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US11730070B2	Resistive random-access memory device with step height difference Techniques facilitating resistive random-access memory device with step height difference are provided. A resistive random-access memory device can comprise a first electrode located within a trench of a dielectric layer. The resistive random-access memory device can also comprise a metal oxide layer comprising a first section located within the trench of the dielectric layer, and a second section located over the first electrode, and over a barrier metal layer. Further, the resistive random-access memory device can comprise a second electrode located over the metal oxide layer.
US11730065B2	Magnetic device with gate electrode Provided is a magnetic device including a conductive layer extended in a first direction and providing a spin Hall effect on a placement plane defined by the first direction and a second direction, a free layer disposed on the conductive layer, a fixed layer disposed on a portion of the free layer, a tunnel barrier layer disposed between the free layer and the fixed layer, a first electrode disposed on the fixed layer, a first charge storage layer disposed on the free layer so as not to overlap the fixed layer, and a first gate electrode disposed on the first charge storage layer. The first electrode and the first gate electrode are arranged in the second direction.
US11730064B2	Magnetic memory device A magnetic memory device including a lower electrode on a substrate; a conductive line on the lower electrode; and a magnetic tunnel junction pattern on the conductive line, wherein the conductive line includes a first conductive line adjacent to the magnetic tunnel junction pattern; a second conductive line between the lower electrode and the first conductive line; and a high resistance layer at least partially between the first conductive line and the second conductive line, a resistivity of the second conductive line is lower than a resistivity of the first conductive line, and a resistivity of the high resistance layer is higher than the resistivity of the first conductive line and higher than the resistivity of the second conductive line.
US11730051B2	Perovskite light-emitting device A light-emitting layer for a halide perovskite light-emitting device, a method for manufacturing the same and a perovskite light-emitting device using the same are disclosed. The light-emitting layer can be manufactured by forming a first nanoparticle thin film by coating, on a member, a solution comprising halide perovskite nanoparticles having a halide perovskite nanocrystalline structure. Thereby, a nanoparticle light emitter has therein a halide perovskite having a crystal structure in which FCC and BCC are combined; and can show high color purity. In addition, it is possible to improve the luminescence efficiency and luminance of a device by making perovskite as nanoparticles and then introducing the same into a light-emitting layer.
US11730050B2	Display apparatus with porous metal substrate A display apparatus includes a display panel including a display area, a porous metal substrate disposed below the display panel and including a porous metal material, and a cover substrate disposed above the display panel. The porous metal substrate includes a flat substrate portion and first and second bent substrate portions convexly curved in opposite directions, and thicknesses of the first and second bent substrate portions are different from each other.
US11730049B2	Display device A display device having a display area and a non-display area disposed in the vicinity of the display area and including a bending area, the display device includes: a substrate; a first organic insulating layer disposed on the substrate; and a trench structure disposed in the non-display area, the trench structure including sidewalls formed by the first organic insulating layer and a bottom surface located in the bending area, wherein the bending area is disposed on a side of the display area.
US11730045B2	Sintering apparatus, packaging system for organic light emitting diode device and sintering method The application provides a sintering apparatus, a packaging system for an organic light emitting diode device and a sintering method, belongs to the technical field of organic light emitting diode device and can solve problems of long process time and high cost existed in the existing high temperature sintering process of organic light emitting diode device. The sintering apparatus comprises two sintering chambers capable of being communicated with each other, during operation, the substrate coated with glass cement is first placed into a sealed first sintering chamber to complete a first sintering process; then the substrate is placed into the second sintering chamber to complete a second sintering process. Thus, a time interval between the first sintering process and the second sintering process can be reduced, and no more nitrogen is wasted in transition from the first sintering process to the second sintering process.
US11730040B2	Display device A display device includes a stretchable substrate that includes a plurality of unit regions. Each of the plurality of unit regions includes a plurality of island regions and at least one bridge region that connects adjacent island regions to each other. A display panel is on the stretchable substrate. The display panel includes a plurality of display parts and at least one wiring part. The plurality of display parts correspondingly overlap the plurality of island regions. The at least one wiring part correspondingly overlaps the at least one bridge region. An input sensor is on the display panel. The input sensor includes a plurality of sensing electrodes and at least one subsidiary electrode. The plurality of sensing electrodes correspondingly overlaps the plurality of unit regions. When viewed in a plan view the at least one subsidiary electrode is correspondingly disposed between adjacent sensing electrodes.
US11730038B2	Organic light emitting display device A light emitting display device comprises a substrate, a first pixel electrode disposed on the substrate, a pixel defining film disposed on the first pixel electrode and having a first opening at least partially exposing the first pixel electrode, a first organic light emitting layer disposed on the pixel defining film and overlapping with the first opening of the pixel defining film, and a black matrix disposed on the first organic light emitting layer and having a first opening overlapping with the first organic light emitting layer. Light having passed through the first opening of the black matrix is one of red light, green light, and blue light. The first opening of the black matrix may have a shape with a curved portion.
US11730036B2	Pixel arrangement structure, organic light emitting diode display panel, display device and mask plate assembly A pixel arrangement structure, an organic light emitting diode display panel, a display device, and a mask plate assembly are disclosed. The pixel arrangement structure includes a plurality of first sub-pixels, a plurality of second sub-pixels, a plurality of third sub-pixels. The positions of the sub-pixels do not overlap each other. One of the first sub-pixels is located at the center position of a first virtual rectangle. Four of the first sub-pixels are located at four vertex angle positions of the first virtual rectangle, respectively. Four of the second sub-pixels are located at the center positions of four sides of the first virtual rectangle, respectively. The first virtual rectangle is divided into four second virtual rectangles. The inside of each of the four second virtual rectangles comprises one third sub-pixel of the third sub-pixels.
US11730033B2	Display device A display device includes: a substrate; a data line on the substrate; a first insulating layer on the data line; a first transistor on the first insulating layer; a second insulating layer on the first transistor; a pixel electrode on the second insulating layer, the pixel electrode being electrically connected to the first transistor; and an auxiliary data pattern on the second insulating layer as a same layer as the pixel electrode, the auxiliary data pattern being electrically connected to the data line.
US11730031B2	Display device A display device comprises a pixel which comprises emission areas, a first voltage wiring and a second voltage wiring, which are outside the emission areas of the pixel and extend in a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction, first electrodes and second electrodes which are respectively in the emission areas and extend in one direction, light emitting elements which are on the first and second electrodes, first contact electrodes which contact the first electrodes and the light emitting elements, and second contact electrodes which contact the second electrodes and the light emitting elements, and a first electrode line which overlaps the first voltage wiring and is outside the emission areas and a second electrode line which overlaps the second voltage wiring and is outside the emission areas, wherein each of the first electrodes and the first electrode line is electrically connected to the first voltage wiring, and each of the second electrodes and the second electrode line is electrically connected to the second voltage wiring.
US11730030B2	Display device having a first wiring at a same layer as a lower metal layer and electronic device including the same A display device includes: pixel circuits in a display area, the pixel circuits each comprising a thin film transistor and a capacitor, the thin film transistor including a semiconductor layer and a gate electrode on the substrate and the capacitor including a first capacitor plate and a second capacitor plate; signal lines electrically connected to the pixel circuits, the signal lines passing through the display area; a lower metal layer between the substrate and at least one of the pixel circuits; a pad portion in the peripheral area; and a plurality of wirings in the peripheral area, the plurality of wirings electrically connecting the pad portion to the signal lines, wherein the plurality of wirings further comprise: a first wiring at a same layer as the lower metal layer; and a second wiring above the first wiring with a first insulating layer between the first wiring and the second wiring.
US11730025B2	Display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same A display apparatus includes a buffer layer on a substrate, a first hole penetrating the buffer layer and exposing a portion of the substrate, a display layer with display elements and bypass lines on the buffer layer, a second hole penetrating the display layer and connected to the first hole, and an encapsulation member covering the display elements and the bypass lines. The bypass lines are configured to extend along a portion of a perimeter of the second hole and are disposed between the second hole and the display elements. At least a portion of an upper surface of the buffer layer is exposed by the second hole.
US11730020B2	Display device A display device includes a first substrate including a display area and a non-display area, first banks spaced apart from each other in the display area and in the non-display area on the first substrate, electrodes spaced apart from each other on the first banks in the display area, dummy electrodes spaced apart from each other on the first banks in the non-display area, a first pattern between the electrodes in the display area, a second pattern between the dummy electrodes in the non-display area, a first light emitting element on the first pattern, a second light emitting element on the second pattern, contact electrodes respectively on the electrodes in the display area to contact one end of the first light emitting element, and dummy contact electrodes respectively on the dummy electrodes in the non-display area to contact one end of the second light emitting element.
US11730008B2	Light emitting layer including quantum dots with improved charge carrier mobility A light emitting device comprises a first electrode, a second electrode, and an emissive layer (EML) between the first electrode and the second electrode and electrically connected to the first electrode and the second electrode. The EML comprises a charge transport matrix of a first polarity, a plurality of quantum dots in the charge transport matrix, and a plurality of charge transport nanoparticles of a second polarity in the charge transport matrix.
US11730005B2	Nanoscale light emitting diode, and methods of making same Various light emitting diode device embodiments that include emissive material elements, e.g., core-shell quantum dots, that are either (i) provided in nanoscale holes provided in an insulating layer positioned between an electron supply/transport layer and a hole supply/transport layer, or (ii) provided on a suspension layer positioned above and covering a nanoscale hole in such an insulating layer. Also, various methods of making such light emitting diode devices, including lithographic and non-lithographic methods.
US11730004B2	Solid-state imaging element and solid-state imaging apparatus A first solid-state imaging element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a bottom-electrode; a top-electrode opposed to the bottom-electrode; a photoelectric conversion layer provided between the bottom-electrode and the top-electrode and including a first organic semiconductor material; and an upper inter-layer provided between the top-electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer, and including a second organic semiconductor material having a halogen atom in a molecule at a concentration in a range from 0 volume % or more to less than 0.05 volume %.
US11730002B2	Display device A display device includes a first bank and a second bank spaced apart from each other on a substrate, at least one semiconductor layer disposed between the first bank and the second bank, a first electrode disposed on the first bank and electrically connected to a part of the at least one semiconductor layer, an organic functional layer disposed on another part of the semiconductor layer and comprising at least an organic light emitting layer, and a second electrode disposed on the organic functional layer.
US11729992B2	Nonvolatile memory device and cross point array device including the same Provided is a nonvolatile memory device including a lower electrode on a substrate, an upper electrode on the lower electrode, a tunnel barrier pattern between the lower electrode and the upper electrode, and a fixed charge pattern in contact with the lower electrode and spaced apart from the tunnel barrier pattern with the lower electrode therebetween. The tunnel barrier pattern includes an anti-ferroelectric material. The lower electrode includes a first material. The upper electrode includes a second material. The first material and the second material have different work functions.
US11729985B2	Semiconductor memory device According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes first to second areas, a plurality of conductive layers, first to fourth members, and a plurality of pillars. The second area includes a first contact area including first to third sub-areas. The conductive layers include first to fourth conductive layers. The first conductive layer includes a first terrace portion in the first sub-area. The second conductive layer includes a second terrace portion in the third sub-area. The third conductive layer includes a third terrace portion in the first sub-area. The fourth conductive layer includes a fourth terrace portion in the third sub-area.
US11729979B2	Memory device and method for fabricating the memory device Disclosed is a memory device and a method for fabricating the same, and the method may include forming an alternating stack in which dielectric layers and sacrificial layers are alternately stacked over a substrate, each of the sacrificial layers being a combination of porous and non-porous materials, forming a vertical opening penetrating the alternating stack, converting exposed surfaces of the sacrificial layers located on a side wall of the vertical opening into blocking layers through an oxidation process, forming a vertical channel structure contacting the blocking layers in the vertical opening, and replacing non-converting portions of the sacrificial layers with conductive layers, wherein each of the conductive layers comprises a round-like edge contacting each of the blocking layers.
US11729977B2	Multi-division staircase structure of three-dimensional memory device and method for forming the same A method for forming a staircase structure of a memory device includes the following operations. A first number of divisions are formed at different depths along a first direction in a stack structure and a trench structure between adjacent divisions, the stack structure comprising interleaved sacrificial material layers and dielectric material layers. A plurality of stairs are formed along a second direction. Each of the plurality of stairs includes the first number of divisions, and each of the divisions includes a first number of sacrificial portions. The second direction is perpendicular to the first direction. An insulating portion is formed in the trench structure. A top sacrificial portion is formed on a top surface of each of the first number of divisions and in contact with the insulating portion. The top sacrificial portion is replaced with a conductor portion through a slit structure in the insulating portion and in contact with the top sacrificial portion.
US11729974B2	Semiconductor memory devices A semiconductor memory device includes a word line extending in a vertical direction on a substrate, a channel layer surrounding the word line to configure a cell transistor and having a horizontal ring shape with a predetermined horizontal width, a bit line disposed at one end of the channel layer in a first horizontal direction and extending in a second horizontal direction perpendicular to the first horizontal direction, and a cell capacitor disposed at other end of the channel layer in the first horizontal direction, the cell capacitor including an upper electrode layer extending in the vertical direction, a lower electrode layer surrounding the upper electrode layer, and a capacitor dielectric layer disposed between the upper electrode layer and the lower electrode layer.
US11729973B2	Semiconductor memory According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a first memory chip, a circuit chip, and an external connection electrode on a surface of the first memory chip. The first memory chip comprises first conductors stacked via an insulator, and a first pillar passing the first conductors. The circuit chip comprises a substrate, a control circuit, and a second conductor connected to the control circuit, the circuit chip being attached to the first memory chip. The external connection electrode comprises a portion extending from a side of the surface of the first memory chip through the first memory chip and connected to the second conductor. Part of the first conductors is between the external connection electrode and the substrate.
US11729971B2	Trench structures for three-dimensional memory devices The present disclosure describes method and structure of a three-dimensional memory device. The memory device includes a substrate and a plurality of wordlines extending along a first direction over the substrate. The first direction is along the x direction. The plurality of wordlines form a staircase structure in a first region. A plurality of channels are formed in a second region and through the plurality of wordlines. The second region abuts the first region at a region boundary. The memory device also includes an insulating slit formed in the first and second regions and along the first direction. A first width of the insulating slit in the first region measured in a second direction is greater than a second width of the insulating slit in the second region measured in the second direction.
US11729970B2	Input and digital output mechanisms for analog neural memory in a deep learning artificial neural network Numerous embodiments for reading a value stored in a selected memory cell in a vector-by-matrix multiplication (VMM) array in an artificial neural network are disclosed. In one embodiment, an input comprises a set of input bits that result in a series of input pulses applied to a terminal of the selected memory cell, further resulting in a series of output signals that are summed to determine the value stored in the selected memory cell. In another embodiment, an input comprises a set of input bits, where each input bit results in a single pulse or no pulse being applied to a terminal of the selected memory cell, further resulting in a series of output signals which are then weighted according to the binary bit location of the input bit, and where the weighted signals are then summed to determine the value stored in the selected memory cell.
US11729969B1	Semiconductor device and method of operating the same A semiconductor device and a method of operating the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes a transistor and a fuse structure electrically connected to the transistor. The fuse structure includes a first fuse element, a second fuse element, and a fuse medium. The second fuse element at least partially overlaps the first fuse element. The fuse medium connects the first fuse element and the second fuse element. The fuse medium includes an electrically conductive material.
US11729968B2	Method for manufacturing DRAM A method for manufacturing a dynamic random access memory includes: forming a buried bit line in a substrate; forming a plurality of buried word lines in the substrate, wherein the bottom surfaces of the buried word lines are higher than the top surface of the buried bit line; forming a bit line contact structure on the buried bit line; forming a through hole passing through the bit line contact structure, wherein the bit line contact structure is not in direct contact with the buried bit line, and the material of the bit line contact structure is different from the material of the buried bit line; forming a conductive plug between the bit line contact structure and the buried bit line; and forming a capacitor structure on the substrate.
US11729962B2	Memory device A memory cell comprising a substrate, a bit line vertically oriented from the substrate along a first direction, a nanosheet transistor including at least one nanosheet horizontally oriented from the bit line along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a capacitor horizontally oriented from the nanosheet transistor along the second direction.
US11729961B2	Asymmetric semiconductor memory device having electrically floating body transistor Asymmetric, semiconductor memory cells, arrays, devices and methods are described. Among these, an asymmetric, bi-stable semiconductor memory cell is described that includes: a floating body region configured to be charged to a level indicative of a state of the memory cell; a first region in electrical contact with the floating body region; a second region in electrical contact with the floating body region and spaced apart from the first region; and a gate positioned between the first and second regions, such that the first region is on a first side of the memory cell relative to the gate and the second region is on a second side of the memory cell relative to the gate; wherein performance characteristics of the first side are different from performance characteristics of the second side.
US11729959B2	Mounting substrate manufacturing system, component mounting system, and housing body transfer method Disclosed is a mounting substrate manufacturing system including: a component mounting system including: a component mounting device; a housing body stocker that stores a housing body; a component supply device that pulls out a carrier tape from the housing body stored in the housing body stocker and transports the carrier tape to the component mounting device; and a replacement device that includes an end effector for holding the housing body, and replaces the housing body stored in the housing body stocker, wherein the housing body stocker includes at least a pair of partition members that partition a storage space for storing the housing body, at least one of the partition members adjacent to each other includes an assist portion that assists a replacement operation of replacing the housing body, and the replacement device recognizes a position for a replacement operation by bringing the end effector or the housing body held thereby into contact with the assist portion.
US11729958B1	Electromagnetic interference and/or radio frequency attenuating infrastructure insulation An electromagnetically insulating device includes a body material, an electrically conductive EMI attenuation layer, and a plurality of conductive elements. The body material is substantially planar and flexible. The EMI attenuation layer is positioned inside the body material. The plurality of conductive elements are positioned in the body material. The EMI attenuation layer and the plurality of conductive elements are configured to be electrically connected to an external ground connection.
US11729957B2	Shielding film including plurality of layers and electronic device using the same An electronic device and a shielding film are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes a printed circuit board and at least one electrical component mounted on the printed circuit board. The shielding film is disposed on at least a part of the printed circuit board to block electromagnetic waves generated by the printed circuit board and/or the electronic component. The shielding film includes a plurality of layers, and is attached to at least part of the printed circuit board and contacting an upper side surface of the electronic component, wherein at least part of the shielding film includes a nano-conductive fiber and is electrically connected with a ground part of the printed circuit board through the nano-conductive fiber.
US11729956B2	Cooling system for power conversion device Provided is a cooling system for a power conversion device that includes a radiator, a radiator fan supplying air to the radiator, and a power conversion device including a plurality of electric components and a casing housing the plurality of electric components inside. The casing includes a base portion which is formed of a non-metallic material and on which the plurality of electric components is placed and a cover portion formed of a metallic material, fixed to the base portion, and covering a periphery of the plurality of electric components. A refrigerant channel through which a refrigerant cooling the plurality of electric components flows is formed in the base portion of the casing, and the casing is disposed at a position where an airflow of the radiator fan is applied to the cover portion.
US11729950B2	Immersion cooling system with dual dielectric cooling liquid circulation A cooling system comprises a container receiving a dielectric cooling liquid and electronic components immersed in the dielectric cooling liquid. A first pump causes a circulation of a first fraction of the dielectric cooling liquid in the container for convection cooling of the electronic components. A second pump withdraws a second fraction of the dielectric cooling liquid from the container and directs the second fraction of the dielectric cooling liquid toward the electronic components for direct cooling of the electronic components. A manifold fluidly connected to an outlet of the second pump receives the second fraction of the dielectric cooling liquid from the second pump. One or more outlet pipes fluidly connected to the manifold bring portions of the second fraction of the dielectric cooling liquid in thermal contact with the electronic components.
US11729948B2	Immersion cooling system that enables increased heat flux at heat-generating components of computing devices An immersion cooling system includes an immersion tank that is configured to retain dielectric working fluid and to hold a plurality of computing devices submerged in the dielectric working fluid. The immersion cooling system also includes a condenser that is configured to cause condensation of vaporized working fluid. The immersion cooling system also includes a subcooling heat exchanger that is in fluid communication with a coolant source. The coolant source provides coolant having a coolant temperature that is lower than a boiling point of the dielectric working fluid. The subcooling heat exchanger is positioned so that heat transfer can occur between the dielectric working fluid and the subcooling heat exchanger. The immersion cooling system also includes a control system that controls how much of the coolant flows into the subcooling heat exchanger based at least in part on a temperature of the dielectric working fluid.
US11729942B2	Device for light sintering and cooling method for device for light sintering A light sintering device is provided. The light sintering device can comprise: a housing having, therein, a cooling hollow portion in which cooling water flows; a beam guide mounted on one side of the housing so as to form one wall of the cooling hollow portion, and guiding sintered light; and an optical filter mounted on the other side of the housing so as to face the beam guide, thereby forming the other wall of the cooling hollow portion, and filtering out a specific wavelength of the sintered light.
US11729937B2	Environment detecting module An environment detecting module, for securing a shell of a server, includes a sensing module, configured to sense an environment status by a polling method and generate a sensing signal according to the environment status; a connection module, configured to electrically connect the environment detecting module to a host terminal with a first connection status or a second connection status; and a microcontroller unit, coupled to the sensing module and the connection module, configured to determine a power source of the environment detecting module according to the first connection status or the second connection status, and to determine a first mode or a second mode of the environment detecting module according to the power source.
US11729933B2	Near-hermetic package with flexible signal input and output The disclosure provides a low-cost near-hermetic package, which may a substrate configured to support one or more internal components. The package may also include an enclosure comprising a cavity surrounding the one or more internal components and a first sidewall extending upward from the substrate. The first sidewall may be coupled to the substrate. The package may further include a first flexible circuit comprising conductive traces configured to connect to the one or more internal components. The first flexible circuit may include a first section outside the first sidewall of the enclosure, a second section inside the enclosure, and a third section between the first section and the second section joining to the enclosure and the substrate.
US11729932B2	Foldable display device An example of a foldable display device includes a display panel having a first area, a second area, and a foldable area therebetween; a first support plate supporting the first area of the display panel; a second support plate supporting the second area of the display panel; a central support disposed under the foldable area of the display panel and configured to move vertically; a first peripheral support slidable while supporting the first support plate; a second peripheral support slidable while supporting the second support plate; and a hinge body disposed under the central support. The central support ascends toward the display panel during an unfolding operation and descends toward the hinge body during an in-folding operation. The first peripheral support and the second peripheral support move toward the central support during the unfolding operation, and move away from the central support during the in-folding operation.
US11729929B2	Mid-frame assembly and display device The present disclosure provides a mid-frame assembly. The mid-frame assembly includes: a rotation shaft assembly, a first mid-frame body, a first slide mid-frame, a second mid-frame body, and a second slide mid-frame. The first mid-frame body and the second mid-frame body are rotatably connected to two sides of the rotation shaft assembly; the first slide mid-frame is connected to a side, distal from the rotation shaft assembly, of the first mid-frame body and capable of moving relative to the first mid-frame body; and the second slide mid-frame is connected to a side, distal from the rotation shaft assembly, of the second mid-frame body and capable of moving relative to the second mid-frame body.
US11729928B2	Tower uninterruptible power supply frame and a tower uninterruptible power supply The utility model provides a tower UPS frame and a tower UPS. The tower UPS frame comprises: a power supply module frame, which comprises two ports disposed oppositely; a power supply distribution frame; and a fan assembly, which comprises a fan frame and a fan fixed on the fan frame, wherein the power supply distribution frame and the fan frame are arranged in a same row as the power supply module frame and are detachably connected with the two ports of the power supply module frame. The tower UPS frame of the utility model is convenient in assembly and disassembly and reduces repair cost.
US11729925B2	Mounting bracket with angled mounting openings for electrical boxes A mounting bracket for electrical boxes that can include a mounting body with a plurality of mounting features. The plurality of mounting features can include a first set of mounting openings that can have respective elongate directions extending in parallel. The mounting body can have a mounting body axis extending across a shortest between opposing first and second sides of the mounting body. The elongate directions of the first set of mounting openings can be disposed at an acute angle relative to the mounting body axis. The first set of mounting openings can be configured to receive a plurality of fasteners to attach the mounting bracket to a first electrical box.
US11729921B2	Electronic apparatus having flexible display device A disclosed electronic device includes a housing having an opening, a roll mounted in the housing, a flexible display wound on the roll and being extendable and retractable through the opening based on a rotation direction of the roll, and a roll guide configured to guide the roll to move in a direction capable of constantly maintaining a proceeding direction of the flexible display toward the opening in the housing, based on a variation in a wound length of the flexible display on the roll.
US11729918B2	Electronic device comprising removable adhesive member According to various embodiments, an electronic device may include a housing including a first side, a second side facing away from the first side, and a lateral side surrounding a space between the first side and the second side, a front plate disposed on the first side of the housing, a display disposed between the front plate and the first side such that at least part thereof is exposed through the front plate, at least one functional member disposed between the display and the first side, and an adhesive member disposed between the functional member and the first side to attach the functional member to the housing, wherein adhesive member includes an adhesive portion for attaching the functional member and the first side, and at least one non-adhesive portion extending from the adhesive portion. Various other embodiments are possible.
US11729917B2	Method for optimized filling hole and manufacturing fine line on printed circuit board A method for optimized filling holes and manufacturing fine lines on a printed circuit board (PCB) carries out the two processes separately. The inner wall of the hole is metalized with reduced graphene oxide (rGO) and then electroplated to fill the hole with copper. The processes are individually performed and thus operating parameters are considered independently. As a result, the copper-plating fillings are evenly compact and the fine lines have square profiles.
US11729916B2	Soldering aid for connecting a cable to a printed circuit board A soldering aid for connecting a cable to a printed circuit board includes an electrically insulating body having a first, second and third recesses, and an electrically conductive contact structure coupled thereto. The contact structure is partially embedded in the body to be connected to a cable core therein, and partially protrudes from the body to be connected the printed circuit board. The first recess is conically tapered to receive an end portion of the cable and has first and second sections for non-stripped and stripped portions of the cable end portion, respectively. An end of the second recess adjoins the second section of the first recess to enable optical verification of formation of a connection between the cable core and the contact structure. The third recess is configured to receive and transfer solder to the second section of the first recess to thereby form the connection.
US11729914B2	Wiring board A wiring board includes an insulating layer, a thin film capacitor laminated on the insulating layer, an interconnect layer electrically connected to the thin film capacitor, and an encapsulating resin layer laminated on the thin film capacitor. The interconnect layer includes a pad protruding from the thin film capacitor. The encapsulating resin layer is a mold resin having a non-photosensitive thermosetting resin as a main component thereof. The encapsulating resin layer exposes a top surface of the pad, and covers at least a portion of a side surface of the pad.
US11729909B2	Multi-layered diamond-like carbon coating for electronic components A multi-layer coating on an outer surface of a substrate includes a first layer applied directly to the outer surface of the substrate. The first layer includes diamond-like carbon (DLC) configured to mitigate metal whisker formation. A second layer is applied on a top surface of the first layer. The second layer is a conformal coating that includes a second material configured to bind to the top surface of the first layer and fill any microfractures that may form in the first layer. Optionally, a third layer is applied on a top surface of the second layer and includes DLC configured to protect the second layer from oxidation and degradation.
US11729905B2	Stretchable circuit and layout method for stretchable circuit A stretchable circuit is provided in the invention. The stretchable circuit comprises a plurality of segments. Each segment includes a plurality of sub-segments. Each sub-segment includes at least one main line, at least one secondary line, and rib lines, and in each sub-segment, the main lines and the secondary lines are electrically connected to the rib lines.
US11729902B2	Radio frequency front-end structures Disclosed herein are radio frequency (RF) front-end structures, as well as related methods and devices. In some embodiments, an RF front-end package may include an RF package substrate including an embedded passive circuit element. At least a portion of the embedded passive circuit element may be included in a metal layer of the RF package substrate. The RF package substrate may also include a ground plane in the metal layer.
US11729900B2	Pattern-edged metal-plane resonance-suppression Apparatuses and methods are provided for mitigating radio frequency interference and electromagnetic compatibility issues caused by the resonance of metal planes of a circuit board. A method for controlling impedance at an edge of a circuit board includes creating a cut at an edge of a plane of the circuit board. The cut extends from the edge of the plane to a point at a depth into the plane. The method can further include creating a cut pattern in the edge of the plane by repeating the cut along the edge of the plane such that an impedance of the plane at the depth is different, or lower, than an impedance of the plane at the edge of the plane. Other aspects are described.
US11729895B2	Methods and apparatus for control of radiographic source exposure An example remote control for a radiographic source includes: a forward cable section configured to extend into and through a radiographic source housing, to expose a radiographic source to an exterior of the housing, and to retract into and through the radiographic source housing to retract the radiographic source into the radiographic housing; a drive cable section coupled to the forward cable section; and a drive gear configured to extend the forward cable section by driving the drive cable section in a first direction, and to retract the forward cable section by driving the drive cable section in a second direction, wherein the forward cable has a smooth exterior surface to have a lower friction than the drive cable section while traversing the radiographic source housing.
US11729893B2	Fracturing well site system A fracturing well site system includes an electric-driven apparatus, a fuel-driven apparatus, an electric-power supply apparatus and a grounding system. The grounding system includes a first grounding terminal which is spaced from each of the electric-driven apparatus, the fuel-driven apparatus and the electric-power supply apparatus by a preset distance. The fuel-driven apparatus and at least one of the electric-driven apparatus and the electric-power supply apparatus are connected to the first grounding terminal, and the first grounding terminal is configured to ground the fuel-driven apparatus and the at least one of the electric-driven apparatus and the electric-power supply apparatus.
US11729889B2	Lighting apparatus having ultra-low mode A lighting apparatus includes a light source operable to emit different levels of brightness, and a user interface configured to be selectively actuated by a user to turn the light source off and on. When the light source is off and the user interface is actuated for a first amount of time, the light source turns on in a first mode in which the light source emits a first level of brightness. When the light source is off and the user interface is actuated for a second amount of time that is different from the first amount of time, the light source turns on in an ultra-low mode in which the light source emits a second level of brightness.
US11729885B2	Light-emitting element driving circuit The present disclosure relates to a driving circuit individually performing drive control of light-emitting elements having cathodes with the same potential. The driving circuit includes driving circuit units provided in one-to-one correspondence with the light-emitting elements. Each driving circuit unit includes a switching element, a first energy-storage element, a current-control element, and a current-interrupting element. The current-control element connects in parallel to the semiconductor light-emitting element. In the first energy-storage element, a first electrode connects to a first node, and a second electrode connects to a first constant-potential line. In the switching element, a first current terminal connects to a second electrode, and a second current terminal connects to a second node. The second nodes connect to the second constant-potential line without short-circuiting each other by the current-interrupting element. The current-interrupting element interrupts or suppresses current during a period in which the switching element is in ON-state.
US11729882B2	Load control device for controlling a driver for a lighting load If there is an interruption of power to an electrical load while the electrical load is operating at low end, the electrical load may not turn back on when power is restored. This undesired operation may be avoided by detecting the application of power to the electrical load, and automatically increasing the magnitude of a control signal being applied to the electrical load by a sufficient amount for a short period of time after power has been applied. This way, the electrical load may be turned back on to low end, instead of erroneously operating in an electronic off condition.
US11729877B2	Lighting fixture and methods A lighting fixture appears as a skylight and is referred to as a skylight fixture. First and second light engines of the fixture provide different color points, peak light intensity angles, far-field light distribution characteristics, and/or circadian stimulus values. A skylight fixture may include a sky-resembling assembly and a plurality of sun-resembling assemblies, with dedicated optical assemblies and/or light sources. A lighting fixture may include multiple waveguides that different extraction feature patterns and/or may be sequentially arranged.
US11729872B2	Microwave oven having door with transparent panel A method of terminating power to a microwave oven having at least one surface with a transparent glass panel. The method includes emitting microwave radiation into a cooking cavity of the microwave, monitoring resistance of a conductive coating on the at least one surface of a transparent glass panel with a circuit that measures sheet resistance of the conductive coating, and terminating power to the microwave oven when a change in resistance exceeds a threshold value.
US11729860B2	Method of verifying an operation of a mobile radio communication network A method for verifying an operation of a mobile radio communication network is provided, wherein the method comprises sending an Initiation Message from a first network entity to a second network entity, the Initiation Message defining an undo request and comprising an UNDO section defining an undo area, a TRIGGERING_CM section indicating changes to the network, and an ASSISTANCE section; receiving an Assistance-Response Message, the Assistance-Response Message comprising the UNDO section, and an ASSISTED_CM section; and sending an Assistance-Acknowledge Message including an ACK flag and the UNDO section from the first network entity to the second network entity.
US11729858B2	Unique IP address in ad-hoc base station Systems, methods and computer software are disclosed for providing Internet Protocol (IP) address allocation in a wireless network. In one embodiment, the method includes sending, by a mesh node in the wireless network, an IP request to neighbor nodes; saving, by a gateway node (GW) in the wireless network, the request from the mesh node; proxying, by the GW, the mesh request to a HetNet Gateway (HNG) by providing a transient IP-Sec tunnel; replying, by the HNG, to the GW with a response; forwarding, by the GW, the response to the mesh node, the response including a dummy IP address; and starting, by the mesh node, a Self Optimizing Network (SON) tunnel with the GW using the dummy IP address.
US11729856B2	Beam management for beam-swept wakeup signals Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station may initiate a beam management procedure, including reference signal transmission to a user equipment (UE) and receive beam training. A base station may configure a UE to monitor a set of beams for reference signals. Based on the received reference signals, the UE may optionally select one or more transmit beams for wakeup signal reception, and may transmit an indication of the selected beams to the base station. The base station may transmit a wakeup signal over the originally configured or the UE-selected transmit beams to initiate wake-up procedure at the UE. The base station and UE may subsequently perform a refined beam management procedure, providing a refined reference signal transmission from the base station. Based on the received transmission, the UE may select a refined beam for downlink transmissions.
