area Network
A network controller can register WAN edge routers and WAN optimizers distributed across a WAN. The controller can receive a request to establish a WAN optimized connection between first and second hosts. The controller can identify a first WAN optimizer to perform first services (e.g., de-duplication, compression, application acceleration, caching, etc.) for first traffic from the first host to the second host and first complementary services for second traffic from the second host to the first host, and a second WAN optimizer for the second traffic and second complementary services for the first traffic. The controller can establish the optimized connection comprising a first path including the first host, WAN optimizer, and router; a second path including the first router and a second router, and a third path including the second router, WAN optimizer, and host. The controller can route the first and second traffic through the optimized connection. |
| US11502864B2 |
Onboarding devices for use in conference room
A method performed at a server configured to onboard devices in a conference room includes: receiving a log-in request from a user device; receiving a request from the user device for a first activation code for activating devices for use in the conference room; transmitting the first activation code to the user device; receiving a first request from a first device in the conference room for authorization to be used in the conference room, the first request including a second activation code; determining whether the second activation code matches the first activation code; if the second activation code matches the first activation code, authorizing the first device for use in the conference room; and if the second activation code does not match the first activation code, denying the first device for use in the conference room. |
| US11502863B2 |
Automatic correction of erroneous audio setting
Electronic conferences can often be the source of frustration and wasted resources as participants may be forced to contend with extraneous sounds, such as conversations not intended for the conference, provided by an endpoint that should be muted. Similarly, participants may speak with the intention of providing their speech to the conference but speak while their associated endpoint is muted. As a result, the conference may be awkward and lack a productive flow while erroneously muted or non-muted endpoints are addressed. By detecting erroneous audio settings, endpoints can be prompted or automatically corrected to have the appropriate audio state. |
| US11502862B2 |
Custom communication actions based on environment analysis
According to one embodiment, facilitating communications through a communication device can comprise monitoring, by the communication device, one or more environmental sensors of the communication device including at least one sensor collecting biometric information. A presence of one or more people can be detected by the communication device based on the monitoring or the one or more environmental sensors and the detected one or more people can be identified by the communication device based at least in part on input from the one or more environmental sensors. One or more possible actions related to communications through the communication device can be determined by the communication device based on the identified one or more people. A user interface including a prompt for at least one of the determined one or more possible actions related to communications through the communication device can then be provided. |
| US11502851B2 |
Software release verification
The present disclosure provides a method, system, and device for verifying a software release. To illustrate, as software (e.g., one or more files or artifacts) completes one or more stages of a development process, one or more digital signatures are generated. The one or more digital signatures are generated using private keys that correspond to the stage of the development process that is completed. The one or more digital signatures, and one or more public keys corresponding to the private keys, are sent to a node device. Upon receipt of the one or more digital signatures and the public keys (e.g., as part of a software release), the node device verifies the digital signatures before processing the software. |
| US11502850B2 |
Server apparatus, client terminal, information processing system and information processing method
A server apparatus is capable of communicating with a client terminal. The client terminal transmits first information to a second server, receives a digital signature from the second server, and transmits the digital signature together with the first information to the server apparatus. The second server generates the digital signature based on the first information. The server apparatus includes a controller configured to receive the first information and the digital signature from the client terminal, determine whether or not the first information is valid based on the first information and the digital signature received; and, transmit second information to the client terminal when the first information is valid. |
| US11502847B2 |
Techniques for managing analytical information using distributed ledger technology
Techniques and apparatus for ion source devices with minimized post-column volumes are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may include at least one memory, and logic coupled to the at least one memory. The logic may be configured to receive analytical information from at least one analytical instrument, and generate at least one record in a distributed ledger having a transaction associated with at least a portion of the analytical information. Other embodiments are described. |
| US11502846B2 |
Whitebox computation of keyed message authentication codes
Some embodiments are directed to a keyed message authentication code (MAC) device (100) for computing a keyed MAC for an input message using encoded representations. The keyed MAC device may be configured to apply a sequence of compressions functions, at least one of which takes a state as input in an encoded representation. |
| US11502836B2 |
Method for performing cryptographic operations on data in a processing device, corresponding processing device and computer program product
A scalar multiplication operation includes an iterative procedure performing a set of operations at each iteration on a bit or on a group of consecutive bits of a secret key. The multiplication operation includes multiplying values of projective format coordinates by a random value. The random value is a product of a random number generated over a range having as end value a first value, with a second value, which is larger than said first value. The first value is a power of two of a word size multiplied by a multiplier value, minus one. The second value is equal to a power of two of a number of bits of the coordinates divided by the first value. The multiplier value is an integer greater than or equal to one and smaller than a ratio of said number of bits to the word size. |
| US11502834B2 |
Refreshing keys in a computing environment that provides secure data transfer
Aspects of the invention include detecting that a rekey timer has expired. The rekey timer is one of a shared key rekey timer for a current shared key between the first node and a second node, and a session key rekey timer for a session key used in a secure communication between a channel on the first node and a channel on the second node. The session key was created based on the current shared key and is used for encrypting data in the secure communication. Based on the rekey timer being the shared key rekey timer, a new shared key is obtained and stored as the current shared key. Based on the rekey timer being the session key rekey timer, a new session key that is based at least in part on the current shared key is obtained and used in the secure communication. |
| US11502833B2 |
Secure data handling and storage
Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for secure data handling and storage. An apparatus includes a lock module that receives a request to decrypt encrypted data that is stored in a data repository, the encrypted data encrypted using a first encryption key, and unlocks an encryption engine in response to the request. An encryption engine may be unlocked using a master key that is generated based on combination of a plurality of keys held by a plurality of key holders. An apparatus includes a decryption module that decrypts encrypted data using an encryption engine. Encrypted data may be decrypted using a first encryption key. An apparatus includes an encryption module that re-encrypts decrypted data using an encryption engine. Decrypted data may be re-encrypted with a second encryption key that is different than a first encryption key and stored in a data repository. |
| US11502830B2 |
Ultrasound split key transmission for enhanced security
The exemplary embodiments disclose a system and method, a computer program product, and a computer system for encryption. The exemplary embodiments may include receiving an encryption request from a first smart device, preparing a response to the encryption request and generating a key, encrypting the prepared response with the generated key, sending the encrypted response to the first smart device, splitting the key into two or more pieces, sending the two or more key pieces to a second smart device, sending the two or more key pieces from the second smart device to the first smart device, assembling the two or more key pieces into the key on the first smart device, and decrypting the encrypted response on the first smart device using the assembled key. |
| US11502829B2 |
Robust input verification for secure multi-party computation (MPC) with clients
In one set of embodiments, each server executing a secure multi-party computation (MPC) protocol can receive shares of inputs to the MPC protocol from a plurality of clients, where each input is private to each client and where each share is generated from its corresponding input using a threshold secret sharing scheme. Each server can then verify whether the shares of the plurality of inputs are valid/invalid and, for each invalid share, determine whether a client that submitted the invalid share or a server that holds the invalid share is corrupted. If the client that submitted the invalid share is corrupted, each server can ignore the input of that corrupted client during a computation phase of the MPC protocol. Alternatively, if the server that holds the invalid share is corrupted, each server can prevent that corrupted server from participating in the computation phase. |
| US11502827B1 |
Exporting remote cryptographic keys
Techniques for exporting remote cryptographic keys are provided. In one technique, a proxy server receives, from a secure enclave of a client device, a request for a cryptographic key. The request includes a key name for the cryptographic key. In response to receiving the request, the proxy server sends the request to a cryptographic device that stores the cryptographic key. The cryptographic device encrypts the cryptographic key based on an encryption key to generate a wrapped key. The proxy server receives the wrapped key from the cryptographic device and sends the wrapped key to the secure enclave of the client device. |
| US11502826B1 |
Stateless system to encrypt and decrypt data
A method including determining, by a user device, an assigned key pair including an assigned public key and an associated assigned private key; determining, for content to be encrypted, an access key pair including an access public key and an associated access private key; encrypting the access private key by utilizing the assigned public key; encrypting a randomly generated key by utilizing the access public key; and encrypting content utilizing the randomly generated key. Various other aspects are contemplated. |
| US11502822B2 |
Static analysis of smart contract determinism
Smart contract code is verified by storing smart contract code, identifying a type system for verifying a determinism of the smart contract code based on a first set of security-level values and a second set of security level values, and verifying the determinism of the smart contract code by taking the first set of security-level values as deterministic values and the second set of security level values as non-deterministic values. |
| US11502821B2 |
Compressible (F)HE with applications to PIR
A request is received for specific information that can be determined using data in a database on a first computer system. Either at least some of the data is encrypted or the request is encrypted. The first computer system does not have a decryption key to decrypt the encrypted data or request. The first computer system performs compressible HE operations on the data to determine compressed ciphertext(s) that correspond to the specific information. The operations include using a first uncompressed HE scheme and a second compressed HE scheme. The first HE scheme is used on the data to create other multiple ciphertexts and the second HE scheme is used on the other multiple ciphertexts to pack the other multiple ciphertexts into fewer ciphertexts that are compressed. Both the HE schemes use a same secret key. The first computer system sends a response including compressed ciphertext(s) corresponding to the specific information. |
| US11502818B2 |
System to secure encoding and mapping on elliptic curve cryptography (ECC)
A system in Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) that offers secure encoding and mapping of a message to the curve E against encryption attacks, such as Chosen Plaintext Attack (CPA) and Ciphertext Only Attack (COA). The system includes, a method to convert the text message to numerical values with manipulation using Initial Vector IV. In addition, the system provides, a method to revert the manipulated values to their original value. |
| US11502816B2 |
Generating new encryption keys during a secure communication session
The present application describes a method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for generating new keys during a secure communication session. A key derivation function is operatively connected to both a counter and a memory. The key derivation function generates new key material from a first input and a second input in response to a signal provided by the counter. The key derivation function generates the new key material and outputs it to the memory. |
| US11502815B2 |
Impairment detector for digital signals
A signal processing method includes receiving a digital signal including a sequence of samples. For each sample among at least some of the samples, a neighbor-based estimate is calculated over (i) one or more samples that precede the sample in the sequence and (ii) one or more samples that succeed the sample in the sequence, and an error value, indicative of a deviation of the neighbor-based estimate from an actual value of the sample, is calculating. An impairment in the digital signal is estimated based on a plurality of error values calculated for a plurality of the samples. |
| US11502811B2 |
Automatic adaptation of data subcarrier spacing numerology based on synchronization signal block transmission
Subcarrier spacing (SCS) for data may be adapted or dynamically configured based on the occurrence or presence of a synchronization signal block (SSB) transmission. For example, during a SSB transmission, the SCS of data may be automatically switched from some default data SCS to a second SCS (e.g., the SCS of the SSB) to allow for frequency division multiplexing (FDM) of data and SSB where the data and SSB use the same numerology. As such, communicating devices (e.g., a base station and a user equipment (UE)) may identify some location or configuration for a SSB, and may determine a second subcarrier spacing (e.g., a subcarrier spacing associated with the SSB) such that the SCS of data may be adapted to the second subcarrier spacing during the FDM of the SSB and the data. The SSB and data may thus be contemporaneously transmitted or received using the second SCS. |
| US11502810B2 |
Methods and devices for PDCCH monitoring
The present disclosure provides a method in a network device for configuration of Physical Downlink Control Channel, PDCCH, monitoring by a terminal device. The method includes: determining a PDCCH monitoring configuration indicating a PDCCH resource pool to be monitored by the terminal device at an aggregation level; and transmitting the PDCCH monitoring configuration to the terminal device. |
| US11502806B2 |
Method and apparatus for sending and receiving uplink control information
A method and an apparatus is provided for sending and receiving uplink control information, including: receiving, by a terminal, a first PDCCH and a second PDCCH that are sent by a network device, where the first PDCCH and the second PDCCH are transmitted in a same time unit, the first PDCCH indicates a first PUCCH resource and is used to schedule a first downlink TB, and the second PDCCH indicates a second PUCCH resource and is used to schedule a second downlink TB; and sending, by the terminal on the first PUCCH resource, response information of the first downlink TB and response information of the second downlink TB to the network device. When one PUCCH fails to be received, the network device may obtain the response information of the two downlink TBs from the other PUCCH, thereby ensuring that HARQ feedback information of the downlink TBs is correctly received. |
| US11502802B2 |
Transmission method and device and reception method and device for downlink data, and storage medium
Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting downlink data, a method and apparatus for receiving downlink data, and a storage medium. The method for transmitting downlink data includes transmitting the downlink data by using at least one of a cell-level common channel in a downlink channel or a downlink user-level channel in the downlink channel. The cell-level common channel and the downlink user-level channel occupy different time-domain positions. |
| US11502801B2 |
Adaptation of ON/OFF mask for NR with different numerologies
The present disclosure relates to methods for transmitting or receiving one on more signals in a system where multiple numerologies are used, and for adapting, selecting, or determining the ON/OFF mask for said signals depending on the numerology used for the respective signals, and based on the location of critical signals close to the transient periods. The disclosure also relates to corresponding devices and to a computer program for executing the proposed methods, and to a carrier containing said computer program. Further, embodiments relating to a host computer and activities therein, is also comprised in the current disclosure. |
| US11502799B2 |
Terminal, radio communication method, and base station
A terminal is disclosed including a processor that identifies a resource for a Channel State Information-Reference Signal (CSI-RS); and a transmitter that transmits a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) by using a precoder based on the resource that was last transmitted. In other aspects, a radio communication method and a base station are also disclosed. |
| US11502797B2 |
Efficient update and activation of channel state information (CSI)-reference signal (RS) trigger state
Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a method for wireless communication. The method generally includes receiving a configuration of trigger states for channel state information (CSI)-reference signal (RS) reporting, receiving a first downlink control information (DCI) activating one of the trigger states, receiving CSI-RS in accordance with the activated one of the trigger states, and processing the CSI-RS. |
| US11502796B2 |
CSI reference signaling in LTE/NR coexistence
A method of operating a network node in a NR radio access network includes transmitting channel state information reference signaling, CSI-RS, the CSI-RS having a CSI-RS pattern in frequency domain over a range of subcarriers including a reference subcarrier, wherein in a first frequency range below the reference subcarrier, the CSI-RS pattern includes a first sub-pattern represented by a repeated flush arrangement of a pattern element covering a number NP of subcarriers, and in a second frequency range above the reference subcarrier, the CSI-RS pattern includes a second sub-pattern represented by a repeated flush arrangement of the pattern element, wherein the first sub-pattern and the second sub-pattern are separated in frequency domain by an interrupting pattern having a number NI of subcarriers, wherein NI> 0 and NI is different from NP. The disclosure also pertains to related methods and devices. |
| US11502794B2 |
Communication system, communication terminal device, and communication node
Provided is a communication system, etc. with low latency and high reliability, under New Radio (NR). A communication system includes a communication terminal device, and a plurality of nodes configured to be connected to the communication terminal device for radio communication and to provide a split bearer for the communication terminal device. The communication terminal device is configured to perform uplink transmission to an uplink transmission node among the plurality of nodes. The uplink transmission node is determined by an uplink transmission node determination process in which a node that provides the uplink transmission from the communication terminal device with lower latency among the plurality of nodes is determined as the uplink transmission node. |
| US11502791B2 |
Terminal, radio communication method, base station, and system
A terminal is disclosed including a transmitter that transmits a demodulation reference signal for an uplink control channel; a receiver that receives: frequency hopping information indicating that frequency hopping of the uplink control channel is enabled, and information regarding a resource block index corresponding to a first frequency hop and a resource block index corresponding to a second frequency hop; and a processor that determines a sequence of the demodulation reference signal based on the frequency hopping information regardless of whether a distance between the first frequency hop and the second frequency hop is zero. In other aspects, a radio communication method, a base station, and a system are also disclosed. |
| US11502783B2 |
Error recovery and power management between nodes of an interconnection network
Improved techniques for recovering from an error condition without requiring a re-transmittal of data across a high-speed data link and for improved power usage are disclosed herein. A data stream is initiated. This stream includes different types of packets. Error correcting code (ECC) is selectively imposed on a control data type packet. A transmitter node and a receiver node are connected via a hard link that has multiple virtual channels. Each virtual channel is associated with a corresponding power-consuming node. When the receiver node receives the control data type packet, error correction is performed if needed without re-transmittal. When a final data type packet is transmitted for each virtual channel, the transmitter node transmits an end condition type packet. A corresponding power-consuming node that corresponds to the respective virtual channel transitions from an active state to a low power state. |
| US11502773B2 |
System and method for triggering an alarm during a sensor jamming attack
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for triggering an alarm during a sensor jamming attack. In one aspect, a monitoring system sensor unit is disclosed that includes a sensor, a communication unit configured to communicate with a monitoring system using a range of frequencies, and a jamming detection unit. The jamming detection unit may include a processor and a computer storage media storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations. The operations include detecting a sensor jamming event, selecting a different form of communication other than the range of radio frequencies for the communication unit to communicate with the monitoring system, and providing, to the communication unit, an instruction to communicate with the monitoring system using the form of communication, wherein the communication unit may communicate, to the monitoring system using the form of communication, the sensor data. |
| US11502772B2 |
Signal generator
Disclosed is a method of producing an output signal from a signal generator, comprising: determining a driving input to the signal generator, the driving input for driving the signal generator to provide a predetermined output signal, wherein the output signal includes at least one frame, the at least one frame comprising an active period and a dummy period and wherein the active period and dummy period are determined by the driving input. Also disclosed is a method of producing an output signal from a signal generator, comprising: receiving a synchronisation signal; obtaining an input signal for controlling the signal generator to generate an output signal comprising at least one frame wherein the at least one frame comprises at least one active period and at least one dummy period; producing the output signal comprising a series of frames; and, synchronising the output signal with the synchronisation signal by varying a duration of the at least one of the dummy period or active period. |
| US11502768B2 |
Method and device for configuring and receiving common control channel
The present disclosure provides a method for configuring and receiving a common control channel, and a device for configuring and receiving a common control channel. The method for configuring a common control channel includes: configuring a common control channel and a primary synchronization signal and/or a secondary synchronization signal in a subband where a user equipment resides in a frequency division multiplexing manner; and transmitting the common control channel by using configured resources. Embodiments of the present disclosure may improve resource utilization by configuring the common control channel. |
| US11502759B2 |
Circuitry distortion corrector, measurement device, correction data generator, and correction method
The present disclosure provides a circuitry distortion corrector for correcting distortions of electrical signals. The circuitry distortion corrector comprises a first correction filter that filters the received signals, and a second correction filter that is coupled to the first correction filter and filters the signals that are filtered by the first correction filter. The first correction filter operates based on first filter coefficients that are based on first value tuples, each first value tuple comprising a first frequency and a respective first circuitry characterizing value, and wherein the first frequencies are equally spaced apart, and the second correction filter operates with second filter coefficients that are based on second value tuples, each second value tuple comprising a second frequency and a respective second circuitry characterizing value, wherein the second frequencies are logarithmically spaced apart. |
| US11502755B2 |
System for creating an adjustable delay
A system for creating an adjustable delay in an optical signal. The system has an input interface for receiving an optical input signal. The system has a first optical modulator configured to shift the frequency of the optical input signal depending on a setting of the first optical modulator, thereby generating a modulated optical signal. The system includes at least two frequency selective reflectors configured to reflect the modulated optical signal, thereby providing a reflected signal. The system has a control circuit that adapts the setting of the first optical modulator such that a frequency shift of the optical input signal introduced by the first optical modulator is set by the control circuit. The frequency shift introduced by the first optical modulator corresponds to an operational frequency of one of the at least two frequency selective reflectors associated with the setting of the first optical modulator. The system has an output fiber that receives the reflected signal from the corresponding frequency selective reflector. |
| US11502752B2 |
Visible light communication apparatus and fabricating method thereof, visible light communication system
The present disclosure related to a visible light communication apparatus, comprising a substrate; a TFT structure layer on the substrate; a photoelectric conversion component on a source or a drain of the TFT structure layer; and a light-emitting component on the substrate. The photoelectric conversion component may be configured to receive an optical signal and convert the optical signal into an electrical signal; and the light-emitting component may be configured to emit an optical signal. |
| US11502750B2 |
Test device for verifying operation of an optical fiber monitoring system protecting multiple fiber runs
In an optical fiber monitoring system which detects physical disturbance or other parameters such as temperature or strain of a fiber where a monitor signal is transmitted along the optical fiber and analyzed to detect changes which are indicative of an event, a method is provided for periodically checking proper operation of the optical fiber monitoring system. A fiber disturbance actuator periodically causes a pattern of disturbances of a portion of the fiber at a predetermined location thereon where the disturbance is characteristic of the event to be monitored. The monitor signal is analyzed to detect the pattern of changes and in the event that expected changes are not detected, a warning is issued that the intrusion detection system is not properly operating. |
| US11502749B2 |
Test device for verifying operation of an optical fiber monitoring system utilizing outgoing communication
In an optical fiber monitoring system which detects physical disturbance or other parameters such as temperature or strain of a fiber where a monitor signal is transmitted along the optical fiber and analyzed to detect changes which are indicative of an event, a method is provided for periodically checking proper operation of the optical fiber monitoring system. A fiber disturbance actuator periodically causes a pattern of disturbances of a portion of the fiber at a predetermined location thereon where the disturbance is characteristic of the event to be monitored. The monitor signal is analyzed to detect the pattern of changes and in the event that expected changes are not detected, a warning is issued that the intrusion detection system is not properly operating. |
| US11502746B2 |
Power optimization of point-to-point optical systems without visibility of intermediate system parameters
Systems and methods include responsive to transmission of a power spectral density input into an optical system with one or more probe signals, obtaining first measurements of a performance metric of each of the one or more probe signals at an output of the optical system while the one or more probe signals are moved across a band of optical spectrum; responsive to causing power perturbations across the band, obtaining second measurements of the performance metric of each of the one or more probe signals at the output of the optical system while the one or more probe signals are moved across the band; analyzing the performance metric as a function of power utilizing the first measurements and the second measurements; and utilizing results from the analyzing to optimize the performance metric in the optical system. |
| US11502745B2 |
Flexible capacity satellite constellation
Embodiments provide in-flight configuration of satellite pathways to flexibly service terra-link and cross-link traffic in a constellation of non-processed satellites, for example, to facilitate flexible forward-channel and return-channel capacity in a satellite communications system. For example, each satellite in the constellation can include one or more dynamically configurable pathway, and switching and/or beamforming can be used to configure each pathway to be a forward-channel pathway or a return-channel pathway in each of a number of timeslots according to a pathway configuration schedule. At least some of the pathways can be further selectively configured, in each timeslot, to carry “terra-link” traffic to and/or from terrestrial terminals and “cross-link” traffic to and/or from one or more other satellites of the constellation. |
| US11502743B2 |
Relay device, information processing system, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing relay processing program
A relay device includes a first communication unit that communicates with an information management apparatus connected to the Internet via a firewall, a second communication unit that performs near field communication with a terminal apparatus, a storage unit that acquires from the information management apparatus, using the first communication unit, information for identifying the terminal apparatus and mode instruction information that is instruction information indicating that an operation is to be performed in a second mode for acquiring data having a larger data amount than in a first mode, and stores the acquired information, and a control unit that in a case where the terminal apparatus connected using the second communication unit is a terminal apparatus that needs to operate in the second mode, performs control so as to transmit mode instruction information for instructing the operation in the second mode, to the terminal apparatus, and transmit data acquired from the terminal apparatus by using the second communication unit, to the information management apparatus by using the first communication unit. |
| US11502741B2 |
Method for deploying electromagnetic wave guiding structure
A method for deploying an electromagnetic wave guiding structure includes a communication dead zone analysis step and an improvement measure determination step. In the former step, a frequency band in use and an electromagnetic wave signal strength threshold value are preset, and a processing module creates an electromagnetic map for the electromagnetic wave intensity over an area in the frequency band in use based on an electronic map of the area, wherein the electromagnetic map shows a communication dead zone. In the latter step, the processing module obtains an existing electromagnetic wave path according to the electromagnetic map and infers from the existing electromagnetic wave path the installation position and type of at least one electromagnetic wave guiding structure assembly suitable for use to guide the electromagnetic wave to the communication dead zone and ensure that the coverage ratio of the electromagnetic wave in the area reaches a threshold value. |
| US11502739B2 |
Method for selecting beam and electronic device thereof
An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present disclosure includes: a first communication circuit; a second communication circuit; a processor operatively coupled with the first communication circuit and the second communication circuit; and a memory operatively coupled with the processor. The memory may store instructions, when executed, causing the processor to receive from a base station (BS) a synchronization signal including identification information of the BS via the first communication circuit, identify a direction from the electronic device to the BS by transmitting and receiving at least one signal with respect to the BS via the second communication circuit based on the identification information of the BS, and perform beam training by using some beams corresponding to the identified direction among a plurality of beams supported by the electronic device. Other embodiments are also possible. |
| US11502737B2 |
Beam failure recovery method in multi-carrier system and apparatus
Embodiments of this disclosure provide a beam failure recovery method in a multi-carrier system and an apparatus, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method is applied to UE and includes: when determining that a beam failure event occurs on a carrier corresponding to a first cell and a condition for triggering sending of a beam failure recovery request is met, sending a first beam failure recovery request message to a network-side device by using a first resource, where the first beam failure recovery request message includes first indication information, and the first indication information is used to indicate the first cell; and receiving a beam failure recovery request response message from the network-side device. |
| US11502734B2 |
Method for reporting channel state information in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor
Provided are a method and an apparatus for reporting channel state information (CSI) by a user equipment in a wireless communication system. According to the present invention, the user equipment may receive configuration information related with the CSI from a base station and measure the CSI based on the configuration information. Thereafter, the user equipment includes reporting the CSI to the base station and the CSI includes a rank indicator (RI), a channel quality indicator (CQI), and an indicator indicating the number of amplitude coefficients other than 0 and the second part includes a precoding matrix indicator (PMI). |
| US11502732B2 |
Operating communication devices
A method includes receiving (402) a plurality of reference signals (301-303) at an antenna port of a communication device (101). Each reference signal (301-303) is sent using a corresponding precoder. The precoder is selected from a first set of precoders. The method further includes determining (403) a channel estimate based on the received plurality of reference signals (301-303), and selecting (404) a precoder from a second set of precoders based on the determined channel estimate. The second set of precoders comprises at least one precoder in addition to the precoders of the first set of precoders. The method includes sending (405) an indication (304) relating to the selected precoder. |
| US11502731B2 |
Apparatus, system and method of communicating a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU)
For example, an EDMG STA may generate an LDPC coded bit stream for a user based on data bits for the user in an EDMG PPDU, the LDPC coded bit stream for the user including a concatenation of a plurality of LDPC codewords, a count of the plurality of LDPC codewords is based at least on a codeword length for the user and on a code rate for the user; generate encoded and padded bits for the user by concatenating the LDPC coded bit stream with a plurality of coded pad zero bits, a count of the coded pad zero bits is based at least on a count of one or more spatial streams for the user and on the count of the plurality of LDPC codewords for the user; and distribute the encoded and padded bits for the user to the one or more spatial streams for the user. |
| US11502725B2 |
Network inspection system and computer readable medium
An inspection control unit (210) checks a communication status of a communication network (101, 102) to which one or more nodes are connected and determines, based on the communication status, whether inspection of the communication network is possible. When it is determined that inspection of the communication network is possible, the inspection control unit outputs a basic signal, which is a pulse signal for inspecting the communication network, to the communication network. An inspecting unit (220) accepts an inspection signal, which is a basic signal with a waveform changed by flowing through the communication network, and determines, based on the waveform of the inspection signal, whether a new node connected to the communication network is present. |
| US11502724B2 |
Method and apparatus for transitioning between electromagnetic wave modes
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, a system that facilitates detecting first electromagnetic waves propagating along a transmission medium are experiencing a first propagation loss, inducing second electromagnetic waves along the transmission medium to mitigate the first propagation loss, detecting that the second electromagnetic waves are experiencing a second propagation loss and inducing third electromagnetic waves along the transmission medium to mitigate the second propagation loss. To reduce radiation losses when transitioning from the first electromagnetic waves to second electromagnetic waves and transitioning from the second electromagnetic waves to the third electromagnetic waves, the system can be further adapted to use differing criteria for each transition. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US11502722B1 |
Systems and methods for wireless coexistence in an unlicensed spectrum
A base station for a wireless communications system operating in an unlicensed target band of a wireless medium includes a receiver configured to wirelessly (i) receive non-cooperative carrier data within the target band from a user equipment, and (ii) detect an operation of at least one spread spectrum channel within the target band. The station further includes a transmitter configured to wirelessly send non-cooperative carrier data within the target band to the user equipment, a memory configured to store computer-executable instructions, and a processor configured to (i) execute the computer-executable instructions, (ii) determine, based on the detection operation of the receiver, at least one sequence of the at least one spread spectrum channel, and (iii) perform at least one corrective action to mitigate interference between the transmitter and an operation of the at least one spread spectrum channel based on the determination of the at least one sequence. |
| US11502721B2 |
Frequency hopping techniques for uplink control channel repetitions
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a control message identifying a frequency hop configuration that configures the UE to use frequency hopping when transmitting repetitions of an uplink control channel transmission. The UE, the base station, or both may determine, based on the UE being configured with the frequency hop configuration, a frequency hop for each repetition of the uplink control channel transmission. Each frequency hop may be determined based on a corresponding uplink control channel index for a respective repetition a frequency hop for each repetition of the uplink control channel transmission. The uplink control channel index may be an uplink transmission occasion index, or a repetition index. The UE may transmit the repetitions of the uplink control channel transmission using respective frequency hops in accordance with the determination and the frequency hop configuration. |
| US11502720B2 |
User terminal and radio communication method
A terminal is disclosed including a processor that, if group hopping of a sequence used in an uplink control channel is enabled, determines a group number based on a slot number and a frequency hopping index; and a transmitter that transmits the uplink control channel, to which the sequence corresponding to the group number is applied. In other aspects, a radio communication method and a base station are also disclosed. |
