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| US11636408B2 |
Techniques for manipulating and rearranging presentation of workforce data in accordance with different data-prediction scenarios available within a graphical user interface (GUI) of a computer system, and an apparatus and hardware memory implementing the techniques
A method includes receiving input identifying a dimensional framework and forecasting time period. The method also includes generating a workforce plan based on the dimensional framework and the forecasting time period. The method further includes receiving first data defining a first scenario of the workforce plan, where the first scenario is associated with at least a first turnover assumption, and determining a first set of forecasted headcount values corresponding to the first scenario. The method includes receiving second data defining a second scenario of the workforce plan, where the second scenario is associated with at least a second turnover assumption that differs from the first turnover assumption, and determining a second set of forecasted headcount values corresponding to the second scenario. The method includes generating graphical user interface (GUI) data that includes a comparison of the first set of forecasted headcount values and the second set of forecasted headcount values. |
| US11636407B2 |
Framework for classifying forms and processing form data
In response to a request received from a client device to view an item, a program determines a category associated with the item and a location associated with a user of the client device. The program also identifies a form based on the category and the location. The form comprises a set of fields. The program then provides a graphical user interface (GUI) that includes the form to the client device. The program also receives, through the GUI, data values for the set of fields from the client device and a request to add the item to a collection of items. The program then identifies a policy based on the category and the location. The program also applies the policy to the data values for the set of fields. The program then sends a notification to the client device indicating a result of the application of the policy. |
| US11636405B2 |
Method, apparatus and computer program product for vehicle platooning
A method, apparatus and computer program products are provided for generating routes for vehicles participating in a platooning plan, where the routes are influenced by one another. Methods may include receiving a first trip request including a first vehicle identification, a first trip origin, and a first trip destination; receiving a second trip request including a second vehicle identification, a second trip origin, and a second trip destination, where the first trip origin, second trip origin, first trip destination, and second trip destination are all different; generating a platooning plan that includes a first route and a second route, where the first route and the second route overlap for at least a portion of the respective route, where at least one of the first route and the second route are generated with an influence from the other of the first route and the second route. |
| US11636401B2 |
Artificial intelligence platform
An AI platform to enable one or more users to design and create AI enabled applications is provided. The AI platform comprises a data module configured to condition data received from a plurality of data sources to generate a corresponding data pipeline; wherein the data module comprises a plurality of reusable data components. The AI platform further comprises an intelligent processing module configured to process a plurality of datasets received on the data pipeline and generate a corresponding artificial intelligence (AI) pipeline; wherein the intelligent processing module comprises a plurality of reusuable data processing components. The AI platform further includes a communication module configured to enable one or more users to select a set of reusable data components and set of reusuable data processing modules and build a corresponding AI enabled application and an AI configuration module configured to seamlessly integrate the selected set of reusable data components and the set of reusable data processing components using a plurality of standardized interfaces. |
| US11636394B2 |
Differentiable user-item co-clustering
The present concepts relate to a differentiable user-item co-clustering (“DUICC”) model for recommendation and co-clustering. Users' interaction with items (e.g., content) may be centered around information co-clusters—groups of items and users that exhibit common consumption behavior. The DUICC model may learn fine-grained co-cluster structures of items and users based on their interaction data. The DUICC model can then leverage the learned latent co-cluster structures to calculate preference stores of the items for a user. The top scoring items may be presented to the user as recommendations. |
| US11636386B2 |
Determining data representative of bias within a model
Methods, systems, and computer program products for determining data representative of bias within a model are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes obtaining a first dataset on which a model was trained, wherein the first dataset contains protected attributes, and a second dataset on which the model was trained, wherein the protected attributes have been removed from the second dataset; identifying, for each of the one or more protected attributes in the first dataset, one or more attributes in the second dataset correlated therewith; determining bias among at least a portion of the identified correlated attributes; and outputting, to at least one user, identifying information pertaining to the one or more instances of bias. |
| US11636384B1 |
Spherical random features for polynomial kernels
Implementations provide for use of spherical random features for polynomial kernels and large-scale learning. An example method includes receiving a polynomial kernel, approximating the polynomial kernel by generating a nonlinear randomized feature map, and storing the nonlinear feature map. Generating the nonlinear randomized feature map includes determining optimal coefficient values and standard deviation values for the polynomial kernel, determining an optimal probability distribution of vector values for the polynomial kernel based on a sum of Gaussian kernels that use the optimal coefficient values, selecting a sample of the vectors, and determining the nonlinear randomized feature map using the sampled vectors. Another example method includes normalizing a first feature vector for a data item, transforming the first feature vector into a second feature vector using a feature map that approximates a polynomial kernel with an explicit nonlinear feature map, and providing the second feature vector to a support vector machine. |
| US11636373B2 |
Measurement based uncomputation for quantum circuit optimization
Methods and apparatus for optimizing a quantum circuit. In one aspect, a method includes identifying one or more sequences of operations in the quantum circuit that un-compute respective qubits on which the quantum circuit operates; generating an adjusted quantum circuit, comprising, for each identified sequence of operations in the quantum circuit, replacing the sequence of operations with an X basis measurement and a classically-controlled phase correction operation, wherein a result of the X basis measurement acts as a control for the classically-controlled correction phase operation; and executing the adjusted quantum circuit. |
| US11636370B2 |
Quantum computer with improved continuous quantum generator
A hybrid quantum-classical (HQC) computer which includes both a classical computer component and a quantum computer component performs generative learning on continuous data distributions. The HQC computer is capable of being implemented using existing and near-term quantum computer components having relatively low circuit depth. |
| US11636368B2 |
Probabilistic multigraph modeling for improving the quality of crowdsourced affective data
A method of improving quality of crowdsourced affective data based on agreement relationship between a plurality of annotators include receiving, by a processor, a collection of stimuli previously given affective labels by the plurality of annotators, executing, by a processor, an algorithm operative to perform the steps including constructing an agreement multigraph as a probabilistic model including a pair-wise status of agreement between the affective labels given by different ones of the plurality of annotators, learning the probabilistic model computationally using the crowdsourced affective data, identifying a reliability of each of the plurality of annotators based on the learned model, and adjusting the crowdsourced affective data by calculating the affective labels of each stimuli based on the identified reliability of each of the plurality of annotators, thereby improving the quality of the crowdsourced affective data. |
| US11636367B2 |
Systems, apparatus, and methods for generating prediction sets based on a known set of features
One example method of operation may include identifying a number of features associated with information of one or more entities, accessing a probability distribution store comprising defined numerical ranges as potential possibilities for being paired with the features of the one or more entities, determining first probability distributions for each of the defined numerical ranges indicating probabilities that each defined numerical range is assigned to each entity having one or more of the features, determining second probability distributions for each of the defined numerical ranges indicating probabilities that each defined numerical range is assigned to each entity having one or more additional features, determining a merged probability distribution based on the first probability distributions and the second probability distributions, determining and storing one or more prediction sets based on the merged probability distribution, selecting one or more content items to display on a device interface based on the one or more prediction sets, and displaying the one or more content items the device interface. |
| US11636362B1 |
Predicting trajectory intersection by another road user
The technology relates to predicting that an object is going to enter into a trajectory of a vehicle. This may include receiving sensor data identifying a first location of the object in an environment of the vehicle at a first point in time and receiving sensor data identifying a second location of the object in the environment at a second point in time. In addition, a boundary of the trajectory is determined by defining at least a two-dimensional area through which the vehicle is expected to travel in the future. A first distance between the boundary and the first location and a second distance between the trajectory and the second location are determined. The first distance and the second distance are used to determine that the object is going to enter into the trajectory at a future point in time. |
| US11636355B2 |
Integration of knowledge graph embedding into topic modeling with hierarchical Dirichlet process
Leveraging domain knowledge is an effective strategy for enhancing the quality of inferred low-dimensional representations of documents by topic models. Presented herein are embodiments of a Bayesian nonparametric model that employ knowledge graph (KG) embedding in the context of topic modeling for extracting more coherent topics; embodiments of the model may be referred to as topic modeling with knowledge graph embedding (TMKGE). TMKGE embodiments are hierarchical Dirichlet process (HDP)-based models that flexibly borrow information from a KG to improve the interpretability of topics. Also, embodiments of a new, efficient online variational inference method based on a stick-breaking construction of HDP were developed for TMKGE models, making TMKGE suitable for large document corpora and KGs. Experiments on datasets illustrate the superior performance of TMKGE in terms of topic coherence and document classification accuracy, compared to state-of-the-art topic modeling methods. |
| US11636353B2 |
Cognitive system for localized LIDAR pollution detection using autonomous vehicles
The present invention provides for a cognitive system using an autonomous vehicle includes a plurality of sensors configured to obtain the weather forecast for a pollution detectable area; a cognitive input to determine the pollution detectable area having highest sensitivity of pollution; a light detecting and ranging system configured to spatially probe pollution levels distributed in the pollution detectable area; an evaluation system to evaluate the probed pollution levels in the pollution detectable area; and a recommendation system for recommending an action to be taken based on evaluation system results of the probed pollution levels in the pollution detectable area, wherein the pollution levels are detected based light emitted by the light detecting and ranging system. |
| US11636345B2 |
Training generative adversarial networks
Improving the training of generative adversarial networks by identifying the input and output layers in the generator network, assigning a gradient multiplier to each layer, and multiplying the gradient by the multiplier during back-propagation and before applying the product of the gradient and multiplier to node weights of the layers. |
| US11636343B2 |
Systems and methods for neural network pruning with accuracy preservation
Training a neural network (NN) may include training a NN N, and for S, a version of N to be sparsified (e.g. a copy of N), removing NN elements from S to create a sparsified version of S, and training S using outputs from N (e.g. “distillation”). A boosting or reintroduction phase may follow sparsification: training a NN may include for a trained NN N and S, a sparsified version of N, re-introducing NN elements previously removed from S, and training S using outputs from N. The boosting phase need not use a NN sparsified by “distillation.” Training and sparsification, or training and reintroduction, may be performed iteratively or over repetitions. |
| US11636340B2 |
Modeling method and apparatus for diagnosing ophthalmic disease based on artificial intelligence, and storage medium
The present disclosure proposes a modeling method and apparatus for diagnosing an ophthalmic disease based on artificial intelligence, and a storage medium. The modeling method includes: establishing a data collection of ophthalmic images and a data collection of non-image ophthalmic disease diagnosis questionnaires; training a first neural network model by employing the data collection of the ophthalmic images to obtain a first classification model; training a second classification model by employing the data collection of non-image ophthalmic disease diagnosis questionnaires; and merging the first classification model and the second classification model to obtain a target classification network model, in which, a test result outputted by the target classification network model is used as a diagnosis result of the ophthalmic disease. |
| US11636335B2 |
System and method for content discovery
Systems and methods for presenting content to a user are described. A trained neural network is stored in memory, defining input nodes representing respective attribute values of attribute types, and weights embodying strengths of connections between the input nodes and hidden nodes, as trained for the particular user. Sub-models of the neural network are defined from sets of input nodes of the same attribute type and a corresponding hidden state matrix of trained weights. A request for content assets is processed using a retrieved first sub-model corresponding to a query attribute type and second sub-model corresponding to a target attribute type, to determine relevancy parameters for the user. Content assets are selected for presentation by a media receiver device, based on the determined relevancy parameters. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. |
| US11636332B2 |
Systems and methods for defense against adversarial attacks using feature scattering-based adversarial training
Described herein are embodiments for a feature-scattering-based adversarial training approach for improving model robustness against adversarial attacks. Conventional adversarial training approaches leverage a supervised scheme, either targeted or non-targeted in generating attacks for training, which typically suffer from issues such as label leaking as noted in recent works. Embodiments of the disclosed approach generate adversarial images for training through feature scattering in the latent space, which is unsupervised in nature and avoids label leaking. More importantly, the presented approaches generate perturbed images in a collaborative fashion, taking the inter-sample relationships into consideration. Extensive experiments on different datasets compared with state-of-the-art approaches demonstrate the effectiveness of the presented embodiments. |
| US11636331B2 |
User explanation guided machine learning
Methods, systems, and computer program products for active explanation guided learning are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes identifying a subset of training examples, from a set of training examples, based on at least one of (i) an uncertainty metric computed for each one of the training examples and (ii) an influence metric computed for each one of the training examples; outputting said subset of training examples to a user; obtaining, from the user, a user explanation for each training example in said subset of training examples, wherein each of the user explanations identifies at least one part of the corresponding training example; and training a machine learning model based at least in part on the user explanations, wherein said training comprises prioritizing the identified parts of the training examples in the subset. |
| US11636327B2 |
Machine learning sparse computation mechanism for arbitrary neural networks, arithmetic compute microarchitecture, and sparsity for training mechanism
An apparatus to facilitate processing of a sparse matrix for arbitrary graph data is disclosed. The apparatus includes a graphics processing unit having a data management unit (DMU) that includes a scheduler for scheduling matrix operations, an active logic for tracking active input operands, and a skip logic for tracking unimportant input operands to be skipped by the scheduler. Processing circuitry is coupled to the DMU. The processing circuitry comprises a plurality of processing elements including logic to read operands and a multiplication unit to multiply two or more operands for the arbitrary graph data. |
| US11636314B2 |
Training neural networks using a clustering loss
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a neural network. One of the methods includes obtaining a batch of training items and a ground truth assignment; processing the training items in the batch using the neural network to generate respective embeddings for each of the training items; and adjusting the current values of the network parameters by performing an iteration of a neural network training procedure to optimize an objective function that penalizes the neural network for generating embeddings that do not result in, for each possible clustering assignment other than the ground truth assignment, the oracle clustering score being higher than a clustering score for the possible clustering assignment by at least a structured margin between the possible clustering assignment and the ground truth assignment. |
| US11636313B2 |
Recommendation system based on neural network models to improve efficiencies in interacting with e-commerce platforms
Data for interactions performed by users through a portal page is collected. The data comprising a plurality of sequences of interactions performed by a user on representations of products displayed in the portal page. The plurality of sequences of interactions are input to train a neural network on temporal dependencies between interactions within a sequence from the plurality of sequences. The plurality of sequences are processed by the neural network through a plurality of learning layers to generate a model for product identification. Upon receiving an interaction by a first user at the portal page in relation to a product from the products and based on the model, identifying a first product from the products to be displayed in the portal page for the first user. |
| US11636312B2 |
Systems and methods for rapid development of object detector models
A computer vision system configured for detection and recognition of objects in video and still imagery in a live or historical setting uses a teacher-student object detector training approach to yield a merged student model capable of detecting all of the classes of objects any of the teacher models is trained to detect. Further, training is simplified by providing an iterative training process wherein a relatively small number of images is labeled manually as initial training data, after which an iterated model cooperates with a machine-assisted labeling process and an active learning process where detector model accuracy improves with each iteration, yielding improved computational efficiency. Further, synthetic data is generated by which an object of interest can be placed in a variety of setting sufficient to permit training of models. A user interface guides the operator in the construction of a custom model capable of detecting a new object. |
| US11636304B2 |
Creating response schedule for tasks from cognitive state of a user
In an embodiment, cognitive adjustment of responses from a virtual assistant includes detecting verbal content in an audio signal, determining that the verbal content includes a voice command associated with a task by correlating the verbal content with voice command data stored in memory, determining a state of the user from the audio signal by cognitively comparing aspects of the verbal content with aspects of profile data associated with the user, and retrieving task data associated with the task for preparing a response to the voice command. |
| US11636303B2 |
Ground switch
A ground switch is disclosed. The ground switch includes an antenna port, a pair of switching devices coupled with the antenna port and a charge pump coupled with the pair of devices and configured to turn on/off the pair of devices based on an AC input signal received through the antenna port and a DC offset voltage added to the AC input signal. The ground switch further includes a clamping circuit to clamp an output of the charge pump. The ground switch is configured to provide a stable ground to components of devices such that a radio frequency identification (RFID) device. |
| US11636302B2 |
RFID tag information reading apparatus and method
Provided are an RFID tag information reading apparatus and method, including a signal management circuit, configured to output an operation frequency signal; a resonant circuit, configured to receive the operation frequency signal, adjust a capacitance value and an inductance value of the resonant circuit according to the operation frequency signal, so that the resonant circuit generates a resonance for generating a sine wave signal at a frequency point of the operation frequency signal, the resonant circuit is further configured to generate an electromagnetic wave from the sine wave signal, radiate the electromagnetic wave to a tag, and trigger the tag to return a tag identity signal; and a decoding identification circuit, configured to identify tag information according to the tag identity signal returned by the tag; where the signal management circuit is connected with the resonant circuit, and the resonant circuit is connected with the decoding identification circuit. |
| US11636300B2 |
Mark substrate, window cover including mark and display device including the same
A mark substrate includes a base substrate, a light-blocking layer disposed on the base substrate, where an opening or a groove is defined in the light-blocking layer, and an infrared-transmitting member. At least a portion of the infrared-transmitting member is disposed in the opening or the groove of the light-blocking layer to define a mark having a two-dimensional shape and optically distinguished from an adjacent area. |
| US11636299B2 |
Machine-readable tape
Exemplary embodiments use a single, physical embodiment that compiles independent machine-readable codes together with little to no space in between codes. This physical embodiment is in two primary forms—adhesive tape or fabric strips with hook and loop backing. A code reader device, with software compatible with the machine-readable codes, can rapidly or simultaneously aggregate independent codes together on the physical embodiment in order to assign them to one or more digital addresses. |
| US11636295B2 |
Control method and information processing apparatus for activating an application based on a reqsuest issued by a printer driver
A control method causes a Graphical User Interface (GUI) application to perform activating in response to a first print request from a drawing application, acquiring intermediate data based on drawing data generated by the drawing application, and outputting intermediate data. In a case where a second print request is issued by a printer driver that has acquired intermediate data output from a GUI application, the GUI application is re-activated in response to the second print request, and a predetermined screen is provided by the GUI application that has been activated in response to the second print request issued by the printer driver. |
| US11636294B2 |
Image forming apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium
An object is to match the texture of a printed material, in addition to the tint, between different printing devices. In order to implement this object, a printed material output by a destination device is scanned and whether a certain area in image data obtained by the scan is an area printed in K color on the printed material or an area printed in CMY color mixture is determined. Then, based on the determination results, a printing parameter is determined. |
| US11636293B2 |
Methods and system for updating color management resources based on verification operations
A color printing system includes a color management server and one or more printing devices. The color management server manages color printing resources among the printing devices. A test chart is printed at a printing device and used to capture calibration measurement data. Calibration settings are defined for the calibration measurement data. A tone reproduction curve (TRC) is generated based on the calibration measurement data and the calibration settings. The TRC is stored with the TRC settings and calibration measurement data to be used at a printing device. Various operations are performed between different TRCs. The TRC settings are edited and the TRC associated with the measurement data is updated or regenerated to reflect the edited settings. More than one TRC is updated with the new settings if it uses the measurement data. |
| US11636287B2 |
Learning form-based information classification
A method may include extracting training tokens from a training corpus, generating training token features and training contextual features for each of the training tokens, training a probabilistic graphical model using classes, the training token features, and the training contextual features, extracting, from actual data, actual tokens including an actual token, generating actual token features and actual contextual features for each of the actual tokens, and classifying the actual token as a class using the probabilistic graphical model, the actual token features, and the actual contextual features. |
| US11636286B1 |
Concurrent ensemble model training for open sets
Described are systems and methods for training machine learning models of an ensemble of models that are de-correlated. For example, two or more machine learning models may be concurrently trained (e.g., co-trained) while adding a decorrelation component to one or both models that decreases the pairwise correlation between the outputs of the models. Unlike traditional approaches, in accordance with the disclosed implementations, only the negative results need to be decorrelated. |
| US11636283B2 |
Committed information rate variational autoencoders
A variational autoencoder (VAE) neural network system, comprising an encoder neural network to encode an input data item to define a posterior distribution for a set of latent variables, and a decoder neural network to generate an output data item representing values of a set of latent variables sampled from the posterior distribution. The system is configured for training with an objective function including a term dependent on a difference between the posterior distribution and a prior distribution. The prior and posterior distributions are arranged so that they cannot be matched to one another. The VAE system may be used for compressing and decompressing data. |
| US11636274B2 |
Systems and methods to identify most suitable grammar suggestions among suggestions from a machine translation model
A set of candidate edits for a word of a sentence is obtained. Each of the set of candidate edits includes an edit word. Two or more surrounding words that each have a dependency relationship with the edit word are identified in the sentence. At least one of the two or more surrounding words is identified irrespective of their proximity to the edit word. The dependency relationship between the edit word and each of the surrounding words and the set of candidate edits is provided as input to a grammar accuracy prediction model. One or more outputs of the grammar accuracy prediction model are obtained. The one or more outputs indicate grammatical accuracy of each candidate edit from the set in the sentence in view of the dependency relationship with surrounding words. The candidate edit with highest accuracy is selected from the candidate edit set for the sentence. |
| US11636273B2 |
Machine-assisted translation for subtitle localization
One embodiment of the present disclosure sets forth a technique for generating translation suggestions. The technique includes receiving a sequence of source-language subtitle events associated with a content item, where each source-language subtitle event includes a different textual string representing a corresponding portion of the content item, generating a unit of translatable text based on a textual string included in at least one source-language subtitle event from the sequence, translating, via software executing on a machine, the unit of translatable text into target-language text, generating, based on the target-language text, at least one target-language subtitle event associated with a portion of the content item corresponding to the at least one source-language subtitle event, and generating, for display, a subtitle presentation template that includes the at least one target-language subtitle event. |
| US11636268B2 |
Generating finite state automata for recognition of organic compound names in Chinese
The present disclosure relates to a method and device for generating a finite state automata for recognizing a chemical name in a text, and a recognition method. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the method comprises substituting representation constants of categories of character segments appearing in an organic compound name set into the organic compound name set to obtain a conversion name set; updating the conversion name set based on a conversion name segment which repeatedly appears in the conversion name set; and generating the finite state automata based on the updated conversion name set. |
| US11636266B2 |
Systems and methods for unsupervised neologism normalization of electronic content using embedding space mapping
Systems and methods are disclosed for utilizing a comment moderation bot for detecting and normalizing neologisms in social media. One method comprises transmitting, by a neologism normalization system, a comment moderation bot for detecting neologisms on an online platform maintained by one or more publisher systems. The comment moderation bot may aggregate data related to user comments and transmit the aggregated data to the neologism normalization system for further processing. The neologism normalization system implements unsupervised machine learning models for detecting neologisms in the aggregated data through tokenization and filtering; and normalizing the neologisms through similarity analysis and lattice decoding. |
| US11636260B2 |
Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for formatting messages in a messaging user interface within a group-based communication system
An apparatus is provided configured for parsing and formatting a message in a group-based communication interface. The apparatus includes a memory and a processor(s) configured to receive an input string generated through user engagement of the group-based communication interface. The processor is also configured to parse the input string to identify a structured format string. The processor is further configured to, in a circumstance where the structured format trigger is identified in the input string, apply a structured format to the input string to generate a structured message object for rendering to the group-based communication interface. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided. |
| US11636254B2 |
Provenance aware editing for spreadsheets
A system for provenance aware editing for propagating edits back to spreadsheets is provided. The system receives an indication of an operation to be performed at an output location. The operation indicates one or more input locations on a spreadsheet that each provides an input value. The input values are accessed and tagged with their corresponding input location on the spreadsheet. Based on the operation and the input value from each of the one or more input locations, the system derives and displays the result at the output location. A user edit to the result is received at the output location, which causes transmission of a propagation request to change the input value at one or more of the tagged input locations. Using where-provenance associated with the tagged input locations, the system propagates the user edit to one or more of the tagged input locations. |
| US11636253B2 |
Method, system, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium for writing memo for audio file through linkage between app and web
An audio record management method includes linking an app dedicated for audio record management installed in a first device and a website dedicated for audio record management connected to a second device; displaying an audio file being recorded or being played back in the app on a file list on the website through linkage between the app and the website; and providing a memo creation screen for the audio file on the website in response to a selection of the audio file from the file list. |
| US11636251B2 |
Content aware font recommendation
Font recommendation systems and techniques are provided for determining one or more font recommendations. Content aware font recommendations can be determined for an electronic document based on information from the design context of the electronic document. For example, to generate recommended fonts for an electronic document, the font recommendation systems and techniques can obtain one or images of the electronic document and/or text from the electronic document as input, and can process the one or more images and/or the text to determine recommended font tags. In some cases, recommended fonts can be determined based on user search queries, such as when a user searches for a particular font. |
| US11636247B2 |
Three-dimensional master equation simulations of charge-carrier transport and recombination in organic semiconductor materials and devices
Three-dimensional master equation modeling for disordered semiconductor devices is provided. Charge transport is modeled as incoherent hopping between localized molecular states, and recombination is modeled as a nearest-neighbor process where an electron at a first location and a hole at a second location can recombine at either the first location or the second location. Here the first and second locations are any pair of nearest neighbor locations. We have found that this nearest neighbor recombination model performs substantially better than the conventional local recombination model where an electron and a hole must be at the same location to recombine. The recombination rate is modeled as a product of a prefactor γ, hopping rates and state occupancies. Importantly, we have found that sufficient simulation accuracy can be obtained by taking γ to be given by an empirically derived analytic expression. |
| US11636243B2 |
Method and system for recording integrated circuit version
A method and a system for recording an integrated circuit version are provided. The method is adapted to a register in an integrated circuit, which includes the following steps: recording the integrated circuit version with N bits, in which N is an integer greater than 1; and amending only a bit value of at least one bit selected from the N bits that have not been used for denoting any past integrated circuit version each time when the integrated circuit is revised. |
| US11636241B2 |
Physical device optimization with reduced memory footprint via time reversal at absorbing boundaries
A system, apparatus, and method for optimizing structural parameters of a physical device are described. The method includes receiving an initial description of the physical device describing the structural parameters within a simulated environment. The method further includes performing a simulation of the physical device in response to an excitation source to determine a performance metric of the physical device. The simulation environment includes one or more absorbing boundaries for attenuation of an output of the excitation source during the simulation. The method further includes recording attenuated field values of the simulated environment associated with the attenuation during the simulation. The method further includes determining a loss metric based on a difference between the performance metric and a target performance metric, backpropagating the loss metric using the attenuated field values, and generating a revised description of the physical device by updating the structural parameters to reduce the loss metric. |
| US11636237B2 |
Compressing binary geometry files for structural products
A method is provided for compressing a binary geometry file for a structural product. The method includes accessing the binary geometry file that contains a geometric model of a structural product that is formed of component parts, the geometric model including an assembly of geometric models of instances of the component parts. The method includes identifying the component parts of the structural product, and generating a master binary geometry file for the structural product that contains geometric models of the component parts. The method includes applying the binary geometry file to a coder that generates a corresponding compressed binary geometry file. The coder searches the binary geometry file for the geometric models of the instances of the component parts, and substitutes references to respective ones of the geometric models of the component parts in the master binary geometry file. |
| US11636236B2 |
Methods and apparatus for procedure tracking
Methods and apparatus for improving the provision of a procedure based upon automated determination of a location of agents and equipment during a procedure and quantifying conditions in an environment via automated sensors. The present invention provides apparatus and methods for wireless designation of a position of health care providers and equipment relative to each other based upon wireless communications amongst multiple wireless transceivers combined with ongoing monitoring of conditions present in a facility. The transceivers may be portions of nodes and nodes may form self-verifying arrays. A user interface may provide a augmented reality view of positions of all or some the providers and equipment and condition quantifying sensors. |
| US11636232B2 |
Apparatus, method, and program product for selectively obscuring data being displayed
Apparatus, methods, and program products for selectively obscuring data being displayed is disclosed. One apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to determine a security classification for data being displayed on a display and selectively obscure the data being displayed on the display based on the determined security classification for the data. Methods and computer program products that perform the operations and/or functions of the apparatus are also disclosed. |
| US11636228B2 |
Policy based persistence
A computing device includes a memory and at least one processor configured to cooperate with the memory. The processor is to boot the computing device, and direct generated data to data storage. The data storage includes at least one persistent layer and a non-persistent layer. The processor determines if the data is to be stored in the at least one persistent layer or the non-persistent layer based on a version of the operating system being used to boot the computing device. |
| US11636221B2 |
Mechanism for multi-factor authentication based on data
A request is received from a client seeking to access files stored at a backup server. A first tree is received for the request. The first tree represents hashes of files stored at the client. A second tree is generated representing hashes of the files stored at the backup server. The first and second trees are compared to assess a degree of similarity between the files stored at the client and the files stored at the backup server. The user is denied access to the files stored at the backup server when the degree of similarity is below a threshold. |
| US11636217B2 |
Systems and methods for breach-proof, resilient, compliant data in a multi-vendor cloud environment and automatically self heals in the event of a ransomware attack
A cloud-based system for securely storing data, the system having a processor which obtains a source data file; splits it into at least three fragments; and uses an encryption key associated with the fragments to encrypt the fragments and distributes the encrypted fragments among at least three cloud storage providers, creates a pointer file containing information for retrieving the encrypted fragments. When a system user requests access to the data, the system uses the information stored in the pointer file to retrieve the stored encrypted fragments from the plurality of clouds; decrypts the fragments and reconstructs the data, and provides data access to the system user. |
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System and methods for reducing an organization's cybersecurity risk based on modeling and segmentation of employees
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for more effectively preparing for and responding to cybersecurity threats directed at people or at groups of people. A segmentation process is described that evaluates multiple characteristics of a person that may make them a potential target or that may make a cybersecurity attack on that person more likely to be successful. Based on the segmentation, a security analyst can apply an appropriate risk reduction or security protocol to each person or group of similarly situated people to reduce the likelihood of an attack and/or the likelihood of a successful attack. |
| US11636209B2 |
Data structure measurement comparison
A system comprising an inner kernel of an operating system (OS) running at a higher privilege level than an outer kernel of the OS, the inner kernel to measure a data structure in a memory; a device including a measurement engine to measure the data structure in the memory, wherein the device operates independently of the OS; and a trusted execution environment including an application to compare measurements from the inner kernel and the measurement engine. |
| US11636206B2 |
Deferred malware scanning
A code segment executing on a compute instance may be identified as suspicious based on runtime behavior or similar behavioral analysis or the like. In order to ensure the identification and use of the most up-to-date identification and remediation tools, the compute instance may defer various remediation steps for an interval, during which the compute instance may wait for data updates from a threat management system. After the interval has passed, the compute instance may use any updated data or tools in order to address the code segment that triggered the initial malware detection. |
| US11636203B2 |
System for isolated access and analysis of suspicious code in a disposable computing environment
Providing an isolation system that allows analysts to analyze suspicious information in a way that aids in preventing harmful information from spreading to other applications and systems on a network. A plurality of virtual containers may be used by analysts to analyze suspicious information. The analyst may set the virtual environment configurations (e.g., applications, programs, settings, etc.) of the virtual container. The analyst may determine how the suspicious information effects the virtual environment configuration and/or use tools to analyze the suspicious information. When harmful information is identified the virtual container may be discarded (e.g., folded up and deleted), and a new virtual container may be provided to the analyst to continue to analyze the suspicious information and/or new suspicious information. |
| US11636202B2 |
Projected vector overflow penalty as mitigation for machine learning model string stuffing
An artifact is received from which features are extracted and used to populate a vector. The features in the vector are then reduced using a feature reduction operation to result in a modified vector having a plurality of buckets. Features within the buckets of the modified vector above a pre-determined projected bucket clipping threshold are then identified. Using the identified features, and overflow vector is then generated. The modified vector is then input into a classification model to generate a score. This score is adjusted based on the overflow vector and can then be provided to a consuming application or process. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. |
| US11636200B2 |
System and method for remotely detecting an anomaly
The following relates generally to defense mechanisms and security systems. Broadly, systems and methods are disclosed that detect an anomaly in an Embedded Mission Specific Device (EMSD). Disclosed approaches include a meta-material antenna configured to receive a radio frequency signal from the EMSD, and a central reader configured to receive a signal from the meta-material antenna. The central reader may be configured to: build a finite state machine model of the EMSD based on the signal received from the meta-material antenna; and detect if an anomaly exists in the EMSD based on the built finite state machine model. |
| US11636188B2 |
Combining biometrics, hidden knowledge and intent to authenticate
A computing device is configured to verify a user's identity, intent to authenticate, and/or possession of secret knowledge by evaluating biometric and/or environmental data. In embodiments, such verification is performed by evaluating a user's reaction to a stimulus based on such data. Biometric data may comprise eye tracking data, and a computing device may be configured to use such data to verify that the person has gazed through objects in a predetermined order. In embodiments, the user's intent to authenticate is verified by combining such eye tracking data with other biometric data. Physiological and other types of biometric data may be used to evaluate the user for indicia of duress. Embodiments may be configured to provide modified access to the computing device or resources stored thereon where indicia of duress have been detected. Such modified access may comprise hiding information stored on the device. |
| US11636184B2 |
Method for providing cloud-based service
A method for providing a software service of a license management server is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: receiving a virtual machine interface from a cloud server; installing software of a service provider in the virtual machine interface; transmitting a license to the virtual machine interface; providing ID and password related authority to a user terminal; and providing a service of the software to the user terminal through the virtual machine interface when the user terminal accesses the software. Therefore, source code leakage due to static analysis can be fundamentally prevented. |