US11729852B2	Method for controlling establishment of connection between devices by using short-range wireless communication in wireless communication system, and apparatus therefor A method for a control device to control a connection between a first device and a second device using short-range wireless communication, the method comprising: transmitting, to the first device, a first message including a first operation code for reconnection after an initial connection between the first device and the second device is established, wherein the first operation code includes a first code instructing storage of an address of the second device in a first white list including addresses of devices connected to the first device at least once; transmitting, to the second device, a second message including a second operation code for the reconnection, wherein the second operation code includes a second code instructing storage of an address of the first device in a second white list including addresses of devices connected to the second device at least once; and instructing the first device and the second device to form a connection between the first device and the second device, wherein each of the first white list and the second white list includes addresses of devices connected without the control device when a connection is released after the initial connection.
US11729848B2	UE capability signaling for tight-interworking This disclosure provides mechanisms for User Equipment, UE, capability signaling and coordination for Long Term Evolution (LTE) and New Radio (NR) tight-interworking without increasing the complexity of LTE capability reporting. This disclosure proposes a capability signaling and coordination framework in order to coordinate at least band combinations and Layer 2 buffer capabilities across the master and the secondary nodes which are of different Radio Access Technologies (RATs), such as LTE and NR.
US11729846B2	Method for activating packet data convergence protocol duplication and node device The present disclosure provides a method for activating a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) duplication and a node device. The method includes: receiving, by a second node, a notification message transmitted by a first node when the first node configures a PDCP duplication for a bearer; after the second node receives the notification message, changing or determining, by the second node, an activation or deactivation state of uplink (UL) PDCP duplication of the bearer.
US11729844B2	Device pairing via two wireless communication protocols A method for a computing device. The method includes periodically transmitting a beaconing data packet via a first wireless communication protocol. The first wireless communication protocol supports low bandwidth, one-directional communication. The computing device receives a request to pair from a peripheral computing device via a second wireless communication protocol. The second wireless communication protocol supports higher bandwidth, two-directional communication. The request to pair includes information that was included in the beaconing data packet. Responsive to receiving the request to pair, the computing device initiates pairing with the peripheral computing device via the second wireless communication protocol.
US11729839B2	Random access channel signal transmission method and user equipment, and random access channel signal reception method and base station In a wireless communication system according to the present invention, a plurality of synchronization signals may be transmitted on a cell. The plurality of synchronization signals may be respectively associated with a plurality of random access channel establishments. A user equipment may receive at least one of the plurality of synchronization signals. The user equipment may transmit a random access channel using a random access channel.
US11729837B2	Random access channel procedure involving plurality of random access channel preambles, in wireless communication system, and device supporting same The present disclosure relates to a method carried out by a terminal in a wireless communication system, and a device supporting same, and more specifically relates to a method comprising a step of obtaining a message A comprising a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) and a physical random access channel (PRACH) preamble, and a step of transmitting the message A, wherein the PUSCH is transmitted on the basis of information related to a PUSCH configuration for the message A that is being received, and, on the basis of the information relating to the PUSCH configuration comprising information relating to the instruction of a code division multiplexing (CDM) group for a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) for the PUSCH, the CDM group is set to be a group indicated by information relating to the indication of the CDM group among two pre-set groups. The present disclosure also relates to a device supporting same.
US11729831B2	Methods and apparatuses for performing preamble assignment for random access in a telecommunications system The present invention relates to methods and apparatuses (radio base station) and UE for enabling a UE to perform a random access. According to embodiments of the present invention, an identification number of a dedicated random access preamble is, in a message, transmitted together with information indicating in which channel or channels the preamble is valid for the UE. The UE can then use the received information and based on that information perform a random access.
US11729830B2	Method for transmitting information based on channel access manners, and user equipment A method for transmitting information is disclosed, which includes that: User Equipment (UE) receives first indication information from a network device, the first indication information being used to determine at least one channel access manner in Channel Occupancy Time (COT) of the network device; and the UE determines a first channel access manner for a target burst in the COT according to the first indication information, the target burst being used to transmit a target signal or a target channel.
US11729828B2	Aligned LBT gaps for single operator FBE NR-SS Aligned listen before talk (LBT) gaps for single operator frame-based equipment (FBE) mode new radio (NR) shared spectrum (NR-SS) is disclosed. Within the FBE mode network, the base station determines a plurality of potential transmission bursts within a fixed frame period. The base station may then reserve a plurality of LBT gaps prior to the starting position of each such transmission burst. The base station communicates the location of each of the LBT gaps to all neighboring network entities and contends for access to the fixed frame period at the beginning of the frame regardless of whether it has data for transmission during the frame. Each neighboring base station that receives the LBT gaps locations will use the same locations in order to align the LBT gaps over the FBE mode network.
US11729825B2	Channel access enhancement for new radio-unlicensed Channel access enhancement for new radio-unlicensed (NR-U) operations are disclosed. In attempting access to a shared communication channel, both base stations and user equipments (UEs) may operate similarly to load-based equipment (LBE) devices by performing extended clear channel access (eCCA) operations independently, such that each of the base stations and UEs may independently acquire the channel occupancy time (COT) of the shared communication spectrum.
US11729824B2	Multi-user random access in a wireless network The present invention provides according to one of its aspects a method of communication in a wireless network comprising an access point and a plurality of stations, the method comprising, at one of the stations: receiving a trigger frame from the access point, the trigger frame reserving a transmission opportunity on at least one communication channel of the wireless network, the transmission opportunity including random resource units that the stations may access using a contention scheme, wherein the trigger frame includes a first indicator specifying a traffic type of data allowed to be sent on at least one of the random resource units; determining, based on the first indicator, eligible resource units, among the resource units in the reserved transmission opportunity, for the station to contend for access for transmitting data; and transmitting data on a determined eligible resource unit using a contention scheme.
US11729822B2	Method for transmitting and receiving signal in wireless communication system, and device supporting same A method for transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system and a device supporting same, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprise: receiving information for a PUSCH starting symbol #K; and transmitting a PUSCH in a predetermined position on the basis of the result of carrying out a CAP. The predetermined position is determined on the basis of a parameter related to the length of a CPE, and the length of the CPE is less than or equal to the length of an OFDM symbol.
US11729819B2	Method and device for determining contention window Provided by an embodiment of the present application are a method and device for determining a contention window, the method comprising: according to feedback information sent by a terminal device, a network device determining the length of a contention window (CW) used for channel detection, the feedback information comprising feedback information corresponding to a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) sent by the network device on a first carrier wave; according to the length of CW, the network device performing channel detection on the first carrier wave.
US11729810B2	System and method for power savings in discontinuous transmission operation A method for operating an access node includes sending to a user equipment (UE) configuration information of a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode including DRX-ON periods for sending physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) to the UE, and configuration information for an uplink transmission associated with a DRX-ON period, the uplink transmission is configured for beam quality confirmation of a PDCCH transmitted during the DRX-ON period associated with the uplink transmission, receiving the uplink transmission, wherein a receive beam used to receive the uplink transmission and a transmit beam used to transmit the PDCCH transmitted during the DRX-ON period are beam correspondent, and determining a beam quality measurement for a channel between the access node and the UE in accordance with the received uplink transmission.
US11729808B2	Sidelink FR2 inter-UE interference management A first UE may determine to communicate with a second UE, but may maintain or establish a RRC connection with a third UE upon determining that potential interference may occur between the first UE and the third UE. The potential inference may be a received interference in which the first UE receives interference from the third UE as a result of a communication between the third UE and a fourth UE, or a transmitted interference in which the first UE causes interference to the third UE as a result of a communication between the first UE and the second UE. The first UE may communicate mitigation information to the third UE through the RRC connection, where the interference mitigation information may be associated with the communication between the first UE and the second UE or the communication between the third UE and the fourth UE.
US11729804B2	System and method for flexible resource configuration of reference signals A wireless communications method and device is provided. The method includes determining, by a network device, a period of a reference signal resource and a time domain resource offset of the reference signal resource, sending time domain resource configuration information of the reference signal resource to a terminal, determining at least one target first time domain resource unit according to the period and the time domain resource offset, determining at least one target second time domain resource unit from the at least one target first time domain resource unit, where the at least one target first time domain resource unit includes at least one target second time domain resource unit, and sending a reference signal or rate matching on a signal on a reference signal resource in the at least one target second time domain resource unit.
US11729802B2	Techniques for addressing IAB node switching time The present disclosure provides techniques for addressing switching times of Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) child nodes. For example, a parent IAB node may determine a switching time for the child IAB node to switch from transmitting on a backhaul/uplink to a parent node (with transmit power control) to transmitting on an access/downlink to a user equipment (UE) or other child IAB node. The parent IAB node may then configure the IAB child node according to the determined switching time (e.g., by scheduling the IAB child node accordingly or setting one or more timing advance parameters).
US11729800B2	Control channel with multiple transmission reception points A wireless device receives one or more messages. The one or more messages comprise configuration parameters of the cell. The configuration parameters indicate a plurality of control resource sets for multiple transmission reception points. Downlink control information (DCI) is received via a control resource set of the plurality of control resource sets. The DCI comprises a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource indicator. The control resource set comprises one or more control channel elements starting from a first control channel element. A PUCCH resource is determined based on the PUCCH resource indicator. The PUCCH resource is determined based on an index of the first control channel element. The PUCCH resource is determined based on the control resource set. An uplink control information is transmitted via the PUCCH resource in response to the determination of the PUCCH resource.
US11729798B2	5G service indicator presentation using network-based capability comparison Determining when to display a Fifth Generation (5G) service indicator is described herein. In an example, a network can compare capabilities supported by a user equipment (UE) with capabilities available to the UE (e.g., in a geographic area of the UE) to determine whether the UE can display the 5G service indicator. In some examples, such capabilities can be determined based at least in part on E-UTRAN New Radio-Dual Connectivity (EN-DC) combinations of frequency bands.
US11729794B2	Methods and apparatus for managing uplink resource grants in wireless networks The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for managing uplink resource grants in wireless networks. An exemplary method embodiment includes the steps of: operating a first wireless base station in a first mode of operation, the first mode of operation including managing uplink resource grant schedules for a plurality of wireless devices connected to the wireless base station; receiving, by the first wireless base station operating in the first mode of operation, a transmission power down command from a resource management system; and determining in response to receiving the transmission power down command, by the first wireless base station, whether to switch from operating in the first mode of operation to operating in a second mode of operation, said operating in the second mode of operation including ceasing managing uplink resource grant schedules for said plurality of wireless devices connected to the wireless base station.
US11729792B2	Method and apparatus for reallocating PUCCH resource according to change of SPS operation in wireless communication system A user equipment (UE) receives, from a network, a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) configuration and a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource configuration. The PUCCH resource configuration may be included in the SPS configuration. When a change of an SPS operation is required, the user equipment transmits an SPS change request to the network and receives, from the network, an SPS resource grant activated according to the SPS change request. The user equipment changes allocation of a PUCCH resource allocated according to the PUCCH resource configuration, on the basis of the received SPS resource grant. For example, a timing at which or a period in which the PUCCH resource is allocated can be changed.
US11729791B2	Method and apparatus for identifying and using radio resources in a wireless communication network A network node, such as a base station, identifies radio resources within an overall bandwidth using a first resource referencing scheme, while a wireless communication device identifies radio resources within an allocated portion of the overall bandwidth using a second resource referencing scheme. Advantageously, the device correctly identifies given radio resources pointed to by a resource identifier expressed according to the first resource referencing scheme, by translating the resource identifier into the second resource referencing scheme according to mapping information that relates the two schemes. Correspondingly, the network node enables the wireless communication device to perform such translations by providing the mapping information either implicitly or explicitly.
US11729790B2	Mobile communications methods for monitoring and scheduling A system and method for monitoring and scheduling. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a downlink control information (DCI), the DCI specifying the scheduling of a first Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) and a second PDSCH.
US11729776B2	Methods and apparatus for transmitting sidelink control messages Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for receiving first scheduling information indicating a sidelink uplink control information (S-UCI) resource, receiving second scheduling information indicating one or more physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resource, and transmitting control information via at least one of the S-UCI resource or the one or more PSFCH resources.
US11729772B2	Resource selection in an anchor-client network with client monitoring Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may receive at least one announcement from at least one additional wireless communication device. The wireless communication device may communicate with an anchor device using a selected set of resources, wherein the selected set of resources is based at least in part on the at least one announcement. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11729771B2	Zone based operating mode configuration Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may determine a default operating mode based on the geographic location (e.g., zone) of the base station, for user equipment (UEs) operating in that zone to use. The operating mode may be a full duplex (FD) operating mode or a half duplex (HD) operating mode. A UE operating in the zone may receive, from the base station, an indication of the default operating mode corresponding to the zone, and may select an operating mode based on the indication. The mode selected by the UE may be the same as or different than the indicated default operating mode. For example, the UE may determine to use either FD mode or HD mode based on operation parameters, interference measurements, signaling from a base station or other UEs, one or more measurement thresholds, or some combination thereof.
US11729770B2	Configuring the transmission of periodic feedback information on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) In order to facilitate sending of different kinds of channel feedback information, a periodic information transmission in a shared uplink channel is configured, PUSCH, and required resources are allocated for the transmission.
US11729764B2	Terminal, radio communication method and base station A terminal is disclosed including a processor that assumes a position of an additional demodulation reference signal (DMRS) based on a value corresponding to whether frequency hopping is enabled or disabled; and a transmitter that transmits the additional DMRS according to an allocation duration of an uplink shared channel (PUSCH). In other aspects, a radio communication method and a base station are also disclosed.
US11729758B2	Radio access networks A communication system includes a remote unit that exchanges radio frequency signals with mobile devices, at least some of the radio frequency signals comprising information destined for, or originating from, a mobile device, the remote unit being configured to perform first physical layer processing. A controller is separated from the remote unit by a switched Ethernet network, wherein data corresponding to the information is transmitted in frames between the controller and the remote unit. At least some of the data comprises baseband data that is transmitted in frequency domain. The controller and the remote unit are configured to transmit time stamp messages on the switched Ethernet network to synchronize a controller clock and a remote unit clock. The controller is configured to advance downlink subframe timing relative to the remote unit, when transmitting on the switched Ethernet network, based on a measured transport delay across the switched Ethernet network.
US11729757B2	Power level determination for transmission of reference signals Disclosed are techniques for determining tone patterns and associated power levels for transmission of reference signals. A tone pattern (e.g., with each tone pattern occupying a resource element in a resource block) can be determined for a reference signal for use in wireless communications between a receiving device and a transmitting device. A plurality of power levels for the tone pattern can be determined. The plurality of power levels can include a respective power level determined for each resource element associated with the tone pattern. One or more of the tone pattern or the plurality of power levels can be used (e.g., transmitted to the transmitting device) for transmission of the reference signal (e.g., from the transmitting device to the receiving device).
US11729756B2	Techniques and apparatuses for prioritization for transmission power control in 5G Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a control node may determine at least one of a transmission power or a reception power for at least one of a first signal or a second signal to be communicated between a target wireless node and at least one other wireless node based at least in part on a priority level of the first signal relative to the second signal, wherein the transmission power or the reception power is based at least in part on at least one of an identity or state of the target wireless node or the at least one other wireless node, or a type of the first signal or the second signal; and configure the transmission power or the reception power to be used for the first signal or the second signal. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11729755B2	MAC-PHY model for sidelink carrier (re)selection A method in a communication device having a plurality of protocol layers including a media access control, MAC, layer and a physical, PHY, layer, includes, at the MAC layer, selecting a plurality of carriers for carrier aggregation, each of the carriers being associated to a respective hybrid automatic repeat request, HARQ, entity, and at the MAC layer, initiating a sidelink carrier reselection process by the first communication device in response to a triggering event. Related devices and computer program products are disclosed.
US11729749B2	Method of determining slot format in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor A method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, where the method includes: receiving, through higher layer signaling, uplink (UL)/downlink (DL) resource configuration including information regarding a first UL/DL resource pattern; determining, based on the received UL/DL resource configuration, the first UL/DL resource pattern that is applicable over a first configuration period; and based on the received UL/DL resource configuration also including information regarding a second UL/DL resource pattern: determining the second UL/DL resource pattern that is applicable over a second configuration period, wherein the first configuration period and the second configuration period are restricted to values such that an integer multiple of a sum of the first configuration period and the second configuration period is time-aligned with a 20 ms time duration.
US11729746B2	Base station, system, and method According to one embodiment, a base station communicably connected to a wireless terminal is provided. The base station includes a processor and a transmitter. The processor is configured to acquire communication condition information indicating conditions of wireless communication with the wireless terminal. The transmitter is configured to transmit the communication condition information to a system managing a first network slice and a second network slice which can be used by the base station.
US11729745B2	User apparatus and resource selection method A user apparatus for use in a mobile communication system that supports D2D communication, including: a signal transmission unit configured to transmit a plurality of D2D signals; and a resource selection unit configured to select, from a predetermined resource pool, a radio resource having a time resource and a frequency resource for transmitting the plurality of D2D signals, wherein the resource selection unit is configured to select the radio resource such that the plurality of D2D signals are not transmitted by a same time resource.
US11729742B2	Nodes and methods for handling paging Embodiments herein relate generally to a Control plane, CP, node, a method performed by the CP node, a Radio Access Network, RAN, node and a method performed by the RAN node. More particularly the embodiments herein relate to handling paging.
US11729738B2	Network node, user equipment and methods in a wireless communications network A method performed by a network node for restoring a Short Message Service (SMS) service in a connection between User Equipment (UE) and a communications network is provided. The UE is attached to the communications network with Evolved Packet System (EPS) attach and SMS only, via a radio network node, a Visitor Location Register (VLR) Mobile Switching Centre (MSC), and the network node. When receiving information that indicates a restart of the VLR MSC in the connection, network node sends (202) to the radio network node, an indication to trigger the UE to send a Tracking Area Update (TAU) request with SMS only. The network node receives (203) the TAU request with SMS only, triggered by the UE according to the indication sent to the radio network node. The network node then restores (204) the SMS service based on information in the TAU request with SMS only, received from the UE.
US11729736B2	Time adjustment during handover Methods and apparatuses for time adjustment during handover in non-terrestrial networks. A method of operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving configuration information for a first and a second RS and receiving the first RS from a first base station (BS) and the second RS from a second BS. The method also includes measuring a time of arrival of the second RS relative to a time of arrival of the first RS, determining a differential propagation delay between the first RS and the second RS based on the times of arrival. The method further includes determining a transmission time for an uplink (UL) UE-dedicated channel to the second BS based on the differential propagation delay and transmitting the UL UE-dedicated channel to the second BS based on the determined time.
US11729735B2	Timing adjustments with mixed numerologies Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to communication systems, and more particularly, to interpreting a timing advance (TA) command for members of a timing advance group (TAG), such as different uplink component carriers and/or different bandwidth parts, having different numerologies, such as different subarrier spacing (SCS). A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a base station (BS), a TA command. The UE interprets the TA command differently for different members of a same TAG, associated with different numerologies. The UE applies a timing adjustment when transmitting an uplink transmission to the BS based, at least in part, on the interpretation.
US11729731B2	Information transmission method, network device and terminal An information transmission method, a network device and a terminal are provided. The information transmission method includes: transmitting a target synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block within a target time window; where the target SS/PBCH block refers to at least one synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block needed by the terminal for network synchronization and/or time-frequency tracking, a time length corresponding to the target time window is smaller than a time length corresponding to a target transmission cycle, the target transmission cycle is a transmission cycle of an SS/PBCH block, and the target time window is before a paging occasion or an ending moment of the target time window is the same as a moment of a paging occasion.
US11729730B2	Method for synchronizing wireless network nodes and wireless communication network A method for synchronizing wireless network nodes of a wireless communication network involves a base station of the wireless communication network to determine or obtain a maximum value for a frequency content per unit of time of an FMCW radio-frequency signal interfering with the wireless communication network, transmit a first synchronization frame containing a first synchronization sequence in a first wireless communication frequency bandwidth, and transmit a second synchronization frame simultaneously to the first synchronization frame, the second synchronization frame containing a second synchronization sequence in a second wireless communication frequency bandwidth that is spaced apart from the first wireless communication frequency bandwidth by a spectral distance larger or equal to the product of the determined maximum value for the frequency content per unit of time of the FMCW radio-frequency signal and duration of the first and second synchronization sequences.
US11729729B2	Apparatus and method for tracking synchronization in wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A terminal and method of the terminal in a wireless communication system are provided. The terminal includes at least one transceiver and at least one processor operatively connected to the at least one transceiver. The at least one processor is configured to acquire synchronization information of a first beam which is a serving beam, update the synchronization information based on the first beam or at least one second beam, determine at least one channel quality of the at least one second beam based on the updated synchronization information, and update the serving beam based on the at least one channel quality.
US11729728B2	Beam selection balancing maximum power exposure and link budget Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to beam selection. An example method generally includes selecting, from a plurality of beams, a beam for transmission during a particular time interval within a time window, the selecting being based on a transmission power and a radio frequency (RF) exposure for each of the plurality of beams and transmitting at least one signal using the selected beam during the particular time interval.
US11729727B2	Power control in a wireless network A user equipment (UE) receives a reference signal from a base station and determines a pathloss based on the received reference signal. The UE further receive a downlink channel signal including an uplink resource assignment and a transmit power command. The UE transmits an uplink signal, wherein the uplink signal is transmitted using a transmit power level determined based on the pathloss, a format of the uplink signal, the uplink resource assignment and the transmit power command.
US11729726B2	Power adaptive multi-subband clear channel assessment A configuration to configure an apparatus to perform a clear channel assessment based on one or more transmission power levels. The apparatus measures at least one energy sensing measurement over an operating channel. The apparatus determines whether the operating channel is available for transmission based on a threshold determination for one or more transmission power levels. The apparatus transmitting on the operating channel upon the determination that the operating channel is available for transmission for the one or more transmission power levels, wherein the one or more transmission power levels are less than the threshold determination.
US11729722B2	Apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable medium for communication in a wireless local area network Various aspects related to various apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable medium are described herein. Some aspects may enable an apparatus to protect downlink (DL) communication(s). Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform DL communication(s). Some aspects may enable an apparatus to communicate regarding uplink (UL) communication(s). Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform operation(s) related to an allocation vector. Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform operation(s) related to random access. Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform UL communication(s). The written description and appended drawings provide detailed descriptions regarding these and many other aspects.
US11729721B2	Method and apparatus for power saving signal design in NR A method of a user equipment (UE) for power saving is provided. The method comprises receiving, from a serving cell, a set of configurations, receiving a power saving signal (PoSS) from a first downlink channel based on the received set of configurations, acquiring a first part of information for power saving from the PoSS, receiving, based on the received set of configurations, a second downlink channel that is a control channel, and acquiring a second part of information for the power saving from the received second downlink channel.
US11729720B2	Apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable medium for communication in a wireless local area network Various aspects pertaining to apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable medium are described herein. Some aspects pertain to wireless communication between various apparatuses, such as an access point (AP) and a station (STA). The AP may have a radio, and the STA may have a first radio and a second radio. The radios may have various power states. Some aspects pertain to negotiation of various communication parameters. Some aspects pertain to communication of a packet and execution of various related operations. Some aspects pertain to certain uplink (UL) and/or downlink (DL) communications. Some aspects pertain to termination or teardown of the negotiated parameters. The written description and appended drawings provide detailed descriptions regarding these and many other aspects.
US11729718B2	Triggering power saving modes with scheduling downlink control information Feedback reports (e.g., hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledgment (ACK) codebooks) may provide feedback for both downlink data messages (e.g., physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) messages) and control messages (e.g., physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) messages). As such, a base station may transmit an indication of a power savings mode in a control message (e.g., in scheduling downlink control information (DCI)), and the base station may be able to confirm whether a user equipment (UE) received (e.g., and implemented) the power savings mode via the feedback corresponding to the control message carrying the indication of the power savings mode. The techniques described herein may provide for improved synchronization of base station and UE power savings modes (e.g., as a base station may or may not implement a new power saving mode depending on whether the control message indicating the new power saving mode was successfully received and acknowledged).
US11729715B2	Method and apparatus for allocating flexible transmission slot in wireless LAN system A method and an apparatus for allocating a flexible transmission slot in a wireless local area network (LAN) system are disclosed. A flexible transmission slot allocation method of an access point (AP) in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system according to an exemplary embodiment includes transmitting a beacon including a traffic indication map (TIM) bit to a station, receiving a power save poll (PS-Poll) from the station in a slot implicitly allocated by the TIM bit, and transmitting an acknowledgement (ACK) including transmission slot allocation information on downlink data to the station.
US11729708B2	Automated matching of applications to predefined slice types in 5G networks In a 5G network, a profiler component of a network slice controller is arranged to dynamically observe behaviors of pre-defined types of network slices when handling current traffic. The profiler employs the observed behaviors to generate profiles of the pre-defined slice types in terms of throughput, reliability, or other suitable metrics. In response to a request from an application for admission to the 5G network for which an ID of an appropriate pre-defined network slice type is unknown, the application request and traffic is handled on a slice which is temporarily utilized while the profiler dynamically observes application behaviors to generate an application profile. The profiler identifies a pre-defined slice type having a profile that is the closest match to the generated application profile. The application may then be moved from the temporary slice to a slice of the identified pre-defined type so that optimal slice characteristics are provided for the application's traffic.
US11729707B2	Methods and apparatus for spectral scanning within a network In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a spectral scanning controller configured to interrupt service at a wireless access point (WAP) such that the WAP performs spectral scanning during service interruption. The spectral scanning controller is configured to interrupt service at the WAP at a first scanning frequency when the spectral scanning controller is in a first configuration. The spectral scanning controller is configured to interrupt service at the WAP at a second scanning frequency different from the first scanning frequency when the spectral scanning controller is in a second configuration. The spectral scanning controller is configured to move from the first configuration to the second configuration in response to a change in at least one of a service demand, a service quality, a spectral scanning demand or a spectral scanning quality.
US11729706B2	Methods and apparatus for multi-coreset PDCCH aggregation A method of wireless communication may include a UE and a base station. The base station may configure, for the UE, a search space associated with a first CORESET and a second CORESET, and transmit a PDCCH within the configured search space. The UE may monitor for the PDCCH based on the configuration of the search space, where at least one PDCCH candidate may include components associated with different CORESETs on different monitoring occasions. The PDCCH candidate may include a first subset within the first CORESET and a second subset within the second CORESET. The PDCCH candidate may include a third subset including a first and second components, and at least one of the first and second components may be itself a PDCCH candidate within the first or second subset of the PDCCH candidates.
US11729703B2	Communication system for communicating minimum system information A communication system is disclosed in which minimum system information associated with a cell of a radio access network (RAN) is transmitted by a base station. The minimum system information comprises parameters for accessing a cell of the base station, divided into an initial part and a remaining part of the minimum system information. The base station transmits the initial part of the system information via a broadcast channel using a first set of communication resources; transmits information identifying an allocation of at least one further communication resource in a shared channel; and transmits the remaining part of the minimum system information using the at least one further communication resource identified by the allocation.
US11729701B2	Distribution network system and method A distribution network system and method. The distribution system has a plurality of communication channels and is connected to a mesh network. The mesh network uses one of the plurality of communication channels as a distributable network channel. The distribution network system includes an already-distributed network node and a to-be-distributed network node. The already-distributed network node is located in the mesh network and is configured to broadcast a mesh network beacon to the distributable network channel. The to-be-distributed node is configured to alternately monitor whether the mesh network beacon is detected on each communication channel. The to-be-distributed node outputs a network distribution request message to the already-distributed node according to the mesh network beacon, monitors whether a distribution network response message corresponding to the distribution network request message is detected on the distributable network channel, and joins the mesh network according to the distribution network response message.
US11729694B2	Method and apparatus for reselecting relay based on SL RLF Provided are a method for performing wireless communication by a first device, and an apparatus for supporting same. The method may comprise: establishing a PC5 RRC connection with a second device; transmitting, to the second device, a first SCI through a PSCCH; transmitting, to the second device, a second SCI and data through a PSSCH related to the PSCCH; determining a PSFCH resource based on an index of a subchannel and a slot related to the PSSCH; based on failure to receive a SL HARQ feedback for the data from the second device based on the PSFCH resource, detecting an RLF for the PC5 RRC connection between the first device and the second device; and performing reselection for the relay device based on detecting the RLF for the PC5 RRC connection.
US11729693B2	Method for supporting handover and corresponding apparatus 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.The present invention provides a method of a base station for supporting an inter-system handover from an evolved packet system (EPS) system to a 5th generation (5G) system. The method comprises receiving, from an access and mobility management function (AMF), a handover request message including E-UTRAN radio access bearer (E-RAB) information and quality of service (Qos) flow information, identifying whether a protocol data unit (PDU) session is accepted or not, determining whether a data forwarding for at least one Qos flow associated with the PDU session is accepted or not based on the E-RAB information and the Qos flow information in case that the PDU session is accepted and transmitting, to the AMF, a handover request acknowledgement message including information on the at least one Qos flow based on the determination. The method solves the data forwarding problem during the movement of a UE between an LTE system and a 5G system, so that the loss of data is avoided and the continuity of services is ensured.
US11729691B2	Method and apparatus supporting random access transmissions A method and base station are disclosed. The base station comprises a transceiver and a processor. The base station transmits a system information block (SIB) to a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), wherein the SIB indicates random access transmission uplink resources. After transmitting the SIB, the base station receives a random access preamble from the WTRU. After receiving the random access preamble, the base station receives, using one or more of the uplink resources indicated by the SIB, a first message from the WTRU, wherein the first message includes a first radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) of the WTRU. After receiving the first message, the base station transmits a second message to the WTRU, wherein the second message is derived from a second RNTI, the second RNTI being different than the first RNTI. The base station may be configured to communicate with the WTRU on a plurality of cells.
US11729688B2	Data lossless handover In one embodiment, the method includes if a first network device having a first path with a second network device determines that a terminal device is to be handed over from the second network device to a third network device, establishing a second path between the first and third network devices; disabling data transmission for the terminal device via the first path; transmitting a handover indication to the second network device to cause it to suspend transmission of buffered data to the terminal device and to transmit remaining data to the third network device; and upon receiving a completion indication from the second network device that transmission of the remaining data is complete, enabling data transmission for the terminal device via the second path.
US11729686B2	Transmission control method, apparatus, and system In a re-allocation process of a first user plane function network element to a second user plane function network element, a session management function network element sends a respective session modification request to each anchor user plane function network element of a plurality of anchor user plane function network elements, where each session modification request includes information about the second user plane function network element; and indicates to only a first anchor user plane function network element in the plurality of anchor user plane function network elements to send an end marker; or sends the end marker to only the first anchor user plane function network element.
US11729681B2	Link switch in a wireless communication system A wireless communication device is configured for use in a wireless communication system. The device in this regard is configured to receive a command that commands the device to perform a link switch from a source link to a target link responsive to fulfillment of a condition. The command may indicate a target link configuration relative to a source link configuration. The device is also configured to store information from which the target link configuration indicated by the command is determinable irrespective of any change to the source link configuration occurring after receipt of the command. In some embodiments, the device is configured to, responsive to fulfillment of the condition, perform a link switch from the source link to the target link using the target link configuration as determined from the stored information.
US11729679B2	Timing advance indication for a beam during handover A wireless device receives a radio resource control (RRC) message indicating a handover to a cell. The RRC message indicates: a first timing advance of a first beam of the cell; and a second timing advance of a second beam of the cell. The wireless device selects, as a selected beam of the cell, one of the first beam or the second beam. The wireless device transmits, via the selected beam, transport blocks using one of the first timing advance or the second timing advance corresponding to the selected beam.
US11729678B2	Apparatus and method for allocating resources for switching between macro cell and small cell in wireless communication system The objective of the present invention is to provide services by effectively switching, by a terminal, a macro cell and a small cell on the basis of time in a communication system in which the macro cell and the small cell coexist. A method for operating a terminal in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: transmitting, to a first base station and/or a second base station, information on a switching delay time required for the terminal to perform cell switching; and communicating through a resource of the first base station and a resource of the second base station which are allocated by considering the switching delay time.
US11729675B2	Method and apparatus for performing a voice service handover to a circuit switched domain voice service A method includes: receiving session management information from a session management network element in a first network, where the session management information is used to request to establish a user plane tunnel of a voice service of a terminal device in the first network; and sending a handover request to a mobility management network element in the first network based on the session management information to indicate a handover of the terminal device from the first network to a second network that supports a circuit switched domain voice service. When the access network device in the first network receives the session management information to request to establish the user plane tunnel, the handover request is sent to the mobility management network element in the first network based on the session management information to establish a circuit switched domain voice service of the terminal device in the second network.
US11729674B2	Changing radio access technologies to connect to a network A light-weight solution for media handovers between different Radio Access Technologies (RAT) is provided. A user may switch from Wi-Fi to Cellular Data (e.g., LTE/4G/3G/ . . . ), from Cellular data to Wi-Fi, and the like. In contrast to a “make-before-break” design for switching between RATs, the technologies described herein are a “break-before-make” design. When a change in a RAT is detected, an application on the computing device utilizing the connection is notified of the change. Instead of removing connection information, the connection is maintained for a configurable period of time such that the application can re-register with the network to continue the communication session. During a transition to a second RAT, the application provides one or more notifications to the user of the change in RAT. For instance, a graphical user interface (GUI) can be displayed showing the change and/or a tone can be played indicating the change in the RAT.
US11729673B2	MBMS carrier type in system information According to some embodiments, a method for use in a user equipment of performing cell reselection to a cell providing multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) comprises: receiving a system information message comprising an indication of whether one or more carrier frequencies support MBMS carrier type or further enhanced MBMS (FeMBMS) carrier type; selecting, based on a capability of the user equipment and the carrier type of the one or more carrier frequencies, a carrier frequency for cell reselection; and camping on the selected carrier frequency. In particular embodiments, the system information message further comprises, for each of the one or more carrier frequencies, an indication of a percentage (e.g., 100%, 80%, etc.) of available multicast broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) subframes in each radio frame.
US11729672B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting data in a mobile 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. The present disclosure relates to a method for quickly and efficiently allocating uplink transmission resource to data of a terminal.
