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US11678755B2	Beverage sipper A beverage sipper for use with a beverage bottle such as a sparkling beverage bottle comprises a stem portion adapted to be releasably inserted into the neck of a beverage bottle, the stem portion comprising a stem wall having an outer surface adapted to contact the neck of the beverage bottle and an inner surface that defines a stem portion beverage passageway and a sipping portion adapted to extend out of the neck of the beverage bottle when the stem portion is inserted in the beverage bottle, the sipping portion comprising a sipping wall with an inner surface that defines a sipping portion beverage passageway that is in flow communication with the stem portion beverage passageway. The stem portion has a securing mechanism to secure the stem portion within the beverage bottle. The securing mechanism has a biasing mechanism that biases at least a portion of the stem wall outwardly, wherein the bias of the biasing mechanism may be overcome by applying an inward force to the stem wall to move at least a portion of the stem wall inwardly to allow the stem wall to be inserted into the neck of the beverage bottle. When the inward force is removed the biasing mechanism causes at least a portion of the stem wall to be forced outwardly to apply pressure against the neck of the beverage bottle when the stem portion is inserted in the beverage bottle. The securing mechanism is configured to allow the stem portion to be secured to beverage bottles have different diameter necks.
US11678753B2	Foodware system including a dining plate having sensing component, and information and entertainment display An active foodware system includes dining plates having visual stimulating, sensing, and wireless communication components. A visual stimulating component emits light to provide information or entertainment. The sensing component detects characteristics of the food received in the dining plate, such as weight or temperature. Data related to the food may be displayed on the visual stimulating component, or sent by the wireless communication component to a computer or mobile communication device. Computer software may display nutrition information on the visual stimulating component before, during, and after dining, or provide visual and auditory encouragement for children to eat.
US11678748B2	Upholstery support arrangement, including airflow arrays for conditioned furniture, and associated systems and methods Upholstery support arrangements for conditioned furniture are disclosed herein. A representative arrangement, such as for a ventilated bed, comprises an upholstery support structure having a support platform that defines a support plane, for supporting an upholstery item, the upholstery support platform having a first array of apertures that allow a flow of air through the support platform; the upholstery supported on the support platform (e.g., a mattress) having a bottom face facing the support platform and including a second array of apertures positioned to allow the flow of air through the bottom face into the upholstery; wherein a periodicity of the first array of apertures and a periodicity of the second array of apertures are matched to one another.
US11678747B2	Sitting furniture Sitting furniture (100) comprising a seat (110), a lower leg support (120) and a chest support (130). The invention is characterised in that the seat (110) is arranged to support the posterior thigh (11) and/or buttocks (12) of a seated user (10) such that the femur bone (13) of the seated user (10) is downwards inclined in the anterior direction at an angle of at least 40° downwards in relation to the horizontal, in that the lower leg support (120) is arranged to support the anterior side of the lower legs (14) of the seated user (10), and in that the chest support (130) is arranged to support the chest (15) of the seated user (10) in a forward leaning position of the seated user (10) such that the third lumbar vertebrae body (16) of the seated user (10) is arranged in a support plane (150), which support plane (150) is perpendicular to the sagittal plane of the user and in which support plane (150) the respective pivot point (17) of the seated user's (10) hip joints and the respective pivot point (18) of the seated user's (10) shoulder joints are also arranged when the posture of the seated user (10) is symmetric about the seated user's (10) sagittal plane.
US11678745B2	Recliner mechanism for electric rocking chair A recliner mechanism includes a base. Returning spring units are disposed on two sides of the base and rockers are disposed on outer sides of the returning spring units. An extending assembly is disposed at the top of each rocker. A drive unit is arranged between the extending assemblies on the two sides and includes a front driving rod. A reciprocating device is disposed at the middle of the front driving rod and a rear driving rod is disposed at an output end of the reciprocating device. Bent members are fixedly connected to two ends of the rear driving rod. Each bent member is pivotally coupled with a driving member I and the middle of the driving member I is pivotally coupled with a driving member II, with the other ends of the driving member I and the driving member II being pivotally coupled with the extending assemblies.
US11678741B2	Shelving support bracket assembly A shelving system includes a support post having a mounting surface and a plurality of vertically spaced retention members extending from the mounting surface. A shelf includes a bracket member configured for coupling to a first of the vertically spaced retention members. A support bracket includes an attachment portion configured for coupling to a second of the vertically spaced retention members adjacent the first vertically spaced retention member and a support portion configured for coupling to the bracket member.
US11678740B2	Frame with minimized thickness when folded A foldable frame includes first and second mounting assemblies pivotally coupled with each other at their proximal sides. The foldable frame also includes first, second and third leg assemblies, each having an upper member coupled with one or more of the first and second mounting assemblies and a base member abutting a ground when in use. The upper members of the first, second and third leg assemblies are substantially parallel to each other, with a distance between the upper members of the first and third leg assemblies different than a distance between the upper members of the second and third leg assemblies. As a result, when folded, the base members of the first, second and third leg assemblies are disposed side by side along a longitudinal direction of the foldable frame.
US11678736B2	Belt adapter and holding system comprising a belt adapter and a carrier element A belt adapter for attaching objects to a belt includes a holding system for attaching the belt adapter to the belt, an opening extending along a vertical axis of the belt adapter, through which opening a carrier element can be inserted into the belt adapter, and a securing element which can be moved between an unlocked position, in which the carrier element can be inserted into and removed from the belt adapter, and a locked position for securely holding a carrier element inserted into the belt adapter in a locked position. A holding system comprises a belt adapter and a carrier element. The belt adapter ensures that the carrier element is reliably and securely held in place in that the securing element is designed to receive at least part of the carrier element and is movably guided along the vertical axis between the unlocked and locked positions.
US11678731B1	Razor cleaning device for sink, bath, and shower A razor cleaning device for use in a sink, bathtub, and/or shower allows a user to quickly and efficiently dislodge and displace hair cutting debris which accumulates between the blades of a razor while shaving. The razor cleaning device has a base assembly which provides a flow of water therethrough and into a spray head assembly. The spray head assembly is positionable along the base assembly into and out of an operative configuration, and has a plurality of spray nozzles arranged in a spray nozzle array thereon. A water supply line is connected between an inlet port of the base assembly and a water supply. The spray head assembly also includes a valve operable by the user to selectively permit water to flow to each of the plurality of spray nozzles, wherein the plurality of spray nozzles discharge jets of water in a predetermined spray pattern.
US11678730B2	Hair care device A hair care device (100) comprises a heat source (103) for heating hair up till a first temperature that is no more than 150° C. (and thus lower than a critical temperature at which hair cuticle damage will occur), and a radiation source (102) for—in combination with heat from the heat source (103)—selectively heating a hair cortex to a second temperature exceeding the first temperature and sufficiently high for hair styling.
US11678721B2	Polyolefin-based synthetic leather and articles formed therefrom A variety of plates for footwear are provided including a polyolefin resin. Sole structures and articles of footwear formed therefrom are also provided. Methods of making the polyolefin resin compositions, plates, sole structures, and articles of footwear are also provided. In some aspects, the polyolefin resin composition includes an effective amount of a polymeric resin modifier. The effective amount can be an amount effective to allow the resin composition to pass a flex test, and in particular to pass a flex test without significant change in abrasion loss. In some aspects, the resin composition also includes a clarifying agent to improve optical clarity of the plate. In some aspects, the plates include a textile disposed on one or both of a first side and the second side of the plate. The textile can provide for improved bonding of the plate to other components such as a chassis or an upper.
US11678720B2	Shock absorption shoe having at least one inflatable shock absorption module hidden inside the shoe in which air pressure is adjustable A shock absorption shoe, having a sole and at least one shock absorption module each having an outer shell, an inner core, an air cushion cylinder and a bottom cover, and each being connected to an air tube. The inner core is sleeved into a cavity of the outer shell from the top. A position limiting structure is provided between the inner core and the cavity. The air cushion cylinder is sleeved within the cavity. The bottom cover covers the bottom of the cavity. The shoe has a bottom layer, a middle layer and a top layer; the middle layer contains at least one mounting hole for mounting the at least one shock absorption module. The air tube is in an air tube groove on the middle layer, and one end of which is connected to the air cushion cylinder while another end is connected with a nozzle.
US11678714B2	Massage insole/sole structure capable having breathable effect An insole/sole structure contains: a top pad, two massage column modules, a form pad, and a bottom pad. The top pad includes at least one accommodation groove. A respective one of the at least one massage column module includes a holding portion and multiple flexible massaging columns. The respective one massage column module is connected on the top pad by using the holding portion. The multiple flexible massaging columns are held on the holding portion to correspond to a profile of a respective one accommodation groove. A profile of the foam pad and a profile of the bottom pad correspond to a profile of the top pad, such that when the foam pad and the bottom pad are connected, the foam pad and the bottom pad are closed, and the respective one massage column module is limited between the top pad and the foam pad.
US11678711B2	Machine-vendible foldable bicycle helmet methods and systems A bicycle helmet that fits over a surface of a head of a user generally includes at least one segment of flexible cell structures that form a radial honeycomb matrix movable between a folded condition where each side of the at least one segment is disposed generally parallel and an expanded condition where the radial honeycomb matrix of the at least one segment is configured to be expanded at least partially over the head of the user and arranged radially relative to the surface of the head of the user.
US11678709B2	Helmet A helmet having an energy absorbing layer, an outer layer that is harder than the energy absorbing layer and a plurality of outer plates mounted on the outer surface of the outer layer is provided. The outer plates on the outer layer can slide across the outer layer. A low friction interface between the outer surface of the outer layer and at least a part of the outer surface of the outer plates contacts the outer surface of the outer layer under an impact.
US11678707B1	Cap for covering eyes A headcover, such as a baseball-style cap, for selectively covering a wearer's eyes, such as to induce sleep, is movable between a use configuration atop the wearer's head and a deployed configuration pulled down and covering a wearer's eyes without nasal obstruction, i.e., avoiding interference of a wearer's nose with the brim of the cap. The cap includes a crown portion and a body section extending rearwardly and downwardly from the crown, the body section including a perimeter edge for selectively receiving the wearer's head. The cap includes a brim extending forwardly from the front section. The brim has a rearward edge coupled to a lower edge of the front of the crown portion, the rearward edge having opposed ends and defining an aperture midway between opposed ends. Further, the lower edge of the front section defines a notch positioned in communication with the aperture associated with the brim.
US11678704B2	Scraper glove A scraper glove is provided and includes a glove body and a scraper element. The glove body is mitten-shaped and includes a thumb sleeve and a fingers sleeve. The scraper element is attached to an exterior surface of the fingers sleeve and includes a receptacle portion to accept one or more fingers of a user when positioned within the fingers sleeve, and a scraping portion extending from the receptacle portion and integrally connected to the receptacle portion. The scraping portion includes a scraping edge with one or more teeth, and the scraping edge is configured to scrape pulp of a plant-based medium to hollow-out the plant-based medium. The scraper element further includes a textured leverage point on an anterior external surface of the scraper element between an end of the receptacle portion and the scraping edge.
US11678701B2	Garment for use with seat restraints and method of use therefor A garment is configured to facilitate wearing by an occupant of a seat assembly with a plurality of shoulder straps, such as a wheelchair or child car seat. The garment has an inner surface, an outer surface, and defines a slot that extends from the inner surface to the outer surface. The slot is sufficiently sized and positioned such that the shoulder straps are insertable through the slot when the garment is on the seating assembly.
US11678697B2	Tobacco smoke filter A tobacco smoke filter or filter element comprising a stiff outer wrapper engaged around a downstream thermoformed core of tobacco smoke filtering material and a further core longitudinally aligned therewith; the downstream thermoformed core having a profiled outer surface which defines with the stiff outer wrapper at least one longitudinally extending channel which extends the length of the downstream core.
US11678696B2	Smoking product to which triple care technology for reducing tobacco smell is applied A smoking product includes: a smoking material portion which is wrapped by a smoking material wrapper; a filter portion whose upstream end portion is combined with the smoking material portion, which includes a capsule containing a flavoring, and which is wrapped by a filter wrapper; and a tipping wrapper which surrounds at least a partial region of the smoking material portion and the filter portion so that the smoking material portion and the filter portion are combined, wherein the tipping wrapper includes a first perforation region including a plurality of perforations formed along an outer circumferential surface of the tipping wrapper and a second perforation region including a plurality of perforations formed downstream of the first perforation region and along the outer circumferential surface of the tipping wrapper, and the capsule is disposed downstream of the first perforation region and upstream of the second perforation region.
US11678694B2	Smoking article filter and insertable filter unit therefor A smoking article filter includes a recess to receive a filter insert unit. The filter insert unit is secured to the filter once inserted. The filter and the filter insert unit may include additives such as flavourants, colourants or sorbents.
US11678691B2	Tobacco leaf rolled cone A smoking product includes a cylindrical crutch in substantial axial alignment with a hollow conical mold, and a tobacco leaf rolled cone formed around the cylindrical crutch and the hollow conical mold. A truncated minor diameter end of the hollow conical mold forms a circular rim in contact with an end of the cylindrical crutch, where the cylindrical crutch and the circular rim have substantially the same outer diameter. The hollow conical mold may remain inside the tobacco leaf rolled cone until use, but is easily removable from the tobacco leaf rolled cone without damaging the tobacco leaf rolled cone.
US11678685B2	Glucosyl stevia composition Glucosyl Stevia compositions are prepared from steviol glycosides of Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni. The glucosylation was performed by cyclodextrin glucanotransferase using the starch as source of glucose residues. The compositions mainly comprise glucosyl derivatives with superior taste characteristics and can be used as sweetness enhancers, flavor enhancers and sweeteners in foods, beverages, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.
US11678682B2	Phosphor composition having selected surface coatings A method and a system for producing a change in a medium. The method places in a vicinity of the medium an energy modulation agent. The method applies an initiation energy to the medium. The initiation energy interacts with the energy modulation agent to directly or indirectly produce the change in the medium. The energy modulation agent has a normal predominant emission of radiation in a first wavelength range outside of a second wavelength range (WR2) known to produce the change, but under exposure to the applied initiation energy produces the change. The system includes an initiation energy source configured to apply an initiation energy to the medium to activate the energy modulation agent.
US11678681B2	Osmotic system for maintenance of perishable items A system and methodology for rehydrating perishable items (e.g., flowers, fresh food items, such as fruits, vegetables, other produce, and nuts) during storage and transportation thereof. The osmotic rehydration apparatus includes a pressurized chamber, a humidifier, an ozone generator, an electrostatic sprayer, a reservoir containing saline, and an air compressor. The perishable items are placed in the osmotic chamber under positive pressure. A film of saline solution is applied to the surface of the perishable items via an electrostatic sprayer. The saline/chlorine film on the perishable items is dried, and the osmotic chamber is saturated with ozone gas via an ozone generator. The osmotic chamber is then saturated with tiny pure water droplets via a humidifier or an electrostatic sprayer. The pressure within the chamber is raised to a pressure above atmospheric pressure. The osmotic chamber is then placed inside a cooler at a temperature slightly above freezing.
US11678679B2	Meat analogues and meat analogue extrusion devices and methods A meat analogue may include a macrostructure of connected sheared fibers oriented parallel to one another and gaps positioned between the sheared fibers. The macrostructure may include meat and may include a vegetable protein. An extrusion system may include an extruder and a die. The extrusion system may produce a meat analogue. A meat analogue may include an animal protein. The extruder may be connectable to the die. The extrusion system may be configured to direct a material including an animal protein from the extruder to the die and through a fluid path extending through the die. The die may be configured to inject a fat or a fat analogue into the material such that the fat or the fat analogue is embedded but visually distinct from the material including the animal protein when the fat or the fat analogue and the material exit the die.
US11678676B2	Foaming pressurized beverage A method of making a pressurized packaged liquid beverage including filling a container including a one-way valve with a liquid mixture including a base liquid and a gum; sealing the container; introducing a volume of gas through the one-way valve after sealing the container; and agitating the container. When the container is opened, the liquid mixture increases in volume and separates into a liquid phase and a drinkable foam phase, which may persist for an extended period of time. The base liquid includes milk, coffee, fruit juice, or mixtures thereof.
US11678672B2	Machine for making a food roll A machine is configured to make a food roll, wherein a strip of dough is spirally wrapped around a food product elongated along an axis between two ends. The machine comprises a feed means for conveying a plurality of strips of dough that are spaced apart from each other along a forming path and a wrapping station for wrapping each strip of dough around a food product. The wrapping station comprises a positioning area, which is configured to position the strip of dough obliquely with respect to the axis of the food product, and a rolling area for the strip of dough, which is configured to wrap the strip of dough spirally around a food product starting from one of the ends of the food product. The rolling area comprises two spindles that are rotatable about an axis of rotation and each one having an attachment portion for retaining a food product at the ends thereof. The wrapping station comprises a distributor of food products configured to direct one food product at a time towards the rolling area so as to be gripped and retained by the spindles.
US11678668B2	Agricultural compositions comprising remodeled nitrogen fixing microbes The present disclosure provides non-intergeneric remodeled microbes that are able to fix atmospheric nitrogen and deliver such to plants in a targeted, efficient, and environmentally sustainable manner. The utilization of the taught microbial products will enable farmers to realize more productive and predictable crop yields without the nutrient degradation, leaching, or toxic runoff associated with traditional synthetically derived nitrogen fertilizer. The remodeled microbes taught herein are able to be combined with leading agricultural chemistry and elite germplasm. Furthermore, the disclosure provides seed treatments comprising remodeled microbes.
US11678667B2	Agricultural compositions comprising remodeled nitrogen fixing microbes The present disclosure provides non-intergeneric remodeled microbes that are able to fix atmostpheric nitrogen and deliver such to plants in a targeted, efficient, and environmentally sustainable manner. The utilization of the taught microbial products will enable farmers to realize more productive and predictable crop yields without the nutrient degradation, leaching, or toxic runoff associated with traditional synthetically derived nitrogen fertilizer. The remodeled microbes taught herein are able to be combined with leading agricultural chemistry and elite germplasm. Furthermore, the disclosure provides seed treatments comprising remodeled microbes.
US11678663B2	Multi-purpose disinfectant, degreaser, cleaner and herbicide A natural cleaning and herbicide composition having an quaternary ammonium compound, one or more additional amine-based surfactants, and an herbicidally active limonene component, that synergistically creates an effective COVID-19 disinfectant in wipes, an effective clearer for bulk cleaning applications, as well as an impressive gross soils remover following EPA protocol. The composition may further contain sodium silicate, tetrasodium iminodisuccinate, an ethanolamine, caustic potash, and/or water. A formulation of the present disclosure comprises a mixture of about 74% soft water, about 1% Tetrasodium Iminodisuccinate, about 0.5% Monoethanolamine, about 0.5% Sodium Silicate, about 2% alkali surfactant, about 12% Ethoxylated Amine, about 1% Amine Oxide, about 1% Quaternary Amine, and about 6% Limonene.
US11678662B2	Antimicrobial composition An antimicrobial composition is provided that comprises about 10.0 to about 40.0 wt. % of one or more C1-8 alcohols, based on the total weight of the antimicrobial composition; and two or more of a surfactant; an enhancer; and a buffer. The pH of the composition is less than or equal to about 6.0 and the composition achieves a microbial log reduction of greater than 4.0 log CFU/ml at a contact time of 1 minute, in accordance ASTM E2783.
US11678661B2	Thickened organic liquid compositions with polymeric rheology modifiers Disclosed are thickened organic liquid compositions comprising an organic liquid and a polymeric rheology modifier wherein the polymeric rheology modifier is obtainable by co-polymerizing at least two of a bicyclic (meth)acrylate ester, an alkyl (meth)acrylate, and an aromatic vinyl monomer. Also disclosed are thickened organic liquid dispersions with suspended solids and methods of stabilizing dispersions using polymeric rheology modifiers.
US11678659B2	Use as rodenticides of compounds that inhibit blood coagulation The invention relates to a use, a method and a poison in which a thrombin inhibitor, a thrombin receptor antagonist, a factor Xa inhibitor, a PAI (plasminogen activator inhibitor), a P2Y12 ADP receptor antagonist or a GPIIb/IIIa receptor antagonist are used as rodenticide.
US11678653B1	Mobile insect killing system with handle assembly A base assembly has an upward plate, a downward plate, a side wall, a front, a back, and laterally spaced sides. A drive assembly has drive wheels extending downwardly from the downward plate, a caster wheel, and proximity sensors. A vacuum assembly has a vacuum slit in the downward plate between the lateral sides and a vacuum-generating source capable of pulling a vacuum through the vacuum slit. A tower assembly is adapted to attract and kill insects while the base assembly and the tower assembly are being optionally driven by the drive assembly and the vacuum assembly is vacuuming up insects.
US11678648B2	Coral nursery and planting system based on a ring or washer mount A coral ring mount device and method for the propagative culture of sessile benthic marine organisms (for example, stony corals) employing either a ring, washer or threaded nut or similar as a propagule mount upon which the coral is set in order to attach, grow and overgrow within a coral nursery system. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, once the coral is grown onto the ring mount and to its requisite size and condition, the ring mount becomes the washer through which passes a screw to secure the ring and coral to the seafloor.
US11678644B2	Pet toy with interconnecting grooves and open core The pet toy of the invention comprises a spherical shaped body with eight distinct quadrants formed on the exterior surface thereof. Each section is three sided, similar to an equilateral triangle except each corner of the triangular-shaped is curved or rounded. A central opening is formed through the pet toy. Preferably, the pet toy is hollow and the pet toy has a substantially uniform sidewall thickness, thereby creating an open core. Measured parameters of the pet toy are provided to minimize the potential of the toy becoming caught in an animal's throat yet the pet toy is still configured to maximize play potential. The measured parameters include in various combinations of a weight of the pet toy, a diameter of the pet toy, depths of grooves in the pet toy, widths of the grooves and shapes of the grooves.
US11678641B2	Hinge locking system A hinge locking system is provided for locking pivotable hinge parts at a desired angular position relative to one another. The hinge locking system includes a locking pin, a plate with a locking pin receiver, a movable pin receiver defining an axial bore for receiving the locking pin, and a pair of spaced-apart limit stops along the plate. The movable pin receiver is movable relative to the plate, and the limit stops are selectively contacted by the movable pin receiver to limit the maximum relative movement of the movable pin receiver. When the axial bore of the movable pin receiver aligns with the plate's locking pin receiver, the locking pin is insertable through the locking pin receiver and the axial bore in the movable pin receiver, to thereby lock the movable pin receiver and the hinge parts against further movement.
US11678637B2	Soybean cultivar 03220116 A soybean cultivar designated 03220116 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 03220116, to the plants of soybean cultivar 03220116, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 03220116, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 03220116. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 03220116. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 03220116, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 03220116 with another soybean cultivar.
US11678634B2	Soybean cultivar 02110351 A soybean cultivar designated 02110351 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 02110351, to the plants of soybean cultivar 02110351, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 02110351, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 02110351. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 02110351. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 02110351, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 02110351 with another soybean cultivar.
US11678626B1	Maize inbred PH4C5T A novel maize variety designated PH4C5T and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH4C5T with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH4C5T through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety PH4C5T or a locus conversion of PH4C5T with another maize variety.
US11678624B2	Melon with red flesh linked to earliness The present disclosure provides Cucumis melo inbred line CHA-ZA15-0014AN. The present disclosure also provides methods to select, produce, and grow these plants, parts of such plants, and products made from those parts. The disclosure also includes progeny of the provided plants including hybrid and inbred lines.
US11678623B2	Canola inbred 3GR00F A novel canola variety designated 3GR00F and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a canola plant that comprise crossing canola variety 3GR00F with another canola plant. Methods for producing a canola plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 3GR00F through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the canola seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid canola seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the canola variety 3GR00F or a locus conversion of 3GR00F with another canola variety.
US11678622B2	Lettuce variety ‘E01G11244’ New lettuce designated ‘E01G11244’ is described. ‘E01G11244’ is a lettuce variety exhibiting stability and uniformity.
US11678621B2	Growing system A growing system and/or plant support structure may include one or more feet supporting at least one or more uprights, on which a plurality of plants and/or grow boards for growing plants may be positioned. A nutrient delivery system may be positioned between opposing uprights to provide nutrient supply to a root zone of plants, which nutrient delivery system may be positioned adjacent each opposing upright in an interior chamber of the plant support structure. A light system may be positioned between two adjacent plant support structures such that it simultaneously provides light to the exterior surface of the two plant support structures. A collapsible light may be positioned adjacent plants and plant support structures for improved access to the plants or plant support structures while allowing variable and controllable light distribution beneficial to control of adjacent plants and plant structures.
US11678620B2	Irrigation pipe having protruding strengthening members An irrigation pipe that extends along an axis and has a pipe wall with a base portion (55) and a plurality of bulge members (1, 2) that extend away from the base portion.
US11678617B2	Mycelium growth bed with perforation layer and related method for creating a uniform sheet of mycelium from a solid-state medium A mycelium growth bed for growing a solid substrate-bound mycelium through which the mycelium composite is easily and readily removed. This is achieved through the use of a perforation layer embedded between the mycelium substrate and the mycelium composite so as to create a uniform structural weakness and thereby enhancing harvesting abilities of the ex-substrate mycelium via a greatly reduced and uniform tear strength. The perforation layer, through which the mycelium grows, allows for the gated and controlled extrusion of a matrix of colonial cells that may be easily and uniformly delaminated from the underlying mycelium substrate.
US11678615B2	Method and system for dynamic power delivery to a flexible growcenter using unutilized energy sources A flexible growcenter includes a mobile container, a behind-the-meter power input system, a power distribution system, a growcenter control system, a climate control system, a lighting system, and an irrigation system. The growcenter control system modulates power delivery to one or more components of the climate control system, the lighting system, and the irrigation system based on unutilized behind-the-meter power availability or an operational directive. A method of dynamic power delivery to a flexible growcenter using unutilized behind-the-meter power includes monitoring unutilized behind-the-meter power availability, determining when a growcenter ramp-up condition is met, and enabling behind-the-meter power delivery to one or more computing systems when the growcenter ramp-up condition is met.
US11678609B2	Fruit picking method based on visual servo control robot Disclosed is a fruit picking method based on a visual servo control robot, comprising: placing a throwing apparatus and a fixed photosensitive device at a first position to obtain a fixed photosensitive image; generating a first throwing path, a second throwing path, and a third throwing path; arranging recovery apparatuses; performing simultaneous rotational throwing processing to throw a first wireless photosensitive device, a second wireless photosensitive device, and a third wireless photosensitive device; receiving a first photosensitive image sequence and a second photosensitive image sequence of the first wireless photosensitive device and the second wireless photosensitive device; receiving a third photosensitive image sequence of the third wireless photosensitive device; generating a spatial position of a fruit on a to-be-picked fruit tree; and performing fruit picking processing using the visual servo control robot according to the spatial position of the fruit.
US11678601B2	Seed disk with adjustable singulators for seed orientation during planting A system for seed orientation includes a seed disk capable of rotation in operation and having at least one singulator to adjust an orientation of seed to a desired seed orientation for placement within a furrow during planting. A vision system in proximity to the seed disk determines seed orientation data for seed on the seed disk.
US11683999B2	Switching layer scheme to enhance RRAM performance The present disclosure relates to a memory device. The memory device includes an access device arranged on or within a substrate and coupled to a word-line and a source line. A plurality of lower interconnects are disposed within a lower dielectric structure over the substrate. A first electrode is coupled to the plurality of lower interconnects. The plurality of lower interconnects couple the access device to the first electrode. A second electrode is over the first electrode. One or more upper interconnects are disposed within an upper dielectric structure laterally surrounding the second electrode. The one or more upper interconnects couple the second electrode to a bit-line. A data storage structure is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The data storage structure includes one or more metals having non-zero concentrations that change as a distance from the substrate varies.
US11683997B2	Superconducting compounds and methods for making the same A superconducting article includes a substrate and a superconducting metal oxide film formed on the substrate. The metal oxide film including ions of an alkali metal, ions of a transition metal, and ions of an alkaline earth metal or a rare earth metal. For instance, the metal oxide film can include Rb ions, La ions, and Cu ions. The superconducting metal oxide film can have a critical temperature for onset of superconductivity of greater than 250 K, e.g., greater than room temperature.
US11683994B2	Magnetic element with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) and improved coercivity field (Hc)/switching current ratio A perpendicular magnetic tunnel junction is disclosed wherein a metal insertion (MIS) layer is formed within a free layer (FL), a partially oxidized Hk enhancing layer is on the FL, and a nitride capping layer having a buffer layer/nitride layer (NL) is on the Hk enhancing layer to provide an improved coercivity (Hc)/switching current (Jc) ratio for spintronic applications. Magnetoresistive ratio is maintained above 100%, resistance×area (RA) product is below 5 ohm/μm2, and thermal stability to 400° C. is realized. The FL comprises two or more sub-layers, and the MIS layer may be formed within at least one sub-layer or between sub-layers. The buffer layer is used to prevent oxygen diffusion to the NL, and nitrogen diffusion from the NL to the FL. FL thickness is from 11 Angstroms to 25 Angstroms while MIS layer thickness is preferably from 0.5 Angstroms to 4 Angstroms.
US11683992B2	Magnetic memory device A magnetic memory device may include an interlayer insulating layer on a substrate, a bottom electrode contact disposed in the interlayer insulating layer, and a magnetic tunnel junction pattern on the bottom electrode contact. The bottom electrode contact may include a second region and a first region, which are sequentially disposed in a first direction perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate so that the second region is between the first region and the top surface of the substrate. A first width of the first region may be smaller than a second width of the second region, when measured in a second direction parallel to the top surface of the substrate.
US11683991B2	Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method of the same The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing semiconductor structure, including forming an insulation layer, forming a first via trench in the insulation layer, forming a barrier layer in the first via trench, forming a bottom electrode via in the first via trench, forming a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) layer above the bottom electrode via, and performing an ion beam etching operation, including patterning the MTJ layer to form an MTJ and removing a portion of the insulation layer from a top surface.
US11683990B2	Techniques for MRAM MTJ top electrode connection Some embodiments relate to an integrated circuit including a semiconductor substrate and an interconnect structure disposed over the semiconductor substrate. The interconnect structure includes a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of metal layers that are stacked over one another in alternating fashion. The plurality of metal layers include a lower metal layer and an upper metal layer disposed over the lower metal layer. A bottom electrode is disposed over and in electrical contact with the lower metal layer. A dielectric layer is disposed over an upper surface of the bottom electrode. A top electrode is disposed over an upper surface of the dielectric layer and is in direct electrical contact with a lower surface of the upper metal layer.
US11683989B2	Data storage devices and methods for manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing a data storage device may include forming a magnetic tunnel junction layer on a substrate, irradiating a first ion beam on the magnetic tunnel junction layer to form magnetic tunnel junction patterns separated from each other, irradiating a second ion beam on the magnetic tunnel junction layer, and irradiating a third ion beam on the magnetic tunnel junction layer. The first ion beam may be irradiated at a first incident angle. The second ion beam may be irradiated at a second incident angle that may be smaller than the first incident angle. The third ion beam may be irradiated to form sidewall insulating patterns on sidewalls of the magnetic tunnel junction patterns based on re-depositing materials separated by the third ion beam on the sidewalls of the magnetic tunnel junction patterns.
US11683979B2	Electroactive materials There is disclosed a compound Formula I In Formula I: Z is CR4R5, C═CR4R5, SiR4R5, GeR4R5, NR4a, PR4a, P(O)R4a, O, S, SO, SO2, Se; SeO, SeO2, Te, TeO, or TeO2; R1-R3 are the same or different at each occurrence and are D, aryl, heteroaryl, alkyl, amino, silyl, germyl, deuterated aryl, deuterated heteroaryl, deuterated alkyl, deuterated amino, deuterated silyl, or deuterated germyl, where two groups selected from R1, R2, and R3 can be joined together to form a fused ring; R4-R5 are the same or different at each occurrence and are H, D, aryl, heteroaryl, alkyl, amino, silyl, germyl, deuterated aryl, deuterated heteroaryl, deuterated alkyl, deuterated amino, deuterated silyl, or deuterated germyl; R4ais alkyl, silyl, germyl, aryl, or a deuterated analog thereof; a is an integer from 0-4; b and c are the same or different and are an integer from 0-3.
US11683976B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus includes a base layer including device counterparts and bridges, the bridges being located around the device counterparts and connecting the device counterparts to each other, an inorganic insulating layer located over the base layer and having openings exposing at least a portion of at least one of the bridges, organic layers filling the openings, wires located over the organic layers, display devices located over the device counterparts, and encapsulation films each of which has a form of an island to correspond to a corresponding one of the device counterparts, each of the encapsulation films including a first inorganic encapsulation film covering a corresponding one of the display devices, an organic encapsulation film located over the first inorganic encapsulation film, and a second inorganic encapsulation film covering the organic encapsulation film and contacting the first inorganic encapsulation film outside of the organic encapsulation film.
US11683975B2	Etchant composition and method of manufacturing display apparatus by using the same An etchant composition includes an inorganic acid compound of about 8 wt % to about 15 wt %, a sulfonic acid compound of about 2.5 wt % to about 8 wt %, a sulfate compound of about 6 wt % to about 14 wt %, an organic acid compound of about 40 wt % to about 55 wt %, a metal or metal salt of about 0.01 wt % to about 0.06 wt %, and water.
US11683966B2	Capacitor A capacitor includes an active layer, a gate insulation layer on the active layer, a gate electrode on the gate insulation layer, an interlayer insulating layer on the gate electrode, and a first electrode on the interlayer insulating layer and connected to the active layer through at least one contact hole.
US11683965B2	Display device A display device includes: a substrate comprising a display area and a peripheral area outside the display area; a first connection line in the display area, the first connection line comprising a first portion extending along a first column of the display area and in the first column, a third portion extending along a second column of the display area and in the second column, and a second portion connecting the first portion to the third portion; and a second connection line in the peripheral area and connected to the third portion of the first connection line and a data line in a third column of the display area.
US11683964B2	Organic light emitting diode display having electrode structure for improved display quality An organic light emitting diode display includes a substrate, a semiconductor pattern disposed on the substrate, a first conductive layer disposed on the semiconductor pattern and including a first gate electrode having an island-shaped structure, a second gate electrode having an island-shaped structure, and a third gate electrode having an island-shaped structure, and a second conductive layer disposed on the first conductive layer and including a first initialization voltage line overlapping the first gate electrode, a scan line overlapping the second gate electrode, and a control signal line overlapping the third gate electrode, where the control signal line is electrically connected to the third gate electrode, the scan line is electrically connected to the second gate electrode, and the first initialization voltage line, the scan line, and the control signal line extend in a first direction.