| US11636180B2 |
Flight pushback state monitoring method based on multi-modal data fusion
A flight pushback state monitoring method based on multi-modal data fusion comprises: 1, constructing a control intention recognition rule, and recognizing a pushback intention from a control instruction sent by a controller; 2, constructing a flight intention recognition model, extracting an aircraft action from a real-time monitoring video, and capturing a flight intention; and 3, constructing an intention alignment fusion rule, and judging whether control intention information conflicts with flight intention information; by fusing the control intention and the flight intention, the method can realize the following auxiliary functions: timely judging whether the aircraft follows the pushback instruction sent by the controller, if a captain does not act according to the control instruction or acts arbitrarily without a control instruction, giving an inconsistent alarm, and a function of monitoring the flight pushback state is implemented. |
| US11636174B2 |
Scalable sparse matrix multiply acceleration using systolic arrays with feedback inputs
Described herein is an accelerator device including a host interface, a fabric interconnect coupled with the host interface, and one or more hardware tiles coupled with the fabric interconnect, the one or more hardware tiles including sparse matrix multiply acceleration hardware including a systolic array with feedback inputs. |
| US11636170B1 |
Normalizing uniform resource locators
The subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in methods and systems for receiving, by a computing system, a request to normalize an input Uniform Resource Locator (URL). The computing system identifies a user account to which the request to normalize the input URL relates. The computing system determines a selected set of URL normalization rules that are identified as being activated for the user account from among a larger collection of URL normalization rules. The computing system normalizes the input URL using the selected set of URL normalization rules to generate a normalized URL. The computing system stores information that results from an analysis of the input URL in association with an indication of the normalized URL. |
| US11636166B1 |
Systems and methods for event tracking using time-windowed counters
Some embodiments include tracking events and classifying assets within a computer system. A time series of occurrences of an event type associated with at least one asset is generated. A first signal value and a second signal value is determined based on the time series. The at least one asset can be classified based on comparison of the first signal value and the second signal value. The time series can be based on at least one time window including time intervals. Counters to determine a number of occurrences of an event type can be associated with the time intervals. Each of the counters can be incremented upon occurrence of the event type associated with the at least one asset during an associated time interval. |
| US11636160B2 |
Related content identification for different types of machine-generated data
A system can display content generated from one type of machine-generated data to a user via a graphical user interface. Based on an interaction with the machine-generated data, the system can determine an entity identifier associated with the machine-generated data and determine an entity type for the entity identifier. The system can map the entity type to one or more content generators associated with the entity type and communicate the entity identifier to the identified content generators. The content generators can determine if they have content associated with the machine-generated data. The system can generate and display a link to the related content via a graphical user interface. |
| US11636153B2 |
Storage of tree data structures
Disclosed herein is a computer-implemented method for storing binary tree data in memory. The binary tree data comprises parent node data, first child node data and second child node data. The computer-implemented method comprises determining a first child node memory address, the first child node memory address being less than a parent node memory address; determining a second child node memory address, the second child node memory address being greater than the parent node memory address; storing the parent node data at the parent node memory address; storing the first child node data at the first child node memory address; and storing the second child node data at the second child node memory address. |
| US11636150B2 |
Method and apparatus for managing digital files
A computer-implemented method of associating digital tags with digital files comprises storing a plurality of digital files having embedded therein content data. and metadata including tags; receiving, via a user interface device of a client device, a first tag label containing alphanumeric text created and inputted by a user of the client, device; modifying, using a controller device, a selected first one of the tags of the metadata in a first of the digital files to include the first tag label; receiving, via the user interface device or another user interface device, an instruction to search for all of the digital files having at least the first tag label; responsive to receiving the instruction, automatically searching for all of the digital files having at least the first tag label; and displaying, on a video display device associated with the client device, a first indication of the first tag label. |
| US11636149B1 |
Method and apparatus for managing digital files
A computer-implemented method of associating digital tags with digital files comprises storing a plurality of digital files having embedded therein content data and metadata including tags; receiving, via a user interface device of a client device, a first tag label containing alphanumeric text created and inputted by a user of the client device; modifying, using a controller device, a selected first one of the tags of the metadata in a first of the digital files to include the first tag label; receiving, via the user interface device or another user interface device, an instruction to search for all of the digital files having at least the first tag label; responsive to receiving the instruction, automatically searching for all of the digital files having at least the first tag label; and displaying, on a video display device associated with the client device, a first indication of the first tag label. |
| US11636144B2 |
Cluster analysis method, cluster analysis system, and cluster analysis program
A server 4 executes a similarity calculation step (S2) of calculating similarity between content of one document and content of another document, a cluster classification step (S3) of generating a network in which a document is set as a node based on calculated similarity and similar nodes are connected by an edge, and performing classification based on similar documents, a first index calculation step (S4) of calculating a first index indicating centrality of a document in the network, a second index calculation step (S5) of calculating a second index that is different from the first index in the network and indicates importance of a document, and a display data generation step (S6) of generating, regarding a document, first display data indicating the network by an expression of a size of an object of a node according to the first index, an expression of a gauge having a shape corresponding to a shape of the object according to the second index and a length of the gauge, an expression according to a type of the cluster, and an expression according to magnitude of similarity between documents. |
| US11636143B2 |
Entity search method, related device, and computer storage medium
An entity search method, a related device, and a computer storage medium are provided. The method includes: determining a first classifier and a second classifier that are included in query information; determining, based on a first entity library and the first classifier and the second classifier that are included in the query information, s correlations corresponding to each of w candidate entities, wherein information about the candidate entity includes a third classifier and a fourth classifier, and the correlation indicates a correlation between the classifiers in the query information and the classifiers in the candidate entity; and determining, based on the s correlations corresponding to each of the w candidate entities, information about a target entity corresponding to the query information, wherein the target entity is an entity in the w candidate entities. |
| US11636141B2 |
Computer-implemented systems and methods for intelligently retrieving, analyzing, and synthesizing data from databases
A computer extracts from contact records that each include a contact identifier, a group identifier for each group with which the contact has had an interaction, and interaction information that indicates a number of interactions and a timing of a most recent interaction. The contact data records are processed to generate a contact profile record for each contact including group metric values and a corresponding value for each group metric value based on an interaction history of groups the contact has interacted with. An interaction analytics databases stores a set of contact profile records and group profile records for groups that include metric values associated with the group and an interaction history. They are processed with at least thousands of the contact profile records to determine group-contact compatibility factors. A compatibility parameter is generated and communicated for each of at least thousands of contacts based on the group-contact compatibility parameters. |
| US11636139B2 |
Centralized database system with geographically partitioned data
A computer-implemented method for storing documents in a centralized database system based on geographical data localization includes receiving, by a database manager, a request to update a document according to a data localization criterion, the document stored in a local storage device of the centralized database system. The method further includes determining, by the database manager, a geographical location for a local copy of the document based on an attribute of the document matching the localization criterion. The method further includes creating, by the database manager, a remote copy of the document on a storage device that is physically located in the geographical location. The method further includes modifying, by the database manager, the local copy of the document to include a location information of the remote copy. |
| US11636135B2 |
Identifying missing browse nodes
Systems and methods generate browse node pages. A combination of a category and one or more aspects is identified by analyzing historical user behavior data associated with a network-based system. A determination is made regarding whether existing browse node pages for the network-based system includes a browse node page for the identified combination. Each browse node page for the network-based system is accessible by a respective uniform resource location (URL) and provides a grouping of items in a respective category with one or more respective aspects. Based on a determination that a browse node page does not exist for the identified combination of the category and the one or more aspects, a browse node page for the identified combination is generated. The generated browse node page corresponds with a URL and provides items matching the identified combination of the category and the one or more aspects. |
| US11636126B1 |
Configuring query result information for result data obtained at multiple execution stages
Techniques for configuring query result information associated with query result data include configuring execution of a query using a plurality of execution stages. Query result data is generated based on the execution of the query. The query result data includes a plurality of data portions. Each data portion of the plurality of data portions is obtained at a corresponding execution stage of the plurality of execution stages. Query result information is generated based on the execution of the query. The query result information includes authentication information associated with accessing the plurality of data portions. |
| US11636125B1 |
Neural contrastive anomaly detection
Systems and methods are described for detecting anomalies within data, such as time series data. In one example, unlabeled data, such as time series data, may be obtained. At least one data point, representing an artificial anomaly, may be inserted into the data. The data may then be divided into a number of different windows. The windows may have a fixed size and may at least partially overlap in time. The data contained within different windows may be compared, to each other and to the injected data point, to determine an anomaly score for individual windows. The anomaly score may indicate a likelihood that a given window contains an anomaly. In a specific example, a convolution neural network may be trained based on the data and inserted data points representing anomalies, where a contrastive loss function is used to represent different portions of the data in the neural network. |
| US11636123B2 |
Density-based computation for information discovery in knowledge graphs
Knowledge graph systems are disclosed for enhancing a knowledge graph by generating a new node. The knowledge graph system converts a knowledge graph into an embedding space, and selects a region of interest from within the embedding space. The knowledge graph system further identifies, from the region of interest, one or more gap regions, and calculates a center for each gap region. A node is generated for each gap region, and the information represented by the node is added to the original knowledge graph to generate an updated knowledge graph. |
| US11636122B2 |
Method and apparatus for data mining from core traces
According to an embodiment, there is provided a method for data mining from core traces in a processing system for wireless baseband design that includes detecting a core trace in the processing system where the core trace is a sequence of instructions executed in the processing system. Instruction addresses in the core trace are mapped to a plurality of application or operating system functions. The mapped functions are sorted into a hierarchical format. A gene function is identified in the hierarchical format where the gene function is a fundamental function executed by the processing system. Attributes for the gene function are derived from the hierarchical format. The attributes are stored into a gene function library database. |
| US11636119B2 |
System and method for efficient management of a search database for retrieving context-based information
A system and method for efficient management of a search database for retrieving context-based information, system including a database and processor, wherein the database includes columnar database for storing a plurality of documents, an ontological database configured to represent a plurality of concepts as nodes in a network and relationships between the concepts as edges between nodes and the search database configured to store an inverted index of the plurality of documents in the columnar database. Herein, the processor is configured to identify, using the ontological database, a set of concepts in each of the plurality of documents and store, in the search database, corresponding to a given document the set of concepts identified in the given document, and secondary concepts relating to the given document, wherein a secondary concept has a direct relationship in the network with at least one of the concepts in the set. |
| US11636118B2 |
Presentation of process control information within a vehicle
To provide search capabilities in a process control system, a contextual knowledge repository is generated that organizes process plant-related data according to semantic relations between the process plant-related data and the process plant entities. When a user submits a process plant search query related to process plant entities within a process plant, search results are obtained by identifying a data set from the contextual knowledge repository which is responsive to the process plant search query. The search results are then presented on a user interface device based on the identified data set. To allow for searches to be performed by user interface devices external to the process plant, a data diode is disposed between a field-facing component and an edge-facing component of the process plant so that data flows from the field-facing component to the edge-facing component without flowing from the edge-facing component to the field-facing component. |
| US11636109B2 |
Data processing in an optimized analytics environment
Systems and methods for data processing in an optimized analytics environment are disclosed. The system may enable users to create data processing requests, interact with various data sources and datasets, and generate data processing outputs. The system may receive a data processing request from an audio-enabled input source or a UI-based input source. The system may determine whether the data processing request at least partially matches a stored data processing request. The system may receive a data processing request selection comprising the data processing request or the stored data processing request. The system may execute the data processing request selection on a data source. |
| US11636107B2 |
Database management system, computer, and database management method
A database management system (DBMS) generates a query execution plan including information representing one or more database (DB) operations necessary for executing a query and executes the query based on the query execution plan. In the execution of the query, the DBMS dynamically generates a task for executing a DB operation and executes the dynamically generated task. The DBMS executes a task in a plurality of threads executed by a processor core. |
| US11636105B2 |
Generating a subquery for an external data system using a configuration file
Systems and methods are disclosed for receiving, at a data intake and query system, a query that includes an indication to process data managed by a third-party data storage and processing system that supports a different query language than the data intake and query system. The data intake and query system identifies a third-party data storage and processing system that manages the data to be processed and generates a subquery for execution by the third-party data storage and processing system, generates instructions for one or more worker nodes to receive and process results of the subquery from the third-party data storage and processing system, and instructs the worker nodes to provide results of the processing to the data intake and query system. |
| US11636101B2 |
Nested query execution tool
Techniques for executing operations associated with sub-sets of queries in a set of nested queries are disclosed. A graphical user interface displays individual sub-queries as separate visual representations. Based on detecting a selection, a system executes a selected query in the set of nested queries, without executing parent queries in the set of nested queries. Based on detecting another selection, the system exports a selected query without exporting parent queries of the selected query. The system copies the metadata describing the selected query and transfers the metadata to another set of nested queries. Based on detecting another selection, the system displays a results count for a selected query. The system displays a number representing the number of results returned by the selected query, without displaying the query results. |
| US11636097B2 |
Managing data objects for graph-based data structures
Various embodiments provide methods, systems, apparatus, computer program products, and/or the like for managing, ingesting, monitoring, updating, and/or extracting/retrieving information/data associated with an electronic record (ER) stored in an ER data store and/or accessing information/data from the ER data store, wherein the ERs are generated, updated/modified, and/or accessed via a graph-based domain ontology. |
| US11636096B2 |
Custom metadata tag inheritance based on a filesystem directory tree or object storage bucket
A method and/or system of managing metadata are disclosed that include connecting a source data storage system (DSS) that stores both data and metadata to a metadata management platform (MMP); scanning metadata records onto the MMP from the DSS; storing metadata attributes for at least one of the group consisting of directories and buckets on the DSS in a look-up table on the MMP; and adding updated metadata attributes to the look-up table on the MMP for each subsequent scan of the DSS. |
| US11636095B2 |
System and method for providing a representational state transfer proxy service for a blockchain cloud service
Described herein are systems and methods for implementing a distributed ledger a blockchain cloud service. The blockchain cloud service can include nodes of the distributed ledger and a REST proxy service component. The REST proxy service uses a service development kit for the distributed ledger to communicate with the distributed ledger, and can provide REST APIs for use by client applications to query through chaincodes, synchronously or asynchronously invoke transactions through the chaincodes, get transaction statuses, and get BCS proxy versions. The REST proxy service component can authenticate REST calls, and translate the REST calls into remote procedural calls, for use in interfacing with the distributed ledger. The REST proxy service component can further provide REST APIs that support the same functions which are provided by the BCS management console component, and provide a user interface for client applications to consume the BCS instance. |
| US11636092B2 |
General, flexible, resilent ticketing interface between a device management system and ticketing systems
Systems and methods of the present disclosure facilitate synchronizing data between a device management system and ticketing systems. In some embodiments, the system includes an update module, a mapping module, and a service board selection module. The update module may be configured to update ticketing information about a ticketing ticket on the ticketing system to match device management information about a device management ticket on the device management system. The mapping module may be configured to select a ticket category for a device management ticket on the device management system responsive to the device management information about the device management ticket. The service board selection module may be configured to select a service board for a ticketing ticket on the ticketing system. |
| US11636088B2 |
Systems and methods to facilitate rapid data entry for document review
A computer-implemented method that includes generating a graphical user interface including a coding interface and a document viewer interface. The coding interface displays a grid that includes a plurality of cells representing a plurality of documents and a plurality of fields. A selection of one of the cells is received. The cell represents a selected one of the documents, and a selected one of the fields. A rendering of the selected document is automatically displayed in the document viewer interface. A value entered into the selected cell is received and the value is transmitted to a database for storage thereby. |
| US11636082B2 |
Table indexing and retrieval using intrinsic and extrinsic table similarity measures
Ad-hoc table retrieval, including: Representing each of a plurality of tables as a multi-field text document in which: different modalities of the table are represented as separate fields, and a concatenation of all the modalities is represented as a separate, auxiliary field. Receiving a query. Executing the query on the multi-field text documents, to retrieve a list of preliminarily-ranked candidate tables out of the plurality of tables. Calculating an intrinsic table similarity score for each of the candidate tables, based on the query and the auxiliary field. Calculating an extrinsic table similarity score for each of the candidate tables, based on a cluster hypothesis of the candidate tables. Combining: the preliminary rankings, the intrinsic table similarity scores, and the extrinsic table similarity scores, to re-rank the candidate tables. |
| US11636080B2 |
Data structure storage optimisation
A method of maintaining a data structure comprising: creating a data block; transmitting a message to validator devices requesting permission to add said data block to the data structure; determining that consensus is reached, and in response: forming a first sub-chain in the data-structure by adding the data block to the data structure, the first sub-chain starting with a genesis block and ending with said data block, wherein the data block comprises a block number indicating the number of blocks in the data structure from the genesis block, and creating a further data block; transmitting a further message to the validator devices requesting permission to add said further data block to the data structure; determining that consensus is reached, and in response, forming a second sub-chain by adding the further data block to the data structure after said data block, the second sub-chain starting with said further data block. |
| US11636076B2 |
Method and system for managing recent data in a mobile device linked to an on-demand service
Systems and methods for managing recent data items in a database. A method typically includes determining whether a data object managed by an on demand service is designated as able to be accessed by a user at a mobile device and storing locally at a mobile device a plurality of most recently used items viewed for a data object designated as able to be accessed by a user at a mobile device. The method also typically includes determining a single most recently used set from among the stored plurality of most recently used items viewed for at least one data object designated as able to be accessed by a user at a mobile device. |
| US11636071B2 |
Database replication error recovery based on supervised learning
System and methods are described for automated recovery from errors occurring during replication of a database. The method includes getting text from one or more log files generated during database replication processing in a cloud computing environment, transforming the text into a structured language form represented by vectors, and identifying patterns in the vectors. The method further includes classifying one or more errors based on the identified patterns using supervised learning as either a recoverable error or an unrecoverable error, analyzing the one or more errors to determine one or more recovery jobs associated with database replication processing in the cloud computing environment for each of the recoverable errors, and invoking the one or more recovery jobs. |
| US11636065B2 |
Incremental data processing
Event logs in a video advertisement insertion network are processed to remove duplicate entries. One or more ad servers are continuously generating new event entries and writing them to a database. The entries are randomized such that generated time contiguous entries are distributed over multiple storage locations, thereby facilitating resource scaling and a uniform use of storage and computing resources. The distributed entries are read from the storage locations using sequential reads of chunks of the entries and processed to remove duplicate entries. |
| US11636062B2 |
Data processing method and device, and server
A data processing method, including: obtaining, by a device in a server, a first I/O request sent by a virtual machine, where the device is connected to the server through a PCIe bus, the virtual machine runs on the server, the device provides a plurality of VFs for the server, the first I/O request is initiated by the virtual machine for any one VF of the plurality of VFs, the first I/O request includes a read operation or a write operation, the read operation is used to perform a data read operation on an I/O device in the server, the write operation is used to perform a data write operation on the I/O device in the server; and reading or writing, by the device, data from or into the I/O device in the server based on the first I/O request. |
| US11636060B2 |
USB connector device
An electronic device includes a connector (e.g., a USB connector), a first element configured to operate the connector as a host device connector, a second element configured to operate the connector as a peripheral device connector, and a third element configured to generate a first signal upon connection of the connector. The first signal is indicative of whether the device is to operate as a host device or a peripheral device. |
| US11636059B2 |
Scaling performance in a storage server with storage devices
Provided is a method of packet processing, the method including receiving an input/output (IO) request from a host, selecting a drive corresponding to the IO request using a hashing algorithm or a round-robin technique, and establishing a connection between the host and the drive. |
| US11636058B2 |
Coupling and decoupling devices in a module
Configuration devices in a module. In some embodiments, a radio frequency module includes a serial bus including a first serial data line and a second serial data line. The radio-frequency module also includes a first switch coupled to a first device and a third line. The radio-frequency module further includes a module coupled to the serial bus and the first switch, the module configured to determine whether first data is detected on a first serial data line, determine whether second data is detected on a second serial data line, adjust a configuration of the first switch when the first data is detected on the first serial data line and the second data is detected on the second serial data line. |
| US11636054B2 |
Memory controller power states
A memory controller includes a command queue and an arbiter operating in a first voltage domain, and a physical layer interface (PHY) operating in a second voltage domain. The memory controller includes isolation cells operable to isolate the PHY from the first voltage domain. A local power state controller, in response to a first power state command, provides configuration and state data for storage in an on-chip RAM memory, causes the memory controller to enter a powered-down state, and maintains the PHY in a low-power state in which the second voltage domain is powered while the memory controller is in the powered-down state. |
| US11636052B2 |
Non-volatile memory express (NVMe) data processing method and system
A data processing method and system, where the method includes: receiving, by a non-volatile memory express (NVMe) controller, a first Peripheral Component Interconnect express (PCIe) packet sent by a host, where a memory in the NVMe controller is provided with at least one input/output (I/O) submission queue, and the first PCIe packet includes entrance information of a target I/O submission queue and at least one submission queue entry (SQE); and storing the at least one SQE in the target I/O submission queue based on the entrance information of the target I/O submission queue. Therefore, an NVMe data processing process is simplified and less time-consuming, and data processing efficiency is improved. |
| US11636049B2 |
Memory protection with hidden inline metadata
Embodiments are directed to memory protection with hidden inline metadata. An embodiment of an apparatus includes processor cores; a computer memory for the storage of data; and cache memory communicatively coupled with one or more of the processor cores, wherein one or more processor cores of the plurality of processor cores are to implant hidden inline metadata in one or more cachelines for the cache memory, the hidden inline metadata being hidden at a linear address level. |
| US11636044B2 |
Logical-to-physical mapping
A logical to physical (L2P) mapping component can determine whether an offset between a physical page address (PPA) and a logical block address (LBA) will be altered in response to writing data corresponding to the PPA and comprising at least one redundant array of independent NAND parity bit to a first level of a logical to physical (L2P) data structure or a second level of the L2P data structure, or both. The L2P mapping component can further cause an indication comprising at least two bits corresponding to the offset to be written to the first level of the L2P data structure or the second level of the L2P data structure, or both. |
| US11636042B2 |
Data processing method for improving access performance of memory device and data storage device utilizing the same
A data storage device includes a memory device and a memory controller. The memory controller is configured to configure a predetermined memory block as an active memory block to receive data from a host device and update content of a sub-region bit table in response to a write operation of the active memory block. The sub-region bit table includes one or more bits, each bit is associated with one or more sub-regions and a value of each bit is initially set to a default value. When data of a first logical address received from the host device is written in the active memory block, the memory controller is configured to determine which sub-region the first logical address belongs to and set the value of the bit associated with the sub-region that the first logical address belongs to to a predetermined value different from the default value. |
| US11636039B2 |
Mapping for multi-state programming of memory devices
Storage device programming methods, systems and devices are described. A method may generate a mapping of data based on a set of data, the mapping of data including a first mapped data and a second mapped data. The method may include performing a first programming operation to write, in a first mode, the first mapped data to the memory device. The method may include storing the second mapped data to a cache. The method may include generating a second set of data, based on an inverse mapping of the mapping of data including the second mapped data from the cache and the first mapped data from the memory device, for writing, in a second mode, to the memory device, wherein the second set of data includes the set of data, and the first mode and the second mode correspond to different modes of writing to the memory device. |
| US11636038B2 |
Method and apparatus for controlling cache line storage in cache memory
A method and apparatus physically partitions clean and dirty cache lines into separate memory partitions, such as one or more banks, so that during low power operation, a cache memory controller reduces power consumption of the cache memory containing the clean only data. The cache memory controller controls refresh operation so that data refresh does not occur for clean data only banks or the refresh rate is reduced for clean data only banks. Partitions that store dirty data can also store clean data, however other partitions are designated for storing only clean data so that the partitions can have their refresh rate reduced or refresh stopped for periods of time. When multiple DRAM dies or packages are employed, the partition can occur on a die or package level as opposed to a bank level within a die. |
| US11636031B2 |
Optimized inline deduplication
Methods, computer systems, and computer readable medium are described. In a particular embodiment, a storage controller is configured to receive, from a host computing device, a request to perform a bulk array task and in response to receiving the request, store an indication relating old keys of a mapping table to new keys, wherein both the old keys and the new keys correspond to the request. The storage controller is also configured to convey a response indicating completing of the request without prior access of user data and update the mapping table to replace the old keys with the new keys. |
| US11636028B2 |
Stress test impact isolation and mapping
A method for testing a system under test (SUT) in an active environment to identify cause of a soft failure includes recording a first difference vector by executing a set of test cases on a baseline system and monitoring performance parameters of the baseline system before and after executing the test cases. Each performance record represents differences in the performance parameters of the baseline system from before and after the execution of a corresponding test case. The method further includes, similarly, recording a second difference vector by executing the test cases on the SUT and monitoring performance parameters of the SUT before and after executing the test cases. The method further includes identifying an outlier performance record from the second difference vector by comparing the difference vectors and further, determining a root cause of the soft failure by analyzing a test case corresponding to the outlier. |
| US11636023B2 |
Scheme for test automation
A method performed on a test automation platform by a computing device is disclosed. The disclosed method comprises: a step of generating the markup language document from a test script (the test script is created in a script language so as to include the definition of a user-defined function for use in testing a device under test (DUT) and a markup language document includes a script element for inserting the definition of the user-defined function into the markup language document); and a step of running a program engine (the program engine is an existing component of the test automation platform and includes an interpreter for the script language) in order to process the created markup language document. |
| US11636021B2 |
Preserving system integrity using file manifests
A system is described for preserving integrity of computing devices. A manifest that uniquely identifies files on a computing device is periodically captured from the computing device. The manifest is compared against a reference manifest, which represents an ideal or clean state of the device. If the manifest comparison indicates that there have been changes to the contents of the computing device, the system can determine whether the changes constitute a compromise to the endpoint's integrity. If it is determined that a change constitutes a compromise to the endpoint's integrity, the system can perform certain remedial actions, such as sending a message to an administrator or enforcing a base layer onto the device so that the content of the device is replaced with a clean image. |
| US11636014B2 |
Memory system and data processing system including the same
A memory system and a data processing system including the memory system may manage a plurality of memory devices. For example, the data processing system may categorize and analyze error information from the memory devices, acquire characteristic data from the memory devices and set operation modes of the memory devices based on the characteristic data, allocate the memory devices to a host workload, detect a defective memory device among the memory devices and efficiently recover the defective memory device. |
| US11636012B2 |
Method and apparatus for performing node information exchange management of all flash array server
A method and apparatus for performing node information exchange management of an all flash array (AFA) server are provided. The method may include: utilizing a hardware manager module among multiple program modules running on any node of multiple nodes of the AFA server to control multiple hardware components in a hardware layer of the any node, for establishing a Board Management Controller (BMC) path between the any node and a remote node among the multiple nodes; utilizing at least two communications paths to exchange respective node information of the any node and the remote node, to control a high availability (HA) architecture of the AFA server according to the respective node information of the any node and the remote node, for continuously providing a service to a user of the AFA server; and in response to malfunction of any communications path, utilizing remaining communications path(s) to exchange the node information. |
| US11636003B2 |
Technology for logging levels and transaction log files
Dynamic logging includes generating parsed event data by at least one natural language processor responsive to event data of a log for transactions of a target application. In response to the parsed event data, a first classifier classifies context states of the respective transactions of the target application. In response, a second classifier classifies trouble prone states of the respective transactions, wherein the trouble prone states are for respective hierarchical levels. When a logic module determines, for a current one of the trouble prone states for a current transaction, that the current trouble prone state is a higher trouble prone level than for a transaction immediately preceding the current transaction, the logic module sends an increased log detail selection to the target application, so that a greater amount of log detail is logged for at least a next transaction after the current transaction. |
| US11635999B2 |
Conservation of electronic communications resources and computing resources via selective processing of substantially continuously updated data
In a system including a primary process followed by a secondary process, which are performed serially and sequentially, i.e., in a FIFO manner, where the secondary process is downstream of the primary process, the disclosed embodiments relate to selective/conditional secondary processing of electronic data transaction request messages, which speeds up the primary processing of the electronic data transaction request messages, reduces reduce the amount of computing resources wasted on calculating inaccurate information, and reducing the usage of network resources associated with publishing market data feeds and receiving new responsive messages. |
| US11635997B2 |
Dataflow optimization apparatus and method for low-power operation of multicore systems
The present disclosure relates to a dataflow optimization method for low-power operation of a multicore system, the dataflow optimization method including: a step (a) of creating an FSM including a plurality of system states in consideration of dynamic factors that trigger a transition in system states for original dataflow; and a step (b) of optimizing the original dataflow through optimization of the created FSM. |
| US11635996B2 |
Management system and management method for migrating a business system operating on a target infrastructure
A management system manages an infrastructure system configured to provide a resource for operating a business system and included a plurality of infrastructures with different architecture. The management system comprises a monitoring module configured to monitor a usage state of the resource of the business system; and an analysis module configured to identify a business system being a migration target. The analysis module is configured to: analyze a usage tendency of the resource of the business system, determine which of the infrastructures is appropriate for the business system, and store a result of determining as a first determination result; identify a target infrastructure, which is an infrastructure for which the resource is predicted to become insufficient; select a business system being the migration target from among business systems operating on the target infrastructure based on the first determination result; and migrate the selected business system. |
| US11635989B2 |
Systems and methods dynamically routing an event to a component of a hybrid application
The present disclosure is directed to dynamically routing an event to a component of a hybrid application. For example, a method may include: detecting an event from a first component of a first component type of a hybrid application; transmitting a request to execute a function associated with the event to a plurality of components, the plurality of components being a combination of components of the first component type and components of a second component type different from the first component type, the first component being different from the plurality of components; dynamically determining which component of the plurality of components to assign to execute the function, the dynamically determining being based on which components of the plurality of components are available to execute the function and one or more rules; assigning the function to the determined component; and receiving a result of the function from the determined component. |
| US11635985B2 |
Using degree of completeness of real-time data to maximize product revenue
A real-time data processing method and an apparatus thereof are provided. The method includes collecting real-time data received by one or more nodes in a distributed system; aggregating real-time data that satisfies a same predetermined condition on all the nodes to obtain a total amount of real-time data corresponding to the same predetermined condition, wherein the predetermined condition is used for representing a time at which the real-time data is collected; and calculating a degree of completeness of the real-time data that satisfies the same predetermined condition, wherein the degree of completeness is used for indicating a ratio between processed real-time data that satisfies the same predetermined conditions and the real-time data aggregated on all the nodes. Using the present disclosure, problems caused by failing to know a progress of real-time data processing in existing technologies are resolved, thereby adding a dimension of evaluation of the real-time data processing. |
| US11635977B2 |
Enhanced target selection for robotic process automation
A software robot is configured to automatically identify a target element (e.g., a button, a form field, etc.) within a user interface (UI) according to a set of attributes of the target element specified in the source-code of the respective UI. The robot's code specification includes a multiplicity flag which, when set, causes the robot to search for the target element within multiple instances of a UI object matching a subset of the set attributes (for instance, within all windows having a specific name, within all browser tabs, etc.) |
| US11635975B2 |
Methods and device for task mobilization
A method for task mobilization is disclosed. The method may include a server receiving a plurality of user inputs from a desktop application. Each user input may correspond to a respective function performed by a user on the desktop application. The processor may identify the respective functions of the plurality of user inputs. Further, the method may include translating the respective functions into respective mobile view functions. Based on the respective mobile view functions, the processor may generate a mobile application and provide the mobile application to a mobile user device. |
| US11635973B2 |
System and method for an estimation of application upgrades using a device emulation system of a customer environment
A method for managing a client environment includes obtaining, by a device emulation orchestration engine in an emulation system, an upgrade estimation time request associated with an application upgrade, in response to the upgrade estimation time request: performing a device emulation container analysis to determine a client device that requires the application upgrade, wherein the client device executes in the client environment, initiating an upgrade emulation using a device emulation container corresponding to the client device, obtaining, from a device emulation agent executing in the device emulation container, an upgrade estimation, and providing the upgrade estimation to the application upgrade monitoring agent. |
| US11635971B2 |
Scalable life-cycle maintenance of hardware