US11729670B2	Flexible negotiation of parameters in setup exchanges for wireless communication sessions Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques that may allow a device participating in a setup procedure to efficiently propose a range of values for a negotiated parameter. The techniques may reduce setup time, for example, allowing a responder to accept a value within the proposed range which may eliminate overhead associated with some of the back and forth message exchange of typical negotiations.
US11729667B2	Ethernet data-based communication method and apparatus This application provides an Ethernet data-based communication method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device from a network device, a parameter used to indicate a first Ethernet compression capability; generating a first Ethernet packet based on the parameter of the first Ethernet compression capability; and sending the first Ethernet packet to the network device. Therefore, not only a manner in which the network device enables the terminal device to use an Ethernet compression capability is proposed, but also the terminal device and the network device can transmit compressed Ethernet data in a wireless network, thereby effectively saving resources.
US11729666B2	Retransmission schemes based on LLR combining in WLAN Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for enhanced data retransmission based on log-likelihood ratio (LLR) combining in WLAN. According to some embodiments, packets can be retransmitted using a modified transmission scheme. Codewords are associated with cyclic redundancy checks (CRCs) for detecting errors, and a subsequent packet is received that includes data that can be used to correct the error. For example, each packet can be encoded for both error detection and correction, and the retransmission mechanism can be adapted to the error rate. The retransmission scheme is improved by utilizing an LLR combining scheme, transmit diversity, and modified ACK methods.
US11729665B2	Feedback techniques for wireless communications Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described that provide for generation of an encoded transport block (TB) that includes a number of systematic code blocks (CBs) and a number of parity CBs. The systematic CBs may be transmitted to a receiver, and the receiver may attempt to decode the systematic CBs. In some cases, one or more parity CBs may be transmitted with the systematic CBs, and the systematic CBs may be successfully decoded even in the event that one or more of the systematic CBs are not successfully received. In some cases, a receiver may provide feedback that requests that additional CBs be transmitted to decode the systematic CBs that were received, and it is not necessary to retransmit the missing systematic CBs. In some cases, a quantized value of a number of additional CBs needed to decode the TB may be transmitted.
US11729662B2	One-hop packet delay budget (PDB) in an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for packet delay budget (PDB) coordination between two integrated access and backhaul (TAB) nodes for a radio link control (RLC) channel in an TAB network. An TAB node may dynamically adjust its configured one-hop RLC channel PDB based on channel conditions or buffer loading associated with the TAB node. The TAB node may then indicate bonus PDB at a next-hop node or request additional PDB from the next-hop node.
US11729653B2	Channel state information (CSI) measurement and report outside active downlink (DL) bandwidth part (BWP) Apparatuses and methods for channel state information (CSI) measurement and report outside an active downlink (DL) bandwidth part (BWP). A method for a user equipment includes receiving configurations for a first set of DL BWPs, for reference signal (RS) resource sets in a second set of DL BWPs, and for CSI reports corresponding to the second set of DL BWPs; receiving RS resources from the RS resource sets in a third set of DL BWPs; and determining a first number of CSI reports based on the received RS resources. The method further includes determining a second number of CSI reports that have (i) values for a CSI report quantity that are larger those in other CSI reports from the first number of CSI reports and (ii) corresponding DL BWP indexes and transmitting a channel that includes the second number of CSI reports and the indexes.
US11729650B2	Neighbor measurement adjustment for dual connectivity Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine, for a combination of a first band and a second band, whether a measurement offset is to be applied for a neighbor measurement on the second band based at least in part on an estimated impact of interference from the first band on the second band; and selectively apply the measurement offset for the neighbor measurement based at least in part on whether the measurement offset is to be applied; or selectively report the measurement offset to a base station associated with the neighbor measurement based at least in part on whether the measurement offset is to be applied. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11729645B2	Devices and methods for monitoring a serial bus According to some implementations, a radio-frequency (RF) device includes a communication interface coupled to a serial bus. The RF device also includes a monitoring component coupled to the communication interface, the monitoring component configured to monitor the serial bus for first data transmitted to a first device coupled to the serial bus and configure the RF device based on the first data.
US11729642B2	Using orchestrators for false positive detection and root cause analysis An alert that is generated by a first orchestrator associated with a first subsystem or received from one or more distributed orchestrators that are associated with one or more corresponding subsystems is analyzed. The alert is triggered by a change in behavior determined by a behavioral analysis algorithm associated with the first orchestrator or corresponding behavior analysis algorithms associated with the one or more distributed orchestrators. It is determined whether an alert is indicative of a false positive based on an objective associated with the first orchestrator, an algorithm associated with the first orchestrator and one or more constraints associated with the first orchestrator. The alert is filtered in response to determining that the alert is indicative of the false positive.
US11729637B2	Enhancement to expedite secondary cell (SCell) or primary SCell (PSCell) addition or activation A method for expediting Secondary Cell (SCell) or Primary cell of a secondary cell group (PSCell) addition or activation is proposed. A User Equipment (UE) receives a command that indicates adding or activating an SCell or a PSCell, wherein the command comprises information of a temporary Reference Signal (RS). The UE detects the temporary RS according to the information, and uses the temporary RS to add or activate the SCell or the PSCell.
US11729634B2	Method and device for transmitting or receiving wireless signal in wireless communication system The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and, more particularly, to a method and a device therefor, the method comprising the steps of: receiving scheduling information relating to uplink data; and transmitting the uplink data through a time slot having a plurality of symbols by using the scheduling information, wherein: when a reference signal for beam-arrangement is not transmitted in the time slot, a transmission beam direction of the uplink data remains the same in the time slot; and when the reference signal for beam-arrangement is transmitted in the time slot, the transmission beam direction of the uplink data is changed according to a transmission beam direction of the reference signal for beam-arrangement, in a symbol at which the reference signal for the beam-arrangement is transmitted in the time slot.
US11729627B2	Adjusting coverage area of a radio using shared spectrum to reduce interference to other users of the shared spectrum Techniques for optimizing antenna parameters of a radio configured to transmit on spectrum shared by incumbent user(s) are disclosed. The incumbent user has priority to use the shared spectrum over the radio. The antenna parameters are optimized to reduce interference to incumbent user(s) and/or other radios utilizing the shared spectrum whilst maintaining satisfactory coverage area.
US11729621B2	Elastic security services and load balancing in a wireless mesh network The present disclosure distributes processing capabilities throughout different nodes in a wireless network. Methods and apparatus consistent with the present disclosure increase the efficiency of communications in a wireless network because they help minimize the need to forward communications to other nodes in the network by allowing different wireless nodes to receive and store content ratings regarding requested content in caches associated with respective wireless nodes. Apparatus and methods consistent with the present disclosure perform a load balancing function because they distribute content ratings to different nodes in a wireless network without increasing messaging traffic. As response messages regarding access requests are passed back to a requestor, cache memories at nodes along a communication path are updated to include information that cross-references data identifiers with received content ratings. The cross-referenced data identifiers and content ratings allow each respective wireless node along the communication path to block requests to bad content.
US11729619B2	Methods and apparatus for wireless communication using a security model to support multiple connectivity and service contexts Aspects of the present disclosure provide for a security model for enabling multiple connectivity and service contexts while sharing a single connectivity context to establish a network connection. A context (e.g., connectivity context, service context, security context) is a set of information describing the connectivity, service, or security established between two or more entities. The connectivity context and service context may be established at different network nodes or entities. In one aspect of the disclosure, a connectivity context includes an Evolved Packet System (EPS) Mobility Management (EMM) context or both an EMM context and an EPS Session Management (ESM) context.
US11729614B2	Connection of wearable devices The present invention provides a method of allowing a wearable device connected to a user equipment device to communicate with a mobile communications network, wherein the user equipment device transmits non-access stratum messages to the mobile communications network for performance of an identification and an authentication of the wearable device in the mobile communications network and monitors transmissions sent by the mobile communications network in paging occasions, wherein paging occasions for paging messages intended for the wearable device are time aligned with paging occasions for paging messages intended for the user equipment device.
US11729613B2	Apparatus, system and method for SCE In order for supporting separate ciphering at an MeNB (20) and an SeNB (30), the MeNB (20) derives separate first and second keys (KUPenc-M, KUPenc-S) from a third key (KeNB). The first key (KUPenc-M) is used for confidentially protecting first traffic transmitted over U-Plane between the MeNB (20) and a UE (10). The first key (KUPenc-M) may be the same as current KUPenc or a new key. The second key (KUPenc-S) is used for confidentially protecting second traffic transmitted over the U-Plane between the UE (10) and the SeNB (30). The MeNB (20) sends the second key (KUPenc-S) to the SeNB (30). The UE (10) negotiates with the MeNB (20), and derives the second key (KUPenc-S) based on a result of the negotiation.
US11729611B2	Systems and methods for populating online applications using third party platforms A system and method includes a communication interface configured to transmit a web-based form to an applicant device and receive a selection of the third party to provide data to populate the plurality of fields of the web-based form and an application server that, in conjunction with the communication interface, is configured to perform various steps. It may, in response to receiving the selection, transmit a third-party API call to the selected third party. It may also transmit data indicative of an authentication request associated with the selected third party and receive data indicative of a validated authentication request. It may further request a set of data from the selected third party via the third party API and receive the requested set of data, which includes data for populating a specific data field on the web-based form.
US11729609B2	Protecting a message transmitted between core network domains Network equipment (300, 400) is configured for use in one of multiple different core network domains of a wireless communication system (10). The network equipment (300, 400) is configured to receive a message (60) that has been, or is to be, transmitted between the different core network domains. The network equipment (300, 400) is also configured to apply inter-domain security protection to, or remove inter-domain security protection from, one or more portions of the content of a field in the message according to a protection policy (80). The protection policy (80) includes information indicating to which one or more portions of the content inter-domain security protection is to be applied or removed. The network equipment (300, 400) is also configured to forward the message (60), with inter-domain security protection applied or removed to the one or more portions, towards a destination of the message (60).
US11729607B2	Multi-line mobile service with dynamic MSISDN association A network device receives a location update message from a mobile network switch. The location update message indicates that a mobile device is registered with the mobile network switch. The location update message includes an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) associated with the mobile device. The network device determines, based at least on the IMSI, a plurality of MSISDNs associated with the mobile device, including a first MSISDN that is enabled for calling and a second MSISDN that is not enabled for calling. The network device transmits, in response to the location update message, subscriber data to a database associated with the mobile network switch, which associates the IMSI with the first MSISDN.
US11729605B2	Subcarrier spacing capability Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for communicating via one or more subcarrier spacings in accordance with an indication of a subcarrier spacing capability. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes transmitting, to a network entity, an indication of a subcarrier spacing capability of the UE associated with a frequency range and communicating with the network entity in accordance with the indication.
US11729598B2	Cellular-based alerts in distributed applications Systems and methods present practical applications to directing emergency alerts from cellular-based message distribution systems to distributed desktop applications via a desktop application gateway. Logic in the desktop applications and their corresponding IP network gateways for the desktop application may direct alerts from the cellular-based system to distributed desktop applications having a connection to the gateway. A distributed application may determine a location of the user and include enhancements to display the alert at a user's computing device. The gateway for the distributed application may store the location information for each logged-in user or registered instance of the user. An interface between the cell broadcast center and the distributed application gateway may allow the gateway to receive the alert, including a region for distributing the alert, from the cell broadcast center, and send the alert to all registered users with a location matching the alert region.
US11729597B2	Digital twin disaster management system customized for underground public areas Provided is a digital twin disaster management system customized to keep safety for urban underground tunnels, including: a sensor sub-system configured to detect environmental information, status information and image information in the urban underground tunnels; a digital twin model management sub-system configured to create and update a virtual space corresponding to the urban underground tunnels using information provided from the sensor sub-system and 3D space, insert various types of attributes into the virtual space, detect tagging information, predict the spread of each disaster, and infer a degree of risk of a management facility; a disaster management sub-system having a control function of conducting centralized supervision by displaying information about components installed in the urban underground tunnels in the metaverse space and recording a situation; and a network sub-system configured to provide the virtual space to a user terminal of an external inspector.
US11729594B2	Network access method, device, and system A network access method includes: establishing a BLUETOOTH connection to a BLUETOOTH terminal; receiving, using the BLUETOOTH connection, a network access request from the BLUETOOTH terminal; and when the BLUETOOTH terminal is an authorized device, activating a BLUETOOTH network sharing function automatically and forwarding the network access request to a wide area network.
US11729589B2	Systems and methods for verifying reliability of sensor data received from mobile devices Method and system for verifying a reliability of sensor data received from a mobile device of a user are disclosed. For example, the method includes receiving first sensor data collected and/or generated by one or more sensors of the mobile device from an application installed on a mobile device of a user at a first time, receiving second sensor data collected and/or generated by the one or more sensors of the mobile device from the application at a second time, determining whether the mobile device is in a vehicle that the user is driving during a time interval based at least upon the first sensor data and the second sensor data, and in response to the mobile device not being in the vehicle that the user is driving during the time interval, transmitting a notification to the mobile device indicating that the application does not work properly.
US11729587B1	Dynamic relocation of account information based on mobility of wireless device A system of a wireless telecommunications network performs a process initiated in response to an indication of a chargeable event (e.g., a registration procedure). The system obtains a current location of the wireless device, determines that the current location is different from a home location, and queries a database of a home charging function (CHF) for charging information of a subscriber associated with the wireless device. The system then dynamically stores the charging information at a database of a local CHF thereby eliminating the need to check with the home CHF when responding to every subsequent chargeable event, which reduces the service latency otherwise experienced by the wireless device.
US11729585B2	Communication systems and methods for delivering data selectively over unicast paths and multicast paths Communication systems and methods for routing data selectively via unicast paths and multicast paths are disclosed. An example communication system includes a satellite ground station having a multicast server configured to: access a receive signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) measured for a forward link (FL) between a satellite and a satellite modem; select one of a unicast mode or a multicast mode for the FL based upon the receive SNR; and configure the FL in the selected one of the unicast mode or the multicast mode.
US11729584B2	On-demand creation of contextually relevant and location-aware ephemeral services Techniques are for provided located-based contextual services to users by automatically creating location-based contextually relevant communication sessions that may take on a variety of forms, including contextual chats and micro-local services that are ephemeral, curated by a location owner and personalized by a user. As a user's context shifts throughout the day (from work to shopping to entertainment, etc.) the presented techniques filter content differently based on what the user may care about at a particular moment when the user is at a particular venue. The automatic creation and deletion of an ephemeral space/channel provides a dynamic application that changes its content or behavior based on a user's location. The user may control the interactivity level based on an adaptive user identifier by which a user's identity may take on different versions depending on location and time of day.
US11729580B2	Methods and systems for encouraging behaviour while occupying vehicles Methods and systems are disclosed herein for encouraging particular behavior while occupying vehicles. For example, by granting and restricting access to media and other user comfort devices based on whether or not a user is conforming to a predetermined rule set, the media guidance application may encourage a user to adhere to the rule set.
US11729575B2	Boarding intention determination device, boarding intention determination method and non-transitory computer readable storage medium A boarding intention determination device according to the present application includes an acquisition unit and a determination unit. The acquisition unit acquires a positional relationship between boarding position information representing a boarding spot for boarding a mobile object and user position information representing a current position of a user. The determination unit determines whether the user has an intention to board the mobile object based on the positional relationship that is acquired by the acquisition unit and behavior information representing behaviors of the user.
US11729572B2	Systems and methods for calibrating speakers Systems and method are disclosed for facilitating efficient calibration of filters for correcting room and/or speaker-based distortion and/or binaural imbalances in audio reproduction, and/or for producing three-dimensional sound in stereo system environments. According to some embodiments, using a portable device such as a smartphone or tablet, a user can calibrate speakers by initiating playback of a test signal, detecting playback of the test signal with the portable device's microphone, and repeating this process for a number of speakers and/or device positions (e.g., next to each of the user's ears). A comparison can be made between the test signal and the detected signal, and this can be used to more precisely calibrate rendering of future signals by the speakers.
US11729570B2	Spatial audio monauralization via data exchange A device includes a memory configure to store instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to obtain spatial audio data at a first audio output device. The one or more processors are further configured to perform data exchange, between the first audio output device and a second audio output device, of exchange data based on the spatial audio data. The one or more processors are also configured to generate first monaural audio output at the first audio output device based on the spatial audio data.
US11729566B2	Judging circuit for positive and negative terminals of mic of earphone and method thereof, and eletronic device The present invention provides a judging circuit including a comparison module and a control module for positive and negative terminals of an earphone MIC and a method thereof, and an electronic device; the control module controls any one first terminal of two terminals of the MIC to inject an excitation current, and control the other second terminal of the two terminals to be connected to the ground via an analog switch, also to judge whether the first terminal and the second terminal is the positive terminal or the negative terminal according to comparison result information; the comparison module compares the current voltage with a preset reference voltage value after excitation current is injected into the first terminal and the second terminal is grounded to obtain comparison result information and to send it to the connected control module. The present invention improves the flow and process without two sets of detection device.
US11729565B2	Sound normalization and frequency remapping using haptic feedback Method and devices for processing audio signals based on sound profiles are provided. A sound profile can include data related to haptic movement of the audio data which is specific to a left ear or a right ear, demographic information, ethnicity information, age information, location information, social media information, intensity score of the audio data, previous usage information, or device information. A sound profile can be customized for individual user to include the inaudible frequency range at high frequency end and low frequency end. Audio data within the inaudible frequency range can be compensated by haptic movement corresponding to the inaudible frequency range. A sound profile can further include an audio frequency range and its lowest audible volume for a user. A sound profile can be provided to a user without any action from the user's part.
US11729561B2	Hearing device incorporating conformal folded antenna A hearing device adapted to be worn by a wearer comprises a shell configured for placement on an exterior surface of an ear of the wearer. The shell comprises a first end, a second end, a bottom, a top, and opposing sides, wherein the bottom, top, and opposing sides extend between the first and second ends. Circuitry is provided within the shell comprising at least a microphone, signal processing circuitry, radio circuitry, and a power source. A folded antenna is coupled to the radio circuitry and extends longitudinally along one of the bottom and the top and along the opposing sides between the first and second ends. The folded antenna encompasses at least some of the circuitry and forms an elongated gap between the opposing sides. The elongated gap faces the other of the bottom and the top.
US11729559B2	Hearing aid with hidden use feature The present invention relates to a hearing aid (1) which is inserted to body by surgery in order to enable patients with very advanced and total sensorineural hearing loss to detect sounds, stimulate cochlea or any point on the auditory pathway electrically according to the audio information received from external environment, can also be used without its external part, and parts of which can be replaced without being completely removed from the body in case of a malfunction.
US11729558B2	Hearing device A hearing device includes a housing elongated along a longitudinal axis, having an oval cross section, and configured to house electrical components. A loudspeaker disposed outside the housing in an intended wearing state of the hearing device is interconnected with at least a part of the electrical components. A plug connector is connected to the loudspeaker and carries at least six contact elements for interconnecting the loudspeaker with corresponding electrical components. A plug connector receptacle for receiving the plug connector interconnects the contact elements. The plug connector receptacle is disposed in a surface of the housing oriented toward a lower side in the intended wearing state. The plug connector and the plug connector receptacle define a plug-in direction extending from a front side to a rear side in the intended wearing state.
US11729550B2	Echo cancelation method, apparatus, program and recording medium In-car communication and hands-free talking with good sound quality are realized. An echo cancelation apparatus (4) is for use in a vehicle in which microphones (M1, M2) and loudspeakers (S1, S2) are disposed in acoustic regions (100, 200). A loudspeaker (S1) and a microphone (M1) are disposed in a first acoustic region (100), and a loudspeaker (S2) and a microphone (M2) are disposed in a second acoustic region (200). An acoustic signal picked up by the microphone (M1) disposed in the first acoustic region (100) is emitted from the loudspeaker (S2) disposed in the second acoustic region (200). An acoustic signal picked up by the microphone (M2) disposed in the second acoustic region (200) is emitted from the loudspeaker (S1) disposed in the first acoustic region (100). The microphone (M1) is designed to hardly collect a sound emitted from the loudspeaker (S2).
US11729546B2	Textile-assembly toolkit for reversible assembly of a textile to an electronic-speaker device The present document describes a textile-assembly toolkit for reversible assembly of a textile to an electronic-speaker device. The toolkit includes multiple attachment features, including rigid features with matched purposefully-designed knit types that can be combined to enable repeatable, mass-producible, reversible assembly of the textile to the electronic-speaker device. The techniques described herein enable accurate alignment of the textile on the electronic-speaker device without distorting the textile's cosmetic pattern and in a manner that results in no visible edges of the textile or visible attachment features on the exterior of the electronic-speaker device. Also, the textile-assembly toolkit includes attachment features that secure the textile with sufficient tension to avoid acoustic distortion such as rub and buzz.
US11729544B2	Information output device A length of a band part is easily adjusted with the same length regardless of the number of adjustments. There are provided an information output unit that outputs information, a band part whose length is adjustable, and a slide part that is movable with respect to the band part in a length direction of the band part. The slide part is attached with a holding magnet, the band part supports a positioning magnet that attracts the holding magnet in a state where the length of the band part is adjusted, and the positioning magnet is made movable with respect to the band part in a length direction.
US11729543B2	Silicone waterproof structure of headset The present invention provides a headset with a waterproof structure having an external appearance formed by a front housing having a cap shape and a rear housing that decreases in volume as it goes down and is formed with a sound emitting part at an outlet, the headset comprising: the front housing coupled to the rear housing in an inclined state to one side with respect to a horizontal line; the rear housing accommodating a bracket in an upper portion thereof; the bracket including a first long sidewall and a second short sidewall that extend to boundaries of the front and rear housing, respectively, and a sealing member mounted at a boundary portion between the front and the rear housing and the bracket, wherein the sealing member is made of a flexible plastic resin or a silicone material, with elasticity.
US11729536B2	Sensing element and wireless communication device for single-use elements Summarizing the invention, a sensing element for monitoring the state of a single-use sterilizable element such as a single-use bioreactor, wherein the state of the single-use sterilizable element is determined by at least one environmental condition is provided. The sensing element comprises: a variable component having at least one physical property that is configured to change in response to the at least one environmental condition and/or a change thereof, wherein the variable component comprises a sensing material with changing absorption characteristics for electromagnetic radiation configured to change in response to the at least one environmental condition and/or a change thereof.
US11729535B2	Optical switch and optical routing method and system An optical switch is proposed, for routing an optical transmission signal according to an optical control signal, including one or more optical control ports; three or more optical transmission ports; a light director; and a thermally driven light mill; where the light mill and the light director are arranged with respect to each other, to the one or more control ports and to the three or more transmission ports such that: illumination of a respective one of the one or more control ports by a control beam carrying the control signal drives the light mill to rotate towards a respective position in which the light director is arranged so as to direct a transmission beam carrying the transmission signal, entering the switch via a respective one of the transmission ports, to exit the switch via a respective other of the transmission ports.
US11729529B1	Voltage domain global shutter readout circuit A global shutter readout circuit includes a reset transistor coupled between a reset voltage and a bitline. A pixel enable transistor is coupled between the reset transistor and a source follower transistor. First and second terminals of the pixel enable transistor are coupled together in response to a pixel enable signal coupled to a third terminal of the pixel enable transistor. A first storage transistor coupled to the second terminal of the pixel enable transistor and the gate of the source follower transistor. A first storage capacitor is coupled to the first storage transistor. A second storage transistor coupled to the second terminal of the pixel enable transistor and the gate of the source follower transistor. A second storage capacitor is coupled to the second storage transistor. A row select transistor is coupled to the source follower transistor to generate an output signal from the global shutter readout circuit.
US11729526B1	High dynamic range CMOS image sensor pixel with reduced metal-insulator-metal lateral overflow integration capacitor reset settling A pixel circuit includes a transfer transistor coupled between a photodiode and a floating diffusion. A lateral overflow integration capacitor (LOFIC) includes an insulating region disposed between a first metal electrode coupled to a bias voltage source, and a second metal electrode selectively coupled to the floating diffusion. A multifunction reset transistor includes a gate, a drain, a first source, and a second source. The drain, the first source, and the second source are coupled to each other in response to a multifunction reset control signal turning the multifunction reset transistor on. The drain, the first source, and the second source are decoupled from one another in response to the multifunction reset control signal turning the multifunction reset transistor off. The drain is coupled to a reset voltage source, the first source is coupled to the first metal electrode, and the second source is coupled to the second metal electrode.
US11729525B2	Digital pixel array with multi-stage readouts Examples of an apparatus are disclosed. In some example, an apparatus may include an array of digital pixel cells, each digital pixel cell including a photodiode and a memory device to store a digital output generated based on charge generated by the photodiode in an exposure period. The apparatus may also include an image processor configured to: receive first digital outputs from the memory devices of a first set of digital pixel cells of the array of digital pixel cells; determine, from the first set of digital pixel cells, a second set of digital pixel cells of which the first digital outputs satisfy one or more pre-determined conditions; identify, based on the second set of digital pixel cells, a third set of digital pixel cells; receive the second digital outputs generated by the third set of digital pixel cells; and perform image processing operations based on the second digital outputs.
US11729524B2	Depth sensor and method of operating the same Provided is a depth sensor which includes a pixel and a row driver that controls the pixel, the pixel including a first tap, a second tap, a third tap, and a fourth tap, an overflow transistor, and a photoelectric conversion device. Each of the first tap, the second tap, the third tap, and the fourth tap includes a photo transistor, a transfer transistor, and a readout circuit. In a first integration period of a global mode, the row driver activates a second photo gate signal controlling the photo transistor of the second tap and a third photo gate signal controlling the photo transistor of the third tap. In a second integration period of the global mode, the row driver activates a first photo gate signal controlling the photo transistor of the first tap and a fourth photo gate signal controlling the photo transistor of the fourth tap.
US11729522B2	Optical scope system for capturing an image of a scene An optical device for capturing an image of a scene, the optical device comprising: a plurality of image sensors each operable to capture a respective initial image of the scene; a lens arrangement operable to receive light from the scene and to form each initial image on each respective image sensor, each image sensor being located at a different respective distance from the lens arrangement; and an image processor operable to generate the captured image of the scene on the basis of image data from one or more of the captured initial images.
US11729521B2	Systems and methods for extended field of view and low light imaging Systems and method are provided for generating an image of an environment of a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes: determining, by a processor, a first position of a plurality of positions within a first field of view; controlling, by the processor, a discrete scanning device based on the first position; capturing, by an imaging device, pixel data for a plurality of pixels within a second field of view associated with the first position, wherein the second field of view is within the first field of view; and combining, by the processor, the pixel data from the second field of view with pixel data captured from a third field of view associated with one of the plurality of positions to form image data depicting the environment of the vehicle.
US11729519B2	Video signal processing apparatus, video signal processing method, and image-capturing apparatus This apparatus includes a first processing circuit section that includes a tone controller that imparts tone curve characteristics for tone adjustment to an input video signal having linear characteristics; and a second processing circuit section that includes a first curve characteristics imparting section that imparts, to the video signal processed by the first processing circuit section, first curve characteristics for output, and generates a first output video signal.
US11729511B2	Method for wall line determination, method, apparatus, and device for spatial modeling Provided in embodiments of the disclosure are methods, apparatuses, and devices for spatial modeling. In one embodiment, a method comprises acquiring a panoramic image captured in a space; determining wall lines in the panoramic image based on Manhattan-World structural features of wall surfaces; and constructing a three-dimensional model for the space based on the wall lines.
US11729510B2	Imaging systems and methods At least one combined image may be created from a plurality of images captured by a plurality of cameras. A sensor unit may receive the plurality of images from the plurality of cameras. At least one processor in communication with the sensor unit may correlate each received image with calibration data for the camera from which the image was received. The calibration data may comprise camera position data and characteristic data. The processor may combine at least two of the received images from at least two of the cameras into the at least one combined image by orienting the at least two images relative to one another based on the calibration data for the at least two cameras from which the images were received and merging the at least two aligned images into the at least one combined image.
US11729508B2	Control circuit, PTZ camera, control method, and computer-readable storage medium This application discloses a control circuit of a PTZ camera and control method. The control circuit includes: a motor drive circuit, a monitoring circuit, a gimbal motor, and a microprocessor. The motor drive circuit, the gimbal motor, and the microprocessor are electrically connected to the monitoring circuit respectively. The gimbal motor is configured to drive a rotor of the camera to rotate. The monitoring circuit is configured to acquire a first signal between the motor drive circuit and the gimbal motor, and output a second signal to the microprocessor according to the first signal. The microprocessor is configured to obtain an in-place status of the gimbal motor according to the second signal. The motor drive circuit is configured to control an operating state of the gimbal motor according to the in-place status. As a result, the deviation caused by back-and-forth rotation of the gimbal motor can be eliminated in time.
US11729507B2	Progressive morphological lens parameter encoding Automatically shifting between virtual lens parameters and optical lens parameters for an optical camera positioned within a physical scene, including: providing a spatial awareness of the physical scene including position and orientation of a display screen to the optical camera; creating a feedback loop between the optical camera and lens to enable the lens to communicate lens settings to a scene registration; determining when focus of the lens is beyond an optical focal limit from the lens settings; and enabling the lens, by the scene registration, to automatically shift from using the optical lens parameters to using the virtual lens parameters when the focus of the lens moves beyond the optical focal limit.
US11729500B2	Lowpass filter control apparatus and lowpass filter control method for controlling variable lowpass filter A lowpass filter control apparatus of the present disclosure includes a lowpass filter controller that causes lowpass characteristics of a variable lowpass filter disposed in an optical path of incoming light into an imaging element including phase-difference pixels and normal pixels to be different for an exposure period of the normal pixels and an exposure period of the phase-difference pixels.
US11729498B2	Robotic avatar apparatus and system A robotic avatar apparatus is provided. The robotic avatar apparatus includes a robotic avatar unit. The robotic avatar unit includes a camera, a processor and a unit signal transceiver. The camera is connected to the processor. The processor is connected to the unit signal transceiver. The robotic avatar apparatus also includes a user interface device. The user interface device includes a user signal transceiver and a display. The robotic avatar unit is designed to connect to the user interface device via a connection between the unit signal transceiver and the user signal transceiver.
US11729497B2	Processing circuitry for object detection in standby mode, electronic device, and operating method thereof Disclosed is an electronic device, which includes a power supply, a first sensor acquiring first data including information about an external object, a second sensor acquiring second data including image information about the external object, and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry includes always-on domain processing circuitry configured to determine whether to need to perform face detection or QR code detection based on the first data and outputting a first control request signal of requesting a power supply to the second sensor based on a result of the determination, and not-always-on domain processing circuitry configured to control the power supply in response to the first control request signal such that a power is supplied to the second sensor, wherein the always-on domain processing circuitry is configured to perform the face detection or the QR code detection based on the second data.
US11729495B2	Directed image capture Systems and methods are disclosed for directed image capture of a subject of interest, such as a home. Directed image capture can produce higher quality images such as more centrally located within a display and/or viewfinder of an image capture device, higher quality images have greater value for subsequent uses of captured images such as for information extraction or model reconstruction. Graphical guide(s) facilitate content placement for certain positions and quality assessments for the content of interest can be calculated such as for pixel distance of the content of interest to a centroid of the display or viewfinder, or the effect of obscuring objects. Quality assessments can further include instructions for improving the quality of the image capture for the content of interest.
US11729494B2	Information processing apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium An information processing apparatus includes one or more processors that function as a first acquisition unit configured to acquire information about an image-capturing environment including a physical relationship between an imaging apparatus and an object plane, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating a condition about image quality of an image to be captured by the imaging apparatus, a decision unit configured to decide an image-capturing parameter with which the object plane is fit in a depth of field in a case where the image-capturing parameter is set in the imaging apparatus, based on the information acquired by the first acquisition unit, and a presentation unit configured to present to a user a range on the object plane in which an image obtained by image capturing with the image capturing apparatus in which the decided image-capturing parameter is set satisfies the condition about image quality.
US11729488B2	Image capturing apparatus, method for controlling the same, and storage medium The present invention eliminates meaningless searching for an object, and increases the probability that an image the user likes can be obtained. An image capturing apparatus comprises an image capturing device configured to capture an object image, an object detection unit configured to detect an object from image data captured by the image capturing device, a state detection unit configured to detect information pertaining to a state in which the image capturing apparatus is being held, and a control unit configured to control a range in which the object detection unit searches for an object, on the basis of state information of the image capturing apparatus detected by the state detection unit.
US11729486B2	Image capture apparatus and control method of the same An image capture apparatus having a speech recognition function, when a detector has detected an eye approach state with respect to a viewfinder, recognizes input speech using the speech recognition function, makes settings of the image capture apparatus based on the recognized speech, makes settings of the image capture apparatus according to an operation accepted via an operation unit, and distinguishably displays the settings of the image capture apparatus made based on speech, and the settings of the image capture apparatus made according to an operation accepted via the operation unit, on the viewfinder.
US11729478B2	System and method for algorithmic editing of video content A computer implemented method for algorithmically editing digital video content is disclosed. A video file containing source video is processed to extract metadata. Label taxonomies are applied to extracted metadata. The labelled metadata is processed to identify higher-level labels. Identified higher-level labels are stored as additional metadata associated with the video file. A clip generating algorithm applies the stored metadata for selectively editing the source video to generate a plurality of different candidate video clips. Responsive to determining a clip presentation trigger on a viewer device, a clip selection algorithm is implemented that applies engagement data and metadata for the candidate video clips to select one of the stored candidate video clips. The engagement data is representative of one or more engagement metrics recorded for at least one of the stored candidate video clips. The selected video clip is presented to one or more viewers via corresponding viewer devices.
US11729477B2	Personalization of user generated content A system and method for providing personalized assistance in a virtual environment is disclosed. A plurality of trigger events is stored in memory, each trigger event based on a user interaction in the virtual environment. Data sent over a communication network regarding gameplay of a user associated with a media title engaged in the virtual environment is received. Play characteristics exhibited by the user based on the received data are identified. One or more user generated content streams that meet conditions of an identified one or more trigger events are identified. Identified streams are ranked based on a match between the play characteristics exhibited by the user and metadata of each of the identified streams. A display of the ranked streams is provided, wherein the display includes an analysis of the match.
