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US11751491B2	Heavy-hex connection topology to rectilinear physical layout Systems and techniques that facilitate mapping a heavy-hex qubit connection topology to a rectilinear physical qubit layout are provided. In various embodiments, a device can comprise a qubit lattice on a substrate. In various aspects, the qubit lattice can comprise one or more first qubit tiles. In various cases, the one or more first qubit tiles can have a first shape. In various instances, the qubit lattice can further comprise one or more second qubit tiles. In various cases, the one or more second qubit tiles can have a second shape. In various aspects, the one or more first qubit tiles can be tessellated with the one or more second qubit tiles.
US11751489B2	Quantum entangling gate between multi-mode qubits Techniques regarding a quantum entangling gate between multi-mode superconducting qubits are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise an apparatus, which can comprise a first multi-mode superconducting qubit coupled to a second multi-mode superconducting qubit via a transmon qubit.
US11751484B2	Magnetic tunnel junction devices including a free magnetic trench layer and a planar reference magnetic laver A Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ) device can include a reference magnetic layer having one or more trenches disposed therein. One or more sections of a tunnel barrier layer can be disposed on the walls of the one or more trenches. One or more sections of a free magnetic layer can be disposed on the one or more sections of the tunnel barrier layer in the one or more trenches. One or more sections of a conductive layer can be disposed on the one or more sections of the free magnetic layer in the one or more trenches. One or more insulator blocks can be disposed between corresponding sections of the tunnel barrier layer, corresponding sections of the free magnetic layer and corresponding sections of the conductive layer in the one or more trenches.
US11751483B2	Spin diode devices According to various embodiments, a spin diode device may include a magnetic tunnel junction stack. The magnetic tunnel junction stack may include a lower magnetic layer, a tunnel barrier layer over the lower magnetic layer, and an upper magnetic layer over the tunnel barrier layer. The lower magnetic layer may include a lower magnetic film. The tunnel barrier layer comprising an insulating material. The upper magnetic layer may include an upper magnetic film. Each of the lower magnetic film and the upper magnetic film may have perpendicular magnetic anisotropy.
US11751482B2	Manufacturing method of semiconductor device A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes the following steps. A first inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer is formed on a substrate. A cap layer is formed on the first IMD layer. A connection structure is formed on the substrate and penetrates the cap layer and the first IMD layer. A magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) stack is formed on the connection structure and the cap layer. A patterning process is performed to the MTJ stack for forming a MTJ structure on the connection structure and removing the cap layer. A spacer is formed on a sidewall of the MTJ structure and a sidewall of the connection structure. A second IMD layer is formed on the first IMD layer and surrounds the MTJ structure. The dielectric constant of the first IMD layer is lower than the dielectric constant of the second IMD layer.
US11751479B2	Method for controlling piezoelectric driving apparatus, piezoelectric driving apparatus, and robot A piezoelectric vibrator has a first frequency region where the phase difference between a pickup signal representing the vibration of the piezoelectric vibrator and a drive signal that drives the piezoelectric vibrator does not monotonously change in accordance with the frequency of the drive signal and a second frequency region where the phase difference monotonously changes in accordance with the frequency of the drive signal. A method for controlling a piezoelectric driving apparatus including the piezoelectric vibrator controls the frequency of the drive signal in such a way that pickup voltage representing the amplitude of the pickup signal is fixed in the first frequency region and controls the frequency of the drive signal in such a way the pickup voltage is fixed with the phase difference maintained smaller than or equal to a prespecified value in the second frequency region.
US11751471B2	Methods and systems for wireless to power line communications Methods, systems, and apparatus for monitoring and controlling electronic devices using wired and wireless protocols are disclosed. The systems and apparatus may monitor their environment for signals from electronic devices. The systems and apparatus may take and disambiguate the signals that are received from the devices in their environment to identify the devices and associate control signals with the devices. The systems and apparatus may use communication means to send control signals to the identified electronic devices. Multiple apparatuses or systems may be connected together into networks, including mesh networks, to make for a more robust architecture.
US11751467B2	Flexible display panel with via-hole therein and display device A flexible display panel, a method for fabricating the same, and a display device are provided. A protruding structure located is formed in a via-hole area on a flexible base substrate so that both the protruding structure, and the portions of an organic light-emitting functional film and a top electrode layer covering the protruding structure can be removed. Thereafter an encapsulation thin film covering the patterns of the organic light-emitting functional film and the top electrode layer is formed. After the encapsulation thin film is formed, the step of removing the pattern of the encapsulation thin film in the via-hole area can be further performed to expose the flexible base substrate in the via-hole area, and after the flexible base substrate in the via-hole area is removed, a via-hole can be formed in the flexible base substrate.
US11751466B2	Apparatus and method to deliver organic material via organic vapor jet printing (OVJP) Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide an apparatus having a device with a micronozzle array disposed on a micro-fabricated fluidic die. The device may include a first gas distribution plate and a second opposing plate, where the micro-fabricated fluidic die is disposed between the first gas distribution plate and the second opposing plate, wherein the first gas distribution plate is irreversibly joined to the micronozzle array with a seal that is gas-tight, and where the first gas distribution plate includes a plurality of sealed flow paths. A manifold may be reversibly joined to the first gas distribution plate, where the micro-fabricated fluidic die and the first gas distribution plate and the second opposing plate are disposed between the manifold. A thermally conductive plate may have at least one window that provides a clearance fit for the device across a range of motion relative to the thermally conductive plate.
US11751464B2	Display substrate and display device Provided is a display substrate. The display substrate includes: a base substrate, a plurality of sub-pixels, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of data transmission lines, a plurality of electrostatic discharge circuits, a panel crack detection trace, and a plurality of electrostatic discharge dummy circuits. At least one of the electrostatic discharge dummy circuits may be connected to the panel crack detection trace. A display device is also provided.
US11751459B2	Stretchable display device capable of preventing damage caused by static electricity One or more embodiments of the present disclosure provides a stretchable display device. The stretchable display device includes a lower substrate on which a display area displaying an image and a non-display area adjacent to the display area are disposed, a plurality of pixel substrates disposed in the display area, a plurality of outer substrates disposed in the non-display area, a plurality of pixels disposed on the plurality of pixel substrates, and a plurality of gate drivers disposed on the plurality of outer substrates and outputting gate voltages to the plurality of pixels, and at least one blocking layer overlapping the plurality of gate drivers. Thus, it is feasible to prevent image defects in the stretchable display device from occurring due to external static electricity.
US11751458B2	Transparent display device having pixel capable of enhancing transparency A display device includes a lower substrate, and a pixel including sub-pixels having one transparent area defined to transmit light on the lower substrate and a plurality of emissive areas disposed around the one transparent area and defined to emit light with at least three different colors.
US11751451B2	Display device having multiple protective films and wiring layer According to one embodiment, a display device includes a pixel area including pixels each including at least one thin film transistor includes a semiconductor layer and a gate electrode, a first terminal area including a first wiring line disposed thereon connected to the at least one thin film transistor, a first protective film provided on the semiconductor layer, the gate electrode and the first wiring line, a first insulating film provided on the first protective film, a second protective film provided on the first insulating film, a second insulating film provided on the second protective film, a first opening formed in the first terminal area, and partially exposing the first wiring line, and a second opening formed to correspond to the first opening.
US11751450B2	Display panel and display device Disclosed are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes: a base substrate and a plurality of sub-pixels located on the base substrate; and each sub-pixel includes: a semiconductor layer located on the base substrate and including a first active layer of an initialization transistor, a second active layer of a reset transistor and a third active layer of a data writing transistor; a first conductive layer located on a side of the semiconductor layer and including a data signal line extending in a first direction; and a second conductive layer located on the base substrate and including a drive gate of a drive transistor; and an orthographic projection of the second active layer on the base substrate is located between an orthographic projection of the first active layer on the base substrate and an orthographic projection of the data signal line on the base substrate.
US11751442B2	Display panel and display device A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel has a display area. The display panel includes: a base substrate; a driving circuit and at least one signal line on the base substrate; and at least one insulating layer between the driving circuit and the at least one signal line. The driving circuit is disposed in a periphery of the display area; and an orthogonal projection of at least one of the signal lines on the base substrate has an overlapping area with an orthogonal projection of the driving circuit on the base substrate.
US11751441B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus in which an area of a peripheral area may be reduced while having a simple structure, the display apparatus includes a substrate, a bottom metal layer on the substrate and including a first extension line extending from the peripheral area outside a display area into the display area, a semiconductor layer on the bottom metal layer, a gate layer on the semiconductor layer, a first metal layer on the gate layer, and a second metal layer on the first metal layer and including a first data line extending from the peripheral area into the display area and electrically coupled to the first extension line in the peripheral area.
US11751440B2	Display panel and method of manufacturing display panel A display panel and a method of manufacturing a display panel are disclosed. The display panel is provided with a first electrode disposed on the same layer as a source electrode. A plurality of signal lines are disposed on the same layer as a plurality of light shielding patterns, so that a light shielding layer and a gate line layer can be used for wiring layouts, and a spacing between two electrodes of a parasitic capacitance formed between metal wirings and metal film layers is increased. In this manner, a parasitic capacitance of a subpixel driving circuit can be reduced, so that response times of the display panel can also be reduced.
US11751439B2	Display device and manufacturing method thereof including contact holes optimized to prevent excess hydrogen from introducing into semiconductor layer A display device includes: a substrate; a first semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate, where the first semiconductor layer includes a channel region and a doped region; a first gate electrode disposed to overlap the channel region of the first semiconductor layer; an intermediate film disposed on the first semiconductor layer and the first gate electrode; and a first electrode disposed on the intermediate film, where an opening is defined through the intermediate film to overlap the doped region of the first semiconductor layer, the doped region of the first semiconductor layer and the first electrode contacts each other through the opening, and an area of a cross-section of the opening parallel to the substrate is in a range of about 49 μm2 to about 81 μm2.
US11751436B2	Display panel and manufacturing method thereof A display panel includes a circuit substrate, a plurality of first electrodes, a first bank layer, a second bank layer, an organic light-emitting material layer, and a second electrode. The first bank layer is located on the first electrodes and has a plurality of first openings overlapped with the first electrodes. The second bank layer is located on the first bank layer and the circuit substrate. The second bank layer has a plurality of second openings extended along a first direction. A single second opening has a different width in a second direction. The second openings are overlapped with the first openings, and the second openings and the first openings together form organic light-emitting material filling regions. A maximum width of a first portion of each organic light-emitting material filling region is greater than a maximum width of a second portion of each organic light-emitting material filling region.
US11751435B2	Display device and method of manufacturing the display device An embodiment of a display device includes a substrate including a display area; an organic layer and having a protrusion protruding in a thickness direction of the substrate and overlapping the display area; a first electrode on the organic layer and overlapping the display area; a pixel defining layer covering the protrusion and an edge of the first electrode and having an opening portion overlapping the first electrode; an emission layer on the first electrode and overlapping the opening portion; and a second electrode on the emission layer, wherein the pixel defining layer includes an inorganic material, and a first distance from an upper surface of the substrate to a lower surface of the first electrode is less than a second distance from the upper surface of the substrate to an upper surface of the protrusion, the lower surface of the first electrode facing the upper surface of the substrate.
US11751433B2	Transistor display panel including lower electrode disposed under a semiconductor and display device including the same A transistor display panel according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a substrate; a first transistor disposed on the substrate; and a pixel electrode connected to the first transistor, wherein the first transistor includes a lower electrode disposed on the substrate, a first semiconductor overlapping the lower electrode, a first insulating layer covering the first semiconductor, a first gate electrode disposed on the first insulating layer and overlapping the first semiconductor, and a first source connecting member and a first drain connecting member disposed on the same layer as the first gate electrode and connected to the first semiconductor, wherein the first gate electrode is formed as a triple layer, the first source connecting member and first drain connecting member are formed as a double layer, and the first source connecting member is connected to the lower electrode.
US11751426B2	Hybrid thin film permeation barrier and method of making the same A hybrid permeation barrier having two complementary layers is disclosed. The barrier includes a first layer with a relatively high stress-thickness in the range of −1000 MPa-μm to −200 MPa-μm and a second layer with a relatively low stress-thickness in the range −150 MPa-μm to 300 MPa-μm. The second layer compensates for the stress caused by the first, thereby allowing for a barrier that provides good permeation without causing failure of the device due to delamination.
US11751423B2	Display apparatus including hydrophobic blocking layer on through portion and method of manufacturing the same A display apparatus includes: a substrate including: a display area including a plurality of thin film transistors, and a plurality of display elements electrically connected to the plurality of thin film transistors; a first non-display area outside the display area; and a second non-display area at least partially surrounded by the display area; a through portion passing through the substrate in a vertical direction in the second non-display area; a metal layer surrounding the through portion at the second non-display area; and a hydrophobic blocking layer on an inner side surface of the through portion. The hydrophobic blocking layer includes an oxide of a metal material of the metal layer.
US11751418B2	Display device and method of fabricating the same A display panel may include a first display substrate, a second display substrate disposed over the first display substrate, and a sealing member bonding the first display substrate and the second display substrate. The sealing member may include a frit sealing member including an outer region and an inner region, with the inner region disposed next to an inner side of the outer region and having a first crystallization temperature lower than a second crystallization temperature of the outer region, and an organic sealing member disposed next to an inner side of the frit sealing member.
US11751405B2	Integrated circuit and method for fabricating the same A method for fabricating an integrated circuit is provided. The method includes depositing a dielectric layer over a conductive feature; etching an opening in the dielectric layer to expose the conductive feature, such that the dielectric layer has a tapered sidewall surrounding the opening; depositing a bottom electrode layer into the opening in the dielectric layer; depositing a resistance switch layer over the bottom electrode layer; patterning the resistance switch layer and the bottom electrode layer respectively into a resistance switch element and a bottom electrode, in which a sidewall of the bottom electrode is landing on the tapered sidewall of the dielectric layer.
US11751404B2	FinFET transistor based resistive random access memory Embodiments herein describe techniques for a semiconductor device including a RRAM memory cell. The RRAM memory cell includes a FinFET transistor and a RRAM storage cell. The FinFET transistor includes a fin structure on a substrate, where the fin structure includes a channel region, a source region, and a drain region. An epitaxial layer is around the source region or the drain region. A RRAM storage stack is wrapped around a surface of the epitaxial layer. The RRAM storage stack includes a resistive switching material layer in contact and wrapped around the surface of the epitaxial layer, and a contact electrode in contact and wrapped around a surface of the resistive switching material layer. The epitaxial layer, the resistive switching material layer, and the contact electrode form a RRAM storage cell. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11751401B2	Integrated circuit and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a memory gate, and a data storage element. The semiconductor substrate includes a memory well which has two source/drain regions and a channel region between the source/drain regions. The memory gate is disposed above the channel region. The data storage element includes a ferroelectric material, and is disposed around the memory gate to separate the memory gate from the channel region.
US11751393B2	Memory arrays and methods used in forming a memory array comprising strings of memory cells A memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprises a vertical stack comprising alternating insulative tiers and conductive tiers. The strings of memory cells in the stack comprise channel-material strings and storage-material strings extending through the insulative tiers and the conductive tiers. At least some of the storage material of the storage-material strings in individual of the insulative tiers are intrinsically less charge-transmissive than is the storage material in the storage-material strings in individual of the conductive tiers. Other aspects, including method, are disclosed.
US11751389B2	Three-dimensional memory device with reduced memory unit interference and manufacturing method thereof A three-dimensional (3D) memory device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The 3D memory device includes a substrate, insulation layers, gate material layers, and a vertical structure. The insulation layers and the gate material layers are disposed on the substrate and alternately stacked in a vertical direction. The vertical structure penetrates the gate material layers in the vertical direction. The vertical structure includes a semiconductor layer and a trapping layer. The semiconductor layer is elongated in the vertical direction. The trapping layer surrounds the semiconductor layer in a horizontal direction. The trapping layer includes trapping sections aligned in the vertical direction and separated from one another. The electrical performance of the 3D memory device may be improved by the trapping sections separated from one another.
US11751388B2	3-dimensional nor strings with segmented shared source regions A NOR string includes a number of individually addressable thin-film storage transistors sharing a bit line, with the individually addressable thin-film transistors further grouped into a predetermined number of segments. In each segment, the thin-film storage transistors of the segment share a source line segment, which is electrically isolated from other source line segments in the other segments within the NOR string. The NOR string may be formed along an active strip of semiconductor layers provided above and parallel a surface of a semiconductor substrate, with each active strip including first and second semiconductor sublayers of a first conductivity and a third semiconductor sublayer of a second conductivity, wherein the shared bit line and each source line segment are formed in the first and second semiconductor sublayers, respectively.
US11751386B2	Field-effect transistors, devices containing such field-effect transistors and methods of their formation Field-effect transistors, and integrated circuit devices containing such field-effect transistors, might include a semiconductor material having a first conductivity type, a first source/drain region having a second conductivity type, a second source/drain region having the second conductivity type, a first contact connected to the first source/drain region, a conductor overlying an active area of the semiconductor material and having an annular portion surrounding the first contact and a spur portion extending from an outer perimeter of the annular portion of the conductor, a second contact connected to the second source/drain region outside the annular portion of the conductor, a dielectric between the conductor and the active area, and a third contact overlying the active area and connected to the spur portion of the conductor.
US11751382B2	Method of processing dram Methods of forming a DRAM bit line to improve line edge roughness (LER) and lower resistance are described. The method comprises implanting an inert species into a bit line metal layer having a first grain size on a substrate to form an amorphized bit line metal layer having a second grain size smaller than the first grain size. A film stack is then deposited on the amorphized bit line metal layer. The film stack and amorphized bit line metal layer are etched to form a patterned film stack on the substrate. The patterned film stack on the substrate is thermally annealed.
US11751379B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device may include a bit line extending in a first direction, a first conductive pattern extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a semiconductor pattern connecting the bit line and the first conductive pattern, a second conductive pattern including an insertion portion in the first conductive pattern, and a dielectric layer between the first conductive pattern and the second conductive pattern. The insertion portion of the second conductive pattern may have a width which increases as a distance from the semiconductor pattern increases.
US11751378B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes: a bit line extending on a substrate in a vertical direction; a transistor body part including a first source-drain region, a monocrystalline channel layer, and a second source-drain region that are sequentially arranged in a first horizontal direction and connected to the bit line; gate electrode layers extending in a second horizontal direction that is orthogonal to the first horizontal direction, with a gate dielectric layer between the gate electrode layers and the monocrystalline channel layer, and covering upper and lower surfaces of the monocrystalline channel layer; and a cell capacitor including a lower electrode layer, a capacitor dielectric layer, and an upper electrode layer at a side of the transistor body that is opposite to the bit line in the first horizontal direction and is connected to the second source-drain region.
US11751374B2	Automated replacement system for production line An automated replacement device moves in a right-left direction along a front surface of production line including multiple machines. The automated replacement device moves to a front side of an instructed machine among the multiple machines to perform an automated replacement operation on the machine. A periphery monitoring device monitors a safety area set in a periphery of the automated replacement device to stop an operation of the automated replacement device in an emergency manner when a person or an obstacle is detected in the safety area and alarm device sounds an alarm to notify that the automated replacement device is moving, in which the periphery monitoring device is switched such that a range of the safety area during the movement of the automated replacement device is smaller than a range of the safety area during the automated replacement operation.
US11751360B2	Intelligently deployed cooling fins A method of customizing the cooling of a first heat-producing system comprises selecting a first set of cooling fins with a deployment level. The method also comprises analyzing environmental data for an environment associated with the first set of cooling fins. The method also comprises quantifying a cooling benefit of the deployment level. The method also comprises quantifying an airflow detriment of the deployment level. The method also comprises determining that the airflow detriment outweighs the cooling benefit. The method also comprises reducing the deployment level based on the determination.
US11751359B2	Intelligent movable flow controller and cooling manifold for datacenter cooling systems Systems and methods for cooling a datacenter are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a first flow controller within a cooling manifold is associated with a second flow controller and with a tube there between; and the first flow controller is movable in at least one direction relative to dimensions of the cooling manifold so that it can be positioned for mating with a server tray or box and so that the second flow controller can be mated with a rack manifold.
US11751357B2	Apparatus including thermal management mechanism and methods of manufacturing the same An apparatus including a heat sink having two or more sections of parallel fins that define colinear channels is disclosed herein. The colinear channels are configured to direct flow of air or coolant across the heat sink and have wider channel widths closer to an inlet for the air or coolant and narrower widths closer to an outlet for the air or coolant.
US11751355B2	System and method for selectively generating electricity Provided herein is a system and method for heat exchange of a vehicle. The system comprises an enclosure disposed on the vehicle. The enclosure comprises a vent at a base of the enclosure. The enclosure houses one or more sensors. The enclosure comprises a fan disposed at a base of the enclosure. The heat exchange system comprises an deflector disposed on the vehicle outside the enclosure and configured to direct an airflow into the vent of the enclosure. The heat exchange system comprises a motor configured to: generate electricity from the airflow and selectively supply electricity to operate the fan. The heat exchange system comprises a controller configured to adjust the deflector and regulate an amount of electricity supplied from the motor to the fan.