Scalable life-cycle maintenance of hardware. In an embodiment, a software-defined Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) server is executed to receive a request, comprising an identifier, from hardware. The identifier is compared to a plurality of attribute sets. When the identifier does not match any of the attribute sets, a task graph is generated for a PXE process for the hardware, and an initial stage of the task graph is initiated. Otherwise, when the identifier matches one of the attribute sets, the task graph associated with that attribute set is retrieved, and the next stage in the task graph is initiated. In addition, a display key may be used to tether hardware with a user system. Furthermore, hardware may be validated by comparing signatures using a validating operating system, and a boot order of operating systems in the hardware may be changed once the hardware device is validated. |
| US11635969B2 |
Systems and methods to update add-on cards firmware and collect hardware information on any servers with any OS installed or bare-metal servers
Systems and methods described herein are directed to upgrading one or more of add-on firmware and disk firmware for a server, which can involve connecting a port of the server to an isolated network, the isolated network dedicated to firmware upgrades for the server; caching onto cache memory of the server, an operating system received through the isolated network; booting the operating system on the server from the cache memory; conducting an Network File System (NFS) mount on the server to determine hardware information associated with the upgrading of the one or more of the add-on firmware and the disk firmware; and upgrading the one or more of the add-on firmware and the disk firmware based on the hardware information. |
| US11635963B2 |
Address manipulation using indices and tags
Techniques are disclosed for address manipulation using indices and tags. A first index is generated from bits of a processor program counter, where the first index is used to access a branch predictor bimodal table. A first branch prediction is provided from the bimodal table, based on the first index. The first branch prediction is matched against N tables, where the tables contain prior branch histories, and where: the branch history in table T(N) is of greater length than the branch history of table T(N-1), and the branch history in table T(N-1) is of greater length than the branch history of table T(N-2). A processor address is manipulated using a greatest length of hits of branch prediction matches from the N tables, based on one or more hits occurring. The branch predictor address is manipulated using the first branch prediction from the bimodal table, based on zero hits occurring. |
| US11635961B2 |
Processor for avoiding reduced performance using instruction metadata to determine not to maintain a mapping of a logical register to a physical register in a first level register file
A processor includes a first level register file, second level register file, and register file mapper. The first and second level register files are comprised of physical registers, with the first level register file more efficiently accessed relative to the second level register file. The register file mapper is coupled with the first and second level register files. The register file mapper comprises a mapping structure and register file mapper controller. The mapping structure hosts mappings between logical registers and physical registers of the first level register file. The register file mapper controller determines whether to map a destination logical register of an instruction to a physical register in the first level register file. The register file mapper controller also determines, based on metadata associated with the instruction, whether to write data associated with the destination logical register to one of the physical registers of the second level register file. |
| US11635956B2 |
Fully pipelined hardware operator logic circuit for converting human-readable decimal character sequence floating-point representations to IEEE 754-2008 binary floating-point format representations
A fully pipelined convertToBinaryFromDecimalCharacter hardware operator logic circuit configured to convert one or more human-readable decimal character sequence floating-point representations to IEEE 754-2008 binary floating-point representations every clock cycle. The circuit converts decimal character sequence floating-point representations up to 28 decimal digits in length to IEEE 754 binary64, binary32, or binary16 floating-point format representations. |
| US11635954B2 |
Method for authenticating and updating EUICC firmware version and related apparatus
A method for authenticating and updating an eUICC firmware version includes receiving first information sent by a terminal device, where the first information includes a target identifier. The method further includes searching a currently stored event record for a target event record, where a group event identifier in the target event record matches the target identifier in the first information. The method further includes sending the target event record to the terminal device, where the target event record is used to enable the terminal device to download an eUICC firmware version update package. The method further includes updating a firmware version of an eUICC of the terminal device based on the eUICC firmware version update package. |
| US11635952B2 |
Secure update propagation with digital signatures
Certain examples described herein relate to secure update propagation. The examples present systems and methods to transmit data in the form of updates over a network and to ensure the authenticity of the updates. The examples use a set-homomorphic digital signature scheme to sign updates such that a combined digital signature may be used to verify a batch of updates in place of a set of individual digital signatures. The combined digital signature may be generated by aggregating individual digital signatures. |
| US11635951B2 |
Configurable NAND firmware search parameters
Disclosed in some examples are memory devices which include electrically programmable elements that specify values for one or more firmware search parameters for use by the bootloader in locating and reading the firmware object. The values of the firmware search parameters may be dynamically selected at manufacturing time by modifying the configuration of the electrically programmable elements by applying or not applying a specified voltage to the electrically programmable elements. In some examples, an electrically programmable element may include: a fuse, an anti-fuse, and/or an e-fuse. |
| US11635948B2 |
Systems and methods for mapping software applications interdependencies
Systems and methods method for mapping between function calls and entities of the computer program. The method includes executing a computer program in a first computing environment; determining a first entity of the computer program to track; assigning an identifier to the first entity; determining the first entity has been accessed by at least one function call; and mapping the at least one function call with the identifier of the first entity; generating a cluster including the at least one function, wherein the cluster may be executed independently from the rest of the computer program. |
| US11635947B2 |
Instruction translation support method and information processing apparatus
A process includes receiving a table data set that represents mappings between a plurality of operand patterns indicating types of operands possibly included in a first instruction used in a first assembly language and a plurality of second instructions used in a second assembly language or a machine language corresponding to the second assembly language. The table data set maps two or more of the second instructions to each of the operand patterns. The process also includes generating, based on the table data set, a translation program used to translate first code written in the first assembly language into second code written in the second assembly language or the machine language. The translation program defines a process of determining an operand pattern of an instruction included in the first code and outputting two or more instructions of the second code according to the determined operand pattern. |
| US11635945B2 |
Mobile application development device
A mobile application development device having a platform processor, a native application converter engine, and a mobile platform framework engine configured to facilitate the development and deployment of mobile applications configured to be run on different mobile operating systems from code that is developed independently and agnostic of the mobile operating system on which it will ultimately run. |
| US11635944B2 |
Methods and systems for programmatic creation of an interactive demonstration presentation for an envisioned software product
A demonstration serving system and associated methods are provided for creating an interactive demonstration presentation for an envisioned software product. The interactive demonstration presentation for the envisioned software product is a digital artifact that is presented during a presentation to present and demonstrate features of the envisioned software product and how the envisioned software product is to function and operate in response to user interaction with a graphical user interface (GUI) such that the interactive demonstration presentation mimics features, look, and feel of the envisioned software product once it is fully developed without creating custom-made Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) of a real software product. |
| US11635941B2 |
Controller of array including neuromorphic element, method of arithmetically operating discretization step size, and program
A controller is a controller of an array including a neuromorphic element that multiplies a weight based on a value of a variable characteristic by a signal, and includes a control unit that controls the characteristic of the neuromorphic element by using a discretization step size obtained so that a predetermined condition for reducing an error or a predetermined condition for improving accuracy is satisfied on the basis of a case where a true value of the weight obtained with a higher accuracy than a resolution of the characteristic of the neuromorphic element is used and a case where a discretization step size which is set for the characteristic of the neuromorphic element is used. |
| US11635940B2 |
Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to accept designation of a set as a first set that needs a correction to a sorting result, the set being one of sets into which multiple types of data are sorted by type, and cause data included in the first set and data not included in the first set to be presented in response to acceptance of the designation, the data not included in the first set being included in the multiple types of data including the first set. |
| US11635939B2 |
Prompting method and mobile terminal
This disclosure provides a prompting method and a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes a display screen and an exciter, where the exciter is configured to drive the display screen to give off a sound. The method includes: determining a target area, where the target area is an area on the display screen that has a sounding parameter meeting a preset condition when the display screen is driven by the exciter. The method further includes displaying prompt information in the target area, where the prompt information is used to prompt a user that an area in which the prompt information is displayed is the area that has a sounding parameter meeting a preset condition. |
| US11635937B2 |
Method, apparatus and computer-readable media utilizing positional information to derive AGC output parameters
Method and apparatus for automatic gain control utilizing sound source position information in a shared space having a plurality of microphones and a plurality of sound sources. Sound signals are received from the microphones. One or more processors locate position information corresponding to each of the sound sources. The processor(s) determine the distance to each of the sound sources from each of the microphones. The processor(s) define a predetermined gain weight adjustment for each of the microphones. The processor(s) apply the defined weight adjustments to the microphones to achieve a consistent volume of the desired plurality of sound sources. The processor(s) maintain a consistent ambient sound level regardless of the position of the sound sources and the applied gain weight adjustments. The processor(s) output a summed signal of the sound sources at a consistent volume with a constant ambient sound level across the plurality of sound source positions. |
| US11635931B2 |
Methods and electronic devices enabling a dual content presentation mode of operation
A method in an electronic device comprises detecting, with one or more sensors, a geometry or geometric form factor defined by an amount a first device housing or first device housing portion of the electronic device is pivoted about a hinge or deformable portion relative to a second device housing or second device housing portion of the electronic device, as well as also detecting, with one or more other sensors, multiple persons within an environment of the electronic device. One or more processors then enable, in response to detecting the geometric form factor and the multiple persons within the environment, a dual content presentation mode of operation allowing presentation of first content on a first display of the electronic device and second content on a second display where the first content and the second content are different. |
| US11635929B2 |
Memorial facility with memorabilia, meeting room, secure memorial database, and data needed for an interactive computer conversation with the deceased
The embodied invention is a multi-vault memorial facility with a memorial room and an interactive system for storing and providing memorial information of the deceased. The meeting room includes memorabilia and access to a secure personal biographical database which includes historical and personal information about the deceased. An interactive user interface for a visiting person is used when at the facility.The personal biography database security is provided by administration control for access and identifies who can modify the database.The interactive user interface utilizes visual and audio presentations, and a conversational user interface with a likeness and a digital memory of the deceased. A computer projection talks with a visitor and mimics responses of the deceased. |
| US11635927B2 |
Control method and information processing apparatus for displaying information related to a function
A control method of an information processing apparatus on which an expansion application configured to expand a function of print data generation software configured to generate print data runs, is provided. The control method comprises obtaining attribute data on a printing apparatus, the attribute data being output from the printing apparatus, obtaining data indicating a print function, and adding information related to a specific function based on attribute information included in the obtained attribute data if information indicating the specific function is not included in the obtained data indicating the print function. A setting screen including a setting item of the specific function is displayed based on the added information related to the specific function. |
| US11635926B2 |
Printer identifying characteristics
Examples disclosed herein relate to capturing an identifying characteristic of a printer, displaying a plurality of documents suitable for printing on the printer, receiving a selection of at least one document of the plurality of documents suitable for printing on the printer, and causing the selected at least one document to be delivered to the printer according to the identifying characteristic. |
| US11635921B2 |
Storage environment selection based on characteristic of data and characteristic of storage environments
A data-storage-destination environment-determination module set determines any of a plurality of storage environments as a storage destination environment for storing data, based on a used-data table set about the characteristics of data and the storage environments. The data migration module transmits the data to the storage destination environment. |
| US11635920B2 |
Enabling multiple storage tiers in a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) cluster
In certain embodiments, a computer system can create first and second pluralities of disk groups in a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) cluster, where each disk group in the first plurality has capacity storage devices of a first type and each disk group in the second plurality has capacity storage devices of a second type. The computer system can further tag each disk group in the first plurality with a first disk group tag, tag each disk group in the second plurality with a second disk group tag, and create a storage policy that includes a placement rule identifying the first disk group tag. Then, at a time of provisioning a virtual machine (VM) in the HCI cluster that is associated with the storage policy, the computer system can place the VM on one or more of the first plurality of disk groups in accordance with the placement rule identifying the first disk group tag. |
| US11635918B2 |
Data migration and replication
A system, method, and computer program product for implementing data replication generation is provided. The method includes utilizing hardware and software resources within a hybrid cloud environment. A non-volatile memory host system and an associated target system are enabled for operational functionality and the non-volatile memory host system is connected to an I/O queueing component. In response, a plurality of queue structures is generated with respect to a host driver component and a connection between the non-volatile memory host system and the associated target system is detected. In response, a special purpose cache structure is generated and the plurality of queue structures and the special purpose cache structure are enabled such that remote data mirroring functionality is enabled. |
| US11635915B2 |
Managing memory reliability in memory systems
Methods, devices, systems, and apparatus including computer-readable mediums for managing memory reliability in memory systems are provided. In one aspect, a memory system includes a memory device having a plurality of blocks and a memory controller coupled to the memory device. The memory controller is configured to send a read command to the memory device, and the read command includes address information of at least one block in the memory device. The memory device is configured to: determine whether the read command comprises an indication for enabling adjusted read level determination, in response to determining that the read command comprises the indication for enabling the ARL determination, determine at least one adjusted read voltage for the at least one block, and execute a read operation based on the at least one adjusted read voltage according to the read command. |
| US11635912B2 |
Distributed midplane for computer system
A computer system including a frame, components and a pair of stacked controllers. The system also includes a plurality of midplanes positioned between the components and the controllers where each midplane includes a component edge and a controller edge, a first midplane connector coupled to the component edge and a second midplane connector coupled to the controller edge, where the first midplane connector is coupled to one of the component connectors and the second midplane connector is coupled to one of the controller connectors so that the midplanes are vertically oriented in parallel so as to define spaces therebetween. In one embodiment, the computer system is a data storage system, the components are storage drives and the controllers are storage controllers. |
| US11635908B2 |
Managing digital assets stored as components and packaged files
The present disclosure relates to a digital asset synchronization system that provides improved digital asset management and synchronization of a digital asset stored either within a component database or a packaged file. For example, the digital asset synchronization system enables a set of components that makes up a digital asset to appear as a singular packaged file, while also maintaining the benefits of having the digital asset made up of the components. In this manner, the digital asset synchronization system provides a bridge between a digital asset stored in a packaged file format and conventional file formats. In addition, the digital asset synchronization system also provides digital asset management and improved synchronization between a client device and a cloud storage system. |
| US11635907B2 |
Record information management based on self-describing attributes
In one example, a processing system may identify a type of data contained in a first dataset that is to be stored in a storage array, wherein the storage array comprises a plurality of storage zones, and wherein the plurality of storage zones includes at least two different types of storage technologies. The processing system may generate a metadata file for the first dataset that contains self-describing information for the first dataset, wherein the metadata file is generated based on the type of the data, and wherein the self-describing information defines a manner, a time, and a location for storing the first dataset. The processing system may send the first dataset to a first storage zone of the plurality of storage zones, wherein the self-describing information includes an instruction to send the first dataset to the first storage zone for at least a defined period of time. |
| US11635906B2 |
Acceleration of data queries in memory
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for acceleration of data queries in memory. An example apparatus includes an array of memory cells and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to receive, from a host, a query for particular data in the array of memory cells, wherein the particular data corresponds to a search key generated by the host, search portions of the array of memory cells for the particular data corresponding to the search key generated by the host, search portions of the array of memory cells for the particular data corresponding to the search key, determine data stored in the portions of the array of memory cells that corresponds more closely to the search key than other data stored in the portions of the array of memory cells, and transfer the data that corresponds more closely to the search key than the other data to the host. |
| US11635903B2 |
Cloud data migration
A data storage change is received for a piece of data, wherein the data storage change is from a first location to a second location. Two or more possible paths to perform the data storage change are determined. A plurality of weights for each path of the two or more paths is determined. A weighted transfer time for each path of the two or more paths is determined. |
| US11635902B2 |
Storage device processing stream data, system including the same, and operation method
A storage device which is connected to a host using a virtual memory includes a solid state drive that receives a streaming access command including a logical block address (LBA) list and a chunk size, and prefetches stream data requested according to the LBA list and the chunk size from a nonvolatile memory device without an additional command. The prefetched stream data is sequentially loaded onto a buffer, and an in-storage computing block accesses a streaming region registered on the virtual memory to sequentially read the stream data loaded onto the buffer in units of the chunk size. The buffer is mapped onto a virtual memory address of the streaming region. |
| US11635897B2 |
System and method for efficient implementation of XCopy commands
A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving an XCopy command is provided. The XCopy command may be in the form of an IO operation. The IO operation may be a subextent block operation. A source range and a destination range of the XCopy command may be determined to be aligned within an alignment boundary. The Xcopy command may be determined to be smaller than a predetermined size. In response to determining the source range and destination range of the XCopy command are aligned within the alignment boundary and the XCopy command is smaller than a predetermined size, the XCopy command may be processed. The receiving of the XCopy command may be recorded in a log. |
| US11635894B2 |
Clustered parity for NAND data placement schema
Disclosed in some examples are improvements to data placement architectures in NAND that provide additional data protection through an improved NAND data placement schema that allows for recovery from certain failure scenarios. The present disclosure stripes data diagonally across page lines and planes to enhance the data protection. Parity bits are stored in SLC blocks for extra protection until the block is finished writing and then the parity bits may be deleted. |
| US11635889B1 |
Dynamic graphical user interfaces for displaying inter-application communications with a dynamic segmentation-based mobile offer platform
Provided are dynamic graphical user interfaces for facilitating inter-application communications, such as in a mobile device. The dynamic graphical user interface can display simultaneously: a web-based interface of a mobile browser application for receiving one or more user actions on the web-based interface; and an interactive display in communication with a second mobile application different from the mobile browser application, wherein the interactive display dynamically presents, in real-time, a status or output of the second mobile application in response to the one or more user actions performed on the web-based interface, and wherein the interactive display is visible during performance of the one or more user actions on the web-based interface. |
| US11635886B2 |
Audio output device
An audio output device comprises a loudspeaker and, four stem control inputs substantially even spaced on the upper surface of a housing. The stem control inputs are each divided into four segments, each comprising a touch sensor and an illumination unit. Each stem control input is associated with a different stem in an audio track for playback via the loudspeaker. Touching the segments of each stem control input results in the touch being detected and a touch signal being output by the respective segment. In response to a touch signal, the associated illumination unit is togged on/off and a property of the associated stem is varied during playback by loudspeaker. |
| US11635880B2 |
Content animation customization based on viewport position
Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media that be used to configure an animated content item based on a position of the animated content item within a viewport of a computing device upon which the animated content item is presented. One method includes providing, to a first computing device, an animation configuration interface configured to allow selection via the first computing device of a position-dependent setting comprising a position within the viewport at which a property of the animated content item changes. The method further includes receiving, by a second computing device, the position-dependent setting and configuring the property of the animated content item based on the position-dependent setting such that the animated content item is configured to change the property when presented within a viewport of the second computing device at the position of the viewport in accordance with the position-dependent setting. |
| US11635878B2 |
Systems and methods for altering a graphical user interface
Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform: receiving in-session user activity entered into on an initial graphical user interface (GUI) from a user electronic device of a user; pre-processing the in-session user activity to determine one or more intents of the in-session user activity; comparing the one or more intents of the in-session user activity with one or more complementary intents; and coordinating displaying a complimentary GUI on the user device of the user based on the one or more complementary intents. Other embodiments are disclosed herein. |
| US11635873B2 |
Information display method, graphical user interface, and terminal for displaying media interface information in a floating window
An information display method includes displaying, by a terminal, at least one poster in a first display area of a screen, receiving, by the terminal, a first input used to select a poster from the at least one poster, and obtaining, by the terminal, story line introduction information associated with a target video, and displaying a first window in a suspended manner in the first display area, where the first window displays the story line introduction information associated with the target video, and the target video is a video represented by the poster selected through the first input. |
| US11635868B2 |
Managing virtual content displayed to a user based on mapped user location
A technique for rendering virtual content to a user stores map data of features in a physical environment of the user and measures the location of the user with stationary sensors placed at respective locations within the environment. A server provides the location of the user and portions of the map data to a headset worn by the user. The headset is thus enabled to render virtual content at apparent locations that are based on the measured location of the user and the features described by the map data. |
| US11635862B2 |
Rotatable input knob configured to operate on electrostatic capacitive touch panel
According to one embodiment, a sensor device includes an electrostatic capacitive touch panel, a knob disposed rotatably about a rotation axis, a conductor held by the knob and opposed to the touch panel on a part of a circumference about the rotation axis, and a sensor controller which controls the touch panel. The sensor controller holds a reference signal corresponding to an electrostatic capacitance in a state where the conductor is not opposed to the touch panel, and detects first coordinates of the conductor based on a first sensor signal received from the touch panel in a state where the conductor is opposed to a first position of the touch panel and the reference signal in a first sensing period. |
| US11635860B2 |
Touch sensor panel
A touch sensor panel includes a base layer, a first adhesive layer having one side bonded to one side of the base layer and composed of a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA), an electrode layer having one side bonded to the other side of the first adhesive layer, a second adhesive layer having one side bonded to the other side of the electrode layer and composed of a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA), and a functional layer having one side bonded to the other side of the second adhesive layer. |
| US11635859B2 |
Electronic apparatus with electrode substrate that generates ozone
An electronic apparatus includes an electrode substrate that has a transparent first electrode and a transparent second electrode that are provided on one surface of a transparent insulating substrate, and an insulating film that electrically insulates the first electrode from the second electrode, the electrode substrate being configured so as to cover a surface of a display medium where an image is displayed; and a driver circuit that is connected to the electrode substrate and generates an electric field between the first electrode and the second electrode by applying a voltage to the first electrode and the second electrode. |
| US11635855B2 |
Infrared touch device and profile
The present disclosure relates to an infrared touch device and a profile. The infrared touch comprises an infrared board, a light filtering portion, a panel, and an outer frame, the outer frame comprises a side frame portion, a front frame portion connected to a front end of the side frame portion, and a rear frame portion connected to a rear end of the side frame portion. The side frame portion comprises a panel accommodating groove for accommodating an edge of the panel, a rear side face of the front frame portion forms a first side wall of the panel accommodating groove, an end face of a free end of the front frame portion is defined as a first inclined surface, and an obtuse angle is formed between the first inclined surface and the first side wall. |
| US11635854B2 |
Touch screen
A touch display screen includes a display panel, a touch-sensing part, a biosensor and a controller. The touch-sensing part is disposed on a light emitting side of the display panel and has a touch-sensing surface. The touch-sensing part includes a light-emitting device and a light receiver. The light-emitting device is used to provide at least one positioning light and at least one high-energy light. The light receiver is used to detect a change of the positioning light on the touch-sensing surface in response to a touch action and determine the position on which the touch action occurs on the touch-sensing surface. The biosensor is used to determine whether a living body getting close to the touch-sensing surface. The controller is used to drive the light-emitting device to selectively provide the positioning light and/or the high-energy light to the touch-sensing surface according to the determinations of the biosensor. |
| US11635852B2 |
Display device and a driving method thereof
A display device including: a sensor part including sensors; a sensor driver that transmits a sensing signal to p sensors of a first area of the sensor part in a first mode and a sensing signal to q sensors in the first area in a second mode; and a display driver that transmits a light emitting signal to pixels for the pixels to have s non-light emitting periods during one frame period in the first mode, and the light emitting signal to the pixels for the pixels have t non-light emitting periods during the one frame period in the second mode, wherein p is an integer larger than 0, q is an integer larger than p, s and t are integers larger than 1, and a sum of lengths of the t non-light emitting periods is larger than a sum of lengths of the s non-light emitting periods. |
| US11635850B2 |
Device and method for degradation compensation of an area selected for rubbing
Provided are a data processing device, a display device, and deterioration compensation method of the data processing device to determine a burn-in occurrence region by recognizing a user's touch in a display device including a touch function and accurately perform a degradation compensation on the burn-in occurrence region. |
| US11635848B2 |
Low ground mass correction for capacitive imaging sensors
A capacitive sensing input system includes sensor electrodes disposed in a sensor electrode pattern and a processing system. When under a low ground mass (LGM) condition, proximity-sensing pairs of electrodes formed by a first selective pairing of the sensor electrodes have an increased sensitivity to a presence of an input object in comparison to LGM-sensitive pairs of electrodes formed by a second selective pairing of the sensor electrodes that are primarily sensitive to the LGM condition. The processing system is configured to, while under the LGM condition, determine a first LGM term using a mutual capacitance sensing with a first of the LGM-sensitive pairs of electrodes, obtain a first transcapacitance sensing signal for a sensing element formed by a first of the proximity-sensing pairs of electrodes, and generate an LGM-corrected transcapacitance sensing signal by correcting the first transcapacitance sensing signal using the first LGM term. |
| US11635847B2 |
System and method for detecting and characterizing touch inputs at a human-computer interface
One variation of a method for detecting an input at a touch sensor—including a force-sensitive layer exhibiting variations in local resistance responsive to local variations in applied force on a touch sensor surface and a set of drive and sense electrodes—includes: driving a drive electrode with a drive signal; reading a sense signal from a sense electrode; detecting a alternating-current component and a direct-current component of the sense signal; in response to a magnitude of the direct-current component of the sense signal falling below a threshold magnitude, detecting an input on the touch sensor surface during the scan cycle based on the alternating-current component of the sense signal; and, in response to the magnitude of the direct-current component of the sense signal exceeding the threshold magnitude, detecting the input on the touch sensor surface during the scan cycle based on the direct-current component of the sense signal. |
| US11635837B2 |
Display device for temperature correction of an input image signal on a touch display panel
A display device includes: a temperature distribution obtaining circuit obtaining temperature distribution on a display panel on a basis of a capacitance value signal to be output from a capacitive touch panel overlapping the display panel; and a correcting circuit correcting an input image signal on a basis of the temperature distribution on the display panel, and supplying the input image signal. |
| US11635836B2 |
Display device having shaped sealing member
A display device includes a first substrate having a light-emitting element. A second substrate is disposed over the first substrate. A sealing member is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The sealing member couples the first substrate and the second substrate together. The sealing member includes a first linear portion extending in a first direction, and a second linear portion extending in a second direction different from the first direction. A maximum width of the first linear portion is greater than a maximum width of the second linear portion. |
| US11635835B2 |
Touch display device
A touch display device includes light emitting devices disposed on a substrate, an encapsulation unit disposed on the light emitting devices, a touch buffer film disposed on the encapsulation unit, second bridge electrodes disposed on the touch buffer film, a black matrix disposed on the touch buffer film and including openings, color filters that fill the openings, and a cover layer disposed on the color filters and the black matrix. |
| US11635831B2 |
Vehicle control panel and production method
A method of producing a control panel for a vehicle. The method includes the following operations: a) producing a touch-sensitive film, the touch-sensitive film including a film, a conductive layer, a main decorative layer, and a secondary decorative layer, the conductive layer being arranged on an inner face of the film, the main decorative layer being arranged on an outer face of the film, and the secondary decorative layer having at least one critical deformation portion arranged on the inner face of the film in at least one corresponding critical deformation zone; b) shaping said touch-sensitive film, the touch-sensitive film being shaped in a non-developable three-dimensional manner in each critical deformation zone; and c) molding a layer of plastic material onto the main decorative layer. |
| US11635827B2 |
Control device, display device, program, and detection method
A control device that sets a detection reference that serves as a reference according to which an electronic apparatus is operated based on a non-contact operation, includes: a detection unit that detects a position of an object that performs the non-contact operation; an acquisition unit that acquires information related to the object or information related to a user who performs the non-contact operation; and a control unit that performs control to operate the electronic apparatus and control to set the detection reference, based on the position of the object detected by the detection unit and the information acquired by the acquisition unit. |
| US11635825B2 |
Methods for game/application control using foot gestures
Foot-gesture-based movement control method for a game character includes a four-way movement start control process, including: determining the game character being in a non-moving state; obtaining foot tilt angles and tilt states of left and right feet of a user; determining a tilt state change of each foot of the user; and generating movement start controls in first, second, third, and fourth directions for the game character, respectively when the right foot is detected changing from a leveled state to a positively tilted state and changing from a leveled state to a negatively tilted state, the left foot is detected changing from a leveled state to a positively tilted state and changing from a leveled state to a negatively tilted state. |
| US11635823B1 |
Detecting user input from multi-modal hand bio-metrics
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an input device and corresponding method which digitizes and transforms minute hand movements and gestures into user interface commands without interfering with the normal use of one's hands. The device and method may, for example, determine user actions based on detected user action characteristics from a plurality of sensors, where the sensors are preferably of different types. |
| US11635821B2 |
Electronic apparatus and controlling method thereof
An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a camera; a memory configured to store at least one instruction; and at least one processor configured to execute the at least one instruction to: detect at least one object included in an image captured by the camera; identify information on an engagement of each of the at least one object with the electronic apparatus; obtain gesture information of each of the at least one object; obtain a target object from among the at least one object based on an operation status of the electronic apparatus, the information on the engagement of each of the at least one object, and the obtained gesture information of each of the at least one object; identify a function corresponding to gesture information of the target object; and execute the identified function. |
| US11635818B2 |
Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for providing feedback during interaction with an intensity-sensitive button
An electronic device, in response to an input directed to a first user interface displays a second user interface, and in response to continuously detecting a contact on a button while displaying the second user interface, including detecting an increase in a characteristic intensity of the contact above a first intensity threshold, displays a beginning of a transition from the second user interface back to the first user interface. If the contact on the button is part of an input sequence that meets first criteria, the device ceases to display the second user interface and redisplays the first user interface on the display; and if the input sequence meets second criteria, the device reverses the beginning of the transition from the second user interface back to the first user interface, and redisplays the second user interface on the display. |
| US11635816B2 |
Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire biological information of plural users determined to be within a predetermined area and operate an apparatus based on the biological information of the plural users. |
| US11635815B2 |
Neural interface
Method(s) and apparatus are provided for interfacing with a nervous system of a subject. In response to receiving a plurality of neurological signals associated with the neural activity of the first portion of nervous system: processing neural sample data representative of the received plurality of neurological signals using a first one or more machine learning (ML) technique(s) trained for generating estimates of neural data representative of the neural activity of the first portion of nervous system; and transmitting data representative of the neural data estimates to a first device associated with the first portion of nervous system; and in response to receiving device data from a second device associated with a second portion of the nervous system: generating one or more neurological stimulus signal(s) by inputting the received device data to a second one or more ML technique(s) trained for estimating one or more neurological stimulus signal(s) associated with the device data for input to the second portion of nervous system; and transmitting the one or more estimated neurological stimulus signal(s) towards the second portion of nervous system of the subject. |
| US11635814B2 |
Preventing access to potentially hazardous environments
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for managing a plurality of electronic devices controlling access to one or more hazards in a physical environment. The present invention may include detecting a plurality of brain-wave patterns associated with a user. The present invention may then, in response to detecting motion of the user and the plurality of brain-wave patterns associated with the user matching a pattern, include operating at least one electronic device to disable access to a corresponding hazard. The present invention may further include operating the at least one electronic device to enable access to the corresponding hazard based on receiving input from the user to enable the at least one electronic device, wherein the input being received from the user is in response to prompting the user to correctly respond to a question previously answered by the user. |
| US11635811B2 |
Apparatus, method and storage medium to provide maintenance management with altered display based on a user's visual line
Provided is an apparatus comprising: a determination unit configured to determine a first region to be viewed by a user in a display screen; a detection unit configured to detect a user's visual line; and a display control unit configured to change a display mode of the first region in response to the first region being not viewed. |
| US11635810B2 |
Managing and mapping multi-sided touch
Various embodiments include processing devices and methods for managing multisensor inputs on a mobile computing device. Various embodiments may include receiving multiple inputs from multiple touch sensors, identifying types of user interactions with the touch sensors from the multiple inputs, identifying sensor input data in a multisensor input data structure corresponding with the types of user interactions, and determining whether the multiple inputs combine as a multisensor input in an entry in the multisensor input data structure having the sensor input data related to a multisensor input response. Various embodiments may include detecting a trigger for a multisensor input mode, entering the multisensor input mode in response to detecting the trigger, and enabling processing of an input from a touch sensor. |
| US11635805B2 |
Wearable device for using external entity as controller and method
A wearable device according to various embodiments may include a display configured to allow external light toward a first surface to go through a second surface opposite to the first surface, and having a display area on the second surface, a memory for storing instructions, at least one camera, and at least one processor configured to, when executing the instructions, display content on the display area of the display, detect an external entity using the at least one camera, recognize the external entity as a controller for controlling the content having one designated shape of a plurality of designated shapes, identify a posture change of the external entity recognized as the controller, a gesture input for the external entity recognized as the controller, or a combination thereof using the at least one camera, and control the content, based on the identification. |
| US11635804B2 |
Systems and/or methods incorporating electrical tomography related algorithms and circuits
A detection system has an interface including a substrate supporting a conductive coating. Electrodes are provided to the substrate. A multiplexer provides current to the electrodes. A demultiplexer receives voltages from electrodes and provides corresponding signals to a controller. The controller receives these signals and determines therefrom an operation performed in connection with the interface by applying an algorithmic approach. Static interaction is recognizable, and machine learning can be used for gesture recognition and/or identification of other interaction types. The technology can be used in a broad array of applications, e.g., where it is desirable to sense interactions with a defined region such as, for example, in the case of touches, gestures, hovers, and/or the like. |
| US11635801B2 |
Information output device
