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| US11735895B2 |
Length of cable run having a fish-plated end
Disclosed is a length of cable run made of metal wire mesh having a nominal end and a fish-plated end equipped with a fish plate made of metal wires which is configured to allow the fish-plated end to be assembled by clip-fastening with the nominal end of a similar length of cable run; lateral parts of the fish plate each including a flexible arm, a head provided with a ramp and with a clip and connected to the flexible arm by one of its ends, and a spacer secured to the end cross wire of the fish-plated end and situated between this end cross wire and the end cross wire of the nominal end of the similar length when the fish-plated end of the length and the nominal end of the similar length are assembled. |
| US11735894B2 |
Cable positioning assembly and pulling system
A cable pulling system and associated method are shown. Examples include positioning joints that allows a pulling boom to move up or down and side to side, while maintaining alignment of a pulling cable between pulleys. Example methods include positioning a pulling boom within a conduit box and pulling an electrical cable through a conduit into the conduit box. |
| US11735893B2 |
Switchgear system having chain driven circuit breaker and associated methods
A switchgear system may include a switchgear frame, a truck and circuit breaker mounted thereon. A drive mechanism is mounted on the switchgear frame and configured to rack the circuit breaker into a) a first connected position where the primary and secondary circuits are electrically connected, b) a second test position where the primary circuit is electrically disconnected and secondary circuit connected, and c) a third disconnected position where the primary and secondary circuits are electrically disconnected, wherein said drive mechanism comprises a drive chain and shuttle configured to engage the truck and rack and fix the circuit breaker into the first connected position. |
| US11735891B2 |
Electrical assembly
An electrical assembly may include a bus bar assembly, a fuse connected to the bus bar assembly, a contactor connected to the bus bar assembly, a bracket connected to the bus bar assembly, and/or a cooling member connected to the bracket such that the fuse is indirectly connected to the cooling member via the bus bar assembly and the bracket. A method of operating an electrical assembly may include controlling the contactor to provide current from a power source to a load, generating heat via the current flowing through the fuse, conducting the heat from the fuse to the bus bar assembly, conducting the heat from the bus bar assembly to the cooling member, and/or dissipating the heat via the cooling member. |
| US11735887B2 |
Semiconductor laser and method of production for optoelectronic semiconductor parts
In one embodiment the semiconductor laser (1) comprises a carrier (2) and an edge-emitting laser diode (3) which is mounted on the carrier (2) and which comprises an active zone (33) for generating a laser radiation (L) and a facet (30) with a radiation exit region (31). The semiconductor laser (1) further comprises a protective cover (4), preferably a lens for collimation of the laser radiation (L). The protective cover (4) is fastened to the facet (30) and to a side surface (20) of the carrier (2) by means of an adhesive (5). A mean distance between a light entrance side (41) of the protective cover (4) and the facet (30) is at most 60 μm. The semiconductor laser (1) is configured to be operated in a normal atmosphere without additional gas-tight encapsulation. |
| US11735880B1 |
Light bulb holder structure and light bulb having same
A light bulb holder structure and a light bulb having same, in which the bulb cap of the light bulb holder is provided with a plurality of grooves in a tactful manner, and the depth of the grooves is greater than that of the external threads of the bulb cap, such that after the bulb cap is mounted on the light bulb and the light bulb is mounted on the light socket, the water accumulated between the light bulb holder structure and the light socket can be effectively discharged through the grooves. As a result, failure of the insulator (connector) on the light bulb holder structure caused by water accumulation can be avoided to a certain extent, thereby improving the reliability and safety of the light bulb. |
| US11735878B2 |
Elevated outlet assembly
An elevated outlet assembly includes a tripod that has a base and a plurality of legs each extending downwardly from the base. Each of the legs engages a support surface thereby elevating the base upwardly from the support surface. A disk is disposed on the base and a plurality of female electrical outlets is each integrated into the disk to receive a power plug from an electronic device. Each of the female electrical outlets is elevated when the tripod is positioned on the support surface to inhibit the power plug from the electronic device from coming into contact with moisture on the support surface. A power cord is coupled to and extends away from the disk and the power cord can be plugged into a power source to supply electrical power to the respective electronic device. |
| US11735873B1 |
Powered wall plate
A powered wall plate with at least two electrical plug prongs configured to removably mate with an electrical receptacle of an electrical device. A protruding front face extends from the front surface and has a plurality of electrical current apertures extending into the front face, which are configured to receive an electrical plug. A plurality of mounting screw apertures extend through the wall plate, configured to receive a plurality of mounting screws to attach the wall plate to the electrical device. One of the mounting screw apertures may be located on the front face. A spacer may be placed between the wall plate and the electrical device to close a gap. A plurality of LED lights is located along a bottom edge of the front surface, a photocell is exposed on the front surface of the wall plate, and a control switch has an on position, an off position, and an auto position. A circuit between the front face and a rear surface of the wall plate is operatively coupled to a USB port on a side surface of the front face. The USB port is configured to provide power when power is supplied to the at least two electrical plug prongs. |
| US11735872B2 |
Screw assembly for securing connectors
A system includes a jack screw including a body portion and a keyed portion extending along a length of the body portion. The system includes a panel including a first aperture configured to receive the jack screw. The system includes a connector including a second aperture configured to receive the jack screw. The system includes a plate including a third aperture configured to receive the jack screw, where the jack screw is configured to be aligned along an axis through the first aperture, the second aperture, and the third plate aperture, where a portion of the body portion of the jack screw extends past a locking plate. |
| US11735870B2 |
Method for identifying signal transmission device and signal processing system utilizing the same
A method for identifying a signal transmission device includes: reading attribute information from a memory device by a first device of a signal processing system, wherein the attribute information records information regarding at least one attribute of the signal transmission device that is coupled between the first device and a second device of the signal processing system; determining the at least one attribute of the signal transmission device by the first device according to the attribute information; and setting a maximum value or a minimum value of a signal output by the first device or the second device according to the at least one attribute. |
| US11735869B2 |
Anti-noise component
An anti-noise component for a connector including a plug on an end of a coaxial cable and a jack at an opening of a metal housing of an electronic device. The anti-noise component includes a cylindrical first conductive member where the plug is inserted, and a cylindrical second conductive member where the first conductive member is inserted. The plug is held inside the first conductive member. An external thread portion is formed on the first conductive member and an internal thread portion is formed inside the second conductive member. The external thread portion mates with the internal thread portion. A flange portion is formed on the second conductive member and a joining portion is formed on the flange portion. The joining portion abuts an outer face of the metal housing. This prevents a gap from forming and leaking electromagnetic noise between the joining portion and the metal housing. |
| US11735868B2 |
Connector assembly
An electrical connector assembly can include a plug connector mountable to a planar substrate and a receptacle connector configured to receive a plurality of cables and that can mate with the plug connector. The plug connector may include a first inline terminal row and a second inline terminal row exposed on a mounting face to conductively contact the planar substrate. The receptacle connector can include a plurality of terminals having termination ends aligned in common wafer plane that can be conductively terminated with the plurality of cables. The plug connector and the electrical connector are configured to establish electrical channels from the termination ends coplanar with the common wafer plan to the first and second inline terminal rows. |
| US11735866B2 |
Connector and electrical connection device
A connector includes an insulative housing and a circuit board. The insulative housing comprises a housing body, an insertion plate, two side walls and a stopping wall. The housing body has a front end surface, the insertion plate is positioned at a top side of the housing body and protrudes from the front end surface, the two side walls are respectively positioned at a left side and a right side of the housing body and protrudes from the front end surface. The housing body, the insertion plate and the two side walls together form a receiving space. The stopping wall is positioned at a side of the insulating housing opposite to the insertion plate and has a stopping end positioned in front of the front end surface. The circuit board is provided to the housing body and partially protrudes into the receiving space. The stopping end of the stopping wall is stopped by the mating connector, it can prevent the user from improperly inserting the connector in an upside down orientation into the mating connector. |
| US11735865B2 |
Locking electrical contact device with switch
An electrical connector assembly includes a first electrical contact device and a second electrical contact device. The first electrical contact device includes a plurality of conductors. The second electrical contact device includes a first portion, a second portion movable in a rotational and translational manner relative to the first portion, and an actuator movable between a first position and a second position. The first portion includes first electrical contacts, and the second portion includes electrical sockets. Each socket receives an associated conductor and includes a second electrical contact aligned with an associated first electrical contact. The second portion is biased away from the first portion. When the actuator is in the first position, the actuator inhibits translational movement of the second portion toward the first portion. When the actuator is in the second position, the second portion is movable toward the first portion to permit the second electrical contacts to engage the first electrical contacts. |
| US11735863B2 |
Electrical connector with automatic latching and slidable lock
An electrical connector comprises a housing body with a peripheral region and a central region. A hinge support protrudes from the housing body. A curved wall portion extends outward from the central region. A lid has a hollow portion arranged for rotation with respect to the hinge support. A spring or resilient member is configured to bias the lid in a closed state against an electrical socket with one or more electrically conductive terminals in an interior of the electrical socket. A slider is arranged to slide radially along the curved wall portion between an open position and a closed position, where the closed position holds the lid in the closed state and where the open position allows the lid to be rotationally raised or flipped upward. |
| US11735862B2 |
Electrical connector assembly having improved locking portions
An electrical connector assembly includes a board connector and a cable connector. The board connector includes a first seat comprising a base and two first sidewalls commonly defining a mating space, and a pair of first locking portions with locking heads projecting into the mating space, and a plurality of first terminals retained in the first seat and comprising contacting portions projecting into the mating space and leg portions. The cable connector includes a second seat including a pair of second locking portions to engage with the first locking portions and plural second terminals retained in the second seat. The first seat of the board connector further includes a second sidewall unitarily connecting with the base and first sidewalls at a same side and the second sidewall defines a first locking section to engage with a second locking section defined on the cable connector. |
| US11735859B2 |
Connector and connector manufacturing method
A connector to connect electric circuits inside and outside the tire includes: a tubular terminal penetrating the connector attachment hole; an outer seal member surrounding outside the tubular terminal and elastically deformed by being pressed against a tire wheel to provide a seal between the tire wheel and the tubular terminal; an inner seal member filled inside the tubular terminal; one or more rod-shaped terminals penetrating the inner seal member; a plurality of communication holes formed at a plurality of positions in a circumferential direction in an intermediate portion in an axial direction of the tubular terminal; and a plurality of seal communication portions integrally formed with one or both of the outer seal member and the inner seal member and arranged in the plurality of communication holes to transmit, to the inner seal member, elastic force toward the tubular terminal by the elastic deformation of the outer seal member. |
| US11735858B2 |
Elastomer seal spring
The seal spring of the present invention has a dual functionality. The seal spring provides both a sealing property and spring function in use within an electrical connector system, which is accomplished by its elastomeric qualities. The seal spring is preferably comprised of Silicone, EPDM rubber or materials and compositions that provide similar performance during use, or the like. The seal spring of the present invention is not limited or defined into a spring section or a seal section by its geometry. Shown is an implementation of the seal spring within a conductive female housing and connector assembly. The seal spring compresses and provides adequate spring force against a disk ferrule assembly, pressing the disk ferrule assembly, with a wire shield, against a conductive female outer housing, providing a grounding scheme for the connector assembly. The seal spring also seals against the female outer housing and a wire. |
| US11735854B2 |
Electrical connector
An electrical connector includes multiple terminals formed by cutting from a metal plate and bending. The portion of the metal plate with the terminals being removed is defined as a base plate. Each terminal has a base portion and an elastic arm connected thereto. The base portion is at least partially horizontally provided to be coplanar to the base plate. A cutting slot is formed between the base plate and the base portion. A through slot is formed between the base plate and the elastic arm. An insulating body is provided with through holes running vertically therethrough. A portion of the cutting slot and the through slot are exposed in a corresponding through hole. The terminals include signal terminals and ground terminals. The base plate forms a connecting portion between the through slot and the cutting slot of each ground terminal to be connected to the ground terminal. |
| US11735853B2 |
Spring loaded electrical connector
An electrical connector or electrical connector assembly that has a housing, a contact carrier, one or more spring members, and an interposer or contact system. The contact carrier is movable with respect to the housing between unmated and mated electrical positions. |
| US11735846B2 |
Stacked card edge connector having inner contact assembly and outer contact assembly
A stacked card edge connector for mating with stacked pluggable modules includes a housing configured to be mounted to a host circuit board and including inner and outer contact channels and inner and outer card slots configured to receive card edges of module circuit boards of the stacked pluggable modules. The stacked card edge connector includes an inner contact assembly received in the inner card slot and an outer contact assembly received in the outer card slot. |
| US11735842B2 |
Electrical component
An electrical component comprises a main body, a fulcrum portion and at least two terminals including a first terminal and a second terminal. Each of the terminals has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion of one of the first terminal and the second terminal is brought into contact with a circuit board when the main body is tilted relative to the circuit board with the fulcrum portion, which acts as a fulcrum, under an insertion state where the terminals are inserted into through-holes, respectively, while none of the terminals are soldered thereto. When the main body is tilted relative to the circuit board with the fulcrum portion, which acts as the fulcrum, under the insertion state, the second portion of one of the first terminal and the second terminal is brought into contact with the circuit board to regulate an excessive tilt of the main body. |
| US11735841B1 |
Mount plate for audiovisual devices
A mount plate includes a mount plate housing for coupling an audiovisual device with a battery. A power terminal in the mount plate housing provides electrical power to the audiovisual device. A hot wire connected with the power terminal extends from the mount plate housing. The hot wire is configured to connect with a corresponding hot wire of the audiovisual device. A ground wire extending from the mount plate housing is configured to be connected with a corresponding ground wire of the audiovisual device. A first insulation piercing interconnect is connected with the hot wire. The first insulation piercing interconnect is configured to connect the hot wire with the corresponding hot wire of the audiovisual device. A second insulation piercing interconnect is connected with the ground wire. The second insulation piercing interconnect is configured to connect the ground wire with the corresponding ground wire of the audiovisual device. |
| US11735840B2 |
Electrical connection box
An electrical connection box is provided with a conductive bus bar, an insulating housing body, a cover, and a power supply line. The cover opens or closes with respect to the housing body at a fully open position and a fully closed position. The housing body has a connector at a position exposed to the outside, with the connector configured so that a terminal provided at a tip of the power supply line is attachable or detachable to or from the connector. A restriction portion, which restricts the power supply line from moving in the longitudinal direction is provided in the cover. In the state where the terminal is connected to the connector, the tension is created on the power supply line in the longitudinal direction by the restriction portion during moving the cover from the fully closed position to the fully open position side. |
| US11735838B2 |
Terminal wire clamp
A terminal wire clamp including a body, an aperture defined by the body, and a first tab. The body has a front face, a back face opposite to the front face, and a side edge. The first tab extends from the side edge in a first direction outside of a plane defined by the body. |
| US11735836B2 |
Pressure-welding structure, terminal-attached electric wire, and manufacturing method for terminal-attached electric wire
A core-wire exposed portion in an electric wire and at least one pair of pressure-welding pieces made of an electroconductive material are included. The core-wire exposed portion is a portion is which a core wire composed of a plurality of element wires is exposed. The pair of pressure-welding pieces are provided with a core wire pressure-welding section in which pressure-welding end surfaces are disposed facing each other at a distance and Kate the core-wire exposed portion press-fitted between the pressure-welding end surfaces. The core wire pressure-welding section is formed as a section that brings all of the element wires in the core-wire exposed portion, between the pressure-welding end surfaces, into contact with either of the pressure-welding end surfaces while being in an aligned state. |
| US11735831B2 |
Broadband MIMO antenna with self-decoupling characteristics
A broadband multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna with self-decoupling characteristics includes: a dielectric substrate, a metal patch printed on an upper surface of the dielectric substrate, and a pair of horizontal back-to-back elliptical tapered slots and a vertical elliptical tapered slot etched on the metal patch. A microstrip line and another bent micro strip line are respectively used to feed the vertical elliptical tapered slot and the pair of horizontal elliptical tapered slots, and characteristic modes of the horizontal slots excited by the bent microstrip line and characteristic modes of the vertical slot excited by the micro strip line are mutually orthogonal. By adopting the technical scheme, no additional decoupling structure needs to be introduced, and lower coupling can be realized in a wider working frequency band. |
| US11735830B2 |
Antenna device and method for manufacturing the same
An antenna device and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The antenna device includes a carrier and an antenna element. The carrier includes a plurality of pads and has a surface exposing the pads. The antenna element is disposed above the pads. A lateral surface of one of the pads is farther from a central axis of the antenna element substantially perpendicular to the surface than from a lateral surface of the antenna element. |
| US11735827B2 |
Slotted substrate integrated air waveguide antenna array
A slotted Substrate Integrated Air Waveguide (slotted SIAW) antenna array comprising a ground plane having a reflective planar surface formed of a conductive material; an air waveguide structure fixably attached to, or formed onto, the reflective surface of the ground plane and having a slotted aperture defined, in part, by two conductive side walls that terminates at a conductive end wall, where a portion of the conductive side walls and a portion of the conductive end wall define an aperture-facing radiative conductive surface of the aperture and electrically couples with a conductive antenna feedline; and a slotted cover plate fixably attached to, or formed onto, the slotted-waveguide structure and having an area that fully covers the slotted aperture and has two or more radiating slotted apertures coincident to the slotted aperture and to the reflective planar surface of the ground plane. |
| US11735826B2 |
Modal antenna system including closed-loop parasitic element
An antenna system can include a ground plane and a driven element spaced apart from the ground plane. The antenna system can include a parasitic element disposed proximate to the driven element. The parasitic element can be coupled to the ground plane by a first coupling and a second coupling. The second coupling can be independent from the first coupling. For instance, the first coupling can include one or more tunable components. The second coupling can fix the parasitic element to the ground plane. |
| US11735824B2 |
Soldier-mounted antenna
Embodiments of a wide band multi-polarization antenna system are described, which can be attached to the back or front of a soldier's vest or backpack. The antenna system can allow for release of pre-shaped integral radiating elements that spring into a geometric configuration suitable for circular polarization radiation or linear polarization over a desired band of frequencies. The antenna system can provide, when collapsed, linear polarized line-of sight capability over a wide band of frequencies. In a collapsed low-profile state, the antenna system can remain on the soldier, but out of the way for maneuvering. |
| US11735817B2 |
Beamforming via sparse activation of antenna elements connected to phase advance waveguides
Systems and methods described herein include a two-dimensional antenna array of antenna pixels having length and width dimensions of less than one-half of an operational wavelength. In various examples, each antenna pixel comprises a fixed number of phase-adjustable antenna elements. The antenna elements of each antenna pixel may be coupled to the waveguide with interelement spacings selected to associate each antenna element with a distinct phase advance value. A controller identifies a target phase value for each antenna pixel that corresponds to a target beamform for the two-dimensional antenna. A controller activates and adjusts a phase response of one of the antenna elements in each antenna pixel, such that the phase advance value associate with the activated antenna element and the adjusted phase response combine to attain the target phase value for the antenna pixel as a whole. |
| US11735814B2 |
Antenna module
An antenna module includes a wiring structure including a plurality of insulating layers, a plurality of wiring layers, and a plurality of via layers; an antenna disposed on an upper surface of the wiring structure; and an encapsulant disposed on the upper surface of the wiring structure and covering at least a portion of the antenna. An uppermost wiring layer of the plurality of wiring layers is connected to the antenna through a connection via of an uppermost via layer of the plurality of via layers. The connection via penetrates at least a portion of the encapsulant. |
| US11735808B2 |
Unpowered wireless signal amplification device
Unpowered wireless signal amplification system that includes a monopole reception antenna and an amplification portion including a wire frame diamond formed from two flat, square wire frames. The unpowered wireless signal amplification system disclosed may be capable of receiving, amplifying, and transmitting wireless signals commonly used today, including multiple signal frequencies simultaneously. |
| US11735805B1 |
Adjustable antenna mounting system
An antenna mounting system configured to be attached to the structure of a communications tower and to connect with additional mounting systems located adjacent on the tower. The system is secured to the tower structure via a multi piece clamp configured to attach to tower elements of varying sizes and shapes and which may be joined together with one or more adjacent mounting systems. Single piece side frames with X shaped central bracing are attached to the mounting clamp and further attached to multiple face members. The face members are used to attach members which serve as the ultimate mounting points for antenna equipment as well as members to brace the mounting system to the tower structure or an adjacent mounting system. The system is configured that it may be adjusted for azimuth once installed on the tower and features an azimuth guide for making precise adjustments. |
| US11735803B2 |
Antenna apparatus
The present invention relates to an antenna apparatus, which specifically comprises: a filter unit which is disposed to form at least one layer; an electric appliance unit which is coupled and is spaced apart from the filter unit to form a layer different from that of the filter unit, and includes various electric devices installed therein; a filter unit heat dissipation module which is coupled to the opposite surface of a surface of the filter unit, the surface being coupled to the electric appliance unit, and thus radiates heat generated from the filter unit to the outside; and an electric appliance unit heat dissipation module including a first electric appliance unit heat dissipation module and a second electric appliance unit heat dissipation module, wherein: the first electric appliance unit heat dissipation module is coupled to the opposite surface of a surface of the electric appliance unit, the surface being coupled to the filter unit, and thus radiates, to the outside, heat generated from first heating elements intensively disposed at one side of the filter unit; and the second electric appliance unit heat dissipation module is provided in parallel to the first electric appliance unit heat dissipation module and radiates, to the outside, heat generated from second heating elements intensively disposed at the other side of the filter unit. Accordingly, the present invention provides advantages of improving assembling performance and maximizing heat dissipation performance. |
| US11735802B2 |
Electroplated metal layer on a niobium-titanium substrate
Devices, systems, and/or methods that can facilitate plating one or more metal layers onto a niobium-titanium substrate are provided. According to an embodiment, a device can comprise a niobium-titanium substrate. The device can further comprise a first metal layer plated on a portion of the niobium-titanium substrate. The device can further comprise a second metal layer plated on the first metal layer. The device can further comprise a third metal layer plated on the second metal layer. |
| US11735800B2 |
Frequency tuning method in rotary-based oscillator
The present disclosure relates to an oscillator apparatus comprising a differential transmission line forming a closed loop, a plurality of active core components that are electrically connected to the differential transmission line and that are configured to compensate for loss in the differential transmission line, a plurality of tuning elements that are electrically coupled with the differential transmission line, and a processor configured to control each tuning element of the plurality of tuning elements to activate or deactivate such that an effective electrical length of the differential transmission line is changed. |
| US11735799B2 |
Lithium ion secondary battery
To provide a lithium ion secondary battery in which it is possible to prevent an electrode end part from cracking, when current collector tabs of the lithium ion secondary battery are bound to each other and joined to a lead terminal.A lithium ion secondary battery includes a lithium ion secondary battery main body and a lead terminal. The lithium ion secondary battery main body has a laminated body repeatedly disposed with positive electrodes respectively including positive electrode current collectors, solid electrolytes, and negative electrodes respectively including negative electrode current collectors. The current collectors respectively extend from an end face of the laminated body in an identical direction to constitute a plurality of current collector tabs. The lead terminal is electrically coupled to the plurality of current collector tabs. The current collector tabs and the lead terminal are coupled to each other via an electrically-conductive tab guiding part. |
| US11735797B2 |
Coating solution for lithium ion battery separators and lithium ion battery separator
A coating solution for lithium ion battery separators which comprises inorganic particles, an organic polymer binder and carboxymethyl cellulose having an etherification rate of 1.10 to 2.00 or a salt thereof, or a coating solution for lithium ion battery separators comprising inorganic particles containing magnesium hydroxide having a linseed oil absorption of 30 to 80 (g/100 g), and a separator having a coating layer formed from the coating solution on a substrate and high safety and low internal resistance. |
| US11735794B2 |
Method for connecting an energy storage module to a module support, in particular a cooling element
A method for connecting an energy storage module to a module support, in particular a cooling element, The energy storage module is fastened on the module support by multiple connecting screws, which are each screwed into threaded bores provided on the module support. A gap is provided between the bottom of the energy storage module and the bottom of the module support, into which a thermally-conductive compound is introduced, which is distributed to fill the gap due to a reduction of the gap width when the energy storage module is screwed down. |
| US11735787B2 |
Battery pack system, control method thereof and management device
A battery pack system, a control method thereof and a management device are provided. A battery pack is connected in series with a discharge circuit unit and a charge circuit unit; a battery management unit is to monitor a temperature of the battery pack, to periodically send, when the temperature of the battery pack is lower than a threshold, a turn-on-instruction to the discharge circuit unit and the charge circuit unit alternately to control the discharge circuit unit and the charge circuit unit to be alternately turned on in heating cycles; the discharge circuit unit is to be turned on according to the turn-on-instruction to enable electricity of the battery pack to flow into the energy storage unit in discharging-phase; and the charge circuit unit is to be turned on according to the turn-on-instruction to enable electricity of the energy storage unit to flow into the battery pack in charging-phase. |
| US11735785B2 |
Battery device including battery cell group configured by a plurality of laminated battery cells in outer packaging and method for manufacturing the battery device
A battery device is provided with: an exterior body having two outer side walls; at least one battery cell group that is arranged between the two outer side walls of the exterior body and that is composed of a plurality of laminated battery cells; a first temperature-adjusting medium flow path that is provided in at least one of the two outer side walls of the exterior body and in which a temperature-adjusting medium capable of exchanging heat with the battery cells via the outer side wall flows; and a holding mechanism that brings the battery cell group into contact with the outer side wall so that heat can be exchanged and that holds the battery cell group in the exterior body by applying, to the battery cell group in the exterior body, a pressing force in a direction towards the outer side wall having the first temperature-adjusting medium flow path. |
| US11735784B2 |
Rechargeable battery
The invention relates to a rechargeable battery (1) comprising at least one storage module for electrical energy and at least one cooling device (2) for cooling or controlling the temperature of the at least one storage module, wherein the cooling device (2) has a single-layer or multilayer film (4, 9) and is lying with this film (4, 9) against the at least one storage module. The cooling device is provided with at least one stiffening element (19). |
| US11735782B2 |
Voltage sharing of series connected battery modules in a plug-and-play DC microgrid
An apparatus for voltage sharing of series connected battery modules in a DC microgrid includes a battery management system and a battery module controller that generates, for an mth of N converters connected together to a DC microbus, a droop current ĩd,m that includes a converter voltage error signal {tilde over (v)}err,m multiplied by a droop multiplier gd(i). Each converter is a DC/DC converter connected between a battery module, with one or more battery cells, and the DC microbus. The mth converter uses the droop current ĩd,m, a common current reference ĩall of a battery pack that includes the battery modules and an input current ĩm to the mth converter to control switching of the mth converter. The common current reference ĩall is from the battery management system. The voltage error signal {tilde over (v)}err,m is based on an output voltage {tilde over (v)}o,m of the mth converter and an average converter output voltage {tilde over (v)}avgeodcmastereodcmastereodcmaster. |
| US11735781B2 |
Charge and discharge control device, charge and discharge system, charge and discharge control method, and non-transitory storage medium
A charge and discharge control device that controls charging and discharging of a battery module in which a plurality of cell blocks, each including one or more unit cells, are connected in parallel to one another. A controller of the charge and discharge control device controls a current flowing through each of the cell blocks based on at least one of a current load of each of the cell blocks or a parameter relating to the current load. |
| US11735779B2 |
Reconditioned battery pack and method of making same
A method of recycling battery packs having a plurality of battery units is disclosed. The battery units have positive and negative terminals combined with each other and are supported within a housing. The battery units are separated from battery packs subsequent to the one or more battery packs being judged as being degraded. Each of the battery units is tested with a battery test stand having a fixed resistance load to obtain battery operating data indicative of variable voltage and variable current. The battery units are matched based on the battery operating data to form sets of matching battery units. And, replacement battery packs are formed by connecting positive and negative terminals of the matching battery cells within the sets. |
| US11735778B2 |
Battery pack device with casings for multiple cells
In some examples, a high-energy-density battery pack device includes a circuit board and at least two casing structures mounted on the circuit board. In some examples, the high-energy-density battery pack device also includes at least two cells electrically connected in series or in parallel through the circuit board. In some examples, each cell of the at least two cells is positioned in a casing structure of the at least two casing structures. In some examples, the respective casing structure surrounds the respective cell with an opening on one end of the cell. |
| US11735777B2 |
Electrode group, secondary battery, battery pack, and vehicle
According to one embodiment, provided is an electrode group including a positive electrode and a negative electrode that includes a titanium-containing oxide. The electrode group has a wound structure of a flat shape, in which a stack including the positive electrode and the negative electrode is wound such that a center of the wound structure lies along a first direction. At least a part of a portion of the negative electrode, positioned within a thickness of 0.2 t from an innermost lap along a longest straight line in a wound cross-section of the wound structure orthogonal to the first direction with respect to a thickness t from the innermost lap to an outermost lap along the longest straight line, includes a slit that lies along the first direction. |
| US11735776B2 |
Electrolytes for electrochemical cells
The present disclosure provides an electrolyte system for an electrochemical cell that cycles lithium ions. The electrolyte system may include an aliphatic fluorinated disulfonimide lithium salt in a mixture of organic solvents. The mixture of organic solvents may include a first solvent and a second solvent. The first solvent may include an ether solvent, a carbonate solvent, or a mixture of ether and carbonate solvents. The second solvent may include a fluorinated ether. A molar ratio of the aliphatic fluorinated disulfonimide lithium salt to the first solvent may be greater than or equal to about 1:1.2 to less than or equal to about 1:2. A molar ratio of the first solvent to the second solvent may be greater than or equal to about 1:1 to less than or equal to about 1:4. |
| US11735772B2 |
Electrolytes for electrochemical energy storage
An electrochemical device includes an electrolyte having a hydroxamate or N-hydroxyamide compound. |
| US11735768B2 |
Gel electrolyte for solid-state battery
The present disclosure relates to solid-state batteries and methods for forming solid-state batteries. The method includes contacting a polymeric precursor and an assembled battery including two or more electrodes defining a space therebetween, where the polymeric precursor fills the space defined between the two or more electrodes and any voids between the solid-state electroactive particles of each electrode; and reacting the polymeric precursor to form a polymeric gel electrolyte that forms a solid-state electrolyte layer in the space between the two or more electrodes and fills the voids between the solid-state electroactive particles of the electrodes. In other instances the method includes disposing the polymeric precursor on exposed surfaces of an electrode and reacting the polymeric precursor to form the solid-state electrolyte. In still other instances, the method includes disposing the polymeric precursor on a releasable film and reacting the polymeric precursor to form the free-standing electrolyte layer. |
| US11735765B2 |
Solid ion conductor, solid electrolyte including the solid ion conductor, electrochemical device including the solid electrolyte, and method of preparing the solid ion conductor
A solid ion conductor, a solid electrolyte and an electrochemical device including the solid ion conductor, and a method of preparing the solid ion conductor are disclosed. The solid ion conductor may include a compound represented by Formula 1: LiaMbM′cZrdXe Formula 1 wherein, M is one or more metals of Na, K, Cs, Cu, or Ag, and having an oxidation state of +1, M′ is one or more lanthanide metals having an oxidation state of +3 and a crystal ionic radius of about 104 picometers to about 109 picometers, X is one or more halogen elements, 1 |
| US11735764B2 |
Printable lithium compositions
A printable lithium composition is provided. The printable lithium composition includes lithium metal powder; a polymer binder, wherein the polymer binder is compatible with the lithium powder; and a rheology modifier, wherein the rheology modifier is compatible with the lithium powder and the polymer binder. The printable lithium composition may further include a solvent compatible with the lithium powder and with the polymer binder. |
| US11735763B2 |
Solid state electrolyte rechargeable battery in no use of separator
Solid state solid electrolyte rechargeable battery in no use of separator comprising a positive electrode/a conductive polymer solid state electrolyte layer/a negative electrode in which the solid state electrolyte layer is a composition comprising an inorganic solid electrolyte and a polymer electrolyte composition wherein the polymer electrolyte composition is selected from the group consisting of a polymer electrolyte composition (X1) obtained by graft polymerizing or living radical polymerization of a molten salt monomer having a polymerizable functional group and having an onium cation and an anion containing a halogen with a fluoro polymer, and a polymer electrolyte composition comprising (X1) and at least one kind selected from the following (X2) and (X3), X2: a molten salt having an onium cation and an anion containing a halogen, or a molten salt monomer having a polymerizable functional group and having an onium cation, X3: a polymer or copolymer of a molten salt monomer having a polymerizable functional group and having an onium cation. By providing this rechargeable battery, the solid electrolyte rechargeable battery without separator which has a descending effect of particle interface resistance between a positive and negative active materials in case of using conductive polymer solid electrolyte, a thin film cell, a less dependence on the temperature and excellent safety in case of happening short circuit can be obtained. |
| US11735760B2 |
Button cells and method of producing same
A method for producing a button cell includes providing a cell cup, a cell top and an electrode-separator assembly winding, the electrode-separator assembly winding having a positive electrode and a negative electrode. An electrically insulating seal is applied at least to an outer portion of the cell top casing. The electrode-separator assembly winding is inserted into the cell top. The cell top is inserted into the cell cup to form a housing. A pressure is applied in a radial direction perpendicular to an axis of the electrode-separator assembly winding so as to seal the housing. |
| US11735758B2 |
Solid oxide fuel cell stack
A method of manufacturing a solid oxide fuel cell stack, including alternately disposing a plurality of single fuel cells, and a plurality of interconnectors disposed alternately and holding the alternately disposed plurality of single fuel cells and plurality of interconnectors between a pair of end members, forming a space between a first end member and a first interconnector, disposing a junction member composed of an elastic member and an electrically conductive member in the space, and urging a portion of an electrically conductive member and another portion of the electrically member against the first end member and the first interconnector so that a total thickness of the portion of the electrically conductive member, the another portion of the electrically conductive member, and the elastic member prior to being disposed in the space between the first end member and the first interconnector is greater than a height of the space. |
| US11735753B2 |
High-voltage junction unit of fuel cell system and power supply of fuel cell system including the same
A fuel cell system power supply includes: a fuel cell stack configured to react hydrogen and oxygen in air with each other in order to generate electricity; a high-voltage converter configured to boost output power of the fuel cell stack; and a high-voltage junction unit configured to transmit the output power of the fuel cell stack to the high-voltage converter and to receive high-voltage power from the high-voltage converter. The high-voltage junction unit has a structure configured to simultaneously accommodate an output terminal of the fuel cell stack and an input terminal of the high-voltage converter. Consequently, the assembly structure of the high-voltage junction unit may be simplified, whereby productivity may be improved. In addition, maintainability may be improved, whereby it is possible to efficiently maintain a fuel cell vehicle. |
| US11735751B1 |
Intelligent fuel cell systems and control logic for smart use of anode header drain valves for FCS bleed and drainage
Presented are intelligent fuel cell systems (FCS) with logic for evacuating water from anode headers of a fuel cell stack, methods for making/using such systems, and vehicles equipped with such systems. A method of operating an FCS includes a system controller confirming the FCS is running and, once confirmed, receiving a bleed request to remove exhaust gas from exhaust output by the anode. Responsive to the bleed request, the controller determines a total bleed valve use (TBVU) indicating prior bleed requests completed by an anode bleed valve, and thereafter determines if the TBVU is less than a maximum bleed valve use (MBVU). If so, the controller responsively commands the bleed valve to bleed the exhaust gas from the anode exhaust. If TBVU is not less than MBVU, the controller commands a header drain valve to bleed the exhaust gas from the anode exhaust and drain water from the anode header. |
| US11735749B2 |
Evaporatively cooled fuel cell systems with cathode exhaust turbine boost
The present disclosure provides methods for turbine-based energy recovery from exhaust streams in fuel cell systems. The fuel cell systems can include an expansion turbine (200) arranged to capture electrical energy from cathode exhaust streams. The cathode exhaust streams (151a, 151b, 151c) can be flowed through an intercooler (250) to be preheated prior to entering the expansion turbine (200), with heat added by transferring heat from a compressed air flow. The methods can include operating the fuel cell system in a temperature-boost mode that includes reducing fan operation related to a condenser to reduce liquid recapture from an exhaust stream and increase exhaust stream temperature for use in turbine-based energy recovery. The temperature-boost mode can be controlled to limit the operation time based on coolant fluid levels in the fuel cell system. |
| US11735746B2 |
Catalyst complex for fuel cell and method of manufacturing same
Disclosed is a catalyst complex for a fuel cell. The catalyst complex includes a support including carbon (C), platinum (Pt) supported on the support, and an iridium (Ir) compound supported on the support, and the iridium compound includes at least one of iridium oxide represented by Chemical Formula 1, IrOx, and iridium-transition-metal oxide represented by Chemical Formula 2, IrMOx, wherein M is a transition metal selected from the group consisting of Fe, Co, Cu, Ni and combinations thereof, and x is from 1 to 2. |
| US11735745B2 |
Lithium-air battery