US11729472B2	Content access based on location token A system and method for providing content to a user outside of a home region. A portable device displays content to a user through a network connection. A home content provider provides content to the portable device from the home region. Some of the content provided is region restricted content. A location verifier determines that the portable device and the user are both physically located within the home region. The location verifier issues to the user a location token when the user and the portable device are in the home region. A token verifier verifies the location token when the user requests the region restricted content outside of the home region. The token verifier further instructs the home content provider to provide region restricted content to the user when the user has the location token.
US11729470B2	Predictive media routing based on interrupt criteria In some implementations, a user device can predictively route media content to a remote playback device based on playback context information obtained by the user device. The playback context can include local playback context information related to the state and/or context of the user device. The playback context can include remote playback context information related to the state and/or context of available remote playback devices. Based on the playback context information obtained by the user device, the user device can generate a predictive score for each available playback device that indicates or predicts the likelihood that the user will want to send media content to the corresponding playback device. The user device can generate and present a graphical user interface that can identify the playback devices having predictive scores over a threshold score. In some instances, the user device can automatically route selected media content to a predicted playback device.
US11729468B2	System and method for determining the location of a user device Authenticating the location of a viewing device for receiving content includes storing a plurality of connection identifiers in a database, the connection identifiers being associated with a plurality of networking devices and a plurality of user accounts. A viewing device sends a request to access content which is received by a server. The request is associated with a user account. One or more first connection identifiers is selected from the database based on the user account to which the request is associated. A second connection identifier is obtained based on a connection between the viewing device and the server. It is determined if the second connection identifier matches one of the one or more first connection identifiers. Content is provided to the viewing device if the second connection identifier matches one of the one or more of the first connection identifiers.
US11729467B2	Failover with redundant multicasts for switched digital video A method and system for delivering content is provided. In one example, responsive to a request by a client device identifying a video program, the system is configured to determine different first and second network paths for delivery of the video program from a content source; deliver the video program via the first network path to the client device; and responsive to a change in status of the video program being delivered via the first network path, deliver the video program via the second network path to the client device.
US11729465B2	System and method providing object-oriented zoom in multimedia messaging Providing object-oriented-zoom by identifying, in a transmitter, a region-of-interest in a captured video part, communicating to a receiver the video stream, and an identification of the region-of-interest, marking, on a display of the receiver, the region-of-interest over the captured video stream on a screen display, receiving from a selection of the displayed region-of-interest forming a selected object, communicating the selection to the transmitter, dividing the video stream, in the transmitter, into a first part including the selected object, and a second part including at least a part of the captured video stream less the first part, communicating the first and second parts to the receiver, displaying the first and second parts simultaneously, where the first part is displayed in a substantially constant location of a screen display of the receiver, and where the second part is displayed around the first part to fill the screen display of the receiver.
US11729464B2	Methods and systems for transition-coded media, measuring engagement of transition-coded media, and distribution of components of transition-coded media Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for transition-coded media, measuring engagement of transition-coded media, and distribution of components of transition-coded media. For instance, the method may include: obtaining a media file; determining whether the media file includes transition-coded media; in response to determining the media file includes the transition-coded media, setting up a dynamic media environment; detecting whether a user is interacting with the transition-coded media; and in response to detecting the user is interacting with the transition-coded media, executing the transition-coded media with the dynamic media environment.
US11729460B2	Electronic device and processing method and system An electronic device includes a first interface configured to obtain a first media data of a first source device; a second interface configured to obtain a second media data of a second source device; a processing device configured to generate a third media data; and an output device configured to output media data. The media data may be the first media data, the second media data, or the third media data. The third media data affects the first media data or the second media data if the third media data and the first media data are simultaneously outputted, or the third media data and the second media data are simultaneously outputted. The processing device is configured to process the first media data and the second media data to obtain a processing result, the processing result being used to generate presentation data indicating correspondences between interfaces and the media data.
US11729458B2	Media content identification on mobile devices A mobile device responds in real time to media content presented on a media device, such as a television. The mobile device captures temporal fragments of audio-video content on its microphone, camera, or both and generates corresponding audio-video query fingerprints. The query fingerprints are transmitted to a search server located remotely or used with a search function on the mobile device for content search and identification. Audio features are extracted and audio signal global onset detection is used for input audio frame alignment. Additional audio feature signatures are generated from local audio frame onsets, audio frame frequency domain entropy, and maximum change in the spectral coefficients. Video frames are analyzed to find a television screen in the frames, and a detected active television quadrilateral is used to generate video fingerprints to be combined with audio fingerprints for more reliable content identification.
US11729455B2	Broadcast receiving apparatus for receiving program contents based on location information A digital broadcast receiving apparatus executing a function with a higher added value can include: a broadcast receiving unit configured to receive broadcasting data of broadcasting program contents and location information from a broadcast transmission path, a reference destination for obtaining data related to the broadcasting data being described in the location information; a communication unit configured to receive communication data of the program contents from the reference destination described in the location information via a communication line; a recording/reproducing unit configured to record and reproduce the broadcasting data of the broadcasting program contents received by the broadcast receiving unit; an outputting unit configured to output the broadcasting data of the broadcasting program contents reproduced from the recording/reproducing unit to external equipment; and a server function unit for external equipment. The outputting unit can include a state where the location information is outputted together with reproduced broadcasting data.
US11729451B2	Systems and methods for encoding video content Systems and methods for encoding a plurality of alternative streams of video content using multiple encoders in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. An encoding system includes multiple encoders. Each of the encoders receives a source stream of video content that is divided into portions. Each of the encoders generates portions of the plurality of alternative streams from the portions of the source stream. The portions of the alternative streams generated by a particular encoder are stored in a container for the particular encoder. Each encoder also generates index information for the portion of the alternative stream generated by the encoder that is stored in a manifest for the encoder.
US11729450B2	Systems and methods for delivery of content via multicast and unicast The system and methods described aid content delivery by providing requested content using a hybrid delivery of unicast and multicast content. A content delivery system receives, from user equipment, a request for content and identifies multicast sources for the content. The content delivery system determines a recent multicast source from the multicast sources, the recent multicast source having begun more recently relative to the other sources. The content delivery system transmits, to the user equipment, an identity of the recent multicast source and provides a beginning portion of the content to the user equipment via a unicast stream.
US11729448B2	Intelligent digital interruption management The present invention is a system to manage interrupt notifications on an operating system based on the characteristics of content in which an end user is currently immersed or engaged. For example, relatively high bitrate video throughput is indicative of corresponding high information depth and more action occurring in the scene. For periods of high information depth, interrupt notifications are deferred until the information depth falls into a relative trough. Additional embodiments of the invention process scene transitions, technical cues, dialog and lyrics to release queued interrupt notification at optimal times. A vamping process is also provided when interrupt notification are released to keep the end user prescient to the background application in which they were engaged prior to the interrupt notification coming into focus.
US11729446B2	Video display system, video display device, contents server, video display method, and video display program In a system configured to enable mutual communications between a contents server and a video display device, the contents server is configured to accumulate a plurality of video contents, receive operator analysis information transmitted from the video display device, select at least one video content from the plurality of accumulated video contents based on the operator analysis information received by an operator information receiving unit, and transmit the selected content to the video display device. The video display device is configured to receive a digital broadcast wave, select a digital broadcast program, acquire the operator analysis information of the video display device, transmit the acquired operator analysis information to the contents server, receive the video content transmitted from the contents server, and select and display one of the digital broadcast program selected by a digital broadcast program selector and the video content received by a video contents receiving unit.
US11729444B2	System and methods for sensor-based audience estimation during digital media display sessions on mobile vehicles A system for providing audience estimation for digital media display sessions displayed on a mobile vehicle, including storage media, a processing system, an interface system including a communications interface, one or more neural networks, and program instructions that the processing system to receive object sensor data, apply an entity classifier thereto to determine a type of each unique audience entity, determine a presence duration of the entity during the digital media display session, and transmit each unique audience entity to an online dashboard.
US11729435B2	Content distribution server, content distribution method and content distribution program A content distribution server, includes: a communicator that receives live contents transmitted through a network NW from a distributor terminal used by a distributor of a live content; a designator that designates an area in the live content, where another content is superimposed and played; a selector that selects the other content to be played in the area designated; and a controller that generates a distribution content by superimposing the other content selected by the selector in the area designated by the designator in the live content, wherein the communicator distributes the distribution content to a viewer terminal through the network NW.
US11729432B2	Inflight entertainment system using video object recognition to monitor seat areas and generate flight crew notifications An object recognition computer for a vehicle includes at least one processor and at least one memory storing program code executable by the at least one processor to perform operations. The operations are configured to receive video streams from a plurality of cameras spaced apart within the vehicle and each having a field-of-view capturing at least one passenger seat. For each of the video streams, the operations retrieve from a data structure information that defines a region within video frames of the video stream where object recognition is to be performed to attempt to identify a defined object associated with the at least one passenger seat. The operations then perform object recognition limited to within the defined region to identify the defined object. Notifications can be selectively generated to passengers and/or crew based on the object recognition.
US11729430B2	Filter parameter signaling in video picture headers Methods and apparatus for video processing are described. The video processing may include video encoding, video decoding, or video transcoding. One example video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video picture of a video and a bitstream of the video. A first syntax element in a first video unit level specifying a deblocking parameter offset for β divided by 2 applied to a chroma component for one or more slices in a first video unit and a second syntax element in the first video unit level specifying a deblocking parameter offset for tC divided by 2 applied to the chroma component for the one or more slices in the first video unit are determined according to a rule in response to the first syntax element and the second syntax element not included in the bitstream.
US11729426B2	Block-based predictive coding and decoding of a picture A previously encoded or reconstructed version of a neighborhood of a predetermined block to be predicted is exploited so as to result into a more efficient predictive coding of the prediction block. In particular, a spectral decomposition of a region composed of this neighborhood and a first version of a predicted filling of the predetermined block results into a first spectrum which is subject to noise reduction and the thus resulting second spectrum may be subject to a spectral composition, thereby resulting in a modified version of this region including a second version of the predicted filling of the predetermined block. Owing to the exploitation of the already processed, i.e. encoded/reconstructed, neighborhood of the predetermined block, the second version of the predicted filling of the predetermined block tends to improve the coding efficiency.
US11729417B2	Generalized bi-prediction and weighted prediction A decoding method is presented. At least one high level syntax element is decoded that indicates whether generalized bi-prediction applies for predicting blocks of a slice. A block is then decoded from said slice using generalized bi-prediction in the case where said at least one high level syntax element indicates to apply generalized bi-prediction.
US11729416B2	Modular motion estimation engine for tree-based video An embodiment of a semiconductor package apparatus may include technology to determine a residual error based on coding unit information, and determine a candidate coding unit and an associated rate distortion cost based on the residual error. An embodiment may additionally or alternatively include technology to partition a first coding unit into two or more smaller coding units based on a partition message, accelerate processing of at least one of the two or more smaller coding units, and estimate motion fora frame based at least partially on results of the accelerated processing. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US11729410B2	Image decoding method/apparatus, image encoding method/apparatus, and recording medium storing bitstream The present invention provides an image encoding method and an image decoding method. An image decoding method according to the present invention, for decoding an image by decoder-side motion information derivation, comprises the steps of: checking, from among a plurality of motion information derivation types, the motion information derivation type applied to the current block: and deriving motion information of the current block according to the checked motion information derivation type, wherein different motion information compensation techniques are applicable according to the motion information derivation type.
US11729408B2	Method for deriving constructed affine merge candidates The present disclosure relates to a method for deriving constructed affine merge candidates. The method includes acquiring one or more control point sets from a decoder. The decoder determines whether a reference index of each control point for the control point set index within the control point set associated with a reference index pointing into a reference picture in a first reference picture list is greater than or equal to zero and each is equal to each other. The decoder also determines whether a reference index of each control point for the control point set index within the control point set associated with a reference index pointing into a reference picture in a second reference picture list is greater than or equal to zero and each is equal to each other. The decoder determines that an affine motion model is available based on the determination result.
US11729407B2	Saliency-based video compression systems and methods Examples of systems and methods described herein may provide saliency-based video compression. A saliency map associated with a video may be generated and/or provided. A tile configuration may be selected for the video and quality settings assigned to each tile in accordance with the saliency map. The video may then be compressed (e.g., encoded) in tiles in accordance with the quality settings. Compressed videos may be stored together with saliency metadata, facilitating storage management and/or re-compression.
US11729405B2	Parameter derivation for 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, parameters of a cross-component linear model (CCLM) based on two or four chroma samples and/or corresponding luma samples; and performing the conversion based on the determining.
US11729404B2	Luma mapping- and chroma scaling-based video or image coding According to a disclosure of the present document, image information including prediction mode information and information associated with luma mapping with chroma scaling (LMCS) is acquired from a bitstream, wherein the image information includes LMCS adaptation parameter sets (APSs), and by limiting the range of APS ID information included in the LMCS APSs, a memory used in a LMCS procedure may be reduced (limited).
US11729393B2	Matrix-based intra prediction device and method An image decoding method according to the present document can comprise the steps of: receiving flag information indicating whether a matrix-based intra prediction (MIP) is used with respect to a current block; receiving matrix-based intra prediction (MIP) mode information on the basis of the flag information; generating an intra prediction sample for the current block on the basis of the MIP mode information; and generating restoration samples for the current block on the basis of the intra prediction samples.
US11729387B1	Automatic configuration of settings for a video encoder Techniques for automatically configuring settings for a video encoder are described. According to some embodiments, a computer-implemented method includes setting a content delivery service to an automatic video encoder configuration mode, determining statistics for a plurality of frames of a live video, concurrently generating a first spatial adaptive quantization strength value for a first quantization parameter value by a first machine learning model for an input comprising the statistics, and a second spatial adaptive quantization strength value for a second, different quantization parameter value by a second machine learning model for an input comprising the statistics, receiving a quantization parameter value from a rate controller of the content delivery service, encoding the live video at the first spatial adaptive quantization strength value when the quantization parameter value from the rate controller is the first quantization parameter value, encoding the live video at the second spatial adaptive quantization strength value when the quantization parameter value from the rate controller is the second, different quantization parameter value, and transmitting the encoded live video to a viewer device.
US11729384B2	Explicit address signaling in video coding A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes receiving a sub-bitstream including: a sub-picture of a picture partitioned into a plurality of slices including a first slice, a parameter set associated with the picture and the sub-picture, and a slice header associated with the first slice. The parameter set is parsed to obtain an identifier and a length of a slice address of the first slice. A slice address for the first slice is determined from the slice header based on the identifier and the length of the slice address. The sub-bitstream is decoded to create a video sequence of sub-pictures including the first slice. The video sequence of sub-pictures is forwarded for display.
US11729383B2	Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, and recording medium storing bitstream An image encoding/decoding method is disclosed. An image decoding method of the present invention may comprise deriving slice mode information on a slice included in a current picture, deriving slice identification information on the basis of the slice mode information, and decoding the slice on the basis of the slice identification information.
US11729376B2	Method for encoding/decoding video signal and apparatus therefor A video decoding method according to the present disclosure includes determining a reference sample line for a current block, deriving an intra prediction mode for the current block, and performing intra prediction of the current block based on the reference sample line and the intra prediction mode.
US11729375B2	Three-dimensional data encoding method, three-dimensional data decoding method, three-dimensional data encoding device, and three-dimensional data decoding device A three-dimensional data encoding method of encoding three-dimensional points includes: calculating a new predicted value as a predicted value, using attribute information items of one or more second three-dimensional points neighboring a first three-dimensional point, and assigning the predicted value to at least one prediction mode among two or more prediction modes, the new predicted value being used for calculating an attribute information item of the first three-dimensional point; selecting one prediction mode from the two or more prediction modes; calculating a prediction residual which is a difference between the attribute information item of the first three-dimensional point and the predicted value of the one prediction mode selected; and generating a bitstream including the one prediction mode and the prediction residual.
US11729374B2	Camera module test apparatus, camera module test method and image generating device A camera module test apparatus having improved performance include a coefficient data extractor that accommodates a camera module; and a test apparatus that accommodates the camera module and tests the camera module. The coefficient data extractor includes a coefficient generator that receives an image signal output from the camera module, and generates coefficient data of a ratio of a first color image signal and a second color image signal included in the image signal; and a memory device that stores the generated coefficient data. The test apparatus includes an image generator that receives an image signal from the camera module and coefficient data from the memory device, and generates a converted pattern image signal based on the image signal and the coefficient data; and a calibration data generator that generates calibration data of the converted pattern image signal.
US11729372B2	Drone-assisted sensor mapping Methods, systems, and apparatus for drone-assisted sensor mapping are disclosed. A method includes detecting a sensor in a detection area of a drone; based on detecting the sensor in the detection area of the drone, detecting the drone in sensor data captured by the sensor; determining a detection area of the sensor based on movement of the drone after the drone is detected; and determining a destination for the drone based on the detection area of the sensor. The method may include mapping boundaries of the detection area of the sensor to a map of an area where the sensor is located. The sensor can be a passive infrared sensor, an active infrared sensor, a radar sensor, a sonar sensor, a time of flight sensor, a structured light sensor, or a lidar sensor.
US11729364B2	Circular stitching of images Systems and methods are disclosed for circular stitching of images. For example, methods may include accessing a first image captured using a first image sensor; accessing a second image captured using a second image sensor; determining a cost table for a circular stitching boundary that includes overlapping regions of the first image and the second image; determining an extended disparity profile based on a periodic extension of the cost table and a smoothness criterion, wherein the extended disparity profile has a length greater than the width of the cost table; determining a binocular disparity profile of a length equal to the width of the cost table based on a contiguous subsequence of the extended disparity profile; and stitching the first image and the second image using the binocular disparity profile to obtain a combined image.
US11729357B2	Image recording arrangement, associated use and method for commissioning an image recording arrangement In order to reduce costs for endoscopic examinations and to enable new operating concepts, an image recording arrangement is provided in which an adapter that enables bi-directional communication between a camera control unit and an image generation unit which has an image sensor. A standardized data interface is configured between the camera control unit and the adapter. The adapter is defined for use with a specific type of image generation unit. Accordingly, the adapter has a communication apparatus which translates control and adjustment commands transmitted by the camera control unit into a format processable by the image generation unit and provides image data from the image sensor in a format processable by the camera control unit. The camera control unit can therefore access, control and adjust the image generation unit and can display image data from the image generation unit without adaptation to the image generation unit connected to the adapter and therefore without knowledge of said image generation unit.
US11729356B2	Masking video feedback loop during screen sharing A method includes capturing a first image associated with a portion of a display screen being shared. The method further includes rendering the first image in a preview window of the display screen being shared to form a second image. The second image is captured so as to determine whether the first image is duplicated in the second image. The duplication of the first image in the second image is masked to form a third image. The third image is rendered in the preview window.
US11729352B2	Waiting notifications for videoconferencing sub-meetings One example system for providing notifications to videoconferencing sub-meetings includes a processor and at least one memory device. The processor establishes a videoconferencing session associated with a host. The videoconferencing session can include a main meeting, a sub-meeting, and a waiting queue. The processor can move the host from the main meeting to the sub-meeting, and subsequently move a new participant into the waiting queue. The processor can generate a notification that the participant has entered the waiting queue and determine that the host has moved to the sub-meeting. The processor can route, to the host in the sub-meeting using a stored connection of the host to the main meeting, a notification of the participant entering the waiting queue, and subsequently allow the host to admit the new participant.
US11729349B2	Method, electronic device, and computer program product for video processing Illustrative embodiments include a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for video processing. In the method, a first group of image frames in a first video having a first resolution is converted into a second group of image frames having a second resolution, the first resolution being higher than the second resolution; a second video having the second resolution is generated based on the second group of image frames; conversion parameters for the second video are determined based on the first group of image frames and the second group of image frames, the conversion parameters being used to convert an image frame in the second group of image frames into an image frame having a third resolution, and the third resolution being higher than the second resolution; and the conversion parameters and the second video are sent to a requester of the first video.
US11729344B2	Imaging unit and radiation image acquisition system An imaging unit includes a housing having a wall portion in which a slit for passing radiation is formed, a scintillator having an input surface to which radiation passing through the slit is input, a first mirror that reflects scintillation light output from the input surface, and a line scan camera that detects scintillation light reflected by the first mirror. The scintillator is placed to make the input surface parallel to both the conveying direction and a line direction. The first mirror is positioned outside an irradiation region connecting the peripheral edge of the slit to the input surface of the scintillator.
US11729337B2	Method and storage medium for controlling image-forming devices through network A method for controlling image-forming devices includes acquiring currently-available wireless networks, including detecting the currently-available wireless networks and acquiring broadcast information transmitted by each wireless access point by a wireless communication module in an electronic terminal; searching image-forming devices through the currently-available wireless networks and establishing a list of the image-forming devices; according to the list of the image-forming devices, selecting a target image-forming device; and connecting to a wireless network corresponding to the target image-forming device and establishing a communication with the target image-forming device, thereby controlling the target image-forming device to execute an image-forming task.
US11729335B2	Image reading apparatus to manage transmission destination of input image An image reading apparatus includes a first communication device provided communicatively with a first information processing apparatus, a second communication device provided communicatively with a second information processing apparatus, and a processor to receive a setting for a transmission destination of an input image, prohibit transmission of the input image via the second communication device when the first information processing apparatus that can communicate via the first communication device is set as the transmission destination of the input image, determine whether the first communication device is in a state physically communicable with a network. The processor permits transmission of the input image via the second communication device when the first information processing apparatus is set as the transmission destination of the input image and it is determined that the first communication device is not in a state physically communicable with the network.
US11729331B2	Service providing system to generate duplicated application and transmit it to the electronic device for display on a display, information processing method, and non-transitory recording medium A service providing system and an information processing method. The service providing system stores in one or more memories, a plurality of settings of an application that receives an execution request from the electronic device, duplicates the application that uses one of the plurality of settings stored in the one or more memories to generate duplicated application, and transmits information on the duplicated application to the electronic device, and the electronic device displays on a display, a screen for selecting an application to be executed by a user, the screen including the duplicated application for selection by the user.
US11729328B2	Information processing device, method, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for scanning an image using a protective sheet to estimate a ratio of document lengths, acquired from scanned images, to correct a length of a scanned image or length of a cropped image, based on the ratio An information processing device executes: acquiring a scanned image of a document and a protective sheet that protects the document, the scanned image being obtained by imaging the document and the protective sheet while being conveyed at the same time; acquiring a first length that is a conveying direction length of a predetermined portion of the protective sheet; acquiring a second length that is a conveying direction length of the predetermined portion in the scanned image; and estimating a ratio between a document length, which is a conveying direction length of the document, and a document image length, which is a conveying direction length of the document in the scanned image, based on the first length and the second length.
US11729327B2	Sheet conveying device capable of switching conveyance route of sheet, image processing apparatus, and sheet conveying method A sheet conveying device includes a reception processing portion and a conveyance control portion. The reception processing portion receives an input operation to input conveyance route information that indicates which of a first conveyance route, leading to a first discharge portion via a first conveyance path that extends straight from a sheet placement portion, and a second conveyance route, leading to a second discharge portion, which is different from the first discharge portion, via a second conveyance path that includes a curved portion branching off from the first conveyance path, each sheet included in a sheet stack placed on the sheet placement portion is conveyed along. The conveyance control portion sequentially conveys each sheet included in the sheet stack placed on the sheet placement portion along either the first conveyance route or the second conveyance route according to the conveyance route information input through the input operation.
US11729324B2	Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus includes imaging units that image a subject, a title generation executing unit that generates title images each including a display title for classifying a plurality of captured images acquired by the imaging unit and inserts the title image into the captured images, a storage unit that stores the captured images and the title images, a display unit that displays the captured images and the title images stored in the storage unit in the form of a list, and an image search executing unit that searches for a desired captured image from the plurality of captured images and the title images displayed on the display unit in the form of the list. The title generation executing unit hierarchically generates the title images in accordance with a priority set in each type of display title for classifying the captured images.
US11729323B2	Information processing apparatus, method for controlling information processing apparatus, and storage medium for remotely configuring icons on user interfaces An information processing apparatus configured to connect to an external apparatus includes a display control unit configured to control icons to be arranged and displayed in list form on a remote user interface provided to the external apparatus accessing the information processing apparatus, wherein the icons are displayed on a plurality of pages on a local user interface of the information processing apparatus, and a control unit configured to control movement of the icons displayed on the local user interface, in response to an operation on the remote user interface. The display control unit displays a first instruction button in association with an icon included in the icons displayed in list form, and the first instruction button is configured to instruct the control unit to move the icon from a page to another page in the plurality of pages.
US11729318B2	Directing communication of data from an image sensor A memory device can be configured to direct communication of data from an image sensor to the memory device and/or image signal processing circuitry coupled thereto. The memory device can be configured to receive first signaling indicative of first data from an image sensor via a first port and provide the first signaling from the memory device to image signal processing (ISP) circuitry via a second port. The memory device can be configured to receiving, by the memory device, second signaling indicative of second data from the image sensor while the ISP circuitry operates on the first data. An image processing operation can be performed using logic circuitry of the memory device. Directing communication of data using the memory device can reduce data transfers, reduce resource consumption of an imaging system, and offload workloads from a host device and/or a host processing device, for example.
US11729316B1	Call center interface One or more embodiments of techniques or systems for intelligent data presentation are provided herein. Data can be presented on similar devices having different characteristics in different manners. For example, data may be rendered in a first manner on a first device having one monitor, the same data may be rendered in a second manner on a second device having two displays or a different display size. Financial information, sales data, banking information, etc. may be presented in a variety of ways based on capabilities or properties of a device accessing the information or data. Similarly, renderings may be selected based on interaction capabilities or interaction options a user may have with different renderings or presentations. In other embodiments, user interaction with an automated teller machine (ATM), call center, vehicle, or other interface can be based on device properties or device capabilities.
US11729314B1	Call screening service for communication devices One example method of operation may include identifying a call from a caller and destined for a callee, receiving a data message associated with the call, forwarding the data message to a call processing server, processing the data message to identify one or more call parameters, comparing the one or more call parameters to an active call scam model applied by the call processing server, determining a scam score for the call based on the comparing of the one or more call parameters to the active call scam model applied by the call processing server, and determining whether to notify the callee that the call is a scam based on the scam score.
US11729312B2	Hearing accommodation A method may include obtaining a first audio signal including first speech originating at a remote device during a communication session between the remote device and a communication device and obtaining a second audio signal including second speech originating at the communication device during the communication session between the remote device and the communication device. The method may also include obtaining a characteristic of the communication session from one or more of: the first audio signal, the second audio signal, and settings of the communication device and determining a hearing level of a user of the communication device using the characteristic of the communication session.
US11729307B2	Control of smartphone for drivers while driving A system for controlling smartphones of drivers of moving automobiles including a plurality of smartphones, each smartphone including a GPS unit to record speed and location of smartphone, a driver control application to control access to phone services and social media applications, a low frequency receiver to receive low frequency radio frequency identification, an LF RFID, signal from key fob located within moving automobile, and a computing unit to measure a received signal strength indicator, RSSI, of LF RFID signal, a transmitter to transmit the speed, location, LF RFID signal, and RSSI to a centralized monitor. The centralized monitor includes a computing circuitry to receive the speed, location, LF RFID signal, and RSSI of each smartphone, generate clusters of speeds and locations of smartphones, analyze clusters to determine smartphones located within a particular moving automobile, determine smartphone of driver, and transmit a control signal to the smartphone of the driver.
US11729300B2	Generating programmatically defined fields of metadata for network packets Programmatically defined fields of metadata for a network packet may be generated. Instructions indicating different portions of data from different headers of a network packet may be stored at a packet processor. When a network packet is received, the different portions of the data may be extracted from the different headers of the packet according to the instructions and provided to other stages of the packet processor for processing. Different portions of the same programmatically defined field may be utilized at different stages in the packet processor. The programmatically defined field may be used to generate a hash value that selects an entry in a lookup table describing a forwarding decision for a network packet.
US11729297B2	System and method for improving internet communication by using intermediate nodes A method for fetching a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed, using tunnel devices serving as intermediate devices. The client device accesses an acceleration server to receive a list of available tunnel devices. The requested content is partitioned into slices, and the client device sends a request for the slices to the available tunnel devices. The tunnel devices in turn fetch the slices from the data server, and send the slices to the client device, where the content is reconstructed from the received slices. A client device may also serve as a tunnel device, serving as an intermediate device to other client devices. Similarly, a tunnel device may also serve as a client device for fetching content from a data server. The selection of tunnel devices to be used by a client device may be in the acceleration server, in the client device, or in both. The partition into slices may be overlapping or non-overlapping, and the same slice (or the whole content) may be fetched via multiple tunnel devices.
US11729295B2	Dynamic link processing engine Method, apparatus and computer program product for dynamic link processing engine. For example, the apparatus includes at least one processor and at least one non-transitory memory including program code. The at least one non-transitory memory and the program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, determine link invocation information associated with a link invocation; determining, based on the link invocation information, a link display characterization for the link invocation; and in response to determining that the link display characterization indicates that the expected output associated with the link invocation comprises display-oriented data: determine, based on the link invocation information, a dynamic redirection characterization for the link invocation; and in response to determining that the dynamic redirection characterization indicates that the display-oriented data associated with the link invocation is associated with the target application, perform an inter-application redirection between the invoking application and the target application.
US11729294B2	Processing DNS queries to identify pre-processing information Systems and methods for processing a DNS query to identify and implement pre-processing information by a DNS server component in anticipation of a corresponding content request from a client computing device are provided. The pre-processing information can correspond to identification of content to be preloaded or other actions to be implemented by one or more computing devices in association with an anticipated client content request. Based on identification of the content or future actions, a DNS server component can provide the pre-processing information to one or more computing devices, such as computing devices of a CDN service provider and/or an original content provider, in advance of a corresponding request for content from the client computing device in order to improve performance associated with responding to the client request.
US11729293B2	Mapping service for local content redirection A mapping service in the mobile core network located after a packet data network gateway examines content requests from user equipment across a first PDN connection to determine if content associated with the content request is cached at an edge server outside of the packet data network. If the content from the packet data network is cached at the edge server, the mapping service redirects the user equipment to request the content from the edge server across a second PDN connection. By using a mapping service located after the packet data network gateway, the content requests may have already passed restrictions such as parental controls.
US11729292B1	Automated caching and cache busting Mechanisms are provided for promulgating modifications to resources to client devices. A resource is modified and, in response, a new reference to the modified resource is generated along with a mapping that maps a previous reference, prior to the modification, to the new reference of the modified resource. The mapping and interceptor code are injected into an index file of content referencing the resource. The interceptor code intercepts requests referencing the resource and uses the mapping to modify the requests to use the new reference. In response to receiving a request for the content from a client, the index file is transmitted to the client to execute the interceptor code and process references to the resource, in the content, by modifying the references to the resource to direct the retrieval of the resource to the modified resource according to the new reference specified in the mapping data structure.
US11729287B2	Methods and apparatus to determine media impressions using distributed demographic information Examples to determine media impressions using distributed demographic information are disclosed. An example system includes programmable circuitry to log, at a first Internet domain, a first record for a first website visit by a first client device to a website at a second Internet domain, the first record based on a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request, the first record to include a timestamp, a uniform resource locator (URL), and a user identifier, the timestamp to represent a time of the first website visit, the URL corresponding to the website at the second Internet domain, and weight impression data in a report, the impression data associated with the first record and with second records, the second records corresponding to second website visits to the website via second client devices, the weighting of the impression data based on demographic distributions of audience members corresponding to the first and second records.
US11729286B2	Feature-based network embedding A system receives a temporal graph comprising nodes having respective identifiers and edges. Each of the edges has a direction pointing from a first node to a second node and indicates an association of the first node with the second node. The system generates a sequence of nodes and a sequence of edges by traversing the temporal graph. The system determines, for each node of the sequence of nodes, a respective set of feature values including an indegree, an outdegree, and a total degree. The system determines, for each edge of the sequence of edges, an edge feature comprising a sum of the total degree of a first node preceding the edge and the total degree of a second node following the edge. The system forms an edge feature values sequence for the sequence of edges and determines an edge network embedding for each edge of the sequence of edges.
US11729284B2	Edge-based site analytics A request for a page is received. In response to the request, content comprising the page is provided. The content includes an element which when executed by a browser with which the page request is associated causes the page as rendered by the browser to send a request initiated by the page to obtain an associated requested content. The request initiated by the page is received. A metric associated with the request initiated by the page is determined. Data reflecting the metric associated with the request initiated by the page is stored.
US11729282B2	System and method for selecting and providing zone-specific media A system and method for providing zone-specific media to a user. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a system and method that flexibly selects and provides media content (e.g., audio content), where such content is selected based, at least in part, on a user location (e.g., location within a premises).
US11729278B2	Systems and methods for data routing management Methods and systems for data routing management are disclosed. A method can comprise a system receiving a request directed to an address. The system can determine performance capabilities of a first logical grouping of computing devices, wherein the first logical grouping of computing devices share the address. The system can determine whether at least one computing device of the first logical grouping of computing devices can receive the request. If at least one computing device of the first logical grouping of computing devices can receive the request, the request can be transmitted to the at least one computing device of the first logical grouping of computing devices. If at least one computing device of the first logical grouping of computing devices cannot receive the request, the request can be transmitted to a second logical grouping of computing devices that share the address.
US11729277B2	Apparatus and method for controlling application relocation in edge computing environment An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device operates in an edge computing environment, and includes: a memory storing an application, a wireless communication circuitry, and at least one processor. The at least one processor implements the method, including: receiving a query message querying whether application relocation is possible from an external server through wireless communication circuitry, identifying, using at least one processor, whether the application relocation is possible based on a running state of the application, in response to receiving the query message, when the application relocation is impossible, transmitting a first response message indicating that the application relocation is impossible to the external server, or when the application relocation is possible, transmitting a second response message indicating that the application relocation is possible to the external server.