This application relates to an information output apparatus. In one aspect, the apparatus includes a casing including an expression surface and an expression hole formed in the expression surface. The apparatus also includes a protrusion provided to reciprocate such that at least a part thereof protrudes out of the expression hole and information is expressed on the expression surface. The apparatus also includes a driving module located inside the casing and connected to the protrusion to move the protrusion. |
| US11635800B2 |
System on chip for reducing wake-up time, method of operating same, and computer system including same
A system on chip (SoC) includes an internal read-only memory (ROM) configured to store a first boot loader; a first internal static random access memory (SRAM) configured to receive a second boot loader output from a booting device, store the second boot loader, and perform a booting sequence according to control of the first boot loader; a second internal SRAM configured to receive a third boot loader output from the booting device, store the third boot loader, and perform a wake-up sequence according to control of the first boot loader; and a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) controller configured to load an operating system (OS) from the booting device into a DRAM according to control of the second boot loader. |
| US11635798B2 |
Dynamic OCP adjustment
An example computing system may include computer module bays, a power subsystem to supply power to computer modules installed in the computer module bays, and a system controller. The power subsystem may also implement overcurrent protection (OCP) based on an OCP threshold parameter. The system controller may include dynamic OCP adjustment logic that repeatedly updates the OCP threshold parameter during normal operation of the computing system. The dynamic OCP adjustment logic may update the OCP threshold parameter by determining a power requirement of the computing system based on a current configuration of the computing system, determining a new OCP threshold based on the power requirement, and instructing the power subsystem to change a value of the OCP threshold parameter to a new value based on the new OCP threshold. |
| US11635788B2 |
Mobile terminal and host device thereof
A mobile terminal and a host device thereof, the mobile terminal comprising a display device and a host device, the host device including a body and a support assembly, and the body defining an accommodating groove; wherein the support assembly includes a first support piece and second support piece are rotatably connected to the body, and the support assembly has a folded state and an unfolded state; when the support assembly is in the folded state, the first support piece and the second support piece are accommodated within the accommodating groove; when the support assembly in the unfolded state, the first support piece and the second support piece are rotated out of the accommodating groove; the first support piece and the second support piece define a clamping groove, and when the display device is clamped in the clamping groove, the display device stands vertically or slantwise on the body. |
| US11635787B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device, including a host, a main display, an auxiliary display, and a lifting mechanism, is provided. The main display is pivoted to the host. The auxiliary display is disposed on the host. The lifting mechanism is disposed between the auxiliary display and the host. The lifting mechanism is configured to lift the auxiliary display and maintain a lifting height of the auxiliary display. |
| US11635782B2 |
Knob assembly for cook top
A knob assembly includes a front panel, a knob located at a front side of the front panel and configured to rotate based on operation by a user, a knob shaft that is coupled to the knob and that extends through the front panel, a supporting pipe that receives the knob shaft and that supports the knob shaft, the supporting pipe being configured to maintain a position relative to the front panel, a valve configured to control supply of gas to the appliance, a valve shaft connected to the valve and configured to control the valve to adjust a flow rate of gas based on rotation of the valve shaft, and a joint that couples the knob shaft to the valve shaft and that is configured to transfer at least one of a rotational motion or a linear motion of the knob shaft to the valve shaft. |
| US11635781B2 |
Quick-release structure capable of storing rotating handle
A quick-release structure includes a shaft and a driving assembly. Two ends of the shaft have a receiving hole and a connecting hole, respectively. The driving assembly includes a rotating handle and a connecting rod. One end of the rotating handle is provided with an end cap. The connecting rod includes a pivoting end and a driving section. The rotating handle is pivotally connected to the pivoting end of the connecting rod so that the rotating handle can be pivoted relative to one side of the connecting rod. When in use, the driving section is engaged in the connecting hole, and the rotating handle can be turned to drive the shaft to rotate; when not in use, the driving assembly is inserted into the receiving hole, and the end cap is pressed against an outer end of the receiving hole to be positioned. |
| US11635770B2 |
Traveling vehicle system and traveling vehicle control method
A controller determines, when a traveling vehicle to proceed in a first direction from a predetermined cell toward a destination is present, whether or not to grant the traveling vehicle occupation permission for a cell adjacent to the predetermined cell in the first direction. The traveling vehicle proceeds in the first direction if occupation permission for the adjacent cell has been granted from the controller, whereas the traveling vehicle stops at the predetermined cell if occupation permission has not been granted. The controller assigns to the traveling vehicle a traveling instruction in which a cell situated at a plurality of cells ahead of the predetermined cell in the second direction is designated as a waypoint to the destination if the traveling vehicle has not obtained occupation permission for the adjacent cell and has continuously been in a stop state at the predetermined cell for a predetermined period of time. |
| US11635767B2 |
System and method of using multi-resolution camera clusters input data for controlling autonomous vehicles
In one example, a method may include capturing two-dimensional (2D) images of scenes using a set of multi-resolution cameras disposed on at least one side of an autonomous vehicle. Further, a low-resolution depth map with relatively small depths may be generated for each scene using the captured 2D images. Furthermore, a high-resolution depth map may be generated for each scene for a wide depth range by iteratively refining the low-resolution depth map for each scene. Also, a 3D video may be generated based on the high-resolution depth maps and the captured 2D images of the central camera. Further, a distance, a velocity, and/or an acceleration of one or more objects relative to the autonomous vehicle is computed by analyzing one or more frames of the 3D video. Then, the autonomous vehicle may be controlled based on the computed distance, velocity, and/or acceleration of the one or more objects. |
| US11635765B2 |
Crop state map generation and control system
One or more information maps are obtained by an agricultural work machine. The one or more information maps map one or more agricultural characteristic values at different geographic locations of a field. An in-situ sensor on the agricultural work machine senses an agricultural characteristic as the agricultural work machine moves through the field. A predictive map generator generates a predictive map that predicts a predictive agricultural characteristic at different locations in the field based on a relationship between the values in the one or more information maps and the agricultural characteristic sensed by the in-situ sensor. The predictive map can be output and used in automated machine control. |
| US11635760B2 |
Autonomous path treatment systems and methods
An autonomous path treatment system and associated path treatment method uses a mobile path recording device having a locator, a processor and firmware to capture a sequence of coordinates and directions of travel of a path as the mobile device is moved along the path and generate a path program file. The system also has an autonomous path treatment robot having: a treatment mechanism for treating the path; a controller having a processor and memory storing firmware that when executed obeys steps of the path program file to control the motor and the treatment mechanism to treat the path; and a server configured to execute a path program to process the captured sequence of coordinates and directions into the path program file containing instructions for controlling the autonomous path treatment robot to treat the path based upon the coordinates. |
| US11635758B2 |
Risk aware executor with action set recommendations
A method for use in traversing a vehicle transportation network by an autonomous vehicle (AV) includes traversing, by the AV, the vehicle transportation network. Traversing the vehicle transportation network includes identifying a distinct vehicle operational scenario; instantiating a first decision component instance; receiving a first set of candidate vehicle control actions from the first decision component instance; selecting an action; and controlling the AV to traverse a portion of the vehicle transportation network based on the action. The first decision component instance is an instance of a first decision component modeling the distinct vehicle operational scenario. |
| US11635752B2 |
Detection and correction of robotic process automation failures
An example embodiment involves rules related to repairing software programs, wherein the rules associate indications of software program failures with repair applications that are configured to correct the software program failures. One or more processors are configured to: (i) receive, by a predictive model, a representation of an execution history of a particular software program, wherein the predictive model has been trained on a corpus of execution histories of the software programs; (ii) generate, by the predictive model and from the execution history, a failure prediction for the particular software program; (iii) receive, by an automated repair controller application, the failure prediction from the predictive model; (iv) based on applying the rules to the failure prediction, determine, by the automated repair controller application, a repair application from the repair applications; and (v) cause, by the automated repair controller application, the repair application to be executed within the network. |
| US11635749B2 |
Optimized factory schedule and layout generation
Systems and methods for optimizing factory scheduling, layout or both which represent active factory elements (human and machine) as computational objects and simulate factory operation to optimize a solution. This enables the efficient assembly of customized products, accommodates variable demand, and mitigates unplanned events (floor blockages, machines/IMRs/workcell/workers downtime, variable quantity, location, and destination of supply parts). |
| US11635745B2 |
Printing device for curved surfaces and method thereof
A device and method for printing on cylindrical curved surfaces. In the preferred embodiment, the device is an inkjet printer including a printing rack that holds a plurality of cylindrical objects like test tubes or pipes, a printing unit including a UV light source and a removable ink cartridge. The ink cartridge includes a plurality of ink nozzles and ink reservoir. In the preferred embodiment, the printing rack moves the printing objects relative to the printing unit. The printing unit preheats the printing objects prior through the use of the UV light source, and after printing the UV light source is used to cure the ink on the surface to produce a high quality print result. |
| US11635739B1 |
System and method to manage power to a desired power profile
A system includes a power profile engine, a power measurement engine, and a power throttling signal generator. The power profile engine receives a desired power profile, e.g., a first profile current average associated with a first time duration and a second profile current average associated with a second time duration. The power measurement engine measures current being drawn and generates a first running average for the measured currents for the first time duration and generates a second running average for the measured currents for the second time duration. The power throttling signal generator generates a first power throttling signal to throttle power in response to the first running average for the measured currents being greater than the first profile current average and generates a second power throttling signal to throttle power in response to the second running average for the measured currents being greater than the second profile current average. |
| US11635737B1 |
Determining occupancy with user provided information
Methods and systems are described for determining occupancy with user provided information. According to at least one embodiment, a method for determining occupancy with user provided information includes using at least one sensor to detect occupancy in a building over time, determining a predictive schedule based on the occupancy detected with the at least one sensor, and requesting information relevant to the predictive schedule from a user. |
| US11635735B2 |
Systems and methods for holistic low carbon intensity fuel production
Systems and methods to provide low carbon intensity (CI) transportation fuels through one or more targeted reductions of carbon emissions based upon an analysis of carbon emissions associated with a combination of various options for feedstock procurement, feedstock refining, processing, or transformation, and fuel product distribution pathways to end users. Such options are selected to maintain the total CI (carbon emissions per unit energy) of the transportation fuel below a pre-selected threshold that defines an upper limit of CI for the transportation fuel. |
| US11635733B2 |
System of controllers and sensors integrated with the internet of things for maintaining environmental health and safety compliance
The present invention provides a system for compliance of an edifice with safety and environmental regulations. The system comprises at least one computer server integrated by mean of the Internet of things (IoT) with sensors and controllers, wherein the sensors and controllers are coupled to corresponding edifice's devices, structures and mechanisms. The sensors register environmental and safety measures in the edifice. The sensors also register the operational parameters of the devices, structures and mechanisms in the edifice. The computer server receives the registers from the sensors and based on these registers dictate, by means of actuating instructions to the controllers, the operation of the devices, structures and mechanisms of the edifice. The system also records logs of usage history and usage patterns for the devices, structures and mechanisms of the edifice. The computer server is programmed, based in the usage history and usage patterns, to predict potential failures of the devices, structures and mechanisms of the edifice. In case of potential failure of a device, structure, or mechanism, the computer server commands replacement or repair of the device, structure or mechanism. By anticipating the failure of devices, structures and mechanism in the edifice, the system of the present invention assures the flawless operation of the edifice and full compliance with safety and environmental regulations. |
| US11635732B2 |
Correction device for a timepiece
A correction device for a timepiece, including a differential gear having a first input, a second input and an outlet output, wherein: — the first inlct input is arranged to be driven by a timepiece movement; — the second input is kinematically linked with a corrector gear extending from a control member and including a clutch for establishing and interrupting the kinematic link between the control member and the second input; — the output is arranged to drive a display device of the timepiece movement, the angular position of the output being defined on the basis of the angular position of the first input as well as on that of the second input, wherein the correction device further includes a memory cam desmodromically linked with the second input, in that the memory cam experiences a return force provided by a resilient member tending to maintain the memory cam in at least one predetermined angular position when the kinematic link between the control member and the second input is interrupted, the resilient member also being arranged to allow a rotation of the second input under the control of the control member when the kinematic link is established during the use of the correction device, and in that the correction device is arranged so that the incidence of the rotation of the second input during a correction on the angular position of the output is removed when the memory cam is located in the at least one predetermined angular position. |
| US11635727B2 |
Method for removing and attaching first holder member relative to second holder member supported by housing in cartridge
Provided is a method for removing a first holder member from a second holder member in a cartridge. The cartridge includes: a housing; the first holder member holding an electrical contact surface; and the second holder member supported by the housing. The first holder member includes a pawl, and the second holder member includes a corner part engageable with the pawl of the first holder member. The electrical contact surface is held at one end surface of the first holder member in a first direction crossing the electrical contact surface. The method includes: disengaging the pawl from the corner part; and separating the housing and the second holder member from the first holder member in the first direction away from the one end surface of the first holder member. |
| US11635720B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes image forming units having unit identification data, unit attachment portions having attachment portion identification data, an acquisition unit, a calculator, a storage unit, a controller, and a notification unit. The acquisition unit acquires data set of the two types of data. The calculator calculates data that are correction data for correcting image forming conditions or data on corrected image forming conditions. The storage unit stores the data set and the calculation data corresponding to the data set. The controller executes a data reuse control of controlling the image forming units using the calculation data that are stored in the storage unit and correspond to the data set after the data set is changed. The notification unit notifies execution-related information on execution of the data reuse control before the data reuse control. |
| US11635717B2 |
Electrophotographic member and method for manufacturing the same, thermal fixing apparatus, and electrophotographic image forming apparatus
An electrophotographic member comprising a base body and an elastic layer on the base body, the elastic layer including silicone rubber and metallic silicon particles in the silicone rubber; wherein the metallic silicon particles have a mass reduction rate of 0.05% or more. |
| US11635712B2 |
Motor control apparatus and image forming apparatus
A motor control apparatus, including: a current detection unit configured to detect a current flowing through a coil of a motor; a voltage application unit configured to apply a voltage to the coil; and a control unit configured to control the voltage application unit by outputting a PWM signal in order to rotate the motor at a predetermined rotation speed, wherein the control unit detects a rotation state of the motor based on a duty of the PWM signal and a current value detected by the current detection unit. |
| US11635711B2 |
Image forming method and image forming apparatus
An image forming method is provided. The image forming method includes: forming an electrostatic latent image on an electrostatic latent image bearer; developing the electrostatic latent image on the electrostatic latent image bearer with a toner to form a toner image; transferring the toner image from the electrostatic latent image bearer onto a continuous resin film; fixing the toner image on the continuous resin film with a heat roller or a heat belt. The toner contains a maleic-acid-modified polyolefin having a polypropylene block in a main chain. |
| US11635709B2 |
Image forming apparatus
In an image forming apparatus, a drum cartridge includes a photosensitive drum, a developing device, a drum cleaner, a waste toner tube, and a flange. The waste toner tube includes a first end portion communicating with the drum cleaner and a second end portion connected to the flange. The developing device includes a protruding portion facing the flange. The cushion member is located between the flange and the protruding portion. The cushion member allows a cartridge mounting part of the developing device to move with respect to the flange in a case where the developing device moves with respect to the photosensitive drum. |
| US11635703B2 |
Light emitting device and image forming apparatus including light emitting device
A light emitting device 401 includes a silicon substrate and a light emitting region including a lower electrode, a light emitting layer, and an upper electrode, and an exposure head is provided with a printed board on which light emitting devices 401 are arranged in a staggered form and a circuit portion 602 for controlling, on the basis of image data, a voltage of each of electrodes included in the lower electrode so that the light emitting device layer emits light and is for forming an image with a resolution corresponding to an arrangement interval of the lower electrode with respect to a crossing direction, and the circuit portion 602 is disposed together with the light emitting region on the silicon substrate. Costs on wire bonding and an area of a wiring board can be suppressed. |
| US11635698B2 |
Computational metrology based sampling scheme
A method for generating metrology sampling scheme for a patterning process, the method including: obtaining a parameter map of a parameter of a patterning process for a substrate; decomposing the parameter map to generate a fingerprint specific to an apparatus of the patterning process and/or a combination of apparatuses of the patterning process; and based on the fingerprint, generating a metrology sampling scheme for a subsequent substrate at the apparatus of the patterning process and/or the combination of apparatuses of the patterning process, wherein the sampling scheme is configured to distribute sampling points on the subsequent substrate so as to improve a metrology sampling density. |
| US11635697B2 |
Semiconductor device manufacturing system
A semiconductor device manufacturing system includes a photolithography apparatus that performs exposure. On a semiconductor substrate including a chip area and a scribe lane area. An etching apparatus etches the exposed semiconductor substrate. An observing apparatus images the etched semiconductor substrate. A controller controls the photolithography apparatus and the etching apparatus. The controller generates a first mask pattern and provides the first mask pattern to the photolithography apparatus. The photolithography apparatus performs exposure on the semiconductor substrate using the first mask pattern. The etching apparatus performs etching on the exposed semiconductor substrate to provide an etched semiconductor substrate. The observing apparatus generates a first semiconductor substrate image by imaging the etched semiconductor substrate corresponding to the scribe lane area. The controller generates a second mask pattern based on the first mask pattern and the first semiconductor substrate image, and provides the second mask pattern to the photolithography apparatus. |
| US11635696B2 |
Imprint lithography
An imprint lithography apparatus having a first frame to be mounted on a floor, a second frame mounted on the first frame via a kinematic coupling, an alignment sensor mounted on the second frame, to align an imprint lithography template arrangement with a target portion of a substrate, and a position sensor to measure a position of the imprint lithography template arrangement and/or a substrate stage relative to the second frame. |
| US11635687B2 |
Resist composition and method of forming resist pattern
A resist composition that generates an acid upon exposure and has solubility in a developing solution, which is changed by action of an acid, the resist composition containing a resin component having a constitutional unit represented by General Formula (a01-1) and a constitutional unit represented by General Formula (a02-1). In General Formula (a01-1), R represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or a halogenated alkyl group; Yax01 represents a linking group; Ax represents a sulfonyl group or a sulfoxide group; Rax01 represents an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a halogen atom, or a halogenated alkyl group; s0 and v0 represent an integer of 0 to 6; and 1≤s0+v0≤6 and u0≤s0+v0. In General Formula (a02-1), Ra00 represents an acid-dissociable group represented by General Formula (a02-r2-1) |
| US11635686B2 |
Resist composition, method of forming resist pattern, and compound
A resist composition containing a base material component (A) of which solubility in a developing solution is changed due to an action of an acid and a compound represented by Formula (bd1); in the formula, Rbd1 to Rbd3 each independently represent an aryl group which may have a substituent, provided that at least two of Rbd1 to Rbd3 are aryl groups having one or more fluorine atoms as substituents, and at least one of the fluorine atoms of the aryl group is bonded to a carbon atom adjacent to a carbon atom that is bonded to the sulfur atom in the formula, and the total number of the fluorine atoms is 4 or more; X− represents a counter anion. |
| US11635684B1 |
Apparatus for imprint lithography configured to generate a fluid droplet pattern and a method of using such apparatus
An apparatus for imprint lithography can include a logic element configured to generate a fluid droplet pattern of fluid droplets of a formable material to be dispensed onto a substrate. The fluid droplet pattern includes an imprint field, wherein the imprint field has an edge and a drop edge exclusion along the edge. In another aspect, a method can be carried out using the apparatus. The apparatus and method can be useful in filling an imprint field with a formable material relatively quickly without extrusion defects or other complications. The method can include determining a fluid droplet pattern with a first row along the edge of the imprint field having a first linear density and a second row having a second linear density, where the first linear density, the amount of droplets in the first row, is different than a second linear density, amount of droplets within the second row. |
| US11635679B1 |
Alternating phase shift mask
An alternating phase-shifting mask (Alt-PSM) comprising a 0° phase portion having a first width and a 180° phase portion having a second width greater than the first width. Example differences between the width of the 180° phase portion and the 0° phase portion may be 10 nm, 15 nm, or 20 nm. An Alt-PSM having phase portions of different widths can have an aerial image intensity transmission graph that is symmetric, for example, at 0.2-0.3 intensity. |
| US11635676B2 |
Image-projector accessory-attachment adapter
An accessory may be attached to image projector via an associated accessory-interface structure, the latter of which is operatively coupled to at least one projector-attachment structure that extends through an opening in a front panel of the projector so as to provide for clamping the accessory-interface structure to the front panel of the image projector. |
| US11635675B2 |
Laser projector with reduced optical elements and improved power efficiency
A laser projector includes a laser light source, a first dichroic mirror, a second dichroic mirror, three light valves and a beam combining module. The laser light source is used to generate a composite polarized beam. The first dichroic mirror is used to receive the composite polarized beam, and separate the composite polarized beam into a first color beam and a relay beam. The second dichroic mirror is used to receive the relay beam, and separate the relay beam into a second color beam and a third color beam. The three light valves are used to modulate the three color beams into three light beams. The beam combining module is used to combine the three light beams to form a multi-color image. |
| US11635673B2 |
Luminescent material protection mechanism, light source unit, and projector
A luminescent light emitting device includes a base, a luminescent material layer provided on the base, a heat dissipating rib provided on an outer circumferential side of the luminescent material layer in such a manner as to rise erect from the base, and a collective lens fixed to the heat dissipating rib to seal in the luminescent material layer. |
| US11635672B2 |
Vehicular camera assembly process using welding to secure lens relative to camera image plane
A vehicular camera includes a lens barrel accommodating a lens and having at least two radial protrusions protruding radially outward at or near an inner end of the lens barrel. A lens holder includes a passageway for receiving the inner end of the lens barrel and has at least two slots extending longitudinally from a board end of the lens holder. The lens barrel is received in the lens holder and the board end of the lens holder is attached at an imager printed circuit board with the imager facing the lens. The radial protrusions are movable within the slots while the lens barrel is adjusted relative to the imager to align the lens at the imager. After the lens is aligned relative to the imager, the radial protrusions within the slots are welded to the lens holder to secure the lens barrel relative to the imager printed circuit board. |
| US11635671B2 |
Techniques for creating characterization matrices for reflectance, illuminance, or sensor response
Introduced here are computer programs and associated computer-implemented techniques for determining reflectance of an image on a per-pixel basis. More specifically, a characterization module can initially acquire a first data set generated by a multi-channel light source and a second data set generated by a multi-channel image sensor. The first data set may specify the illuminance of each color channel of the multi-channel light source (which is configured to produce a flash), while the second data set may specify the response of each sensor channel of the multi-channel image sensor (which is configured to capture an image in conjunction with the flash). Thus, the characterization module may determine reflectance based on illuminance and sensor response. The characterization module may also be configured to determine illuminance based on reflectance and sensor response, or determine sensor response based on illuminance and reflectance. |
| US11635670B2 |
Dynamic neutral density filter
Described herein is a dynamic optical modulator including a plurality of pixels arranged in a grid, the pixels comprising a plurality of unit-cells, the unit-cell comprising a dielectric layer sandwiched between two at least partially conductive layers, wherein the optical characteristics of each of said unit-cells is controlled by the application of a voltage across each of the pixels of the plurality of pixels. |
| US11635667B2 |
Systems and methods for laser systems with variable beam parameter product utilizing thermo-optic effects
In various embodiments, a beam-parameter adjustment system and focusing system alters a spatial power distribution of a radiation beam, via thermo-optic effects, before the beam is coupled into an optical fiber or delivered to a workpiece. |
| US11635665B2 |
Counter electrode material for electrochromic devices
Various embodiments herein relate to electrochromic devices, methods of fabricating electrochromic devices, and apparatus for fabricating electrochromic devices. In a number of cases, the electrochromic device may be fabricated to include a particular counter electrode material. The counter electrode material may include a base anodically coloring material. The counter electrode material may further include one or more halogens. The counter electrode material may also include one or more additives. |
| US11635662B2 |
Display device, method of manufacturing the same, and electronic device
A display device includes a display section in which a plurality of pixels are arrayed in a matrix, a plurality of scan lines which select pixels, a plurality of signal lines which supply image signals to the selected pixels, and color filters that are arranged so as to correspond to color displays of the pixels. In the device, the display section includes an effective pixel portion and a frame portion that surrounds the effective pixel portion, and the frame portion and a wiring circuit of the effective pixel portion are covered with light-shielding layers, the light-shielding layers being separated from each other at a certain separation location in the display section, and a plurality of color filters having different colors are arranged by being stacked at the separation location. |
| US11635661B2 |
Electro-active lens with resistive arcs
Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system, machine, device, manufacture, circuit, composition of matter, and/or user interface comprising and/or related to a tunable electro-optic lens device comprising a first substrate comprising a first electrode layer that comprises a first plurality of ring electrodes that form a first resistive divider network, and a second substrate comprising a second electrode layer. |
| US11635660B2 |
Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method therefor
This liquid crystal display device has a plurality of pixels. Each pixel in the plurality of pixels includes first to fourth alignment regions; these first to fourth alignment regions are arranged in the longitudinal direction of the pixels, and the difference between any two alignment orientations in the first to fourth alignment regions is approximately equal to an integer multiple of 90 degrees. Of the pre-tilt angles defined by a first alignment film and a second alignment film in each of the first to fourth alignment regions, one pre-tilt angle is less than 90 degrees and the other pre-tilt angle is substantially 90 degrees. The optical alignment film is formed using a polymer having an optical alignment group in the side chain, and the content of the optical alignment group in the side chain of the polymer is less than 1.1 mmol/g. |
| US11635659B2 |
Display device
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate with a first alignment film, a second substrate with a second alignment film, and a liquid crystal layer interposed therebetween. The first substrate has first and second electrodes. An initial alignment direction of liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer is parallel to a first direction or a direction orthogonal to the first direction. The second electrode includes comblike electrodes extending parallel to the first direction and a connecting portion which connects the comblike electrodes. The connecting portion includes a projection which projects in a second direction more than an outermost comblike electrode. |
| US11635658B2 |
Color filter substrate, display panel and display apparatus
The color filter substrate includes a photoluminescent layer and an optical path adjustment layer. The photoluminescent layer includes a plurality of photoluminescent portions. Each photoluminescent portion is configured to receive backlight and emit excitation light. The optical path adjustment layer is located on a light incident side of the photoluminescent layer, and the optical path adjustment layer is configured to increase an incident angle of at least portion of the backlight that enters the photoluminescent layer. |
| US11635654B2 |
Illumination device and electronic apparatus including the same
Provided in an illumination device including a display panel including a first surface configured to display an image, a second surface opposite to the first surface, a plurality of display pixels disposed between the first surface and the second surface, and a transmission window configured to transmit light incident on the second surface through the first surface, a light source disposed at the second surface of the display panel and configured to emit light to an object toward the display panel, and a light deliverer disposed between the light source and the display panel, the light deliverer configured to deliver the light emitted from the light source to the object as flood illumination through the transmission window. |
| US11635653B2 |
Liquid crystal display device, polarizer and protective film
The invention provides a liquid crystal display device, a polarizer, and a protective film that enable suppression of the occurrence of rainbow unevenness to improve visibility in a liquid crystal display device including a backlight light source comprising white-light-emitting diode having an emission spectrum that has one or more peak tops in each of the blue region (400 nm or more and less than 495 nm), the green region (495 nm or more and less than 600 nm), and the red region (600 nm or more and 780 nm or less). The protective film contains a polyethylene terephthalate-based resin film that has a retardation of 3000 to 30000 nm, wherein the CTF value of periodic unevenness of the x value of chromaticity at an observation angle of 55 degrees is 1.2 or less. |
| US11635652B2 |
Optical substrate, electro-optical device, electronic apparatus, and method for manufacturing optical substrate
An optical substrate includes a first substrate, a light-transmitting layer disposed at the first substrate, concave portions provided in the light-transmitting layer, and a lens layer disposed so as to fill the concave portions. The light-transmitting layer is constituted by a plurality of light-transmitting layers, and an edge of the concave portion is in contact with an edge of an adjacent concave portion adjacent to the concave portion. |
| US11635651B2 |
Display panel
The invention provides a display panel, which includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a light shielding pattern layer and a plurality of pixel structures. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and includes a plurality of negative liquid crystal molecules. Each of the pixel structures includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode has an electrode opening and a first finger portion extending into the electrode opening. The second electrode has two second finger portions overlapping the electrode opening. The first finger portion and the two second finger portions are alternately arranged along a first direction inside the electrode opening and extend in a second direction. |
| US11635650B2 |
Optical device
An optical device is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an optical device includes a first base film and a second base film, a light modulation layer existing between the first and second base films, electrode layers formed on surfaces of the first and second base films that face the light modulation layer, wherein each electrode layer comprises a first region capable of applying an electric field to the light modulation layer, and a second region connecting the electrode layer to an external power source, wherein the second region on the first base film and the second region on the second base film face each other, and an insulating layer disposed between the facing second regions of the first and second base films. The optical device is capable of preventing defects such as short circuits even when an external power source has been connected in an encapsulated structure. |
| US11635649B2 |
Display panel, manufacturing method thereof and display device
A display panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a display area and a frame area surrounding the display area, and includes an array substrate and a color filter substrate. The color filter substrate includes a substrate, first support structures in the display area and second support structures in the frame area; each first support structure includes a first main support part in contact with the array substrate and a first auxiliary support part having a first gap with the array substrate; each second support structure includes a second main support part in contact with the array substrate and a second auxiliary support part having a second gap with the array substrate; and a thickness of the first auxiliary support part is greater than a thickness of the second auxiliary support part. |
| US11635648B2 |
Display device and electronic device
A display device including a peripheral circuit portion with high operation stability. The display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. A first insulating layer is on a first plane of the first substrate, and a second insulating layer is on a first plane of the second substrate. An area of the first plane of the first substrate is the same as an area of the first plane of the second substrate. The first plane of the first substrate and the first plane of the second substrate face each other. A bonding layer is between the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer. A protection film is in contact with the first substrate, the first insulating layer, the bonding layer, the second insulating layer, and the second substrate. |
| US11635646B2 |
Detecting device and detecting method thereof, and detecting apparatus
A detecting device and a detecting method thereof and a detecting apparatus are provided. The detecting device includes a stage, a light detection unit and a first, light, source, the stage includes a bearing surface for bearing an object to be detected, the light detection unit is located on a side of the stage, the first light source is located on a side of the stage that is opposite to the light detection unit, and light emitted from the, first light source is at least partially emitted to the light detection unit. |
| US11635645B2 |
Optical device including faraday rotator
An optical assembly includes a first polarization-sensitive reflector, a second polarization-sensitive reflector, and a Faraday rotator. The first polarization-sensitive reflector is positioned to transmit light having a first polarization, and reflect light having a second polarization that is orthogonal to the first polarization. The second polarization-sensitive reflector is positioned to reflect light having a third polarization that is different from the first polarization and the second polarization, and transmit light having a fourth polarization that is orthogonal to the third polarization. The Faraday rotator is disposed between the first polarization-sensitive reflector and the second polarization-sensitive reflector so that the Faraday rotator converts: (i) the light having the first polarization into the light having the third polarization, (ii) the light having the third polarization into the light having the second polarization, and (iii) the light having the second polarization into the light having the fourth polarization. |
| US11635638B2 |
Lenses colored to approximate color of skin in ocular region and methods of manufacture
A device and method of making the device is described. In some implementations, an eyeglass lens is colored so that it is semi-opaque or opaque and approximates the color of a particular user's skin. In an example, the lens can be colored by placing an adhesive material on the front or rear surface of the lens. In an additional or alternative example, the lens can be colored by dyeing the lens material. In an additional or alternative example, the lens can be colored by painting the lens material. The colored lens blocks the view of passersby of the ocular region of the wearer and is itself inconspicuous because the approximate skin color camouflages its presence. |
| US11635635B2 |
Fog shield for a diagnostic ophthalmic lens and method
A fog shield for a diagnostic ophthalmic lens is disclosed. The shield has a lens mount and an air barrier. The lens mount is configured to connect to a diagnostic ophthalmic lens. The air barrier is connected to the lens mount and extends in front of the lens mount. The air barrier is located below and in front of the diagnostic ophthalmic lens when the lens mount is connected to the diagnostic ophthalmic lens. |
| US11635634B2 |
Button assembly and method of manufacturing thereof
A method of manufacturing a button-enabled housing assembly includes pre-forming a composite button component or insert having an elastically flexible button membrane that is mounted on a rigid frame, and thereafter molding a housing over the button insert. The composite button insert is formed in a co-molding operation and can include a rigid island in the flexible button membrane for supporting a cosmetic keycap. |
| US11635631B2 |
Integrated camera lens suspension
A camera lens suspension assembly includes a support member including a support metal base layer, a moving member including a moving metal base layer, bearings and smart memory alloy wires. The support member includes a bearing plate portion, static wire attach structures, and mount regions. A printed circuit on the support metal base layer includes traces extending to each static wire attach structure. The moving member includes a moving plate portion, elongated flexure arms extending from a periphery of the moving plate portion and including mount regions on ends opposite the moving plate portion, and moving wire attach structures. The bearings are between and engage the bearing plate portion of the support member and the moving plate portion of the moving member. Each of the smart memory alloy wires is attached to and extends one of the static wire attach structures and one of the moving wire attach structures. |
| US11635630B2 |
Camera lens module
The invention provides a camera lens module, which include a housing, a first bracket, a lens assembly, a focus driving assembly and a stabilization detection mechanism. The stabilization detection mechanism is provided on the lens assembly and the housing for driving the lens assembly to move in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction of the lens assembly. The focus driving assembly of the present invention drives the first bracket to drive the lens assembly to move along the optical axis of the lens assembly to realize its automatic focus adjustment. The stabilization detection mechanism drives the lens assembly to move in the direction perpendicular to the optical axis of the lens assembly to achieve its anti-shake compensation. |
| US11635627B2 |
Head mounted display and method
A head mounted display for a user that uses a display screen to produce images. The head mounted display includes a frame. The frame has a pair of lenses. The pair of lenses has their optical centers biased away from their physical centers. The head mounted display includes a strap which attaches to the frame and fits about the user's head to hold the frame to the user's head. A method for viewing images by a user. |
| US11635619B2 |
Backlit transparent display, transparent display system, and method
A backlit transparent display and a transparent display system provide a displayed image while enabling a background scene to be visible through the display. The backlit transparent display includes a light guide, a plurality of scattering elements, and an array of light valves configured to modulate emitted light scattered from the light guide to provide modulated emitted light representing a displayed image. Transparency of the backlit transparent display is configured to enable the background scene to be visible through the backlit transparent display. The transparent display system includes the array of light valves and a transparent backlight. The transparent display system is configured to provide the displayed image as superimposed on the background scene visible through the transparent display system. |
| US11635616B2 |
System and method for creating a single port interface for simulating bidirectional signals in circuits using available circuit simulation standards