A battery may include an anode, a cathode positioned opposite to the anode, a separator positioned between the anode and the cathode, an electrolyte dispersed throughout the cathode and in contact with the anode, and a dual-pore system. The anode may be configured to release a plurality of lithium ions. The cathode may include a plurality of pathways defined by a plurality of porous non-hollow carbonaceous spherical particles and may include a plurality of carbonaceous structures each based on a coalescence of a group of the porous non-hollow carbonaceous spherical particles. The dual-pore system may be disposed in the cathode and defined in shape and orientation by the plurality of carbonaceous structures. In some aspects, the dual-pore system may be configured to receive gaseous oxygen from the ambient atmosphere. |
| US11735741B2 |
Negative electrode for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery comprising same
A negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery comprises a current collector and a negative electrode active material layer formed on the current collector, wherein the negative electrode active material layer includes a first negative electrode active material and a first binder, and a second active material layer formed on the first active material layer and including a second negative electrode active material and a second binder, a content of the first binder is greater than that of the second binder, a loading level of the negative electrode active material layer is 10 mg/cm2 to 30 mg/cm2, a loading level of the first active material layer is 4 mg/cm2 to 25 mg/cm2, a loading level of the second active material layer is 4 mg/cm2 to 25 mg/cm2, and a loading level of the second active material layer is equal to or higher than that of the first active material layer. |
| US11735740B2 |
Protective carbon layer for lithium (Li) metal anodes
This disclosure provides a battery including a cathode, an anode positioned opposite the cathode and a carbon interface layer. The carbon interface layer includes an electrically insulating flaky carbon layer conformally encapsulating the anode. A plurality of carbon nano-onions (CNOs) defining a plurality of interstitial pore volumes are interspersed throughout the electrically insulating flaky carbon layer. An electrolyte is in contact with the carbon interface layer and the cathode. A separator is positioned between the anode and the cathode. The electrically insulating flaky carbon layer can include graphene oxide (GO). The plurality of interstitial pore volumes can be configured to transport lithium (Li) ions between the anode and the cathode via the plurality of interstitial pore volumes in a bulk phase of the electrolyte. The carbon interface layer can be configured to inhibit growth of Li dendritic structures from the anode towards the cathode. |
| US11735739B2 |
Passivation materials on alkaline earth metals
Articles and methods related to passivation materials on alkaline earth metals are generally described. |
| US11735738B2 |
Method for forming electrode, electrode, storage battery, and electric device
An electrode improved for achieving a storage battery having both a high electrode strength and favorable electrode conductivity is provided. The electrode includes graphene and a modified polymer in an active material layer or includes a layer substantially formed of carbon particles and an active material layer including a modified polymer over a current collector. The modified polymer has a poly(vinylidene fluoride) structure and partly has a polyene structure or an aromatic ring structure. The polyene structure or the aromatic ring structure is sandwiched between poly(vinylidene fluoride) structures. |
| US11735711B2 |
Battery with enhanced resistance to dendrite formation
A battery includes a case having a feedthrough port, a feedthrough assembly disposed in the feedthrough port, and a cell stack disposed within the case. The feedthrough port includes an inner conductor and an insulator core separating the inner conductor from the case. The cell stack includes an anode, a cathode, and a separator insulating the anode from the cathode, wherein the anode and cathode are offset from one another. An insulating boot surrounding the cell stack insulates the cell stack from the case. The insulating boot has an opening configured to receive therein the feedthrough assembly, which may include overmolded insulation. The interior surfaces and interior walls of the battery case may be thermal spray-coated with a dielectric material to prevent lithium dendrite formation between cathode and anode surfaces. |
| US11735707B2 |
Method for processing an electrode sheet and processing device for this purpose
A method for processing an electrode sheet, wherein the electrode sheet has a carrier layer and an electrode material that is applied to the carrier layer only in a material region of the electrode sheet, so that a free region, which is free of electrode material, remains for the formation of diverters, wherein the electrode sheet is guided in a conveying direction by a processing device, so that the material region and the free region (run side by side, wherein the processing device has a calender through which the electrode sheet is guided and with which the material region is calendered, wherein the processing device additionally has at least one roller that is designed in such a way that it exerts a transverse tensile stress on the electrode sheet. A corresponding processing device is also specified. |
| US11735705B2 |
Production of carbon nanotube modified battery electrode powders via single step dispersion
Methods of making single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) including a single step for preparing a homogeneous dispersion of SWNTs in a battery electrode powder. The method may comprise providing a reactor in fluid communication with a mixer, wherein an aerosol containing SWNTs is transmitted from the reactor directly to the mixer containing a battery electrode powder. |
| US11735697B2 |
Light-emitting device and method of manufacturing the same
A light-emitting device includes: a base member including: a first lead, a second lead, and a securing member securing the first and second leads; a light-emitting element mounted on an upper surface of the base member; a frame, a part of which is disposed on the upper surface of the base member to surround the light-emitting element; a first member covering at least a portion of an upper surface of the securing member that is exposed at an outer peripheral side of the frame in a top view, the first member being arranged intermittently under the frame and containing a reflective material; and a second member covering the light-emitting element, the frame, and the first member. The frame has a first region on which the first member is arranged and a second region on which the first member is not arranged, the first and second regions having different heights. |
| US11735694B2 |
Semiconductor light emitting device and semiconductor light emitting package
Semiconductor light emitting devices and packages are provided. The semiconductor light emitting device includes a substrate, a luminous structure, and first and second electrodes. The substrate has a first region and a second region that is spaced apart in a first direction from the first region. The luminous structure includes a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer that are sequentially stacked on the substrate. The first electrode is on the second semiconductor layer. The second electrode is electrically coupled to the first semiconductor layer through plural first openings that penetrate the first electrode, the second semiconductor layer, and the active layer, where the first openings expose the first semiconductor layer. The first electrode is in contact with the second semiconductor layer in the first region and in the second region, and the first openings are in the first region. |
| US11735691B2 |
Micro light emitting devices
Techniques, devices, and systems are disclosed and include LEDs with a first flat region, at a first height from an LED base and including a plurality of epitaxial layers including a first n-layer, a first active layer, and a first p-layer. A second flat region is provided, at a second height from the LED base and parallel to the first flat region, and includes at least a second n-layer. A sloped sidewall connecting the first flat region and the second flat region is provided and includes at least a third n-layer, the first n-layer being thicker than at least a portion of third n-layer. A p-contact is formed on the first p-layer and an n-contact formed on the second n-layer. |
| US11735688B2 |
Method of manufacturing light emitting device
A method of manufacturing a light emitting device includes: bonding a light emitting element and a light transmissive member by a surface activated bonding method, which includes: activating a first bonding surface of the light emitting element to which the light transmissive member is to be bonded, by irradiating at least the first bonding surface with an ion beam, activating a second bonding surface of the light transmissive member to which the light emitting element is to be bonded, by irradiating at least the second bonding surface with an ion beam, and joining the light emitting element and the light transmissive member by bringing the activated first bonding surface and the activated second bonding surface into contact. |
| US11735684B2 |
Method for manufacturing a light-emitting device
A method for manufacturing a light-emitting device may include producing a support having at least one conductor track on a surface of the support. The method may further include producing a reflective coating directly on the at least one conductor track by means of a film transfer method such that the conductor track is substantially covered by the reflective coating and arranging a light-emitting component on or above the reflective coating. The light-emitting component may be electrically conductively connected to the conductor track(s). |
| US11735682B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor body including a substrate having a first thickness, wherein the first semiconductor body includes a first active zone that generates or receives radiation, and a second semiconductor body having a second thickness smaller than the first thickness and including a tear-off point is arranged on the substrate and connected in an electrically conducting manner to the first semiconductor body, wherein the second semiconductor body includes a second active zone that generates or receives radiation, and the second active zone generates radiation and the first active zone detects the radiation, and the first semiconductor body includes contacts on its underside for connection to the semiconductor device. |
| US11735681B2 |
Photodetector systems with low-power time-to-digital converter architectures to determine an arrival time of photon at a photodetector based on event detection time window
An illustrative system may include a component configured to be worn on a body of a user, the component comprising a time-to-digital converter (TDC) configured to: receive, during a predetermined event detection time window that commences in response to an application of a light pulse to a target within the body, a signal triggered by an event in which a photodetector detects a photon of the light pulse after the light pulse reflects from the target; and measure, based on the receiving the signal, a time interval between when the event occurred and an end of the predetermined event detection time window. The system may further include a processor configured to determine, based on the time interval and the predetermined event detection time window, an arrival time of the photon at the photodetector. |
| US11735680B2 |
Time of flight (TOF) sensor with transmit optic providing for reduced parallax effect
A transmit integrated circuit includes a light source configured to generate a beam of light. A receive integrated circuit includes a first photosensor. A transmit optic is mounted over the transmit and receive integrated circuits. The transmit optic is formed by a prismatic light guide and is configured to receive the beam of light. An annular body region of the transmit optic surrounds a central opening which is aligned with the first photosensor. The annular body region includes a first reflective surface defining the central opening and further includes a ring-shaped light output surface surrounding the central opening. Light is output from the ring-shaped light output surface in response to light which propagates within the prismatic light guide in response to the received beam of light and which reflects off the first reflective surface. |
| US11735678B2 |
Solar cells having hybrid architectures including differentiated p-type and n-type regions with offset contacts
A solar cell, and methods of fabricating said solar cell, are disclosed. The solar cell can include a first emitter region over a substrate, the first emitter region having a perimeter around a portion of the substrate. A first conductive contact is electrically coupled to the first emitter region at a location outside of the perimeter of the first emitter region. |
| US11735674B2 |
Sensor and method for manufacturing the same
A sensor includes: a substrate, a chip, and a protective layer. The chip is arranged on a surface of the substrate, the protective layer includes a silica gel protective layer, a silica gel active layer, and a strength-increasing protective layer. the silica gel protective layer is coated on the chip and adheres to the substrate; the silica gel active layer is coated on an outer surface of the silica gel protective layer, and adhesion of the silica gel active layer is greater than adhesion of the silica gel protective layer; the strength-increasing protective layer is coated on and adheres to an outer surface of the silica gel active layer, and the strength-increasing protective layer adheres to the substrate; and a strength of the strength-increasing protective layer is greater than a strength of the silica gel protective layer. |
| US11735673B2 |
Semiconductor device for improving performance of a block insulator and method of manufacturing the same
In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a stacked film including electrode layers and insulating layers that are alternately stacked in a first direction. The device further includes a first insulator, a charge storage layer, a second insulator and a semiconductor layer that are provided in the stacked film. The device further includes a third insulator provided between an electrode layer and an insulating layer and between the electrode layer and the first insulator, and including aluminum oxide having an α crystal phase. |
| US11735670B2 |
Non-selective epitaxial source/drain deposition to reduce dopant diffusion for germanium NMOS transistors
Integrated circuit transistor structures and processes are disclosed that reduce n-type dopant diffusion, such as phosphorous or arsenic, from the source region and the drain region of a germanium n-MOS device into adjacent channel regions during fabrication. The n-MOS transistor device may include at least 70% germanium (Ge) by atomic percentage. In an example embodiment, source and drain regions of the transistor are formed using a low temperature, non-selective deposition process of n-type doped material. In some embodiments, the low temperature deposition process is performed in the range of 450 to 600 degrees C. The resulting structure includes a layer of doped mono-crystyalline silicon (Si), or silicon germanium (SiGe), on the source/drain regions. The structure also includes a layer of doped amorphous Si:P (or SiGe:P) on the surfaces of a shallow trench isolation (STI) region and the surfaces of contact trench sidewalls. |
| US11735668B2 |
Interfacial layer between fin and source/drain region
An embodiment is a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate. A fin is on the substrate. The fin includes silicon germanium. An interfacial layer is over the fin. The interfacial layer has a thickness in a range from greater than 0 nm to about 4 nm. A source/drain region is over the interfacial layer. The source/drain region includes silicon germanium. |
| US11735667B2 |
Semiconductor device and method
A semiconductor device and method of manufacture are provided which help to support contacts while material is removed to form air gaps. In embodiments a contact is formed with an enlarged base to help support overlying portions of the contact. In other embodiments a scaffold material may also be placed prior to the formation of the air gaps in order to provide additional support. |
| US11735663B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same
Example semiconductor devices and methods for fabricating a semiconductor device are disclosed. An example device may include a substrate, a first semiconductor pattern spaced apart from the substrate, a first antioxidant pattern extending along a bottom surface of the first semiconductor pattern and spaced apart from the substrate, and a field insulating film on the substrate. The insulating film may cover at least a part of a side wall of the first semiconductor pattern. The first antioxidant pattern may include a first semiconductor material film doped with a first impurity. |
| US11735662B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
A method of semiconductor fabrication includes forming a dielectric layer over a substrate. A dummy gate structure is formed on the dielectric layer, which defines a dummy gate dielectric region. A portion of the dielectric layer not included in the dummy gate dielectric region is etched to form a dielectric etch back region. A spacer element is formed on a portion of the dielectric etch back region, which abuts the dummy gate structure, and defines a spacer dielectric region A height of the dummy gate dielectric region is greater than the height of the spacer dielectric region. A recessed portion is formed in the substrate, over which a strained material is selectively grown to form a strained recessed region adjacent the spacer dielectric region. The dummy gate structure and the dummy gate dielectric region are removed. A gate electrode layer and a gate dielectric layer are formed. |
| US11735657B2 |
Method for fabricating transistor structure
A method for fabricating a transistor includes providing a substrate, having a gate region and a first trench in the substrate at a first side of the gate region; forming a first gate insulating layer, disposed on a first portion of the gate region, opposite to the first trench; forming a second gate insulating layer, disposed on a second portion of the gate region and a first portion of the first trench abutting to the gate region, wherein the second gate insulating layer is thicker than the first gate insulating layer; forming a gate layer, disposed on the first and second gate insulating layers, having a downward protruding portion corresponding to the first trench; forming a first doped region in the substrate at least under the first trench; and forming a second doped region in the substrate at a second side of the gate region. |
| US11735656B2 |
Source contact formation of MOSFET with gate shield buffer for pitch reduction
A semiconductor structure that includes at least one lateral diffusion field effect transistor is described. The structure includes a source contact and a gate shield that enables the line width of an ohmic region that electrically connects the source/body region to the gate shield to be smaller than the minimum contact feature size. The gate shield defines a bottom recess for forming a narrower bottom portion of the source contact, and a section that flares outward with distance from the ohmic region to extend above and laterally beyond the ohmic region. By providing a wider area for the source contact, the flared portion of the gate shield allows the portion of the gate shield that contacts the ohmic region to be narrower than the minimum contact feature size. As a result, the cell pitch of the lateral diffusion field effect transistor can be reduced. |
| US11735653B2 |
Semiconductor device
An exemplary semiconductor device may include a substrate, an N− epitaxial layer positioned on the substrate, a first P region and a second P region positioned apart from each other on the N− epitaxial layer, a first N+ region positioned within the first P region, a second N+ region positioned within the second P region, and a gate layer positioned between the first P region and the second P region. |
| US11735652B2 |
Field effect transistors having ferroelectric or antiferroelectric gate dielectric structure
Field effect transistors having a ferroelectric or antiferroelectric gate dielectric structure are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a semiconductor channel structure includes a monocrystalline material. A gate dielectric is over the semiconductor channel structure. The gate dielectric includes a ferroelectric or antiferroelectric polycrystalline material layer. A gate electrode has a conductive layer on the ferroelectric or antiferroelectric polycrystalline material layer, the conductive layer including a metal. A first source or drain structure is at a first side of the gate electrode. A second source or drain structure is at a second side of the gate electrode opposite the first side. |
| US11735647B2 |
Method for forming semiconductor device
Semiconductor structures and methods of forming the same are provided. A semiconductor structure according to the present disclosure includes at least one first semiconductor element and at least one second semiconductor element over a substrate, a dielectric fin disposed between the at least one first semiconductor element and the at least one second semiconductor element, a first work function metal layer wrapping around each of the at least one first semiconductor element and extending continuously from the at least one first semiconductor element to a top surface of the dielectric fin, and a second work function metal layer disposed over the at least one second semiconductor element and the first work function metal layer. |
| US11735644B2 |
High electron mobility transistor and method for fabricating the same
A method for fabricating high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) includes the steps of: forming a buffer layer on a substrate; forming a first barrier layer on the buffer layer; forming a second barrier layer on the first barrier layer; forming a first hard mask on the second barrier layer; removing the first hard mask and the second barrier layer to form a recess; and forming a p-type semiconductor layer in the recess. |
| US11735643B2 |
Heterogeneous structures comprising III-V semiconductors and metal oxide dielectrics, and a method of fabrication thereof
Systems and methods for passivation of III-V semiconductors to create heterogeneous structures based on such semiconductors, to the structures themselves, and to devices using passivated III-V semiconductors, such as metal oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFET) and Hall effect sensors using III-V semiconductors. |
| US11735638B2 |
Thin film transistor array substrate and electronic device including the same
A thin film transistor array substrate and an electronic device including the thin film transistor array are disclosed. The thin film transistor comprises a substrate, a first active layer on the substrate, a gate electrode on the first active layer, a second active layer on the gate electrode such that the gate electrode is between the first active layer and the second active layer. The gate electrode is configured to drive the first active layer and the second active layer. Thereby, it is possible to provide the thin film transistor array substrate including one or more thin film transistors having high current characteristics in a small area, and the electronic device including the thin film transistor array substrate. |
| US11735637B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate including a trench. The semiconductor device further includes a gate electrode disposed in the trench, and a gate insulating film disposed between the substrate and the gate electrode. The gate electrode includes a gate conductor and a metal element, and an effective work function of the gate electrode is less than an effective work function of the gate conductor. |
| US11735634B2 |
Complementary 3D nanosheet matrix FETs
A method for forming heterogeneous complementary FETs using a compact stacked nanosheet process is disclosed. The method comprises forming a first nanosheet stack comprising two layers of a first channel material separated by a second sacrificial layer, forming over the first nanosheet stack an equivalent second nanosheet stack, wherein the first channel material is complementary to the second channel material. The method comprises further forming a first source region and a first drain region, thereby building a first FET, and forming over the first source region and the first drain region a second source region and a second drain region, thereby building a second FET, removing selectively sacrificial layers, and forming a gate stack comprising a gate-all-around structure around all channels. |
| US11735631B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes: a fin-type active region extending on a substrate in a first direction that is parallel to an upper surface of the substrate; and a source/drain region in a recess region extending into the fin-type active region, wherein the source/drain region includes: a first source/drain material layer; a second source/drain material layer on the first source/drain material layer; and a first dopant diffusion barrier layer on an interface between the first source/drain material layer and the second source/drain material layer. |
| US11735629B2 |
Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the same
Semiconductor devices are provided. A semiconductor device includes a substrate and a gate structure on the substrate. The semiconductor device includes a channel on the substrate. The semiconductor device includes a source/drain layer on the channel. Moreover, the semiconductor device includes a spacer on a sidewall of the gate structure. The spacer includes a central portion overlapping the channel in a vertical direction, and a protrusion portion protruding from the central portion. Related methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices are also provided. |
| US11735625B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device, including: a first OD strip, a first doping region, a second OD strip, a second doping region, and a third doping region. The first OD strip extending in a first direction is disposed on the first OD strip, and includes a first-type dopant to define an active region of a first MOS. The second OD strip extending in the first direction and immediately adjacent to the first OD strip in a second direction, wherein the second direction is orthogonal with the first direction. The second doping region is disposed on the second OD strip, and includes a second-type dopant to define an active region of a second MOS. The third doping region is disposed on the second OD strip, and includes the second-type dopant and is configured to be a body terminal of the first MOS. |
| US11735621B2 |
X-ray detectors based on an epitaxial layer and methods of making
Disclosed herein is a method comprising: forming electrical contacts on a first surface of an epitaxial layer supported on a substrate, the first surface being opposite from the substrate; bonding the epitaxial layer to an electronics layer, wherein the first surface faces the electronics layer and the electrical contacts on the first surface are bonded to electrical contacts of the electronics layer; exposing a second surface opposite the first surface by removing the substrate; and forming a common electrode on the second surface. |
| US11735616B2 |
Optical semiconductor device with integrated dies
The present application discloses an optical semiconductor device. The optical semiconductor device includes a logic die, a memory die, and a sensor die. The logic die includes a front surface. The memory die includes a front surface positioned on the front surface of the logic die, and a back surface opposite to the front surface of the memory die. The sensor die includes a front surface positioned on the back surface of the memory die, a back surface opposite to the front surface of the sensor die, a sensor unit located at the back surface of the sensor die, a color filter positioned on the back surface of the sensor die, and a micro-lens positioned on the color filter. |
| US11735614B2 |
Stacked light-receiving sensor and electronic device
Advanced processing is performed in a chip. A stacked light-receiving sensor according to an embodiment includes a first substrate (100, 200, 300) and a second substrate (120, 320) bonded to the first substrate. The first substrate includes a pixel array (101) in which a plurality of unit pixels are arranged in a two-dimensional matrix. The second substrate includes a converter (17) configured to convert an analog pixel signal output from the pixel array to digital image data and a processing unit (15) configured to perform a process based on a neural network calculation model for data based on the image data. At least a part of the converter is arranged on a first side in the second substrate. The processing unit is arranged on a second side opposite to the first side in the second substrate. |
| US11735613B2 |
Photoelectric conversion apparatus and equipment
A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a semiconductor layer including a photoelectric conversion portion, a charge holding portion configured to hold electric charge generated from the photoelectric conversion portion, and a charge detection portion to which the electric charge held by the charge holding portion is transferred. A gate electrode of a transistor and a light shielding film including a first portion covering the charge holding portion and a second portion covering an upper surface of the gate electrode are disposed above the semiconductor layer. The distance between the second portion of the light shielding film and the upper surface of the gate electrode is greater than the distance between the first portion of the light shielding film and the semiconductor layer. |
| US11735611B2 |
Drive backplane, manufacturing method thereof, detection substrate, and detection device
A drive backplane, a manufacturing method thereof, a detection substrate and a detection device. The drive backplane includes: a base plate and multiple drive modules disposed on the base plate. Each drive module includes a reset transistor, a read transistor, an amplifier transistor and a memory capacitor; the reset transistor is connected to the memory capacitor, the memory capacitor is connected to a photosensor, the amplifier transistor is connected to the memory capacitor, and the read transistor is connected to the amplifier transistor; wherein an active layer in the amplifier transistor is made of amorphous silicon or an oxide semiconductor. |
| US11735610B2 |
Global shutter CMOS image sensor and method for making the same
The disclosure discloses a global shutter CMOS image sensor, which adopts non-uniform storage diffusion region doping to reduce the junction leakage at storage points, so as to ensure that with the increase of the depth of photodiodes and the increase of pixels, all carriers in rows read subsequently can be transferred to storage diffusion regions, the loss of the carriers in the storage diffusion regions is not caused when a global shutter transistor is turned on, and the carriers can be completely transferred from the storage diffusion regions to floating diffusion regions through second transfer transistors even if the number of rows of pixel units increases during reading-out row by row. The disclosure further discloses a method for making the global shutter CMOS image sensor. |
| US11735607B2 |
Image sensor including color filter grid including portion overlapping super phase detection (PD) pixel
Provided is an image sensor including a substrate, an element separation film provided on the substrate and having a mesh shape, a plurality of pixel regions formed by the element separation film, the plurality of pixel regions including a first pixel region and a second pixel region that is adjacent to the first pixel region, the element separation film being interposed between the first pixel region and the second pixel region, a first lens provided to extend along the first pixel region and the second pixel region, a first color filter configured to transmit light focused by the first lens to the first pixel region and the second pixel region, and a color filter grid forming a region in which the first color filter is provided, and at least partially overlapping the first pixel region and the second pixel region in a vertical direction. |
| US11735604B2 |
Method for producing flexible display device to suppress peeling of a layered structure
A barrier film is formed on a resin layer so as to include a missing part where a portion of the barrier film is missing in a central end region of the resin layer. |
| US11735600B2 |
Pixel layout and display panel having pixel layout
A pixel layout and a display panel having the pixel layout are provided. The pixel layout includes a plurality of pixel repeating groups, and each of the pixel repeating groups is formed by two adjacent pixels. Two through-holes are positioned between the two pixels, and first ends of the two through-holes are respectively connected to pixel electrodes of the pixels. When one of the pixel electrodes of the two pixels has a voltage loss and the pixel thereof presents a dark spot, second ends of the two through-holes are connected to allow the pixel having the dark spot to display normally with help of the other pixel, thereby repairing the dark spot. |
| US11735598B2 |
Semiconductor device and electronic device
To provide a novel shift register. Transistors 101 to 104 are provided. A first terminal of the transistor 101 is connected to a wiring 111 and a second terminal of the transistor 101 is connected to a wiring 112. A first terminal of the transistor 102 is connected to a wiring 113 and a second terminal of the transistor 102 is connected to the wiring 112. A first terminal of the transistor 103 is connected to the wiring 113 and a gate of the transistor 103 is connected to the wiring 111 or a wiring 119. A first terminal of the transistor 104 is connected to a second terminal of the transistor 103, a second terminal of the transistor 104 is connected to a gate of the transistor 101, and a gate of the transistor 104 is connected to a gate of the transistor 102. |
| US11735597B2 |
Array substrate, display panel, display device and method of manufacturing an array substrate
An array substrate, includes: a substrate, three metal layers stacked on the substrate, and a plurality of signal line leads disposed in a peripheral area of the array substrate. The plurality of signal line leads are distributed in at least two of the three metal layers. |
| US11735594B2 |
Integrated circuit structure and method with hybrid orientation for FinFET
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate having a first region and a second region; a first fin active region of a first semiconductor material disposed within the first region, oriented in a first direction, wherein the first fin active region has a <100> crystalline direction along the first direction; and a second fin active region of a second semiconductor material disposed within the second region and oriented in the first direction, wherein the second fin active region has a <110> crystalline direction along the first direction. |
| US11735592B2 |
Integrated circuit including integrated standard cell structure
An integrated circuit including a first active region and a second active region extending in a first direction and spaced apart from each other in a second direction intersecting the first direction; a power rail and a ground rail extending in the first direction and spaced apart from the first and second active regions and each other in the second direction; source/drain contacts extending in the second direction on at least a portion of the first or second active region, gate structures extending in the second direction and on at least a portion of the first and second active regions, a power rail configured to supply power through source/drain contact vias, and a ground rail configured to supply a ground voltage through source/drain contact vias. |
| US11735590B2 |
Fin stack including tensile-strained and compressively strained fin portions
A fin stack including compressively strained and tensile-strained semiconductor fin regions allows CMOS fabrication to form vertically stacked p-type FinFETs and n-type FinFETs. Aspect ratio trapping within a semiconductor base region within the fin stack provides a relaxed semiconductor base region on which uniaxially strained regions are grown. A dielectric layer may be formed to electrically isolate the compressively strained semiconductor fin region from the tensile-strained semiconductor fin region. |
| US11735589B2 |
S-contact for SOI
Systems, methods, and apparatus for an improved protection from charge injection into layers of a device using resistive structures are described. Such resistive structures, named s-contacts, can be made using simpler fabrication methods and less fabrication steps. In a case of metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) field effect transistors (FETs), s-contacts can be made with direct connection, or resistive connection, to all regions of the transistors, including the source region, the drain region and the gate. |
| US11735586B2 |
Semiconductor structure
A semiconductor structure is disclosed. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a first well region of a first conductive type and a second well region of a second conductive type disposed in the substrate. The first conductive type and the second conductive type are complementary. A plurality of first dummy structures are disposed in the first well region and arranged along a junction between the first well region and the second well region. The first dummy structures respectively include a first conductive region and a first doped region disposed between the first conductive region and the first doped region. |
| US11735581B2 |
Electrostatic protection structure comprising electrostatic protection units containing TFT's, TFT substrate, and display panel
An electrostatic protection structure able to discharge static electricity of either polarity from a functional circuit including signal lines includes a discharge electrode and a plurality of electrostatic protection units electrically coupled to the discharge electrode. Each electrostatic protection unit includes a first TFT and a second TFT. The first TFT includes first gate, source, and drain, the second TFT includes second gate, source, and drain. The first gate and the first drain are electrically connected to one signal line. The first source is electrically connected to the second drain, the first drain is electrically connected to the second source, the second gate is electrically connected to the discharge electrode, and the second gate is electrically connected to the second drain. |
| US11735580B2 |
ESD protection device and manufacturing method thereof
An ESD protection device (100) is disclosed. More particularly, the ESD protection device is configured so that a gate electrode (140) and a capacitor electrode (170) electrically connected to a drain region (162) are spaced apart from each other by a preset distance, and partially or entirely overlap each other, thereby increasing a capacitance (Cgd) between the gate electrode and the drain region. |
| US11735578B2 |
Semiconductor quantum device ESD protection
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit is configured to protect a target circuit that operates in a cryogenic temperature is provided. The ESD protection circuit connects a terminal of the target circuit and a ground potential with no connection to a bias potential. When the ESD protection circuit receives a voltage potential at the terminal of the target circuit, the ESD protection circuit (i) disallows electrical current to flow through from the received voltage potential when the device is at a cryogenic temperature and (ii) allows electrical current to flow through from the received voltage potential when the device is at a room temperature. |
| US11735577B2 |
Method for fabricating semiconductor structure with strengthened patterns
The disclosure provides a method for fabricating a semiconductor structure with strengthened patterns. The method includes forming a masking layer on the substrate, the masking layer including a peripheral region and an array region adjacent to the peripheral region; forming a first etched peripheral pattern in the peripheral region and a first etched array pattern in the array region, wherein the first etched peripheral pattern and the first etched array pattern have a top surface, a sidewall and a bottom surface, the sidewall connecting the top surface to the bottom surface; forming a second peripheral pattern on the first etched peripheral pattern and forming a second array pattern on the first etched array pattern; and etching the masking layer using the first etched peripheral pattern and the second peripheral pattern as an etching mask to form an etched masking layer in the peripheral region. |
| US11735575B2 |
Bonding of bridge to multiple semiconductor chips
Interconnecting a first chip and a second chip by a bridge member includes a chip handler for handling the first chip and the second chip. Each of the first chip and the second chip has a first surface including a first set of terminals and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The chip handler has an opening and at least one support surface for supporting the first surfaces of the first chip and the second chip when the first chip and the second chip are mounted to the chip handler. A chip support member supports the first chip and the second chip from the second surfaces, and a bridge handler is provided for inserting the bridge member through the opening of the chip handler and for placing the bridge member onto the first sets of terminals of the first chip and the second chip. |
| US11735574B2 |
Method and system for selectively illuminated integrated photodetectors with configured launching and adaptive junction profile for bandwidth improvement
Methods and systems for selectively illuminated integrated photodetectors with configured launching and adaptive junction profile for bandwidth improvement may include a photonic chip comprising an input waveguide and a photodiode. The photodiode comprises an absorbing region with a p-doped region on a first side of the absorbing region and an n-doped region on a second side of the absorbing region. An optical signal is received in the absorbing region via the input waveguide, which is offset to one side of a center axis of the absorbing region; an electrical signal is generated based on the received optical signal. The first side of the absorbing region may be p-doped. P-doped and n-doped regions may alternate on the first and second sides of the absorbing region along the length of the photodiode. The absorbing region may comprise germanium, silicon, silicon/germanium, or similar material that absorbs light of a desired wavelength. |
| US11735573B2 |
Slicing micro-LED wafer and slicing micro-LED chip
A slicing wafer includes a driver circuit substrate; a plurality of epitaxial layer slices arranged side-by-side on the driver circuit substrate; and a bonding layer, formed between the driver circuit substrate and the plurality of epitaxial layer slices. |
| US11735569B2 |
Light emitting device module and display apparatus having the same
A light emitting device module includes a substrate, a plurality of light emitting devices mounted on the substrate, an adhesive layer interposed between the substrate and the light emitting device; and bonding wires electrically connecting the plurality of light emitting devices. The substrate includes an outer electrode in at least a partial region, and the adhesive layer has a non-conductive material. |
| US11735568B2 |
Semiconductor die stacks and associated systems and methods
Semiconductor die stacks, and associated methods and systems are disclosed. The semiconductor die stack may include a first die with a memory array and a second die with CMOS circuitry configured to access the memory array. The first die may not have circuitry for accessing the memory array. Further, the first and second dies may be bonded to function as a single memory device, and front surfaces of the first and second dies are conjoined to form electrical connections therebetween. The second die may include a portion uncovered by the first die, where bond pads of the semiconductor die stack are located. The first die may provide a space for bond wires to connect to the bond pads without interfering with another die attached above the semiconductor die stack. Multiple semiconductor die stacks may be stacked on top of and in line with each other. |
| US11735567B2 |
Wafer reconstitution and die-stitching
Stitched die packaging techniques and structures are described in which reconstituted chips are formed using wafer reconstitution and die-stitching techniques. In an embodiment, a chip includes a reconstituted chip-level back end of the line (BEOL) build-up structure to connect a die set embedded in an inorganic gap fill material. |
| US11735565B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacture
A plurality of semiconductor devices are arranged in a stack. Individual semiconductor devices within the stack are selected by an identity signal sent into the stack. The signal is compared within each stack to a unique stack identifier stored within each of the semiconductor devices and, when the signal is the same as the unique stack identifier, the semiconductor device is selected while, when the signal is not the same as the unique stack identifier, the semiconductor device remains within the default bypass mode. |
| US11735559B2 |
Semiconductor packages and manufacturing methods for the same
A semiconductor package and a fabrication method of the semiconductor package are disclosed. First and second redistribution layer patterns are formed on a semiconductor substrate including a chip region and a scribe lane region to provide a bonding pad portion and an edge pad portion, respectively. A polymer pattern is formed to reveal the bonding pad portion and a portion of the edge pad portion. A dicing line is set on the scribe lane region. A stealth dicing process is performed along the dicing line to separate a semiconductor chip including the bonding pad portion from the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor chip is disposed on a package substrate. A bonding wire is formed to connect the bonding pad portion to the package substrate. The bonding wire is supported by an edge of the polymer pattern to be spaced apart from the revealed portion of the edge pad portion. |
| US11735558B2 |
Microelectronic structures including bridges
Disclosed herein are microelectronic structures including bridges, as well as related assemblies and methods. In some embodiments, a microelectronic structure may include a substrate and a bridge. |
| US11735554B2 |
Wafer-level chip scale packaging structure having a rewiring layer and method for manufacturing the wafer-level chip scale packaging structure
The present disclosure provides a wafer-level chip scale packaging structure and a method for manufacturing the same. The method includes the following steps: 1) providing a first supporting substrate; 2) placing a first chip on the first supporting substrate, and forming a first packaging layer on the first chip; 3) separating the first chip and the surface of the first packaging layer in contact with the first chip from the first supporting substrate, and attaching the other surface of the first packaging layer to a second supporting substrate; 4) disposing a second packaging layer on the surface of the first packaging layer which is in contact with the first chip; 5) forming a rewiring layer on the second packing layer, the rewiring layer is electrically connected to the first chip; and 6) electrically connecting a second chip to the rewiring layer. |
| US11735549B2 |
Methods and systems for manufacturing pillar structures on semiconductor devices
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having a conductive substrate having a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a passivation material covering a portion of the first surface can include applying a seed layer of conductive material to the first surface of the conductive substrate and to the passivation material, the seed layer having a first face opposite the conductive substrate. The method can include forming a plurality of pillars comprising layers of first and second materials. The method can include etching the seed layer to undercut the seed layer between the conductive substrate and the first material of at least one of the pillars. In some embodiments, a cross-sectional area of the seed layer in contact with the passivation material between the first material and the conductive substrate is less than the cross-sectional area of the second material. |
| US11735546B2 |
Selective micro device transfer to receiver substrate
A method of selectively transferring micro devices from a donor substrate to contact pads on a receiver substrate. Micro devices being attached to a donor substrate with a donor force. The donor substrate and receiver substrate are aligned and brought together so that selected micro devices meet corresponding contact pads. A receiver force is generated to hold selected micro devices to the contact pads on the receiver substrate. The donor force is weakened and the substrates are moved apart leaving selected micro devices on the receiver substrate. Several methods of generating the receiver force are disclosed, including adhesive, mechanical and electrostatic techniques. |