US11683962B2	Display device having buffer transistor with control electrode in non-active area A display device includes: a base layer including an active area and a non-active area adjacent to the active area; a display circuit layer including a pixel circuit at the active area of the base layer, and a driving circuit at the non-active area, the driving circuit to supply a driving signal to the pixel circuit; and a display element layer on the display circuit layer and including light emitting elements to emit light. The non-active area includes a valley area formed by removing a portion of an organic insulation layer at the display circuit layer, the driving circuit includes a buffer transistor to output the driving signal, and the buffer transistor includes a control electrode and a semiconductor layer overlapping the valley area in a plan view.
US11683955B2	Light absorber and organic electroluminescence device including the same Provided are a light absorber represented by Formula 1 and an organic electroluminescence device including a light absorption layer including the light absorber: In Formula 1, X1 is O or S.
US11683952B2	Light-emitting element and display device There has been a problem that difference in refractive index between an opposite substrate or a moisture barrier layer provided thereover, and air is maintained large, and light extraction efficiency is low. Further, there has been a problem that peeling or cracking due to the moisture barrier layer is easily generated, which leads to deteriorate the reliability and lifetime of a light-emitting element. A light-emitting element comprises a pixel electrode, an electroluminescent layer, a transparent electrode, a passivation film, a stress relieving layer, and a low refractive index layer, all of which are stacked sequentially. The stress relieving layer serves to prevent peeling of the passivation film. The low refractive index layer serves to reduce reflectivity of light generated in the electroluminescent layer in emitting to air. Therefore, a light-emitting element with high reliability and long lifetime and a display device using the light-emitting element can be provided.
US11683951B2	Display panel and display device A display panel is provided, the display panel including: a substrate including: a front display area; a first side display area; a second side display area; a corner display area between the first side display area and the second side display area; and an intermediate display area between the front display area and the corner display area; an intermediate display element including a pixel electrode in the intermediate display area; a lower layer between the substrate and the pixel electrode, the lower layer including a groove; and a dam portion on the lower layer and extending to define a boundary between the intermediate display area and the corner display area, wherein the groove includes a first groove and a second groove, the first groove extending in parallel with the dam portion, and the second groove extending in a direction crossing a direction in which the dam portion.
US11683950B2	Display panel and electronic device including drainage structure and isolation ring A display panel and an electronic device are provided. The display panel includes: an opening area; a display area surrounding the opening area; at least one isolation ring, wherein at least a part of the at least one isolation ring is located between the display area and the opening area, and the at least one isolation ring surrounds the opening area; and a drainage structure extending from a sidewall of an isolation ring in the at least one isolation ring along a straight line passing through a center of the isolation ring.
US11683947B2	Organic light emitting display device and method of manufacturing the same An organic light emitting display device may include a substrate, a first pixel electrode on the substrate, a pixel defining layer on the substrate, the pixel defining layer having an opening exposing a portion of the first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode on the portion of the first pixel electrode exposed by the opening, a hole injection layer on the second pixel electrode, the hole injection layer including a metal oxide, an organic light emitting layer on the hole injection layer; and a common electrode on the organic light emitting layer.
US11683946B2	Transparent display device A transparent display device includes a substrate in which a sub-pixel having an organic light emitting diode and an auxiliary sub-pixel adjacent to the sub-pixel and having an auxiliary organic light emitting diode are placed, wherein the organic light emitting diode includes a 1-1 electrode in which a transparent conductive layer and a reflective layer are laminated, and the auxiliary organic light emitting diode includes a 1-2 electrode in which the transparent conductive layer is extended and provided.
US11683940B2	Method of manufacturing variable resistance memory device A variable resistance memory device and a method of manufacturing the same, the variable resistance memory device including a substrate including a first memory region and a second memory region; a plurality of first memory cells on the first memory region; and a plurality of second memory cells on the second memory region, wherein each of the first memory cells includes a first resistance element and a selection element, each of the second memory cells includes a second resistance element, and a maximum value of a variable resistance of the second resistance element is less than a maximum value of a variable resistance of the first resistance element.
US11683938B2	Magnetic field controlled transistor A magnetic field controlled transistor circuit includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a channel including a magneto-resistive material. The channel is arranged between the first and second electrodes and electrically coupled to the first and second electrodes. The transistor circuit further includes a third electrode, a fourth electrode, and a control layer including an electrically conductive material. The control layer is arranged between the third and fourth electrodes and electrically coupled to the third and fourth electrodes. In addition, an insulating layer including an insulating material is provided. The insulating layer is arranged between the channel and the control layer and configured to electrically insulate the channel from the control layer. A related method for operating a transistor circuit and a corresponding design structure are also provided.
US11683936B2	Semiconductor memory structure and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor memory structure and method of manufacturing a semiconductor memory structure are provided. The semiconductor memory structure includes alternatively arranged stacking portions and cell regions. Each cell region includes two ferroelectric layers formed along the adjacent stacking portions; and at least one central portion disposed between the ferroelectric layers and including a first conductive structure and a second conductive structure separated by a channel isolation structure as well as two semiconductor layers formed along the ferroelectric layers. The first conductive structure includes a contact portion and an extension portion. The contact portion is disposed between the semiconductor layers. The extension portion extends from the contact portion to the channel isolation structure and is separated from the semiconductor layers through dielectric layers.
US11683930B2	Method of fabricating semiconductor device The present disclosure provides a method of fabricating a semiconductor device. The method includes: providing a semiconductor substrate comprising a memory region and a logic region; forming a memory gate in or on the memory region; forming a plurality of first poly-silicon gates on the memory region and surrounding the memory gate; and forming a plurality of second poly-silicon gates on the logic region simultaneously with the formation of the first poly-silicon gates.
US11683921B2	Tool for installation of OCP form factor card An insertion tool for assisting in the insertion of an OCP 3.0 type expansion card in an expansion card slot of a computer system is disclosed. The expansion card may be a pull tab type form factor that does not have a mechanism such as an ejector latch to assist in applying force to insert the card. The expansion card has a front panel opposite a distal edge connector. The tool has a handle and a head coupled to the handle. The head has two contact areas that contact different areas of the front panel of the expansion card. For example, one of the contact areas may be an extended side arm and the other area may be a lateral rib extending from the head.
US11683920B2	Component mounting line An automatic exchanging device is provided which moves alongside the front face of a component mounting line. When an automatic exchange request for a feeder is generated in any of multiple component mounting machines constituting the component mounting line, the automatic exchanging device moves to the front of the component mounting machine in which the automatic exchange request was generated to automatically exchange the feeder. When a new automatic exchange request is generated in any one of the component mounting machines, a pull-out operation of a predetermined number of component mounting machines is prohibited, from the component mounting machine facing the automatic exchanging device toward the position of the component mounting machine in which the new automatic exchange request was generated.
US11683919B2	Conformal heat pipe assemblies A heat pipe assembly includes walls having porous wick linings, an insulating layer coupled with at least one of the walls, and an interior chamber sealed by the walls. The linings hold a liquid phase of a working fluid in the interior chamber. The insulating layer is directly against a conductive component of an electromagnetic power conversion device such that heat from the conductive component vaporizes the working fluid in the porous wick lining of the at least one wall and the working fluid condenses at or within the porous wick lining of at least one other wall to cool the conductive component of the electromagnetic power conversion device. The assembly can be placed in direct contact with the device while the device is operating and/or experiencing time-varying magnetic fields that cause the device to operate.
US11683915B1	Data center liquid conduction and carbon dioxide based cooling apparatus and method Embodiments disclosed include a heat exchange apparatus and method comprising, in an electronic device, a first heat exchanger for exchanging heat with the device wherein the heat exchanger comprises a flow duct for receiving a fluid, and at least a portion of the flow duct is arranged for thermal communication with the device. Preferred embodiments include a pressure reducing unit comprising a pump associated with the flow duct and a Venturi tube configured for reducing the pressure of the fluid in the portion of the flow duct arranged in thermal communication with the device and less than the pressure external to the duct. An embodiment includes a fluid reservoir, and a second heat exchanger for removing heat from the fluid reservoir wherein the second heat exchanger comprises an evaporator in a refrigerant system through which refrigerant is passed in a closed loop via an expansion valve from a gas cooler and back into a compressor.
US11683914B2	Electronic device and heat dissipation assembly An electronic device connected to external heat dissipation device and including chassis, heat source, and heat dissipation assembly. Heat dissipation assembly includes evaporator, tubing, and liquid-cooling plate. Evaporator is in thermal contact with heat source. Tubing includes evaporation portion and condensation portion. Evaporation portion is in fluid communication with condensation portion and in thermal contact with evaporator. Liquid-cooling plate is disposed on chassis and spaced apart from heat source. Liquid-cooling plate includes liquid-cooling accommodation space and is configured to be in fluid communication with external heat dissipation device. Condensation portion is located in liquid-cooling accommodation space. Condensation portion includes first tube part, second tube part and connecting tube parts. Two opposite ends of each connecting tube part are respectively in fluid communication with first and second tube parts. Connecting tube parts are connected in parallel. First and second tube parts are in fluid communication with evaporation portion.
US11683910B2	Hot plug redundant pump for cooling system A coolant distribution unit providing reliant circulation of coolant in a liquid cooling system for a heat-generating component such as a computer server is disclosed. The coolant distribution unit includes a manifold unit having a supply connector to supply coolant to the heat-generating component and a collection connector to collect coolant from a heat exchanger. A first pump has an inlet coupled to the manifold unit and an outlet coupled to the manifold unit. The first pump circulates coolant from the inlet to the outlet. A second pump has an inlet coupled to the manifold unit and an outlet coupled to the manifold. The second pump circulates coolant from the inlet to the outlet. The second pump may be disconnected from the manifold unit, while the first pump continues to circulate coolant through the manifold unit.
US11683908B2	Knockdown water-cooling unit latch device structure A knockdown water-cooling unit latch device structure includes a latch device assembly having multiple latch members. The latch members are correspondingly assembled with each other around a water-cooling unit. The latch members are connected with each other via at least one connection member. Alternatively, the latch members are directly assembled with each other by means of engagement or lap joint. The latch members of the latch device assembly are assembled with the water-cooling unit so that when the latch device assembly is assembled with the water-cooling unit, the latch members will not interfere with the water-cooling unit.
US11683904B2	Guide holders for engaging a motherboard sled with an input-output sled stacked thereon Guide holders for engaging a motherboard sled with an input-output sled stacked thereon within an electronic chassis, are disclosed. The electronic chassis includes a motherboard sled having a housing having a first sidewall and a second sidewall opposite to the first sidewall, a first guide holder and a second guide holder. The first guide holder is coupled to the first sidewall and includes a first plurality of slots for directing motion of a first plurality of guide pins of an input-output sled in a predetermined direction. The second guide holder is coupled to the second sidewall and includes a second plurality of slots for directing motion of a second plurality of guide pins of the input-output sled in the predetermined direction. The motion of the first plurality of guide pins and the second plurality of guide pins, upon completion, locks the input-output sled to the motherboard sled.
US11683902B2	Monitoring-and-control drawer for electrical connection enclosure and electrical connection enclosure comprising such a monitoring-and-control drawer A monitoring-and-control drawer for an electrical enclosure is connected to an electricity source and to an electrical load and is linked to at least one communication interface allowing the drawer to be supplied with power or to communicate with an industrial computer. The monitoring-and-control drawer is mobile within the enclosure between three main positions: a disconnected position, a test position, and an operating position. At least one lateral structure comprises a mobile lateral contact (352) comprising electrical contacts (436) which, during the movement of the drawer between the test position and the operating position, are fixed with respect to a communication interface and connect the drawer to this interface. The electrical contacts are mobile along a longitudinal axis of the drawer with respect to the drawer when the drawer is between an engagement position and its operating position and are mobile along a transverse axis of the drawer when the drawer is between its engagement position and its test position.
US11683900B2	Power conversion system The present disclosure relates to the field of power electronics, and proposes a power conversion system, including a power cabinet, a first divider and a plurality of power modules. The power cabinet includes a first high voltage compartment and a first low voltage compartment. The first divider is arranged in the power cabinet, and extends along a height direction of the power cabinet to separate the first high voltage compartment and the first low voltage compartment. The plurality of power modules are arranged in the power cabinet, each power module includes a high voltage input terminal and a low voltage output terminal; the high voltage input terminal is arranged in the first high voltage compartment, and the low voltage output terminal is arranged in the first low voltage compartment.
US11683899B2	Waterproof device A waterproof device including a casing structure, a cover structure, a first engaging plate, a second engaging plate, a first elastic member, and a second elastic member is provided. The casing structure, on which the cover structure is disposed, includes a bottom plate, a first side plate, a second side plate, a third side plate, and a fourth side plate. The first engaging plate is disposed adjacent to the first side plate, and the first elastic member is connected therebetween. The second engaging plate is disposed adjacent to the second side plate, and the second elastic member is connected therebetween. The first engaging plate can reciprocate between a first positioning position and a first disengagement position relative to the first side plate, and the second engaging plate can reciprocate between a second positioning position and a second disengagement position relative to the second side plate.
US11683893B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus includes a display panel, a substrate, and a frame structure. The substrate has an outer circumference end face including a first end face part and a second end face part intersecting the first end face part at a first intersection, a first groove formed on the first end face part and extending in a first direction, and a second groove formed on the second end face part and extending in a second direction. The frame structure holds the display panel and the substrate, and has a cyclic frame part surrounding the substrate and the display panel, a first rib erected on a first part of the frame part, and a second rib erected on a second part of the frame part.
US11683892B2	Display device and method of manufacturing the same A display device, includes: a substrate including a display front portion, a display curved portion, a non-display curved portion, and a non-display rear portion; a display layer attached to the display front portion and the display curved portion; a member attached to an inner side of the substrate, and including articulations attached to an inner side of the non-display curved portion; and a window attached to an outer side of the display layer; wherein: the display layer is attached to an outer side of the substrate; at least a portion of the display curved portion forms a first generally curved surface; at least a portion of the non-display curved portion forms a second generally curved surface; the non-display rear portion forms a substantially flat surface; at least one of the articulations has a cross-sectional width that decreases in a direction away from the substrate; and at least one of the articulations contacts each other to form the second generally curved surface of the non-display curved portion.
US11683890B2	Reflow grid array to support late attach of components A reflowable grid array (RGA) interposer includes first connection pads on a first surface of a body and second connection pads on a second surface of the body. Heating elements within the body are adjacent to the second connection pads. First interconnects within the body connect some of the second connection pads to the first connection pads. Second interconnects within the body connect pairs of the second connection pads. A motherboard assembly includes first and second components (e.g., CPU with co-processor and/or memory) and the RGA interposer. The first connection pads are in contact with motherboard contacts. The second connection pads are in contact with the first and second components. The first component passes signals directly to the motherboard by the first interconnects. The second component passes signals directly to the first component by the second interconnects but does not pass signals directly to the motherboard by the first interconnects.
US11683885B2	Sheet-like device and manufacturing method of the same Provided is a sheet-like device suitable for a flexible electrical product that is robust, highly flexible, and operates stably. The sheet-like device includes a first part where a first film layer, a first conversion unit, and a second film layer overlap, a second part where the first film layer is absent and the second film layer is present, and a third part where the first film layer, a second conversion unit, and the second film layer overlap. The first part the second part, and the third part are arranged side by side in this order in a first direction. A first region including the first part the second part, and the third part has an elongation per unit length greater than an elongation per unit length of the first film layer alone when a same force is applied in the first direction at 20° C.
US11683884B2	Component carrier with embedded component connected in cavity by anchored first and second polymers A component carrier having a stack with at least one electrically conductive layer structure and/or at least one electrically insulating layer structure and having a cavity delimited at least partially by a first polymer, and a component embedded in the cavity of the stack and being at least partially covered by a second polymer, wherein an anchoring interface is formed at an interface between the first polymer and the second polymer at which the first polymer and the second polymer are mechanically anchored with each other.
US11683882B2	Stretchable substrate, method for manufacturing stretchable substrate, device for manufacturing stretchable substrate structure, and method for manufacturing stretchable substrate structure A device for manufacturing a stretchable substrate structure according to an embodiment includes a carrier substrate receiving portion configured to receive a carrier substrate therein, a stretchable substrate receiving portion configured to receive a stretchable substrate in a direction facing the carrier substrate, and a diaphragm configured to be deformed by air pressure provided on one surface, wherein the diaphragm comes in contact with an entire surface of the stretchable substrate in a plane direction when deformed, such that the stretchable substrate is combined to the carrier substrate by deforming according to the deformed shape of the diaphragm.
US11683881B2	Origami-based stretchable electronic device and methods for their manufacture A flexible electronic device (SED) that can conform to a three-dimensional structure, and methods for manufacturing the SED, are disclosed herein. The SED comprises a flexible substrate which is modified in accordance with a folding pattern. The flexible substrate can be folded or unfolded along crease lines of the folding pattern, and the largest deformations of the substrate are localized at the crease lines. Various functional components of the SED are positioned on rigid regions of the substrate defined by the folding pattern. Such that the various functional components are protected from large deformations due to a folding or unfolding process, ensuring good performance of the functional components.
US11683879B2	Scanning x-ray system A raster scanning x-ray source can be light and small, and can have high resolution. A raster-assembly can be attached directly to and can encircle an x-ray tube. The raster-assembly can adjoin or can be very close to the x-ray tube, resulting in a small and lightweight scanning x-ray source. X-rays can backscatter back into the x-ray tube instead of into a detector, thus improving resolution of the resulting image. A voltage-multiplier, which can be used with the x-ray source, can include separate voltage-multiplier-stages in a stack.
US11683877B2	Communication adaptor for converter for driving lighting means The invention proposes a communication adaptor, comprising within one casing: a transmission antenna, a wired control interface connected to wired control interface terminals, a control circuitry for converting wirelessly received wireless communication signals into wired control interface signals and vice versa, wherein the adaptor is designed such that it can be brought in close contact with a reception antenna of a converter for lighting mean, such as e.g. LEDs, in order to establish a wireless communication, wherein the control circuitry and the wired control interface are powered by means of the wired control interface terminals.
US11683876B2	System for wireless control of electrical loads The present disclosure relates to the field of lighting and more specifically, to a Bluetooth low energy mesh enabled adaptive light emitting diode (LED) driver with wireless battery powered switches for lighting control. In an aspect, the LED driver can include a rectifier (104); a switch mode power supply (106), a wireless Bluetooth and microcontroller board (110) and a portable wireless switch (506). The rectifier (104) can convert AC mains (102) to a DC level. The switch mode power supply circuit (106) can supply a constant voltage output followed by a constant current supply (108) for the LED load. The wireless Bluetooth module (110) can be connected in a mesh topology to other LED drivers, wireless switches and the smartphone. The microcontroller circuit (110) can enable the user to adjust the current level supplied to the LED Load using both analogue and PWM dimming techniques (112).
US11683875B2	Power line communication to control lighting Disclosed herein are systems and methods using power line communication to control light fixtures. The system operates in two phases. In the first phase, a control device generates commands which are encoded on a control signal. The control signal is generated by encoding data using two sinusoidal waves, the second sinusoidal wave being a phase-shifted copy of the first sinusoidal wave. The resulting control signal is sent on a power line. The control signal is received by light fixtures and/or sensors through an ultra-narrow band filter, decoded and converted to executable instructions for the light fixtures and data parameters for sensors. In the second phase, the light fixtures are jointly controlled by the control device and the sensors. The control in phase two is hybrid open loop/closed loop control.
US11683871B2	Electronic device and control method thereof An image formation device is provided which includes a variable resistor of which a resistance value changes in accordance with a user operation, an A/D converter that outputs information relating to a voltage applied to the variable resistor, and a pulse width modulation (PWM) controller that outputs a PWM signal having a duty ratio determined based on the information output by the A/D converter. The PWM controller outputs the PWM signal that has the duty ratio determined based on the information input with reference to a timing for inverting a logic state of the PWM signal.
US11683867B2	Microwave treatment device A microwave treatment device includes a plurality of radiation parts, a transmission line, and a plurality of feeding parts. The plurality of radiation parts includes first, second, and third radiation parts, and radiates a microwave. The transmission line has a loop line structure provided with a plurality of branch parts including first, second, and third branch parts, and transmits the microwave to the first, second, and third radiation parts respectively connected to the first, second, and third branch parts. The plurality of feeding parts includes the first feeding part and the second feeding part arranged in the transmission line at an interval of ¼ or less of the wavelength of the microwave, and transmits the microwave to the transmission line. According to this aspect, a radiation part that radiates the microwave can be selectively switched. This enables the intended heating distribution to be achieved.
US11683862B2	Concrete heating system A concrete heating system for electrically melting snow and ice. The concrete heating system generally includes a heating device for embedding in conductive concrete, the device having a spacing member and a plurality of electrically isolated conductors extending outward at an angle from the spacing member along its length. The device also includes a first electrode near the first end of the spacing member, and a second electrode extending outward from the spacing member at the second end. The plurality of conductors conduct an electrical current between the first electrode and the second electrode when the concrete heating device is embedded in conductive concrete and the power source applies a voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US11683861B2	Edge-based communication and internet communication for media distribution, data analysis, media download/upload, and other services Generally, according to aspects of the present invention, a multi-access edge computing a.k.a., mobile edge computing (MEC) server may be deployed in a wireless communication network such as a cellular communication system and wireless local area network (WLAN) for provision of an edge-based MEC service in an edge site. The MEC service may include a local communication for an audio/video distribution, data analysis, audio/video upload, etc. An access to the Internet may be provided via an access point, gateway, etc. in the wireless communication network. An Internet server accessible over the Internet may provide an Internet service associated with the MEC service. The Internet service may include recording of the edge-based local communication, backup communication as an alternative to the edge-based local communication, transfer of a media file to be used in the edge-based local communication, etc.
US11683857B2	Medium access control protocol data unit in a message 3 buffer Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for using a medium access control protocol data unit in a message 3 buffer. One method includes, in response to a medium access control protocol data unit being in a message 3 buffer and receiving an uplink grant: obtaining the medium access control protocol data unit from the message 3 buffer; if a first size of the uplink grant does not match a second size of the medium access control protocol data unit: indicating to a multiplexing and assembly entity to include medium access control sub-protocol data units carrying medium access control service data units from the obtained medium access control protocol data unit in a subsequent uplink transmission; and obtaining the medium access control protocol data unit from the multiplexing and assembly entity.
US11683856B2	Connection control method and device Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a connection control method and device. The method includes: establishing a session connection with a network device, where the session connection is for emergency service; de-activating a mobile initiated connection only (MICO) mode locally at the UE.
US11683854B1	Service-aware traffic session timers Providing a data traffic session over a wireless network using service-aware traffic session timers includes: receiving, from a user equipment (UE), at a wireless network node, a session message for the data traffic session; based on at least content within the session message, determining a data traffic session type; based on at least the data traffic session type and a stage of the data traffic session, selecting a timer value from a set of timer values, the set of timer values each specific to a type of data traffic session; and based on a timer at the wireless network node reaching the selected timer value, performing a predetermined timer expiration action for the data traffic session. In some examples, the data traffic session type may be a non-emergency voice call, an emergency call, a video call, a wireless customer service call, or a messaging session.
US11683852B2	Radio resource management using line of sight feedback Techniques are disclosed for determining one or more radio resource management (RRM) input parameters. The one or more RRM input parameters are determined based on a line of sight (LOS) estimate between two wireless stations (STAs). A plurality of RRM values are generated based on the one or more RRM input parameters. A wireless connection is established between a first wireless access point (AP) and a first STA using the RRM values.
US11683851B2	Multi-USIM suspension and optimized resumption A suspension and optimized resumption is provided for a multi-USIM UE. The UE is configured to transmit a suspension-triggering message to a first network to begin a transition of a first USIM from an RRC_CONNECTED state to an RRC_IDLE state. A contention-free random access procedure is also disclosed for the optimized resumption of the first USIM from the RRC_IDLE state back to the RRC_CONNECTED state.
US11683849B2	Redcap UE identification During an RRC Connection setup or resume procedure, a user equipment may explicitly identify itself to the network using Msg3. Rather than using the spare bit or including additional bits in Msg3, one or more values of the LCID field of the MAC sub-header of the MAC PDU may be used to identify a reduced capability user equipment. The one or more LCID field values that can identify a reduced capability user equipment may also be configured to identify a common control channel service data unit size. A plurality of LCID field values may be defined to identify varies types of RedCap UEs.
US11683847B2	Accessing a 5G network via a non-3GPP access network For establishing network connections via a trusted gateway function, a method includes: relaying a first set of messages of a first type between a remote unit and a mobile communication network (“MCN”) via a non-3GPP access, sending a connection setup request to the remote unit via the non-3GPP AN, and relaying subsequent messages of the first type between the remote unit and the MCN via the non-3GPP access, wherein the first set of messages are encapsulated with a first encapsulation protocol and wherein the first set of messages initiate a registration procedure to the MCN, wherein the connection request setup contains information for activating a second encapsulation protocol, wherein the subsequent messages are encapsulated with the second encapsulation protocol, and wherein the subsequent messages complete the registration procedure.
US11683843B2	Method and apparatus for determining channel access type in wireless communication system The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The disclosure provides method and apparatus for determining channel access procedure type for Msg3 transmission. The method includes transmitting, to a terminal, a random access response (RAR) including an uplink grant for a transmission of a message 3 (MSG3) associated with a random access procedure and first information associated with a type for a first channel access procedure for the transmission of the MSG3; transmitting, to the terminal, downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a retransmission of the MSG3 in case that the MSG3 is not received, the DCI including second information associated with a type for a second channel access procedure for the retransmission of the MSG3; and receiving, from the terminal, the MSG3 based on the second channel access procedure, which is based on the type identified by the second information.
US11683841B2	Dynamic control of PRACH format based on RRC-connection-establishment-failure history A method and system for dynamically controlling random-access-request transmission in a cell provided by an access node, the access node supporting access attempts by user equipment devices (UEs). An example method includes (i) determining an extent to which the cell has experienced access blocks due to connection-request communication failure after successful random-access transmission and (ii) using the determined extent as a basis to dynamically set a physical random access channel (PRACH) format of the cell, wherein the PRACH format defines one or more configuration settings for random-access-request transmission by UEs in the cell and correlates with an effective radius of the cell.
US11683835B2	Spatial reuse for high priority traffic Currently, spatial reuse (SR) is a feature used indiscriminately for/across all traffic classes. However, systems and methods are provided for reducing channel access latency via selective application of SR for latency-sensitive and high-priority traffic. If a radio frequency (RF) signal is detected on a channel used by an access point (AP) or a client device, a determination can be made as to whether the energy of the RF signal relative to SR energy level thresholds permits transmission on that channel used simultaneously by another, e.g., neighboring AP. If so, frames can be transmitted so long as the other neighboring AP is associated with a different basic service set (BSS) color than that of the AP, and so long as the frames to be transmitted belong to a high-priority/low-latency traffic access category.
US11683832B2	Communication method, access point, and station for bandwidth utilization A communication method, an access point and a station are provided. The method includes: receiving, by an access point, a sending request sent by a first station, and sending clear to send information to the first station; when the access point receives feedback information sent by the first station, allocating, by the access point, a channel to the first station, and allocating a channel to a second station based on remaining bandwidth; generating a first trigger frame, and sending the first trigger frame to the first station and the second station; and receiving uplink data sent by the first station and the second station. According to the application, bandwidth utilization of the access point and data transmission efficiency can be improved.
US11683830B2	User equipment and method for scheduling timeline for cancelling uplink transmission A user equipment and a method for scheduling a timeline for cancelling uplink (UL) transmission are provided. The method includes: transmitting a low priority UL channel scheduled by a first downlink control information (DCI) format; receiving a second DCI format scheduling a high priority UL channel; and cancelling transmission of the low priority UL channel and transmitting the high priority UL channel in response to determining that the high priority UL channel overlaps in time with the low priority UL channel, wherein a starting time of the high priority UL channel and an ending time of the second DCI format are separated by an offset greater than an absolute time duration.
US11683828B2	System and method for coexistence of low latency and latency tolerant communications Systems and methods are provided for transmitting and receiving pre-emption indications. The pre-emption indication is transmitted every K symbols or slots, on a group-common physical downlink control channel. The pre-emption indication is in respect of a group of K symbols or slots preceding a symbol or slot containing the group-common pre-emption indication. The group-common pre-emption indication indicates, for the group of K symbols or slots, which resources are pre-empted. The base station schedules resources for first downlink traffic, and transmits the scheduled first downlink traffic subject to pre-emption, and transmits second downlink traffic by pre-empting resources for the first downlink traffic. On the UE side, the UE receives the pre-emption indication. The UE receives its scheduled traffic taking into account the pre-emption indication.
US11683822B2	Selection of a scheduling user equipment Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for selection of a scheduling user equipment. One embodiment of a computer-readable storage device storing machine readable code, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to receive first information from a plurality of user equipments, wherein the first information indicates at least one sidelink user equipment in communication with each user equipment of the plurality of user equipments. In some embodiments, the code further causes the processor to select a scheduling user equipment from the plurality of user equipments based on a quality of a first connection interface and a second connection interface of each user equipment of the plurality of user equipments indicated in the first information. In some embodiments, the code further causes the processor to transition to a fallback mode in response to mode 2d resource allocation being unavailable and occurrence of a radio link failure or a handover.
US11683821B2	Resource allocation techniques for optimized multi-user closed-loop control over 5G wireless networks In general terms, network resource allocation takes place within a wireless communication channel in which resource is defined with respect to time and frequency; a resource allocation process involves joint allocation of resource for communication to and from group of devices, to enable a cyclic exchange of information between the devices and a base-station and thus to enable wireless closed loop control of the device. By jointly allocating resources in one go, overheads are reduced thereby providing a more efficient resource allocation mechanism. Furthermore, bundled transmissions are scheduled, including repetitions of transmissions to increase the likelihood of transmission success. By determining a minimum bundle length required to meet a predefined threshold for received signal quality, the reliability of the transmissions can be ensured.
US11683820B2	Frequency-domain preamble with a time-domain single carrier waveform Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, in a slot, a preamble provided based at least in part on an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) waveform. The UE may perform an estimation operation based at least in part on the preamble. The UE may receive, in the slot, a data transmission via a single carrier time-domain waveform based at least in part on the estimation operation. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11683819B2	Dynamic configuration of multiple radios of an access point Dynamic configuration of multiple radios of an access point is described. An example of an access point includes a processor; a memory; hardware filters; and a first set of radio chains and antennas, the access point including a first radio mode for operation as a single radio on a first channel to service a first BSS and a second radio mode for operation as a first radio on the first channel and a second radio on a second channel to perform an additional service, wherein the access point is to provide dynamic configuration of the radios including, upon determining that operation of the first channel to service the first BSS is not compatible with a particular hardware filter of the first radio, migrating the first BSS from the first radio to the second radio to service on the second channel, and providing the additional service on the first channel.
US11683817B2	Method and apparatus for communicating a data communication with an offset A first indication can be transmitted from at least one first of a first set of TRPs of a network. The first indication can indicate a minimum scheduling offset (Kmin) value between scheduling DCI of the first set of TRPs and a corresponding data communication. A second indication indicating the Kmin value can be received at at least one second TRP of a second set of TRPs of the network. First and second scheduling DCI can be transmitted scheduling respective first and second data communications associated with the respective first and second sets of TRPs. The first and second data communications can be communicated via the respective first and second sets of TRPs of the network such that the offset between the first scheduling DCI and the first data communication is at least the Kmin value and the offset between the second scheduling DCI and the second data communication is at least the Kmin value.
US11683816B1	Systems and methods for fast control messaging for multiple numerology access zones A method is provided for detecting an access zone configuration of a downlink wireless transmission received from a wireless network by a receiver. The method includes steps of activating the receiver, synchronizing the receiver with the wireless network, detecting, by the receiver after the step of synchronizing, a received access zone of the downlink wireless transmission, determining a base symbol of the detected access zone, ascertaining a first gap and a second gap from repetitive information contained within the determined base symbol, concluding, from the ascertained first and second gaps, that the detected access zone is part of a multiple access zone configuration, and registering, after the step of concluding, the receiver with the wireless network.
US11683811B2	Radio communication method and device with alterable transmission time interval Radio communication method and device with an alterable TTI are provided. The method includes: blindly detecting a primary physical downlink link control channel to acquire first downlink control information which includes configuration information and an exit frame number of a first target TTI; scheduling the first target TTI based on the first downlink control information, and performing data transmission with a base station; and when a frame number of transmitted data exceeds the exit frame number, blindly detecting the primary physical downlink link control channel to schedule a second target TTI indicated by the primary physical downlink link control channel. Solutions in embodiments of the present disclosure may enable to use various TTI simply and efficiently in radio communication, and are particularly adaptive to the feature of TCP service.
US11683809B2	Detecting method, transmitting method and apparatus for common control channel Embodiments of the present invention provide a detecting method, a transmitting method and an apparatus for a common control channel. The detecting method includes: determining a candidate resource set within virtual downlink resources of a current cell. The candidate resource set can include at least one candidate resource carrying a common control channel of the current cell. A detection is performed on at least one candidate resource in the candidate resource set, so as to acquire the common control channel of the current cell. In the embodiments of the present invention, a selection range of resources for transmitting a common control channel is extended, so that inter-cell interference of the common control channel can be coordinated, and a detection performance of the common control channel can be improved.
US11683807B2	Method and device for transmitting uplink signal in wireless communication system A method and a device for allowing a terminal to transmit a signal in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, map first uplink control information (UCI) and second UCI to one specific uplink channel if a resource region for transmitting the first UCI and a resource region for transmitting the second UCI are overlapped in a time domain, and transmit the specific uplink channel. Particularly, the specific uplink channel comprises a first bit payload for the first UCI and a second bit payload for the second UCI, wherein the number of bits of the first bit payload and the number of bits of the second bit payload are determined on the basis of preset ratio information.
US11683806B2	Multiplexing control information in a physical uplink data channel For multiplexing control information in a physical uplink data channel, a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a configuration for a first set of values and receiving a downlink control information (DCI) format scheduling a transmission of a physical uplink shared data channel (PUSCH) over a set of resource elements (REs) and including a field providing an index. The method further includes determining a first value from the first set of values based on the index, determining a first subset of REs from the set of REs, for multiplexing first uplink control information (UCI), based on the first value, and transmitting the first UCI in the PUSCH.