| US11502715B2 |
Radio frequency (RF) system including programmable processing circuit performing block coding computations and related methods
A radio frequency (RF) system may include an RF transceiver and a baseband engine, application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) coupled to the RF transceiver and configured to perform a given baseband engine operation from among different baseband engine operations. The baseband engine ASIC may include a memory and a state machine coupled thereto and configured to store a respective set of programming instructions for each of different baseband engine operations and to permit selection of the given set of programming instructions. The baseband engine may also include a programmable processing circuit coupled to the memory and the state machine and configured to perform block coding computations responsive to the given set of programming instructions. |
| US11502713B2 |
Smart ring
A wearable device is described. The wearable device includes a body portion and an adjustable strap affixed to a body portion to form an opening. The opening receives a body part of a user therein. The wearable device includes a control component, a gesture component, and/or a sensing component configured to detect input, gestures, and/or biometric parameters of the user and transmit the input, the gestures, and/or the biometric parameters to a smart device connected to the wearable device via a wireless personal area network technology to modify parameters of the smart device. The wearable device may include one or more sensors that assist the control component, the gesture component, and/or the sensing component. |
| US11502712B2 |
Signal transceiving system and signal receiver thereof
A signal transceiving system and a signal receiver thereof are provided. The signal transceiving system includes a signal transmitter. The signal transmitter includes a first data buffer, a comparator, and an encoder. The first data buffer receives transmitted data and provides previously transmitted data. The comparator receives currently transmitted data and receives the previously transmitted data. The comparator compares, in a first mode, the previously transmitted data with the currently transmitted data to generate a data variation information. The encoder generates, in the first mode, at least one index value and a corresponding instruction signal according to the data variation information. The signal transmitter sends the at least one index value which is a serial signal and the instruction signal to a signal receiver. |
| US11502710B2 |
Front-end module
A front-end module includes: a substrate including a first connection member in which at least one first insulating layer and at least one first wiring layer are alternately stacked, a second connection member in which at least one second insulating layer and at least one second wiring layer are alternately stacked, and a core member disposed between the first and second connection members; a radio-frequency component mounted on a surface of the substrate and configured to amplify a main band of an input RF signal or filter bands outside the main band; an inductor disposed on a surface of the core member and electrically connected to the radio-frequency component; and a ground plane disposed on another surface of the core member. The core member includes a core insulating layer thicker than an insulating layer among at least one first insulating layer and the at least one second insulating layer. |
| US11502709B2 |
Dual-band signal booster for public safety radio network
This embodiment discloses a dual-band signal booster for a public safety radio network. The signal booster disclosed herein performs a low-noise amplification and a frequency down/up conversion on a radio frequency signal received from a donor antenna, amplifies the amplified and converted signal to a high-power level, and transmits the amplified signal to a service antenna. Further, the signal booster disclosed herein performs the low-noise amplification and the frequency down/up conversion on a radio frequency signal received from the service antenna, amplifies the amplified and converted signal to a high-power level, and transmits the amplified signal to the donor antenna. According to this embodiment, it is possible to simultaneously service a plurality of channels to increase a communication capacity. Further, it is possible to variably set a class, frequency and bandwidth of each channel as needed, which makes it possible to provide communication qualities optimized according to installation field conditions. |
| US11502699B1 |
System and method of calibration of sigma-delta converter using injected signal correlation
A digital conversion system including a sigma-delta converter, a signal generator providing a substantially symmetrical injection signal that is injected into the sigma-delta converter conversion path, bandpass filters for filtering the injection signal and the output of the sigma-delta converter, a correlator that correlates the filtered signals for providing an error signal, and a loop controller that uses the error signal to adjust a resonant frequency of the sigma-delta converter to output a target notch frequency. The loop controller may adjust a resonant frequency of a loop filter of the sigma-delta converter, in which the bandpass filters may each be centered at the target notch frequency at the output of the sigma-delta converter. The correlator may include a complex conjugate block, a multiplier and a mean calculator. The loop controller may include a converter and an amplifier and an integrator or a least-mean square block. |
| US11502698B1 |
Dual loop passive sigma-delta modulator
A passive sigma-delta modulator including first modulator loop, a second modulator loop, and a digital combiner providing an output signal. The first modulator loop includes a first quantizer, a first passive summing junction, a first continuous-time passive analog loop filter, and a first feedback path. The second modulator loop includes a second quantizer, analog transfer circuitry, a second continuous-time passive summing junction, a second passive analog loop filter, a second feedback path, and digital transfer circuitry having a gain that is substantially a reciprocal of the analog transfer circuitry. A digital noise cancelation filter may be located between the first quantizer and the digital combiner, or an analog noise cancelation filter may be provided within the second modulator loop. Single-ended or differential configurations are contemplated. |
| US11502696B2 |
In-memory analog neural cache
Embodiments are directed to systems and methods of implementing an analog neural network using a pipelined SRAM architecture (“PISA”) circuitry disposed in on-chip processor memory circuitry. The on-chip processor memory circuitry may include processor last level cache (LLC) circuitry. One or more physical parameters, such as a stored charge or voltage, may be used to permit the generation of an in-memory analog output using a SRAM array. The generation of an in-memory analog output using only word-line and bit-line capabilities beneficially increases the computational density of the PISA circuit without increasing power requirements. Thus, the systems and methods described herein beneficially leverage the existing capabilities of on-chip SRAM processor memory circuitry to perform a relatively large number of analog vector/tensor calculations associated with execution of a neural network, such as a recurrent neural network, without burdening the processor circuitry and without significant impact to the processor power requirements. |
| US11502694B1 |
Field programmable gate array with external phase-locked loop
The present invention relates to a field programmable gate array system that provides phase control with minimal latency. |
| US11502691B2 |
Method for using and forming low power ferroelectric based majority logic gate adder
An adder uses with first and second majority gates. For a 1-bit adder, output from a 3-input majority gate is inverted and input two times to a 5-input majority gate. Other inputs to the 5-input majority gate are the same as those of the 3-input majority gate. The output of the 5-input majority gate is a sum while the output of the 3-input majority gate is the carry. Multiple 1-bit adders are concatenated to form an N-bit adder. The input signals to the majority gates can be analog, digital, or a combination of them, which are driven to first terminals of non-ferroelectric capacitors. The second terminals of the non-ferroelectric capacitors are coupled to form a majority node. Majority function of the input signals occurs on this node. The majority node is then coupled to a first terminal of a non-linear polar capacitor. The second terminal of the capacitor provides the output of the logic gate. |
| US11502688B2 |
Signal isolation and conversion circuit and control apparatus
The invention relates to a signal isolation and conversion circuit and a control apparatus. The signal isolation and conversion circuit comprises a pulse signal generating circuit and an optical coupling complementary isolation circuit connected with the pulse signal generating circuit; the pulse signal generating circuit is used for receiving an input signal and converting the input signal into a pulse signal; the optical coupling complementary isolation circuit comprises at least two photocouplers, and the at least two photocouplers are switched on or off according to the pulse signal so as to transmit the pulse signal to the output end of the signal isolation and conversion circuit. By arranging the optical coupling complementary isolation circuit, the problems of transmission delay, transmission signal distortion and light attenuation and temperature drift of the light-emitting diode in the optocoupler are effectively solved, the timeliness of isolation signal transmission is improved. |
| US11502683B2 |
Calibration of driver output current
A method for driving an output node includes driving a control node of an output device coupled to the output node according to an input signal and using a fixed regulated voltage and a variable regulated voltage. The method includes generating the fixed regulated voltage based on a first power supply voltage, a second power supply voltage, and a first reference voltage. The method includes generating the variable regulated voltage based on the first power supply voltage, the second power supply voltage, and a second reference voltage. The method includes generating the second reference voltage based on the first power supply voltage, the second power supply voltage, a reference current, and a predetermined target voltage level of the control node of the output device. In an embodiment of the method, generating the second reference voltage includes periodically calibrating the second reference voltage. |
| US11502681B2 |
Method and system for balancing power-supply loading
A transmitter merges even and odd data streams to drive a serialized signal. Identical even and odd drivers take turns driving symbols from respective even and odd streams using respective pull-up transistors and pull-down transistors. Each transistor exhibits a significant source-gate capacitance that is charged when the transistor is turned onto drive the serialized signal. Charging one of these capacitances loads the power supply and thus introduces noise. Each even and odd driver includes a pre-driver that times the charging of a source-gate capacitance in the active driver to the discharge of a source-gate capacitance in the inactive driver. The discharge of the source-gate capacitance in the inactive driver counters the effect of charging the active driver, providing much of the power required by the active driver and thus reducing supply noise. |
| US11502679B2 |
Robust power-on-reset circuit with body effect technique
An integrated circuit with a power-on-reset circuit includes an inverter circuit connected between the first and second supply node, a cascode-connected series of transistors MCn, for n going from 1 to N, connected between the first supply node and the input node of the inverter, and a resistive element connected between the input node of the inverter and the second supply node. The transistors in the cascode-connected series of transistors MCn pull up the input node voltage above a trip point voltage when the voltage between the input node and the first supply node is more than a threshold of the cascode-connected series. A circuit connected between the first and second supply nodes is responsive to a POR pulse output by the inverter. |
| US11502678B2 |
Radio-frequency switch having improved linearity
Radio-frequency switch having improved linearity. In some embodiments, a radio-frequency switch circuit can include first and second switch arms, with each switch arm including a plurality of transistors arranged in series to form a stack between a first node and a second node. The first node of the first switch arm can be coupled to the first node of the second switch arm. The radio-frequency switch circuit can further include an amplitude-phase cancelling block implemented across one or more transistors of each switch arm, and configured such that a third harmonic resulting from an ON state of the first switch arm is substantially canceled by a third harmonic resulting from an OFF state of the second switch arm. |
| US11502676B2 |
Driver circuit and semiconductor device
Provided is a driver circuit that controls an output unit that switches whether or not to supply a current to an output line, in accordance with a potential difference between a first control signal to be input and a voltage of the output line. The driver circuit comprises a control line that transmits the first control signal to the output unit; a low potential line to which a predetermined reference potential is applied; a first connection switching unit that switches whether or not to connect the control line and the low potential line, in accordance with a second control signal; and a cutoff unit that is provided in series with the first connection switching unit between the control line and the low potential line and cuts off the control line and the low potential line based on a potential of the low potential line. |
| US11502672B2 |
High voltage nanosecond pulser with variable pulse width and pulse repetition frequency
A nanosecond pulser is disclosed. In some embodiments, the nanosecond pulser may include one or more switch circuits including one or more solid state switches, a transformer, and an output. In some embodiments, the transformer may include a first transformer core, a first primary winding wound at least partially around a portion of the first transformer core, and a secondary winding wound at least partially around a portion of the first transformer core. In some embodiments, each of the one or more switch circuits are coupled with at least a portion of the first primary winding. In some embodiments, the output may be electrically coupled with the secondary winding and outputs electrical pulses having a peak voltage greater than about 1 kilovolt and a rise time of less than 150 nanoseconds or less than 50 nanoseconds. |
| US11502665B2 |
Method of manufacturing bonded substrate
A method of manufacturing a bonded substrate, which has a quartz substrate and a piezoelectric substrate bonded, includes irradiating a bonding surface of the quartz substrate and a bonding surface of the piezoelectric substrate with ultraviolet light under a pressure lower than atmosphere pressure. After the irradiation, the bonding surface of the quartz substrate and the bonding surface of the piezoelectric substrate are brought into contact. And the quartz substrate and the piezoelectric substrate are pressurized in a thickness direction to bond the bonding surfaces. |
| US11502664B2 |
Electronic component
An electronic component includes a support member, a piezoelectric film, and an interdigital transducer. The support member includes silicon as a primary component. The piezoelectric film is provided directly or indirectly on the support member. The interdigital transducer includes a plurality of electrode fingers. The plurality of electrode fingers are provided side by side separately from each other. The interdigital transducer is provided on the principal surface of the piezoelectric film. The film thickness of the piezoelectric film is about 3.5 λ or less, where λ denotes the wavelength of an acoustic wave determined by the electrode finger pitch of the interdigital transducer. In the support member, the high-impurity-concentration region is further from the piezoelectric film than the low-impurity-concentration region. |
| US11502662B2 |
Hybrid acoustic LC filter cascaded with LC filter
Aspects of this disclosure relate to a hybrid acoustic LC filter cascaded with a non-acoustic LC filter. The hybrid acoustic filter can filter a radio frequency signal. The hybrid acoustic LC filter can include acoustic resonators, an inductor, and a capacitor. The inductor and capacitor can be external to an acoustic resonator die. The non-acoustic LC filter includes an LC circuit. Related multiplexers, wireless communication devices, and methods are disclosed. |
| US11502657B2 |
Clock drive circuit
A clock driver circuit, including: an input stage, a double-ended to single-ended conversion stage and a driver output stage connected in sequence. The input stage includes two mutually loaded differential amplifiers and a common mode negative feedback loop. The differential amplifiers are connected to a differential clock signal for amplification to generate a common mode voltage. The common mode feedback circuit is connected to an output end of the differential amplifiers to stabilize the output amplitude of the common mode voltage. The double-ended to single-ended conversion stage converts a differential sine clock signal output by the double-ended common mode voltage into a single-ended square wave clock signal. The driver output stage includes a multi-stage cascaded push-pull phase inverter to improve the drive capability of the square wave clock signal. |
| US11502656B2 |
Variable gain amplifier
A variable gain amplifier includes a first transistor group which is connected to an input terminal and an output terminal, and which amplifies a signal from the input terminal to output the amplified signal to the output terminal; a second transistor group connected to the input terminal; a third transistor group connected to the output terminal; and a controller configured to control the first transistor group, the second transistor group, and the third transistor group so that a total number of the number of transistors to be turned on in the first transistor group and the second transistor group is kept at a constant value, and total numbers of transistors to be turned on in the first transistor group and in the third transistor group are the same. |
| US11502654B2 |
Single-ended differential transimpedance amplifier
In at least one embodiment, a differential amplifier including first and second current transfer systems, a current difference producing system, and a feedback network circuit is provided. The first current transfer system generates a first differential current signal. The second current transfer system generates a second differential current signal. The current difference producing system receives the first differential current signal and the second differential current signal and generates a voltage difference signal that is indicative of a difference between a first current signal and a second current signal. The feedback network circuit converts the voltage difference signal into at least two converted current signals and provides the at least two converted current signals to one of the first and second current transfer systems or the current difference producing system to minimize the difference between the first current signal and the second current signal. |
| US11502649B2 |
High-linearity differential to single ended buffer amplifier
A differential to single-ended buffer amplifier with a swing suppression resistor in the differential amplification architecture is shown. The differential to single-ended buffer amplifier has a positive input terminal, a negative input terminal, a differential to single-ended operational amplifier (DISO op amp), and a swing suppression resistor. The DISO op amp has a non-inverting input terminal and an inverting input terminal respectively coupled to the positive input terminal and the negative input terminal, and it has a single-ended output terminal that outputs the output signal of the differential to single-ended buffer amplifier. The swing suppression resistor is connected between the negative input terminal of the differential to single-ended buffer amplifier and the non-inverting input terminal of the DISO op amp. |
| US11502647B2 |
Amplifier
Provided is an amplifier that includes a first transistor including a gate terminal to which an applied input signal is input, where a current depending on the applied input signal flows through the first transistor. A gate terminal of a second transistor is connected to a load section, and a current depending on a change in a voltage of the drain terminal of the first transistor flows through the second transistor. A source terminal of the first transistor and a drain terminal of the second transistor are connected in common to a first resistance, and the current from the first transistor and the current from the second transistor flow through the first resistance. A third transistor supplies a current approximately equal to the current of the second transistor. The current supplied by the third transistor is output from an output end. |
| US11502645B1 |
Transformer voltage controlled oscillator
A transformer based voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) is provided with a primary resonant circuit having a first inductor connected in parallel with a variable first capacitance circuit. A secondary resonant circuit is formed from a second inductor connected in parallel with a variable second capacitance circuit, and also includes a mode control circuit. The mode control circuit controls the direction of current flow through the secondary resonant circuit inductor. The first and second inductors are inductively mutually coupled in either an even mode or an odd mode in response to the mode control circuit. The VCO supplies a first resonant frequency in response to even mode operation, or a second resonant frequency, greater than the first resonant frequency, responsive to odd mode operation. The VCO may include a first electrically tunable varactor shunted across the first capacitance circuit and a second electrically tunable varactor shunted across the second capacitance circuit. |
| US11502640B2 |
Photovoltaic panel having an adhered support frame
A photovoltaic panel having a distributed support frame adhered to a photovoltaic module is described. For example, the distributed support frame may include one or more support member or support mounts adhered to the photovoltaic module by an adhesive layer. The photovoltaic module may include layers bound together by an encapsulant. Accordingly, the distributed support frame may be attached to the photovoltaic module during a same lamination process used to laminate the photovoltaic module. |
| US11502639B2 |
Tubular fluidic actuator system and method
An actuator comprising a bottom plate, a top-plate and one or more hub assembly extending between and rotatably coupling the bottom and top plates. The actuator also includes one or more bellows units disposed between the top plate and bottom plate, the one or more bellows units comprising a first and second inflatable bellows coupled by a web extending between the first and second bellows, the first and second bellows defining respective and separate first and second bellows cavities, with the first bellows of the bellows units disposed on a first side of the bottom plate, and the second bellows of the bellows units disposed on a second side of the bottom plate, opposing the first side, and between the top and bottom plates. |
| US11502637B2 |
Determination of the rotor temperature of a permanent magnet synchronous machine
Methods and apparatuses for determining a rotor temperature of a permanent magnet synchronous machine (PSM) of an electrically driven vehicle are described. |
| US11502635B2 |
System for controlling a switch and switching arm
The control system comprises an amplifier (264; 266) designed to receive an input control signal (cmd*; cmd*), in order to amplify the input control signal (cmd*; cmd*) so as to obtain an output control signal (CMD*; CMD*) and to apply the output control signal (CMD*; CMD*) to the switch (222; 224) in order to either open or close the switch (222; 224), the amplifier (264; 266) having two, positive and negative, supply terminals intended to receive a supply voltage.It moreover comprises an inhibiting device (310; 314) for the amplifier (264; 266) designed to lower the supply voltage on receiving what is referred to as a total inhibit control (INHIB_T) so that the output control signal (CMD*; CMD*) keeps the switch (222; 224) open irrespective of the input control signal (cmd*; cmd*). |
| US11502632B2 |
Motor control device and electric vehicle
A motor can be controlled in a user-friendly manner so that a phase current based on an input command torque command value is caused to flow to at least one among U-phase, V-phase, and W-phase windings of the motor, so that a predetermined in-phase current is superimposed on the phase current and caused to flow to at least one among the windings. The motor is controlled such that energization to one winding corresponding to a predetermined energization stop phase is stopped, for example, so that energization to the U-phase winding is stopped, and so that a V-phase current, a W-phase current and an in-phase current are caused to flow to each winding corresponding to a phase other than the energization stop phase, for example, so that the V-phase current, the W-phase current and the in-phase current are caused to flow to the V-phase winding and the W-phase winding. |
| US11502631B2 |
Vector flux weakening control system for permanent magnet synchronous motor of electric drive system
The present disclosure disclose a vector flux weakening control system for a permanent magnet synchronous motor of an electric drive system, which includes a current closed-loop regulation module, a modulation index deviation calculation module, a current characteristic point setting module, a current compensation vector angle calculation module, a current compensation vector amplitude calculation module, a current compensation vector calculation module and a current instruction correction module. In the present disclosure, the three-phase short-circuit current of the motor is taken as the end point of flux weakening regulation, and when voltage saturation occurs, the motor control system can exit saturation; since an inverter supplies power through a power battery bus at the terminal of the motor, the terminal voltage thereof will not be as low as zero, and there is a large margin to deal with abnormal factors; by introducing a dq current and correcting it at the same time, the pressure of resisting voltage saturation can be distributed to the dq current, thus avoiding excessive deviation of an output torque caused by excessive uniaxial current regulation. According to the present disclosure, the influence of the flux weakening control process on the output torque of the drive system is reduced as much as possible while ensuring the safety of the drive system. |
| US11502630B2 |
Fluid apparatus
A fluid apparatus includes a hydraulic machine, a rotary electric machine connected to the hydraulic machine, and a power conversion controller that converts power from the rotary electric machine. A non-normal operation is performed in a warning state that differs from a normal state in which a normal operation is continued and an anomalous state in which operation is stopped to continue a stopped condition. |
| US11502628B2 |
Energy storage system
The invention relates to an energy storage system for storing heat and coldness and for providing electrical energy, characterized by an energy converter, wherein the energy converter is designed to produce electrical energy from heat and coldness and to produce heat and coldness from electrical energy, the energy converter being in heat-transferring contact with a hot heat exchanger and with a cold heat exchanger, the hot heat exchanger being connected to a heat reservoir and the cold heat exchanger being connected to a coldness reservoir, and a control unit being provided, which operates the energy storage system in a first operating mode, in which heat and coldness are formed from electrical energy by means of the energy converter, and in a second operating mode, in which electrical energy is produced from heat and coldness. |
| US11502627B2 |
Piezoelectric drive device, piezoelectric motor, and robot
A piezoelectric drive device includes a vibrator having a vibrating portion including a piezoelectric element, and a convex portion placed in the vibrating portion, an urging member including a base, a holding portion holding the vibrator, and a spring portion coupled to the base at one end and coupled to the holding portion at another end and urging the convex portion toward a driven unit, wherein d1>d2 in a natural state in which the vibrator is not urged by the urging member, where a separation distance between the one end and the convex portion along directions of the longitudinal direction is d1 and a separation distance between the other end and the convex portion is d2, and |d1−d2| in an urging state in which the vibrator is urged toward the driven unit by the urging member is smaller than |d1−d2| in the natural state. |
| US11502626B2 |
Piezoelectric motor and robot
A piezoelectric motor includes a piezoelectric actuator, a holding member that holds the piezoelectric actuator, a housing in which the piezoelectric actuator and the holding member are placed, a first positioning pin that positions the holding member and the housing, and a first fixing part that fixes the first positioning pin. In the piezoelectric motor, the first positioning pin is fixed to one of the holding member and the housing, and a first hole portion in which the first positioning pin is placed is provided in the other of the holding member and the housing. The first fixing part fixes relative positions of the first hole portion and the first positioning pin. |
| US11502621B2 |
Method for operating at least two pulse-width-modulated inverters connected to a direct-current supply network, circuit assembly, and motor vehicle
A method for operating at least two pulse-width-modulated inverters connected to a direct-current supply network. The pulse-width-modulated inverters are each actuated via an actuation signal and operated in an operating point. A phase difference is generated between the actuation signals of the at least two pulse-width-modulated inverters by adapting the actuation signal of at least one of the pulse-width-modulated inverters as a function of operating point information describing the operating points of the pulse-width-modulated inverters. |
| US11502616B2 |
Method of operating a power generation system in an overmodulation range
This invention concerns a method of controlling a line side converter of a power converter system operating in an over-modulation range. The line side converter comprises a controller comprising a feedback control module configured to output a feedback control signal for modifying a drive signal received by a modulator. The method comprises determining a modulation index within the over-modulation range; and, controlling the feedback control module to adjust the feedback control signal based on the modulation index. |
| US11502610B2 |
Apparatus for DC voltage—DC voltage conversion
An apparatus for DC voltage—DC voltage conversion comprises connected in series a high DC voltage source, a transformer, a rectifier, and a control voltage driver. Also connected in series are a primary winding of the transformer, a controllable switch, an electronically controlled resistor (ECR), and a limiting resistor. The ECR is controlled by the control voltage driver. The controllable switch is controlled by a controllable square wave generator. The controllable square wave generator and the controlled voltage driver are fed from a low DC voltage source. The controllable square wave generator is controlled by another control voltage driver fed from the high DC voltage source. The apparatus allows for obtaining variable value of high pulse voltage across the ECR and lowers the level of electromagnetic noise radiated by the apparatus to environment. |
| US11502608B2 |
Light-emitting element driving control device and light-emitting element driving circuit device
This light-emitting element drive control device (100) comprises: a drive logic unit (113) which performs a drive control of a switch output stage (N1, D1, L1) for dropping an input voltage (VIN) to an output voltage (VOUT) and supplying a light-emitting element therewith; a charge-pump power supply unit (a) which generates a step-up voltage (CP) higher than the input voltage (VIN); and a current detecting comparator (114) which receives a supply of the step-up voltage (CP) and the output voltage (VOUT) as power supply voltages, and generates control signals (SET, RST) for the drive logic unit (113) by directly comparing a current detection signal (Vsns) corresponding to an inductor current (IL) of the switch output stage with a peak detection value (Vsns_pk) and a bottom detection value (Vsns_bt). |
| US11502607B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for auxiliary transient control system
Apparatus and associated methods relate to providing an integrated circuit package having (a) a bypass circuit in parallel with an inductor and (b) a logic circuit configured to control the bypass circuit for conductivity modulation. In an illustrative example, in response to a corresponding load transient, the logic circuit may include a state machine configured to generate different control signals for the bypass circuit to control the timing and/or quantity of energy transfer from the inductor to a load. The bypass circuit may include a first semiconductor switch and a second semiconductor switch connected in anti-series. In some implementations, the power stage and the bypass circuit may be operated, for example, in numerous operational modes to dynamically modulate conductivity across the terminals of the inductor in a power supply to advantageously result in a smaller undershoot and overshoot. |
| US11502602B2 |
Multi-dimensional pulse width modulation control
An apparatus includes a controller that monitors an error voltage indicating a difference between an output voltage and a setpoint voltage. Based on the monitored error voltage, the controller generates modulation adjustment signals including a frequency adjustment signal and an ON-time adjustment signal. The controller modulates a pulse width modulation signal of a first power supply phase in accordance with both the frequency modulation adjustment signal and the ON-time adjustment signal. |
| US11502599B2 |
Constant gate-to-source-volt age-driving driver architecture for switched-mode power supplies
Techniques and apparatus for supplying power to gate drivers of a switched-mode power supply (SMPS) circuit. One example power supply circuit generally includes a SMPS circuit having a first input voltage node and a second input voltage node, and a charge pump. The charge pump generally includes a first capacitive element having a first terminal and a second terminal; a first switch coupled between a first input node of the charge pump and the first terminal of the first capacitive element; a second switch coupled between the second terminal of the first capacitive element and a second input node of the charge pump; a third switch coupled between the first terminal of the first capacitive element and the first input voltage node of the SMPS circuit; and a fourth switch coupled between the second terminal of the first capacitive element and the second input voltage node of the SMPS circuit. |
| US11502592B2 |
Isolated converter with constant voltage mode and constant current mode and control method thereof
An isolated converter has a constant voltage mode and a constant current mode. The isolated converter includes a transformer, a main switch, a driver, a controller, and an isolator. The controller includes a constant current control unit, a voltage comparator, and a control logic unit. The constant current control unit generates a voltage adjustment signal to adjust the reference voltage or voltage feedback signal according to a current feedback signal for sensing the output current. The control logic unit generates a trigger signal according to the comparison signal of the voltage comparator. The isolator connects the output terminal of the controller and the driver. The input terminal is used to transmit the trigger signal to the input terminal of the driver. The isolated converter can provide excellent constant voltage transient response and stable constant current regulation according to load conditions by improving the controller. |
| US11502586B2 |
Stator of a motor
An arm of a coil segment having an approximate U shape is placed in a slot of a stator core, and a portion protruding from the slot is bent in a circumferential direction. An arm is bent in a direction of an arrow A, and another arm positioned at an inner side in the radial direction in relation to this arm is bent in a direction of an arrow B. The arm positioned at the outer side has at least a part of a bending inner side surface of a bent portion hardened by pressurization. |
| US11502581B2 |
Motor unit
Disclosed is a motor unit that includes: a rotary electrical machine that has a cylindrical stator, a rotor disposed coaxially with the stator, a shaft disposed coaxially with the rotor, and a cylindrical case that houses the stator and the rotor; and a drive unit that has a swell swelling toward the case and is fixed to a circumferential surface that is located in a radial direction of the rotor and is the case. The case has a recess that corresponds to the swell. |
| US11502580B2 |
Linear actuator with improved heat transfer path
A linear actuator includes a guide rail, a wall portion, a coil, a heat transfer member, a heat radiation member, and a heat insulation member. A mover having a permanent magnet is movable along the guide rail. The wall portion is installed on a pedestal and supports the guide rail. The heat transfer member is coupled to the coil and the heat radiation member is coupled to an end of the heat transfer member. The heat insulation member is installed on the pedestal and coupled to the heat radiation member. The heat transfer member is arranged apart from the wall portion. |
| US11502578B2 |
Electric working machine
An electric working machine capable of efficiently cooling components disposed inside, as well as simplifying assembling work and reducing man-hours and production cost. A motor, control board for controlling the motor, rod fixture secured to the front side of the motor, and air guiding partitioning member secured to the rear side of the motor form a motor assembly. The air guiding partitioning member includes a partitioning plate hermetically partitioning between air exhaust and intake ports provided with a predetermined interval longitudinally in the body casing. The partitioning plate has an air guiding window for delivering cooling air taken in from the air intake port to an opening for sucking air on the front side of the motor through a space between the motor and body casing. The control board is disposed on the rear side of the partitioning plate. |
| US11502577B2 |
Rotary wing driving apparatus
A rotary wing driving apparatus includes a motor, a rotary wing, and an electromagnetic brake. The rotary wing is attached to a shaft of the motor. The electromagnetic brake is attached to the shaft of the motor. |
| US11502575B2 |
Motor and air-conditioning apparatus
A motor includes a stator to which a substrate can be stably secured without increasing the size of the substrate. An air-conditioning apparatus includes the motor. At an end portion of the stator in the axial direction thereof, a substrate on which electronic components are mounted is provided. The stator includes: a stator core formed by stacking electromagnetic steel sheets, and including a plurality of teeth; insulators provided on the stator core; and a wire wound around the teeth, the teeth being coated with the insulators. The insulators have outer walls provided on respective core backs of the stator core. In a linearly developed state of the stator, where of the teeth, an outermost tooth is a first tooth, a tooth adjacent to the first tooth is a second tooth, another tooth adjacent to the second tooth is a third tooth, another tooth adjacent to the third tooth is a fourth tooth, and another tooth adjacent to the fourth tooth is a fifth tooth, the outer walls of the first, third and fifth teeth include respective substrate attachment pins for use in attachment of the substrate, and the outer walls of the first tooth include respective power terminals for use in supplying power to the wire. |
| US11502574B2 |
Phase to phase terminal lead protection
A system includes a pair of terminal leads joined together. An insulative sleeve is wrapped around the pair of terminal leads. Lacing binds around the insulative sleeve. Cured epoxy can encase the insulative sleeve and lacing. The insulative sleeve can include fiberglass. The insulative sleeve can be wrapped more than 360° around the pair of terminal leads so that a first edge of the insulative sleeve is tucked under a second edge of the insulative sleeve. |
| US11502568B2 |
Stator winding with increased power density
A stator for an electric alternating current machine includes a stator winding arranged about a central axis and including conductor windings. The conductor windings are grouped to form electrical phases. The stator winding has winding layers. The conductor windings of a phase each have axially oriented conductor limbs that are connected to one another in two axial end regions in pairs by two winding heads. Individual coils are thus formed for each phase. As viewed in a circumferential direction, the axial conductor limbs of the individual phases follow one another in alternation in a uniform order. The winding heads of a given individual coil extend within a winding layer. A sequence of the axial conductor limbs of the respective phases and the distribution of the individual coils on the individual winding layers are chosen to avoid crossovers within the individual winding layers in the region of the winding heads. |
| US11502564B2 |
Multi-layer axial and radial flux vernier permanent magnet motor