| US11735545B2 |
Selective micro device transfer to receiver substrate
A method of selectively transferring micro devices from a donor substrate to contact pads on a receiver substrate. Micro devices being attached to a donor substrate with a donor force. The donor substrate and receiver substrate are aligned and brought together so that selected micro devices meet corresponding contact pads. A receiver force is generated to hold selected micro devices to the contact pads on the receiver substrate. The donor force is weakened and the substrates are moved apart leaving selected micro devices on the receiver substrate. Several methods of generating the receiver force are disclosed, including adhesive, mechanical and electrostatic techniques. |
| US11735544B2 |
Semiconductor packages with stacked dies and methods of forming the same
A semiconductor package includes a first semiconductor die, a second semiconductor die and a plurality of bumps. The first semiconductor die has a front side and a backside opposite to each other. The second semiconductor die is disposed at the backside of the first semiconductor die and electrically connected to first semiconductor die. The plurality of bumps is disposed at the front side of the first semiconductor die and physically connects first die pads of the first semiconductor die. A total width of the first semiconductor die may be less than a total width of the second semiconductor die. |
| US11735542B2 |
Semiconductor package
A semiconductor package includes a redistribution structure including an insulating layer having an upper surface and a lower surface, a redistribution pad and a redistribution pattern on the lower surface of the insulating layer and electrically connected to each other, and a passivation layer on the lower surface of the insulating layer and having an opening exposing at least a portion of the redistribution pad; a semiconductor chip on the redistribution structure and including a connection pad electrically connected to the redistribution pad; an encapsulant on the redistribution structure and encapsulating the semiconductor chip; and a connection bump and a dummy bump on the passivation layer, wherein the redistribution pattern has a width narrower than a width of the redistribution pad, the connection bump vertically overlaps the redistribution pad, and the dummy bump vertically overlaps the redistribution pattern. |
| US11735536B2 |
Semiconductor package and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor package includes a first die and a second die. The first die includes a first coil and a second coil of an inductor. The first coil and the second coil are located at different level heights. The first coil includes a first metallic material. The second coil includes a second metallic material. The first metallic material has a different composition from the second metallic material. The second die is bonded to the first die. The second die includes a third coil of the inductor. The inductor extends from the first die to the second die. |
| US11735530B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of integrating RF antenna interposer with semiconductor package
A semiconductor device has a substrate and a first electrical component disposed over a first surface of the substrate. An RF antenna interposer is disposed over the substrate with the first electrical component connected to a first antenna disposed on a surface of the antenna interposer. An area of the antenna interposer is substantially the same as an area of the substrate. The first antenna disposed on the surface of the antenna interposer has a plurality of islands of conductive material. Alternatively, the first antenna disposed on the surface of the antenna interposer has a spiral shape of conductive material. A second antenna can be disposed on the surface of the antenna interposer connected to a second electrical component disposed over the substrate. A second electrical component can be disposed over a second surface of the substrate opposite the first surface of the substrate. |
| US11735528B2 |
Semiconductor memory stacks connected to processing units and associated systems and methods
A semiconductor memory stack connected to a processing unit, and associated methods and systems are disclosed. In some embodiments, the semiconductor memory stack may include one or more memory dies attached to and carried by a memory controller die—e.g., high-bandwidth memory. Further, a processing unit (e.g., a processor) may be attached to the memory controller die without an interposer to provide the shortest possible route for signals traveling between the semiconductor memory stack and the processing unit. In addition, the semiconductor memory stack and the processing unit can be attached to a package substrate without an interposer. |
| US11735527B2 |
Semiconductor device with graded porous dielectric structure
The present application discloses a semiconductor device with a graded porous dielectric structure. The semiconductor device includes a substrate; two conductive features positioned apart from each other over the substrate, a graded porous dielectric structure positioned between the two conductive features; and a dielectric layer positioned between one of the two conductive features and the graded porous dielectric structure; wherein the graded porous dielectric structure comprises a first portion having a first porosity and a second portion having a second porosity, and the second porosity is higher than the first porosity. |
| US11735522B2 |
Semiconductor device including plurality of patterns
A semiconductor device includes a first metal wiring pattern area, and a second metal wiring pattern area that does not overlap the first metal wiring pattern area in a plan view. The first metal wiring pattern area includes a first pattern, the second metal wiring pattern area includes a second pattern that is spaced apart from the first pattern and includes one or more lines. The first metal wiring pattern area includes an assist pattern comprising one or more lines. The assist pattern is spaced apart from the second pattern, parallel with the second pattern, and is between the first pattern and the second pattern. One end of the assist pattern is connected to the first pattern. |
| US11735518B2 |
Dual-mode wireless charging device
A method of making a semiconductor device, includes: forming a first molding layer on a substrate; forming a first plurality of vias in the first molding layer; forming a first conductive line over the first molding layer, wherein the first conductive line is laterally disposed over the first molding layer and a first end of the conductive line aligns with and is electrically coupled to a first via of the first plurality of vias; forming a second molding layer above the first molding layer; and forming a second plurality of vias in the second molding layer, wherein a second via of the second plurality of vias aligns with and is electrically coupled to a second end of the conductive line, and wherein the second plurality of vias, the conductive line, and the first plurality of vias are electrically coupled to one another. |
| US11735512B2 |
Leadframe with a metal oxide coating and method of forming the same
A leadframe including a metal oxide layer on at least a portion of the leadframe are disclosed. More specifically, leadframes with a metal layer and a metal oxide layer formed on one or more leads before a tin finish plating layer is formed are described. The layers of metal and metal oxide between the one or more leads and the tin finish plating layer reduce the formation of tin whiskers, thus reducing the likelihood of shorting and improving the overall reliability of the package structure and device produced. |
| US11735507B2 |
Wiring substrate, electronic device, and electronic module
A wiring substrate includes a substrate, a first metal and a second metal. The substrate has a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a side surface connected to the first surface and the second surface. The first metal film is disposed so as to extend from the first surface to the side surface. The second metal film is disposed so as to extend from the second surface to the first metal film disposed on the side surface. |
| US11735506B2 |
Packages with multiple exposed pads
In an example, an apparatus comprises a lead frame that includes a first row of leads, a first pad coupled to the first row of leads, and a second row of leads parallel to the first row of leads. The lead frame also includes a second pad coupled to the second row of leads. The first and second pads are separated by a gap, and each of the first and second pads has a substantially uniform thickness. The apparatus also includes a device coupled to the first and second pads. The first and second pads are exposed to an exterior of the apparatus. |
| US11735501B1 |
3D semiconductor device and structure with metal layers and a connective path
A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including a plurality of first metal layers; a second level, where the second level overlays the first level, where the second level includes at least one single crystal silicon layer, where the second level includes a plurality of transistors, where each transistor of the plurality of transistors includes a single crystal channel, where the second level includes a plurality of second metal layers, where the plurality of second metal layers include interconnections between the transistors of the plurality of transistors, and where the second level is overlaid by a first isolation layer; and a connective path between the plurality of transistors and the plurality of first metal layers, where the connective path includes a via disposed through at least the single crystal silicon layer, and where at least one of the transistors includes a four sided gate. |
| US11735500B2 |
Memory device and method of manufacturing the same
The present disclosure includes a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same. The semiconductor device includes a substrate including a first area and a second area, a vertical insulating film passing through the substrate between the first area of the substrate and the second area of the substrate, an interlayer insulating structure disposed on the substrate, and a conductive pad formed on the interlayer insulating structure and overlapping the first area of the substrate. The semiconductor device also includes a through electrode passing through the conductive pad, the interlayer insulating structure, and the substrate in the first area. |
| US11735499B2 |
Semiconductor device with protection layers and method for fabricating the same
The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a first die, a first conductive feature positioned in the first die, a second die positioned on the first die, a first mask layer positioned on the second die, a second mask layer positioned on the first mask layer, a conductive filler layer positioned penetrating the second mask layer, the first mask layer, and the second die, extending to the first die, and contacting the first conductive feature, isolation layers positioned between the conductive filler layer and the first die, between the conductive filler layer and the second die, and between the conductive filler layer and the first mask layer, and protection layers positioned between the conductive filler layer and the second mask layer and between the conductive filler layer and the first mask layer, and covering upper portions of the isolation layers. |
| US11735496B2 |
Piezoelectric MEMS-based active cooling for heat dissipation in compute devices
An active cooling system and method for using the active cooling system are described. The active cooling system includes a cooling element having a first side and a second side. The first side of the cooling element is distal to a heat-generating structure and in communication with a fluid. The second side of the cooling element is proximal to the heat-generating structure. The cooling element is configured to direct the fluid using a vibrational motion from the first side of the cooling element to the second side such that the fluid moves in a direction that is incident on a surface of the heat-generating structure at a substantially perpendicular angle and then is deflected to move along the surface of the heat-generating structure to extract heat from the heat-generating structure. |
| US11735494B2 |
Semiconductor package
Disclosed is a semiconductor package comprising first and second semiconductor structures spaced apart on a first substrate, a heat sink covering the first and second semiconductor structure and the first substrate, and a thermal interface material layer between the heat sink and the first and second semiconductor structures. The first semiconductor structure includes a first sidewall adjacent to the second semiconductor structure and a second sidewall opposite the first sidewall. The thermal interface material layer includes a first segment between the first and second semiconductor structures and a second segment protruding beyond the second sidewall. A first distance from a top surface of the first substrate to a lowest point of a bottom surface of the first segment is less than a second distance from the top surface of the first substrate to a lowest point of a bottom surface of the second segment. |
| US11735493B2 |
Conductive heat radiation film, method of manufacturing the same, and method of manufacturing electronic device
In order to provide a conductive heat radiation film that can stabilize the shape, a conductive heat radiation film 30 includes: a first heated film 28 including a plurality of first metal particles 27b; and a plurality of carbon nanotubes 24 including tips 24a adhered to the first heated film 28. |
| US11735490B2 |
Semiconductor module
A semiconductor module includes: a dissipating metal plate including a recess provided on an upper surface; an insulating substrate provided on a bottom surface of the recess and including a circuit pattern; a semiconductor device provided on the insulating substrate and connected to the circuit pattern; a case bonded to a peripheral portion on the upper surface of the dissipating metal plate and surrounding the insulating substrate and the semiconductor device; a case electrode provided on the case; a wire connecting the semiconductor device and the case electrode; and a sealant provided in the case and sealing the insulating substrate, the semiconductor device, and the wire, wherein a sidewall of the recess has a taper. |
| US11735477B2 |
Method of semiconductor integrated circuit fabrication
A method of fabricating a semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) is disclosed. A first conductive feature and a second conductive feature are provided. A first hard mask (HM) is formed on the first conductive feature. A patterned dielectric layer is formed over the first and the second conductive features, with first openings to expose the second conductive features. A first metal plug is formed in the first opening to contact the second conductive features. A second HM is formed on the first metal plugs and another patterned dielectric layer is formed over the substrate, with second openings to expose a subset of the first metal plugs and the first conductive features. A second metal plug is formed in the second openings. |
| US11735476B2 |
Semiconductor structure and fabrication method thereof
A semiconductor structure and its fabrication method are provided. The method includes: providing a substrate and a first metal layer in the substrate; forming a dielectric layer with a first opening exposing a portion of a top surface of the first metal layer on the substrate; bombarding the portion of the top surface of the first metal layer exposed by the first opening, by using a first sputtering treatment, to make metal materials on the top surface of the first metal layer be sputtered onto sidewalls of the first opening to form a first adhesion layer; and forming a second metal layer on a surface of the first adhesion layer and on the exposed portion of the top surface of the first metal layer using a first metal selective growth process. |
| US11735475B2 |
Removal of barrier and liner layers from a bottom of a via
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming an interconnect in a first dielectric layer, and forming a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer. In the method, an etch stop layer is formed on the second dielectric layer, and a third dielectric layer is formed on the etch stop layer. A trench and an opening are formed in the third and second dielectric layers, respectively. A barrier layer is deposited in the trench and in the opening, and on a top surface of the interconnect. The method also includes removing the barrier layer from the top surface of the interconnect and from a bottom surface of the trench, and depositing a conductive fill layer in the trench and in the opening, and on the interconnect. A bottom surface of the trench includes the etch stop layer. |
| US11735473B2 |
Methods for forming memory devices, and associated devices and systems
Methods of manufacturing memory devices having memory cells and corresponding selectors, and associated systems and devices, are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a memory device includes (a) removing a protection layer formed over the memory cells and (b) forming a cap layer over the memory cells before forming a conductive via through the memory device. The cap layer is configured to protect the memory cells during operation and can comprise a resistive material. The protection layer can be more efficiently removed with improved process margin and less device health impact using a polishing process before the conductive via is formed, thus increasing the manufacturing margin of the memory device. |
| US11735472B2 |
Method of preparing air gap, dynamic random access memory and electronic equipment
A method of preparing an air gap includes: forming a first covering layer etching and removing part higher than a horizontal line where a top of the oxide layer is located; forming a first oxide layer on an etched plane; etching the first oxide layer; removing a part of the first oxide layer; reserving a rest part of the first oxide layer; taking a reserved first oxide layer as an oxide layer pattern; forming a second covering layer at a position of a removed part of the first oxide layer; removing the oxide layer pattern and the oxide layer. |
| US11735469B2 |
Method of forming a semiconductor device
A method includes depositing a second dielectric layer over a first dielectric layer, depositing a third dielectric layer over the second dielectric layer, patterning a plurality of first openings in the third dielectric layer, etching the second dielectric layer through the first openings to form second openings in the second dielectric layer, performing a plasma etching process directed at the second dielectric layer from a first direction, the plasma etching process extending the second openings in the first direction, and etching the first dielectric layer through the second openings to form third openings in the first dielectric layer. |
| US11735468B2 |
Interconnect structures including self aligned vias
Back end of line metallization structures and methods for fabricating self-aligned vias. The structures generally include a first interconnect structure disposed above a substrate. The first interconnect structure includes a metal line formed in a first interlayer dielectric. A second interconnect structure overlies the first interconnect structure. The second interconnect structure includes a second cap layer on the first interlayer dielectric, a second interlayer dielectric thereon, and at least one self-aligned via in the second interlayer dielectric conductively coupled to at least a portion of the metal line of the first interconnect structure, wherein any misalignment of the at least one self-aligned via results in the at least one self-aligned via landing on both the metal line of the first interconnect structure and the second cap layer. The second cap layer is an insulating material. |
| US11735465B2 |
Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method
A substrate processing apparatus includes a holder having thereon an attraction surface configured to attract a substrate and including, as multiple regions in which attracting pressures for attracting the substrate are controlled independently, a first region having a circular shape and a second region having an annular shape and disposed at an outside of the first region in a diametrical direction; multiple attracting pressure generators configured to independently generate the attracting pressures respectively in the multiple regions forming the attraction surface; multiple attracting pressure adjusters configured to independently adjust the attracting pressures respectively generated by the attracting pressure generators; and a controller configured to control the multiple attracting pressure generators and the multiple attracting pressure adjusters. The controller generates different attracting pressures in at least a part of the first region and in at least a part of the second region. |
| US11735464B1 |
Method of demounting thin semiconductor devices
The described method enables removal of any flexible material from a temporary carrier for transfer to another surface. In particular, a semiconductor wafer is commonly held by a temporary adhesive to a carrier substrate for support during a variety of processing steps, including thinning of the semiconductor device layer. Subsequent to processing, the described method attaches the ultra-thin device layer to a roll of tape for removal from the temporary adhesive, followed by transfer to a demount roller, which then releases it onto a desired permanent surface. Utilizing the flexible nature of the ultra-thin device layer, the sequence of rollers is able to peel it from the temporary adhesive without any need for laser release processing or chemical adhesive removal while maintaining the thinned wafer in a planar form during processing. This transfer supports operations that include a change of orientation, such as from face up to face down. |
| US11735461B2 |
Adhesive-layer structure and semiconductor structure
A semiconductor structure disposed on a temporary carrier board is provided. Multiple adhesive layers are disposed on the temporary carrier. The semiconductor structure includes an adhesive-layer structure and a micro light-emitting element. The adhesive-layer structure includes a mending adhesive layer and a buffer layer. The mending adhesive layer is disposed on the temporary carrier board. The micro light-emitting element is disposed on the mending adhesive layer. The buffer layer is disposed between the mending adhesive layer and the micro light-emitting element. A height of the mending adhesive layer is less than a height of each of the adhesive layers in a thickness direction of the temporary carrier board. A sum of the height of the mending adhesive layer and the height of the buffer layer is greater than or equal to a height of each of the adhesive layers. |
| US11735458B2 |
Ceramic mixture paste, porous body, electrostatic chuck, and substrate fixing device
A ceramic mixture paste includes oxide ceramic particles, burn-off particles, and a firing aid. The burn-off particles are burned off at a temperature lower than the firing temperature of the oxide ceramic particles. The firing aid melts at a temperature lower than the firing temperature. The ratio of the volume of the burn-off particles to the volume of the oxide ceramic particles is more than 0% and less than or equal to 20%. |
| US11735457B2 |
Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method
To improve uniformity in polishing of a polished surface of a substrate regardless of a tolerance of a diameter of the substrate. A substrate processing apparatus includes a table 100, a pad holder 226, a swing mechanism, a supporting member 300A, 300B, a measuring instrument 400, and a driving mechanism 320. The table 100 supports a substrate WF. The pad holder 226 holds a polishing pad 222. The polishing pad 222 polishes the substrate WF supported to the table 100. The swing mechanism swings the pad holder 226. The supporting member 300A, 300B supports the polishing pad 222 swung to outside the table 100 by the swing mechanism. The measuring instrument 400 is configured to measure a diameter of the substrate WF. The driving mechanism 320 adjusts a position of the supporting member 300A, 300B with respect to the substrate WF supported to the table 100 according to the diameter of the substrate WF measured by the measuring instrument 400. |
| US11735456B2 |
Alignment mechanism and alignment method of bonding machine
The present disclosure is an alignment mechanism of a bonding machine, in particular an alignment mechanism of a wafer bonding machine, which mainly has a support pedestal, at least three first alignment pins, and at least three second alignment pins, a first cam and a second cam. When the first cam rotates relative to the support pedestal, it will drive the first alignment pin to move relative to the support pedestal to position the first substrate on the support pedestal. When the second cam rotates relative to the support pedestal, it drives the second alignment pin to move relative to the support pedestal to position the second substrate above the first substrate, so that the second substrate is aligned with the first substrate to facilitate bonding the first substrate and the second substrate. |
| US11735451B2 |
Stocker system for wafer cassette
A support member system is described for association with an overhead transport system. The support member system provides a safety feature to the overhead transport system by which the overhead transport system is able to avoid damage to wafers that are contained within a wafer cassette that is unintentionally released by the overhead transport system. The support member system is able to prevent such released cassettes from impacting the ground or tools located under the overhead transport system. The support member system targets wafer cassettes that have dimensions which are different than the dimensions of wafer cassettes for which the overhead transport system was originally designed to transport. Stocker systems for receiving, storing and delivering different types of wafer cassettes are also described. |
| US11735448B2 |
Container, container partition plate, substrate processing system, and substrate transfer method
A container for consumables includes multiple holding portions, a partition plate and a fixer. The multiple holding portions are configured to respectively accommodate the consumables, each of which is loaded into and unloaded from one direction. The partition plate includes a first portion formed to be disposed between a light emitting part and a light receiving part of a detector, and the partition plate is accommodated in one of the multiple holding portions. The fixer is configured to fix the container so that the consumables are arranged on a transfer path to be loaded into and unloaded from the multiple holding portions. |
| US11735445B2 |
Substrate processing apparatus for processing substrates
The disclosure relates to substrate processing apparatus, with a first and second reactor, each reactor configured for processing a plurality of substrates; and, a substrate handling robot constructed and arranged to transfer substrates between a substrate cassette at a substrate transfer position and the first and second reactor. The apparatus is constructed and arranged with a maintenance area between the first and second reactors to allow maintenance of the reactors from the maintenance area to both the first and second reactor. |
| US11735441B2 |
Systems and methods for improved semiconductor etching and component protection
Semiconductor systems and methods may include a semiconductor processing chamber having a gas box defining an access to the semiconductor processing chamber. The chamber may include a spacer characterized by a first surface with which the gas box is coupled, and the spacer may define a recessed ledge on an interior portion of the first surface. The chamber may include a support bracket seated on the recessed ledge that extends along a second surface of the spacer. The chamber may also include a gas distribution plate seated on the support bracket. |
| US11735433B2 |
Substrate structure, package structure and method for manufacturing electronic package structure
A substrate structure, a package structure, and a method for manufacturing an electronic package structure provided. The substrate structure includes a dielectric layer, a trace layer, and at least one wettable flank. The dielectric layer has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The trace layer is embedded in the dielectric layer and exposed from the first surface of the dielectric layer. The at least one wettable flank is stacked with a portion of the trace layer embedded in the dielectric layer. |
| US11735429B2 |
Method for forming semiconductor structure
Methods for forming a semiconductor structure are provided. In one form, a method includes: providing a base; forming an initial pattern layer on the base; and performing atomic layer etching processing on a sidewall of the initial pattern layer one or more times to form a pattern layer, where the atomic layer etching processing includes: forming an organic layer on the sidewall of the initial pattern layer; and removing the organic layer. Generally, bond energy between an atom on an outermost surface of the sidewall of the initial pattern layer and an atom at an inner layer is less than bond energy between the atom at the inner layer. The organic layer usually includes an element that may react with the sidewall of the initial pattern layer, further reducing the bond energy between the atom on the outermost surface of the sidewall of the initial pattern layer and the atom at the inner layer. During removal of the organic layer, the atom on the outermost surface of the sidewall of the initial pattern layer may be peeled off. In this way, after a plurality of times of atomic layer etching processing, a protruding region on the sidewall of the initial pattern layer is flattened. Accordingly, the sidewall of the formed pattern layer has a relatively small roughness, so that electrical performance of the semiconductor structure can be improved. |
| US11735428B2 |
Substrate processing method and substrate processing apparatus
A substrate processing method includes forming a liquid film of an alkaline processing liquid on a substrate by supplying the alkaline processing liquid having a reduced oxygen concentration onto the substrate; and etching the substrate by rotating the substrate while supplying the alkaline processing liquid in a state that the liquid film having a given thickness is formed on the substrate. |
| US11735424B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor device comprising a semiconductor substrate including an upper surface and a lower surface wherein a donor concentration of a drift region is higher than a base doping concentration of the semiconductor substrate, entirely over the drift region in a depth direction connecting the upper surface and the lower surface is provided. |
| US11735422B2 |
Method of forming a photoresist underlayer and structure including same
Methods of forming structures including a photoresist underlayer and structures including the photoresist underlayer are disclosed. Exemplary methods include forming the photoresist underlayer that includes metal. Techniques for treating a surface of the photoresist underlayer and/or depositing an additional layer overlying the photoresist underlayer are also disclosed. |
| US11735419B2 |
Method for processing of semiconductor films with reduced evaporation and degradation
A method for protecting a semiconductor film comprised of one or more layers during processing. The method includes placing a surface of the semiconductor film in direct contact with a surface of a protective covering, such as a separate substrate piece, that forms an airtight or hermetic seal with the surface of the semiconductor film, so as to reduce material degradation and evaporation in the semiconductor film. The method includes processing the semiconductor film under some conditions, such as a thermal annealing and/or controlled ambient, which might cause the semiconductor film's evaporation or degradation without the protective covering. |
| US11735418B2 |
Method for forming semiconductor layers
A second semiconductor layer is oxidized through a groove and a fourth semiconductor layer is oxidized, a first oxide layer is formed, and a second oxide layer is formed. By oxidizing the entire second semiconductor layer and the fourth semiconductor layer, the first oxide layer and the second oxide layer in an amorphous state are formed. |
| US11735417B2 |
Heterojunction material and method of preparing the same
A method of preparing a heterojunction material, includes forming a first transition metal on a substrate, forming a second transition metal on the first transition metal, and performing a plasma process containing a chalcogen source on the substrate. The first transition metal and the second transition metal are different from each other. |
| US11735410B1 |
Filament support and lamp
Disclosed is a filament support and a lamp with the filament support. The filament support may include a main rod, a plurality of branch rods and a plurality of support members. The plurality of branch rods are all installed on the main rod; the support members are arranged at ends of at least some of the branch rods, both ends of the support member are curved or bent towards a same side, resulting in that the support member surrounds to form a penetrating zone, and an opening for communicating the penetrating zone is formed between both ends of the support member. Both ends of the support member are curved or bent towards a same side, resulting in that the support member surrounds to form a penetrating zone, and an opening for communicating the penetrating zone is formed between both ends of the support member. |
| US11735409B2 |
Lamp comprising multiple component designs and constructions
The present invention provides a bulb (100, 110, 120, 130, 140, 140′) an excitation chamber (200, 210, 220, 230, 230′) a ferrite core (300, 310, 310′), a spool (400, 410); an assembly or subassembly of such components, and a lamp (100, 1100, 1200, 1300, 1400, 1500, 1600, 1600′, 1600″, 1700, 1800) for producing electromagnetic radiation, such as in the light spectrum, UV or IR. |
| US11735408B2 |
Ion analyzer
An ion analyzer that generates and analyzes product ions by irradiating precursor ions derived from a sample component with radicals, the ion analyzer including: a reaction chamber (2; 833) into which the precursor ions are introduced; a radical generation unit (5) configured to generate radicals from a first material gas; a metastable particle generation unit (5) configured to generate metastable particles from a second material gas; a radical introduction unit (5) configured to mix the radical and the metastable particles and introduce the mixture into the reaction chamber (2; 833); and an ion detection unit (4; 835) configured to detect product ions generated from the precursor ions by a reaction with the radicals. |
| US11735405B2 |
Mass spectrum processing apparatus and method
Each estimated composition candidate is evaluated based on a mass spectrum produced using soft ionization and a mass spectrum produced using hard ionization. In the evaluation, a comparison between two measured isotope patterns (primary pattern matching), and a comparison between the measured isotope pattern and a theoretical isotope pattern (secondary pattern matching) are applied stepwise. |
| US11735404B2 |
Method, device and system for the treatment of biological cryogenic samples by plasma focused ion beams
The invention relates to a method, a device and a system for the treatment of biological frozen samples using plasma focused ion beams (FIB). The samples can then be used for mass spectrometry (MS), genomics, such as gene sequencing analysis or next generation sequencing (NGS) analysis, and proteomics. The present invention particularly relates to a method of treatment of at least one biological sample. This method is particularly used for high performance microscopy, proteomics analytics, sequencing, such as NGS etc. According to the present invention the method comprises the steps of providing at least one biological sample in frozen form. The milling treats at least one part of the sample by a plasma ion beam comprising at least one of an O+ and/or a Xe+ plasma. |
| US11735398B2 |
Plasma flood gun for charged particle apparatus
A method for altering surface charge on an insulating surface of a first sample includes generating first plasma inside a plasma source, causing the first plasma to diffuse into a first vacuum chamber to generate second downstream plasma, immersing the first sample in the second downstream plasma, and applying a first bias voltage to a conductive layer of the first sample, or applying a first bias voltage to a metal holder that holds the first sample. |
| US11735395B2 |
Charged particle beam device and method of measuring electrical noise
To provide a technique capable of measuring high-frequency electrical noise in a charged particle beam device. A charged particle beam device 100 includes an electron source 2 for generating an electron beam EB1, a stage 4 for mounting a sample 10, a detector 5 for detecting secondary electrons EB2 emitted from the sample 10, and a control unit 7 electrically connected to the electron source 2, the stage 4, and the detector 5 and can control the electron source 2, the stage 4, and the detector 5. Here, when the sample 10 is mounted on the stage 4, and a specific portion 11 of the sample 10 is continuously irradiated with the electron beam EB1 from the electron source 2, the control unit 7 can calculate a time-series change in irradiation position of the electron beam EB1 based on an amount of the secondary electrons EB2 emitted from the specific portion 11, and can calculate a feature quantity for a shake of the electron beam EB1 based on the time-series change in irradiation position. Further, the feature quantity includes a frequency spectrum. |
| US11735394B2 |
Charged particle beam apparatus
Provided is a charged particle beam apparatus capable of analyzing foreign matters generated when a sample is transported or observed. The charged particle beam apparatus includes a sample stage on which a measurement sample is provided, a charged particle beam source that irradiates the measurement sample with a charged particle beam, and a detector that detects charged particles emitted by irradiation with the charged particle beam, and includes a foreign matter observation sample held on the sample stage together with the measurement sample and a foreign matter observation unit that causes a foreign matter to be observed on the foreign matter observation sample. |
| US11735393B2 |
Method for operating a multi-beam particle beam microscope
A method for operating a multi-beam particle beam microscope includes: scanning a multiplicity of particle beams over an object; directing electron beams emanating from impingement locations of the particle beams at the object onto an electron converter; detecting first signals generated by impinging electrons in the electron converter via a plurality of detection elements of a first detection system during a first time period; detecting second signals generated by impinging electrons in the electron converter via a plurality of detection elements of a second detection system during a second time period; and assigning to the impingement locations the signals which were detected via the detection elements of the first detection system during the first time period, for example on the basis of the detection signals which were detected via the detection elements of the second detection system during the second time period. |
| US11735389B2 |
Electromagnetic relay
An electromagnetic relay includes a first movable contact piece, a first movable contact, a second movable contact, a moving member, a coil, and a movable iron core. The moving member holds the first movable contact piece. The moving member is made of a resin having electrical insulation. The moving member includes a first member and a second member. The first member is connected to a movable iron core. The second member is a separate body from the first member. The second member is connected to the first member by snap fitting. The first member includes a convex portion. The convex portion projects toward the second member in a moving direction of the moving member. The second member includes an inspection hole. The inspection hole faces the convex portion in the moving direction and extends in the moving direction. |
| US11735384B2 |
High current, compact fusible disconnect switch with dual slider assembly and an actuator bias element
A fusible disconnect switch device is provided. The disconnect switch a switch actuator, an actuator bias element, and a slider assembly. The switch actuator is selectively positionable between an opened position and a closed position. The actuator bias element includes a first end acting on the switch actuator and a second end coupled to the switch housing. The slider assembly is linked to the switch actuator. The slider assembly includes a first slider and a second slider each slidably movable with respect to the switch housing along a linear axis. The first slider is independently movable relative to the second slider. The actuator bias element and the slider assembly are responsive to the position of the switch actuator to effect the switch closing operation and a switch opening operation. |
| US11735380B2 |
Keyswitch structure and keyboard
A keyswitch structure includes a base, a cap disposed corresponding to the base, a restoring member disposed between the base and the cap, and a tactile adjustment unit. The cap has a cam portion movable relative to the base. The restoring member is configured to provide a restoring force to enable the cam portion to move away from the base. The tactile adjustment unit is disposed corresponding to the cam portion and includes a holder and a tactile feedback member mounted on the holder. The holder is movable relative to the base to change a position of the tactile feedback member relative to the cam portion, so as to change a pressing force required for the cam portion to move toward the base. |
| US11735372B2 |
Ceramic electronic device
A ceramic electronic device includes: a multilayer chip in which each of a plurality of dielectric layers and each of a plurality of internal electrode layers are alternately stacked, a main component of the dielectric layers being ceramic, the plurality of internal electrode layers being alternately exposed to a first end face and a second end face of the multilayer chip, the first end face facing with the second end face; a first external electrode provided on the first end face; and a second external electrode provided on the second end face, wherein a silane film is provided on a surface of the ceramic electronic device, and wherein an organic compound is provided on the silane film, and has a siloxane bonding. |
| US11735370B2 |
Multilayer ceramic capacitor
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a capacitor main body including a multilayer body including dielectric layers and internal electrode layers alternately laminated, and external electrodes at two end surfaces of the multilayer body and connected to the internal electrode layers, and two interposers on a surface of the capacitor main body, and opposed and spaced apart from each other. The two interposers each include a first surface at or adjacent to the capacitor main body, and a second surface opposite to the first surface, the first and second surfaces being parallel or substantially parallel with each other, and the first surface is sloped with respect to the surface of the capacitor main body at a predetermined angle to be spaced from the surface of the capacitor main body toward a side at which the two interposers face each other. |
| US11735367B2 |
Multilayer electronic component
A multilayer electronic component includes an external electrode having a connection portion and a band portion. An organic layer is disposed between an electrode layer and a plating layer of the band portion of the external electrode, and a conductive resin layer is disposed between the electrode layer and the plating layer of the connection portion of the external electrode. |
| US11735364B2 |
Multilayer electronic component
A multilayer electronic component includes a body including a dielectric layer and an internal electrode; and an external electrode including an electrode layer disposed on the body and connected to the internal electrode and a conductive resin layer disposed on the electrode layer, and the conductive resin layer includes a metal wire, a conductive metal, and a base resin. |
| US11735362B2 |
Dielectric ceramic composition and multilayer ceramic capacitor comprising the same
A dielectric ceramic composition and a multilayer ceramic capacitor comprising the same are provided. The dielectric ceramic composition includes a BaTiO3-based base material main ingredient and an accessory ingredient, where the accessory ingredient includes dysprosium (Dy) and cerium (Ce) as first accessory ingredients. A total content of Dy and Ce is greater than 0.25 mol % and equal to or less than 1.0 mol % based on 100 mol % of the base material main ingredient. |
| US11735361B2 |
Dielectric ceramic composition and multilayer ceramic capacitor comprising the same
A dielectric ceramic composition and a multilayer ceramic capacitor including the same are provided. The dielectric ceramic composition includes a BaTiO3-based base material main ingredient and an accessory ingredient, where the accessory ingredient includes dysprosium (Dy) and niobium (Nb) as first accessory ingredients. A total content of the Dy and Nb is less than or equal to 1.5 mol, based on 100 mol of Ti of the base material main ingredient, and a content of the Dy satisfies 0.7 mol |
| US11735357B2 |
Transformer with improved insulation structure
A transformer is provided which includes an insulating sheet separating the primary-side windings and portion of split magnetic core from the secondary-side windings and portion of split magnetic core. Thin layers of conductive and semiconductive material are deposited on areas of the insulating sheet surfaces facing the primary and secondary sides. These layers are electrically referenced or tied to the potentials of the respective primary or secondary sides. This ensures that the high electric field due to primary-to-secondary potential gradient is substantially placed across the insulating sheet dielectric and avoided in the air gaps or voids in the transformer, thus reducing undesirable partial discharge effects. The two core sections on the primary and secondary side are also electrically referenced or tied to the potentials of their adjacent windings, thus reducing high electric fields and partial discharge in the space between the core sections and the windings. |
| US11735356B2 |
Current converter with fluid or oil paper insulation for high voltage
A current converter with fluid or oil paper insulation for high voltage, with a head housing through which a primary conductor passes. A measurement device through which the primary conductor passes is arranged in the head housing. The primary conductor includes two different primary conductor types, more specifically an outer tube primary conductor as the first type and one or more inner conductor primary conductors as the second type. The outer tube primary conductor surrounds an interior that is designed to receive the inner conductor primary conductor, and the inner conductor primary conductors can be inserted into the interior. The outer tube primary conductor is used to transmit power and creates an encasement for the inner conductors. Only the outer tube primary conductor needs to be sealed with respect to the head housing. Inner conductors therefore can be easily inserted or re-moved subsequently, without the need for sealing measures. |
| US11735355B2 |
Inductor and producing method thereof
An inductor includes a wire having a width W, and a first electrode and a second electrode continuous to each of both ends of the wire. The wire, the first electrode, and the second electrode are present on the same plane. The plane area S1 of the first electrode and the plane area S2 of the second electrode are a square value (W2) or more of the width W. An area in which the wire is disposed is positioned between the first electrode and the second electrode. The area has a length X in a longitudinal direction equal to a length L between the first electrode and the second electrode along a facing direction of the first electrode and the second electrode, and a length Y in a short-length direction in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The length X in the longitudinal direction is 1.5 times or more of the length Y in the short-length direction. |
| US11735347B2 |
Multilayer coil component