US11683804B2	Uplink allocation in wireless communication systems A method of wireless communication, the method including: identifying a resource block assignment for a non-data uplink resource within a set of resource blocks; determining a first range of resource blocks below the resource block assignment for the non-data uplink resource and identifying a second range of resource blocks above the resource block assignment for the non-data uplink resource; calculating a first bandwidth associated with the first range of resource blocks and calculating a second bandwidth associated with the second range of resource blocks; and configuring a first wireless communication device to work within a discrete bandwidth level sufficient to encompass a larger one of the first bandwidth and the second bandwidth, wherein the discrete bandwidth level is less than a full uplink bandwidth assigned by a network serving the first wireless communication device.
US11683801B2	Buffer partitioning system and method Disclosed is a base station which transmits and retransmits to a terminal first and second downlink data in first and second component carriers, respectively, wherein a first configuration pattern of UL (uplink) and DL (downlink) subframes is set for the first component carrier and a second configuration pattern of UL and DL subframes is set for the second component carrier. The base station receives from the terminal in the first component carrier an ACK/NACK for the first and second downlink data received by the terminal, which stores retransmission data of the first and second downlink data in a soft buffer, wherein the soft buffer for the second downlink data is sized according to a maximum number of downlink HARQ retransmission processes executable in a reference configuration pattern of UL and DL subframes, and the reference configuration pattern is determined according to the first and second configuration patterns.
US11683796B2	Assignment of communication resources in an unlicensed frequency band to equipment operating in a licensed frequency band Communication equipment communicating in a licensed frequency band identifies unused unlicensed communication resources within an unlicensed frequency band. The communication equipment uses the identified unlicensed communication resources to communicate within the unlicensed frequency band. In some circumstances, the unused unlicensed communication resources are identified based on resource information received from a base station where the resource information identifies unlicensed communication resources that will be used by the base station. In other circumstances, the unused unlicensed communication resources are identified based on frequency band measurements of the unlicensed frequency band over an observation time duration longer than a sensing time duration used by unlicensed equipment using the unlicensed frequency band.
US11683793B2	Sidelink power control using shared resources Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) that is configured with two sets of power control parameters may be signaled (e.g., via downlink control information (DCI)) as to which set of parameters to use for determining the transmission power on a sidelink channel. The UE may determine a transmit power for a sidelink message based on the indication included in the DCI. The base station may transmit the indication based on whether uplink or downlink communications are scheduled on resources that may overlap with resources used for transmission of the sidelink message.
US11683792B2	Resource reselection trigger with beamforming Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A transmitting device (such as a user equipment (UE)) may receive an indication of an allocation of resources for sidelink communication on a set of directional beams. The transmitting device may transmit, to a receiving device (e.g., base station), a capability of the transmitting device to support a beam change. In some examples, the transmitting device may identify a beam change condition for the set of directional beams based on a beam change condition configuration. In some cases, the beam change condition configuration may be based on the capability of the transmitting device. In some cases, the transmitting device may perform a resource reselection procedure for updating the allocation of resources for sidelink communication based on the beam change condition and the beam change condition configuration.
US11683790B2	Low-latency, low-bandwidth and low duty cycle operation in a wireless communication system Methods, systems, and devices are described for providing allocations and signaling for different types of communications within a wireless communication system. An eNB and/or a UE may be configured to operate within the wireless communication system using two or more different types of communications. The different types of communications may differ, for example, based on round trip time (RTT) between transmission and acknowledgment of receipt of the transmission, a transmission time interval (TTI) for wireless transmissions, and/or duty cycle timing of wireless transmissions. Reserved resources within a system bandwidth may be identified for a first type of communications, and all or a portion of remaining resources within the system bandwidth may be allocated for other communications that may differ from the first type of communications based on, for example, RTT, TTI, and/or duty cycle timing.
US11683784B2	Automatically determining locations of signal sources in areas with limited satellite coverage To automatically determine geographic positions of signal sources in areas with limited satellite coverage, a system receives signal data collected by a receiver moving along a path through a geographic area with limited satellite coverage, the signal data being indicative of changes, over a period of time, in strength of respective signals detected by the moving receiver and emitted by multiple signal sources statically disposed along the path. The system determines a time it takes for a length of a vehicle to pass by the signal source at the determined speed. The system then calculates static positions of the signal sources using the signal data and the determined time, including associating the location of each signal source with a time when the signal source was directly over the roof of the vehicle in which the moving receiver is travelling.
US11683782B2	Network configuration for sidelink-based positioning session initiation Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) receives, from a network entity, a configuration message including at least one information element indicating whether the UE is permitted to initiate sidelink-based positioning sessions, and transmits a positioning reference signal (PRS) request to at least one UE based on the at least one information element indicating that the UE is permitted to initiate sidelink-based positioning sessions.
US11683781B2	System and method for generating positioning reference signals A position reference signal (PRS) to support observed time difference of arrival (OTDOA) position determination in an electronic device is generated and transmitted by a network node that has a unique identifier. Generating the PRS includes generating a first PRS sequence and generating a second PRS sequence by modifying the first PRS sequence with a modification function to generate the second PRS sequence. A sum of the first PRS sequence and the second PRS sequence is zero.
US11683777B2	Base station and data uplink transmission abnormal detection method A base station is disclosed. The base station includes several radio devices and a core network device. The core network device is connected to the several radio devices and is configured to determine a first user location data corresponding to a user device according to a user uplink transmission data and several user location data, and to determine whether to allow the user device to perform a data uplink transmission operation or not according to the first user location data. The user uplink transmission data is uplink transmitted by the user device, and the several user location data are establish according to the several radio devices and several user locations. The several user location data include the first user location data.
US11683775B1	System and method for 5G telecommunication UDM instance identification Systems and methods for 5G telecommunication UDM instance identification provided to UDRs for auditing purposes and tracking which of a plurality of UDMs is faulty. Specifically, a system for the provision of wireless telecommunication services can include a core network having a first UDR and a first UDM. The first UDM, upon receiving communication from one or more network functions, can communicate a first message to the first UDR. The first message can include a first UDM identification of the first UDM, indicating to the first UDR identification information associated with the first UDM. During tracking or auditing of this data, when the first UDM identification is found to be unable to perform a threshold percentage of write operations to the UDR within a threshold amount of time, communication is provided to a network repository function (NRF) that the first UDM is faulty and corrective action is required.
US11683773B2	Timing advance update for non-serving cell Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive or determine information indicating a timing advance for a non-serving cell of the UE, and perform an inter-cell mobility operation based at least in part on the timing advance for the non-serving cell of the UE. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11683771B2	Method and apparatus for data frame synchronization of 5G base station The method of synchronizing data frames between 5G baseband processing stations by a global position system (GPS)-integrated local oscillator block control, including the following steps: step 1: synchronize the baseband processor's local oscillator block with the GPS's 1 pps (pulse per second) pulse and generate a 10 ms (millisecond) pulse from the local oscillator; step 2: use the 10 ms synchronous pulse sync monitor block to get the sync offset between this pulse and the GPS 1 pps pulse; step 3: use the control algorithm to reconfigure the local oscillator so that the 10 ms synchronous pulse can follow the 1 pps GPS pulse.
US11683767B2	Synchronization short inter-frame space (SIFS) This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for synchronizing an end of an exchange of frames during a transmission opportunity (TXOP) with a target synchronization time using a synchronization short inter-frame space (SynSIFS) before a transmission by a wireless communication device that controls the medium. The wireless communication device obtains control of the medium for the TXOP by completing a CCA procedure. An exchange of frames during the TXOP includes transmissions from the wireless communication device and responses from other devices while the wireless communication device controls the medium. A duration of the SynSIFS may be adjustable at a microsecond granularity. Accordingly, the wireless communication device may select a duration of the SynSIFS that allows alignment of the end of the exchange with the target synchronization time. The wireless communication device also may adjust a number of symbols in the transmission from the wireless communication device.
US11683764B2	Transmitting with an uplink transmission power based on a pathloss reference identified by a pathloss index An apparatus for wireless communication receives at least one radio resource control message including configuration parameters of a cell. The configuration parameters include: a cell index identifying the cell; and an index identifying downlink subcarriers as a pathloss reference signal of the cell. The downlink subcarriers identified by the index are measured to determine the pathloss for uplink transmission of the at least one uplink signal. The at least one uplink signal is transmitted transmit, via uplink subcarriers and employing the uplink transmission power.
US11683763B2	Method and device for controlling transmission power of terminal in wireless communication system Disclosed are a communication technique for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system supporting a data transmission rate higher than a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security and safety related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. According to one embodiment of the present specification, a communication method of a terminal in a mobile communication system comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, first information related to the number of reference signal resources for path loss identification, receiving, from the base station, downlink control information including second information indicating a reference signal resource to be used for the path loss identification, identifying a path loss on the basis of reference signal received power (RSRP) identified on the basis of the second information, and transmitting an uplink signal to the base station on the basis of the identified path loss.
US11683761B2	At least partial disablement of transmission port based on thermal condition and associated capability indication Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) may partially disable transmissions on a transmission port based on a temperature condition (e.g., chipset temperature or skin temperature exceeding threshold). In a further aspect, the UE may enable the partially disabled transmissions on the transmission port in response to cessation of the temperature condition. In a further aspect, the UE may transmit a capability indication to a base station that indicates that the UE is capable of supporting a transition from a multi-layer (rank-2) communication mode to a single-layer (rank-1) communication mode.
US11683753B2	Wireless transmission system and power saving method thereof A wireless transmission system comprises an antenna component, a wireless module including a processing unit and a power controlling unit, a tuner connected between the antenna component and the wireless module, and a sensor connected to the wireless module. The tuner is configured to adjust an output bad of the power controlling unit according to a received signal strength indication of the wireless transmission system being greater than a predetermined threshold value, such that multiple different load values are provided for the power controlling unit. The sensor is configured to detect and record a current consumption value corresponding to each load value. In response to the wireless module emitting signals via the antenna component, the processing unit selects the load value corresponding to the lowest of the current consumption values and applies the selected load value to the output load of the power controlling unit.
US11683750B2	Systems and methods for base station selection in licensed and unlicensed spectrums A system and method for base station selection in licensed and unlicensed spectrums are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method performed by a communication device includes: receiving reference signals, wherein the reference signals are from a licensed spectrum or an unlicensed spectrum; determining a parameter value, based on the reference signals, associated with least one of a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) and a channel occupancy; and selecting a communication node in response to the parameter value meeting a condition.
US11683749B2	Network selection for supported standalone non-public network (S-SNPN) Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses. The method can include receiving, at a user equipment (UE), system information broadcast from a base station which may be shared by one or more PLMNs and SNPNs, the system information including an indication of whether accessing an SNPN using home service provider (HSP) subscription of a HSP network is supported. The UE can be configured with subscription information of the HSP network. The subscription information can include the HSP subscription and a home SP selection list that includes one or more candidate networks each represented by an SNPN identifier. The method can further include responsive to the system information, selecting a network from the home SP selection list according to a priority order of the candidate networks, and accessing the network selected from the home SP selection list using the HSP subscription.
US11683748B2	Network slice selection method, device, and system Embodiments of this application provide a network slice selection method. The method includes: A first network device obtains user characteristic information of a current user of a first terminal, where the user characteristic information includes one or more pieces of single network slice selection assistance information S-NSSAI corresponding to the current user. The first network device determines, based on the user characteristic information, allowed NSSAI corresponding to the first terminal, where the allowed NSSAI includes the one or more pieces of S-NSSAI; or when the first network device does not support serving a network slice indicated in the one or more pieces of S-NSSAI, the first network device determines, based on the one or more pieces of S-NSSAI, a second network device that supports serving the network slice indicated in the one or more pieces of S-NSSAI.
US11683746B2	Wireless data service based on geographic data network names A wireless communication network serves a User Equipment (UE) based on a Data Network Name (DNN). An Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF) receives initial signaling for the UE and selects a current Session Management Function (SMF) to serve the UE for the DNN responsive to the initial signaling. The current SMF serves the UE for the DNN. The AMF detects when the UE enters a geographic area while using the DNN. The current SMF transfers a wireless reattach instruction for the DNN to the UE responsive to the detection of the UE entering the geographic area while using the DNN. The AMF receives new signaling for the UE responsive to the wireless reattach instruction and selects a new SMF to serve the UE for the DNN responsive to the new signaling. The new SMF serves the UE for the DNN.
US11683738B2	Systems and methods for handover of 5G location sessions for an NG-RAN location management component A RAN location server function (e.g. for 5G New Radio), referred to as Location Management Component (LMC), may be included in a gNB and connected to a gNB Central Unit (gNB-CU). The gNB-CU may receive a location request for a UE (e.g. from an AMF) and may initiate a location session for the UE, including selecting an LMC for the location session. The gNB-CU may handover the UE to a new serving gNB during the location session. The LMC for the location session may then remain unchanged after the handover or may be changed to a new LMC to suit the new serving gNB. The location session may then continue using the original LMC if not changed or the new LMC if changed.
US11683735B2	Diversity bluetooth system and method A first device having a transceiver and an antenna operatively connected to the transceiver and a second device having a transceiver and an antenna operatively connected to the transceiver, the first device in operative communication with the first device through a communications linkage separate from the transceiver of the first device and the transceiver of the second device. The first device is adapted to wirelessly communicate with a remote device through the transceiver of the first device. The second device is adapted to wirelessly communicate with the remote device through the transceiver of the second device. The system is configured to evaluate the wireless connection between the first device and the remote device and to evaluate the wireless communication between the second device and the remote device and determine whether the first device or the second device has a better connection.
US11683733B2	Method and device for handling LBT failure indicator when DAPS handover is configured in wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method performed by a terminal in a communication system is provided. The method includes receiving, from a first base station, a first message including first information used for detection of consistent uplink listen before talk (LBT) failures for the first base station, receiving, from the first base station, a second message for a handover to a second base station, the second message including second information for a reconfiguration with sync, in case that third information configuring at least one dual active protocol stack (DAPS) bearer is included in the second message and an indication of the consistent uplink LBT failures for the first base station is identified based on the first information while performing a procedure associated with the handover, suspending data communication of all data radio bearers (DRBs) associated with the first base station.
US11683732B2	Transmission opportunity control method and apparatus In various embodiments, an access point sends a first frame. The first frame carries a TXOP handover enforcement THE indication field which is a first value or a second value. The first value instructs a station that has accessed a channel to hand over a held TXOP to the access point, and the second value instructs the station that has accessed the channel to hand over the held TXOP to the access point when a handover condition is satisfied. It can be learned that the STA hands over the held TXOP to the AP. Therefore, the AP may be a TXOP holder through the TXOP handover even if the AP fails to obtain the channel through contention, so that a probability of holding the TXOP by the AP is improved, a probability of scheduling a STA by the AP is improved, and system resource utilization is improved.
US11683731B2	First network node, second network node, wireless device and methods performed thereby for handling a link switch A method, performed by a network node. The method is for handling a switch of a wireless device from a source to a target link. The network node and the device operate in a wireless communications network. Given a configuration of the target link indicating resources to perform random access to the network node during the switch, the network node, transmits, prior to the switch, an indication to the device. The indication indicates an update to the configuration. The network node changes the configuration of the target link, based on the update. The changing is performed only after receiving a confirmation of at least one of: i) from the device, that the device has received the indication, and ii) from a first network node operating in the wireless communications network, that it has transmitted the indication to the device.
US11683726B2	Communication device A communication device includes a receiving unit that receives information indicating a first set of combinations of radio parameters; a control unit that extracts, based on the first set of the combinations of the radio parameters and a second set of combinations of radio parameters supported by the communication device, a third set of combinations of radio parameters that are common between the first set and the second set; and a transmitting unit that transmits information indicating the third set of the combinations of the radio parameters.
US11683725B2	Communication terminal and communication method for transmitting device data A communication terminal that transmits device data output by a communication device via a wireless communication circuit. The communication terminal includes at least one memory configured to store instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions. The instructions include receiving the device data output by the communication device, storing the received device data into the at least one memory, and transmitting, to the wireless communication circuit, the stored device data after the device data is stored in the at least one memory until a prescribed amount, which is set in association with at least either the communication device outputting the device data or an attribute of the device data, has been reached.
US11683723B2	Methods and system for offloading data traffic A method for offloading data traffic involves: receiving, from a first computing device carrying out an anchor session management function, a request to insert an intermediate session management function in a signaling path, wherein the request includes a data network access identifier of a data network to which the data traffic is to be offloaded; using the data network access identifier, selecting a second computing device to carry out an intermediate session management function; and transmitting a message to the second computing device to create a context for the wireless communication device.
US11683722B2	Fine timing measurements in enterprise deployments using high bandwidth channels Examples of techniques for handling fine time measurement ranging requests are described. In an example, an access point (AP) may receive a ranging request for initiating a Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) session. The AP may modify a channel width of a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) channel on which the AP is operating from a first channel width to a second channel width for performing the FTM session, where the second channel width is greater than the first channel width. In response to completion of an FTM burst associated with the FTM session, the AP may restore the channel width of the WLAN channel to the first channel width for performing non-FTM operations of the AP.
US11683721B2	Methods for delivering network slices to a user A method for delivering a network slice to a user is disclosed. The method includes receiving communication from a network slice artifact comprising a multi-segment filename that includes a first segment comprising instructions for executing the network slice artifact, and a second segment comprising an identity of a network slice instantiable by the network slice artifact The method also includes retrieving a set of executable instructions associated with the network slice from a data store of the network in response to receiving the communication from the network slice artifact, and communicating the set of executable instructions to the network slice artifact whereby the network slice artifact instantiates the network slice transforming the computer system into an endpoint node of the network slice. The method further includes completing the instantiation of the network slice in response to receiving the communication from the network slice artifact.
US11683717B2	Method and apparatus for determining wireless MNO coverage and efficiently operating an enterprise wireless communication network A transfer management system for efficiently operating an enterprise wireless communication network (EN) at a campus location enables the EN to control congestion, selectively and smoothly admit UEs, and manage UE exits from the EN. An MNO Network (MN) footprint learning system learns the different MN footprints on the campus, relative to the BS/APs deployed by the individual enterprise, which defines a footprint of wireless coverage for each MNO that has wireless coverage. The MN footprint provides useful information that enables successfully transitioning a UE between an EN and an MNO, which provides the EN with the ability to utilize other networks to offload one or more UEs to manage congestion, delay or deny admission of UEs, and proactively exit UEs to manage congestion or for other reasons.
US11683715B2	Multi-tenant wireless network management based on traffic monitoring Arrangements involving a multi-tenant network management system are presented. A first virtual wireless network can be operated as part of a wireless network. The first virtual wireless network can be mapped to a first set of level-of-service operating parameters. A traffic monitoring system may be present that monitors and compiles traffic-related statistics for the first virtual wireless network. A virtual network management system can determine how to modify properties of the first virtual wireless network to satisfy the first set of level-of-service operating parameters.
US11683712B2	Hybrid hierarchical parameter tracking for CSI estimation Methods and apparatuses for hybrid hierarchical parameter tracking for CSI estimation in a wireless communication system. The methods and apparatuses include receiving uplink signals comprising a channel state information (CSI) report or a sounding reference signal (SRS); performing a channel parameter tracking operation to determine channel parameters that change less than a first threshold amount based on the received uplink signals; performing a channel parameter prediction operation to determine the channel parameters that change greater than a second threshold amount on an output of the channel parameter tracking operation; and performing a channel prediction operation for downlink channels based on an output of the channel parameter tracking operation and the channel parameter prediction operation.
US11683710B2	Method and apparatus for interference measurement in wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a method for controlling interference measurement by an interference measurement control device, the method comprising the steps of: calculating distance information between a transmission side transmitting a reference signal for interference measurement and a reception side receiving the reference signal; calculating, on the basis of the distance information, signal delay information related to a delay time required until the reference signal transmitted from the transmission side arrives at the reception side; and determining control information for the transmission side or the reception side on the basis of the signal delay information.
US11683708B2	Dynamic change of measurement gaps The invention refers to a method in a user equipment, UE, for a measurement gap pattern configuration including receiving a configuration information indicative of a measurement gap pattern configuration, and a bandwidth part, BW, configuration, determining an association between measurement gap patterns and BW parts, receiving a message to change the active BW part to one of the configured BW parts, and changing the measurement gap pattern as a function of the corresponding BW part and the association; the invention further refers to a corresponding method in a network node; to corresponding UE, a corresponding network node, and computer programs.
US11683707B2	Citizen broadband radio service (CBRS) network performance while taking into account privacy preferences Presented herein are methodologies for managing a citizens broadband radio service (CBRS) network. The methodology includes receiving, at an enterprise controller, measurement information from a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE, wherein the first UE and the second UE operate in a citizens broadband radio service (CBRS) network; selecting, at the enterprise controller, an information aggregation level based on a predetermined level of privacy associated with the first UE and the second UE; aggregating, at the enterprise controller, the measurement information from the first UE and the second UE in accordance with the information aggregation level to obtain aggregated measurement information; and sending, by the enterprise controller, the aggregated measurement information to a Spectrum Access System that controls allocation of resources in the CBRS network for the first UE and the second UE.
US11683705B2	Method of monitoring physical downlink control channel and an apparatus using the same Provided are a method and apparatus for monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The method includes receiving information which reports one configuration among a plurality of configurations related to the PDCCH monitoring through a first transmit-receive point (TRP), and performing the PDCCH monitoring, based on the one configuration. The one configuration reports a combination of a resource pattern index and a PDCCH control resource set (CORESET) index. The one configuration may be for a second TRP.
US11683701B2	Method and apparatus for monitoring PDCCH, and base station and user equipment Provided are a method and apparatus for monitoring a PDCCH, and a base station and a user equipment. On a base station side, the method comprises: configuring an association relationship between a notification signal or signaling and a PDCCH; and sending the notification signal or signaling associated with the PDCCH to a user equipment to notify the user equipment to start monitoring the PDCCH. On a user equipment side, the method comprises: receiving a notification signal or signaling which is associated with a PDCCH and sent by a base station; and starting to monitor the PDCCH according to the notification signal or signaling associated with the PDCCH. By means of the present invention, the signaling overhead and the power consumption of a user equipment can be reduced.
US11683697B2	Configured grant transmission in new radio-unlicensed (NR-U) Wireless communications systems and methods related to configured transmissions in a shared radio frequency band are provided. A user equipment (UE) receives, from a base station (BS), an indication of a first configured resource in a shared radio frequency band for a communication in a first direction. The UE receives, from the BS, a first configuration to select between a validation of the first direction or an absence of an invalidation of the first direction for using the first configured resource for the communication. The UE communicates, with the BS, the communication in the first direction using the first configured resource based on the first configuration.
US11683691B2	Methods and systems for 5G slicing based on dynamic security properties Systems and methods enable the provisioning of security as a service for network slices. A network device stores definitions of multiple security assurance levels for network slices based on security parameters of assets used in the network slices. The network device stores multiple network slice templates, wherein the multiple network slice templates have different security assurance levels, of the multiple security assurance levels, for a Network Service Descriptor (NSD). The network device receives a request for a network slice with a requested security assurance level, of the multiple security assurance levels, for the NSD, and deploys the network slice using one of the network slice templates that has a security assurance level that corresponds to the requested security assurance level. The network device monitors the security parameters of the assets of the network slice for changes to the security assurance level of the deployed network slice.
US11683684B2	Obtaining a credential for V2X transmission on behalf of a vehicle Techniques described herein include utilizing a mobile device as a proxy receiver and/or transmitter for a vehicle in a V2X network. In some embodiments, the mobile device associated mobile device capabilities may be configured to obtain vehicle capabilities and store such data in memory at the mobile device. The mobile device may obtain any suitable combination of a reception credential and one or more transmission credentials. In some embodiments, the one or more transmission credentials may be generated by a credential authority based at least in part on determining that the vehicle capabilities and mobile device capabilities indicate that the sensor(s) and/or processing resources of the vehicle and/or mobile device meet transmission requirement thresholds for the network. The mobile device may subsequently transmit any suitable data message on behalf of the vehicle using at least one of the transmission credentials.
US11683683B2	Techniques for establishing access to a local wireless network An apparatus includes a memory to store subscription data for access to a network, the subscription data including at least terms and conditions information for the network; circuitry linked to the memory; and a connection component for execution on the circuitry to identify an access point connected to the network and automatically forward at least a portion of the subscription data to the identified access point in an association message. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US11683681B2	Uplink small data transmission in inactive state Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for optimizing delivery of a data to and/or from a UE in a connected but inactive state.
US11683680B2	Elimination of old IPV6 addresses from WLAN stations in DHCPV6 stateful mode after transitioning between VLANs A Wi-Fi controller identifies a mismatch between a first prefix of a first IPv6 address for a data packet corresponding to a first VLAN on which the data packet was sent from the station to the access point, and a prefix of a second IPv6 address for a second VLAN from which the data packet was transmitted from the access point to the Wi-Fi controller. Responsive to the VLAN mismatch identification, the Wi-Fi controller transmits a DHCP reconfiguration packet to the station using the first VLAN. The DHCP reconfiguration packet causes the station to transmit a rebind packet to the DHCP server. The rebind packet causes the DHCP server to transmit an ACK frame on the first VLAN setting the valid lifetime for the first IPv6 address to zero.
US11683679B2	System and method for privacy protection of broadcasting ID in UAV communication The present disclosure relates to a pre-5G or 5G communication system to support higher data rates beyond 4G communication system such as LTE. The present disclosure enables the 3GPP system to protect the broadcasted unique UAV identities for a secured UAV communication. In remote identification process, the UAVs send the messages with flight information to the receiving party (i.e., UTM/USS, a TPAE or another UAV). Also, there are use cases on local broadcast of UAV identities for remote identification and tracking purposes. The present disclosure renders a mechanism that only the authorized personnel is able to decode the received broadcasting ID from the initiating UAV. The present disclosure protects unique UAV identities broadcasted so that, the fake UAV or unauthorized personnel cannot use the broadcasted ID for certain attacks such as impersonation of genuine UAV, tracking of the UAV and so on.
US11683678B2	Discovery frames and group addressed frames transmission Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for implementing discovery frames and group addressed frames communication. For example, some embodiments relate to a method including generating a first frame to be transmitted to a first electronic device. An association identifier (AID) value of the first frame is set to a first value to indicate that the first frame is an individually addressed frame addressed to the first electronic device. The method further includes generating a second frame to be transmitted to a group of one or more electronic devices. An AID value of the second frame is set to a second value different from the first value. The method also includes transmitting the first frame and the second frame.
US11683675B2	User equipment, base station apparatus, and core network apparatus User equipment is capable of connecting to a first core network and a second core network through a base station apparatus. The user equipment includes a controller that connects to, upon selecting or visiting a cell of a base station apparatus that does not support the first core network while connecting to the first core network or visiting the first core network, the second core network through a connection in the cell.
US11683673B2	Systems and methods for secure pairing authorization of passenger applications and vehicles Systems and methods of the present disclosure are directed to a method for facilitating pairing of multiple entities. The method can include obtaining a vehicle pairing request for an autonomous vehicle of a vehicle provider comprising vehicle identification data. The method can include determining a temporary pairing code associated with the autonomous vehicle. The method can include providing the temporary pairing code to the vehicle provider. The method can include obtaining a device pairing request via an application executed by a user device, the device pairing request comprising the temporary pairing code and an operational certificate, the operational certificate comprising device identification data associated with the user device. The method can include pairing the user device and the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the device pairing request.
US11683672B2	Distributed ledger control over wireless network slices In a wireless communication network, distributed ledger circuitry executes a contract from an origin block and transfers an instantiation request for a wireless network slice to network orchestration circuitry. The network orchestration circuitry instantiates the wireless network slice responsive to the instantiation request from the distributed ledger circuitry. The wireless network slice delivers a wireless network service to the UEs and transfers slice usage data to the distributed ledger circuitry. The distributed ledger circuitry executes the contract from middle blocks and a termination block to form a blockchain that stores the slice usage data for the wireless network slice. The distributed ledger circuitry transfers a termination request for the wireless network slice to the network orchestration circuitry responsive to the execution of the contract from the termination block. The network orchestration circuitry terminates the wireless network slice responsive to the termination request from the distributed ledger circuitry.
US11683670B2	Wireless communication system In response to a vehicle being switched from an IGN OFF state (non-operating state) to an IGN ON state (operating state) in a state in which a mobile terminal has been activated, the use of wireless communication (Wi-Fi communication) by the mobile terminal via a network using an in-vehicle device as a base station can be started. In response to the vehicle being switched from the IGN ON state (operating state) to the IGN OFF state (non-operating state) in the state in which the mobile terminal has been activated, the use of wireless communication (Wi-Fi communication) by the mobile terminal via the network using the in-vehicle device as the base station is stopped.
US11683669B2	Wireless sensor system, wireless terminal device, communication control method and communication control program A wireless sensor system is provided with: a wireless terminal device which is driven by electric power stored in a power storage unit and transmits measurement information indicating a result of measurement by a sensor; and a management device which receives the measurement information transmitted from the wireless terminal device.
US11683666B2	Data transmission An apparatus, method and computer program product for: receiving information relating to data consumption characteristics of at least one user device, predicting, based on the received information, at least one data consumption area at a first point in time, determining one or more data transmission modes based on the received information and the predicted at least one data consumption area and instructing at least one communication network element to provide data transmission at the first point in time according to the determined data transmission mode.
US11683664B2	Feedback process in multicast retransmission Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may transmit a downlink control information (DCI) message to one or more user equipments (UEs) scheduling a multicast data message in a multicast downlink shared channel, the DCI message indicating a feedback process identifier (ID) for the multicast data message. The base station may transmit an additional DCI message to a UE scheduling a retransmission of the multicast data message in a unicast downlink shared channel and indicating a feedback process ID for the retransmission of the multicast data message. The feedback process ID for the retransmission may be the same as, or different from, the initial transmission of the multicast data message. The UE may transmit feedback for the multicast data message based on receiving the initial transmission of the multicast data or the retransmission of the multicast data and the feedback process IDs.
US11683663B2	System and method for automated data collection and anchor location evaluation A system and method for obtaining location data for a portable device relative to an object. The system and method may include an object device disposed in a fixed position relative to the object, the object device having an antenna configured to communicate wirelessly via UWB with the portable device via a communication link. The system may include a control system, such as a robot and/or a remote controller, configured to obtain one or more samples pertaining to communications between the portable device and the object device.
US11683661B2	Communicating peak magnitude data associated with a reference signal for positioning In an embodiment, a first node (e.g., a UE or a BS) performs a channel response measurement on a reference signal for positioning (e.g., UL reference signal such as SRS for positioning, or a DL PRS). The first node determines, for each of a plurality of peaks detected within the channel response measurement, peak-specific information comprising at least peak magnitude data that is based on a peak magnitude relative to a reference value. The first node reports the peak-specific information for the plurality of peaks to a second node (e.g., a BS, UE, or LMF). The second node receives the peak-specific information, and determines a positioning estimate for a UE based on the peak-specific information.
US11683659B2	Control system of moving agent group and control method thereof Provided is a method for controlling a moving agent group platooning within a building, the method comprising: a sensing step in which a first moving agent among a plurality of moving agents senses an occurrence of a predetermined event during the plurality of moving agents are platooning, wherein the first moving agent leads the platooning of the plurality of moving agents; and a transferring step in which the first moving agent transfers a group control authority to a second moving agent among the plurality of moving agents, wherein the second moving agent just follows the first moving agent; wherein the second moving agent having the group control authority leads movement of remaining moving agents following the second moving agent.
US11683658B2	Self-healing in a luminaire or other radio frequency positioning node based system An example radio frequency (RF) positioning node system calculates a respective distance between an uncommissioned RF positioning node to each of neighboring commissioned RF positioning nodes based on a respective received signal strength indicator (RSSI) measurement. Based on the calculated respective distance to each of the neighboring commissioned RF positioning nodes and a set of commissioned location coordinates of each of the neighboring commissioned RF positioning nodes, the RF positioning node system estimates a set of uncommissioned location coordinates of the uncommissioned RF positioning node. The RF positioning node system determines a best fit assignment of the set of uncommissioned location coordinates of uncommissioned RF positioning nodes in an uncommissioned RF positioning node list to the set of commissioned location coordinates of non-operational commissioned RF positioning nodes in a non-operational RF positioning node list to adjust an RF positioning node map for each of the non-operational commissioned RF positioning nodes.
US11683655B2	Systems and methods for predicting mobile device locations using processed mobile device signals A system coupled to a packet-based network is configured to generate geo-blocks for location-based information services. Each of the geo-blocks corresponds to a geographical region within a geographical area and has at least one border defined by a real-world object. The system is configured to obtain geo data related to real-world objects including transportation routes and natural boundaries in the geographical area, partition the geographical area into initial geo-blocks using the geo data, process a plurality of information requests with respect to at least some of the initial geo-blocks and with respect to initial geo-fences associated with a plurality of points of interests (POIs) to generate entries in one or more databases, and enrich at least some of the initial geo-block with block-level meta data derived from the entries in the one or more databases to form enriched geo-blocks that are highly indicative of location dependent attributes such as intention and demographics.
US11683653B2	Monitoring circuitry Monitoring circuitry, comprising: a current monitoring unit operable to monitor a speaker current flowing through a speaker and generate a monitor signal indicative of that current; and a controller operable, based on a control signal, to control the current monitoring unit to control whether the monitor signal is generated and/or a property of the monitor signal.
US11683651B2	Adaptive solid hearing system according to environment change and noise change A user is allowed to three-dimensionally recognize environment change and noise change corresponding to the sound directionality of the left and right sides through a control parameter that is set by analyzing an audio signal received from a first smart hearing device formed on one side and a second smart hearing device formed on an opposite side.
US11683646B2	Device, computer program and method A method of distributing sound in a sporting venue, comprising: determining an event based on a position of at least one player and/or sporting projectile within the sporting venue; selecting a sound effect based on the determined event; and sending the sound effect to at least one speaker located in the sporting venue.
US11683645B2	System and method for adjusting audio parameters for a user A device, system, and a method for adjusting audio parameters for a user are disclosed. The method comprises performing a hearing test of the user. The hearing test comprises playing an audio and capturing an auditory response of the user towards the audio. A hearing profile of the user is generated based on one or more results of the hearing test. A playing speed of the audio is adjusted based on the hearing profile, thereby adjusting the audio parameters for the user.