US11751352B2	Method for locking/unlocking a removable module, and assembly for implementation A method and assembly for locking/unlocking, formed of one of several a removable module (2) and a mount plate (3). The assembly includes a support wall (4) supporting each removable module (2). The removable module (2) being provided with two lugs (5) through which an aperture passes. The lugs (5) extending out of the removable (2) so that they can be inserted into opening (7) formed in the support wall (4). This assembly is equipped with a locking/unlocking system (100) having a lever (10) extending under the support wall (4) and provided with circular eccentric cams (11) arranged with offset axial symmetry in the form of an S about a central rotation axle (20) perpendicular to the support wall (4). The lever (10) being fixed in terms of rotation on this central axle (2) at equal distances from the two openings (7).
US11751351B2	Rotatable side panel with cable dividers The present disclosure provides for a rotatable side panel of a cabinet. A side panel, comprises: a primary base; one or more cable dividers; a first flange; and a second flange; wherein the one or more cable dividers are disposed on the primary base, wherein the one or more cable dividers are perpendicular to the primary base, wherein the first flange is disposed along one of the one or more cable dividers disposed furthest to one side of the primary base, wherein the second flange is disposed along one of the one or more cable dividers disposed furthest to the opposite side of the primary base from the first flange, and wherein the second flange is disposed at a top end of the one of the one or more cable dividers.
US11751349B2	Anodized part having a matte black appearance This application relates to an anodized part. The anodized part includes a metal substrate and an anodized layer overlaying and formed from the metal substrate. The anodized layer includes (i) an external surface that includes randomly distributed light-absorbing features that are capable of absorbing visible light incident upon the external surface, and (ii) pores defined by pore walls, where color particles are infused within the pores. The anodized layer is characterized as having a color having an L* value using a CIE Lab* color space that is less than 10.
US11751347B2	Electronic apparatus According to an embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a printed circuit board including a plurality of devices that include a nonvolatile memory package and a controller package configured to control the nonvolatile memory package, and a housing accommodating the printed circuit board. The housing includes an opening on a surface constituting the housing. An encryption device among the plurality of devices is present in a first region. The first region is a region on the printed circuit board that is not irradiated with light emitted from a light source placed at the opening. The encryption device is a device used for an encryption process of data to be stored into the nonvolatile memory package.
US11751346B2	Rotating device and display device The present application discloses a rotating device and a display device, which relate to a field of electronic technologies. The rotating device includes: a first member including an anti-rotation groove and at least one first connecting portion; and a second member including an anti-rotation protrusion and at least one second connecting portion. The first connecting portion and the second connecting portion are rotationally connected, and the anti-rotation protrusion enters the anti-rotation groove to prevent the first connecting portion from rotating along a first direction with respect to the second connecting portion.
US11751343B2	Electronic controller able to be expanded in a modular manner A modularly expandable electronic control unit comprises: an electronic circuit board on which a conductor track is disposed on a side in a region of lateral edges and enclosing an inner region and separating it from an outer region of the side, a housing having two halves for receiving the electronic circuit board. With the housing assembled, at least one housing half has an encircling electrically conductive shielding wall which rests on and establishes electrical contact with the conductor track and/or has at least one receptacle accessible from outside the assembled housing. The receptacle is disposed so the electronic module placed in the receptacle may be electrically connected to a module connection port disposed in the outer region of the electronic circuit board. The electronic circuit board has electrical connections between the module connection port and one or more electronic assemblies disposed on the inner region.
US11751340B2	Method of producing wiring board that includes dual-layered insulating film A wiring board includes a conductor pattern formed on a board, and an insulating film that covers at least part of the conductor pattern. A first insulating film is provided in a first region on the board, the first region covering at least part of the conductor pattern and having a first border segment. A second insulating film is provided in a second region on the board, the second region covering at least part of the first region and having a second border segment. The second border segment is located outside the first region, and the shortest distance from any point belonging to the second border segment to the first border segment is not more than 400 μm.
US11751339B2	Electronic-component carrier board and a wiring method for the same An electronic-component carrier board includes carrier plates formed in a stack, and insulating layers each disposed between two adjacent ones of the carrier plates. Multiple conductive pins extend through the insulating layers and the carrier plates. Multiple conductive wires equal in length and width are provided. Each conductive wire is connected to one of the conductive pins, covered by one of the insulating layers, disposed between two adjacent ones of the carrier plates, and extends outwardly from the stack of the carrier plates. A wiring method for the electronic-component carrier board is also disclosed.
US11751331B2	Connection member and display device including same A connection member includes a first region, a second region, and a third region, where a number of conductive layers in the second region is greater than a number of conductive layers in the first region and is greater than a number of conductive layers in the third region, a first layer, which is an uppermost layer of the second region, extends to the third region, a second layer, which is a lowermost layer of the third region, extends to the second region, and a side portion of the second region at a boundary between the second region and the third region is covered by the first layer and the second layer.
US11751329B2	Stretchable electronic device A stretchable electronic device includes a substrate, a plurality of electronic elements, and a conductive wiring. The electronic elements and the conductive wiring are disposed on the substrate, and the conductive wiring is electrically connected to the electronic elements. The conductive wiring is formed by stacking an elastic conductive layer and a non-elastic conductive layer. A fracture strain of the elastic conductive layer is greater than a fracture strain of the non-elastic conductive layer, and the non-elastic conductive layer includes a plurality of first fragments which are separated from one another.
US11751328B1	Flexible interconnect circuits and methods of fabrication thereof Provided are flexible interconnect circuit assemblies and methods of fabricating thereof. In some examples, a flexible interconnect circuit comprises multiple circuit portions, which are monolithically integrated. During the fabrication, some of these circuit portions are folded relative to other portions, forming a stack in each fold. For example, the initial orientation of these portions can be selected such that smaller sheets can be used for circuit fabrication. The portions are then unfolded into the final design configuration. In some examples, the assembly also comprises a bonding film and a temporary support film attached to the bonding film such that the two circuit portions at least partially overlap with the bonding film and are positioned between the bonding film and temporary support film. In some examples, at least some circuit portions extend past the boundary of the bonding film and are coupled to connectors.
US11751326B2	Electronic apparatus and inspection method An electronic apparatus includes: an electronic module; and a flexible substrate electrically connected to the electronic module. The flexible substrate includes: a base film; a plurality of first contact pads arranged at one end on the base film in a first direction, and electrically connected to the electronic module; a plurality of second contact pads arranged at an other end on the base film in the first direction; a plurality of first wires arranged on the base film, and each electrically connecting one of the first contact pads and one of the second contact pads together; and a plurality of third contact pads arranged on the base film, each of the third contact pads being positioned along the first direction between one of the first contact pads and one of the second contact pads, and being electrically connected to one of the first wires.
US11751324B2	Electronic card comprising a first ground plane and a second ground plane An electronic card comprising: a first card portion including lightning protection components, a first ground plane and a first ground zone; a second card portion comprising functional components, a second ground plane and a second ground zone; a third card portion, which separates and electrically isolates the first ground plane and the first ground zone from the second ground plane and from the second ground zone; the first ground zone and the second ground zone being unvarnished; the first ground zone and the second ground zone being arranged in order to be applied onto a housing element that is electrically conductive and that belongs to a housing in which the electronic card is integrated.
US11751323B2	Quad-trace structures for high-speed signaling A printed circuit board (PCB) is provided for transmitting a differential signal. The PCB includes first and second conductive signal layers. The first conductive signal layer includes a first positive trace of the differential signal and a first negative trace of the differential signal. The second conductive signal layer includes a second positive trace of the differential signal and a second negative trace of the differential signal. The first positive trace is adjacent to the first negative trace, and the second positive trace is adjacent to the second negative trace and directly below the first negative trace.
US11751322B2	Integrating graphene into the skin depth region of high speed communications signals for a printed circuit board A conductive signal transmission structure for an electronic device (e.g., a printed circuit board of an electronic device) includes a copper material and a graphene layer disposed within the copper material at a depth below a surface of the structure. The depth of the graphene layer is further within a skin depth region of the structure when a transmission signal applied to the conductive signal transmission structure has a signal speed of at least 112 Gbps.
US11751319B2	Electronic device An electronic device is disclosed. The disclosed electronic device includes a printed circuit board including at least one through-hole, a holder which is positioned through the through-hole and protrudes upward and downward from the printed circuit board, and a solder layer for bonding one area of the holder to one surface of the printed circuit board.
US11751316B2	Power transfer and monitoring devices for X-ray tubes A power transfer and monitoring device for an X-ray tube may include: an X-ray filament; a transformer including a primary coil and a secondary coil, wherein the secondary coil of the transformer includes a first leg, a second leg, and a middle leg; a current supply configured to supply a sinusoidal current to the primary coil of the transformer; and a calculation unit configured to measure a primary current of the transformer, configured to determine a synthesized transformer magnetizing current, and configured to subtract the synthesized transformer magnetizing current from the primary current of the transformer to determine a value of filament current through the X-ray filament. The first and second legs of the secondary coil of the transformer alternately supply current to a first end of the X-ray filament. The middle leg of the secondary coil of the transformer supplies current to a second end of the X-ray filament.
US11751315B2	Control device for lighting The invention provides a control device for controlling at least one wirelessly connected lighting device within a wireless network, wherein the control device comprises: a transceiver configured to overhear and transmit a message within the wireless network; a light sensor configured to detect a light signal comprising a temporal characteristic that is characteristic for a first artificial light source; a processor operatively coupled to the light sensor and the transceiver, wherein the processor is configured to: determine, based on analyzing said temporal characteristic, a first condition that the light signal belongs to the of artificial light source, and transmit a control message to the at least one wirelessly connected lighting device upon determining said first condition.
US11751312B2	Real time locating system having lighting control devices A load control system for controlling a plurality of lighting loads located in a space may be configured to track the location of one or more tracked devices. The load control system may comprise a system controller, lighting control devices, e.g., for controlling a plurality of lighting loads, and tracked devices. The tracked devices may each transmit beacon messages. The lighting control devices may receive the beacon message. The lighting control devices may measure a communication quality metric of each of the beacon messages, and process the measured communication quality metrics received over a period of time to determine a processed communication quality metric for the tracked device. The lighting control devices may transmit tracking data to the system controller. The system controller may determine a location of the tracked device. For example, the system controller may determine the location of the tracked device via trilateration.
US11751310B2	Controlling intensity over a surface of a light sensitive object An approach for controlling ultraviolet intensity over a surface of a light sensitive object is described. Aspects involve using ultraviolet radiation with a wavelength range that includes ultraviolet-A and ultraviolet-B radiation to irradiate the surface. Light sensors measure light intensity at the surface, wherein each sensor measures light intensity in a wavelength range that corresponds to a wavelength range emitted from at least one of the sources. A controller controls the light intensity over the surface by adjusting the power of the sources as a function of the light intensity measurements. The controller uses the light intensity measurements to determine whether each source is illuminating the surface with an intensity that is within an acceptable variation with a predetermined intensity value targeted for the surface. The controller adjusts the power of the sources as a function of the variation to ensure an optimal distribution of light intensity over the surface.
US11751306B2	Buck topological circuit for power supply Examples of the present disclosure provides a BUCK topological circuit for power supply including a rectification circuit, a first filter energy-storage circuit, a step-down constant-current driver chip, an output current setting circuit, a freewheeling circuit, a transformer, and a second filter energy-storage circuit. An external power supply capacitor is not required in the step-down constant-current driver chip.
US11751304B1	LED feedback voltage regulating driving device A LED feedback voltage regulating driving device is provided. The LED feedback voltage regulating driving device includes a microcontroller, a first feedback circuit, a second feedback circuit, an oscillating circuit and a comparison circuit. The first feedback circuit and the second feedback circuit adjust the voltage and current from the electricity supply module and the driving circuit respectively, and transmit the voltage and current to the microcontroller; wherein, the microcontroller and the oscillating circuit reciprocate the voltage and current from the first feedback circuit and the second feedback circuit; wherein the comparison circuit compares the signal from the microcontroller and the oscillating circuit; wherein the pulse circuit adjusts the voltage and the current then transmits the voltage and current to the driving circuit for electricity driving; wherein, during the electricity driving, the driving circuit transmits part of the voltage and current to the second feedback circuit.
US11751303B2	Configuring color control for lighting devices In an auto vibrancy mode, a vibrancy value for a lighting load may be automatically determined based on a selected color setting for the lighting load. The automatically determined vibrancy value may also be configured to emit light from the lighting load at or above a target CRI value for the selected color setting. The selected color setting may be a CCT value on the black-body curve or an x-y chromaticity value. If the selected color setting is CCT value on the black-body curve, the automatically determined vibrancy value may be a pre-defined vibrancy value that is configured to emit light from the lighting load at or above the target CRI value for the selected CCT value. If the selected color setting is an x-y chromaticity value, the automatically determined vibrancy value may be based on the distance between the selected x-y chromaticity value and the black-body curve.
US11751302B2	Controlling color temperature and luminance in linear LED fixtures A linear light-emitting diode (LED) lighting apparatus may include an array of light emitting diodes (LEDs) that may include a first plurality of LEDs that produces a first light having a first color temperature. The first plurality of LEDs aligns within a first linear shape. The second plurality of LEDs may produce a second light having a second color temperature different from the first color temperature. The second plurality of LEDs aligns within a second linear shape. The lighting apparatus may also include a driver circuit that outputs a plurality of currents and a switch assembly that may couple to the driver circuit. The switch assembly may include a first switch that may cause the driver circuit to output one of the plurality of currents and a second switch that may cause the one of the plurality of currents to couple to the first plurality of LEDs, the second plurality of LEDs, or both.
US11751297B2	Radio frequency heating method and radio frequency heating device A radio frequency heating method includes: cladding an object to be heated by using a surrounding medium, and performing radio frequency heating operation on the object to be heated clad by the surrounding medium, in which the surrounding medium is an alcoholic solution. In the radio frequency heating method according to the embodiments of the present application, by using the alcoholic solution as the surrounding medium to clad the object to be heated, heating uniformity of the object to be heated in a radio frequency heating process may be improved, edge corner energy concentration effect in the radio frequency heating process may be fully avoided, and then quality of the object to be heated after heating may be ensured.
US11751296B2	Ovens with metallic belts and microwave launch box assemblies for processing food products In certain examples, a food processing machine for processing a food product includes a housing defining a cavity, a conveyor with a belt comprising metal for conveying the food product through the cavity in a longitudinal direction, and a convection heating system for heating air in the cavity such that heated air heats the food product as the food product is conveyed through the cavity. A microwave launch box system is configured to emit microwave energy into the cavity in a lateral direction transverse to the longitudinal direction to thereby further heat the food product as the food product is conveyed through the cavity.
US11751289B2	Integrated heater and method of manufacture A heater includes a sintered assembly and a functional element disposed on one of opposing surfaces of the sintered assembly. The heater is manufactured by a method that includes hot pressing a ceramic powder and a plurality of first slugs and forming the sintered assembly including a ceramic substrate and the plurality of first slugs embedded therein, forming the functional element on the one opposing surface of the sintered assembly such that the functional element is connected to the plurality of first slugs, and forming a monolithic substrate in which the functional element and the plurality of first slugs are embedded.
US11751286B2	Systems and methods for scalable edge-based microcontrollers Embodiments described herein provide for the leveraging of edge-based resources (e.g., processing, memory, storage, and/or other resources of one or more Multi-Access/Mobile Edge Computing devices (“MECs”), such as MECs associated with a radio access network (“RAN”) of a wireless network) to process data from and/or provide instructions to microcontroller devices, System on Chip (“SoC”) devices, configurable logic boards, Internet of Things (“IoT”) devices, and/or other types of devices or systems. For example, embodiments described herein may provide for the creation and configuration of logical devices or systems based on one or more microcontrollers, SoC devices, etc., edge-based processing of sensor data and/or other types of data received or generated by the microcontrollers, SoC devices, etc., and the generation of instructions to control physical devices communicatively coupled to the microcontrollers, SoC devices, etc.
US11751279B2	Apparatuses and methods for multi-radio access technology (RAT) coordination A User Equipment (UE) including a wireless transceiver and a controller is provided. The wireless transceiver performs wireless transmission and reception to and from a first service network utilizing a first RAT or a second service network utilizing a second RAT. The controller sends an indicator of a connection release request to the first service network via the wireless transceiver in response to terminating a first communication service with the first service network or in response to leaving the first service network for the second service network. Also, the controller releases a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection with the first service network after sending the indicator of the connection release request.
US11751278B2	Cell state management method and apparatus, terminal device, and network device The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a cell state management method and an apparatus, a terminal device, and a network device. The method includes receiving, by a terminal device, first configuration information sent by a network device, where the first configuration information is used to indicate whether a state of a first cell is a first state or a second state, the first state represents an active state with a dormancy behavior, and the second state represents an active state with a non-dormancy behavior.
US11751275B2	Management of antenna switching according to a sounding reference symbol antenna switching configuration Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an antenna switch selection associated with a dual connectivity antenna configuration, wherein the antenna switch selection is associated with a first radio access technology (RAT) and the dual connectivity antenna configuration permits communication via the first RAT and a second RAT; determine, based at least in part on the antenna switching selection, a quantity of communication chains, associated with the first RAT, that are affected by an antenna switching process of the second RAT; and selectively permit, based at least in part on the quantity of communication chains, a reconfiguration of the dual connectivity antenna configuration according to the antenna switch selection. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11751273B2	Activation or deactivation of a virtual subset of a network dedicated to a service for a terminal A method for activation or deactivation, for a terminal, of a virtual subset of a telecommunications network referred to as a “network slice”, dedicated to a service. The telecommunications network includes a plurality of network slices. The method includes: acquiring at least one piece of context data of a user; and activating or deactivating at least one network slice among the plurality of network slices on the basis of the previously acquired piece of context data.
US11751272B2	Method and apparatus for supporting RLC UM mode operation in next generation mobile communication system The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car, a connected car, health care, digital education, a smart retail, security and safety services.
US11751271B2	Method and device for re-establishing PDCP in wireless communication system Disclosed are a communication technique for merging IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security, and safety related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. The present invention relates to operations of a terminal and a base station in a mobile communication system. The present invention provides a method by which a terminal re-establishes a PDCP in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a message including PDCP re-establishment information on a DRB from a base station in which an RRC connection is set up; checking whether the PDCP re-establishment information includes configuration information of an SDAP layer; and determining whether to perform a PDCP re-establishment procedure for changing the DRB operating as a PDCP of a first system into a PDCP of a second system on the basis of the checking result.
US11751268B2	Efficient handling of a resource control state change and multi-node connectivity This document describes techniques and devices for efficient handling of a resource control state change and multi-node connectivity. Instead of performing multiple radio resource control (RRC) procedures to change a resource control state of a user equipment (UE) and establish, modify, or release a connection with multi-node connectivity, the techniques described herein combine the multiple RRC procedures into a single RRC procedure that supports both a resource control state change and multi-node connectivity. In particular, a master node sends a resource control state and multi-node connectivity message that includes both state change information and multi-node connectivity information. With this single message, timing and power resources of the UE can be conserved and failures resulting from asynchronous communication of the state change information and the multi-node connectivity information can be avoided.
US11751267B2	Communication apparatus having different bandwidth modes depending on whether communication uses an external base station, computer readable storage medium, and control method of communication apparatus Deterioration of communication is prevented in a communication apparatus, in which an infrastructure mode and a P2P mode are independently and concurrently executable, according to an embodiment of the present invention. Hence, in a case where the communication apparatus is in a state in which a first mode of executing wireless communication with a communication partner apparatus via an external access point and a second mode of executing wireless communication with an external apparatus without using the external access point are concurrently executable, the following selection is made. That is, a first channel width which is not accompanied by network detection processing is selected.
US11751266B2	Mobile communications network, infrastructure equipment, communications device and methods A communications device for use in a mobile communications network, the mobile communications network comprising one or more other infrastructure equipment, the infrastructure equipment and other infrastructure equipment each providing wireless connectivity within at least one cell, wherein the communications device includes transmitter circuitry configured to transmit signals to the infrastructure equipment, receiver circuitry configured to receive signals from the infrastructure equipment, and controller circuitry configured to control the transmitter circuitry and the receiver circuitry. The controller circuitry controls the transmitter circuitry and the receiver circuitry to communicate wirelessly with at least a first of the infrastructure equipment including by the use of a radio bearer, to receive a reconfiguration message from the first infrastructure equipment to effect re-establishment of its radio link control protocol layer, and subsequently to re-establish its radio link control protocol layer in response to the reconfiguration message.
US11751264B2	Apparatus, system and method of concurrent multiple band (CMB) network access For example, a wireless communication device may be configured to, while communicating via a first radio of the wireless communication device over a first network connection in a first WLAN over a first wireless communication frequency band, identify a second WLAN over a second wireless communication frequency band for Concurrent Multiple Band (CMB) network access, the second wireless communication frequency band different from the first wireless communication frequency band; based on identifying the second WLAN, to automatically transmit from a second radio of the wireless communication device user credentials to establish a second network connection with the second WLAN over the second wireless communication frequency band, the second network connection concurrent with the first network connection; and to concurrently communicate over the first and second network connections by routing to the first and second radios a plurality of application streams corresponding to one or more applications.