A pair of terminal electrodes 4 and 5 have electrode parts 4a and 5a and electrode parts 4b and 5b when viewed from a stacking direction, respectively. A plurality of connection conductors are disposed at positions not overlapping a plurality of coil conductors when viewed from the stacking direction. At least two of the plurality of connection conductors are disposed in a first region A1 or a second region A2 between the terminal electrodes 4 and 5 and an outer edge 9a of a coil 9 when viewed from the stacking direction. The first region A1 and the second region A2 overlap the electrode parts 4a and 5a when viewed from the facing direction of a pair of end surfaces 2a and 2b and overlap the electrode parts 4b and 5b when viewed from the facing direction of a pair of main surfaces 2c and 2d. |
| US11735346B2 |
Multilayer substrate and method for manufacturing the same
A multilayer substrate includes at least three coil conductors respectively patterned on different surfaces of a first main surface of a laminated body, a second main surface of the laminated body, and laminated interfaces of insulating base materials and that are arranged in a lamination direction. The at least three coil conductors include first and second coil conductors, and are connected in series between first and second external electrodes. A surface at which another coil conductor is provided is not interposed between two surfaces at which the first and second coil conductors are provided, respectively. Further, the first and second coil conductors are directly connected to the first and second external electrodes, respectively, without another coil conductor interposed therebetween. |
| US11735341B2 |
R-T-B-based sintered magnet
The present invention relates to an R-T-B-based sintered magnet including: a rare earth element R; a metal element T which is Fe, or includes Fe and Co with which a part of Fe is substituted; boron; and a boride forming element M which is a metal element other than rare earth elements and the metal element T and forms a boride, in which the R-T-B-based sintered magnet includes: a main phase which includes a crystal grain of an R-T-B-based alloy; and a boride phase which includes a compound phase based on the boride of the boride forming element M, and is generated on a preferential growth plane of the crystal grain of the main phase. |
| US11735340B2 |
Cascade varistor having improved energy handling capabilities
A varistor is provided having a rectangular configuration defining first and second opposing end surfaces offset in a lengthwise direction. The varistor may include a first terminal adjacent the first opposing end surface and a second terminal adjacent the second opposing end surface. The varistor may include an active electrode layer including a first electrode electrically connected with the first terminal and a second electrode electrically connected with the second terminal. The first electrode may be spaced apart from the second electrode in the lengthwise direction to form an active electrode end gap. The varistor may include a floating electrode layer including a floating electrode. The floating electrode layer may be spaced apart from the active electrode layer in a height-wise direction to form a floating electrode gap. A ratio of the active electrode end gap to the floating electrode gap may be greater than about 2. |
| US11735335B2 |
Water-stop structure and water-stop parts for shielded cable
A water stop structure for a shield cable includes a lead-in port formed in a sheet metal of a housing, a grommet to be liquid-tightly fitted into the lead-in port, a shield shell disposed outside the housing so as to surround the grommet and with an end portion of a braid of the shield cable being crimped, and a spacer configured to adjust an attachment height of the shield shell with respect to the sheet metal so as to fasten the shield shell to the sheet metal in a state where conduction is ensured. |
| US11735334B2 |
Stretchable wire tape for textile, wearable device, and method for producing textile having wires
Provided are a stretchable wire tape for a textile that can maintain high levels in all of stretchability, electrical conductivity, durability, an insulating property, and design and can also have a reduced production cost, wearable devices, and a method for producing textiles having wires. The stretchable wire tape for the textile includes a stretchable electrically conductive wire, and stretchable insulating films each including a first face and a second face opposite to the first face, the stretchable insulating films being bonded to opposite sides of the stretchable electrically conductive wire on their first faces. Since the stretchable insulating films are bonded to the opposite sides of the stretchable electrically conductive wire via bonding layers, durability and an insulating property can be secured while stretchability and electrical conductivity of the electrically conductive wire can be maintained, and design can also be improved. |
| US11735332B2 |
Thermal barrier material for a rechargeable electrical energy storage system
A multilayer material for use as a thermal insulation barrier and/or flame barrier in a rechargeable electrical energy storage system is provided. The multilayer material comprises at least one inorganic fabric layer bonded to a nonwoven layer comprising inorganic particles and inorganic fibers by an inorganic adhesive, wherein the inorganic adhesive. The inorganic adhesive can be a modified inorganic adhesive comprising at least 99 wt. % inorganic constituents and an organic additive of at least 0.01 wt. % and less than 1 wt. % based on a total solids content of the inorganic adhesive. |
| US11735330B2 |
Silver nanowire-mesh (Ag NW-mesh) electrode and manufacturing method thereof
According to one aspect of the present invention, a silver nanowire mesh (Ag NW-mesh) electrode and a fabricating method thereof. The Ag NW-mesh electrode includes a flexible substrate; and a mesh pattern layer which is disposed on the flexible substrate and in which a plurality of first meal lines and a plurality of second metal lines are composed of Ag NWs and intersect each other in an orthogonal or diagonal direction to form a grid pattern, wherein the first metal lines and the second metal lines of the mesh pattern layer form an angle of 35 degrees to 55 degrees with respect to a bending direction. |
| US11735329B2 |
Radioactive chemical waste treatment apparatus
The present invention relates to a radioactive chemical waste treatment apparatus including an adsorption unit including an radioactive chemical waste adsorption member for adsorbing and separating radioactive chemical wastes from radioactive chemical waste-containing fluid, and a regeneration unit which is in fluidic communication with the adsorption unit and is for regenerating the radioactive chemical waste adsorption member by desorbing the radioactive chemical wastes from the adsorption member with the radioactive chemical wastes adsorbed thereonto, and to a radioactive chemical waste treatment method including (A) adsorbing radioactive chemical wastes onto a radioactive chemical waste adsorption member and separating the radioactive chemical wastes from a radioactive chemical waste-containing fluid, and (B) desorbing the radioactive chemical wastes from the radioactive chemical waste adsorption member with the radioactive chemical wastes adsorbed thereonto, and regenerating the radioactive chemical waste adsorption member. |
| US11735326B2 |
System having heat pipe passing through annulus of nuclear fuel element
Fuel, heat exchangers, and instrumentation for nuclear reactors are disclosed. A nuclear power system includes a plurality of nuclear fuel elements, each of the nuclear fuel elements including an annulus; and a plurality of heat pipes, each of the plurality of heat pipes configured to pass through the annulus of a respective one of the nuclear fuel elements in conductive thermal contact with the respective nuclear fuel element. A nuclear instrumentation module includes an assembly of optical fibers, each optical fiber comprising one or more sensors and configured for removable installation at one of the plurality of heat pipes. A heat exchanger includes a heat pipe including an evaporating region and a condensing region; and a tube bundle configured to wrap around the condensing region of the heat pipe and including one or more adjacent, parallel tubes, each tube forming a helix that is coaxial to the heat pipe. |
| US11735322B2 |
Systems and methods for ossification center detection and bone age assessment
Systems and methods for ossification center detection (OCD) and bone age assessment (BAA) may be provided. The method may include obtaining a bone age image of a subject. The method may include generating a normalized bone age image by preprocessing the bone age image. The method may include determining, based on the normalized bone age image, positions of a plurality of ossification centers using an ossification center localization (OCL) model. The method may include estimating, based on the normalized bone age image and information related to the positions of the plurality of ossification centers, a bone age of the subject using a bone age assessment (BAA) model. |
| US11735316B2 |
Method and apparatus of labeling target in image, and computer recording medium
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus of labeling a target in an image, and a computer recording medium. The method includes: acquiring a first neural network, the first neural network includes a multi-layer convolutional neural network and a fully connected layer, wherein each layer of the multi-layer convolutional neural network includes a convolutional layer, an activation function layer and a down-sampling layer arranged successively; processing the image by using the multi-layer convolutional neural network of the first neural network acquired so as to obtain a target position mask for the image; and labeling the target in the image based on the target position mask. |
| US11735312B2 |
Systems and methods for converting and delivering medical images to mobile devices and remote communications systems
A system for automated conversion and delivery of medical images. In an example implementation, a server is configured to retrieve a medical image file including medical data and metadata, in a medical data format, determine an output destination type based on the metadata, identify standardized format specifications based on the determined output destination type from the retrieved metadata, convert the medical data into a format compatible with the identified standardized format, and transmit an output message of the converted medical data to at least a recipient delivery address. |
| US11735307B2 |
Interactive ladder
An interactive ladder and method for using the interactive ladder are disclosed. The interactive ladder may include a plurality of rungs including sensors for detecting interactions made with the ladder. The interactive ladder may provide a signal indicating an activity to be selected and initiated via an application in communication with the interactive ladder. Upon detection of an interaction with the ladder and/or rung during the participation in the activity, a sensor may transmit a signal including an input associated with the interaction to a microcontroller for processing. The processed input may be provided to a computer to generate an output that includes feedback associated with the input associated with the interaction. The interactive ladder may cause the output including the feedback to be displayed on a display device of the interactive ladder, such as during participation of the activity provided by the program. |
| US11735306B2 |
Method, system and computer readable storage media for creating three-dimensional dental restorations from two dimensional sketches
A method, system and computer readable storage media for obtaining 3D dental restoration geometries from 2D dental designs. This may include obtaining a training dataset, training the neural network using the training dataset, taking a scan of a patient, such as a 3D measurement of a patient's oral cavity, obtaining a 2D dental design, producing a 3D dental restoration geometry using the obtained 2D dental design and the trained neural network. |
| US11735302B2 |
Machine learning for optimizing ovarian stimulation
Systems and methods for implementing machine-learning models for ovarian stimulation is described herein. In some variations, a computer-implemented method may include optimizing an ovarian stimulation process may include receiving patient-specific data associated with a patient, and predicting an egg outcome for the patient for each of a plurality of treatment options for an ovarian stimulation process based on at least one predictive model and the patient-specific data, where the at least one predictive model is trained using prior patient-specific data associated with a plurality of prior patients. |
| US11735299B1 |
Baggage system, RFID chip, server and method for capturing baggage data
A baggage system includes a plurality of RFID tags affixed to baggage items, a data collection engine, client devices and backend devices. The backend devices include trained machine learning models, business logic, and attributes of a plurality of events. A plurality of data collection engines and baggage terminal systems send attributes of new events to the backend devices. The backend devices can track the baggage items and predict particular outcomes of new events based upon the attributes of the new events utilizing the trained machine learning models. |
| US11735295B2 |
Method and apparatus for providing glycemic control
Methods and system to provide glycemic control and therapy management based on monitored glucose data, and current and/or target HbA1C levels are provided. |
| US11735293B2 |
Methods for determining transition metal compound concentrations in multicomponent liquid systems
Methods for simultaneously determining the concentrations of transition metal compounds in solutions containing two or more transition metal compounds are described. Polymerization reactor systems providing real-time monitoring and control of the concentrations of the transition metal components of a multicomponent catalyst system are disclosed, as well as methods for operating such polymerization reactor systems, and for improving methods of preparing the multicomponent catalyst system. |
| US11735292B2 |
Intelligent personalized chemical synthesis planning
Embodiments for intelligent discovery of preferred chemical reaction pathways to a synthesized target compound by a processor. Target compound data of a target compound a user intends to synthesize may be received. A preference score for one or more chemical reaction pathways to the target compound may be calculated based on one or more chemical reactions. One or more preferred chemical reaction pathways to the targeted compound may be determined using a modified retrosynthetic analysis according to the preference score for one or more chemical reactions. |
| US11735289B2 |
Method and system for analyzing metabolic state of a cell by measuring concentrations of metabolites
Analysis of the flow of fluxes through the metabolic network of a cell type is useful in gaining knowledge about cellular physiology. Such knowledge can be used in understanding host's interactions with pathogens, drug response etc. However there is dearth of techniques that can incorporate metabolomics data into genome scale metabolic model (GEM) for FBA. A method and system for analyzing metabolic state of a cell at a genome scale by measuring concentrations of a one or more metabolites has been disclosed. The method is utilizing intracellular and/or extracellular metabolite concentrations for constraining reaction fluxes in FBA by incorporating it as part of stoichiometric constraint to metabolic model. The method is used to predict the change in flux flow through all reactions in an organism/cell type under different experimental conditions. The method enables constraining the flow of fluxes through reactions while performing FBA of GEMs using measured metabolite concentrations. |
| US11735280B2 |
Memory device and operating method of the same
A memory device is disclosed, including a bit cell storing a bit data. The bit cell includes multiple first transistors coupled to a node, multiple second transistors each coupled in series to a corresponding one of the first transistors, and at least one third transistor. The first transistors are turned on in response to a control signal. The second transistors are turned on in response to a first word line signal. The at least one third transistor has a control terminal to receive a second word line signal. In a programming mode of the memory device, the at least one third transistor provides, in response to the second word line signal, an adjust voltage to the node. The adjust voltage is associated with a voltage level of a first terminal of the at least one third transistor. |
| US11735279B2 |
Programmable memory cell, memory array and reading and writing method thereof
The present disclosure in the field of memory technology proposes a programmable storage cell, a programmable storage array and a reading and writing method for the programmable storage array. The programmable storage cell includes: a first anti-fuse element connected between a first power terminal and an output terminal, a second anti-fuse element connected between the second power terminal and the output terminal, and a third switch unit connected to the output terminal, a third power terminal and a position signal terminal, where the third switch unit responds to the signal from the position signal terminal so as to connect the third power terminal and the output terminal. The programmable storage cell has a simple structure and a high reading speed. |
| US11735278B2 |
Non-volatile memory device, controller for controlling the same, storage device having the same, and method of operating the same
A method of operating a controller includes randomly transmitting a first command to a non-volatile memory device upon a read request from a host; receiving first read data corresponding to the first command from the non-volatile memory device; determining whether the number of first error bits of the first read data is greater than a first reference value; determining whether the number of first error bits is greater than a second reference value, when the number of first error bits is not greater than the first reference value; storing a target wordline in a health buffer, when the number of first error bits is greater than the second reference value; periodically transmitting a second command to the non-volatile memory device; and receiving second read data corresponding to the second command from the non-volatile memory device. |
| US11735277B2 |
Semiconductor memory device includind boosting circuit that changes generated voltages in write operation
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a first memory cell and a first boosting circuit. The first boosting circuit generates a first voltage, a second voltage, and a third voltage lower than the second voltage at a first output terminal. The first, second and third voltages is used for a write operation. The write operation includes a first program operation and a first verify operation executed after the first program operation. The first boosting circuit generates the first voltage at the first output terminal during the first program operation, generates the third voltage at the first output terminal at end of the first program operation, generates the second voltage at the first output terminal during the first verify operation, and then generates the first voltage to the first output terminal during the first verify operation. |
| US11735276B2 |
Programming techniques for polarity-based memory cells
Methods, systems, and devices for programming techniques for polarity-based memory cells are described. A method may include writing memory cells to an intermediate state based on receiving a write command. Writing the intermediate state may include applying a first pulse having a first polarity to the memory cell. The method may include isolating a first access line coupled with the memory cell from a voltage source based on applying the first pulse. The method may also include applying a second pulse to a second access line coupled with the memory cell based on isolating the first access line. |
| US11735273B2 |
Data storage systems and methods for improved recovery after a write abort event
Apparatus and methods for recovery after an abort event are described. A data storage system may comprise a non-volatile memory device, having one or more wordlines configured to receive a read level voltage, and a controller. The controller is configured to detect whether a write abort event occurred for the data storage system. The controller is configured to determine a first voltage offset based on one or more of a wear-level indication of the non-volatile memory device, or one or more voltage parameters of the non-volatile memory device. The controller is configured to determine, based on the first voltage offset, an adjusted read level voltage. The controller is configured to apply the adjusted read level voltage to a wordline of the non-volatile memory device. The controller is configured to read data, based on the applied adjusted read level voltage, from the wordline of the non-volatile memory device. |
| US11735272B2 |
Noise reduction during parallel plane access in a multi-plane memory device
A memory device includes a memory array comprising a plurality of planes and a plurality of independent plane driver circuits. The memory device further includes control logic to detect an occurrence of a high noise event associated with a first independent plane driver circuit of the plurality of independent plane driver circuits. The control logic is further to determine whether a quiet event associated with a second independent plane driver circuit of the plurality of independent plane driver circuits is concurrently occurring. Responsive to determining that the quiet event associated with the second independent plane driver circuit is concurrently occurring, the control logic is to manage execution of the high noise event and the quiet event based on respective priorities of the first and second independent plane driver circuits. |
| US11735270B2 |
Semiconductor device and continuous reading method
A continuous readout method of a flash memory is provided. Selected bit lines (BL0, BL4, BL8, and BL12) are masked by three non-selected bit lines when data of a cache memory (C0) of a selected page of a memory cell array is read. Selected bit lines (BL2, BL6, BL10, and BL14) are masked by three non-selected bit lines when data of a cache memory (C1) of the same selected page is read. In this way, each of first page data and second page data read from a plurality of selected pages is continuously outputted. |
| US11735262B2 |
Adaptive memory cell write conditions
A method and related apparatus for using an indication of RRAM cell resistance to determine a write condition are disclosed. A cell characteristic of an RRAM cell may be determined to a higher bit resolution than a data read value. A write condition may be selected for the RRAM cell, based on the cell characteristic. The RRAM cell may be written to, using the selected write condition. |
| US11735260B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor memory device capable of satisfying multiple reliability conditions and multiple performance requirements is provided. A variable resistance memory of the disclosure makes it possible to write data in a memory array by changing a write condition according to the type of a write command from the outside. If the write command is an endurance-related command, an endurance algorithm is selected and data is written in an endurance storage area. If the write command is a retention-related command, a retention algorithm is selected and data is written in a retention storage area. |
| US11735257B2 |
Memory with high-accuracy reference-free multi-inverter sense circuit and associated sensing method
Disclosed is a memory structure with reference-free single-ended sensing. The structure includes an array of non-volatile memory (NVM) cells (e.g., resistance programmable NVM cells) and a sense circuit connected to the array via a data line and a column decoder. The sense circuit includes field effect transistors (FETs) connected in parallel between an output node and a switch and inverters connected between the data line and the gates of the FETs, respectively. To determine the logic value of a stored bit, the inverters are used to detect whether or not a voltage drop occurs on the data line within a predetermined period of time. Using redundant inverters to control redundant FETs connected to the output node increases the likelihood that the occurrence of the voltage drop will be detected and captured at the output node, even in the presence of process and/or thermal variations. Also disclosed is a sensing method. |
| US11735253B2 |
Apparatus and methods for programming memory cells responsive to an indication of age of the memory cells
Methods of operating a memory, and memory configured to perform similar methods, may include determining a memory cell age of a plurality of memory cells, determining a desired programming step voltage for programming memory cells having the determined memory cell age, and performing a programming operation on the plurality of memory cells using the desired programming step voltage corresponding to the determined memory cell age. Methods may further include configuring a memory, including characterizing a read window budget for a programming operation of the memory as a function of a programming step voltage for a plurality of memory cell ages. |
| US11735251B2 |
Timing control circuit of memory device with tracking word line and tracking bit line
A circuit includes a tracking word line, a power switch, a tracking bit line, a sense circuit. The power switch is coupled between the tracking word line and a first node. The power switch is configured to discharge a voltage level on the first node in response to a clock pulse signal transmitted through the tracking word line to the power switch. The tracking bit line is coupled between the first node and a plurality of tracking cells in a memory array. The sense circuit is coupled between the first node and a second node. The sense circuit is configured to generate a negative bit line enable signal in response to that the voltage level on the first node is below a threshold voltage value of the sense circuit. |
| US11735250B2 |
Sense amplifier activation timing scheme to suppress disturbance in memory cells of dram memory device
A semiconductor memory device is provided to suppress occurrence of disturbance regardless of the position of the activated word line. The semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of word lines, a bit line, a plurality of memory cells connected to the bit line and one of the plurality of word lines, a sense amplifier connected to the bit line, and a control portion. The control portion is configured to control timing of activating the sense amplifier. When a position of an activated word line among the plurality of word lines is closer to the sense amplifier, the control portion controls the timing of activating the sense amplifier to be delayed more. |
| US11735248B2 |
Sub-word-line drivers and semiconductor memory devices including the same
A sub-word-line driver and semiconductor memory devices including the same are provided. The sub-word-line driver may include a word line pull-up transistor, a word line pull-down transistor, and a keeping transistor configured to maintain a word line at a specified voltage level. The sub-word-line driver may include a peripheral active region on a substrate, a first peripheral gate electrode that corresponds to a gate node of the word line pull-down transistor on the peripheral active region, a second peripheral gate electrode that corresponds to a gate node of the keeping transistor on the peripheral active region, and a first lower contact coupled to a first region of the peripheral active region. A first (VBB) voltage from the first region may be supplied to a source node of the keeping transistor. |
| US11735246B2 |
Semiconductor device performing refresh operation
Disclosed herein is an apparatus that includes a plurality of memory banks and a refresh controller configured to perform a refresh operation on one or more of the plurality of memory banks having a first state without performing the refresh operation on one or more of the plurality of memory banks having a second state responsive to a first refresh command, and perform the refresh operation on a selected one of the plurality of memory banks responsive to a second refresh command. The refresh controller is configured to bring the selected one of the plurality of memory banks into the second state when the refresh operation is performed responsive to the second refresh command. |
| US11735244B2 |
Time-based access of a memory cell
Methods, systems, and devices for time-based access of memory cells in a memory array are described herein. During a sense portion of a read operation, a selected memory cell may be charged to a predetermined voltage level. A logic state stored on the selected memory cell may be identified based on a duration between the beginning of the charging and when selected memory cell reaches the predetermined voltage level. In some examples, time-varying signals may be used to indicate the logic state based on the duration of the charging. The duration of the charging may be based on a polarization state of the selected memory cell, a dielectric charge state of the selected state, or both a polarization state and a dielectric charge state of the selected memory cell. |
| US11735238B2 |
Memory device
A memory device is provided, the memory device includes multiple cells arranged in a matrix of multiple rows and multiple columns. The memory device further includes multiple bit lines each of which is connected to first cells of the multiple cells arranged in a row of the multiple rows. A voltage control circuit is connectable to a selected bit line of the multiple bit lines and includes a voltage detection circuit that detects an instantaneous supply voltage and a voltage source selection circuit connected to the voltage detection circuit. The voltage source selection circuit selects a voltage source from multiple voltage sources based on the detected instantaneous supply voltage. The voltage source selection circuit includes a switch that connects the selected voltage source to the selected bit line to provide a write voltage. |
| US11735230B2 |
Semiconductor device
According to an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a substrate, a connector, a volatile semiconductor memory element, multiple nonvolatile semiconductor memory elements, and a controller. A wiring pattern includes a signal line that is formed between the connector and the controller and that connects the connector to the controller. On the opposite side of the controller to the signal line, the multiple nonvolatile semiconductor memory elements are aligned along the longitudinal direction of the substrate. |
| US11735224B1 |
Mold, tape reel, and tape cartridge
There is provided a mold for molding a tape reel that is made of a resin and that includes a cylindrical portion, a bottom portion formed on a proximal end side of the cylindrical portion, and a plurality of through holes penetrating the bottom portion and arranged in a peripheral direction of the cylindrical portion, the mold including: a bottom surface that is used to form the bottom portion; a tubular surface that is used to form the cylindrical portion; and a plurality of projecting portions that protrude from the bottom surface and are used to form the plurality of through holes, respectively, in which, in the tubular surface, a first portion corresponding to a portion between the projecting portions adjacent to each other in the peripheral direction, among the plurality of projecting portions, has a shape that bulges toward a radially outer side of the bottom surface than a second portion corresponding to the projecting portion. |
| US11735223B2 |
Head suspension system for a tape drive
A storage device comprises, a head assembly, motor(s) configured to actuate the head assembly. The storage device may optionally include tape reel(s) holding tape media for storing data and a casing. The head assembly and its suspension system comprises a support structure, a head housing having an upper attachment bracket and a lower attachment bracket, a first flat spring attached to the upper attachment bracket, a second flat spring attached to the lower attachment bracket, and a head bar attached on an upper side to the first flat spring and attached on a lower side to the second flat spring. The head bar includes at least one read head and at least one write head. |
| US11735219B2 |
Magnetic tape container
The magnetic tape container includes a core around which a magnetic tape is wound. The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support, and a magnetic layer including a ferromagnetic powder. A maximum value of a deviation of a center position of an average minimum region reference circle of a trajectory of one rotation drawn by the magnetic tape, in a case where the wound magnetic tape is drawn out from the core core is 100 μm or less for three points of the magnetic tape in a width direction. |
| US11735217B2 |
Heat assisted magnetic recording media with amorphous magnetic grain boundary material
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a heat assisted magnetic recording HAMR media structure and methods for reducing the Curie temperature distribution to improve the signal-to-noise characteristics of HAMR media. A magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, a heat sink layer on the substrate, and a magnetic recording layer on the heat sink layer. The magnetic recording layer includes a plurality of magnetic recording grains configured for recording and comprising a first magnetic alloy. The magnetic recording layer further includes a plurality of segregants disposed to isolate the plurality of magnetic recording grains and comprising a second magnetic alloy. A Curie temperature of the second magnetic alloy is higher than a Curie temperature of the first magnetic alloy. |
| US11735216B2 |
Magnetic recording medium, method of manufacturing same, and magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus
A magnetic recording medium includes a non-magnetic substrate; a soft magnetic layer; a first seed layer; a second seed layer; an underlayer; and a perpendicular magnetic recording layer. The soft magnetic layer, the first seed layer, the second seed layer, the underlayer and the perpendicular magnetic recording layer are disposed on the non-magnetic substrate in this order. The first seed layer includes MoS2, hexagonal-BN, WS2, WSe2 or graphite. The second seed layer includes AlN having a hexagonal wurtzite type crystal structure. The underlayer includes Ru. |
| US11735212B1 |
Thermally assisted magnetic head including a record/read separate protective structure, head gimbal assembly and hard disk drive each having the thermally assisted magnetic head
A thermally assisted magnetic head includes a slider, the slider includes a slider substrate and a magnetic head part. The magnetic head part includes a recording head, a reading head, a near field transducer and a medium-opposing surface. The medium-opposing surface includes a recording area and a reading area. The magnetic head part includes a record/read separately protective structure which a stabilized protective film is formed on the recording area and a reading head protective film is formed on the reading area. The stabilized protective film includes a three-layers structure which a seed layer and a double protective layer are laminated. The double protective layer includes a YSZ protective layer and a hard protective layer. The reading head protective film includes a thickness which is thinner than the stabilized protective film. |
| US11735211B2 |
Read head having one or more antiferromagnetic layers above soft bias side shields, and related methods
The present disclosure relates to read head apparatus, and methods of forming read head apparatus, for magnetic storage devices, such as magnetic tape drives (e.g., tape drives). In one implementation, a read head for magnetic storage devices includes a lower shield, one or more upper shields, one or more lower leads, and a plurality of upper leads. The read head includes a plurality of read sensors, each read sensor of the plurality of read sensors including a first antiferromagnetic (AFM) layer. The read head includes a plurality of soft bias side shields disposed between and outwardly of the plurality of read sensors. The read head includes one or more second AFM layers disposed above the first AFM layer and the plurality of soft bias side shields along a downtrack direction. |
| US11735208B2 |
Systems and methods for classification and rating of calls based on voice and text analysis
Methods and systems include sending recording data of a call to a first server and a second server, wherein the recording data includes a first voice of a first participant of the call and a second voice of a second participant of the call; receiving, from the first server, a first emotion score representing a degree of a first emotion associated with the first voice, and a second emotion score representing a degree of a second emotion associated with the first voice; receiving, from the second server, a first sentiment score, a second sentiment score, and a third sentiment score; determining a quality score and classification data for the recording data based on the first emotion score, the second emotion score, the first sentiment score, the second sentiment score, and the third sentiment score; and outputting the quality score and the classification data for visualization of the recording data. |
| US11735204B2 |
Methods and systems for computer-generated visualization of speech
Methods, systems and apparatuses for computer-generated visualization of speech are described herein. An example method of computer-generated visualization of speech including at least one segment includes: generating a graphical representation of an object corresponding to a segment of the speech; and displaying the graphical representation of the object on a screen of a computing device. Generating the graphical representation includes: representing a duration of the respective segment by a length of the object and representing intensity of the respective segment by a width of the object; and placing, in the graphical representation, a space between adjacent objects. |
| US11735203B2 |
Methods and systems for augmenting audio content
The audio content (e.g., an audio track, an audio file, an audio signal, etc.) of a content item (e.g., multimedia content, a movie, streaming content, etc.) may be modified to augment and/or include one or more auditory events, such as a sound, a plurality of sounds, a sound effect(s), a voice(s), and/or music. |
| US11735184B2 |
Translation and speech recognition method, apparatus, and device
A speech recognition method including performing speech recognition on an inputted speech to obtain a first text, correcting the first text according to an obtained mapping relationship between words in different languages to obtain at least one second text, and in response to determining that the at least one second text corresponds to the same language, outputting the first text, or in response to determining that the at least one second text corresponds to different languages, determine an outputted text according to first probability values corresponding to each of the at least one second text. By combining the mapping relationships between words in different languages in correcting the initial ASR result, the present application ensures the accuracy of the final speech recognition result. |
| US11735183B2 |
Controlling optically-switchable devices
This disclosure relates generally to optically switchable devices, and more particularly, to methods for controlling optically switchable devices. In various embodiments, one or more optically switchable devices may be controlled via voice control and/or gesture control. |
| US11735178B1 |
Speech-processing system
A user device may include a first and second wakeword-detection components. If the first wakeword-detection component determines that first audio data includes a representation of a first wakeword, the user device communicates with a first speech-processing system corresponding to the first wakeword. While the communication is ongoing, if a second wakeword-detection component determines that second audio data includes a representation of a second wakeword, the second audio data is not send to a corresponding second speech-processing system. |
| US11735176B2 |
Speaker diarization using speaker embedding(s) and trained generative model
Speaker diarization techniques that enable processing of audio data to generate one or more refined versions of the audio data, where each of the refined versions of the audio data isolates one or more utterances of a single respective human speaker. Various implementations generate a refined version of audio data that isolates utterance(s) of a single human speaker by generating a speaker embedding for the single human speaker, and processing the audio data using a trained generative model—and using the speaker embedding in determining activations for hidden layers of the trained generative model during the processing. Output is generated over the trained generative model based on the processing, and the output is the refined version of the audio data. |
| US11735172B2 |
Flexible-format voice command
A voice-based system is configured to process commands in a flexible format, for example, in which a wake word does not necessarily have to occur at the beginning of an utterance. As in natural speech, the system being addressed may be named within or at the end of a spoken utterance rather than at the beginning, or depending on the context, may not be named at all. |
| US11735169B2 |
Speech recognition and training for data inputs
A method, system, and computer program product for recognizing, and training to recognize, alphanumeric speech data inputs. The method may include segmenting a data input into a sequential n-gram chunks based on a predetermined rule, where the data input is received through speech recognition. The method may also include receiving metadata regarding characteristics of the data input. The method may also include generating a language model based on the metadata. The method may also include generating a first set of language model variations of the data input. The method may also include training the language model based on at least the first set of language model variations. The method may also include generating one or more alternatives for the data input using the trained language model. The method may also include transmitting an output including the one or more alternatives for the data input. |
| US11735167B2 |
Electronic device and method for controlling the same, and storage medium
Disclosed is an electronic device recognizing an utterance voice in units of individual characters. The electronic device includes: a voice receiver; and a processor configured to: obtain a recognition character converted from a character section of a user voice received through the voice receiver, and recognize a candidate character having high acoustic feature related similarity with the character section among a plurality of acquired candidate characters as an utterance character of the character section based on a confusion possibility with the acquired recognition character. |
| US11735165B2 |
Task-oriented dialog system and method through feedback
An automatic agent may be improved through feedback. A user input may be received through a user interface. A plurality of current utterance variables may be obtained by tokenizing the user input. The automatic agent may execute a machine learning policy to generate a reply to the user input based on the plurality of current utterance variables. A different reply may be obtained in response to an indication that the reply will lead to a breakdown, wherein the breakdown comprises an unhuman response from the automatic agent according to the machine learning policy. The machine learning policy may be adjusted based on the plurality of current utterance variables and the different reply. |
| US11735162B2 |
Text-to-speech (TTS) processing
During text-to-speech processing, a speech model creates output audio data, including speech, that corresponds to input text data that includes a representation of the speech. A spectrogram estimator estimates a frequency spectrogram of the speech; the corresponding frequency-spectrogram data is used to condition the speech model. A plurality of acoustic features corresponding to different segments of the input text data, such as phonemes, syllable-level features, and/or word-level features, may be separately encoded into context vectors; the spectrogram estimator uses these separate context vectors to create the frequency spectrogram. |
| US11735160B2 |
System and method for announcing the correct pronunciation of travelers' names
A method for announcing the correct pronunciation of travelers' names is disclosed. The method may include retrieving a traveler ID from a tag on a travel document; determining whether a remote database includes a stored audio recording associated with the retrieved traveler ID; collecting an audio recording if the remote database does not include the stored audio recording associated with the retrieved traveler ID using an audio recording device; receiving the audio recording in a non-standardized format from the audio recording device; converting the audio recording received in the non-standardized format to a standardized format; retrieving traveler data; storing the converted audio recording in the standardized format in the remote database along with the retrieved traveler ID and the retrieved traveler data; retrieving the converted audio recording from the remote database; and generating control signals configured to cause an audio speaker device to play the retrieved audio recording. |
| US11735155B2 |
Method for generating parametric sound and means for carying out said method
The present invention discloses a method for producing parametric sound using parametric sound system which is based on ultrasonic electrostatic transducers. It comprises modulation of a carrier ultrasonic signal with a processed audio signal in audio signal processor comprising adaptive frequency filtering based on the audio signal level, dynamic range compression, square root operation, amplification of the modulated ultrasonic signal using a D-class amplifier, driving an electrostatic transducer and generating modulated ultrasonic waves into the air. The electrostatic transducer for the parametric sound system comprises a specific back plate structure that improves electromechanical efficiency of the transducer and also enables realization of a phased array on a single back plate. The disclosed manufacturing method of the electrostatic transducer comprises producing sets of electrodes on the surface of the back plate forming individual cells. |
| US11735153B2 |
Acoustic treatment device for an aircraft turbojet engine nacelle
An acoustic treatment device for an aircraft turbojet engine nacelle forms an annular ring including several sections, each section having a sound absorption structure, an outer skin and two lateral skins attached to the inner air inlet shroud of such a nacelle by fasteners, and the sections being connected to each other by battens. |
| US11735152B2 |
Musical sound generation method, musical sound generation device, and recording medium
A musical sound generation device includes a control device which, when a performance operator among a plurality of performance operators has been operated for a part that has been set to sound a predetermined number of simulated voices of an analog synthesizer, assigns a sounding parameter of one or two or more voices, which form a timbre of a simulated voice of the analog synthesizer corresponding to the operated performance operator and are selected from a plurality of sounding voices, to a sound generation circuit, and assigns, to the sound generation circuit, an information set selected from a plurality of information sets and each include a variation value that applies a variation to the sounding parameter of the one or two or more voices, and a sound generation circuit that performs a sounding process of the one or two or more voices using the sounding parameter and the information set. |
| US11735150B2 |
Keyboard device
A keyboard device is provided, and includes multiple keys and multiple hinges. Each of the keys is supported by a support member. Each of the hinges has: a pair of base parts, joined to the support member and separated from each other with a predetermined gap therebetween in a width direction of the keys, and a connection part, connecting the pair of base parts and each of the keys to each other in a longitudinal direction of the keys. A dimension of the connection part in the longitudinal direction of the keys is set to be larger than dimensions of the base parts in the width direction of the keys. |
| US11735148B2 |
Octave key system for bassoon family of instruments
The present disclosure provides improved octave key systems for use with (e.g., incorporation into) an instrument in the bassoon family. |
| US11735139B2 |