US11729276B2	Rapid online variable sourcing infrastructure (ROVS) for decision systems There are provided systems and methods for a rapid online variable sourcing infrastructure for decision system. Specifically, endpoints may be injected into domain servers serving as a template for sourcing new data variables. When new variables are involved, a first endpoint is injected for registering variables exposed to the domain server, and a second endpoint may be injected to fetch data values at run time, e.g., during the actual decision computation. In this way, data pipeline latency can be avoided during the sourcing process, as the data variables can be sourced from domain servers at run time.
US11729272B2	Hart-enabled device with reduced communication lines and break extension protocol A current loop includes a receiver assembly and a transmitter assembly. The current loop also includes: a first conductor between the receiver assembly and the transmitter assembly; and a second conductor between the receiver assembly and the transmitter assembly to complete the current loop. The transmitter assembly includes: a Highway Addressable Remote Transducer (HART) modem; a component in communication with the HART modem via a partial set of Universal Asynchronous Receiver-Transmitter (UART) communication lines; and a break extension protocol controller coupled to or included with the HART modem and configured to support UART and non-UART communications between the HART modem and the component using the partial set of UART communication lines.
US11729269B1	Bandwidth management in distributed file systems Embodiments are directed to bandwidth management in distributed file systems. A request stored in a queue may be dequeued. A work credit value may be determined based on a duration since a last job and a work rate associated with the file system such that the work credit value conforms to a maximum threshold value. A job may be initialized based on the dequeued request such that the work credit value may be reduced based on a size of the job. In response to the reduced work credit value being a negative value further actions may be performed, including: determining a time delay based on the reduced work credit value, the work rate, and the size of the job; delaying an execution of the job until the expiry of the time delay such that upon expiry of the time delay, the job is executed to satisfy the request.
US11729267B2	Photograph sharing system A photograph sharing system is described. The photograph sharing system allows for contributors to upload photographs of an event. Contributors or other application users may select an uploaded photograph in a desired section and digitally zoom in on a desired individual in that section and then download the zoomed in photograph.
US11729266B2	Method and device for preventing data misdeletion, storage medium, and product A method for preventing data misdeletion includes: each of an Internet of Things (IoT) terminal and a user terminal is provided with a misdeletion prevention switch; and when a user opens the misdeletion prevention switch of the user terminal, the misdeletion prevention switch of the IoT terminal is synchronously opened, and when a server obtains a deletion request generated by the server, the server does not respond to the deletion request.
US11729262B2	Enabling analytics for a virtualized application Solutions for enabling analytics for a virtualized application leverage reproducibility of information as a substitute for persisting information. Disclosed solutions include: collecting, by a virtualized application, first analytics data on a user equipment (UE); performing, by the virtualized application, a one-way function (e.g., a hash function) on persistent information (e.g., an international mobile equipment identity (IMEI) number) on the UE to generate a unique UE identification (ID); transmitting the first analytics data and the UE ID to a remote node across a network; collecting, by the virtualized application, second analytics data on the UE; and transmitting the second analytics data and the UE ID to the remote node across the network. Because the UE ID is deterministic, it may be generated repeatedly, as needed, (producing the same value each time) to compensate for the inability of the virtualized application to persist the UE ID on the UE.
US11729261B2	Systems and methods for unmanned aerial system communication Systems and method may provide unmanned aerial system communication. A method, performed by at least one processor that implements at least one server includes: obtaining a group identifier of a pair of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and a controller of the UAV, or a respective group identifier for each of the pair; provisioning Quality of Service (QoS) for communication of the pair, using the group identifier of the pair or the respective group identifier for each of the pair; and determining whether a condition of the communication satisfies a pre-defined QoS requirement for the communication of the pair of the UAV and the controller, wherein the pre-defined QoS requirement includes a UAV originated QoS and a UAV terminated QoS.
US11729260B2	Internet-of-things resource access system and method Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an Internet-of-Things resource access system and method. The system comprises a protocol management subsystem, a data conversion subsystem, and a load balancing subsystem. The protocol management subsystem is configured to obtain protocol frames from shared storage queues of protocol data packets, use a protocol stack to parse the protocol frames into original data payloads and provide the original data payloads to a data conversion subsystem; the data conversion subsystem is configured to perform protocol management, resource binding and data conversion, load Internet-of-Things resources and convert the original data payloads into observation data through multi-threaded concurrency; and the load balancing subsystem is configured to access the Internet-of-Things resources to the system through virtual IP, connect the Internet-of-Things resource to background service nodes through load balancing servers and send the protocol frames to the shared storage queues of the protocol data packets.
US11729256B2	Predetermining network route for content steering The disclosed computer-implemented method includes determining that incoming media item requests are to be skewed from a random distribution among server nodes, using a random distribution algorithm, to a directed distribution among the server nodes. The method then includes identifying, in a loading assignment, which media items are to be loaded onto specific server nodes to produce the directed distribution of media item requests. The method next includes preloading the identified media items onto the server nodes according to the loading assignment and receiving media item requests for the preloaded media items. The method then includes routing the received media item requests to the server nodes using the random distribution algorithm, where the random distribution algorithm is skewed to the directed distribution based on the preloading of the media items according to the identified loading assignment. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11729249B2	Network address resolution A content delivery method, and related apparatus, that involves the operations of receiving a request for a content resource including at least one embedded resource with a tag. Upon identification of the tag, using at least one delivery parameter to generate a modified embedded resource. Embedding the modified embedded resource in a content resource, such as an HTML document. Delivering, such as in response to request from a browser, the content resource with the modified embedded resource.
US11729245B2	Platform for constructing and consuming realm and object feature clouds A computer-readable non-transitory storage medium in which are stored sets of data characterizing a feature cloud model of a realm, wherein each set of data: corresponds to a distinct one of a plurality of digital contributions that collectively originate from a plurality of remote computing devices, each digital contribution characterizing a defined and distinct three-dimensional volume of the realm, wherein each distinct three-dimensional volume includes a portion that does not overlap any other three-dimensional volume; is associated with a global coordinate system; and defines, for the non-overlapping portion in the distinct three-dimensional volume of the distinct contribution, such portion's location in the global coordinate system so as to provide the feature cloud model of the realm.
US11729241B2	Maximum sustainable encoding bit rates for video downloads Described embodiments include a system that includes a network interface and a processor. The processor is configured to identify, via the network interface, a state of congestion in a communication channel between a base station belonging to a cellular network and a client device, to calculate, responsively to the state of congestion, a maximum sustainable encoding bit rate (MSEBR) for a video that is being downloaded by the client device, from a server, via the communication channel, the video being encoded at a plurality of different predefined bit rates, and to inhibit the client device, in response to calculating the MSEBR, from downloading a segment of the video that is encoded at any one of the predefined bit rates that exceeds the MSEBR. Other embodiments are also described.
US11729240B2	Fanout processor Disclosed herein is a processor to process streaming data. The processor includes a TCP client circuit and a TCP server circuit. A fanout circuit is communicatively coupled to the TCP client circuit and the TCP server circuit. The fanout circuit receives data from the TCP client circuit, determines a rate at which to transmit the received market data, and instructs the TCP server circuit to send the received data at the determined rate.
US11729237B2	Custom content insertion Provided are methods and systems for inserting custom content. An example method can comprise receiving, at a first computing device, an insertion instruction over a first non-packet-switching protocol information stream. The method can also comprise querying, by the first computing device, a second computing device in response to receiving the insertion instruction. The method can further comprise receiving, at the first computing device, content over a packet-switching protocol information stream in response to querying the second computing device. The content can be customized for an end-user associated with the first computing device.
US11729236B2	Sampling rate processing method, apparatus, and system, storage medium, and computer device A sampling rate processing method performed by a computer device are disclosed. The method includes: obtaining a first audio signal recorded by a transmitting device, the first audio signal being recorded according to an initial sampling rate of the transmitting device; obtaining a second audio signal recorded by a receiving device during playing of the first audio signal, the second audio signal being recorded according to the initial sampling rate; determining a frequency response gain value of the receiving device according to a power spectrum of the first audio signal and a power spectrum of the second audio signal; determining a target sampling rate of the transmitting device according to the initial sampling rate and the frequency response gain value; and configuring the transmitting device to record audio signals according to the target sampling rate.
US11729235B2	System and method for synchronizing transmission of media content using timestamps A system and method is provided for synchronizing media content in a media distribution network using timestamps. The system includes a decoder configured to parse a plurality of data packets of a media stream to determine a timestamp value for each video frame in the media stream; and a media content synchronizer. The media content synchronizer generates a media content timeline based on the determined timestamp value of each of video frame, generates the media content timeline based on a cadence having monotonic increasing count, determines whether each video frame of the media stream is a next frame in a video sequence of the media stream based on the timestamp value for the respective video frame, and repeats a previous frame in the video sequence to generate the media content timeline when a current frame in the video sequence was dropped based on the determined timestamp value.
US11729233B2	Location-based playlist generation Example techniques disclosed herein relate to location-based playlists. In an example implementation, a system receives, from a mobile device, first GPS data indicating that the mobile device is located at a first physical location, wherein an application on the mobile device is registered with a particular user account of the cloud service. The system determines that the first physical location represented in the first GPS data corresponds to a location of a first business associated with one or more first playback devices within the cloud service. The one or more first playback devices are playing back first audio tracks. As each first audio track is at least partially played back, the system adds the respective first audio track to a location-based playlist associated with the particular user account of the cloud service. The computing system causes the mobile device to display an indication of the location-based playlist.
US11729223B1	Systems and methods for facilitating provisioning of internet protocol multimedia subsystem services In some implementations, a network device (e.g., an Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) application server (IMS-AS) may receive, via a first communication interface, from a call session control function (CSCF) device, a request to register for an Internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) service. The network device may provide via a second communication interface between the network device and a unified data management (UDM) device, and to the UDM device, a request for IMS service information associated with the IMS service. The network device may receive based on providing the request for IMS service information, via the second communication interface, and from the UDM device, IMS service information. The network device may cause, based on the IMS service information, the IMS service to be provided to a user device associated with the request to register for the IMS service.
US11729218B2	Implementing a service mesh in the hypervisor A packet is received by a hypervisor from a first container, the packet to be provided to a second container, the packet including a header including a first network address associated with the second container. A network policy is identified for the packet in view of the first network address. A second network address corresponding to the second container is determined in view of the network policy. A network address translation is performed by the hypervisor to modify the header of the packet to include the second network address corresponding to the second container.
US11729210B2	Detecting spoofing in device classification systems In various embodiments, a device classification service obtains device telemetry data indicative of declarative attributes of a device in a network and indicative of behavioral attributes of that device. The device classification service labels the device with a device type, based on the device telemetry data. The device classification service detects device type spoofing exhibited by the device using a model that models a relationship between the declarative attributes and the behavioral attributes. The device classification service initiates, based on the device type spoofing, a mitigation action regarding the device.
US11729207B2	Hierarchical novelty detection using intended states for network security The disclosure provides an approach for detecting and preventing attacks in a network. Embodiments include determining a plurality of network behaviors of a process by monitoring the process. Embodiments include generating a plurality of intended states for the process based on subsets of the plurality of network behaviors. Embodiments include determining a plurality of intended state clusters by applying a clustering technique to the plurality of intended states. Embodiments include determining a state of the process. Embodiments include identifying a given cluster of the plurality of intended state clusters that corresponds to the state of the process. Embodiments include selecting a novelty detection technique based on a size of the given cluster. Embodiments include using the novelty detection technique to determine, based on the given cluster and the state of the process, whether to generate a security alert for the process.
US11729205B2	Network isolation by policy compliance evaluation An internal network can include a plurality of linked internal nodes, each internal node being configured to communicate with other internal nodes or with one or more external servers over an external network. The internal network can analyze the configuration of the internal nodes and the network traffic between internal nodes of the internal network and external servers. Based on the analysis, a network vulnerability score measuring the vulnerability of the internal network to attack can be determined. If the vulnerability score is below a threshold, the internal network can be isolated from the external network, for example by preventing internal nodes from communicating with or over the external network.
US11729204B1	System and method for cybersecurity threat monitoring using dynamically-updated semantic graphs A method for performing cyber-security analysis includes storing a semantic graph with nodes representing monitored computer-based entities, and edges representing monitored relationships. Each edge has an associated tally. A set of threat scores associated with multiple computer-based entities is stored in the memory. The semantic graph is updated in response to receiving event data. The updating includes decomposing the event data into a set of entities and a set of associated relationships, updating the tally of one of the edges based on the set of relationships, modifying an alert attribute of a monitored computer-based entity when the event data includes an applicable alert, and modifying a threat score of at least one computer-based entity based on the event data when the event data includes an applicable alert, to define a set of modified threat scores. The updated semantic graph is monitored for cyber-security risks within the multiple computer-based entities.
US11729201B2	Enterprise security assessment and management service for serverless environments Methods and systems for assessment and management of security in serverless environments are provided. One method includes executing an at least partially automated environment discovery process in which an overall security footprint of the enterprise is determined, and automatically identifying, via an enterprise security assessment tool, one or more security applications and associated settings capable of meeting the set of security requirements of the enterprise based on the sets of attributes associated with a plurality of serverless services.
US11729199B2	Security evaluation system, security evaluation method, and program This security evaluation system includes a first graph generation part that generates a first evaluation graph representing a connection relationship between resources as a target for security evaluation; a second graph generation part that generates a second evaluation graph representing a personal relationship between areas where the resources are located; and display part that displays the first evaluation graph and the second evaluation graph in association with each other.
US11729197B2	Adaptive vulnerability management based on diverse vulnerability information Embodiments include a method for vulnerability management of a computer system. The method includes collecting vulnerability information over a network from a publishing source. The vulnerability information includes a known vulnerability of a first computer asset, where at least some of the vulnerability information is a set of cybersecurity vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) published online. Further, at least some of the CVEs is in a human-readable format. The method further includes collecting system information of the computer system subject to the vulnerability management, where the system information includes information about a second computer asset of the computer system. The method further includes processing the collected vulnerability information and the collected system information by interpreting the human-readable CVEs and correlating the interpreted CVEs with the collected system information. A potential vulnerability of the second computer asset is identified based on the correlation between the interpreted CVEs and the collected system information.
US11729193B2	Intrusion detection system enrichment based on system lifecycle Techniques are described for automatically incorporating lifecycle information for a secured environment (SE) into an intrusion detection system monitoring the secured environment's operations. In one example, a secured environment including at least one component is monitored, where the secured environment is associated with a lifecycle operations manager (LOM) responsible for managing lifecycle operations associated with at least one component in the SE. One or more log files associated with operations of each of the at least one components are obtained, along with log files associated with lifecycle operations executed by the LOM. A determination is made as to whether the particular activities documented in the log files indicate a violation of at least one malicious action rule. In response to determining that the log files are associated with a malicious action rule, a mitigation action associated with the violation is triggered.
US11729192B2	Malware detection using document object model inspection Detection and notification of malware at a user device may be performed by a validation server. The user device may hash elements associated with a document object model of a webpage and send generated hash values to the validation server. The validation server may validate the hash values. Based on detection of hash values corresponding to elements maliciously-injected by malware, the validation server may send one or more notifications to other servers that may communicate with the user device.
US11729190B2	Virtual sensor supervised learning for cyber-attack neutralization An industrial asset may have monitoring nodes that generate current monitoring node values. A dynamic, resilient estimator may split a temporal monitoring node space into normal and one or more abnormal subspaces associated with different kinds of attack vectors. According to some embodiments, a neutralization model is constructed and trained for each attack vector using supervised learning and the associated abnormal subspace. In other embodiments, a single model is created using out-of-range values for abnormal monitoring nodes. Responsive to an indication of a particular abnormal monitoring node or nodes, the system may automatically invoke the appropriate neutralization model to determine estimated values of the particular abnormal monitoring node or nodes (e.g., by selecting the correct model or using out-of-range values). The series of current monitoring node values from the abnormal monitoring node or nodes may then be replaced with the estimated values.
US11729188B2	Method and device for intrusion detection in a computer network Device and method for intrusion detection in a computer network. A data packet is received at an input of a hardware switch unit, an actual value from a field of the data packet being compared in a comparison by a hardware filter with a setpoint value for values from the field, the field including data link layer data or network layer data, a value for a counter determined as a function of a result of the comparison being provided by the hardware switch unit, and a computing device determining a result of the intrusion detection as a function of the value of the counter in the hardware switch unit and independently of information from the data packet, in particular, without an evaluation of information from the data packet by the computing device.
US11729186B2	Blockchain architecture for computer security applications A computer security system comprises at least one authorized node constructed and arranged to execute a consensus protocol for validating and verifying a blockchain transaction and to extract at least one of a signature or feature of a detected cyberattack for the blockchain transaction and mining the transaction to a blockchain network; at least one unauthorized node prohibited from executing the consensus protocol and from validating and verifying a blockchain transaction but authorized to retrieve the at least one of the signature or feature from the blockchain network; and a special-purpose processor of the blockchain network that facilitates a distribution of the at least one of signature or feature for cooperative intrusion detection between the at least one authorized node and the at least one unauthorized node.
US11729184B2	Detecting covertly stored payloads of data within a network System and methods for detecting covert payloads of data within an IP network are provided. Activity of at least a portion of the IP network is monitored for datagrams comprising error messages. A selection of the datagrams including the error messages occurring with a regularity above a predetermined threshold are identified.
US11729183B2	System and method for providing secure in-vehicle network A system and a method of providing security to an in-vehicle network are provided. The method efficiently operates multiple detection techniques to reduce the required system resources while maintaining robustness against malicious message detection.
US11729181B2	Pluggable security devices and systems including the same A networking system includes a pluggable security device comprising at least one port interface that is insertable into at least one physical port, memory that stores a security key used to provide security over a network link, and processing circuitry coupled with the at least one port interface and with the memory. The processing circuitry utilizes the security key to verify security of a point-to-point connection established over the network link and after verifying the security of the point-to-point connection, provides a data integrity check function for data packets received at the at least one port interface.
US11729178B2	Systems and methods for generating account permissions based on application programming interface interactions Systems and methods for generating account permissions for an account on a computing system are provided. In some embodiments, application programming interface (API) interactions involving an external application and the computing system are used to generate a corresponding set of account permissions for the account. API permissions for the external application may also or instead be used to generate the set of account permissions for the account. The set of account permissions may enable the account to access the same resources on the computing system as the external application, which may avoid granting the account overly broad access to the computing system.
US11729172B1	Automated methods and systems for granting complex permissions A permissions management system (PMS) defines the permissions associated with a user and thereby the activities the user can perform with any specific object and/or application or class of objects and/or applications. However, such a PMS requires an administrator to either authorise each permission individually or default permissions to a configuration previously established. The former is time consuming and the latter does not eliminate the former in establishing the roles initially or new roles or custom configurations. According, methods and systems for automating the establishment of permissions and their ongoing maintenance are presented based upon an initial discovery phase of actions performed by either the user or an administrator followed by an automated harmonization phase and a verification phase. This verification phase may employ human interactions or be automated exploiting an artificial intelligence engine.
US11729170B2	Efficient and secure communication between computational instances of a remote network management platform A remote network management platform may include a provider computing instance, a recipient computing instance, and a neutral computing instance including persistent storage that defines a table and fields therein, and where the neutral computing instance is configured to: (i) receive, by way of a first software interface, data from the provider computing instance, where the data is an update to a field within the table; (ii) validate that the provider computing instance is permitted to update the field; (iii) write a representation of the data to the field; (iv) receive, by way of a second software interface, a request from the recipient computing instance for the data; (v) validate that the recipient computing instance is permitted to access the field; and (vi) transmit the data as stored in the field to the recipient computing instance.
US11729168B2	System and method for managing security credentials of a user in a computing environment A system and method for managing security credentials of a user are disclosed. The method includes establishing a connection with a local web browser hosted on a user device. The method also includes receiving a request for accessing a web application on the local web browser hosted on the user device. The method also includes determining whether current web page associated with the web application on the local web browser requires authentication of the user. Further, the method includes determining a password policy. Furthermore, the method includes authenticating the user on the web page using pre-stored user credentials based on the determined password policy. Additionally, the method includes routing the web page of the local web browser to the web application via an intermediate web browser. Also, the method includes providing access of the web application to the local web browser based on privileges associated with the user.
US11729161B1	Pre-built, pre-tested, and standardized connectors for end-to-end connection A network system to provide a centralized system to connect to third-party systems by using pre-built, secure, and pre-tested standardized connectors to data and services provided via APIs. A service provider pre-configures third-party systems connections to establish a type of certificate required, establish a security level required for each third-party system connection, pre-configure a software connection, and test the connection. The service provider presents a graphical user interface to a user of a client system with representations of each pre-configured third-party system connection. When a client selects a third-party system connection to connect with the client system data, the service provider generates a certificate signing request, communicates a private key to the client system, and communicates the client system data and the certificate signing request to a certificate authority system. Based on the obtained certificates, the service provider provides access to the required APIs via the pre-configured connection.
US11729160B2	System and method for selecting authentication methods for secure transport layer communication One embodiment of the present invention provides an enhanced authentication system. During operation, the system can obtain, from a remote device of a client, an authentication request prior to the exchange of application layer web traffic associated with a piece of resource protected by the system. The system can then determine, in the authentication request, an indicator indicating whether certificate-based authentication is enforced for the client. If certificate-based authentication is enforced for the client, the system can initiate certificate-based authentication for the client. On the other hand, if certificate-based authentication is not enforced for the client, the system can send information associated with a user interface to the client. The user interface can allow the client to select an authentication method from a set of authentication methods supported by the system.
US11729159B2	System security infrastructure facilitating protecting against fraudulent use of individual identity credentials A networked infrastructure is described that includes a set of programmed computing nodes, each node being configured with a processor and non-transitory computer readable media including computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate a social security number registry server carrying out a method that provides an individual with the ability to remotely approve or disapprove, in real-time, the use of his/her social security number (SSN) by a relying party server.
US11729155B2	Segmentation of encrypted segments in networks A first host receives a packet from a first compute node for a second compute node of a second host. The payload is larger than a maximum transmission unit size. The first packet is encapsulated with an outer header. The first host analyzes a length of at least a portion of the outer header in determining a size of an encrypted segment of the payload. Then, the first host forms a plurality of packets where each packet in the packets includes an encrypted segment of the payload, a respective encryption header, and a respective authentication value. The payload of the first packet is segmented to form a plurality of encrypted segments based on the size. The first host sends the packets to the second host and receives an indication that a packet was not received. A second packet including the encrypted segment is sent to the second compute node.
US11729154B2	Systems and methods for network privacy A privacy gateway may communicate with user devices located at a plurality of premises. The privacy gateway may receive a data packet, from one of the user devices, indicating destinations, such as other computing devices, located external to the premises. The privacy gateway may decrypt at least a portion of the data packet to determine that at least a portion of data in the packet is associated with the user device. The privacy gateway may remove the data associated with the user device from the data packet and replace the removed data with data associated with the privacy gateway. The privacy gateway may send the data packet with the replaced data to a destination device. The privacy gateway may receive a response to the data packet from the destination device. The privacy gateway may encrypt a portion of the response and send the response to the user device.
US11729153B2	Scaling gateway to gateway traffic using flow hash For a network including multiple computers acting as tunnel endpoints in a network, some embodiments provide a method for processing data messages in parallel using multiple processors (e.g., cores) of each computer. Each computer in some embodiments has a set of interfaces configured as tunnel endpoints connecting to multiple tunnels. In some embodiments, the multiple processors encrypt data messages according to a set of encryption parameters or multiple sets of encryption parameters that specify an encryption policy for data messages requiring encryption, an encryption algorithm, an encryption key, a destination network address, and an encryption-parameter-set identifier.
US11729150B2	Key pair infrastructure for secure messaging Embodiments of the present invention use a limited-use public/private key pair to encrypt and decrypt messages sent through an intermediary. The messages may contain sensitive information and may be transmitted between entities over one or more networks. In some embodiments, the entities and/or the networks may be untrusted. Nevertheless, the content of the messages may remain protected by virtue of the limited-use key pair infrastructure.
US11729149B2	Coordinated data obfuscation Techniques are provided herein for coordinated data obfuscation. In one example, a first network device in a network obtains, from a controller in or having communication to the network, an obfuscation parameter that is further obtained by one or more second network devices in the network. Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of the first network device has a given logical relationship to PII of the one or more second network devices. Based on the obfuscation parameter, the first network device obfuscates the PII of the first network device to generate obfuscated PII of the first network device. The obfuscated PII of the first network device has the given logical relationship to obfuscated PII of the one or more second network devices. The first network device provides the obfuscated PII of the first network device to a server configured to collect the obfuscated PII of the one or more second network devices.
US11729148B1	Optimized utilization of internet protocol addresses in a virtual private network A method including receiving, at a VPN server from a user device during an established VPN connection between the VPN server and the user device, a data request for the VPN server to retrieve data of interest from a host device; utilizing, by the VPN server, a first exit IP address to transmit a query for retrieving the data of interest to the host device during the established VPN connection; determining, by the VPN server based at least in part on transmitting the query, that the first exit IP address is blocked by the host device; and utilizing, by the VPN server, a second exit IP address to retransmit the query for retrieving the data of interest to the host device during the established VPN connection is disclosed. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11729146B1	Network segmentation by security groups A method of automatic security group generation by a firewall management service. The method may include receiving a security policy definition allowing cloud resource instances labeled by a first tag to communicate to cloud resource instances labeled by a second tag; creating a first security group comprising an inbound firewall rule for the cloud resource instances associated with the first tag, wherein the inbound firewall rule specifies cloud resource instances associated with a second security group as source communication endpoints; creating a second security group comprising an outbound firewall rule for the cloud resources instances associated with the second tag, wherein the outbound firewall rule specifies cloud resource instances associated with the first security group as destination communication endpoints; and causing a firewall service to implement the first security group and the second security group.
US11729144B2	Efficient packet capture for cyber threat analysis Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for efficiently detecting threat incidents for cyber threat analysis are described herein. In various embodiments, a computing device, which may be located at a boundary between a protected network associated with the enterprise and an unprotected network, may combine one or more threat indicators received from one or more threat intelligence providers; may generate one or more packet capture and packet filtering rules based on the combined threat indicators; and, may capture or filter, on a packet-by-packet basis, at least one packet based on the generated rules. In other embodiments, a computing device may generate a packet capture file comprising raw packet content and corresponding threat context information, wherein the threat context information may comprise a filtering rule and an associated threat indicator that caused the packet to be captured.
US11729142B1	System and method for on-demand edge platform computing Systems and methods for managing deployment of applications and services within a network having a plurality of edge platforms. A domain name service (DNS) request from a client device requesting for content from a third-party provider is modified to include location information indicating a client device location. A deployment manager uses the location information in the modified request to select a nearby edge platform for servicing the request. Changes to the edge platform servicing the request may be imitated based on changes in location information received in future requests. The deployment manager may also maintain a database to track resources that are already deployed in nearby edge platforms, conserving resources when selecting the edge platforms to service requests. The deployment manager also directs third-party content providers to the edge platform using a separate service so that communication with third-party content providers does not share the location information.
US11729140B2	Method and system for managing DHCP servers A wireless communication coverage extension system comprises a backhaul subnetwork that includes a set of interconnected nodes. A plurality of nodes of the backhaul subnetwork implementing a functionality of access point of a same wireless communication network. To avoid conflicts of IP addresses, a monitoring of the presence of the main DHCP server is implemented, by a said node, to which the main DHCP server is connected. In the case where the first monitoring shows a disconnection of the main DHCP server, a backup DHCP server is activated in a node of the backhaul subnetwork. Then a general disconnection of the nodes of the backhaul subnetwork and of any device connected to the wireless communication coverage extension system is implemented. The IP address leases are then renewed by the backup DHCP server, following the general disconnection.
US11729138B1	Systems and methods for communicating between private networks with conflicting internet protocol (IP) addresses Systems and methods for facilitating communication between multiple private networks with conflicting IP addresses are provided. The system comprises a virtual computing device configured to allocate blocks of shadow IP addresses to first and second private networks. A first bridge device is connected to the first private network and configured to receive a packet from a first host in the first private network. The packet comprises a destination address corresponding to a second host in the second private network. The first bridge device is configured to route the packet to the virtual computing device if the destination address is in a block of shadow IP addresses. A second bridge device is connected to the second private network and configured to receive the packet from the virtual computing device and translate the destination address to a corresponding native IP address.
US11729135B2	Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium for detecting unauthorized access An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to detect unauthorized access from a subject terminal to a subject host as a result of inputting subject input data into an autoencoder, an Internet protocol address of the subject terminal and an Internet protocol address of the subject host being used as at least part of the subject input data, the autoencoder having performed learning by using learning data, an Internet protocol address of a terminal and an Internet protocol address of a host to which the terminal has connected being used as at least part of the learning data.
US11729132B2	Instant messaging interoperability between disparate service providers An apparatus for facilitating instant messaging communications between clients of different instant messaging service provider networks is provided. The apparatus includes translation logic for translating received communications related to an instant messaging service, the received communications associated with an external instant messaging service provider network and formatted according to a secondary protocol. The translation logic translates the received communication from the secondary protocol to a primary protocol, the primary protocol native to a receiving service provider network. The communication may then be routed to a client of the primary network according to the native, primary protocol.
US11729130B2	Live database records in a chat platform Described herein are a system, apparatus, device, method, and/or computer program product embodiments and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof for displaying a live database record in a chat session. In a given embodiment, a collaborative communications system may cause display of a subset of fields the database record in a chat session. The collaborative communications system may detect activation of the chat session. The collaborative communications system may retrieve the current values of the subset of fields. Upon retrieval, the collaborative communications system causes display of the subset of fields of the database record including an updated value for a field in the chat session.
US11729126B2	User-controlled message reminders A computing device and computer-implemented method to provide user-control short message service (SMS). The method begins with converting by a server, one or more user preferences into each third-party specific filter for one of a plurality of third-party servers. Next, a server, accesses data using at least one of API calls, web scraping, file transfer protocol (FTP), http methods, or a combination thereof, data using the third-party specific filter in a plurality of third-party formats from the plurality of third-party servers, wherein the data in the plurality of third-party formats from the plurality of third-party servers Next, the data in the third-party format is filtered, which has been accessed according to user preferences, the user preferences including a mobile device identifier. Next, the data in the third-party format is converted which as specified by the user preferences into a format compatible with the SMS protocol or an instant message for receipt by a messaging app. Finally, the data is sent in which has been converted into the SMS format or instant message to the mobile device as specified by the mobile device identifier.
US11729122B2	Content suggestion system for real-time communication environments A content suggestion system for suggesting one or more content items to a client application on a client device may include a content suggestion service and a collaborative content management and communication system communicably coupled to the content suggestion service and comprising a store of content items. The content suggestion service may be configured to, during a real-time chat session between a first user and a second user, receive one or more communication events exchanged between the first user and the second user, determine, using the received one or more communication events, a subject of the real-time chat session, and cause an identifier of a candidate suggested content item to be displayed to the first user.
US11729119B2	Dynamic queue management of network traffic Techniques and systems described herein relate to network system queue management and dynamic real-time re-allocation of resources to prevent oversubscription and packet loss due to oversubscription. The techniques and systems enable monitoring of traffic and initial identification of queues at risk for oversubscription based on a rate of change of traffic load on the queue in advance of oversubscription occurring. After identifying a queue at risk for oversubscription, an Extended Berkeley Packet Filter or other similar component performs a likelihood determination using predictive algorithm techniques to identify a likelihood of oversubscription in the near future and re-allocates to parallel queues for efficient and loss-free use of the queues.
US11729117B2	Wireless communication device for communicating with multiple external devices via a wireless communication unit A method and wireless communication device use a first processing unit to perform a first communication event within a first communication window by use of a first communication protocol, a second processing unit to perform a second communication event within a second communication window by use of a second communication protocol, and a wireless communication unit connected to a radio-frequency antenna to transmit and/or receive a packet wirelessly. The first and second processing units may perform the first and second communication events via the wireless communication unit. The second processing unit or the wireless communication unit may transmit an event signal to the first processing unit when performing the second communication event or receiving a packet, respectively, to allow the first processing unit to arrange the first communication window (or first communication event) with respect to the second communication window (or second communication event) to minimize interference.
US11729114B2	Configurable views of context-relevant content Providing access to content is disclosed. An indication of a context is received. Access is provided to a context-relevant subset of a body of managed content. In some cases, the context-relevant subset includes a document relevant to the content.
US11729113B2	Translating high level requirements policies to distributed storage configurations Embodiments of the disclosure provide techniques for partitioning a resource object into multiple resource components of a cluster of host computer nodes in a distributed resources system. The distributed resources system translates high-level policy requirements into a resource configuration that the system accommodates. The system determines an allocation based on the policy requirements and identifies resource configurations that are available. Upon selecting a resource configuration, the distributed resources system assigns the allocation and associated values to the selected configuration and publishes the new configuration to other host computer nodes in the cluster.
US11729110B2	Implementing network constraint exceptions on a per device basis Implementing network constraint exceptions on a per device basis is disclosed. A network manager determines that a subscriber device associated with a subscriber network is to be granted an exception to a network constraint of the subscriber network. An aggregation device that is coupled to a set of subscriber networks including the subscriber network is sent aggregation device instructions to grant the exception to packets associated with the subscriber device that flow through the aggregation device. A network gateway device that serves as a network gateway for the subscriber network is sent gateway device instructions to associate packets associated with the subscriber device with information for identifying the packets as being associated with the subscriber device.
US11729102B2	Active-active cluster control method and control node An active-active cluster control method includes that a control node receives a first query request from a first network processing node in an active-active cluster, configures an outbound forwarding rule based on forwarding information, generates an inbound forwarding rule, and sends the outbound forwarding rule to the first network processing node. The control node may further receive a second query request, determine that forwarding information of a second packet matches the inbound forwarding rule, obtain the recorded inbound forwarding rule, and send the inbound forwarding rule to the second network processing node.
US11729099B2	Scalable E2E network architecture and components to support low latency and high throughput A method for managing network traffic is shown. The method includes establishing a virtual tunnel between a source endpoint and a destination endpoint, the virtual tunnel including a plurality of data flow paths, each of the plurality of data flow streams connecting the source endpoint and the destination endpoint. The method includes providing, via the destination endpoint, a plurality of credits to the source endpoint, the plurality of credits provided via two or more of the plurality of data flow paths. The method includes updating, at the source endpoint, a data transmission sequence based on the received plurality of credits. The method includes providing a plurality of data packets based on the data transmission sequence to the destination endpoint.