US11751263B2	Connection based teaming with composite links An information handling system includes a first wireless data communication interface configured to establish wireless data communication links on a first frequency band, a second wireless data communication interface configured to establish wireless data communication links on a second frequency band, and a processor. The processor establishes a first data communication link on the first wireless data communication interface with an access point external to the information handling system, determines a first link characteristic for the first data communication link, establishes a second data communication link on the second wireless data communication interface with the access point, determines a second link characteristic for the second data communication link, selects one of the first and second data communication links based on the first and second link characteristics, and maintains the selected one of the first or second data communication links based upon the selection. The first and second link characteristics are of a common type of characteristic.
US11751262B2	Electronic apparatus, a central node apparatus and a network side apparatus, a transmission method and a configuration method The present disclosure provides an electronic apparatus, a central node apparatus and a network side apparatus, a transmission method and a configuration method. The electronic apparatus for user equipment UE side includes: a transmission mode determining device configured for determining, based on service type of uplink transmission data that is to be transmitted to a network side apparatus by the electronic apparatus for UE side, whether to adopt a transmission mode in which the uplink transmission data is transmitted to a central node apparatus such that the uplink transmission data is transmitted to the network side apparatus. The electronic apparatus, the central node apparatus and the network side apparatus, the transmission method and the configuration method according to the present disclosure can implement at least one of saving network resources, reducing signaling overhead, and reducing power loss.
US11751259B2	Communication method in vehicle system and communication management method in in-vehicle network A vehicle system includes a plurality of applications issuing a request for a communication with an outside of a vehicle, a communicator device performing the communicating, and a network coordinator managing the request for the communication from the plurality of applications. In a communication method in the vehicle system, when the network coordinator receives a request for a connection with an outside of the vehicle from the application, the network coordinator determines whether or not to permit the connection with the outside of the vehicle, and the network coordinator notifies the application of a determination result of the connection with the outside of the vehicle.
US11751258B2	Control method for displaying a code image when transmission of information for establishing a connection fails, storage medium, and information processing apparatus There is provided a control method executed by a first information processing apparatus to establish a connection between a first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus, the method comprising: acquiring information for establishing a connection to a first communication apparatus; and displaying on a display unit a screen including a code image generated based on the acquired information and a message prompting a user to capture the code image by a second information processing apparatus that is more portable than the first information processing apparatus.
US11751255B2	Data transmission method in a wireless communication network Provided are a data transmission method, apparatus and computer readable storage medium. The method includes: sending, by a terminal, a random access preamble to a base station, and receiving, by the terminal, a random access response sent by the base station; and sending, by the terminal, a first request message carrying uplink data to the base station; wherein the sending, by the terminal, the random access preamble to the base station comprises: in response to determining that the terminal satisfies a first preset condition, sending, by the terminal, the random access preamble for requesting an uplink data transmission resource to the base station; and wherein the method further comprising one of: failing to receive, by the terminal, a second response message returned by the base station; receiving, by the terminal, the second response message carrying an uplink data failure indication or an uplink data retransmission indication returned by the base station; or in response to determining that the terminal fails to receive the random access response returned by the base station, determining, by the terminal, a random access failure and reinitiating, by the terminal, random access.
US11751252B2	Signaling mechanism for message and physical uplink shared channel repetitions A method, network node and wireless device, WD, providing signaling mechanisms for enabling repetitions of messages related to random access, RA, are disclosed. According to one aspect, a network node transmits an indication of a number of zero or more repetitions of a message related to RA to be transmitted by the WD in response to a random access response, RAR, message transmitted to the WD. The network node further receives at least one message related to RA.
US11751251B2	Grant based PUSCH transmission and configured grant based PUSCH transmission in NR systems operating on unlicensed spectrum Various embodiments herein provide techniques for grant-based and configured grant physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmissions in New Radio (NR) systems operation in unlicensed spectrum. Some embodiments relate to identification, based on an index to a table, a combination of a listen-before talk (LBT) type, an offset, and a channel access priority class (CAPC). Some embodiments relate to selecting, based on a duration of a first uplink (UL) transmission that is to follow a received downlink (DL) transmission, one of CAT-1 LBT and CAT-2 LBT. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11751250B2	Method and apparatus for random access channel preamble design in non-terrestrial network communications Various solutions for random access channel (RACH) preamble design in non-terrestrial network (NTN) communications with respect to user equipment and network apparatus are described. An apparatus may initiate a RACH procedure. The apparatus may determine a fractional frequency offset pattern or a cover code across groups of preamble sequences. The apparatus may generate a RACH preamble signal according to at least one of the fractional frequency offset pattern and the cover code. The apparatus may transmit the RACH preamble signal to a network node.
US11751246B2	Multiple frame transmission A method for transmitting a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) in a transmission opportunity (TXOP) and a device using the same are provided. The device transmits a request to send (RTS) frame to a plurality of receiving stations. The RTS frame includes a bandwidth field and a plurality of allocation fields. The bandwidth field indicates a first bandwidth in which the RTS frame is transmitted. Each allocation field indicates a bandwidth in which a clear to send (CTS) frame is to be sent by a corresponding receiving station. The device determines a transmission bandwidth of a PPDU to be sent by comparing the first bandwidth with a second bandwidth which is a total bandwidth indicated by the plurality of allocation fields.
US11751244B2	Method and entity for transmitting in a communications system A method performed in an entity for transmitting in a communications system. The method comprises assessing a channel to be available for transmission by establishing an on-going transmission to have a received signal strength such as to allow simultaneous transmission in view of a first clear channel assessment threshold; establishing type of transmission of the on-going transmission; and determining, based on the established type of transmission, whether to transmit or to defer transmitting. A corresponding entity, computer programs and computer program products are also provided.
US11751235B2	Information transmission method and device Provided in the present disclosure are an information transmission method and device, the method being used for an information transmission terminal and comprising: dividing DCI to be transmitted into at least one DCI data block group; configuring different specific transmission resources for each DCI data block group; bearing each DCI data block group on the specific transmission resources corresponding thereto, and transmitting the groups to an information receiving terminal. Hence, employing the present disclosure may implement the transmission of DCI blocks and may also improve the reliability and accuracy of information transmission.
US11751234B2	Techniques for communicating over asynchronous slots Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first base station may communicate during asynchronous slots in accordance with a set of communication parameters determined from a handshake procedure performed with a second base station. For example, based on a change to a slot type of a slot to an asynchronous slot, the first base station and the second base station may perform the handshake procedure to determine the set of communication parameters and may communicate one or more messages during the slot in accordance with the set of communication parameters. Additionally, or alternatively, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a sounding reference signal (SRS) associated with a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state based on a slot type of a first slot in which the UE transmits the SRS and a reference signal received in a second slot having the slot type.
US11751232B2	Communication system and wireless interference management A communication management resource partitions allocated wireless bandwidth into a first portion (such as first virtual bandwidth or first bandwidth part) and a second portion (such as virtual bandwidth or second bandwidth part). The communication management resource determines wireless interference associated with transmission of first wireless communications over the different bandwidth portions such as from a wireless base station to multiple communication devices while in a first mode. Depending on the wireless interference determined during the first mode, the communication management resource controls conveyance of second wireless communications over the allocated wireless bandwidth to the multiple communication devices in a second mode. In one instance, the communication management system operates one or more communication devices in a device-to-device mode to alleviate wireless interference associated with use of the allocated wireless bandwidth.
US11751230B2	Modification of input signals at least with weights to create a desired error vector magnitude or clipping noise distribution for transmission An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: receiving a first signal comprising one or more carrier signals comprising a plurality of resource blocks, wherein each resource block is assigned to a unique frequency and time slot of the respective carrier signal; generating a clipping pulse by modifying said first signal; converting the clipping pulse signal into a plurality of narrowband signals, wherein each narrowband signal is a frequency slice of the clipping pulse signal; modifying the plurality of narrowband signals to generate a plurality of modified narrowband signals, wherein said modifying is controlled based on filter weights that define a level of noise to be added to the respective narrowband signals in accordance with a desired error vector magnitude distribution or clipping noise distribution.
US11751228B2	Methods and apparatuses for uplink spatial relation info switch Various embodiments herein provide techniques for user equipment (UE) behavior and delay requirements in case of spatial relation information change for an uplink signal, such as a sounding reference signal (SRS), a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), and/or a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). In one example, the UE determines a delay time period from receipt of a message that indicates spatial relation information for uplink transmission. The delay time period includes a decoding time period and a UE processing and preparation time period. The UE transmits an uplink signal using the indicated spatial relation information after expiration of the delay time period.
US11751220B2	Signal sending and receiving methods and devices Provided are a signal sending and receiving method and device. The signal sending device includes: a first transmission module (301), configured to send at least one of a signal and a channel to a second-type node on a first frequency domain resource set, or send at least one of the signal and the channel to the second-type node on the first frequency domain resource set and a second frequency domain resource set; where each of the first frequency domain resource set and the second frequency domain resource set is a resource element (RE) set on a physical carrier, and a position of the center RE of the first frequency domain resource set is associated with a channel number of the physical carrier.
US11751218B2	Resource configuration for integrated access and backhaul radio access network sharing Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a network node may transmit, to first central unit (CU) that corresponds to an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) donor, an indication of a first resource configuration for communications corresponding to a cell served by the network node and associated with a second CU that corresponds to a base station. The network node may receive, from the first CU, a second resource configuration comprising a distributed unit (DU) cell resource configuration for the cell. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11751216B2	Activation of secondary cell containing bandwidth parts 5G methods and architectures to determine active SCells and their bandwidth parts (BWP) used in carrier aggregation (CA) are disclosed in which activating a BWP for an active SCell is performed initially according to a default value provided in initial radio resource control (RRC) messaging. After initialization, SCells and the SCell BWPs used by the user equipment (UE) are activated by RRC messaging, downlink control information (DCI) or dedicated medium access control (MAC) control elements (MAC CEs) with the initial BWP used for an activated SCell being a default value provided during initialization.
US11751215B2	Method for transmitting or receiving downlink control channel and device using same A method for receiving a PDCCH by a terminal in a mobile communication system may comprise the steps of: receiving a first PDCCH including first DCI from a base station through a first PDCCH search space; and receiving a second PDCCH including second DCI from the base station through a second PDCCH search space, wherein the first DCI and second DCI are for scheduling the same PDSCH for the same TB or TBs associated with the same HARQ process, are for scheduling different PDSCHs for the same TB or TBs associated with the same HARQ process, or are for scheduling different PDSCHs for different TBs or TBs associated with different HARQ processes. In addition, the first DCI and second DCI may be received from the base station within a time window.
US11751208B2	Uplink control information in unlicensed bands in a wireless network A wireless device receives configuration parameters of periodic radio resources of a configured uplink grant. The periodic radio resources comprise: one or more first resource elements of a first sub-band; and one or more second resource elements of a second sub-band. The wireless device multiplexes: a first configured grant uplink control information (CG-UCI) via the one or more first resource elements; and a second CG-UCI via the one or more second resource elements. The second CG-UCI is be based on a repetition of the first CG-UCI. At least one of the first CG-UCI and the second CG-UCI is transmitted via the periodic radio resources and based on one or more listen-before-talk (LBT) procedures performed on the first sub-band and the second sub-band.
US11751204B2	Group common DCI for wireless resources Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A base station may send, to a wireless device, one or more radio resource control messages comprising parameters for one or more bandwidth parts or other wireless resources. The base station may send, to the wireless device, downlink control information comprising one or more bandwidth part identifiers. The wireless device may switch, based on the downlink control information, from a first bandwidth part to a second bandwidth part.
US11751203B2	Method and device for transmitting or receiving signal in wireless communication system A method and a device for transmitting or receiving a signal in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention are provided, and the method may comprise: determining a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource for transmitting a PUCCH; and transmitting the PUCCH via the PUCCH resource, wherein the PUCCH resource is determined to be one of 16 PUCCH resources in a PUCCH resource set, and the 16 PUCCH resources include a PUCCH resource having a start symbol index of 12 and a PUCCH resource having a start symbol index of 9, or include a PUCCH resource having an orthogonal cover code (OCC) of 0 and a PUCCH resource having an OCC of 1.
US11751198B2	Discontinuous reception for sidelink The apparatus of the wireless communication may include a first wireless device configured to transmit sidelink control information (SCI) reserving periodic resources for an initial transmission and aperiodic resources for one or more retransmissions over a sidelink, transmit the initial transmission using the periodic resources, and transmit the one or more retransmissions using the aperiodic resources. The apparatus of wireless communication may also include a second wireless device may be configured to receive the SCI indicating the set of resources for the sidelink transmission from the first wireless device, determine a first resource in the set of resources is periodically reserved, and determine one or more remaining resources in the set of resources is aperiodically reserved.
US11751195B2	Control signaling for multicast communications In embodiments of systems and methods for managing control signaling for multicast communications, a base station may transmit to a wireless device an indication of whether to monitor a group common physical downlink control channel (GC PDCCH), a wireless device-specific PDCCH for multicast configuration information, or both. The base station may determine a schedule for transmitting multicast communications to the wireless device based on a capability reported by the wireless device, and may transmit to the wireless device an indication of whether a transport block for GC multicast communications including services for multicast communications will be scheduled by the GC PDCCH, the wireless device-specific PDCCH, or both. The base station may transmit, and the wireless device may receive, the multicast communications according to the multicast configuration information and the schedule.
US11751194B2	Method and device for transmitting PUSCH by changing the number of bits of DCI field in wireless communication system Provided are a method and device for transmitting and receiving a signal in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention, the method comprising: receiving DCI for scheduling a PUSCH; and transmitting the PUSCH on the basis of the DCI. An FDRA field in the DCI includes LSBs of K bits including information about an RB set. The K bits are converted into L bits on the basis of the number N of RB sets set in the current active BWP being different from the number M of RB sets set in a specific BWP.
US11751193B2	Scheduling order for a scheduled cell having downlink control information from multiple scheduling cells Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. In one example, a method for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) includes identifying that the UE is in carrier aggregation communication with a first cell having a first sub-carrier spacing and a second cell having a second, different sub-carrier spacing. The method may further include monitoring one or more UE-specific search spaces of the first cell for first control information scheduling a first data communication on the first cell and one or more UE-specific search spaces of the first cell or the second cell for second control information scheduling a second data communication on the first cell, and resolving a scheduling order of the first control information scheduling the first data communication and the second control information scheduling the second data communication based at least in part on the monitoring and on a scheduling condition.
US11751192B2	Tethering policy for cellular networks The invention relates to a method for operating a gateway wherein the method comprises to detect a downlink data packet session transmitted to the first user entity, and to amend the lifetime indicator in at least some of the data packets of the detected downlink data packet session such that the data packets for which the lifetime indicator has been amended, have reached the end of the lifetime and cannot be transmitted further when arriving at the first user entity.
US11751190B2	Methods for power savings with millimeter wave relays Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In one example, a first user equipment (UE) identifies a trigger condition associated with a first communication link with a base station and establishes a second communication link with a second UE. The UE may transmit a relay request to the second UE based on the trigger condition, wherein the relay request instructs the second UE to relay communications for the first UE. The first UE communicates with the base station via the second communication link. In another example, a base station establishes communication links with a first and second UE. The base station receives a data forwarding request that instructs the base station to use the second UE to relay communications between it and the first UE. The base station communicates with the first UE via the second communication link based at least in part on the relay request.
US11751187B2	Signal transmission method and apparatus In a signal transmission method, a user equipment receives a first signal from a wireless network device; and the user equipment determines spatial information of a to-be-transmitted second signal based on the first signal, and transmits the to-be-transmitted second signal by using the spatial information. An uplink transmit beam is determined by using related information of a downlink receive beam, so that the UE can efficiently determine spatial information of an uplink signal to be transmitted by the UE.
US11751184B2	Indication of degraded transmit beam group in group-based reporting Aspects provide apparatus, methods, processing systems, and computer readable media for a user equipment (UE) to provide an indication when the quality of a group of previously-reported simultaneously receivable transmit beams has degraded to the point they are no longer simultaneously receivable.
US11751183B2	CORESET and QCL association in beam recovery procedure Method, apparatus, and computer program product for a CORESET beam recovery procedure and a QCL association beam recovery procedure where a condition or rule based UE initiated change of active TCI state is used. The CORESET beam recovery procedure involves a downlink reference signal corresponding to a transmission configuration indication state activated for certain CORESET being determined as a beam failure detection resource. The QCL association beam recovery procedure concerns a UE transmitting a UL request signal to require switching an active TCI state of the CORESET to a currently deactivated TCI state of the same CORESET.
US11751182B2	Transmission delay compensation for intra-frequency band communication The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for operating transceiver circuitry to transmit or receive signals on various frequency ranges. To do so, an electronic device may determine a receive delay between one or more messages received on different component carriers and may transmit the receive delay to a base station to update how communications are transmitted on one of the component carriers. The update made to at least one of the component carriers may compensate for the receive delay between the different component carriers. Compensating for the receive delay may improve operations that delay downlink communications to reduce a likelihood or stop simultaneous downlink and uplink communications by further adjusting for delays seen at an electronic device when communicating with base stations disposed at a different distances from the electronic device.
US11751177B2	Method for slot format for backhaul and access link in wireless communication system and terminal using same method The present disclosure provides a method for data transmission or reception performed by a first node in a wireless communication system, the method including: performing a first data transmission or reception to or from a UE on an access link on the basis of a first timing case in an access time duration; and performing a second data transmission or reception to or from a second node or a donor base station on a backhaul link on the basis of a second timing case in a backhaul time duration, wherein downlink transmission timings over the donor base station, the first node, the second node and the UE are aligned in the first timing case, and downlink and uplink transmission timings or downlink and uplink reception timings are aligned in the first node in the second timing case.
US11751175B2	Facilitating semi-static transmission configuration indicator (TCI) configuration Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating semi-static TCI configurations are disclosed herein. An example method for wireless communication at a UE includes receiving, from a base station, a first downlink message including a TCI state indicator. The example method also includes initiating a timer after receiving the first downlink message including the TCI state indicator. Additionally, the example method includes receiving, after the timer expires, subsequent downlink messages using the indicated TCI state until a second downlink message including a TCI state change indication is received. An example method for wireless communication at a base station includes transmitting, to a UE, a first downlink message including a TCI state indicator. The example method also includes initiating a timer after transmitting the first downlink message including the TCI state indicator. Additionally, the example method includes transmitting, after the timer expires, subsequent downlink messages based on the indicated TCI state.
US11751173B2	Method and device used in node for wireless communication The disclosure provides method and device used in node for wireless communications. A first node receives first information, the first information indicating a first symbol set; transmits a first signaling in a first symbol group; and transmits a first radio signal in a second symbol group; the first symbol group belongs to the first symbol set; the first signaling indicates the second symbol group; at least one multicarrier symbol in the second symbol group belongs to the first symbol set, and at least one multicarrier symbol in the second symbol group does not belong to the first symbol set; a first bit sequence is used to generate the first radio signal, and the first bit sequence comprises a first bit sub-sequence and a second bit sub-sequence. The present disclosure offers an effective solution to dealing with the impact of a dynamic slot format on sidelink transmission in NR system.
US11751162B2	Wi-Fi Z-axis positioning Described herein are techniques to enable a mobile device to determine a Z-axis coordinate based on altitudes associated with Wi-Fi access points detected in a Wi-Fi scan by the mobile device. One embodiment provides for an electronic device configured to compute a weighted average of Z-axis coordinates associated with detected Wi-Fi access points and determine a Z-axis coordinate for the electronic device based on the weighted average.
US11751160B2	Method and apparatus for mobility registration A method includes after receiving a first non-access stratum (NAS) security mode command (SMC) message sent by an initial access and mobility management function (AMF), a user equipment (UE) stores a first NAS security context; the UE receives a second NAS SMC message sent by a second AMF, where the message carries indication information used to indicate the UE to use the first NAS security context; and the UE uses the first NAS security context as a current NAS security context based on the indication information. According to the method for mobility registration provided in this application, when receiving the second NAS SMC message sent by the second AMF, the UE uses the first NAS security context as the current NAS security context, and then processes the second NAS SMC message, so that the NAS security contexts on the UE and the second AMF are consistent.
US11751159B2	Ranging between a user equipment and a fixed reference node In an embodiment, a user equipment (UE) receives, from a fixed reference node, at least one round-trip propagation time (RTT) ranging scheduling message indicating a set of downlink (DL) ranging resource assignments and a set of uplink (UL) ranging resource grants, receives one or more DL ranging signals from the fixed reference node on a first set of resources identified by the set of DL ranging resource assignments, and transmits one or more UL ranging signals to the fixed reference node on a second set of resources identified by the set of UL ranging resource grants.
US11751154B2	Synchronization signal block selection Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for synchronization signal block selection. One method includes receiving multiple synchronization signal blocks on a first wideband carrier. Each synchronization signal block includes at least one synchronization signal and a physical broadcast channel. The method includes detecting at least one synchronization signal block of the synchronization signal blocks, determining at least one synchronization signal frequency associated with the at least one detected synchronization signal block, and selecting a first synchronization signal block of the at least one detected synchronization signal block and a first synchronization signal frequency of the at least one synchronization signal frequency. The first synchronization signal block is associated with the first synchronization signal frequency. The method includes decoding a first physical broadcast channel of the first synchronization signal block, and determining whether to reselect the first synchronization signal block based on a result of decoding the first physical broadcast channel.