A system and method are provided for simulating circuits that transmit bidirectional signals between some ports using simulators designed originally for electrical circuits and systems, that eliminate the need for different port interfaces. The system and method can be applied to simulate photonic circuits either standalone or integrated with electrical circuits and systems. In one method implemented by the system potential and flow representations, available for example in Verilog-A simulators, are used to create bidirectional signals on a single bus line to transmit optical signals. In another method implemented by the system, the system auto-configures each optical port type as left or right at runtime or during a pre-simulation initialization to allow for bidirectional signals with a single port interface. |
| US11635615B2 |
Actuator, optical scanning device, and manufacturing methods
An actuator includes a first driving beam that is connected to an object to be driven and includes multiple first beams extending in a direction orthogonal to a first predetermined axis, ends of each adjacent pair of the first beams being connected to each other via one of first turnaround parts such that the first driving beam forms a zig-zag bellows structure as a whole; first driving sources formed on first surfaces of the first beams; and ribs formed on second surfaces of the first beams at positions that are closer to the first predetermined axis than the first turnaround parts. The first driving sources are configured to move the first driving beam and thereby rotate the object around the first predetermined axis. |
| US11635613B2 |
Optical device
An optical device includes an elastic support portion which includes a torsion bar extending in a second direction perpendicular to a first direction and a nonlinearity relaxation spring connected between the torsion bar and a movable portion. The nonlinearity relaxation spring is configured so that a deformation amount of the nonlinearity relaxation spring around the second direction is smaller than a deformation amount of the torsion bar around the second direction and a deformation amount of the nonlinearity relaxation spring in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction is larger than a deformation amount of the torsion bar in the third direction while the movable portion moves in the first direction. A first comb finger of a first comb electrode and a second comb finger of a second comb electrode which are adjacent to each other face each other in the second direction. |
| US11635611B2 |
Freeform surface optical telescope imaging system
A freeform surface optical telescope imaging system is provided. The freeform surface optical telescope imaging system comprises a primary mirror, a secondary mirror, a compensating mirror, and a spherical mirror. The primary mirror, the secondary mirror, the compensating mirror, and the spherical mirror are spaced from each other. A surface shape of each of the primary mirror and the secondary mirror is a quadric surface. The primary mirror is used as an aperture stop. A surface shape of the compensating mirror is a freeform surface. A surface shape of the spherical mirror is a spherical surface. A light emitted from a light source would be reflected by the primary mirror, the secondary mirror, the compensating mirror, and the spherical mirror to form an image on an image plane. |
| US11635606B2 |
Optical lens for use in a media supply device and lens, media supply device and microscope
An optical lens for use in a media feed device, having a first lens surface and a second lens surface, wherein the first lens is provided to be facing an object to be observed and the second lens surface is provided to be facing away from the object to be observed. At least one channel opening onto the first lens surface is present, wherein the at least one channel runs through the optical lens and at least one section of a media line is formed in the at least one, channel or, if a plurality of channels are formed, at least one of the plurality of channels opens up outside a highest point in alignment with a line that is vertical with respect to the first lens surface and to the surface of the earth. |
| US11635604B2 |
Luminous flux collector for directing light into a light-diffusing fiber
A luminous flux collector comprises a housing, a wide-angle light capturing device and an optical collimating device, arranged around a longitudinal axis. The housing surrounds and protects the wide-angle light capturing device and the optical collimating device. The housing also provides structural support to hold the other elements in position. The wide-angle light capturing device can include a receptacle for receiving a light source, and the wide-angle light capturing device collects light with a spread angle of at least 120 degrees from the light source. The wide-angle light capturing device is disposed within a proximal end of the housing along the longitudinal axis. The optical collimating device extends from the wide-angle light capturing device to a distal end of the housing along the longitudinal axis. |
| US11635603B2 |
Variable power optical system, optical apparatus and manufacturing method for variable power optical system
Provided is a variable power optical system (ZL) used for an optical apparatus such as a camera (1). The variable power optical system (ZL) includes, in order from an object: a first lens group having positive refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; a third lens group having negative refractive power; a fourth lens group having positive refractive power; and a fifth lens group. Upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, a distance between each of the lens groups changes, and upon focusing from an object at infinity to an object at a close distance, the third lens group moves in the optical axis direction. |
| US11635600B2 |
Vehicle projection lens and vehicle lamp
A vehicle projection lens includes a plastic aspheric first lens, an aperture stop, a cemented lens consisting of a glass second lens and a glass third lens, and a glass fourth lens arranged in order from a magnified side to a minified side. An F-number of the vehicle projection lens is smaller than or equal to 0.8, and the vehicle projection lens consists essentially of four lenses respectively with positive, positive, negative and positive refractive powers. |
| US11635597B2 |
Folded lens system with three refractive lenses
Compact folded lens systems are described that may be used in small form factor cameras. Lens systems are described that may include three lens elements with refractive power, with a light folding element such as a prism, located between a first lens element on the object side of the lens system and a second lens element, that redirects the light refracted from the first lens element from a first axis onto a second axis on which the other lens elements and a photosensor are arranged. The lens systems may include an aperture stop located behind the front vertex of the lens system, for example at the first lens element, and an optional infrared filter, for example located between the last lens element and a photosensor. |
| US11635595B2 |
Optical image capturing lens system
This disclosure provides an optical image capturing lens system comprising: a positive first lens element having a convex object-side surface, a negative second lens element, a positive third lens element having a convex image-side surface, a fourth lens element having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; and a positive fifth lens element having a convex object-side surface at a paraxial region thereof, both of the object-side and image-side surfaces being aspheric, and at least one inflection point is positioned on at least one of the object-side and image-side surfaces thereof. When particular relations are satisfied, the angle at which light projects onto the image plane can be efficiently controlled for increasing the relative illumination and preventing the occurrence of vignetting. |
| US11635593B2 |
Optical imaging system
An optical imaging system includes a first lens having an image-side surface that is concave; a second lens having a refractive power; a third lens having an object-side surface that is convex; a fourth lens having an image-side surface that is concave; a fifth lens having a refractive power; and a sixth lens having a refractive power and an image-side surface having an inflection point, wherein the first lens through the sixth lens are sequentially disposed in numerical order from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane of the optical imaging system, and the optical imaging system satisfies TL/(2Y)≤1.01 and 1.2≤tan θ, where TL is a distance from an object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging plane, 2Y is a diagonal length of the imaging plane, and θ is half a field of view of the optical imaging system. |
| US11635592B2 |
Optical imaging system
An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens sequentially disposed in ascending numerical order along an optical axis from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane of the optical imaging system. Four or more lenses among the first to seventh lenses have a refractive index greater than 1.6. |
| US11635589B2 |
Optical image capturing system including five lenses of −+++−, ++++−, −+−−+, +−++− or +−+++ refractive powers
An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens. At least one lens among the first to the fifth lenses has positive refractive force. The fifth lens can have negative refractive force, wherein both surfaces thereof are aspheric, and at least one surface thereof has an inflection point. The lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the fifth lenses. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras. |
| US11635585B2 |
Camera optical lens
Provided is a camera optical lens, which includes first to fourth lenses. The camera optical lens satisfies: 0.03≤R1/R2≤0.10; 1.00≤R3/R4≤1.50; 3.50≤R5/R6≤5.50; and 3.50≤d1/d2≤5.50, where R1 and R2 denote curvature radiuses of an object side surface and an image side surface of the first lens, respectively; R3 and R4 denote curvature radiuses of an object side surface and an image side surface of the second lens, respectively; R5 and R6 denote curvature radiuses of an object side surface and an image side surface of the third lens, respectively; d1 denotes an on-axis thickness of the first lens; and d2 denotes an on-axis distance from the image side surface of the first lens to the object side surface of the second lens. The camera optical lens has good optical performance while satisfying design requirements for ultra-thin, wide-angle lenses having large apertures. |
| US11635576B2 |
Ferrule sub-assembly for a fiber optic connector
A fiber optic ferrule sub-assembly for insertion into an outer housing of a fiber optic connector includes a ferrule assembly having a ferrule that forms an optical communication connection with another fiber optic device. A back housing includes a back post to be attached to a fiber optic cable. A spring is operatively disposed between the ferrule assembly and the back housing. A linkage connects the ferrule assembly to the back housing such that the spring is compressed and biases the ferrule away from the back housing prior to insertion of the fiber optic ferrule sub-assembly into the outer housing. |
| US11635571B2 |
Pluggable optical module and optical communication system
An object is to be capable of housing an optical fiber that connects between components not to exceed a bending limit of the optical fiber in a housing of a pluggable optical module. A pluggable electric connector (11) is configured to be insertable into and removable from an optical communication apparatus (93). An optical output module (12) outputs an optical signal (LS1) and a local oscillation light (LO). An optical reception module (13) outputs a communication data signal (DAT) generated by demodulating using the local oscillation light (LO). A pluggable optical receptor (15) is configured in such a manner that optical fibers are insertable thereinto and removable therefrom. A first optical fiber (F11) is connected between the optical output module (12) and the pluggable optical receptor (15). A second optical fiber (F12) is connected between the optical output module (12) and the optical reception module (13). A third optical fiber (F13) is connected between the optical reception module (13) and the pluggable optical receptor (15). Optical fiber housing means winds extra lengths of the first to third optical fibers (F11 to F13) around a guide. |
| US11635556B2 |
Blocking element of short wavelengths in LED-type light sources
Method, product and blocking element of short wavelengths in LED-type light sources consisting of a substrate with a pigment distributed on its surface and, in that said pigment has an optical density such that it allows the selective absorption of short wavelengths between 380 nm and 500 nm in a range between 1 and 99%. |
| US11635554B2 |
Method of manufacturing an optical device and resulting optical device
An optical device (1), comprising: —a first optical transparent thermoplastic layer (2); —a second optical transparent thermoplastic layer (3), and; in between both thermoplastic layers (2, 3); • a diffractive optical element (4) adjacent to the first thermoplastic layer (2), • a spacer (5) in between the diffractive optical element (4) and the second thermoplastic layer (3), and; • a border (6) enclosing the diffractive optical element (4) thereby forming a sealed cavity (7); wherein at least an upper part of the border (6), adjacent to the cavity (7) is formed from an adhesive (15). |
| US11635551B2 |
Optical zoom device
The invention relates to an optical zoom device (1) Optical zoom device (1), comprising a first lens assembly (2), and a second lens assembly (3) following the first lens assembly (2) in the direction of an optical axis (A) of the optical zoom device (1) so that light (L) can pass through the first lens assembly (2) and thereafter through the second lens assembly when travelling along the optical axis (A), wherein said lens assemblies each comprise a focus-adjustable lens (31, 32) as well as an electropermanent magnet (107, 207) or a shape memory alloy (120, 220) for actuating the respective lens (31, 32). |
| US11635550B2 |
Lighting device
Provided is a lighting device capable of manipulating a wider range of parameters to reproduce various light sources. A light source unit 10 includes, for example, a liquid crystal panel and a backlight, and each pixel is a light source capable of adjusting innumerable hues and intensities capable of adjusting hue and intensity. A lenticular lens 20 includes an array of a plurality of lenticules, and is arranged such that a plurality of light sources capable of adjusting hue and intensity is associated with each lenticule. In addition, on the outer periphery of the cylindrical portion of each lenticule, a partition is formed to block emission light from the pixel below the adjacent lenticule, thereby preventing repetition. |
| US11635549B2 |
Reflectionless window, method for manufacturing same, and reflectionless window for invasive sensor
A reflectionless window is disclosed. The reflectionless window comprises: a transparent window; a plurality of first nanocolumns arranged on a first surface of the transparent window; and a plurality of second nanocolumns having a height smaller than that of the first nanocolumns, the plurality of second nanocolumns being arranged on at least one surface selected from the upper surface of the plurality of first nanocolumns and a side surface thereof and being arranged in an area on the first surface of the transparent window in which the plurality of first nanocolumns are not arranged. |
| US11635546B2 |
Optically transmissive devices and fabrication
An optical device as described herein includes a host substrate fabricated from a dielectric material transparent in the Infrared range. Additionally, the optical device as discussed herein includes multiple elements disposed on the host substrate. The multiple elements are spaced apart from each other on the host substrate in accordance with a desired pattern. Each of the multiple elements disposed in the host substrate is fabricated from a second material having a refractive index of greater than 4.5. Such an optical device provides an improvement over conventional optical devices that operate in the Infrared range. |
| US11635545B2 |
Real-time weather forecasting for transportation systems
Improved mechanisms for collecting information from a diverse suite of sensors and systems, calculating the current precipitation, atmospheric water vapor, atmospheric liquid water content, or precipitable water and other atmospheric-based phenomena, for example presence and intensity of fog, based upon these sensor readings, predicting future precipitation and atmospheric-based phenomena, and estimating effects of the atmospheric-based phenomena on visibility, for example by calculating runway visible range (RVR) estimates and forecasts based on the atmospheric-based phenomena. |
| US11635541B2 |
Microfluidic device and method for parallel pressure-volume-temperature analysis in reservoir simulations
A method and microfluidic device to perform reservoir simulations using pressure-volume-temperature (“PVT”) analysis of wellbore fluids. |
| US11635538B2 |
Equivalent linear velocity for first arrival picking of seismic refraction
Methods and systems including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for utilizing equivalent linear velocity for first arrival picking of seismic refraction. In one aspect, a method includes receiving data for the shot gather record, generating a diving wave equation curve for a particular parameter pair of multiple parameter pairs, and integrating the shot gather record data corresponding to the diving wave equation curve over a selected range of offsets of the shot gather to generate an equivalent linear velocity value for the particular parameter pair and the shot gather record data, selecting, from the equivalent linear velocity values for the plurality of parameter pairs, a greatest equivalent linear velocity value of the equivalent linear velocity values, the greatest equivalent linear velocity value corresponding to a first-arrival parameter pair, and determining, using the first-arrival parameter pair, a set of first-arrival onsets for the selected sub-range of offsets. |
| US11635537B2 |
Seismic sensor assembly overvoltage protection circuitry
A seismic sensor assembly can include a housing that defines a longitudinal axis; a sensor; sensor circuitry operatively coupled to the sensor; and overvoltage protection circuitry electrically coupled to the housing. |
| US11635529B2 |
Virtual boundary methods and systems
An exemplary virtual boundary system determines a refined geolocation of a tracking device based on a positioning signal and a correction signal that are accessed from distinct signal sources. The virtual boundary system compares the refined geolocation of the tracking device and a geographic boundary. Then, based on the comparing of the refined geolocation and the geographic boundary, the virtual boundary system provides an alert indicative of the refined geolocation with respect to the geographic boundary. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed. |
| US11635523B2 |
Aircraft laser collision detection system
Aircraft anti-collision systems, anti-collision methods, and aircraft with anti-collision systems and methods are provided. A method including transmitting, by a light emitter, a first light pulse proximate to a wing edge at a first time, detecting, by a light detector, a reflection of the first light pulse at a second time, determining, by a processor, a distance from a first object to the wing edge in response to the first time and the second time, calculating, by the processor, a possible contact occurrence in response to the distance and an aircraft velocity, and controlling a user interface with the processor to generate a user alert in response to the possible contact occurrence. |
| US11635518B2 |
Measurement apparatus and measurement method using a laser and beat signals
A measurement apparatus, including: a laser apparatus that outputs a frequency-modulated laser beam with a plurality of modes; a branching part that branches the frequency-modulated laser beam into a reference light and a measurement light; a beat signal generation part that generates a plurality of beat signals by mixing the reference light and a reflected light that is reflected by radiating the measurement light onto an object to be measured; a conversion part that converts the plurality of beat signals into digital signals by sampling the beat signals at a frequency greater than or equal to four times a resonator frequency of the laser resonator; and a calculation part that calculates a distance from the measurement apparatus to the object to be measured on the basis of the digital signals is provided. |
| US11635517B2 |
Parameter adjustment device, training device, and measurement system
A parameter adjustment device (500) adjusts a parameter relating to control of laser light emitted from a measurement sensor (210) onto an object. A parameter calculator (520) calculates the parameter by applying, to a trained model generated through machine learning using training data sets each including waveform data of an amount of light received by the measurement sensor (210) and data indicating the parameter used to acquire the waveform data, waveform data newly acquired in a new state. The parameter calculated by the parameter calculator (520) enables measurement of the object using the measurement sensor (210) in the new state. A parameter outputter (530) outputs data indicating the parameter calculated by the parameter calculator (520). |
| US11635510B1 |
Sparse phase unwrapping
Sparse phase unwrapping is disclosed. A first image and a second image are received. The first image and the second image are coregistered. The first image and the second image comprise respective phase data. An unwrapped interferogram is generated, including by solving an optimization problem using a nonconvex penalty function, where minimizing the penalty function produces sparse minimizers. |
| US11635507B2 |
Systems for estimating three-dimensional trajectories of physical objects
In implementations of systems for estimating three-dimensional trajectories of physical objects, a computing device implements a three-dimensional trajectory system to receive radar data describing millimeter wavelength radio waves directed within a physical environment using beamforming and reflected from physical objects in the physical environment. The three-dimensional trajectory system generates a cloud of three-dimensional points based on the radar, each of the three-dimensional points corresponds to a reflected millimeter wavelength radio wave within a sliding temporal window. The three-dimensional points are grouped into at least one group based on Euclidean distances between the three-dimensional points within the cloud. The three-dimensional trajectory system generates an indication of a three-dimensional trajectory of a physical object corresponding to the at least one group using a Kalman filter to track a position and a velocity a centroid of the at least one group in three-dimensions. |
| US11635506B2 |
Radar device
One of a transmitting array antenna and a receiving array antenna includes a first antenna group and a second antenna group. The first antenna group includes one or more first antenna elements of which the phase centers of the antenna elements are laid out at each first layout spacing following a first axis direction, and a shared antenna element. The second antenna group includes a plurality of second antenna elements and the one shared antenna element, and the phase centers of the antenna elements are laid out in two columns at each second layout spacing following a second axis direction that is different from the first axis direction. The phase centers of the antenna elements included in each of the two columns differ from each other regarding position in the second axis direction. |
| US11635504B2 |
Ultrasonic sensor
An ultrasonic sensor includes: a first electrode that is provided in an ultrasonic microphone including a vibration element having a function of performing conversion between mechanical vibration and an electrical signal; a second electrode that is provided at a position different from the first electrode in an in-plane direction intersecting a directional axis of the ultrasonic microphone; and a detection section that is provided to detect the presence or absence of attached matter attached to the ultrasonic sensor on the basis of a change in capacitance between the first electrode and the second electrode. |
| US11635503B2 |
Sonar with damping structure
The present disclosure relates to a sonar device (1) for detection of underwater objects. The sonar device comprises a body element (2) having a cavity. A piezo electric element (3) is comprised within the cavity. A resin filling (6) of the cavity protects the piezo electric element (3) from water at underwater operation. The sonar device further comprises a holder (4) adapted to hold the piezo electric element (3). The holder (4) is arranged to centre and hold the piezo electric element (3) within said body element (2). The holder (4) comprises in its structure a plurality of damping structures (5). A method of manufacturing holder and a sonar device is also disclosed. |
| US11635502B2 |
Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system having a polarizing beam splitter
A LIDAR system includes a plurality of LIDAR units. Each of the LIDAR units includes a housing defining a cavity. Each of the LIDAR units further includes a plurality of emitters disposed within the cavity. Each of the plurality of emitters is configured to emit a laser beam. The LIDAR system includes a rotating mirror and a retarder. The retarder is configurable in at least a first mode and a second mode to control a polarization state of a plurality of laser beams emitted from each of the plurality of LIDAR units. The LIDAR system includes a polarizing beam splitter positioned relative to the retarder such that the polarizing beam splitter receives a plurality of laser beams exiting the retarder. The polarizing beam is configured to transmit or reflect the plurality of laser beams exiting the retarder based on the polarization state of the laser beams exiting the retarder. |
| US11635501B2 |
Circular polarization-type polarization diversity element, scanning element using same, and lidar
In the prior art, a scanning element used for Lidar in the self-driving car technology employed a mirror or the like continuously rotated by MEMS, and due to the inertia of the mirror or the like, the scanning element was suited for a raster scan that scans a scene in one stroke, but was incapable of discontinuous movement from one arbitrary point to another, and programmable scanning with an arbitrary frequency in an arbitrary pattern, as fast as the raster scan. In the present invention, there was fabricated Lidar, which is composed of a polarization diversity scheme and a scanning element, wherein the polarization diversity scheme uses two polarization gratings, each polarization grating having a thickness such that it becomes a half-wave plate, wherein birefringent directors of each polarization grating rotate with a period Λ, wherein these polarization gratings are disposed with a desired interval from each other, wherein a half-wave plate is inserted in either one of two paths of separated, exiting right-handed or left-handed circularly polarized light beam, depending on a rotation direction of the circularly polarized light, to thereby enable conversion of light beams into parallel proximate circularly polarized light beams with the same rotational direction, and wherein the scanning element has a multistage structure of polarization switch-polarization grating sets connected in combination, with a polarization switch and a polarization grating being defined as one set. |
| US11635497B2 |
Determination of photodetector elements used for measurement
A method for determining photodetector elements used for measurement, from photodetector elements of a photodetector device, includes directing measurement light to an object, such that the measurement light reflected by the object is incident on the photodetector device, selecting a group of candidate photodetector elements that are consecutively arranged to each other from the plurality of photodetector elements, and obtaining an output signal from each of the candidate photodetector elements of the group when the reflected measurement light is incident on the photodetector device. The method further comprises repeatedly shifting the group of candidate photodetector elements to select a new group of candidate photodetector elements that are consecutively arranged, obtaining the output signal from each of the candidate photodetector elements of each newly-selected group, and determining the photodetector elements used for measurement, based on the output signals from the candidate photodetector elements of each selected group. |
| US11635490B2 |
Surveying system having a rotating mirror
A surveying system comprises a controller; a support; a mounting structure mounted on the support, wherein the mounting structure is rotatable about a first axis relative to the support; a first motor to rotate the mounting structure relative to the support; a first mirror mounted on the mounting structure, wherein the first mirror is rotatable relative to the mounting structure about a second axis, wherein the second axis substantially coincides with the first axis; a second motor to rotate the first mirror relative to the mounting structure; and a first light source configured to direct a light beam onto the first mirror. |
| US11635488B2 |
Self-diagnosis device
A self-diagnosis device of a module including a general-purpose multi-channel IC and a reception phase shifter IC having a plurality of transmission output terminals and reception terminals is configured to perform a self-diagnosis of the reception phase shifter IC by utilizing a signal that is generatable by the general-purpose multi-channel IC, which is enabled by a self-diagnosis signal generation unit that generates a self-diagnosis signal by using (a) a first output signal supplied to a multi-channel receiver of the general-purpose multi-channel IC and (b) a third output signal and a self-diagnosis clock signal synchronously output from a single PLL. |
| US11635485B2 |
Positioning reference signal (PRS) measurement window adaptation
Disclosed are various techniques for wireless positioning. In an aspect, the time that a user equipment (UE) spends on performing positioning reference signal (PRS) measurements is reduced, by lengthening the PRS measurement period (P) and/or by reducing the PRS symbol duration (K). These modifications may be performed by the UE or by a location management server or other network node and may be made in consideration of the UE's mobility status and other environmental or operating conditions of the UE. In an aspect, a network entity may determine P and K to be used by the UE, and may indicate, to the UE, the P and the K to be used by the UE for measuring at least one PRS. The UE may then use the P and the K for measuring at least one PRS. |
| US11635481B2 |
Stellar atmospheric refraction measurement correction method based on collinearity of refraction surfaces
A stellar atmospheric refraction measurement correction method based on collinearity of refraction surfaces, comprising: performing star identification on the basis of observed star vectors in a star sensor and the reference star catalog, to obtain matching relationships between observed stars and reference stars; converting reference star vectors corresponding to the observed stars to a geographic coordinate system before entering the atmosphere to obtain zenith distances and azimuth angles of incident stellar; on the basis of a principle of collinearity of refraction surfaces, performing optimal solving according to imaging coordinates of observation stars, to obtain the optimal position coordinates of the zenith direction on an imaging surface of the star sensor; according to the optimal zenith direction, performing atmospheric refraction correction on all the recognized observed stars by means of the trigonometric cosine formula to obtain corrected star coordinates; and performing optimal solving to obtain the attitude of the star sensor in the geographic coordinate system. |
| US11635476B2 |
Magnetic field localization and navigation
A mobile robot includes a body movable over a surface within an environment, a calibration coil carried on the body and configured to produce a calibration magnetic field, a sensor circuit carried on the body and responsive to the calibration magnetic field, and a controller carried on the body and in communication with the sensor circuit. The sensor circuit is configured to generate calibration signals based on the calibration magnetic field. The controller is configured to calibrate the sensor circuit as a function of the calibration signals, thereby resulting in a calibrated sensor circuit configured to detect a transmitter magnetic field within the environment and to generate detection signals based on the transmitter magnetic field. The controller is configured to estimate a pose of the mobile robot as a function of the detection signals. |
| US11635475B2 |
Systems and methods for assessing electrical connectivity between elements of assay devices
Disclosed are devices, systems and methods for assessing the integrity of electrical connections between elements of interfacing electronic devices. In some aspects, a system includes an analysis device having electronics that interface with an assay cartridge inserted into the analysis device, wherein the analysis device is configured to conduct a preflight test in which impedance values for each circuit between the assay cartridge and analysis device are rearranged and assessed to determine the electrical connection integrity of the assay cartridge to the analysis device prior to implementing the assay. |
| US11635473B2 |
Secondary battery for testing internal short, method and apparatus for testing internal short of secondary battery using the same
Provided is a secondary battery for testing an internal short, and a method and apparatus for testing an internal short of a secondary battery using the same. The secondary battery for testing an internal short according to the present disclosure includes a positive electrode side metal terminal having one end disposed between a positive electrode plate and a separator of the secondary battery, and a negative electrode side metal terminal having one end disposed between a negative electrode plate and the separator of the secondary battery, and is used to cause an internal short by contact between the other end of the positive electrode side metal terminal and the other end of the negative electrode side metal terminal. |
| US11635469B2 |
Power supply device
Provided is a power supply device which includes a plurality of battery modules each having a secondary battery and in which the battery modules are connected in series with one another according to a gate driving signal from a controller. An SOC control target value that is a target value for states-of-charge of the battery modules is changed according to the number of the battery modules that are available to be connected in series. |
| US11635466B2 |
System and method for diagnosing relay fault
A relay abnormality diagnosis system and method capable of diagnosing an abnormality of a relay by directly connecting a diagnosis resistor to a current measurement unit and by using a current input to the current measurement unit from the diagnosis resistor and a current flowing on an electric circuit measured by the current measurement unit, in the relay abnormality diagnosis system that diagnoses the abnormality of the relay using the diagnosis resistor. |
| US11635458B2 |
Analyzing apparatus, analysis method, and computer-readable medium
Provided is an analyzing apparatus including a charge amount analyzing unit configured to analyze, by using a device simulator configured to simulate a transient change of a charge in a semiconductor device having a first main terminal and a second main terminal, a change of a charge amount at any one of the terminals when a power source voltage applied between the first main terminal and the second main terminal is changed by a displacement voltage smaller than an initial voltage after a current flowing between the first main terminal and the second main terminal is stabilized with the semiconductor device being set to an ON state and the power source voltage being set to the initial voltage, and a capacitance calculating unit configured to compute a terminal capacitance at any one of the terminals based on the change of the charge amount analyzed by the charge amount analyzing unit. |
| US11635451B2 |
Measurement device with local browser application
The invention relates to an electrical, preferably portable and battery-powered, measurement device. The device comprises: an electrical measurement unit supplying electrical measurement signals, a processing unit processing said electrical measurement signals, a memory, and a display controlled by the processing unit and displaying the processed electrical signals, wherein the processor is arranged to execute an operating system stored in the memory, and wherein the in the memory furthermore a local web browser application is stored which can be executed by the processor in order to control the display. |
| US11635445B2 |
Device and method for qualitative and quantitative analysis of heavy metals utilizing rotary disc system
The present invention relates to a device and a method for qualitative and quantitative analysis of heavy metals and more particularly provides a device and a method for qualitative and quantitative analysis of heavy metals utilizing a rotary disc system. |
| US11635443B2 |
Automatic analyzer and method for carrying out chemical, biochemical, and/or immunochemical analyses
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method and/or a device for carrying out chemical, biochemical and/or immunochemical analyses of liquid samples, which are present in a sample store of an automatic analyzer, with the aid of liquid reagents which are present in at least one reagent store of the analyzer. In one example embodiment, the automatic analyzer includes cuvettes, a first pipettor, a device with an optical measurement unit, a device for heterogenous immunoassays, a cuvette washing unit, a needle washing unit, a temperature control unit. |
| US11635441B2 |
Cartridge device for a measuring system for measuring viscoelastic characteristics of a sample liquid, a corresponding measuring system, and a corresponding method
The present invention is directed to a cartridge device for a measuring system for measuring viscoelastic characteristics of a sample liquid, in particular a blood sample, comprising a cartridge body having at least one measurement cavity formed therein and having at least one probe element arranged in said at least one measurement cavity for performing a test on said sample liquid; and a cover being attachable on said cartridge body; wherein said cover covers at least partially said at least one measurement cavity and forms a retaining element for retaining said probe element in a predetermined position within said at least one measurement cavity. The invention is directed to a measurement system and a method for measuring viscoelastic characteristics of a sample liquid. |
| US11635437B2 |
Method for verifying the primary structure of protein
Disclosed herein is a method for verifying the primary structure of a protein through comparative analyses between ion clusters observed in mass spectra and a series of simulated ion clusters deduced from its putative chemical formula. The method comprises the steps of: preparing a protein sample for mass spectrometric analyses; collecting mass spectra of the protein sample; obtaining master ion cluster from a plurality of ion clusters in the mass spectra; producing a series of simulated ion clusters according to the chemical formula of the protein; finding the best fit for the master ion cluster among the series of simulated ion clusters; and verifying if said best-fit simulated ion cluster corresponds to the chemical formula of the protein. |
| US11635434B2 |
Betaretrovirus epitopes and related methods of use
Methods for determination of risk, previous history and/or presence of a betaretrovirus infection in a subject are described herein. Said methods may comprise incubating a biological sample from the subject, the biological sample comprising immune effector-producing cells, with one or more betaretrovirus-specific epitopes, the betaretrovirus-specific epitopes comprising at least 7 contiguous amino acids according to any one of SEQ ID Nos. 1-36, and measuring the production of immune effectors by the immune effector-producing cells, wherein production of the immune effectors by the immune effector-producing cells determines risk and/or presence of betaretrovirus infection in the subject. Isolated peptides and kits for carrying out the methods are also described. |
| US11635433B2 |
Method for labeling intracellular and extracellular targets of leukocytes
The present invention relates to methods for labeling intracellular and extracellular targets of leukocytes, as well as to kits for performing said methods. |
| US11635432B2 |
Methods and devices for integrating analyte extraction, concentration and detection
Disclosed herein are devices and methods that use aqueous two phase systems and lateral flow assays to detect target analytes in a sample. These devices and methods may be used to diagnose a disease or condition in a biological sample, such as blood or serum. In addition, these devices and methods may be used to detect allergens in a food samples or contaminants, such as environmental toxins, in water samples. Device and kit components may be conveniently assembled in a portable container and are amenable to actuation in most settings. The devices are simple to use, requiring a non-trained operator to simply add the sample to the device. Conveniently, the time it takes to detect the target analyte is very short. Thus, the devices and methods disclosed herein provide novel and useful means for point-of-care. |
| US11635431B2 |
Apparatus for analyzing and detecting interactions and reactions of molecules
An apparatus for label-free analysis of molecules, including interactions and reactions of the molecules, is disclosed. The apparatus is based on detecting molecule movement under the influence of an external electric field. The apparatus is able to achieve sensitive detection of molecular binding to proteins or other molecules, and conformational changes of proteins or other molecules and biochemical reactions of the proteins or other molecules. Applications of the apparatus include screening of drug molecules, kinetic analysis of posttranslational modification of proteins, and small molecule-protein interactions. |
| US11635429B2 |
Immunochromatography test strip for detecting pollution of diacetoxyscirpenol, preparation method therefor, and application thereof
An immunochromatography test strip for detecting pollution of diacetoxyscirpenol includes a bottom plate, where a water absorption pad, a detection pad, a gold-labeled pad and a sample pad are sequentially attached to one side of the bottom plate from top to bottom, adjacent pads are connected in an overlapping manner at a joint, the detection pad uses a nitrocellulose membrane as a base pad, a quality control line and a detection line are transversely arranged on the nitrocellulose membrane, the quality control line is coated with a rabbit antimouse polyclonal antibody, the detection line is located below the quality control line, and the detection line is coated with a diacetoxyscirpenol-ovalbumin conjugate; the gold-labeled pad is transversely spray-coated with a nanogold-labeled anti-diacetoxyscirpenol monoclonal antibody; and the anti-diacetoxyscirpenol monoclonal antibody is secreted by a hybridoma cell strain DAS5G11E7 with the preservation number of CCTCC NO.C201881. |
| US11635428B2 |
Molecule detecting device and molecule detecting method
According to one embodiment, a molecule detecting device includes a capturing section, a releasing section, and a detecting section. The capturing section is configured to, by combining a target molecule and a solubilizing agent with each other and thereby creating a composite body, capture the target molecule in a carrier liquid. The releasing section is configured to make the composite body release the target molecule therefrom in the carrier liquid. The detecting section is configured to carry out detection of the target molecule in the carrier liquid. |
| US11635426B2 |
Test strip and kit for testing mycophenolic acid and preparation method of test strip
A test strip and kit for testing mycophenolic acid and a preparation method of the test strip are described. The test strip includes a bottom plate and a sample pad, a glassfiber membrane, a nitrocellulose membrane and an absorbent paper which are successively lapped on a surface of the bottom plate, the sample pad is treated by a sample pad treatment fluid; the glassfiber membrane is treated by a glassfiber membrane treatment fluid; the glassfiber membrane is coated by a mycophenolic acid specific-antibody conjugate; the nitrocellulose membrane is provided with a detection line and a quality control line; and a mycophenolic acid protein conjugate is sprayed on the detection line. |
| US11635424B2 |
Medical toilet with aptamer sensors to analyze urine
We disclose an in-toilet urinalysis system which includes a system for collection urine and for analysis of urine components using aptamer technology. Urine collection system may dispense urine into cuvettes, channels, or other containers that include aptamers. The aptamers may detect target molecules in urine. The aptamers may measure urine analytes, detect excreted drugs or drug metabolites, or disease markers. Upon binding to the target molecule, the aptamers may produce a signal which a sensor in the toilet may detect. In some embodiments, the signal may be electrochemical, fluorescent, or colorimetric. The measurements obtained from analysis of the urine may be used to assess a user's health or diagnose disease. In some embodiments, the measurements are stored in a controller which may transmit the measurements to a healthcare provider for assessment. |
| US11635423B2 |
Blood testing system and method
Some embodiments of a blood coagulation testing system include an analyzer console device and a single-use cartridge component configured to releasably install into the console device. In some embodiments, the blood coagulation testing system can operate as an automated thromboelastometry system that is particularly useful, for example, at a point-of-care site. |
| US11635422B2 |
Method and system to extend the conditions of application of an inversion of the Hodgkin-Huxley gating model
A method for time constant estimation includes generating a bound for a R=1/g of the inverse solution; for any R picked within the bound for R, extracting the voltage dependence of the time constant; and extracting the roots of a tree like structure. A method to quantify a time constant of each gate of a Hodgkin Huxley formalism with activating and inactivating gates with currents recorded with a T-step and G-step protocols, and methods to quantify a time constant of each gate of a Hodgkin Huxley formalism with activating and inactivating gates are also described. |
| US11635420B2 |
Signal-based medium analysis
A solution for evaluating a medium using electrical signals is described. A plurality of electrical signals having different frequencies are transmitted through the medium and signal data corresponding to the electrical signals after having traveled through the medium is acquired. A complex impedance and a complex permittivity and/or complex conductivity can be calculated for the medium. A set of characteristics of the medium can be computed using mixing models and/or known information of the medium. A level of one or more attributes of the medium can be determined from the characteristics using nonparametric Bayesian inference. One particular application is directed to determining a nitrate level of soil. |
| US11635419B2 |
PAAS platform-based ultra-low power consumption soil near-ground wireless sensing system