A motor comprising a shaft, an array of stator assemblies rigidly attached to the shaft, each stator assembly includes a stator yoke having a toroid shape fixed around the shaft and having a number of slots at radial and axis directional faces with windings within the slots of the stator yoke, and a rotor assembly rotatively attached to the shaft to enclose the array of stator assemblies, the rotor assembly has a rotor drum with sections, each section embraces one stator assembly, each section has two axial-flux permanent magnet arrays attached on axial-directional inner surfaces of the section and has one radial-flux permanent magnet array attached on a radial-directional inner surface of the section furthest from the shaft, wherein the axial-flux and the radial-flux permanent magnet arrays with the number of pole pairs equals the number of the stator slots plus or minus the number of stator winding pole pair. |
| US11502549B2 |
System for transmitting/receiving wireless power and display apparatus comprising same system
Disclosed is a system for transmitting/receiving wireless power, the system includes a wireless power transmitter including an inverter that generates a first current using an input power source, a first resonant circuit to which the first current is applied to transmit a power signal, and a first controller that controls the inverter, and a wireless power receiver including a second resonant circuit that receives the power signal, an impedance varying unit that varies an impedance of the second resonant circuit, and a second controller that controls the impedance varying unit, wherein the first controller controls the inverter to spread a frequency spectrum of the power signal, and the second controller controls the impedance varying unit such that the second resonant circuit resonates with the power signal generated from the first resonant circuit of the wireless power transmitter. Additional various embodiments recognized through the specification are possible. |
| US11502546B2 |
Wireless charging system for medical devices
A wireless charging system for recharging batteries in a medical environment includes a charging station. The charging station may include an opening to receive batteries and an outlet for dispensing charged batteries, wherein the outlet comprises a slot in a front cover. The charging station also includes a wireless power transmitter having a transmitting antenna. |
| US11502545B2 |
Watch charging assembly
A watch charging assembly 10 has a coil 22, a membrane 24 and a back plate 12. The coil 22 is configured to pass electric current received at a first or second contact pad 27, 28. The membrane 24 is affixed to the coil 22 forming a membrane and coil assembly 20. The back plate 12 has a pair of conductive inserts 30. Each conductive insert 30 is aligned with and contacts each contact pad 27, 28. The back plate 12 with the coil 22 and membrane 24 form the charging assembly 10. The charging assembly 10 is configured to form a bottom or underside or, alternatively, be attached to a bottom or underside of a rechargeable battery operated wristwatch 100 and when worn, the charging assembly 10 receives electric current from the wearer to charge a rechargeable battery of the wristwatch 100. The coil 22 can be a pancake coil. |
| US11502544B2 |
High-power wireless transmission and conversion
Systems and methods provide wireless power to an Information Handling System (IHS). A multimode wireless power transmission unit supports USB-PD (Universal Serial Bus Power Delivery) power transmissions and also supports a high-power transmission of a voltage greater than USB-PD transmission voltages. The IHS detects the wireless coupling of the wireless power transmission unit. As part of this coupling, the IHS determines whether the wireless power transmission unit supports high-power transmissions. A wireless power transfer is negotiated and a power circuit of the IHS is configured for converting the negotiated high-power transmission to an input utilized by the IHS. Embodiments utilize a power circuit that provides efficient conversion of power transmissions of up to 60 volts. This same power circuit also provides efficient conversion of power transmissions of up to 60 volts by a multimode USB-C power adapter. |
| US11502542B2 |
Multi-modular capacitive wireless power transfer circuit and related techniques
A high performance kilowatt-scale large air-gap multi-modular capacitive wireless power transfer (WPT) system is provided for electric vehicle (EV) charging. In one particular implementation, the multi-modular system achieves high power transfer while maintaining fringing electric fields within prescribed safety limits. The fringing fields are reduced using near-field phased-array field-focusing techniques, wherein the adjacent modules of the multi-modular system are out-phased with respect to one another. The inter-module interactions in this multi-modular system can be modeled, and an approach to eliminate these interactions in a practical EV charging environment is provided. To illustrate one example implementation, a prototype 1.2-kW 6.78-MHz 12-cm air-gap multi-modular capacitive WPT system comprising two 600-W modules is provided. This prototype system achieves 21.2 kW/m2 power transfer density and a peak efficiency of 89.8%. This multi-modular system also achieves a fringing field reduction of 50% compared to its individual modules. |
| US11502540B2 |
Hybrid-energy apparatus, system, and method therefor
A multi-layer apparatus has a transparent or semi-transparent substrate, a solar-cell layer coupled to the substrate, an energy-storage layer coupled to the solar-cell layer, and a converter layer coupled to the energy-storage layer. The solar-cell layer has a plurality of solar cells for receiving light through the substrate and converting energy of the received light to a first electrical energy, the energy-storage layer has one or more energy-storage units for storing a second electrical energy, and the converter layer has one or more power converters electrically connected to the solar-cell layer and the energy-storage layer for receiving the first electrical energy and the second electrical energy therefrom and outputting a third electrical energy via an output thereof. |
| US11502536B2 |
Wireless charging mount
A mobile device mounting template includes at least one ferromagnetic strip, and a base sheet to which the at least one ferromagnetic strip is releasably affixed. The base sheet includes a template sheet and a release liner, the template sheet having markings thereon for positioning the device mounting template on a mobile device, and the release liner being removably releasable from the template sheet. A method of mounting a ferromagnetic strip to a mobile device includes positioning a template having the ferromagnetic strip removably attached thereto so that the ferromagnetic strip is exposed, positioning the ferromagnetic strip on a mobile device using a template alignment line on the template, adhering the ferromagnetic strip to the mobile device with an adhesive on the ferromagnetic strip, and removing the template. |
| US11502533B2 |
Power conveyor devices for energy harvesting systems and methods thereof
A power conveyor circuit for an energy harvesting system includes an input port configured to be electrically coupled to a sensor to receive an input signal from the sensor at an input power level and an output port configured to 5 be electrically coupled to a load. A switch mode power path circuit is coupled to the input port and the output port to receive the input signal from the sensor received at the input port and to provide an output signal to the output port at an output power level equal to the input power level times a transfer efficiency. A method of making the power conveyor circuit and an energy harvesting system including the power conveyor circuit are also disclosed. |
| US11502531B2 |
Method and device for estimating remaining charging time of battery, and battery management system
This application provides a method and a device for estimating a remaining charging time of a battery, and a battery management system. The method includes: determining a minimum charging time of each type of battery cell at a Kth charging phase based on a charge request current value of each type of battery cell at the Kth charging phase; and determining the remaining charging time of the battery when the Kth charging phase of any type of battery cell in the battery is a target state-of-charge phase, where the remaining charging time of the battery is a smallest one of accumulation values, each accumulation value being an accumulation of minimum charging times of a type of battery cell in the battery at all charging phases. |
| US11502530B2 |
Battery management device, battery system, and vehicle power supply system for managing battery state of charge level when in non-use state
A state estimator estimates, based on at least one of a voltage, a current, and a temperature of a secondary battery, a state of the secondary battery including a state of charge (SOC) of the secondary battery. A discharge controller discharges, when a state of non-use of the secondary battery lasts for a predetermined period of time, the secondary battery such that an indicator indicating easiness of storage deterioration of the secondary battery to progress decreases in stages. The indicator includes a parameter that depends on an SOC of the secondary battery. A value of the indicator and a duration of stay in each stage are set such that a predetermined relationship holds between products in a plurality of stages, each of the products being derived from multiplying the value of the indicator and the duration of stay in each stage. |
| US11502529B2 |
Battery charging method employing historical data
A battery charging method is disclosed. The method includes: obtaining historical working durations in which the electronic device was powered by a battery of the electronic device; in response to an electronic device connected to a charging power source, obtaining a remaining battery level and a target capacity of a battery of the electronic device, and accordingly defining a capacity to be charged; obtaining a current system time when the electronic device is connected to the charging power source; obtaining a specific time difference between the current system time and a predicted working duration, wherein the predicted working duration is a specific working duration chosen from the historical working durations subsequent to the current system time; and using the capacity to be charged to correspond to the specific time difference to obtain a predicted charging current value. |
| US11502528B2 |
Integrated determination of charges remaining via a power bank
A portable power bank and remote server are described, where a rechargeable device includes a rechargeable battery that receives electric charge from the power bank via an electrical connection. Systems and methods facilitate determination of a “number of potential rechargings” of the rechargeable device battery via the power bank, e.g., how many times the power bank can charge the rechargeable device battery to a desired fuel gauge (e.g., 100%) before the power bank is depleted. The number of potential rechargings is determined by the remote server based upon the desired fuel gauge of the rechargeable device, present fuel gauges of the rechargeable device and the power bank, and charging efficiency factors corresponding to the rechargeable device and the power bank, respectively. |
| US11502527B2 |
Battery cell screening device and battery cell screening method
Provided are a cell screening device for selecting battery cells of a high-risk group, and a cell screening method using the same. According to the present invention, the battery cells may be ordered in the order of high probability of being out of an upper limit value or a lower limit value of an operating voltage among a plurality of battery cells using state information calculated for each battery cell, thereby making it possible to select the battery cells of the high-risk group. |
| US11502526B2 |
Battery charger capable of holding battery at its charging posture and retracted posture
There is provided a battery charger configured to charge a battery including a battery terminal. The battery charger includes a receiving portion in a form of a recess, and a charging terminal provided in the receiving portion. The battery is attachable to and detachable from the receiving portion. The receiving portion includes a holding portion configured to selectively hold the battery in the receiving portion at one of a first posture and a second posture different from the first posture. When the battery is in the first posture, the battery terminal is in contact with the charging terminal to allow the battery to be charged. When the battery is in the second posture, the battery terminal is separated from the charging terminal. |
| US11502514B2 |
Grid-tied variable frequency facility
A micro grid system comprises a secondary energy source and a power controller. The secondary energy source is associated with a micro grid that includes a fixed or mobile facility, and the secondary energy source is configured to generate first DC power signal. The power controller is in communication with the secondary energy source and an electric grid, and configured to receive first AC power signal from the electric grid and the first DC power signal from the secondary energy source and output a second AC power signal to loads in communication with the power controller. The power controller comprises an AC to DC frequency converter configured to change frequency and/or voltage of the second AC power signal, a processor, and a memory configured to store instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to control the frequency converter to change the frequency and/or voltage of the second AC power signal. |
| US11502512B2 |
System for brown out mitigation
A method for predicting when energy consumption will exceed normal production capacity for buildings including generating data sets for each of the buildings, where energy consumption values within each set are shifted by one of a plurality of lag values relative to time and temperature values, and where each lag value is different; performing a regression model analysis on each set to yield corresponding regression model parameters and a corresponding residual; determining a least valued residual indicating a corresponding energy lag for each of the buildings; using outside temperatures, regression model parameters, and energy lags for all of the buildings to estimate a cumulative energy consumption for the buildings, and to predict the time when energy consumption will exceed normal production capacity; and receiving the time when energy consumption will exceed normal production capacity, and preparing and commencing exceptional measures required to manage the energy consumption. |
| US11502510B2 |
Electronic circuit protector
The electronic circuit protector of the invention comprises a first semiconductor, a second semiconductor, a third semiconductor, a first diode, a second diode, a first resistor, a second resistor and a third resistor, constituting an application circuit with load overload or short circuit protection function, which avoids the damage caused by overload or short circuit at both terminals of the load. |
| US11502507B2 |
Power converter with ground fault detection function and fault detection method
A ground fault detection method for a power converter is provided, including: measuring, by a voltage sensor, a first voltage and a second voltage respectively, and converting the first voltage and the second voltage into a first digital voltage signal and a second digital voltage signal; receiving, by a controller, the first digital voltage signal and the second digital voltage signal, extracting a corresponding feature quantity of the first voltage and a corresponding feature quantity of the second voltage according to the first digital voltage signal and the second digital voltage signal; and further determining a type of the ground fault of the power converter and locating a ground fault; and when the power converter has a ground fault, shutting down the power converter. |
| US11502503B2 |
Switchgear arrestor system with isolators
A switch gear system is described. In some implementations, a switch gear arrestor system can include a switch gear and one or more arrestors mounted on a non-conductive insulated bar. The one or more arrestors can be connected to one or more isolators through a respective aperture in the non-conductive insulated bar. Each arrestor can be connected to one of the one or more electrical energy sources at a first end and can be connected to one of the one or more isolators at a second end. The switch gear arrestor system can further include one or more ground leads. Each ground lead can connect one of the one or more isolators to a conductive grounding bar. |
| US11502500B2 |
Method for switching off an arc in an electrical installation
An electrical installation includes: a switchgear cabinet; a protective switch arranged in the switchgear cabinet; at least one optical triggering device which is operatively connected to the protective switch and for triggering or switching off the protective switch upon optical detection of an arc; a detection device for detecting an access or an access request to a secured area of the electrical installation by detecting a presence of the at least one optical triggering device in a danger area of the electrical installation; and an electronic circuit which is connected to the detection device and allows, and otherwise prevents, a triggering or switching off of the protective switch by the at least one optical triggering device upon detection of the access or the access request, when the at least one optical triggering device is present in the danger area. |
| US11502495B2 |
Utility conduit
A utility conduit and related methods of assembling lengths of utility conduit with a mechanical spline connector. The utility conduit includes opposed male and female ends, wherein the male end is slidably insertable into the female end of adjacent conduits. The female end includes one or more circumferential sealing channels into which a seal member is positionable and an internal spline groove that is circumferentially defined inside the conduit. The female end includes a wall bore through a conduit wall that intersects with the internal spline groove. The male end includes an exterior spline groove on an exterior of the conduit. A spline can be inserted through the wall bore and into a space cooperatively defined by the internal spline groove and the external spline groove. The spline is inserted such that the spline occupies the space cooperatively defined by the internal spline groove and the external spline groove. |
| US11502486B2 |
Methods for joining extended lengths of conduit
The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for joining extended lengths of conduit. The apparatus and method provide a means for decreasing the time required to assemble extended lengths of conduit. The apparatus for use with the corresponding method comprises an apparatus head, an extender joining body and a conduit interface. |
| US11502484B2 |
Devices and methods for installation tools for use with splice kits
An installation tool and methods for installing a splice kit for a heating cable is provided. The installation tool includes a body, a first channel, and a first cavity. The first channel is defined in the body and configured to retain a first insulating tubing of the splice kit. The first cavity is within the first channel and configured to retain a first connector of the splice kit. The body is configured to retain the first insulating tubing and the first connector in a predetermined formation during installation of the first insulating tubing and the first connector to the heating cable, and the body is further configured to be removed from the first insulating tubing and the first connector following installation of the first insulating tubing and the first connector to the heating cable. |
| US11502481B2 |
Semiconductor light-emitting module and control method therefor
A semiconductor light-emitting module according to the present embodiment includes a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements each outputting light of a desired beam projection pattern; and a support substrate holding the plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements. Each of the plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements includes a phase modulation layer configured to form a target beam projection pattern in a target beam projection region. The plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements include first and second semiconductor light-emitting elements that are different in terms of at least any of a beam projection direction, the target beam projection pattern, and a light emission wavelength. |
| US11502480B2 |
Thermally-controlled photonic structure
In some implementations, a thermally-controlled photonic structure may include a suspended region that is suspended over a substrate; a plurality of bridge elements connected to the suspended region and configured to suspend the suspended region over the substrate, where a plurality of openings are defined between the plurality of bridge elements; and at least one heater element having a modulated width disposed on the suspended region. The at least one heater element having the modulated width may include at least one section of a greater width and at least one section of a lesser width. The at least one section of the greater width may be in alignment with an opening of the plurality of openings and the at least one section of the lesser width may be in alignment with a bridge element of the plurality of bridge elements. |
| US11502477B2 |
In-fiber retroreflector
An optical fiber may include a core in which core-guided light generated by one or more light sources propagates along a length of the at least one optical fiber, one or more claddings, surrounding the core, to guide cladding-guided light generated by the one or more light sources along the length of the at least one optical fiber, and a reflector structure machined into the at least one optical fiber. The reflector structure may include multiple angled facets arranged at one or more respective angles relative to an axis of the optical fiber to reflect at least a portion of the core-guided light and/or the cladding-guided light passing through the optical fiber. |
| US11502474B2 |
High efficiency 1.3μm emission in praseodymium doped conventional glass and fiber
An optical material including: a silica host; and a Praseodymium dopant; wherein the Praseodymium atoms are configured to form nanoclusters in the silica host. In addition, the optical material may include an Ytterbium co-dopant. The nanoclusters include Ge, Te, Ta, Lu and/or F, Cl to minimize multi-phonon quenching. Moreover, the nanoclusters may be encapsulated in a low phonon energy shell to minimize energy transfer to the host matrix. |
| US11502471B2 |
Press cutting tool
A press cutting tool is disclosed. The press cutting tool includes a first and second plier, a first and second connecting rod, an opening, a pressing block, and a cutting block. The first and second connecting rods are connected to the second plier. The opening is used for placing a connection head. The pressing block is connected to the first connecting rod for clamping housing. The cutting block is connected to the second connecting rod for cutting the connection line; wherein the pressing block and the cutting block slide separately, and an initial distance from the pressing block to the opening is greater than an initial distance from the cutting block to the opening. After the first and second plier are pressed, the pressing block slides first to clamp and press the housing, and then the cutting block slides to cut the connection line. |
| US11502468B2 |
Methods for mounting and replacing brushes
A method of replacing a brush holder includes positioning a handle on the brush holder while the brush holder is connected to a support, rotating the handle relative to the brush holder in a first direction that is clockwise or counter-clockwise to connect the handle to the brush holder, removing the brush holder from the support by pulling the handle with the handle attached to the brush holder, rotating the handle relative to the brush holder in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction while pulling a trigger on the handle that moves a core in the handle upward in a cavity in the handle, and removing the handle from the brush holder. |
| US11502466B2 |
Aerosol delivery device with improved connectivity, airflow, and aerosol paths
The present disclosure provides an aerosol delivery device and a cartridge for an aerosol delivery device. In various implementations, the aerosol delivery device comprises a control device that includes an outer housing defining a cartridge receiving chamber, and further includes a power source and a control component, and a cartridge that includes a mouthpiece, a tank, a heating assembly, and a bottom cap. The mouthpiece defines an exit portal in an end thereof, and the tank is configured to contain a liquid composition therein. The cartridge is configured to be removably coupled with the receiving chamber of the control device, and the heating assembly defines a vaporization chamber and is configured to heat the liquid composition to generate an aerosol. The heating assembly comprises a substantially planar heating member and a liquid transport element, wherein the heating member is installed in a bowed orientation. |
| US11502463B2 |
Connection apparatus with variable electrical connection between conductor terminals
A connection apparatus for connecting electrical devices, in particular electric motors to an AC system, has a housing which has at least one housing portion. A plurality of first and second conductor terminals are arranged in the at least one housing portion. Each conductor terminal has at least one or two or more individual terminals and a configuration plug. The configuration plug electrically connects individual or a plurality of the first and/or second conductor terminals in at least two different positions in order to obtain at least two different circuit types. The configuration plug is rotatably or slidably guided in or on the housing or at least on the at least one housing portion. Due to this relative movement, plug can be rotated and/or displaced into at least two different positions, in order to provide the at least two different circuit types. |
| US11502461B1 |
In-wall power adapters and methods of implementing in-wall power adapters
An in-wall power adapter is described. The in-wall power adapter comprises a first contact element configured to receive power; an outlet coupled to receive power from the first contact element; and a recess having contact elements adapted to provide at least one of power signals and control signals; wherein the recess is adapted to receive a module. |
| US11502457B2 |
Substrate protection structure during inner housing assembling
A substrate protection structure during inner housing assembling includes an outer housing, a substrate, an inner housing that is disposed with the substrate and is disposed in the outer housing by moving in a predetermined direction relative to the outer housing together with the substrate, and a first projecting portion that is disposed to the inner housing, and projects further on a rear side than the substrate in the predetermined direction when the inner housing is disposed in the outer housing. |
| US11502448B2 |
Spring-loaded connector
A spring-loaded connector (2) includes a waterproof elastic member (50). The waterproof elastic member (50) includes cylindrical parts (51) corresponding to respective contact units (10). When the cylindrical part (51) is sandwiched between a first pin (11) and an intermediate member (13) of the corresponding contact unit (10), the waterproof elastic member (50) seals between the first pin (11) and the intermediate member (13) in a watertight manner while allowing the contact unit (10) to penetrate. The waterproof elastic member (50) includes, between the cylindrical parts (51) that are adjacent to each other, a water-shielding structure (52) for preventing the first pins (11) of the contact units (10) corresponding to the adjacent cylindrical parts from being electrically connected due to presence of water between the first pins (11). |
| US11502445B2 |
Tamper-resistant electrical wiring devices
An electrical wiring device including a housing including a front cover coupled to at least one body member, the front cover including a plurality of receptacle openings in a major front surface thereof, the plurality of receptacle openings being configured to receive a plurality of plug blades of a corded electrical plug, wherein the plurality of receptacle openings includes at least a ground prong opening and the at least one body member includes at least one set of receptacle contacts including a hot receptacle contact and a neutral receptacle contact; and a shutter assembly positioned within the housing and including a first shutter member coupled to a second shutter member, wherein the first shutter member is configured to move from a first position to a second position when a ground prong is inserted through the ground prong opening. |
| US11502441B1 |
Electrical connector assembly
An electrical connector assembly is provided. The electrical connector assembly includes a housing and two electrically conductive connection members. Each of the two electrically conductive connection members is arranged in the housing and is connected to at least one electrically conductive cable. The electrically conductive connection member has an electrically conductive terminal, a cable connection member, and a terminal holding member. The electrically conductive terminal has two leaf springs that are opposite to each other and a U-shaped connection part connected between the two leaf springs. The cable connection member is bent and has a first connection part and a second connection part. The terminal holding member has two sheet bodies that are arranged opposite to each other and a plate-shaped connection part connected between same sides of the two sheet bodies, so that the terminal holding member is in a shape of an inverted U. |
| US11502436B2 |
Electrical connection for transferring signals while reducing interference
Apparatus (2) is described including one or more signal sources (6). The apparatus (2) also includes a measurement front end (7) having at least first (+Vin)) and second (−Vin) inputs. The apparatus (2) also includes a substantially planar connector (1) having a length (L) between first (1a) and second (1b) ends and supporting a number of conductors (3) spanning between the first (1a) and second (1b) ends. At each point between the first (1a) and second (1b) ends the conductors (3) are substantially equi-spaced from one another within the substantially planar connector (1). The conductors (3) include at least one signal conductor (8) connecting the signal sources (6) to the first input (+Vin). The conductors (3) also include at least two further conductors (10, 11) connecting to the one or more signal sources (6). One or both of the two further conductors (10, 11) also connect to the second input (−Vin). Each of the at least one signal conductor (8) and the at least two further conductors (10, 11) belongs to one or more closed loops. The one or more closed loops have areas and impedances configured such that in response to a uniform time-varying external magnetic field being applied to the apparatus, a first unwanted electromotive force induced at the first input (+Vin) will be substantially equal to a second unwanted electromotive force induced at the second input (−Vin). |
| US11502435B2 |
SIM card connector
A SIM card connector includes an insulating body, a plurality of first terminals and a plurality of second terminals. The insulating body has a plurality of first slots and a plurality of second slots. Each side wall of each first slot has a limiting slot. The plurality of the first terminals are inserted into the plurality of the first slots. Each first terminal has a first base portion, a first soldering portion connected with a lower end of the first base portion, and a first contacting portion connected with an upper end of the first base portion. The plurality of the second terminals are inserted into the plurality of the second slots. Each second terminal has a second contacting portion slantwise extended towards a rear end of the insulating body and exposed beyond a top surface of the insulating body. |
| US11502429B2 |
Terminal cover
A terminal cover includes a cover body equipped with a curved portion and a base portion. The curved portion has formed therein a pair of claws diametrically opposed to each other. The claws are arranged at an interval away from each other. The interval is selected to be smaller than the width of the terminal and increased by elastic deformation of the cover body arising from installation of a terminal in the terminal cover, so that the claws retain the terminal. This structure enables the terminal cover to be simple and small-sized and facilitates installation of the terminal in the terminal cover without being scraped by the terminal when inserted into the terminal cover. |
| US11502428B2 |
Structure for radio frequency applications
A structure for radiofrequency applications includes a high-resistivity support substrate having a front face defining a main plane, a charge-trapping layer disposed on the front face of the support substrate, a first dielectric layer disposed on the charge-trapping layer, an active layer disposed on the first dielectric layer, at least one buried electrode disposed above or in the charge-trapping layer. The buried electrode comprises a conductive layer and a second dielectric layer. |
| US11502426B2 |
Antenna device
An antenna device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a zeroth-order resonant antenna and a first-order resonant antenna. The zeroth-order resonant antenna includes a base plate, a platy radiation element, and a connection conductor connecting the base plate and the platy radiation element. The zeroth-order resonant antenna is configured to transmit and/or receive a first linearly polarized radio wave in all directions perpendicular to the first linearly polarized radio wave by zeroth order resonance. The first-order resonant antenna includes the base plate shared with the zeroth-order resonant antenna, and a first radiation element located on the same plane as the base plate. The first-order resonant antenna is configured to transmit and/or receive a second linearly polarized radio wave perpendicular to the first linearly polarized radio wave by first order resonance. |
| US11502425B2 |
Wireless transceiver having receive antennas and transmit antennas with orthogonal polarizations in a phased array antenna panel
A wireless communications system includes a first transceiver with a first phased array antenna panel having horizontal-polarization receive antennas and vertical-polarization transmit antennas, where the horizontal-polarization receive antennas form a first receive beam based on receive phase and receive amplitude information provided by a first master chip, the vertical-polarization transmit antennas form a first transmit beam based on transmit phase and transmit amplitude information provided by the first master chip. The wireless communications system may include a second transceiver having vertical-polarization receive antennas and horizontal-polarization transmit antennas in a second phased array antenna panel, where the vertical-polarization receive antennas form a second receive beam based on receive phase and receive amplitude information provided by a second master chip, the horizontal-polarization transmit antennas form a second transmit beam based on transmit phase and transmit amplitude information provided by the second master chip. |
| US11502424B2 |
Wireless transceiver having receive antennas and transmit antennas with orthogonal polarizations in a phased array antenna panel
A wireless communications system includes a first transceiver with a first phased array antenna panel having circularly polarization receive antennas and circularly polarization transmit antennas, where the circularly polarization receive antennas form a first receive beam based on receive phase and receive amplitude information provided by a first master chip, the circularly polarization transmit antennas form a first transmit beam based on transmit phase and transmit amplitude information provided by the first master chip. The wireless communications system may include a second transceiver having circularly polarization receive antennas and circularly polarization transmit antennas in a second phased array antenna panel, where the circularly polarization receive antennas form a second receive beam based on receive phase and receive amplitude information provided by a second master chip, the circularly polarization transmit antennas form a second transmit beam based on transmit phase and transmit amplitude information provided by the second master chip. |
| US11502423B2 |
Antenna apparatus
An antenna device includes a dielectric resonator antenna configured to transmit and/or receive a first RF signal, a patch antenna pattern configured to transmit and/or receive a second RF signal, and at least partially overlaps the dielectric resonator antenna in a vertical direction, a first feed via configured to feed to the dielectric resonator antenna, and a second feed via configured to feed to the patch antenna pattern, wherein a frequency of the first RF signal is lower than a frequency of the second RF signal. |
| US11502421B2 |
Antenna
According to one embodiment, disclosed is an antenna comprising: a first waveguide having a first signal transmission path; a second waveguide connected to the first waveguide; and an antenna unit connected to the second waveguide and having a first opening, wherein the second waveguide comprises a first separator for separating the signal transmission path, and the antenna unit comprises a first antenna unit and a second antenna unit. |
| US11502413B2 |
Electronic device including antenna that radiates waves by a non-conducting portion
Disclosed is an electronic device including a housing having a front surface, a rear surface, and a side surface partially surrounding a space between the front surface and the rear surface, wherein at least one of the front surface, the rear surface, and the side surface comprises a non-conductive portion, and at least a partial region of the non-conductive portion comprises a first through hole, a component at least partially overlapping the first through hole when the non-conductive portion is viewed from outside the housing, wherein the component is disposed at a position spaced apart from the non-conductive portion by a first distance, and an antenna structure disposed at a position spaced apart from the non-conductive portion by a second distance shorter than the first distance, wherein the antenna structure is configured to radiate radio waves through the non-conductive portion, and comprises at least one second through hole. |
| US11502412B2 |
Antenna configured to transmit or receive signal, smart window, and method of fabricating antenna
An antenna configured to transmit or receive a signal is provided. The antenna includes a substantially transparent base substrate and an antenna electrode on the substantially transparent base substrate. The antenna electrode includes a substantially transparent conductive layer, and a first conductive line abutting an edge portion of the substantially transparent conductive layer and electrically connected to the edge portion of the substantially transparent conductive layer. An electrical conductivity of the first conductive line is greater than an electrical conductivity of the substantially transparent conductive layer. |
| US11502411B2 |
Radiofrequency transmission/reception device
A radiofrequency transmission/reception device includes a first and a second conductive wire element, a first far-field transmission/reception chip and a second near-field transmission/reception chip. The first and the second wire element combine with the characteristic impedance of the second transmission/reception chip in order to form a coupling device associated with the first transmission/reception chip at the operating frequency of the first chip. The first and the second wire element combine with the characteristic impedance of the first transmission/reception chip in order to form a coupling device associated with the second transmission/reception chip at the operating frequency of the second chip. |
| US11502410B2 |
System apparatus and method for matching antenna impedance in a wireless communication system
Provided is a method for matching antenna impedance in a wireless communication system. The method includes determining an approximate reflection coefficient based on an input signal and an output signal of a bidirectional coupler connected to a signal path of an antenna; determining an antenna impedance matching parameter corresponding to the determined approximate reflection coefficient by using a lookup table; and performing antenna impedance matching based on the antenna impedance matching parameter. |
| US11502398B2 |
Compound curvature conformal antenna
A complex curvature conformal antenna system that can include an RF antenna element, a radome housing the RF antenna element, and a contour matching conformal gasket sealed to the radome such that, when the contour matching conformal gasket is installed on an installation surface having a complex compound curvature and features, the contour matching conformal gasket can be configured to conform to the complex compound curvature and features to seal the contour matching conformal gasket to the installation surface and protect the RF antenna element from external moisture, dust, or unwanted elements. |
| US11502396B2 |
Enhanced MIMO communication systems using reconfigurable metasurface antennas and methods of using same
A MIMO communication system is provided. The system may include a first antenna comprising a first cavity, a first plurality of RF ports for generating a feed wave within the first cavity, and a first plurality of sub-wavelength artificially structured material elements as arranged on a surface of the first cavity as RF radiators. The first antenna is configured to generate a plurality of radiation patterns respectively corresponding to the first plurality of ports. The system may also include a second antenna comprising a second cavity and a second plurality of sub-wavelength artificially structured material elements arranged on a surface of the second cavity. |
| US11502389B2 |
Antenna windows in carbon fiber enclosures