US11751152B2	SSB structure for NR communications In one aspect, an extended SSB (ESSB) is provided that includes more than four symbols to facilitate UE reception of SSBs. In this aspect, the base station configures an ESSB comprising an SSB including four symbols and an initial symbol preceding the SSB. The base station transmits and the UE receives at least a portion of the ESSB. The UE processes the ESSB. Thus, higher capacity UEs can benefit from additional coding gain in the initial symbol while lower capacity UEs can switch beams to receive back-to-back ESSBs. In another aspect, a UE performs additional behaviors to receive SSBs. In this aspect, the UE receives a first SSB using a reception beam, and the UE determines to maintain the reception beam for a second SSB or to switch the reception beam during a PSS symbol of the second SSB. Thus, lower capacity UEs can also receive back-to-back SSBs.
US11751148B2	Method and apparatus for data transmission in wireless cellular communication system The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for convergence of a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system with an IoT technology, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related services, etc.) on the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for performing rate matching and configuring a soft buffer in a wireless cellular communication system.
US11751142B2	Systems and methods for user equipment power savings A user equipment (UE) device may include a memory storing instructions and processor configured to execute the instructions to receive a first reconfiguration message from a wireless station of a radio access network to attempt to place the UE device into a first power saving state. The UE device may be further configured to execute the instructions to determine that a battery level is below a first predetermined threshold; transmit, to the wireless station, a second power savings request when it is determined that the battery level is below the predetermined threshold, to place the UE device into a second power saving state; receive a second reconfiguration message from the wireless station based on the second power savings request; and execute adjustments in the second reconfiguration message to place the UE device into the second power saving state.
US11751138B2	Electronic shelf tag system with standardized radio communication protocol Electronic shelf label system that has: at least one battery-operated shelf label client that has an energy-saving sleep mode without radio communication standby according to a radio standard and an active mode with radio communication standby according to the radio standard and that has a radio wake-up receiver designed so as, on receiving a wake-up signal, to leave the sleep mode and prompt the active mode to be adopted, and an access point that is designed for radio communication with the at least one shelf label client according to the radio standard and that has a radio wake-up transmitter for transmitting the wake-up signal, wherein the radio wakeup transmitter is designed to be controllable in terms of the time at which the wake-up signal is transmitted by the access point, and the access point defines the time as the initiation of a radio connection setup to the at least one shelf label client according to the radio standard, in particular with a lead time for changing from the sleep mode to the active mode.
US11751135B2	Method and system for wirelessly transmitting data Methods and systems for wirelessly transmitting data between Wi-Fi stations without requiring the Wi-Fi stations to be fully connected to the Wi-Fi network. A first Wi-Fi station generates the data to be transmitted. The data comprises status data and/or wake-up data. The first Wi-Fi station then inserts the data in a vendor-specific information element of a probe request frame and wirelessly transmits the probe request frame. The probe request frame is then received by a second Wi-Fi station. If the probe request frame contains wake-up data and the second Wi-Fi station is operating in a low-power mode when it receives the probe request frame, the second Wi-Fi station will wake-up from the low-power mode. If the probe request frame contains status data then the second Wi-Fi station may process the probe request frame and/or forward at least a portion of the received probe request frame to another device.
US11751131B2	Vehicle, network node, apparatus, computer program, and method for selecting a mobile communications system for a mobile communications service A transportation vehicle, a network node, an apparatus, a computer program, and a method for selecting a mobile communications system for a mobile communications service. The method includes obtaining for each of multiple mobile communications services information on a required quality of service (rQoS) of the mobile communications services, determining for each of multiple mobile communications systems information on a predicted quality of service, and selecting from the multiple mobile communications systems a mobile communications system for each of multiple mobile communications services based on the information on the rQoS and the pQoS of the mobile communications system.
US11751130B2	Apparatus, method and computer program There is provided an apparatus. The apparatus comprises means for performing: participating in a slice-specific authentication and authorization procedure for the apparatus; and receiving a message at the apparatus, the message comprising an information element indicating to a mobility management sub-layer of the apparatus a result of the slice-specific authentication and authorization procedure, and the message comprising single network slice selection assistance information for the apparatus.
US11751128B2	Method and system for handling cell selection and re-selection in MR-DC system Disclosed is a method for handling cell selection in a multiple radio access technology dual connectivity (MR-DC) system, including scanning, by a user equipment (UE), at least one frequency, identifying, by the UE, a first cell supporting an MR-DC based on the scanned at least one frequency, and camping, by the UE, to the identified first cell.
US11751125B2	Information transmission method, network device, and user equipment Embodiments of this application provide an information transmission method, a network device, and a user equipment. The method provided in this application includes: sending, by a network device, a broadcast frame that includes first duration information and second duration information that are of A-BFT (Association Beamforming Training); receiving a frame sent by a first user equipment in a timeslot randomly selected from a first time range; and receiving a frame sent by a second user equipment in a timeslot randomly selected from a second time range. According to the embodiments of this application, beamforming training efficiency can be improved.
US11751123B2	Context-aware mobile device management Technologies disclosed herein are directed to context-based mobile device management. According to one embodiment, an application executing in a mobile device detects an event to trigger context-based management of the mobile device. A usage context associated with the mobile device is determined. One or more policies to enforce on the mobile device are identified as a function of the usage context. The application enforces the one or more policies on the mobile device.
US11751118B2	Methods and apparatus for selecting a network route for data communications for IoT devices In some implementations, a message indicating a request for delivery of data to user equipment (UE) (e.g. an IoT device) operative for communications in a mobile network may be received from an application server. One or more first loading or congestion indication values indicative of a first loading or congestion at one or more first network nodes along a first mobile network route may be obtained. In addition, one or more second loading or congestion indication values indicative of a second loading or congestion at one or more second network nodes along a second mobile network route may be obtained. The first or the second mobile network route may be selected based on at least one of the one or more first and the second loading or congestion indication values. The data may be delivered to the UE over the selected mobile network route.
US11751116B2	Coordinated packet data network change for selected internet protocol traffic offload Coordinated P-GW change for SIPTO may be provided. A WTRU may send and/or receive one or more flows via a first PDN connection and via a first P-GW. The WTRU may send an indication to the network that at least one flow of the first PDN connection is available for SIPTO. The indication may include one or more SIPTO preferences. The WTRU may receive a message from a MME. The message may trigger establishment of a second PDN connection via a second P-GW. The WTRU may move, while maintaining the first PDN connection, the at least one flow from the first PDN connection to the second PDN connection. The WTRU may deactivate the first PDN connection when the one or more flows have been moved to the second PDN connection and/or when no information has been received via the first PDN connection after a predetermined duration.
US11751115B2	Hierarchical policy learning for hybrid communication load balancing Hybrid use of dual policies is provided to improve a communication system. In a multiple access scenario, when an inactive user equipment (UE) transitions to an active state, it may be become a burden to a radio cell on which it was previously camping. In some embodiments, hybrid load balancing is provided using a hierarchical machine learning paradigm based on reinforcement learning in which an LSTM generates a goal for one policy influencing cell reselection so that another policy influencing handover over active UEs can be assisted. The communication system as influenced by the policies is modeled as a Markov decision process (MDP). The policies controlling the active UEs and inactive UEs are coupled, and measureable system characteristics are improved. In some embodiments, policy actions depend at least in part on energy saving.
US11751111B2	Wireless terminal roaming Disclosed are methods and systems for improved wireless terminal roaming. In some embodiments, a management module determines access point density metrics for a plurality of centrally managed access points of a communications site. The density metric considers an average RSSI of access point signals received by other access points of the site, and each access point's contribution to the average. A determination of whether a particular wireless terminal roams is based on the density metrics of the source and target access point, as well as statistics relating to a current capacity of each of the access points. The disclosed embodiments may determine that a wireless terminal should transition/roam away from an access point even when that access point's RSSI value at the wireless terminal is above a threshold that would cause traditional methods to inhibit roaming.
US11751107B2	Apparatus, system and method for security management There is provided a network system including one or more first MMEs (30), and a second MME (40) separated from the first MMEs (30). In one of operation cases, the first MME (30) pushes, to the second MME (40), security context for a UE (10) that attaches to the first MME (30). The second MME (40) stores the security context. The first MME (30) further pushes the latest security context to the second MME (40), during a switch-off procedure for the first MME (30). The second MME (40) updates the stored security context with the latest security context. The first MME (30) pulls the security context from the second MME (40), when the UE (10) re-attaches to the first MME (30) or is handovered from different one of the first MMEs (30).
US11751097B2	Method and apparatus for reestablishing packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity in a wireless communication system A communication technique for converging a 5G communication system, which is provided to support a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system with an IoT technology, and a system therefor applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety related service, or the like) based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT related technology by re-establishing a PDCP entity for a header compression protocol and activating uplink semi-persistent scheduling.
US11751093B2	Flow control for uplink traffic in an integrated access and backhaul network Systems and methods provide flow control for uplink traffic in an integrated access and backhaul network. A first relay node determines that its uplink buffer has reached an occupancy level higher than a pre-determined level. In response, the first relay node transmits, to a second relay node associated with the first relay node, a message indicating a buffer occupancy status of the uplink buffer of the first relay node.
US11751089B2	Wireless relay system, wireless relay method and base station apparatus Provided is a wireless relay system including multiple terminal station apparatuses and a base station apparatus. The base station apparatus includes: a base station reception unit that respectively receives pieces of upstream data traffic from the multiple terminal station apparatuses; an encoding unit that, if pieces of upstream data traffic that require mutual forwarding in opposite directions are present in the respective pieces of upstream data traffic, performs network encoding on the respective pieces of upstream data traffic such that the pieces of upstream data traffic are pieces of data traffic of mutually identical content; and a base station transmission unit that simultaneously transmits encoded data traffic as downstream data traffic to the multiple terminal station apparatuses. The terminal station apparatuses each include: a terminal station transmission unit that transmits the upstream data traffic to the base station apparatus; a terminal station reception unit that receives the encoded data traffic; and a decoding unit that decodes the encoded data traffic using the upstream data traffic.
US11751085B2	Method and apparatus for inter-cell downlink and uplink beam indication, measurement and reporting A method of operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving first information for a physical cell identifier (PCI) different from a serving cell PCI; receiving second information for source or measurement reference signals (RSs) for the PCI; determining, based on one or more transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states, the first information, and the second information, a reception spatial domain filter for reception of at least one of downlink (DL) RSs and channels from the PCI; and measuring, based on the first information and the second information, the measurement RS. The method further includes determining, based on the measured measurement RSs, the first information, and the second information, a beam report and transmitting the beam report for the PCI on an uplink (UL) channel. A beam refers to a spatial property used to receive or transmit a source RS or a channel.
US11751080B2	Wireless network access point and method for operation thereof The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method of operating a wireless network access point of a wireless network. The method includes wirelessly exchanging management frames with a device to attach the device to the access point, thereby establishing: a wireless downlink data communication channel from the access point to the device, and a wireless uplink data communication channel from the device to the access point. The method further includes performing a wireless link test comprising: transmitting a test frame to the device on the downlink channel, the test frame having a length greater than each of the management frames, including a sequence of test data bits, and being configured to require a mirror response comprising the sequence of test data bits; monitoring for receipt of the mirror response on the uplink; and, if the mirror response is received, determining the test is passed.
US11751079B2	Transmission speed testing of a wireless local network A wireless testing system is provided that testing transmission speeds associated with a WLAN or other wireless network. In one instance, a network transmission between a device in a telecommunications network and a modem be measured and initiated via an application executed on a mobile device. One or more Wi-Fi speed tests may also be performed to determine a transmission speed between a wireless device associated with the premises and the modem of the WLAN. To conduct the Wi-Fi speed test, a mobile device (such as the mobile device executing the application) may transmit, in some instances in response to an input to the mobile device, an instruction to the test controller to conduct the Wi-Fi speed test. The measured transmission speeds may be controlled by a controller that may store the speed test results in a network repository available to the mobile device.
US11751076B2	Operation of sectorized communications from aerospace platforms using reinforcement learning The disclosure provides a method of operating a communication network. The method includes receiving input data related to a state of the communication network and operation of the communication network. The method then includes determining a policy for the communication network based on the input data. The policy is a set of features for forming a plurality of communication links in the communication network over a time interval. The plurality of communication links provides one or more paths through the communication network. Determining the policy is based at least in part on utility values of previous policies. The utility values of previous policies are derived using simulation and/or real-world implementation of the previous policies. The communication network is then operated to implement the policy in the time interval.
US11751075B2	User equipment and network node for configuring measurements of cells and beams in a wireless communication system Configuration of measurement requirements on cells and beams in NR is made more efficient by, in a user equipment, UE, receiving, information from a network node, which information indicates: a first number K of beams to be measured by the UE, and a second number L of cells in which the UE is required to measure the first number K of beams. The UE then carries out measurements using the received information; and performs at least one operational task based on a result of the measurements.
US11751074B2	Beam configuration management service A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which beam configuration management service is provided. A network device of a wireless access network provides the service that includes identifying redundant configurations across carriers associated with a cell group, and links the common beam configurations to these carriers. The service also includes identifying any difference in beam configurations relative to the common beam configurations for a carrier. The service may transmit this beam configuration information in a control plane message to an end device. The end device may use the beam configuration information.
US11751072B2	User equipment behavior when using machine learning-based prediction for wireless communication system operation Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may identify a failure associated with a machine learning prediction for one or more network parameters; report, to a base station, failure information regarding the failure associated with the machine learning prediction; receive, from the base station, response information identifying an alteration to a communication configuration as a response to the failure associated with the machine learning prediction; and implement the alteration to the communication configuration based at least in part on receiving the response information. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11751071B2	Management of GNB in network functions virtualization framework Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) abstracts network functions, allowing them to be installed, controlled, and manipulated by software running on standardized compute nodes such as cloud computing platform rather than on dedicated hardware. In a 5G mobile communications network, the base station or gNB may be split into virtualized and non-virtualized network functions (NFs). Described herein are systems and methods for managing such gNBs within the NFV framework.
US11751068B2	Methods and tools for assisting in the configuration of a wireless radio network Tools and methods for optimizing the selection and placement of wireless radio devices in a wireless network within a geographic region using a remote database that includes a geographic mapping of existing wireless devices within the network and/or adjacent networks, device characteristics for the wireless devices within the network and/or adjacent networks, and radio frequency spectral information across times for a plurality of regions (e.g., corresponding to locations of existing wireless devices). A tool may include a local user interface, a remote database, and a processor that communicates with the user interface and remote database. The methods and tools described herein may receive user input indicating a desired location and/or operational characteristics of new wireless radio device and may determine and suggest an optimal type, location and/or operational parameters for the additional device, or may suggest other modifications to the current network to optimize the network including the new device.
US11751067B2	Performance assurance and optimization for GAA and PAL devices in a CBRS network for private enterprise environment The disclosed technology relates to a process of dynamically assigning operational parameters for access points within a CBRS (Citizen Broadband Radio Service) network. In particular, the disclosed technology monitors for and detects interference between nearby access points and user equipment devices that may belong to the same enterprise or to different enterprises. Machine learning processes are used to revise the operational parameters that were initially assigned by the Spectrum Access System (SAS). These processes are also used to suggest an updated set of operational parameters to the SAS for the access points. The dynamic assignment reduces interference experienced by the access point with respect to nearby other access points and/or nearby other user equipment. The dynamic assignment aims to improve a quality of communication between the access point and its associated user equipment.
US11751063B2	Generalized distributed multi-user (MU) transmissions Certain aspects relate to methods and apparatus for wireless communication. The apparatus generally includes a processing system configured to generate a first frame including an indication of unused resources in a first basic service set (BSS) available to be shared with one or more wireless nodes in one or more second BSSs. The apparatus also includes a first interface configured to output the first frame for transmission to the one or more wireless nodes.
US11751058B2	5G network slice device security protection A method of user equipment (UE) implemented network slice security protection is disclosed. The method comprises the UE receiving a request to initialize an application, querying a UE Route Selection Policy (URSP) stored on the UE, and receiving traffic descriptors and security descriptors in response to the querying. The traffic descriptors identify a network slice for the application. The security descriptors comprise a security flag and a virtualization container ID. The method also comprises the UE initiating the application within a virtualization container corresponding to the virtualization container ID based on the security flag indicating that the network slice is secure and binding traffic for the application in the virtualization container to a PDU session based on the traffic descriptors. The method further comprises communicating, by the application executing within the virtualization container, with a core network over the PDU session via the network slice bound to the virtualization container.
US11751057B2	Security-enhanced deep learning fingerprint-based indoor localization An exemplary radio fingerprint-based indoor localization method and system is disclosed that is resistant to spoofing or jamming attacks (e.g., at nearby radios, e.g., access points), among other types of interference. The exemplary method and system may be applied in the configuring of a secured convolutional neural network (S-CNNLOC) or secured deep neural network configured for attack-resistant fingerprint-based indoor localization.
US11751056B2	Methods, systems, and computer readable media for 5G user equipment (UE) historical mobility tracking and security screening using mobility patterns A method for historical 5G user equipment (UE) mobility tracking and security screening includes receiving, at a network data aggregation node including at least one processor, UE registration data from 5G network functions (NFs) as UEs connect to different network locations. The method further includes aggregating, at the network node, registration data for individual UEs from the 5G NFs to produce mobility patterns for the UEs. The method further includes receiving, at the network node and from a 5G NF located in a home network of a UE, a request for a mobility pattern of the UE in response to receiving a message for effecting a new registration for the UE. The method further includes responding to the request by transmitting the mobility pattern to the 5G NF located in the home network of the UE.
US11751053B2	Method and mobile terminal for controlling screen lock A method of controlling screen lock and a mobile terminal employing the same is provided. The mobile device includes a User Interface (UI) for setting a screen unlock mode using a wireless device other than the mobile terminal and stores IDentifier (ID) information of the wireless device designated by the UI corresponding to the screen unlock mode. The mobile terminal is capable of detecting a wireless device. After the ID information of the wireless device is stored, if the wireless device is detected by the mobile terminal and ID information of the detected wireless device is identical to the stored ID information, the mobile terminal controls not to display an unlock requesting screen when the display unit of the mobile terminal is turned on.
US11751052B2	Credential information processing method and apparatus for network connection, and application (APP) Disclosed in the present invention are a credential information processing method and apparatus for network connection, and an application (APP). The method comprises: in response to an instruction for applying for a network credential for a second terminal, a first terminal sends a first credential downloading request to a server; the first terminal receives first credential information sent by the server; and the second terminal receives the first credential information sent directly by the first terminal from a system memory of the first terminal and a network identifier of a wireless network to be connected, the second terminal stores the first credential information directly into a secure storage region of the second terminal from a system memory of the second terminal, and the second terminal connects a wireless network corresponding to the network identifier by using the first credential information in the secure storage region.
US11751050B2	Provisioning a network device for secure communications A network device includes a wireless transceiver configured to establish a bi-directional communication channel with a network gateway. The network device also includes a visible light communication (VLC) interface configured to establish a visible light communication channel with a configurator for the network gateway. The network device further includes a controller configured to operate with the configurator to execute out-of-band (OOB) provisioning of the network device for the network gateway, wherein data communicated on the visible light communication channel includes a portion of information related to bootstrap provisioning the network device with the network gateway using the device provisioning protocol (DPP).
US11751042B2	Multi-access edge computing service for mobile user equipment method and apparatus Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media, are provided for providing connectivity-based and/or connectivity-considered routing with supplemental wireless connections in driving assistance-related activities. Embodiments may be relevant to multi-access edge computing (MEC) and Automotive Edge Computing Consortium (AECC) technologies. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11751036B2	Emergency rich communication services A fifth generation (5G) network can provide Rich Communication Services (RCS) between a user equipment (UE) and an emergency control center. An RCS server in an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) can be used to transfer data associated with a chat, an image, and/or a video between the UE and a public service answering point (PSAP) associated with the emergency control center. The RCS server can initiate, establish, maintain, format, augment, or otherwise determine a rich communication service between the UE and the PSAP over the 5G network.
US11751032B2	Bluetooth enabled snake cam A snake cam is provided with a camera mounted to a housing via a shaft. The shaft may be flexible or rigid. The housing includes components needed for operation of the camera but that need not be in close physical proximity to the camera, thus allowing the camera itself to have a relatively small size, which facilitates placement thereof in small places. The housing may include a wireless communication module, through which a mobile device may be connected to the snake cam. The mobile device may then be used to access or control one or more features of the snake cam.
US11751031B2	Wirelessly utilizable memory Methods, apparatuses, and systems related to wireless main memory for computing are described. A device may include a processor that is wirelessly coupled to a memory array, which may be in a physically separate device. The processor may execute instructions stored in and wirelessly communicated from the memory array. The processor may read data from or write data to the memory array via a wireless communication link (e.g., using resources of an ultra high frequency, super high frequency, and/or extremely high frequency band). Several devices may have a small amount of local memory (or no local memory) and may share, via a wireless communication link, a main memory array. Memory devices may include memory resources and transceiver resources; they may be configured to use one or several communication protocols over licensed or shared frequency spectrum bands, directly (e.g., device-to-device) or indirectly (e.g., via a base station).