A PaaS platform-based ultra-low power consumption soil near-ground wireless sensing system includes a plurality of sensors mounted in soil, a signal transceiver module is arranged in the sensor, the signal transceiver module transmits a signal to a LoRaWan gateway through LoRa wireless communication, and the LoRaWan gateway is successively connected to a PaaS platform and a user group; and the sensors include a soil moisture sensor, a soil salinity sensor and a rainfall sensor. The PaaS platform-based ultra-low power consumption soil near-ground wireless sensing system of the invention enables sensor nodes to have ultra-low power consumption; and through fusion with a LoRa communication technology, a node network with ultra-low power consumption and long-distance transmission is constructed. |
| US11635418B2 |
Methods and systems for characterizing clay
A method of improving agricultural treatment includes identifying a mineralogical feature based on a collected soil sample, generating a soil clay characterization based on the mineralogical feature, and generating an agricultural prescription. A system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to identify a mineralogical feature based on a collected soil sample, generate a soil clay characterization based on the mineralogical feature, and generate an agricultural prescription. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing program instructions that, when executed, cause a computer to identify a mineralogical feature based on a soil sample, generate a soil clay characterization based on the mineralogical feature, and generate an agricultural prescription. |
| US11635412B2 |
Pressure decoupling fluid drive unit from flow path for pressure adjustment of sample accommodation volume
An apparatus for separating a fluidic sample includes a fluid drive arrangement including fluid drive units for driving a mobile phase along a flow path to a sample separation unit, a sample accommodation volume for accommodating the fluidic sample and selectively fluidically coupleable with or decoupleable from the flow path, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to control pressure decoupling of at least part of at least one of the fluid drive units from the flow path, and enable the partially pressure-decoupled fluid drive unit(s) to pressurize the sample accommodation volume before fluidically coupling the sample accommodation volume with the flow path and/or to de-pressurize the sample accommodation volume after fluidically coupling the sample accommodation volume with the flow path for preparing a subsequent intake of fluidic sample in the sample accommodation volume. |
| US11635410B2 |
Gas concentration detection by means of thermoacoustic sound wave
A gas sensor having a heater, a receiver, and a space arranged between the heater and the receiver, is described, the heater being configured to generate a thermoacoustic sound wave propagating through the space by using a stimulation signal. The receiver is in this case configured to receive the thermoacoustic sound wave that has propagated through the space and to convert it into a reception signal that has a time-of-flight-dependent shift with respect to the stimulation signal and therefore information relating to the gas concentration in the space. |
| US11635407B2 |
Pressure driven fluidic injection for chemical separations
Methods, systems and devices that allow independently applied pressures to a BGE reservoir and a sample reservoir for pressure-driven injection that can inject a discrete sample plug into a separation channel that does not require voltage applied to the sample reservoir and can allow for in-channel focusing methods to be used. The methods, systems and devices are particularly suitable for use with a mass spectrometer. |
| US11635406B2 |
Microbial sensor system for the assessment of subsurface environments
A microbial sensor, system, and method that can be used to determine a chemical environment and/or substrate concentrations in anaerobic or aerobic environments, such as soils, sediments and ground waters, are disclosed. An exemplary system uses one or more (e.g., inert) measurement electrodes and a reference electrode. The reference electrode can include an electrode exposed to atmospheric oxygen (e.g., a cathode) or an electrode exposed to stable anaerobic or aerobic conditions. The exemplary microbial sensor system measures open-circuit voltage to characterize the chemical (oxidizing or reducing) environment and/or recovery voltage to measure substrate concentrations in the subsurface. |
| US11635405B2 |
Method for measuring components of biological sample
Provided is a method for measuring a component of a biological sample with a biosensor provided with: a capillary for introducing the biological sample; an electrode part including a first electrode system that includes a first working electrode and a first counter electrode in the capillary; and a reagent part disposed so as to be in contact with the electrode part, the reagent part containing an enzyme and a mediator, and the method including a step of starting voltage application for a duration longer than 0 second and up to 0.7 second to the first electrode system within 0 second to 0.5 second after detection of the introduction of the biological sample to obtain a hematocrit value based on a current value obtained thereby. |
| US11635403B2 |
Method for measuring semiconductor gas sensor based on virtual alternating current impedance
The invention discloses a method for measuring a semiconductor gas sensor based on virtual alternating current impedance. The method comprises: combining measurement parameters of virtual measurement frequencies in a first predetermined range and virtual parallel capacitance values in a second predetermined range, and measuring gas with known concentrations at each characteristic quantity among nine characteristic quantities in the case of each combination; obtaining multiple characteristic values corresponding to the same gas concentration at each characteristic quantity after traversing all parameter combinations and all nine characteristic quantities; and selecting virtual measurement frequencies in a third range, virtual parallel capacitance values in a fourth range and one or several corresponding characteristic quantities as the finally selected measurement parameters for measuring the unknown gas concentration. |
| US11635402B2 |
Subsoil moisture monitoring system including battery-less wireless chipless sensors
A batteryless, chipless, sensor is disclosed which includes a substrate, at least two conductive strips disposed on the substrate, a passivation layer encasing the substrate and the at least two conductive strips, wherein the conductive strips are adapted to respond to an interrogation signal from a reader having a first polarization, with a response signal at a second polarization different than the first polarization. |
| US11635398B2 |
Resistivity measurement for evaluating a fluid
A technique facilitates evaluation of a fluid flowing through a tubing and includes at least one sensor deployed along an interior of the tubing. Each sensor comprises a plurality of electrodes and insulation material disposed between the electrodes to isolate the electrodes from each other and to facilitate resistivity measurements. The plurality of electrodes comprises electrodes for emitting an electric current and for monitoring voltage so as to enable resistivity measurements with respect to fluid flowing through the tubing. The resistivity measurements may be used to determine a constituent fraction, e.g. a water fraction, of the fluid flowing through the tubing. |
| US11635397B2 |
Smart packaging for improved medication regimen compliance
The present disclosure enables apparatus and methods for tracking medications and/or product units via smart-packaging concepts. Embodiments include sensors that monitor the state of a blister-card package having an unpatterned lidding film by measuring the impedance of each dispensing region of the lidding film that defines a portion of a blister. In some embodiments, the impedance is measured via a plurality of contact points arranged on opposite sides of each dispensing region, where the contact points are resistively or capacitively coupled with the lidding film. In some embodiments, the impedance map of a measurement region on the blister card is derived via electrical impedance tomography or electrical resistance tomography, where the measurement region includes a plurality of dispensing regions. |
| US11635396B2 |
Sensing device with drive sense circuit and particle sensor and methods for use therewith
A sensing device includes at least one particle sensor that responds to sensed subatomic particles. At least one drive-sense circuit is coupled to the particle sensor, wherein the at least one drive-sense circuit includes: a first conversion circuit configured to convert a receive signal component of a sensor signal corresponding to the at least one particle sensor into the sensed signal, wherein the sensed signal indicates a change in an electrical characteristic associated with the at least one particle sensor; and a second conversion circuit configured to generate, based on the sensed signal, a drive signal component of the sensor signal corresponding to the at least one particle sensor. |
| US11635393B2 |
Method, system and apparatus for non-destructive testing (NDT) of electrical power line systems
A system for non-destructive testing of an overhead energized electrical component. The system has a base, an X-ray source, an X-ray digital imager, and an imager controller. The system also has a removable electrically conductive flexible shield which is adapted to be operatively coupled to, and to encapsulate, at least the base, the X-ray source, the X-ray digital imager and the imager controller so as to form a shrouded system. In a use position, when the shrouded system is positioned adjacent the energized electrical component so as to non-destructively test the energized electrical component, the shield protects at least the base, the X-ray source, the X-ray digital imager and the imager controller from electric fields around the energized electrical component while allowing signal communication between at least the X-ray source and the energized electrical component. |
| US11635391B2 |
Systems and methods for inspecting pipelines using a pipeline inspection robot
Systems and methods for robotic inspection of above-ground pipelines are disclosed. Embodiments may include a robotic crawler having a plurality of motors that are individually controllable for improved positioning on the pipeline to facilitate image acquisition. Embodiments may also include mounting systems to house and carry imaging equipment configured to capture image data simultaneously from a plurality of angles. Such mounting systems may be adjustable to account for different sizes of pipes (e.g., 2-40+ inches), and may be configured to account for traversing various pipe support structures. Still further, mounting systems may include quick-release members to allow for removal and re-mounting of imaging equipment when traversing support structures. In other aspects, embodiments may be directed toward control systems for the robotic crawler which assist in the navigation and image capture capabilities of the crawler. |
| US11635388B2 |
Modified metal nanoparticle and method for manufacturing the same
A method for manufacturing modified metal nanoparticles includes steps as follows. Metal nanoparticles are provided, wherein each of the metal nanoparticles is a gold nanoparticle or a silver nanoparticle. An ascorbic acid solution is provided, wherein the ascorbic acid solution includes ascorbic acid molecules and/or ascorbic acid ions. A surface modification step is conducted, wherein the metal nanoparticles and the ascorbic acid solution are mixed, such that surfaces of the metal nanoparticles are modified by the ascorbic acid molecules and/or ascorbic acid ions to obtain the modified metal nanoparticles. |
| US11635386B2 |
Quantification of the micronutrient profile in Moringa oleifera tree leaves using calibration free laser induced breakdown spectroscopy
Method for quantifying the micronutrient profile of Moringa oleifera tree leaves (MOLs) using calibration free laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (CF-LIBS). |
| US11635385B2 |
Characteristic information extraction method, and rapid detection method and system of organic pollutants in complex system
A method for fast extracting an organic pollutant in a complex system is disclosed, which includes following steps. A surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectrum of an organic pollutant is divided to obtain P wavelength sub-intervals with overlapping regions. The P wavelength sub-intervals are screened to obtain ω wavelength sub-intervals. The ω wavelength sub-intervals are screened to obtain a required wavelength sub-interval. The required wavelength sub-interval is screened to obtain a required wavelength subset. A method and a system for fast detecting an organic pollutant in a complex system are also disclosed. |
| US11635384B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for label-free particle analysis
An apparatus to provide a label-free or native particle analysis comprises a light generating system producing first light pulses at a first wavelength and second light pulses at a second wavelength; and a flow cell coupled to the light generating system to convey particles for analysis. The light generating system is configured to chirp at least one of the first light pulses and the second light pulses to analyze the particles. |
| US11635382B2 |
Blood analyzer, blood analyzing method, and program
A blood analyzer according to one or more embodiments may include: a specimen preparation part that prepares a measurement specimen by mixing a reagent into a blood preparation; a measurement part that measures the measurement specimen; a measurement mode selection unit that receives an input of a type of blood preparation as a measurement target selected from a plurality of types of blood preparations; and a controller. The controller may cause the specimen preparation part to prepare the measurement specimen depending on the selected type of blood preparation. |
| US11635381B2 |
Method and device for measuring process parameters in liquid cultures
A method for measuring process parameters in liquid cultures in a plurality of microreactors of at least one microtiter plate includes continuously agitating the liquid cultures using an orbital agitator at least until the reaction is completed in all the microreactors. In order to allow process parameters also of such substances which themselves do not have any fluorescence activity to be measured with relatively low complexity and within a short time, 2D fluorescence spectra are recorded in a plurality of in particular different liquid cultures in the microreactors of agitated microplates. A device for carrying out the method is also disclosed. |
| US11635379B2 |
Portable wide field fluorimeter systems
The present disclosure features portable wide field fluorimeter systems, e.g., in the form of low-cost mobile platforms, and methods to perform fluorometric assays to detect a change in fluorescence intensity in liquid samples, e.g., caused by the presence of a target analyte, e.g., a protein, e.g., an enzyme (e.g., β-lactamase) expressed by a target pathogen in a liquid sample in a point-of-care setting. In some implementations, a portable system for detecting a change in fluorescence intensity in a liquid sample includes a microfluidic device, an optical assembly including an emission filter and one or more lenses, and an analyzer device that collects and processes a fluorescent signal for the detection of a target analyte produced by the target pathogen present in the liquid sample. |
| US11635373B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and monitoring system
It is desirable to provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a program, and a monitoring system capable of monitoring a condition of a measured surface highly accurately and using the monitoring result effectively.To attain the aforementioned object, according to a mode of the present invention, an information processing apparatus includes an obtaining module and a generating module. The obtaining module obtains measuring data about a measured surface. The generating module generates covering material information about a covering material that covers the measured surface based on a feature of the obtained measuring data. |
| US11635372B2 |
Optical detection method
A process for detecting the sensitivity of one or more polymers and/or of one or more mixtures of polymers to a compound, including the steps of exposing a plurality of individualized micro-deposits including the polymer(s) and/or the mixture(s) of polymers to the compound, and detecting, by interferometry, a variation in appearance of an assembly of micro-deposits exposed to the compound and/or a variation in the dimensions and/or refractive index of at least one of the micro-deposits exposed to the compound, linked to an interaction between the polymer(s) and/or the mixture(s) of polymers and the compound. |
| US11635370B2 |
Gas imaging systems and methods
An IR imaging device includes an optical element receiving infrared radiation from a scene, a filter blocking IR radiation outside of a particular range of wavelengths, an array of sensor pixels to capture an image of the scene based on infrared radiation received through the optical element and filter, the array of sensor pixels comprising a first array of sensor pixels to image gas in within a first spectral bandwidth, and a second array of sensor pixel to sense IR radiation in a second spectral bandwidth where gas is not detected, a read-out integrated circuit (ROIC) and logic circuitry to generate a first image sensed by the first array and a second image sensed by the second array, and gas detection logic to detect the presence of gas in the first image. |
| US11635353B2 |
Sample collection device
A sample collection device is composed of a conductive polymer. The conductive polymer includes a mixture of carbon nanotubes and a polymer. The sample collection device has a hole at a tip of the sample collection device with the hole having a size ranging from about 0.15 mm to about 0.25 mm. |
| US11635352B2 |
Enhanced hydration methods and systems for histology
There is provided a histology system that comprises a microtome configured to expose a face of a tissue block comprising a tissue sample embedded in an embedding material and remove one or more tissue sections from the sample, a hydration system configured to hydrate the tissue block by depositing a hydrating liquid on the face of the tissue block, and a transfer system configured to transfer the one or more tissue sections from the microtome to one or more slides. In some embodiments, the hydration system is configured to produce droplet condensation of the hydrating liquid and deposit the condensation on the face of the tissue block. |
| US11635342B2 |
Building type classification
A method of identifying a type of plumbing system of a building is provided. The method includes determining a spectral energy ratio as a function of first pressure data acquired during a first time period in which a water flow through a plumbing system of a building is below a threshold. The method also includes determining a multimodal test value as a function of second pressure data acquired during a second time period that includes at least some time during which the water flow through the plumbing system is greater than or equal to the threshold. Further, the method includes identifying a type of the plumbing system of the building as a function of the spectral energy ratio and the multimodal test value. |
| US11635340B2 |
Leakage detection system and method for long petroleum pipeline based on AFPSO-K-means
A leakage detection method for a long petroleum pipeline based on AFPSO-K-means includes: initializing a particle swarm, and defining an initial velocity and an initial position of each particle in the particle swarm; determining a fitness value of the each particle; traversing the fitness value of the each particle to obtain an optimal position corresponding to the fitness value of the each particle and a global optimal position in optimal fitness values of the particle swarm; iteratively updating a velocity and a position of the each particle based on the optimal position corresponding to the fitness value of the each particle; and when a distance from the position of the each particle to the global optimal position is less than a preset threshold or a number of iterations reaches a preset value, outputting a current iteration updated result to determine an actual leakage position of the petroleum pipeline. |
| US11635338B2 |
Rapid chamber vacuum leak check hardware and maintenance routine
Methods and apparatus for detecting a vacuum leak within a processing chamber are described herein. More specifically, the methods and apparatus relate to the utilization of a spectral measurement device, such as a spectral gauge, to determine the leak rate within a process chamber while the process chamber is held at a leak test pressure. The spectral measurement device determines the rate of increase of one or more gases within the processing chamber and can be used to determine if the processing chamber passes or fails the leak test. |
| US11635335B2 |
Temperature sensing material, and temperature deviation time estimating system employing same
An object of the present invention is to provide a temperature sensing material that changes a color density continuously with the lapse of time at a temperature not lower or higher than a predetermined temperature and a temperature deviation time estimating system using it. In order to achieve the above object, the temperature sensing material according to the present invention is a temperature sensing material having a structure of dispersing a temperature indicating material that changes color by crystallization in a dispersion medium and is characterized in that an average particle size of the temperature indicating material is not larger than a resolution when observed and a volume fraction of the temperature indicating material to the temperature sensing material is not less than 5% to less than 90%. |
| US11635322B2 |
System and method for metering fluid flow
A system and method for metering fluid flow is disclosed which has improved diagnostic capabilities. As well as informing a flow meter operator of the presence of a malfunction and its likely cause, the new systems and methods can also quantify an associated flow prediction bias. |
| US11635321B2 |
Method and system for sensing a fluid level associated with an engine
Methods and systems for sensing a fluid level associated with an engine are described. The method comprises generating an input signal and applying the input signal to a resistive portion and a capacitive portion of a fluid level sensing device, measuring a first varying output of the resistive portion of the fluid level sensing device through a first channel of a controller of the engine, measuring a second varying output of the capacitive portion of the fluid level sensing device through a second channel of the controller of the engine, and translating at least one of the first varying output and the second varying output into a level of fluid and outputting the level of fluid. |
| US11635317B2 |
Ultrasound flow measurement device with signal quality monitoring
An ultrasound flow measurement device has a vessel through which a fluid to be measured flows. An ultrasound measurement configuration with an ultrasound transducer is provided for measuring a propagation time of an ultrasound signal containing a plurality of periods along a measurement section that runs partly in a direction of flow. A controller determines a fluid flow on a basis of a propagation time measurement. The controller contains a memory, a first evaluator for determining a period duration of at least one of the periods of an ultrasound signal received after passing through the measurement section, a second evaluator for determining a spread value of a predetermined number of last received ultrasound signals, a comparator for comparing the spread value with a threshold value, and an actioning device for initiating a control action, assigned to the threshold value that has been exceeded, for the ultrasound flow measurement device. |
| US11635316B2 |
Ultrasonic fluid measuring arrangement with at least two waveguide parts spaced apart on an outer wall of a measuring tube
A fluid measuring arrangement with a flow channel for a fluid to be measured having at least two areas of an outer wall forming waveguide parts for surface acoustic waves. The waveguide parts are spaced apart from each other along the circumference of the flow channel. A first and/or a second signal converter is arranged at each waveguide part, wherein at least two first signal converters arranged on different waveguide parts or two second signal converters arranged on different waveguide parts are spaced with respect to each other in the axial direction of the flow channel. |
| US11635315B2 |
Optical fiber tip micro anemometer
A passive microscopic flow sensor includes a three-dimensional microscopic optical structure formed on a cleaved tip of an optical fiber. The three-dimensional microscopic optical structure includes a post attached off-center to and extending longitudinally from the cleaved tip of the optical fiber. A rotor of the three-dimensional microscopic optical structure is received for rotation on the post. The rotor has more than one blade. Each blade has a reflective undersurface that reflects a light signal back through the optical fiber when center aligned with the optical fiber, the blades of the rotor shaped to rotate at a rate related to a flow rate. |
| US11635311B2 |
Multi-rate digital sensor synchronization
A system and method for multi-rate synchronization of a digital sensor that provides a digital sensor output signal and a processor arrangement that processes the digital sensor output signal according to a processing algorithm and that provides a processor output signal, including operating the digital sensor to provide the digital sensor output signal with a first sample rate, and operating the processor arrangement to provide a processor output signal with a second sample rate. The second sample rate is an integer multiple of the first sample rate. |
| US11635305B2 |
Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium
An information processing apparatus includes a memory in which processing instruction information including data to be processed and setting information is stored; a first executing unit that executes processing of the data to be processed on a basis of a first product and the setting information; a first measurement unit that measures a predetermined item concerning a first processing result of the first executing unit; a second executing unit that executes processing of the data to be processed on a basis of a second product and the setting information; a second measurement unit that measures the item concerning a second processing result of the second executing unit; and an output unit that outputs a result of comparison between the first processing result and the second processing result on a basis of a measurement result of the first measurement unit and a measurement result of the second measurement unit. |
| US11635302B2 |
Mapping application with transit mode
Some embodiments provide a mapping application that displays a transit map including a group of transit lines. The mapping application receives a request to display a transit route in the transit map. The mapping application also, in response to the received request, displays the transit route by modifying portions of transit lines along the route to emphasize the portions of the transit lines while modifying other transit lines not along the route to de-emphasize the transit lines not along the route. |
| US11635301B2 |
Electronic device for vehicle, and method and system for operating electronic device for vehicle
An electronic device for a vehicle includes a power supply configured to supply power, an interface configured to receive high-definition (HD) map data of a specified region from a server through a communication device and to receive traveling situation information of the vehicle, and at least one processor configured to continuously generate electronic horizon data of the specified region based on the HD map data in a state in which the power is received, and to adjust a speed of reception of the HD map data based on the traveling situation information. |
| US11635296B2 |
Magnetic sensor device, method of manufacturing the sensor device, and rotational operation mechanism
A magnetic sensor device includes first and second surfaces, and first and second inclined surfaces, which are inclined with respect to the first surface; first through third magnetic sensor units for detecting magnetism in first through third axial directions; and a signal processing unit that performs signal processing on the basis of first through third sensor signals output from the first through third magnetic sensor units. The first axial direction is a direction orthogonal to the first surface, and the second and third axial directions are directions orthogonal to each other on the first surface. The first and second magnetic sensor units are provided on the second inclined surface, respectively. A corrected signal generation unit included in the signal processing unit generates first and second corrected signals, which are the first and second sensor signals corrected in accordance with the inclination angles of the first and second inclined surfaces. |
| US11635289B2 |
Surface shape measurement device and surface shape measurement method
The illumination light condensing point PQ and the reference light condensing point PL are arranged as mirror images of each other with respect to the virtual plane VP, and each data of the object light O, being a reflected light of the spherical wave illumination light Q, and the inline spherical wave reference light L is recorded on each hologram. On the virtual plane VP, the reconstructed object light hologram hV for measurement is generated, and the spherical wave optical hologram sV representing a spherical wave light emitted from the reference light condensing point PL is analytically generated. The height distribution of the surface to be measured of the object 4 is obtained from the phase distribution obtained by dividing the reconstructed object light hologram hV by the spherical wave light hologram sV. |
| US11635284B1 |
Testing apparatus for pile end settlement of rock-socketed driven PHC tube pile and installation method
Provided are a testing apparatus for a pile end settlement of a rock-socketed driven PHC tube pile and an installation method thereof. The testing apparatus comprises a PHC tube pile, two measuring tubes, a cross pile tip, a pile tip steel plate, a fixer fixed in the PHC tube pile, a perforated steel plate located at a pile top of the PHC tube pile and a jack pressed on the perforated steel plate. The two measuring tubes are symmetrically arranged, the fixer is provided with two first measuring tube outlet holes, and the two measuring tubes respectively pass through the first measuring tube outlet holes of the fixer; and the perforated steel plate is also provided with two second measuring tube outlet holes, and the two measuring tubes respectively pass through the second measuring tube outlet holes of the perforated steel plate.(FIG. 1) |
| US11635280B2 |
Protective shield, shield wall and shield wall assembly
A protective shield (100) comprises a body (105) for protecting a user from a projectile or impact, the body comprising a front strike face (110) and an opposing rear face (115); and a connector arrangement (125, 126) provided on the body adapted so as to allow the shield to connect to an adjacent protective shield, wherein the strike face has a perimeter defined by the edges of the strike face; and wherein the connector arrangement is arranged so that an adjacent protective shield can be connected to the connector arrangement with the body of the adjacent protective shield abutting and/or overlapping with the strike face of the protective shield at any point about the perimeter of the strike face. |
| US11635278B2 |
Composite firearm case
A protective carrying case for a firearm is disclosed, wherein the protective carrying case includes a top component, a bottom component, and semi-hexagonal ends, wherein the top component and the bottom component are constructed from carbon fiber. The protective carrying case additionally includes a retaining element with vacuum split functionality to retain elements within the case. |
| US11635274B2 |
Pulley projectile launcher
A projectile launcher includes a frame and a projectile moves within a horizontal projectile plane and along the projectile axis. The projectile is fired from a front end of the frame. The projectile launcher includes a first power group at a first frame side. The first power group includes a plurality of first power group drawstring pulleys. At least one of the plurality of first power group drawstring pulleys is attached to the frame. The projectile launcher further includes a second power group at a second frame side. The second power group includes a plurality of second power group drawstring pulleys. At least one of the plurality of second power group drawstring pulleys is attached to the frame. The drawstring is configured to be routed at least partially around the first and second power group drawstring pulleys. |
| US11635272B1 |
Bipod stability assembly
A bipod stability assembly is a magnetic device having mating magnets on a rifle and a sandbag or bipod. A user my quickly interchange either by removing the first stability support and connecting the second. |
| US11635270B2 |
Single-stage and two-stage trigger mechanism for a firearm
A trigger mechanism including a top sear for engaging a cocking piece, a transfer arm for engaging the top sear, and a safety lever and second stage sear which engages the transfer arm. The safety lever prevents unintentional firing of a firearm with the trigger mechanism. A bottom sear cooperates with the safety lever and the second stage sear. A reset spring biases the transfer arm. A single stage operation involves both a first stage spring and second stage spring upon trigger load application. In a two-stage operation, the first stage spring is engaged and then the second stage spring is also engaged. A selector pin provides flexibility to alter the mode of operation of the trigger mechanism between single stage trigger operation and a double stage trigger operation. |
| US11635269B2 |
Weapon usage monitoring system with virtual reality system for deployment location event analysis
Systems and methods are provided for combining video and virtual reality presentations, including a server device running application software that receives sensor signals at a connection point from a plurality of assets within a deployment location and processes the signals to generate a virtual reality depiction of the deployment location, and a graphic user interface presenting a field of view of the virtual reality depiction of the deployment location, where the virtual reality depiction is combined with video derived from the deployment location in the graphic user interface presentation. |
| US11635268B2 |
Rifle bolt disassembly tool
A rifle bolt disassembly tool is provided. The rifle bolt disassembly tool has a fulcrum having a tooth and a lever. The tool is suitable for allowing a user to unscrew the bolt plug of the rifle in a safe and efficient manner. The present tool is especially suitable to remove the bolt plug of a Remington Model 700 rifle, but may also be used with other rifles. |
| US11635263B2 |
Vapor chamber and manufacturing method of the same
A heat dissipating device includes a first casing includes a recessed portion, and a second casing coupled to the first casing. The recessed portion at least partially defines an evaporator section of the heat dissipating device, a condenser section of the heat dissipating device is disposed surrounding the recessed portion, and the first casing and the second casing enclose an internal space of the heat dissipating device. The heat dissipating device further includes a plurality of first support structures arranged in the recessed portion, a plurality of second support structures arranged in the condenser section, and a plurality of heat transfer structures arranged in the recessed portion. |
| US11635260B2 |
Heat exchanger and replacement method of heat exchange core
A heat exchanger according to one embodiment includes: a heat exchange core; a shell provided to surround the heat exchange core; and a first partition wall that is provided in a space surrounded by an outer surface of the heat exchange core and an inner surface of the shell, and partitions the space into a first header space communicating with the heat exchange core and a second header space communicating with the heat exchange core. The first header space and the second header space are adjacent to each other, separated by the first partition wall. |
| US11635259B2 |
Machine for cleaning furnace regeneration chambers for the production of glassware
A machine for cleaning regeneration chambers of furnaces, the regeneration chambers having stacks of hollow refractory elements delimiting vertical passages, which define chimneys includes a self-propelled support structure to be introduced into a compartment, below the regeneration chamber to be cleaned, which communicates with the regeneration chamber. The machine further includes at least one lance, applied to the self-propelled support structure and configured to send within the vertical passages a stream of cleaning material powder and compressed air generated by a compressor positioned outside of the regeneration chamber to be cleaned, and at least one suction mouth, applied to said support structure and configured to suck cleaning material dust and aspirable materials from the ground, which were removed during the cleaning operation. At least one video camera is mounted on the support structure and at least one monitor controls from outside, through the video camera, operation of the machine. |
| US11635255B1 |
Liquid or supercritical carbon dioxide capture from exhaust gas
Carbon dioxide is recovered from an exhaust gas in the form of liquid carbon dioxide or supercritical carbon dioxide utilizing a rotary separator. Nitrogen gas recovered from the rotary separator can be expanded to provide cooling for carbon dioxide in a closed-loop CO2 power cycle that is used to cool the exhaust gas upstream of the rotary separator. The recovery can power itself and can produce excess electricity from waste heat. |
| US11635252B2 |
Primary loop start-up method for a high pressure expander process
A method is disclosed for start-up of a system for liquefying a feed gas stream comprising natural gas. The system has a feed gas compression and expansion loop, and a refrigerant system comprising a primary cooling loop and a sub-cooling loop. The feed gas compression and expansion loop is started up. The refrigerant system is pressurized. Circulation in the primary cooling loop is started and established. Circulation in the sub-cooling loop is started and established. A flow rate of the feed gas stream and circulation rates of the primary cooling loop and the sub-cooling loop are ramped up. |
| US11635248B2 |
Built-in refrigerator
A built-in assembly comprises a refrigerator or freezer configured for installation in a piece of kitchen furniture having a front panel hinged to a cabinet structure. The front panel is arranged at the refrigerating appliance door and linked thereto by means of at least one sliding and connecting device which comprises a rail and a cursor, wherein at least one of the rail and cursor is fully interposed between the front panel and the refrigerating appliance door so that it is hidden from view in its installed configuration. |
| US11635245B2 |
Pair installation type refrigerator
A pair installation type of refrigerator system provides a plurality of refrigerators installed in parallel. A first refrigerator includes a first discharge portion formed on a side wall of the first cabinet to communicate with a first machine room, and a flow guide detachably coupled to the side wall of the first cabinet to cover the first discharge portion. A second refrigerator includes a second door that is opened such that an opening direction is symmetrical to that of the first door in a state in which the second refrigerator is disposed adjacent to the first refrigerator, and a decor member disposed in a space between the first refrigerator and the second refrigerator to shield a front side in a state in which the second refrigerator is disposed adjacent to the first refrigerator. The decor member fixes the first cabinet and a second cabinet. |
| US11635243B2 |
Scroll compressors with different volume indexes and systems and methods for same
A plurality of scroll compressors with different fixed volume indexes are connected in fluid parallel circuit and configured to selectively operate to maximize isentropic efficiency at different condensing temperatures. Different quantities of scroll compressors of different volume indexes may be selected based upon typical climate or geographic location environmental conditions to attempt to maximize efficiency. A controller may selectively operate different combinations of the compressors of different volume indexes bases up load demands and condensing temperature conditions, which may be determined in a variety of ways. |
| US11635238B2 |
Systems and methods for controlling a purge unit of a vapor compression system
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed toward purge units of vapor compression systems, and methods of control thereof, that improve efficiency by selectively activating and deactivating the purge unit in response to one or more conditions to, for example, enable refrigerant-to-air ratios within the purge unit within certain industry standards while still minimizing the durations of the purge cycles. For example, in certain embodiments, these conditions may include conditions within the chiller condenser, time since last purge activation, time since last venting of non-condensables, and combinations thereof. By reducing an amount of time that the purge unit would be active without removing a substantial amount non-condensables from the vapor compression system, present embodiments reduce the power consumption of the purge unit, as well as the vapor compression system as a whole. |
| US11635237B1 |
Thermal management systems and methods for cooling a heat load with a refrigerant fluid managed with a closed-circuit cooling system
A thermal management system includes an open-circuit refrigeration system including a cooling system configured to supply a cooling medium. The open-circuit refrigeration system includes a receiver having a receiver outlet, the receiver configurable to store a refrigerant fluid, the receiver configured to receive the cooling medium from the cooling system, an evaporator coupled to the receiver outlet, the evaporator configurable to receive liquid refrigerant fluid from the receiver outlet and to extract heat from a heat load when the heat load contacts or is proximate to the evaporator a control device configurable to control a temperature of the heat load and an exhaust line, with the receiver, the evaporator, and the exhaust line coupled to form an open-circuit refrigerant fluid flow path. |
| US11635234B2 |
Refrigeration cycle apparatus recovering refrigerator oil in refrigerant circuit
When a controller receives an instruction for a heating operation, the controller switches an operation mode of a refrigeration cycle apparatus between a heating operation mode and an oil recovery operation mode. The heating operation mode is a mode to circulate refrigerant in a refrigerant circuit such that the refrigerant flows through a gas extension pipe in a gas phase state. The oil recovery operation mode is a mode to circulate the refrigerant in the refrigerant circuit such that the refrigerant flows in the gas extension pipe in a gas-liquid two-phase state. The direction in which the refrigerant flows in the gas extension pipe in the oil recovery operation mode is opposite to that in which the refrigerant flows in the gas extension pipe in the heating operation mode. |
| US11635233B2 |
Cooling system
A system includes a flash tank, a first load, a second load, a first compressor, a second compressor, a first valve, and a second valve. The flash tank stores a refrigerant. The first and second loads use the refrigerant to cool first and second spaces. The first compressor compresses the refrigerant from the first load during a first mode of operation and a flash gas from the flash tank during a second mode of operation. The second compressor compresses a mixture of the refrigerant from the first and second loads during the first mode of operation. The first valve directs the flash gas from the flash tank to the first compressor during the second mode of operation. The second valve directs the compressed flash gas from the first compressor to the first load during the second mode of operation to defrost the first load. |
| US11635232B2 |
HVAC system flame sensor
A flame sensor for a furnace of a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a sensor body and an electrically conductive member of the sensor body. The electrically conductive member is configured to be disposed within a flame region of a burner of the furnace and configured to receive electrical current from a controller of the furnace. The flame sensor also includes an anti-oxidation coating disposed on an outer surface of the electrically conductive member and configured to transmit the electrical current from the electrically conductive member. The anti-oxidation coating is configured to contact a flame produced by the burner and expose the electrical current to the flame. |
| US11635231B2 |
Rotating grate with a cleaning device for a biomass heating system
A rotating grate for a biomass heating system is disclosed, the grate comprising: at least one rotating grate element; at least one bearing axle, by means of which the rotating grate element is rotatably mounted; at least one cleaning device attached to one of the rotating grate elements, wherein the cleaning device comprises a mass element movable relative to the rotating grate element; wherein the cleaning device is arranged in such a way that, upon rotation of the rotating grate element, an acceleration movement of the mass element is initiated so that the cleaning device exerts a knocking effect on the rotating grate element in order to clean the rotating grate element. |
| US11635229B2 |
Air conditioner
Provided is an air conditioner including a housing including a discharge path, a first discharge wall forming the discharge path, and a second discharge wall arranged at a side opposite to the first discharge wall and an airflow controller including a guide member configured to move between a first location provided at an inside of the first discharge wall and a second location protruding outside of the first discharge wall. The air conditioner controls a discharge airflow while minimizing loss of discharge air volume through an airflow controller without using a general blade, and controls a discharge airflow of air discharged through a discharge path having a circular shape. |
| US11635226B1 |
HVAC air flow mixing system and method of use
An HVAC air flow mixing system includes a reclaimed air loop having a duct tee configured to fluidly intersect an HVAC duct downstream of an indoor heat exchanger and a pipe in fluid communication with the duct tee and configured to fluidly communicate with the indoor unit so as to selectively reintroduce a portion of the discharged air back to the indoor unit upstream of the indoor heat exchanger. |
| US11635225B2 |
Air conditioning system
A plurality of independent air conditioners, a first air conditioner (AC) (9a), a second AC (9b), and a third AC (9c), are disposed in an air conditioning room. Individual target temperatures of each habitable room that are acquired from an input/output terminal (19) and an outdoor temperature that is acquired by an outdoor temperature sensor (7) are input to a mode setter (32). Based on the individual target temperatures and the outdoor temperature, the mode setter (32) sets a cooling mode and a cooling setpoint temperature for operation in the cooling mode, or a heating mode and a heating setpoint temperature for operation in the heating mode, for each of the first AC (9a), the second AC (9b), and the third AC (9c). |
| US11635219B2 |