In example implementations, an enclosure is provided. The enclosure includes a first layer of carbon fiber and a second layer of a carbon fiber pattern fabricated from a plastic. The first layer of carbon fiber is formed in a shape of a portable electronic device. An antenna window is formed in the first layer of the carbon fiber. The second layer of the carbon fiber pattern has a same shape and a same size as the first layer of carbon fiber. |
| US11502384B2 |
Microwave transmission arrangement comprising a hollow waveguide having differing cross-sectional areas coupled to a circuit board with a ground plane circumscribed within the hollow waveguide
A microwave transmission arrangement, comprising an electrically conductive hollow waveguide having a first waveguide portion, a second waveguide portion between the first waveguide portion and a first end of the hollow waveguide, and a conductive transition surface of the hollow waveguide forming a transition between the first waveguide portion and the second waveguide portion; and a microwave circuit board including a dielectric carrier, and a first conductor pattern on a first side of the dielectric carrier, the first conductor pattern including a patch for radiating or receiving microwave signals in the predefined wavelength range, and a first ground plane surrounding the patch, wherein the first ground plane of the microwave circuit board is in conductive contact with the first end of the hollow waveguide, and extends into the second waveguide portion cross-section area to define at least one conductive pocket together with the second waveguide portion and the transition surface of the hollow waveguide. |
| US11502381B2 |
Rechargeable battery pack, machining system and method for producing a rechargeable battery pack
A rechargeable battery pack supplies electrical drive power to an electrically driven machining device. The rechargeable battery pack has: a plurality of rechargeable battery cells, wherein the rechargeable battery cells each have cell contacts; a housing, wherein the rechargeable battery cells are arranged within the housing; and a potting compound, wherein the potting compound protects the cell contacts from contact with water from outside the housing. The housing has a housing top part and a housing bottom part. The housing bottom part overlaps the housing top part such that the housing top part defines an outer region and an inner region of the housing bottom part for the potting compound. A casting level of the potting compound in the outer region is above a casting level of the potting compound in the inner region. |
| US11502375B2 |
Separator for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery
A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes an electrode assembly including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The separator includes a porous resin sheet having at least a three-layer structure consisting of an A-layer, a B-layer, and a C-layer stacked in that order. The average thermal expansion coefficient of each of the A-layer and the C-layer at a temperature of 0° C. to 50° C. is 100 ppm/K or more less than the average thermal expansion coefficient of the B-layer at a temperature of 0° C. to 50° C. |
| US11502374B2 |
Separators for enhanced flooded batteries, batteries, and related methods
A battery separator has performance enhancing additives or coatings, fillers with increased friability, increased ionic diffusion, decreased tortuosity, increased wettability, reduced oil content, reduced thickness, decreased electrical resistance, and/or increased porosity. The separator in a battery reduces the water loss, lowers acid stratification, lowers the voltage drop, and/or increases the CCA. The separators include or exhibit performance enhancing additives or coatings, increased porosity, increased void volume, amorphous silica, higher oil absorption silica, higher silanol group silica, reduced electrical resistance, a shish-kebab structure or morphology, a polyolefin microporous membrane containing particle-like filler in an amount of 40% or more by weight of the membrane and ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene having shish-kebab formations and the average repetition periodicity of the kebab formation from 1 nm to 150 nm, decreased sheet thickness, decreased tortuosity, separators especially well-suited for enhanced flooded batteries. |
| US11502370B2 |
Cylindrical or button battery
The present disclosure discloses a cylindrical or button battery. The battery includes a cap, a shell and a ring seal, wherein the cap and the shell are both of a tubular structure having a cover portion and are fitted together to form a hermetic space for accommodating a battery cell; the ring seal is located between a side wall of the cap and a side wall of the shell and is capable of shrinking or being torn when reaching a set temperature so as to form a slit between the side wall of the cap and the side wall of the shell to release pressure. The ring seal of the battery can shrink or be torn at the set temperature to release pressure, and therefore the battery is characterized by excellent safety. |
| US11502366B2 |
Echelon utilization battery pack with good seismic resistance
Disclosed is an echelon utilization battery pack with good seismic resistance. The echelon utilization battery pack involves a battery pack body and a battery, wherein the battery pack body is of a hollow cuboid structure, fixed seats are fixed at two ends of the inner bottom of the battery pack body, first fixed shafts are fixed between the two fixed seats, the first fixed shafts are slidably connected with a mounting seat in a sleeving mode, a first sliding groove is formed in the top of the mounting seat, second fixed shafts are fixed in the first sliding groove, and the two ends of the second fixed shafts are slidably connected with first sliding blocks. |
| US11502360B2 |
Battery housing for a traction battery
A battery housing for a traction battery may include a first housing part and a second housing part fixed removably to each other. Battery modules of the traction battery may be fixable on the first housing part. The housing may also include a reinforcing structure having a plurality of reinforcing ribs reinforcing the first housing part, and a ducted structure with a plurality of coolant ducts for a coolant fixed on the first housing part. The plurality of coolant ducts may each be connectable to a respective temperature-control unit of a battery module in a coolant-conducting fashion. At least one of the coolant ducts may be at least partially embedded in one of the reinforcing ribs. |
| US11502358B1 |
Power and controller box for lighting apparatus
A control and battery box for a decorative light apparatus having a housing, a top cover and a battery compartment. Hinges with expanding pins are provided on one edge of the control and battery box and latches on the other. Each expanding pin includes a pair of prongs with a gap therebetween. The pair of prongs are compressed to enter to an aperture in a part of another hinge then be retained therein between shoulders. |
| US11502357B2 |
Lithium ion conducting protective film and method of use
A lithium ion conducting protective film is produced using a layer-by-layer assembly process. The lithium ion conducting protective film is assembled on a substrate by a sequential exposure of the substrate to a first poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) layer including a cross-linking silane component on the first side of the substrate, a graphene oxide (GO) layer on the first PEO layer, a second poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) layer including a cross-linking silane component on the GO layer and a poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) layer on the second PEO layer. The film functions as a lithium ion conducting protective film that isolates the lithium anode from the positive electrochemistry of the cathode in a lithium-air battery, thereby preventing undesirable lithium dendrite growth. |
| US11502354B1 |
Directed quench systems and components
Energy storage systems, battery cells, and batteries of the present technology may include a heat exchanger or fluid delivery structure that may transfer heat from a battery cell or cell block to a heat exchange fluid. The heat exchanger or fluid delivery structure may substantially maintain an interfacial temperature during a temperature increase from the battery cell or cell block. |
| US11502347B2 |
Battery pack
The secondary battery cells are disposed in parallel in such postures that side surfaces of cylindrical shapes face each other in an internal space of a housing case, and are separated from each other with a longitudinal partition plate interposed between the secondary battery cells. A pair of ribs are provided on an inner surface of the housing case to hold the longitudinal partition plate. The longitudinal partition plate disposed between the pair of ribs is held in the housing case. A gap between the pair of ribs and the longitudinal partition plate is filled with a flame-retardant adhesive material. |
| US11502346B1 |
Traction battery self-heating control method and device
Disclosed is a traction battery self-heating control method and a device. Acquiring a second temperature of a rotor at a current sampling time according to system parameters and a first temperature of the rotor at a previous sampling time, and estimating a third temperature of the rotor at a next sampling time according to the first temperature and the second temperature, and stopping the self-heating of the traction battery when the third temperature reaches a demagnetization temperature of the rotor. Whether to stop the self-heating of the traction battery is determined by estimating a rotor temperature under the self-heating condition, and comparing the rotor temperature with the demagnetization temperature of the rotor, and thus the self-heating control of the traction battery is realized. |
| US11502345B2 |
Method and apparatus for recycling lithium-ion batteries
Cathode material from exhausted lithium ion batteries are dissolved in a solution for extracting the useful elements Co (cobalt), Ni (nickel), Al (Aluminum) and Mn (manganese) to produce active cathode materials for new batteries. The solution includes compounds of desirable materials such as cobalt, nickel, aluminum and manganese dissolved as compounds from the exhausted cathode material of spent cells. Depending on a desired proportion, or ratio, of the desired materials, raw materials are added to the solution to achieve the desired ratio of the commingled compounds for the recycled cathode material for new cells. The desired materials precipitate out of solution without extensive heating or separation of the desired materials into individual compounds or elements. The resulting active cathode material has the predetermined ratio for use in new cells, and avoids high heat typically required to separate the useful elements because the desired materials remain commingled in solution. |
| US11502341B2 |
Battery fast-charging and cooling system and method of operating same
Provided is a battery charging system comprising (a) at least one charging circuit to charge at least one rechargeable battery cell; (b) a heat source to provide heat that is transported through a heat spreader element, implemented fully or partially inside said at least one battery cell, to heat up the battery cell to a desired temperature Tc before or during battery charging; and (c) cooling means in thermal contact with the heat spreader element configured to enable transporting internal heat of the battery cell through the heat spreader element to the cooling means when the battery cell is discharged. Charging the battery at Tc enables completion of the battery in less than 15 minutes, typically less than 10 minutes, and more typically less than 5 minutes without adversely impacting the battery structure and performance. |
| US11502340B2 |
Battery analysis via electrochemical impedance spectroscopy apparatus (EISA) measurements
Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) may be used to measure the internal components of a battery or interfaces between connections inside a battery in order to determine a state of one or more subcomponents of the battery. In various embodiments, EIS testing of the battery may be conducted using various test waveforms, such as test waveforms with different voltages, currents, and/or frequencies, to identify and/or predict battery subcomponent and/or interface failures. In various embodiments, EIS testing of the battery may be used to determine when battery conditions are suitable for charging. |
| US11502338B2 |
Wound battery
A winding-type battery includes a battery case, a power generating element, a cap for blocking an opening of the battery case, and a gasket for insulating the battery case from the cap. The power generating element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a separator interposed between them, and an electrolyte. The first electrode and the second electrode are wound via the separator to form an electrode group, and the first electrode is connected to the cap via a first current collecting lead, and the second electrode is connected to the battery case via a second current collecting lead. A groove is formed near the opening end of the battery case. The gasket includes: an annular seal portion interposed between a rim of the cap and the region from the groove to the end; and a tubular portion that is integrated with the seal portion, and is disposed closer to the electrode group than the seal portion is. The first current collecting lead is connected to the cap through a hollow in the tubular portion. |
| US11502337B2 |
Cylindrical secondary battery
A cylindrical secondary battery includes a bottomed cylindrical battery case having an opening, an electrode group, an electrolyte solution, and a sealing member blocking the opening of the battery case. The electrode group includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode mix layer placed on at least one principal surface of the negative electrode current collector. The negative electrode mix layer includes a non-facing region not facing the positive electrode mix layer. The density of the negative electrode mix layer is 1.25 g/cm3 to 1.43 g/cm3, the ratio of the entire length of the non-facing region to the entire length of the negative electrode mix layer is 0.09 or more, and the inside diameter of a hollow section of the electrode group is 2.0 mm or less. |
| US11502332B2 |
Battery cell including an inorganic, melt-infiltrated, solid-state electrolyte
In an aspect, a solid-state Li-ion battery (SSLB) cell, may comprise an anode electrode comprising an anode electrode surface and an anode active material, a cathode electrode comprising a cathode electrode surface and an cathode active material, and an inorganic, melt-infiltrated, solid state electrolyte (SSE) ionically coupling the anode electrode and the cathode electrode, wherein at least a portion of at least one of the electrode surfaces comprises an interphase layer separating the respective electrode active material from direct contact with the SSE, and wherein the interphase layer comprises two or more metals from the list of: Zr, Al, K, Cs, Fr, Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Sc, Y, La or non-La lanthanoids, Ta, Zr, Hf, and Nb. |
| US11502331B2 |
Method for producing sulfide solid electrolyte
A method for producing a sulfide solid electrolyte, wherein lithium sulfide and a compound represented by the following formula (1) are used as raw materials: PSX3 (1) (wherein, X is an element selected from F, CI, Br and I.). |
| US11502326B2 |
Negative active material for rechargeable lithium battery, method of preparing the same and rechargeable lithium battery including the same
A negative active material for a rechargeable lithium battery includes a core including a SiO2 matrix and a Si grain, and a coating layer continuously or discontinuously coated on the core. The coating layer includes SiC and C, and the peak area ratio of the SiC (111) plane to the Si (111) plane as measured by X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD) using a CuKα ray ranges from about 0.01 to about 0.5. |
| US11502320B2 |
Solid oxide fuel cell/electrolytic cell and electric stack prepared based on additive manufacturing
Provided are a solid oxide fuel cell/electrolytic cell and electric stack, which relate to the field of cells. A metal support frame is molded in one step or more steps through the additive manufacturing technology. And then a fuel/electrolytic cell functional layer is formed on the metal support frame by means of thermal spraying, tape casting, screen printing or chemical vapor deposition method, and self-sealing of the solid oxide fuel cell/electrolytic cell is realized through a dense structure of electrolyte. |
| US11502319B2 |
Control method for fuel cell
The present disclosure relates to a control method for a fuel cell. The control method includes: collecting, by a controller, state information of a fuel cell (FC) stack; determining, by the controller, a degradation state of the FC stack from the collected state information of the FC stack; correcting, by the controller, a basic threshold output corresponding to a present driving state of a vehicle on the basis of information of the determined degradation state of the FC stack; comparing, by the controller, a post-correction threshold output that is obtained by correcting the basic threshold output and a motor demand output, and determining, by the controller, stopping or restarting of a fuel cell; and controlling, by the controller, such that the determined stopping or restarting state of the fuel cell is achieved. |
| US11502317B2 |
Fuel cell
A fuel cell including an electrochemical reactor; a cooling circuit; a controller; a coolant circuit; a first temperature sensor; and a second temperature sensor. The cooling circuit includes a cooling pipe, a water pump, a radiator, a heater, and a thermostatic three-way valve. The cooling circuit is configured to cool the electrochemical reactor. The controller is configured to control operations of the electrochemical reactor and the cooling circuit. The cooling pipe includes a first water inlet and a first water outlet; and the coolant circuit is disposed between the first water inlet and the first water outlet. The first temperature sensor is disposed at the first water inlet. The second temperature sensor is disposed at the first water outlet. The first temperature sensor and the second temperature sensor are configured to detect and transmit temperature data of a coolant in the cooling pipe to the controller. |
| US11502314B2 |
System to sterilize a physical space
A system for sterilizing a physical space, such as a hotel room. The system generates and distributes heated air to the physical space to elevate the temperature of the space to a level sufficient to achieve a desired sterilization effect of eradicating insects and microoganisms. The system is portable and self-contained. The system includes a hydrogen fuel cell that generates electrical power. An electrical system conditions and stores the electrical power and supplies stored electrical power to the system components and peripherals. System components include a source of hydrogen, a heater, an air distributor, and a filter. Peripherals include a UV light source and an aerosol dispenser. The combination of heat, UV light and aerosol disinfectant effectively eradicates insects, microorganisms, allergens, and odors in the physical space. |
| US11502313B2 |
Fuel cell
A fuel cell capable of reducing the stress exerted upon an electrolyte membrane resulting from the swelling and contraction of the electrolyte membrane. The fuel cell includes at least an MEGA with catalyst layers joined to the opposite sides of the electrolyte membrane, and a pair of separators disposed so as to sandwich the MEGA. The MEGA generates power with a hydrogen gas fed to one side of the MEGA and with an oxidant gas fed to the other side. Separators each have a plurality of projections formed on the side of the MEGA so as to form a gas channel through which the hydrogen gas or oxidant gas flows between the projections. The electrolyte membrane has a plurality of through-holes formed at positions facing the projections along the direction in which the projections extend. |
| US11502312B2 |
Resin frame equipped membrane electrode assembly and method of producing resin frame member for fuel cell
A resin frame member is produced by using a method of producing a resin frame member for a fuel cell. An inner peripheral end of the resin frame member includes an inclined surface formed over the entire periphery thereof. The inclined surface is inclined inward from one surface of the resin frame member toward the other surface of the resin frame member. The width of the inclined surface is gradually reduced from the center toward both ends of each side part of the inner peripheral end in a direction in which the side part of the inner peripheral end extends. |
| US11502311B2 |
Printed energy storage device
A printed energy storage device includes a first electrode including zinc, a second electrode including manganese dioxide, and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, the first electrode, second, electrode, and separator printed onto a substrate. The device may include a first current collector and/or a second current collector printed onto the substrate. The energy storage device may include a printed intermediate layer between the separator and the first electrode. The first electrode, and the second electrode may include 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate (C2mimBF4). The first electrode and the second electrode may include an electrolyte having zinc tetrafluoroborate (ZnBF4) and 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate (C2mimBF4). The first electrode, the second electrode, the first current collector, and/or the second current collector can include carbon nanotubes. The separator may include solid microspheres. |
| US11502310B2 |
Flexible battery
A method of fabricating a flexible battery comprises forming a first substrate on a first release liner, forming at least one current collector layer on each of the first and second substrate, forming an anode side of the battery by forming an anode on the current collector of the first substrate, forming a cathode side of the battery by forming a cathode on the current collector of the second substrate, depositing electrolyte on one or both of the anode and cathode, adhering and sealing the anode side and cathode side together such that the anode and cathode face one another with the electrolyte In between, and removing the flexible battery from the release liners. The battery may be a primary battery or a secondary battery. The method may be implemented using a roll-to-roll process. |
| US11502308B2 |
Catalyst-coated membrane having a laminate structure
A catalyst-coated membrane (CCM) for use in a water electrolyser, having a laminate structure comprising: a first layer comprising a first membrane component having a cathode catalyst layer disposed on a first face thereof; a second layer comprising a second membrane component having an anode catalyst layer disposed on a first face thereof; and an intermediate layer disposed between the first and second layers, comprising a third membrane component having a recombination catalyst layer disposed on a first face thereof is disclosed. The CCM is useful within a water electrolyser. The recombination catalyst layer reduces the risk associated with hydrogen crossover and allows thinner membranes with lower resistance to be used. |
| US11502307B2 |
Manufacturing method of gas diffusion layer with microporous layer, and manufacturing method of fuel cell
A manufacturing method of a gas diffusion layer with a microporous layer includes coating a gas diffusion layer containing titanium with a precursor containing an electroconductive material, a water-repellent resin, and a polyethylene oxide, and heating the gas diffusion layer coated with the precursor to form a microporous layer containing the electroconductive material and the water-repellent resin on a surface of the gas diffusion layer. The heating atmosphere is a non-oxidation atmosphere where an oxygen concentration is no more than 0.3% by volume. |
| US11502302B2 |
Process for producing a composite material
A process for producing a composite material comprising at least one particulate material and at least one polymeric binder, wherein the at least one particulate material and the at least one polymeric binder are mixed with one another and mechanically processed in the presence of at least one process auxiliary which reduces the mechanical and/or chemical interaction between the surfaces of the at least one particulate material and of the at least one polymeric binder, essentially dispensing with the use of solvents, characterized in that the weight ratio of process auxiliary to polymeric binder is within a range from 3:10 to 0.1:20. |
| US11502299B2 |
Battery cell engineering and design to reach high energy
Improved high energy capacity designs for lithium ion batteries are described that take advantage of the properties of high specific capacity anode active compositions and high specific capacity cathode active compositions. In particular, specific electrode designs provide for achieving very high energy densities. Furthermore, the complex behavior of the active materials is used advantageously in a radical electrode balancing design that significantly reduced wasted electrode capacity in either electrode when cycling under realistic conditions of moderate to high discharge rates and/or over a reduced depth of discharge. |
| US11502296B2 |
Process for making a mixed metal oxide
A process for making a mixed metal oxide, may involve: (a) providing a hydroxide or oxyhydroxide of TM with an average particle diameter (D50) in the range of from 0.1 μm to 5 mm; (b) subjecting the hydroxide or oxyhydroxide of TM to a stream of gas with a temperature in the range of from 150 to 2000° C., wherein TM contains nickel and at least one further transition metal selected from cobalt and manganese. |
| US11502294B2 |
Solution and method for producing the same, and a method for producing active material, for secondary battery
A producing method of a solution that contains lithium, at least one of a niobium complex and a titanium complex, and ammonia, wherein an amount of the ammonia in the solution is 0.3 mass % or less. The solution is suitable for forming a coating layer capable of improving battery characteristics of an active material in a battery. |
| US11502292B2 |
Lithium-ion battery anode including preloaded lithium
An energy storage device includes a nano-structured cathode. The cathode includes a conductive substrate, an underframe and an active layer. The underframe includes structures such as nano-filaments and/or aerogel. The active layer optionally includes a catalyst disposed within the active layer, the catalyst being configured to catalyze the dissociation of cathode active material. |
| US11502291B2 |
Cathode active material for lithium secondary battery and method of manufacturing the same
A cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery includes a lithium metal oxide particle, and an organic poly-phosphate or an organic poly-phosphonate formed on at least portion of a surface of the lithium metal oxide particle. Chemical stability of the lithium metal oxide particle may be improved and surface residues may be reduced by the organic poly-phosphate or the organic poly-phosphonate. |
| US11502289B2 |
Carbon-sulfur composite, preparation method therefor, and lithium secondary battery comprising same
A carbon-sulfur composite including a carbonized metal-organic framework (MOF); and a sulfur compound introduced to at least a part of an outside surface and an inside of the carbonized metal-organic framework, wherein the carbonized metal-organic framework has a specific surface area of 1000 m2/g to 4000 m2/g, and the carbonized metal-organic framework has a pore volume of 0.1 cc/g to 10 cc/g, and a method for preparing the same. |
| US11502288B2 |
Method of preparing battery anode slurries
Provided herein is a method of preparing anode slurries of lithium-ion batteries. The silicon-based material is uniformly dispersed prior to mixing with other components of the anode slurry. The method disclosed herein is capable of avoiding agglomeration of nano-sized silicon-based material and effectively dispersing the nano-sized silicon-based material uniformly in anode slurries. Anodes coated with the anode slurries disclosed herein also show an improvement in the electrical conductivity. |
| US11502285B2 |
Rechargeable electrochemical cell and battery
A rechargeable electrochemical cell comprising a negative electrode and a positive electrode is described. The positive electrode comprises a product having as overall formula Lip(NixMnyCozMmAlnAa)O2±b, wherein M signifies one or more elements from the group Mg, Ti, Cr, V and Fe, wherein A signifies one or more elements from the group F, C, Cl, S, Zr, Ba, Y, Ca, B, Sn, Sb, Na and Zn, and wherein 0.9<(x+y+z+m+n+a)<1.1, b<0.02, 0.9 |
| US11502281B2 |
Method for manufacturing electrooptical device comprising cutting a substrate with a laser beam, method for manufacturing organic electroluminescence device, organic electroluminescence device, and electronic apparatus
A method for manufacturing an electro-optical device according to the present disclosure includes bonding a counter substrate to a substrate, cutting a first portion by irradiation of a laser beam, and removing the first portion, wherein during cutting of the first portion, a first surface and a second surface sandwiching the first portion in plan view are formed by the irradiation of the laser beam, one or both of the first surface and the second surface is inclined with respect to a first plate surface, and a first distance between the first surface and the second surface in the first plate surface is greater than a second distance between the first surface and the second surface in a second plate surface, on the substrate side, of the counter substrate. |
| US11502276B2 |
Organic electroluminescent element and light-emitting device
An organic electroluminescent element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic compound layer disposed between the first and second electrodes. A protective layer and a planarization layer are disposed in this order on the light emission side of whichever of the first and second electrodes is closer to the light emission side. A surface of the protective layer adjacent to the planarization layer has an uneven shape. The planarization layer is in contact with the protective layer. A surface of the planarization layer away from the protective layer is flat. The refractive index of the planarization layer is equal to or lower than that of the protective layer and equal to or higher than that of a light emission medium in contact with the planarization layer. |
| US11502272B2 |
Optical film having antistatic layers, optical film preparation method and organic light-emitting electronic device preparation method
The present application relates to an optical film, a method for preparing an optical film, and a method for manufacturing an organic light emitting electronic device. |
| US11502267B2 |
Inorganic light emitting diode and inorganic light emitting device including the same
An inorganic light emitting diode in which at least one energy control layer including an organometallic compound interacting with a hydroxyquinoline moiety is disposed between an emitting material layer and at least one charge transfer layer and an inorganic light emitting device including the diode are disclosed. An exciton recombination zone is formed at the central region in the EML, and inorganic luminescent particles have minimal surface defects by introducing the energy control layer. The inorganic light emitting diode and the inorganic light emitting device can improve their color purity and luminous efficiency. |
| US11502266B2 |
Light emitting element comprising quantum dots and method for producing light emitting element
Alight-emitting element includes an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, a light-emitting layer, a positive hole transport layer, and an electron transport layer. The light-emitting layer, the positive hole transport layer, and the electron transport layer are provided between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode. The light-emitting layer includes QD phosphor particles, a positive hole transport substance configured to transport positive holes transported thereto by the positive hole transport layer, an electron transport substance configured to transport electrons transported thereto by the electron transport layer, and a photosensitive host material. |
| US11502263B2 |
Wearable OLED illumination device
Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter may provide a wearable device that includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED) light source to output light. At least one emissive layer of the OLED light source of the wearable device may have a plurality of segments that are independently controllable to output the light at a duty cycle of less than 100%. The OLED light source of the wearable device may be encapsulated. |
| US11502261B2 |
Compound and organic light emitting device using the same
The present disclosure relates to a compound represented by Formula 1 and an organic light emitting device using the same. The compound used as a material of an organic material layer of the organic light emitting device provides improved efficiency, low driving voltage, and improved lifetime characteristic. |
| US11502260B2 |
Iridium complexes and their applications, as well as organic electroluminescent devices
Irridium complexes with molecular formula of L3Ir, together with application thereof and organic electroluminescent devices, wherein Ir is the central metal atom and L is a ligand. The structure of these complexes is of the following formula (I): Ar is selected from substituted or unsubstituted aryl groups with 6 to 30 carbon atoms, and substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic aryl groups with 4 to 30 carbon atoms. R1 to R7 are each independently selected from atoms or groups described herein. The substituent group on above-mentioned Ar or R1 to R7 is independently selected from F, Cl, Br, I, CHO, CN, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or cycloalkyl groups with 1 to 30 carbon atoms, fluoroalkyl groups, alkoxy groups, and thioalkoxy groups. |
| US11502256B2 |
Compound, coating composition comprising same, and organic light emitting diode
The present specification relates to a compound, a coating composition including the same, and an organic light emitting device. |
| US11502244B2 |
Magnetic element
A magnetic element is provided. The magnetic element includes a free magnetization layer having a surface area that is approximately 1,600 nm2 or less, the free magnetization layer including a magnetization state that is configured to be changed; an insulation layer coupled to the free magnetization layer, the insulation layer including a non-magnetic material; and a magnetization fixing layer coupled to the insulation layer opposite the free magnetization layer, the magnetization fixing layer including a fixed magnetization so as to be capable of serving as a reference of the free magnetization layer. |
| US11502242B2 |
Embedded memory devices
A semiconductor device includes a base structure of an embedded memory device including a bottom electrode contact (BEC) landing pad within a memory area of the embedded memory device and a first metallization level having at least a first conductive line within a logic area of the embedded memory device, a cap layer disposed on the base structure, a BEC disposed through the cap layer on the BEC landing pad, a memory pillar disposed on the BEC and the cap layer, encapsulation layers encapsulating the memory pillar to protect the memory stack, and a second metallization level including a second conductive line surrounding the top electrode, a via disposed on the first conductive line such that the second via is below the top electrode, and a third conductive line disposed on the via to enable the memory pillar to be fitted between the first and second metallization levels. |
| US11502240B2 |
Structured actuators: shaped electroactive polymers
An actuator assembly includes a primary electrode, a secondary electrode overlapping at least a portion of the primary electrode, and an electroactive polymer layer disposed between the primary electrode and the secondary electrode, where the electroactive polymer layer includes a non-vertical (e.g., sloped) sidewall with respect to a major surface of at least one of the electrodes. The electroactive polymer layer may be characterized by a non-axisymmetric shape with respect to an axis that is oriented orthogonal to an electrode major surface. |
| US11502238B2 |
Mechanical integration of buttons for piezo-electric actuators
A piezo-electric actuator on the side of a mobile device will enable pressure exerted by the user to be sensed at the conventional button locations, while providing a haptic feedback. Unfortunately, mechanical integration of piezo-electric actuators at the side of a mobile device is challenging. A mobile device in accordance with the present disclosure comprises a PCB; an outer frame surrounding the PCB; and a switch. The switch comprises: a first piezo-electric actuator configured to generate a first actuator voltage signal in response to a first force applied by a user, and to generate a first haptic feedback to the user in response to a first haptic voltage signal transmitted from the controller thereto; and a first virtual button in the outer frame configured to transmit the first force to the first piezo-electric actuator, and to transmit the first haptic feedback to the user. |
| US11502237B2 |
Diode devices based on superconductivity
An electronic device (e.g., a diode) is provided that includes a substrate and a patterned layer of superconducting material disposed over the substrate. The patterned layer forms a first electrode, a second electrode, and a loop coupling the first electrode with the second electrode by a first channel and a second channel. The first channel and the second channel have different minimum widths. For a range of current magnitudes, when a magnetic field is applied to the patterned layer of superconducting material, the conductance from the first electrode to the second electrode is greater than the conductance from the second electrode to the first electrode. |
| US11502236B1 |
Systems and methods for forming thin bulk junction thermoelectric devices in package
This disclosure relates to an integrated thermoelectric cooler and methods for forming thereof. The integrated thermoelectric cooler can include a plurality of thermoelectric rods located between the detector substrate and a system interposer. The detector substrate and the system interposer can directly contact ends of the thermoelectric rods. The integrated thermoelectric cooler can be formed by forming the plurality of thermoelectric rods on reels, for example, and the plurality of thermoelectric rods can be thinned down to a certain height. The thermoelectric rods can be transferred and bonded to the system substrate. An overmold can be formed around the plurality of thermoelectric rods. The height of the overmold and thermoelectric rods can be thinned down to another height. The thermoelectric rods can be bonded to the detector substrate. In some examples, the overmold can be removed. |
| US11502233B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device comprises a target substrate, a micro semiconductor structure array, a conductor array, and a connection layer. The micro semiconductor structure array is disposed on the target substrate. The conductor array corresponds to the micro semiconductor structure array, and electrically connects the micro semiconductor structure array to a pattern circuit of the target substrate. The conductors of the conductor array are independent from one another. Each conductor is an integrated member formed by eutectic bonding a conductive pad of the target substrate and a conductive electrode of the corresponding one of the micro semiconductor structures of the micro semiconductor structure array. The connection layer connects the micro semiconductor structures to the target substrate. The connection layer excludes a conductive material. The connection layer contacts and surrounds the conductors, so that the connection layer and the conductors together form a one-layer structure. |
| US11502232B2 |
Pixel structure
A pixel structure including a substrate, a first conductor, a second conductor, and a plurality of dies is provided. The first conductor is disposed on the substrate and includes a plurality of first body portions extending along a first direction, a plurality of first branch portions extending along a second direction, and a plurality of second branch portions extending along the first direction. The second conductor is disposed on the substrate and includes a plurality of second body portions extending along the second direction and a plurality of third branch portions extending along the first direction. The die includes two electrodes, wherein the first branch portions are connected between the first body portions and the second branch portions, and the two electrodes are respectively connected to the first branch portions and the second body portions or respectively connected to the second branch portions and the third branch portions. |
| US11502226B2 |
Light emitting device
A light emitting device includes a light emitting element having an emission peak wavelength in a range of 380 nm to 420 nm and a fluorescent member including at least one fluorescent material that is excited by light from the light emitting element for light emission, wherein a mixture of light from the light emitting element and light from the fluorescent material has a correlated color temperature in a range of 2000 K to 7500 K as measured according to JIS Z8725, and the light emitting device has a spectral distribution in which, when the integral value over a wavelength range of 380 nm to 780 nm is normalized to 100%, the proportion of an integral value over a wavelength range of 380 nm to 420 nm is 15% or more, and the ratio a as defined by the expression (1) is 0.9 or more and 1.6 or less. |
| US11502225B2 |
Light-emitting device and light-emitting device structure
A light-emitting device includes an epitaxial structure, and first and second electrodes. The epitaxial structure has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other, first dislocation density regions and second dislocation density regions. The first dislocation density regions and the second dislocation density regions are alternately disposed between the first surface and the second surface. A dislocation density of each first dislocation density region is lower than a dislocation density of each second dislocation density region and a quantity of the first dislocation density regions is at least ten. The epitaxial structure further includes a light-emitting layer, a first-type semiconductor layer and a second-type semiconductor layer disposed on two opposite sides of the light-emitting layer. The first electrode and the second electrode are electrically connected to the first-type semiconductor layer and the second-type semiconductor layer, respectively. A light-emitting device structure adopting the light-emitting device is provided. |