US11683643B2	Method and device for in ear canal echo suppression An earpiece (100) and acoustic management module (300) for in-ear canal echo suppression control suitable is provided. The earpiece can include an Ambient Sound Microphone (111) to capture ambient sound, an Ear Canal Receiver (125) to deliver audio content to an ear canal, an Ear Canal Microphone (123) configured to capture internal sound, and a processor (121) to generate a voice activity level (622) and suppress an echo of spoken voice in the electronic internal signal, and mix an electronic ambient signal with an electronic internal signal in a ratio dependent on the voice activity level and a background noise level to produce a mixed signal (323) that is delivered to the ear canal (131).
US11683642B2	Sound-output device The present application discloses a sound-output device, a vibration speaker configured to generate a bone-conducted sound wave; and an air-conducted speaker configured to generate an air-conducted sound wave. The vibration speaker is coupled to the air-conducted speaker through a mechanical structure; and the bone-conducted sound wave is input to the air-conducted speaker at least in part as an input signal.
US11683640B2	Speaker systems with polyplanar, nested, folded horns A speaker system including an enclosure, a first acoustic driver engaged with the enclosure, and two or more horns configured to output a sound from the first acoustic driver to a front plane of the enclosure. In one embodiment, the two or more horns may be folded and planar. In one embodiment, the speaker system may include a second acoustic driver, which may be installed above or below the first acoustic driver. The second acoustic driver may be larger or smaller or the same size when compared to the first acoustic driver.
US11683638B2	Modular quick-connect A/V system and methods thereof A modular speaker system, comprising an exoskeleton, configured to mechanically support and quick attach and release at least one functional panel and an electrical interface provided within the exoskeleton, configured to mate with a corresponding electrical connector of the functional panel. An optional endoskeleton is provided to support internal components. The system preferably provides a digital electronic controller, and the electrical interface is a digital data and power bus, with multiplexed communications between the elements of the system. The elements of the system preferably include at least one speaker, and other audiovisual and communications components. Multiple modules may be interconnected, communicating through the electrical interface. A base module may be provided to provide power and typical control, user and audiovisual interface connectors.
US11683629B1	Eartip including hybrid structure Provided is an eartip which stably fixes a position of an earphone and includes a body part that has a hollow cylinder structure corresponding to an outer circumferential surface of the earphone, having a binding groove recessed to a predetermined depth in an annular structure along an inner circumferential surface of the body part, and being made of a first material, an upper end connection part that is formed in an integrated structure with an upper end of the body part, and a lower end formation part that is formed in an integrated structure from a lower end of the umbrella structure formation part, has a hollow cylinder structure extending downward to a predetermined height while surrounding the outer circumferential surface of the body part and spaced a predetermined distance from the outer circumferential surface of the body part.
US11683625B2	Light adaptor for microphones A light adaptor is provided that can be installed between the base and the head of a microphone and is controllable by communications between the base and the adaptor. The light adaptor may assist in the control of speaker queuing and other functions.
US11683624B1	Transducer with analog and digital modulators A transducer system has 1) a MEMS transducer configured to produce an analog output signal in response to an incident acoustic signal, and 2) a modulator apparatus. The modulator apparatus includes an analog modulator configured to receive the analog output signal and produce a first digital signal as a function of the analog output signal. In addition, the modulator apparatus also has a digital converter configured to receive the first digital signal and produce a second digital signal as a function of the first digital signal. The analog modulator has an analog order while, in a corresponding manner, the digital converter has a digital order. Preferably, the digital order is higher than the analog order.
US11683616B2	System, method and apparatus for remote wireless sensor device configuration A configured mode of operation of a wireless sensor node unit can selectively activate a first subset of sensor channels of data and selectively deactivate a second subset of sensor channels of data. The configured mode of operation customizes the sensor functionality in the wireless sensor node unit in support of the delivery of data streams to customers.
US11683615B2	Wireless low-frequency communication method and system This application discloses a wireless low-frequency communication method and a wireless low-frequency communication system. The wireless low-frequency communication method includes: a first low-frequency communication terminal modulates a first carrier signal loaded with first data into a first low-frequency signal and sends the first low-frequency signal to a second low-frequency communication terminal. The first data refers to instruction data issued by a user. When receiving the first low-frequency signal, the second low-frequency communication terminal demodulates the first low-frequency signal into the first carrier signal and analyzes the first carrier signal to obtain the first data. Communication is carried out through wireless low-frequency signals penetrating metal shields. Communication signals can be strengthened while communication distances can be increased with the metal shields. This application solves the problems of weak communication signals and short communication distances caused by wireless high-frequency signals failing to penetrate a sensor or a roaster device.
US11683613B2	Telecommunications panel with patching device installation features A telecommunications panel has various features for removably mounting patching devices to the panel. The telecommunications panel includes mounting flanges and ramp elements for facilitating mounting and removal of patching devices. The ramp element is associated with a receptacle opening of the panel and configured to contact a flexible latch of the patching device and depress the flexible latch as the patching device is received in the receptacle opening.
US11683612B2	Solid state imaging device and electronic device The present disclosure relates to a solid state imaging device and an electronic device from which a holding unit for holding information in a pixel can be eliminated. When a charge distribution unit distributes a pixel signal SIG to a first ADC, a pixel signal representing only reflection light is divided for allocation. When the charge distribution unit distributes a pixel signal SIG to a second ADC, a pixel signal representing background light and reflection light (partial) is divided for allocation. When the charge distribution unit distributes a pixel signal SIG to a third ADC, a pixel signal representing background light and reflection light (the rest) is divided for allocation. During a period in which no signal is acquired, a discharge transistor functions as an overflow portion for releasing electrical charge. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a solid state imaging device used for an imaging device.
US11683610B2	Photoelectric converter, photoelectric conversion system, moving body, and semiconductor substrate A photoelectric converter includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixels, a capacitive coupling amplifier configured to amplify a signal output from the pixel array, and a delta-sigma AD converter configured to convert, into a digital signal, an analog signal output from the amplifier. The amplifier is formed by a plurality of first elements including an active element and a capacitive element. The delta-sigma AD converter is formed by a plurality of second elements including an active element and a capacitive element. A breakdown voltage of at least one of the plurality of second elements forming the delta-sigma AD converter is lower than a breakdown voltage of the plurality of first elements forming the amplifier.
US11683609B2	Amplifier circuit for enabling power efficient and faster pixel settling in image sensors A Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) Image Sensor (CIS), includes a pixel circuit, a VSL circuit, and an amplifier. The pixel circuit may generate a reset voltage and a signal voltage, based on a power supply connected to the pixel circuit and/or intensity of light captured by the pixel circuit. The VSL circuit may store pixel information in a pixel load based on settling a voltage at the pixel load to the signal voltage and/or set the voltage at the pixel load to a pixel reset voltage based on settling the voltage at the pixel load to the reset voltage. The amplifier may generate a voltage, based on varying a resistance at an input of the amplifier, to enable the VSL circuit to store the pixel information and/or set the voltage at the pixel load to the pixel reset voltage.
US11683607B2	Image sensor with three readout approach for phase detection autofocus and image sensing pixels An imaging device includes a plurality of photodiodes arranged in a photodiode array to generate charge in response to incident light. The plurality of photodiodes includes first and second photodiodes. A shared floating diffusion receives charge transferred from the first and second photodiodes. An analog to digital converter (ADC) performs a first ADC conversion to generate a reference readout in response to charge in the shared floating diffusion after a reset operation. The ADC is next performs a second ADC conversion to generate a first half of a phase detection autofocus (PDAF) readout in response to charge transferred from the first photodiode to the shared floating diffusion. The ADC then performs a third ADC conversion to generate a full image readout in response to charge transferred from the second photodiode combined with the charge transferred previously from the first photodiode in the shared floating diffusion.
US11683606B2	Imaging device and electronic equipment An imaging device of the present disclosure includes a plurality of pixels each including a light receiving element that performs photoelectric conversion on incident light to generate an electrical signal, the pixels outputs a detection signal when detecting that an amount of change of the electrical signal exceeds a predetermined threshold, and a control section that reads out, when pixels of a pixel combination of two or more pixels including a pixel of interest both output detection signals, the detection signals. Further, electronic equipment of the present disclosure includes the imaging device including the plurality of pixels and a detection section that have the above-mentioned configurations.
US11683596B2	Image capture apparatus, electronic apparatus, and chroma suppression program An image capture apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire image data of a subject; an identification unit configured to identify a color temperature of light from the subject on the basis of the image data acquired by the acquisition unit; an adjustment unit configured to adjust a white balance of the image data on the basis of the color temperature identified by the identification unit; and a suppression unit configured to suppress a chroma of the image data applied adjustment by the adjustment unit, if image data of a specific light-emitting body is included in the image data, on the basis of color information of the specific light-emitting body applied adjustment by the adjustment unit, by eliminating color of the specific light-emitting body applied adjustment by the adjustment unit.
US11683591B2	Imaging apparatus, imaging method, and imaging program An imaging apparatus includes: a controller that performs first synchronization control of outputting a first synchronization signal at a first timing after receiving an instruction of continuous imaging, outputting a second synchronization signal at a second timing after elapse of a first time period from the first timing, and outputting the second synchronization signal every time a second time period longer than the first time period elapses after the second timing; and an imaging unit that starts reading of a signal from an imaging element by a rolling shutter method at a third timing at which an input of the second synchronization signal is received after the second timing, and starts exposure of the imaging element by the rolling shutter method at a fourth timing before the third timing so that an interval between the fourth and third timings is equal to a length of an exposure time period.
US11683590B2	Image apparatus and mobile terminal Provided in the present disclosure are a camera apparatus and a mobile terminal. The camera apparatus of the present disclosure comprises: a camera assembly; a rotary shaft that is fixedly connected to the camera assembly, a first gear being fixed at an end of the rotary shaft that is away from the camera assembly; a transmission component that is fixed on the rotary shaft and that abuts against the camera assembly; a screw rod that is rotationally connected to the transmission component, a second gear being fixed on the screw rod, and the screw rod and the rotary shaft being arranged in parallel; and a control structure that is connected to the screw rod, the control structure driving the screw rod to rotate, and the screw rod rotatingly driving the transmission component to move along the central axis of the rotary shaft.
US11683589B2	Automatic camera head and operation method An automatic camera head for panning and tilting a video camera, comprising at least one ring actuator arranged to act on a ring control of an objective of the camera, wherein said ring control is one of: zoom, iris, and focus; and said ring actuator includes a torque measurement unit delivering a signal indicative of the torque applied to the ring control.
US11683585B2	Direct scale level selection for multilevel feature tracking under motion blur A method for mitigating motion blur in a visual-inertial tracking system is described. In one aspect, the method includes accessing a first image generated by an optical sensor of the visual tracking system, accessing a second image generated by the optical sensor of the visual tracking system, the second image following the first image, determining a first motion blur level of the first image, determining a second motion blur level of the second image, identifying a scale change between the first image and the second image, determining a first optimal scale level for the first image based on the first motion blur level and the scale change, and determining a second optimal scale level for the second image based on the second motion blur level and the scale change.
US11683577B2	Systems and methods for registering headset system Arrangements described herein relate to systems, apparatuses, and methods for a headset system that includes a transducer, a camera configured to capture image data of a subject, and a controller configured to detect one or more fiducial markers placed on the subject using the captured image data, and register the transducer with respect to the subject based on the detected fiducial markers.
US11683575B2	Space mapping illumination in image system An image system (100) comprising a camera (110), a control unit (120), a processing unit (130), one or more illumination devices (140). The image system (100) is configured to obtain a distance matrix for a scene. Each cell of the distance matrix corresponds to a zone of the scene and a value in each cell represents the distance from an object in the zone to the camera. The image system is further configured to obtain an illumination intensity matrix for the scene. Each cell of the illumination intensity matrix corresponds to a zone of the scene and a value in each cell represents illumination intensity of one or more illumination devices in each zone of the scene. The image system is further configured to generate a compensation matrix based on the illumination intensity matrix and the distance matrix and generate an image of the scene based on the compensation matrix.
US11683572B2	Lens apparatus and image pickup apparatus Provided is a lens apparatus connected to a camera configured to pick up an image based on a set pickup parameter, comprising: a first operating member; a controller configured, based on an operation of the first controller, to control a function of the lens apparatus in a first mode and to output a signal for switching a setting of a combination of pickup parameters including a function of the camera in a second mode; and a switching device configured to switch from the first mode to the second mode, in which the combination of pickup parameters in the second mode is previously set by a user.
US11683571B2	Optical path change module and camera module An optical path change module includes: a first rotation holder; a reflection member disposed on the first rotation holder, and configured to change a path of light; a second rotation holder configured to support the first rotation holder; and a module case accommodating the second rotation holder. The first rotation holder is coupled to the second rotation holder, and configured to rotate around a first pivot axis. The second rotation holder is coupled to the module case, and configured to rotate around a second pivot axis intersecting the first pivot axis.
US11683569B2	Optical assembly An optical assembly includes: a camera module; at least one actuator configured to move the camera module; and a connection substrate having one end connected to the camera module such that at least a portion of the connection substrate is configured to move along with movement of the camera module. The connection substrate includes a rigidity reduction portion reducing rigidity of the connection substrate in a portion of the substrate in which distortion or warpage occurs according to the movement of the camera module.
US11683568B2	Image capturing system, image processing program, and image processing method The present invention provides a technique of reducing colored afterimages. To solve this problem, an image capturing system includes the following structure: A color separation optical system disperses subject light into a plurality of wavelength ranges, and forms images of a plurality of color components. A plurality of image capturing elements capture the respective images of the plurality of color components, and generate the respective color components of a video signal. A color-specific exposure setting unit sets respective exposure periods for the plurality of color components. An exposure control unit performs exposure control α of approximately simultaneously exposure-controlling each of the plurality of image capturing elements to obtain a video signal (hereafter referred to as a reference video signal) in a common period shorter than or equal to a shortest period of the respective exposure periods set for the color components. The exposure control unit also performs exposure control β of exposure-controlling each of the plurality of image capturing elements to obtain a video signal (hereafter referred to as an extended video signal) in a period obtained by subtracting the common period from an exposure period of a corresponding color component.
US11683565B2	User interfaces for interacting with channels that provide content that plays in a media browsing application In some embodiments, an electronic device presents a plurality of representations of content items that are available on a respective channel in response to successfully subscribing the respective channel. In some embodiments, an electronic device plays content that is provided by a channel in a unified media browsing application. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents information about subscribing to a channel based on content consumption activity of the user on the electronic device in accordance with some embodiments of the disclosure.
US11683562B2	Invertible metering apparatus and related methods Example invertible metering apparatus and related methods are disclosed. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes at least one processor and memory including instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to at least: determine an orientation of a housing; determine if a housing is in a mounting orientation; in response to determining that the housing is not in the mounting orientation, initiate a first alarm; in response to determining that the housing is in the mounting orientation, determine an orientation of a stencil; determine if the stencil is in an upright orientation; in response to determining that stencil is not in the upright orientation, initiate a second alarm; and in response to at least one of the housing being in the mounting orientation or the stencil being in the upright orientation, assign a light pattern to a plurality of lights associated with the stencil.
US11683553B2	Methods and systems for group watching A method of modifying playing of media content in a group watch session comprises receiving a command to modify play; determining respective preferences of respective users in the session; and, if it is determined that execution of the command is consistent with the preferences, causing modifying of the playing of at least a portion of the media content based on the received command, e.g., by skipping the portion, jumping to another play position, or rewinding or fast-forwarding through the portion. In this manner, the command is executed, or not executed, based on the preferences of multiple users. The method may include estimating a satisfaction score for the command for the respective users, and comparing the estimated satisfaction scores with a reference score. The portion(s) of the media content for which play is modified may be determined based on the estimated satisfaction scores.
US11683551B2	Systems and methods for detecting light signatures and performing actions in response thereto There is provided systems and methods for performing actions based on light signatures. An exemplary system includes a light source, a light detector, a non-transitory memory storing a plurality of light signatures and a hardware processor. The hardware processor executes an executable code to illuminate, using the light source, a target object with a first light, collect, using the light detector, a second light being a reflection of the first light by the target object, match the second light with one of the plurality of light signatures, and perform an action in response to matching the second light with the one of the plurality of light signatures.
US11683550B2	Apparatus, system and method of video encoding For example, an apparatus may include a video encoder configured to encode video data into a parallel plurality of encoded video streams, the parallel plurality of encoded video streams including the video data encoded according to a respective plurality of different video bitrates; a selector configured to select, based on one or more parameters corresponding to a condition of a wireless communication link, a selected encoded video stream from the parallel plurality of encoded video streams; and a radio to transmit the selected encoded video stream over the wireless communication link.
US11683549B2	Information distribution apparatus, information distribution method, and information distribution program An information distribution apparatus includes: a user information receiving unit configured to receive user information from user devices that respective users have, the user information including at least one of user-captured images and positional information of the users, and user IDs of the users; a user specifying unit configured to specify at least one user from a plurality of pieces of user information; an other user extraction unit configured to extract at least one other user who is present near the specified user based on at least one of the user-captured images and the positional information of the user; a related user group information generation unit configured to generate related user group information in which at least one of the pieces of user information is associated with at least one of pieces of other user information.
US11683548B2	Conditional display of hyperlinks in a video Systems and methods are provided for dynamically displaying hyperlinks in a video based on various factors associated with a device at which the video is played and/or a user of the device. In one or more aspects, a system includes a request component configured to receive a request to play a video hosted by a media provider. The system further includes a selection component configured to select a subset of links included in a set of links associated with the video to provide with the video when it is played in response to the request based in part on a number of links included in the set of links, wherein graphical elements respectively representative of the links included in the subset of links are configured to be displayed over the video when the video is played in response to the request.
US11683545B2	Machine learning techniques for determining quality of user experience In various embodiments, a quality of experience (QoE) prediction application computes a visual quality score associated with a stream of encoded video content. The QoE prediction application also determines a rebuffering duration associated with the stream of encoded video content. Subsequently, the QoE prediction application computes an overall QoE score associated with the stream of encoded video content based on the visual quality score, the rebuffering duration, and an exponential QoE model. The exponential QoE model is generated using a plurality of subjective QoE scores and a linear regression model. The overall QoE score indicates a quality level of a user experience when viewing reconstructed video content derived from the stream of encoded video content.
US11683544B1	Dynamic transport stream monitoring device The present disclosure describes a monitoring device for determining one or more characteristics of one or more scheduled programs within one or more packetized elementary streams of one or more transport streams. The monitoring device receives the one or more transport streams from a service provider system and de-encapsulates the one or more packetized elementary streams from the one or more transport streams. The monitoring device determines the one or more characteristics of the one or more scheduled programs from the one or more packetized elementary streams. The one or more characteristics can be used by the monitoring device to adapt on a dynamic, real-time, or near real-time, basis to changes to the one or more transport streams.
US11683539B2	Video transmission method, video reception method, video transmission apparatus, and video reception apparatus A video transmission method according to the present disclosure includes: generating a transmission signal including, in a time series, first video data having a first luminance dynamic range and second video data having a second luminance dynamic range wider than the first luminance dynamic range; and transmitting the transmission signal generated. In the generating of the transmission signal, a signal level corresponding to a luminance value is limited to a value lower than a limit value that is predetermined, in a transition period provided for switching from one of the first video data and the second video data to the other.
US11683538B2	Live group video streaming The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for accurately, flexibly, and efficiently broadcasting public combined live video streams from multiple participant devices, which change over the course of the live broadcast, as well as generating dynamic user interfaces that streamline adding, removing, and swapping participant devices from the public combined live video stream. In particular, a live video streaming system facilitates compositing live video streams from multiple participant devices into a public combined live video stream within a digital room before broadcasting the public combined live video stream to viewer devices. In addition, the live video stream smoothly and efficiently transitions new participant devices from a digital waiting room to the public combined live video stream as well as switches current participant devices from the public combined live video stream to a digital waiting room, all while maintaining live video stream of the participant devices.
US11683537B2	Artificial intelligence based perceptual video quality assessment system A video quality evaluation system comprises a training module, a calculation module, an analytical module, a designing module, an optimization module, and an estimation module. The training module collects training videos and trains labels of perceptual quality generation that is associated with the collected videos. The calculation module determines objective metrics based on the trained labels that are associated with the collected videos. The analytical module analyses scenes of the training video, and correlates objective metrics associated with the analysed scenes using perceptual parameters. The designing module designs a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Architecture based on data associated with the objective metrics and trains a model generated based on the designed CNN architecture. The optimization module optimizes the model and optimizes power after the model optimization. The estimation module estimates perceptual quality scores for incoming video data after the power optimization.
US11683536B2	Audiovisual collaboration system and method with latency management for wide-area broadcast and social media-type user interface mechanics Techniques have been developed to facilitate the livestreaming of group audiovisual performances. Audiovisual performances including vocal music are captured and coordinated with performances of other users in ways that can create compelling user and listener experiences. For example, in some cases or embodiments, duets with a host performer may be supported in a sing-with-the-artist style audiovisual livestream in which aspiring vocalists request or queue particular songs for a live radio show entertainment format. The developed techniques provide a communications latency-tolerant mechanism for synchronizing vocal performances captured at geographically-separated devices (e.g., at globally-distributed, but network-connected mobile phones or tablets or at audiovisual capture devices geographically separated from a live studio).
US11683535B2	System and method for capturing and distributing a live audio stream of a live event in real-time Systems and methods for capturing and distributing a live audio stream of a live event in real-time to a plurality of mobile computing devices are described. The system comprises at least one memory configured to store computer-executable instructions and processing device(s) coupled to the at least one memory and at least one audio input device configured to receive the live audio stream. Upon receipt of the live audio stream, the processing device(s) generate, in real-time, a plurality of discrete audio data packets from the live audio stream, and transmit that respective discrete audio data packet over a first network for receipt by the mobile computing devices. In respect of each one of the discrete audio data packets, a copy of the discrete audio data packet is transmitted for receipt by each one of the mobile computing devices prior to transmitting another one of the discrete audio data packets.
US11683533B2	Apparatus and method for deblocking filter in video coding A method and image processing device are provided, including a deblocking filter. The deblocking filter modifies values of at most MA samples of the first image block as first filter output values, the at most MA samples being obtained from a column of the first image block that is perpendicular to and adjacent to the horizontal block edge; and modifies values of at most MB samples of the second image block as second filter output values, the at most MB samples being obtained from a column of the second image block that is perpendicular to and adjacent to the horizontal block edge. At most a number MA of sample values of the first image block adjacent to the block edge are modified and at most a number MB of sample values of the second image block adjacent to the block edge are modified, wherein MA
US11683528B2	Sub-picture extraction and constraints in video coding Example techniques and devices for decoding video data are disclosed. An example device includes memory configured to store the video data and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and communicatively coupled to the memory. The one or more processors are configured to extract a current sub-picture from a bitstream of the video data and parse virtual boundary syntax elements indicative of virtual boundaries for a current picture, wherein the current sub-picture is associated with the current picture. The one or more processors are configured to update the virtual boundaries based at least in part on the virtual boundary syntax elements and decode the current sub-picture based on the updated virtual boundaries.
US11683526B2	Interaction between intra prediction mode and block differential pulse-code modulation mode A method of video encoding includes determining whether a first block associated with a second block is to be predicted according to a block differential pulse code modulation (BDPCM) mode, and, in response to determining that the first block is to be predicted according to the BDPCM mode, associating the first block with an intra prediction mode value based on a BDPCM direction for the first block. The intra prediction mode value is selected from a plurality of intra prediction modes that include angular intra prediction modes. The method also includes determining an intra prediction mode value for the second block using the intra prediction mode value associated with the first block, and encoding the second block using the determined intra prediction mode value for the second block.
US11683522B2	Adaptive switching of color spaces, color sampling rates and/or bit depths Innovations in adaptive encoding and decoding for units of a video sequence can improve coding efficiency. For example, some of the innovations relate to encoding/decoding that includes adaptive switching of color spaces between units within a video sequence. Other innovations relate encoding/decoding that includes adaptive switching of color sampling rates between units within a video sequence. Still other innovations relate encoding/decoding that includes adaptive switching of bit depths between units within a video sequence.
US11683521B2	Representative motion information for temporal motion prediction in video encoding and decoding Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of generating representative motion information that can be used during processing of a video frame. In one exemplary embodiment disclosed herein, a reference frame comprising a group of blocks is processed, and motion information for the group of blocks is compressed at least by buffering representative motion-vector information and representative reference-frame index information for the group of blocks. The representative reference-frame index information comprises reference-frame index information of a representative block of the group of blocks, and the representative reference-frame index information represents reference-frame index information for the group of blocks during processing of a current frame.
US11683519B2	Rate-distortion defined interpolation for video coding based on fixed filter or adaptive filter This disclosure describes filtering techniques applied by an encoder and a decoder during the prediction stage of a video encoding and/or decoding process. The filtering techniques may enhance the accuracy of predictive data used during fractional interpolation, and may improve predictive data of integer blocks of pixels. There are several aspects to this disclosure, including a useful twelve-pixel filter support that may be used for interpolation, techniques that use coefficient symmetry and pixel symmetry to reduce the amount of data needed to be sent between an encoder and a decoder to configure the filter support for interpolation, and techniques for filtering data at integer pixel locations in a manner that is similar to sub-pixel interpolation. Other aspects of this disclosure concern techniques for encoding information in the bitstream to convey the type of filter used, and possibly the filter coefficients used. Predictive coding of filter coefficients is also described.
US11683517B2	Block-adaptive search range and cost factors for decoder-side motion vector (MV) derivation techniques A method of decoding video data may comprise decoding data from an encoded bitstream to generate motion vectors and performing a decoder-side motion vector refinement (DMVR) process on one or more of the motion vectors. Performing the DMVR process may include determining one or more characteristics of current video block being decoded and determining a search area for the DMVR process for the current video block based on the determined one or more characteristics of the current video block.
US11683516B2	Method and apparatus for video coding An apparatus for video coding includes processing circuitry that encodes prediction information of a current block in a video bitstream. The prediction information indicates a first set of intra prediction direction mode numbers for the current block. The processing circuitry determines whether a first intra prediction direction mode number of a neighboring block of the current block is in the first set of intra prediction direction mode numbers. In response to the first intra prediction direction mode number not being in the first set of intra prediction direction mode numbers, the processing circuitry determines a most probable mode for the current block based on a second intra prediction direction mode number in the first set of intra prediction direction mode numbers that is nearest to the first intra prediction direction mode number. The processing circuitry encodes the current block based on the most probable mode of the current block.
US11683514B2	Method and apparatus for video coding for machine Aspects of the disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums for video encoding/decoding. An apparatus includes processing circuitry that decodes prediction information of a current block in a current picture that is a part of a video bitstream. The processing circuitry determines that a first plurality of coding tools is enabled and a second plurality of coding tools is disabled for the current block based on a syntax element included in the video bitstream. The first plurality of coding tools includes a deblocking filter. The second plurality of coding tools includes at least one of a sample adaptive offset filter, an intra sub-partitioning, and a matrix based intra prediction. The processing circuitry reconstructs the current block based on the first plurality of coding tools being enabled and the second plurality of coding tools being disabled.
US11683508B2	Image decoding apparatus In a conventional art, an output layer set having no output layer is sometimes defined. Consequently, even if the decoder decodes a bit stream to obtain each layer in the output layer set without the output layer, there is no picture to be outputted. There is a possibility that such coded data causes the decoder expecting an output to operate unexpectedly. Output layer sets having the same configuration may be defined. Consequently, the amount of code pertaining to the output layer sets defined in an overlapping manner is redundant. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a specification of a bit stream conformance pertaining to the output layer set prevents occurrence of an output layer set without an output layer and a redundant output layer set.
US11683506B2	Method, device and system for encoding and decoding image Disclosed are methods, apparatuses, and systems for encoding and decoding an image. The present invention provides an intra prediction unit receives an input image, removes high frequency ingredients by low pass filtering an encoded luma pixel value in the input image during intra prediction, and generates a prediction block by predicting a chroma pixel value by using a low pass filter (LPF) LM chroma mode for applying an LM chroma mode, which is an extended chroma mode technique for generating a prediction block by predicting the chroma pixel value by applying a correlation between color planes to the luma pixel value having removed therefrom the high frequency ingredients.
US11683505B2	Method and a device for picture encoding and decoding A decoding method is disclosed. The decoding method comprises: determining an index from a bitstream, the index identifying a coding element in a set of a plurality of coding elements; decoding a picture block from the bitstream using the coding element of the set identified by the index. In a specific embodiment, determining the index comprises: determining, for each coding element in the set, a probability that the coding element was used for encoding the picture block; and determining the index responsive to the determined probabilities.
US11683501B2	Method and apparatus for video coding Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry can decode first prediction information of a current region in a current picture and second prediction information of a current block in the current region from a coded video bitstream. The second prediction information indicates that a prediction mode for reconstructing the current block is one of: an inter prediction mode and an intra block copy (IBC) mode. The processing circuitry can determine a first set of default vectors for the current region based on the first prediction information. The processing circuitry can add a vector from the first set of default vectors to a candidate list for the current block and reconstruct at least one sample in the current block based on the updated candidate list.
US11683499B2	Multi-parameters based intra prediction A method for video processing is provided. The method includes determining, for a conversion between a current video block of a video that is a chroma block and a coded representation of the video, multiple sets of parameters, wherein each set of parameters defines a cross-component linear model (CCLM) and is derived from a corresponding group of chroma samples at corresponding chroma sample positions; determining, based on the multiple sets of parameters, parameters for a final CCLM; and performing the conversion based on the final CCLM.
US11683498B2	Hardware pipelines for rate-distortion optimization (RDO) that support multiple codecs A disclosed system may include a hardware distortion data pipeline that may include (1) a quantization module that generates a quantized data set, (2) an inverse quantization module that generates, from the quantized data set, an inverse quantized data set by executing an inverse quantization of the quantized data set, and (3) an inverse transformation module that generates an inversely transformed data set by executing an inverse transformation of the inverse quantized data set. The system may also include a hardware determination pipeline that determines a distortion metric based on the inversely transformed data set and the residual frame data set, and a hardware token rate pipeline that determines, based on the quantized data set, a token rate for an encoding of the residual frame data set via a video encoding pipeline. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11683496B2	Motion vector prediction method and related apparatus A motion vector prediction method includes parsing a bitstream to obtain an index value of a candidate motion vector list and constructing the candidate motion vector list that includes. candidate motion vectors of K control points of a current block. The candidate motion vectors of K control points are obtained based on a 2N-parameter affine transform model used for a neighboring block of the current block, where N and K are integers greater than or equal to 2 and less than or equal to 4 with N not being equal to K. The method further includes determining, in the candidate motion vector list, target candidate motion vectors of the K control points based on the index value and obtaining a predicted motion vector of each subblock of the current block based on the target candidate motion vectors of the K control points.
US11683495B2	Video decoding method using simplified residual data coding in video coding system, and apparatus therefor A method for performing video decoding by a decoding device according to the present document comprises the steps of: acquiring residual information of a current block; deriving residual samples of the current block on the basis of the residual information; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the residual samples.
US11683490B2	Context adaptive transform set Systems and methods for coding and decoding of a coded bitstream is provided. A method comprises decoding a block of a picture from a coded bitstream. The decoding includes selecting a transform set based on at least one neighboring reconstructed sample from one or more previously decoded neighboring blocks or from a previously decoded picture and inverse transforming coefficients of the block using a transform from the transform set.
US11683489B2	Monochrome palette mode for video coding A method of decoding video data includes determining that a current block of the video data is coded in palette mode, determining, between single tree or dual tree partitioning, that the current block is coded with single tree partitioning enabled, determining that the current block is coded in monochrome format, when the current block is coded with single tree partitioning enabled and when the current block is coded in monochrome format, determining that a number of color components used for palette mode decoding the current block is equal to one, and palette mode decoding the current block based on the determined number of color components used for palette mode decoding the current block being equal to one.
US11683488B2	Adaptive loop filtering between different video units An example method of video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current video unit of a video and a bitstream representation of the video, availability of one or more samples in a first neighboring region of the current block for a coding process of the conversion independently from information of a second neighboring region of the current block. The second neighboring region is adjacent to the first neighboring region, and the one or more samples are padded in case determined to be unavailable. The method includes performing the conversion based on the determining.
US11683482B2	Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding video using inter-prediction Image decoding of decoding a sequence of coded pictures on a block-by-block basis is provided. The image decoding incudes decoding a first high-level syntax element from a bitstream to determine, at a sequence level, whether affine motion prediction is allowed. A second high-level syntax element is extracted for each of at least one coding tool from the bitstream depending on the first high-level syntax element. At a picture level, the method determines whether each of the at least one coding tool is allowed. The coding tool includes sample-by-sample adjustment of affine motion prediction samples.
US11683481B2	Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding video using inter-prediction Image decoding of decoding a sequence of coded pictures on a block-by-block basis is provided. The image decoding incudes decoding a first high-level syntax element from a bitstream to determine, at a sequence level, whether affine motion prediction is allowed. A second high-level syntax element is extracted for each of at least one coding tool from the bitstream depending on the first high-level syntax element. At a picture level, the method determines whether each of the at least one coding tool is allowed. The coding tool includes sample-by-sample adjustment of affine motion prediction samples.
US11683479B2	Interplay between reference picture resampling and video coding tools An example method of video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current block of a current picture of a video and a bitstream of the video, whether to disable a coding tool for the current block; and performing the conversion based on the determining, wherein the coding tool is disabled when a dimension of a reference picture of one or more reference pictures of the current block is different from a dimension of the current picture, or a dimension of a scaling window in a reference picture of one or more reference pictures of the current block is different from a dimension of a scaling window in the current picture.
US11683473B2	Laser local dimming for projectors and other lighting devices including cinema, entertainment systems, and displays Light from an array of laser light sources are spread to cover the modulating face of a DMD or other modulator. The spread may be performed, for example, by a varying curvature array of lenslets, each laser light directed at one of the lenslets. Light from neighboring and/or nearby light sources overlap at a modulator. The lasers are energized at different energy/brightness levels causing the light illuminating the modulator to itself be modulated (locally dimmed). The modulator then further modulates the locally dimmed lights to produce a desired image. A projector according to the invention may utilize, for example, a single modulator sequentially illuminated or separate primary color modulators simultaneously illuminated.