In-factory environmental control system
To provide a system that collects data from each sensor (airflow, temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, illuminance, and air pollution) that measures an environmental factor and can evaluate an environment in a factory in a complex manner. Environmental sensors that measure environmental elements including at least airflow from among the airflow, temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, illuminance, and a degree of air pollution, which are the environmental elements in a factory where a machining operation is performed, a display unit that visualizes and displays measurement results of a plurality of environmental elements measured by the environmental sensors, an evaluation and determination unit that evaluates and determines at least one of machine accuracy, work environment, and image accuracy based on the measurement results of the plurality of environmental elements, and a control unit that controls in-factory equipment so that an environment in the factory becomes a preset environment based on results of evaluation and determination by the evaluation and determination unit are included. |
| US11635214B2 |
Base pan for HVAC system
A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) unit includes an HVAC unit enclosure having a base pan. The base pan is sloped from an inner portion of the enclosure to an outer lateral edge of the base pan such that the base pan is configured to direct flow of liquid toward and over the outer lateral edge to flow off the base pan. |
| US11635211B2 |
Combustor for a micro-turbine gas generator
A propulsion system includes a first compressor in fluid communication with a fluid source. A first conduit is coupled to the first compressor, and a heat exchanger is in fluid communication with the first compressor via the first conduit. A second conduit is positioned proximal to the heat exchanger. A combustor is in fluid communication with the heat exchanger via the second conduit and is configured to generate a high-temperature gas stream. A third conduit is coupled to the combustor, and a first thrust augmentation device is in fluid communication with the combustor via the third conduit. The heat exchanger is positioned within the gas stream generated by the combustor. |
| US11635210B2 |
Conformal and flexible woven heat shields for gas turbine engine components
A heat shielded assembly includes a fuel structure of a combustor of a gas turbine engine and a woven heat shield at least partially conformally surrounding the fuel structure and spaced from an exterior of the fuel structure by a distance where it surrounds the fuel structure. The fuel structure is configured to deliver fuel to the combustor. The woven heat shield comprises a first set of strands, a second set of strands interwoven with the first set of strands, and a weave pattern comprising the first set of strands and the second set of strands. Each strand of the first set of strands extends in a first direction, each strand of the second set of strands extends in a second direction transverse to the first direction, and the first set of strands and the second set of strands are not attached where they intersect in the weave pattern. |
| US11635204B2 |
Surface combustion burner, composite burner, and ignition device for sintering machine
Provided is a surface combustion burner which solves the passage blocking in a combustion part caused by dust, and enables stable combustion for a long term. The surface combustion burner comprises: a nozzle configured to discharge fuel gas and air for combustion; and a laminate, provided on a tip of the nozzle, in which a plurality of mesh plates is laminated, wherein the laminate includes a portion having an offset arrangement between at least any adjacent ones of the mesh plates. |
| US11635203B2 |
Premixing device and combustion apparatus including the same
A premixing flow path forming member of a premixing device includes a member whose attachment mode can be changed, and flow path resistance of a fuel gas flow path can be changed when the attachment mode of the member is changed. |
| US11635200B1 |
Lighted railing assembly having solar panel and light sensor
A lighted railing assembly with at least one railing member includes an inner cavity, a battery disposed within the inner cavity and a lighting device powered by the battery. A solar panel is integrated into the railing member and is electrically coupled to charge the battery. A controller is configured to control charging of the battery and activation of the lighting device in response to a signal provided by an ambient light sensor. |
| US11635195B2 |
Light fixture with removable driver enclosure
A light fixture includes a housing for supporting a light source and an enclosure for supporting a driver in electrical communication with the light source. The enclosure is selectively supported in one of a first position and a second position while maintaining electrical communication between the driver and the light source in both positions. The enclosure is directly coupled to the housing in the first position, and the enclosure is supported separately from the housing in the second position. |
| US11635194B2 |
Fastenerless holder for connecting an electrical component to a printed circuit board
An electrical element holder includes a printed circuit board having a receiver. A resilient holder is electrically engaged with the receiver. The resilient holder includes a holding portion that is defined within an outward surface of the resilient holder and between opposing resilient arms. An electrical element is secured within the holding portion between the opposing resilient arms. |
| US11635193B1 |
Reconfigurable track light adapters, kits and methods
The present disclosure provides implementations of a track lighting adapter to couple a luminaire to a lighting track. The track lighting adapter includes a luminaire adapter to couple to the luminaire, and a track adapter to couple to the lighting track. The track adapter is selectively removable from the luminaire adapter. |
| US11635182B2 |
Solar light with port
A portable device for generating and providing electricity is disclosed. The device includes one or more flat solar panels; one or more batteries arranged to be changed with electric power from the one or more flat solar panels; one or more lights arranged to be powered from the one or more batteries; one or more electric connectors arranged to receive electric power form the one or more batteries and to connect to combined power/data connections on portable electronic devices; and an expandable and collapsible housing holding the solar panels, batteries, and lights, and arranged to form a hollow inner volume when expanded and a flat panel when contracted. |
| US11635176B2 |
Nano-scale light-emitting diode (LED) electrode assembly emitting polarized light, method of manufacturing the same, and polarized LED lamp having the same
The present invention relates to a nano-scale light emitting diode (LED) electrode assembly emitting polarized light, a method of manufacturing the same, and a polarized LED lamp having the same, and more particularly, to a nano-scale LED electrode assembly in which partially polarized light close to light that is linearly polarized having one direction is emitted as an emitted light when applying a driving voltage to the nano-scale LED electrode assembly and also nano-scale LED devices are connected to a nano-scale electrode without defects such as an electrical short circuit while maximizing a light extraction efficiency, a method of manufacturing the same, and a polarized LED lamp having the same. |
| US11635175B1 |
LED lamp with soft rubber stem
The present invention relates to the technical field of LEDs, and discloses an LED lamp with a soft rubber stem, comprising a lamp holder, a lamp housing and a lamp socket, a metal wire, an LED lamp bar, a resistor as well as a first lead and a second lead, wherein the lamp stem and the lamp holder are electrically connected in the lamp housing; the soft lamp socket, in which an accommodating hole for accommodating the resistor is disposed, is made of high-temperature-resistant rubber; one end of the LED lamp bar is electrically connected to the upper end of the metal wire, and the other end is electrically connected to the second lead. The lamp adopts the soft lamp socket and has better sealing performance, so that stream and the like are prevented from entering the lamp housing to affect the performance of the lamp. |
| US11635174B2 |
Ovular double-ended light emitting diode (LED) bulb
An LED light module comprises an emitting portion; at least one LED package; a back cover; and an end cap. The emitting portion defines a first curved surface. The first curved surface extends a first length along a cylindrical axis defined by the LED light module. The back cover defines a second curved surface extending the first length along the cylindrical axis. The first curved surface and the second curved surface define a perimeter of the LED light module. In a cross-section of the LED light module taken in a plane substantially perpendicular to the cylindrical axis, the perimeter is substantially ovular, elliptical and/or tear-drop shaped. The end cap is substantially ovular, elliptical and/or tear-drop shaped, and comprises a coupling element configured to electrically and/or mechanically couple the LED light module to a subsequent LED light module or to a fixture. |
| US11635170B2 |
Method, system, and device for storage and delivery of process gas from a substrate
Provided herein are methods, systems, and devices incorporating use of materials to store, ship, and deliver process gases to micro-electronics fabrication processes and other critical process applications. |
| US11635169B2 |
Filling apparatus
A filling apparatus that does not significantly reduce a required pressure immediately after a start of hydrogen filling, and can reliably fill fuel cell vehicles and the like. The filling apparatus (100) includes a control unit (10), and the control unit (10) has a function of boosting pressure required from a hydrogen filling apparatus (100) to a rear facility (200) until initial pressure measurement is completed. The control unit (10) may have a function of determining whether or not communication filling is established, and when communication filling is established, setting a pressure higher than an internal pressure of a tank received from a vehicle side by a predetermined pressure (for example, 5 MPa) as a pressure required for the rear facility (200) at an initial stage of filling. |
| US11635167B1 |
Quick-connect camera mounts with multiple degrees of freedom
A camera mount includes a pivotable assembly of a pair of arms and a pocket into which an end of one of the arms is inserted, in one of a plurality of discrete orientations. The arms are pivotably joined to one another by a fastener and permitted to be aligned at one of a plurality of angles. The camera mount is installed in a track, a rail or another system mounted to a fixture of a materials handling facility or another environment, and a camera module is mounted to another end of one of the arms. A position of the camera module is selected by installing the camera mount into a desired location on the track, the rail or the other system. An orientation of the camera module is selected by selecting the one of the plurality of discrete orientations and aligning the arms at one of the plurality of angles. |
| US11635165B2 |
Remote video inspection system
The embodiments of the Remote Video Inspection System comprise a remote video inspection hardware assembly and a video inspection software system. The remote video inspection hardware assembly is comprised of a camera and a stage assembly. The stage assembly is comprised of a horizontal gimbal, an outer gimbal, and an inner gimbal, a base plate, and a component table. The video inspection software system is comprised of both a local and remote component. The local component is operated by a technician who oversees the remote inspection, and allows for setup, manual positioning, and manual camera adjustment. The remote component is operated by an inspector, and provides video feed to them, as well as a system to control the viewing angle and position of the component/camera. |
| US11635160B2 |
Boom air seal
The invention provides an articulated joint in a pneumatic conveying system of a boom of an agricultural dry product applicator. The joint allows adjacent product-conveying tubes and respective joint components to articulate with respect to each other while maintaining a seal for pneumatically conveying product. Joint components may be separated from each other when the boom is folded while articulating with respect to each other without disengaging or creating potential leaks at segment junctures while the boom is extended. The articulated joint includes a rigid socket having a first socket section and a second socket section providing support to a compressible seal having a first seal section and a second seal section. The first seal section is inserted into the second socket section to create an airtight seal in between the first seal section and the second socket section even when boom tube segments flex during use. |
| US11635157B2 |
Non-metallic flexible pipe and manufacturing method thereof
A nonmetallic flexible pipe and a manufacturing method thereof. The nonmetallic flexible pipe comprises, from the inside to the outside, an inner liner, a pressure bearing layer, an isolation layer, a tensile layer, a functional layer, and a protective layer, wherein two adjacent layers are non-rigidly bonded. The inner liner layer is made from a thermoplastic polymer. The pressure bearing layer is made from a fiber-reinforced resin-based composite material. The isolation layer is made from a thermoplastic polymer. The tensile layer is made from a resin-reinforced fiber material. At least one of an optical fiber, a cable, a tracing ribbon, a pipe for conveying a heat transfer medium, a pressure sensor, and a temperature sensor is provided in the functional layer. The protective layer is made from a thermoplastic polymer. |
| US11635155B2 |
Adapter for attachment to a track or other surface or for receiving devices having different shaft spline arrangements
An adapter includes a housing and a shaft receiving port defined in the housing. The shaft receiving port defines grooves extending at least partway along the shaft receiving port. The grooves include a set of first grooves and a set of second grooves, where at least one of the first grooves is different from at least one of the second grooves. Another adapter for coupling a device to a track includes a housing defining a threaded port and a shaft receiving port; a track retention arrangement including a foot and a threaded post extending from the foot, where the threaded post is rotatably engaged with the threaded port of the housing to raise or lower the foot relative to the housing; and a locking mechanism including an actuator and a plunger coupled to the actuator and configured to extend from the housing into the track channel of the track. |
| US11635154B2 |
Pneumatic valve
A fluid bladder valve for a pneumatic vehicle seat adjustment device is disclosed. The valve comprises a first chamber configured to be connected to a fluid source, a second chamber configured to be connected to the fluid bladder, a third chamber configured to be connected to an environment, a fourth chamber connected to the first chamber via a first fluid passage, connected to the second chamber via a second fluid passage, and connected to the third chamber via a third fluid passage; and an actuator comprising a membrane disposed in the fourth chamber and an actuator element disposed in the third chamber and coupled to the membrane and configured to move the membrane between a first position wherein the first fluid passage is opened and the third fluid passage is closed, and a second position wherein the first fluid passage is closed and the third fluid passage is opened. |
| US11635146B2 |
Circumferential sealing assembly with duct-fed hydrodynamic grooves
A circumferential sealing assembly for use between a lower-pressure side with a lubricant oil therein and a higher-pressure side with a hot gas therein is presented. The assembly includes a sealing ring interposed between either a rotatable runner and a housing or a sleeve and a housing within a turbine engine. Ducts communicate the hot gas into grooves to form a thin film between the ring and the runner or the ring and the sleeve. First embodiments include grooves on the runner, ducts through the runner, and both grooves and ducts rotating with the runner. Second embodiments include grooves on the ring, ducts through the runner, and ducts rotating with the runner. Third embodiments include grooves on the ring and ducts through the ring adjacent to a runner. Fourth embodiments include grooves on the runner, ducts through the ring, and grooves rotating with the runner. Fifth embodiments include grooves on the sleeve, ducts through the sleeve, and both grooves and ducts rotating with the sleeve. Sixth embodiments include grooves on the ring, ducts through the sleeve, and ducts rotating with the sleeve. Seventh embodiments include grooves on the ring and ducts through the ring adjacent to a sleeve. Eighth embodiments include grooves on the sleeve, ducts through the ring, and grooves rotating with the sleeve. |
| US11635145B1 |
Hydraulic components and methods of manufacturing
A spiral wound header ring is provided. The spiral wound header ring comprises at least one outer fabric layer and at least one spiral of inner fabric and rubber. The spiral wound header ring further may have a sealing surface that extends from a rearward facing surface to the forward facing annular, radially extending, surface. |
| US11635143B2 |
Multi-layer gasket with improved fatigue resistance
A multi-layer head gasket having at least two active layers and a shim layer sandwiched there between. The gasket and shim layer include cylinder openings aligned with the cylinders disposed within an engine block. The shim layer incorporates a plated portion for adding topography to an otherwise flat shim layer, the areas of plating determined based on FEA and/or pressure film load testing, for improving fatigue resistance, sealing pressure, and/or loading characteristics of the gasket. |
| US11635137B2 |
Apparatus and method for diagnosing automatic transmission
An apparatus for diagnosing an automatic transmission for detecting abnormality during driving of a vehicle includes a G-sensor configured to measure a vibration signal including a longitudinal vibration signal, a status detection unit configured to obtain the vibration signal of the G-sensor and status data of transmission and engine sensors of the vehicle, and a controller configured to check an operational element for each shifting operation by using a current shift-stage, a target shift-stage, and a shifting time detected as the status data, measure the longitudinal vibration signal of the G-sensor to calculate fluctuation level of the longitudinal vibration signal for each operational element, and determine a shift shock event when a longitudinal vibration signal value after adjustment based on driving acceleration of the vehicle exceeds a reference value. |
| US11635133B2 |
Transmission for a motor vehicle, and electric axle drive
A transmission (G) for a motor vehicle includes a housing (GG), a shaft (W, GW2, DS1, DS2) mounted in the housing (GG) and protruding from the housing (GG), a radial shaft seal (DR) having a sealing lip for sealing an oil space (NR) within the housing (GG) with respect to an exterior, a shaft grounding device (E) arranged on an exterior side of the radial shaft seal (DR) for establishing an electrically conductive sliding contact (SK) between the shaft (W, GW2, DS1, DS2) and the housing (GG), and a sleeve-shaped covering element (C) fixedly connected to the shaft (W, GW2, DS1, DS2) for protecting the sliding contact (SK) against environmental influences. The shaft grounding device (E) is fixedly connected to the housing (GG). The covering element (C), together with the grounding device (E), forms a labyrinth sealing. An electric axle drive (EA) may include the transmission (G). |
| US11635126B2 |
Angular transmission device
The present invention concerns an angular transmission device comprising: An input shaft and an output shaft, An assembly arranged for coupling the input shaft with the output shaft so that the output shaft can be rotationally driven by the input shaft, the assembly comprising a rotary actuator and a linear mobile, the rotary actuator being coupled with the input shaft and moves the mobile in a translation motion relative to the actuator, the mobile being coupled with the output shaft so that the rotation of the input shaft drives the rotation of the output shaft; the assembly further comprises a flexible blade fixed to said mobile and looped around the output shaft, so that when the actuator moves the mobile, the flexible blade drives the rotation of the output shaft. The invention also comprises a method using said device. |
| US11635114B2 |
Controllable rotary brake
A controllable rotary brake includes two non-magnetically permeable isolating rings, a shaft, an even number of magnetic field generating portions, at least one resistance disc, and at least one magneto-rheological fluid layer. The non-magnetically permeable isolating rings are spaced apart from each other in an axial direction, and each has a bottom wall. An even number of penetrating holes are formed on the bottom wall. The shaft is rotatably inserted in and adapted to pivot relative to the non-magnetically permeable isolating rings. Two ends of each magnetic field generating portion are tightly fitted to the corresponding penetrating holes. The resistance disc is sleeved on the shaft and is spaced apart from one of the non-magnetically permeable isolating rings. The magneto-rheological fluid layer fills between the resistance disc and one of the non-magnetically permeable isolating rings and contacts the resistance disc and one end of each magnetic field generating portion. |
| US11635111B2 |
Personal care device with separable coupling in drive train
The present disclosure is concerned with a personal care device having a head portion having a driven treatment head, a handle portion having a drive unit for providing a motion having a motion direction, and a drive train extending between the drive unit and the driven treatment head for transmitting the motion from the drive unit to the driven treatment head, the drive train having a separable coupling. The separable coupling has a first coupling part having a first coupling element, a second coupling part having a second coupling element, the first and the second coupling elements being separably engaged with each other, and a resilient element biasing the first coupling element and the second coupling element against each other so that the first and second coupling elements are engaged in a gap-free manner along the motion direction. |
| US11635107B1 |
Multi-link spherical joint with collocated centers of rotation
A joint includes a shell that is hollow and at least partially spherical. The shell includes a plurality of shell rail sections including a first shell rail section. The first shell rail section includes a portion of an outer surface of the shell, a portion of an inner surface of the shell, and an opening edge section that defines a shell opening. The joint also includes a plurality of rotatable members including a first rotatable member. The first rotatable member includes an outer cup positioned at least partially outside of the shell and having an outer track surface, and an inner cup positioned at least partially inside of the shell and having an inner track surface. The first shell rail section is positioned at least partially between the outer and inner track surfaces. |
| US11635106B1 |
Adsorption structure
The present disclosure provides an adsorption structure. The adsorption structure includes an adsorption member, a negative pressure mechanism, a starting mechanism and a release mechanism. The adsorption member is used for adsorbing other objects. A first cavity provided with an opening is formed in the adsorption member. The opening of the first cavity is used for forming a sealing structure with surfaces of other objects. The negative pressure mechanism is provided with a second cavity for generating a negative pressure, and the second cavity is communicated with the first cavity. The starting mechanism, is used for starting the negative pressure mechanism. The release mechanism is used for balancing a pressure intensity in the first cavity and an atmospheric pressure to enable the adsorption member to release an adsorbed object. |
| US11635104B2 |
Fastener for heavy transmission parts
A fastener for a transmission part includes a main body. The main body has at least one external screw thread and at least one through-hole. The fastener further includes a first pin displaceable in a first region of the through-hole and a second pin having an external screw thread. A second region of the through-hole has at least one internal screw thread configured to be screwed to the external screw thread of the second pin. The second pin has a through-hole. The first pin has an internal screw thread aligned with the through-hole of the second pin. |
| US11635096B2 |
Actuator device, humanoid robot and power assist device
[Object] To provide a compact, high-output actuator device allowing force control.[Solution] An actuator device 1000 includes an electromagnetic coil member 110 provided over a prescribed width on an outer circumference of a cylinder 100, and a movable element 200 slidable as a piston in the cylinder 100. The movable element 200 has a magnetic member 202, and is moved relatively by excitation of the electromagnetic coil member 110. Fluid is supplied to first and second chambers 106a and 106b such that when the movable element 200 is to be moved relatively, the movable element 200 is driven in the same direction. |
| US11635095B2 |
Hydraulic system and a method for controlling a hydraulic system of a working machine
A hydraulic system for a working machine includes a first electric machine connected to a first hydraulic machine; a second electric machine connected to a second hydraulic machine, an output side of the second hydraulic machine being connected to an input side of the first hydraulic machine; at least one hydraulic consumer hydraulically coupled to an output side of the first hydraulic machine via a supply line and configured to be powered by the first hydraulic machine; and a valve arrangement arranged between the hydraulic consumer and the first and second hydraulic machines, wherein the valve arrangement is configured to control a return flow of hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic consumer to either the input side of the first hydraulic machine or an input side of the second hydraulic machine based on a requested output pressure from the first hydraulic machine. |
| US11635089B2 |
Propeller fan, outdoor unit, and refrigeration cycle apparatus
A propeller fan includes: a rotation-axis part that serves as a center of rotation; and a plurality of blades provided on an outer circumferential side of the rotation-axis part, the plurality of blades being joined to adjoining blades at leading edges and trailing edges thereof. A first rib projecting towards the center of rotation of the rotation-axis part to surround the rotation-axis part, and second ribs projecting towards the center of rotation to extend from the rotation-axis part toward the first rib are provided on pressure surfaces of the plurality of blades. Among ends of the second ribs in the direction of the center of rotation, the ends distant from the pressure surfaces project away from the pressure surfaces farther than an end of the first rib distant from the pressure surfaces, among the ends of the first rib in the direction of the center of rotation. |
| US11635087B1 |
Airflow-doubling vane structure
An airflow-doubling vane structure includes an axle, an inner vane unit, and an outer vane unit. The inner vane unit includes a plurality of vanes provided around a center defined by the axle and can be rotated along with the axle. The vanes of the inner vane unit are centrifugal vanes. The outer vane unit includes a plurality of vanes provided around the center defined by the axle and around the inner vane unit and can be rotated along with the axle. The vanes of the outer vane unit are axial-flow vanes and extend a certain radial distance from the vanes of the inner vane unit. |
| US11635084B1 |
Fan logic evaluation device and method thereof for improving the logic evaluation of a fan
A fan logic evaluation device and method thereof for improving the logic evaluation of a fan. Specifically, a fan logic evaluation device is provided by first installing a fan, which corresponds to a set of parameters, in a wind tunnel device. A computer then performs a logic evaluation to convert the set of parameters into an evaluated pressure-flow curve and a measured pressure-flow curve by measuring the fan's operating conditions with the wind tunnel device. The computer further performs a logic modification to correct the logic evaluation to obtain a logic evaluation modification. The logic evaluation is then replaced by the logic evaluation modification. Finally, the above process is repeated with the same fan or a different fan. |
| US11635083B2 |
Neck fan
A neck fan includes an arc-shaped shell configured to hang around user's neck and at least four fan assemblies arranged in the shell. The shell includes a first part and a second part. Each of the first part and the second part defines an accommodating space, air inlets and air outlets communicated with the accommodating space, at least one partition is arranged in the accommodating space and configured to divide the accommodating space into at least two accommodating parts arranged along an extension direction of the shell. Each of the fan assemblies is arranged in one of the at least two accommodating parts and is configured to direct air into the one of the at least two accommodating parts through corresponding air inlets and to direct air out of the one of the at least two accommodating parts through corresponding air outlets. |
| US11635082B1 |
Ceiling fan controller fixing structure
A ceiling fan controller fixing structure includes an intermediate member located between a down rod and a motor. A top end of the intermediate member has a first connecting portion for connecting the down rod. A bottom end of the intermediate member has a second connecting portion for connecting the motor. The intermediate member further has a third connecting portion for connecting a controller module. The controller module has an integrated output cable connector. |
| US11635077B2 |
Scroll compressor having function of regulating oil supply path
A scroll compressor is disclosed, which may provide an oil supply path opened only in case of driving of a low pressure ratio to improve a differential pressure oil supply structure which may have a defect in oil supply in case of driving of the low pressure ratio. |
| US11635073B2 |
Linear peristaltic pump
An improved linear peristaltic pump that is able to be manufactured using fewer parts while also improving the performance and the reliability of the pump. The linear peristaltic pump utilizes a leaf spring in direct contact with a tube and is therefore able to provide smooth transitions in the forces exerted on the tube. |
| US11635070B2 |
Cordless compressor
A cordless compressor has an air storage tank, a pump for pressuring air within the air storage tank, a motor driving pump, a power tool battery pack connected to the motor, a discharge port connected to the air storage tank, and a regulator disposed between the discharge port and the air storage tank. The pump can raise the air pressure within the air storage tank from 0 psi to about 135 psi in less than 135 seconds. With such arrangement, a compressor having an air pressure within the air storage tank of 135 psi set at a 70 psi setting can power an 18 gauge nailer connected to the compressor to drive more than 1200 nails on a single battery charge. |
| US11635068B2 |
Modular power end
A power end assembly includes a crankshaft section, a crosshead section, and a connector section coupled together by one, two, or more sets of stay rods. The power end may include one or more support plates that are coupled to the crankshaft section and/or crosshead section. The crosshead section includes a plurality of individual crosshead frames. The connector section may include a plurality of individual connector plates or may be a unitary connector plate. The power end is configured to be coupled to a fluid end assembly by coupling the fluid end assembly to the connector plates. |
| US11635067B2 |
Electric compressor
An electric compressor includes an electric motor, and a motor controller configured to drive the electric motor. The motor controller includes a high voltage circuit board on which switching elements are mounted, a low voltage circuit board on which a control circuit controlling switching operation of the switching elements is mounted, an input connector, an output connector, and a current sensor. The high voltage circuit board and the low voltage circuit board are stacked with each other. The output connector is integrated with a detection busbar that provides electrical connection between the high voltage circuit board and the low voltage circuit board, and through which detection signals indicative of the output current are output to the control circuit. |
| US11635065B2 |
Synchronization of supply flow paths
A solvent supply system for supplying a composite includes a first supply path with a first pump unit, the first supply path being adapted for supplying a first solvent to a mixing unit, the first pump unit operating periodically, and a second supply path with a second pump unit, the second supply path being adapted for supplying a second solvent to the mixing unit, the second pump unit operating periodically. The mixing unit is adapted for mixing the first and the second solvent and for supplying a composite solvent. The solvent supply system further includes a control unit adapted for controlling operation of the first and the second pump unit. |
| US11635059B2 |
Wind turbine power plant with power saving control method
Methods and apparatus for reducing peak power consumption of a grid connected power plant having a plurality of wind turbines. In response to determining that a power production value of the power plant is below a power threshold, one method includes: after a first time delay of a first group of one or more wind turbines, control the first group to operate in a power saving mode for a predefined first power saving period; and after a first time delay of a second group of one or more other wind turbines, control the second group to operate in the power saving mode for a predefined second power saving period. The first time delay of the first group is less than the first time delay of the second group and the power saving mode inhibits a power consuming activity for the wind turbines operating in the power saving mode. |
| US11635058B2 |
Vertical blade having a vertical main part and inwardly inclined parts and a vertical shaft wind turbine using the vertical blade
A vertical shaft wind turbine that is superior in a rotational startability, even at a low wind speed, and is suited to a wind power generator that has high rotational torque. Each blade is an upper-and-lower-ends fixed type vertically long blade which is suitable for use as a wind turbine or a water turbine. The string length and thickness of an upper-and-lower-ends fixed type vertically long blade (8) that is fixed upper and lower ends to a vertical main shaft (7) gradually decrease from a main part (8) thereof to tips of the upper and lower inwardly curved inclined parts (8B, 8B), and a cross section of the main part (8A) is a lift type. A thickness of the cross-sectional shape is continuously and gradually thins from the main part (8) to the tips of the inwardly curved inclined parts (8B, 8B). |
| US11635056B2 |
Electric generating precipitation collection system
An electric generating precipitation collection system comprising a collection tank, a plurality of pipes, a plurality of valves, a piston assembly, and an outlet. The system is configured to collect a liquid, direct the liquid through the pipes and valves to pressurize the liquid with the piston assembly, and eject the pressurized liquid at the outlet. The plurality of pipes and valves are arranged relative to the piston assembly so that a piston can pressurize the liquid in the pipe connected to the outlet. The system may further comprise a generator that converts the force of the pressurized liquid from the outlet into electricity. Further, a collection basin may be included in the system to collect liquid after passing through the generator. |
| US11635054B1 |
Vertical water pumping system
A water pumping system used for lifting liquids in vertical or near vertical conduits or pipes to a higher elevation at a reduced energy cost. Also, the water pumping system can be used to circulate water between upper and lower elevations to generate hydropower energy at a lower energy cost. The water pumping system includes a water pump, air blowers, an air supply chamber, a lift conduit, a return conduit, a flotation device separation chamber, a plurality of floatation devices, one or more flotation device pushers, a dehydration unit, and two water storage tanks. The lift conduit and return conduit creating a continuous loop in which the flotation devices can circulate and act as a piston in the lifting conduit to elevate the water to higher elevations with reduced energy. The floatation devices include spacer rings and spacer rods. The floatation devices are inserted inside the lift conduit and the return conduit. |
| US11635052B1 |
Electro-pneumatic starter and engine starting system methodology
An electro-pneumatic starter for use with a natural gas powered, reciprocating internal combustion engine in oil and gas industrial applications, and a method of starting an internal combustion engine, are provided. A novel combination of an electric motor and a pneumatically actuated transmission are provided for the innovation as claimed, wherein power is translated from an output shaft and motor gear, through a transmission gear and transmission shaft, and to an output gear mated with a ring gear of a host engine, the transmission shaft being extendable by means of a pneumatically controlled piston. When the transmission shaft is extended it is in the engaged position, capable of providing torque to the ring gear of the host engine; when retracted, the same is disengaged from the host engine. |
| US11635049B1 |
Air induction system including air duct having cylindrical wall with opening extending radially therethrough and feature for minimizing airflow disturbances caused by presence of opening
An air induction system includes an air duct and an air permeable membrane. The air duct is configured to deliver intake air to an engine. The air duct includes a cylindrical wall defining a bore and an enclosure projecting from an outer radial surface of the cylindrical wall and defining a cavity therein. The cylindrical wall has an opening extending therethrough that enables airflow from the bore to the cavity in the enclosure. The air permeable membrane is configured to cover the opening in the cylindrical wall. |
| US11635048B2 |
Energy conversion efficiency improvement device
The present invention enables the energy conversion efficiency of installed equipment and the like to be further improved. An energy conversion efficiency improvement device 1 includes: a first antenna 10 which is formed by winding a conducting wire, the two ends of the conducing wire being connected to a direct-current power source; an LC circuit unit 11 which is connected to the conducting wire constituting the first antenna 10, and which includes at least one LC module obtained by connecting an inductance element and a capacitor element in series or in parallel; a joined material portion 12 obtained by joining at least two different types of materials together; and a horn component 13 which comprises a conductor, is formed with line symmetry across a central axis, and is formed with a shape having an external diameter that increases in one direction along the central axis. |
| US11635046B1 |
Method and systems for active air fuel ratio control
Various methods and systems are provided for controlling emissions and a likelihood of engine knock during combustion in a multi-fuel engine. A method for an engine includes mixing an amount of a first fuel and an amount of a second fuel to combust a fuel mixture having a fuel ratio of the first fuel relative to the second fuel, the first fuel having a faster combustion flame speed relative to the second fuel, the fuel mixture having an air-to-fuel ratio with an amount of air delivered to the engine. The method further includes controlling either or both of a speed of combustion and a stability of combustion of the fuel mixture with the amount of air delivered to the engine by changing at least one of the fuel ratio, the air-to-fuel ratio, or both of the fuel ratio and the air-to-fuel ratio. |
| US11635043B2 |
Geared architecture for high speed and small volume fan drive turbine
A turbofan engine includes a fan section that drives air along a bypass flow path in a bypass duct. An epicyclic gear system in driving engagement with the fan shaft and has a gear mesh lateral stiffness and a gear mesh transverse stiffness. A gear system input to the gear system defines a gear system input lateral stiffness and a gear system input transverse stiffness. The gear system input lateral stiffness is less than 5% of the gear mesh lateral stiffness. A first performance quantity is defined as the product of a first speed squared and a first area and a second performance quantity is defined as the product of a second speed squared and a second area. A performance quantity ratio of a first performance quantity to a second performance quantity is between 0.5 and 1.5. |
| US11635041B2 |
Engine
An engine is provided, which includes an engine body including a plurality of cylinders, each of the cylinders being provided with an intake port, an exhaust port, an intake valve, and an exhaust valve, an intake passage and an exhaust passage connected to the engine body, and a turbocharger including a turbine provided to the exhaust passage and a compressor provided to the intake passage. A geometric compression ratio of the cylinder is 11:1 or higher. An open period of the intake valve is a range of 270° or larger by a crank angle. The exhaust passage includes a plurality of independent exhaust passages, each communicating with the exhaust port of one cylinder or with the exhaust ports of two or more cylinders of which timings of exhaust strokes are discontinuous from each other, and connecting the engine body to the turbine. |
| US11635038B1 |
Method of improving accuracy of purge fuel amount and active purge system therefor
An embodiment is a method including controlling a purge fuel amount of an active purge system (APS), the controlling including correcting the purge fuel amount using a primary weighting factor obtained using an ambient air temperature and a hydrocarbon (HC) concentration in purge gas fuel as input values, and correcting the corrected purge fuel amount using a secondary weighting factor due to a purge learning value. Some embodiments further include controlling of the purge fuel amount applies a purge execution condition, and the purge execution condition on the basis of a negative pressure of an intake manifold and a vehicle speed of the vehicle in which a purge flow rate exhibits as being greater than or equal to a predetermined value. |
| US11635034B2 |
Regulating method for a charged internal combustion engine
A regulating method for a charged internal combustion engine, wherein an operating point of the compressor is adjusted in a compressor map by a compressor position regulator based on a throttle valve regulation deviation in that both a first manipulated variable for actuating the compressor bypass valve as well as a second manipulated variable for actuating the turbine bypass valve are calculated by the compressor position regulator. The operating point of the compressor is corrected by a correction regulator on the basis of an air mass regulation deviation in that both a first correction variable for correcting the first manipulated variable as well as a second correction variable for correcting the second manipulated variable are calculated by the correction regulator. |
| US11635033B2 |
Engine
An engine includes an exhaust manifold, an intake manifold, and an EGR device configured to supply EGR gas from the exhaust manifold to the intake manifold. An EGR cooler is provided at a side of the exhaust manifold, and a longitudinal direction of the EGR cooler is in an up-down direction of the engine in a used state. |
| US11635032B2 |
System and method for propeller speed governing
Systems and methods are described for governing the speed of a propeller on a propeller-based engine in an aircraft. The method comprises obtaining a synthesized or estimated blade angle for the propeller of the engine, determining one or more gain for a controller of the propeller based on the synthesized or estimated blade angle and one or more engine or aircraft parameter, determining a difference between a reference propeller speed and an actual propeller speed, applying the one or more gain to the difference via the controller in order to generate a command signal for controlling the propeller, and governing the propeller of the engine using the command signal. |
| US11635031B2 |
Simultaneously pumping and measuring density of aircraft fuel
Apparatus and associated methods relate to simultaneously pumping and measuring density of an aircraft fuel. The aircraft fuel is pumped by a centrifugal pump having an impeller. A rotational frequency of the impeller is determined while the centrifugal pump is pumping the aircraft fuel. Flow rate of the aircraft fuel through the centrifugal pump is sensed. Pressure of the aircraft fuel is measured at two different points within or across the centrifugal pump or a differential pressure is measured between the two different points while the centrifugal pump is pumping the aircraft fuel. Density of the aircraft fuel is determined based on a head-curve relation characterizing the centrifugal pump. The head-curve relation relates the fuel density to the rotational frequency, the flow rate, and pressures at the two different points or the differential pressure between the two different points. |
| US11635028B2 |
Supply and recovery of lubricating oil in a mechanical reduction gear of an aircraft turbomachine
A lubricating oil distributor for a mechanical reduction gear of a turbomachine, in particular of an aircraft, includes a body of generally annular shape around an axis X and includes first and second independent oil circuits. The first oil circuit has a first oil inlet connected by a first chamber to several oil outlets distributed on the body around the axis X. The second oil circuit has a second oil inlet connected by a second chamber to several oil outlets distributed on the body around the axis X. The first and second chambers extend circumferentially around the axis X at different diameters, wherein the first and second oil circuits are formed in the body and are respectively a recovery circuit and an oil supply circuit for toothing of the reduction gear. |
| US11635024B2 |
Pusher turboprop powerplant installation
A turboprop gas turbine engine mountable to an aircraft has an engine core and a gearbox driving a propeller, the engine core and the gearbox being enclosed within a nacelle. The propeller is located rearward of the gearbox and the engine core relative to a direction of travel of the aircraft. An air intake is disposed within the nacelle and formed to direct ambient air into the engine core. The air intake includes an air inlet duct, having a forward-facing intake inlet receiving the ambient air, with an upstream section and a downstream section. The upstream section is in fluid communication with the intake inlet and extends downstream from the intake inlet. The downstream section fluidly connects to and directs air from the upstream section into the engine air inlet. A second air outlet duct is located within the nacelle and directs air into an air-cooled-oil-cooler (ACOC). |
| US11635020B2 |
Multiple cylinder engine