US11751026B2	Method and apparatus for transceiving messages from V2X terminal in wireless communication system One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for a terminal transmitting a message in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of: generating a message; and transmitting, from a resource sectioned on a time axis, control information for the message and the message when the size of the message is larger than a predetermine value, and transmitting, from a resource sectioned on a frequency axis, the control information for the message and the message when the size of the message is smaller than the predetermined value.
US11751025B2	V2X communications using multiple radio access technologies (multi-RAT) A communication device for multi-radio access technology (RAT) communications includes one or more processors and a plurality of transceivers. Each transceiver is configured to operate in at least one RAT of a plurality of RATs. The processors are configured to establish connection with a second communication device using a first transceiver of the plurality of transceivers and a first RAT of the plurality of RATs. A first data stream associated with a communication link connected to the second communication device and a third communication device is receive via a convergence function at the second communication device. The communication link uses a second RAT of the plurality of RATs. A code sequence is applied to a second data stream to generate an encoded second data stream, which is transmitted to the third communication device via a second communication link established based on information received via the first data stream.
US11751023B2	Charging function fallback Systems, methods, and devices can be utilized to provide charging function (CHF) fallback in a 5th Generation Core (5GC). An example method is performed by a fail-open function (FOF), and includes receiving, from the CHF, information corresponding to a subscriber of a network. The information is stored in a database. Further, the example method includes receiving, from the CHF or a connected function, a request corresponding to the subscriber. The connected function is a session management function (SMF) and/or a policy control function (PCF). Based on the request, the information stored in the database is at least one of accessed or modified. Based on performing at least one of accessing or modifying the information stored in the database, a response is generated and transmitted to the CHF or the connected function.
US11751020B2	Systems and methods for multicasting to user devices A method may include receiving content for multicasting, identifying user equipment (UE) devices to receive the content and identifying a geographical or service area associated with the identified UE devices. The method may also include determining a scheduled time for a multicast transmission of the content and transmitting, prior to the scheduled time, a message to the devices, wherein the message indicates the scheduled time. The method may further include initiating the multicast transmission of the content at the scheduled time.
US11751018B1	Airplane mode toggle based on IMS watchdog timer A connection between a user equipment (UE) and an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) can become disrupted due to network-side issues with the IMS, an access network, or a core network. The UE can initiate a watchdog timer to determine when a previously-established IMS connection may be unusable due to such a network-side issue. If the watchdog timer expires, for example because the IMS does not reply to a message sent by the UE before the watchdog timer expires, the UE can toggle an airplane mode on and off. Toggling airplane mode on and off can deactivate and then re-activate a transmission interface of the UE, and cause the UE to establish a new usable connection with the IMS that may not be affected by the network-side issue that disrupted the previously-established IMS connection.
US11751016B2	Destination identification for frictionless building interaction A method of determining a destination of an individual carrying a mobile device is provided. The method including: detecting at least one of a position of the mobile device and an activity of an individual carrying the mobile device; detecting a distance between the mobile device and each of a plurality access controls; generating a list of the plurality of access controls and the distance between the mobile device and each of the plurality access controls; determining that the individual carrying the mobile device has stopped moving or slowed in response to the activity detected; and identifying one or more access controls of the plurality of access controls that have a distance of lowest magnitude on the list.
US11751013B2	Adaptive location branding A method and system for providing location-specific information to users, wherein this information is directly maintained and supplied by the provider of the service. This information is supplied by an application running on a personal communication device, where the application is developed and provided by a third-party servicer and the third party servicer makes various program options/APIs of the application available to and selectable by its customers. Other embodiments of the invention provide techniques for changing the appearance and/or functionality of a location aware application on a portable communication device. The method includes capturing or retrieving a digital image of a subject using a portable communications device; analyzing the digital image to determine a subject of the digital image; detecting a location associated with the digital image; and displaying information related to the subject of the digital image and the location associated with the digital image.
US11751011B2	Positioning method and user equipment A positioning method and a user equipment, where the positioning method includes determining, by a first user equipment, a positioning authorization condition for positioning a second user equipment, where the positioning authorization condition includes positioning time information or positioning location information that is jointly determined by the first user equipment and the second user equipment, positioning, by the first user equipment, the second user equipment under the positioning authorization condition, and obtaining location information of the second user equipment.
US11751007B2	Method, apparatus, and computer program product for anonymizing trajectories and stay points Embodiments described herein relate to anonymizing of trajectories of mobile devices through the obfuscation of stay points. Methods may include: receiving probe data points of a trajectory in real-time or near real-time from a probe apparatus as it travels along the trajectory; calculating, for each probe data point, a probability of the trajectory reaching a stay point within a predetermined distance; providing sequential sub-sets of probe data points of the trajectory to a location-based service provider in response to the sequential sub-sets of probe data points including probe data points having a probability failing to satisfy a predetermined value; and identifying a last sub-set of probe data points of the sequential sub-sets of probe data points to provide to the location-based service provider in response to identifying a probe data point having a probability of the trajectory reaching a stay point within the predetermined distance satisfying the predetermined value.
US11751002B2	Displaying a location of binaural sound outside a field of view A method or apparatus provides binaural sound that originates to a person at a location inside a field of view (FOV) provided to the person by an electronic device. The electronic device determines when the location of the binaural sound moves outside the FOV and assists the person in determining the location of the binaural sound. A display of the electronic device displays a visual indication that shows a direction to the location of the binaural sound outside the FOV.
US11750999B2	Method and system for handling global transitions between listening positions in a virtual reality environment A method (900) for rendering audio in a virtual reality rendering environment (180) is described. The method (900) comprises rendering (901) an origin audio signal of an origin audio source (113) of an origin audio scene (111) from an origin source position on a sphere (114) around a listening position (201) of a listener (181). Furthermore, the method (900) comprises determining (902) that the listener (181) moves from the listening position (201) within the origin audio scene (111) to a listening position (202) within a different destination audio scene (112). In addition, the method (900) comprises applying (903) a fade-out gain to the origin audio signal to determine a modified origin audio signal, and rendering (903) the modified origin audio signal of the origin audio source (113) from the origin source position on the sphere (114) around the listening position (201, 202).
US11750994B2	Method for generating binaural signals from stereo signals using upmixing binauralization, and apparatus therefor Disclosed is an audio signal processing method including: receiving a stereo signal; transforming the stereo signal into a frequency-domain signal; rendering the first signal based on a first ipsilateral filter coefficient; generating a frontal ipsilateral signal relating to the frequency-domain signal; rendering the second signal based on a second ipsilateral filter coefficient; generating a side ipsilateral signal relating to the frequency-domain signal; rendering the second signal based on a contralateral filter coefficient; generating a side contralateral signal relating to the frequency-domain signal; transforming an ipsilateral signal, generated by mixing the frontal ipsilateral signal and the side ipsilateral signal, and the side contralateral signal into a time-domain ipsilateral signal and a time-domain contralateral signal, which are time-domain signals, respectively; and generating a binaural signal by mixing the time-domain ipsilateral signal and the time-domain contralateral signal.
US11750989B2	Advanced hearing prosthesis recipient habilitation and/or rehabilitation A method of increasing an ability of a recipient of a hearing prosthesis' ability to hear with the hearing prosthesis, including obtaining data indicative of a first characteristic of content, wherein the content is an audio or an audio-visual content, obtaining data indicative of a second characteristic of the content, identifying, based on the first and second characteristics, specific content and using at least one item of the specific content with the hearing prosthesis such that a hearing percept in the recipient is evoked based on the at least one item of specific content.
US11750983B2	Microphone assembly with standoffs for die bonding A microphone assembly includes a substrate and a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) die. The substrate comprises a top layer and a bottom layer. The top layer comprises a layer of solder mask material spanning across at least a portion of the substrate and one or more standoffs formed of the solder mask material. The one or more standoffs and the layer of solder mask material comprising a single, contiguous structure. The MEMS die is disposed on the one or more standoffs and is coupled to the substrate via a bonding material. The bonding material forms an acoustic seal between the substrate and the MEMS die.
US11750982B2	Micromechanical sound transducer Micromechanical sound transducer including a plurality of unilaterally suspended bending transducers. The plurality of bending transducers are configured for deflection within a plane of vibration and are arranged side by side within the plane of vibration along a first axis and are extending along a second axis which is transverse to the first axis. The bending transducers are alternately suspended on opposite sides and engage with one another. Each bending transducer includes a first electrode and a second electrode which are located opposite one another along the first axis to cause deflections of the respective bending transducer along the first axis upon application of voltage. Mutually facing electrodes of adjacent bending transducers are electrically connected to one another by a transverse connection crossing the plane of vibration transverse to the first axis.
US11750980B2	MEMS device with enhanced membrane structure and method of forming the same A MEMS device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. A semiconductor device includes a substrate; and a membrane over the substrate and configured to generate charges in response to an acoustic wave, the membrane being in a polygonal shape including vertices. The membrane includes a via pattern having first lines that partition the membrane into slices and extend to the vertices of the membrane such that the slices are separated from each other near an anchored region of the membrane and connected to each other around a central region. The via pattern further includes second lines extending from the anchored region of the membrane toward the central region of the membrane. Each of the second lines includes a length less than a length of each of the first lines.
US11750979B2	Display apparatus including a sound generating device A display apparatus includes a display panel including configured to display an image and a sound generating device on a rear surface of the display panel, the sound generating device being configured to vibrate the display panel to generate sound. The sound generating device includes a first structure and a second structure over or under the first structure, the second structure including a first part having a piezoelectric characteristic and a second part between adjacent first parts to have flexibility.
US11750976B2	In-vehicle sound emitting device One form of an in-vehicle sound emitting device includes a front case and a rear case. The front case is partitioned from the rear case by a partition plate made from a metal plate. Rear space inside the rear case is sealed, and an electronic circuit is disposed in the rear space. A loudspeaker is mounted in front space inside the front case. By using two of the partition plates having the same structure, the front case having the incorporated loudspeaker and the rear case having the incorporated electronic circuit can be disposed separately.
US11750974B2	Sound processing method, electronic device and storage medium A sound processing method includes: determining a vector of a first residual signal according to a first signal vector and a second signal vector, the first signal vector including a first voice signal and a first noise signal input into the first microphone, the second signal vector including a second voice signal and a second noise signal input into the second microphone, and the first residual signal including the second noise signal and a residual voice signal; determining a gain function of a current frame according to the vector of the first residual signal and the first signal vector; and determining a first voice signal of the current frame according to the first signal vector and the gain function of the current frame.
US11750969B2	Default playback device designation Systems and methods discussed herein involve designating a default playback device in a local playback network. One method may involve determining that a networked microphone device is available for assignment to one or more playback zones within a local playback network, displaying a prompt to indicate at least one playback zone to which the network microphone device is to be assigned, receiving an input indicating a particular playback zone in the local playback system to which the network microphone device is to be assigned, and storing data indicating an assignment of the network microphone device to the particular playback zone.
US11750968B2	Second-order gradient microphone system with baffles for teleconferencing An audio device including a housing having a side facing outwardly of the housing, the housing further having a first mounting position disposed on the side. The side has a first portion and a second portion, the first portion opposite the second portion relative to the first mounting position. The audio device also includes a first omnidirectional microphone disposed on the first portion. The audio device also includes a second microphone disposed on the first mounting position. The second microphone may be a second-order microphone. The second-order microphone has a first-order microphone disposed within a first platform mounted a distance from the first mounting position. The audio device also includes a first speaker disposed on the second portion. The first speaker is further disposed such that an audio output of the first speaker falls within a null of the second microphone.
US11750967B2	Microphone and head-mounted display A microphone includes a base, at least one sound receiving element, and a flexible circuit board. The base has a plurality of supporting portions, a plurality of damping portions, and a bearing portion. The plurality of supporting portions are spaced apart from each other. Each of the plurality of damping portions is disposed on an inner surface of the corresponding supporting portion. The bearing portion is connected to the plurality of damping portions and is suspended between the plurality of supporting portions. The at least one sound receiving element is disposed on the base. The flexible circuit board is disposed on the base and has a first transmission segment. The first transmission segment is electrically coupled to the at least one sound receiving element, and the first transmission segment has a plurality of bending sections.
US11750964B2	Hybrid ring-radiator headphone driver A system and method for a hybrid ring-radiator headphone driver, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims.
US11750960B2	Shock recovery for silicon microphone systems A microphone includes an amplifier coupled to an input node of the microphone; a shock detector coupled to the input node of the microphone; and a recovery circuit having an input coupled to an output of the shock detector, and an output coupled to the input of the microphone.
US11750956B2	Optical receiver An optical receiver is disclosed, including an optoelectronic detector, a transimpedance amplification (TIA) circuit, a single-ended-to-differential converter, an I/O interface, and a controller. The optoelectronic detector, having bandwidth lower than required system transmission bandwidth, converts an optical signal into a current signal. The TIA circuit compensate gain for the received current signal based on a received control signal, to obtain a voltage signal, where a frequency response value of the current signal within first bandwidth is greater than that within the bandwidth of the optoelectronic detector, and any frequency in the first bandwidth is not lower than an upper cut-off frequency of the optoelectronic detector. The single-ended-to-differential converter converts the voltage signal into a differential voltage signal. The I/O interface outputs the differential voltage signal. The controller generates the control signal based on the differential voltage signal. The optical receiver disclosed can reduce costs while ensuring signal quality.
US11750953B2	Draft beer supply chain systems and methods Supply chain systems and methods are disclosed for monitoring fluid levels in liquid containers, such as kegs. Embodiments include sensors that fit within a keg's false bottom, measure the weight of the keg, and transmit the weight information to a computer database via a wireless network. Other embodiments include an RFID device with information about a characteristic of the liquid within a keg (such as brand and/or type of beer) that may be attached to the keg and paired with the sensor so the sensor can transmit information about the characteristic of the liquid in the keg. In alternate embodiments, the sensor's transmitter is short range and an uplink/gateway is used to receive information from the sensor and relay that sensor's information to a broader wireless network. Multiple containers in close proximity may each be fitted with an RFID device and sensor and communicate their individual information to the database.
US11750947B2	Gate voltage adjustment circuit, gate voltage adjustment method and sensor applying same There are provided a circuit and a method for regulating a gate voltage, and a sensor applying the circuit. In the circuit, an input end of the storage module is connected to a first end of a signal storage unit, an output end thereof is connected to an input end of the comparison module, an output end of the comparison module is connected to an input end of the voltage regulation module, and an output end of the voltage regulation module is connected to a transmission gate. The storage module stores electrical signals outputted by the signal storage unit. The comparison module compares at least two of the electrical signals correspond to different gate voltages to obtain a comparison result. The voltage regulation module regulates, based on the comparison result, an output voltage according to a predetermined rule to change the gate voltage.
US11750943B2	Method and device for correcting varying lateral chromatic aberration, storage medium, and computer equipment Provided is a method and a device for correcting lateral chromatic aberration, a storage medium and a computer equipment. In the method, a relationship model between lens position and magnitude of LCA is constructed based on preset parameters of lens positions, and the relationship model is stored as calibration data; system parameters of a camera to be corrected and pre-stored calibration data are obtained; the LCA of the camera to be corrected is obtained by calculating the system parameters; and the LCA is corrected by the calibration data. With the method, the LCA of the lens can be removed when the focus distance is changed, and the method is suitable for mass-production.
US11750940B2	Imaging apparatus, operation method thereof, and operation program thereof An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging sensor; a lens mount to which a lens is attached; and a processor is configured to read out an imaging signal from the imaging sensor and generate a raw image. The processor is configured to determine a length of a second focal length in a second direction which intersects with an extending direction of an optical axis of the lens and a first direction which intersects with the extending direction, relative to a first focal length in the first direction, and make a resolution ratio, which is a ratio of a resolution of the raw image in the first direction to a resolution of the raw image in the second direction, higher than a resolution ratio of the imaging sensor in a case where the second focal length is longer than the first focal length.
US11750935B2	Systems and methods of image enhancement Example embodiments are directed to a system of image enhancement. An interface device is configured to receive as input one or more input images. The one or more input images have one or more exposure values. A processing device is configured to execute an exposure value (EV) resampling module to generate one or more resampled images having exposure values different from the one or more exposure values of the one or more input images. The resampled images have a range of exposure values. The processing device is configured to execute a filtering module to filter the resampled images, and output a set of filtered images. The processing device is configured to execute a blending module to sequentially blend the set of filtered images, and output a merged image.
US11750929B2	Camera with image sensor shifting Various embodiments include a camera voice coil motor (VCM) actuator configured to shift an image sensor along multiple axes. Some embodiments include a magnet and coil arrangement. Some embodiments include a position sensing arrangement. Some embodiments include a flexure arrangement. Some embodiments include a coil structure and coil carrier assembly.
US11750927B2	Method for image stabilization based on artificial intelligence and camera module therefor A method for stabilizing an image based on artificial intelligence includes acquiring tremor detection data with respect to the image, the tremor detection data acquired from two or more sensors; outputting stabilization data for compensating for an image shaking, the stabilization data outputted using an artificial neural network (ANN) model trained to output the stabilization data based on the tremor detection data; and compensating for the image shaking using the stabilization data. A camera module includes a lens; an image sensor to output an image captured through the lens; two or more sensors to output tremor detection data with respect to the image; a controller to output stabilization data based on the tremor detection data using an ANN model; and a stabilization unit to compensate for an image shaking using the stabilization data. The ANN model is trained to output the stabilization data based on the tremor detection data.
US11750925B1	Computer program product and method for auto-focusing a camera on an in-person attendee who is speaking into a microphone at a meeting A camera is auto-focused on an in-person attendee in a meeting who is speaking into a microphone at a live location of the meeting. The live location includes a real-time location system (RTLS) having a RTLS tag and a plurality of RTLS anchors for locating a position of the RTLS tag in three-dimensional space. The RTLS tag is fixed to the microphone and transmits a signal that is received by the plurality of RTLS anchors. In operation, it detected when the microphone is active. The position of the RTLS tag in the live location is then identified in three-dimensional space by using the signal transmitted from the RTLS tag and received by the RTLS anchors to calculate the position of the RTLS tag in three-dimensional space. The position of the RTLS tag in three-dimensional space in the live location is presumed to be the same position as the microphone that the RTLS tag is fixed to. The camera is auto-focused on the identified live location when the microphone is active, the camera thereby outputting a video signal of an area in the proximity of the microphone which is presumed to include an image of the in-person attendee who is speaking into the microphone.
US11750923B2	Vehicle control system, vehicle control method, controller, and non-transitory storage medium A vehicle control system includes: a sensor; a first controller configured to output a first control signal for controlling the sensor via the first signal line; and a second controller configured to output a second control signal for controlling the sensor via the first signal line and the second signal line, wherein the sensor is configured to operate according to the first control signal output from the first controller via the first signal line when a vehicle state that indicates a state of a vehicle is a first state, and operate according to the second control signal output from the second controller via the first signal line and the second signal line when the vehicle state is a second state.
US11750917B2	Systems and methods for generating consistent images of objects A system for consistently imaging objects may include an imaging device that presents a visual guide on a display for aligning with a target object, and that uses sensors of the imaging device to provide exact direction for correctly aligning the visual guide with the target object prior to capturing an image of the target object. The system may include a device that receives a particular image of a particular object, selects a model that defines positional commonality or visual characteristic commonality between a set of images of the particular object or a particular object type that includes the particular object, and that generates an edited image by correcting one or more deviations between positioning of the particular object in the particular image and the positional commonality specified in the model, or between visual characteristics of the particular image and the visual characteristic commonality specified in the model.
US11750915B2	Mobile terminal A mobile terminal in which an imaging unit is provided on a front surface side and a display unit and a sensor are provided on a back surface side includes a signal processing unit which, from a signal output by the imaging unit, generates information to be displayed by the display unit, and a control unit into which a signal from the sensor is input and which controls the signal processing unit. A display state of the display unit based on the control performed by the control unit includes a first display state for display in a first display region if no detection signal is being input from the sensor, and a second display state for display in a second display region if a detection signal is being input from the sensor.
US11750905B2	Vehicular camera with inductive lens heater A vehicular camera includes a camera housing, a lens assembly having a lens barrel and a lens disposed in the lens barrel, an imager printed circuit board (PCB) disposed in the camera housing, and an induction heating device having an inductive coil that at least partially circumscribes a portion of the lens assembly. The inductive coil is disposed at the imager PCB and is electrically connected to circuitry of the imager PCB. The camera housing includes an electrical connector that is configured to electrically connect with an electrical connector of a vehicle. With the vehicular camera disposed at the vehicle, the heating device is operable to generate a magnetic field that induces electrical current in the portion of the lens assembly to generate heat at the portion of the lens assembly to heat at least part of the lens.
US11750904B2	Camera module and portable terminal including camera module A camera module includes a first lens module defining a first optical axis; a second lens module defining a second optical axis; and a first optical path changing unit disposed between the first lens module and the second lens module and configured to selectively reflect or refract light incident along a third optical axis intersecting the first and second optical axes to the first lens module or the second module.