| US11502216B2 |
Method of manufacturing photo sensor
A method of manufacturing a photo sensor includes forming a first conductive layer on a substrate, the first conductive layer including a metal layer and a transparent conductive oxide layer formed on the metal layer, forming a photoconductive layer on the first conductive layer, forming a second conductive layer on the photoconductive layer, forming a first photoresist pattern on the second conductive layer, etching the second conductive layer using the first photoresist pattern as an etch mask to form a second electrode, deforming the first photoresist pattern to form a second photoresist pattern, and etching the photoconductive layer and the first conductive layer using the second photoresist pattern to form a photoconductive pattern and a first electrode, respectively. |
| US11502214B2 |
Photodetectors used with broadband signal
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to photodetectors used with a broadband signal and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a first photodetector; a second photodetector adjacent to the first photodetector; a first airgap of a first size under the first photodetector structured to detect a first wavelength of light; and a second airgap of a second size under the second photodetector structured to detect a second wavelength of light. |
| US11502212B2 |
Photovoltaic devices and semiconductor layers with group V dopants and methods for forming the same
A photovoltaic device (100) can include an absorber layer (160). The absorber layer (160) can be doped p-type with a Group V dopant and can have a carrier concentration of the Group V dopant greater than 4×1015 cm−3. The absorber layer (160) can include oxygen in a central region of the absorber layer (160). The absorber layer (160) can include an alkali metal in the central region of the absorber layer (160). Methods for carrier activation can include exposing an absorber layer (160) to an annealing compound in a reducing environment (220). The annealing compound (224) can include cadmium chloride and an alkali metal chloride. |
| US11502211B2 |
Fingerprint identification structure and display panel
A fingerprint identification structure and a display panel are disclosed. display panel includes a fingerprint identification structure. The fingerprint identification structure includes a light energy switch and a thermosensitive light path adjustment structure. The light energy switch is configured to switch from an open circuit to a closed circuit under light irradiation. The thermosensitive light path adjustment structure is connected to a surface of the light energy switch, is able to transmit light internally, and is configured to adjust a light path of light to drive the light to irradiate the light energy switch when receiving a heat source. |
| US11502203B2 |
Coating liquid for forming metal oxide film, oxide film, field-effect transistor, and method for producing the same
A coating liquid for forming a metal oxide film, the coating liquid including: a metal source, which is at least one selected from the group consisting of inorganic salts, oxides, hydroxides, metal complexes, and organic acid salts; at least one alkali selected from the group consisting of organic alkalis and inorganic alkalis; and a solvent. |
| US11502198B2 |
Structure and method for integrated circuit
The present disclosure provides many different embodiments of an IC device. The IC device includes a gate stack disposed over a surface of a substrate and a spacer disposed along a sidewall of the gate stack. The spacer has a tapered edge that faces the surface of the substrate while tapering toward the gate stack. Therefore the tapered edge has an angle with respect to the surface of the substrate. |
| US11502197B2 |
Source and drain epitaxial layers
The present disclosure is directed to semiconductor structures with source/drain epitaxial stacks having a low-melting point top layer and a high-melting point bottom layer. For example, a semiconductor structure includes a gate structure disposed on a fin and a recess formed in a portion of the fin not covered by the gate structure. Further, the semiconductor structure includes a source/drain epitaxial stack disposed in the recess, where the source/drain epitaxial stack has bottom layer and a top layer with a higher activated dopant concentration than the bottom layer. |
| US11502194B2 |
MOSFET manufacturing method
An MOSFET manufacturing method, comprising: etching an oxide layer and a silicon nitride layer on a first conductivity type well region, and forming an opening exposing the first conductivity type well region; etching the first conductivity type well region to form a first trench; depositing a medium oxide layer and performing back etching; etching the first conductivity type well region to form a second trench that is connected to the first trench, and forming a grid on an inner wall of the second trench, forming a second conductivity type well region in the first conductivity type well region at the bottom of the second trench, and forming a source in the second conductivity type well region; and removing the oxide layer and the silicon nitride layer, and forming a drain at the first conductivity type well region outside of the trench. |
| US11502190B2 |
Vertical power semiconductor device, semiconductor wafer or bare-die arrangement, carrier, and method of manufacturing a vertical power semiconductor device
A vertical power semiconductor device is described. The vertical power semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body having a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface. A thickness of the semiconductor body between the first main surface and the second main surface ranges from 40 μm to 200 μm. Active device elements are formed in the semiconductor body at the first main surface. Edge termination elements at least partly surround the active device elements at the first main surface. A diffusion region extends into the semiconductor body from the second main surface. A doping concentration profile of the diffusion region decreases from a peak concentration Ns at the second main surface to a concentration Ns/e, e being Euler's number, over a vertical distance ranging from 1 μm to 5 μm. |
| US11502189B2 |
Charge storage and sensing devices and methods
Charge storage and sensing devices having a tunnel diode operable to sense charges stored in a charge storage structure are provided. In some embodiments, a device includes a substrate, a charge storage device on the substrate, and tunnel diode on the substrate adjacent to the charge storage device. The tunnel diode includes a tunnel diode dielectric layer on the substrate, and a tunnel diode electrode on the tunnel diode dielectric layer. A substrate electrode is disposed on the doped region of the substrate, and the tunnel diode electrode is positioned between the charge storage device and the substrate electrode. |
| US11502188B2 |
Apparatus and method for boosting signal in magnetoelectric spin orbit logic
An apparatus is provided to improve spin injection efficiency from a magnet to a spin orbit coupling material. The apparatus comprises: a first magnet; a second magnet adjacent to the first magnet; a first structure comprising a tunneling barrier; a third magnet adjacent to the first structure; a stack of layers, a portion of which is adjacent to the third magnet, wherein the stack of layers comprises spin-orbit material; and a second structure comprising magnetoelectric material, wherein the second structure is adjacent to the first magnet. |
| US11502185B2 |
Methods of manufacturing a gate electrode having metal layers with different average grain sizes
A method includes forming a dummy gate stack over a semiconductor region, removing the dummy gate stack to form a trench between gate spacers, forming a replacement gate dielectric extending into the trench, and forming a replacement gate electrode on the replacement gate dielectric. The forming the replacement gate electrode includes depositing a metal-containing layer. The depositing the metal-containing layer includes depositing a lower layer having a first average grain size, and depositing an upper layer over the lower layer. The lower layer and the upper layer are formed of a same material, and the upper layer has a second average grain size greater than the first average grain size. Source and drain regions are formed on opposing sides of the replacement gate electrode. |
| US11502183B2 |
Air gap in inner spacers and methods of fabricating the same in field-effect transistors
A semiconductor structure includes a stack of semiconductor layers disposed over a substrate, a metal gate stack having a top portion disposed over the stack of semiconductor layers and a bottom portion interleaved with the stack of semiconductor layers, an inner spacer disposed on sidewalls of the bottom portion of the metal gate stack, an air gap enclosed in the inner spacer, and an epitaxial source/drain (S/D) feature disposed over the inner spacer and adjacent to the metal gate stack. |
| US11502181B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same
The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a gate structure positioned on the substrate, and a plurality of word lines positioned apart from the gate structure, wherein a top surface of the gate structure and top surfaces of the plurality of word lines are at a same vertical level. |
| US11502178B2 |
Field effect transistor with at least partially recessed field plate
A transistor device includes a semiconductor layer, a surface dielectric layer on the semiconductor layer, and at least a portion of a gate on the surface dielectric layer. The surface dielectric layer includes an aperture therein that is laterally spaced apart from the gate. The transistor device includes an interlayer dielectric layer on the surface dielectric layer, and a field plate on the interlayer dielectric layer. The field plate is laterally spaced apart from the gate, and at least a portion of the field plate includes a recessed portion above the aperture in the surface dielectric layer. |
| US11502176B2 |
Semiconductor device with ferroelectric aluminum nitride
Techniques in accordance with embodiments described herein are directed to semiconductor devices including a layer of aluminum nitride AlN or aluminum gallium nitride AlGaN as a ferroelectric layer and a method of making a thin film of AlN/AlGaN that possesses ferroelectric properties. In a ferroelectric transistor, a thin film of AlN/AlGaN that exhibits ferroelectric properties is formed between a gate electrode and a second semiconductor layer, e.g., of GaN. |
| US11502175B2 |
GaN/diamond wafers
Wafers including a diamond layer and a semiconductor layer having III-Nitride compounds and methods for fabricating the wafers are provided. A nucleation layer, at least one semiconductor layer having III-Nitride compound and a protection layer are formed on a silicon substrate. Then, a silicon carrier wafer is glass bonded to the protection layer. Subsequently the silicon substrate, nucleation layer and a portion of the semiconductor layer are removed. Then, an intermediate layer, a seed layer and a diamond layer are sequentially deposited on the III-Nitride layer. Next, a substrate wafer that includes a glass substrate (or a silicon substrate covered by a protection layer) is glass bonded to the diamond layer. Then, the silicon carrier wafer and the protection layer are removed. |
| US11502172B2 |
Semiconductor device with carbon-density-decreasing region
A semiconductor device includes a SiC semiconductor layer that has a carbon density of 1.0×1022 cm−3 or more, a SiO2 layer that is formed on the SiC semiconductor layer and that has a connection surface contiguous to the SiC semiconductor layer and a non-connection surface positioned on a side opposite to the connection surface, a carbon-density-decreasing region that is formed at a surface layer portion of the connection surface of the SiO2 layer and in which a carbon density gradually decreases toward the non-connection surface of the SiO2 layer, and a low carbon density region that is formed at a surface layer portion of the non-connection surface of the SiO2 layer and that has a carbon density of 1.0×1019 cm−3 or less. |
| US11502168B2 |
Tuning threshold voltage in nanosheet transitor devices
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated chip that includes a first nanosheet field effect transistor (NSFET). The first NSFET includes a first nanosheet channel structure arranged over a substrate, a second nanosheet channel structure arranged directly over the first nanosheet channel structure, and a first gate electrode structure. The first and second nanosheet channel structures extend in parallel between first and second source/drain regions. The first gate electrode structure includes a first conductive ring and a second conductive ring that completely surround outer sidewalls of the first nanosheet channel structure and the second nanosheet channel structure, respectively, and that comprise a first material. The first gate electrode structure also includes a passivation layer that completely surrounds the first and second conductive rings, is arranged directly between the first and second nanosheet channel structures, and comprises a second material different than the first material. |
| US11502164B2 |
Method of manufacturing semiconductor integrated circuit
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit includes forming a body region having a second conductivity type in an upper portion of a support layer having a first conductivity type and forming a well region having a second conductivity type in an upper portion of the support layer. An output side buried layer is formed inside the body region and a circuit side buried layer is formed inside the well region. A trench is dug to penetrate through the body region and a control electrode structure is buried in the gate trench. First and second terminal regions are formed on the well region and an output terminal region is formed on the body region. An output stage element having the output terminal region is controlled by a circuit element including the first and second terminal regions. |
| US11502159B2 |
Touch display panel and display device
Provided are a touch display panel and a display device. The touch display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate. In a non-display area, multiple first conductive structures and multiple metal wires are configured on one side of the first substrate facing to the second substrate, and multiple second conductive structures are configured on one side of the second substrate facing to the first substrate. Each first conductive structure is electrically connected to a respective second conductive structure. Each first conductive structure includes a first transmit electrode and a first gasket structure that is disposed between the first transmit electrode and the first substrate. The first transmit electrode is electrically connected to a metal wire and the respective one second conductive structure. The first gasket structure includes multiple first recessed portions. |
| US11502158B2 |
Display device including fan-out wiring arranged in peripheral area adjacent to display area and also being disposed in sealing area surrounding display area
A display device includes an array substrate including a pixel array disposed in a display area, and a fan-out wiring disposed in a peripheral area adjacent to the display area. The fan-out wiring is disposed in a sealing area surrounding the display area. The display device includes a cover substrate combined with the array substrate by a sealing member disposed in the sealing area. The fan-out wiring includes a first fan-out line, a second fan-out line, and a third fan-out line, which are disposed in different layers in a first peripheral area between the display area and the sealing area. The first fan-out line and the second fan-out line are disposed in a same layer in the sealing area, and the first fan-out line and the third fan-out line are disposed in different layers in the sealing area. |
| US11502151B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a substrate, data lines arranged on the substrate, the data lines to which data voltages are applied, scan lines arranged on the substrate, the scan lines to which scan signals are applied, and a pixel connected to one of the data lines and at least one of the scan lines. The pixel includes a light emitting element, a driving transistor which supplies a driving current flowing between a first electrode and a second electrode to the light emitting element in accordance with the data voltage of the data line applied to a gate electrode, a first transistor between the gate electrode and second electrode of the driving transistor, a shielding electrode overlapping at least a part of the first transistor in a thickness direction of the substrate. The shielding electrode does not overlap the data lines in the thickness direction of the substrate. |
| US11502142B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a substrate; a transistor on the substrate; a first electrode electrically connected to the transistor; a pixel defining layer on the first electrode, the pixel defining layer including a pixel opening overlapping the first electrode; an emission layer and a second electrode overlapping the first electrode; a touch electrode on the second electrode; a first low refraction layer and a second low refraction layer overlapping the touch electrode; and a high refraction layer on the second low refraction layer. The first low refraction layer includes a first opening. The second low refraction layer includes a second opening. The first opening, the second opening, and the pixel opening have different widths in a first diagonal direction. |
| US11502141B2 |
Input sensing device and display device having the same
A display device including a display panel including pixels that emit light on a frame basis. An input sensing unit includes driving electrodes and sensing electrodes. A driving signal generator is configured to provide driving signals to the driving electrodes. Analog front-ends are configured to receive sensing signals depending on the driving signals from the sensing electrodes. A signal processor is configured to detect touch input, based on differential output values of the analog front-ends. The driving signal generator provides the driving signals to the driving electrodes while avoiding a period in which a pulse of a vertical synchronization signal defining start of the frame is generated. |
| US11502140B2 |
Display apparatus
A display apparatus including an organic light-emitting display panel and a touch sensing unit disposed on the organic light-emitting display panel is disclosed. The touch sensing unit includes a touch electrode and a wiring part connected to the touch electrode. The wiring part of the touch sensing unit passes a protruding member disposed on a non-display region of the organic light-emitting display panel, and forms a first wiring part which does not overlap the protruding member, a second wiring part overlapping the protruding part, and a connection wiring part disposed between the first and second wiring parts and having a wiring width less than the first and second wiring parts so as to overlap an edge of the protruding member. |
| US11502138B2 |
Electronic substrate, manufacturing method thereof, and display panel
An electronic substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display panel are provided. The electronic substrate includes a base substrate as well as a photosensitive unit and a touch structure which are provided on the base substrate. The photosensitive unit includes a first electrode layer, and the touch structure includes a first touch electrode layer. The first electrode layer and the first touch electrode layer are in a same first conductive layer and made of a same material, and the first electrode layer and the first touch electrode layer insulated from each other. |
| US11502137B2 |
Display substrate, organic light emitting device and display device with vapor-deposited organic film layers
Disclosed is a display substrate, comprising a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area. At least one limit mark group is disposed in the non-display area; the display area has a plurality of sides, and rounded chamfers are formed between adjacent two sides; the non-display area includes a frame part opposite to the sides of the display area and corner parts opposite to the rounded chamfers; and the limit mark group is located at the corner part. Accordingly, the disclosure also provides an organic light emitting device, a film vapor-deposition detecting method of an organic light emitting device, and a display device. According to the disclosure, it is possible to reduce the display defect and the accuracy of film vapor-deposition detection. |
| US11502126B2 |
Integrated circuit and fabrication method thereof
A method for fabricating an integrated circuit is provided. The method includes depositing an etch stop layer over an interconnect layer having a conductive feature; depositing a protective layer over the etch stop layer; depositing a first dielectric layer over the protective layer; etching a via opening in the first dielectric layer, wherein the protective layer has a higher etch resistance to etching the via opening than that of the first dielectric layer; etching a portion of the protective layer exposed by the via opening; etching a portion of the etch stop layer exposed by the via opening, such that the via opening exposes the conductive feature; forming a bottom electrode via in the via opening; and forming a memory stack over the bottom electrode via. |
| US11502123B2 |
Methods for forming image sensor devices
A method includes forming a dielectric layer over a first surface of a semiconductor layer, the dielectric layer including a metallization layer. The method includes forming an opening to expose a portion of the dielectric layer. The method includes forming a buffer oxide layer lining the opening. The method includes forming, according to a patternable layer, a recess in the buffer oxide layer partially extending from a second surface of the buffer oxide layer. The method includes removing the patternable layer. The method includes extending the recess through the buffer oxide layer and a portion of the dielectric layer to expose a portion of the metallization layer. The method includes filling the recess with a conductive material to form a pad structure configured to provide electrical connection to the metallization layer. |
| US11502108B2 |
Display device and method of manufacturing the same
A display device includes a base substrate including a display area and a bending area bent from the display area, the bending area including a central area, and an edge area positioned at a side of the central area, a pixel structure disposed in the display area on the base substrate, an inorganic pattern disposed in the central area on the base substrate, and an organic pattern disposed on the inorganic pattern, overlapping the inorganic pattern, and contacting the base substrate in the edge area. |
| US11502105B2 |
Semiconductor structure and a method for manufacturing the same
A semiconductor structure and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The method includes: forming a silicide layer, forming a vertical Si channel layer, wherein the vertical Si channel layer is on an upper surface of the silicide layer, the vertical Si channel layer has a first silicon phase; performing a first annealing step so as to move the silicide layer upward and change a solid phase of the vertical Si channel layer from the first silicon phase to a second silicon phase at an interface of the silicide layer and the vertical Si channel layer, wherein the second silicon phase has a conductivity higher than a conductivity of the first silicon phase. |
| US11502104B2 |
Antiferroelectric memory devices and methods of making the same
An antiferroelectric memory device includes at least one antiferroelectric memory cell. Each of the at least one antiferroelectric memory cell includes a first electrode, a second electrode and a stack containing an antiferroelectric layer and a doped semiconductor layer or a ferroelectric layer located between the first and the second electrodes. |
| US11502102B2 |
Three-dimensional memory devices and fabrication methods thereof
Embodiments of a method for forming a three-dimensional (3D) memory device includes the following operations. First, a channel hole is formed in a stack structure of a plurality first layers and a plurality of second layers alternatingly arranged over a substrate. A semiconductor channel is formed by filling the channel hole with a channel-forming structure. The plurality of first layers is removed. A plurality of conductor layers is formed from the plurality of second layers. Further, a gate-to-gate dielectric layer is formed between the adjacent conductor layers, the gate-to-gate dielectric layer including at least one sub-layer of silicon oxynitride. |
| US11502101B2 |
3D semiconductor memory device and method of fabricating same
A semiconductor memory device includes; a lower stacked structure including lower metallic lines stacked in a first direction on a substrate, an upper stacked structure including a first upper metallic line and a second upper metallic line sequentially stacked on the lower stacked structure, a vertical structure penetrating the upper stacked structure and lower stacked structure and including a channel film, a connection pad disposed on the vertical structure, contacted with the channel film and doped with N-type impurities, a first cutting line cutting the lower metallic lines, the first upper metallic line and the second upper metallic line, a second cutting line spaced apart from the first cutting line in a second direction different from the first direction, and cutting the lower metallic lines, the first upper metallic line and the second upper metallic line, and sub-cutting lines cutting the first upper metallic line and the second upper metallic line between the first cutting line and the second cutting line. The channel film includes an undoped channel region and a doping channel region, and the doping channel region contacts the connection pad and overlaps a part of the second upper metallic line in the second direction. |
| US11502098B2 |
Methods for forming three-dimensional memeory devices with drain-select-gate cut structures
Embodiments of structures and methods for forming three-dimensional (3D) memory devices are provided. In an example, a 3D memory device includes a core region and a staircase region. The staircase region includes a plurality of stairs each has at least a conductor/dielectric pair extending in a lateral direction. The staircase region includes a drain-select-gate (DSG) cut structure extending along the lateral direction and a vertical direction, and a plurality of support structures extending in the DSG structure along the vertical direction. Of at least one of the support structures, a dimension along the lateral direction is greater than a dimension along a second lateral direction perpendicular to the lateral direction. |
| US11502097B2 |
Integrated circuit device and method of manufacturing the same
An integrated circuit device includes a channel layer in a channel hole penetrating a conductive line and an insulating layer, a charge trap pattern inside the channel hole between the conductive line and the channel layer, and a dummy charge trap pattern inside the channel hole between the insulating layer and the channel layer. In order to manufacture the integrated circuit device, a channel hole penetrating an insulating layer and a mold layer is formed. A mold indent connected to the channel hole is formed. A preliminary dielectric pattern is formed in the mold indent. The preliminary dielectric pattern is oxidized to form a first blocking dielectric pattern. A charge trap layer is formed in the channel hole. The mold layer is removed to form a conductive space. A portion of the charge trap layer is removed to form charge trap patterns and dummy charge trap patterns. |
| US11502095B2 |
3D semiconductor device, structure and methods
A 3D device, the device including: at least a first level including logic circuits; at least a second level including an array of memory cells; at least a third level including special circuits; and at least a fourth level including special connectivity structures, where the special connectivity structures include one of the following: a. waveguides, or b. differential signaling, or c. radio frequency transmission lines, or d. Surface Waves Interconnect (SWI) lines, and where the third level includes Radio Frequency (“RF”) circuits to drive the special connectivity structures, where the second level overlays the first level, where the third level overlays the second level, and where the fourth level overlays the third level. |
| US11502094B2 |
Multi-level vertical memory device including inter-level channel connector
A semiconductor device includes a string of transistors stacked along a vertical direction above a substrate of the semiconductor device. The string can include a first substring, a channel connector disposed above the first substring, and a second substring. The first substring includes a first channel structure having a first channel layer and a first gate dielectric structure that extend along the vertical direction. The second substring is stacked above the channel connector, and has a second channel structure that includes a second channel layer and a second gate dielectric structure that extend along the vertical direction. The channel connector, electrically coupling the first and the second channel layer, is disposed below the second gate dielectric structure to enable formation of a conductive path in a bottom region of the second channel layer. The bottom region is associated with a lowermost transistor in the second substring. |
| US11502092B2 |
Semiconductor memory device and method for manufacturing the same
A semiconductor memory device includes a stack structure including a plurality of first dielectric layers alternately stacked with a plurality of second dielectric layers over a first substrate in a coupling region, and including a plurality of electrode layers alternately stacked with the plurality of first dielectric layers over the first substrate outside the coupling region; and a plurality of vias passing through the stack structure in a first direction that is perpendicular to a top surface of the first substrate and disposed at edges of the coupling region to define an etch barrier. Each of the plurality of vias comprising: a pillar portion extending in the first direction; and a plurality of extended portions, extending radially from an outer circumference of the pillar portion and parallel to the top surface of the first substrate, that are coextensive in the first direction with the plurality of second dielectric layers. |
| US11502088B2 |
Layout pattern of static random access memory and the manufacturing method thereof
A layout pattern of static random access memory at least includes a substrate, a plurality of fin structures on the substrate, a plurality of gate structures on the substrate and spanning the fin structures to form a plurality of transistors distributed on the substrate, the plurality of transistors include, a first pull-up transistor PU1, a first pull-down transistor PD1, a second pull-up transistor PU2, a second pull-down transistor PD2, a first pass gate transistor PG1, a second pass gate transistor PG2, a first read transistor RPD and a second read transistor RPG, and an additional fin structure, the additional fin structure is located between the fin structure of the first pass gate transistor PG1 and the fin structure of the second read transistor RPG. |
| US11502084B2 |
Three-dimensional semiconductor memory device
A three-dimensional semiconductor memory device includes first semiconductor patterns, which are vertically spaced apart from each other on a substrate, each of which includes first and second end portions spaced apart from each other, and first and second side surfaces spaced apart from each other to connect the first and second end portions, first and second source/drain regions disposed in each of the first semiconductor patterns and adjacent to the first and second end portions, respectively, a channel region in each of the first semiconductor patterns and between the first and second source/drain regions, a first word line adjacent to the first side surfaces and the channel regions and vertically extended, and a gate insulating layer interposed between the first word line and the first side surfaces. The gate insulating layer may be extended to be interposed between the first source/drain regions. |
| US11502081B2 |
Semiconductor device and method
In an embodiment, a device includes: a channel region; a gate dielectric layer on the channel region; a first work function tuning layer on the gate dielectric layer, the first work function tuning layer including a n-type work function metal; a barrier layer on the first work function tuning layer; a second work function tuning layer on the barrier layer, the second work function tuning layer including a p-type work function metal, the p-type work function metal different from the n-type work function metal; and a fill layer on the second work function tuning layer. |
| US11502079B2 |
Integrated device comprising a CMOS structure comprising well-less transistors
An integrated device that includes a substrate, a first transistor, and a second transistor. The second transistor is configured to be coupled to the first transistor. The first transistor is configured to operate as a N-type channel metal oxide semiconductor transistor (NMOS) transistor. The first transistor includes a dielectric layer disposed over the substrate; a first source disposed over the dielectric layer; a first drain disposed over the dielectric layer; a first plurality of channels coupled to the first source and the first drain; and a first gate surrounding the plurality of channels. The second transistor is configured to operate as a P-type channel metal oxide semiconductor transistor (PMOS). The second transistor includes the dielectric layer; a second source disposed over the dielectric layer; a second drain disposed over the dielectric layer; a second plurality of channels coupled to the second source and the second drain; and a second gate. |
| US11502074B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor part, first and second electrodes, and a control electrode. The semiconductor part is provided between the first and second electrodes. The control electrode is provided in a trench of the semiconductor part between the semiconductor part and the second electrode. The semiconductor part includes first to third layers. The first layer of a first conductivity type extends between the first and second electrodes. The second layer of a second conductivity type is provided between the first layer and the second electrode. The second layer is connected to the second electrode. The third layer of the second conductivity type is provided between the second layer and the control electrode. The third layer includes a second-conductivity-type impurity with a higher concentration than a second-conductivity-type impurity of the second layer. The third layer contacts the second electrode, and is electrically connected to the second electrode. |
| US11502068B2 |
Semiconductor device package having galvanic isolation and method therefor
A semiconductor device package having galvanic isolation is provided. The semiconductor device includes a package substrate having a first inductive coil formed from a first conductive layer and a second inductive coil formed from a second conductive layer. The first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are separated by a non-conductive material. A first semiconductor die is attached to a first major side of the package substrate. The first semiconductor die is conductively interconnected to the first inductive coil. A second semiconductor die is attached to the first major side of the package substrate. A first wireless communication link between the first semiconductor die and the second semiconductor die is formed by way of the first and second inductive coils. |
| US11502065B2 |
Display device
A method of manufacturing a display apparatus including steps of forming a plurality of light emitting diode chips spaced apart from one another at a predetermined interval on a first manufacturing substrate and transferring the light emitting diode chips to a second manufacturing substrate by laser irradiation, in which the light emitting diode chips include a light emitting structure including a first-type semiconductor layer and a second-type semiconductor layer, a first-type electrode disposed on the first-type semiconductor layer, and a second-type electrode disposed on the second-type semiconductor layer. |
| US11502064B2 |
Power semiconductor module having a current sensor module fixed with potting material
Described is a power semiconductor module that includes: a frame made of an electrically insulative material; a first substrate seated in the frame; a plurality of power semiconductor dies attached to the first substrate; a plurality of signal pins attached to the first substrate and electrically connected to the power semiconductor dies; a busbar extending from the first substrate through a side face of the frame; a current sensor module seated in a receptacle of the frame in sensing proximity of the busbar, the current sensor module including a current sensor attached to a circuit board; and a potting material fixing the current sensor module to the frame such that no air gap is present between the current sensor and the busbar. The potting material contacts the frame and the current sensor. Methods of producing the power semiconductor module are also described. |
| US11502061B2 |
Semiconductor package
A semiconductor package includes a package substrate, a lower semiconductor chip on the package substrate, an interposer on the lower semiconductor chip, the interposer including a plurality of pieces spaced apart from each other, an upper semiconductor chip on the interposer, and a molding member covering the lower semiconductor chip and the interposer. |
| US11502055B2 |
Assembly apparatus for assembling semiconductor light emitting diode to display panel
Discussed is an assembly apparatus for assembling a semiconductor light emitting diode to a display panel, the assembly apparatus including an assembly module including at least one magnetic member and a magnetic member accommodator having at least one magnetic member accommodation hole, and a rotary module connected to the assembly module to rotate the assembly module along an orbit. |
| US11502048B2 |
Semiconductor apparatus
A semiconductor apparatus includes an interconnect substrate which includes an antenna module region in which an antenna and a semiconductor integrated circuit electrically connected to the antenna are disposed, and at least one evaluation region situated next to the antenna module region and used to evaluate characteristics of the antenna, wherein the at least one evaluation region has at least one slit formed therein such that the slit includes at least a portion, situated opposite the antenna, of a boundary line that separates the antenna module region and the evaluation region from each other. |
| US11502046B2 |
Semiconductor chip
Provided is a semiconductor chip, including: a semiconductor substrate; a thin film formed on the semiconductor substrate, the thin film having internal stress; and a semiconductor device formed on the semiconductor substrate that has the thin film formed thereon, wherein the semiconductor chip warps due to the internal stress of the thin film. |
| US11502044B2 |
Methods of manufacturing semiconductor device and semiconductor device
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a first interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer is formed over a substrate, a CMP stop layer is formed over the first ILD layer, a trench opening is formed by patterning the CMP stop layer and the first ILD layer, an underlying first process mark is formed by forming a first conductive layer in the trench opening, a lower dielectric layer is formed over the underlying first process mark, a middle dielectric layer is formed over the lower dielectric layer, an upper dielectric layer is formed over the middle dielectric layer, a planarization operation is performed on the upper, middle and lower dielectric layers so that a part of the middle dielectric layer remains over the underlying first process mark, and a second process mark by the lower dielectric layer is formed by removing the remaining part of the middle dielectric layer. |
| US11502038B2 |
Semiconductor structure having via through bonded wafers and manufacturing method thereof
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure having a first wafer including a first substrate, a first dielectric layer over the first substrate, and a first conductive pad surrounded by the first dielectric layer; a second wafer including a second dielectric layer, a second substrate over the second dielectric layer, and a second conductive pad surrounded by the second dielectric layer; a bonding dielectric disposed between the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer to bond the first dielectric layer with the second dielectric layer; and a conductive via extending from the first conductive pad and surrounded by the bonding dielectric, the second conductive pad and the second wafer. |
| US11502037B2 |
Zero-misalignment two-via structures using photoimageable dielectric, buildup film, and electrolytic plating
A device package and a method of forming a device package are described. The device package includes a dielectric on a conductive pad, and a first via on a first seed on a top surface of the conductive pad. The device package further includes a conductive trace on the dielectric, and a second via on a second seed layer on the dielectric. The conductive trace connects to the first via and the second via, where the second via connects to an edge of the conductive trace opposite from the first via. The dielectric may include a photoimageable dielectric or a buildup film. The device package may also include a seed on the dielectric prior to the conductive trace on the dielectric, and a second dielectric on the dielectric, the conductive trace, and the first and second vias, where the second dielectric exposes a top surface of the second via. |