An internal combustion engine may include a first piston reciprocatingly disposed in a first cylinder, a combustion chamber fluidly coupled with the first cylinder, and an ignition source at least partially disposed within the combustion chamber. An intake valve may provide selective fluid communication between an intake system and the combustion chamber, an exhaust valve may provide selective fluid communication between an exhaust system and the combustion chamber. A second piston may be reciprocatingly disposed within a second cylinder, configured to draw a fluid into the second cylinder via a fluid inlet, and expel the fluid via a fluid outlet. A pressure accumulator may receive the fluid from the second cylinder and provide a reservoir of pressurized fluid. A crankshaft may be coupled with the first piston and the second piston for rotational motion associated with reciprocating movement of the first piston and the second piston. |
| US11635019B2 |
Connecting rod for changing a compression ratio of an internal combustion engine
A connecting rod for changing a compression ratio of an internal combustion engine includes a connecting rod head, a connecting rod pin, and an interlock. The connecting rod pin is supported by an eccentric of the connecting rod at a variable distance within the connecting rod head. The connecting rod head or the connecting rod pin includes a fluid chamber and the eccentric has a projection extending into the fluid chamber. In the alternative, the eccentric delimits a fluid chamber and the connecting rod head or the eccentric has a projection extending into in the fluid chamber. A fluid pressure in the fluid chamber exerts a force on the projection to change the position of the eccentric. In a locking position, the interlock inhibits rotation of the eccentric relative to the connecting rod head and the interlock is configured to be releasable. |
| US11635006B2 |
Blow-by gas recirculation device
A blow-by gas recirculation device that, while having a structure in which a passage for blow-by gas is in a head cover and an oil separator, an increase in size of an engine is suppressed and the risk of the freezing is mostly avoided by shortening the length of an external pipe for the blow-by gas. Therefore, the blow-by gas recirculation device guides blow-by gas from a crankcase to an intake passage through an in-cover gas passage formed inside a head cover. An oil separator that traps and removes oil from the blow-by gas is attached to the inside of the head cover. A pressure regulating valve is provided on the outlet side of the in-cover gas passage in the head cover. A separator outlet, which is an outlet for the blow-by gas in the oil separator, is overlapped on a blow-by gas inlet portion of the pressure regulating valve. |
| US11635005B2 |
Oil filter assembly
A cast metallic adaptor for a filtering and cooling assembly that eliminates the needs for inserts or plugs and provides for direct threading of associated components to the adaptor. This construction also provides an enclosed flow path with a common axis for improved durability against burst pressure, heat and age degradation, and conditions related to cycling. |
| US11635004B2 |
Methods and system for operating skipped cylinders to provide secondary air
Methods and systems are provided for providing secondary air to an exhaust system during catalyst warm-up. In one example, a method may include, during a cold start condition, operating an engine with a first number of cylinders unfired and a remaining number of cylinders fired during an engine cycle, opening an intake valve of an unfired cylinder of the first number of cylinders during an expansion stroke of the unfired cylinder, and opening an exhaust valve of the unfired cylinder during a compression stroke of the unfired cylinder. In this way, the unfired cylinders may provide the secondary air to the exhaust system during a stroke that increases mixing of the secondary air with burned exhaust gas from fired cylinders, thus increasing exotherm production in the exhaust system to increase a temperature of the catalyst. |
| US11635003B2 |
Diversion systems for low emission start converter
An emission reduction system for a combined cycle power plant including a gas turbine and heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) can comprise a stationary emission converter in fluid communication with and disposed upstream of the HRSG, and a diversion system operably coupled to an exhaust passage of the gas turbine, the exhaust passage defining an exhaust path for exhaust gas of the gas turbine through the heat recovery steam generator, the diversion system operable to define a primary exhaust path excluding the stationary emission converter and a start-up exhaust path including the stationary emission converter. |
| US11635001B2 |
Emergency ventilation device for a turbine of a turbine engine, triggered by the melting of a locking means
An aircraft turbomachine module comprising a ventilation device configured to have a cooling air flow circulate in the turbomachine module, the ventilation device comprising an air outlet, blocking means fixed to the air outlet and mobile between a blocking position of the air outlet and an opening position of the air outlet, and locking means configured to maintain the blocking means in one of the blocking position and the opening position when the temperature within the module is less than a predetermined threshold value, the blocking means being configured to adopt the other of the blocking position and the opening position when the temperature within the module is greater than said predetermined threshold value. |
| US11634999B2 |
Probe placement optimization in gas turbine engines
A method of optimizing probe placement in a turbomachine is disclosed which includes determining wavenumber (Wn) of N dominant wavelets generated by upstream and downstream stators and blade row interactions formed around an annulus, establishing a design matrix A utilized in developing flow properties around the annulus having a dimension of m×(2N+1), iteratively modifying probe positions placed around the annulus and determining a condition number of the design matrix A for each set of probe positions until a predetermined threshold is achieved for the condition number representing optimal probe position, wherein the condition number is defined as norm A·norm A+, wherein A+ represents inverse of A for a square matrix and a Moore-Penrose pseudoinverse of A for a rectangular matrix. |
| US11634998B2 |
Wastegate assembly for use in a turbocharger and system including the same
A turbocharger includes a turbine housing including an interior surface defining a turbine housing interior. The interior surface extends between a turbine housing inlet and a turbine housing outlet. The turbine housing also includes a wastegate duct disposed downstream of the turbine housing inlet and defining a wastegate channel. The turbocharger also includes a valve seat disposed about the wastegate channel, with the valve seat having a valve seat plane extending along the valve seat. The turbocharger further includes a wastegate assembly including a valve element engageable with the valve seat. The wastegate channel extends along a channel axis, and the channel axis is obliquely oriented with respect to the valve seat plane such that the wastegate channel and the valve element are configured to direct exhaust gas to a catalytic converter. |
| US11634993B2 |
Gas turbine engine with improved VIGV shielding
A gas turbine engine includes: a fan rotating about an engine main axis; a core duct; an engine core; an Engine Section Stator (ESS) including a plurality of ESS vanes and arranged in the core duct downstream of the fan; and a plurality of variable inlet guide vanes (VIGV) adapted to rotate about a pivot axis and arranged in the core duct downstream of the ESS. The VIGV vanes are arranged angularly rotated with respect to the ESS vanes such that the VIGVs are shielded by the ESS, thereby protecting the VIGVs from icing and from ice shedding from the ESS vanes. |
| US11634991B1 |
Vibration damping system for turbine nozzle or blade using elongated body and wire mesh member
A vibration damping system for a turbine nozzle or blade includes a body opening extending through a body of the turbine nozzle or blade between a tip end and a base end thereof. Elongated vibration damping element is disposed in the body opening and includes an elongated body having a first, free end and a second end fixed relative to one of the base end and the tip end. At least one wire mesh member surrounds the elongated body. The wire mesh member(s) frictionally engage with an inner surface of the body opening to damp vibration. A related method is also disclosed. |
| US11634988B2 |
Turbomachine blade having a maximum thickness law with high flutter margin
A turbomachine rotor blade is formed of plural blade sections stacked along an axis extending from a blade root to a blade tip. Each blade section located at various heights along the blade is designed to have a given ratio between a maximum thickness, which is measured between a suction side and pressure side of the blade, and a chord, which is defined by a line connecting a leading edge and a trailing edge of the blade. Each blade section is further designed to have a ratio of the maximum thickness to the chord at a given height of the blade relative to a ratio of the maximum thickness to the chord of another blade section located at a different height of the blade. |
| US11634987B2 |
Safety early warning method and device for full-section tunneling of tunnel featuring dynamic water and weak surrounding rock
A safe early warning method and device for full-section tunneling of a tunnel featuring dynamic water and weak surrounding rock, comprising establishing a dynamic coordinate system with an origin thereof moving along a tunnel excavation line, recording the moving distance of the origin, conducting three-dimensional laser scanning with the origin as a center to obtain point cloud data including coordinate data, collecting surrounding rock data; conducting deformation fitting on the point cloud data, calculating a fitting residual error, removing a noisy point, and conducting preprocessing; combining data of preprocessed point cloud, surrounding rock, and the tunnel excavation line to construct a tunnel excavation dynamic model; conducting stress analysis according to the model and determining whether to send out a safety early warning signal. The device comprises a three-dimensional laser scanner, a geological radar device, a displacement module, an industrial computer, a data transmission module, an alarm, and a server. |
| US11634986B2 |
Supercritical fluid drilling and blasting integrated double-arm drill jumbo and control method thereof
A control method of a drill jumbo is provided. The drill jumbo includes a pre-splitting arm, a drill arm, and a chamber. The pre-splitting arm includes a positioning device, a fixing buckle, a longer rod, an electric telescopic rod, and a water injection opening. The chamber includes a constant pressure valve, an excitation circuit, and a port. A computer controls the positioning device to perform positioning, afterwards, the fixing buckle is opened, the telescopic rod is started, the longer rod is jacked into a position in the hole, and oil is injected into a hydraulic expansion capsule. After blocking of the hole is completed, water is injected into the water injection opening. The port is opened to inject a mixed-phase fluid. The port is closed, the excitation circuit is started, and after a pressure rises to a set value, the constant pressure valve is opened. |
| US11634983B2 |
Wireless telemetry using tool body deflection for opening a toe sleeve
Systems and methods for wireless telemetry in oil and gas wells use fluid pressure differentials to send signals from surface equipment to a downhole tool. More specifically, the methods and systems selectively apply fluid pressure to a tubing string and measure the resulting mechanical strain, or deformation, on a tubular of the downhole tool. The deformation may be an elastic deformation or it may be a plastic deformation with yielding of the tubular. One or more of such strains or deformations may be used to encode a digital signal that can command an action on the tool. The strain or deformation may be measured by a low-cost strain gauge. |
| US11634980B2 |
Downhole and near wellbore reservoir state inference through automated inverse wellbore flow modeling
A method to estimate the likely downhole conditions in the wellbore and reservoir by Inverse modeling well flow simulation history matched with field sensor data. The invention presents a method for automating sensor data processing through cleaning, transformation, and identification of stable states. This process is crucial for the selection of data to be simulated and matched without human review. The matched simulations are subjected to a state-space model in order to assign a probability to a given unknown state. This probability is updated at each time step. As the well undergoes transition over time including decline, the drift of the likely state of operation is orchestrated to allow physically constrained movement to a proximate space. Based on the extent of repetition and overlap between similar states as they transition over several time steps, the confidence of the inverse model increases, thus narrowing down the likely domain and trajectory of operation and boosting the probability of this narrowed zone. The knowledge of downhole and near wellbore reservoir zone is essential for better modeling, understanding of the wells and decision making in the oilfield. This knowledge may be obtained through well testing but involves physical intervention that can involve expense and production loss. It is also less common to have such well tests being performed at a daily, weekly or even monthly basis so timely information is generally not available. This invention provides a mechanism to have a live update of such information without any physical intervention. |
| US11634978B2 |
Methods for recovering a mineral from a mineral-bearing deposit
The disclosure provides methods and systems for recovering a target mineral from a mineral-bearing deposit. One or more first wells and one or more second wells are drilled into the deposit, each well having a substantially vertical section and a substantially horizontal section, the horizontal section of the second wells located above the horizontal section of the first wells. At least one channel from the horizontal section of each first well toward the horizontal section of the second wells is established. A fluid is injected into the deposit from the horizontal section of the first wells to form one or more slots. A brine is recovered from the horizontal section of the second wells, forming a cavity. A salt solution is then injected into the cavity from the horizontal section of the second wells and a target mineral-enriched solvent is recovered from the first wells. |
| US11634977B2 |
Well injection and production method and system
A method and system for enhancing petroleum production are provided, in which petroleum is displaced from a fractured formation by selectively injecting fluid into selected fractures in the formation without injecting into the other non-selected fractures. The injected fluid flows out into the fractured formation and enhances recovery from the non-selected fractures. Petroleum is selectively collected from the non-selected fractures. |
| US11634976B2 |
Electric submersible pump (ESP) rig less deployment method and system for oil wells and the like
A deployment system as a rig less docking station with an inline male wet mate-able connectors and power cable and a motor connector with inline female wet mate-able connectors coupled to an electric submersible pump (ESP), the docking station is at the bottom of a string of production tubing and remains in the well for the life of the system while the motor connector is mated to an ESP and lowered into the well by wireline or other suitable deployment method. The rig less deployment system has a lower initial cost, larger through-bore, improved debris tolerance, and the ability for pump-assisted installation and retrieval techniques. Both the moveable female and the static male connector are pressure balanced for temperature and volume variation and the male connector utilizes a heavy dielectric fluid in a reverse labyrinth design to isolate borehole fluid from the electrical connection. |
| US11634975B2 |
Method and apparatus for producing well fluids
A method of producing fluid from a wellbore includes operating a pump located proximate to a zone of fluid influx in the wellbore to draw a reservoir fluid from a reservoir into the wellbore at the zone of fluid influx. The pump is coupled to a tubing string extending above the pump, and a packer is coupled to the tubing string proximate to an upper end of the zone of fluid influx and seals an annular space around the tubing string. The method includes operating the pump to produce the reservoir fluid from the wellbore through the tubing string. A pump includes a drive chamber with a drive piston, a production chamber with a production piston coupled to the drive piston, and axially separated traveling valves. |
| US11634967B2 |
Method for well remediation and repair
Methods for more reliably cementing and remediating oil and gas wells by plastically expanding the diameter of the wellbore casing at select locations along the wellbore to control fluid flow in the micro-annular leak paths formed in the casing annulus between the casing and cement sheath, or between the casing and wellbore. Such methods do not require pre-placement of casing packers or prediction of potential leak points of the casing annulus. In cementing operations, casing expansion can be performed at strategic locations along the wellbore to eliminate annular leak paths that permit detrimental flow, direct the flow of cement to the desired portions of the wellbore, and prevent the flow of cement to oil producing formations. In instances of inter-zonal communication between subterranean formations, casing expansion can be performed at location(s) between the formations to mitigate or prevent inter-zonal communication via annular leak paths in the casing annulus. |
| US11634965B2 |
Downhole tool and method of use
A downhole tool suitable for use in a wellbore, the tool having a double cone having a dual-cone outer surface. The downhole tool includes a carrier ring disposed around one end of the double cone, and a slip disposed around or proximate to an other end of the double cone. There is a guide assembly engaged with the slip. |
| US11634964B2 |
Swellable rubber element that also creates a cup packer
Provided is an apparatus, as well as a method for establishing a seal between a mandrel and a borehole. The apparatus, in one aspect, includes a mandrel, and a packer, the packer including: a constrained portion coupled to the mandrel; and an unconstrained portion made of a swellable material and coupled to the constrained portion, wherein the unconstrained portion is free to move with respect to the mandrel. The apparatus, according to one aspect, further includes a spring positioned between the mandrel and the unconstrained portion and configured to urge the unconstrained portion away from the mandrel, the spring having a spring force less than a yield strength of the swellable material when the swellable material is in an unswelled condition. |
| US11634962B1 |
Carbon-swellable sealing element
Methods of capturing carbon dioxide in a wellbore can include installing a sealing element in the wellbore. The sealing element swells in the presence of carbon dioxide and can be used for capturing the carbon. The sealing element can include a carbon-swelling material, such as a carbon-swelling polymers, metal-based materials, or combinations of elastomeric polymers and metal-based materials. The sealing element can also include combinations of different carbon-swelling materials, fillers or other compounds, and materials that are not carbon swellable. The sealing element can create a seal, form an anchor, or create a seal and form an anchor in the wellbore after swelling. |
| US11634961B2 |
Metal-based dissolvable ball seat, setting system and setting method
A metal-based dissolvable ball seat comprises a mandrel, a tail base, a sliding body, a slip and a sealing ring. The mandrel can be disengaged from the tail base under predefined shearing force. The sliding body is disposed to sleeve the mandrel and located above the tail base; the slip is disposed outside the mandrel and slidably abutted against the tail base and the sliding body respectively; the slip and the sliding body are slidably abutted against each other through a first conical surface structure, and/or the slip and the tail base are slidably abutted against each other through a second conical surface structure; the sealing ring is movable along axial direction of the mandrel together with the slip; when the sliding body and the tail base are approaching each other, the slip opens up and the sealing ring expands outward. A setting system and a setting method are provided. |
| US11634960B2 |
Method of making safe an undersea bottom-to-surface production pipe when production is stopped
Installation for producing fluid such as crude oil having a floating support having at least two tanks, an undersea bottom-to-surface connection pipe having a first pipe portion on the sea bottom from a well head to the bottom end of a second pipe portion at the floating support, a first auxiliary pipe for transporting gas extending from the floating support to the bottom end of the second pipe, and a plurality of valves for isolating or putting into communication the first auxiliary pipe, for isolating or putting into communication the first production pipe portion and the second production pipe portion, end to end, and suitable for isolating or putting into communication the proximal end of the first production pipe portion and the bottom end either of a fourth auxiliary pipe rising directly to the surface, or a bottom portion of the first auxiliary pipe. |
| US11634953B1 |
Flow back separation system and method
A flow back system for separating solids from a slurry recovered from a hydrocarbon well. The system includes a V-shaped tank with a first series of baffles configured to cause the settling of solids that are moved by a shaftless auger to a conduit fluidly connected to hydrocyclones mounted over a linear shaker. The overflow from the hydrocyclones is discharged through a second conduit back into the tank for processing by a second series of baffles resulting in a clean effluent. The clean effluent is recirculated in the well. |
| US11634942B2 |
Electric potentially-driven shade with electrostatic shade retraction, and/or associated methods
Certain example embodiments relate to electric, potentially-driven shades usable with insulating glass (IG) units, IG units including such shades, and/or associated methods. In such a unit, a dynamic shade is located between the substrates defining the IG unit, and is movable between retracted and extended positions. The dynamic shade includes on-glass layers including a transparent conductor and an insulator or dielectric film, as well as a shutter. The shutter includes alternating conductive and dielectric layers, supported by one or more resilient polymer-based layers. A first set of electrostatic forces help cause the shutter to extend and remain in an extended position, whereas an electric field can be setup to help encourage the retraction of the shutter from an extended or at least partially extended position. |
| US11634941B2 |
Window/shutter/door for outdoor settings
Window for outdoor settings, which comprises a movable wing provided with a first support frame hinged to a second support frame of a fixed framework by means of a hinging system, so that, when the movable wing is closed, the two frames define two opposite perimeter faces delimiting a slit. The window comprise a first perimeter gasket fixed to one of the two opposite perimeter faces, acting against the other perimeter face, and placed at an internal opening of the slit in order to conceal from view the hinging system of the window. The window further comprises a second perimeter gasket fixed to one of the two opposite perimeter faces, acting against the other perimeter face, and placed at an intermediate position between the internal opening and an external opening of the slit. |
| US11634938B2 |
Control elements for tracking and movement of furniture and interior architectural elements
Improved systems and methods for operating moveable architectural elements (e.g., furniture) are described. The system can include improved features implemented throughout various elements, including hardware elements, controller elements, and/or software elements. As one example, the system can feature the ability to map a characteristic load profile across a particular length of actuation and, if during operation a measured load exceeds the profile, adjust (e.g., stop) the system's motion. The system can also advantageously map its current draw to increase energy efficiency. In addition, the system can include a positioning system that enables it to automatically determine its position upon start up and during operation. In some implementations, the system includes multiple moveable elements (e.g., furniture items). In some cases, power is distributed to the moveable element(s) using a moveable power distribution module. Many other improvements and features are contemplated and described. |
| US11634937B2 |
Vehicle assembly having a capacitive sensor
A bus includes a vehicle body, a plurality of doors, a nosing seal, at least one sensor disposed inside the nosing seal, wherein the at least one sensor capacitively couples to an electrically conductive moving object proximal to the nosing seal such that the capacitance of the at least one sensor changes, and a controller coupled to the at least one sensor, the controller analyzing the sensing by the at least one sensor and senses a non-smooth signal from the at least one sensor and determines that an obstruction is present, senses signal fluctuation from the at least one sensor is not monotonic and determines that an obstruction is present, senses that the one of the doors has not closed after a predetermined time period and determines that the obstruction is present, senses that one of the doors has stalled and determines that the obstruction is present, the controller being configured to alert an operator of the bus when the obstruction is present. |
| US11634936B2 |
Switch arrangements for powered doors
Switch arrangements for powered doors are disclosed. A door includes a panel and a track to guide movement of the panel between an open position and a closed position. The track defines a track slot extending along an exterior length of the track. The door further includes a sensor target to be carried by the panel within the track. The door also includes a sensor selectively attachable to an exterior of the track via the track slot. The sensor to detect the sensor target when the panel is in a first position. The track defines an aperture to be positioned between the sensor target and the sensor when the panel is in the first position. |
| US11634927B2 |
Nonconductive, modular barrier assemblies and related methods
The present invention provides a modular, nonconductive barrier assembly for enclosing or partitioning an area. The modular, nonconductive barrier assembly includes a number of wall panels each having multiple nonconductive posts arranged in a common plane and separated by a gap. The nonconductive posts are connected by a number of connecting rods. Each wall panel is arranged in an upright orientation on a support surface. A number of support assemblies each having a base and at least one support arm support the wall panels in an upright orientation. The base of each support assembly is positioned on a support surface, a proximal end of the support arm is releasably connected to the base and a distal end of the support arm is releasably connected to a wall panel to support the same. |
| US11634919B2 |
Telecommunication and multimedia management method and apparatus
A telecommunication and multimedia management apparatus and method that supports voice and other media communications and that enables users to: (i) participate in multiple conversation modes, including live phone calls, conference calls, instant voice messaging or tactical communications; (ii) review the messages of conversations in either a live mode or a time-shifted mode and to seamlessly transition back and forth between the two modes; (iii) participate in multiple conversations either concurrently or simultaneously; (iv) archive the messages of conversations for later review or processing; and (v) persistently store media either created or received on the communication devices of users. The latter feature enables users to generate or review media when either disconnected from the network or network conditions are poor and to optimize the delivery of media over the network based on network conditions and the intention of the users participating in conversations. |
| US11634913B2 |
Floor panel
A floor panel has a rectangular and oblong shape, and includes a substrate and a top layer provided on the substrate and forming a decorative side of the floor panel. The top layer is composed of a print provided on a carrier sheet and a transparent thermoplastic layer situated above the print. The substrate has a thickness from 2 to 10 millimeter and forms at least half of the thickness of the floor panel. The substrate is a polyurethane-based substrate and the transparent thermoplastic layer is polyurethane-based. The floor panel has a length of more than 1.1 meters and has a plurality of reinforcing layers situated outside the center line of the substrate. A reinforcing layer may be provided in combination with the substrate and the top layer. |
| US11634912B2 |
Floor panel for forming a floor covering
A floor panel for forming a floor covering comprises a substrate consisting of at least two substrate layers differing in density and, on at least one pair of opposite edges, is provided with coupling parts of the so-called push-lock type. Vertically active locking surfaces, where they cooperate in the coupled condition of two of such floor panels, define a tangent line which is horizontal or does not deviate more than 50 degrees from the horizontal. The locking surfaces are situated closer to the upper side of the first substrate layer than to the lower side of the first substrate layer. |
| US11634911B2 |
Floor board
A floor board, and a method and apparatus for manufacturing same. The floor board (100) comprises a polyurethane-foam board (110). The polyurethane-foam board (110) is made of a polyurethane foam material foamed from a polyurethane foam raw material. The polyurethane-foam board (110) is provided with a plurality of linear members (120) passing though the polyurethane-foam board in a predetermined direction. The plurality of linear members (120) are arranged at intervals. The polyurethane-foam board (110) is foaming-molded by continuous drawing. |
| US11634910B2 |
Sump drain apparatus, system, and method of construction
The present disclosure provides a sump drain apparatus comprising a drain inlet and a ramp coupled to the drain inlet comprising an incline plane configured to divert drainage water toward the drain bowl, wherein at least a portion of the ramp is configured to be positioned on top of a roof deck. |
| US11634903B2 |
Building panel with a weather barrier
A sheathing panel includes a barrier overlay secured to a panel; wherein the sheathing panel is bulk water resistant and has at least one of the following properties: a water vapor transmission rate of at least 7.0 grams per square meter per 24 hours (grams/m2/24 hours) as determined by ASTM E96-15 procedure A at 73° F. and 50% relative humidity (RH), a water vapor permeance of at least 1.3 perms as determined by ASTM E96-15 procedure A at 73° F. and 50% relative humidity (RH), or an air infiltration rate of less than 0.2 liters per second per square meter (L/s-m2) at 75 pascals (Pa) as determined by ASTM E2357-11. |
| US11634902B2 |
Assembled structure system and applications thereof
An assembled structure system includes a prefabricated member, a fastener and a locking member. The prefabricated member is provided with at least one cavity, and the fastener is assembled in the at least one cavity. At least one fastener is assembled in each cavity. The cavity includes an upper end surface, a lower end surface, a left end surface and a right end surface. The left end surface or the right end surface includes a vertical surface perpendicularly connected to the upper end surface and an inclined surface connected to the vertical surface. A connection angle between the vertical surface and the outer side of the inclined surface forms an obtuse angle. The inclined surface is connected to the lower end surface. The fastener includes a fixed surface, two side surfaces and a bottom surface. The fixed surface, the two side surfaces and the bottom surface are hingedly connected. |
| US11634897B2 |
Integrated airgap retrofit body
A retrofit body for a faucet that provides an airgap vent is disclosed. The retrofit body may work with any faucet where the faucet body projects through a countertop. The airgap vent is in fluid communication with a drainpipe and a wastewater stream from an appliance. |
| US11634895B2 |
Dynamically re-configurable in-field self-test capability for automotive systems
Various embodiments include components (e.g., a processor in a vehicle advanced driver assistance system) configured to identify subsystems that require testing in order to verify their compliance with a safety requirement. The components may determine whether verification of compliance requires that the subsystems be tested at PON, at POFF, during runtime or a combination thereof, dynamically determine the achievable parallelism for testing the identified subsystems, dynamically determine coverage level requirements for performing or executing built in self tests (BISTs) on each identified subsystem, and perform or execute the BISTs on the subsystems at the determined level of parallel and at the determined coverage level. |
| US11634893B2 |
Wear member monitoring system
A wear member monitoring system for a ground engaging tool, the system including: a measuring assembly having: an emitting device configured to emit a measurement signal towards a wear member of the ground engaging tool; a detecting device configured to detect a reflected measurement signal in response to the measurement signal emitted towards the wear member; and a processor configured to: analyse the reflected measurement signal with a two dimensional reference model; and determine a condition of the wear member based on the analysis of the reflected measurement signal with the two dimensional reference model. |
| US11634891B2 |
System and method for navigating an operator to couple a self-propelled vehicle with an attachment implement therefor
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for navigating an operator of a self-propelled vehicle for coupling with an attachment implement therefor. Each one of a first set of sensing elements arranged on the vehicle coupler forms a sensing pair with a respective one of a set of second sensing elements arranged on the attachment implement. Indicia for each of the sensing pairs on a user interface is displayed to the operator, corresponding to a three-dimensional spatial orientation of the first and second sensing elements with respect to each other. The user interface may comprise respective portions for each sensing pair, each portion comprising an indicator dynamically adjusted in a crosshair corresponding to first and second dimensions of alignment of the corresponding sensing elements with respect to each other, and the indicator in each portion further dynamically adjusted in appearance corresponding to a third dimension of distance between the corresponding sensing elements. |
| US11634890B2 |
Image display system for work machine
An image display system for a work machine including working equipment having a working tool and a turning body to which the working equipment is attached, includes: a position detector detecting at least one of an attitude and a position of the working equipment; a distance detector obtaining information on a distance from the work machine to a work target; and a processing device that generates, by using information on a position of the working tool obtained by the position detector and information on a position of the work target obtained from the information on the distance obtained by the distance detector, a first image including a portion corresponding to a part of the working tool and extending along a turning direction of the turning body, on the work target opposed to the working tool, and displays the first image on the display device. |
| US11634887B2 |
Method and system for controlling construction machinery
In a method of controlling construction machinery, a bucket of a working device is moved along a first excavation trajectory to perform an excavation operation on the ground of a work area. A digging force exerted on the bucket during the excavation operation is calculated. A new second excavation trajectory is generated based on the calculated digging force. The bucket is moved along the second excavation trajectory. |
| US11634885B2 |
Work vehicle magnetorheological fluid joystick systems reducing unintended joystick motions
In embodiments, a work vehicle magnetorheological fluid (MRF) joystick system includes a joystick device, an MRF joystick resistance mechanism, and a controller architecture. The joystick device includes, in turn, a base housing, a joystick movably mounted to the base housing, and a joystick position sensor configured to monitor movement of the joystick relative to the base housing. The MRF joystick resistance mechanism is controllable to vary a first joystick stiffness resisting movement of the joystick relative to the base housing in at least one degree of freedom. The controller architecture is configured to: (i) detect when unintended joystick motion conditions occur during operation of the work vehicle; and (ii) when detecting unintended joystick motion conditions, command the MRF joystick resistance mechanism to increase the first joystick stiffness in a manner reducing susceptibility of the joystick device to unintended joystick motions. |
| US11634882B2 |
Excavator
An excavator may perform a finishing operation to prepare a slope while maintaining workability. The excavator includes an undercarriage, a slewing upper structure rotatably mounted on the undercarriage, a boom pivotally mounted on the upper structure, an arm rotatably mounted on a tip end of the boom, a bucket mounted on a tip end of the arm, and a controller. The controller restricts a lowering operation of the boom, so that at least one of a pressing force of the bucket against the ground and a speed of lowering the bucket toward the ground does not become relatively large. |
| US11634878B2 |
Systems for offshore environmental maintenance
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for detecting and collecting fluids released into a body of water are disclosed. Particularly, detection and collection of a fluid released during a petroleum exploration or production operation are disclosed. A released fluid may be detected using sensors on a submersible vehicle (SV) or a plurality of SVs operating in concert. A detected released fluid is collected in storage tanks onboard of the one or more SVs or in an external tank coupled to the one or more SVs. |
| US11634876B2 |
Contrast road marking apparatus
A method for applying contrasting thermoplastic markings to a roadway in a single pass. The contrast road marking apparatus includes two or more ribbon guns configured to apply a first thermoplastic marking to a roadway surface area and a second thermoplastic marking, which comprises a color that contrasts with a color of the first thermoplastic marking, to another roadway surface area. The resulting contrast road marking has no visible or substantially negligible overlap or gap between the individual thermoplastic markings. |
| US11634868B2 |
Papermaking fabrics having machine and cross-machine direction elements and paper products made therewith
The present invention discloses tissue products, specifically rolled paper towel products, such as one, two or three ply tissue products having a basis weight greater than about 35 gsm and a GMT greater than about 1,500 g/3″. The products have a three-dimensional surface, typically the air contacting surface, comprising substantially continuous machine direction (MD) oriented elements, discrete cross-machine direction (CD) oriented elements and discrete MD oriented valleys having valley sidewalls formed by the MD oriented elements and valley endwalls formed by the CD oriented elements. The discrete valleys generally have a length greater than about 10.0 mm. The CD oriented elements comprise a relatively small percentage of the tissue surface area, such as less than about 15 percent, yet the tissue products display good anti-nesting properties when spirally wound into rolls, such as a Roll Structure greater than about 1.75. |
| US11634867B2 |
Method for producing paper
A method for producing a paper, which includes applying at least one of ionizing radiation and plasma to at least one of a paper base and a compound (A) selected from: a compound having a carbon-carbon unsaturated bond and containing no fluorine atom in a molecular structure, and a compound containing no fluorine atom in a molecular structure in which radicals are generated by irradiation of an electron beam to the compound, to introduce a layer formed from the compound (A) on a surface of the paper base. |
| US11634866B2 |
Apparatus for measuring the dewatering of a paper machine at different points of the wet end and a method for implementing it
An apparatus for measuring dewatering in the wet end of a paper machine includes a measuring receptacle functioning at normal air pressure, in which receptacle the amount of the water of the negatively-pressurized dewatering points of the paper machine is measured by means of a pressure-difference transmitter and of a measuring weir. |
| US11634864B2 |
Method and a system for adjusting S/Na-balance of a pulp mill
The invention relates to a method and a system for adjusting S/Na-balance of a sulphate pulp mill, wherein a pulp mill CNCG stream containing sulphur compounds is first scrubbed with an aqueous scrubbing solution containing an alkaline agent, thereby producing an aqueous spent scrubbing solution containing sulphides, which is then oxidized in a bioreactor by means of sulphur-oxidizing microbes, thereby obtaining an aqueous suspension containing elemental sulphur from which the elemental sulphur can be separated as a precipitate and the residual solution may be used for replenishing the aqueous scrubbing solution. |
| US11634863B2 |
Method to produce composite-enhanced market pulp and paper
An improved market pulp and process for making the same by adding a composite material are described. The composite material includes cellulose nanocrystals, cellulose nanofibers, or another high aspect ratio, high surface area cellulose material (or a starch, or both) and a crosslinking compound that crosslinks a portion of the surface hydroxyl groups to form a 3-D matrix. Adding the composite material to market pulp has been shown to improve the strength of twice-dried paper products, made from such an enhanced market pulp. By crosslinking a portion of the surface hydroxyl groups in the market pulp to form a 3-D matrix, a first drying step may be accomplished without loss of benefits afforded when the market pulp is later re-pulped to make a paper product. |
| US11634861B2 |
Method for manufacturing high tenacity fiber and high tenacity fiber manufactured thereby
The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a high tenacity yarn and a high tenacity yarn manufactured thereby. More particularly, the present invention relates to: a method of manufacturing a high tenacity yarn, the method including coating a yarn made of at least one of nylon and polyester to obtain a coated yarn, wherein the coating material contains 3 to 35 parts by weight of a reinforcing agent composed of a mineral material per 100 parts by weight of a coating liquid containing polyurethane; and a high tenacity yarn manufactured thereby. Therefore, it is possible to manufacture a yarn having high tenacity and improved processability by processing a nylon or polyester yarn having a relatively low tenacity as compared with a high modulus polyethylene (HMPE) yarn by use of a yarn coating technique, and further to reduce production cost. |
| US11634858B2 |
Method for fiber modification
A method for fiber modification provided in the present disclosure comprises the following steps: reacting fibers with a hypochlorous acid oxidant for development of antioxidant fibers, separating the antioxidant fibers from the hypochlorous acid oxidant and drying the antioxidant fibers to develop modified fibers which feature better oxidation resistance. |
| US11634857B2 |
Laundry treating appliance having sensors, and methods of operation
A laundry treating appliance for treating laundry according to an automatic cycle of operation includes a cabinet defining a cabinet interior. A drum is rotatable within the cabinet interior, and at least partially defines a treating chamber. The treating chamber has a treating chamber air inlet and a treating chamber air outlet. A drying air circuit is fluidly coupled to the treating chamber air inlet and to the treating chamber air outlet. The laundry treating appliance can include first and second air temperature sensors, at least a first humidity sensor, and a controller operably coupled with the sensors. |
| US11634843B2 |
Braided filament with particularized strand compositions and methods of manufacturing and using same
In one embodiment, the present invention is a braided filament including a plurality of strands each having at least one ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene fiber and at least one polyester fiber wherein the quantity of certain types of fibers in a first strand is the same as the quantity of the same type of fibers in a second strand. In a variant, one additional strand of the braided filament is a monofilament strand. In another variant, each strand is homogeneous with respect to the other strands and is made exclusively from ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene fibers and polyester fibers such that each strand has the same distribution and quantity of fiber types. |
| US11634839B2 |
Hydrophobic nano-silica mixed thermoplastic polyurethane coated yarn
A thermoplastic polyurethane coated yarn having excellent adhesive strength in which hydrophobic nano-silica is mixed. The nano-silica is contained in the range of 0.2-5 parts per hundred resin (phr) and the nano-silica having a primary particle size of in a range of 1-100 nm. The thermoplastic polyurethane coating yarn mixed with the hydrophobic nano-silica of the present invention is uniformly coated with a thermoplastic polyurethane resin containing nano-silica containing a hydrophobic functional group on the surface of the core yarn, whereby the core yarn is biased to one side. Since no coating or uncoating occurs, the product quality and productivity are excellent, in addition to excellent durability and wear resistance of the thermoplastic polyurethane, mechanical strength and chemical resistance are improved. |
| US11634838B2 |
Shaped nonwoven
A nonwoven fabric. The nonwoven fabric can include a first surface and a second surface and a visually discernible pattern of three-dimensional features on one of the first or second surface. Each of the three-dimensional features can define a microzone comprising a first region and a second region. The first and second regions can have a difference in values for an intensive property. The nonwoven further has a plurality of apertures, wherein at least a portion of the aperture abuts at least one of the first region and the second region of the microzone. |
| US11634836B2 |
Randomized configuration targeted integration of nucleic acids
The presently disclosed subject matter relates to “Randomized Configuration Targeted Integration” (also referred to herein as “Randomized Chain Targeted Integration”) (RCTI) strategies for the generation and identification of host cells capable of expressing recombinant proteins, e.g., monoclonal antibodies, as well as compositions derived from the same, e.g., bispecific antibodies, and other complex format proteins, e.g., membrane protein complexes and other difficult to express molecules. |