US11750903B2	Electronic device An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a device body, a camera and a display screen. The display screen includes a first body display portion and a second body display portion located opposite to each other, and a bent display portion coupled with at least one of the first body display portion and the second body display portion. The camera is located in an end region of the device body.
US11750900B2	Multi-camera mounting chassis Various embodiments include a chassis for a multi-camera system and techniques for forming such a chassis. The chassis may comprise multiple chassis portions that define cavities for mounting cameras. Some embodiments include a chassis portion comprising an integrated shield can-chassis that may be formed as a single component. According to some embodiments, subtractive manufacturing may be used to form one or more features of the chassis.
US11750895B2	Crowd-sourced program boundaries Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for determining boundaries within a content asset. A server may collect user interaction data for one or more content assets. Using the user interaction data, the server may determine commercial breaks or scene changes for the content asset. The server may apply best fit curves to the user interaction data, and determine commercial breaks or scene changes based on the best fit curves.
US11750894B2	Systems and methods for resuming playback on a next available active device Systems and methods are provided for automatically cueing content for playback on a second device after it is paused or stopped on a first device. A content direction device is in electronic communication with user devices and content providers. This content direction device directs streamed content from the content providers to the various user devices. When a user pauses or stops playback at a first device, the content direction device stops the stream. Later, when the user activates a second device, the content direction device detects the second device and directs the content provider to resume the stream, whereupon it is transmitted to the second device. In this manner, the user can pause or stop playback on one device, later activate another device, and automatically receive a cued stream of the previously paused/stopped content. No user input is required to open an application or window, or to re-select content.
US11750886B2	Providing related episode content Methods and systems are disclosed for tailoring related episode content within an episode, thereby improving a user's experience. In response to receiving a request for an episode, several factors may be considered when determining how much of the related episode content to provide. These factors may include information such as whether the user has already viewed a previous episode, the elapsed time since viewing the previous episode and a user preference. Related episode content may be modified to remove portions previously viewed by a user, depending on factors such as the elapsed time and a user preference.
US11750885B2	Optimization of content representation in a user interface Methods and systems are described for providing optimal representations of content. A user interface may present content based on one or more images representing the content. User interactions associated with the content may be tracked based on which of the one or more images was used to represent the content. Statistical information may be tracked to determine which groups of users respond to particular images used to represent content. The statistical information may be used to select which images are used to represent the content for additional users.
US11750884B2	Audience responsiveness analytics index for television advertising A system and methods are disclosed for creating and using an audience-responsiveness analytics index for television advertising, in particular, advertising for connected television viewing. The audience-responsiveness analytics index may be configured to provide data obtained or acquired by measuring audience responsiveness to video advertising placed in streaming content viewed over connected televisions. The audience-responsiveness analytics index may be a graph used to optimize advertising with households assigned scores for multiple categories of advertising.
US11750880B2	Preparing mobile media content A mobile device includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor such that the processor is programmed to identify, based on user data a reference time. The processor is further programmed to send, via a human-machine interface included in the mobile device, a message to a user to input a user request to download a media content item prior to the reference time. The processor is further programmed to receive the user request to download the media content item and download the media content item from a media device.
US11750879B2	Video content display method, client, and storage medium Embodiments of the present invention provide a video content display method, a client, and a storage medium. The video content display method comprises: upon receipt of a startup instruction, measuring the current state parameter; if the current state parameter meets a preset display condition, reading pre-loaded video data, the preset display condition being used for determining whether to display the video content to be displayed of the pre-loaded video data; embedding the pre-loaded video data into the current information flow to obtain an information flow to be displayed; and in response to the startup instruction, playing back a target video corresponding to the information flow to be displayed to realize the display of said video content.
US11750877B2	Identification of services containing the same or equivalent content Identification of services that carry the same or equivalent content. A reception apparatus includes circuitry configured receive first service information for a first service included in a first broadcast stream, and receive second service information for a second service included in a second broadcast stream. The first service is associated with a first virtual channel number and the second service is associated with a second virtual channel number. The circuitry is configured to determine whether the first service included in the first broadcast stream contains the same programming content as a service included in another broadcast stream based on the first service information. The first service information includes an identifier included in the second service information when the first service included in the first broadcast stream contains the same programming content as the second service included in the second broadcast stream.
US11750876B2	Method and apparatus for determining object adding mode, electronic device and medium Embodiments of the present application disclose a method and apparatus for determining an object adding mode, an electronic device and a medium. A specific implementation of the method includes: obtaining a target video and a to-be-added object set to be added to a target video; determining time periods corresponding to storyboards of the target video; determining a presentation period of a to-be-added object in the to-be-added object set in the target video based on the time periods corresponding to the storyboards; generating object adding indication information based on the determined presentation period, where the object adding indication information includes time prompt information used to indicate the presentation period of the to-be-added object in the to-be-added object set in the target video. According to this implementation, automatic selection of time for adding the to-be-added object to the target video is realized.
US11750875B2	Providing visual content editing functions A method of adjusting visual content. The method comprises selecting, on a client terminal, visual content, extracting visual content data pertaining to the visual content, forwarding a request which includes the visual content data to a network node via a network, receiving, in response to the request, a list of a plurality of visual content editing functions from the network node, presenting, on the client terminal, the plurality of visual content editing functions to a user, receiving a selection of at least one member of the list from the user, adjusting the visual content using the at least one member, and outputting the adjusted visual content.
US11750874B2	Systems and methods for providing personalized actionable items for content items The methods and systems described herein provide personalized action items for content items. In one example, the methods and systems identify a plurality of content items, each of which is associated with at least one respective attribute. The system accesses profile information associated with a content consumption session. For each of the plurality of content items, the system determines at least one respective actionable item based on the at least one attribute and on the profile information. The system causes to be displayed the landing interface, which includes a plurality of simultaneously displayed content item identifiers associated with the plurality of content items, respectively, and proximate to each of the displayed content item identifiers, causing to be displayed at least one respective actionable item identifier associated with the at least one respective actionable item, respectively.
US11750873B2	Video distribution device, video distribution method, and video distribution process A video distribution device includes processing circuitry configured to receive first information, from a first terminal device, corresponding to motion of a first user of the first terminal device; distribute second information to a second terminal device of a second user being different from the first user, the second information for displaying a video including a first character object generated based on the first information; receive, from a second terminal device in a case that a second terminal device displays the video, a request for a first gift for the first character object; and distribute, to a second terminal device in response to a request, third information for displaying video that includes the first character object and a first object corresponding to a first gift.
US11750872B2	System and method for configuring controlling device functionality A controlling device is automatically configured to issue a communication directly to a first controllable appliance to control a functional operation of the first controllable appliance in the event that the first controllable appliance is determined to be unresponsive to a command communication transmitted to the first controllable appliance via a digital communications link or to issue a communication to a second controllable appliance to control the functional operation of the first controllable appliance via a digital communications link in the event that first controllable appliance is determined to be responsive to a command communication transmitted to the first controllable appliance via a digital communications link.
US11750868B2	Systems and methods for management of media content subscriptions Systems and methods are provided for managing subscriptions. A media guidance application obtaining viewing patterns of a subscriber and determining a first and second media package of interest to the subscriber. A first and second release schedule are obtained related to media content in the first and second media packages. The media guidance application predicts a first viewing impact of the first subscription and a second viewing impact of the second subscription, for the upcoming time period, wherein the viewing impact indicates a total predicted amount of time spent viewing the media packages in the upcoming time period. An available amount of time for viewing media in the upcoming time period is also determined. The media guidance application generates a subscription recommendation for the upcoming time period based on the first viewing impact, second viewing impact, and available amount of time for viewing media in the upcoming time period.
US11750867B2	Systems and methods for determining and distributing fees associated with curated video clips There is provided a system including a memory storing an executable code and a processor executing the executable code to provide access to a plurality of users to curate video clips stored in a content repository, wherein each video clip is associated with one of a plurality of ownership identifications, receive curation inputs from a user of one of a plurality of user devices arranging two or more video clips into a video compilation, wherein a first video clip is associated with the first ownership identification of a first content owner and a second video clip is associated with the second ownership identification of a second content owner, stream the video compilation to one or more of the plurality of user devices, and distribute a first fee to the first content owner and a second fee to the second content owner, in response to streaming the video compilation.
US11750865B1	Method and system for synchronization of adaptive streaming transcoder and packager outputs A system, apparatus and method for synchronizing distributed adaptive streaming transcoders or packagers includes a plurality of distributed transcoders having one or more processors configured to perform the functions of identifying the output track timescale, identifying from an input signal a frame time information and optionally adjusting it for the output track timescale, calculating the frame time information of the frame relative to a time anchor by adjusting it with a synchronization time stamp, identifying a fixed segment duration by reading it from a memory, computing an earliest presentation time of a next media segment as an integer multiple of the fixed segment duration times the output track timescale, generating the next media segment with the fixed segment duration and the earliest presentation time of the next media segment, and transmitting the next media segment using an HTTP Request or a receiver.
US11750858B2	Digital transport adapter One or more computing devices may be configured to identify information corresponding to a program change request associated with a multi-program data transmission. The information may comprise at least a link to a desired program within the multi-program data transmission. The one or more computing devices may communicate the link to the desired program to a client device over a specified time period. After the time period, the one or more computing devices may communicate the desired program to the client device using a single program data transmission. The single program data transmission may be derived from the multi-program data transmission.
US11750851B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium An apparatus 103 stores, in a storage unit, a plurality of parameters for generation of a virtual viewpoint image based on a plurality of captured images, the plurality of parameters including a parameter representing a time and a parameter representing a position of a virtual viewpoint and a direction of view from a virtual viewpoint corresponding to the time, and causes, in accordance with a switching operation performed while a virtual viewpoint image is being displayed on a display unit, the display unit to display a virtual viewpoint image corresponding to a parameter representing a time selected from the plurality of parameters stored in the storage unit based on the switching operation, and corresponding to a parameter representing a position of a virtual viewpoint and a direction of view from a virtual viewpoint corresponding to the virtual viewpoint image being displayed.
US11750848B2	High-fidelity generative image compression Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training an encoder neural network configured to receive a data item and to process the data item to output a compressed representation of the data item. In one aspect, a method includes, for each training data item: processing the data item using the encoder neural network to generate a latent representation of the training data item; processing the latent representation using a hyper-encoder neural network to determine a conditional entropy model; generating a compressed representation of the training data item; processing the compressed representation using a decoder neural network to generate a reconstruction of the training data item; processing the reconstruction of the training data item using a discriminator neural network to generate a discriminator network output; evaluating a first loss function; and determining an update to the current values of the encoder network parameters.
US11750846B2	Method and apparatus for video filtering Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for filtering in video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video filtering includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry determines a first offset value for applying a non linear mapping based filter based on first reconstructed samples at a first node in a loop filter chain. Then, the processing circuitry applies the first offset value to an intermediate reconstructed sample at a second node along the loop filter chain to generate a second reconstructed sample.
US11750844B2	Three-dimensional data encoding method, three-dimensional data decoding method, three-dimensional data encoding device, and three-dimensional data decoding device A three-dimensional data encodes method of encoding three-dimensional data items in time series. Each of the three-dimensional data items includes a geometry information item and an attribute information item in association with a same time point. The three-dimensional data encoding method includes: first encoding of encoding the geometry information item; and second encoding of encoding the attribute information item with reference to the geometry information item associated with the same time point. The geometry information item and the attribute information item that are in association with the same time point are included in an access unit.
US11750843B2	Multiview-related supplementary enhancement information messages Aspects of the disclosure provide a method, an apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for video decoding. The apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to receive a first supplemental enhancement information (SEI) message including scalability dimension information (SDI). The first SEI message includes SDI of a plurality of views in a multiview bitstream including a coded video sequence (CVS) with a plurality of layers. The processing circuitry determines a value of a first syntax element sdi_view_id_val[ ] in the first SEI message. The first syntax element sdi_view_id_val[ ] indicates a view identifier (ViewId) of a layer in the plurality of layers. The processing circuitry determines, based on the first syntax element sdi_view_id_val[ ], a target layer of the plurality of layers to which a second syntax element of a second SEI message applies. The first syntax element sdi_view_id_val[ ] indicates a view of the plurality of views associated with the second syntax element.
US11750842B2	Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method An encoder determines, based on a width and a height of a block, whether or not to disable a prediction mode in which the block is split along a partitioning line defined by a distance and an angle and then prediction is performed; and encodes the block with the prediction mode disabled or not disabled according to a result of the determination on whether or not to disable the prediction mode. Here, the distance is the shortest distance between the center of the block and the partitioning line, and the angle is an angle representing a direction from the center of the block toward the partitioning line in the shortest distance. The encoder determines to disable the prediction mode when (i) a width-to-height ratio is at least 8 or (ii) a height-to-width ratio is at least 8.
US11750841B2	Methods and apparatuses for coding transform blocks Video processing methods and apparatuses in a video encoding or decoding system for processing residual data of transform blocks. A current transform block in a video picture is divided into multiple sub-blocks, and each sub-block in the current transform block is entropy encoded or decoded using multiple sub-block coding passes. Each transform coefficient level in each sub-block is visited once according to a pre-defined scanning order in each sub-block coding pass. Two or more syntax elements associated with transform coefficient levels in the current transform block are aggregated and coded in one single sub-block coding pass. The video processing method is applied if the current transform block contains at least one non-zero transform coefficient level and the current transform block is coded in Transform Skip Mode (TSM) according to some embodiments.
US11750839B2	Method and apparatus for point cloud compression Aspects of the disclosure provide methods, apparatuses, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium for point cloud coding. In a method, when parallel octree coding is enabled for occupancy codes of nodes in an octree partitioning structure of the point cloud, syntax information of the point cloud is decoded from a coded bitstream and a bitstream offset of an octree depth is determined. The syntax information indicates a bitstream length of the octree depth at which the parallel octree coding is enabled. Parallel decoding is performed on the occupancy codes of the nodes of the octree depth based on the bitstream offset and the bitstream length of the octree depth. Further, the point cloud is reconstructed based on the occupancy codes of the nodes.
US11750837B2	Method and apparatus for intra prediction using an interpolation filter Provided are a method, an apparatus, a computer program product and a non-transitory computer-readable medium for video coding. The method comprises performing an intra-prediction process of a block comprising samples to be predicted, wherein an interpolation filter is applied to reference samples of the block during the intra-prediction process of the block. The interpolation filter is selected on the basis of a subpixel offset between the reference samples and the samples to be predicted, and a size of a main reference side used in the intra-prediction process is determined according to a length of the interpolation filter and an intra-prediction mode that provides, out of a set of available intra-prediction modes, the greatest non-integer value of said subpixel offset, wherein the main reference side comprises the reference samples.
US11750834B2	Method and apparatus for inter prediction in video coding system A video decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus comprises deriving control points (CPs) for the current block; obtaining motion vectors for the CPs; deriving a motion vector of a sub-block or a sample unit in the current block on the basis of the obtained motion vectors; deriving a prediction sample for the current block on the basis of the derived motion vector; and generating a reconstruction sample on the basis of the prediction sample. The method enables effective performance of inter prediction through the motion vectors (transformation prediction), not only when an image in the current block is moved in a plane, but also when the image in the current block is rotated, zoomed in, zoomed out, or transformed into a parallelogram. Accordingly, the amount of data for the residual signal for the current block can be eliminated or reduced, and the overall coding efficiency can be improved.
US11750833B2	Video signal encoding and decoding method, and apparatus therefor A video decoding method includes the steps of: generating a merge candidate list for a first block; selecting one among merge candidates included in the merge candidate list; and performing motion compensation for the first block based on motion information of the selected merge candidate. At this point, an inter-region merge candidate included in an inter-region motion information list may be added to the merge candidate list based on the number of spatial merge candidates and temporal merge candidates included in the merge candidate list.
US11750823B2	Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image signal A method for encoding or decoding an image signal according to the present invention may comprise the steps of: determining a plurality of weight prediction parameter candidates for a coding block based on number information signaled in a unit of a sequence of a bitstream, the sequence being a higher unit of the coding block, determining a weight prediction parameter of the coding block from the weight prediction parameter candidates based on index information signaled in the unit of the coding block, and obtaining a prediction block of the coding block by obtaining a second prediction sample of the coding block.
US11750818B2	Inter-prediction mode based image processing method, and apparatus therefor In the present invention, an inter-prediction mode based image processing method and an apparatus therefor are disclosed. Specifically, the inter-prediction based image processing method may comprise the steps of: deriving movement information of a control point for specifying a reference block of a current block; dividing the current block into sub-blocks; deriving movement information of the sub-blocks using the movement information of the control point; and generating a prediction block for each sub-block using the movement information of the sub-blocks.
US11750817B2	Image coding method based on transform and apparatus therefor An image decoding method according to the present document comprises the steps of: on the basis of an intra prediction mode of a chroma block being a cross-component linear model (CCLM) mode and an intra prediction mode of a luma block corresponding to the chroma block being a palette mode, updating the intra prediction mode of the chroma block to an intra DC mode; on the basis of the updated intra prediction mode, determining an LFNST set including LFNST matrices; and performing LFNST on the chroma block on the basis of an LFNST matrix derived from the LFNST set, wherein the intra DC mode is an intra prediction mode corresponding to a specific location within the luma block.
US11750814B2	Single layer high dynamic range coding with standard dynamic range backward compatibility A method for transforming high dynamic range (HDR) video data into standard dynamic range (SDR) video data and encoding the SDR video data so that the HDR video data may be recovered at the decoder includes generating a tone map describing a transformation applied to the HDR video data to generate the SDR video data. The generated tone map describes the transformation as the multiplication of each HDR pixel in the HDR video data by a scalar to generate the SDR video data. The tone map is then modeled as a reshaping transfer function and the HDR video data is processed by the reshaping transfer function to generate the SDR video data. The reshaping transfer function is then inverted and described in a self-referential metadata structure. The SDR video data is then encoded including the metadata structure defining the inverse reshaping transfer function.
US11750812B2	Quantizer for lossless and near-lossless compression A system includes code including first obtaining code to obtain a first syntax element that indicates a first quantization index value for an AC coefficient of an image; second obtaining code to obtain at least one second syntax element that indicates an offset value; third obtaining code to obtain a second quantization index value for another coefficient of the image; fourth obtaining code to obtain a quantization step size that corresponds to the second quantization index value that is obtained; and determining code to determine whether a mode in which the image is to be coded is a lossy mode or a lossless mode based on determining whether the first quantization index value is equal to a quantization index value associated with lossless coding, and based on determining whether the offset value is less than or equal to the quantization index value associated with the lossless coding.
US11750810B2	Boundary block partitioning in video coding A partitioning method comprises determining whether a current block of a picture is a boundary block and whether the size of the current block is larger than a minimum allowed quadtree leaf node size; and if the current block is the boundary block and the size of the current block is not larger than the minimum allowed quadtree leaf node size (MinQTSize), applying forced binary tree (BT) partitioning to the current block. A method comprises making a determination that a current block of a picture is a boundary block and that a size of the current block is less than or equal to a minimum allowed quadtree (QT) leaf node size (MinQTSize); and applying, in response to the determination, forced binary tree (BT) partitioning to the current block.
US11750805B2	Systems and methods for applying deblocking filters to reconstructed video data Systems and methods for applying deblocking filters to reconstructed video data are disclosed. Sample values in adjacent reconstructed video blocks are modified according to multiple passes of a deblocking filter. A filtering pass may correspond to processing or constructing of all or subset of samples to be deblocked. The number of processing or constructing for each sample in a given pass may correspond to the pass index or order.
US11750792B2	Information processing apparatus, image generation method, control method, and storage medium An information processing apparatus for a system generates a virtual viewpoint image based on image data obtained by performing imaging from a plurality of directions using a plurality of cameras. The information processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain a foreground image based on an object region including a predetermined object in a captured image for generating a virtual viewpoint image and a background image based on a region different from the object region in the captured image, wherein the obtained foreground image and the obtained background image having different frame rates, and an output unit configured to output the foreground image and the background image which are obtained by the obtaining unit and which are associated with each other.
US11750789B2	Image display system A storage part retains: screen positioning data indicating a position, orientation, and shape of the screen in a reference coordinate space; image capture part positioning data indicating the position and orientation of the user space image capture parts in the reference coordinate space; and three-dimensional data representing a three-dimensional object in the reference coordinate space. A processing part: identifies a user viewpoint position on the basis of the image capture part positioning data and the user space images; generates, on the basis of the user viewpoint position, the screen positioning data, and the three-dimensional data, a display image of the three-dimensional object being viewable as though the three dimensional object had been seen in a virtual space from the user viewpoint position via the screen; and causes said display image to be displayed on the screen of a display.
US11750782B2	Endoscopic image enhancement using contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization (CLAHE) implemented in a processor Systems and methods of enhancing images use a contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization (CLAHE) algorithm in a field programmable gate array (FPGA). The images may be obtained by the imaging elements of a multiple imaging elements endoscope of an endoscopy system.