US11729095B2	Allocating additional bandwidth to resources in a datacenter through deployment of dedicated gateways Some embodiments provide policy-driven methods for deploying edge forwarding elements in a public or private SDDC for tenants or applications. For instance, the method of some embodiments allows administrators to create different traffic groups for different applications and/or tenants, deploys edge forwarding elements for the different traffic groups, and configures forwarding elements in the SDDC to direct data message flows of the applications and/or tenants through the edge forwarding elements deployed for them. The policy-driven method of some embodiments also dynamically deploys edge forwarding elements in the SDDC for applications and/or tenants after detecting the need for the edge forwarding elements based on monitored traffic flow conditions.
US11729089B2	Border node traffic convergence Techniques for network routing border convergence are described. Backup paths for external connections for a network are established and provide for a temporary path for network traffic during network routing convergence, preventing traffic loss at network border nodes.
US11729088B2	Broadcast switch system in a network-on-chip (NoC) A system and methods of use for a broadcast switch system, broadcast management switching system, and methods of use in network-on-chip are presented. The invention relates generally to broadcasting transactions in a network-on-chip (NoC). More specifically, and without limitation, the invention provides for transacting from master to multiple slaves and for receiving responses. The invention relates to a broadcast switch for broadcasting transactions. More specifically, and without limitation, the invention relates to a broadcast switch system, broadcast management switching system, and methods of use in NoC.
US11729087B2	Methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing adaptive background test traffic in a test environment One example method occurs at a test system implemented using at least one processor, the method comprising: sending, via an application programming interface (API) and to a first traffic generator, a first instruction for setting a rate of background test packets sent to or via a system under test (SUT) for a test session; sending the background test packets to or via the SUT during the test session; receiving, from at least one feedback entity, feedback indicating at least one traffic metric associated with the background test packets sent to or via the SUT during the test session; generating, using the feedback, a second instruction for adjusting the rate of background test packets sent during the test session; and providing, via the API and to the first traffic generator, the second instruction for adjusting the rate of background test packets sent to or via the SUT during the test session.
US11729086B2	Methods and systems for internet speed testing Described herein are methods and systems for network performance testing. A computing device may receive a network performance request. The computing device may perform a network performance test, and determine comparable devices of one or more devices associated with the network performance request. The computing device may determine a network performance parameter for the comparable devices, and determine that one or more devices associated with the network performance request are impacting the network performance test.
US11729083B2	Implementing a tiered cache topology with anycast networks A control server receives probe data from a plurality of data centers indicating measured latencies with a first IP address associated with an origin server. The control server sums the measured latencies of a first data center having a lowest measured latency and a second data center. When the sum is below a threshold value, the control server determines the IP address to be an anycast IP address and selects a proper subset of the plurality of data centers as proxying data centers for other data centers in the plurality of data centers. When the sum is not below the threshold value, the control server determines the IP address to not be an anycast IP address and selects the first data center having the lowest measure latencies as the proxying data center for other data centers in the plurality of data centers.
US11729082B2	Techniques for providing inter-cluster dependencies This disclosure describes techniques for providing information associated with an inter-cluster segment. For instance, system(s) may determine dependencies for first services associated with a first cluster and second dependencies for second services associated with a second cluster. The system(s) may then determine information for interconnections between the first cluster and the second cluster. The information may include at least dependencies for third services included in the inter-cluster segment and/or performance information for the third services. The system(s) may then generate a user interface that includes the first dependencies for the first services, the second dependencies for the second services, and the information for the inter-cluster segment. This way, a user is able to use the user interface to identify both problems occurring within the clusters and/or problems that are caused by the third services in the inter-cluster segment.
US11729081B2	Enhancing software application hosting in a cloud environment In an approach to optimize server connection timeout errors in a cloud environment, embodiments create a knowledge corpus associated with connection timeout patterns based on historical learning of transaction parameters and predicts a criticality of a transaction based on one or more identified contextual situations. Further, embodiments dynamically adjust a connection timeout range of the transaction based on the predicted criticality and one or more identified contextual situations of the transaction, and selectively identify a connection timeout range for the transaction based on an evaluation of the one or more contextual situations. Additionally, embodiments analyze generated timeout errors on a remote server from within a service mesh, and adjust timeout values of the transaction based on the analyzed generated timeouts errors. Responsive to the transaction receiving a timeout error, embodiments output a recommended timeline detailing when the transaction can be reinitiated.
US11729080B2	Agentless method to automatically detect low latency groups in containerized infrastructures Agentless method to automatically detect low latency groups in containerized infrastructures includes obtaining information about communication across workloads within a cluster of containers implemented by an operating environment. The information identifies multiple pairs of containers. Each pair includes a network source container and a corresponding network destination container. The information includes, for each pair of containers, a corresponding latency associated with a network call between the network source container and the corresponding network destination container. An undirected graph is generated using the obtained information. The undirected graph represents a node-wide latency within the cluster. Using the undirected graph, nodes within the cluster with a latency less than a threshold latency level are grouped. Grouped nodes with latencies less than the threshold latency level are provided.
US11729076B2	Systems and methods for analyzing performance silence packets In one embodiment, a method includes identifying, by a packet analyzer, one or more silence packets within a network and initiating, by the packet analyzer, a replacement of the one or more silence packets with one or more performance silence packets. The one or more performance silence packets are transmitted between a first node of the network and a second node of the network during a silence period. The method further includes receiving, by the packet analyzer, information associated with the one or more performance silence packets; and analyzing, by the packet analyzer, a connection between the first node of the network and the second node of the network using the information associated with the one or more performance silence packets.
US11729072B2	Method and apparatus for SLA management in distributed cloud environments Methods and apparatus are provided for Service Level Agreement managements in distributed cloud environments. A method comprises monitoring enforcements of Service Level Agreements for services provided to a plurality of tenants by a cloud provider; detecting a possible Service Level Agreement violation for a service provided to one tenant of the plurality of tenants, wherein the possible Service Level Agreement violation is related to performance or security requirements; and automatically mitigating the possible Service Level Agreement violation with cooperation with at least one of a cloud manager and a security management system of the cloud provider. The possible Service Level Agreement violation can involve a possible confliction between performance requirements and security requirements, and mitigating the possible Service Level Agreement violation comprises resolving the possible confiction for self-healing. Methods for an automatic Service Level Agreement update is also provided.
US11729071B1	Selection of SaaS endpoint instances based on local service provider connectivity statistics In one embodiment, a device receives application experience metrics for a software-as-a-service application served by a plurality of application endpoints. The device generates, based on the application experience metrics, a predictive model that predicts application experience scores for connections between a service provider network and the plurality of application endpoints. The device selects a particular application endpoint for the service provider network, based on an application experience score predicted by the predictive model. The device sends an indication an indication of the particular application endpoint selected by the device to the software-as-a-service application. The indication is used to assign a connection between the service provider network and the particular application endpoint.
US11729070B2	Dynamic threshold-based network monitoring and management profile generation interface, apparatus and method An apparatus includes a processor and a memory having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to cause a graphical user interface to be output by a display. The graphical user interface includes a first user input field configured to receive a first user input identifying a target key performance indicator (KPI) parameter associated with a network, a second user input field configured to receive a second user input identifying a KPI historical data parameter, and a third user input field configured to receive a third user input identifying a baseline threshold parameter. The apparatus is also caused to process the target KPI parameter, the KPI historical data parameter and the baseline threshold parameter to generate a KPI management profile. The apparatus is further caused to process the target KPI parameter and historical KPI values to generate a dynamic baseline threshold value.
US11729069B2	Visualizing communication networks using social networking algorithms A method that may include receiving network information indicative of (a) network elements that comprise edge network element, (b) connectivity between the network elements, and (c) connectivity of edge network elements to one or more other networks; and generating a visual representation of the network, the visual representation comprises multiple layers, each layer comprises one or more of the network elements of the network, wherein different layers are associated with different importance values; wherein the visual representation is associated with selection metadata for selecting which part out of multiple parts of the visual representation to display, wherein each part comprises at least a part of a single layer the multiple layers.
US11729065B2	Methods for application defined virtual network service among multiple transport in SD-WAN Some embodiments provide a method of selecting data links for an application in a network. The method receives, from a machine implementing the application, a set of identifiers of required link characteristics. Based on at least one of the identifiers, the method selects a transport group that includes a set of optional links matching the identifiers. From the selected transport group, the method selects a link matching the set of identifiers.
US11729064B1	Conflict resolution in a mesh network A method including determining, by a first device during communication with a second device for establishing a meshnet connection between the first device and the second device, that both the first device and the second device are operating as an initiating device that is responsible for transmitting an initiation communication for establishing the meshnet connection; comparing, based at least in part on determining that both the first device and the second device are operating as an initiating device, a communication condition associated with the first device with a communication condition associated with the second device; and determining, based at least in part on a result of comparing the communication condition, that the first device is to operate as the initiating device or that the second device is to operate as the initiating device. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11729053B1	Dynamic application configuration techniques In some implementations, a system enables users to create dynamically configurable applications that can be dynamically configured and adjusted. An application that runs on the server system in a first configuration is configured using a first configuration template. Data indicating (i) that the application is being accessed on a computing device in the first configuration, and (ii) a request to adjust the first configuration of the application is received. Operations are then performed while the application is being accessed on the computing device in the first configuration. A second configuration template that specifies a second configuration of the application corresponding to the request included in the received data is generated. The application is adjusted using the second configuration template to run in the second configuration. An instruction is provided to the computing device to enable the computing device to access the application running in the second configuration.
US11729052B1	Conflict resolution in a mesh network A method including configuring a first device to determine, during communication between the first device and a second device for establishing a meshnet connection between the first device and the second device, presence of a conflict as to which device, between the first device and the second device, is to operate as an initiating device that is responsible for transmitting an initiation communication for establishing the meshnet connection; and configuring the first device to resolve the conflict based at least in part on the first device adjusting operation of the first device to operate as a responding device, that is responsible for responding to the initiating communication, or based at least in part on the first device transmitting a message to the second device indicating that the second device is to operate as the responding device. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11729043B2	Traffic outage detection in the internet Techniques for performing traffic outage detection in the Internet are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system, process, and/or computer program product for traffic outage detection in the Internet includes deploying a plurality of agents and a plurality of tests to be executed by the deployed agents; collecting path trace data from the plurality of agents to identify one or more terminal events; and detecting a network outage based on the one or more terminal events.
US11729042B2	IPSec acceleration method, apparatus, and system An Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) acceleration method includes generating, by an Internet Key Exchange (IKE) device, an IKE link establishment session packet according to an IPSec configuration parameter and a security policy in a security policy database (SPD), sending, by the IKE device, the IKE link establishment session packet to a peer device, establishing a security association (SA) with the peer device, and sending, by the IKE module, the SA to a data forwarding device, where the IKE device and the data forwarding device are discrete devices.
US11729040B2	Coarse and fine compensation for frequency error Disclosed are techniques to compensate frequency systematic known error (FSKE) in reflector or initiator radios using a hybrid RF-digital approach in multi-carrier phase-based ranging. The hybrid RF-digital approach combines a coarse frequency compensation technique in the RF domain and a fine frequency compensation technique in the digital domain to remove the FSKE across all carrier frequencies from a device. The coarse frequency compensation performed in the RF domain may use a PLL to multiply the crystal frequency to arrive close to a target carrier frequency to compensate for a coarse portion of the known FSKE at the target frequency. The fine frequency compensation may use digital techniques to remove the remaining portion of the known FSKE not compensated by the RF. The hybrid approach reduces the number of fractional bits in the multiplier of the PLL when compared to an approach that uses only the RF-PLL to remove the FSKE.
US11729039B2	ATSC 3.0 single frequency networks used for positioning navigation timing and synergy 4G / 5G networks According to some embodiments, a method includes selecting a length for an advanced television system committee (ATSC) 3.0 frame for transmission by a single frequency network (SFN) transmitter and aligning the SFN transmitter with a global positioning system (GPS) epoch. The method further includes storing geographical coordinates of the SFN transmitter and a corresponding SFN transmitter identification (TX ID) in a database. The method also includes encoding the SFN TX ID in a non-coherent symbol of a plurality of positioning navigation timing (PNT) symbols comprising a plurality of coherent symbols and the non-coherent symbol with orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) numerology to support positioning. The method further includes prepending the plurality of PNT symbols to the ATSC 3.0 frame to generate a modified ATSC 3.0 frame and transmitting the modified ATSC 3.0 using a SFN transmitter antenna of the SFN transmitter.
US11729035B2	Communication apparatus, information processing apparatus, control method, and storage medium A communication apparatus transmits or receives an Extremely High Throughput (EHT) single-user (SU) physical-layer protocol data unit (PPDU), an EHT extended range (ER) SU PPDU, or an EHT multi-user (MU) PPDU. The transmitted or received EHT PPDU includes an EHT signal field (EHT-SIG) which includes a field indicating information regarding semi-orthogonal multiple access (SOMA).
US11729032B2	Data transmission method and apparatus A method includes generating a preamble for a protocol version of a wireless local area network, where the preamble includes a legacy signal (L-SIG) field and a high efficiency signal (HE-SIG) field that are arranged in order, the HE-SIG field includes a first orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol and a second OFDM symbol that are arranged in order, and an input information bit of the first OFDM symbol is the same as that of the second OFDM symbol, and sending the preamble to a receive end device, so that the receive end device restores the preamble, and when determining that input information bits obtained after restoring the first OFDM symbol and the second OFDM symbol are the same, determines that the preamble is the preamble of the protocol version.
US11729029B2	Method and apparatus for low latency charge coupled decision feedback equalization A mixed signal receiver includes a first sample and hold (S/H) circuit having a first S/H input terminal to receive an analog input signal and a first S/H output terminal directly coupled to a first common node; a first data slicer having a first slicer input terminal coupled to the first common node; and a first data-driven charge coupling digital-to-analog converter (DAC) including: (i) a DAC input terminal to receive a first digital signal from a first digital output of the first data slicer, (ii) a DAC output terminal directly coupled to the first common node, (iii) a plurality of capacitor modules configured to be pre-charged during a sample phase, and (iv) logic components, wherein when the logic components toggle a voltage on the plurality of capacitor modules, charge is capacitively coupled to or from the first common node during an immediately subsequent hold phase.
US11729022B2	Uplink connectivity in ring networks Techniques for uplink connectivity determination are disclosed. In an example, a Frame Link Module (FLM) in a frame, belonging to a group of frames connected in a ring network, may generate an uplink discovery packet. The FLM may determine, based on a Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) packet received by the standby uplink from a customer network accessing the ring that the standby uplink has a link to the customer network. The FLM may forward the uplink discovery packet to the standby uplink via a Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) interface. The FLM may send the uplink discovery packet to the customer network through the standby uplink directed to an owner FLM. The owner FLM may monitor receipt of the uplink discovery packet from the customer network through a current active uplink and on successful receipt may determine that the standby uplink and switches in the customer network are correctly configured.
US11729004B2	Certificate-based remote dynamic isolation of IOT devices using distributed ledger technologies Methods and systems for remote dynamic isolation of IoT devices are provided. One system includes a first IoT device and a second IoT device configured with an active communication channel with the first IoT device and a role certificate. An operator device is configured to interact with a distributed ledger to issue and revoke role certificates for a plurality of devices including the first IoT device and the second IoT device. The first IoT device periodically validates a role certificate proof received from the second IoT device with an entry of the role certificate proof recorded on the distributed ledger.
US11729001B2	Distributed proof-of-work for sharded or parallel blockchains A computer-based method for combining individual hashpower of a plethora of shards that use a proof-of-work hash procedure such that each shard benefits from the hashpower from all other shards in the plethora of shards whereby a chosen set of shards having a maximal combined individual hashpower is a consensus.
US11728999B2	Secure router authentication A first computing device may authenticate itself to a second computing device by providing a verifier value based on a private key. The verifier value may be sent to the second computing device, and a session key may be determined based on the private key. A secure message may comprise routing information associated with the first computing device and a hash value based on the routing information and the session key, and the first computing device may communicate with the second computing device using the session key.
US11728997B2	Cloud-based creation of a customer-specific symmetric key activation database The disclosed embodiments are related to securely updating a semiconductor device and in particular to a key management system. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving a request for an activation code database from a remote computing device, the request including at least one parameter; retrieving at least one pair based on the at least one parameter, the pair including a unique ID (UID) and secret key; generating an activation code for the UID; and returning the activation code to the remote computing device.
US11728995B2	Reward point transfers using blockchain A reward points transfer system and process using blockchain is disclosed. Transaction account issuers may write reward transfer messages to the blockchain to initiate a transfer of reward points for a transaction account holders account to one or more rewards partners. Rewards partners may retrieve the reward transfer messages from the blockchain, and write a reward transfer response message to the blockchain to confirm receipt of the reward points transfer and to update the status of the transfer. The transaction account issuers and rewards partners may encrypt the messages and generate hashes based on the messages prior to writing to the blockchain, to ensure that the messages are not tampered with during the transfer process.
US11728987B2	Secure vehicular part communication Secure vehicular part communication is described herein. An example apparatus can include a processing resource, a memory having instructions executable by the processing resource, and a vehicular communication component coupled to the processing resource. The vehicular communication component can be configured to, in response to receiving a part public key and a part signature from a part communication component associated with a vehicular part, verify an identity of the vehicular part based on the part signature. The vehicular communication component can be configured to, in response to verifying the identity, generate a vehicular public key. The vehicular communication component can be configured to encrypt vehicular data using the part public key. The vehicular communication component can be configured to provide the vehicular public key and the vehicular data to the part communication component. The vehicular communication component can be configured to receive, from the part communication component, part data encrypted using the vehicular public key.
US11728986B2	Cryptographic data entry and transmission of sensor data Disclosed herein are systems and methods to ensure that data collected from remote sensors sent to cloud-based storage, as well as commands sent to remote actuators from cloud-based control systems remain in a highly encrypted, redundant and resilient form at all times other than in volatile memory (e.g., while in use). Device to device automated sensing and control is also considered and addressed by this focus. Data from industrial sensors requires validation in both the “root of trust” within the sensor/actuator itself to ensure that the data is being transmitted or received from a valid device as well as ensuring that the data has not been manipulated or altered or viewed while in transit.
US11728984B2	Hybrid public-key and private-key encryption system A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for encrypting data or information represented by bits, numbers, used to encode images, text, or audio. For the case of an RGB image encryption applications, the data may be separated into its constituent channels before encryption. In addition to the standard encryption keys, another encryption isokey is generated based on an isounit using an algebraic isofield having a multiplicative identity value different than the number one. On the sender side, each of the channels is encrypted using the standard keys and the generated isokey. On the receiver side, each encrypted channel is decrypted before combining them to obtain the recovered RGB image. In addition to images, the cryptographic algorithm can also be used the encrypt data related to text, audio, and other file types.
US11728983B2	Apparatus, system and method for generating and managing cryptographic keys for a symmetric cryptographic system Cryptographic systems and methods are disclosed, including numerous industry applications. Embodiments of the present invention can generate and regenerate the same symmetric key. The cryptographic systems and methods include a key generator configured to use two or more inputs to reproducibly generate the symmetric key and a cryptographic engine configured to use the symmetric key for encrypting and decrypting data.
US11728974B2	Tenant-based database encryption Methods and systems for securing customer data in a multi-tenant database environment are described. A security module running on a database server may generate a private key-public key pair in response to receiving a request to store client data in a database. The security module may then transmit a request to derive a symmetric key to a key server, the request including the generated public key. The key server may derive a symmetric key, using key agreement and a key derivation function, based on the received public key and a private key managed by the key server. The security module may then receive the symmetric key from the key server and encrypt the client data. To facilitate decryption, the public key used to generate the symmetric key and an identifier for the private key managed by the key server may be stored in metadata associated with the client data.
US11728968B2	Authenticated encryption device, authenticated decryption device, authenticated encryption method, authenticated decryption method, authenticated encryption program, and authenticated decryption program An authenticated encryption device 10 includes: an encryption means 11 which encrypts a plaintext block by inputting, to an encryption function whereby data of a predetermined bit number is output when data of the predetermined bit number is input, a plaintext block of the predetermined bit number constituting the plaintext to be encrypted with a mask value, which is uniquely determined from an adjustment value including an initial vector not overlapping a past value and a secret key, being added; and a computation means 12 which computes, as a checksum, the exclusive OR of corresponding bits of a first bit string, a bit number of which is less than the predetermined bit number, of each of a plurality of plaintext blocks constituting the plaintext.
US11728965B2	Strong fully homomorphic white-box and method for using same A fully homomorphic white-box implementation of one or more cryptographic operations is presented. This method allows construction of white-box implementations from general-purpose code without necessitating specialized knowledge in cryptography, and with minimal impact to the processing and memory requirements for non-white-box implementations. This method and the techniques that use it are ideally suited for securing “math heavy” implementations, such as codecs, that currently do not benefit from white-box security because of memory or processing concerns. Further, the fully homomorphic white-box construction can produce a white-box implementation from general purpose program code, such as or C++.
US11728964B2	Performance aided data migration in a distributed storage network A method begins by a processing module of a storage unit of a storage network identifying a first storage format used to store a plurality of encoded data slices in a first memory of the storage unit and continues with the processing module determining to utilize another storage format for storage of the plurality of encoded data slices. The method then continues, with the storage unit selecting a second storage format for storage of the plurality of encoded data slices and initiating migration of the plurality of encoded data slices from the first storage format to storage using the second storage format. Finally, the method continues with updating a performance metric for at least a portion of the storage network while initiating migrating the plurality of encoded data slices.
US11728961B2	Clock generating circuit and wireless communication device including the same A clock generating circuit includes a first frequency multiplier configured to generate a second clock signal having a second frequency based on a first clock signal having a first frequency, and a second frequency multiplier configured to generate a third clock signal having a third frequency based on the second clock signal. The first frequency multiplier includes a circuit configured to control a duty cycle of the first clock signal, a delay circuit configured to receive the duty controlled clock signal, and delay the received signal based on a duty cycle of the second clock signal to output a first delay clock signal, and an XOR gate configured to perform an XOR computation using the duty controlled clock signal and the first delay clock signal to output the second clock signal. The second frequency is greater than the first frequency, and the third frequency is greater than the second frequency.
US11728960B2	Wireless over cable communication system A system for communicating wireless signals over a cable network includes a wireless over cable (WoC) amplifier configured to communicate wireless frequency band signals with a modem. The system may also include a WoC splitter configured to communicate the wireless frequency band signals with the WoC amplifier directly or via one or more cables, and a WoC adapter configured to receive the wireless frequency band signals from the WoC splitter via one or more cables, and transmit the wireless frequency band signals wirelessly to one or more wireless communication devices.
US11728959B2	Method and apparatus for managing mixed transmission A UE may receive, from a base station, scheduling information for a first DL transmission associated with half-duplex mode and a second DL transmission associated with full duplex mode, determine priorities of the first and second DL transmissions, and monitoring for a higher priority DL transmission among the first and second DL transmissions. The UE may transmit a first UL transmission associated with a half-duplex mode and a second UL transmission associated with a full duplex mode, and the base station may determine priorities of the first and second UL transmissions. The priority may be determined by the duplex mode or the content of the first and second DL transmissions and the first and second UL transmissions.
US11728958B2	TDD configuration coordination for networks using adjacent bands Various embodiments comprise systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms and apparatus for automatically coordinating time domain duplex (TDD) configurations and transmission parameters among wireless network providers operating on adjacent TDD channels and/or bands in proximity of each other to avoid cross link interference (CLI).
US11728957B2	Autonomous bandwidth part switching Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for autonomous bandwidth part switching. One method includes determining that a channel parameter corresponding to an active uplink bandwidth part of a serving cell is greater than a predetermined value at a time in which the active uplink bandwidth part is a first bandwidth part. The method includes, in response to determining that the channel parameter is greater than the predetermined value, autonomously switching the active uplink bandwidth part from the first uplink bandwidth part to a second uplink bandwidth part configured for the serving cell, wherein switching the active uplink bandwidth part comprises deactivating the first uplink bandwidth part.
US11728954B1	Digital post-distortion correction Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive downlink signaling configured to support obtaining spatial basis functions associated with antenna ports of a network node. The UE may receive a downlink communication from the network node, the receiving the downlink communication including decoding the downlink communication using digital post-distortion (DPoD) correction that is based at least in part on the spatial basis functions. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11728952B2	Channel quality indicator (CQI) reporting for ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC) Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may determine a block error rate (BLER) target for communications associated with the user equipment; determine a resource allocation pattern for transmission of channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) based at least in part on the BLER target; and monitor one or more resources, indicated by the resource allocation pattern, for the CSI-RS. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11728951B2	Apparatus and method for periodic channel state reporting in a wireless network Channel State Information (CSI) is reported by a subscriber station to a base station. The CSI is reported periodically for at least two physical uplink control channels (PUCCH). In case of a collision between a report for a first PUCCH and a report for the second PUCCH, each of the report types is partitioned into one of a number of classes, which include: a first class for rank indicator related report types and wideband (WB) W1 report types; a second class for WB report types or WB channel quality indicator report types; and a third class for subband related report types or W1 report types. A priority rule assigns a priority to each of the classes. The CSI feedback reports are transmitted according to the priority rule such that the report type included in a higher class is transmitted and the report type included in the lower class are dropped.
US11728946B2	Techniques to facilitate phase continuity of sidelink DMRS bundling Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating techniques for phase continuity of sidelink DMRS bundling are disclosed herein. An example method for wireless communication at a first UE includes receiving a first sidelink transmission including at least a first DMRS. The example method also includes receiving a second sidelink transmission, the first sidelink transmission and the second sidelink transmission together including at least the first DMRS and a second DMRS. The example method also includes receiving, from a second UE, an indication of a bundling relationship between the first sidelink transmission and the second sidelink transmission, the bundling relationship including at least one of strong bundling, weak bundling, or no bundling. The example method also includes performing channel estimation for a channel associated with the first sidelink transmission and the second sidelink transmission based at least in part on the bundling relationship.
US11728936B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving HARQ-ACK signal in wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation Methods and devices are provided for transmitting and receiving hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information in a wireless communication system. Higher layer signaling is received that includes at least one of information indicating whether to apply HARQ-ACK spatial bundling to HARQ-ACK information to be transmitted on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) or information indicating whether to apply HARQ-ACK spatial bundling to HARQ-ACK information to be transmitted on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). At least one HARQ-ACK information bit corresponding to downlink data received in at least one cell, is determined based on the higher layer signaling. HARQ-ACK information corresponding to the determined at least one HARQ-ACK information bit is transmitted on at least one of the PUCCH or the PUSCH.
US11728929B2	Streaming-friendly technology for detection of data A method by a network device for detecting data in a data stream. The method includes receiving the data stream, where the data stream includes a sequence of original characters, generating a sequence of type-mapped characters corresponding to the sequence of original characters, converging each of two or more consecutive occurrences of a first character in the sequence of type-mapped characters into a single occurrence of the first character, searching for occurrences of one or more predefined sequences of characters in the sequence of type-mapped characters, and responsive to finding an occurrence of any of the one or more predefined sequences of characters, extracting a sequence of characters in the sequence of original characters corresponding to the occurrence of the predefined sequence of characters found in the sequence of type-mapped characters.
US11728928B2	Securely sharing public and private blockchain data A blockchain consortium network can be implemented in which nodes of one or more blockchains generate data for pipeline-based processing by a consortium pipeline system. The generated data can include private blockchain data, public blockchain data, and machine data, such as logs or operational metrics from the nodes. The data is collected from different network levels and can be transformed via pipeline processes of the consortium pipeline system to securely share data in the blockchain consortium network.
US11728926B2	Communication method for performing blind detections Embodiments of this application provide a communication method, a terminal device, and a network device. Referring to the method, blind detection of a terminal device can be performed in different scheduling periods based on a maximum number of blind detection in a preset time period, thereby helping to reduce energy consumption that is caused to a terminal device by blind detection, and reduce blind detection complexity.
US11728920B2	Optical communication system and method of monitoring thereof Provided is an optical communication system configured as an optical ring network including: a first optical communication device configured to transmit a first optical signal having a first wavelength in a first direction, and to transmit a second optical signal having a second wavelength in a second direction opposite to the first direction; and a second optical communication device configured to generate a first reflected signal by reflecting the first optical signal when the first optical signal is received, to generate a second reflected signal by reflecting the second optical signal when the second optical signal is received, and to transmit the first and second reflected signals to the first optical communication device, wherein the first optical communication device analyzes a connection state of the second optical communication device based on the first and second reflected signals.
US11728919B2	Optical communications apparatus and wavelength selection method An optical communications apparatus, including a reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer, in which an optical deflection component may perform angle deflection on a plurality of first sub-wavelength light beams to obtain a plurality of second sub-wavelength light beams and a plurality of third sub-wavelength light beams, and propagate the plurality of second sub-wavelength light beams to a second optical switch array. A third wavelength dispersion component combines the plurality of second sub-wavelength light beams into a second light beam. A first output component outputs the second light beam from a dimension. A second wavelength dispersion component combines the plurality of third sub-wavelength light beams into a third light beam, and makes the third light beam incident to a third optical switch array. A second output component outputs the third light beam to drop a signal.
US11728916B2	Robust high speed sensor interface for remote sensors Systems, methods, and apparatuses are discussed that enable robust, high-speed communication of sensor data. One example system includes a sensor bus, an electronic control unit (ECU), and one or more sensors. The ECU is coupleable to the sensor bus and configured to generate a synchronization signal, and is configured to output the synchronization signal to the sensor bus. The one or more sensors are also coupleable to the sensor bus, and at least one sensor of the one or more sensors is configured to sample sensor data in response to the synchronization signal and to output the sampled sensor data to the sensor bus.
US11728912B2	Method and apparatus for monitoring, detecting, testing, diagnosing and/or mitigating interference in a communication system A system that incorporates aspects of the subject disclosure may perform operations including, for example, receiving, via an antenna, a signal generated by a communication device, detecting passive intermodulation interference in the signal, the interference generated by one or more transmitters unassociated with the communication device, and the interference determined from signal characteristics associated with a signaling protocol used by the one or more transmitters. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11728911B2	Automatic identification of antenna orientation Techniques for identifying an orientation for an antenna in a wireless communication device. A plurality of estimates of antenna gain are determined for an antenna associated with a wireless access point (AP), the plurality of estimates of antenna gain relating to a plurality of wireless stations (STAs) associated with the AP. An orientation for the antenna is determined based on the plurality of estimates of antenna gain and a plurality of properties for the antenna.
US11728905B2	Method and system for digital communication over an acoustic channel A method for providing digital communication over an acoustic channel is disclosed. The method includes dividing an operating frequency band of the acoustic channel into multiple adjacent non-overlapping subbands of an equal bandwidth, selecting subbands based on a symbol to be transmitted, generating a signal with linear frequency modulation in each of the selected subbands, combining the signals with linear frequency modulation, and transmitting the combined signals to the acoustic channel through an acoustic system, wherein slopes of linear frequency modulation for the signals with linear frequency modulation are equal.
US11728903B2	System and method for a subscriber-powered network element A system for powering a network element of a fiber optic wide area network is disclosed. When communication data is transferred between a central office (CO) and a subscriber terminal using a network element to convert optical to electrical (O-E) and electrical to optical (E-O) signals between a fiber from the central office and twisted wire pair, coaxial cable or Ethernet cable transmission lines from the subscriber terminal, techniques related to local powering of a network element or drop site by the subscriber terminal or subscriber premise remote powering device are provided. Certain advantages and/or benefits are achieved using the present invention, such as freedom from any requirement for additional meter installations or meter connection charges and does not require a separate power network.
US11728901B2	Method for non-line-of-sight detection of complex optical signals Optical signal receivers, systems, and methods of operating the same include a non-line of sight optical signal receiver configured to receive and detect a complex modulated optical signal through a non-line of site propagation path from an optical transmitter, comprising an optical resonator configured to receive the complex modulated optical signal through the non-line of sight propagation path, and to convert the complex modulated optical signal to an intensity modulated signal, and a detector configured to convert the intensity modulated signal into an electrical signal, the electrical signal having an amplitude indicative of an intensity of the intensity modulated signal from the optical resonator, and to provide a detected signal.
US11728899B2	Individually routable subcarriers Consistent with an aspect of the present disclosure, electrical signals or digital subcarriers are generated in a DSP based on independent input data streams. Drive signals are generated based on the digital subcarriers, and such drive signals are applied to an optical modulator, including, for example, a Mach-Zehnder modulator. The optical modulator modulates light output from a laser based on the drive signals to supply optical subcarriers corresponding to the digital subcarriers. These optical subcarriers may be received by optical receivers provided at different locations in an optical communications network, where the optical subcarrier may be processed, and the input data stream associated with such optical subcarrier is output. Accordingly, instead of providing multiple lasers and modulators, for example, data is carried by individual subcarriers output from an optical source including one laser and modulator. Thus, a cost associated with the network may be reduced. Moreover, each of the subcarriers may be detected by a corresponding one of a plurality of receivers, each of which being provided in a different location in the optical communication network. Thus, receivers need not be co-located, such that the network has improved flexibility.
US11728895B2	Optical communication module with circuit board compatible with hemetical/non-hemetical packaging and optical transceiver having the same Related to an optical communication module, the optical communication module comprises a main body, an optical communication assembly and a second circuit board. The main body comprises a housing and a first circuit board disposed on the housing. The housing and the first circuit board together form an airtight cavity of the main body, and the first circuit board comprises two first electric interfaces. The optical communication assembly is accommodated in the airtight cavity and comprises a substrate, an optical communication element and a second electric interface. The optical communication element disposed on the substrate. One of the two first electric interfaces of the first circuit board is electrically connected to the second electric interface. The second circuit board comprises a third electric interface and the other one of the two first electric interfaces of the first circuit board is electrically connected to the third electric interface.