US11683468B2	Coordination of multiple structured light-based 3D image detectors Technologies are generally described for coordination of structured light-based image detectors. In some examples, one or more structured light sources may be configured to project sets of points onto the scene. The sets of points may be arranged into disjoint sets of geometrical shapes such as lines, where each geometrical shape includes a subset of the points projected by an illumination source. A relative position and or a color of the points in each geometrical shape may encode an identification code with which each illumination source may be identified. Thus, even when the point clouds projected by each of the illumination sources overlap, the geometrical shapes may still be detected, and thereby a corresponding illumination source may be identified. A depth map may then be estimated based on stereovision principles or depth-from-focus principles by one or more image detectors.
US11683466B2	Application processor, electronic device including the same and operation method of the electronic device An electronic device includes: a display; a first camera module having a first field of view (FoV) and generating first image data; a second camera module having a second FoV that is less than the first FoV and generating second image data; and an application processor configured to obtain zoom information including a zoom ratio and a region of interest (ROI) determined based on a user's input, to generate converted image data by scaling an image area corresponding to the ROI with respect to image data corresponding to the zoom ratio from among the first image data and the second image data, and to control the display to display the converted image data.
US11683463B2	Method for controlling electronic device According to one embodiment, a method for controlling an electronic device includes illuminating an object while moving a light emitting area formed by turning on light emitting elements simultaneously, capturing a shadow generated by the object by image sensing elements on a same substrate as the light emitting elements, and creating three-dimensional data about an outer shape of the object based on a shadow image.
US11683461B2	Systems and methods for identifying viewing directions for video content Video information and sensor information may be obtained. The video information may define spherical video content having a progress length. The spherical video content may define visual content viewable from a point a view as a function of progress through the progress length of the spherical video content. The spherical video content may be captured by one or more image capture devices. The sensor information may characterize capture of the spherical video content. A viewing direction for the spherical video content may be determined based on the sensor information and/or other information. The viewing direction may define a direction of view for the spherical video content from the point of view as the function of progress through the progress length of the spherical video content. The spherical video content may be presented on a display based on the viewing direction.
US11683460B2	Method and apparatus for buffer management in cloud based virtual reality services Provided is a method for creating a virtual reality content, storing the virtual reality content in a transmission buffer, and after that, managing the transmission buffer. A server creates the virtual reality content based on user's motion information, stores the virtual reality content in the transmission buffer and is allowed to modify the virtual reality content stored in the transmission buffer based on subsequently received user's motion information, so that the most recent user's motion information can be appropriately reflected in the virtual reality content. It is possible to provide a more immersive virtual reality service.
US11683454B2	In-cabin monitoring system and in-cabin detection method An in-cabin monitoring system includes a camera which captures an image of an inside of a cabin of a vehicle, a light source which irradiates the inside of the cabin with light, and a controller which controls the camera and the light source. The light source is capable of emitting first light which is light to be emitted when checking whether a person is present using the camera and second light which is stronger than the first light. The controller captures an image of the inside of the cabin using the camera while causing the light source to emit the second light, before the person gets in the vehicle and after the person gets out of the vehicle.
US11683447B2	Providing side conversations within a virtual conferencing system Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing side conversations within a virtual conferencing system. The program and method provide, in association with a virtual conference among plural participants, a first audio channel for sharing among the plural participants; provide, for each of the plural participants, display of a participant video element which corresponds to the participant and which includes a user-selectable button to initiate a side conversation with the participant; receive indication of a user selection, by a first participant, of the user-selectable button for initiating a side conversation with a second participant of the plural participants; and provide a second audio channel from a first device associated with the first participant to a second device associated with the second participant, in conjunction with providing the first audio channel to the second device.
US11683446B2	Multiple host management of videoconferencing sub-meetings One example system for multiple host management of videoconferencing sub-meetings includes a processor and at least one memory device. The processor establishes a main videoconferencing meeting and establishes a host of the main videoconferencing meeting. The host participates using a first host client device. The processor can receive a selection of a participant to be a co-host. The co-host participates in the main videoconferencing meeting from a second host client device. The processor receives a first sub-meeting control input from the second host client device, wherein the first sub-meeting control input identifies an action to perform with respect to a sub-meeting. The system generates a second sub-meeting control input based on the first sub-meeting control input, executes the second sub-meeting control input, and discards the first sub-meeting control input so that the sub-meeting command is associated with the main host.
US11683442B2	Methods, systems and apparatus for providing video communications Methods, systems, and apparatus for conducting a video conference. A location of one or more sets of eyes in an image may be determined. The relative location of an image capture device and/or a portion of a display device may be adjusted based on the determined location.
US11683441B2	Direct communication between an image capture device and a computing device An image capture device may be physically connected to a computing device using a data cable. The image capture device may masquerade as an ethernet card to the computing device over the physical connection. The image capture device may communicate with the computing device over the physical connection using a wireless communication protocol.
US11683440B2	Systems and methods for determining viewing paths through videos Multiple framings of a video may define different positionings of a viewing window at different moments within the video. The positionings of the viewing window defined by the multiple framings may be used as fixed positionings of the viewing window in a viewing path. The viewing path may define changes in the positioning of the viewing window between the fixed positionings. A presentation of the video may be generated to include the extents of the video within the viewing window.
US11683439B2	Image forming apparatus capable of achieving both convenience of user and defense against external threats, control method for image forming apparatus, and storage medium An image forming apparatus capable of achieving both convenience of a user and defense against external threats is provided. The image forming apparatus that transmits and receives data to and from a plurality of external apparatuses via a plurality of network ports includes a setting unit configured to set an application permitted to be used in a mode, which blocks the network ports other than a prescribed network port in response to a request from the outside, a job storing unit configured such that in a case that a job received from the external apparatus via one of the plurality of network ports is not a job of the application permitted to be used which is set by the setting unit, the received job is stored, an authentication unit configured to perform user authentication, and a print permitting unit configured such that in a case that the user authentication is performed by the authentication unit with respect to a user who generated the stored job, printing of the stored job by the authenticated user is permitted.
US11683436B2	System that appropriately synthesizes output data and code provided by external settlement service, control method for system, and storage medium A system that appropriately synthesizes output data and a code provided by an external settlement service is provided. The system comprising a transmitting unit configured to transmit information for generating a code used for paying a amount of money to an external settlement service, a receiving unit configured to receive the code generated based on the information transmitted by the transmitting unit, and a synthesizing unit configured to synthesize the code received by the receiving unit and output data.
US11683434B2	Integrated physical warehouse and digital document management system A document management facility may process volumes of physical documents for digital imaging. The document management facility may utilize robotic apparatus to perform the various functions for processing the documents, which may include document intake, document storage, document digitization, and/or document removal. Digital versions of the documents may be accessed with a document management system.
US11683432B2	Printing apparatus for displaying predetermined display screen for requesting printing to the printing apparatus and control method thereof, and non-transitory computer-readable medium A job management server, which is connected to a Web application server and a job processing apparatus via a network, comprises: a registration unit which registers, when a job received from the Web application server is added with information indicating that a request source of the job is the job processing apparatus, the job in a first job queue, and to register, when the job is not added with the information, the job in a second job queue having a lower priority than the first job queue; and a transmission unit which transmits the job registered in the first job queue in response to a request from the job processing apparatus while a user utilizes a Web application via the job processing apparatus.
US11683431B2	Operation mode management system that sets time frames for various modes An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to change an operation mode between a first operation mode and a second operation mode depending on preset time frames, set the time frames in response to an operation performed via a network by an administrative user having administration authority, and change a current operation mode to the first operation mode or the second operation mode in response to an operation input by a general user on an operation panel of the information processing apparatus.
US11683427B2	Recording apparatus A recording apparatus includes: a recording unit that performs recording on a medium; a medium discharging section that discharges the medium on which recording has been performed; a medium receiving section that receives the medium discharged by the medium discharging section; a face-down discharge path that guides, to the medium discharge section, the recorded medium with a recorded side thereof facing downward; a document movement path that is provided at an upper part of a housing constituting an outer casing of the recording apparatus and along which a document moves; and a reading unit provided in the document movement path to read the document. The medium receiving section also serves as a support tray that supports the document to be inserted into the document movement path or the document exiting from the document movement path.
US11683425B2	Information processing apparatus, image processing apparatus, and method of controlling information processing apparatus for changing account information of a service An information processing apparatus including a first management unit configured to manage account information of a cloud service, and a second management unit configured to manage setting information on a function of a shortcut, includes a control unit configured to change, in a case where the account information is changed and a shortcut using the account information is present, the setting information of the shortcut.
US11683423B2	Image processing apparatus and multi-functional peripheral device with customizing operation screens According to an embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a display unit, an operation unit, a processing unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. The display unit is configured to display an operation screen on which a processing mode and setting information may be selected. The operation unit is configured to receive an operation instruction from the operation screen displayed on the display unit and to transmit a processing job based on the operation instruction. The processing unit is configured to execute a process based on the processing job received from the operation unit. The storage unit is configured to store use history information indicating the processing jobs. The control unit is configured to customize the operation screen according to the use history information stored by the storage unit and cause the display unit to display the customized operation screen.
US11683417B2	Incoming request blending for customer service representatives Embodiments of the present disclosure include computer-implemented systems and methods for routing incoming customer requests or inquiries in a customer service center. The system may include at least one processor configured to execute instructions to perform steps. The steps may include receiving a plurality of incoming customer calls and a plurality of incoming customer chat sessions. The steps may include blending the received plurality of customer calls and the received plurality of customer chat sessions into a total queue for presentation to at least one user device. The steps may additionally include determining a respective priority for each of the blended plurality of customer calls and the blended plurality of customer chat sessions and sending, based on the determined priority, to the at least one user device at least one of the blended plurality of customer calls or the blended plurality of customer chat sessions.
US11683415B2	Providing enhanced call content to a mobile device One example may include identifying a header of a call message includes enhanced call data, identifying a code object from the call header identifying textual information and one or more images to display during a call connection, displaying the textual information and the one or more images identified from the code object on a mobile device, and connecting a call to the mobile device.
US11683413B2	Number management system, number management method, number management device and number management program A number management unit (11) of a number management system (1) generates a transaction using number portability information including a hashed telephone number and connection destination information, newly generates and approves a block using multiple transactions, and stores the block in a number database (13) as a blockchain. A number resolution unit (12) hashes a telephone number that is a query target using a hash function, searches transactions in a blockchain using the hashed telephone number as a key, and sends connection destination information corresponding to the telephone number that is the query target as a response.
US11683411B1	Processing blocked session initiation protocol (SIP) calls in a contact center call handler A call handler is configured to originate calls using records stored in a contact list by using various campaign call data comprising a set of calling party numbers or “ANIs” that are to be used when originating calls. Each ANI is associated with a status, which reflects whether a terminating voice service provider has blocked a prior call using that ANI. The call handler is configured to recognize when a call is blocked by examining SIP protocol-based error codes and/or intercept announcements provided by the carrier when the call is blocked. Upon detecting the call is blocked, the call handler will update the status of that ANI and select another ANI value from the campaign call data to use for subsequent call originations of that campaign. A set of ANIs that a carrier has blocked may be stored to facilitate subsequent redress with that carrier.
US11683403B2	Method and device for processing data packets The invention proposes a method of encoding data packet by encoding type information and size information of said data packet into the same field. The invention also proposes a method of processing data packets received. The data packet comprises a header part and a message part. The header part comprises at least one bit for indicating the type of said data packet, said method comprising a step 101 of obtaining the size information of said data packet based on said at least one bit.
US11683401B2	Correlating packets in communications networks A computing system may identify packets received by a network device from a host located in a first network and may generate log entries corresponding to the packets received by the network device. The computing system may identify packets transmitted by the network device to a host located in a second network and may generate log entries corresponding to the packets transmitted by the network device. Utilizing the log entries corresponding to the packets received by the network device and the log entries corresponding to the packets transmitted by the network device, the computing system may correlate the packets transmitted by the network device with the packets received by the network device.
US11683399B1	Method for timely transmission of data over lossy communication channels A method for timely transmission of first payload of data from sender device to receiver device includes obtaining a first payload of data to be transmitted; slicing at sender device, first payload of data to at least to first fragment of data appended by first fragment metadata jointly forming first fragment of first fragment size, and to second fragment of data appended by second fragment metadata jointly forming second fragment of second fragment size; transmitting, at least first fragment over first communication channel and at least second fragment over second communication channel; receiving, at least first fragment and at least second fragment at receiver device; and reconstructing, at receiver device, first payload of data from at least first fragment using first fragment metadata and first fragment of data or from at least second fragment using the second fragment metadata and the second fragment of data.
US11683395B2	Mechanisms for an intelligent service layer request abstraction service Systems and methods are described herein to automate managing of service layer operations comprised of multiple elementary operations and offloading the burden of performing such multi-step operations from a requesting entity to the service layer. A Request Abstraction Service (RAS) is described herein for the autonomous execution of such multi-step operations. Methods and apparatuses are also described herein for a service layer framework for integrating generic and functional user interfaces as services managed by the SL on behalf of requesting entities.
US11683394B2	Systems and methods for isolating applications associated with multiple tenants within a computing platform Systems and methods for isolating applications associated with multiple tenants within a computing platform receive a request from a client associated with a tenant for running an application on a computing platform. Hosts connected to the platform are associated with a network address and configured to run applications associated with multiple tenants. A host is identified based at least in part on the request. One or more broadcast domain(s) including the identified hosts are generated. The broadcast domains are isolated in the network at a data link layer. A unique tenant identification number corresponding to the tenant is assigned to the broadcast domains. In response to launching the application on the host: the unique tenant identification number is assigned to the launched application and is added to the network address of the host; and the network address of the host is sent to the client associated with the tenant.
US11683393B2	Framework for computing in radio access network (RAN) The present disclosure provides embodiments in which computing (e.g., edge computing) is part of base station (BS) capability. These embodiments may enable conducting computing offloading between a user equipment (UE) and BS in the radio access network (RAN), for example, compute in the RAN, and deliver “true” edge computing user experience. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US11683392B2	Cache decision method and apparatus This application provides a cache decision method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a policy control function PCF, first cache information sent by at least one local analytic function LAF. The first cache information includes a base station identifier, identifiers of first N1 pieces of application information that are accessed for a maximum quantity of times, and content corresponding to the identifiers of the N1 pieces of application information, where N1 is a positive integer. The method further includes determining, by the PCF, local cache content based on the first cache information and a capacity of a local cache. In this way, the cache hit rate can be effectively improved, transmission bandwidth and data transmission overheads can be greatly reduced, and users' experience improved.
US11683389B2	Browser display of native application presence and interaction data A client application of a device receives presence information and other interaction information from other devices synchronized to a set of content items. The interaction information indicates interactions of at least one other device with respect to a synchronized content item. The client application displays a browser depicting the synchronized content items and permitting navigation among organizational elements. The browser also displays the interaction information associated with the content items received from the other devices. The browser displays the interaction information with respect to particular content items or for an organizational element. The browser may also include an activity feed displaying interaction information specific to a content item or relating to a synchronized folder or organizational element. This permits a user to view, at a browser, activity and interactions of other users with respect to content items using native applications on another device.
US11683380B2	Methods for seamless session transfer without re-keying A method for a seamless transfer of a secure multimedia conference session from one endpoint device to another without a need to rekey the session is provided. In this method, a first endpoint device connects a participant to a multimedia conference session to which at least one other participant is connected and based on detecting one or more second endpoint devices within a predetermined location proximity of the first endpoint device, determines whether to transfer the multimedia conference session to a target endpoint device. Based on determining that the session is to be transferred, the first endpoint device establishes a secure pairing connection directly with the target endpoint device and provides, via the secure pairing connection, information about the multimedia conference session based on which the multimedia conference session is transferred to the target endpoint device without rekeying the multimedia conference session.
US11683375B2	Dynamic storage sharing across network devices Techniques and systems described herein relate to shared storage systems across network devices to use unused storage space and provide backup and additional storage for devices as needed. The techniques and systems include determining availability data describing available storage locations and amounts on network devices, compiling such data at a network controller, and communicating the availability data to the network devices. The network devices then directly communicate with each other to store data remotely as needed.
US11683374B2	Containerized gateways and exports for distributed file systems Systems and method for improved creation and management of distributed file systems are provided. In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes creating a plurality of containers within a cloud computing environment and executing, within the plurality of containers, a plurality of gateways for a distributed file system. Exports of the distributed file system may be assigned to a subset of the plurality of gateways. The exports may correspond to an exclusive subset of the distributed file system. The method may also include responding to requests to access exports of the distributed file system using containers executing gateways assigned to corresponding exports of the distributed file system.
US11683372B2	Virtualized fabric management server for storage area network Techniques for a virtualized fabric management server for a storage area network are described herein. An aspect includes operating a storage area network, the storage area network including a hybrid control plane. Another aspect includes managing, using a virtualized fabric management server and the hybrid control plane, the storage area network, wherein the virtualized fabric management server is disposed in a container that is hosted on an element of the storage area network.
US11683369B2	System for centralized data collection in a distributed service-oriented system A system, method, apparatus and electronic control unit are provided for centralized data collection at a single controller device (110) in a distributed service-oriented system (100) by applying one or more classifiers (102-104, 114) to a message traffic packet (1) received at the Ethernet switch (101) of the single controller device to selectively identify service update information from service-oriented traffic messages in the message traffic packet without generating additional message traffic packets on the network system bus, and by mirroring each message traffic packet (3) containing service update information to a processing element (111) in the single controller to identify and extract specified data from the identified service update information for storage in a centralized database which is updated as services publish new information on the network system bus.
US11683367B2	Industry edge services A computing environment includes a computing service provider and an edge computing network that has computing and storage devices that extend computing resources of the computing service provider to remote users. An edge platform is configured to execute industry specific PaaS services and industry specific third-party applications. The edge platform communicates with an IoT edge service, inference engine, and IoT edge gateway that performs protocol conversion. The industry edge platform provides a standardized platform for enabling execution of the industry specific PaaS services and industry specific third-party applications.
US11683352B2	Method and apparatus of enhancing media session management In a method of session initiation protocol (SIP) session management, a SIP session information request is sent to a network resource management (NRM) server by a vertical application layer (VAL) server to obtain a list of SIP sessions established between (i) a VAL client associated with the VAL server and (ii) the NRM server. A response message comprising SIP session information is received by the VAL server from the NRM server in response to the SIP session information request. The SIP session information includes the list of SIP sessions established between the VAL client and the NRM server. A plurality of SIP sessions is managed across a plurality of NRM servers based on the response message, where the plurality of NRM servers comprises the NRM server and the plurality of SIP sessions comprises the list of SIP sessions established between the VAL client and the NRM server.
US11683348B2	Bypassing security vulnerable and anomalous devices in multi-device workflow In an approach for bypassing security vulnerable and anomalous devices in a multi-device workflow, a processor monitors behavior and network traffic of a plurality of smart devices within a multi-smart device system. A processor identifies a first smart device of the plurality of smart devices with at least one of a security vulnerability and an anomaly. A processor identifies a multi-smart device workflow that includes the first smart device. A processor identifies a function of the first smart device within the multi-smart device workflow. A processor determines whether an alternative smart device can replace the first smart device within the multi-smart device workflow. Responsive to resolution of the at least one of the security vulnerability and the anomaly, a processor re-establishes the workflow with the first smart device.
US11683345B2	Application identity-based enforcement of datagram protocols Systems and methods include obtaining telemetry from a plurality of security agents each operating on a device in a network, wherein the telemetry is collected locally related to datagram protocol packets; analyzing the telemetry to determine applications associated with the datagram protocol packets flowing in the network and virtual circuits between each of the applications; determining enforcement policies for each application that communicates with other applications over a datagram protocol; and providing the enforcement policies to the plurality of security agents for allowing and blocking communications associated with the datagram protocol.
US11683341B2	System and method for network intrusion detection based on physical measurements A system includes a memory and a processor in communication with the memory. The processor is programmed to receive a runtime measurement from a sensor regarding the physical attribute of at least the separate processor during runtime; compare the runtime measurement of the physical attribute to a fingerprint that includes a baseline measurement of a physical attribute of at least a separate processor during an evaluation period of the system, and in response to the measurement exceeding a threshold, executing a countermeasure operation against software ran by the separate processor.
US11683337B2	Harvesting fully qualified domain names from malicious data packets The system inhibits malware, which has infected user equipment (UE), from establishing a communication channel between to the UE and a malware command and control (C2) website. A malware threat detector detects traffic generated by user equipment generated by malware. The system extracts the logs of these detections and processes the packet capture and extracts the fully qualified domain name (FQDN). The FQDN is then transmitted to a malware information sharing platform and added to the domain name system response policy zone (DNS RPZ). The DNS RPZ can block subsequent access to the malware C2 website due to the inclusion of the FQDN on the DNS RPZ.
US11683332B2	Method and apparatus for measuring information system device integrity and evaluating endpoint posture Methods, devices, and systems disclosed herein measure endpoint user security event susceptibility (e.g., a malware infection) and provide information for endpoint/user posture evaluation. A relatively small software application may be installed using, for example, a systems management push system where the software runs on each endpoint system and reports back to a central repository or base system. The software runs on machines that it is pushed to and generates a score for that endpoint. That score is a quantification of endpoint user security risk, i.e., the likelihood that a particular endpoint is likely to be the source of a security event at some point in the future. This information may be used to generate a Relative Score for each endpoint so that the endpoints can be ranked from most secure to least secure and an Absolute Score so that a given distributed system can be compared to other distributed systems.
US11683330B2	Network anomaly data detection method and device as well as computer equipment and storage medium A network anomaly data detection method includes the following steps: receiving access request data transmitted by a client; searching historical access request data corresponding to a user session identifier in the access request data; acquiring a header character string of the access request data; performing word segmentation processing on the header character string according to a preset step length so as to obtain a word segmentation set; obtaining a word segmentation weight matrix according to the historical access request data and the word segmentation set; inputting the word segmentation weight matrix into an anomaly data detection model so as to obtain a data anomaly probability; and judging whether anomaly data exists in the header character string according to the data anomaly probability.
US11683328B2	IoT device management visualization Techniques for visualizing IoT device management are disclosed. A system utilizing such techniques can include an IoT device risk assessment system and an IoT device management visualization system. A method utilizing such techniques can include grouping IoT devices into an IoT device dimension group based on IoT device dimensions defining the group and controlling presentation of management data for the IoT devices based on the grouping of the IoT devices into the IoT device dimension group.
US11683324B2	Verification of in-situ network telemetry data in a packet-switched network Techniques to facilitate verification of in-situ network telemetry data of data packet of data traffic of packet-switched networks are described herein. A technique described herein includes a network node obtaining a data packet of data traffic of a packet-switched network. The data packet includes an in-situ network telemetry block. The network node obtains telemetry data and cryptographic key. The cryptographic key confidentially identifies the network node. The node encrypts at least a portion of the telemetry data based on the cryptographic key to produce signed telemetry data and updates telemetry-data entry of the in-situ network telemetry block. The telemetry data and signed telemetry data is inserted into the telemetry-data entry. The node forwards the data packet with the updated telemetry-data entry to another network node of the packet-switched network.
US11683319B2	Hiearchical access groups for controlling data access, especially patient data access A system and process for applying access groups for controlling data access, by a processor device. The process receives from a user a request to access data associated with a person from a file system, whereby the request invokes at least one software method. Next method interception is performed by matching the at least one software method. Group membership of the user and at least one group membership of the person is accessed. Determining if each of the following conditions of i) the user is a member of a specific group and ii) the specific group contains the person are verified. In response to the conditions being verified, the process sends the data to a user device to display to the user, otherwise denying the request to access data. Each group can have one or more criteria, which add patients to that group based on the conditions of those criteria.
US11683314B2	Method and apparatus for controlling access to custom browser functionality A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for controlling access of a custom browser function are disclosed. For example, the method includes a processor that sends a request to a third party website, receives a hypertext markup language code and a browser script, renders the hypertext markup language code, detects that the browser script is trying to access a custom browser function, compares one or more parameters associated with the custom browser function to an access control list to control an access of the custom browser function, and executes the custom browser function when a match of the one or more parameters is found in the access control list.
US11683311B2	Systems and methods for running applications on a multi-tenant container platform The disclosed computer-implemented method for running applications on a multi-tenant container platform may include (1) receiving, at a host administrator service on a container host computing device and via a host administrator service socket handle, a request for a privileged operation from an application running in a non-privileged container, (2) performing, based on a user identifier of the application, a security check of a user associated with the application, (3) comparing, when the security check results in approval, a process identifier of the requested privileged operation against a whitelist of permitted operations to determine the requested privileged operation is permissible, and (4) initiating running, when the requested privileged operation is permissible, the requested privileged operation. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11683310B2	Protecting supervisor mode information Embodiments of an invention for protecting supervisor mode information are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a storage location, instruction hardware, execution hardware, and control logic. The storage location is to store an indicator to enable supervisor mode information protection. The instruction hardware is to receive an instruction to access supervisor mode information. The execution hardware is to execute the instruction. The control logic is to prevent execution of the instruction if supervisor mode information protection is enabled and a current privilege level is less privileged than a supervisor mode.
US11683309B2	Nonce-based enterprise security policy enforcement This disclosure describes techniques including, by a domain name service (DNS), receiving a name resolution request from a client computing device and, by the DNS, providing a nonce to the client computing device, wherein a service is configured to authorize a connection request from the client computing device based at least in part on processing the nonce. This disclosure further describes techniques include a method of validating a connection request from a client computing device, including receiving the connection request, the connection request including a nonce. The techniques further include determining that the nonce is a valid nonce. The techniques further include, based at least in part on determining that the nonce is a valid nonce, authorizing the connection request and disabling the nonce.
US11683308B2	Systems and methods for generating contextual labels In one embodiment, an apparatus includes one or more processors and one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media coupled to the one or more processors. The one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media include instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the apparatus to perform operations including receiving a user credential from a remote access client within a network and communicating the user credential to an authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) server within the network. The operations also include receiving a user attribute from the AAA server and generating a contextual label based on the user attribute. The contextual label includes routing instructions associated with traffic behavior within the network. The operations further include advertising a control message, which includes the contextual label, to the remote access client.
US11683305B1	Computer security system with remote browser isolation using forward proxying A client device is configured to receive user-input and provide user-output to a client-user. A service provider is configured to serve a network-provided service for authorized users. An identity provider is configured to: maintain authorization information for the network-provided service and generate a permission-object that i) specifies that the client-user is an authorized user of the network-provided service and ii) may include an access-override field that specifies a network address of a remote browser isolation (RBI) host. The system also includes the RBI host configured to access the network-provided service; run the network-provided service in an isolation environment to generate a graphic user interface (GUI); provide a visual reproduction of the GUI to the client device; receive browser-input from the client device; and apply the browser-input to the running network-provided service.
US11683303B2	Establishing a trusted session with a smart speaker A trusted session is to be established between a smart speaker and a computer server. The computer server may receive an instruction to initiate a trusted session with the smart speaker. The instruction includes an indication of an account linking token for linking a first and second account associated with the smart speaker and the computer server, respectively. The computer server generates a session token and sends it to the smart speaker for acoustic signalling. The acoustic signal is captured by a mobile device and used to reconstruct the session token. The computer server receives the reconstructed session token along with identifying information from the mobile device. The computer server system uses the identifying information to confirm that the mobile device is associated with the second accord. Upon so confirming, the computer server may establish a trusted session between the first smart speaker and the computer server system.
US11683300B2	Tenant-aware distributed application authentication Flexible authentication technologies customized to particular tenants of a data center network can be implemented. For example, an administrator can specify a primary authentication server and specify at which data centers different applications are to be hosted for a given tenant. End users can be shielded from the complexities of implementing such configuration details. For example, single sign-on authentication can be implemented, even when applications are configured to be hosted in different data centers. Enterprise tenants can thus control where applications are hosted and enforce data containment scenarios without encumbering users with additional tasks. Collaboration and application-to-application authentication can be achieved.
US11683295B2	Data aggregation using proxy entry of credentials Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for entering user credentials through a proxy. One example method generally includes receiving, at a user device, a push request for user data from a cloud server and receiving a request file from an aggregation system. The method further includes injecting user credentials stored on the user device into the request file, wherein when injected the user credentials replace at least one dummy entry of the request file, and transmitting the request file to a data source associated with the request file. The method further includes receiving user data from the data source and transmitting the user data to the aggregation system.
US11683294B2	Privacy-preserving learning of web traffic A method by one or more network devices communicatively coupled to a web application layer proxy for profiling parameters of web application layer requests received by the web application layer proxy while preserving privacy. The method includes obtaining masked parameter values associated with a parameter in the web application layer requests, where the masked parameter values associated with the parameter are generated by the web application layer proxy based on masking parameter values associated with the parameter while preserving lengths of the parameter values associated with the parameter and character types of characters in the parameter values associated with the parameter, generating the profile of the parameter based on analyzing the masked parameter values associated with the parameter, and providing the profile of the parameter to the web application layer proxy.
US11683290B1	System for producing e-commerce product videos A computer-implemented improved system for producing studio quality e-commerce product videos displaying a 3D rendering created from a 3D model of a product that includes generally the steps of uploading a 3D model of the consumer product onto a computer or an online platform; selecting product features for highlighting in the video; rotating the 3D model to identify selected features; providing text to highlight portions of the video and the selected features; selecting and providing musical accompaniment for the video; and, creating a timeline to establish the sequence of individual portions of the video whereupon the 3D rendered video is then automatically generated for the vendor's e-commerce product page and various social platforms.
US11683288B2	Computer or microchip with a secure system bios having a separate private network connection to a separate private network A method for a computer or microchip with one or more inner hardware-based access barriers or firewalls that establish one or more private units disconnected from a public unit or units having connection to the public Internet and one or more of the private units have a connection to one or more non-Internet-connected private networks for private network control of the configuration of the computer or microchip using active hardware configuration, including field programmable gate arrays (FPGA). The hardware-based access barriers include a single out-only bus and/or another in-only bus with a single on/off switch.
US11683287B2	Helping MDNS discovery between resource-seeking and resource-providing devices by modifying MDNS response to lower one or more TTL values An apparatus for helping with multicast domain name service (MDNS) discovery includes one or more processors configured to receive a first MDNS query from the resource-seeking device, receive a first MDNS response from the resource-providing device, and generate a second MDNS response according to the first MDNS response. The second MDNS response is generated at least by including a resource record from the first MDNS response and setting a time-to-live (TTL) value of the resource record in the second MDNS response to be lower than an original TTL value as specified for the resource record in the first MDNS response. The second MDNS response is sent to the resource-seeking device in response to the first MDNS query. A hospitality establishment may thereby soft assign a media device to a user device while retaining the ability to change the media device assigned to the user device.
US11683286B2	Anonymizing server-side addresses Techniques for using Network Address Translation (NAT), Mobile Internet Protocol (MIP), and/or other techniques in conjunction with Domain Name System (DNS) to anonymize server-side addresses in data communications. Rather than having DNS provide a client device with an IP address of an endpoint device, such as a server, the DNS instead returns a virtual IP (VIP) address that is mapped to the client device and the endpoint device. In this way, IP addresses of servers are obfuscated by a virtual network of VIP addresses. The client device may then communicate data packets to the server using the VIP address as the destination address, and a virtual network service that works in conjunction with DNS can convert the VIP address to the actual IP address of the server using NAT and forward the data packet onto the server.
US11683284B2	Discovering graymail through real-time analysis of incoming email Techniques for identifying and processing graymail are disclosed. An electronic message store is accessed. A determination is made that a first message included in the electronic message store represents graymail, including by accessing a profile associated with an addressee of the first message. A remedial action is taken in response to determining that the first message represents graymail.
US11683283B2	Method for electronic messaging The present disclosure relates to a method comprising receiving an electronic message. Message intents of the received electronic message and one or more related intents may be determined. An electronic message may be generated according to a selected subset of the message intents or according to the related intents. The generated electronic message may be provided.
US11683282B2	Method and system of synchronizing communications A method of and system for synchronous communications between a sender and recipient(s) of a message containing a question include receiving over a network an indication that the message was sent from the sender to the recipients via a user interface of a first application or a first service and a response to the question was not received within a predetermined time, monitoring a digital location of the sender and the recipients, the digital location being an electronic application or service being currently utilized, determining whether the sender and at least one of the recipients are concurrently using a second application or a second service, and upon determining that the sender and at least one of the recipients are concurrently using the second application or the second service, sending a notification signal over the network to the sender or one of the one or more recipients to notify the sender or the recipient via a user interface element displayed on a client device that the sender and at least one of the recipients are available within the second application or the second service. The notification signal sent may include a reminder about the question.
US11683279B2	System and method of using conversational agent to collect information and trigger actions Example embodiments provide a system that uses a conversational agent to collect information and publish the information on a network. A computer-implemented conversational agent establishes a communication session with a user and receives conversational information via a simulated conversation between the user and the computer-implemented conversational agent via the communication session, whereby the conversational information comprises information to be published. The computer-implemented conversational agent also receives, via a graphical user interface, an upload of an image that is associated with the information to be published. The computer-implemented conversational agent then causes publication of the information to be published and the uploaded image.
US11683274B2	System and method for supporting multi-tenancy in an application server, cloud, or other environment In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for supporting multi-tenancy in an application server, cloud, on-premise, or other environment, which enables categories of components and configurations to be associated with particular application instances or partitions. Resource group templates define, at a domain level, collections of deployable resources that can be referenced from resource groups. Each resource group is a named, fully-qualified collection of deployable resources that can reference a resource group template. A partition provides an administrative and runtime subdivision of the domain, and contains one or more resource groups. Each resource group can reference a resource group template, to bind deployable resources to partition-specific values, for use by the referencing partition. A tenant of the application server or cloud environment can be associated with a partition, or applications deployed therein, for use by that tenant.
US11683268B2	Switch device, communication control method and recording medium A switch device for relaying data in an on-vehicle network, being equipped with a switch section and a processing section for performing the relay processing via the switch section, wherein, in the case that a plurality of frames to be subjected to the relay processing is present in the processing section, the processing section performs adjustment processing so that the output rates of the respective frames to the switch section in the case that the transmission source addresses of the respective frames are different are made smaller than the output rate in the case that the transmission source addresses of the respective frames are the same.
US11683267B2	Support for multi-AZ management appliance networking Processes for managing computing processes within a plurality of data centers configured to provide a cloud computing environment are described. An exemplary process includes executing a process on a first host of a plurality of hosts. When the process is executing on the first host, a first network identifier associated with the plurality of hosts is not a network identifier of a pool of network identifiers associated with the cloud computing environment and first and second route tables respectively corresponding to first and second data centers of the plurality of data centers associate the first network identifier with the first host. The exemplary process further includes detecting an event associated with the process. In response to detecting the event associated with the process, the first and second route tables are respectively updated to associate the first network identifier with a second host of the plurality of hosts.