US11750780B1	Method and system for eyebox expansion in display systems A method includes receiving a light beam propagating along an optical path and operating a polarization rotator in a first state to produce an input right-hand circularly polarized beam or in a second state to produce an input left-hand circularly polarized beam. The method also includes converting, using a first diffractive element, the input right-hand circularly polarized beam into an intermediate left-hand circularly polarized beam or converting, using the first diffractive element, the input left-hand circularly polarized beam into an intermediate right-hand circularly polarized beam. The method also includes converting, using a second diffractive element, the intermediate left-hand circularly polarized beam into a right-hand circularly polarized output beam or converting, using the second diffractive element, the intermediate right-hand circularly polarized beam into a left-hand circularly polarized output beam.
US11750779B2	Light deflector, optical scanning system, image projection device, image forming apparatus, and lidar device A light deflector includes a fixed part, a movable part provided with a reflection plane, a pair of elastic supporting units configured to support the movable part, a pair of connecting parts configured to connect between the pair of elastic supporting units and the fixed part, and a driving unit configured to deform the pair of connecting parts to make the movable part oscillate. The pair of connecting parts are supported by the fixed part in a cantilevered state, and each one of the pair of connecting parts having a folded structure. An optical scanning system includes the light deflector. An image projection device includes the light deflector.
US11750777B2	Video management system and method for retrieving and storing data from surveillance cameras A surveillance camera and surveillance data storage system includes a video management system (VMS) with a backfill monitor controlling the process of transferring backfill surveillance data locally stored on the cameras to the VMS. The backfill monitor accesses information in a transfer policy and camera schedule dictating priority and bandwidth settings for each camera or for groups of cameras and uses the information to allocate the order, timing and speed of the transfers. The backfill monitor can further adjust the transfer speeds continuously and in real time according to the current conditions of the network.
US11750773B2	Real-time, two-way video authentication system Methods for onboarding a client user to a real-time video chat authentication system is provided. Methods may include, during an onboarding session, receiving the client user's credentials. The client user's credentials may be received at a client user graphical user interface (GUI). Methods may include receiving an opt-in from the client user for authentication via video capture. The opt-in may also be received at the client user GUI. Methods may include initiating a video capture session at a video conferencing platform. The video conferencing platform may be executed at a client device and an administrator device. The platform may enable the client user to communicate with an administrative user. Methods may include capturing a video capture of the client user at the video conferencing platform. Methods may include storing the video capture at a database.
US11750772B2	Rear illuminated transparent communication terminals Enterprise communication display systems enable life-like images for videoconferencing and entertainment productions. Life-like images appear in a 3D environment where imaged people are visible through specially configured see-through displays. Imaged people can be viewed amongst a reflected foreground. Methods for enterprise-wide deployments for corporate, healthcare, education, theater which includes cinema and government communications, including hotel properties and a property management system are shown. Direct projection see-through screen configurations are created that eliminate unwanted secondary images in the room, conceal exposed projector lenses, reduce lens flare, makes practical multi-use room installations, images conferees among a room environment, enables touch screen interactivity, and utilizes extreme and other types of short throw projectors to reduce cost and bulk of common throw projectors. Of these transparent screens inventive configurations of substantially invisible mesh screens for both front and rear projection are described.
US11750769B2	Methods and apparatus to perform an automated gain control protocol with an amplifier based on historical data corresponding to contextual data Methods and apparatus to perform an automated gain control protocol with an amplifier based on historical data corresponding to contextual data are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a controller to select an automatic gain control (AGC) parameter for an AGC protocol based on historical data corresponding to contextual data, the contextual data including at least one of a time during which the AGC protocol is performed, a panelist identified by a meter, demographics of an audience identified by the meter, a location of the meter, a station identified by the meter, a media type identified by the meter, or a sound pressure level identified by the meter; and a processor to perform the AGC protocol based on the selected AGC parameter.
US11750768B2	Display control apparatus An image processing unit identifies the shape of an obstacle that is identified from an area that appears in a peripheral image based on an image captured by a camera. The shape of the obstacle includes at least a tilt of a section of the obstacle in a road-surface direction. The section of the obstacle faces a vehicle. The image processing unit generates a superimposed image in which a mark image that is generated as a pattern that indicates the identified obstacle is superimposed onto a position that corresponds to the obstacle in the peripheral image. At this time, the image processing unit variably changes properties of the mark image based on the tilt of the obstacle identified by an obstacle identifying unit. The image processing unit then displays the generated superimposed image on display apparatus.
US11750765B2	Performing color conversion that acquires a sample color included in second image data In a case where a sample color is outside a color reproduction range of an image forming apparatus, there arises an issue that an adjustment target color cannot be brought close to a user-desired color. An image forming apparatus includes a generation unit configured to cause a printing unit to print a plurality of colors close to an acquired sample color and generate a color conversion table based on a user-selected color among the plurality of printed colors in a case where it is determined that the acquired sample color is outside a color reproduction range of the image forming apparatus, whereas in a case where it is determined that the acquired sample color is not outside the color reproduction range, the generation unit generates a color conversion table without causing the printing unit to print the plurality of colors close to the sample color.
US11750758B2	Information processing apparatus having control for limiting use of function related to failure An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a power supply unit, and a controller. The acquisition unit acquires failure information for the information processing apparatus via a wireless communication line from a management apparatus holding failure information. The power supply unit supplies power to the acquisition unit when the main power supply is not on. The controller exerts control in such a manner that, when the acquisition unit acquires the failure information from the management apparatus in the state in which the main power supply is not on, only a subset of functions of the apparatus are activated by supplying power from the power supply unit, and a process for limiting use of a function related to the failure is performed.
US11750755B2	Information processing apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and information processing method An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: control an operation of the information processing apparatus by executing a control program; in response to reception of an instruction to enter a power-supply off state, determine whether a first power-supply off state is allowed to be entered, the first power-supply off state being a state in which, while a current operation state is held without execution of a restart of the control program, the operation is stopped; in response to a determination result indicating that the first power-supply off state fails to be entered, perform a redetermination after a lapse of a set time, the redetermination determining whether the first power-supply off state is allowed to be entered; and in response to the redetermination determining that the first power-supply off state is allowed to be entered, cause the first power-supply off state to be entered, and, in response to the redetermination determining that the first power-supply off state is not allowed to be entered, cause a second power-supply off state to be entered, the second power-supply off state being a state in which, after the control program is restarted and an initialization process is performed, the operation is stopped.
US11750754B2	Image reading device controlling exposure time by multiple opening and closing operations of electronic shutters An image reading apparatus (1) includes image sensors (20A, 20B). The image sensor (20A) includes light guides (21A, 22A) guiding light to a reading target (M), a lens body (8A) forming an image of reflected light derived from the light guided by the light guides (21A, 22A) and reflected from the reading target (M), light receiving elements (11A) converting the image of reflected light formed by the lens body (8A) into electrical signals, and a controller (14A) controlling exposure times of the light receiving elements (11A). The image sensor (20B) includes a lens body (8B) forming an image of transmitted light derived from the light guided by the light guide (22A) and transmitted through the reading target (M), light receiving elements (11B) converting the image of transmitted light formed by the lens body (8B) into electrical signals, and a controller (14B) controlling exposure times of the light receiving elements (11B).
US11750752B2	Wireless location tracking tag for monitoring real time location-tracking apparatus for an electronic device A system for tracking the location of an electronic device includes an electronic device and a wireless location tag. The wireless location tag includes a microcontroller unit, and a modular connector interface configured to be communicatively coupled to a port of the electronic device. The wireless location tag is configured to establish an Internet connection to one or more backend electronic devices in response to detecting that the wireless location tag has been communicatively coupled to the port of the electronic device, obtain identifying information that is associated with the electronic device, and identify tag identifying information associated with the wireless location tag. The wireless location tag is also configured to send one or more instructions to the one or more backend electronic devices via the Internet connection, and send one or more ping messages to the one or more backend electronic devices.
US11750751B1	System and method for persistent presentation of cloud print user account information across multiple MFP applications A system and method for persistent presentation of cloud print user account information across multiple multifunction peripheral applications includes a user allowance appliance within a print management system that presents the user's status, considering all print management functionality of the multifunction peripheral regardless of which application is issuing a status, to maintain a persistent presentation of the user's status globally that includes functional permissions, allowance, job cost, and funds remaining. This status region is independent of any one application and is updated in real time to keep the user informed of the current state of their account information. The presentation is context sensitive such that status relevant to an active application is also shown.
US11750745B2	Processing and distribution of audio signals in a multi-party conferencing environment A method for distributing audio signals among a plurality of communication devices includes, during an audio connection between a first user and a remote person, receiving a first outbound signal that encodes audio being transmitted to a remote communication device of the remote person from a first communication device corresponding to the first user. The method includes receiving a first inbound signal that encodes audio being transmitted to the first communication device from the remote communication device, receiving a set of outbound signals from at least one of the plurality of communication devices other than the first communication device, and generating a first combined signal by combining the set of outbound signals with the first inbound signal. The first combined signal excludes inbound signals transmitted to the plurality of communication devices other than the first communication device. The method includes transmitting the first combined signal to the first communication device.
US11750742B2	Systems and methods for handling calls based on call insight information A device may receive audio data of a first call between a first user and a second user. The device may generate, based on the audio data, time series data associated with an audio signal of the first call and may process, using a first machine learning model, the time series data to generate first call insight information regarding one or more first insights associated with the first call. The device may process the audio data to generate image data associated with the audio signal and may process, using a second machine learning model, the image data to generate second call insight information regarding one or more second insights associated with the first call. The device may combine the first call insight information and the second call insight information to generate combined call insight information and cause an action to be performed based on the combined call insight information.
US11750741B2	Systems for transitioning telephony-based and in-person servicing interactions to and from an artificial intelligence (AI) chat session A system for transitioning a telephony or in-person servicing to an artificial intelligence (AI) chat session. The system may receive a phone call from a user device associated with a user, and transmit a voice request for personally identifiable information associated with the user. The system may also receive and authenticate the requested personally identifiable information and, in response, generate an authentication token. The system may further receive a servicing intent from the user device, and generate a corresponding servicing intent token. Also, the system may generate an API call to an AI chatbot model, transmit the authentication token and the servicing intent token to the AI chatbot model, and map the servicing intent token to a stored servicing intent. Finally, the system may transmit a message to the user device via the AI chat session.
US11750737B2	Electronic communication system and method with sentiment analysis Electronic communication methods and systems for determining sentiment associated with a communication, conveniently displaying indicia of the sentiment information, and scoring the sentiment information are disclosed. The methods and systems can include associating an emoji with a sentiment and annotating information, for example, a highlight reel or a waveform, with the emoji.
US11750732B1	System for introducing features to an in-vehicle infotainment system and method of use thereof A computing device operating on a Linux or Android platform for adding features to an in-vehicle infotainment system of a vehicle; it has an input/output interface; a power source input; a processor; and memory storing program code that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to receive an Android-based smartphone infotainment application program; scan program code of the Android-based smartphone infotainment application program using a predefined pattern to locate a base certificate in the program code of the Android-based smartphone infotainment application program; generate a certificate-key pair from the base certificate; transmit the certificate of the certificate-key pair to the infotainment system for authentication and to enable communication with an Android protocol between the computing device and the infotainment system; and cause a display of information associated with a feature application program for display on the infotainment system; methods of use thereof.
US11750730B2	Adaptive communication mode for recording a media message A computer implemented method and system for determining a communication mode for recording a media message on a communication device is provided. An adaptive recording application detects activation of an interface element, for example, a push or a touch of a button on the communication device and determines duration of the activation of the interface element. The adaptive recording application, in response to the detection of the activation of the interface element, selects a communication mode, for example, a push to talk communication mode, a tap to start communication mode, etc., based on a comparison of the duration of the activation of the interface element with one or more configurable timing parameters and/or a determination of a presence or an absence of a media signal during and/or after the activation of the interface element. The adaptive recording application initiates recording of the media message in the selected communication mode.
US11750728B2	Mobile terminal and electronic device Provided is a mobile terminal, which has a first surface and a second surface that are opposite to each other, and a side peripheral surface connecting the first surface with the second surface. A lens and a light-emitting element are provided within the mobile terminal. The light-emitting element is positioned in the mobile terminal. The lens includes a light-outgoing surface that emits light towards the first surface and/or the second surface. The light emitted from the light-emitting element is capable of exiting from the first surface and/or the second surface through the light-outgoing surface of the lens. An orthographic projection region of the light-emitting element on a reference plane is located outside an orthographic projection region of the light-outgoing surface of the lens on the reference plane. The reference plane is a geometric plane perpendicular to a thickness direction of the mobile terminal.
US11750725B2	Methods and apparatus for recovering network association information The techniques described herein relate to methods, apparatus, and computer readable media configured to determine a current data transmission sequence number for a next packet in a communication session with a remote computing device. An interruption in the communication session is detected. Checkpointed data for the communication session is determined that is indicative of a previous sequence number used for a previous packet sent to the remote computing device. A resolution procedure is performed to determine the current data transmission sequence number for the next packet in the communication session, including determining an estimated next sequence number for transmitting data in the communication session based on the checkpointed data, transmitting a first packet to the remote computing device, receiving a second packet from the remote computing device that has an associated sequence number, and determining the current sequence number for the next packet in the communication session.
US11750723B2	Systems and methods for providing a visual content gallery within a controlled environment Methods and systems for providing a visual content gallery within a controlled environment are disclosed herein. A content gallery server receives a content submission from an inmate device within the controlled environment. Further, the content gallery server determines that the content submission does not include prohibited content based on comparing the content submission to a blacklist of prohibited information. When the content submission does not include prohibited content, the content gallery server adds the content submission to a network accessible content gallery corresponding to an inmate associated with the inmate device. Further, authorized friends and family of the inmate may view the content submission and provide comments on the content submission.
US11750722B2	Media transcoding based on priority of media In one example, the present disclosure describes a device, computer-readable medium, and method for transcoding digital media in an optimized manner based on media priority. For instance, in one example, a method includes obtaining a plurality of media content items awaiting transcoding before being distributed over a content distribution network, identifying a plurality of transcoding resources available to transcode the plurality of media items, and generating a schedule for transcoding the plurality of media content items using the plurality of transcoding resources, wherein the schedule prioritizes those media content items of the plurality of media content items that have the highest relative business value.
US11750721B2	Bidirectional command protocol via a unidirectional communication connection for reliable distribution of tasks The present disclosure relates to techniques for handling of bidirectional command protocols via a unidirectional communication connection established between a client computing environment and a cloud-services computing environment. In one embodiment, a command request message is pushed from a service component of the cloud-services computing environment to a client gateway of the client computing environment via the unidirectional communication connection. A token indicating routing information to the service component is embedded in the pushed command request message. A command response message is received at the cloud gateway from the client gateway via a bidirectional communication connection established between the client computing environment and the cloud-services computing environment. The command response message includes the token and data associated with executing the command request message at the client computing environment. Based on the token, the command response message is routed to the service component.
US11750716B2	Methods for publishing resource, and gateway A resource publishing method includes that: a gateway receives a first resource link of a resource to be published from a server; the gateway determines, based on an obtained identifier of the server and the first resource link of the resource to be published, a second resource link of the resource to be published; and the gateway sends the second resource link of the resource to be published to a cloud platform, where the second resource link of the resource to be published is used by the cloud platform to publish the resource to be published on a resource directory.
US11750715B2	Industrial automation broker device A system for performing industrial automation control may include a first device that generates a first set of data formatted according to a first protocol and a second device that generates an automation command. The automation command may control the first device based on the first set of data. The second device may interpret data formatted according to a second protocol. The system may include a broker system coupled between the first device and the second device to transform data communicated between the devices, such as the first set of data, the automation command, or both. For example, the broker system may transmit a set of data generated to communicate the first set of data to the second device formatted according to the second protocol as opposed to being formatting according to the first protocol.
US11750713B1	System and method for facilitating an online continuous multimedia contest A method for facilitating an online continuous multimedia contest is described. The method includes receiving a multimedia content entry corresponding to a predefined category of the online continuous multimedia contest. The method further comprises associating the received multimedia content entry with an event identifier by determining an event identifier corresponding to an event associated with the predefined category of the online continuous multimedia contest, determining whether a quantity of multimedia content entries associated with the determined event identifier meets a first predefined threshold value, creating another event identifier when the quantity of multimedia content entries associated with the determined event identifier meets or exceeds the first predefined threshold value, and associating the received multimedia content entry with the other event identifier. The method includes conducting the contest by starting the contest among the multimedia content entries associated with the other event identifier and identifying a winner of the contest.
US11750709B2	Secure in-band service detection Approaches described herein allow an appliance to receive a message from a client device when the client device is attempting to connect to a service other than the appliance. For instance, a client device might connect to a service on a private network, however if the client device is not on the private network, it may encounter an appliance such as a gateway. The appliance is configured to return a message to a client device indicating that it is an appliance, and the client device returns a certificate to the appliance that allows the client to indicate a first purpose of a connection and a second purpose of the connection. In approaches described herein, the second purpose is used by the appliance to perform an action related to providing the service with a certificate that allows for the first purpose, which can include information to create a secure connection between the service and the client device.
US11750708B2	Method and device for proxy between different architectures The present disclosure proposes a proxy method, comprising receiving a request for a service in a first architecture from a requester network function (NF) in a second architecture, obtaining a response of the service from a serving NF on behalf of the requester NF, and sending a further response to the requester NF based on the response of the service. The proxy method may be implemented on a NF or a function entity within a NF.
US11750707B1	Systems and methods multi-tenant and omni-channel routing Systems and methods for multi-tenant and omni-channel routing are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for multi-tenant and omni-channel routing may include: (1) a multi-tenant and omni-channel routing computer program executed by an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor receiving, from a first platform in a multi-tenant system, a call to transfer an interaction between the first platform and a third party to a second platform in the multi-tenant system; (2) the multi-tenant and omni-channel routing computer program collecting a context of the interaction from the first platform; (3) the multi-tenant and omni-channel routing computer program identifying the second platform based on the context of the interaction; and (4) the multi-tenant and omni-channel routing computer program routing the interaction to the second platform and communicating the context to the second platform.
US11750699B2	Small message aggregation An apparatus includes one or more ports for connecting to a communication network, processing circuitry and a message aggregation circuit (MAC). The processing circuitry is configured to communicate messages over the communication network via the one or more ports. The MAC is configured to receive messages, which originate in one or more source processes and are destined to one or more destination processes, to aggregate two or more of the messages that share a common destination into an aggregated message, and to send the aggregated message using the processing circuitry over the communication network.
US11750693B1	Load balancing device connections A computing device including a memory and a processor is provided. The processor is configured to receive, from a device configured to communicate data generated by at least one sensor disposed in a location being monitored, a request to establish a bi-directional connection between the device and a computing environment; identify a structure of data storing a uniform resource locator (URL) and a set of identifiers, the set of identifiers being representative of a group of connections with the computing environment; and respond, to the device, with a response specifying the URL, thereby enabling the device to establish the bi-directional connection.
US11750691B2	Systems and methods for hierarchical failover groups A logical grouping of subgroups of server clusters forms a failover super-cluster. A logical grouping of groups of servers provides high availability by, upon failure of an entire group (site), failing over an entire subgroup to a different subgroup. Yet within each subgroup local failovers continue to maintain application high availability during instances in which the site remains operational.
US11750690B2	Predictive load mitigation and control in a content delivery network (CDN) A computer-implemented method, in a content delivery (CD) network that delivers content on behalf of multiple content providers. The method includes, at a server in the CDN, wherein the server is currently processing at least one other request in at least one other session: receiving a connection request from a client, the connection request being associated with a corresponding content request; determining whether handling the content request will cause the server to become overloaded; and, based on the determining in (B) and on information about the content request, conditionally (i) accepting the content request, and (ii) terminating or throttling at least one session on the server.
US11750689B2	Speech processing method and apparatus, device, storage medium and program The present disclosure provides a speech processing method. A specific implementation solution is: a terminal device sends at least one speech intention to a server in a process of receiving first speech information, where each speech intention is a speech intention corresponding to a part of speech information in the first speech information; the server acquires response information corresponding to the at least one speech intention; the terminal device sends the first speech information to the server in response to completion of receiving the first speech information; the server acquires a second speech intention corresponding to the first speech information, and sends the response information corresponding to the first speech intention to the terminal device, and the terminal device outputs the response information.
US11750688B2	Cost-aware integration process modeling in multi-cloud computing environment Methods and systems may be associated with application integration in a multi-cloud computing environment. A modeling platform may determine a pattern composition for an integration process associated with a business application. A cost-aware platform may transform a decomposed version of the pattern composition, including a plurality of integration pattern contract graphs, into a multi-cloud cost problem optimization representation. An initial solution to the cost problem representation may be calculated using a modified first fit decreasing bin packing or similar algorithm to determine a configuration of multi-cloud containers and integration pattern contract graph container assignments. The system may then iteratively and locally improve the solution to by applying feasible transformations to create variant container configurations and integration pattern contract graph container assignments that are evaluated based on multi-cloud costs (keeping the user in-the-loop). When a termination criteria is satisfied, an indication of the improved solution may be output.