Display system, display method, and transparent display body
A display-system includes a transparent-display-body having a first-surface and a second-surface opposite to the first-surface, a sensor to detect a brightness of the transparent-display-body or a brightness around the transparent-display-body, an arithmetic-unit configured to derive, based on the brightness detected by the sensor, a background luminance caused by outside-light as when the transparent-display-body is viewed from a side of the second-surface, and a controller to cause video to be displayed on the first-surface, wherein where rear-show-through-luminance that is a luminance of the video that occurs on the side of the second-surface is denoted as BB and the background luminance is denoted as SB, the controller controls a video luminance in accordance with the background luminance derived by the arithmetic-unit such that (BB/SB) is less than or equal to a predetermined-contrast-value, the video luminance being a luminance at which the video is to be displayed on the first-surface. |
| US11735137B2 |
Electronic devices, method of transmitting data block, method of determining contents of transmission signal, and transmission/reception system
Damaging a device that is not compatible with a functional extension is to be avoided. A signal is transmitted to an external device through a transmission channel. A data block containing capability information indicating existence/non-existence of compatibility with an extended function is received from the external device through the transmission channel. A layer field that indicates the connection layer is provided in this data block. A check is made to determine whether all the devices existing in the path are compatible with the extended function based on the value of the layer field provided in the data block, and the contents of the transmission signal are then determined. |
| US11735135B2 |
Screen flicker performance manager
The flicker performance manager disclosed herein implements a method including measuring a liquid crystal (LC) common voltage (VCOM) over a predetermined period of operation an LCD panel having a plurality of LCs, determining a shift in the VCOM (VCOM shift) over the predetermined period based at least in part on the measured VCO, storing the VCOM shift as a function of time in a table of an embedded controller, receiving a power-on signal for the LCD panel and adjusting a VCOM reference level applied to the LCs based at least in part on the stored values of the VCOM shift. |
| US11735131B2 |
Display device
A display device that is suitable for increasing in size is achieved. Three or more source lines are provided for each pixel column. Video signals having the same polarity are input to adjacent source lines during one frame period. Dot inversion driving is used to reduce a flicker, crosstalk, or the like. |
| US11735129B2 |
Display panel and driving method thereof
A display panel and a driving method thereof are provided. The display panel includes a plurality of subpixels and a plurality of data lines. The plurality of subpixels are divided into a plurality of unit regions. Two sides of any column of the subpixels correspond to two of the data lines with different polarities respectively. The polarities of the subpixels of any column are same. The unit regions include a plurality of unit subregions. Grayscales of the subpixels in each unit subregion are same, and grayscales of the subpixels in two adjacent unit subregions are different. |
| US11735128B2 |
Driving method for display device
A driving method adapted to drive a first pixel of a display device to display an image in a frame time is provided. The driving method includes dividing the frame time into a first sub-frame time and a second sub-frame time; providing a first data with a first gray level; and controlling the first pixel to be emitted in the first sub-frame time or in the second sub-frame time according to the first data. When the first gray level is greater than a predetermined gray level, controlling the first pixel to be emitted in the first sub-frame time, and when the first gray level is less than or equal to the predetermined current level, controlling the first pixel to be emitted in the second sub-frame time. |
| US11735126B1 |
Electronic devices with color sampling sensors
An electronic device such as a watch may include a display and a light sensor located behind the display. The light sensor may be used to measure the color of external objects. During color sampling operations, the display may emit light towards the external object in front of the display while the light sensor gathers color measurements. The display may emit light of different colors and the light sensor may detect an amount of reflected light for each color, which in turn may be used to determine the color of the external object. The control circuitry may use a watch-band-specific algorithm to determine the color of watch bands and may use a clothing-specific algorithm to determine the color of clothing. The control circuitry may display the color on the display so that the face of the watch matches the user's clothing or matches the user's watch band. |
| US11735125B2 |
Image display device and control method for motion blur reduction thereof
The application discloses an image display device and a control method thereof. The control method for the image display device includes: receiving a first image signal from a host and displaying a frame, a first frame data of the first image signal having a first frequency; determining that the image display device enters a Motion Blur Reduction (MBR) mode and writing a double frequency of a vertical synchronous signal into a storage unit; and informing the host to read the storage unit and alternatively outputting a second frame data and a black-insertion frame data from the host, the second frame data having a second frequency higher than the first frequency. |
| US11735118B2 |
Organic light emitting display device and driving method of the same
An organic light emitting display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; a power source configured to provide a high power voltage and a low power voltage to the pixels; a data driver configured to provide a data signal to the pixels through data lines; a scan driver configured to provide a scan signal to the pixels through scan lines; a timing controller configured to provide control signals that control the power source, the data driver, and the scan driver; and an image processor configured to receive an HDR image signal by every frame, calculate an on-pixel ratio (OPR) that represents a ratio of a number of the pixels that turn on based on the HDR image signal to the number of all pixels included in the display panel, and control a brightness of the pixels that turn on based on the on-pixel ratio. |
| US11735116B2 |
Pixel circuit, method for driving the pixel circuit and display device including the same for improving data charging
A pixel circuit, a method for driving the pixel circuit and a display device including the same are disclosed. The pixel circuit includes a driving element including a first electrode connected to a first power line to which a pixel driving voltage is applied, a gate electrode connected to a first node, and a second electrode connected to a second node; a first switch element including a first electrode connected to a second power line to which a data voltage is applied, a gate electrode to which a first scan pulse is applied, and a second electrode connected to the first node; a second switch element including a first electrode connected to the second power line, a gate electrode to which a second scan pulse is applied, and a second electrode connected to the first node. |
| US11735115B2 |
Pixel driving circuit having two data signals to compensate for threshold voltage and driving method
A pixel driving circuit includes a data writing sub-circuit, a driving sub-circuit, and a control sub-circuit. The data writing sub-circuit is configured to: in response to a first scanning signal and a third scanning signal, write a first data signal into the driving sub-circuit; and in response to a second scanning signal and the third scanning signal, write a second data signal into the driving sub-circuit. The control sub-circuit is configured to, in response to an enable signal, connect a driving transistor to a first power supply voltage signal terminal and an element to be driven. The driving sub-circuit is configured to: according to the first data signal and a first power supply voltage signal, output a driving to signal; and according to the second data signal and the first power supply voltage signal, control an operating state of the element to be driven. |
| US11735114B2 |
Pixel circuit, driving method thereof, and display device
A pixel circuit, a driving method thereof, and a display device. The pixel circuit includes a data write module, a first reset module, a drive transistor, and a light-emitting module. The data write module is configured to apply a constant first voltage signal inputted from a data signal terminal to a first electrode of the drive transistor at a first reset stage; the first reset module is configured to apply a reset voltage signal inputted from a reset signal terminal to a gate of the drive transistor at the first reset stage; and the data write module is configured to apply a data voltage signal inputted from the data signal terminal to the gate of the drive transistor at a data write stage. |
| US11735112B2 |
Display device, method for driving display device, and electronic device
A display device according to the present disclosure includes: a pixel array unit (30) in which pixel circuits (20A) are disposed in a matrix form, the pixel circuits each including a light emission unit (21), a write transistor (23) that writes a signal voltage (Vsig) of a video signal, a retention capacitor (24) that retains the signal voltage (Vsig) written by the write transistor (23), a drive transistor (22) that drives the light emission unit (21) on the basis of the signal voltage (Vsig) retained by the retention capacitor (24), and an auxiliary capacitor (25) of which one terminal is connected to a source node of the drive transistor (22); and a control unit (90) that provides a potential change to a source electrode of the drive transistor (22) by coupling through the auxiliary capacitor (25) to set an operation point of the drive transistor (22) as a cut-off region after the threshold value correction process. |
| US11735102B2 |
Driving circuit and display device
A driving circuit and a display device are provided. The driving circuit includes a level conversion chip, a scan line, a data line, a power line, a first transistor, a second transistor, and a light emitting unit. A protection unit is disposed between the level conversion chip and an intersection of the scan line and the power line, and the protection unit is configured to reduce current between the level conversion chip and the power line when the scan line and the power line are short-circuited. In the embodiment of the present disclosure, when the scan line and the power line are short-circuited, the protection unit reduces the current between the power line and the level conversion chip to prevent excessive current between the level conversion chip and the power line, and prevent the level conversion chip from heating and burning. |
| US11735098B2 |
Light emitting display device
A light emitting display device where a pixel circuit detecting a threshold voltage of a driving transistor in each of a plurality of subpixels is arranged in a matrix, includes: a threshold voltage estimating part generating a threshold voltage estimation value by estimating the threshold voltage of the driving transistor through a data counting method; a reference voltage modifying part generating a reference voltage modification value by modifying a reference voltage used for detecting the threshold voltage based on the threshold voltage estimation value; an image data voltage modifying part generating an image data voltage modification value by adding a threshold voltage detection value to a data voltage corresponding to an image data; and an accumulated deterioration calculating part calculating an accumulated deterioration by accumulating a deterioration data of a function of the data voltage. |
| US11735096B2 |
Pixel driving circuit including control unit to measure voltage difference between opposite ends of sampling resistor, and display panel including the same
A pixel driving circuit and a display panel are provided. The pixel driving circuit includes a control unit to output a control signal by detecting a voltage difference between two opposite ends of a sampling resistor, and to turn on a fourth switch by the control signal. When the fourth switch is turned on, a second positive voltage received by the pixel driving circuit charges a second node to further speed up a voltage pulling up of the second node to improve a detecting speed of the pixel driving circuit. |
| US11735092B2 |
Display device and method of driving the same
A display device includes first pixels partitioned into a plurality of blocks, each of the plurality of blocks being categorized as a first block or a second block, a sensor configured to generate first sensing data for at least two of the first pixels in each of the plurality of blocks during a first period, and a sensing controller configured to generate interpolated data for the first pixels that are not sensed by the sensor by interpolating the first sensing data, for the first block, and configured to forgo interpolation of the first sensing data, for the second block. The sensor generates second sensing data for the first pixels that are not sensed by the sensor, for the second block, during a second period after the first period. |
| US11735089B2 |
Display device and method of operating the same
A display device according to an embodiment of the present application comprises a storage configured to store gamut mapping data, a controller configured to, when an image signal is input, convert the input image signal into an output signal based on the gamut mapping data, and a display configured to display an image based on the output signal, wherein the controller changes the gamut mapping data according to the input image signal. |
| US11735086B2 |
Shift register, gate driving circuit, display apparatus and driving method
Disclosed is a shift register, a gate driving circuit, a display apparatus and a driving method, the shift register including a first input sub-circuit, configured to receive a first input signal from a first input terminal and output an output blanking output control signal; a second input sub-circuit, configured to receive a second input signal from a second input terminal and output a display output control signal; a selection sub-circuit, having a first terminal connected to the second input sub-circuit, a second terminal connected to the first input sub-circuit, and a third terminal connected to a first node, configured to control a potential of the first node according to the display output control signal and the blanking output control signal; an output sub-circuit, configured to output a composite output signal via an output terminal under control of a first node. |
| US11735082B2 |
Display device and method of driving display device to sense a characteristic value of a driving transistor included in a pixel
A method of driving a display device includes: sensing characteristic information of pixels by outputting sensing voltages to sensing lines; and operating an external compensation of the pixels based on the characteristic information. The sensing of the characteristic information of pixels includes: detecting a capacitance deviation of sensing capacitors of first sensing lines connected to the sensing lines; and sensing the characteristic information of the pixels by replacing at least one of the first sensing lines with a second sensing line based on the capacitance deviation. |
| US11735081B1 |
Intelligent display assembly for CNC machine
An intelligent display assembly includes a display and a microcontroller. The display is mounted to a CNC machine and provided with a light emitting module and a display module opposite to the light emitting module. The microcontroller is electrically connected with the CNC machine and the display, such that the microcontroller receives an operating status signal outputted by the CNC machine, and according to the operating status signal, the microcontroller controls the light emitting module to emit light and controls the display module to display processing information, such as processing time, processing quantity, waiting time, and failure time. This allows operators to grasp the processing information in real time and improve management efficiency. |
| US11735074B2 |
System and method for a retractable reel safety flags on a strap
In a particular illustrative embodiment of the present invention, a retractable safety banner system and method are disclosed having a retractable safety banner, a reel housing and a reel. The reel winds in and contains the wound up safety banner inside of the reel housing. The safety banner is reeled into and out of the reel housing through an organizing guide that is formed in the reel housing. The organizing guide forces the reeled out safety banner's flags and strap into longitudinal alignment on the reel so that the safety banner is restored to its original configuration when wound back into the reel housing after deployment. The safety banner includes but is not limited to longitudinal strap with a plurality of safety flags attached to the strap and so that the flags hang at a substantially perpendicular angle from the strap forming the safety banner when the safety banner is deployed. |
| US11735073B2 |
Method for making micro LED display panel including light emitting units
A micro LED display panel capable of simpler but more precise manufacture by pre-loading micro LEDs onto wafers which are then transferred to a substrate includes the substrate and light-emitting units. Each light-emitting unit includes a wafer unit and at least two micro LEDs on the wafer unit. The display panel includes pixel regions, each pixel region including at least three adjacent sub-pixel regions. Each sub-pixel region has one micro LED therein. Each micro LED of the light-emitting units is located in one sub-pixel region and the micro LEDs in each pixel regions emit light of different colors. |
| US11735072B2 |
Display device
A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a display panel configured to be wound around or unwound from a roller installed in a housing, wherein the housing is configured to provide a receiving space for the display panel, a module cover coupled to a rear of the display panel, wherein the module cover is configured to be wound around or unwound from the roller with the display panel, an extension sheet extending from a lower side of the display panel, wherein the extension sheet is configured to be wound from the roller, and at least one shock-absorbing member positioned next to a lower end of the module cover, wherein the at least one shock-absorbing member is disposed at a rear surface of the extension sheet. |
| US11735070B2 |
In-line production of linerless labels
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method of labeling a plurality of products includes coating a pressure sensitive adhesive to a roll of face stock, the roll of face stock configured to be converted to a plurality of individual labels aligned in a single lane; singulating an individual label from the roll of face stock; and applying the individual label to a product of the plurality of products, wherein the coating, singulating and applying are conducted sequentially in a single continuous operation with a single continuous web of material. |
| US11735067B1 |
In vitro dynamic mouth simulator
An in vitro dynamic mouth model includes an upper jaw that includes a plurality of protuberances simulating human teeth, a lower jaw that is coupled with a rounded silicone pad simulating human tongue, and a mouth wall that encapsulates food sample(s) subjected to in vitro mastication such that the food sample remains within the mouth model. The mouth wall contains at least one hole that allows injection of simulated saliva fluid. As simulated chewing takes place, the injected fluid directly interacts with the food sample. |
| US11735063B2 |
Binary counting device
A device for teaching counting binary numbers (base 2) includes a frame having a plurality grooves with sliders deployed within said grooves. The device bears a plurality of zero indicia, each indicia aligned with one of the grooves. Extending from the slider is a label “1” which overlays the corresponding zero indicia when the slider is moved to a first end of the groove to indicate that its value is operative. Each of the sliders are labelled in binary progression (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, etc.). In use, the device can teach the 0's and 1's representation of a decimal base number by correlating the visible 0's and 1's on the device with the sum of the numbers displayed on the sliders. In addition to decimal numbers, the device may also be used to convert binary numbers into hexadecimal numbers and other base systems, and to convert binary numbers into text. |
| US11735062B2 |
Delivering educational content using connected devices
Approaches presented herein enable delivery of educational content. More specifically, a lesson plan comprising the educational content is received. An inventory of one or more network-connected devices within a pre-determined perimeter is conducted. One or more learning activities are associated with each of the one or more network-connected devices. At least one learning activity of the one or more learning activities is selected based on the lesson plan. A curriculum comprising the lesson plan and the at least one learning activity is delivered to a user. |
| US11735060B2 |
Observation platform for training, monitoring, and mining structured communications
Using an observation platform for training, monitoring, and mining structured communications. A signal is received from a first communication device at a second communication device associated with a computer system, wherein a first characteristic of the signal corresponds to an audible source and a second characteristic of the signal corresponds to information indicative of a geographic position of the first communication device. |
| US11735052B2 |
Method, information processing device, and program
A method executed by an information processing device, the method including: acquiring a first predicted value of a power demand in an area that includes one or more residential facilities; and dispatching a vehicle that moves at least some of the residents of the area from the residential facilities when a predetermined condition relating to the first predicted value is satisfied. |
| US11735047B2 |
Ride-sharing system and ride-sharing method
A management server executes interval adjustment processing to adjust a service frequency of a ride-sharing vehicle group. In the interval adjustment processing, it is judged whether or not a vehicle pair composed of two vehicles in a relationship of a preceding vehicle and a following vehicle includes a stopping vehicle that stops in a pick-up and drop-off point as a following vehicle. Further, it is judged whether or not the vehicle pair corresponds to a separated pair. If it is judged that vehicle pair includes the stopping vehicle as the following vehicle and the said vehicle pair corresponds to the separated pair, selection processing to select an overtaking vehicle is executed. The overtaking vehicle is a ride-sharing vehicle that overtakes with the stopping vehicle to cut into between the separated pair. An overtake instruction is transmitted to the overtaking vehicle selected by the selection processing. |
| US11735045B2 |
Systems and methods for computational resource allocation for autonomous vehicles
Systems and methods are directed to allocating unused or otherwise under-utilized computing resources of autonomous vehicles. In one example, a computer-implemented method obtaining, by a computing system, data describing a computational status of each autonomous vehicle of one or more autonomous vehicles describing a current or forecasted computational load. The method includes determining, by the computing system, an amount of excess computational capacity of each autonomous vehicle of the one or more autonomous vehicles, the amount of excess computational capacity for each autonomous vehicle of the one or more autonomous vehicles based at least in part on the computational status of the autonomous vehicle and a total computational capacity of the autonomous vehicle. The method includes allocating, by the computing system, at least a portion of the amount of excess computational capacity of each autonomous vehicle to processing operations associated with participation in a distributed ledger. |
| US11735043B2 |
Systems and methods for fraud prevention based on video analytics
A video analytics based image verification system for obtaining initial vehicle profiles is presented. The system may include an external processing server that receives a location of a vehicle and proximate traffic information to determine whether it is safe for a user to obtain an initial vehicle profile. The external processing server may further determine first and second profile features from video data indicative of the vehicle. The external processing server may compare the second profile feature to an image verification indicator to generate an image verification score. A provider server may receive the first profile feature and the image verification score from the external processing server, and update a risk evaluation to include the initial vehicle profile if the image verification score is above an image verification threshold. |
| US11735042B1 |
Traffic watch, monitor, and accident prevention device
An apparatus including a warning device fixed to a sign, which is configured to be fixed at a location adjacent a road; and wherein the warning device includes: a computer processor; a computer memory; and an audio speaker; and wherein the computer processor is configured to cause a first audio warning to be played on the audio speaker in response to computer programming stored in the computer memory when there is a dangerous road condition. The dangerous road condition may include that a drawbridge has been raised, that there is an icy condition on a bridge, that a vehicle is about to go the wrong way down a one-way street, a sharp curved road, an area is prone to falling rocks, a dangerous intersection, and/or a speed hump. The apparatus may further include a dashboard apparatus, fixed to a vehicle; configured to communicate with the warning device. |
| US11735038B2 |
Non-blind area real-time monitoring and alarming system for accident on freeway
A non-blind area real-time monitoring and alarming system for an accident on a freeway is provided, which belongs to the field of photoelectric technology and can solve the existing problems in whole journey information monitoring for freeways, such as failure to cover all freeway sections and lack of all-weather and prompt monitoring, and being subject to severe environments such as rain, fog and snow, or conditions such as poor visibility at night. The system includes a distributed sound wave detection fiber-optic cable, a sound wave signal demodulator, a network switch, a workstation, and a monitoring terminal. A fiber-optic sensing network composed of a series of reflection nodes distributed at equal distances is utilized to monitor sound wave signals from traffic accidents efficiently in real time without blind areas, accurately locate a traffic incident by analyzing frequency components, and transmit alarming information in time. |
| US11735034B2 |
System for interaction between an autonomous vehicle and a colour-blind pedestrian or cyclist
A system for implementing an interaction between a semi-autonomous or autonomous motor vehicle and a vulnerable user of a carriageway used by the motor vehicle and potentially crossed by a vulnerable user at a crossing, pedestrians and cyclists being considered to be vulnerable users. The system includes an environment sensor, a computer which processes the data received from the environment sensor, and a display device which is directed to outside of the vehicle and controlled by the computer. The display device being in the form of a horizontal strip occupying a longitudinal end of the vehicle, including an at least four pixels per cm2 matrix panel configured to provide vulnerable users present in the vehicle's environment with a visual indication as to whether or not they may cross the carriageway road surface, and delivers either an indication prompting them to cross or, conversely, an indication forbidding them from crossing. |
| US11735031B2 |
Medical apparatus, method, and storage medium to detect impact
A medical apparatus, method, or storage medium to perform monitoring a sensor of the medical apparatus to obtain a sensor reading, performing impact detection based on the sensor reading, generating an impact profile based on the impact detection, characterizing the impact detection, and responding to the impact detection. |
| US11735029B2 |
Emergency communication system
An emergency communication system, while accurately and reliably detecting a location of an object person, receives contact from the object person and grasps a state of the object person when a matter of emergency has occurred. An object person terminal transmits identification information via short-range wireless communication, acquires location information by a GPS function, and transmits the identification information and the location information to a server. A detection terminal transmits the identification information transmitted from the object person terminal. The server specifies the location of the object person terminal on the basis of the information transmitted from the detection terminal or the identification information and the location information transmitted from the object person terminal. The object person terminal, when the occurrence of a matter of emergency is sensed, records ambient sounds as object person sound information, and transmits the recorded object person sound information to the server. |
| US11735028B2 |
Artificial intelligence applications for computer-aided dispatch systems
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a virtual dispatch assist system in which various types of Intelligent Agents are deployed (e.g., as part of a new CAD system architecture or as add-ons to existing CAD systems) to analyze vast amounts of historic operational data and provide various types of dispatch assist notifications and recommendations that can be used by a dispatcher or by the CAD system itself (e.g., autonomously) to make dispatch decisions. |
| US11735026B1 |
Contextual assessment of current conditions
In some examples, systems, methods, and devices are described that generate contextual suggestions for patients. Generation of the contextual suggestions is triggered by certain events performed by a medical professional with respect to a patient (e.g., updating a patient record). The contextual suggestions are related to addressing health conditions of the patient and represent tasks or considerations which the medical professional should be made aware. The contextual suggestions are generated in a way that is considerate of patient context, medical professional context, and contexts of similar patients. The contextual suggestions can be presented to the medical professional for selection and execution. |
| US11735021B2 |
Building risk analysis system with risk decay
A building management system includes one or more computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive threat events from one or more data sources, each threat event including a description and for each threat event determine whether the description for the threat event corresponds to one of a multiple predefined threat categories, generate a standardized threat object for the threat event using the corresponding predefined threat category, and in response to determining the description does not correspond to one of the predefined threat categories, process the description using a natural language processing engine to identify one of the predefined threat categories to be assigned to the threat event and generate a standardized threat object for the threat event using the predefined threat category identified by the natural language processing engine. |
| US11735020B2 |
Combined heat-smoke detector with a shielding controlled by a thermal bolt containing a thermal element changing its state at a threshold temperature
A smoke detector system includes a shielding structure enclosing a smoke detector, smoke detector circuit board or other contents. The shielding structure seals the contents from smoke, exhaust gasses, dust, chemicals, moisture, insects and other airborne particulates. The shielding structure is maintained sealed by a thermal bolt containing a thermal element which changes its state at a threshold temperature indicative of a developing fire and breaks the sealing of the shielding structure once the predetermined temperature has been reached. A lid of the shielding structure is held in place against a mounting plate by the thermal bolt. When the thermal bolt reaches the threshold temperature, it loses the integrity and allows the lid separation from the mounting plate to automatically open the shielding structure, thus allowing an internally mounted smoke detector or smoke detector circuit board to monitor the presence of smoke. |
| US11735019B2 |
System and method for increased exit interrogation of RFID tags
In an aspect, the present disclosure includes a system for interrogating a person exiting a store. The system comprises one or more pedestals positioned to define an exit portal leading to a point of exit, one or more mmWave sensors, fixedly positioned near the point of exit, configured to receive one or more reflected mmWave beams from a person approaching the point of exit and triggering an interrogation of a security tag; and one or more security tag readers, fixedly positioned with the one or more pedestals, configured to read data from the security tag passing through the exit portal. |
| US11735016B2 |
Test device for verifying operation of an optical fiber monitoring system utilizing direct optical injection
In an optical fiber monitoring system which detects physical disturbance or other parameters such as temperature or strain of a fiber where a monitor signal is transmitted along the optical fiber and analyzed to detect changes which are indicative of an event, a method is provided for periodically checking proper operation of the optical fiber monitoring system. A fiber disturbance actuator periodically causes a pattern of disturbances of a portion of the fiber at a predetermined location thereon where the disturbance is characteristic of the event to be monitored. The monitor signal is analyzed to detect the pattern of changes and in the event that expected changes are not detected, a warning is issued that the intrusion detection system is not properly operating. |
| US11735013B2 |
Money handling apparatus
The present disclosure relates to a money handling apparatus including: a money storage unit configured to store money; a locking unit configured to limit access to the money storage unit; and a control unit configured to give unlock permission to unlock the locking unit to at least one of a plurality of qualified persons who are qualified to unlock the locking unit, and to perform a process involving change of the qualified person. |
| US11735012B2 |
Gaming device having multiple game play option
Embodiments of this concept are directed to gaming devices that are configured to initiate multiple gaming events in response to a player input. The gaming device may include game initiating inputs that initiate a predetermined number of gaming events in response to the player input, or the gaming device may include configurable game initiating inputs that initiate a number of gaming events specified by the player, specified the gaming device, or specified by a gaming server. The gaming device or gaming server may set the number of initiated game events in response to the occurrence of a triggering event. |
| US11735011B2 |
Gaming machine and method for displaying an expanded plurality of active symbols on a mechanical reel
An electronic gaming machine may include a plurality of mechanical reels, each of which may include a plurality of symbols. The electronic gaming machine may also include a processor configured execute instructions stored on a memory. When the processor executes the instructions, the processor may control a first mechanical reel of the plurality of mechanical reels to spin and stop on a first stop position relative to a centerline, such that the first mechanical reel displays a first plurality of active symbols. In addition, the processor may execute the instructions to control a second mechanical reel of the plurality of mechanical reels to spin and stop on a second stop position relative to the centerline. In at least one embodiment, the second stop position may be vertically offset from the first stop position, such that the second mechanical reel displays a second plurality of active symbols greater than the first plurality of active symbols displayed by the first mechanical reel. |
| US11735008B2 |
Gaming system and method providing free plays of a game with increasing quantities of paylines
Gaming systems and methods for providing free plays of a game with increasing quantities of paylines, wherein for each of a plurality of free plays of a game of a free game sequence, any awards for the displayed plurality of symbols for that free play of the game are based on a quantity of paylines associated with the symbol display positions for that free play of the game, wherein the quantity of paylines for that free play of the game is greater than a previous quantity of paylines for a previous free play of the game of the sequence by a determined quantity of additional paylines. |
| US11735006B2 |
Gaming system and method with games of skill determined based on a sporting event
Gaming systems and methods which utilize the results of a sporting event to determine an outcome of a game of skill. |
| US11735002B2 |
Gaming system and method for providing poker games with alternative gaming presentations
Gaming systems that determine a total award based on a play of a card game and a play of a supplemental game and then display the determined total award via an alternative gaming presentation different from the play of the card game and the play of the supplemental game. |
| US11734999B2 |
Secure bet synchronization and betting analytics
Bet synchronization, to provide a user with at least information about bets made by the user at multiple sportsbooks, may be performed by a server. The server may permit the user to register and login and to provide information on sportsbooks with which the user bets. The server may generate a shared session key and provide this to the sportsbooks indirectly, via direct links to the sportsbooks provided to the user. The user may use the links to login to the respective sportsbooks, which may then generate respective unique reference identification keys, which may then be indirectly provided to the server via redirects including the shared session key and the respective unique reference identification keys. The server may then use the shared session key and the respective unique reference identification keys to transmit requests to the respective sportsbooks and to obtain bet information associated with the user. |
| US11734996B2 |
System and methods for downloading production order specific software and firmware to an electronic gaming machine device
A system and method for downloading production order specific software and/or firmware to an electronic gaming machine device is disclosed. |
| US11734994B2 |
Persistent moving symbols for a wagering game
Some implementations may involve providing a slot game in which the game outcome presentation may involve displaying a persistent moving symbol. In some examples, an initial persistent moving symbol position may be based, at least in part, on a first bet level. Determining a game outcome may involve determining whether a persistent moving symbol position is a prize-triggering persistent moving symbol position. If an initial persistent moving symbol position is not a prize-triggering persistent moving symbol position, a persistent moving symbol may be presented in a secondary persistent moving symbol position of a next game outcome. The secondary persistent moving symbol position may be closer to the prize-triggering persistent moving symbol position than the initial persistent moving symbol position. |
| US11734990B2 |
Electronic gaming machine including hybrid virtual and physical button area
An electronic gaming machine is provided. The electronic gaming machine includes a game controller configured to execute at least one wagering game, a credit input device configured to receive a wager, a first display configured to prompt a user to select a wagering game from the at least one wagering game executable by the game controller, and a second display. The second display includes a hybrid display area including a touchscreen input component and a dynamic button deck assembly configured to receive player input during play of a user-selected wagering game. The dynamic button deck assembly includes a button deck display area and a dynamic button deck having at least one mechanical push button including a lens cap. |
| US11734989B2 |
Electronic gaming device with external lighting functionality
Examples disclosed herein relate to a gaming device including a memory, a processor, a display, a plurality of display areas located on the display, and a plurality of external lights located at an outer area of a front surface of the electronic gaming device. The plurality of external lights forming au-shape with a left side, a right side, and a bottom where each of the left side, the right side, and the bottom includes a first light column, a second light column, and a third light column. The gaming device including a processor that initiates a base game via the plurality of display areas located on the display. |
| US11734987B2 |
Vending machine control system, vending machine, and information output method
The vending machine control system S performs authentication processing for authenticating a user on the basis of information on the user who is about to open a door 13 of a vending machine 1, and when the user is authenticated, performs control to unlock the door 13 of the vending machine 1. Then, the vending machine control system S identifies a product picked up from a storing chamber 12 after the door 13 is unlocked, and when a reserved product is included in the identified product, outputs different information depending on whether or not the authenticated user is a reservation person of the reserved product. |
| US11734984B2 |
Electronically actuated coin slider device
An electronically actuated coin slider provides an appearance and operation similar to a conventional coin-activated slider without the use of coins. A card reader activates the coin slider and allows a user to push the slide bar to actuate a game, machine, or device in a manner similar to that of a convention slider. A servo motor engages or disengages latching hooks to prevent or allow operation of the slide bar. |
| US11734980B2 |
Queuing system
A technique for controlling access to one or more attractions is achieved using a number of access keys, each being issued to one or more users. An electronic queue management part manages a virtual queue in respect of each attraction and receives electronic requests for attraction access, each request relating to an access key and being for the users associated with it to access a particular attraction. Receipt of each request causes the respective users to be added to a corresponding virtual queue. A time at which each group of users reaches the front of the virtual queue and can access the attraction is determined. The users access the attractions by presenting an access key to an access control part, in communication with the electronic queue management part. Only a user presenting an access key at the correct time for accessing the attraction is allowed access to the attraction. |
| US11734977B2 |
Machine learning-based platform for user identification
A system and method are disclosed for identifying a user based on the classification of user movement data. An identity verification system receives a sequence of motion data from a mobile device operated by a target user. From the sequences of motion data, the identity verification system identifies a plurality of identity blocks representing different movements performed by the target user and encodes a set of signature sequences from each identity block into a feature vector. Each feature vector is input to a confidence model to output an identity confidence value for an identity block. An identity confidence value describes a confidence that the movement in the identity block was performed by the target user. The identity confidence value is compared to an operational security threshold and if identity confidence value is above the threshold, the target user is granted access to an operational context. |
| US11734975B2 |
Short range radar use in transportation access systems
A transportation system for identifying an object using a short range radar at a transportation gate. The transportation system includes one or more short range radars and a cloud server. The radars detect the object within a predetermined distance from the transportation gate and sense the object to generate a point cloud. An identification of the object is determined based on sensed data of the object using a machine learning algorithm from the cloud server. The identification is determined based on matching the point cloud with a plurality of profiles. The plurality of profiles includes matching information for a plurality of predetermined objects. The object is selected from the plurality of predetermined objects using the matching information. An authorization for the object is determined using another machine learning algorithm. Based on the authorization, either the passage through the transportation gate is authorized or the object is flagged as unauthorized. |
| US11734970B2 |
Device and method for recording image for vehicle
An embodiment device for recording an image for a vehicle includes an image acquisition device configured to acquire an image of a region around the vehicle, a sensor device configured to acquire a bio-signal of a driver, the bio-signal comprising a signal carrying information selected from the group consisting of a heart rate, an electrocardiogram, a galvanic skin response (GSR), a body temperature, a voice, a facial expression, and a stress level and combinations thereof, and a controller configured to determine sections of the acquired image to be stored in a non-volatile memory based on the bio-signal and store images of the sections in the non-volatile memory. |
| US11734966B1 |
Recursive system layer analysis for achieving functional safety
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for achieving functional safety compliance using a recursive system layer analysis. A functional safety system uses a recursive method to sequentially analyze each layer of a target environment from a bottom layer (e.g., IP layer) to a top layer (e.g., system layer). If a target diagnostic coverage level is not achieved at a given layer, the functional safety system attempts to achieve the target diagnostic coverage level at the next layer based on the residual faults from the lower layer. At the top layer, the functional safety system may apply the context of the target environment to reduce the scope of the coverage analysis based on the given application. The functional safety system may also use the context of the target environment to the reanalyze the lower layers as needed. |
| US11734963B2 |
System and method for determining a driver in a telematic application
A system and method for a telematic application on a mobile electronic device that can include detecting, in the telematic application, vehicular travel; collecting, in the telematic application, driver status identification data; determining a driver status based on the driver status identification data; recording the driver status; and recording telematic data based on the driver status. |
| US11734959B2 |
Activating hands-free mode on mirroring device
Systems and methods are provided for performing operations comprising: capturing, by an electronic mirroring device, a video feed received from a camera of the electronic mirroring device, the video feed depicting a user; in response to capturing the video feed, evaluating a set of conditions for activating a hands-free mode of operating the electronic mirroring device; in response to determining that the set of conditions are satisfied, activating the hands-free mode of operating the electronic mirroring device; and performing one or more functions on the electronic mirroring device based on detection of one or more gestures performed by the user in the video feed. |
| US11734958B2 |
Predicting behavior from surveillance data