US11683257B1	Method and device for improving link aggregation protocol timeout The present disclosure is to propose a method and device for improving a link aggregation protocol timeout. method for improving a link aggregation timeout. The method includes the following steps: setting a timeout value and a timeout threshold count of link aggregation control protocol data unit (LACPDU) packet reception of a switch; obtaining a timeout count statistically, in response to a timeout of reception of a link aggregation control protocol data unit (LACPDU) packet from a second switch by a first switch; determining, through a network controller, in response to that the timeout count is greater than the timeout threshold count and that an aggregated link between the switches is in an out-of-band management mode, whether a port of the second switch is abnormal; and removing, in response to the port of the second switch being abnormal, the abnormal port of the second switch from the aggregated link.
US11683255B2	Apparatus and method for capturing packets before and after network communication failure An embodiment packet capture device comprises: a packet receiver configured to receive a packet from a network; a packet retainer configured to store the received packet in a memory to temporarily retain the received packet; a failure detector configured to determine a communication failure is present in the network; a capture controller configured to determine an operation stop address such that retention of packets from the network in time periods before and after a detection time point of the communication failure is ensured when the communication failure is detected by the failure detector; and a capture data generator configured to output the packet stored in the memory as capture data when a storage destination address of the packet stored in the memory has reached the operation stop address or when at least a predetermined waiting time period has elapsed from the detection time point of the communication failure.
US11683254B1	Rate limit and burst limit enhancements for request processing A method that includes establishing an open connection for responding to requests from clients supported by an application server. The method may further include establishing a set of queues configured for storing requests received from the client via the open connection. The method may further include selecting requests from the queues based on a rate limit threshold and burst limit threshold of the application server. The rate limit threshold may refer to a number of requests that the application server can process within a first time duration, while the burst limit threshold may refer to a number of requests that the application server can process within a second time duration that is shorter than the first time duration. The method may further include transmitting the requests to a set of data processing servers connected to the application server and receiving an indication that the requests have been processed.
US11683242B2	Data plane interface network quality of service in multi-tenant data centers Methods, apparatus, and systems for data plane interface network Quality of Service (QoS) in multi-tenant data centers. Data plane operations including packet generation and encapsulation are performed in software running in virtual machines (VMs) or containers hosted by a compute platform. Control plane operations, including QoS traffic classification, are implemented in hardware by a network controller. Work submission and work completion queues are implemented in software for each VM or container. Work elements (WEs) defining work to be completed by the network controller are generated by software and processed by the network controller to classify packets associated with the WEs into QoS traffic classes, wherein packets belonging to a give traffic flow are classified to the same QoS traffic class. The network controller is also configured to perform scheduling of packet egress as a function of the packet's QoS traffic classifications, to transmit packets that are scheduled for egress onto the network, and to DMA indicia to the work completion queues to indicate the work associated with WEs has been completed.
US11683234B2	Server outlier detection One embodiment of the invention disclosed herein provides techniques for detecting and remediating an outlier server in a distributed computer system. A control server retrieves a group of time-series data sets associated with a first time period, where each time-series data set represents a performance metric for a different server in a group of servers. The control server generates a cluster that includes two or more of the time-series data sets, where the performance metric for each server that is associated with one of the time-series data sets in the cluster is within a threshold distance from the performance metric for the servers that are associated with the other time-series data sets in the cluster. The control server determines that a particular time-series data set corresponds to a server included in the group of servers and is not included in the cluster, and marks the server as an outlier server.
US11683233B2	Provision of logical network data from global manager to local managers Some embodiments provide a method for a global manager that manages a logical network spanning multiple physical sites. The method receives a set of data describing a modification to a definition of the logical network. From multiple queues that each correspond to a different one of the physical sites spanned by the logical network, the method identifying a set of queues to which to store the received set of data. The method stores the received set of data in the identified set of queues. From each respective queue in the identified set of queues, the method sends the set of data through a respective channel between the global manager and a respective local manager at the respective physical site corresponding to the respective queue.
US11683232B2	Methods and apparatus to implement cloud specific functionality in a cloud agnostic system Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed that implement cloud functionality in a cloud agnostic system. An example apparatus includes: at least one memory; instructions in the apparatus; and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: generate a blueprint including components of requested cloud resources and their relationships; provide an allocation flag to the blueprint, the allocation flag indicating the requested cloud resources are to be partially provisioned; transmit a first provisioning request to a cloud management platform, the cloud management platform to manage a plurality of cloud resources; and in response to the cloud management platform selecting cloud resources, transmit a second provisioning request to fully provision the selected cloud resources, the second provisioning request including constraints specific to the selected cloud resources.
US11683218B2	Compromised network node detection system An improved core network that includes a network resilience system that can detect network function virtualization (NFV)-implemented nodes that have been compromised and/or that are no longer operational, remove such nodes from the virtual network environment, and restart the removed nodes in a last-known good state is described herein. For example, the network resilience system can use health status messages provided by nodes, intrusion data provided by intrusion detection agents running on nodes, and/or operational data provided by the nodes as applied to machine learning models to identify nodes that may be compromised and/or non-operational. Once identified, the network resilience system can delete these nodes and restart or restore the nodes using the last-known good state.
US11683211B2	Apparatus, system and method of transmitting a PPDU An apparatus of a transmitter may include, for example, a Golay builder to build modulated Golay sequences for at least a non-EDMG Short Training Field (L-STF), and a non-EDMG Channel Estimation Field (L-CEF) of a PPDU; a scrambler to generate scrambled bits by scrambling bits of a non-EDMG header (L-header) and a data field of the PPDU; an encoder to encode the scrambled bits into encoded bits according to a low-density parity-check (LDDC) code; a constellation mapper to map the encoded bits into a stream of constellation points according to a constellation scheme; a spreader to spread the stream of constellation points according to a Golay sequence; and a transmit chain mapper to map a bit stream output from the Golay builder and the spreader to a plurality of transmit chains by applying a spatial expansion with relative cyclic shift over the plurality of transmit chains.
US11683210B2	Method for transmitting/receiving signal in wireless communication system and device supporting same Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a next-generation wireless communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4th generation (4G) wireless communication system. According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, a method for transmitting/receiving a signal in a wireless communication system and a device supporting same may be provided.
US11683209B2	Methods and apparatus for signaling guard symbols in integrated access and backhauling Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for receiving a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) comprising at least a set of guard symbol values associated with a mobile termination (MT) and a distributed unit (DU), transitioning from first communication via one or more MT cells associated with the MT to second communication via one or more DU cells associated with the DU or from the second communication via the one or more DU cells associated with the DU to the first communication via the one or more MT cells associated with the MT during at least a guard symbol signaled by a guard symbol value of the set of guard symbol values; and transmitting or receiving information via the transitioned one or more MT cells or the transitioned one or more DU cells.
US11683204B2	High speed data links with low-latency retimer This application is directed to transferring data over a data link coupled between two electronic devices. The data link includes a retimer having a full data path and a bit level data path that are coupled in parallel. The data link is initiated with the full data path and a first sequence of data packets is transferred via the full data path in accordance with a low data rate setting. While transferring the first sequence of data packets, the first sequence of data packets is manipulated in the full data path to establish a connection of the data link, and in response to establishing the connection of the data link, the data link is switched from the full data path to the bit level data path.
US11683196B2	Communication control device and non-transitory computer readable medium A communication control device includes: a processor configured to: acquire identification information of a communication terminal from the communication terminal that is authenticated by communication via a wide area communication network; and when the identification information is included in a storage storing an information set in which associated are (i) the identification information of the communication terminal and (ii) specific connection unit information indicating a specific connection unit that is predetermined for the communication terminal in a narrow area communication network different from the wide area communication network, perform control such that the communication terminal is connected to the specific connection unit as a connection destination of the communication terminal, based on the specific connection unit information of the information set including the acquired identification information.
US11683195B2	Cooking menu communication and methods of operating a cooking appliance A method may include receiving a menu set selection including a plurality of predetermined dish options at a registered user device and transmitting the menu set selection to an unregistered user device. The method may further include receiving a recipe selection of one or more of the plurality of predetermined dish options from the unregistered user device and directing a cooking operation at the cooking appliance based on the received recipe selection.
US11683183B2	Autonomously generated portable accounts Systems and methods are described that include a plurality of devices triggered to be configured with a portable user account to synchronize account events to a distributed log. The plurality of devices includes at least one device configured to trigger a query to determine access rights for the at least one other device. In response to receiving an approval response to the query, the at least one device assigns a provision status to the at least one other device, provides, for the at least one other device, access to at least a subset of the portable user account according to the assigned provision status, and updates the distributed log to include the at least one other device based on the provision status.
US11683181B2	Persona and device based certificate management A user device implements a certificate authority for issuing digital certificates that extend to other computing devices a level of trust to a particular user paired with the user device. The user device may obtain user persona information, generate a user key, and combine the user key with a device key for the generation of a digital certificate. The computing device may further transmit the digital certificate to a certificate management system, which manages interactions between other computing devices and the user device or authorizes operation of other computing devices by the particular user based on the digital certificate.
US11683178B2	System and method for measuring and reporting IoT boot integrity Embodiments of the present invention are directed to an improved system and method of producing, recording and reporting boot integrity measurements of an Internet of Things (“IoT”) computing device to resource (such as an on-chip software module, an external software module, a printer, a network router, or a server), so the resource can confirm that the IoT computing device can be trusted before access to the resource is granted. Embodiments provide a new and less expensive architecture for reliably collecting and relaying device state information to support trust-sensitive applications. Embodiments leverage crypto-acceleration modules found on many existing microprocessors and microcontroller-based IoT devices, while introducing little additional overhead or additional circuitry. Embodiments provide a Root of Trust module comprising integrated internal control logic that functions as a secure on-chip wrapper for cryptographic primitive modules, which provide secure storage and reporting of the host's platform integrity measurements.
US11683172B2	Distributed secure communication system A distributed secure communication system includes a first System Control Processor (SCP) subsystem coupled to second and third SCP subsystems via a network. The first SCP subsystem identifies the second SCP subsystem, signs a first SCP authentication communication with a first private key to provide a first signed SCP authentication communication that it transmits to the second SCP subsystem. The first SCP subsystem receives a second signed SCP authentication communication from the second SCP subsystem, authenticates the second signed SCP authentication communication using a second public key associated with the second SCP subsystem and, in response, establishes a first secure communication channel with the second SCP subsystem. The first SCP subsystem then receives an attestation of an authentication of the third SCP subsystem from the second SCP subsystem and, in response, establishes a second secure communication channel with the third SCP subsystem without the transmission of signed SCP authentication communications.
US11683168B2	Systems and methods for generating shared keys, identity authentication and data transmission based on simultaneous transmission on wireless multiple-access channels Methods of half-duplex communication systems or full-duplex communication systems are provided. The half-duplex communication system includes n number user units-including a transmitting unit of transmitting units, wherein the transmitting unit including a channel estimation module, an identity update module and a modulation module; a receiving unit of receiving units including a demodulation module, a post-processing module and a reconciliation and verification module; a memory unit for storing prime identities, data to be transmitted and shared secret key; a control unit; an antenna connected to each of the transmitting units and each of the receiving units; and the methods are used for realizing a generation of shared secret keys, and an integrated identity verification and a data transmission using the half-duplex communication systems and the full-duplex communication systems.
US11683166B2	Secure file modification with supervision In some embodiments, a method may be performed by a computing device that involves displaying an identifier indicative of a file, the display of the identifier being readable by a second device, receiving first data from the second device in response to the identifier being read by the second device, and enabling performance of at least one action with respect to the file with use of the first data. In some embodiments, the method may further involve receiving a first encryption fragment associated with the file, receiving, from the second device, a second encryption fragment associated with the file, reconstructing, using at least the first encryption fragment and the second encryption fragment, an encryption key enabling viewing of the file, and viewing the file using the encryption key.
US11683165B2	Quantum key distribution networking as a service The concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to quantum key distribution (“QKD”) networking as a service. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a microservices controller can establish a plurality of quantum connections with a plurality of virtual quantum connection managers (“vQCMs”) deployed in association with a set of quantum user nodes (“QUNs”) in a QKD network. The microservices controller can receive a request to initialize the QKD network. The microservices controller can coordinate with the plurality of vQCMs to handle initialization of the QKD network. The microservices controller can receive a QKD service request from a QKD network operator. The microservices controller can invoke a plurality of microservices to handle the QKD service request.
US11683160B2	Encrypted group communications Secure data transfers between communication nodes is performed using a group encryption key supplied by a remote management system. A first node transmits a request for secure communications with a second node to the remote management system using a control channel. The remote management system generates and encrypts a group encryption key usable by the first and second nodes and forwards the encrypted group encryption key to the first and second nodes using one or more control channels. The first and second communication nodes decrypt the group encryption key and use it to encrypt data transmitted between the nodes using a data transport network. In some implementations the securely communicating nodes may use encryption keys and/or techniques that prevent the remote management system from eavesdropping on the nodes' communications.
US11683159B2	Hybrid content protection architecture A method for a hybrid content protection architecture includes obtaining, by data processing hardware, a client-side cryptographic key and locally encrypting user content using the client-side cryptographic key. The method also includes communicating the client-side cryptographic key to a third party key manager, the third party key manager configured to store the client-side cryptographic key. In response to the third party key manager storing the client-side cryptographic key, the method includes receiving a token from the third party key manager, the token identifying the client-side cryptographic key stored at the third party key manager. The method further includes uploading the encrypted user content and the token to a server of a cloud computing platform.
US11683158B1	Database encryption key management Methods and systems are described for enhanced-security database encryption via cryptographic software, where key management is carried out, without exporting or exposing cleartext keys, using an independent key manager coupled to a cryptographic hardware security module (HSM).
US11683152B2	System and method using a locally referenced blockchain A method comprises generating a signed blockchain transaction using a secure computing device arranged in a local area, and an apparatus set up for short-range communication. The method comprises associating the signed blockchain transactions with the local area, wherein the signed blockchain transaction indicates a presence of the apparatus in the local area.
US11683144B2	Method of transmitting scheduling request in a wireless communication system A method and apparatus for requesting uplink resources in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment determines whether a scheduling request for requesting uplink resources is triggered. If the scheduling request is triggered, the user equipment transmits a first set of frequency domain sequences and a second set of frequency domain sequences in a subframe.
US11683143B2	Flexible indication for start position of data channel A node (100) of a wireless communication network manages sending of control information to a radio device (10). For a first frequency band, the control information indicates a first start position for transmission of a data channel. For a second frequency band, the control information indicates a second start position for transmission of the data channel. Based on the first start position and the second start position, the node (100) controls transmission of data on the data channel.
US11683139B2	Controllable CSI-RS density Methods and apparatus for configuring, in a network node of a wireless communication network, a reference signal resource. An example method comprises obtaining a combination of one or more components to be used for a reference signal resource, the one or more components being contained in one or more physical resource blocks of a slot; and indicating, to the one or more wireless devices, the combination of the one or more components in the one or more physical resource blocks that are to be used for the reference signal resource.
US11683137B2	Electronic apparatus, wireless communication method and computer-readable medium The present disclosure relates to an electronic apparatus, a wireless communication method and a computer-readable medium. The electronic apparatus for wireless communication according to one embodiment comprises a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to perform control to send or receive configuration information. The configuration information is related to configuration of a reference signal used in a discovery process of an integrated access backhaul (IAB) link node.
US11683131B2	Wireless communications terminal, base station device, and resource allocation method The purpose of the present invention is to avoid ACK/NACK collision in a system in which E-PDCCH control information is transmitted, increase the utilization efficiency of ACK/NACK resources, and suppress unnecessary PUSCH band reduction. A wireless communications terminal having a configuration comprising: a reception unit that receives control signals including ACK/NACK indexes, via an expanded physical downlink control channel; a control unit that determines, on the basis of the ACK/NACK indexes, whether to use a dynamically allocated dynamic ACK/NACK resource or a specified resource specified beforehand, to send downlink data ACK/NACK signals; and a transmission unit that sends the ACK/NACK signals using the dynamic ACK/NACK resource or the specified resource, as determined.
US11683130B2	Method and device for transmitting feedback information A method and device for transmitting feedback information. The method includes: determining feedback type information and/or delay information when data is transmitted by a network device; and determining a reliability grade of a feedback transmission or that the feedback transmission is exempted at a certain situation, according to the delay information and/or the feedback type information. Therefore, HARQ feedback load may be reduced without impacting HARQ performances.
US11683129B2	User terminal and radio communication method A user terminal, according to the present invention, has a transmission section that transmits uplink control information (UCI) by using an uplink control channel, before RRC (Radio Resource Control) connection is set up, and a control section that determines a resource for the uplink control channel for use for transmitting the UCI, based on a given field value in system information.
US11683128B2	Receiver, transmitter, communication network, data signal and method improving a retransmission process in a communication network A receiver is described which receives data from a transmitter. The data is included in a data block which includes at least one code block, and the code block has a plurality of parts. A first part of the code block is used for estimating a decodability of the code block at the receiver. The first part of the code block is arranged in the data block ahead of the remaining one or more parts of the code block. The receiver estimates, prior to receiving the entire data block, the decodability of the code block using the first part of the code block.
US11683121B2	Systems and methods for uplink signaling This disclosure relates generally to wireless communications and, more particularly, to systems and methods for uplink signaling using blind channel estimation at a base station. In one embodiment, a method performed by a communication device, includes: associating a time slot with a data packet comprising a head portion and a tail portion, wherein the head portion comprises a communication device identifier and the tail portion comprises user data associated with the head portion; spreading the head portion into a first predetermined transmission format; spreading the tail portion into a second predetermined transmission format; and transmitting the spreaded head portion with the spreaded tail portion to a communication node, wherein the spreaded head portion comprises information to be used by the communication node for channel estimation and for decoding the tail portion to retrieve the user data.
US11683118B2	Message transmission method and device A message transmission method and device relating to the field of communications technologies are described that improve an anti-interference capability in message transmission. The method includes generating a scrambling code according to a scrambling code initialization seed, wherein the scrambling code initialization seed meets the following expression: cinit=R·2a7+P·(nf mod k+1)·2b7 and then scrambling a message according to the scrambling code. The method further includes sending the scrambled message to a terminal on a physical downlink shared channel. Because the first time parameter has different values at at least two different moments, scrambling codes determined at the at least two corresponding different moments are different. Therefore, a possibility at which the base station uses a same scrambling code to scramble a same system message repeatedly in a time period is reduced, so that an anti-interference capability in system message transmission is improved.
US11683117B2	Receiving apparatus and decoding method A decoding method includes: receiving a plurality of subcarrier signals each including encoded data; acquiring a predetermined amount of data from each of the plurality of subcarrier signals; correcting errors in the plurality of subcarrier signals by performing decoding arithmetic processing on the respective predetermined amounts of data acquired from the plurality of subcarrier signals in a time-division manner; and causing the decoding arithmetic processing to be consecutively performed on each of the predetermined amounts of data a predetermined number of times.
US11683113B2	Method and apparatus for low power chip-to-chip communications with constrained ISI ratio An efficient communications apparatus is described for a vector signaling code to transport data and optionally a clocking signal between integrated circuit devices. Methods of designing such apparatus and their associated codes based on a new metric herein called the “ISI Ratio” are described which permit higher communications speed, lower system power consumption, and reduced implementation complexity.
US11683111B2	Time offset determination without synchronization A method and system for the post-adjustment (i.e., offline) of event timestamps to implement virtual time synchronization amongst detection node clocks. In existing methodologies with the goal of clock synchronization, clocks (and timestamps generated therefrom) are disciplined or adjusted at the recordation time of the events on a detection node (e.g., a switch/router, an Internet-of-Things (IoT) device, a wireless sensor, etc.). However, there is no particular reason for these clocks or timestamps to be accurate during the recordation time, but rather, should be accurate at their use or interpretation time. Further, through these recordation time adjustments, clock drifts and timing errors may be gradually introduced, leading to runaway inaccuracies. The disclosed method and system intentionally avoids the disciplining of clocks at event recordation times on the detection node and, instead, adjusts timestamps during interpretation times, to overcome the aforementioned issues.
US11683110B2	Edge synchronization systems and methods The present invention relates to IoT devices existing in a deployed ecosystem. The various computers in the deployed ecosystem are able to respond to requests from a device directly associated with it in a particular hierarchy, or it may seek a response to the request from a high order logic/data source (parent). The logic/data source parent may then repeat the understanding process to either provide the necessary response to the logic/data source child who then replies to the device or it will again ask a parent logic/data sources for the appropriate response. This architecture allows for a single device to make one request to a single known source and potentially get a response back from the entire ecosystem of distributed servers.
US11683109B2	Scientific system and method for optimizing television advertising A scientific system and methods are disclosed for optimizing television (e.g., “CTV” and “OTT”) advertising and related expenditure to maximize efficiency and return on investment (“ROI’) for advertisers. The scientific system comprises an initial-feedback engine that develops and refines creatives or outcomes by creating and using an artificial intelligence (“AI”) engine that creates an initial feedback loop from social media platforms and subsequently uses an intelligent advertisement-selection engine that takes the highest performing advertising on the social media platforms and directs or imports them for connected television or over-the-top advertising. The system includes a performance engine that optimizes performance of the connected television and over-the-top advertising and then moves the winning combination of a creative or outcome resulting from the application inventory, the audience segment, the part of day, the frequency or the like to linear television purchase actions.
US11683107B2	Authentication by dielectric properties of skin According to various, but not necessarily all, embodiments there is provided an apparatus comprising means for: obtaining a propagation profile for wireless signals transmitted between at least two devices via a creeping wave along a user's skin; causing transmission of electromagnetic radiation towards a plurality of locations on a target user's body to obtain dielectric properties of their skin at the plurality of locations based on an amount of the electromagnetic radiation reflected from each location; determining whether the propagation profile correlates with a realizable creeping wave along the target user's skin, the realizability being based on the obtained dielectric properties of their skin; and forming an association between the target user and the at least two devices based on a strength of correlation between the propagation profile and a realizable creeping wave.
US11683106B2	Dynamic antenna selection and beam steering A method performed by a user equipment (UE) configured with a plurality of antenna panels. Each antenna panel is configured to beamform over a millimeter wave (mmWave) frequency band. The method includes identifying a predetermined condition corresponding to a first antenna panel of the plurality of antenna panels, selecting a second antenna panel of the plurality of antenna panels based on identifying the predetermined condition corresponding to the first antenna panel and transmitting a beam via the second antenna panel based on the selection.
US11683104B2	Audio based service set identifier A first computing device is configured to broadcast a first audio token comprising a first identifier over a first audio frequency channel, activate a first microphone component, and receive a first audio response token generated by a second computing device via the first audio frequency channel. A second computing device is configured to receive an input indicating a request to receive data, activate the second microphone component, receive the first audio token over the first audio frequency channel, receive one or more other audio tokens over one or more other audio frequency channels, determine that the received first audio token comprises a valid audio token, restrict the range of received audio inputs to comprise only the first audio frequency channel, generate the first audio response token, and communicate the first audio response token to the first computing device via the first audio frequency channel.
US11683103B2	Method and system for acoustic communication of data The present invention relates to a method for receiving data transmitted acoustically. The method includes the steps of receiving an acoustically transmitted signal; and decoding the signal using, at least, a first plurality of voters to extract the data. The first plurality of voters comprise differing values for a first acoustic characteristic to address interference. A system and software are also disclosed.
US11683093B2	Wavelength dispersion compensation apparatus, optical receiving apparatus, wavelength dispersion compensation method and computer program An electric digital received signal obtained from a received optical signal is segmented into blocks of a certain length with an overlap of a length determined in advance with an adjacent block. Fourier transformation is performed for each of the blocks. The blocks subjected to the Fourier transformation are stored consecutively in time series, a coefficient determined based on a wavelength dispersion compensation amount according to one of frequency positions and a delay amount according to one of the frequency positions and one of time positions is applied to each of frequency component values included in a plurality of the stored blocks, and the blocks to which the coefficient has been applied and which are obtained by adding up the frequency component values to which the coefficient has been applied for each of the frequency positions are generated. Inverse Fourier transformation is performed on the generated blocks to which the coefficient has been applied. A part of the overlap subjected to the inverse Fourier transformation is removed.
US11683092B2	Loss-based wavelength meter A loss-based wavelength meter includes a first photodiode configured to measure power of monochromatic light; and a loss section having a monotonic wavelength dependency, wherein a wavelength of the monochromatic light is determined based on measurements of the first photodiode after the monochromatic light has gone through the loss section. This provides a compact implementation that may be used in integrated optics devices using silicon photonics as well as other embodiments.
US11683090B1	Laser-based enhancement of signal propagation path for mobile communications A system uses pulsed lasers to enhance a signal propagation path in a telecommunications network. The system can estimate a signal propagation path, which varies based on a current location of a mobile device relative to a base station. The system can detect a propagation loss due to a condition of a propagation medium including the signal propagation path and determine whether the mobile device is in Line-of-Sight (LOS) of a laser emitter. In response to detection of the propagation loss, the laser emitter can emit a pulsed laser that can enhance signal propagation by mitigating the propagation loss on the signal propagation path. The pulsed laser has a propagation path overlapping the signal propagation path when the mobile device is in LOS of the laser emitter, which is mounted on the base station.
US11683089B2	Radio communication system, radio communication method, and base station device In a wireless communication system that includes a base station, a plurality of relay stations that are moving, and a plurality of terminal stations in a service area, and performs downlink multiple access from the base station to each of the plurality of terminal stations via one or more relay stations of the plurality of relay stations, the base station includes a downlink multiple access unit configured to identify a relay station of the plurality of relay stations transmitting a signal receivable in the service area based on positions of the plurality of relay stations, frequency multiplex-transmit a data signal in a different frequency band to each of the plurality of terminal stations via the relay station, and spatial multiplex-transmit a data signal to a terminal station of the plurality of terminal stations supporting spatial multiplex transmission in a particular frequency band and via the plurality of relay stations.
US11683083B2	Beam failure processing method, terminal, and network device A beam failure processing method, a terminal and a network device are provided. The method includes: sending a beam failure recovery request to a network device in a case that a beam failure event occurs on an active BWP; and receiving, through a CORESET-BFR in a target downlink BWP, response information fed back by the network device according to the beam failure recovery request, where the target downlink BWP corresponds to at least two BWPs, and the at least two BWPs includes the active BWP.
US11683082B2	Beam failure detection with different indication intervals There are provided measures for enabling/realizing enabling/realizing beam failure detection with different indication intervals, e.g. beam failure detection in a higher layer such as a MAC entity of a user equipment element or base station element. Such measures exemplarily comprise that a beam failure detection procedure is performed on the basis of beam failure instance indications from a lower layer using abeam failure detection timer, and application of the beam failure detection timer in the beam failure detection procedure is controlled in view of indication intervals which are applicable for the beam failure instance indications from the lower layer in the beam failure detection procedure.
US11683078B2	Variable coherence adaptive antenna array A user equipment (UE) transmits over multiple antenna ports and receives a control message from a base station in a wireless communication network. The control message comprises a precoding matrix indication field configurable to a first, second, and third configuration. The first configuration identifies precoding matrices in both a first set of precoding matrices and a second set of precoding matrices. The second configuration identifies precoding matrices in the second set of precoding matrices but not in the first set of precoding matrices. The third configuration identifies precoding matrices in a third set of precoding matrices in addition to the first and second sets. The precoding matrices in the sets are precoding matrices for transmissions from the UE. Each set of precoding matrices corresponds to a respective coherence capability. For a maximum of four spatial layers, the first, second, and third configurations occupy 5, 4, and 6 information bits, respectively.
US11683075B2	Method and device for multi-antenna transmission in UE and base station The present disclosure provides a method and device for multi-antenna transmission in UE and base station. The user equipment receives a first wireless signal at first; then transmits a second wireless signal, and monitors a first signaling in a first sub-time resource pool. Wherein the first wireless signal is transmitted by K antenna port group(s) and the second wireless signal is used to determine the first antenna port group. The first antenna port group is one of the K antenna port group(s). The first sub-time resource pool is reserved to the first antenna port group, or the index of the first antenna port group is used to determine the first sub-time resource pool. One antenna port group includes positive integer number of antenna ports, and the K is a positive integer greater than 1. The disclosure reduces the complexity of blind detection of downlink signaling by the UE.
US11683074B2	Transmission/reception method and transmission/reception system A technique capable of realizing improvement of utilization efficiency of resources such as frequency with respect to MIMO, beam forming, and the like is provided. A transmission/reception method according to an embodiment is a transmission/reception method of transmitting and receiving data between a transmission device 1 with a plurality of transmitting antennas and a reception device 2 with a receiving antenna, and includes: a generating step of generating, by the transmission device 1 or the reception device 2, characteristics of a plurality of pseudo propagation channels on a basis of characteristics of a plurality of actual propagation channels between the plurality of transmitting antennas and the receiving antenna, the characteristics of the plurality of pseudo propagation channels being characteristics similar to frequency characteristics to an extent that the frequency characteristic can be approximated with respect to the characteristics of the plurality of actual propagation channels; a transmitting step of creating, by the transmission device 1, one or more data to be transmitted by reflecting the characteristics of the plurality of pseudo propagation channels to a plurality of parallel and independent data, and transmitting the one or more data from the plurality of transmitting antennas as radio waves; and a receiving step of extracting, by the reception device 2, the plurality of parallel and independent data from one or more received data received as the radio waves by the receiving antenna on a basis of the characteristics of the plurality of pseudo propagation channels.
US11683071B2	Apparatus for securely configuring a target device Apparatus and method securely transfer first data from a source device to a target device. A wireless signal having (a) a higher speed channel conveying second data and (b) a lower speed channel conveying the first data is transmitted. The lower speed channel is formed by selectively transmitting the wireless signal from one of a first and second antennae of the source device based upon the first data. The first and second antenna are positioned a fixed distance apart and the target device uses a received signal strength indication (RSSI) of the first signal to decode the lower speed channel and receive the first data.
US11683068B1	Segmented echo cancellation filter for use in full-duplex communication systems Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for a segmented ECF that includes multiple filter components to replicate an echo pulse response. The different filter components are used to replicate different portions of the echo pulse response. Each filter components can include filter coefficients of different sizes based on the portions of the echo pulse response that is replicated by the filter component. For example, a filter component that replicates a portion of the echo pulse response that includes a large reflection can include large filter coefficients suitable to replicate the larger reflection. In contrast, a filter component that replicates a portion of the echo pulse response that includes smaller reflections can include smaller filter coefficients that are suitable to replicate the smaller reflection. The output of each of the filter components is combined to replicate the full echo pulse response.
US11683060B2	Radio frequency circuit with font routing to replace resistor A radio frequency circuit with font routing to replace a resistor includes a routing layer and a ground layer. The routing layer includes a first pad, a second pad and a font routing unit. The second pad is corresponding to the first pad. The font routing unit is connected between the first pad and the second pad, and has a trace width. The trace width is less than a 50 ohm trace width. The ground layer is disposed below the routing layer and is separated from the routing layer by a height. The font routing unit has a second equivalent impedance at the radio frequency, the second equivalent impedance is determined according to the trace width, the height and the radio frequency, and the second equivalent impedance is the same or similar to a first equivalent impedance.
US11683057B2	PAM-4 DFE architectures with symbol-transition dependent DFE tap values Decision feedback equalization (DFE) is used to help reduce inter-symbol interference (ISI) from a data signal received via a band-limited (or otherwise non-ideal) channel. A first PAM-4 DFE architecture has low latency from the output of the samplers to the application of the first DFE tap feedback to the input signal. This is accomplished by not decoding the sampler outputs in order to generate the feedback signal for the first DFE tap. Rather, weighted versions of the raw sampler outputs are applied directly to the input signal without further analog or digital processing. Additional PAM-4 DFE architectures use the current symbol in addition to previous symbol(s) to determine the DFE feedback signal. Another architecture transmits PAM-4 signaling using non-uniform pre-emphasis. The non-uniform pre-emphasis allows a speculative DFE receiver to resolve the transmitted PAM-4 signals with fewer comparators/samplers.
US11683055B1	Over the air DPD for CV2X groupcast and unicast A first UE may transmit, to a second subset of one or more second UEs, one or more pilot signals associated with DPD training. The first UE may receive, from a third subset of the one or more second UEs, one or more feedback messages associated with DPD training. The one or more feedback messages may be based on the one or more pilot signals. Each second UE in the third subset of the one or more second UEs may correspond to one of the one or more feedback messages. The second UE may calculate one or more DPD parameters based on the one or more feedback messages. The second UE may transmit a first signal based on the calculated one or more DPD parameters.
US11683053B2	Memory controller, memory system, and memory control method According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile memory includes a plurality of memory areas and controller circuit including an error correction code encoder. The error correction code encoder encodes a first data to generate a first parity in a first operation and encodes a second data to generate a second parity in a second operation. The controller circuit writes the first data and the first parity into a first memory area among the plurality of memory areas and writes the second data and the second parity into a second memory area among the plurality of memory areas. The size of the second data is smaller than the size of the first data and the size of the second parity is equal to the size of the first parity.
US11683051B2	Method and apparatus for data processing with structured LDPC codes The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for data processing with structured LDPC codes. The method includes: obtaining a code block size for structured LDPC coding; determining a coding expansion factor z based on at least one of the code block size, a parameter kb of a basic check matrix, a positive integer value p or the basic check matrix having mb rows and nb columns; and encoding a data sequence to be encoded, or decoding a data sequence to be decoded, based on the basic check matrix and the coding expansion factor. The present disclosure is capable of solving the problem in the related art associated with low flexibility in data processing with LDPC coding and improving the flexibility in data processing with LDPC coding.
US11683049B2	Hardware decompressor for padding non-equidistant data A processor having a hardware decompressor configured to pad a non-equidistant data set, which is data received at irregular time intervals, with one or more of a predefined value, wherein the data is radar or optical sensor data; and a Fourier transform engine configured to receive the padded non-equidistant data set directly and continuously per data set from the hardware decompressor, and to FFT process the received padded non-equidistant data set.
US11683046B2	System for and method of cancelling a transmit signal echo in full duplex transceivers The systems and methods discussed herein utilized a wireless or wired transceiver having a transmitter and a receiver. The transceiver is configured to reduce distortion contributions associated with echo cancelling. The transmitter provides a replica signal and a transmit signal. The replica signal and the transmit signal can be provided using a common switch.