| US11502036B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor layer, a first insulating film, and a conductive film. The semiconductor layer is formed on the semiconductor substrate. A first trench reaching the semiconductor substrate is formed within the semiconductor layer. The first insulating film is formed on the inner side surface of the first trench such that a portion of the semiconductor substrate is exposed in the first trench. The conductive film is electrically connected with the semiconductor substrate and formed on the inner side surface of the first trench through the first insulating film. In plan view, a first length of the first trench in an extending direction of the first trench is greater than a second length of the first trench in a width direction perpendicular to the extending direction, and equal to or less than 30 μm. |
| US11502032B2 |
Chip package and method of fabricating the same
A chip package including an integrated circuit component, a thermal conductive layer, an insulating encapsulant and a redistribution circuit structure is provided. The integrated circuit component includes an amorphous semiconductor portion located at a back surface thereof. The thermal conductive layer covers the amorphous semiconductor portion of the integrated circuit component, wherein thermal conductivity of the thermal conductive layer is greater than or substantially equal to 10 W/mK. The insulating encapsulant laterally encapsulates the integrated circuit component and the thermal conductive layer. The redistribution circuit structure is disposed on the insulating encapsulant and the integrated circuit component, wherein the redistribution circuit structure is electrically connected to the integrated circuit component. |
| US11502031B2 |
Multiple layer metal-insulator-metal (MIM) structure
An apparatus is provided, which includes a stack of a first plurality of layers interleaved with a second plurality of layers. In an example, the first plurality of layers includes conductive material, and the second plurality of layers includes insulating material. In an example, the first plurality of layers includes an upper layer and lower layer. A first via may extend through at least a portion of the stack, where the first via may be in contact with the upper layer and the lower layer. A second via may extend through at least a portion of the stack, where the second via may be isolated from the upper layer and lower layer. |
| US11502030B2 |
System and method of assembling a system
A substrate for a SIP is that has a portion of its top surface covered with spaced apart electrically conductive landing pads for electrical connection to components located on the surface and the landing pads serve as interconnection pads for making electrical connections between at least a portion of said pads when interconnected by a segment of bond wire to form at least a portion of the SIP. Methods for use of the universal substrate in SIP system design and manufacture of a SIP. |
| US11502029B2 |
Thin semiconductor chip using a dummy sidewall layer
The present disclosure provides devices and methods in which a semiconductor chip has a reduced size and thickness. The device is manufactured by utilizing a sacrificial or dummy silicon wafer. A recess is formed in the dummy silicon wafer where the semiconductor chip is mounted in the recess. The space between the dummy silicon wafer and the chip is filled with underfill material. The dummy silicon wafer and the backside of the chip are etched using any suitable etching process until the dummy silicon wafer is removed, and the thickness of the chip is reduced. With this process, the overall thickness of the semiconductor chip can be thinned down to less than 50 μm in some embodiments. The ultra-thin semiconductor chip can be incorporated in manufacturing flexible/rollable display panels, foldable mobile devices, wearable displays, or any other electrical or electronic devices. |
| US11502028B2 |
Semiconductor package including a wire and a method of fabricating the semiconductor package
A semiconductor package is described. The semiconductor packager includes a chip stack mounted over a package substrate, a first wire disposed over the package substrate, and a molding layer surrounding the chip stack and the first wire. The first wire has an acute angle. |
| US11502026B2 |
Transistor with flip-chip topology and power amplifier containing same
A semiconductor device includes a die body having a frontside and a transistor having an active area formed in the die body, the active area being bounded by an outer periphery. An interconnect structure is formed over the frontside of the die body and contains patterned electrically conductive material defining first, second, and third contacts electrically coupled to first, second, and third subregions, respectively, within the active area of the transistor. A frontside input/output (I/O) interface is formed in an outer portion of the interconnect structure. The frontside I/O interface contains first, second, and third contact pads, the first contact pad being electrically connected to the first contact, the second contact pad being electrically connected to the second contact, and the third contact pad being electrically connected the third contact, wherein the third contact pad is positioned at a location overlying the active area of the transistor. |
| US11502025B2 |
Semiconductor device with etch stop layer having greater thickness and method for fabricating the same
The present application discloses a semiconductor device with an etch stop layer having greater thickness and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor die including a first conductive layer, a first etch stop layer positioned on the first conductive layer, a second semiconductor die including a second conductive layer positioned above the first etch stop layer, a second etch stop layer positioned on the second conductive layer, a first through substrate via positioned along the second semiconductor die and the first etch stop layer, extended to the first semiconductor die, and positioned on the first conductive layer, and a second through substrate via extended to the second semiconductor die, positioned along the second etch stop layer, and positioned on the second conductive layer. A thickness of the second etch stop layer is greater than a thickness of the first etch stop layer. |
| US11502023B2 |
Semiconductor device with partition for refrigerant cooling
It is an object to reduce a difference in temperature of a refrigerant between an upstream side and a downstream side of a flow path even in a case where all semiconductor elements generate heat due to inverter operation and the like. A semiconductor device includes at least one semiconductor element, a base plate, a plurality of cooling fins, a jacket, and a partition. The partition is disposed below the plurality of cooling fins in the jacket. The partition has at least one inflow opening to allow the refrigerant having flowed in through the refrigerant inlet to flow through the plurality of cooling fins, and has a portion abutting the jacket on the side of the refrigerant inlet. The at least one inflow opening is located to correspond to the at least one semiconductor element. |
| US11502022B2 |
Heatsink, and semiconductor module including the heatsink
A refrigerant channel of a heatsink includes an upwardly inclined channel formed by a side wall for downstream side of a first protruding portion and a side wall for upstream side of a second protruding portion. The upwardly inclined channel directs a flow of the refrigerant toward a base portion of the fin and causes the refrigerant to flow into the fin region, because of which more refrigerant flows to the base portion than to a leading end portion of the fin, and a high heat dissipating performance is obtained. Also, the fin is a columnar body whose sectional form perpendicular to a central axis is a regular hexagon, has rounded portions in corner portions, and has tapers on side faces. Six fins are disposed neighboring one fin, and a distance between fins is constant. Because of this, the heat dissipating performance further improves, and pressure loss can be reduced. |
| US11502021B2 |
Flatpack thermoelectric air chiller with pre-cooling cycle
A flatpack air chiller device is disclosed. In embodiments, the air chiller device includes a primary chiller or pre-chiller subsystem and a secondary or main chiller subsystem within a housing. The pre-chiller subsystem receives and chills ambient air via cold-side contact with a primary thermoelectric device and directs the pre-chilled ambient airstream to the hot side of a secondary thermoelectric device. The secondary or main chiller subsystem is connected to a recirculating air stream, e.g., circulating through the interior airspaces, compartments, or bays of a galley structure. The pre-chilled ambient airstream absorbs heat from the secondary hot side to progressively chill the recirculating air stream, which is in contact with the cold side of the secondary thermoelectric device before recirculation back into the galley structure interior. |
| US11502019B2 |
Heat sink, heat dissipation apparatus, heat dissipation system, and communications device
One example heat sink includes a heat dissipation substrate, a connector, and a fastener. The heat dissipation substrate is configured to dissipate heat for a packaged chip located on a circuit board, and the heat dissipation substrate is located on a surface that is of the packaged chip and that is opposite to the circuit board. A first heat dissipation substrate and a second heat dissipation substrate of the heat dissipation substrate each have a heat conduction surface that conducts heat with a chip in the packaged chip. Different heat conduction surfaces correspond to different chips. |
| US11502015B2 |
Semiconductor package and manufacturing method thereof
Semiconductor package includes interposer, dies, encapsulant. Each die includes active surface, backside surface, side surfaces. Backside surface is opposite to active surface. Side surfaces join active surface to backside surface. Encapsulant includes first material and laterally wraps dies. Dies are electrically connected to interposer and disposed side by side on interposer with respective backside surfaces facing away from interposer. At least one die includes an outer corner. A rounded corner structure is formed at the outer corner. The rounded corner structure includes second material different from first material. The outer corner is formed by backside surface and a pair of adjacent side surfaces of the at least one die. The side surfaces of the pair have a common first edge. Each side surface of the pair does not face other dies and has a second edge in common with backside surface of the at least one die. |
| US11502012B2 |
Semiconductor packages and methods of manufacturing thereof
Semiconductor packages described herein include a thermal capacitor designed to absorb transient heat pulses from a power semiconductor die and subsequently release the transient heat pulses to a surrounding environment, and/or a recessed pad feature. Corresponding methods of production are also described. |
| US11502010B2 |
Module installation on printed circuit boards with embedded trace technology
Embodiments are generally directed to module installation on printed circuit boards with embedded trace technology. An embodiment of a printed circuit board includes one or more layers including a top layer; multiple embedded traces that are contained in an area of a surface of a first layer of the one or more layers of the printed circuit board; and a first module, the first module being installed on the plurality of printed traces in the area. |
| US11502006B2 |
Apparatuses having an interconnect extending from an upper conductive structure, through a hole in another conductive structure, and to an underlying structure
Some embodiments include an apparatus having a well region extending into a semiconductor substrate. A first conductive element is over the well region, and a second conductive element is over the first conductive element. A hole extends through the first conductive element. A connecting element extends from the second conductive element to the well region, and passes through the hole. |
| US11502005B2 |
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same
A method includes providing a structure having first and second fins over a substrate and oriented lengthwise generally along a first direction and source/drain (S/D) features over the first and second fins; forming an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer covering the S/D features; performing a first etching process at least to an area between the S/D features, thereby forming a trench in the ILD layer; depositing a dielectric material in the trench; performing a second etching process to selectively recess the dielectric material; and performing a third etching process to selectively recess the ILD layer, thereby forming a contact hole that exposes the S/D features. |
| US11502000B2 |
Bottom lateral expansion of contact plugs through implantation
A method includes forming a metallic feature, forming an etch stop layer over the metallic feature, implanting the metallic feature with a dopant, forming a dielectric layer over the etch stop layer, performing a first etching process to etch the dielectric layer and the etch stop layer to form a first opening, performing a second etching process to etch the metallic feature and to form a second opening in the metallic feature, wherein the second opening is joined with the first opening, and filling the first opening and the second opening with a metallic material to form a contact plug. |
| US11501994B2 |
Substrate processing apparatus including edge ring
A substrate processing apparatus includes a process chamber having a substrate input port, a support disposed in the process chamber and on which a substrate is mounted, an inner edge ring disposed adjacent to the support and having a smaller width than that of the substrate input port, and an outer edge ring disposed adjacent to the inner edge ring and having a greater width than that of the substrate input port. |
| US11501992B2 |
Vapor deposition mask and method for manufacturing same, vapor deposition mask device and method for manufacturing same, intermediate, vapor deposition method, and method for manufacturing organic EL display device
A vapor deposition mask includes a mask main body and a support joined to the mask main body. The mask main body has a first alignment mark whereas the support has a second alignment mark. The first alignment mark and the second alignment are provided at such positions as to overlap with each other in plan view, and either one of the alignment marks is larger than the other of the alignment marks. |
| US11501988B2 |
Conveyor system
A conveyor system for moving a plurality of targets is provided. The conveyor system includes at least one input group to input the target, at least one output group to output the target, and at least one bridge group to connect the input group with the output group. Each of the input group, the output group, and the bridge group includes a plurality of nodes having a size corresponding to a size of one target. The conveyor system further includes a control unit to align the target moving on the conveyor system. |
| US11501975B2 |
Substrate processing method and substrate processing apparatus
A substrate processing method includes a providing step, a forming step, and an etching step. In the providing step, a substrate including an etching target film, a first mask formed on the etching target film, and a second mask formed to cover at least a part of the first mask is provided. In the forming step, a protective film is formed on a side wall of the second mask by plasma generated from a first gas. In the etching step, the etching target film is etched with plasma generated from a second gas. |
| US11501971B2 |
Manufacturing method of silicon carbide semiconductor device and silicon carbide semiconductor device
A manufacturing method of a silicon carbide semiconductor device may include: forming a gate insulating film on a silicon carbide substrate; and forming a gate electrode on the gate insulating film. The forming of the gate insulating film may include forming an oxide film on the silicon carbide substrate by thermally oxidizing the silicon carbide substrate under a nitrogen atmosphere. |
| US11501970B2 |
Semiconductor device structure with a fine pattern
The present application discloses a semiconductor device structure. The semiconductor device structure includes a dielectric layer over a substrate, a first ring structure over the dielectric layer, and a second ring structure over the dielectric layer and surrounding the first ring structure, wherein the first and the second ring structures have a first common center. |
| US11501965B2 |
Plasma enhanced deposition processes for controlled formation of metal oxide thin films
Methods for depositing oxide thin films, such as metal oxide, metal silicates, silicon oxycarbide (SiOC) and silicon oxycarbonitride (SiOCN) thin films, on a substrate in a reaction space are provided. The methods can include at least one plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) cycle including alternately and sequentially contacting the substrate with a first reactant that comprises oxygen and a component of the oxide, and a second reactant comprising reactive species that does not include oxygen species. In some embodiments the plasma power used to generate the reactive species can be selected from a range to achieve a desired step coverage or wet etch rate ratio (WERR) for films deposited on three dimensional features. In some embodiments oxide thin films are selectively deposited on a first surface of a substrate relative to a second surface, such as on a dielectric surface relative to a metal or metallic surface. |
| US11501964B2 |
LED light bulb apparatus and LED light apparatus
A conductive structure comprising: a plurality of conductive devices; a first conductive spring sheet, comprising a first connecting point; and a second conductive spring sheet, comprising a second connecting point. Each of the conductive devices comprises a first conductive end and a second conductive end. The second conductive end is connected to the second connecting point, and the first conductive end is connected to the first connecting point corresponding to the second connecting point to which the second conductive end is connected. |
| US11501963B2 |
Excimer lamp and light irradiation device
An excimer lamp is such that that an interior of a discharge vessel is filled with a first gas including krypton (Kr) or xenon (Xe); a second gas including chlorine (Cl) or bromine (Br); and a third gas which is at least one species selected from among the group consisting of argon (Ar), neon (Ne), and helium (He), and which exhibits a partial pressure Pb that is not less than a partial pressure Plg of the first gas. |
| US11501961B2 |
Mass spectrometry by detecting positively and negatively charged particles
The disclosure features mass spectrometry systems and methods that include an ion source, an ion trap, a detector subsystem featuring first and second detector elements, and a controller electrically connected to the ion source, the ion trap, and the detector subsystem and configured so that during operation of the system, the controller: applies an electrical signal to the ion source to generate positively and negatively charged particles from sample particles in the system; applies an electrical signal to the ion trap to eject a plurality of particles from the ion trap through a common aperture of the ion trap, and determines information about the sample particles based on first and second electrical signals generated by the ejected particles. |
| US11501954B2 |
Dogbone inlet cone profile for remote plasma oxidation chamber
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to a processing chamber for conformal oxidation of high aspect ratio structures. The processing chamber includes a chamber body with a first side and a second side opposite the first side, and a flow assembly disposed in the first side. The flow assembly includes a flow divider to direct fluid flow away from a center of a substrate disposed in a processing region of the processing chamber. The flow divider includes a crescent shaped first side, a top, and a bottom. The processing chamber also includes a distributed pumping structure located adjacent to the second side. The flow assembly is designed to reduce flow constriction of the radicals, leading to increased radical concentration and flux. |
| US11501951B1 |
X-ray imaging in cross-section using un-cut lamella with background material
A method of performing x-ray spectroscopy material analysis of a region of interest within a cross-section of a sample using an evaluation system that includes a focused ion beam (FIB) column, a scanning electron microscope (SEM) column, and an x-ray detector, including: forming a lamella having first and second opposing side surfaces in the sample by milling, with the FIB column, first and second trenches in the sample to expose the first and second sides surface of the lamella, respectively; depositing background material in the second trench, wherein the background material is selected such that the background material does not include any chemical elements that are expected to be within the region of interest of the sample; generating a charged particle beam with the SEM column and scanning the charged particle beam across a region of interest on the first side surface of the lamella such that the charged particle beam collides with the first side surface of the lamella at a non-vertical angle; and detecting x-rays generated while the region of interest is scanned by the charged particle beam. |
| US11501946B2 |
Method of influencing a charged particle beam, multipole device, and charged particle beam apparatus
A method of influencing a charged particle beam (11) propagating along an optical axis (A) is described. The method includes: guiding the charged particle beam (11) through at least one opening (102) of a multipole device (100, 200) that comprises a first multipole (110, 210) with four or more first electrodes (111, 211) and a second multipole (120, 220) with four or more second electrodes (121, 221) arranged in the same sectional plane, the first electrodes and the second electrodes being arranged alternately around the at least one opening (102); and at least one of exciting the first multipole to provide a first field distribution for influencing the charged particle beam in a first manner, and exciting the second multipole to provide a second field distribution for influencing the charged particle beam in a second manner. Further, a multipole device (100, 200) with a first multipole (110, 210) and a second multipole (120, 220) provided on the same substrate as well as a charged particle beam apparatus (500) with a multipole device (100, 200) are provided. |
| US11501941B2 |
Overload protection switch with reverse restart switching structure
An overload protection switch with reverse restart switching structure, particularly to one that has a molded-case circuit breaker which adding a lampshade parallel stagnation position for overload indication, and when resetting, needs to press back to the RESET for reconfirmation; due to the stagnation position and reverse restart structure, it can avoid repeating the reset action, preventing the reduction of the life of the overload protection switch and repeated exposure or the misjudgment and then resetting of electrical products that have been overloaded and tripped and then overload again then results in causing dangerous; also, the lampshade can be completely tripped even when the lampshade is suppressed, and prevent the danger of repeated tripping during overload. |
| US11501939B2 |
High-voltage DC relay
A high-voltage DC relay of the present disclosure, including a housing, two main lead-out terminals, a main movable piece and a pushing rod component; and the relay further including two auxiliary lead-out terminals, an auxiliary movable spring, and an insulating partition plate, the two auxiliary lead-out terminals are respectively installed on the same side of a connecting line of the two main lead-out terminals corresponding to the top of the housing, and bottoms of the two auxiliary lead-out terminals are respectively located in the housing; the auxiliary movable spring is insulated from the movable assembly and fixed to the movable assembly through the insulating partition plate, so as to follow a movement of the movable assembly to achieve bridging with the two auxiliary lead-out terminals. |
| US11501936B2 |
Temperature switch
A temperature switch includes an elastically deformable movable plate, a movable contact on the movable plate, a fixed contact facing the movable contact, a thermally deformable member, a vibration suppression section, and a cover. The thermally deformable member is elastically deformed in accordance with a temperature change to elastically deform the movable plate such that the movable contact is in contact with the fixed contact or spaced apart from the fixed contact. The vibration suppression section suppresses vibrations of the movable plate by contacting a fixed-edge side when the movable plate is elastically deformed to shift the movable plate from being in contact with the fixed contact to being spaced apart therefrom. The cover surrounds the movable and fixed contacts, and the vibration suppression section is a projecting section provided on the cover. |
| US11501933B2 |
Strain sensing key membrane
An electronic device has a keyboard with an internal membrane. The membrane has a set of strain gauges configured to respond to a key press, such as when a collapsible dome collapses into contact with the membrane. The strain gauges are connected in a half Wheatstone bridge configuration and are positioned on the membrane in order to limit effects of temperature and subtle flexure of the membrane. The strain gauges are also configured to magnify detection of a resistance differential when a keycap is pressed with sufficient force. |
| US11501932B2 |
Illuminated keypad module for an electric lock
An electric lock includes a housing, a keypad module and a lock assembly. The keypad module is arranged on the housing. The keypad module includes a key panel, an electrode pad, a circuit board and a spacer. The key panel is marked with a plurality of key characters. The electrode pad is arranged on an inner side of the key panel, and the electrode pad has a plurality of key electrodes corresponding to the plurality of key characters respectively. The circuit board includes a plurality of key circuits. Each of the key circuits is configured to generate a key signal when contacting a corresponding key electrode. The spacer is configured to form a gap between each of the key circuits and the corresponding key electrode. The lock assembly is electrically connected to the keypad module for performing locking and unlocking operations according to the key signal. |
| US11501928B2 |
MEMS device built on substrate with ruthenium based contact surface material
A method of fabricating and packaging an ohmic micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) switch device may comprise constructing the switch device on an insulating substrate. The switch device may have contacts that consist of a platinum-group metal. The method may further comprise forming an oxidized layer of the platinum-group metal on an outer surface of each of the one or more contacts. The method may further comprise bonding an insulating cap to the insulating substrate, to hermetically seal the switch device. The bonding may occur in an atmosphere that has a proportion of oxygen within a range of 0.5% to 30%, such that, after the switch device has been hermetically sealed within the sealed cavity, an atmosphere within the sealed cavity has a proportion of oxygen within the range of 0.5% to 30%. The platinum-group metal may be ruthenium, and the oxidized layer of the platinum-group metal may be ruthenium dioxide. |
| US11501921B2 |
Multilayer ceramic electronic component
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes multilayer ceramic electronic component bodies each including a laminate and first and second outer electrodes respectively disposed on two end surfaces of the laminate, first and second metal terminals respectively connected to the first and second outer electrodes, and first and second terminal blocks respectively connected to the first and second metal terminals. A thickness dimension of each multilayer ceramic electronic component body in a height direction is less than a width dimension of the multilayer ceramic electronic component body in a width direction. Each multilayer ceramic electronic component body is disposed such that a first or second side surface faces a mounting surface. The first and second metal terminals are respectively disposed astride the first and second outer electrodes of the multilayer ceramic electronic component bodies. |
| US11501920B2 |
Multilayer ceramic electronic component
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a multilayer body, and an external electrode layer including a foundation electrode layer which is a fired layer. The multilayer body includes an inner layer portion including ceramic layers and inner conductive layers, and outer layer portions each including the ceramic layers. The foundation electrode layer includes an inner layer electrode portion adjacent to the inner layer portion and outer layer electrode portions respectively adjacent to the outer layer portions. The outer layer electrode portions respectively include high-content regions and low-content regions in order from an end surface of the multilayer body. The content of metal in the high-content regions is higher than the content of metal in the low-content regions. |
| US11501919B2 |
Dielectric composition and electronic device
A dielectric composition includes main phases and Ca-RE-Si—O segregation phases. The main phases include a main component expressed by ABO3. “A” includes at least one selected from barium and calcium. “B” includes at least one selected from titanium and zirconium. “RE” represents at least one of rare earth elements. A molar ratio of (Si/Ca) is larger than one. A molar ratio of (Si/RE) is larger than one, provided that the molar ratio of (Si/RE) is a molar ratio of silicon included in the segregation phases to the rare earth elements included therein. An average length of major axes of the segregation phases is 1.30-2.80 times as large as an average particle size of the main phases. An average length of minor axes of the segregation phases is 0.21-0.48 times as large as an average particle size of the main phases. |
| US11501918B2 |
Dielectric ceramic composition and multilayer ceramic capacitor comprising the same
A dielectric ceramic composition includes a barium titanate (BaTiO3)-based base material main ingredient and an accessory ingredient, the accessory ingredient including dysprosium (Dy) and praseodymium (Pr) as first accessory ingredients. A content of the Pr satisfies 0.233 mol≤Pr≤0.699 mol, based on 100 mol of the barium titanate base material main ingredient. |
| US11501916B2 |
Laminated coil and manufacturing method therefor
A laminated coil and manufacturing method therefor are disclosed. The laminated coil comprises multiple lamination units formed after a base body is folded. The lamination unit comprises an opening, a first common edge, and a second common edge; opening directions of two adjacent lamination units are opposite; the lamination unit is separately jointed with two adjacent lamination units by means of the first common edge and the second common edge, so that the base body in a laminated state forms a spiral power-on path. The base body is sequentially folded to form multiple lamination units, so that the base body in the laminated state forms the spiral power-on path to improve energy efficiency of a rectangular coil. In addition, on the basis of the laminated coil structure, the manufacturing method provided is adopted, and high precision of laminated coil can be highly efficiently manufactured. |
| US11501915B2 |
Coil component and method of manufacturing the same
There are provided a coil component and a method of manufacturing the same. The coil component includes: a body portion including a magnetic material; a coil portion disposed in the body portion; and an electrode portion disposed on the body portion, wherein the coil portion includes a support member having groove portions formed in at least one surface thereof and a coil conductor layer filling the groove portions and protruding onto the at least one surface of the support member, the groove portions having planar spiral shapes. |
| US11501911B2 |
Method of forming a cast inductor apparatus
The invention comprises a method for manufacturing an inductor, comprising the steps of: casting a cast winding comprising an inner cavity; inserting a first inductor core subsection into the inner cavity; inserting a second inductor core subsection into the inner cavity; and mechanically coupling the first inductor core subsection to the second inductor core subsection to form an inductor core wound by the cast windings. The method of manufacturing optionally includes the steps of: forming at least a portion of the cast winding into an arced helical shape; forming the first inductor core subsection and the second inductor core subsection into elements of a torpid shaped inductor core; deforming the cast winding to physically allow the step of inserting the first inductor core subsection into the inner cavity; and/or deforming at least a portion of the cast winding into an arced helical coil shape after the step of inserting. |
| US11501909B2 |
Inductor built-in substrate and method for manufacturing the same
An inductor built-in substrate includes a core substrate having openings, a magnetic resin filled in the openings and having through holes, and through-hole conductors formed in the through holes respectively such that each of the through-hole conductors includes a metal film. The magnetic resin is formed such that each of the through holes has an angle part having an obtuse angle formed by an upper surface of the magnetic resin and a side wall of a respective one of the through holes. |
| US11501908B2 |
Miniature inductors and related circuit components and methods of making same
New types of circuit elements for integrated circuits include structures wherein a thickness dimension is much greater than a width dimension and is more closely spaced than the width dimension in order to attain a tight coupling condition. The structure is suitable to form inductors, capacitors, transmission lines and low impedance power distribution networks in integrated circuits. The width dimension is on the same order of magnitude as skin depth. Embodiments include a spiral winding disposed in a silicon substrate formed of a deep, narrow, conductor-covered spiral ridge separated by a narrow spiral trench. Other embodiments include a wide, thin conductor formed in or on a flexible insulative ribbon and wound with turns adjacent one another, or a conductor in or on a flexible insulative sheet folded into layers with windings adjacent one another Further, a method of manufacture includes directional etching of the deep, narrow spiral trench to form a winding in silicon. |
| US11501907B2 |
Reactor
A reactor includes a coil, a magnetic core having an inner core portion inside a winding portion, and an inner interposed member insulating the winding portion from the inner core portion. The inner interposed member includes a thin portion with a small thickness formed by a recess, and a thick portion with a thickness larger than that of the thin portion. The inner core portion includes a core-side projecting portion with a shape conforming to a shape of the inner peripheral face of the thin portion. The thickness of the thin portion is 0.2 mm or more and 1.0 mm or less, and the thickness of the thick portion is 1.1 mm or more and 2.5 mm or less. Clearances are in part of a portion between the inner core portion and the inner interposed member and of a portion between the inner interposed member and the winding portion. |
| US11501905B2 |
Composition and method of making a monolithic heterostructure of multiferroic thin films
A monolithic multiferroic heterostructure fabricated using CSD (chemical solution deposition) is disclosed. The monolithic heterostructure includes a substrate, a ferromagnetic layer, a ferroelectric layer, and one or more seed layers that enhance crystallinity and promote high frequency performance. |
| US11501904B2 |
Valve for fluids, preferably for gases
Valve (1) for fluids, preferably for gases, comprising an inlet passage (2) for a fluid; an outlet passage (3) for the fluid; a shutter (4) interposed between the inlet passage (2) and the outlet passage (3) and movable along a movement direction (L) between an open position and a closed position; first magnetic attraction means (5) operatively active on the shutter (4) for attracting and/or keeping the shutter (4) itself towards the open position; a box-shaped body (7) containing the first magnetic attraction means (5) and extending along the movement direction (L) between an outer face and an inner face with respect to an inner volume (V) of the valve (1) interposed between the inlet passage (2) and the outlet passage (3). The box-shaped body (7) further comprises a dividing wall (10) for isolating the first magnetic attraction means (5) from the inner volume (V). |
| US11501903B2 |
Magnetic actuator and mechatronic system
The actuator comprises a movable armature swivelling with respect to a stator provided with flanges on which magnets are fitted and a coil fitted around one of the flanges. The magnets have an axial magnetisation in a z axis and are aligned in an x axis. The movable armature is arranged between the magnets in the x axis. The movable armature is mounted on a guide imposing swivelling around a y axis perpendicular to the x and z axes. The movable armature is separated from the magnets by air-gaps. Each magnet forms a static magnetic circuit with one end of the movable armature and one of the flanges. The coil forms a dynamic magnetic circuit with the ends of the movable armature and the flanges. |
| US11501900B2 |
Zinc oxide varistor ceramics
Provided according to embodiments of the invention are varistor ceramic formulations that include zinc oxide (ZnO). In particular, varistor ceramic formulations of the invention may include dopants including an alkali metal compound, an alkaline earth compound, an oxide of boron, an oxide of aluminum, or a combination thereof. Varistor ceramic formulations may also include other metal oxides. Also provided according to embodiments of the invention are varistor ceramic materials formed by sintering a varistor ceramic formulation according to an embodiment of the invention. Further provided are varistors formed from such ceramic materials and methods of making such materials. |
| US11501896B2 |
Aperiodically overlapping spiral-wrapped cable shield system
An aperiodically overlapping spiral-wrapped cable shield system includes a cable having cable components such as a pair of conductors, at least one insulator surrounding the pair of conductors, and at least one drain wire. The cable also includes a cable shield that is spirally wrapped around the cable components with a varying wrap pitch that provides a plurality of overlapping cable shield portions with varying overlap areas. When signals are transmitted using the cable components in the cable, the varying overlap areas of the plurality of overlapping cable shield portions create a plurality of varying LC circuits that are configured to generate a resonance that does not exceed a signal integrity resonance threshold for a signals. |
| US11501894B2 |
Wiring member
A wiring member includes a plurality of wire-like transmission member groups, a plurality of connectors, and a base member. Each of the plurality of wire-like transmission member groups includes a plurality of wire-like transmission members. End portions of the wire-like transmission members are connected to the plurality of connectors. The base member planarly positions and holds at least intermediate parts of the plurality of wire-like transmission member groups. |
| US11501892B2 |
Wire harness and resin composition
A wire harness includes a multi-core cable including a group of cables composed of a plurality of cables, and a sheath provided around the group of cables, and a resin mold covering the group of cables at a cable branching portion where the group of cables exposed from an end of the sheath of the multi-core cable are branched. An outermost layer of each cable constituting the group of cables includes polyolefin or thermoplastic polyurethane. When the sheath includes polyolefins, the group of cables includes at least one cable including an outermost layer including thermoplastic polyurethane. When the sheath includes thermoplastic polyurethane, the group of cables includes at least one cable having an outermost layer comprising polyolefin. The resin mold includes a resin composition of a polymer alloy of a first polymer including at least one of polyamide polymer, polyester polymer, and thermoplastic polyurethane and a second polymer including polyolefin. |
| US11501886B2 |
Magnetically-actuated isolated rod couplings for use in a nuclear reactor control rod drive
Control rod drives include linearly-moveable control elements inside an isolation barrier. Control rod drives move the control element through a motor and rotor powering a linear screw internal to an isolation barrier. Induction coils may generate magnetic fields and be moveable across a full stroke length of the control element in the reactor. The magnetic fields hold closed a releasable latch to disconnect the control elements from the linear drives. A control rod assembly may join to the control element. The control rod assembly may lock with magnetic overtravel latches inside the isolation barrier to maintain an overtravel position. Overtravel release coils outside the isolation barrier may release the latches to leave the overtravel position. Operation includes moving the magnetic fields and releasable latch together on opposite sides of an isolation barrier to drive the control element to desired insertion points, including full insertion by gravity following de-energization. |
| US11501882B2 |
Spreadsheet template control of data flow and processing
A spreadsheet template control of data flow and process for moving and retrieving between at least one source node/device and at least one target node/device in a network environment, is disclosed herein. At least one metadata definition an at least one processing rule can be retrieved from an import process spreadsheet file in order to thereby pull/receive a data element from at least one source node/device in an enterprise network environment. Further, at least one metadata and at least one rule can be retrieved from a transform process spreadsheet file in order to thereby covert, cleanse and collate the data element into a data store of transformed data. Finally, at least one metadata and at least one rule is retrieved from an export process spreadsheet file for pushing the transformed data into at least one target node/device in the network environment. |