Technologies and implementations for facilitating behavior prediction based on analysis of surveillance data are generally disclosed. The technologies and implementations include identification of subjects, associating the subjects with behavior, predicting future behavior of the subject, and providing a behavior influencing incentive to the subject. |
| US11734956B2 |
Processing circuit and processing method applied to face recognition system
The present invention provides a processing circuit applied to a face recognition system, which includes a characteristic value calculation module, a determination circuit and a threshold value calculation module. The characteristic value calculation module is used to receive an image and process the image to generate a specific characteristic value; when the face recognition system operates in a face recognition phase, the determination circuit calculates multiple differences each between the specific characteristic value and one of multiple reference characteristic values, and determines whether at least one of the multiple differences is lower than a threshold value to generate a determination result; and when the face recognition system operates in a face registration phase, the threshold value calculation module determines a new threshold value according to differences between the specific characteristic value and the multiple reference values, for updating the threshold value used by the determination circuit. |
| US11734954B2 |
Face recognition method, device and electronic equipment, and computer non-volatile readable storage medium
A face recognition method includes: detecting keypoints when receiving a first face image; acquiring a recognition score of each detectable keypoint and serial numbers of missing keypoints; acquiring a plurality of target keypoints in the plurality of detectable keypoints having a predetermined face feature association relationship with the missing keypoints when the influence score is higher than a predetermined score threshold; acquiring a target face feature template having a degree of position combination with the plurality of target keypoints greater than a predetermined combination degree threshold; and stitching the target face feature template and the plurality of target keypoints on the first face image to obtain a second face image so as to detect all the keypoints according to the second face image for performing the face recognition. |
| US11734952B1 |
Facial image data generation using partial frame data and landmark data
Examples described herein include systems for reconstructing facial image data from partial frame data and landmark data. Systems for generating the partial frame data and landmark data are described. Neural networks may be used to reconstruct the facial image data and/or generate the partial frame data. In this manner, compression of facial image data may be achieved in some examples. |
| US11734948B2 |
Device and method for contactless fingerprint acquisition
A device and a method for contactless fingerprint acquisition is provided. The contactless fingerprint acquisition device includes a housing including a finger scanning area for at least one finger; at least two image capturing devices located in the housing and arranged in a predetermined baseline distance, each image capturing device having an optical axis in a predetermined angle with the vertical direction; and, a lighting unit in the housing for illuminating the at least one finger. The at least two image capturing devices are operable to acquire a plurality of partial fingerprint images of the at least one finger, and the plurality of partial fingerprint images correspond to different portions of the at least one finger. |
| US11734946B2 |
Fingerprint sensing module
A fingerprint sensing module includes a first substrate, an active device, a photosensitive element layer, a collimation structure layer, a second substrate, a plurality of micro lenses, and a spacer pattern. The active device is disposed on the first substrate. The photosensitive element layer is disposed on the first substrate and is electrically connected to the active device. The collimation structure layer is disposed on the photosensitive element layer. The second substrate is disposed on the collimation structure layer. The micro lenses are disposed on a surface of the collimation structure layer facing away from the photosensitive element layer, and overlap the photosensitive element layer. The micro lenses are divided into a plurality of microlens groups, and the microlens groups are respectively located in a plurality of sensing pixel areas of the fingerprint sensing module. The spacer pattern extends between the microlens groups. |
| US11734944B2 |
Display device with embedded biometric detection function in active region
A display device includes an active matrix substrate and a detection circuit. The active matrix substrate has pixels that are configured to display an image. The pixels include display and photo sensing pixels each including a display region and a photo sensing region. The display region is configured to emit light with a predetermined emitting frequency in a blank period of the display device. The photo sensing region is adjacent to the display region, and is configured to detect the light emitted by the display region and reflected from a biometric object and to convert the reflected light into photo detection signals. The detection circuit is coupled to the photo sensing circuit of each of the display and photo sensing pixels, and is configured to construct a biometric pattern corresponding to the biometric object based on the photo detection signals. |
| US11734943B2 |
Electronic device and method for obtaining information associated with fingerprint
An electronic device according to various embodiments may include a display, a touch sensor operatively coupled with the display, and a fingerprint sensor disposed below the display and operatively coupled with the touch sensor. The fingerprint sensor may be configured to obtain at least one image for calibrating a fingerprint image, receive a signal indicating detection of a touch input from the touch sensor while obtaining the at least one image, and cease to obtain the at least one image, based on the reception of the signal. |
| US11734942B2 |
Biometric key including a textured ceramic cover
An electronic device is provided, the electronic device having a keyboard including a biometric input device. The biometric input device may be a biometric key or button. A cap of a biometric key or button may include a textured ceramic cover, such as a textured sapphire cover. The cap may further include a rear decorative coating and a front antireflective coating disposed on or over the textured ceramic cover. The cap may have one or more visual and or tactile properties which resemble those of an adjacent key of the keyboard. |
| US11734939B2 |
Vision-based cell structure recognition using hierarchical neural networks and cell boundaries to structure clustering
Methods, systems, and computer program products for vision-based cell structure recognition using hierarchical neural networks and cell boundaries to structure clustering are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes detecting a style of the given table using at least one style classification model; selecting, based at least in part on the detected style, a cell detection model appropriate for the detected style; detecting cells within the given table using the selected cell detection model; and outputting, to at least one user, information pertaining to the detected cells comprising image coordinates of one or more bounding boxes associated with the detected cells. |
| US11734932B2 |
State and event monitoring
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for state and event monitoring. In some implementations, images captured by a camera are obtained, the images depicting an area of a property. Two or more images of the images are provided to a machine learning model. An output of the machine learning model is obtained, the output corresponding to the two or more images. One or more potential states of the area of the property are determined using the output of the machine learning model, each state of the one or more potential states corresponding to an image in the two or more images. An action is performed based on the one or more potential states. |
| US11734931B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium
An information processing apparatus that provides information about a virtual viewpoint image includes: a generation unit configured to generate scene information including type information and time information, the type information indicating a type of an event occurring in an image-capturing region in which an image is captured by a plurality of cameras, the time information indicating a time when the event has occurred; and a provision unit configured to provide an output destination of material data with the scene information generated by the generation unit, the material data being generated from a plurality of captured images obtained by the plurality of cameras capturing images of the image-capturing region from different directions, the material data being used to generate the virtual viewpoint image depending on a position and an orientation of a virtual viewpoint. |
| US11734929B2 |
Enhanced product visualization technology with web-based augmented reality user interface features
Systems and methods for enhancing computer-generated visualization of items, including enhancing visualization of product images in a web-based augmented reality (AR) user interface, displaying elements that enable users to select AR-enabled images of products (e.g., room décor, furniture, or other products), and transmitting AR-enabled images of the products in a room to one or more distributed computer systems (e.g., in real time). These and other images may be saved or selected in the various platforms, web-based documents, or locally-run applications as AR-enabled images of products to view a set of user-selected AR-enabled images in a single view (e.g., on a web page), and, when in a room, selectively display and interact with an AR-enabled view in the room of the corresponding products from the AR-enabled images list. |
| US11734927B2 |
Mixed reality object detection
In general, embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatuses, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for performing mixed reality processing using at least one of depth-based partitioning of a point cloud capture data object, object-based partitioning of a point cloud capture data object, mapping a partitioned point cloud capture data object to detected objects of a three-dimensional scan data object, performing noise filtering on point cloud capture data objects based at least in part on geometric inferences from three-dimensional scan data objects, and performing geometrically-aware object detection using point cloud capture data objects based at least in part on geometric inferences from three-dimensional scan data objects. |
| US11734926B2 |
Resolving automated assistant requests that are based on image(s) and/or other sensor data
Methods, apparatus, and computer readable media are described related to causing processing of sensor data to be performed in response to determining a request related to an environmental object that is likely captured by the sensor data. Some implementations further relate to determining whether the request is resolvable based on the processing of the sensor data. When it is determined that the request is not resolvable, a prompt is determined and provided as user interface output, where the prompt provides guidance on further input that will enable the request to be resolved. In those implementations, the further input (e.g., additional sensor data and/or the user interface input) received in response to the prompt can then be utilized to resolve the request. |
| US11734925B2 |
Large-scale crop phenology extraction method based on shape model fitting method
Disclosed is a large-scale crop phenology extraction method based on a shape model fitting method. The method comprises: acquiring a multi-year vegetation index time sequence curve in a localized geographic region; performing smooth fitting on the vegetation index time sequence curve by using a dual logistic function fitting means; establishing shape models by using reference curves and reference points of agrometeorological stations; performing shape model fitting by means of transformation; and obtaining a phenological period extraction value of the localized geographic region by means of calculation using the optimal scaling parameter. According to the present invention, macroscopic features of the curve are used, such that the influence of localized fluctuation and noise of the curve can be reduced, and a better extraction precision is obtained; and each phenological period of a crop can be extracted at the same time. |
| US11734923B2 |
Method for automatically identifying global solar photovoltaic (PV) panels based on cloud platform by using remote sensing
A method for automatically identifying global solar photovoltaic (PV) panels based on a cloud platform by using remote sensing. Optical images in a study area for a whole specific year are collected based on the cloud platform, and preprocessing is performed to obtain a surface reflectance image. Seven time-series images are derived and constructed based on spectral features of a solar PV panel: a solar PV panel index image, a water index image, a vegetation index image, a difference image between a first shortwave infrared band and a second shortwave infrared band, a difference image between the first shortwave infrared band and a near-infrared band, a blue band image, and a first shortwave infrared band image. Data in the seven time-series images are synthesized and reconstructed to obtain input data required by a model. A remote sensing theoretical model for automatically identifying a solar PV panel is constructed. |
| US11734919B1 |
Flexible computer architecture for performing digital image analysis
A flexible computer architecture for performing digital image analysis is described herein. In some examples, the computer architecture can include a distributed messaging platform (DMP) for receiving images from cameras and storing the images in a first queue. The computer architecture can also include a first container for receiving the images from the first queue, applying an image analysis model to the images, and transmitting the image analysis result to the DMP for storage in a second queue. Additionally, the computer architecture can include a second container for receiving the image analysis result from the second queue, performing a post-processing operation on the image analysis result, and transmitting the post-processing result to the DMP for storage in a third queue. The computer architecture can further include an output container for receiving the post-processing result from the third queue and generating an alert notification based on the post-processing result. |
| US11734917B2 |
Safety system for autonomous operation of off-road and agricultural vehicles using machine learning for detection and identification of obstacles
A framework for safely operating autonomous machinery, such as vehicles and other heavy equipment, in an in-field or off-road environment, includes detecting, identifying, classifying and tracking objects and/or terrain characteristics from on-board sensors that capture images in front and around the autonomous machinery as it performs agricultural or other activities. The framework generates commands for navigational control of the autonomous machinery in response to perceived objects and terrain impacting safe operation. The framework processes image data and range data in multiple fields of view around the autonomous equipment to discern objects and terrain, and applies artificial intelligence techniques in one or more neural networks to accurately interpret this data for enabling such safe operation. |
| US11734912B2 |
Computer readable recording medium which can be used to perform image quality improvement method and optical navigation method
A computer readable recording medium storing at least one program, wherein an image quality improvement method is performed when the program is executed. The image quality improvement method comprising: (a) classifying data units of a target image to normal data units and abnormal data units based on relations between brightness values of the data units and a classification parameter, wherein the classification parameter is related with an image quality of the target image or the brightness values of the data units; and (b) adjusting the brightness values of the abnormal data units based on an adjusting parameter to generate adjusted brightness values, such that differences between the adjusted brightness values and the brightness values of the normal data units are reduced. An optical navigation method using the image quality improvement method is also disclosed. |
| US11734909B2 |
Machine learning
A system comprises an image sensor with a field of view of an exterior of a vehicle; a human machine interface (HMI) in the vehicle arranged to display images based on data from the image sensor; and a first computer that includes a processor and a memory. The first computer is programmed to provide data from the image sensor to a machine learning program that outputs a bounding box around an object; cause the bounding box around the object to be displayed via the HMI; and transmit object data including an inputted label identifying the object to a second computer that is remote from the vehicle. |
| US11734906B2 |
Automatic transparency of VR avatars
An object is displayed in a three-dimensional virtual reality environment so that a first user can view an avatar of a second user in a non-obstructive form when the avatar of the second user would otherwise obstruct a view of the object from the first user. |
| US11734905B1 |
Systems and methods for lighting subjects for artificial reality scenes
A computer-implemented method for lighting subjects for artificial reality scenes may include (i) identifying (a) a physical camera configured to capture a physical subject for insertion into an artificial reality scene, (b) a physical light source that is positioned such that the physical light source lights the physical subject recorded by the physical camera, and (c) lighting conditions in the artificial reality scene, (ii) determining at least one lighting parameter to light the physical subject such that lighting conditions of the physical subject blend visually with the lighting conditions in the artificial reality scene, and (iii) configuring the physical light source to light the physical subject according to the at least one lighting parameter. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. |
| US11734903B2 |
GUI for editing a CAD model
A CAD model comprises an entity comprising an input face comprising a normal direction. Via user input, a translation for the input face in the normal direction is obtained. From the CAD model, a list of faces parallel to the input face is automatically determined. From the list of faces, a snap face comprising a distance along the normal direction to the current position of the input face which is minimal over the list of faces is automatically selected, without acquiring the snap face via user input. Via a visualization means, a snap plane comprising the snap face, and either a coplanar alignment of the input face in the snap plane; or a distance indicator from the input face to the snap plane, are automatically displayed. Via user input, validation of the coplanar alignment or a numerical value for the distance indicator is obtained. The entity is automatically adjusted accordingly. |
| US11734900B2 |
Systems and methods for real-time object placement in augmented reality experience
Devices, systems, and methods are provided for real-time object placement guidance in augmented reality experience. An example method may include receiving, by a device having a sensor, an indication of an object to be viewed in an physical environment of the device. The example method may also include determining a 3D model of the physical environment using data of the physical environment captured by the sensor. The example method may also include determining that a first surface in the 3D model of the environment is a first floor space, and a second surface in the 3D model of the environment is a first wall space. The example method may also include determining that a portion of the first surface is unoccupied and sized to fit the object. The example method may also include determining a first location in the 3D model of the physical environment for placement of a virtual representation of the object based on a 3D model of the object, wherein the first location corresponds to the portion of the first floor space. The example method may also include generating the virtual representation of the object for display at the first location, the virtual representation of the object having a first orientation, wherein the first orientation is based on a second orientation of the second surface. The example method may also include generating a first real-time view of the physical environment comprising the virtual representation of the object within the portion of the first location and in the first orientation. In some cases, a real-time virtual overlay may also be generated in the physical environment, the real-time virtual overlay indicating a location of a floor space in the physical environment. |
| US11734897B2 |
System and method for dense, large scale scene reconstruction
A system configured to improve the operations associated with generating virtual representations on limited resources of a mobile device. In some cases, the system may utilize viewpoint bundles that include collection of image data with an associated pose in relative physical proximity to each other to render a virtual scene. In other cases, the system may utilize 2.5D manifolds including 2D image data and a weighted depth value to render the 3D environment. |
| US11734892B2 |
Methods for three-dimensional reconstruction of transparent object, computer devices and storage mediums
The present application relates to methods and apparatuses for three-dimensional reconstruction of a transparent object, computer devices, and storage mediums. The method includes acquiring silhouettes and light correspondences of a to-be-reconstructed transparent object under different viewing directions, acquiring an initial rough transparent object model of the to-be-reconstructed transparent object, and filtering out light rays involved in multiple refractions and total reflections by backward ray tracing; acquiring surface normal vectors and Snell normal vectors of the initial rough transparent object model in camera device views, and performing a first optimization on the initial rough transparent object model by constraining consistency between the surface normal vectors and the Snell normal vectors of the initial rough transparent object model in the camera device views, and acquiring a point cloud reconstruction model; acquiring Poisson sample points of the initial rough transparent object model, and updating the point cloud reconstruction model according to the Poisson sample points. |
| US11734885B2 |
Systems and methods for generating synthetic light detection and ranging data via machine learning
The present disclosure provides systems and methods that combine physics-based systems with machine learning to generate synthetic LiDAR data that accurately mimics a real-world LiDAR sensor system. In particular, aspects of the present disclosure combine physics-based rendering with machine-learned models such as deep neural networks to simulate both the geometry and intensity of the LiDAR sensor. As one example, a physics-based ray casting approach can be used on a three-dimensional map of an environment to generate an initial three-dimensional point cloud that mimics LiDAR data. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a machine-learned geometry model can predict one or more adjusted depths for one or more of the points in the initial three-dimensional point cloud, thereby generating an adjusted three-dimensional point cloud which more realistically simulates real-world LiDAR data. |
| US11734879B2 |
Graphics processing using directional representations of lighting at probe positions within a scene
Graphics processing systems can include lighting effects when rendering images. “Light probes” are directional representations of lighting at particular probe positions in the space of a scene which is being rendered. Light probes can be determined iteratively, which can allow them to be determined dynamically, in real-time over a sequence of frames. Once the light probes have been determined for a frame then the lighting at a pixel can be determined based on the lighting at the nearby light probe positions. Pixels can then be shaded based on the lighting determined for the pixel positions. |
| US11734875B2 |
Image representation of a scene
An apparatus comprises a receiver (301) for receiving an image representation of a scene. A determiner (305) determines viewer poses for a viewer with respect to a viewer coordinate system. An aligner (307) aligns a scene coordinate system with the viewer coordinate system by aligning a scene reference position with a viewer reference position in the viewer coordinate system. A renderer (303) renders view images for different viewer poses in response to the image representation and the alignment of the scene coordinate system with the viewer coordinate system. An offset processor (309) determines the viewer reference position in response to an alignment viewer pose where the viewer reference position is dependent on an orientation of the alignment viewer pose and has an offset with respect to a viewer eye position for the alignment viewer pose. The offset includes an offset component in a direction opposite to a view direction of the viewer eye position. |
| US11734868B2 |
Motion retargeting based on differentiable rendering
Provided is a system that receives a three-dimensional (3D) skinned model of a first object and a set of images of a second object. The second object is same as or structurally similar to the first object in appearance. The system executes a differentiable rendering operation to generate a first image which includes a contour of the 3D skinned model. The system further generates a reference image which includes a contour of the second object, based on the received set of images. The system updates first values of bone parameters associated with the 3D skinned model based on a difference between the generated first image and the generated reference image. The system updates the 3D skinned model based on the updated first values of the bone parameters. |
| US11734867B2 |
Detecting physical boundaries
Techniques for alerting a user, who is immersed in a virtual reality environment, to physical obstacles in their physical environment are disclosed. |
| US11734864B2 |
Histogram bin interval approximation
Using approximated bin intervals to label the histograms provides clarity and allows for the histogram to be more intuitively understood. A dataset may comprise a plurality of records having a plurality of features including one or more continuous features. A selection of a continuous feature may be obtained. A bin width based on a number of bins and feature statistics of the continuous feature may be determined. An approximated bin interval range is determined by applying a bin mask based on the bin width to the feature statistics. An approximated bin width is determined based on the number of bins and the approximated bin interval range. Approximated bin intervals for the histogram are determined based on the approximated bin width. A histogram is generated having bins with intervals based the approximated bin intervals. |
| US11734859B2 |
Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, image processing method, and image processing program
A portable terminal includes a display control unit, an extraction unit, and a compositing unit. The display control unit displays a specifying frame for specifying a specified region which is a partial region in a display image displayed on a touch panel display, and a color designation mark for designating a reference color from colors included in an image of the specified region in the specifying frame, in superposition with the display image. The extraction unit extracts an image corresponding to the reference color designated by the color designation mark from the image of the specified region in the specifying frame, as a compositing target image. The compositing unit generates a composite image in which the compositing target image is composited in a selection image selected by a user. |
| US11734854B2 |
System, method and computer program product for determining sizes and/or 3D locations of objects imaged by a single camera
A system, method or computer program product for estimating an absolute 3D location of at least one object x imaged by a single camera, the system including processing circuitry configured for identifying an interaction, at time t, of object x with an object y imaged with said object x by said single camera, typically including logic for determining object y's absolute 3D location at time t, and providing an output indication of object x's absolute location at time t, derived from the 3D location, as known, at time t, of object y. |
| US11734853B1 |
Antenna board alignment method
An antenna board alignment method includes following steps: A microprocessor finds a central positioning point on an antenna board to locate a positioning rectangle. The microprocessor finds four inner positioning points on the positioning rectangle to locate the antenna board. The microprocessor finds a plurality of outer positioning points at a plurality of edge locations on the antenna board to locate at least one edge of the antenna board. |
| US11734851B2 |
Face key point detection method and apparatus, storage medium, and electronic device
A face key point detection method includes determining, according to an image containing a face, a multi-channel feature map of the image; converting the multi-channel feature map into a predetermined channel quantity of target feature maps; performing a convolution operation on each target feature map in the predetermined channel quantity of target feature maps by using a convolution kernel corresponding to each target feature map; generating a feature vector corresponding to the image based on a result of the convolution operation on each target feature map; and determining key point coordinates of the face on the image according to the feature vector. |
| US11734848B2 |
Pseudo lidar
A navigation system for a host vehicle may include a processor programmed to: receive from a center camera onboard the host vehicle a captured center image including a representation of at least a portion of an environment of the host vehicle, receive from a left surround camera onboard the host vehicle a captured left surround image including a representation of at least a portion of the environment of the host vehicle, and receive from a right surround camera onboard the host vehicle a captured right surround image including a representation of at least a portion of the environment of the host vehicle; provide the center image, the left surround image, and the right surround image to an analysis module configured to generate an output relative to the at least one captured center image; and cause a navigational action by the host vehicle based on the generated output. |
| US11734842B2 |
Methods for optimizing the planning and placement of probes in the brain via multimodal 3D analyses of cerebral anatomy
A method includes obtaining a first imaging scan and a second imaging scan of a single subject brain. The first imaging scan is converted to a first dataset, and the second imaging scan is converted to a second dataset. A sequence-adaptive multimodal segmentation algorithm is applied to the first dataset and the second dataset. The sequence-adaptive multimodal segmentation algorithm performs automatic intensity-based tissue classification to generate a first labelled dataset and a second labeled dataset. The first labeled dataset and the second labeled dataset are automatically co-registered to each other to generate a transformation matrix based on the first labeled dataset and the second labeled dataset. The transformation matrix is applied to align the first dataset and the second dataset. |
| US11734837B2 |
Systems and methods for motion estimation
Described herein are neural network-based systems, methods and instrumentalities associated with estimating the motion of an anatomical structure. The motion estimation may be performed using a feature pyramid and/or a motion pyramid that correspond to multiple image scales. The motion estimation may be performed using neural networks and parameters that are learned via a training process involving a student network and a teacher network pre-pretrained with abilities to apply progressive motion compensation. |
| US11734832B1 |
Prediction on top-down scenes based on object motion
Techniques for determining predictions on a top-down representation of an environment based on object movement are discussed herein. Sensors of a first vehicle (such as an autonomous vehicle) may capture sensor data of an environment, which may include object(s) separate from the first vehicle (e.g., a vehicle, a pedestrian, a bicycle). A multi-channel image representing a top-down view of the object(s) and the environment may be generated based in part on the sensor data. Environmental data (object extents, velocities, lane positions, crosswalks, etc.) may also be encoded in the image. Multiple images may be generated representing the environment over time and input into a prediction system configured to output a trajectory template (e.g., general intent for future movement) and a predicted trajectory (e.g., more accurate predicted movement) associated with each object. The prediction system may include a machine learned model configured to output the trajectory template(s) and the predicted trajector(ies). |
| US11734830B2 |
Method of facade plane detection
A computer-implemented method of using augmented reality (AR) to detect a plane and a spatial configuration of an object, the method comprising the steps of detecting one or more edges of the object; identifying one or more lines of the object; filtering the one or more lines of the object; iteratively approximating one or more distributions of the one or more lines; and determining boundaries of the object. |
| US11734829B2 |
Method and device for processing image, and storage medium
A morphing part to be morphed and a morphing effect are acquired. Human body contour point information is acquired by detecting a human contour point of a human sideway image. A morphing region is determined according to the human contour point information and the morphing part. The morphing region is an image region to be morphed in the human sideway image. A human orientation is determined according to the human contour point information. A morphing direction of the morphing region is determined according to the human orientation and the morphing effect. Morphing is performed along the morphing direction in the morphing region. |
| US11734827B2 |
User guided iterative frame and scene segmentation via network overtraining
Systems and methods for user guided iterative frame and scene segmentation are disclosed herein. The systems and methods can rely on overtraining a segmentation network on a frame. A disclosed method includes selecting a frame from a scene and generating a frame segmentation using the frame and a segmentation network. The method also includes displaying the frame and frame segmentation overlain on the frame, receiving a correction input on the frame, and training the segmentation network using the correction input. The method includes overtraining the segmentation network for the scene by iterating the above steps on the same frame or a series of frames from the scene. |
| US11734823B2 |
Digital imaging systems and methods of analyzing pixel data of an image of a user's body for determining a user-specific skin irritation value of the user's skin after removing hair
Digital imaging systems and methods are described for determining a user-specific skin irritation value of a user's skin after removing hair. An example method may be performed by one or more processors and may include aggregating training images comprising pixel data of skin of individuals after removing hair. A skin irritation model may be trained using the training images to output skin irritation values associated with a degree of skin irritation from least to most irritation. The method may include receiving an image of a user including pixel data of the user's skin after hair is removed from the skin, analyzing the image using the skin irritation model to determine a user-specific skin irritation value, generating a user-specific recommendation designed to address a feature identifiable within the pixel data of the user's skin, and rendering the recommendation on a display screen of a user computing device. |
| US11734821B2 |
System and method to automatically count components embedded or coupled with assembly and storage equipment
An automatic parts counter with an x-ray imaging system to image parts disposed in at least one of a component reel, component trays, cut tape; an image processing algorithm to count the image parts; and a docking interface for docking to a storage unit. |
| US11734815B2 |
Method for measuring full-field strain of an ultra-high temperature object based on digital image correlation method
The present disclosure relates to a method for measuring full-field strain of an ultra-high temperature (UHT) object based on a digital image correlation method. The temperature range is from normal temperature to 3500 degrees Celsius. The method includes the steps of selecting a proper high-temperature-resistant speckle material, tantalum carbide powder, according to the characteristics of the object to be measured. First, polishing a to-be-measured surface of a tungsten test piece to remove an oxide layer, then mixing the tantalum carbide (TaC) powder and absolute ethanol to form a paste according to a mass ratio of 1:2. Making randomly distributed speckles from the mixture on the to-be-measured surface of the test piece which has been processed. In order to improve firmness and stability of the newly made speckles, performing curing treatment to the speckles. |
| US11734801B2 |
Distributed depth data processing
Examples are provided that relate to processing depth camera data over a distributed computing system, where phase unwrapping is performed prior to denoising. One example provides a time-of-flight camera comprising a time-of-flight depth image sensor, a logic machine, a communication subsystem, and a storage machine holding instructions executable by the logic machine to process time-of-flight image data acquired by the time-of-flight depth image sensor by, prior to denoising, performing phase unwrapping pixel-wise on the time-of-flight image data to obtain coarse depth image data comprising depth values; and send the coarse depth image data and active brightness image data to a remote computing system via the communication subsystem for denoising. |
| US11734800B2 |
Method and apparatus for restoring an image by using a neural network including multi-scale residual blocks
A method for processing an image by using a neural network is provided. The method includes obtaining a target image; and obtaining a restored image corresponding to the target image by using the neural network, the neural network including a plurality of residual blocks connected sequentially. The obtaining the restored image includes obtaining the restored image by performing, in each residual block of the plurality of residual blocks, image processing on an input image, which is input from a previous residual block, on different scales, and providing results of the image processing performed on the different scales to a subsequent residual block. |
| US11734796B2 |
Methods and apparatus for shared image processing among multiple devices
Methods and apparatus for shared image processing among multiple devices. In one embodiment, an exemplary action camera performs a partial multiband blend. Even though the action camera may not have resources to handle the multiband blend of the entire action camera's footage, it can do a significant portion. The partially blended content can be used in ready-to-share applications, or completely blended by another device. |
| US11734795B2 |
Image processing method and device for panoramic image
A processing device and method for a panoramic image includes converting the panoramic image to a cubemap format; under the cubemap format, calculating a depth information image of the panoramic image, and performing a seamless processing on the depth information image. The format of the depth information image is converted to the original format from the cubemap format to obtain the depth information image corresponding to the panoramic image. |
| US11734789B2 |
Systems and methods for image distortion correction
Systems and methods for correcting image distortion in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a method for correcting distorted images. The method includes steps for receiving a set of term coefficients associated with a lens that captured a set of one or more distorted images, and mapping each of the set of distorted images to a new target image based on the set of term coefficients. |
| US11734786B2 |
Low- and high-fidelity classifiers applied to road-scene images
Disclosures herein teach applying a set of sections spanning a down-sampled version of an image of a road-scene to a low-fidelity classifier to determine a set of candidate sections for depicting one or more objects in a set of classes. The set of candidate sections of the down-sampled version may be mapped to a set of potential sectors in a high-fidelity version of the image. A high-fidelity classifier may be used to vet the set of potential sectors, determining the presence of one or more objects from the set of classes. The low-fidelity classifier may include a first Convolution Neural Network (CNN) trained on a first training set of down-sampled versions of cropped images of objects in the set of classes. Similarly, the high-fidelity classifier may include a second CNN trained on a second training set of high-fidelity versions of cropped images of objects in the set of classes. |
| US11734785B1 |
Systems and methods for secure watermarking of point clouds
Disclosed is a security controller for a content distribution system that generates and encodes point clouds with invisible, visually undetectable, and/or tamperproof watermarks. The controller selects a set of data points from the point cloud, and changes at least one specific bit of a set of bits that define a value for a particular non-positional element of the set of data points. The controller encodes point cloud with a first watermark that is unique to a requesting client based on the changing of the at least one specific bit. The controller distributes the file encoded with the first watermark to the requesting client and tracks the set of data points that were encoded with the first watermark in order to subsequently verify that the requesting client was the original recipient of the point cloud encoded with the first watermark. |
| US11734784B2 |
Metadata watermarking for ‘nested spectating’
A watermark representing a link to an original video and/or metadata such as haptic metadata associated with the original video is embedded in the original video in such a way that a re-recording to the original video can still preserve the watermark. The watermark can be used to link to the original video or to the metadata related thereto. |
| US11734780B2 |
Optimally ranking accommodation listings based on constraints
A system and a method are disclosed for optimally ranking and indexing accommodation listing information based on a set of constraints corresponding to a travel activity goal input on a client device. In an embodiment, an accommodation management system receives a travel activity goal input by a guest user on a client device with a corresponding set of constraints. Based on the constraints, the accommodation management system determines a set of geographic coordinates corresponding to the travel activity, and further identifies the set of candidate accommodation listings with accommodations within a threshold distance from the geographic coordinates. The accommodation management system filters and ranks the candidate accommodation listings based on the constraints, and sends a recommendation to the guest user for display on the client device which includes one or more of the ranked accommodation listings. |
| US11734779B2 |
Methods of allocating energy generated by a community solar energy system
Implementations of the disclosed subject matter may provide a method of retrieving a data record including historic utility bill statements of a customer, determining a historic energy usage rate of the customer based on the retrieved data record, and determining whether the customer is eligible to subscribe to a community solar energy generating system based on geographic location of the community solar energy generating system, the determined historic energy usage rate of the customer, and the customer's geographic location. The method may determine an allocation of energy produced by the community solar energy generating system when the eligible customer is enrolled in a subscription to the community solar energy generating system. The method may generate a customer data record for the user based on credits for the allocation of energy of the community solar energy generating system and receiving energy from another energy generating system. |
| US11734778B2 |
System and method for providing OEM control to maximize profits
A system and method for providing original equipment manufacturer (OEM) control to maximize profits that include determining at least one demand based charging schedule. The system and method also include processing an OEM charging policy option to schedule charging of the at least one electric vehicle at a low carbon footprint timeframe. The system and method additionally include modifying the at least one demand based charging schedule into a policy based charging schedule based on an acceptance of the OEM charging policy option by the at least one third party environmental entity. The system and method further include facilitating payment of a carbon credit payment from the at least one third party environmental entity to the OEM. |
| US11734775B2 |
Digital image analyzing system involving client-server interaction
Techniques for scanning physical media on physical items and providing information about those physical items are provided. In one technique, based on a printed medium of a physical item, a mobile device generates digital scan data that reflects multiple individual items that are referenced on the printed medium. The mobile device sends, over a computer network, to a remote server, the digital scan data or data that identifies individual items. The remote server determines a toxicity metric for each individual item. The remote server generates, based solely on each toxicity metric, a safeness rating of the physical item. Rating data is generated based on the safeness rating and presented on a screen of the mobile device in association with data that identifies the physical item. |
| US11734771B2 |
System and method for detecting and mapping data fields for forms in a financial management system
Systems and methods for generating a custom document template are disclosed. An example method may be performed by one or more processors of a system and include retrieving a user document including a user data entry in a user data field, identifying a set of system data fields within a plurality of system documents potentially relevant to the user document, determining, for each of the set of system data fields, a weighted value indicative of a likelihood that the system data field is relevant to the user data field, identifying a most relevant system data field of the set of system data fields, the most relevant system data field having a highest weighted value of the determined weighted values, and generating a custom document template including a dynamic data region for the user data entry, the dynamic data region mapped to the most relevant system data field. |
| US11734770B2 |
Using a distributed ledger to determine fault in subrogation
Systems and methods are disclosed with respect to using a blockchain for managing the subrogation claim process related to a vehicle accident, in particular, determining fault as part of the subrogation process. An exemplary embodiment may include receiving an electronic notification of a vehicle collision; receiving sensor data (such as telematics, image, audio, vehicle operational, or other sensor data) related to the vehicle collision; determining a percentage of fault of the vehicle collision for one or more vehicles, vehicle systems, and/or drivers based upon, at least in part, analysis of the sensor data collected; and creating a blockchain for the vehicle collision with one or more links to the sensor image data and an indication of the percentage of fault(s) determined to facilitate blockchain-based claim handling. |
| US11734769B2 |
System tand method using third-party data to provide risk relationship adjustment recommendation based on upcoming life event