US11683045B2	Power sensing circuit A high resolution analog to digital converter (ADC) with improved bandwidth senses an analog signal (e.g., a load current) to generate a digital signal. The ADC operates based on a load voltage produced based on charging of an element (e.g., a capacitor) by a load current and a digital to analog converter (DAC) output current (e.g., from a N-bit DAC). The ADC generates a digital output signal representative of a difference between the load voltage and a reference voltage. This digital output signal is used directly, or after digital signal processing, to operate an N-bit DAC to generate a DAC output current that tracks the load current. In addition, quantization noise is subtracted from the digital output signal thereby extending the operational bandwidth of the ADC. In certain examples, the operational bandwidth of the ADC extends up to 100s of kHz (e.g., 200-300 kHz), or even higher.
US11683043B1	Self-referenced delay cell-based time-to-digital converter A time-to-digital converter (TDC) circuit includes control logic and a first self-referenced delay cell circuit coupled to the control logic. The first self-referenced delay cell circuit includes: a first bank of capacitors coupled to a first node between a first positive input and a first positive output, where the first bank of capacitors is selectively controlled by a first control signal from the control logic, the first control signal including a first up value corresponding to a first positive threshold; and a second bank of capacitors coupled to a second node between a first negative input and a first negative output, where the second bank of capacitors is selectively controlled by a second control signal from the control logic, the second control signal including a first down value corresponding to a first negative threshold.
US11683040B1	Circuit architecture and layout for a voting interlocked logic cell This invention comprises an integrated circuit in CMOS technology which can act as a regular sequential logic latch, having one data signal input, or as a voting latch, having three data signal inputs. The circuit schematic of this integrated circuit is such that it allows for a certain placement of the devices in the physical, manufactured integrated circuit that makes it possible to optimize the arrangement of the n-type MOSFET devices and p-type MOSFET devices in the circuit independently, using the Layout Optimization through Error Aware Positioning (LEAP), and thereby to remove, or reduce, the occurrence of radiation generated soft errors.
US11683039B1	TCAM-based not logic A NOT logic circuit is provided comprising: one or more memory devices; wherein a first memory address location of the one or more memory devices stores first content data, wherein the first content data includes a first ternary value and a corresponding first priority value, wherein the first ternary value includes a continuous sequence of X-state values that represent a first range of non-X ternary values; wherein a second memory address of the one or more memory device stores second content data that includes a second ternary value and a corresponding second priority value, wherein the second ternary value includes a continuous sequence of non-X state values represent a non-X ternary value that is within the first range of non-X ternary values; an interface is coupled to receive a ternary value from a processing device; comparator circuitry operable to compare a received ternary key with the outputted first ternary value and to compare the received ternary key with the outputted second ternary value; priority encoder logic operable to, return the outputted first priority value on a condition that the received ternary key matches the first ternary value and the received ternary key does not match second ternary value, and return the outputted second priority value on a condition that the received ternary key matches the first ternary value and that the received ternary key matches the second ternary value; and detection logic operable to send a return to the processing device on a condition of a return of the first priority value.
US11683038B1	Adaptive integrated programmable device platform A System-on-Chip includes a first partition configured to implement a first application using of at least a first portion of one or more of a plurality of subsystems of the System-on-Chip and a second partition configured to implement a second application concurrently with the first partition. The second application uses at least a second portion of one or more of the plurality of subsystems. The first partition is isolated from the second partition.
US11683031B1	Thyristor current interrupter In one aspect, a solid-state switching apparatus is provided that includes a pair of anti-parallel thyristors, a quasi-resonant turn-off circuit, a sensor, and a control circuit. The turn-off circuit is coupled in parallel with the pair of anti-parallel thyristors and includes a first selectively conductive path and a second selectively conductive path. The sensor is configured to sense a thyristor current conducted by at least one of the pair of anti-parallel thyristors. The control circuit is configured to receive the sensed thyristor current from the sensor and determine a magnitude of the sensed thyristor current and a polarity of the sensed thyristor current. The control circuit is further configured to activate, in response to determining that the magnitude is greater than a threshold value, one of the first selectively conductive path and the second selectively conductive path based on the polarity to commutate and interrupt the thyristor current.
US11683027B2	Comparators A comparator includes a first-stage op amp circuit, a second-stage op amp circuit, a bias circuit and a clamping circuit. The first-stage op amp circuit includes two voltage input terminals and a voltage output terminal; the second-stage op amp circuit is connected with the bias circuit and the voltage output terminal of the first-stage op amp circuit; and the clamping circuit is connected with the voltage output terminal of the first-stage op amp circuit. By adding a clamping circuit in the comparator, the highest voltage at the voltage output terminal of the first-stage op amp circuit can be clamped to a preset voltage. During the operation of the comparator, the voltage change range of the voltage output terminal of the first-stage op amp circuit is smaller, which reduces the discharge delay of the voltage output terminal of the first-stage op amp circuit, thereby increasing the flip speed of the comparator.
US11683026B1	Calibrating signal currents in a radio frequency signal generator Techniques are provided for calibrating signal currents in a radio frequency signal generator system, such as an arbitrary waveform generator system. A device comprises a current measurement circuit and a current imbalance correction circuit. The current measurement circuit is configured, during a calibration process, to measure a first current in a first signal path of a radio frequency signal generator, and to measure a second current in a second signal path of the radio frequency signal generator. The current imbalance correction circuit is configured to adjust a current level in at least one of the first signal path and the second signal path of the radio frequency signal generator to correct for an imbalance between the measured first current and the measured second current.
US11683018B2	Class A amplifier with push-pull characteristic An amplifier circuit comprises a first amplifier circuit stage including input devices connected to inputs of the amplifier circuit, a second amplifier circuit stage coupled to the first amplifier stage, a common mode extraction circuit configured to extract a DC common mode voltage of the first amplifier stage, and a bias circuit configured to bias one or more output devices of the second amplifier circuit stage using the DC common mode voltage.
US11683016B2	ISO-gain implementation for a WiFi symbol-power-tracking architecture A power amplifier module including an input configured to receive an input radio frequency signal, the input radio-frequency signal including a series of data symbols, an output configured to provide an output radio-frequency signal, a power amplifier having a signal input to receive the input radio-frequency signal and a power supply input to receive a supply voltage, the power amplifier configured to amplify the input radio-frequency signal to provide the output radio-frequency signal, and a controller to receive an indication of a peak output power level of an upcoming data symbol in the series of data symbols, to adjust at least the supply voltage provided to the power amplifier based on the peak output power level of the upcoming data symbol, and to configure the power amplifier module to maintain a substantially constant gain over the series of data symbols.
US11683011B2	Fast switched pulsed radio frequency amplifiers A switching system is connected to the power amplifier of an RF system. The switching system can switch the DC supply voltage to the power amplifier while handling the high DC current and the nanosecond switching speed requirements that are mandatory for most RF systems. The embodiments can rapidly control DC voltages but not interfere with the optimized operation of the RF transistor. The embodiments provide a desired sharp turn-on leading edge for an RF pulse while eliminating the extremely long and undesirable ramp down that typically occurs beyond the desired RF pulse period.
US11683010B2	Oscillation circuit An oscillation circuit includes first and second constant current circuits, first and second switch circuits, first and second MOS transistors, and an output port. The first constant current circuit is connected to one port of a capacitor. The first MOS transistor has a gate and a drain connected to the second constant current circuit and a source connected to another port of the capacitor. The second MOS transistor has a gate connected to the gate of the first MOS transistor, and a drain connected to the one port of the capacitor. The second switch circuit is connected between a source of the second MOS transistor and a second power supply terminal. The output port outputs a signal based on a voltage of the one port. Turn-on and turn-off of the first and second switch circuits are controlled by the signal of the output port and an inverted signal.
US11683005B2	Dual parallel axis solar tracker system A dual drive shaft solar tracker system comprises a photovoltaic (PV) structure, which includes at least one solar panel, a support structure and first and second drive shafts. The first and second drive shafts comprise first and second belt mechanisms wherein movement of the PV structure occurs by wrapping belts of the first belt mechanism onto the first drive shaft and by wrapping belts of the second belt mechanism onto the second drive shaft so as to provide a non-linear wrapping rate to accommodate the non-linearity of the belt wrapping onto the first and second drive shafts. A linkage, which ties two rows that are unbalanced in opposite directions, cancels out the imbalance as long as both rows have identical components. This allows trackers to use PV modules of any size and weight and the perfect balance is unaffected.
US11683003B2	Locking, dampening and actuation systems and methods for solar trackers A solar tracker system comprising one or more tracker rotation control systems that include: a curved gear plate; and a locking element configured to lock the solar tracker system in a first configuration.
US11682999B2	Motor control method, motor control model conversion method, motor control system, motor control model conversion system, and motor control model conversion program A motor control method inputs one or more controlled variables or target values each representing a state of a motor to one or more node layers as an input value, and performs calculation in each of the one or more node layers to output one or more manipulated variables used for control of the motor and control the motor in accordance with the one or more manipulated variables. Each the one or more node layers has a plurality of nodes that execute calculations in parallel. Each of the plurality of nodes multiplies the input value by a coefficient specified for the corresponding node, and performs calculation using a function specified for the corresponding node and designating a multiplied value as an input variable to determine an output value.
US11682998B2	Motor control method and motor control apparatus A motor control method for controlling a motor by using an applied AC voltage converted from a DC voltage with an inverter driven by a PWM control, the motor control method includes: calculating a voltage command value for the inverter in order to achieve a desired torque output in the motor; calculating a compensation gain configured to maintain a linear relation between the voltage command value and the applied AC voltage according to a modulation factor indicating a ratio of the applied AC voltage to the DC voltage before and after a conversion in the inverter; limiting the compensation gain using an upper limit value; calculating a compensation voltage command value by multiplying the voltage command value by the limited compensation gain; and applying the applied AC voltage to the motor by driving the inverter using the compensation voltage command value; wherein the upper limit value is set so that the upper limit value become smaller when the modulation factor changes significantly.
US11682994B2	Systems and methods for non-rigid load vibration control A system includes a motor configured to be coupled to a non-rigid load and a control system disposed within, or communicatively coupled to, a drive system configured to control an operation of the motor. The control system includes a processor and a memory accessible by the processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to generate a smooth move input profile to control the operation of the motor based on inputs specifying a desired operation of the motor, apply a notch filter having a notch filter frequency to the smooth move input profile to produce a filtered smooth move input profile, and send a command to the drive system based on the filtered smooth move input profile, wherein the command is configured to adjust the operation of the motor.
US11682992B2	Motor drive device, compressor drive system, and refrigeration cycle system A motor drive device: a power conversion unit; a current detection unit that detects a phase current of the alternating-current motor; a position/speed specifying unit that specifies a magnetic pole position and a rotational speed of the alternating-current motor; a d-axis current pulsation generating unit that generates a d-axis current pulsation command based on q-axis current pulsation or a q-axis current pulsation command, which being in synchronization with the q-axis current pulsation or the q-axis current pulsation command and preventing or reducing an increase or decrease in amplitude of the voltage command; and a dq-axis current control unit that generates the voltage command for controlling the phase current on the dq rotating coordinates, which rotate in synchronization with the magnetic pole position, by using the magnetic pole position, the rotational speed, the phase current, the q-axis current pulsation or the q-axis current pulsation command, and the d-axis current pulsation command.
US11682991B2	Method for determining a rotor position of a three-phase machine without using a rotary encoder and device for controlling a three-phase motor without using a rotary encoder In a method for determining the rotor position of a three-phase machine without using a rotary encoder, and to a device for controlling a three-phase motor without using a rotary encoder, the three-phase machine is fed by a converter that can be operated by pulse-width modulation, and the converter has model variables for the rotor angle and the current indicator of the three-phase machine, and the converter has device(s) by using which, in control operation, at least two values are measured which represent a measure of the local inductances of the machine which represent a measure of the local inductances of the machine, the error of the model rotor angle is determined in that, depending on the model rotor angle and the model current indicator, at least two weighting factors are determined, and in that a weighted sum is formed from the at least two measured values and the at least two weighting factors, and in that a further offset value is substracted from the sum, which is likewise determined on the basis of the model rotor angle and the model current indicator.
US11682990B2	System and method for dynamically estimating active power capability of an inverter-based resource A method for controlling an inverter-based resource (IBR) having a power converter and a generator connected to an electrical grid includes determining an available active power of the electrical grid. The method also includes determining an available active power of the IBR based on an effect of a speed and a rating of the generator. Further, the method includes determining a minimum available active power based on the available active power of the electrical grid and the available active power of the IBR. Moreover, the method includes determining an active power limit change for the IBR based on one or more thermal margins of the IBR. In addition, the method includes determining an active power estimation as a function of the minimum available active power and the active power limit change. The method further includes providing the active power estimation to a supervisory controller for controlling the IBR.
US11682989B2	Motor control device A motor control device includes: a power converter to which a first motor and a second motor are connected in parallel, the power converter being configured to convert a direct-current voltage into an alternating-current voltage and supply the alternating-current voltage to the first motor and the second motor; a switching unit provided between the second motor and the power converter; a current detector configured to detect an electric current flowing through the first motor and the second motor; and a controller configured to control the power converter based on at least a current value detected by the current detector. The controller deactivates the power converter upon receiving from outside an abnormal step signal, attributed to the occurrence of an abnormality, that excludes a normal stop signal representing a stop command and switches the switching unit from an on state to an off state upon deactivation of the power converter.
US11682983B2	GaN-based multiport multilevel converter/inverter A multiport multilevel converter/inverter includes a connection point with a two-line connection. The multiport multilevel converter/inverter also includes a capacitor electrically coupled across the two-line connection of the connection point. The multiport multilevel converter/inverter also has a first flying capacitor multilevel path with a first external two connection port configured to connect outside of the multiport multilevel converter/inverter, and a first interface conveying DC power and that is electrically coupled to the connection point. The multiport multilevel converter/inverter also includes a second flying capacitor multilevel path with a second external two connection port configured to connect outside of the multiport multilevel converter/inverter, and a second interface conveying DC power and that is electrically coupled to the connection point.
US11682981B2	Rectifying element and voltage converter comprising such a rectifying element A rectifying element includes a MOS transistor series-connected with a Schottky diode. A bias voltage is applied between the control terminal of the MOS transistor and the terminal of the Schottky diode opposite to the transistor. A pair of the rectifying elements are substituted for diodes of a rectifying bridge circuit. Alternatively, the control terminal bias is supplied from a cross-coupling against the Schottky diodes. In another implementation, the Schottky diodes are omitted and the bias voltage applied to control terminals of the MOS transistors is switched in response to cross-coupled divided source-drain voltages of the MOS transistors. The circuits form components of a power converter.
US11682980B1	Multi-cell power converter An improved distributed-output multi-cell-element power converter utilizes a multiplicity of magnetic core elements, switching elements, capacitor elements and terminal connections in a step and repeat pattern. Stepped secondary-winding elements reduce converter output resistance and improve converter efficiency and scalability to support the high current requirements of very large scale integrated (“VLSI”) circuits.
US11682977B2	Controller and control system for DC/DC converter This application provides a controller and control system for a DC/DC converter. The DC/DC converter includes a first switching transistor, a second switching transistor, a first capacitor, and a transformer. The transformer includes an excitation inductor and a transformer leakage inductor. The controller controls the first switching transistor to turn on to form a first closed circuit, where a current in the excitation inductor increases in a first direction; when a preset time period expires, the controller controls the first switching transistor to turn off, so that a voltage at two ends of the second switching transistor decreases; and when the voltage at the two ends of the second switching transistor is a first preset voltage threshold, the controller controls the second switching transistor to turn on to form a second closed circuit. When embodiments of this application are implemented, a turn-on loss in the DC/DC converter can be reduced.
US11682976B2	DC voltage detector isolation circuit In one embodiment, a power supply circuit has a power source, an inductor in series with a switching transistor connected to the power source, a pair of isolation capacitors connected across the switching transistor, a load connected to the isolation capacitors such that they isolate the load from low frequency energy from the power source, and a resonance circuit configured to amplify resonant ringing connected at least one of in parallel to the inductor or in parallel to the switching transistor.
US11682973B2	Advanced constant off-time control for four-switch buck-boost converter An apparatus includes a first timer configured to determine a turn-off time of a first high-side switch of a buck-boost converter, and a second timer configured to determine a turn-off time of a second low-side switch of the buck-boost converter based on a comparison between a first signal and a second signal, the first signal being proportional to an input voltage of the buck-boost converter, and the second signal being generated based on a signal proportional to an output voltage of the buck-boost converter.
US11682970B2	Multi-path converter and control method therefor The present invention relates to a multi-path converter, which adds a current transfer path using a capacitor to a current transfer path using an inductor to supply a current that is output to an output end (load) to a plurality of parallel paths, thereby reducing a total RMS current flowing through the inductor, and a control method therefor.
US11682967B1	System for profiling power using ton pulses A system for determining a power requirement for a device powered by a buck converter on a system on chip based on Time on pulses (Ton) is disclosed. A buck converter supplies output voltage to enable the device. The buck converter is driven by a Ton pulse generator generating Ton pulses to control charging of a load capacitor. A counter counts the Ton pulses during the supply of output voltage while the device is enabled. A controller is coupled to the counter and the buck converter. The controller determines the power requirement for the device based on the count of the Ton pulses. The power requirement may be used to adjust the trim value to change the width of the Ton pulses for greater energy efficiency.
US11682962B2	Circuit for controlling an output of a power converter This disclosure includes systems, methods, and techniques for controlling a semiconductor device of a power converter. For example, a circuit includes first control circuitry configured to receive an indication of a first voltage which represents a voltage output from a power source to the power converter. Additionally, the first control circuitry is configured to output a control signal to second control circuitry in order to control, based on the first voltage and the second voltage, the semiconductor device so that a second voltage is lower than the first voltage, wherein the second voltage represents a voltage output from the power converter to a load.
US11682960B2	Centripetal magnet accelerator utilizing magnets to produce rotational motion for generating electricity An assembly for generating electricity includes a circular track configured to rotate about a first axis of rotation, the circular track comprising a first magnet having a face that is at an angle with respect to the first axis of rotation, a second magnet positioned at a center of the circular track, wherein a face of the second magnet is an opposite polarity to the face of the first magnet such that the second magnet repels the first magnet to rotate the circular track, and a device for converting rotational motion from the circular track into electricity.
US11682955B2	Optical element driving mechanism A vibration module is provided, having a main axis passing through the center of the vibration module, including a fixed part and a first vibration part. The first vibration part is disposed within the fixed part. The first vibration part includes a first moving member and a first driving assembly. The first driving assembly drives the first moving member to move relative to the fixed part.
US11682953B2	System for assembling a generator, generator vertical assembly device and corresponding assembling method A system for assembling a generator, preferably a permanently excited generator of a wind turbine, comprising a rotor and a stator. A vertical assembly device connectable to the rotor and the stator is proposed, for guiding the rotor in parallel and coaxially aligned to the stator during assembly, the vertical assembly device comprising a first assembly element being connectable to the rotor, a second assembly element being connectable to the stator, and guiding means for guiding the first assembly element coaxially aligned to the second assembly element.
US11682952B2	Method for producing a wire coil, corresponding wire coil, and method for producing an electrical machine A method for producing a wire coil. Multiple windings of a ply of the wire coil including an insulated wire are wound onto a coil core of the wire core starting from a first winding up to a last winding. The last winding is hooked in an electrically insulating deflection hook of the wire coil which is fixed with respect to the coil core and the wire is deflected by the deflection hook.
US11682950B2	Manufacturing method of rotor for electric motor A manufacturing method of a rotor for an electric motor is disclosed herein. The rotor may include a rotor core having a through hole that extends along an axial direction of the rotor; a magnet inserted in the through hole; and a sheet disposed between an inner surface of the through hole and the magnet. The method may include inserting the sheet into the through hole such that the sheet extends through the through hole; and inserting the magnet into the through hole while the sheet is pulled at axial ends of the sheet in opposite directions to apply tension to the sheet and press the sheet against the inner surface.
US11682949B2	Earthing brush assembly An earthing brush assembly including an earthing brush and a brush mounting plate configured to radially and axially retain the brush, the brush having a support and a plurality of conductive individual fibres mounted in the support, the mounting plate providing a radial main body axially delimited by a first front face and by a second front face, and a plurality of tongues for axially and radially retaining the brush, the tongues being circumferentially distributed around the main body of the mounting plate and extending axially from the second front face of the main body. The brush mounting plate includes at least three mounting segments extending radially outwards from an outer surface of the main body, the mounting segments being distributed circumferentially around the main body of the mounting plate, each one of the segments locally surrounding the support of the earthing brush while remaining radially separated from the support.
US11682948B2	Control device for controlling an electric motor comprising a plate penetrated by an electronic power component A control device for controlling an electric motor of an electrical device may include a flat plate and a power electronics. The plate may extend in a plate plane. The power electronics may include a plurality of electronic components arranged and interconnected on the plate. The power electronics may have at least one electronic power component that produces waste heat during operation. The at least one electronic power component may be arranged such that a body of the at least one electronic power component penetrates the plate plane. A plurality of power connections, via which the at least one electronic power component may be interconnected to the plurality of electronic components, may be arranged at an edge of the plate.
US11682945B2	High torque density electric motor/generator with rolling element An electric motor is provided, comprising: a first magnetic component, a second magnetic component, and a circuit configured to electromagnetically activate at least one of the first magnetic component and the second magnetic component. The electromagnetic activation causes a change in a gap between the first magnetic component and the second magnetic component, the change in the gap resulting in rotation of at least one of the first magnetic component and the second magnetic component.
US11682941B2	Wiring apparatus for motor and corresponding motor Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a wiring apparatus for a motor and a corresponding motor. The wiring apparatus comprises an annular member and a conductor. The annular member has a first side adjacent to the motor and a second side opposite to the first side. The conductor is embedded in the annular member and comprises a plurality of joints coupled to each other via a conductive bar. The annular member comprises a first group of holes and a second group of holes. The group of holes each extend from the first side to the plurality of joints and the second group of holes arranged opposite to the first set of holes and each extends from the second side to the plurality of joints. The wiring apparatus according to embodiments of the present disclosure has a simple and compact structure, which greatly improves the efficiency of wiring.
US11682940B2	Rotor A rotor, in particular of an electrical machine, has a base body and at least one metallic end plate which is mounted on the base body. The base body and the at least one end plate have a continuous layer which is injection molded.
US11682934B2	Rotary electric machine with rotor having permanent magnets with ratios of total surface area and a stator with tooth having coils with offset from flange portions A rotor of a rotary electric machine includes a first magnet and a fourth magnet whose magnetic fields are oriented in radial directions of a stator, and a second magnet and a third magnet whose magnetic fields are oriented in circumferential directions of the stator. In the stator, slots are formed between adjacent ones of teeth portions. An electromagnetic coil is provided in the slots. A distal end on an inner circumferential side of the electromagnetic coil is offset from an inner circumferential side end part of a base portion, which is a part of the teeth portion, toward a yoke portion.
US11682929B2	Car to car wireless power transfer A wireless power transfer system for wirelessly powering a conveyance apparatus of a first conveyance system and a conveyance apparatus of a second conveyance system including: a wireless electrical power transceiver located along a surface of the conveyance apparatus of the first conveyance system, a wireless electrical power transceiver located along a surface of the conveyance apparatus of the second conveyance system, the surface of the conveyance apparatus of the second conveyance system being opposite of the surface of the conveyance apparatus of the first conveyance system, wherein the wireless electrical power transceiver of the first conveyance system is configured to wirelessly transfer electrical power to the wireless electrical power transceiver of the second conveyance system when the wireless electrical power transceiver of the first conveyance system and the wireless electrical power transceiver of the second conveyance system are located proximate to one another.
US11682928B2	Automatic gain control for communications demodulation in wireless power transmitters A wireless transmission system includes a transmitter antenna, a sensor, a demodulation circuit, and a transmitter controller. The sensor is configured to detect electrical information associated with AC wireless signals, the electrical information including, at least, a voltage of the AC wireless signals. The demodulation circuit is configured to receive the electrical information from the at least one sensor, detect a change in the electrical information, determine if the change in the electrical information meets or exceeds one of a rise threshold or a fall threshold, if the change exceeds one of the rise threshold or the fall threshold, generate an alert, and output a plurality of data alerts. The transmitter controller is configured to receive the plurality of data alerts from the demodulation circuit and decode the plurality of data alerts into the wireless data signals.
US11682926B2	Automatic gain control for communications demodulation in wireless power transmitters A wireless transmission system includes a transmitter antenna, a sensor, a demodulation circuit, and a transmitter controller. The sensor is configured to detect electrical information superimposed on an AC wireless signal. The demodulation circuit is configured to receive the electrical information from the at least one sensor, apply automatic bias control and gain control to generate modified electrical information, detect a change in the modified electrical information and determine if the change in the modified electrical information meets or exceeds one of a rise threshold or a fall threshold. If the change exceeds one of the rise threshold or the fall threshold, an alert is generated. Alerts are decoded into the electrical information.
US11682924B2	Systems and methods for wireless power resonators with core cavity A resonator for use in a wireless power transfer system is provided. The resonator includes a core including a front surface, a back surface, and an annular sidewall extending between the front surface and the back surface, wherein an annular groove is defined in the front surface and surrounds a post, and wherein a cavity is defined in the back surface, the post and the cavity aligned with a longitudinal axis of the core. The resonator further includes a coil element disposed within the annular groove.
US11682919B2	Intelligent control system, emergency starting power supply, and intelligent battery clip An intelligent control system, an emergency starting power supply, and an intelligent battery clip are provided. The intelligent control system a microcontroller unit (MCU), a load-detection module, a switch-control module, an emergency starting power supply, a load, and a power-supply output port. The power-supply output port is electrically coupled with the load. The switch-control module includes a first terminal coupled with an internal battery pack of the emergency starting power supply, a second terminal electrically coupled with the load via the power-supply output port, and a control terminal configured to receive a control signal from the MCU. The load-detection module is configured to detect a state of the load and includes a non-isolated member. The MCU is configured to control, according to the state of the load, the switch-control module to be in a switched-on state or a switched-off state.
US11682915B2	Charge coupler and method for autonomously charging vehicle batteries A system for charging a battery carried by a vehicle may include a charging box for coupling to a vehicle chassis and including interface electrical contacts electrically coupled to the battery. The system may also include a charge coupler including coupler electrical contacts for electrically coupling to the interface electrical contacts from under the vehicle and configured to be coupled to an electrical power supply. The charging box may include an interface activation surface, and the charge coupler may include a housing for enclosing the coupler electrical contacts and including a base for supporting the coupler electrical contacts, a coupler activation surface opposite the base, an opening, and a door configured to open the opening to expose the coupler electrical contacts as the interface activation surface contacts the coupler activation surface and moves the coupler activation surface toward the base.
US11682909B2	Multi-battery system and management thereof A movable platform includes one or more propulsion units configured to provide a driving force to the movable platform and a control unit operatively coupled to the one or more propulsion units. The control unit is configured to: communicate with a plurality of batteries adapted to supply current to the one or more propulsion units; obtain one or more electrical characteristics of each of the plurality of batteries; and determine, based on the electrical characteristics, a controlling signal to set a power supply state for at least one of the plurality of batteries.
US11682907B2	Thruster electric power systems and associated methods A mobile offshore drilling unit includes a plurality of electric thrusters to dynamically position the drilling unit, and a microgrid electric power generation system for providing power to the plurality of electric thrusters, the microgrid electric power generation system including at least one combustion generator electrically coupled to a main electric power bus and at least one thruster electric power system, the thruster electric power system including a thruster electric power bus, an additional electric power bus connected to the thruster electric power bus via an interface device, and a circuit breaker electrically coupling the additional electric power bus to a main electric power bus for isolating the thruster electric power bus from the main electric power bus in case of loss of power on the main electric power bus.
US11682906B2	Methods and systems of power production A distributed energy management system includes a photovoltaic (PV) source, and a plurality of controllable loads in communication with the PV source. The plurality of controllable loads include a first controllable load including a first interactive plug associated with a first connected state timer and a first disconnected state timer, and a second controllable load including a second interactive plug associated with a second connected state timer and a second disconnected state timer. The PV source is configured to determine a maximum PV power, determine a difference between the maximum PV power and a current PV power, responsive to determining that the difference is less than or equal to a threshold power, set the reference AC voltage as a first voltage, and responsive to determining that the difference is greater than the threshold power, set the reference AC voltage as a second voltage greater than the first voltage.
US11682901B2	Airport electric vehicle charging system In an embodiment, an airport electric vehicle charging system includes a current transducer electrically coupled with a power source; a solid state converter electrically coupleable with an aircraft at or near an airport gate and configured to provide and maintain power to the aircraft; and a controller. The system further includes a first feedback loop between the controller and the current transducer; a second feedback loop between the controller and the solid state converter; and a battery charger electrically coupled with the power source and configured to charge one or more electric vehicles. The first feedback loop provides a first feedback signal generated by the current transducer to the controller. The second feedback loop provides a second feedback signal generated by the solid state converter to the controller. The battery charger is configured to consume power from the power source in accordance with the first and second feedback signals.
US11682900B2	Current sharing power stage for phase multiplication applications A system includes a first power stage circuit having a first PWM input, a first voltage input and a first power output. The first power stage circuit is configured to provide a first current at the first power output responsive to a PWM signal at the first PWM input, and configured to receive a voltage at the first voltage input. The system includes a second power stage circuit having a second PWM input, a second voltage input and a second power output. The second voltage input is coupled to the first voltage input, and the second power stage circuit is configured to provide a second current at the second power output responsive to the PWM signal at the second PWM input. The second power stage circuit is configured to receive the voltage at the second voltage input, the voltage representing an average of the first current and the second current.
US11682898B2	Configurable modular hazardous location compliant ciruit protection devices, systems and methods Modular circuit protection devices and configurable panelboard systems include arc-free operation, thermal management features providing safe operation in hazardous environments at lower cost and without requiring conventional explosion-proof enclosures and without entailing series connected separately provided packages such as circuit breaker devices and starter motor contactors and controls.
US11682897B2	Power supply control apparatus and power supply control method A power supply control apparatus includes: a first system configured to supply electric power of a first power supply to a first load; a second system configured to supply electric power of a second power supply to a second load; an inter-system switch capable of connecting the first system to the second system and disconnecting the first system from the second system; a battery switch capable of connecting the second power supply to the second system and disconnecting the second power supply from the second system; a primary ground fault detection unit configured to cut off the inter-system switch and conduct the battery switch when a ground fault of the first system or the second system is detected by the primary ground fault detection unit; a secondary ground fault detection unit as defined herein; and a failure determination unit as defined herein.
US11682895B2	Inverter assembly with integrated coolant coupling port An inverter assembly includes an integrated coolant coupling port; a fluid connector having a chamfered lip and a fir tree circumferentially aligned with at least one O-ring on an outer body of the fluid connector; and a flexible hose configured to couple the integrated coolant coupling port to the fluid connector.
US11682892B2	Composite circuit protection device A composite circuit protection device includes: a first positive temperature coefficient (PTC) component; a first voltage-dependent resistor (VDR); a second VDR; and a plurality of conductive leads that correspondingly connect to the first PTC component, the first VDR and the second VDR. The second VDR and the first PTC component are electrically connected in series, the first VDR is electrically connected to the series connection of the first PTC component and the second VDR in parallel, and the first VDR has a varistor voltage greater than that of the second VDR as determined at 1 mA.
US11682889B2	Electrical device with built-in sensors and/or communications An electrical device such as, for example, a mechanical interlock including one or more interconnected electrical components configured to detect or monitor an operational state or condition is hereby disclosed. In one embodiment, the electrical device may include a communications bus, one or more sensor modules coupled to the communications bus, and a sensor hub module coupled to the communications bus, wherein the sensor module(s) generate signal(s) including data indicating a sensed condition. A communications module coupled to the sensor hub module may transmit the data indicating the sensed condition to a remote device, a remote computer network, or a remote cloud service. Additionally, and/or alternatively, the device may include a water detection sensor including first and second curved conductive traces. Additionally, and/or alternatively, the device may include a voltage limiter circuit providing a DC output voltage from a high voltage AC input.
US11682888B2	Radio frequency transmissive raised access floor panel Disclosed is a sensor floor tile that utilizes a RF frequency transmissive disk that transmits sensor data from sensors located in a plenum of a raised floor system. An antenna is located adjacent to the disk so that sensor signals can be transmitted from the sensor located in the plenum under the floor tile to a wireless receiver located in an elevated location in a data center room, a computer room, a clean room, an office space, etc. A network connection can also be provided by the antenna when the antenna is connected to a router in the plenum.
US11682886B1	Foldable electrical cable clamp Disclosed are methods and apparatus for providing and installing electrical wire connector clamps that may be inserted into knockout holes from the inside of an electrical box or panel, that are capable of holding multiple wires or cables, that may be run through the connector before it is slotted into the hole, and that use only a minimal amount of interior space of the electrical box or panel. Embodiments of the present invention include semi-cylindrical units that may be folded together around one or more wires for secure engagement with the wires and with a knockout hole of an electrical box or panel. Embodiments may be used in new construction, and to replace existing connector clamps in an electrical box or panel from the inside without damaging the walls surrounding the box or panel, in order to securely hold wires in an electrical box or panel, add new wire(s), hold multiple wires, and/or increase available space inside the box or panel.
US11682883B2	Power distribution system and method A power distribution system is releasably secured to a power distribution panel, and includes a circuit breaker to detect a fault condition and to automatically move a circuit breaker switch from the ON position to the OFF position. The power distribution system further includes a backplane connector to provide connection to the power distribution panel and an interconnect mechanism to connect the circuit breaker to the backplane connector when the circuit breaker is moved from a disengaged position to an engaged position with respect to the backplane connector. The power distribution system further includes a guard coupled to the interconnect mechanism and configured to cover portions of the enclosure of the circuit breaker. The guard further prevents the circuit breaker switch from moving from the OFF position to the ON position until the interconnect mechanism connects to the circuit breaker to the backplane connector.
US11682879B2	Multi-wavelength laser system for optical data communication links and associated methods A laser light generator is configured to generate one or more wavelengths of continuous wave laser light. The laser light generator is configured to collectively and simultaneously transmit each of the wavelengths of continuous wave laser light through an optical output of the laser light generator as a laser light supply. An optical fiber is connected to receive the laser light supply from the optical output of the laser light generator. An optical distribution network has an optical input connected to receive the laser light supply from the optical fiber. The optical distribution network is configured to transmit the laser light supply to each of one or more optical transceivers and/or optical sensors. The laser light generator is physically separate from each of the one or more optical transceivers and/or optical sensors.