| US11501881B2 |
Apparatus and method for deploying a mobile device as a data source in an IoT system
An example Internet of Things (IoT) sensor application hosted on a mobile device is configured to add the mobile device as a data sensor or source in the IoT system. The IoT sensor application is configured to provide an interface between an input or output component of the mobile device and a data pipeline or application and/or to cloud data storage associated with an IoT system. The IoT sensor application is configured to connect to an edge device of the IoT system and search for a data source identifier associated with the type of data source component, and corresponding application(s) and/or data pipeline(s) to which the data source is connected. Once connected, the IoT sensor application provides captured data to or receives processed or playback data from the data source. |
| US11501877B2 |
Medical device system performance index
A distributed network system and method includes a processing unit configured to manage safety data for a plurality of medical devices, a database software component in communication with the processing unit, and a monitoring software component in communication with the processing unit. The monitoring software component is configured to monitor a number of messages between a number of medical devices and the processing unit, to process performance parameters to generate an overall performance index, and to generate an output that is viewable by a user. The output includes relative contributions of each of the performance parameters to the overall performance index, where the overall performance index is generated using a weighting factor associated with each of the performance parameters. The performance parameters include the number of messages waiting to be processed, which has the largest weighting factor, and a disk queue length, which has the smallest weighting factor. |
| US11501872B2 |
Systems and methods for artificial intelligence powered molecular workflow verifying slide and block quality for testing
Systems and methods are disclosed for verifying slide and block quality for testing. The method may comprise receiving a collection of one or more digital images at a digital storage device. The collection may be associated with a tissue block and corresponding to an instance. The method may comprise applying a machine learning model to the collection to identify a presence or an absence of an attribute, determining an amount or a percentage of tissue with the attribute from a digital image in the collection that indicates the presence of the attribute, and outputting a quality score corresponding to the determined amount or percentage. |
| US11501871B2 |
Enhanced pathology diagnosis
A system includes a microscope configured to magnify a pathology sample, a camera positioned to record magnified pathology images from the microscope, and a display configured to show the magnified pathology images. A processing apparatus is coupled to the camera, and the display, and the processing apparatus includes instructions that when executed by the processing apparatus cause the system to perform operations, including: identifying, using a machine learning algorithm, one or more regions of interest in the magnified pathology images; and alerting, using the display, a user of the microscope to the one or more regions of interest in the magnified pathology images while the pathology sample is being magnified with the microscope. |
| US11501869B2 |
Systems and methods for processing digital images for radiation therapy
Systems and methods are disclosed for predicting a resistance index associated with a tumor and surrounding tissue, comprising receiving one or more digital images of a pathology specimen, receiving additional information about a patient and/or a disease associated with the pathology specimen, determining at least one target region of the one or more digital images for analysis and removing a non-relevant region of the one or more digital images, applying a machine learning system to the one or more digital images to determine a resistance index for the target region of the one or more digital images, the machine learning system having been trained using a plurality of training images to predict the resistance index for the target region using a plurality of images of pathology specimens, and outputting the resistance index corresponding to the target region. |
| US11501868B2 |
System and method for tracking medical device usage
A system provides medical device data to a system user. The medical device data is provided as an icon indicating compliance or non-compliance by the medical device user in connection with a predetermined set of usage criteria. Compliance is calculated based on usage data that is provided by the medical device. The system user may select one of the icons so as to have the system generate a compliance report. The compliance report may then be transmitted to a reimbursing entity. |
| US11501864B1 |
System and method for automating pharmacy processing of electronic prescriptions
A method and system may provide an automated pharmacy processing system which automatically processes an electronic prescription by converting the electronic prescription into a pharmacy prescription record. In this way, an electronic prescription can be filled by a pharmacist without manual data entry. The system receives an electronic prescription and compares data from the electronic prescription with entries in one or more pharmacy database(s). When there is a match between the electronic prescription data and an entry in the one or more pharmacy database(s), the system populates the pharmacy prescription record with data from the matching pharmacy database entry. If all of the data fields from the pharmacy prescription record have been populated the pharmacist can fill the electronic prescription. |
| US11501863B2 |
Systems and methods for patient-specific dosing
This disclosure relates to determining a personalized dose of a pharmaceutical for an individual. First data representative of one or more characteristics of the individual prior to administration of the pharmaceutical is received, and second data representative of a measurement of a physiological parameter of the individual after administration of the pharmaceutical is received. A computational model having pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic components is used to generate a first target concentration and one or more first doses determined to likely achieve the first target concentration for the pharmaceutical. The computational model is updated to reflect the measurement of the physiological parameter. A second target concentration and one or more second doses determined to likely achieve the second target concentration are generated, wherein the update to the pharmacodynamic component of the computational model is used to predict that the second target concentration will have a therapeutic effect on the individual. |
| US11501862B2 |
Systems and methods for healthcare provider dashboards
Systems and methods for generating dashboards for healthcare providers are provided. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving, from a user of a client device, a selection of a patient, determining an order of a plurality of display modules, each display module displaying information relating to the patient, generating a dashboard including the plurality of display modules displayed in the order, and transmitting the dashboard to the client device for display to the user. In this way, members may be identified for intervention in a timely manner, and the most relevant information for a healthcare provider may be prioritized for display to a healthcare provider. |
| US11501858B1 |
Visual charting method for creating electronic medical documents
A method of creating medical documentation uses selection of images representing synonyms for complex medical concepts. The images can be of two types, one corresponding to a parameter or Key in a Key/Value pair and the other corresponding to possible values of the selected parameter or Key. The user first selects an image or portion thereof corresponding to the parameter they wish to record observations, such as the heart or a valve of the heart. A set of images representing possible values of the parameter is then displayed e.g., images representing possible murmurs the selected valve may have. The user selects the image representing the value corresponding to the observation of the patient. A document is created by recording either the Key/Value image pairs or, alternative, text representing the synonyms for the images. Other methods of recording the document are possible, such as instantiating a set of class objects. |
| US11501855B2 |
Computerized interactive psychological assessment protocol—iPAP
To efficiently assess, prioritize, and re-assess individuals respectively for intervention OR for ongoing programs/activities OR for personalized rehabilitation or training activities: A Computerized Interactive Psychological Assessment Protocol including the steps of: using a predetermined interactive media, interfacing with a client, (A) accepting some predetermined goal-relevant self-assessment responses from the client, regarding the client's respective motivation, belief, know-how, state-of-mind, activity, etc.; (B) accepting self-characterization responses from the client, regarding the client's respective personality; (C) preferably electronically characterizing the responses according to at least one metric from the list: client's response time, client's preference, among interactive task/query modes, and client's respective response physiology; and (D) electronically storing a data representation of the responses and characterizations, along with a time stamping, for use in a longitudinal analysis of the client psychological development. |
| US11501853B2 |
Preemptible-based scaffold hopping
In a method of molecular scaffold hopping an interface of a scheduler computer sends instructions, prepared by the scheduler computer, to a job runner computer to perform a plurality of separate computational tasks. Each of the separate computational tasks includes calculating one or more chemical properties for a query molecule or molecules in a library of molecules. One or more of the plurality of separate computational tasks performed on the job runner computer are preemptible computing instances. Status indicators sent from the job runner computer are received by the interface for each of the plurality of separate computational tasks. The indicators are one of: incomplete, completed, or failed computing instances. The interface resends the instructions to the job runner computer that correspond to the separate computational tasks having the failed computing instance indicator to increase fault-tolerance against the separate computational tasks not attaining the completed computing instance indicator. |
| US11501852B2 |
Blood cell analysis method and blood cell analyzer
A blood cell analysis method and a blood cell analyzer are provided. In the method and analyzer, characteristic information of white blood cell fragments is obtained based on side scattered light information and fluorescence information, characteristic information of platelets is obtained based on forward scattered light information and fluorescence information and then a count value for the platelets is acquired based on the characteristic information of the platelets and the characteristic information of the white blood cell fragments. The present invention can avoid the influence of the white blood cell fragments on the platelet counting, thereby ensuring the accuracy of the platelet counting without increasing costs. |
| US11501850B2 |
Automated feature extraction using genetic programming
A method evolves generic computational building blocks. The method initializes a parent population with randomly generated programs or programs evolved by a genetic programming instance that uses randomized targets. The method also obtains a list of randomly generated test inputs. The method generates a target dataset that includes input-output pairs of randomly generated binary strings. The method also applies a fitness function to assign a fitness score to each program, based on the target dataset. The method grows a seed list by applying genetic operators, and selecting offspring that satisfy a novelty condition. The novelty condition is representative of an ability of a program to produce unique output for the list of randomly generated test inputs. The method iterates until a terminating condition has been satisfied. The terminating condition is representative of an ability of programs in the seed list to solve one or more genetic programming instances. |
| US11501849B2 |
Method for calculating binding free energy, calculation device, and program
A method for calculating binding free energy, where the method includes a plurality of steps each including adding a distance restraint potential between a binding calculation target molecule and a target molecule, wherein the method is a method for calculating binding free energy between the binding calculation target molecule and the target molecule using a computer, and wherein anchor points of the binding calculation target molecule in the plurality of the steps are identical anchor points, and anchor points of the target molecule in the plurality of the steps are different anchor points. |
| US11501848B2 |
Controller to detect malfunctioning address of memory device
A controller includes an internal memory to store an address and a memory control unit operatively coupled with the internal memory. The memory control unit includes logic to identify a malfunctioning address of primary data storage elements within an external memory device, the external memory device being another semiconductor device separate from the controller, store the malfunctioning address in the internal memory, and transmit, to the external memory device, a command to initiate a repair of the malfunctioning address using redundant data storage elements and an indication of an address associated with the malfunctioning address. |
| US11501845B2 |
Data access system, and method for operating a data access system
A data access system includes a flash memory, a first inversion circuit, a block buffer memory, an error checking and correcting circuit, a second inversion circuit, and an application circuit. The first inversion circuit inverts a plurality of pieces of data stored in a block of the flash memory to generate a plurality of pieces of inverted data. The block buffer memory stores the plurality of pieces of inverted data. When the ECC circuit determines that the plurality of pieces of inverted data are correctable, the ECC circuit corrects at least one piece of inverted data stored in the block buffer memory. The second inversion circuit inverts the plurality of pieces of inverted data stored in the block buffer memory to generate a plurality of pieces of recovered data. The application circuit receives the plurality of pieces of recovered data and performs a corresponding operation accordingly. |
| US11501844B2 |
Memory device and test method thereof
A memory device adopting an on-chip ECC scheme includes a plurality of banks, each including a normal cell region and a parity cell region; a plurality of parity generation circuits, each generating parity bits for write data to be stored in the normal cell region within a corresponding bank; a test input circuit generating common test bits by comparing the parity bits of the respective banks, and generating individual test bits by comparing bits of the write data with the common test bits; a plurality of write circuits, each writing the write data to the normal cell region within the corresponding bank and writing the individual test bits to the parity cell region within the corresponding bank; and a plurality of test output circuits, each comparing data read from the normal region with the individual test bits read from the parity cell region within a corresponding bank. |
| US11501842B2 |
Memory device and method with stabilization of selector devices in strings in a memory array of the memory device
A variety of applications can include memory devices designed to provide stabilization of selector devices in a memory array of the memory device. A selector stabilizer pulse can be applied to a selector device of a string of the memory array and to a memory cell of multiple memory cells of the string with the memory cell being adjacent to the selector device in the string. The selector stabilizer pulse can be applied directly following an erase operation to the string to stabilize the threshold voltage of the selector device. The selector stabilizer pulse can be applied as part of the erase algorithm of the memory device. Additional devices, systems, and methods are discussed. |
| US11501838B2 |
Preread and read threshold voltage optimization
A request to read data at the memory device is received. A first read operation is performed to read the data at the memory device using a first read threshold voltage. The data read at the memory device using the first read threshold voltage is determined to be associated with a first unsuccessful correction of an error. Responsive to determining that the data read at the memory device using the first read threshold voltage is associated with the first unsuccessful correction of the error, a second read threshold voltage is stored at a register to replace a preread threshold voltage previously stored at the register that is associated with the memory device. The first preread threshold voltage was previously used to perform a preread operation at the memory device. A second read operation to read the data at the memory device is performed using the second read threshold voltage. |
| US11501837B1 |
Read operation or word line voltage refresh operation in memory device with reduced peak current
A reducing peak current consumption in a memory device when performing a word line voltage refresh operation or a read operation. When a word line voltage refresh operation or read operation is performed for the first time after a memory device powers up, the operation is performed with a power-saving technique such as reducing a ramp up rate of a voltage pulse, ramping up the voltage pulse in multiple steps, initiating the ramp up for different groups of word lines in a block at different times, initiating the ramp up for different blocks of word lines at different times, and reducing the number of blocks which are refreshed concurrently. When an additional word line voltage refresh operation or read operation is subsequently performed, the power-saving technique can be omitted. |
| US11501836B2 |
Memory device for controlling voltage of bit line and method of operating the same
The present technology relates to an electronic device. A memory device capable of reducing a time consumed in a program operation includes a memory cell array, a page buffer group connected to the memory cell array through a plurality of bit lines and a voltage generator configured to generate voltages to apply to each of a plurality of page buffers included in the page buffer group. Each of the plurality of page buffers includes a precharge circuit that controls potential levels of the plurality of bit lines to be maintained at precharge levels. |
| US11501831B2 |
Power off recovery in cross-point memory with threshold switching selectors
In a memory array with a cross-point structure, at each cross-point junction a programmable resistive memory element, such as an MRAM memory cell, is connected in series with a threshold switching selector, such as an ovonic threshold switch. The threshold switching selector switches to a conducting state when a voltage above a threshold voltage is applied. When powered down for extended periods, the threshold voltage can drift upward. If the drift is excessive, this can make the memory cell difficult to access and can disturb stored data values when accessed. Techniques are presented to determine whether excessive voltage threshold drift may have occurred, including a read based test and a time based test. |
| US11501828B2 |
Apparatuses, memories, and methods for address decoding and selecting an access line
Apparatuses, memories, and methods for decoding memory addresses for selecting access lines in a memory are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an address decoder circuit coupled to first and second select lines, a polarity line, and an access line. The first select line is configured to provide a first voltage, the second select line is configured to provide a second voltage, and the polarity line is configured to provide a polarity signal. The address decoder circuit is configured to receive address information and further configured to couple the access line to the first select line responsive to the address information having a combination of logic levels and the polarity signal having a first logic level and further configured to couple the access line to the second select line responsive to the address information having the combination of logic levels and the polarity signal having a second logic level. |
| US11501825B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell, a bit line, and a sense amplifier. The sense amplifier includes: a first node configured to be electrically coupled to the bit line; a first transistor in which a gate is coupled to the first node, and which is configured to be coupled to a second node; a second transistor configured to couple the second node and a third node; and a third transistor in which a gate is coupled to the third node, and which is configured to be coupled to the first node. The sense amplifier applies a second voltage obtained by amplifying a first voltage of the first node to the third node, and applies a third voltage obtained by amplifying the second voltage to the first node. |
| US11501823B2 |
Semiconductor memory devices including sense amplifier adjusted based on error information
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, an ECC engine, a voltage generator and a control logic circuit. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory cells coupled to word-lines and bit-lines, and a plurality of sense amplifiers to sense data stored in the plurality of memory cells. The ECC engine reads memory data from a target page of the memory cell array, performs an ECC decoding on the memory data, detects, based on the ECC decoding, an error in the memory data, and outputs error information associated with the error. The voltage generator provides driving voltages to the plurality of sense amplifiers, respectively. The control logic circuit controls the ECC engine, and controls the at least one voltage generator to increase an operating margin of each of the plurality of sense amplifiers based on error pattern information including the error information. |
| US11501819B2 |
Memory and operation method of the memory
A memory core including a memory core including memory cells that are arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns; and a refresh target selection circuit suitable for storing an address and a risk score of each of activated rows among the rows, wherein the refresh target selection circuit is further suitable for increasing the risk score of a corresponding row whenever the corresponding row is activated, whenever a row at a ‘+2’ position of the corresponding row is activated, and whenever a row at a ‘−2’ position of the corresponding row is activated. |
| US11501815B2 |
Sensing scheme for a memory with shared sense components
Methods, systems, and devices for sensing a memory with shared sense components are described. A device may activate a word line and a plate line each coupled with a set of memory cells, where each memory cell of the set of memory cells is coupled with a respective digit line of a set of digit lines. The device may activate a set of switching components to couple each digit line of the set of digit lines with a respective sense component of a set of sense components, where each switching component of the set of switching components is coupled with a respective memory cell of the set of memory cells. The device may sense the set of memory cells based on activating the word line and the plate line and based on coupling the set of digit lines with the set of sense components. |
| US11501814B2 |
Parallel access techniques within memory sections through section independence
A memory device having a plurality sections of memory cells, such as ferroelectric memory cells (hybrid RAM (HRAM) cells) may provide for concurrent access to memory cells within independent sections of the memory device. A first memory cell may be activated, and it may be determined that a second memory cell is independent of the first memory cell. If the second memory cell is independent of the first memory cell, the second memory cell may be activated prior to the conclusion of operations at the first memory cell. Latching hardware at memory sections may latch addresses at the memory sections in order to allow a new address to be provided to a different section to access the second memory cell. |
| US11501813B1 |
Method of forming stacked ferroelectric non- planar capacitors in a memory bit-cell
A high-density low voltage ferroelectric (or paraelectric) memory bit-cell that includes a planar ferroelectric or paraelectric capacitor. The memory bit-cell comprises 1T1C configuration, where a plate-line is parallel to a word-line, or the plate-line is parallel to a bit-line. The memory bit-cell can be 1TnC, where ‘n’ is a number. In a 1TnC bit-cell, the capacitors are vertically stacked allowing for multiple values to be stored in a single bit-cell. The memory bit-cell can be multi-element FE gain bit-cell. In a multi-element FE gain bit-cell, data sensing is done with signal amplified by a gain transistor in the bit-cell. As such, higher storage density is realized using multi-element FE gain bit-cells. In some examples, the 1T1C, 1TnC, and multi-element FE gain bit-cells are multi-level bit-cells. To realize multi-level bit-cells, the capacitor is placed in a partially switched polarization state by applying different voltage levels or different time pulse widths at the same voltage level. |
| US11501810B2 |
Amorphous spin diffusion layer for modified double magnetic tunnel junction structure
A modified double magnetic tunnel junction structure is provided which includes an amorphous spin diffusion layer (i.e., an amorphous non-magnetic, spin-conducting metallic layer) sandwiched between a magnetic free layer and a first tunnel barrier layer; the first tunnel barrier layer contacts a first magnetic reference layer. A second tunnel barrier layer is located on the magnetic free layer and a second magnetic reference layer is located on the second tunnel barrier layer. Such a modified double magnetic tunnel junction structure exhibits efficient switching (at a low current) and speedy readout (high tunnel magnetoresistance). |
| US11501804B2 |
Microelectronic devices including semiconductive pillar structures, and related electronic systems
A microelectronic device comprises a semiconductive pillar structure comprising a central portion, a first end portion, and a second end portion on a side of the central portion opposite the first end portion, the first end portion oriented at an angle with respect to the central portion and extending substantially parallel to the second end portion, a digit line contact on the central portion of the semiconductive pillar structure, a first storage node contact on the first end portion, and a second storage node contact on the second end portion. Related microelectronic devices, electronic systems, and methods are also described. |
| US11501802B2 |
Systems and methods for creating linear video from branched video
Computer-implemented methods and systems for creating non-interactive, linear video from video segments in a video tree. Selectably presentable video segments are stored in a memory, with each segment representing a predefined portion of one or more paths in a traversable video tree. A linear, non-interactive video is automatically created from the selectably presentable video segments by traversing at least a portion of a first path in the video tree and, upon completion, is provided to a viewer for playback. |
| US11501800B2 |
Hard disk fault handling method, array controller, and hard disk
A storage array includes a plurality of hard disks, where each of the hard disks is divided into a plurality of chunks, and a plurality of chunks of different hard disks form a chunk group using a redundancy algorithm. The storage array obtains fault information of a faulty area in a first hard disk, and determines a faulty chunk storing the lost data according to the fault information. The storage array recovers the data in the faulty chunk using another chunk in a chunk group to which the faulty chunk belongs and stores the recovered data in a recovered chunk. The recovered chunk is located in a second hard disk which is not a hard disk for forming the chunk group. |
| US11501798B2 |
Magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording and reproducing device
The magnetic recording medium includes a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder, in which the ferromagnetic powder is a ferromagnetic powder selected from the group consisting of a hexagonal strontium ferrite powder and an ε-iron oxide powder, the number of recesses having a depth which is ⅓ or more of a minimum recording bit length existing on a surface of the magnetic layer is less than 10/10,000 μm2, and a ratio d/tmag of a value d which is ⅓ of the minimum recording bit length to a thickness tmag of the magnetic layer is 0.15 to 0.50. |
| US11501786B2 |
Methods and apparatus for supplementing partially readable and/or inaccurate codes in media
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for supplementing partially readable and/or inaccurate codes. An example apparatus includes a watermark analyzer to select a first watermark and a second watermark decoded from media; a comparator to compare a first decoded timestamp of the first watermark to a second decoded timestamp of the second watermark; and a timestamp adjuster to adjust the second decoded timestamp based on the first decoded timestamp of the second watermark when at least a threshold number of symbols of the second decoded timestamp match corresponding symbols of the first decoded timestamp. |
| US11501783B2 |
Apparatus and method realizing a fading of an MDCT spectrum to white noise prior to FDNS application
An apparatus for decoding an encoded audio signal to obtain a reconstructed audio signal includes a receiving interface for receiving one or more frames comprising information on a plurality of audio signal samples of an audio signal spectrum of the encoded audio signal, and a processor for generating the reconstructed audio signal. The processor is configured to generate the reconstructed audio signal by fading a modified spectrum to a target spectrum, if a current frame is not received by the receiving interface or if the current frame is received by the receiving interface but is corrupted, wherein the modified spectrum includes a plurality of modified signal samples, wherein, for each of the modified signal samples of the modified spectrum, an absolute value of the modified signal sample is equal to an absolute value of one of the audio signal samples of the audio signal spectrum. |
| US11501781B2 |
Methods and systems for passive wakeup of a user interaction device
The embodiments herein disclose methods and systems for passive wakeup of a user interaction device and configuring a dynamic wakeup time for a user interaction device, a method includes detecting an occurrence of at least one first non-voice event associated with at least one device present in an Internet of Things (IoT) environment. The method includes detecting an occurrence of at least one successive event associated with the at least one device. The method includes estimating a contextual probability of initiating at least one interaction by a user with the user interaction device on detecting the occurrence of at least one of the at least one first event and the at least one successive event. On determining the estimated contextual probability is above a pre-defined threshold value, the method includes configuring the dynamic wakeup time to switch the user interaction device to a passive wakeup state. |
| US11501780B2 |
Device, system, and method for multimodal recording, processing, and moderation of meetings
Devices, systems, and methods for automatic real-time moderation of meetings, by a computerized or automated moderation unit able to manage, steer and guide the meeting in real-time and able to selectively generate and convey real-time differential notifications and advice to particular participants. A Meeting Moderator Bot monitors audio conversations in a meeting, and analyzes their textual equivalent; detects topics that were skipped or that should be discussed, and notifies participants; detects double-talk or interferences and generates warnings accordingly; detects absence of participants that are relevant to particular topics; detects that the conversation should shift to another topic on the agenda; generates other meeting steering notifications; and monitors compliance of the meeting participants with such steering notifications. |
| US11501779B2 |
Bluetooth speaker base, method and system for controlling thereof
The present disclosure provides a Bluetooth speaker base, a method and a system for controlling a Bluetooth speaker base. The method includes: acquiring voice data, and determining whether the voice data includes a wake-up word, when positions of the Bluetooth speaker base and a Bluetooth speaker satisfy a preset condition; controlling the Bluetooth speaker base to enter a wake-up recognition state, and compressing the voice data based on a compression ratio, when the voice data includes the wake word; and sending the voice data compressed to a mobile terminal through a first profile, to cause the mobile terminal to decompress the voice data received, send the voice data decompressed to a server for voice recognition to obtain audio data, and send the audio data to the Bluetooth speaker for playback through a second profile. |
| US11501776B2 |
Methods and systems for facilitating accomplishing tasks based on a natural language conversation
Disclosed herein is a system for facilitating accomplishing tasks based on a natural language conversation. Accordingly, the system may include a direct graph unit. Further, the direct graph unit may include a directed graph. Further, the directed graph models a non-linearity of the natural language conversation. Further, the directed graph may include a set of nodes connected by at least one edge. Further, the system may include a context-encoded language understanding unit may include a learning unit and an inferring unit. Further, the learning unit may be configured for receiving a plurality of inputs. Further, the learning unit may be configured for generating a model based on the plurality of inputs. Further, the inferring unit may be configured for receiving a plurality of inputs. Further, the inferring unit may be configured for generating an output based on the plurality of inputs and the model. |
| US11501774B2 |
Automatically executing operations sequences
Method, system and product for automatic execution of operations sequences. An operations sequence, which includes a first operation immediately followed by a second operation, is obtained. The operations sequence or portion thereof is automatically executed, at least by performing: in response to a determination that a first element required for performing the first operation is available for user interaction in a first state of the computing device, mimicking a user interaction with the first element to perform the first operation, whereby causing a current state of the computing device to change from the first state to a second state; and in response to a determination that a second element required for performing the second operation is available for user interaction in the second state, mimicking user interaction with the second element to perform the second operation. |
| US11501773B2 |
Network microphone device with command keyword conditioning
In one aspect, a playback device includes a voice assistant service (VAS) wake-word engine and a command keyword engine. The playback device detects, via the command keyword engine, a first command keyword, and determines whether one or more playback conditions corresponding to the first command keyword are satisfied. Based on (a) detecting the first command keyword and (b) determining that the one or more playback conditions corresponding to the first command keyword are satisfied, the playback device playback device performs a first playback command corresponding to the first command keyword. When the playback device detects, via the wake-word engine, a wake-word in voice input, the playback device streams sound data corresponding to at least a portion of the voice input to one or more remote servers associated with the VAS. |
| US11501772B2 |
Context aware hearing optimization engine
One or more context aware processing parameters and an ambient audio stream are received. One or more sound characteristics associated with the ambient audio stream are identified using a machine learning model. One or more actions to perform are determined using the machine learning model and based on the one or more context aware processing parameters and the identified one or more sound characteristics. The one or more actions are performed. |
| US11501770B2 |
System, server, and method for speech recognition of home appliance
Provided is a system, server, and method for speech recognition capable of collectively setting a plurality of setting items for device control through an utterance of a single sentence provided in the form of natural language. The system includes: a home appliance configured to receive a speech command that is generated through an utterance of a single sentence for control of the home appliance; and a server configured to receive the speech command in the single sentence from the home appliance and interpret the speech command of the single sentence through multiple intent determination. |
| US11501769B2 |
Dynamic adjustment of story time special effects based on contextual data
The disclosure provides technology for enabling a computing device to provide context sensitive special effects that supplement a text source as it is read aloud. An example method includes receiving, by a processing device, audio data comprising a spoken word of a user, analyzing contextual data associated with the user, determining a match between the audio data and data of a text source; and initiating a physical effect in response to the determining the match, wherein the physical effect corresponds to the text source and is based on the contextual data. |
| US11501767B2 |
Method for operating a motor vehicle having an operating device
The invention relates to a method for operating a motor vehicle having an operating device, which includes a speech recognition and language determination device. A recognition of a voice input of a user of the motor vehicle, and a check as to whether a language of the voice input corresponds to the first operating language take place in a first operating mode with a first operating language. Depending on a result of the checking process, a confidence value is assigned to the voice input, which describes a probability with which the language of the voice input is the second operating language. Depending on the assigned confidence value, a query signal is generated, which describes a request, understandable in a second operating language, to the user for indicating the operating mode to be set or the operating language to be set. In response to a received operating signal, the operating mode to be set or the operating language to be set are set. |
| US11501766B2 |
Device and method for providing response message to voice input of user
Provided are a device and a method for providing a response message to a voice input of a user. The method, performed by a device, of providing a response message to a voice input of a user includes: receiving the voice input of the user; determining a destination of the user and an intention of the user, by analyzing the received voice input; obtaining association information related to the destination; generating the response message that recommends a substitute destination related to the intention of the user, based on the obtained association information; and displaying the generated response message. |
| US11501761B2 |
Method and apparatus for speech recognition
A speech recognition method includes adding a preset special sequence to a front end of an input sequence that corresponds to an input utterance of a speaker, recognizing the preset special sequence and the input sequence, and recognizing the input sequence based on the preset special sequence and a speech recognition result obtained by recognizing the preset special sequence and the input sequence. |
| US11501751B2 |
Mobile terminal with high frequency generator
To alleviate information-dependent behavior by using a mobile terminal of a user of the mobile terminal. A mobile terminal including a first signal generator that generates a frequency signal in the audible band, a second signal generator that generates a high-frequency signal in a frequency band higher than the audible band, a speaker that converts the high-frequency signal into a corresponding high-frequency sound, and a timing controller that controls timing of the generation of the high-frequency signal to be a timing that does not correlate with the timing of the generation of the frequency signal in the audible band is provided. |
| US11501750B2 |
Ultrasound imaging device, ultrasonic probe, and transmission device
An ultrasonic imaging apparatus includes a plurality of transducers that transmit ultrasonic waves and a transmission unit that supplies drive signals to the plurality of transducers. An amplitude control voltage generation unit and a transmission circuit unit are connected to a common voltage power supply. An amplitude control voltage generation unit receives an output voltage of the voltage power supply and an attenuation degree setting signal instructing an attenuation degree of the drive signal for each of the transducers for weighting of the drive signal, and generates an amplitude control voltage corresponding to a voltage obtained by attenuating the output voltage by the attenuation degree. The output voltage of the voltage power supply is reduced to a voltage corresponding to the amplitude control voltage, and a drive signal having a predetermined waveform is generated whose amplitude is the voltage after the reduction for each of the transducers. |