A system to provide a risk relationship life event analytical modeling platform via a back-end application computer server of an enterprise. The system may include a risk relationship data store that contains electronic records representing potential risk relationships between the enterprise and a plurality of entities. Each record may include an electronic record identifier, at least one third-party indication associated with an upcoming life event, and a communication address. The server may determine a selected potential risk relationship and retrieve, from the risk relationship data store, the electronic record associated with the selected potential risk relationship. An analytical model may be executed based on the upcoming life event to generate a proactive notification including information based on the upcoming life event and data in the electronic record. The server may then automatically transmit information about the proactive notification to the communication address. |
| US11734766B1 |
Telematics devices and ridesharing
A system is engineered to facilitate calculation of predicted perils connected with a ridesharing vehicle. The system facilitates premium endorsement that provides higher coverage than is provided under conventional products and allows drivers to work directly with their personal lines insurer in reviewing their coverage and filing a claim in the event of an accident. The subject matter facilitates higher limits while including a post-policy period audit that allows a reconciliation of high-use or high-risk driving with appropriate retroactive rate adjustments. The system also facilitates retroactive rate adjustments that would compare a policyholder’s time/distance driven or collected telematics data (including time or distance driven in each driving period) to the group average or other historical underwriting data. |
| US11734761B2 |
System and method for delaying an executable instruction that would otherwise be executable immediately upon arrival at an executing system
A system and method are provided for intentionally delaying an execution of an executable instruction by determining if a current executable instruction is received from a predefined source for which all executable instructions are to be intentionally delayed. When so, the system sets a sequence time associated with the instruction equal to a receipt time plus a delay time. The system saves the instruction in an intentional delay queue for future execution. When the current executable instruction is received from a source that is not the predefined source, the system determines if a condition for immediate processing of the current executable instruction is present. When so, the system executes the instruction immediately. Otherwise, it performs an intentional delay determination that determines whether the current executable instruction has been intentionally delayed. When the current executable instruction has been intentionally delayed, the system executes the instruction immediately. |
| US11734758B2 |
Trade authorization blockchain-based export and valuation system
A system applying semantics from and applying analytics to an uploaded prior approval document to identify legal language terms affecting export approval, associating these terms with synonyms and thesaurus based comparisons and generating a control language common to prior approval agreements, thus increasing a population of trade authorizations in a blockchain and thereby enhancing an automated trade control term ontology repository. In response to a transaction of a digital asset, inter-attribute relationships are applied to evolve valuation blockchain entries for similar digital assets. |
| US11734757B2 |
Computer implemented method and system for automating analysis of profit and loss (PnL) variations based on market events
A computer implemented method, a system and a non-transitory storage medium are provided, for automatically recreating and displaying the chronology of market events that led to a variation in a profit and loss (PnL) account of an entity implementing a trading strategy. The chronology of market events is represented in a graphical user interface. The trading strategy is run by a plurality of processing devices which are remotely located from one another. A computer implemented method for automatically identifying chains of market events is also provided, where the market events have led to unusual variations in a profit and loss (PnL) account of a group of securities traded by an entity. |
| US11734755B2 |
Dynamically determining real-time offers
Disclosed are systems and techniques for dynamically providing real-time offers. For instance, user eligibility for one or more offers can be determined based on a plurality of dynamic user attributes associated with the user and one or more data sets corresponding to similarly situated users. An input can be received corresponding to an acceptance by the user of at least one offer selected from the one or more offers. In response to receiving the input, an updated plurality of the dynamic user attributes can be retrieved, wherein the dynamic user attributes are constantly updated in real time based on user activity. Based on the updated plurality of dynamic user attributes and the one or more data sets corresponding to the similarly situated user, it can be determined whether the user remains eligible for the at least one offer. An offer confirmation can be sent upon confirming eligibility. |
| US11734754B1 |
Intelligent loan recommendation agent
An artificially intelligent loan recommendation agent and a method of making loan recommendations are disclosed. The artificially intelligent loan recommendation agent can classify applicants into traditional and non-traditional categories. Based on this categorization, the agent may use different information to make loan recommendations for the applicant. For non-traditional applicants, applicant rating information can be used, including ratings of an applicant’s professional skills obtained from consumer review sites. The agent can also conduct virtual interviews and analyze body language and speech to determine if an applicant may be lying. |
| US11734752B2 |
System and method for a loan trading exchange
A computer implemented method for a seller to receive counter offers for the purchase of loan products being sold by the seller to selected buyers using a software application accessible via a graphical user interface presented in a display. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving, with the software application, a plurality of bids offered by prospective buyers via the software application for loans previously made to borrowers and offered for sale to the prospective buyers by the seller via the software application. The method also includes presenting, with the software application, information in the graphical user interface to uniquely identify each of the loans, each of the prospective buyers and each bid offered by the prospective buyers, and further, where multiple bids are received for a single loan included in the loans made available for sale, presenting with the software application, a graphical display element configured for a selection by the seller. In response to the selection of the graphical display element by the seller, a notification to a buyer selected from among the prospective buyers is communicated via the software application, the notification requesting a counter offer. |
| US11734750B2 |
Systems, media, and methods for staggered medical transactions
Systems, media and methods for staggered medical transactions are provided. A method includes displaying a plurality of products on a display client. The method may further include receiving, at the display client, input from a user selecting a product. The method may also further include prompting the user via the display client to continue on another device. The method may additionally include outputting, via the display client, an identifier associated with the product and the user. The method may also additionally include receiving the identifier at a user device after the user has been authenticated at the user device. The method may still further include receiving confirmation input at the user device from the user confirming selection of the product. The method may also still further include outputting, from the user device, the confirmation data based upon the confirmation input. |
| US11734749B2 |
Online shopping system and method for selecting a warehouse for inventory based on predicted availability and predicted replacement machine learning models
An online concierge system allows users to order items from a warehouse having multiple physical locations, allowing a user to order items at any given warehouse location. To select a warehouse location for a warehouse selected by a user, the online concierge system identifies a set of items that the user has a threshold likelihood of purchasing from prior orders by the user. For each of a set of warehouse locations, the online concierge system applies a machine-learned item availability model to each item of the identified set. From the availabilities of items of the set at each warehouse location of the set, the online concierge system selects a warehouse location. The online concierge system identifies an inventory of items from the selected warehouse location to the user for inclusion in an order. |
| US11734747B2 |
Contextual set selection
An initial list of candidate items automatically evaluated and chosen for an end-user is provided. A selection of one or more items in the initial list of candidate items is received from an expert user different than the end-user to include in an item group set for the end-user. Eligible items are evaluated to identify an additional item to include in the item group set based at least in part on an expert judgement prediction machine learning model trained to predict based at least in part on the one or more items already in the item group set a likelihood of a certain item being evaluated would be selected for inclusion in the item group set. Based on the evaluation, the additional item is included in the item group set. Member items in the item group set are indicated. |
| US11734743B2 |
System and methods for personalization and enhancement of a marketplace
A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for enhancing and personalizing an interactive marketplace. The systems and methods provided herein may allow a user to receive search results that are tailored to the user's personal preferences based on social and purchasing information known about the user. In addition, the systems and methods provided herein may provide shipping updates to a buyer that include a personalized message based on location information provided by the package being shipped. In addition, the systems and methods provided herein allow merchants to provide incentives and rewards for shoppers by participating in interactive shopping games. |
| US11734740B2 |
Garment size mapping
Techniques for mapping size information associated with a client to target brands, garments, sizes, shapes, and styles for which there is no standardized correlation. The size information associated with a client may be generated by modeling client garments, accessing computer aided drawing (CAD) files associated with client garments, or by analyzing a history of garment purchases associated with the client. Information for target garments may be generated in a similar fashion. A system may then create a standardized scale with a set of sizes for a target, and map a client base size to that standardized size scale. Similar matching and mapping may also be done with shape and style considerations. A recommendation based on the mapping may then be communicated to the client. |
| US11734738B2 |
Method, device, and medium for utilizing machine learning and transaction data to match boycotts of merchants to customers
A device receives third-party boycott data associated with a merchant, and receives customer preference data associated with a customer of the merchant. The device processes the third-party boycott data and the customer preference data, with a machine learning model, to identify a boycott of the merchant that is predicted to be of interest to the customer. The device provides, to a user device of the customer, information identifying the boycott of the merchant and information that solicits the customer to indicate whether the customer desires to join the boycott, and receives, from the user device, information indicating that the customer desires to join the boycott. The device causes a transaction account associated with the customer to be restricted from a transaction with the merchant when the information indicates that the customer desires to join the boycott. |
| US11734737B2 |
Systems and methods for the sale of age-restricted merchandise
There are provided systems and methods for the purchase of age-restricted merchandise without requiring the transmission of biometric information. In one form, the system includes: age-restricted merchandise items offered for sale to customers, a server that receives orders from customer devices, and a customer database containing a plurality of customer records. The system further includes: a control circuit that queries a customer whether the customer opts in to the use of local biometric authentication to enable the purchase of age-restricted merchandise items; receives customer identification proof documentation; associates a unique identifier corresponding to the customer device; stores the customer's opt in agreement, the customer's identification proof documentation, and the unique identifier associated with the customer device; receives an order for the purchase of an age-restricted merchandise item and the unique identifier; confirms local biometric authentication; verifies the customer's identity and age; and authorizes completion of the purchase transaction. |
| US11734730B2 |
Mobile device streaming media application
A system and process for coordinating streaming content or messages is provided. A network-connected server maintains a database containing media content-related data, such as the text of a message, accompanying media, time of airing, payment and related comments. A user can view these feeds or streams of these consciousness messages by downloading a mobile application or browsing to a website. The application can also be used to create, schedule and pay for a media content message. |
| US11734729B2 |
Systems and methods for annotating online content with offline interaction data
A computer-implemented method for annotating online content with offline interaction data and offline interaction conversion data is implemented by a content annotating computing device in communication with a memory. The method includes receiving a set of content interaction data based on an online interaction between an online user and a first online content item, identifying at least one physical location associated with the online content provider, determining a set of offline interaction conversion data based on the set of content interaction data and a set of offline interaction data, receiving a second online content item associated with the online content provider, and annotating the second online content item based at least partially on the set of offline interaction conversion data and the set of offline interaction data. |
| US11734726B2 |
Using embedded elements for online content verification
A computerized method of content verification comprising using a server for receiving a first data from a host monitoring code embedded in a webpage or an application loaded from a content server and executed by a client device, the host monitoring code is executed by the client device during an execution of the webpage or the application which further embeds nesting element(s) for loading nested content from nested content server(s), the first data is indicative of the execution, receiving a second data indicative of the execution from a guest monitoring code embedded in the nested content, combining the first data and second data for compliance verification of the execution with one or more rules associated with the nested content and initiating action(s) according to the verification. Wherein the first data is not available to the guest monitoring code and the second data is not available to the host monitoring code. |
| US11734724B1 |
System and method for linking qualified audiences with relevant media advertising through ip media zones
The system links Internet web page context with audience usage and location data to support advertising efficiency and effectiveness. An ontology of categories is created where domains and website pages are classified and scored against the links on those pages and the meta-tag key word pools that are harvested from those web pages. An ontology of high level categories are derived from the frequency of the key words appearing within the domain URL addresses of the pages, the domain of the links on those pages or within the content of the pages themselves. A method includes building a training set of web pages from a plurality of ad networks and sites where the system captures impressions in the form of real-time bids as well as click through events that include the IP address, the domain, the time of day and day of week, ad size and position, browser type, and bid amount whereby the training set is aggregated in a database whereby successful bids can be used in combination with audience and category attributes to model and score impression bids that combine the optimal mix of audience attributes, location, categorical affinity and bid price. |
| US11734723B1 |
System for providing context-sensitive display overlays to a mobile device via a network
A system for providing context sensitive display overlays to a mobile device via a network comprising an overlay datastore, a processor, coupled to the datastore and programmed to receive a request from a mobile device via the network for a list of overlays, determine user context information, search the datastore for overlays matching the user context and provide the list of overlays to the mobile device via the network. |
| US11734721B2 |
Advertisement contact determination system, advertisement contact determination device, and program
The present disclosure optimally determines a contact between a user and an advertisement. An advertisement contact determination system according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a communication unit configured to obtain position information of a device, and a control unit configured to determine that a user of the device has come into contact with an Out Of Home (OOH) advertisement if the OOH advertisement is included in a certain range in a traveling direction of the user based on the position information of the device. The communication unit obtains a log of a certain apparatus, and the control unit determines whether the device exists in vicinity of the certain apparatus in a certain period of time or not and, if the device exists, associates the log of the certain apparatus in the certain period of time with the device. |
| US11734710B2 |
Methods and apparatus to identify a type of media presented by a media player
Methods and apparatus to identify a type of media presented by a media player are disclosed herein. Example instructions cause one or more processors to at least determine whether a user attempted to activate a user-selectable media application control presented in a user interface while a media player application presented media; determine whether the user-selectable media application control presented in the user interface was activated; and determine at least one of the media is an advertisement or the media includes an advertisement when (a) the user attempted to activate the user-selectable media application control and (b) the user-selectable media application control presented in the user interface was not activated. |
| US11734707B2 |
Reward manager
Disclosed is a rewards manager admin module to create, update and delete a campaign; a server-side application module responding to requests from the rewards manager admin module and to provide rewards; a server-side server containing data for the server-side application module to provide the rewards; and a bank core containing raw data of a consumer. The consumer is able to view the amount and type of rewards by viewing their account. |
| US11734702B2 |
Enhanced survey information synthesis
Enhanced survey information synthesis can include performing a respondent assessment of a survey respondent based on respondent data obtained electronically from one or more electronic data sources. Survey responses provided by the survey respondent can be adjusted, the adjusting based on the respondent assessment. A revised survey can be generated, the revised survey comprising the survey responses adjusted based on the respondent assessment. |
| US11734701B2 |
Cognitive dynamic goal survey
An approach is provided that transmit a first set survey questions to a user with each of the first set questions corresponding to a primary survey goal. Survey answers are then received from the user. A cognitive system is then used to determining an affinity level between the user and the primary survey goal. If the affinity level reaches a threshold, then a second set of questions is transmitted to the user with these questions also corresponding to the primary survey goal. However, if the first affinity level fails to reach the threshold, then the second set of questions are based on a secondary survey goal and these questions are transmitted to the user. |
| US11734693B2 |
Technologies for preprocessing transaction authorization records
Technologies for preprocessing transaction authorization records for clearing data batch file generation include a settlement processing server. The settlement processing server receives transaction authorization records corresponding to authorized transactions. The transaction authorization records are appended to an initial authorization stream. The initial authorization stream is closed and the transaction authorization records appended thereto are split into substreams. The settlement processing server preprocesses the transaction authorization records in each of the substreams. While the transaction authorization records appended to the substreams are preprocessed, the settlement processing server initializes another authorization stream and appends newly received transaction authorization records thereto. A clearing data batch file is generated based at least in part on the transaction authorization records appended to each of the substreams. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US11734692B2 |
Data breach detection
A merchant data breach process comprises processing daily payment transaction data with a risk and compliance platform to obtain a fraud score for each constituent transaction. Constituent transactions with high risk fraud scores are sorted into a table according to the transaction date, cardholder, and merchant. The table data is scored according to suspected card visits, highly probable visits, and all card visits. The scores are normalized according to merchant size grouping through the use of multipliers. The normalized scores are summed together day-by-day into a final score. A timely warning of an underlying and expanding security rupture caused by a merchant data breach is issued for damage control and law enforcement. |
| US11734689B2 |
Methods for improving identification threat protection and devices thereof
Various methods, apparatuses, and media for approving a first transaction related to identification information of an individual are provided. A second transaction to provide approval of the first transaction is received after the first transaction is authenticated. Secondary identification information of the individual is obtained in response to the second transaction being received, and an electronic device is identified based on the secondary identification information. A predetermined process for approving the first transaction is determined. Communication is initiated with the electronic device according to the predetermined process. The approval is provided in response to the predetermined process being completed, with the approval approving execution of the first transaction related to the identification information. |
| US11734687B2 |
System and method for simplified checkout
In various embodiments, a system and method for providing simplified checkout are provided. In example embodiments, an identifier that corresponds to a payment account of a user is received at a payment provider system. Account information from the payment account of the user is retrieved from a payment data storage of the payment provider system. The account information is used in a payment transaction involving a merchant system. A payment interface having transaction fields populated with the account information retrieved from the payment account of the user is presented to the user while the user maintains a presence on a webpage of a merchant system. |
| US11734682B2 |
Systems and methods for creating multiple records based on an ordered smart contract
A method for creating a smart contract detailing an ordered set of events is disclosed. A smart contract can include information about multiple events and responses for each event. The events and response can be arranged in a predefined order. The responses can include adding new records to a blockchain. |
| US11734681B2 |
Secure management of data files using a blockchain
Technologies are shown for secure management of a data file secured on a data file management blockchain that involve generating a genesis block for a data file management blockchain that contains a data file to be managed and signing the genesis block to commit the genesis block to the data file management blockchain. One or more transaction data blocks are generated for the data file management blockchain that each include a modification to the data file and the blocks are signed to commit them to the blockchain. In some examples, the modifications describe changes to the data file and the transaction data blocks are traced to the genesis block and a current data file generated by applying the modifications on the transaction data blocks to the data file in a sequence determined by an order of the one or more transaction data blocks in the data file management blockchain. |
| US11734680B2 |
Methods and systems for determining an optimal interbank network for routing real-time payment transactions
Embodiments provide methods and systems for determining optimal interbank network for routing payment transactions. Method performed by server system includes accessing historical transaction data of acquirer from acquirer database, determining payment transaction types corresponding to future payment transactions processing via acquirer for particular period of time based on historical transaction data, predicting fixed interchange cost for each payment transaction type incurring to acquirer for routing future payment transactions through interbank network of interbank networks based on interchange prediction model, performing linear optimization utilizing set of metrics, to make decision whether to apply merchant-specific discount to particular payment transaction type, or not, and routing real-time payment transactions through optimal interbank networks with lowest total transaction cost. Set of metrics includes total transaction cost for each payment transaction type, discount factor of interbank network, and number of future payment transactions routing through interbank network. Optimal interbank network is determined using linear optimization. |
| US11734678B2 |
Document importation into secure element
Techniques are disclosed relating to authenticate a user with a mobile device. In one embodiment, a computing device includes a short-range radio and a secure element. The computing device reads, via the short-range radio, a portion of credential information stored in a circuit embedded in an identification document issued by an authority to a user for establishing an identity of the user. The computing device issues, to the authority, a request to store the credential information, the request specifying the portion of the credential information. In response to an approval of the request, the computing device stores the credential information in the secure element, the credential information being usable to establish the identity of the user. In some embodiments, the identification document is a passport that includes a radio-frequency identification (RFID) circuit storing the credential information, and the request specifies a passport number read from the RFID circuit. |
| US11734672B2 |
Generating a sensory indication
A system and method is provided for generating a sensory indication on a transaction card, whereby a user is rewarded with a visual, audial, haptic, or olfactory experience. The method comprises executing a purchase transaction on the card, the transaction relating to an event, charging a power source on the card, receiving an input signal by the card, the signal indicating an output indication relevant to the event, and generating an output signal using power from the power source, based on the input signal. The card comprises a security component enabling a purchase relating to an event, a power source receiving charging energy at the time of the purchase, an input component receiving an input signal comprising information specifying a desired indication relevant to the event, an output component for generating the desired indication, one or more memories storing instructions and one or more processors executing the instructions to perform the method. |
| US11734664B2 |
Remote self-checkout
Methods and systems for remote self-checkout are described. One method includes presenting a code at a self-checkout point-of-sale device that may be captured by a user (e.g., a store customer or a store employee) mobile device. The code may enable the mobile device to request a connection with the self-checkout point-of-sale device that allows for user interactions associated with a self-checkout session to be performed at the self-checkout point-of-sale device or at the mobile device. The self-checkout session includes adding items to be purchased into a cart instance and receiving payment for items in the cart instance. User interactions associated with weighed items may be performed on the mobile device in a manner integrated with a scale/scanner portion of the self-checkout point-of-sale device to avoid user contact with a touchpoint of the self-checkout point-of-sale device. Accordingly, contact with a self-checkout point-of-sale device by all users may be reduced. |
| US11734661B2 |
Content distribution management system and method using blockchain technology
The present invention relates to a content distribution management technology using blockchain technology. The content distribution management system using blockchain technology, according to one embodiment, may comprise: a purchase transaction generation unit for generating a purchase transaction in response to a content purchase request signal from a user terminal; a broadcasting processing unit for broadcasting the generated purchase transaction; a transaction processing unit for collecting a use transaction if, after the broadcast purchase transaction is verified, the content corresponding to the verified purchase transaction is used on the user terminal; a transaction verification unit for verifying the collected use transaction; a block generation unit for generating a first block and a second block corresponding to the verified use transaction; and a distributed ledger management unit for separately recording the generated first and second blocks in respective distributed ledgers. |
| US11734658B2 |
Transactions between services in a multi-tenant architecture
A method for facilitating transactions by tenants in a multi-tenant architecture system is discussed. The method includes generating, with a multi-tenant computer system, a first representation of an entity in a first hierarchical data structure associated with an entity interface tenant of the multi-tenant computer system. The method includes receiving, with the multi-tenant computer system, a set of entity-specific policies useable to generate requests to individual ones of a plurality of transaction processing computer systems. The method includes generating, with the multi-tenant computer system, a second representation of the entity in a second hierarchical data structure associated with a particular transaction processing service tenant of a plurality of transaction processing service tenants of the multi-tenant computer system. The method includes linking, with the multi-tenant computer system, the first representation and the second representation in a unified hierarchical data structure useable to provide a unified identity for the entity for requests. |
| US11734655B2 |
Method and system for a failsafe mechanism for blockchain wallets
A method for propagating survival of cryptographic currency after inactivity over a predetermined period of time in a blockchain through the use of smart contracts includes: receiving a propagation request that includes unspent transaction output addresses, a digital signature, and a recipient address; generating a smart contract that is configured to self-execute after a predetermined period of time to initiate transfer of cryptographic currency from the output addresses to the recipient address; submitting the smart contract to a node in a blockchain network for addition to the blockchain; monitoring for new blockchain transactions involving any of the unspent transaction output addresses; generating a new smart contract to update the unspent transaction output addresses based on new blockchain transactions; and submitting the new smart contract to a node in a blockchain network after updating. |
| US11734652B2 |
Devices for vehicle message management
A vehicle message managing method includes: providing an operation message of a tire through a tire sensor; receiving the operation message through the tire sensor setting tool, or receiving at least one outer message through the tire sensor setting tool; transmitting at least one of the operation message and the outer message to a remote server; storing and analyzing at least one of the operation message and the outer message and generating an analyzing result. |
| US11734650B2 |
System and method for transferring data
An efficient and secure process by which users may enter sensitive information into an electronic information system. When information is required from a user, the electronic information system may be configured to generate a unique access link (uniform resource locator, or URL) for that user. The link may be sent to the user via electronic communication, such as a text message or email. When the user follows the link with a web browser, the system prompts the user to enter an additional piece of personal information that is not known to the general public. Once identity is verified, the user may be required to electronically sign agreements. The user is then prompted to enter the required information. This may allow a user to deposit sensitive information into the system without requiring the user to provide full login credentials. |
| US11734648B2 |
Systems and methods relating to emotion-based action recommendations
A system and method are presented relating to emotion-based action recommendations. The present invention may include a recommender engine that analyzes several pieces of information and using artificial intelligence derived models, provides a course of action for a contact center agent and the probability and estimations behind the recommendation as a justification. System inputs include cost of the item or service being troubleshooted, estimated costs for different resolutions, cost of each escalation level of the interaction, history of previous interactions, agent costs, history of the current interaction, acoustic events and sentiment or primary detected emotions of the customer's transcript. The recommended course of action, rationale, and authorization can be provided as output. The system may record whether the agent followed the recommendation to improve further recommendations. |
| US11734647B2 |
Upstream visibility in supply-chain
An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a retailer node, an encrypted inventory of goods data from a plurality of supplier nodes over a blockchain network, computing, by the retailer node, an ordering proportion based on the encrypted inventory of goods data, generating, by the retailer node, an ordering policy based on the ordering proportion, and executing a smart contract to order goods from the plurality of the supplier nodes based on the ordering policy. |
| US11734646B2 |
Partitioning and coalescing operation of robots for coordinated autonomous execution
Robots and/or a robot coordinator are provided to execute an overall task by partitioning the task into subtasks and by coalescing results and/or output of the subtasks. The robot coordinator may coordinate, control, and/or program a set of robots to operate within different sections of a site and to execute subtasks associated with different tasks that fall within their respective sections in parallel. The robot coordinator may coordinate, control, and/or program the same or different set of robots to coalesce results and/or output for subtasks for a particular task from the different sections to complete the overall task. For instance, a first set of robots may retrieve objects that are stored at storage locations within the sections in which each robot operates, and a second set of robots may rotate moveable storage apparatus across the sections so that each storage apparatus stores all objects of a particular order. |
| US11734642B2 |
Systems and methods for automatically invoking a delivery request for an in-progress order
Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform: receiving a request from a user; determining, using a regression analysis, an estimated order collection time for a collection of the one or more items of the order list by at least one collector; continuously monitoring a respective location of each respective delivery driver; continuously determining a respective estimated order pickup time for each respective delivery driver; and instructing the first delivery driver of the one or more delivery drivers to pick up the one or more items and deliver the one or more items to the delivery address. Other embodiments are disclosed herein. |
| US11734641B2 |
Data collection system and interface
Systems for data measurement and collection are provided. A data collection system may comprise a database configured to store data about objects to be tracked, and optical codes corresponding to specific database entries may be generated, printed, and provided in physical proximity to the object to be tracked. When a user scans the optical code with a mobile electronic device, the mobile electronic device may automatically upload geographic information to the database and may prompt the user to enter measurement information to additionally be uploaded to the database. Sets of optical codes may be configured to collect user-specified types of data, and the optical codes may be provided in printable sheets; virtual visual representations of the sheets may be displayed on an electronic interface, and the virtual visual representations may indicate which of the codes have or have not been registered with the system. |
| US11734636B2 |
System and method for assessing, measuring, managing, and/or optimizing cyber risk
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for a computer device capable of assessing, measuring, managing, and optimizing cyber risk. For example, certain embodiments described herein may guide risk assessment for individual organizations and for integrated elements of critical infrastructure. Certain embodiments may provide features that make it possible for policy makers and organizational leaders to assess a range of risks introduced by threat actors: a standardized system for classifying cyber threats and events by their effects, tools to associate organizational functions with information technology (IT) network maps or topologies, operations to assess the severity of disruptive and exploitative cyber events, and operations to understand the integrated nature of risk across different parts of a simple organization, across major divisions in a complex organization, or to display the interconnectedness of organizations in a complex system. |
| US11734635B2 |
Deploying and implementing enterprise policies that control augmented reality computing functions
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for deploying and implementing enterprise policies that control augmented reality computing functions are presented. A computing device may receive policy information defining policies that, when implemented, control capture of augmented renderings. After receiving the policy information, the computing device may intercept a request to capture at least one view having at least one augmented reality element. In response to intercepting the request, the computing device may determine whether the policies allow capture of views comprising augmented reality elements. Based on determining that the policies allow capture, the computing device may store view information associated with the at least one view having the at least one augmented reality element. Based on determining that the policies do not allow capture, the computing device may prevent the at least one view having the at least one augmented reality element from being captured. |
| US11734632B2 |
Systems and methods for investigating and evaluating financial crime and sanctions-related risks
A research, analysis, regulatory compliance and media platform that connects customers to finished research and analysis produced by subject matter experts is described. The platform facilitates research, investigations, and analysis by creating a single environment in which a group of distributed analysts conduct research and investigations, store and retrieve documents and other sources, collaborate, and publish findings. Consumers are able to query a published knowledge graph, surface high value relationships, and access insights captured by analyst through a customer web portal or external production environment. The platform allows analysts and customers to research and map the commercial, financial, and facilitation networks of sanctioned or other actors that may be associated with illicit activity. Customers can access visual graphs depicting relationships between sanctioned and non-sanctioned actors in order to evaluate their possible exposure to financial crime or sanctions-related risks. |
| US11734624B2 |
Method and system for scalable contact center agent scheduling utilizing automated AI modeling and multi-objective optimization
A system for performing contact center agent scheduling according to an embodiment includes at least one processor and at least one memory comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by the at least one processor, causes the system to generate a workload forecast indicative of a demand that will be introduced into the contact center in a future planning period based on a workload forecast model and time series data, generate a staffing requirement forecast indicative of a number of agents required to handle the workload forecast based on the workload forecast, one or more service goals, and a staffing requirement model, and perform schedule optimization using column generation to generate an optimized contact center agent shift schedule for a plurality of agents based on the staffing requirement forecast and one or more constraints. |
| US11734622B2 |
Method, apparatus and device for determining production capacity boundaries
A method, apparatus and device for determining production capacity boundaries are provided. In the method, related data for producing a run size of elements by a production device lot by lot is acquired and time intervals between production ending time points of adjacent lots are determined according to the related data; the determined time intervals are sorted to obtain a time interval sequence; distribution features of time intervals at two boundaries are parsed respectively to determine whether a data removing condition is satisfied; if Yes, an outlier is determined according to a mean value of the present time interval sequence, the time interval of the extraction step length where the outlier is located is removed, and whether the data removing condition is satisfied is determined; and if No, production capacity boundaries are determined according to minimum and maximum time intervals of the present time interval sequence and the run size. |
| US11734618B2 |
Multi-modal directions with a ride service segment in a navigation application
To provide ride services within a mapping application in a client computing device without directing the user to a separate ride service application, the mapping application invokes one or several ride service APIs to access ride service data from various ride service providers. For example, the mapping application receives a request for travel directions to a destination and generates multi-modal travel directions which include a route segment where the mode of transportation is a ride service. The mapping application invokes one or several ride service APIs to retrieve a price estimate, estimated wait time, or any other suitable information regarding the ride service route segment. Accordingly, the mapping application provides the multi-modal travel directions to a user including information regarding the ride service route segment. |
| US11734614B1 |
Training service for an aggregated machine learning model
Techniques for creating an aggregated machine learning (ML) model from a plurality of candidate ML models are described. According to some embodiments, a machine learning service generates an aggregated machine learning model from a first machine learning model and a second machine learning model, selects the first machine learning model, the second machine learning model, or the aggregated machine learning model for usage, and performs an inference with the selected machine learning model. Additionally, a user may select the candidate models to be trained. |
| US11734612B2 |
Obtaining a generated dataset with a predetermined bias for evaluating algorithmic fairness of a machine learning model
In various embodiments, a process for obtaining a generated dataset with a predetermined bias for evaluating algorithmic fairness of a machine learning model includes receiving an input dataset and generating an anonymized reconstructed dataset based at least on the input dataset. The process includes introducing a predetermined bias into the generated dataset, forming an evaluation dataset based at least on the generated dataset with the predetermined bias, and outputting the evaluation dataset. In various embodiments, a process for training a generative model includes configuring a generative model and receiving training data, where the training data includes a tabular dataset. The process includes using computer processor(s) and the received training data to train the generative model, where the generative model is sampled to generate a dataset with a predetermined bias. |
| US11734608B2 |
Address interleaving for machine learning
A system includes a memory, an interface engine, and a master. The memory is configured to store data. The inference engine is configured to receive the data and to perform one or more computation tasks of a machine learning (ML) operation associated with the data. The master is configured to interleave an address associated with memory access transaction for accessing the memory. The master is further configured to provide a content associated with the accessing to the inference engine. |
| US11734607B2 |
Data clean-up method for improving predictive model training
A method that improves the training of predictive models. Better trained predictive models make better predictions, and can classify transactions with reduced levels of false positives and false negative. Included is an apparatus for executing a data clean-up algorithm that harmonizes a wide range of real world supervised and unsupervised training data into a single, error-free, uniformly formatted record file that has every field coherent and well populated with information. |
| US11734604B2 |
Anomaly detection based on device vibration
A method of detecting deviation from an operational state of a rotational device includes receiving, from one or more sensor devices coupled to the rotational device, frequency domain data indicative of vibration data sensed during a sensing period. The method also includes processing the frequency domain data using a trained anomaly detection model to generate an anomaly score for the sensing period and processing the anomaly score using an alert generation model to determine whether to generate an alert. |
| US11734600B2 |
Contrastive sequence-to-sequence data selector
A method includes generating a base model by training with a first dataset of data pairs and generating an adapted model by training the base model on a second dataset of data pairs. The method also includes determining a contrastive score for each data pair of a third dataset of data pairs using the base model and the adapted model. The contrastive score is indicative of a probability of quality of the respective data pair. The method also includes training a target model using the data pairs of the third dataset and the contrastive scores. |