US11728894B2	Optically-enhanced multichip packaging Optical chip-to-chip interconnects may use microLEDs as light sources. The interconnected chips may be on a same substrate. A pair of endpoint chips may each have associated optical transceiver subsystems, with transceiver circuitry in transceiver chips. Optical communications may be provided between the optical transceiver subsystems, with the optical transceiver subsystems in communication with their associated endpoint chips by way of metal layers in the substrate.
US11728890B1	Systems and methods for non-orthogonal multiple access A resource allocation method is provided for a non-orthogonal multiple access distribution of access network users communicatively coupled to a single transport medium. The method includes steps of allocating a first frequency and time domain resource to a first user and a second frequency and time domain resource to a second user of the access network users, obtaining channel information regarding a particular communication channel of the access network for which resources are allocated, grouping the first user with the second user based on an overlap of the first frequency and time domain resource with the second frequency and time domain resource, and assigning the first user to a different power allocation resource than the second user within the frequency and time domain overlap.
US11728889B2	Optical transmitting apparatus and transmission characteristics estimation method An optical reception device includes a coefficient update section which optimizes a dispersion coefficient used in compensation of wavelength dispersion of a received signal obtained by receiving an optical signal according to a coherent detection method and a phase rotation amount used in compensation of a nonlinear optical effect of the received signal, and a transmission characteristic estimation section which estimates a transmission characteristic of a transmission line by using the optimized dispersion coefficient and the optimized phase rotation amount.
US11728886B2	Satellite operating system, architecture, testing and radio communication system A cubesat communication system implementing addressable data packet for transmitting information collected by the cubesat to one or more receive-only ground stations. The cubesat may transmit information to the receive-only ground stations according to a scheduler. The receive-only ground stations may receive information from the cubesat without sending any commands to the cubesat to prompt transmission and re-transmit to a central common station using a bent pipe streaming protocol. Information between the cubesat and the ground station may be transmitted via a connectionless, datagram network protocol.
US11728884B2	Systems and methods for reducing data loss in satellite transmissions Aspects of the disclosure describe methods and systems for transmitting data via a satellite to a ground node. In one exemplary aspect, a method comprises splitting, on a satellite, a data segment into a plurality of data chunks, wherein an amount of the data chunks equals a number of ground nodes that the data chunks will be transmitted to. For each respective data chunk, the method comprises determining whether the satellite has a stable connection with the respective ground node. When the satellite has the stable connection with the respective ground node, the method comprises transmitting, by the satellite, the respective data chunk to the respective ground node, and when the satellite does not have the stable connection with the respective ground node, the method comprises transmitting, by the satellite, the respective data chunk to a neighboring satellite for storage until the stable connection is established.
US11728883B2	Passive collection of air-to-ground network parameters for network planning and control A network analytics control module may include processing circuitry configured to receive three dimensional location information and corresponding signal quality information for a particular asset in an air-to-ground (ATG) network, make a service quality inference for the particular asset based at least in part on the received information, and provide an instruction for a network control activity based on the service quality inference.
US11728881B2	Active repeater device shared by multiple service providers to facilitate communication with customer premises equipment An active repeater device including a first antenna array, a controller, and one or more secondary sectors receives or transmits a first beam of input RF signals from or to, respectively, a first base station operated by a first service provider and a second beam of input RF signals from or to, respectively, a second base station operated by a second service provider. A controller assigns a first beam setting to a first group of customer premises equipment (CPEs) and a second beam setting to a second group of CPEs, based on one or more corresponding signal parameters associated with the each corresponding group of CPEs. A second antenna array of the second RH unit concurrently transmits or received a first beam of output RF signals to or from the first group of CPEs and a second beam of output RF signals to the second group of CPEs.
US11728869B2	Communications using dynamic beam weights Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine, based at least in part on at least one of a plurality of conditions being met, to switch from a static analog beamforming codebook to a dynamic analog beamforming beam weight calculation for selecting beam weights for communications between the UE and a base station. The UE may select the beam weights for the communications using the dynamic beam weight calculation. The UE may communicate, using the beam weights, with the base station. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11728866B1	Antenna calibration using two-way communications Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first network node may receive, from a second network node, a first set of reference signals, wherein receiving the first set of reference signals comprises receiving each reference signal using a respective antenna element of the first network node. The first network node may transmit, to the second network node, a second set of reference signals, wherein the second set of reference signals is based on the first set of reference signals, and wherein each reference signal of the second set of reference signals is associated with an antenna element of the plurality of antenna elements of the first network node. The first network node may receive, from the second network node, an estimation report comprising estimation information associated with the second set of reference signals. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11728863B2	Antenna selection techniques for uplink and downlink wireless communications Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for antenna selection at a user equipment (UE). The UE may have a set of available antennas for uplink and downlink communications, and may select a first subset of antennas for uplink communications and a second subset of antennas for downlink communications. The first subset of antennas may be based on one or more uplink metrics, and the second subset of antennas may be based on the first subset of antennas and one or more downlink channel metrics, traffic amounts, or any combinations thereof.
US11728861B2	Wireless communication device that implements beamforming A wireless communication device that implements beamforming includes: a storage, a processor, and a radio circuit. The storage stores directivity information that indicates a directivity of a radio intensity obtained when beams are formed in a plurality of main lobe directions designated in advance. The processor calculates, based on the directivity information, an interference to a first beam from a second beam when an instruction to form the first beam and the second beam is given. The first beam is configured to transmit a first signal in a first main lobe direction. The second beam is configured to transmit a second signal in a second main lobe direction. The processor generates, based on the calculated interference, a cancellation signal for canceling the second signal in the first main lobe direction. The radio circuit transmits the first signal and the cancellation signal.
US11728858B1	Element-level self-calculation of phased array vectors using interpolation This patent application describes systems, devices, and methods for element-level self-calculation of phased array vectors by a beam forming ASIC using interpolation and a look-up table for calculation of phase setting values such as for fast beam steering.
US11728855B2	Signal blockage mitigation techniques in wireless communications Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for mitigation of blockages in wireless signals between wireless devices. A UE may detect that a blockage is present (e.g., a hand blockage), such as by detecting that a received signal strength from a transmitting device (e.g., a base station or access network entity) has dropped by greater than a threshold value. Based on the blockage detection, the UE may measure an amplitude of one or more reference signals at one or more antenna elements of multiple antenna elements. The UE may also measure one or more reference signals for one or more phase shifter values that are applied to the multiple antenna elements. The UE may determine a set of amplitude weightings, and a set of phase weightings, for the multiple antenna elements based on the measuring, and apply the sets of weightings for communications with the transmitting device.
US11728853B2	Wireless communication device with null steering capability A wireless communication device includes first and second links. The first and second links respectively include first and second sets of antennae having an arrangement that renders a null space of a channel matrix between the first and second links non-zero. When the first and second links operate on a first frequency band, the first link obtains first channel state information that indicates a first channel measurement of a first set of channels observed from the second link to the first link. Based on the first channel state information, the first link determines a spatial mapping matrix that facilitates null steering of a signal transmission from the first link in a direction of the second link. The first link transmits to a remote device, a wireless signal on the first frequency band based on the spatial mapping matrix.
US11728851B2	Compression and decompression of downlink channel estimates A network node determines parameters indicating a compression function for compressing downlink channel estimates, and a decompression function. The network node transmits the parameters, receives compressed downlink channel estimates, and decompresses the compressed downlink channel estimates using the decompression function. A terminal device receives the parameters, forms the compression function, compresses downlink channel estimates using the compression function, and transmits the compressed downlink channel estimates. The compression function comprises a first function formed based on at least some of the parameters, a second function which is non-linear, and a quantizer. The first function is configured to receive input data, and to reduce a dimension of the input data. The decompression function comprises a first function configured to receive input data and provide output data in a higher dimensional space than the input data, and a second function which is non-linear.
US11728846B1	Remote repeater device for mobile device dock and methods of making and using A mobile device dock arrangement includes a mobile device dock and a near field communication (NFC) device. The NFC device includes a first NFC antenna for obtaining data from a readable object when the NFC device is operatively coupled to the NFC reader, where the first NFC antenna permits positioning the first NFC antenna remote from the mobile device dock and the mobile device for obtaining the data from the readable object at a position remote from the mobile device dock and the mobile device; a second NFC antenna coupleable to the mobile device dock and configured, when coupled to the mobile device dock, for presenting the data in readable form to the NFC reader of the mobile device; and a cord coupled, or coupleable, to the first NFC antenna and the second NFC antenna for carrying the data from the first NFC antenna to the second NFC antenna.
US11728844B2	Partial echo cancellation duplexing Methods, circuitries, and systems for transmitting data upstream between a first device and a second device and downstream between the second device and the first device are disclosed. A method includes determining an upstream crosstalk effect for an upstream channel and determining a downstream crosstalk effect for a downstream channel. The crosstalk effect includes near end crosstalk from a third device that is non-co-located with respect to the first device and the second device. A data rate of an upstream transmission or downstream transmission is adjusted based on the upstream crosstalk effect and the downstream crosstalk effect.
US11728842B2	Techniques for using multiple symbols to provide feedback for a sidelink transmission Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described to support increasing a sidelink feedback channel reliability. A second user equipment (UE) may transmit a sidelink message to a first UE, and the first UE may provide feedback for the sidelink message via an associated feedback opportunity. The first UE may perform frequency hopping from one symbol to another during the feedback opportunity, may transmit the feedback using multiple physical resource blocks (PRBs) within one symbol of the feedback opportunity, or both. A pattern for frequency hopping, or for the multiple PRBs, or both, may be defined or determined by a base station, the first UE, the second UE, or any combination thereof. In some cases, a pattern for frequency hopping or for PRB bundling may be defined or preconfigured at the first UE, the second UE, or both.
US11728838B2	Isolating down-conversion mixer for a radio frequency (RF) transceiver Carrier aggregation (CA) may cause interference between operation on two or more carriers within a user equipment (UE). This interference can degrade signal quality on one or more of the carriers involved in the carrier aggregation, which may be referred to as “desensing” one or more carriers. One or more isolating buffers may be coupled at a down-conversion mixer at a point where the down-conversion mixer receives a signal from a transmission line for isolating the transmission line from other transmission lines. The isolating buffer may reduce the effect of interference between multiple transmission lines carrying different carriers during carrier aggregation (CA) operation. The isolating buffers may be used in an RF transceiver supporting both 5G sub-7 GHz and 5G mmWave wireless networks and carrier aggregation across sub-7 GHz and mmWave bands.
US11728831B2	Multiband switching Wi-Fi radio An electronic wireless communication apparatus including a radio configured to selectively switch between a first band and a second band so as to selectively communicate with stations on the first band and stations on the second band, and a processor configured to cause the apparatus to perform at least: switching the radio to the first band during a first duration, and disabling communication by the radio on the second band during the first duration; transmitting a first stop signal instructing the stations associated with the first band to not communicate during the second duration; switch the radio to the second band during the second duration, and disable communication by the radio on the first band during the second duration; and transmitting a second stop signal instructing the stations associated with second band to not communicate during the first duration.
US11728824B2	Analog circuit and comparator sharing method of analog circuit An analog circuit including a voltage regulator, at least one analog-to-digital convertor (ADC), at least one comparator and a multiplexer is provided. The voltage regulator generates an output voltage. The at least one ADC generates at least one digital signal. The multiplexer is configured to conduct the at least one comparator to either the voltage regulator or the at least one ADC. When the voltage regulator is triggered, the multiplexer conducts the at least one comparator to the voltage regulator, and the voltage regulator generates the output voltage according to an output of the at least one comparator. When the at least one ADC is triggered, the multiplexer conducts the at least one comparator to the at least one ADC, and the at least one ADC generates the at least one digital signal according to the output of the at least one comparator.
US11728815B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device outputs, as an output signal synchronized to a phase-locked loop clock signal, a synchronized input signal that is synchronized to a reference clock signal of a phase-locked loop circuit. The semiconductor device includes the phase-locked loop circuit, a first flip-flop that receives the input signal in synchronization with the reference clock signal on the basis of a feedback signal inputted to a phase comparator of the phase-locked loop circuit 10, and a second flip-flop that receives an output from the first flip-flop on the basis of the phase-locked loop clock signal. The second flip-flop outputs the output from the first flip-flop as the output signal. A setup time to synchronize the input signal to the phase-locked loop clock signal is set to one half of a period of the reference clock signal.
US11728813B2	Memory device processing An example apparatus includes a memory device comprising a plurality of banks of memory cells. A particular bank of memory cells among the plurality of banks includes a system processor resident on a particular bank of the plurality of banks.
US11728810B2	Operator control device for a vehicle and method for operating such an operator control device An operator control device for a vehicle, and a method for operating such an operator control device is disclosed. The operator control device is for controlling safety-relevant functions. To this end, the operator control device has at least one user interface having at least one user input panel for user input and a sensor system for identifying a user input in the area of the user input panel, wherein the sensor system has at least one capacitive sensor device having a first, electrically conductive sensor structure and a second, capacitive sensor device having a second, electrically conductive sensor structure, the sensor structures being arranged beneath the user interface in the area of the user input panel. The first sensor structure and the second sensor structure are each configured in comb-like and/or meanderous fashion and arranged in intermeshing fashion at least in a subarea of the user input panel.
US11728808B1	Intelligent multi-level voltage gate driving system for semiconductor power devices An improved gate driver using a microcontroller (uC), a voltage selector (VS), an adjustable voltage regulator (AVR), and an auxiliary current sinking circuit (ACSC) to actively provide selectable drive signals either higher, lower or equal to the basic on voltage and off voltage drive signals for a selected semiconductor device thereby providing an active voltage-mode gate driver for actively speeding up or slowing both the on time and off time transitions of a semiconductor.
US11728801B2	Switching device and electronic circuit A switching device 1 includes a SiC semiconductor chip 11 which has a gate pad 14, a source pad 13 and a drain pad 12 and in which on-off control is performed between the source and the drain by applying a drive voltage between the gate and the source in a state where a potential difference is applied between the source and the drain, a sense source terminal 4 electrically connected to the source pad 13 for applying the drive voltage, and an external resistance (source wire 16) that is interposed in a current path between the sense source terminal 4 and the source pad 13, is separated from sense source terminal 4, and has a predetermined size.
US11728800B1	RF switch with switching time acceleration A radio frequency (RF) switch includes a switchable RF path including a plurality of transistors coupled in series; a gate bias network including a plurality of resistors, wherein the gate bias network is coupled to each of the plurality of transistors in the switchable RF path; and a bypass network including a first plurality of transistors coupled in parallel to each of the plurality of transistors in the switchable RF path and a second plurality of transistors coupled in parallel to each of the plurality of resistors in the gate bias network.
US11728798B2	Methods and apparatus for cross-conduction detection Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for cross-conduction detection. An example apparatus includes a cross detector circuit including a first transistor and a second transistor, the first transistor coupled to a load, a third transistor coupled to a first controlled delay circuit and the first transistor, a fourth transistor coupled to a second controlled delay circuit and to the third transistor at a phase node, and a control circuit coupled to the first controlled delay circuit, the second controlled delay circuit, and the load.
US11728794B2	Data receiving circuit A data receiving circuit is provided. The data receiving circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, and a latch circuit. The first transistor has a gate configured to receive an input signal. The latch circuit is configured to output an output signal in response to the input signal. The second transistor has a gate configured to receive a first signal and a drain connected to the latch circuit. The third transistor has a gate configured to receive the first signal and a drain connected to the latch circuit. The second transistor and the third transistor are configured to provide a current to the latch circuit in response to the first signal.
US11728787B2	Filter device, radio-frequency front-end circuit, and communication apparatus A filter device includes a first filter and a second filter. The first filter and the second filter are disposed in parallel between a first terminal and a second terminal. A first passband of the filter device includes at least part of a second passband of the first filter. The first passband includes at least part of a third passband of the second filter. The second passband is narrower than the first passband. The third passband is narrower than the first passband. The third passband has a center frequency higher than a center frequency of the second passband. The first filter includes multiple elastic wave resonators and a first capacitive element. The first capacitive element is connected in parallel with the first elastic wave resonator.
US11728786B2	Fast, highly accurate, full-FEM surface acoustic wave simulation The present disclosure provides systems and methods for scalable and parallel computation of hierarchical cascading in finite element method (FEM) simulations of surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices. Different computing units of a cluster or cloud service may be assigned to independently model different core blocks or combinations of core blocks for iterative cascading to generate a model of the SAW devices. Similarly, frequency ranges may independently be assigned to computing units for modeling and analysis of devices, drastically speeding up computation.
US11728783B2	Acoustic wave device and composite filter apparatus An acoustic wave device includes a (111)-oriented silicon substrate, a silicon nitride layer, a silicon oxide layer, a lithium tantalate layer, and an IDT electrode on the lithium tantalate layer. When the wavelength determined by the electrode finger pitch of the IDT electrode is λ, the thickness of the silicon nitride layer, SiN [λ], the thickness of the silicon oxide layer, SiO2 [λ], the thickness of the lithium tantalate layer, LT [λ], and one of the Euler angles of the lithium tantalate layer, LTθ [deg.], are thicknesses and an angle in ranges in which the phase of a first higher-order mode is about −20° or less.
US11728781B2	Method for fabricating an acoustic resonator device with perimeter structures A method of manufacture for an acoustic resonator or filter device. In an example, the present method can include forming metal electrodes with different geometric areas and profile shapes coupled to a piezoelectric layer overlying a substrate. These metal electrodes can also be formed within cavities of the piezoelectric layer or the substrate with varying geometric areas. Combined with specific dimensional ratios and ion implantations, such techniques can increase device performance metrics. In an example, the present method can include forming various types of perimeter structures surrounding the metal electrodes, which can be on top or bottom of the piezoelectric layer. These perimeter structures can use various combinations of modifications to shape, material, and continuity. These perimeter structures can also be combined with sandbar structures, piezoelectric layer cavities, the geometric variations previously discussed to improve device performance metrics.
US11728779B2	Signal tracking-based supply voltage generation with over-boosted voltage A power converter may include an input for receiving an input signal and output for generating an intermediate signal that is a power converted signal from the input signal wherein the intermediate signal is determined based on various parameters of a signal path that utilizes the intermediate signal, wherein the various parameters comprise one or more of the following: a peak output signal of the signal path, energy requested over a period of time by the signal path, available energy from an energy source to the power converter, stored energy at an output of the power converter, and stored energy of a battery for providing electrical energy at the input.
US11728775B2	Envelope tracking for multiple power amplifiers Envelope tracking systems for power amplifiers are provided herein. In certain embodiments, an envelope tracker system includes a first power amplifier that amplifies a first radio frequency (RF) signal and receives power from a first supply voltage, a second power amplifier that amplifies a second RF signal and receives power from a second supply voltage, and an envelope tracker including a first modulator that generates a first output current based on an envelope of the first RF signal and a plurality of regulated voltages, a second modulator that generates a second output current based on an envelope of the second RF signal and the regulated voltages, a first combiner that combines a first DC voltage with the first output current to generate the first supply voltage, and a second combiner that combines a second DC voltage with the second output current to generate the second supply voltage.
US11728771B2	Circuit apparatus and oscillator A circuit apparatus includes an oscillation circuit that generates an oscillation signal, a first buffer circuit that outputs a first clock signal based on the oscillation signal, a second buffer circuit that outputs a second clock signal based on the first clock signal, a first terminal electrically couplable to a first node via which the first buffer circuit outputs the first clock signal, and a second terminal electrically coupled to a second node via which the second buffer circuit outputs the second clock signal, and the rise period of the first clock signal is shorter than the rise period of the second clock signal.
US11728769B2	Fault detection apparatus and method, and grid-tied photovoltaic power generation system A fault detection apparatus includes a temperature detection unit, a current detection unit, a controller, and a breaking unit. The temperature detection unit is configured to detect temperatures of the plurality of filter capacitors and output the temperatures to the controller. The current detection unit is coupled to the plurality of filter capacitors and is configured to detect currents of the plurality of filter capacitors and output the currents to the controller. The controller is separately connected to the temperature detection unit, the current detection unit, and the breaking unit, and is configured to: when the received temperature exceeds a first threshold and the received current exceeds a second threshold, control the breaking unit to be disconnected. The breaking unit is connected between the output end of the grid-tied inverter and the plurality of filter capacitors and is configured to be disconnected or connected under control of the controller.
US11728765B2	Cleaning system for a circular panel A cleaning system for cleaning a circular panel or any other circular surface is provided. The system has a base mechanically fastened to the circular panel. An axis stub pivotally connected to the base and attached to a pivot member provides rotation for a blade set. The blade set includes a first blade and a second blade configured to rotate independently about the pivot member in either a clockwise or a counter clockwise direction, wherein the second blade is configured to sit above the first bade, each blade having at least one row of sprinkler holes positioned on each side of the blade running lengthwise. The at least one row of sprinkler holes are configured to eject a fluid to either clean, cool, or thaw the circular panel. The first blade includes a roller having cleaning implements configured to clean the circular panel as the first blade rotates about the pivot member.
US11728762B2	Portable system for mounting a solar panel A portable system for mounting a solar panel includes a modular base defining a set of interconnecting components that assemble via a set of intra-assembly features into a portable base for a solar panel. The modular base includes lower and upper relief to provide passive ventilation to the interior of the modular base and recesses to accommodate a user's appendages during assembly, and ballast volumes to retain a non-rigid ballast to weight the module base holding it in place. The modular base includes adjustable panel retention structures to constrain solar panels of a range of dimensions and configured to carry moisture away from the solar panel. The modular base includes a set of latches and corresponding latch receivers to fix adjacent modular bases together at a fixed distance less than the width of a human hand to form an array.
US11728760B2	Pivotable support structure for cross canal solar array A cross canal support structure for photovoltaic cells is disclosed. The structure includes a major frame having disconnectable and hinged connections to anchors at its corners, on either side of the canal. The major frame carries a plurality of minor frames, which are inclinable at an angle with respect to the major frame with the use of fixed or adjustable mounting plates. The combination of the major frame's tilt and the minor frame tilt enables fabrication of support structures that hold panels at latitude inclination for various portions of a canal.
US11728756B2	Control device Provided is a control device for controlling an electromagnetic actuator that vibrates an operation device by driving the operation device supported by an elastic support part so as to be elastically vibrated in one direction in a vibrating direction thereof, the control device comprising: a current pulse supply unit configured to supply a driving current pulse to a coil of the electromagnetic actuator as a driving current for driving the operation device in accordance with a touch operation of the operation device, wherein the current pulse supply unit supplies the drive current pulse capable of starting the elastic vibration as a main driving current pulse, and then supplies the drive current pulse capable of adjusting attenuation period of the elastic vibration as a sub-driving current pulse.
US11728755B2	Method for determining a rotor position of an electric rotating machine, and an electric rotating machine for carrying out a method of this kind A method determines a rotor position of an electric rotating machine which is fed by a PWM-controlled inverter. Specific injection voltages, which are composed of predefined voltages and high-frequency voltages, are converted into corresponding PWM duty factors by a controller and the inverter is correspondingly actuated with these PWM duty factors. Current profiles of phase currents are then determined by measuring at least one first phase current and at least one second phase current. The measurement is carried out within a PWM period, in each case in the chronologically last third of a passive switched state. The rotor position is then determined in accordance with the ascertained current profiles and the fed-in high-frequency voltages.
US11728753B2	Detecting motor stall condition According to some embodiments, a method for controlling a motor comprises generating a stall threshold based on a torque generating current parameter associated with the motor. A motor stall condition is identified based on a torque generating voltage parameter associated with the motor violating the stall threshold. Operation of the motor is adjusted responsive to identifying the motor stall condition.
US11728745B2	Electronic circuit and electronic apparatus for voltage change rate detection An electronic circuit has an output node that outputs a DC signal indicating a temporal change rate of a voltage of a measurement target node, a first capacitor and a first resistor that are connected in series between the measurement target node and a first reference voltage node, a second capacitor that is connected between the output node and a second reference voltage node, a first switch that switches whether or not to short-circuit the first reference voltage node and the output node, and a rectifier circuit that flows a current to a connection node between the first capacitor and the first resistor from the output node, and cuts off a current to the output node from the connection node.
US11728742B2	Power conversion apparatus that drives a motor by receiving a three-phase AC voltage from an AC power system A power conversion apparatus capable of supplying a required reactive power while dynamically changing a dead band near 0 reactive current and maintaining a balance of DC voltage is provided. The power conversion apparatus including a three-level converter, a PWM controller for the three-level converter, an input current detector of the three-level converter, a coordinate converter that converts the current into a d-axis and q-axis current feedback, the reactive power control unit that controls a reactive power and outputs an reactive current reference, a d-axis current control unit having a dead band part for setting the d-axis current reference with hysteresis characteristics in the q-axis current feedback, and outputs the d-axis voltage reference, a q-axis current control unit that outputs a q-axis voltage reference based on the q-axis current reference, an inverse coordinate converter that outputs a three-phase AC voltage command based on the d-axis and q-axis voltage reference.
US11728739B1	Power converter A power converter includes a first contact, a second contact, a third contact, a fourth contact, a first ground contact, a second ground contact, a transformer, and a first switching element to a fifth switching element. The first switching element to the fifth switching element is controllable to switch on or off to form a first configuration and a second configuration, wherein the first configuration allows a power input to the first contact to be transmitted to the third contact through a first side of the transformer, and the second configuration allows a power input to the second contact to be transmitted to the fourth contact through the first side to a second side of the transformer, thereby to distribute the DC power in the same circuit structure.
US11728735B2	Converter using planar transformer A converter using a planar transformer includes an input device that receives a first voltage, a transformer including a first planar transformer and a second planar transformer that reduce the first voltage, and an output device that outputs the first voltage as a second voltage, wherein the first voltage is greater than the second voltage, and the input device provides a current to a primary winding coil of each of the first planar transformer and the second planar transformer through a first current path and a second current path in which current directions are different with each other, and includes a plurality of inductors connected in parallel with the primary winding coil of each of the first planar transformer and the second planar transformer.
US11728732B2	Electrical system having buck converter functionality An example electrical system is disclosed. The electrical system can include a rechargeable energy storage system (RESS) and a power inverter connected to the RESS. The power inverter can be configured to provide electrical power to an electric machine. A switch can be disposed between the plurality of machine windings and an output load. The switch is configured to transition between a closed state to allow current flow from the RESS through the inverter and the plurality of machine windings to the output load and an open state to prevent current flow to the output load.
US11728731B2	Accurate load current sensing apparatus and method A Ton/2 generator retrofits a digital tracking algorithm to an analog Constant-On-Time (COT) Controller to enable fast sensing. The Ton/2 generation is cognizant of the delay between high-side switch (HSFET) on generation and the actual turn-on time of the HSFET so that there is no deviation of sampling point, and current is reported with high accuracy. The digital tracking algorithm automatically takes higher steps during load transients to enable faster tracking and scales the measured current (Ipeak/2) based on a discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) period for DCM current reporting.
US11728729B1	Method and apparatus for delivering power to semiconductors A semiconductor package includes a VLSI semiconductor die and one or more output circuits connected to supply power to the die mounted to a package substrate. The output circuit(s), which include a transformer and rectification circuitry, provide current multiplication at an essentially fixed conversion ratio, K, in the semiconductor package, receiving AC power at a relatively high voltage and delivering DC power at a relatively low voltage to the die. The output circuits may be connected in series or parallel as needed. A driver circuit may be provided outside the semiconductor package for receiving power from a source and driving the transformer in the output circuit(s), preferably with sinusoidal currents. The driver circuit may drive a plurality of output circuits. The semiconductor package may require far fewer interface connections for supplying power to the die. Multi-output POL circuits may be used in conjunction with on-chip rail-selection and regulation circuitry to further improve efficiency. A three-stage power conversion system includes off-package, on-package and on-chip conversion stages.
US11728725B2	Alternating current to direct current conversion circuit An alternating current to direct current conversion circuit includes a rectifier circuit, a first DC to DC conversion module and a second DC to DC conversion module. The first DC to DC conversion module includes multiple power switches and an inductor and is coupled between the rectifier circuit and the second DC to DC conversion module. Multiple power switches in the first DC to DC conversion module are controlled to be turned on simultaneously, so that a voltage across each of the power switches in the first DC to DC conversion module is reduced. The alternating current to direct current conversion circuit includes no power switch with a high withstand voltage, so that the alternating current to direct current conversion circuit has a small volume, low switching loss, less energy loss, and good heat dissipation, thereby increasing power density.
US11728724B2	Bypass circuit and method to bypass power modules in power system A method for a power system having a string of a plurality of power sources connected across a power device includes connecting a plurality of safe voltage units having safety switches connected respectively across each of the power sources. The method includes sensing a plurality of parameters of the power sources, and monitoring for a signal transmitted from the power device. Each of the safety switches is activated to be OFF responsive to detecting the signal within a predetermined time period. Upon not detecting the signal from the power device within the predetermined time period, a safe mode of operation of the power system is entered in which the voltages of each of the power sources is reduced to a voltage level less than a predetermined voltage level by turning the safety switches ON.
US11728715B2	Electric motor with simplified winding and dual rotor An electric motor is provided and includes inner and outer rotors, a stator supportive of back iron radially interposed between the inner and outer rotors and a winding structure. The winding structure includes first phase coils radially interposed between the inner rotor and a first side of the back iron, the first phase coils extending axially along the first side of the back iron, second phase coils radially interposed between a second side of the back iron and the outer rotor, the second phase coils extending axially along the second side of the back iron and end windings respectively extending radially between corresponding ones of the first and second phase coils.
US11728713B2	Power conversion device A power conversion device comprises a power conversion circuit, and a multilayer substrate that includes the power conversion circuit, and has a wiring pattern. The wiring pattern of the multilayer substrate includes a power supply pattern, and a ground pattern. The multilayer substrate includes a first layer and a second layer. The power supply pattern includes a first layer power supply pattern portion in the first layer. The ground pattern includes a second layer ground pattern portion in the second layer. The first layer power supply pattern portion and the second layer ground pattern portion overlap with each other at least in part in a direction perpendicular to a plate surface of the multilayer substrate.
US11728709B2	Encoderless vector control for VFD in hydraulic fracturing applications A system and a method for use of electric motors in fracturing operations are disclosed. The system includes an electric motor, a turbine generator, an encoderless vector control subsystem, and at least one pump. The turbine generator is adapted to generate electric power for the system. The encoderless vector control subsystem is coupled between the turbine generator and the electric motor to control the electric motor using determined parameters that are based in part on vibration induced in a feature associated with the turbine generator. The at least one pump is adapted to receive torque input from the electric motor.
US11728707B2	Driving device According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a driving device is a driving device for rotating an axle of a vehicle and includes: a motor having a rotor rotating about a motor axis extending in a horizontal direction orthogonal to a vertical direction; a reduction gear connected to the rotor; a differential gear connected to the motor via the reduction gear; and a housing configured to house the motor, the reduction gear and the differential gear therein. The housing has a protrusion that protrudes upward in the vertical direction, and at least one circumferential rib that extends in a circumferential direction. The protrusion has a female screw hole into which an eye bolt can be tightened. At least one of the circumferential ribs is connected to the protrusion.
US11728706B2	Electric motor assembly An electric motor assembly includes a stator and a rotor configured to rotate relative to the stator. The stator includes a stator core including a yoke that has a ring shape and a plurality of teeth radially coupled to an inner surface of the yoke, a stator coil that is wound around the stator core, and an insulator disposed between the stator core and the stator coil. The insulator includes a yoke insulator that is coupled to the yoke with a first coupling tolerance defined between the yoke insulator and the plurality of tooth insulators, and a plurality of tooth insulators that are coupled to the plurality of teeth, respectively, with a second coupling tolerance defined between the yoke and the plurality of teeth. The first coupling tolerance is less than the second coupling tolerance.
US11728700B2	Electric motor for a power tool A power tool includes a housing having a rear wall, a motor assembly coupled to the rear wall, and a plurality of mounting legs projecting from the rear wall toward the motor assembly. The motor assembly defines a motor axis, and includes a stator assembly defining a plurality of axially extending mounting apertures. Each mounting leg defines a threaded boss corresponding to a respective mounting aperture of the stator assembly, and each threaded boss is configured to receive a threaded fastener. The mounting legs are angularly spaced at unequal intervals about the motor axis.
US11728696B2	Lamination stack for use in an electrical machine A lamination stack for use in a rotating electrical machine includes a plurality of sheets of ferritic material. Each of the sheets has first and second sides that include asperities, and the asperities have a height of about two microns and a width of about two microns. A layer of electrically insulating material is provided between adjacent pairs of the ferritic sheets in the stack, and the asperities extend into the electrically insulating material.
US11728693B2	Optimizing pairing of a wireless power transmission system with a wireless power receiver client Described herein are embodiments of apparatuses and methods for optimizing pairing of a wireless power transmission system (WPTS) with a wireless power receiver client (WPRC) in a localized system. A current WPTS-WPRC pairing and at least one alternate WPTS-WPRC pairing are assessed and the WPTS-WPRC pairing is updated based on associated pairing quality metrics. In this way, a system of many WPTSs and WPRCs will approach an Epsilon equilibrium such that no WPRC would be significantly better served by being paired with a different WPTS.
US11728691B2	Communication between devices in a wireless charging system A wireless power system may include wireless power transmitting devices, wireless power receiving devices, and wireless power transmitting and receiving devices. The devices in the wireless power system may exchange packets in order to transfer various types of data. The data may be transmitted using in-band communication (e.g., amplitude-shift keying modulation or frequency-shift keying modulation). The devices may use locally assigned addresses to communicate with any other device in the wireless power system. Even if a first device is not inductively coupled to a second device, the locally assigned addresses may identify an inductive coupling path from the first device to the second device that includes at least one intervening device. The first device may therefore communicate with the second device using in-band communication packets that are relayed by at least one intervening device.
US11728689B2	Stacked printed circuit board surface in a free-position wireless charger A charging device has a first printed circuit board (PCB) having a top metal layer and a bottom metal layer, where a first plurality of charging cells is provided on the top metal layer of the first PCB and a second plurality of charging cells is provided on the bottom metal layer of the first PCB. The charging device may have a second PCB having a top metal layer and a bottom metal layer, where a third plurality of charging cells is provided on the top metal layer of the second PCB and a fourth plurality of charging cells is provided on the bottom metal layer of the second PCB. An adhesive layer may join the first and second PCBs. One or more interconnects may be provided between the bottom metal layer of the first PCB and the top metal layer of the second PCB.