| US11501749B1 |
Selective allowance of sound in noise cancellation headset in an industrial work environment
According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for allowing selective sounds within a noise cancellation headset. The embodiment may include receiving a sound from a noise-filled environment. A source of the sound is a machine within the noise-filled environment. The embodiment may include determining that the sound is indicative of a problem within the noise-filled environment. The embodiment may include identifying a severity of the problem. The embodiment may include identifying a user within a boundary range of the problem. The boundary range is based, in part, on the severity of the problem. The user is wearing a noise cancellation headset which is actively cancelling sounds of the noise-filled environment. The embodiment may include allowing the sound to be heard within the noise cancellation headsets of the identified user. |
| US11501742B2 |
Display device
Disclosed is a display device for maximizing the possibility that an after image is formed in a rollable display, including a housing, a guide bar accommodated in the housing and configured to rotate, a display configured to be drawn out from the housing along with rotation of the guide bar and to be retracted into the housing, and a controller configured to display the display content in a region of the display, which is drawn out from the housing, in which a draw-out length of the display that is partially drawn out from the housing is variable. |
| US11501729B2 |
Source driver that adjusts a timing of outputting of pixel data based on a length of a source line, and display device
A source driver includes a data latch unit that outputs acquired pixel data, a gradation voltage conversion unit that acquires the pixel data outputted from the data latch unit and converts the pixel data to gradation voltages, an output unit that amplifies and outputs the gradation voltages to source lines, and a timing control unit that controls the timing of the output of the pixel data from the data latch unit. The timing control unit performs control such that the longer a source line is from a source driver to a pixel column, the smaller the timing difference is between acquisition of the pixel data by the data latch unit and the output of the pixel data. |
| US11501726B2 |
Liquid crystal display device
A liquid crystal display device includes a backlight, a first liquid crystal panel, a second liquid crystal panel, and a driver. The second liquid crystal panel is overlapped with the first liquid crystal panel, and disposed closer to the backlight than to the first liquid crystal panel. The driver is configured to drive the backlight, the first liquid crystal panel, and the second liquid crystal panel. The second liquid crystal panel is lower in resolution than the first liquid crystal panel. The driver drives the first liquid crystal panel and the second liquid crystal panel at different refresh rates. |
| US11501723B2 |
Display device and operation method of back light module
An operation method of a backlight module is disclosed. The operation method includes: determining whether a first video synchronization signal is received; in response to a determination that the first video synchronization signal is received, activating a counter, and controlling the backlight module to emit light a specific number of times at a first brightness for a first time period; determining whether the counter is timeout and a second video synchronization signal is not received; and in response to a determination that the counter is timeout and the second video synchronization signal is not received, controlling the backlight module to switch between lighting and not lighting multiple times within a second time period. |
| US11501718B2 |
Digital-analog converter, data driving circuit having the same, and display device having the same
A digital-analog converter of the disclosure converts digital image data to generate analog data signals. The digital-analog converter includes a voltage divider which generates a plurality of gamma reference voltages based on a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage; a global ramp including a plurality of gamma decoders which generates a plurality of global gamma voltages based on the gamma reference voltages; a decoder which selects one of the global gamma voltages according to the digital image data to generate the analog data signals; and a ramp controller which turns off at least some of the gamma decoders based on the digital image data. |
| US11501711B2 |
Display device
A display device includes: a (k−1)-th scan line and a k-th scan line which are parallel to each other; a j-th data line which crosses the (k−1)-th scan line and the k-th scan line; and a subpixel connected to the (k−1)-th scan line, the k-th scan line, and the j-th data line, wherein the subpixel includes: a driving transistor configured to control a driving current flowing from a first electrode thereof to a second electrode thereof according to a data voltage applied to a first gate electrode thereof, the driving transistor having a second gate electrode connected to the (k−1)-th scan line; and a light emitting element configured to emit light according to the driving current. |
| US11501709B2 |
Display panel and display device
The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes: a first sub-pixel configured to display a first color, a second sub-pixel configured to display a second color, and a third sub-pixel configured to display a third color; when a picture displayed by the display panel is switched from a black picture to a picture having a maximum gray scale of the first color, the second color and the third color, respectively, a ratio of a brightness of a first frame of picture to a maximum value among brightness of stabilized several frames of pictures is a first initial frame brightness proportion, a second initial frame brightness proportion and a third initial frame brightness proportion, respectively; the first, second and third initial frame brightness proportions have a Max-Min less than or equal to a threshold. |
| US11501707B2 |
Pixel circuit and driving method thereof, display device and driving method thereof
A pixel circuit includes: pixel units, wherein each pixel unit includes a light-emitting element and a pixel driving circuit, the pixel driving circuit and the light-emitting element are electrically connected to a first node; a first compensation sub-circuit electrically connected to each pixel driving circuit, and configured to provide an initialization signal to the pixel driving circuit, obtain a voltage at the first node when the light-emitting element emits light via the pixel driving circuit, and generate a compensation data signal based on the voltage at the first node; and a second compensation sub-circuit electrically connected to each pixel driving circuit and configured to keep the voltage at the first node within a set operating voltage range of the light-emitting element. The pixel driving circuit is further configured to initialize the first node based on the initialization signal, and use the compensation data signal to drive the light-emitting element. |
| US11501705B2 |
Systems and methods of pixel calibration based on improved reference values
What is disclosed are systems and methods of compensation of images produced by active matrix light emitting diode device (AMOLED) and other emissive displays. The electrical output of a pixel is compared with a reference value to adjust an input for the pixel. In some embodiments an integrator is used to integrate a pixel current and a reference current using controlled integration times to generate values for comparison. |
| US11501700B2 |
Image sticking compensating device and display device having the same
A image sticking compensating device according to example embodiments includes a degradation calculator configured to calculate a degradation weight based on input image data, and to calculate degradation data of a frame, an accumulator configured to accumulate the degradation data, and to generate age data using the accumulated degradation data, and a compensator configured to determine a grayscale compensation value corresponding to the age data and an input grayscale of the input image data, and to output age compensation data by applying the grayscale compensation value to the input image data. |
| US11501694B2 |
Display device and driving method thereof
A display device includes: a plurality of pixels to receive data voltages based on converted grayscales; and a grayscale converter to: calculate first compensation offsets based on positions of the pixels and input grayscales for the pixels; convert the first compensation offsets into second compensation offsets according to a maximum luminance weight based on an input maximum luminance; and calculate the converted grayscales by applying the second compensation offsets to the input grayscales. |
| US11501689B2 |
Control method and control apparatus for brightness of display panel, storage medium and processor
The present disclosure discloses a control method and a control apparatus for brightness of display panel, a storage medium and a processor. The method comprises: acquiring a plurality of pixel values processed by an image processor, wherein the bit width of each of the plurality of pixel values is a first preset bit width; performing data type conversion on each pixel value to obtain a plurality of pixel values of a second preset bit width, wherein the second preset bit width is greater than the first preset bit width; sending the plurality of pixel values of the second preset bit width to a digital-to-analog conversion module to determine the voltage output value of each sub-pixel of a display panel, wherein the voltage output value has a first linear relationship with the screen brightness of the display panel; and adjusting the voltage output value to control the screen brightness of the display panel. |
| US11501688B2 |
Display device selectively performing a mura correction operation, and method of operating a display device
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a gate driver configured to provide gate signals to the plurality of pixels, a data driver configured to provide data signals to the plurality of pixels, a correction data memory configured to store mura correction data, and a controller configured to control the gate driver and the data driver. The controller includes a pattern detection block configured to detect a set pattern in input image data, and a mura correction block configured to perform a mura correction operation that corrects the input image data based on the mura correction data in response to the set pattern not being detected, and to not perform the mura correction operation in accordance with the set pattern being detected. |
| US11501685B2 |
Image data corrector and display device having the same
A display device includes: a pixel unit including first pixels disposed in a first pixel area and second pixels disposed in a second pixel area; an image data corrector adjusting a limit grayscale of first image data corresponding to the first pixel area based on a dimming level defining a maximum luminance at which the pixel unit is able to emit light, and correcting the first image data based on the limit grayscale; a data driver supplying data signals to the pixel unit based on the corrected first image data and second image data corresponding to the second pixel area; and a scan driver supplying scan signals to the pixel unit. |
| US11501684B2 |
Method for driving silicon-based driving back plate and display apparatus
Disclosed are a method for driving a silicon-based driving back plate and a display apparatus. The method includes: acquiring a watch position of a user on the silicon-based driving back plate within one frame time; determining a watch region of the user on the silicon-based driving back plate according to the watch position; and controlling a sum of an analog modulation bit for analog scanning charging and a digital modulation bit for digital scanning charging performed on each row of pixels in the watch region to be greater than a sum of an analog modulation bit for analog scanning charging and a digital modulation bit for digital scanning charging performed on each row of pixels in a non-watch region. |
| US11501682B2 |
Flexible display apparatus and method of driving display panel using the same
A flexible display apparatus includes a first body portion, a second body portion and a driving controller. The first body portion includes a first display area, and the second body portion includes a second display area. The second display area is connected to the first display area. The driving controller is configured to determine a first driving frequency of the first display area and a second driving frequency of the second display area based on a folded angle between the first body portion and the second body portion along a folded line disposed between the first body portion and the second body portion. |
| US11501679B2 |
Driving circuit with multiple stage registers performing voltage regulation
A driving circuit includes an S stage register, a first connect line, an (S+A) stage register and a second connect line. The S stage register receives an S stage control signal through a first switch unit and a second switch unit, so that the S stage register performs voltage regulation and outputs an S stage scan signal. The first connect line is electrically connected to the first switch unit of the S stage register. A third switch unit of the (S+A) stage register is electrically connected to the first connect line and a fourth switch unit of the (S+A) stage register for receiving the S stage scan signal, so that The (S+A) stage register performs voltage regulation. The second connect line is electrically connected to the second switch unit of the S stage register and the fourth switch unit of the (S+A) stage register. |
| US11501675B2 |
Display system and vehicle
A display system and vehicle that have novel structures are provided. The display system includes a display panel, a correction circuit, and a memory circuit. The display panel is flexible. The display panel includes a display region and a non-display region. The memory circuit has a function of storing first data about the display region and second data about the non-display region. The non-display region has a region which overlaps with the display region when the display panel is bent. The correction circuit has a function of generating image data to be written to pixels in the display region on the basis of the first data and the second data. |
| US11501674B2 |
Display device
A display device includes first lead lines connecting the circuit signal lines with the driving integrated circuit, and second lead lines connecting the panel signal lines with the driving integrated circuit, wherein the second lead lines comprise a 2-1 sub-lead line configured to supply a scan-high voltage signal from the driving integrated circuit to the panel signal lines, and a 2-2 sub-lead line configured to supply a scan-low voltage signal from the driving integrated circuit to the panel signal lines, wherein the first lead lines comprises a 1-1 sub-lead line connected to the driving integrated circuit, a 1-1-1 sub-lead line separated from the 1-1 sub-lead line in a first direction, a 1-2 sub-lead line spaced apart from the 1-1 sub-lead line in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a 1-2-1 sub-lead line spaced apart from the 1-2 sub-lead line in the second direction. |
| US11501672B1 |
Display device
A display device installed on the handle of a public transportation vehicle displays advertising information. The display device includes a body and two displays. The body includes a housing. The housing has a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, a third surface, and an opening. The housing is provided with a fixed hole penetrating through the first surface and the second surface. The housing is provided with a fixing component therein. The housing is provided with two electronic component-accommodating portions therein. The electronic component-accommodating portions are respectively arranged at two sides of the fixed hole. The third surface and the opening are perpendicular to the first surface and the second surface. The display device can reduce waste of ink and paper due to using advertising papers to advertise. |
| US11501671B2 |
Landscaping marking system using selectively actuated pop up visible markers and method of selectively visibly identifying subterranean features implementing the same
A landscaping marking system comprising a plurality of individually selectively actuated pop up visible markers mounted adjacent subterranean features of interest, wherein each marker includes pop-up visible components moveable between a popped up deployed visible position and a stored non-visible position and that may be reset to the stored non-visible position; and a controller for selectively actuating each marker. |
| US11501669B2 |
Flexible display device
A flexible display device is disclosed. The flexible display device includes a first layer and a second layer overlapping with the first layer. The first layer includes a plurality of first patterns, and the plurality of first patterns has a first pitch. The second layer includes a plurality of second patterns, and the plurality of second patterns has a second pitch. A ratio of the first pitch to the second pitch is greater than or equal to 2 and less than or equal to 200. |
| US11501666B1 |
Sign mounting system and method of use thereof
A system for mounting a sign on a stanchion and a method of using the system for mounting signs are provided. The system includes a bracket that can be mounted onto the upper end of the stanchion and a sign frame that can be mounted onto the bracket. The sign frame supports the sign in an upright position. The bracket has a base with an open lower end that can be lowered down onto the upper end of the stanchion to mount the bracket. The bracket has a support member attached to the base for mounting the sign frame onto the bracket. The support member has a pair of opposing openings that extend through the support member. The sign frame has a pair of frame mounting rods that can be inserted downward through the openings to mount the sign frame onto the bracket. |
| US11501665B2 |
Label arrangement for a food package
This invention relates to a label arrangement for consumer destined food packages. A food package (10, 50) comprises at least an undertray (20) and a lidstock (40) arranged together defining in between a cavity for a food product (30). The label arrangement according to the invention comprises a printable face material (110) and a pressure sensitive adhesive (120) for attachment of the label (100) onto the package (10, 50). The adhesive surface of the pressure sensitive adhesive (120) layer is arranged to have one or more adhesion free (550) and printed zones and the label (100) is further arranged with one or more weakenings (700) through the label face material (110) allowing to manually fold the part of the label with adhesion free (550) and printed zone for visual inspection of said printing while the label (100) otherwise remains attached to the package (10, 50). The label (100) is arranged onto the package (10, 50) so that said manual folding of the part of the label with the adhesion free (550) and printed zone increases visual access to food product (30) in the package (10, 50). |
| US11501663B2 |
Method and apparatus for assisting in the organization of paired items
A tag useful for being applied to a first item, such as a sock, as an indication that the item is intended to be used with a second tagged item, such as a matching sock in a pair of socks. The tag has a first end portion, a second end portion, a flexible intermediate portion extending between the first and second end portions, and a latching mechanism. The flexible intermediate portion is movable between first and second operative positions wherein the first and second end portions are spaced apart in the first operative position and are adjacent in the second operative position. The latching mechanism is coupled to the first and second portions and is adapted to maintain the first and second end portions in the second operative position. In one embodiment, the tag is clipped and latched onto a sock in the second operative position. |
| US11501658B2 |
Augmented reality platform for collaborative classrooms
An augmented reality system for developing and providing augmented reality learning experiences is disclosed. The augmented reality system advantageously combines augmented reality with the capabilities of cloud technology to provide a pull-based collaborative model, in which students and instructors collaborate by uploading, sharing, and downloading augmented reality learning content. The augmented reality system enables students to improve the augmented reality learning content by adding contributions to the original augmented reality learning content that was created by an instructor. |
| US11501656B2 |
Interactive and automated training system using real interactions
An interactive and automated training system, including a training portal having a training database, a training material creating module including a recorder and a dialogue identifier, a training and practicing module for training and practicing interactively with a trainee user, and a testing module for providing test case scenarios and grading a performance level of the trainee user. The recorder records real time interaction between an employee and a customer. The dialogue identifier differentiates the real time interaction into an employee dialogue and a customer dialogue, and provides indexing of subparts of the real time interaction. The training material creating module stores the real time interaction into the training database along with indexing data of the subparts of the real time interaction. The training material creating module categorizes a plurality of real time interactions stored in the training database into a plurality of training scenarios. |
| US11501653B2 |
Methods and systems for modifying a learning path for a user of an electronic learning system
Methods and systems for modifying a learning path for a user of an electronic learning system. The methods can include: retrieving a set of learning objectives assigned to the user; retrieving the path data associated with the learning path defined for the user, the learning path including a series of actions in respect of one or more resources accessible via the electronic learning system and each action corresponds to at least one learning objective assigned to the user; receiving user response inputs from the user in respect of at least one learning objective; evaluating the received user response inputs to determine a competence level of the user in respect of the at least one learning objective, the competence level indicating a proficiency of the user with the at least one learning objective; and modifying the learning path for the user based on the competence level determined for the user. |
| US11501650B2 |
Aviation weather control system
According to one embodiment, there is provided an aviation weather control system including: a processing unit configured to receive weather information of an area to be overseen including a vertically integrated liquid water content, and specify a weather phenomenon affecting an airplane based on the received weather information; and a notification unit configured to notify the weather phenomenon specified by the processing unit. |
| US11501649B2 |
Drone control method and device and drone
This application discloses a drone control method and device and a drone and pertains to the technical field of drone control. The method includes: monitoring a running status of each power motor in a drone; determining according to the running status of each power motor whether the drone is in a crashed state; and controlling the drone to alarm when determining that the drone is in the crashed state. The drone control method and device and the drone can rapidly locate a crashed drone, greatly increasing the probability of finding back the crashed drone. |
| US11501648B2 |
Method and apparatus for predicting flight delay, device and storage medium
The disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for predicting flight delay, a device and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring flight historical data, where the flight historical data includes take-off amount and delay amount of flights during each of a plurality of time periods; determining prior knowledge of each of the plurality of time periods according to the take-off amount and the delay amount of the flights during each of the plurality of time periods; constructing a SVM prediction model according to the prior knowledge and a standard SVM model; and predicting a flight delay situation according to the SVM prediction model. The prediction of the flight delay situation for each of the plurality of time periods is realized. |
| US11501646B2 |
Coordinating vehicle platooning using V2X assistance
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for coordinating vehicle platooning with V2X assistance. The techniques generally include: a first vehicle associated with a source UE transmitting a request to a base station to join a vehicle platoon. The request indicates at least one of: an occupancy parameter of a first vehicle associated with the source UE; an autonomy level of the first vehicle; or a travel preference parameter. The occupancy parameter may include a number of passengers, seating positions of passengers, and other occupancy information pertaining safety and prioritization. The autonomy level enables vehicles of similar autonomy to form a platoon that optimizes headways, thus minimizing fuel consumption due to air resistance. The travel preference parameter may include a preferred speed of the source UE. The source UE may receive a response message indicating confirmation that the first vehicle is allowed to join the vehicle platoon. |
| US11501644B2 |
Signal redundancy control system and method used for turnout system and computer readable storage medium
The invention provides a signal redundancy control system. The system includes multiple first signal collecting devices, second signal collecting devices and a controller, wherein the multiple first signal collecting devices are configured to collect the dynamic information of default devices where the first signal collecting devices are located in real time; one second signal collecting device corresponding to each of the first signal collecting devices is disposed on each default device, and is configured to collect the dynamic information of the default device where the second signal collecting device is located in real time; the controller is configured to determine whether the first signal collecting devices include fault information or not, and positions each default device according to the dynamic information acquired by the first signal collecting devices or the second signal collecting devices. |
| US11501642B2 |
Method and system of detecting a wrong-way driving vehicle
A system of a motor vehicle for detecting a wrong-way driving vehicle and warning third parties includes multiple sensors that generate associated input signals indicative of characteristics of a target vehicle. The telematics module further includes a controller and a storage medium storing computer code for execution by the controller. The computer code is configured to compare the characteristics of the target vehicle to associated threshold values. The computer code is further configured to determine a confidence score indicative of the wrong-way driving vehicle, in response to the controller determining that the characteristics exceed the threshold values. The computer code is further configured to compare the confidence score to a threshold score and generate a notification signal, in response to the controller determining that the confidence score is above the threshold score. The telematics module that transmits the notification signal to the third parties. |
| US11501639B1 |
Emergency vehicle detection and avoidance systems for autonomous vehicles
The present disclosure generally relates to generating emergency vehicle warnings, automatic control of autonomous vehicles based upon the emergency vehicle warnings. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to generating data representative of emergency vehicle warnings and alternate autonomous vehicle routing based upon real-time information related to an emergency vehicle. The information related to the emergency vehicle may include emergency vehicle origination location data, emergency vehicle current location data, emergency vehicle route data, and/or emergency vehicle destination location data. An emergency vehicle warning and/or alternate vehicle routing for autonomous vehicles may be generated based further on information related to an autonomous vehicle. In one aspect, an emergency vehicle may wirelessly communicate with the autonomous vehicle and/or an insurance provider remote server. The insurance provider may adjust auto insurance for insured individuals, having vehicles with the vehicle safety functionality discussed herein, to reflect lower risk and provide insurance savings to customers. |
| US11501638B2 |
Traffic flow estimation apparatus, traffic flow estimation method, and storage medium
A traffic flow estimation apparatus includes: a vehicle number detector which detects a number of preceding vehicles in front of the traffic flow estimation apparatus and; a traffic flow estimator which estimates a traffic flow from the number of preceding vehicles, and the traffic flow estimator includes: an acquisition unit which acquires a time series of the number of preceding vehicles in a first predetermined period as a vehicle number time series; an evaluation index calculation unit which calculates an evaluation index of the vehicle number time series in the first predetermined period; a congestion state determination unit which determines the traffic flow of the preceding vehicles on the basis of the evaluation index; and a traffic flow controller which notifies a following vehicle behind the traffic flow estimation apparatus of an indication with respect to travel on the basis of the traffic flow of the preceding vehicles. |
| US11501635B2 |
Vehicle-to-vehicle communication system, roadside communication apparatus, in-vehicle communication apparatus, and vehicle-to-vehicle communication method
A vehicle-vehicle communication system performs wireless communication between multiple vehicles each having an in-vehicle communication apparatus that transmits and receives information using a wireless signal. The vehicle-vehicle communication system includes a roadside communication apparatus including a roadside reception unit receiving information transmitted by the in-vehicle communication apparatus using a wireless signal and a roadside transmission unit transmitting the information received by the roadside reception unit using a wireless signal, and relays communication between multiple vehicles. The in-vehicle communication apparatus includes a vehicle-side reception unit that receives information wirelessly transmitted by an in-vehicle communication apparatus mounted in another vehicle and information wirelessly transmitted by a roadside communication apparatus; a determination unit determines whether or not the information received by the vehicle-side reception unit is needed; and an information processing unit performs information processing based on information determined by the determination unit as being needed. |
| US11501632B2 |
Methods and apparatus for contingency communications
Methods and systems for contingency communication are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for providing emergency services may be performed by a base station operating in a communication system in an embodiment, the method for providing emergency services includes transmitting a beacon signal to indicate an emergency status to enable portable devices to operate in a stress mode. A distress signal may be transmitted by a mobile device in response to the beacon signal to the base station, wherein the distress signal carries information at least comprising user identity associated with the mobile device, geolocation of the mobile device, or biometrics of a user of the mobile device. |
| US11501631B2 |
Fire alarm system and booster
A fire detector is connected to a loop transmission line connected to a receiver. When the loop transmission line is normal, a transmission unit is connected to the fire detector. When a disconnection failure occurs, a disconnection monitoring unit turns on switching circuits to connect the end of the loop transmission line to the transmission unit, and the receiver connects to the fire detector from both ends of the loop transmission line. An input/output switching booster is inserted and connected in the middle of the loop transmission line, and when the start side transmission line is disconnected and the switching circuits are turned on, the input/output is switched. Accordingly, the input/output switching booster amplifies the down signal input from the terminal side transmission line and outputs it to the start side transmission line and at the same time amplifies the up signal input from the start side transmission line. |
| US11501628B2 |
Integrative security system and method
A method for monitoring and securing a facility without employing a manned control center, according to which a server acquires surveillance data from each of a plurality of distributed surveillance devices deployed within or adjacent to a given security sensitive facility. Then the server receives an intrusion alert from a guard, or from one or more of the plurality of surveillance devices to initiate a triggering event, if the acquired surveillance data is indicative of activity that has been detected at an indicated location. A first guard is alerted and presented with a full situational awareness image to assess the severity of the detected activity and the triggering event is terminated if found by the first guard to be of a low severity, or an interception operation initiated by self-dispatching or dispatching one or more additional guards to a close by location that holds tactical advantage relative to the indicated location if the triggering event was found by the first guard to be of a high severity. |
| US11501626B2 |
Hand hygiene device, system, and method
In one embodiment, a device obtains sensor data captured by one or more sensors deployed in a washroom, the sensor data comprising audio signals. The device identifies, using the sensor data as input to one or more machine learning-based classifiers, one or more events associated with a user of the washroom. The device makes a decision as whether the one or more events comply with a hand hygiene protocol. The device provides data indicative of the decision for presentation to the user. |
| US11501625B2 |
Reminder method and apparatus and electronic device
A reminder method and apparatus and an electronic device. When a difference between a voice volume of a user in conversation and a reference volume is greater than a preset threshold, output of reminder to the user is controlled. Thus, the user may be reminded when his/her conversation is too loud for the surrounding environment automatically according to a comparing result of the voice volume of the user in conversation and the reference volume, and user experience may be improved. |
| US11501622B2 |
System and method for determining a location of an explosive device
Disclosed is a system (102) for determining a location of an explosive device. The system (102) detects an explosive device using one or more devices (204) based on one or more nano-explosive detection sensors (206) associated with the one or more devices (204). The system (102) further identifies a type, a quantity and a signal strength associated with the explosive device. The system (102) computes a distance between the explosive device and the one or more devices (204). The system (102) determines explosive device co-ordinates based on the computed distance and device co-ordinates associated with each device (204). The system (102) receives a data packet comprising data associated with the explosive device from the one or more devices (204). The system (102) determines a location of the explosive device based on an analysis of the data packet received from the one or more devices (204). |
| US11501617B2 |
Test device for verifying operation of an optical fiber monitoring system
In an optical fiber monitoring system which detects physical disturbance or other parameters such as temperature or strain of a fiber where a monitor signal is transmitted along the optical fiber and analyzed to detect changes which are indicative of an event, a method is provided for periodically checking proper operation of the optical fiber monitoring system. A fiber disturbance actuator periodically causes a pattern of disturbances of a portion of the fiber at a predetermined location thereon where the disturbance is characteristic of the event to be monitored. The monitor signal is analyzed to detect the pattern of changes and in the event that expected changes are not detected, a warning is issued that the intrusion detection system is not properly operating. |
| US11501616B2 |
Test device for verifying operation of an optical fiber monitoring system utilizing a far end optical shutter
In an optical fiber monitoring system which detects physical disturbance or other parameters such as temperature or strain of a fiber where a monitor signal is transmitted along the optical fiber and analyzed to detect changes which are indicative of an event, a method is provided for periodically checking proper operation of the optical fiber monitoring system. A fiber disturbance actuator periodically causes a pattern of disturbances of a portion of the fiber at a predetermined location thereon where the disturbance is characteristic of the event to be monitored. The monitor signal is analyzed to detect the pattern of changes and in the event that expected changes are not detected, a warning is issued that the intrusion detection system is not properly operating. |
| US11501614B2 |
Skip-scanning identification method, apparatus, and self-service checkout terminal and system
Embodiments of the present invention provide a skip-scanning identification method and apparatus, a self-service cash register terminal and system. The method includes: obtaining a video of a user scanning an item; determining posture data of the user based on the obtained video; determining, according to the posture data of the user, a time period in which a scanning action of the user takes place; receiving a scanning result of the item; and determining whether the user has skipped scanning the item based on the scanning result and the time period. |
| US11501613B2 |
Varied update rates of shopping data for frictionless shoppers
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for controlling a detail level of shopping data provided to frictionless shoppers. In one implementation, a method may comprise: receiving image data captured using one or more image sensors in a retail store; analyzing the image data to identify a plurality of product interaction events for at least one shopper in the retail store; determining shopping data associated with the plurality of product interaction events; determining a likelihood that the at least one shopper will be involved in shoplifting; based on the determined likelihood, determining an update rate for updating the at least one shopper with the shopping data; and delivering the shopping data to the at least one shopper at the determined update rate. |
| US11501608B2 |
System and method for integrated multiple source player cash access
The present invention relates to a system and method for integrating player tracking and cash access in a casino or other gaming environment. One aspect of the invention relates to integrating player tracking and cash access transactions by allowing a player to utilize a player tracking card for each financial transaction conducted in a gaming environment, wherein financial account information for the player, such as bank or credit card information, is linked to their player tracking account and card. |
| US11501607B2 |
Systems for implementing enhanced gaming and prizing parameters in an electronic environment
System and methods are provided for effecting user experience in an electronic game environment through use of virtual currency or vCoins. In a multi-level game, the systems and methods include memory for storing information on game play, the information including input received from the user, information relating to levels within the multi-level game and game display information for output to the user. A processor is coupled to the memory for generating game play information, preferably including game play with virtual money. The virtual money is acquired through game play or cash purchase. The virtual money is convertible into a non-cash good comprising advancement to another level within the game. |
| US11501606B2 |
Method and apparatus for advertising on a mobile gaming device
In various embodiments, promotions are featured on mobile gaming devices. |
| US11501605B1 |
Method and apparatus for data processing, electronic device, and storage medium
Provided is a method for data processing. The method includes the following actions. Recognition data obtained by performing game object recognition on each frame of game image in a game image frame sequence is acquired. The recognition data includes type data of a game object and position data of the game object on a game table. At least one heat zone map corresponding to a surface of the game table is acquired. Each heat zone map represents a game region on the surface of the game table corresponding to each of respective at least one type of game object. Based on the type data, the position data, and the at least one heat zone map, recognition data of a game object that is located in a corresponding game region in each frame of game image in the game image frame sequence is filtered out. |
| US11501603B2 |
Concurrent utilization of game components in multiple game segments
Embodiments of the present invention set forth systems, apparatuses, computer-readable media, and/or methods that are configured to concurrently utilize presented game components in multiple games or game features within the same or different game. Accordingly, a gaming device can be configured to enable randomly-presented game components, such as slot game symbols, to be concurrently useable in one or more other games, and/or one or more other game features within the same overall game. Hence, one or more symbols presented in a first game segment are also available in a second game segment, where the game segments may be interrelated or alternatively independent from one another. |