| US11734598B2 |
Quantum state preparation of a probability distribution facilitating quantum amplitude estimation
Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate quantum state preparation of a probability distribution to perform amplitude estimation are provided. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a data loader component that prepares a quantum state of a probability distribution based on structure of a quantum amplitude estimation algorithm. The computer executable components can further comprise an operator component that constructs a quantum operator based on the quantum state to perform quantum amplitude estimation. |
| US11734597B2 |
Frequency allocation in multi-qubit circuits
Techniques facilitating frequency allocation in multi-qubit circuits are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method comprises determining, by a device operatively coupled to a processor, an estimated fabrication yield associated with respective qubit chip configurations by conducting simulations of the respective qubit chip configurations at respective frequency offsets; and selecting, by the device, a qubit chip configuration from among the respective qubit chip configurations based on the estimated fabrication yield associated with the respective qubit chip configurations. |
| US11734591B2 |
Optimizing automated modeling algorithms for risk assessment and generation of explanatory data
Certain aspects involve optimizing neural networks or other models for assessing risks and generating explanatory data regarding predictor variables used in the model. In one example, a system identifies predictor variables. The system generates a neural network for determining a relationship between each predictor variable and a risk indicator. The system performs a factor analysis on the predictor variables to determine common factors. The system iteratively adjusts the neural network so that (i) a monotonic relationship exists between each common factor and the risk indicator and (ii) a respective variance inflation factor for each common factor is sufficiently low. Each variance inflation factor indicates multicollinearity among the common factors. The adjusted neural network can be used to generate explanatory indicating relationships between (i) changes in the risk indicator and (ii) changes in at least some common factors. |
| US11734588B2 |
Managing domain competence during a computing session
Utilization data of a computer by a user during a session is gathered. A domain in which the user is utilizing the computer during the session is identified as reflected by the utilization data. Competence data on how competent the user is with the domain is gathered. The competence data relates to how the user interacts with the computer during the session. A competence level of the user for the domain is determined based on the competence data. |
| US11734585B2 |
Post-hoc improvement of instance-level and group-level prediction metrics
A post-processing method, system, and computer program product for post-hoc improvement of instance-level and group-level prediction metrics, including training a bias detector that learns to detect a sample that has an individual bias greater than a predetermined individual bias threshold value with constraints on a group bias, applying the bias detector on a run-time sample to select a biased sample in the run-time sample having a bias greater than the predetermined individual bias threshold bias value, and suggesting a de-biased prediction for the biased sample. |
| US11734582B2 |
Automated rule generation framework using machine learning for classification problems
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for receiving historical data, the historical data including variable vectors, each variable vector being assigned to a class, processing the historical data through encoders to provide feature vectors, each feature vector corresponding to a respective variable vector and being assigned to the class of the respective variable vector, generating a set of decision trees based on the feature vectors, each decision tree corresponding to a class in the set of classes, transforming each decision tree into a set of rules to provide sets of rules, each rule in a set of rules defining conditions to assign at least a portion of an electronic document to a respective class in the set of classes, and providing the sets of rules for execution in an enterprise system, the enterprise system classifying electronic documents to classes in the set of classes based on the sets of rules. |
| US11734581B1 |
Providing contextual actions for mobile onscreen content
Systems and methods provide an application programming interface to offer action suggestions to third-party applications using context data associated with the third-party. An example method includes receiving content information and context information from a source mobile application, the content information representing information to be displayed on a mobile device as part of a source mobile application administered by a third party, the context information being information specific to the third party and unavailable to a screen scraper. The method also includes predicting an action based on the content information and the context information, the action representing a deep link for a target mobile application. The method further includes providing the action to the source mobile application with a title and a thumbnail, the source mobile application using the title and thumbnail to display a selectable control that, when selected, causes the mobile device to initiate the action. |
| US11734577B2 |
Electronic apparatus and method of performing operations thereof
A method for an electronic apparatus to perform an operation of an artificial intelligence model includes acquiring resource information for hardware of the electronic apparatus while a plurality of data used for an operation of a neural network model are stored in a memory, the plurality of data respectively having degrees of importance different from each other; obtaining data to be used for the operation of the neural network model among the plurality of data according to the degrees of importance of each of the plurality of data based on the acquired resource information; and performing the operation of the neural network model by using the obtained data. |
| US11734574B1 |
Neural Bregman divergences for distance learning
A method, system, and computer program product for configuring a computer for data similarity determination using Bregman divergence may include storing a data set having plural data pairs with one or more data points corresponding to one or more features and generating a trained input convex neural network (ICNN) using the data set, the ICNN having one or more parameters. Training the ICNN may include extracting one or more features for each piece of data in the first data pair, generating an empirical Bregman divergence for the first data pair, and computing one or more gradients between the one or more features within the first data pair using known target distances and the computed empirical Bregman divergence. |
| US11734572B2 |
Spatial transformer modules
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing inputs using an image processing neural network system that includes a spatial transformer module. One of the methods includes receiving an input feature map derived from the one or more input images, and applying a spatial transformation to the input feature map to generate a transformed feature map, comprising: processing the input feature map to generate spatial transformation parameters for the spatial transformation, and sampling from the input feature map in accordance with the spatial transformation parameters to generate the transformed feature map. |
| US11734569B2 |
Method and system for improving performance of an artificial neural network (ANN) model
The disclosure relates to method and system for improving performance of an artificial neural network (ANN) model. The method includes receiving the ANN model and input dataset. The ANN model includes neurons arranged in multiple layers and employing corresponding activation functions. The method further includes assigning a random activation threshold value to each of the corresponding activation functions, determining activated neurons in each layer for a majority of input data in the input dataset based on the random activation threshold value for each of the corresponding activation functions, identifying removable layers based on a number of activated neurons and a pre-defined threshold value, evaluating a relative loss of the ANN model upon removing each removable layer from the ANN model and for a random input data in the input dataset, and deriving a modified ANN model by removing one or more of the removable layers based on the evaluation. |
| US11734568B2 |
Systems and methods for modification of neural networks based on estimated edge utility
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for modification (e.g., pruning, compression, quantization, etc.) of artificial neural networks based on estimations of the utility of network connections (also known as “edges”). In particular, the present disclosure provides novel techniques for estimating the utility of one or more edges of a neural network in a fashion that requires far less expenditure of resources than calculation of the actual utility. Based on these estimated edge utilities, a computing system can make intelligent decisions regarding network pruning, network quantization, or other modifications to a neural network. In particular, these modifications can reduce resource requirements associated with the neural network. By making these decisions with knowledge of and based on the utility of various edges, this reduction in resource requirements can be achieved with only a minimal, if any, degradation of network performance (e.g., prediction accuracy). |
| US11734564B2 |
Platform management of integrated access of public and privately-accessible datasets utilizing federated query generation and query schema rewriting optimization
Various techniques are described for platform management of integrated access of public and privately-accessible datasets utilizing federated query generation and query schema rewriting optimization, including receiving at a dataset access platform a query formatted according to a first data schema, generating a copy of the query, saving the query and the copy to a datastore, parsing the copy of the query in the first schema using an inference engine, determining whether the query comprises data associated with an access control condition associated with accessing the dataset, the access control condition being configured to indicate whether the query is permitted to access the dataset, and rewriting, using a proxy server, the copy of the query in a second schema by converting the copy of the query into a triple associated with the query and another triple associated with the access control condition. |
| US11734562B2 |
Data pipeline and deep learning system for autonomous driving
An image captured using a sensor on a vehicle is received and decomposed into a plurality of component images. Each component image of the plurality of component images is provided as a different input to a different layer of a plurality of layers of an artificial neural network to determine a result. The result of the artificial neural network is used to at least in part autonomously operate the vehicle. |
| US11734561B2 |
Video tracking with deep Siamese networks and Bayesian optimization
An apparatus, method, system and computer readable medium for video tracking. An exemplar crop is selected to be tracked in an initial frame of a video. Bayesian optimization is applied with each subsequent frame of the video by building a surrogate model of an objective function using Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) based on similarity scores of candidate crops collected from a search space in a current frame of the video. A next candidate crop in the search space is determined using an acquisition function. The next candidate crop is compared to the exemplar crop using a Siamese neural network. Comparisons of new candidate crops to the exemplar crop are made using the Siamese neural network until the exemplar crop has been found in the current frame. The new candidate crops are selected based on an updated surrogate model. |
| US11734559B2 |
Automated structured textual content categorization accuracy with neural networks
To provide automated categorization of structured textual content individual nodes of textual content, from a document object model encapsulation of the structured textual content, have a multidimensional vector associated with them, where the values of the various dimensions of the multidimensional vector are based on the textual content in the corresponding node, the visual features applied or associated with the textual content of the corresponding node, and positional information of the textual content of the corresponding node. The multidimensional vectors are input to a neighbor-imbuing neural network. The enhanced multidimensional vectors output by the neighbor-imbuing neural network are then be provided to a categorization neural network. The resulting output can be in the form of multidimensional vectors whose dimensionality is proportional to categories into which the structured textual content is to be categorized. A weighted merge takes into account multiple nodes that are grouped together. |
| US11734558B2 |
Machine learning module training using input reconstruction techniques and unlabeled transactions
Techniques are disclosed relating to improving machine learning classification using both labeled and unlabeled data, including electronic transactions. A computing system may train a machine learning module using a first set of transactions (of any classifiable data) with label information that indicates designated classifications for those transactions and a second set of transactions without label information. This can allow for improved classification error rates, particularly when additional labeled data may not be present (e.g., if a transaction was disallowed, it may not be later labeled as fraudulent or not). The training process may include generating first error data based on classification results for the first set of transactions, generating second error data based on reconstruction results for both the first and second sets of transactions, and updating the machine learning module based on the first and second error data. |
| US11734556B2 |
Optoelectronic computing systems
An optoelectronic computing system includes a first semiconductor die having a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) and a second semiconductor die having an electronic integrated circuit (EIC). The PIC includes optical waveguides, in which input values are encoded on respective optical signals carried by the optical waveguides. The PIC includes an optical copying distribution network having optical splitters. The PIC includes an array of optoelectronic circuitry sections, each receiving an optical wave from one of the output ports of the optical copying distribution network, and each optoelectronic circuitry section includes: at least one photodetector detecting at least one optical wave from the optoelectronic operation. The EIC includes electrical input ports receiving respective electrical values. The first semiconductor die and the second semiconductor die are electrically coupled in a controlled collapse chip connection, with the electrical output port of the PIC connected to one of the electrical input ports of the EIC. |
| US11734555B2 |
Optoelectronic computing systems
Systems and methods that include: providing input information in an electronic format; converting at least a part of the electronic input information into an optical input vector; optically transforming the optical input vector into an optical output vector based on an optical matrix multiplication; converting the optical output vector into an electronic format; and electronically applying a non-linear transformation to the electronically converted optical output vector to provide output information in an electronic format.In some examples, a set of multiple input values are encoded on respective optical signals carried by optical waveguides. For each of at least two subsets of one or more optical signals, a corresponding set of one or more copying modules splits the subset of one or more optical signals into two or more copies of the optical signals. For each of at least two copies of a first subset of one or more optical signals, a corresponding multiplication module multiplies the one or more optical signals of the first subset by one or more matrix element values using optical amplitude modulation. For results of two or more of the multiplication modules, a summation module produces an electrical signal that represents a sum of the results of the two or more of the multiplication modules. |
| US11734552B1 |
Neural processing device
A neural processing device is provided. The neural processing device comprises: an activation buffer in which first and second input activations are stored, an activation compressor configured to generate a first compressed input activation by using the first and second input activations, and a tensor unit configured to perform two-dimensional calculations using the first compressed input activation, wherein the first compressed input activation comprises first input row data comprising at least a portion of the first input activation and at least a portion of the second input activation, and first metadata corresponding to the first input row data. |
| US11734551B2 |
Data storage method for speech-related DNN operations
A data storage method for speech-related deep neural network (DNN) operations, characterized by comprising the following steps: 1. determining the configuration parameters by a user; 2. configuring a peripheral storage access interface; 3. configuring a multi-transmitting interface of feature storage array; 4. enabling CPU to store to-be-calculated data in a storage space between the feature storage space start address and the feature storage space end address of the peripheral storage device; 5. after data storage, enabling CPU to check the state of the peripheral storage access interface and the multi-transmitting interface of feature storage array; 6. upon receiving a transportation completion signal of the peripheral storage access interface by CPU, enabling the multi-transmitting interface of feature storage array. 7. upon receiving a transportation completion signal of the multi-transmitting interface of feature storage array by CPU, repeating step 6. |
| US11734550B2 |
Discrete three-dimensional processor
A discrete three-dimensional (3-D) processor comprises first and second dice. The first die comprises 3-D memory (3D-M) arrays and in-die peripheral-circuit components thereof, whereas the second die comprises processing circuits and off-die peripheral-circuit components of the 3D-M arrays. The first and second dice are communicatively coupled by a plurality of inter-die connections. |
| US11734547B2 |
Modelling request sequences in online-connected video games
This specification describes a computer-implemented method for testing the performance of a video game server. The method comprises initializing a recurrent neural network. The recurrent neural network is trained based on requests sent from one or more client devices to the video game server. The initializing comprises inputting a start token into the recurrent neural network. An output distribution for a first-time step is generated, as an output of the recurrent neural network. The output distribution comprises a probability of generating each of a set of one or more requests to the video game server, in addition to a probability of generating a stop token. A first request from the set of one or more requests is selected based on the output distribution. The method comprises for one or more further time steps, until a stop token has been selected from output of the recurrent neural network: inputting, into the recurrent neural network, a request selected in the previous time step; generating, as an output of the recurrent neural network, an output distribution for the time step; and selecting, based on the output distribution, a request. A generated sequence of requests is stored. The generated sequence of requests comprises one or more of the requests selected at each respect time step. The generated sequence of requests is inputted into a test generator. A performance test for testing the performance of the video game server is generated by the test generator. |
| US11734546B2 |
Method and apparatus for recommending food and drink based on artificial intelligence-based user status
A method and a device for recommending food based on an artificial intelligence based user status are disclosed. The method includes obtaining use information from a mobile terminal and an external terminal connected to the mobile terminal, determining a user status through an AI device, and determining a preferred food of the user based on the user status, thereby providing convenience for the user's life. The device for recommending food based on the artificial intelligence based user status can be associated with an artificial intelligence module, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, devices related to 5G services, and the like. |
| US11734544B2 |
Mobile passport, mobile passport generation system for generating same, and mobile passport certification method
A mobile passport, mobile passport generation system for generating same, and mobile passport certification method enable increased convenience for certifying passports. The passport is generated by digitalizing passport information written in an actual passport, thereby eliminating the risk of losing the passport, and with which the certification of a passport for a foreign tourist is carried out by scanning or inputting the digitalized passport information. A mobile passport, which includes a QR code including passport information, a photo writing unit, a country writing unit, and a manual certification number, is generated by using a mobile passport generation system which includes a mobile passport generation unit, a password generation unit, a mobile passport management server, and a terminal. The identity of a passport holder can be checked by checking the QR code, the manual certification number, a coupon number, and a tax return transaction number associated with the generated mobile passport. |
| US11734542B2 |
Transponder label and method for manufacturing a transponder label
A transponder label has a dielectric spacer body with a first side and a second side and a transponder inlay with a chip and an antenna, wherein the transponder inlay is applied to the spacer body such that a first part of the antenna is arranged on the first side of the spacer body and a second part of the antenna is arranged on the second side of the spacer body. The transponder label further includes a sensor unit electrically coupled to the chip of the transponder inlay and configured to detect a measurement signal representative of a physical and/or chemical environmental parameter. |
| US11734539B2 |
Dynamic optical property windows in indicia with sensors
An environmental exposure indicator includes a substrate and an environmental exposure indicator (“EEI”) material provided on the substrate that is configured to change an optical property between a creation state and an end state. The environmental exposure indicator material has a deployment state, between the creation state and the end state, at a deployment time. The environmental exposure indicator also includes calibration data based on the deployment state. |
| US11734538B1 |
Low power radio devices and systems
Systems and methods are described for low power radio devices. A first radio-based computing devices emits wireless power signals which are received by a plurality of second radio-based devices. A sensor controller of the one or more second radio-based devices determines if an interrupt signal is to be transmitted to an associated at rest microcontroller, to cause the microcontroller to prepare to receive or emit a radio information signal. |
| US11734533B1 |
Secure scanning of machine-readable codes
Apparatus and methods provide an end-to-end system for claiming and sharing non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”). A machine-readable code (“MRC”) may be scanned and validated. Validating the MRC may ensure that instructions encoded in the MRC do not include malware. Validating the MRC may include validating a digital signature encoded in the scanned MRC. Validating the MRC may include locating a record stored on a distributed ledger that corresponds to the scanned MRC. After validating the instructions, processing the encoded instructions may trigger distribution of an NFT to the scanning device. The distributed NFT may be visualized on a webpage or used to gain access to a restricted venue. |
| US11734532B2 |
Two-dimensional bar codes that are both intensity-modulated and orientation-modulated for transmitting sensitive information along with non-sensitive information
A dual-modulated QR code (DMQR code) is in the format of a conventional QR code but uses elongated markers instead of black squares in the code modules. The positions of the markers within the DMQR code represent a nonconfidential primary message, and the orientations of the markers within the modules of the DMQR code represent a confidential secondary message. |
| US11734529B2 |
Compact dual-LED illumination system
An optical assembly for illuminating at least one object appearing in a field of view (FOV). The optical assembly includes first and second illumination sources configured to provide first and second illumination to illuminate a target of the object. An aperture configured to collimate the first and second illumination and to provide the illumination to a dual collimator. The dual collimator is disposed to collimate the first and second illumination and to provide the first and second illumination to a dual microlens lens array (MLA). The dual MLA has microlens arrays configured to receive the collimated first and second radiation, to provide two illumination output fields, each output field having a different output illumination field angle. |
| US11734528B1 |
User interface LED synchronization for vision camera systems
An imaging device includes a housing having an optically transmissive window, a first imaging assembly, a second imaging assembly, and illumination emitter for generating a user interface visual indicator. The illumination emitter may be a light emitting diode or other light source. To prevent internal reflection of the user interface visual indicator off the window and appearing in captured images from the imaging assemblies, the imaging device synchronizes emitter-on times and sensor exposure-on times to prevent substantial overlap therebetween, thereby allowing for more accurate image captures, including color image captures of the imaging device. |
| US11734523B2 |
Storm drain information RFID tag
An RFID tag for marking storm drains incorporates the tag circuitry into a dome decal providing a flexible substrate capped by a self-leveling clear polymer. The RFID tag is placed between the polymer and the substrate on an electromagnetic radiation decoupling layer allowing a low profile fitting within the decal while allowing the decal to be used on metal drain surfaces. The decal includes a printed environment-promoting message relating to connection of the storm. |
| US11734518B2 |
Analyzing monitoring system events using natural language processing (NLP)
A language device is described. A language device includes processing circuitry configured to: determine an urgency level of a message based at least in part on a natural language processing (NLP) model; determine a priority of an event associated with the message based at least in part on the urgency level; and order the message relative to a plurality of other messages in a customer queue based at least in part on the priority of the event associated with the message. |
| US11734517B1 |
Systems and methods for measuring automatability of report generation using a natural language generation system
Techniques for determining a degree to which a document can be generated using a natural language generation (NLG) system, the NLG system being configured to generate natural language text. The techniques include using at least one computer hardware processor to perform: obtaining a document including text segments; determining a degree to which at least some of the text segments can be generated using the NLG system; generating a report indicating the degree to which the at least some of the text segments can be generated using the NLG system; and outputting the report. |
| US11734515B2 |
Adaptive natural language steganography and watermarking for virtual assistants
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for announcing and detecting automated conversation are disclosed. One of the methods includes initiating, over a natural language communication channel, a conversation with a communication participant using a natural language communication method that includes a dialogue of natural language communications. The communication participant is determined to be automated using a pre-defined adaptive interactive protocol that specifies natural language linguistic transformations defined in a sequence. The conversation can be transitioned to a communication method that is different form the natural language communication method in response to determining that the communication participant is automated. |
| US11734514B1 |
Automated translation of subject matter specific documents
Documents in source natural languages are translated into target natural languages using a computer-implemented translation that is configured to operate within the domain of the subject matter of the documents that imposes specialized requirements for translation and readability. Subject matter specific documents typically include domain-specific terminology, are subject to various regulatory guidelines, and have different readability requirements depending on the intended reader. The computer-implemented translation applies machine-learning techniques that deconstruct elements of the subject matter specific document into a standard data structure and perform pre-processing steps to tokenize digitized document text to identify the correct sentence structure and syntax for the target natural language to optimize translation by, e.g., a neural machine translation engine. The text segments that are input into the neural machine translation engine are generated to be semantically meaningful in the target natural language to thereby enhance the understanding of the neural machine translation engine. |
| US11734511B1 |
Mapping data set(s) to canonical phrases using natural language processing model(s)
Techniques are disclosed that enable generating a unified data set by mapping a set of item description phrases, describing entries in a data set, to a set of canonical phrases. Various implementations include generating a similarity measure between each item description phrase and each canonical phrase by processing the corresponding item description phrase and the corresponding canonical phrase using a natural language processing model. Additional or alternative implementations include generating a bipartite graph based on the set of item description phrases, the set of canonical phrases, and the similarity measures. The mapping can be generated based on the bipartite graph. |
| US11734510B2 |
Natural language processing of encoded question tokens and encoded table schema based on similarity
Embodiments relate to a method, a computer program and a system for optimizing execution of natural language to structured query language. The method comprises the steps of—receiving a natural language text input and performing natural language processing on the natural language text input to generate a plurality of encoded question tokens. Next, the method comprises performing natural language processing on a plurality of table schema stored in a database to generate a plurality of encoded table schema tokens for each table schema. Further, the method comprises determining a similarity between the plurality of encoded question tokens and the plurality of encoded table schema tokens for at least two table schemas of the plurality of table schema. Furthermore, the method comprises determining an output table schema from the plurality of table schema based on the similarity and outputting a natural language string based on the output table schema. |
| US11734508B2 |
Method and system for expansion to everyday language by using word vectorization technique based on social network content
Provided is a method and system for expanding to an everyday language using a word vectorization technique based on social network content. A content providing method includes collecting social network content on the Internet; expanding corresponding content information to a word set of words included in the social network content with respect to target content that is to be serviced to a client; and providing the target content to the client with respect to user information associated with the client using the word set. |
| US11734497B2 |
Document authoring platform
A document authoring platform receives a user-selected idea type attribute of a structured document template. The platform identifies a supporting idea type attribute based on the user-selected idea type attribute and taxonomy rules for the structured document template. The platform receives a user-selected supporting idea type attribute and content of the user-selected supporting idea type attribute. The platform forms a tree structure of the structured document template based on the user-selected idea type attribute, the user-selected supporting idea type attribute, and the content of the user-selected supporting idea type attribute. A document is generated based on the tree structure. |
| US11734496B2 |
Systems and methods for generating webpage data for rendering a design
Described herein is a computer implemented method for generating webpage data. The method includes processing a set of design element objects to generate a set of element-grid records, each record corresponding to a design element and including a unique column start, a unique column end, a column start offset and a column end offset. The set of element-grid records is processed to generate a webpage grid definition that defines a grid including a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows. A first design element and a second design element have a same horizontal start position and the webpage grid definition defines: a unique column start gridline for the first design element; a unique column start gridline for the second design element; and a zero-width first column between the first and second column gridlines. |
| US11734491B2 |
Linguistically-driven automated text formatting
Systems and techniques for linguistically-driven automated text formatting are described herein. Data representing the linguistic structure of input text may be received from Natural Language Processing (NLP) Services, including but not limited to constituents, dependencies, and coreference relationships. A text model of the input text may be built using the linguistic components and relationships. Cascade rules may be applied to the text model to generate a cascaded text data structure. Cascaded data may be displayed on a range of media, including a phone, tablet, laptop, monitor, VR/AR devices. Cascaded data may be presented in dual screen formats to promote more accurate and efficient reading comprehension, greater ease in teaching native and foreign language grammatical structures, and tools for remediation of reading-related disabilities. |
| US11734488B2 |
System and method to process a virtual partition cell injected into a hierarchical integrated circuit design
Aspects described herein relate to physical verification of a design of an integrated circuit to be manufactured on a semiconductor die. One example method involves inserting a virtual partition cell in a parent cell of a layout of a design of an integrated circuit. A child cell of the parent cell has a first portion that overlaps the virtual partition cell and a second portion that is outside of the virtual partition cell. The method also includes creating, by one or more processors, a hierarchy of cells having the child cell and the virtual partition cell descending from the parent cell, wherein the child cell has multiple instances in the hierarchy of cells, and performing a design rule check runset on the parent cell based on the hierarchy. |
| US11734486B2 |
Sweepline triangulation for spanning graphs
Aspects of the invention include systems and methods for implementing a sweepline triangulation technique to optimize spanning graphs for circuit routing. A non-limiting example computer-implemented method includes receiving an unrouted net having a plurality of elements. The elements can include pins, vias, and wires. A sweepline is passed across the unrouted net until the sweepline intersects an element of the plurality of elements. In response to the sweepline intersecting the element, the sweepline is stopped and one or more nodes on the sweepline and one or more previous nodes are identified. A connectivity graph is built from the one or more nodes and the one or more previous nodes. The connectivity graph includes one or more arcs and one or more guides. A minimum spanning tree is built by removing one or more guides from the connectivity graph and the unrouted net is routed based on the minimum spanning tree. |
| US11734484B2 |
Method for automating semiconductor design based on artificial intelligence
Disclosed is a method for automating a semiconductor design based on artificial intelligence, which is performed by a computing device. The method may include: generating a first embedding for a semiconductor element to be placed in a canvas based on feature information and logical design information of the semiconductor element by using a first neural network; and generating a probability distribution for placing the semiconductor element based on the first embedding and a second embedding for semiconductor elements already placed in the canvas by using a second neural network. |
| US11734479B2 |
Simulating hydraulic fracturing geometry propagation using a differential stress and pattern-based model
The disclosure presents a technique to generate a fracture model using a differential stress map and model inputs. The technique simulates the fracture model using fracture fronts, initiated at perforations of a perforation stage of a hydraulic fracturing (HF) wellbore. Each fracture front is evaluated using a propagation step of a fracture model process. Using the relative differential stress states, a fracture pattern is composited to the fracture model. At each propagation step, the total energy available from the simulated HF fluid being pumped into the wellbore location is reduced by the amount necessary to generate the computed fractures. Once the remaining energy is reduced to a level where no further fractures can be created, or if a map boundary is encountered, the fracture model process terminates. The generated fracture model can be communicated to update HF job plans, wellbore placements, and other uses of the fracture model. |
| US11734474B2 |
System and method for evaluating models for predictive failure of renewable energy assets
An example method comprises receiving historical sensor data from sensors of components of wind turbines, training a set of models to predict faults for each component using the historical sensor data, each model of a set having different observation time windows and lead time windows, evaluating each model of a set using standardized metrics, comparing evaluations of each model of a set to select a model with preferred lead time and accuracy, receive current sensor data from the sensors of the components, apply the selected model(s) to the current sensor data to generate a component failure prediction, compare the component failure prediction to a threshold, and generate an alert and report based on the comparison to the threshold. |
| US11734472B2 |
System and method for modeling physical objects in a simulation
An object model for a real-world object is constructed using a parameter-based object generator, where the parameters for the object model are determined using sensor data such as photographic images, radar images, or LIDAR images obtained from the real-world object. Conversion of the sensor data to appropriate object parameters is accomplished using a machine learning system. The machine learning system is calibrated by generating a plurality of object parameters, generating a corresponding plurality of learning objects from the plurality of object parameters, generating a plurality of simulated sensor return data for the learning objects, and then providing the simulated sensor return data and object parameters to the machine learning system. |
| US11734471B2 |
Topology optimization for subtractive manufacturing techniques
Design process that performs geometry synthesis on a 3D model of a product based on a design problem statement and manufacturing constraints associated with a manufacturing machine intended to manufacture the product. The manufacturing constraints may include dimensions for a tool bit, dimensions for a tool head, a set of machining directions of the manufacturing machine, or any combination thereof. For a 5-axis manufacturing machine, the set of machining directions may be determined by a “NormalSearch” algorithm and/or a “HeatSearch” algorithm. The geometry synthesis produces a design solution comprising a final 3D model of the product, whereby each point on the boundary of the final 3D model is determined to be accessible by a tool bit and/or tool head in at least one machining direction of the manufacturing machine. Thus, the design solution for the product is more easily and directly manufacturable by the manufacturing machine. |
| US11734469B2 |
System and method for generating a landscape design
A method for generating an online landscape design for a property includes first entering an address for a property and then importing satellite view data of the property and a street where the property is located from global mapping databases. Next, calculating property size, topography and house size from the satellite view data using a calculator engine. Next, performing scene segmentations and analyzing existing conditions via a landscape design engine, then applying custom vision classifiers for specific landscape elements via the landscape design engine, and then analyzing foliage conditions from the satellite view data. Next, determining property landscape improvements via a scoring engine and then determining materials lists, and calculating quantities, and costs for fulfilling the property landscape improvements via the calculator engine. Next, entering user preferences for the property landscape improvements via a user interface (UI) and then generating an improved landscape design for the property based on the user's preferences and the results of the scoring engine using the landscape design engine. |
| US11734468B2 |
System and method for generating computerized models of structures using geometry extraction and reconstruction techniques
Described in detail herein are systems and methods for generating computerized models of structures using geometry extraction and reconstruction techniques. The system includes a computing device coupled to a input device. The input device obtains raw data scanned by a sensor. The computing device is programmed to execute a data fusion process is applied to fuse the raw data, and a geometry extraction process is performed on the fused data to extract features such as walls, floors, ceilings, roof planes, etc. Large- and small-scale features of the structure are reconstructed using the extracted features. The large- and small-scale features are reconstructed by the system into a floor plan (contour) and/or a polyhedron corresponding to the structure. The system can also process exterior features of the structure to automatically identify condition and areas of roof damage. |
| US11734465B2 |
Method for designing and manufacturing custom-made furniture using computer, system, and program therefor
A method for designing a part member of a custom-made furniture includes: producing a rectangular parallelepiped part member in a rectangular parallelepiped space; setting a XY coordinate system on six faces of the rectangular parallelepiped space using a corner of a rectangle of each face as an origin and two sides of a rectangle of each face as X axis and Y axis; setting one or more predetermined rules for determining positions of one or more machinings based on lengths p and q from a corner of the rectangle and designating a XY coordinate positions of the one or more machinings as a function of p and q; altering the dimensions of the rectangular parallelepiped space of the part member; calculating the positions of the machinings after the dimensions of the rectangular space are altered in accordance with the predetermined rules; and outputting the machining specification. |
| US11734460B2 |
Connectionless trusted computing base recovery
Connectionless trusted computing base recovery is described. An example of a system includes one or more processors to process data; hardware including a hardware RoT (root of trust); and firmware including a firmware TCB (trusted computing base), the firmware including the credentials including one or more certificates and one or more keys, wherein the one or more processors are to determine that the firmware TCB is compromised and that the hardware RoT is intact; issue new credentials by the hardware RoT to mutable firmware based on a version number or security version number (SVN) of the firmware; and revoke old versions of the credentials for the firmware. |
| US11734457B2 |
Technology for controlling access to processor debug features
A processor that was manufactured by a manufacturer comprises privileged debug operational circuitry, a debug restriction fuse, a credential store, a credential of the manufacturer in the credential store, and debug control circuitry. The debug restriction fuse is a one-time programmable fuse. The debug control circuitry is to automatically restrict access to the privileged debug operational circuitry, based on the debug restriction fuse. The processor may also include public debug operational circuitry, a prevent-unauthorized-debug (PUD) fuse, and an undo-PUD fuse. When the PUD fuse is set and the undo-PUD fuse is clear, the debug control circuitry may respond to an attempt by a debugger to use the public debug operational circuitry by determining whether the debugger is authorized, disallowing access if the debugger is not authorized, and allowing access if the debugger is authorized. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US11734456B2 |
Systems and methods for authenticating photographic image data
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for authenticating photographic data. In one embodiment, a method comprises providing an image authentication application for use on a client device, the application configured to control image capture and transmission; receiving an image data file from the application at the authentication server comprising a photographic image captured by the application and metadata associated therewith; applying a watermark to the photographic image to create a watermarked image; applying date and time information to the tagged image; applying location information to the tagged image; creating a web address associated with the image data file; uploading the photographic image, the tagged image, or both to the web address; and transmitting an authenticated image file to the client device, the authenticated image file comprising one or more of: the watermarked image, the photographic image, the date and time information, geographic information, and the web address. |
| US11734454B2 |
Method for providing applet service capability, electronic device, and storage medium
A method for providing an applet service capability includes: receiving an operation accessing request sent by an applet merchant though an applet management platform, in which the operation accessing request includes an applet token, an applet identifier and an operation accessing type; performing authentication on the operation accessing request through the applet management platform; and providing an applet service capability corresponding to the operation accessing request for the applet merchant when the authentication is passed. |
| US11734452B2 |
Systems and methods for obscuring data from a data source
Systems and methods for obscuring data from a data source include devices and processes that may objectively measure the information loss for the data source that is caused by applying a privacy policy, and may apply a policy to the data source based on the measured information loss. The systems and methods may measure the information loss for a large data source by taking a representative sample from the data source and applying the policy to the sample in order to quantify the information loss. The quantified information loss can be iteratively used to change the policy in order to meet utility and/or privacy goals, and the system can subsequently apply the changed policy to the data source. |