US11682878B2	Techniques for thermal management within optical subassembly modules and a heater device for laser diode temperature control The present disclosure is generally directed to techniques for thermal management within optical subassembly modules that include thermally coupling heat-generating components, such as laser assemblies, to a temperature control device, such as a thermoelectric cooler, without the necessity of disposing the heat-generating components within a hermetically-sealed housing. Accordingly, this arrangement provides a thermal communication path that extends from the heat-generating components, through the temperature control device, and ultimately to a heatsink component, such as a sidewall of a transceiver housing, without the thermal communication path extending through a hermetically-sealed housing/cavity.
US11682876B2	Wire feeding and attaching system for camera lens suspensions A wire feeding and bonding tool and method for attaching wires to a component having first and second spaced-apart wire attach structures. Wire from a supply is fed through a capillary having at least a linear end portion with a feed opening. The capillary is positioned with respect to the component to locate a first portion of the wire extending from the feed opening adjacent to the first wire attach structure, and the wire is attached to the first attach structure. The capillary is moved with respect to the component along a wire feed path to feed the wire from the first wire attach structure to the second wire attach structure and to locate a second portion of the wire extending from the feed opening adjacent to the second attach structure. The wire is attached to the second wire attach structure, and cut from the supply.
US11682875B2	Pressing jaws for crimping pliers Pressing jaws for opposite arrangement in crimping pliers, the pressing jaws having ribs, which extend in a rib longitudinal direction and move into each other during pressing. A guide surface extending transversely to the rib longitudinal direction outside of a working region of the ribs is formed, which guide surface interacts with a guide protrusion extending from the opposite pressing jaw. In another version, the pressing jaws have ribs, which are designed to mesh with each other and which have a rib longitudinal direction. Crimping pliers comprise two plier jaws, which are provided with oppositely arranged pressing jaws having ribs, which extend in a rib longitudinal direction and which, during pressing, move into each other and delimit a pressing jaw opening.
US11682872B2	Contact for a medical connector assembly A connector apparatus for a medical device includes a cylindrical core of nonconductive material, a beam of conductive material, and a sleeve of conductive material. The cylindrical core includes an outside surface, an inside surface, a hollow center having a cross sectional area, and a slot opening in the cylindrical core extending from the outside surface to the inside surface. The beam is placed in the slot opening in the cylindrical core, wherein the beam reduces the cross-sectional area of the hollow center of the cylindrical core. The sleeve of conductive material is placed over the outside surface of the cylindrical core.
US11682868B2	Connector with overvoltage protection and methods of use for charging an electric aircraft A connector with overvoltage protection, and methods of use, for charging an electric aircraft. The connector includes a housing, at least a current conductor, a protection circuit, at least a sensor and a controller. The housing is configured to mate with an electric aircraft port of the electric aircraft. The at least a current conductor is configured to conduct a current. The protection circuit is configured to control transmission of electrical power through the connector. The at least a sensor is configured to detect an output voltage of the connector. The controller is communicatively connected to the at least a sensor. The controller is configured to determine an overvoltage output as a function of the output voltage, and activate the protection circuit based on detection of the overvoltage output.
US11682867B2	Mains plug and charging system for a motor vehicle A mains plug for connecting a charging system of a motor vehicle to a socket outlet of an alternating current network comprises a contact housing having a first gripping area and a sensor unit having a first sensor electrode embedded in the contact housing. A first section of the contact housing is arranged between a first surface of the first gripping area and the first sensor electrode.
US11682857B2	Electrical contact device with interlock An electrical connector assembly includes a first electrical contact device and a second electrical contact device. The first electrical contact device includes at least one first electrical contact and an actuator movable between a first position and a second position. The second electrical contact device includes at least one second electrical contact device and an interlock feature to engage the actuator when the actuator is in the first position. The actuator is in the first position when the first electrical contact is in electrical communication with a power source, and the actuator is in the second position when the electrical communication between the first electrical contact and the power source is disconnected. When the actuator is in the first position and the second electrical contact engage the first electrical contact, the interlock feature engages the actuator, thereby securing the first electrical contact device and the second electrical contact device against disconnection.
US11682856B2	Holder apparatus of bio-signal device and method of assembling holder apparatus A holder apparatus of a bio-signal device comprises a holder, which comprises a pocket for a bio-signal processing device, an extension with a hollow, the hollow and the pocket forming a continuous cavity through the holder, a connector, and an elastic seal with a hole. A shape of the elastic seal is matched with a shape of the hollow of the extension at an interface of the pocket, and the hollow and a shape of the hole is matched with a shape of the connector for sealing an interface between the connector and the holder while the connector and the elastic seal are within the hollow and the connector is in contact with the elastic seal. Sealant filler fills the hollow of the extension and is in physical contact with the connector, which is in the hollow against the seal, the elastic seal and the sealant filler allowing the connector to mate electrically with a counter-connector moved within the cavity in a direction from the pocket toward the hollow.
US11682854B2	Board connector and connector assembly Disclosed is a board connector including a board connector body, conductive terminals of upper and lower rows inserted inside the board connector body and a docking housing wrapped outside the board connector body, wherein a front end of the board connector is used for docking with a cable connector, the docking housing including a top wall, a bottom wall and two side walls, a docking slot is provided between the top wall and a top surface of the board connector body, and the bottom wall is provided with a blocking element that protrudes downward. As compared with the prior art, interference may occur between a front end of a blocking element and a front end of a cable connector when the cable connector is reversely inserted, thereby preventing occurrence of a reverse inserting phenomenon.
US11682853B2	Electrical connector assembly having a connector mounting bracket An electrical connector assembly includes a housing having a card slot at a mating end configured to pass through a panel opening of a panel forward of the panel for receiving a circuit card. A cable end of the housing is rearward of the panel. The electrical connector assembly includes contacts held in the housing. The electrical connector assembly includes cables terminated to the contacts and extending from the housing. The electrical connector assembly includes a connector mounting bracket having a collar surrounding a window receiving the housing. The connector mounting bracket has mounting latches extending from the collar with latch fingers configured to be coupled to the panel. The connector mounting bracket includes a biasing element configured to engage the panel to bias the panel against the mounting latches.
US11682852B2	Electrical connector assembly A plug connector adapted for connecting corresponding wires includes an insulative body integrally formed with two rows of plug contacts in a lateral direction and a transverse bar. The plug contacts are categorized with differential-pair contacts and grounding contacts alternately arranged with each other in a longitudinal direction. The transverse bar extends along the longitudinal direction perpendicular to the lateral direction and is unitarily linked to rear ends of all the grounding contacts of each row of plug contacts while being isolated from the differential-pair contacts. All the contacts and the transverse bar are stamped from a same sheet metal initially, and the differential-pair contacts are successively disconnected from the transverse bar after the plug contacts are integrally formed with the insulative body.
US11682846B2	Antenna device with cell structure and array of antenna devices An antenna device includes a first patch radiator and a second patch radiator arranged over the first patch radiator. The antenna device further includes a central ground pin connected substantially at a center portion of the first patch radiator. The antenna device further includes a plurality of conductive feeding pins connected to the first patch radiator and separated by at least one slot of a plurality of slots provides in the first patch radiator. The antenna device further includes a cell structure having a cavity that includes a polygonal-shaped base and a metallic fence arranged at four or more side walls of the cavity. The first patch radiator and the second patch radiators are arranged in the cavity of the cell structure and are at least partially surrounded by the metallic fence such that a plurality of antenna control parameters are decoupled from each other.
US11682836B2	Method and system for controlling a modal antenna An antenna system is provided. In one example, the system includes a modal antenna having a driven element and a parasitic element. The system includes a radio frequency circuit. The system includes a transmission line coupling the radio frequency circuit to the modal antenna. The radio frequency circuit is configured to modulate a control signal onto an RF signal to generate a transmit signal for communication over the transmission line to the tuning circuit. The control signal can include a frame having a plurality of bits associated with the selected mode of the antenna. The radio frequency circuit is configured to encode the plurality of bits associated with the selected mode in accordance with a coding scheme. The coding scheme specifies a unique code for each mode of the plurality of modes. The unique code for each mode of the plurality of modes differs by at least two bits relative to the unique code for each other mode of the plurality of modes.
US11682833B2	Antenna, preparation method thereof and electronic device An antenna is provided. The antenna includes a transparent substrate and a metal layer disposed on the transparent substrate. The metal layer includes a plurality of hollow regions, at least one hollow region in the plurality of hollow regions is surrounded by at least one metal line group and the at least one metal line group includes at least one metal line; a cross section of the at least one metal line has a non-rectangular shape.
US11682829B2	Mounting device and base station antenna system The invention relates to a mounting device for mounting a remote radio unit to a base station antenna, including: a single guide rail (4) configured to be mounted to the base station antenna (1) and extending transversely in a mounting state of the guide rail on the base station antenna; a guide element (8) configured to be mounted to the remote radio unit (2) and movable along the guide rail in a mounted state of the guide element on the remote radio unit; and a fixing device such as a plurality of quick locking devices (10) configured to fix the remote radio unit on the base station antenna at a predetermined installation position of the remote radio unit relative to the base station antenna. The invention also relates to a base station antenna system, which includes a base station antenna, a remote radio unit and the above-mentioned mounting device. By use of such a mounting device, the remote radio unit may be easily mounted on the base station antenna, and the whole base station antenna system is compact in structure.
US11682827B2	Antenna system for transmitting and receiving mm-wave signal Disclosed in an electronic device, which includes a housing that includes a first plate and a second plate facing a direction opposite the first plate, a conductive plate that is disposed in a first plane between the first plate and the second plate, and is parallel to the second plate, a wireless communication circuit that is disposed within the housing and is configured to transmit and/or receive a signal having a frequency ranging from 20 GHz to 100 GHz, a first electrical path having a first end electrically connected with the wireless communication circuit and a second end floated, the first electrical path including a first portion between the first end and the second end, a second electrical path having a third end electrically connected with the conductive plate and a fourth end floated, the second electrical path including a second portion between the third end and the fourth end.
US11682824B2	Antenna module disposed in vehicle An antenna assembly according to the present disclosure includes a dielectric substrate, and antenna elements configured as conductive patterns on the dielectric substrate to radiate radio signals. The antenna elements may include a first radiation structure and a second radiation structure. The first radiation structure includes a first conductive pattern electrically connected a first feeding portion, a second conductive pattern and a third conductive pattern electrically connected a ground. The second radiation structure includes a fourth conductive pattern electrically connected a second feeding portion and a fifth conductive pattern and a sixth conductive pattern electrically connected the ground. The first conductive pattern may be disposed between the second conductive pattern and the third conductive pattern.
US11682823B2	Antenna mount kits and antenna mount kit assemblies with equal step tilt adjustment and methods of using the same The present disclosure describes an antenna mount kit. The antenna mount kit includes pivotally coupled mounting brackets, at least one adjustment bracket, and at least one locking plate. One of the mounting brackets and the at least one adjustment bracket each include a plurality of phase adjustment holes configured to lock an antenna at a desired tilt angle that is adjustable at 1 degree steps for different length antennas. Antenna mount kit assemblies and methods of adjusting the downtilt of an antenna are also provided.
US11682819B2	Millimeter-wave resonator and associated methods A millimeter-wave resonator is produced by drilling a plurality of holes into a piece of metal. Each hole forms an evanescent tube having a lowest cutoff frequency. The holes spatially intersect to form a seamless three-dimensional cavity whose fundamental cavity mode has a resonant frequency that is less than the cutoff frequencies of all the evanescent tubes. Below cutoff, the fundamental cavity mode does not couple to the waveguide modes, and therefore has a high internal Q. Millimeter waves can be coupled into any of the tubes to excite an evanescent mode that couples to the fundamental cavity mode. The tubes also provide spatial and optical access for transporting atoms into the cavity, where they can be trapped while spatially overlapping the fundamental cavity mode. The piece of metal may be superconducting, allowing the resonator to be used in a cryogenic environment for quantum computing and information processing.
US11682817B1	W-band E-plane waveguide bandpass filter A W-band E-plane waveguide bandpass filter includes a rectangular waveguide configured to feed a W-band signal, and a dielectric substrate. The dielectric substrate is inserted into the center of the waveguide. The dielectric substrate is provided with a spoof surface plasmon polariton (SSPP) array configured to transmit a TM-mode surface wave to achieve the bandpass filtering response.
US11682815B2	Phase shifter including a phase shifting member rotatable over an arc circuit section that is connected to cables secured to the phase shifter A phase shifter, comprising a base, a circuit substrate, a phase-shifting member, and a plurality of first output cables. The circuit substrate is disposed on the base, and comprises a main feeder circuit and at least one sub-feeder circuit. The main feeder circuit comprises a main input circuit section. The at least one sub-feeder circuit is disposed on one side of the main feeder circuit, and comprises two output circuit sections and an arc circuit section. The arc circuit section is disposed between the two output circuit sections. The phase-shifting member is rotatably connected with the circuit substrate and comprises a coupling band. One end of the coupling band corresponds to and is coupled to the main input circuit section while the other end corresponds to and is coupled to the arc circuit section.
US11682812B2	Electrode assemblies including current limiters and methods of assembling such electrode assemblies A method includes stacking unit cells in a stacking direction. Each unit cell includes an electrode structure, a separator structure, and a counter-electrode structure. The electrode structure includes an electrode current collector and an electrode active material layer, and the counter-electrode structure includes a counter-electrode current collector and a counter-electrode active material layer. The electrode and counter-electrode structures extend in a longitudinal direction perpendicular to the stacking direction, and an end portion of the electrode current collector extends past the electrode active material and the separator structure in the longitudinal direction. The end portion of each electrode current collector is bent in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction, an electrode busbar is positioned extending in the stacking direction with a surface adjacent the end portions, and heat and pressure are applied to the electrode busbar to adhere the end portions to the busbar through an adhesive layer.
US11682808B2	Pouch type battery case, apparatus for molding the same, and pouch type secondary battery Provided is a pouch type battery case. The pouch type battery case include a cup part configured to accommodate an electrode assembly, which is formed by stacking electrodes and separators, therein and a plurality of die edges configured to connect an outer wall of the cup part to a side extending from the outer wall. At least one die edge includes a first area formed to be rounded with a first curvature radius and a second area formed to be rounded with a second curvature radius less than the first curvature radius.
US11682807B2	Catholyte for metal-oxygen battery A metal-oxygen battery includes a catholyte with: (i) carbon black; and, (ii) at least one of graphite and graphene, wherein said at least one of graphite and graphene constitutes between 0 wt % and 30 wt % of the total carbon in the catholyte.
US11682801B1	Processes for recycling spent catalysts, recycling rechargeable batteries, and integrated processes thereof Integrated recycling method and processes including recycling spent catalyst to produce one or more water-soluble metal salts and one or more water-insoluble tail byproducts, and recycling rechargeable batteries to produce one or more battery-grade metals and one or more pure metallic byproducts, wherein the water insoluble tail byproduct is a feedstock in recycling the rechargeable batteries, the impure metallic byproduct is a feedstock in recycling the spent catalyst, or both.
US11682800B2	Battery packs with cell module assemblies usable in multiple applications A cell module assembly includes multiple lithium-ion battery cells connected in parallel and an electronic controller. The electronic controller is programmed to receive useful life data for a useful life indicator of the battery cells, save the life data to memory to create a life data history, determine a life measurement based on the life data history, compare the life measurement to a first end of life threshold, determine if the life measurement has met the first end of life threshold, provide a first end of life output indicating that the life measurement has met the first end of life threshold, compare the life measurement to a second end of life threshold, determine if the life measurement has met the second end of life threshold, and provide a second end of life output indicating that the life measurement has met the second end of life threshold.
US11682790B2	Sulfide-based solid electrolyte, all-solid secondary battery including the same, and method of preparing the sulfide-based solid electrolyte A sulfide solid electrolyte includes: an ionic conductor including a PS43− unit, a P2S64− unit, and a P2S74− unit; and a lithium compound containing a halogen element, wherein a molar ratio of the P2S64− unit to the PS43− unit is about 1:1 to about 5:1, and a molar amount of the P2S74− unit with respect to the total molar amount of the PS43− unit, the P2S64− unit, and the P2S74− unit is greater than 0 to about 60%.
US11682787B2	Lithium battery including composite particles with flame retardant material carried by particulate host material An electrochemical cell for a lithium battery includes a negative electrode, a positive electrode, a polymeric separator, and composite flame retardant particles including a particulate host material and a flame retardant material carried by the particulate host material. The composite flame retardant particles may be positioned within the electrochemical cell along a lithium-ion transport path or an electron transport path that extends through or between one or more components of the electrochemical cell. The composite flame retardant particles may be positioned within polymeric portions of a laminate structure that defines a housing in which the electrochemical cell is enclosed.
US11682784B2	Method of preparing high-purity electrolyte solution for vanadium redox flow battery using catalytic reaction The present invention relates to a method of preparing a high-purity electrolyte solution for a vanadium redox flow battery using a catalytic reaction, and more specifically, to a method of preparing a high-purity electrolyte solution having a vanadium oxidation state of +3 to +5 from a mixture solution containing a vanadium precursor, a reducing agent, and an acidic solution, by using a catalyst. By using a catalyst and a reducing agent that does not leave impurities such as Zn2+, which are generated when preparing electrolyte solutions using an existing metal reducing agent, the high-purity electrolyte solution for a vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) according to the present invention eliminates the need for an additional electrolysis process; does not form toxic substances during a reaction process, and thus is environmentally friendly; and is electrochemically desirable under milder process conditions than that of an existing process. In addition, the VRFB comprising the electrolyte solution prepared according to the present invention may be used to expand the utility of new renewable energy through price reduction of large-capacity energy storage devices.
US11682783B2	Electrochemical system with confined electrolyte Described herein are systems and methods for the management and control of electrolyte within confined electrochemical cells or groups (e.g. stacks) of connected electrochemical cells, for example, in an electrolyzer. Various embodiments of systems and methods provide for the elimination of parasitic conductive paths between cells, and/or precise passive control of fluid pressures within cells. In some embodiments, a fixed volume of electrolyte is substantially retained within each cell while efficiently collecting and removing produced gases or other products from the cell.
US11682781B2	Thermally integrated hotbox combining a steam reformer with SOFC stacks A thermally integrated hotbox apparatus combining a steam reformer, a plurality of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) stacks, a plurality of oxidant manifolds, and at least one heat extractor. The steam reformer occupies a central position in the hotbox, around which are disposed in spaced-apart relation a plurality of SOFC stacks. A burner may be associated with the steam reformer, either within or outside the hotbox. An oxidant manifold is disposed between each pair of adjacent SOFC stacks. A heat exchanger is incorporated between an SOFC stack and an oxygen manifold. The hotbox design optimally captures thermal heat from the SOFC stacks for use in producing steam and operating the endothermic steam reformer. The apparatus reduces duty cycle of the burner, which produces heat and steam needed for operation of the endothermic steam reformer.
US11682780B2	Fuel cell system A fuel cell system that can offer fuel efficiency and water drainage performance which are compatible with each other, the fuel cell system including a fuel cell stack; a fuel gas supply device; a gas-liquid separator; a pressure measuring device; and a controlling unit, wherein the controlling unit controls pulsed operation of the fuel gas supply device in such a way that a measured pressure is within the range of a preset upper limit pressure and lower limit pressure, and the controlling unit uses a flow rate increasing control at least once when the pressure rises in the pulsed operation before the pressure reaches the upper limit pressure, as long as the pressure does not exceed the upper limit pressure, the flow rate increasing control being to increase the supply of the fuel gas supplied by means of the fuel gas supply device.
US11682776B2	Metering valve and jet pump unit for controlling a gaseous medium The invention relates to a metering valve (1) for controlling a gaseous medium, in particular hydrogen, comprising a valve housing (2), wherein an interior space (3) is formed in the valve housing (2). A reciprocating closing element (10) is arranged in the interior space (3), which interacts with a valve seat (37) for opening or closing at least one passage channel (25). Furthermore, the metering valve (1) comprises a nozzle (11), the at least one passage channel (25) being formed in the nozzle (11) and the passage channel (25) having a circular-cylindrical portion.
US11682772B2	Electrocatalysts, the preparation thereof, and using the same for fuel cells Compositions comprised of a tin film, coated by a shell of less than 50 nm thick made of palladium and tin in a molar ratio ranging from 1:4 to 3:1, respectively, are disclosed. Uses of the compositions as an electro-catalyst e.g., in a fuel cell, and particularly for the oxidation of various materials are also disclosed.
US11682770B2	Catalyst layer for fuel cell, membrane electrode assembly, and fuel cell Disclosed is a catalyst layer for a fuel cell that has good gas diffusion properties in the entire catalyst layer and in which coarsening of catalyst particles can be suppressed. The catalyst layer for a fuel cell includes fibrous conductive members and catalyst particles. The fibrous conductive members are inclined relative to the surface direction of the catalyst layer, and the length L of the fibrous conductive members and the thickness T of the catalyst layer satisfy the relational expression: L/T≤3. Each of the catalyst particles includes a core portion and a shell portion that covers the core portion, and contains a component different from that of the core portion.
US11682764B2	Cathode material and battery using same The present disclosure provides a cathode material which has improved charge/discharge efficiency; and a battery using the same. The cathode material includes a cathode active material and a first solid electrolyte material; and the first solid electrolyte material contains Li, M and X; however, does not include sulfur. M represents at least one element that is selected from the group consisting of metalloid elements and metal elements other than Li. X represents at least one selected from the group consisting of Cl and Br, and I. The cathode active material includes lithium iron phosphate.
US11682752B2	Light-emitting device with nano-structured light extraction layer A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a junction or active layer between doped semiconductor layers coextensive over a contiguous device area, corresponding sets of electrical contacts connected to the semiconductor layers, and multiple nanostructured optical elements at a surface of one semiconductor layer opposite the other semiconductor layer. Composite electrical contacts of one set include a conductive layer, a transparent dielectric layer between the conductive and semiconductor layers, and vias through the dielectric layer connecting the conductive and semiconductor layers. The nanostructured elements redirect light, propagating laterally in optical modes supported by the semiconductor layers, to exit the device. The composite electrical contacts can be independent and define independently addressable pixel areas of the device. The nanostructured elements and thin semiconductor layers can yield high contrast between adjacent pixel areas without trenches between them. A drive circuit can provide drive current that differs among pixel areas.
US11682751B2	Display apparatus Disclosed is a semiconductor device package comprising: first insulation layers disposed between first wiring lines and second wiring lines; a plurality of first pads electrically connected to the first wiring lines, respectively; and a plurality of second pads electrically connected to the second wiring lines, respectively, wherein the line having the longest length extended in a first direction, among the plurality of first wiring lines, has an area of a region, which is overlapped with an electrically connected semiconductor structure, that is larger than that of the line having the shortest extended length.
US11682749B2	Semiconductor device and method of making the same A light emitting diode (LED) including a first contact. The LED further includes a first semiconductor layer over the first contact. The first semiconductor layer comprises hexagonal Boron Nitride. Additionally, the LED includes a second semiconductor layer over the first semiconductor layer. The second semiconductor layer comprises at least one hexagonal Boron Nitride quantum well and at least one hexagonal Boron Nitride quantum barrier. Moreover, the LED includes a third semiconductor layer over the second semiconductor layer. The third semiconductor layer comprises hexagonal Boron Nitride. Further, the LED includes a second contact over the third semiconductor layer.
US11682747B2	Ultraviolet light emitting element and light emitting element package including the same An embodiment discloses an ultraviolet light emitting element including: a light emitting structure including a first conductive semiconductor layer, a second conductive semiconductor layer, an active layer disposed between the first conductive semiconductor layer and the second conductive semiconductor layer, and an etched region in which the first conductive semiconductor layer is exposed; a first insulating layer disposed on the light emitting structure and including a first hole which exposes a portion of the etched region; a first electrode electrically connected to the first conductive semiconductor layer; and a second electrode electrically connected to the second conductive semiconductor layer, wherein the light emitting structure includes an intermediate layer regrown on the first conductive semiconductor layer exposed in the first hole, the first electrode is disposed on the intermediate layer, the etched region includes a first etched region disposed at an inner side and a second etched region disposed at an outer side based on an outer side surface of the first electrode, and a ratio of an area of the first etched region and an area of the intermediate layer is 1:0.3 to 1:0.7, and a light emitting element package including the same.
US11682746B2	Arrays of light emitters and methods of forming thereof There are provided methods of growing arrays of light emitters on substrates. An example method includes adjusting a growth parameter of a given light emitter of an array of light emitters on a substrate to obtain an adjusted growth parameter. The adjusting may be based on a location of the given light emitter on the substrate. The adjusting may be to compensate for nonuniformity in a growth profile of the light emitters across the substrate. The nonuniformity may be associated with a corresponding nonuniformity among wavelengths of light generated by the light emitters. Adjusting the growth parameter may be to adjust the corresponding nonuniformity. The method may also include growing the given light emitter on the substrate based on the adjusted growth parameter. Arrays of corresponding light emitters are also described.
US11682745B2	Photon detector array assembly In a described example, an apparatus includes: a photon detector array with a first signal output pad coupled to a photon detector array pixel; a die carrier comprising a readout integrated circuit (ROIC) die and a conductor layer having conductors that couple a first signal input pad on the conductor layer to an input signal lead of the ROIC die; and the first signal output pad coupled to the first signal input pad.
US11682735B2	Semiconductor device including nanowires having multi-thickness regions A semiconductor device includes a drain, a source, a gate electrode, and a nanowire between the source and drain. The nanowire has a first section with a first thickness and a second section with a second thickness greater than the first thickness. The second section is between the first section and at least one of the source or drain. The first nanowire includes a channel when a voltage is applied to the gate electrode.
US11682732B2	Semiconductor substrate and display device According to one embodiment, a semiconductor layer includes a base, a scanning line disposed over the base, a signal line disposed over the base, a transistor overlapping the scanning line and the signal line and including a first oxide semiconductor layer connected to the signal line, and second oxide semiconductor layers disposed in a same layer as the first oxide semiconductor layer. The second oxide semiconductor layers are disposed around the transistor, and the second oxide semiconductor layers are floating.
US11682717B2	Memory device including vertical stack structure and method of manufacturing the same Disclosed are a memory device including a vertical stack structure and a method of manufacturing the memory device. The memory device includes an insulating structure having a shape including a first surface and a protrusion portion protruding in a first direction from the first surface, a recording material layer covering the protrusion portion along a protruding shape of the protrusion portion and extending to the first surface on the insulating structure a channel layer on the recording material layer along a surface of the recording material layer, a gate insulating layer on the channel layer, and a gate electrode formed at a location on the gate insulating layer to face a second surface which is a protruding upper surface of the protrusion portion, wherein a void exists between the gate electrode and the insulating structure, defined by the insulating structure and the recording material layer.
US11682715B2	Forming nanosheet transistor using sacrificial spacer and inner spacers Fabricating a nanosheet transistor includes receiving a substrate structure having a set of nanosheet layers stacked upon a substrate, the set of nanosheet layers including at least one silicon (Si) layer, at least one silicon-germanium (SiGe) layer, a fin formed in the nanosheet layers, a gate region formed within the fin, and a trench region adjacent to the fin. A top sacrificial spacer is formed upon the fin and the trench region and etched to form a trench in the trench region. An indentation is formed within the SiGe layer in the trench region, and a sacrificial inner spacer is formed within the indentation. A source/drain (S/D) region is formed within the trench. The sacrificial top spacer and sacrificial inner spacer are etched to form an inner spacer cavity between the S/D region and the SiGe layer. An inner spacer is formed within the inner spacer cavity.
US11682711B2	Semiconductor device having multi-layered gate spacers Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacture are presented in which spacers are manufactured on sidewalls of gates for semiconductor devices. In embodiments the spacers comprise a first seal, a second seal, and a contact etch stop layer, in which the first seal comprises a first shell along with a first bulk material, the second seal comprises a second shell along with a second bulk material, and the contact etch stop layer comprises a third bulk material and a second dielectric material.
US11682706B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device including a lower contact pattern including a first metal, an upper contact pattern including a second metal, a first resistivity of first metal being greater than a second resistivity of the second metal, and a metal barrier layer between the lower contact pattern and a lower portion of the upper contact pattern, the metal barrier layer including a third metal, the third metal being different from the first and second metals may be provided. A lower width of the upper contact pattern may be less than an upper width of the lower contact pattern.
US11682705B2	Thin film transistor substrate A thin film transistor including a gate electrode, a semiconductor layer, and source and drain electrodes contacting the semiconductor layer. The source and drain electrodes include a metal oxide having a crystal size in a c-axis direction Lc(002) that ranges from 67 Å or more to 144 Å or less.
US11682704B2	Method of producing a semiconductor device A method includes: forming a trench in a first major surface of a semiconductor substrate, the trench having a base and a side wall extending from the base to the first major surface; forming a first insulating layer on the trench base and side wall; forming a sacrificial layer on the first insulating layer on the trench side wall; forming a second insulation layer on the sacrificial layer; inserting conductive material into the trench that at least partially covers the second insulation layer; selectively removing portions of the second insulation layer uncovered by the conductive material; selectively removing the sacrificial layer to form a recess that is positioned adjacent the conductive material in the trench and that is bounded by the first insulation layer and the second insulating layer; and forming a third insulating layer in the trench that caps the recess to form an enclosed cavity in the trench.
US11682701B2	Quantum dot devices Disclosed herein are quantum dot devices, as well as related computing devices and methods. For example, in some embodiments, a quantum dot device may include: a quantum well stack and a plurality of linear arrays of gates above the quantum well stack to control quantum dot formation in the quantum well stack. An insulating material may be between a first linear array of gates and a second linear array of gates, the insulating material may be between individual gates in the first linear array of gates, and gate metal of the first linear array of gates may extend over the insulating material.
US11682698B2	Semiconductor devices including source/drain regions having antimony doped layers A semiconductor device including an active region protruding from an upper surface of a substrate and extending in a first horizontal direction, at least two gate electrodes extending in a second horizontal direction and crossing the active region, the second horizontal direction crossing the first horizontal direction, a source/drain region in the active region between the gate electrodes may be provided. The source/drain region includes a recess region, an outer doped layer on an inner wall of the recess region, an intermediate doped layer on the outer doped layer, and an inner doped layer on the intermediate doped layer and filling the recess region. One of the outer doped layer or the intermediate doped layer includes antimony, and the inner doped layer includes phosphorous.
US11682696B2	Semiconductor device having a high breakdown voltage A semiconductor device includes a layer stack with first and second semiconductor layers of complementary doping types are arranged alternatingly between first and second surfaces of the layer stack. A first semiconductor region adjoins the first semiconductor layers and has a first end arranged in a first device region and extends from the first end into a second device region. Second semiconductor regions adjoin at least one of the second semiconductor layers. A third semiconductor region adjoins the first semiconductor layers. The first semiconductor region extends from the first device region into the second device region and is spaced apart from the third semiconductor region. The second semiconductor regions are arranged between, and spaced apart from, the third and first semiconductor regions. A fourth semiconductor region adjoins the first semiconductor layers, is spaced apart from the first semiconductor region, and is arranged in the first device region between the first end of the first semiconductor region and the third semiconductor region.
US11682691B2	Light-emitting device A light-emitting device includes: a first light-emitting element portion including: an n-side nitride semiconductor layer, a first light-emitting layer over the n-side nitride semiconductor layer, and a first p-side nitride semiconductor layer over the first light-emitting layer; a second light-emitting element portion including: a second light-emitting layer over the n-side nitride semiconductor layer, and a second p-side nitride semiconductor layer over the second light-emitting layer; an n-side electrode connected to the n-side nitride semiconductor layer; a first p-side electrode disposed over the first p-side nitride semiconductor layer via an upper n-type semiconductor layer; and a second p-side electrode connected to the second p-side nitride semiconductor layer. The first p-side nitride semiconductor layer and the upper n-type semiconductor layer form a tunnel junction.
US11682681B2	Active matrix substrate and method for manufacturing same A method for manufacturing an active matrix substrate includes: (A) a step of forming a laminated film including a lower conductive film, a lower insulating film, and a semiconductor film in this order on a substrate; (B) a step of forming a first resist layer; (C) a step of performing a patterning on the laminated film, the step including, in the first formation region, forming the first substructure including a first lower conductive layer, a first lower insulating layer, and a first semiconductor layer respectively formed from the lower conductive film, the lower insulating film, and the semiconductor film, and (D) a step of forming source and drain electrodes electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer.
US11682679B2	Manufacturing method of display substrate for removing residual sand The present disclosure provides a manufacturing method of a display substrate, a display substrate and a display device, belongs to the field of display technology, and can at least partially solve a problem of residual sand in the display substrate. The manufacturing method of the display substrate includes: providing a base; forming a passivation layer on a surface of the base; forming an amorphous oxide conductive material layer on a surface of the passivation layer facing away from the base; forming a photoresist pattern on the oxide conductive material layer, the photoresist pattern having an exposure region; etching a portion of the oxide conductive material layer in the exposure region of the photoresist pattern to form a hollow position exposing a portion of the passivation layer; and removing a certain thickness material of the portion of the passivation layer exposed through the hollow position.
US11682678B2	Liquid crystal display device and method for manufacturing the same Provided is a method to manufacture a liquid crystal display device in which a contact hole for the electrical connection of the pixel electrode and one of the source and drain electrode of a transistor and a contact hole for the processing of a semiconductor layer are formed simultaneously. The method contributes to the reduction of a photography step. The transistor includes an oxide semiconductor layer where a channel formation region is formed.
US11682675B2	Fin field-effect transistor device and method A method of forming a semiconductor device includes: forming a gate structure over a fin that protrudes above a substrate, the gate structure being surrounded by a first interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer; forming a trench in the first ILD layer adjacent to the fin; filling the trench with a first dummy material; forming a second ILD layer over the first ILD layer and the first dummy material; forming an opening in the first ILD layer and the second ILD layer, the opening exposing a sidewall of the first dummy material; lining sidewalls of the opening with a second dummy material; after the lining, forming a conductive material in the opening; after forming the conductive material, removing the first and the second dummy materials from the trench and the opening, respectively; and after the removing, sealing the opening and the trench by forming a dielectric layer over the second ILD layer.

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