US11728685B2	Electronic apparatus, power supply system and power supply control method A power supply system includes a first power supply apparatus configured to perform power transmission by an electromagnetic wave having a first frequency band, and a second power supply apparatus configured to perform power transmission by an electromagnetic wave having a second frequency band. The first power supply apparatus and the second power supply apparatus are provided so as to be 2H×{tan(θ)} or greater distant from each other, when each of the first power supply apparatus and the second power supply apparatus is provided in height H from a floor surface, where H is a positive number, and when a direction of a maximum value ±3 dB is in a range from −θ to +θ in a case where a perpendicular downward direction from each position is a standard.
US11728683B2	Detection of device removal from a surface of a multi-coil wireless charging device Systems, methods and apparatus for wireless charging are disclosed. A charging device has a plurality of charging cells provided on a charging surface, a charging circuit and a controller. The controller may be configured to cause the charging circuit to provide a charging current to a resonant circuit when a receiving device is placed on the charging surface, provide a measurement slot by causing the charging circuit to decrease or terminate the charging current for a period of time and determine whether the receiving device has been removed from the charging surface based on measurement of a characteristic of the resonant circuit during the measurement slot. The characteristic of the resonant circuit may be representative of electromagnetic coupling between a transmitting coil in the resonant circuit and a receiving coil in the receiving device.
US11728682B2	Wireless power transmission/reception device and method of operating the same A wireless power transmission/reception device and a method of operating the same have been provided. The electronic device includes a first housing structure including a first surface and a second surface facing in a direction opposite to the first surface, and a second housing structure including a third surface and a fourth surface facing in a direction opposite to the third surface. The second housing structure is rotatable relative to the first housing structure. The electronic device also includes a display and a control circuit. The first housing is provided with a first wireless charger configured to perform a wireless charging function in relation to a first external electronic device, and the second housing is provided with a second wireless charger configured to perform a wireless charging function in relation to a second external electronic device. The second wireless charger is located to face the first wireless charger when the first housing structure and the second housing structure are folded to face each other.
US11728681B2	Cart power supply device A cart power supply device includes a power supply resonance circuit, a notification element, a current detection circuit, and a control circuit. The power supply resonance circuit includes a power supply coil that can be electromagnetically coupled to a power reception coil mounted on a shopping cart or the like. The current detection circuit detects a current flowing through the power supply resonance circuit. The control circuit supplies an alternating current to the power supply resonance circuit at a first level and operates the notification element in a first mode when the detected current is less than a first threshold. The control circuit supplies the alternating current at a second level when the detected current is greater than the first threshold and operates the notification element in a second mode.
US11728677B2	Integrated energy storage system including a thermal energy storage coupled with a liquid metal battery storage and a cryogenic energy storage Integrated energy storage system including a thermal energy storage coupled with a liquid metal battery storage and a cryogenic energy storage and related methods are described. An example integrated energy storage system includes a liquid metal battery storage, a cryogenic energy storage configured to store energy using a liquefied cryogen, a thermal energy storage, and a control system. The control system is configured to cause selective transfer of heat from the thermal energy storage to at least one battery unit associated with the liquid metal battery storage. The control system is configured to during a first mode associated with the cryogenic energy storage, cause selective transfer of heat from the cryogenic energy storage to the thermal energy storage. The control system is configured to during a second mode associated with the cryogenic energy storage, cause selective transfer of heat from the thermal energy storage to the cryogenic energy storage.
US11728667B2	Method and apparatus for deeply discharged battery detection Systems and processes are provided to detect a deeply discharged rechargeable battery. A process includes initiating a processor operative to perform a function within a battery-operated device, determining a first output voltage of a battery, charging the battery with a battery charger for a duration of time between three and seven seconds in response to the first output voltage being less than a cutoff voltage, rebooting the battery-operated device, determining a second output voltage of the battery, providing a user prompt indicative of battery fault in response to the second output voltage being less than the cutoff voltage, and shutting down the battery-operated device.
US11728666B2	Power supply system A power supply system includes: a capacitive first battery; an output-type second battery having a smaller heat capacity than the first battery; a voltage converter that converts a voltage between first and second power circuits; a power converter that converts power between the first power circuit and a drive motor; and a power controller that operates the voltage converter and the power converter. The power controller is configured to: after a start of operation, execute a power pass control under which power is transferred between the first and second batteries, until a total output upper limit Ptot_max of all the batteries exceeds a travelable threshold value Pready1; and subsequent to the power pass control, execute a second priority control under which the second battery is discharged in preference to the first battery, until a first output upper limit P1_max of the first battery exceeds a margin traveling threshold value Pready2.
US11728664B2	Aerosol-generating system with charging device and aerosol-generating device with end contacts An electrically operable aerosol-generating system is provided, including: a charging device including a primary power source and a housing to retain the power source; and an aerosol-generating device including a secondary power source and having proximal and distal ends and a body extending therebetween, the charging device having a docking arrangement including a docking space between a first end and an opposing second end spaced therefrom, the first and second ends being walls of the housing, electrical contacts on at least one of the proximal or distal ends of the device to engage with corresponding electrical contacts on at least one of the first and second ends of the docking arrangement, and the electrical contacts include a positive and a negative electrical contact, at least one of which being an annular electrical contact, arranged concentrically on the at least one of the proximal or distal ends.
US11728662B2	Cell balancing device based on capacitor network, cascadable balanced battery pack and control method thereof A cell balancing device based on a capacitor network, a cascadable balancing battery pack, and a control method thereof, used for battery pack balancing control, and the battery pack being composed of n battery units connected in series; the cell balancing device comprises: n half bridge circuits, each half bridge circuit being connected in parallel to two ends of a battery unit, the midpoint of each half bridge circuit being connected in parallel to a corresponding switch capacitor, and each half bridge circuit comprising two switch transistors connected in series; an energy storage capacitor network, comprising a basic energy storage capacitor network composed of n switch capacitors connected in series; a chain-type driving capacitor network, one end thereof being electrically connected to one of the half bridge circuits or the energy storage capacitor network, and the other end thereof being electrically connected to a drive pulse generator, and the drive pulse generator being electrically connected to the chain drive capacitor network; and a control logic circuit electrically connected to the battery pack, the drive pulse generator, and a master control panel. Using the present solution, the cell balancing device of the present application has excellent balancing effects, reliable performance, strong universality, and strong scalability.
US11728659B2	Solar charging of multiple battery banks A power management and selection system for a class 8 tractor trailer, directs excess solar and vehicular charge capacity to an auxiliary load by measuring available charge capacity from a reefer power system including a reefer battery, solar panel and charge controller for moderating solar power to the reefer batter, and measuring available charge capacity from a cab vehicle power system including a propulsion system battery and alternator. Charge logic, in a selector configured for switching charge capacity to the auxiliary load, determines which of the reefer power system and cab vehicle power system has the most potential excess charge capacity, and directs the determined excess charge capacity to the auxiliary load, while the measured available charge capacity remains sufficient for powering the respective reefer power system or cab vehicle power system.
US11728655B2	Load management in hybrid electrical systems Various implementations described herein are directed to systems and methods for managing a plurality of loads connected to a plurality of power sources using a switching apparatus. Apparatuses described herein may include multi-throw switches designed for fast and efficient switching of loads. Methods described herein may include selecting one or more loads from a group of loads to connect to one or more alternative power sources, and selecting one or more loads to connect to a main (e.g. utility) electrical grid.
US11728647B2	Active harmonics cancellation Systems and methods are described for active harmonics cancellation. A wireless charging apparatus includes a wireless-power transfer circuit comprising a wireless-power transfer coil configured to generate or couple to a magnetic field to transfer or receive power and a plurality of tuning capacitors electrically coupled to the wireless-power transfer coil. The apparatus also includes a power converter circuit electrically coupled to the wireless-power transfer circuit. Additionally, the apparatus includes a signal generation circuit different from the power converter circuit and electrically coupled to one or more nodes between capacitors of the plurality of tuning capacitors. The signal generation circuit is configured to generate and inject a signal into the wireless-power transfer circuit at the nodes between the capacitors. The signal generation circuit includes a rejection filter tuned to an operating frequency of the wireless-power transfer coil.
US11728644B2	Electronic device and electrostatic discharge protection circuit An electronic device including a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, and a resistance element is provided. The first transistor includes a first gate and is coupled between a first electrode and a second electrode. The second transistor includes a second gate, a third electrode, and a fourth electrode. The second gate is coupled to the second electrode. The third electrode is coupled to a control electrode. The third transistor includes a third gate, a fifth electrode, and a sixth electrode. The third gate is coupled to the control electrode. The fifth electrode is coupled to the fourth electrode. The sixth electrode is coupled to the second electrode. The resistance element is coupled between the third electrode and the first gate.
US11728642B2	Semiconductor device and protection circuit In one embodiment, a protection circuit in a semiconductor device includes first and second transistors including gates electrically connected to a first node, and connected in series to each other between the first and second lines, third and fourth transistors including gates electrically connected to a second node between the first and second transistors, and connected in series to each other between the first and second lines, and a fifth transistor including a gate electrically connected to a third node between the third and fourth transistors, and provided between the second node and the second line. The protection circuit further includes an arithmetic circuit configured to perform calculation using a first signal received from the second node to output a second signal, and a sixth transistor configured to receive the second signal to output a control signal to the arithmetic circuit.
US11728640B2	Secured fault detection in a power substation Systems and methods for fault detection and protection in electric power systems that evaluates electromagnetic transients caused by faults. A fault can be detected using sampled data from a first monitored point in the power system. Detection of fault transients and associated characteristics, including transient direction, can also be extracted through evaluation of sample data from other monitored points in the power system. A monitoring device can evaluate whether to trip a switching device in response to the detection of the fault and based on confirmation of an indication of detection of fault transients at the other monitored points of the power system. The determination of whether to trip or activate the switching device can also be based on other factors, including the timing of receipt of an indication of the detection of the fault transients and/or an evaluation of the characteristics of the detected transients.
US11728639B2	Transformer short-circuit protection method and transformer short-circuit protection device The invention provides a transformer short-circuit protection method and a transformer short-circuit protection device. The transformer short-circuit protection method includes: acquiring output voltages of a plurality of output lines of at least one winding on a low-voltage side of a transformer; and determining a short circuit according to the output voltages, and sending a protection signal when the short circuit is determined.
US11728638B2	Normally open tie pulse testing A control system and method for tie point fault interrupter and sectionalizing recloser devices in an electrical grid feeder. The technique enables automated sectionalizing reclosers equipped with three-phase current sensing and single- or three-phase voltage sensing, and able to detect pulse-closing operations, to isolate faults and restore load based on pulse count rather than requiring source re-energization and waiting for loss of voltage timers. The system includes a fault interrupter initiating a pulse-testing sequence upon detecting loss of voltage, where a number of preliminary pulses are used to distinguish transient faults from persistent faults, and pulses are counted by the sectionalizing reclosers to determine which of these devices should open. An alternate configuration is disclosed for reinitializing faults, including the fault interrupter closing if initial pulse testing indicates no fault, and subsequent cycles cause a sectionalizing recloser adjacent the fault to open, allowing the fault interrupter to close and hold.
US11728637B2	Device for communication between a controller and a field device A device, preferably a plug-in module, for communication between a controller and a field device. The device includes contacts, wherein a first subset of the contacts is electrically conductively connected or connectable to the controller and a second subset of the contacts is electrically conductively connected or connectable to the field device. The apparatus further includes a circuit having an input electrically conductively connected to the first subset of the contacts and an output electrically conductively connected to the second subset of the contacts. The circuit includes a voltage-limiting unit adapted to limit a voltage at the output, and a current-limiting unit adapted to limit a current between the input and the output and to interrupt the current when the voltage-limiting unit responds.
US11728636B2	Flat flexible electrical conductor and supporting device therefor An assembly of a flat flexible electrical conductor and a supporting device that quickly and easily supports an intermediate portion of a flat flexible electrical conductor on a support surface. The flat flexible electrical conductor includes a plurality of electrically conductive traces supported on an electrically non-conductive insulator. The electrically non-conductive insulator has an opening extending therethrough. The supporting device includes a head portion and a shaft portion. The head portion includes first and second flanges disposed on opposite sides of the flat flexible electrical conductor and an intermediate portion that extends through the opening of the electrically non-conductive insulator.
US11728631B1	Template-marking tool for installing conduit The template-marking tool for installing conduit may comprise a template for locating the center of a new conduit aperture on a junction box. The template may be pressed against a wall of the junction box and may slide along the junction box until a first mark shows at one of a plurality of alignment slots. A second mark may be made on the junction box at one of a plurality of centering apertures. The new conduit aperture may be drilled at the second mark to create an aperture for accepting a conduit connector that an individual conduit will couple to. A plurality of indicia may be adapted to guide a user in selecting one of the plurality of centering apertures on the template based upon the size of a conduit support strut and the diameter of the individual conduit.
US11728629B1	Power line installation Power lines are installed with a rope brake apparatus that enables a rope to be suspended above the ground during installation and that thereby eliminates the need to block off the ground between power poles. The rope brake apparatus has a pair of opposed cam cleats mounted on a base adjacent each other for allowing movement of a rope between them in one direction and for preventing movement of a rope between them in an opposite direction.
US11728626B2	Method for manufacturing a prechamber spark plug A method for manufacturing a prechamber spark plug including an external thread and a cap including at least one through-opening. The method includes: providing the prechamber spark plug without a cap and including a cylindrical circumferential surface for the external thread. Mounting the cap, which includes at least one through-opening, in an arbitrary alignment at the prechamber spark plug, and creating the external thread at the circumferential surface in such a way that a thread start and/or a thread end of the external thread is aligned in relation to the through-opening at a predetermined position.
US11728623B2	Vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) with cascaded active region A vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) is provided that includes a mesa structure disposed on a substrate. The mesa structure defines an emission axis of the VCSEL. The mesa structure includes a first reflector, a second reflector, and a cascaded active region structure disposed between the first reflector and the second reflector. The cascaded active region structure includes a plurality of cascaded active region layers disposed along the emission axis, where each of the cascade active region layers includes an active region having multi-quantum well and/or dots layers (MQLs), a tunnel junction aligned with the emission axis, and an oxide confinement layer. The oxide confinement layer is disposed between the tunnel junction and MQLs, and has an electrical current aperture defined therein. The mesa structure defines an optical window through which the VCSEL is configured to emit light.
US11728622B2	Single-facet, variable-confinement optical waveguide amplifier An optical apparatus comprises a semiconductor substrate and an optical waveguide emitter. The optical waveguide emitter comprises an input waveguide section extending from a facet of the semiconductor substrate, a turning waveguide section optically coupled with the input waveguide section, and an output waveguide section extending to the same facet and optically coupled with the turning waveguide section. One or more of the input waveguide section, the turning waveguide section, and the output waveguide section comprises an optically active region.
US11728619B2	Side mode suppression for extended c-band tunable laser A method for improving wide-band wavelength-tunable laser. The method includes configuring a gain region between a first facet and a second facet and crosswise a PN-junction with an active layer between P-type cladding layer and N-type cladding layer. The method further includes coupling a light excited in the active layer and partially reflected from the second facet to pass through the first facet to a wavelength tuner configured to generate a joint interference spectrum with multiple modes separated by a joint-free-spectral-range (JFSR). Additionally, the method includes configuring the second facet to have reduced reflectivity for increasing wavelengths. Furthermore, the method includes reconfiguring the gain chip with an absorption layer near the active layer to induce a gain loss for wavelengths shorter than a longest wavelength associated with a short-wavelength side mode. Moreover, the method includes outputting amplified light at a basic mode via the second facet.
US11728618B2	Thermal gel application on electronic and optical components An optoelectronic assembly and methods of fabrication thereof are provided. The assembly includes a sub-mount, one or more micro-devices attached to the sub-mount, and a lid attached to the sub-mount. The lid includes a dispense channel and a gel groove which allows for a thermal gel to be dispensed between the lid and the micro-device in a manner that mitigates the thermal gel dispersing and/or flowing onto components of the micro-devices.
US11728614B2	Silicon photonics light source A photonics device includes a silicon wafer including a cathode region, an anode region, a trench region formed between the cathode region and the anode region, and a linear ridge formed between the cathode region and the anode region. A laser diode chip is mounted on the silicon wafer. A conductor layer disposed between the silicon wafer and the laser diode chip includes a first section disposed between the laser diode chip and the cathode region on a first side of the trench to electrically connect the laser diode chip to a cathode electrode of the photonics device and a second section disposed between the anode region and the laser diode chip on a second side of the trench to electrically connect the laser diode chip to an anode electrode of the photonics device.
US11728613B2	Doped fiber amplifier having pass-through pump laser An amplifier operable with an electric drive signal can amplify signal light having a signal wavelength. A laser diode has an active section with input and output facets. The facets are in optical communication with the signal light and are configured to pass the signal light through the laser diode. The active section is configured to generate pump light in response to injection of the electrical drive signal into the active section. The pump light has a pump wavelength different from the signal wavelength. A doped fiber doped with an active dopant is in optical communication with the signal light and is in optical communication with at least a portion of the pump light from the laser diode. The pump wavelength of the pump light is configured to interact with the active dopant of the fiber and thereby amplify the signal light.
US11728608B2	Long reach cable cutting tool including dual action hydraulic piston assembly and releasable connections A long reach cable cutting tool includes a handle, a motor electrically connectable to a battery, a trigger electrically connected to the motor to provide power from the battery to the motor when the trigger is activated, a pump connected to the motor, the pump is activated to displace a first fluid, a hydraulic actuating system connected to the hydraulic pump, the hydraulic actuating system is movable by the displacement of the first fluid to displace a second fluid, a pole having a first end and a second end, the pole connected to the handle at the first end, and a tool head connected to the pole at the second end, the tool head including a tool head hydraulic actuator hydraulically connected to the hydraulic actuating system, the tool head hydraulic actuator is movable by the displacement of the second fluid to cause relative movement of the actuator with respect to the tool head.
US11728607B2	Coupling device, assembly and method A coupling device for coupling a plurality of cable units to a component carrier includes a base plate that is flat in at least one plane. A connecting device is disposed on a first side of the base plate and is configured to mechanically couple the base plate to the component carrier. An opening extends through the base plate for each cable end of a plurality of cable ends of the cable units. The opening in each case is disposed on the base plate at a position corresponding to the respective cable unit.
US11728606B2	Flexible connector mechanism for light electrical vehicles Examples of the present disclosure describe a flexible connector mechanism that may be used to form an electrical connection and/or a communication link between one or more devices. The flexible connector mechanism may comprise one or more interface components that may each comprise one or more contact portions. The interface components may be configured to be selectively coupled to one or more corresponding components of a coupleable object. The flexible connector mechanism may also comprise a flexible portion that enables the interface components to be manipulated along one or more planes or axes. The flexibility of the flexible portion may enable the interface components of the flexible connector mechanism to be adjusted into, and maintained in, an optimal (or operable) position when coupled to a coupleable object in motion.
US11728602B2	Connector and cable with connector The present disclosure relates generally to the technical field of digital accessories, and more particularly to a connector and a cable with connector. The connector includes a first terminal head and a second terminal head. The first terminal head and the second terminal head are detachably connected. The first terminal head includes multiple first pins and a fixing member. The fixing member includes an upper fixing element and a lower fixing element. The multiple first pins are respectively fixed on the upper fixing element and the lower fixing element. A part of the multiple first pins passing through the upper fixing element, and the other part of the multiple first pins passing through the lower fixing element. When the first terminal head and the second terminal head are connected, one end of each first pin is electrically connected to the second terminal head, and the other end thereof is electrically connected to an external device. The cable with connector includes the connector mentioned above, a cable and an interface. One end of the cable is electrically connected to the second terminal head, and the other end thereof is connected to the interface. The connector provided in the present disclosure can fix the first pins in the first terminal head, without soldering, PCB boards, metal boards, etc., which reduces the manufacturing cost and avoids the soldering difficulty.
US11728601B2	Modular power source A modular power source comprises a middle block having a housing, comprising a connector for receiving power from a supply of electricity, and at least one electrical socket on a face of the middle block, at least one wing assembly, comprising at least one connector on a face of the wing assembly, the connector configured to form an electrical connection between the wing assembly and the inner block, and at least one controllable electrical socket, and at least one computing device configured to connect or disconnect the at least one controllable electrical socket from the power source, wherein the at least one wing assembly is configured to rotate about an axis with respect to the middle block when electrically connected to the middle block via the electrical connection. Alternative embodiments are also disclosed.
US11728598B2	Locking RF coaxial connector RF coaxial connectors, configured for multiple locking engagements, include a male connector and a female connector. The male connector has a male connector central conductor, a male connector dielectric positionable over a section of the male connector central conductor, a male connector bushing positionable over the male connector dielectric and over a portion of the male connector central conductor, a male connector outer conductor positionable over the male connector dielectric and at least a portion of the male connector bushing, the male connector outer conductor. The female connector has a female connector central conductor, a female connector dielectric positionable over at least a portion of the female connector central conductor, a female connector outer conductor positionable over at least a portion of the female connector central conductor and the female connector dielectric, and a female connector locking element positionable over the female connector outer conductor.
US11728597B1	Structure of universal socket with polarity correction An improved structure of a universal socket with polarity correction comprising: a cover, a wedging body disposed under the cover, and a shell disposed under the wedging body. The cover is formed with first neutral, first live wire, second neutral, and second live wire electrode socket holes. The wedging body is formed with first neutral electrode, first live wire electrode, second neutral electrode, and second live wire electrode holding holes. Neutral and live wire electrode plate accommodating grooves, and an electrode plate assembly are disposed in the shell. The electrode plate assembly comprises a first neutral electrode plate and a second neutral electrode plate electrically connected to each other and disposed in the neutral electrode plate accommodating groove, and further comprises a first live wire electrode plate and a second live wire electrode plate electrically connected to each other and disposed in the live wire electrode plate accommodating groove.
US11728593B2	High-frequency electrical connector An electrical connector, comprising a plurality of first terminals, a plurality of second terminals, and a partitioning member. The plurality of first terminals comprise at least one pair of first differential signal terminals and at least one first ground terminal. The plurality of second terminals comprise at least a pair of second differential signal terminals. The partitioning member is disposed between the first terminals and the second terminals. The partitioning member is grounded and comprises a partitioning member body and at least one first bump. The first bump is disposed at the partitioning member body. The partitioning member body is at least disposed between the pair of first differential signal terminals and the pair of second differential signal terminals to shield the pair of first differential signal terminals and the pair of second differential signal terminals. The first bump is electrically connected with the at least one first ground terminal.
US11728592B2	Modular service interface A modular service interface is provided. The modular service interface includes separable first and second halves, one or more alignment features, a connector interface and one or more electropermanent magnet modules, connector interface configured to mate the first and second halves when activated and allow the first and second halves to be separated when inactivated. The modular service interface includes no mechanical actuators to retain the first half to the second half.
US11728589B2	Connector A connector 10 includes a first housing 11 and a second housing 12 to be coupled to each other. The first and second housings 11, 12 respectively include a first wall 24 and a second wall 44 partitioning between the first and second housings 11, 12. The first housing 11 includes a first cavity 13, a reference portion 27 constituting a part of the first wall, 24 and a first opening 29 communicating with the first cavity 13. The second housing 12 includes a restricting portion 47 constituting a part of the second wall 44. The restricting portion 47 projects into the first cavity 13 from the first opening 29 beyond the reference portion 27, and a tip thereof in a projecting direction is arranged to face an end part of a wire 30.
US11728587B2	Flat plug-in connector arrangement and flat contact for the flat plug-in connector arrangement A flat plug-in connector assembly includes a flat contact, a mating plug connector, and a contact chamber. The flat contact has a middle strip having opposite first and second sides and further has a first end that forms a blade contact section. The mating plug connector includes a pair of contact springs for accommodating the blade contact section. The flat contact further includes first and second spring arms for damping relative movements between the blade contact section and the contact springs. The first and second spring arms are integrally formed in one piece at the first and second sides of the flat contact. The first and second spring arms have first and second free end sections in a form of first and second detent hooks. The flat contact is inserted in the contact chamber with the first and second detent hooks being displaceable supported in the contact chamber.
US11728583B2	Mechanical grounding clamp A mechanical grounding clamp including a body, having an upper plate defining a threaded hole therethrough and having an outer surface, a lower plate spaced apart from the upper plate and having an inner surface, and a connecting plate connecting the upper plate to the lower plate, a fastener mateable with the threaded hole in the upper plate and having a proximal end and a distal end, the distal end extendable through the threaded hole of the upper plate and toward the inner surface of the lower plate. There may be a nut on the fastener for driving toward the upper plate to secure a grounding conductor to the body.
US11728580B2	Terminal and terminal fixing structure A terminal includes: a flat surface portion; an extending portion continuous with the flat surface portion; a branch portion continuous with the extending portion and extending in a direction different from that in which the extending portion extends; and rotation stop portions continuous with the branch portion. When the terminal is attached to a bolt protruding from a fixing member and including a seat separated from the fixing member, the flat surface portion contacts the seat, the rotation stop portions extend from the branch portion toward a base end of the bolt in a protruding direction of the bolt, and at least a pair of the rotation stop portions are positioned to sandwich the seat in a direction intersecting the protruding direction to prevent rotation of the terminal with respect to the bolt.
US11728573B2	Method for producing a layer of a device for the absorption of electromagnetic radiation A method for producing a layer of a device for electromagnetic radiation absorption, includes: providing a ply of powder material in the layer to be produced of the device; providing a predefined concentration distribution of particles for electromagnetic radiation absorption in the layer; providing a first binder and a second binder for the powder materials, wherein the first binder includes particles for the absorption of electromagnetic radiation, wherein the second binder includes a lower concentration of identical and/or different particles than the first binder; determining a mixing ratio between the first binder and the second binder for every position in the layer; selecting a position of the layer; mixing the first and second binder according to the mixing ratio for the selected position; wetting the powder material at the selected position using the mixed first and second binders; and repeating selecting, mixing, and wetting to produce the layer.
US11728572B1	Twistarray reflector for axisymmetric incident fields A twistarray reflector includes: a reflector having front reflecting surface comprising wires and a back reflecting surface, the front reflecting surface fabricated from the wires and composites where the wires are placed having an orientation at each point on the front surface to decompose an incident field into orthogonal components so that an electromagnetic reflected from the front surface when superposed with a phase-inverted electromagnetic field reflected from the back reflecting surface produces a net reflected electromagnetic field that is polarized in a specific vector direction with consistent phase.
US11728570B2	Electromagnetic bandgap isolation systems and methods Electromagnetic bandgap isolation systems and methods are provided. In one example, an electromagnetic bandgap isolator device includes a base support having a curved surface. The electromagnetic bandgap isolator device further includes a metamaterial. The metamaterial includes a continuous curved layer in contact with the base support. The metamaterial is configured to absorb energy associated with a frequency range. Related systems and methods are also provided.
US11728568B2	Synchronous dual band signal acquisition and source location system A dual band radio frequency signal acquisition and source location system, provided with a steerable phased array antenna operable in a first and a second radio frequency band. A digital signal processor electrically connected to the steerable phased array antenna is configured to control steering of an antenna beam of the steerable phased array antenna and apply frequency time division multiplexing to radio frequency signaling in the first and the second radio frequency bands. In particular, the first frequency band may be 2.4 GHz Bluetooth/Bluetooth Low Energy, and the second frequency band may be 900 MHz passive UHF RFID.
US11728565B2	Base station antenna and board assembly for base station antenna The present invention relates to a board assembly used for a base station antenna and a base station antenna including such a board assembly. The board assembly includes a first circuit board (3) and a second circuit board (4), and the first circuit board and the second circuit board are spaced apart from each other. The first circuit board has a plurality of first electrical connectors, the second circuit board has a plurality of second electrical connectors, and the first electrical connectors and the second electrical connectors are electrically connected by a plurality of coaxial cable assemblies (5). Each coaxial cable assembly extends between the first circuit board and the second circuit board, and includes a coaxial cable, a first corresponding electrical connector matching the first electrical connector on a first end of the coaxial cable, and a second corresponding electrical connector matching the second electrical connector on a second end opposite to the first end on the coaxial cable. The board assembly can have stable electrical performance, especially radio frequency signal transmission performance.
US11728560B2	Electronic device including sensor An electronic device includes: a display, an antenna structure including at least one antenna, a conductive support disposed between the display and the antenna structure, a sensor disposed between the display and the conductive support, a first printed circuit board disposed between the conductive support and the antenna structure, a second printed circuit board stacked on the first printed circuit board, a board support coupled with the conductive support and overlapping at least part of the second printed circuit board, and a first insulating member comprising an insulating material disposed between the board support and the antenna structure.
US11728559B2	Polymer composition for use in an antenna system A polymer composition comprising a semiconductive material distributed within a polymer matrix is provided. The semiconductive material includes inorganic particles and an electrically conductive material, the inorganic particles having an average particle size of from about 0.1 to about 100 μm and an electrical conductivity about 500 μS/cm or less. The polymer matrix contains at least one thermoplastic high performance polymer having a deflection under load of about 40° C. or more. The polymer composition exhibits a dielectric constant of about 4 or more and a dissipation factor of about 0.3 or less, as determined at a frequency of 2 GHz.
US11728552B2	Phase shifter, antenna, and control method of phase shifter The present disclosure provides a phase shifter, an antenna including the phase shifter, and a control method of the phase shifter. The phase shifter includes a first base substrate; a plurality of microstrip lines arranged on the first base substrate and configured to transmit an electromagnetic wave signal and apply a common voltage; a dielectric layer arranged on a side of the plurality of microstrip lines away from the first base substrate; and a plurality of separate voltage control layers correspondingly arranged with the plurality of microstrip lines respectively on a side of the dielectric layer away from the first base substrate. The separate voltage control layers are configured to apply a control voltage. A dielectric constant of the dielectric layer varies with the control voltage applied to the voltage control layers and the common voltage applied to the microstrip lines.
US11728543B2	Electrospinning of PVdF-HFP: novel composite polymer electrolytes (CPES) with enhanced ionic conductivities for lithium-sulfur batteries The invention relates to lithium ion batteries and, more particularly, to lithium ion conducting composite polymer electrolyte separators. The separators include a nanofiber mat composed of electrospun nanofibers. The nanofibers include a polymer having one or more polar halogen groups, a lithium-containing solid or liquid electrolyte and nanoparticle filler. The polymer, electrolyte and filler are combined to form a solution that is subjected to the electro-spinning process to produce electrospun nanofibers in the form of the mat.
US11728540B2	Double sided battery mounting apparatus A battery assembly for an aircraft includes a cold plate having an upper planar member, a lower planar member, and at least one fluid channel positioned between the upper and lower planar members and configured to receive a cooling fluid. The battery assembly also includes an upper battery mounted to the upper planar member for transferring heat from the upper battery to the cooling fluid through the upper planar member. The battery assembly further includes a lower battery mounted to the lower planar member for transferring heat from the lower battery to the cooling fluid through the lower planar member.
US11728539B2	Systems and methods for managing adhesive joints A method for making a battery system includes applying fast-cure and slow-cure adhesives to interfaces between components. The fast-cure adhesive allows manipulation of the assembly during manufacturing while the slow-cure adhesive cures. The slow-cure adhesive provides desired strength and toughness as needed during use of the final assembly. The fast-cure adhesive and slow-cure adhesive have respective curing schedules. The fast-cure adhesive includes a moisture-curing adhesive or any other suitable adhesive curing on the order of seconds such as UV-activated or cyanoacrylate adhesives. The slow cure adhesive includes any suitable structural adhesive such as a two-part mix-cure epoxy or acrylic. The components adhered using the fast-cure adhesive and slow-cure adhesive include side wall sections, battery cells, mounting bracket, bus bars, or any other suitable components. The fast-cure and slow-cure adhesives are applied in any suitable pattern such as, for example, beads, dots, paths, non-intersecting paths, or any other suitable application shape.
US11728538B2	Power tool battery pack receptacle A power tool battery pack receptacle includes a cavity in which a portion of a battery pack is receivable, an insertion end, a closed end opposite the insertion end along an insertion axis of the battery pack, and a rail extending between the insertion end and the closed end. The rail includes a first portion having a variable height and a second portion having a substantially constant height. The first portion is positioned adjacent the insertion end and the second portion is spaced from the insertion end. The rail is configured to be received within a groove of the battery pack.
US11728533B2	Systems and methods for battery thermal management Systems and methods for managing the temperature of an energy storage system are provided. In some embodiments, the energy storage system includes a housing, a first terminal, a second terminal, an energy storage element disposed within the housing, a thermal management system, and a controller. In some embodiments, the energy storage element are configured to electrically connect to a load or a grid via the second terminal. The thermal management system is configured to manage a temperature within the housing and also configured to receive power from an external power source via the first terminal.
US11728525B2	Battery adaptive charging Systems and apparatus may carry out analysis of battery physical phenomena, and characterize batteries based on phenomena occurring in particular time and/or frequency domains. These systems may be additionally responsible for charging and/or monitoring a rechargeable battery. Examples of battery physical phenomena include mass transport (e.g., diffusion and/or migration) in battery electrolytes, mass transport in battery electrodes, and reactions on battery electrodes.
US11728520B2	Zinc-halide battery using a deep eutectic solvent-based electrolyte The present invention provide a non-aqueous electrolyte for use in static or non-flowing rechargeable electrochemical cells or batteries, wherein the electrolyte comprises a first deep eutectic solvent comprises a zinc salt, a second deep eutectic solvent comprising one or more quaternary ammonium salts, and a hydrogen bond donor. Another aspect of the present invention also provides a non-flowing rechargeable electrochemical cell that employs the non-aqueous electrolyte of the present invention.
US11728515B2	Electrolyte for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery including the same An electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery according to embodiments of the present invention includes an organic solvent, a lithium salt, and an additive including a cyclic ether-sulfate-based compound. Thereby, cycle characteristics and high-temperature stability of the lithium secondary battery may be improved.

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