US11750686B2	System and method for enabling one or more transfer features associated with a real-time transfer protocol A server computer system, comprises a processor; a communications module coupled to the processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing instructions that, when executed, configure the processor to receive, via the communications module and from a client device, a signal including a request to configure a transfer of data to a particular data record; determine that the particular data record is associated with a third party server; obtain a trust score associated with the particular data record; determine that the trust score satisfies trust criteria; and responsive to determining that the trust score satisfies trust criteria, enable one or more transfer features associated with a real-time transfer protocol.
US11750678B2	Manifest based CMAF content preparation template for 5G networks Systems, devices, and methods for media processing and streaming, including receiving content to be prepared for a 5G media streaming (5GMS) network; receiving a content preparation template (CPT), wherein the CPT specifies input characteristics of an input Common Media Application Format (CMAF) track corresponding to the content, output characteristics of a set of output CMAF tracks corresponding to the content, and encoding parameters corresponding to the set of output CMAF tracks; preparing the content according to the CPT; and streaming the prepared content over the 5GMS network to a media streaming client.
US11750671B2	Cognitive encapsulation of group meetings An embodiment includes identifying which of a plurality of participants of a web conference is an identified participant associated with a selected cluster of a plurality of clusters of audio feed data of an audio feed of the web conference based on a self-introduction in the selected cluster. The embodiment also generates a first preliminary leadership score for the identified participant based on a speaking duration value associated with the identified participant and generates a second preliminary leadership score for the identified participant using a selected video segment as an input for a machine learning classifier model. The embodiment calculates a final leadership score for the identified participant based on the first and second preliminary leadership scores. The final leadership score is representative of a likelihood that the identified participant is a supervisor, and is indicative of the identified participant being a supervisor if it exceeds a designated threshold value.
US11750667B2	Network node, IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) node, over the top (OTT) digital assistant, and methods in a communications network A network node for handling access to sharing media in a media session in an Over The Top (OTT) Digital Assistant (DA). The media shall be shared between a first participant A and a second participant B in a communications network. The first participant A has access to sharing media in the media session in the OTT DA. The network node receives a request for access from the OTT DA. The request for access relates to the first participant A requesting access for the second participant B to sharing media in the media session in the OTT DA. The network node forwards the request to an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) node in the communications network, to trigger the IMS node to switch on the sharing of media in the media session in the OTT DA for the second participant B, when authorised by the participant B.
US11750665B2	Distributed network system for call processing provided are a call processing method performed by a distributed network system and a recording medium, in which a program for executing the call processing method is recorded A distributed network system for call processing, according to one embodiment, includes: a plurality of relay devices; and a call routing server for managing information about the plurality of relay devices and information about subscribers registered to the plurality of relay devices, where each of the plurality of relay devices can include: a database; a protocol relay unit; a call processing unit for checking whether the sender of a call and the receiver of the call are at least one subscriber, on the basis of an SIP signal incoming through the protocol relay unit; and a packet processing unit for realigning incoming phone call packets of the call according to the sequence of the phone call packets, and adjusting the transmission speed of the realigned phone call packets according to a situation in which the phone call packets are incoming.
US11750662B2	Multi-access edge computing services security in mobile networks by parsing application programming interfaces Techniques for providing multi-access edge computing (MEC) services security in mobile networks (e.g., service provider networks for mobile subscribers, such as for 5G networks) by parsing Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for MEC services security in mobile networks by parsing APIs in accordance with some embodiments includes monitoring network traffic on a mobile network at a security platform to identify an API message associated with a new session, wherein the mobile network includes a 5G network or a converged 5G network that includes a multi-access edge computing (MEC) service; extracting mobile network identifier information from the API message at the security platform; and determining a security policy to apply at the security platform to the new session based on the mobile network identifier information.
US11750651B2	Honeypots for infrastructure-as-a-service security Techniques for using honeypots to lure attackers and gather data about attackers and attack patterns on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) instances. The gathered data may then be analyzed and used to proactively prevent such attacks.
US11750649B2	System and method for blocking phishing attempts in computer networks Systems and methods of blocking phishing attempts in a computer network, including receiving a list of assets of the computer network, wherein each asset is associated with at least one computer network address, generating at least one address permutation on the at least one computer network address of each asset of the computer network, wherein the generated at least one address permutation is different from the address associated with each asset of the computer network, receiving a communication request at a gateway server of the computer network, determining a destination address of the communication request, comparing the determined destination address with the at least one address permutation, and when the determined destination address is the same as at least one address permutation, blocking the communication request at the gateway server.
US11750646B2	System and method for decentralized internet traffic filtering policy reporting A system and method to filter potentially unwanted traffic from trackers, third-party cookies, malicious websites or other sources and present the aggregated results of said filtering to the VPN user. One of the embodiments enables a VPN user to opt-in or opt-out from the filtering activities while being able to access the aggregated information about filtering. In another embodiment, the user can choose to customize the filtering parameters to add or remove specific targets from the filtering policies.
US11750645B2	Detecting use of compromised security credentials in private enterprise networks Provided is a process including: obtaining, with a domain controller of a private computer network, a set of user-authentication credentials comprising a first username and a first password; querying a distributed credential-monitoring application; receiving query results including one or more passwords associated with the first username; determining that at least some of the one or more passwords in the query results match the obtained first password; and in response to the determination, blocking, with the domain controller, access to a first user account on the private computer network associated with the obtained first username and first password.
US11750644B2	Web service-based monitoring and detection of fraudulent or unauthorized use of calling service Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing web-based monitoring and detection of fraudulent or unauthorized use of voice calling service. In various embodiments, a computing system might receive, from a user device associated with an originating party, a request to initiate a call session with a destination party, the request comprising user information associated with the originating party and a destination number associated with the destination party; might query a database with session data (including user information) to access permission data and configuration data; and might configure fraud logic using received configuration data from the database. The computing system might analyze the session data and permission data using the configured fraud logic to determine whether the originating party is permitted to establish the requested call session with the destination party; if so, might initiate one or more first actions; and, if not, might initiate one or more second actions.
US11750643B1	Apparatus and method for determining a recommended cyber-attack risk remediation action An apparatus and method for determining a recommended cyber-attack risk remediation action are provided. The apparatus includes a processor and a memory communicatively coupled to the at least a processor. The memory contains instructions configuring the at least a processor to receive a cyber profile associated with a digital environment. The processor is further configured to receive a risk profile associated with the cyber profile and determine at least one recommended risk remediation action based on the risk profile. In addition, the processor is configured to generating a user interface data structure configured to display the determined at least one recommended risk remediation action.
US11750635B2	Minimizing production disruption through a scan rule engine This technology is directed to a rules based engine for managing network-based scanning of devices on a network to minimize disruptions to the network. One or more processors may identify an initial group of network devices from a set of network devices, the initial group of network devices being identified in accordance with a rule set, and initiate a scan of the initial group of network devices. The one or more processors may determine, in accordance with the rule set, an additional group of network devices from the set of network devices to be scanned and initiate a scan of the additional group of network devices. The steps may be repeated until all network devices in the set of network devices are scanned in accordance with the rule set.
US11750630B2	Real-time validation of application data Aspects of the disclosure relate to real-time validation of application data. A computing platform may collect, in real-time, information associated with a plurality of data transmissions between applications, where the information includes, for each data transmission of the plurality of data transmissions, an indication of a source application and a destination application, a first indication whether the data transmission was sent by the source application, and a second indication whether the data transmission was received by the destination application. The computing platform may compare, for each data transmission, the first indication and the second indication. The computing platform may detect, for a particular data transmission, a lack of a match between the first indication and the second indication. The computing platform may identify the particular data transmission as an anomalous data transmission. Then, the computing platform may trigger one or more security actions to mitigate the anomalous data transmission.
US11750627B2	Insider threat detection utilizing user group to data object and/or resource group access analysis Techniques for detecting suspicious data object access requests indicative of potential insider threats are described. A suspicious access detection module (SADM) determines, based on access data describing a access requests issued on behalf of multiple users, groups of the users having similar patterns of accesses to resource groups, a set of the resource groups accessed by each of the user groups, and ones of the user groups that are to be considered nearby others of the user groups based on having a threshold amount of resource group access similarities. The SADM causes an alert to be generated responsive to a determination that a subsequent access request is suspicious because it accesses a data object of a resource group that is not within the set of accessed resource groups of the issuing user's user group, and because the resource group is not within the sets of accessed resource groups of any nearby user groups.
US11750621B2	Learning of malicious behavior vocabulary and threat detection through behavior matching In one embodiment, a device obtains input features for a neural network-based model. The device pre-defines a set of neurons of the model to represent known behaviors associated with the input features. The device constrains weights for a plurality of outputs of the model. The device trains the neural network-based model using the constrained weights for the plurality of outputs of the model and by excluding the pre-defined set of neurons from updates during the training.
US11750614B2	Methods and systems for dynamic creation of access control lists A method for dynamically creating network access control lists includes, by a processor receiving a request for an access control list (ACL). The method further includes, in response to receiving the request for the ACL: receiving a plurality of resource description from a first data source, receiving a policy enforcement point (PEP) graph for a network from a second data source, and using the plurality of resource descriptions and the PEP graph to generate the ACL, wherein the ACL comprises at least one policy for controlling network traffic through a PEP of the network. Each of the plurality of resource descriptions is associated with a plurality of computing devices in the network, and includes one or more of the following: information corresponding to an Internet Protocol definition of a computing device, information corresponding to desired access of the computing device, and information corresponding to permitted access of the computing device.
US11750608B2	Assisted third-party password authentication Disclosed herein are system, method, and apparatus for assisted third-party password authentication. The method performed at a client device includes creating a secure connection from an inline frame associated with a first application on the client device to an authorization server for accessing a second application. The method includes identifying, by the inline frame, one or more events that represent inputs for a user authorization credential, and proxying, by the inline frame, the identified one or more events to the authorization server using the secure connection. The method includes receiving an authorization code from the authorization server in response to the proxying. The method includes redirecting, by the inline frame, the authorization code to the application on the client device. The method includes transmitting, from the client device to the authorization server, the authorization code to receive an access token for accessing the second application.
US11750607B2	Identifying accounts having shared credentials Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for identifying accounts having shared credentials. In some implementations, a content management system can collect user login context data when a user logs in to or accesses a user account of the content management system. For example, the content management system can collect client device data, client application data, internet protocol (IP) address data, and/or other data from the user's device when the user logs in to the user account. The content management system can analyze the login context data to determine patterns that indicate that the user account login credentials are being shared among multiple users.
US11750601B1	User authentication based on telematics information Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for authenticating a user requesting access to a computing resource based on telematics data. A system may include a telematics device associated with a vehicle having one or more sensors arranged therein, a mobile device, and a server computer. The server computer may receive telematics data of a user associated with the vehicle from the telematics device, store the telematics data in memory, receive a request to authenticate the user, generate one or more questions for authenticating the user based on the telematics data, transmit the one or more questions for presentation to the user, receive one or more answers to the one or more questions from the mobile device, and transmit, to the mobile device, an indication of whether the user is authenticated based on the one or more answers.
US11750598B2	Multi-legged network attribution using tracking tokens and attribution stack Technologies are shown for network attribution tracking for a multi-legged transaction that involve receiving a tracking token registration request from a partner service, generating a tracking token associated with the partner service, adding an entry to an attribution stack for a transaction, where the entry associates the tracking token with the partner service, and returning the tracking token to the partner service. Receiving a tracking token request can include determining whether the tracking token request includes a previously generated tracking token and using the previously generated tracking token to identify the attribution stack for the transaction. Adding an entry to an attribution stack for a transaction can include adding the entry to the attribution stack identified for the transaction. Attribution for a transaction can be obtained by accumulating attribution entities from each entry in the attribution stack identified for the transaction.
US11750596B2	Using ephemeral URL passwords to deter high-volume attacks Methods and systems for using ephemeral URL passwords to deter high volume attacks is described. A request to access one of several protected URLs is detected from a client computing device. A URL password is received from the client computing device. The request is redirected to the protected URL upon determining that the received URL password is valid for the one of the several of protected URLs.
US11750592B2	Platform and method of certification of an electronic notice for electronic identification and trust services (EIDAS) The object of the invention relates to a method in which a telecommunications operator or an e-delivery provider can send notices by email to one or a number of recipients, certifying the content of the notice and with a link to a proxy server of a CA (certification authority) who will verify the digital certificate of the recipient and their identity.
US11750591B2	Key attestation statement generation providing device anonymity A computing device sends a request for an attestation certificate to an attestation service along with information regarding the hardware and/or software of the device. The attestation service processes the request and verifies the information received from the device. After verifying the information, the attestation service selects a public/private key pair from a collection of reusable public/private key pairs and generates an attestation certificate for the device and public key of the public/private key pair. This attestation certificate is digitally signed by the attestation service and returned to the device. The private key of the selected public/private key pair is also encrypted to a trusted secure component of the device, ensuring that the key cannot be stolen by malware and re-used on another device, and is returned to the device. The device uses this attestation certificate to access relying parties, and optionally generates additional public/private key pairs and attestation certificates.
US11750590B2	Single sign-on (SSO) user techniques using client side encryption and decryption An access management system (AMS) is disclosed that includes SSO capabilities for providing users secure access to protected resources within an enterprise using encryption keys generated by a client application. The AMS receives a request from a client application for a user to access a protected resource. In certain examples, the request comprises a client application identifier, a session identifier and a client public encryption key. The AMS determines if the session identifier points to a valid session and upon determining that the session identifier corresponds to a valid session, transmits information associated with the valid session to the client application. In certain examples, the information associated with the valid session is encrypted using the client public encryption key. Based on information associated with the valid session received from the client application, the AMS determines whether to grant or deny a user access to a protected resource within the enterprise.
US11750589B2	System and method for secure application communication between networked processors A system and method is disclosed for transporting application data through a communications tunnel between a host device and a guest device that each includes networked processors. The application data may be transported between the host device and the guest device through an allowed port of the host device, the communications tunnel, and a port of the guest device. Based on logon credentials, the guest device can be authenticated by a security server and a role may be determined. The role can include allowed ports and associated applications on the host that the guest is allowed to access. Remote access from the guest device to host devices or remote devices may be enabled without needing prior knowledge of their configurations. Secure access may be facilitated to remote host devices or remote devices, according to security policies that can vary on a per-session basis and takes into account various factors.
US11750584B2	Systems and methods of sharing information through a tag-based consortium The invention provides one or more consortia of networks that identify and share information about users and/or user devices interacting with the consortia. User devices may be identified, at least in part, by tag-based computer information. Computers and other devices accessing the Web carry device tags with date and time information describing when they were issued by a security tag server. A server time stamp may be inserted into time based computer tags such as a cookies indicating when they were created. Such time stamp information can be encrypted and analyzed during future attempts to access a secure network such as a customer attempting to log into an online banking account. When the time stamp information from the tag is compared to other selected information about the user, device and/or account, including but not limited to last account log-in date/time or account creation date, the invention may be used to detect suspicious activity. The invention may be use for identity-based applications such as network security, the detection of fraudulent transactions, identity theft, reputation-based communities, and law enforcement.
US11750583B2	Secure bootstrapping of client device with trusted server provided by untrusted cloud service A provisioning client obtains an identifier from a public server and a one-time password from a trusted server. The provisioning client combines the one-time password with the identifier to create an activation code for a client device and presents the activation code to the client device. The activation code enables the client device to download trusted cryptographic information from the trusted server in a communication session that is secured using the one-time password.
US11750578B2	Locking encrypted video conferences One disclosed example method includes receiving, during a first encrypted video conference including a plurality of participants, a request to admit an additional participant to the encrypted video conference; determining whether the additional participant is one of the plurality of participants. The example method further includes, responsive to determining that the additional participant is not one of the plurality of participants, ending the first encrypted video conference; obtaining a meeting cryptographic key; distributing the meeting cryptographic key to each participant of the plurality of participants; and initiating a second encrypted video conference including the plurality of participants.
US11750576B2	Initialization encryption for streaming content Methods are disclosed for creating a virtual encryption session prior to video streaming content being requested to reduce or eliminate delay in initialization of the encryption session and content delivery to the customer. A virtual session has control word(s) (CW) and virtual entitlement control message(s) (ECM) that are devoid of content specific information. One or more virtual sessions may be stored at an edge device and may be used to encrypt the first portion of a content stream while a content-specific encryption session is being initiated.
US11750575B2	Systems and methods for gateway communications for distributed ledger systems Systems and methods for gateway communications between non-distributed ledger systems and distributed ledger systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for gateway communication may include: (1) receiving, at a listener comprising a computer processor and from an application in a first domain, a message for a destination distributed ledger system that is one of a plurality of distributed ledger systems in a second domain; (2) generating, by the listener, a payload for the message, wherein the payload identifies the destination distributed ledger system for the message; and (3) encrypting, by the listener, the payload and passing a payload message comprising the encrypted payload to one of a plurality of adapters in a gateway communication service using an API. The adapter may receive the payload message, decrypt the payload, identifies the destination distributed ledger system, and communicate the decrypted payload to the destination distributed ledger system.
US11750569B2	Private cloud user insight privacy A user-initiated request from a user device of a user is detected. The user-initiated request is directed to a product provider, the user-initiated request includes one or more parameters. an anonymized request is created based on the one or more parameters. The anonymized request is sent to the product provider. A provider response is received from the product provider. A targeted response is generated based on the one or more parameters of the user-initiated request and based on the provider response. The targeted response is transmitted to the user device of the user.
US11750568B1	Secure proxy service Cross domain resource access includes accessing resources in a first domain from a second domain. This may be performed using the methods, system, and devices described herein. This may include maintaining a mapping identifier for a user of a service provider based on user information. The service provider may provide first and second security domains for the user. The mapping identifier may be associated with an endpoint of a private cloud computing service of the first security domain. The may also include receiving, from the first security domain, a request associated with a resource of the second security domain, the request comprising the mapping identifier. This may also include routing the request from the first security domain to the second domain via a first private network link of the first security domain and a second private network link of the second security domain using a confidentiality controlled interface.
US11750565B2	Method and system for updating of an application layer for a third-party telematics provider A method at a system including a firewall and at least one application, the method including obtaining, at the at least one application, a new address for a service provider for the at least one application; triggering a firewall update; obtaining a new firewall configuration; and updating the firewall, wherein the updating the firewall allows a connection from the at least one application to the new address for the service provider.
US11750559B2	Edge switching system, edge switching device, edge switching method, and program An edge switching device of an edge switching system includes: a remaining lease time information obtainment unit configured to obtain remaining lease time information for each of user terminals from a DHCP server; a submission order determination unit configured to determine a submission order for user configuration information in order from a shortest remaining lease time; a user configuration information submission unit configured to submit, to a backup system edge router, user configuration information of each of the user terminals, according to the determined submission order; and a reconnection inducement instruction unit configured to send, to the DHCP server, an instruction to send reconnection inducement information to the user terminals for which the user configuration information has been submitted.
US11750556B2	Creating a pseudonym for requesting a network slice A wireless device requests a network slice from a network by, first, identifying at least one network slice to be requested. Based on a mapping method that is specific to the wireless device, the wireless device forms a slice pseudonym for the or each network slice to be requested. The wireless device then transmits a request message to the network, wherein the request message comprises the or each slice pseudonym. The network node receives the request message sent by the wireless device, wherein the request message comprises at least one slice pseudonym. Based on a mapping method that is used by the wireless device and that is specific to the wireless device, the network node identifies at least one requested network slice from the or each received slice pseudonym. The network node then permits use of the requested network slice.
US11750555B2	Systems and methods for user matching Systems and methods are provided herein for matching between a plurality of users. A computer-implemented method for matching between a plurality of users may be provided. The method may include receiving input data from a plurality of devices associated with the plurality of users, analyzing the input data to determine, for each user and life event, which step(s) on a timeline of the life event that each user (a) has experienced, (b) is currently experiencing, or (c) likely to experience in the future; and matching the plurality of users with one another.
US11750546B2	Providing post-capture media overlays for post-capture processing in a messaging system The subject technology receives metadata corresponding to a respective media overlay, the metadata including information indicating that the respective media overlay is configured to be applied as an image processing operation during post-processing of image data during a post-capture stage. The subject technology selects the respective media overlay in response to the information indicating that the respective media overlay is configured to be applied as an image processing operation during post-processing of image data. The subject technology, based at least in part on a category indicator associated with the respective media overlay, populates a group of media overlays with at least the respective media overlay. The subject technology sends, to a client electronic device, second metadata including at least information related to the group of media overlays.
US11750545B2	Messaging system with circumstance configuration framework An example method comprises: receiving, at the server from a first client device, a request for access to a client feature on the first client device; determining, by the server, an applicable rule for the access request, the applicable rule having a plurality of nodes; determining, by the server, device capabilities needed for the determined rule; determining, by the server, nodes that can be executed and nodes that cannot be executed, based on the device capabilities; executing, by the server, nodes that can be executed to reach a partial decision for the applicable rule; pruning the rule to remove executed nodes and generate a pruned rule that includes nodes that cannot be executed; transmitting the pruned rule and partial decision to the device. The pruned rule is executed on the first client device with partial decision to generate a final decision. The client feature is configured based on the decision.
US11750544B2	Automated assistant architecture for preserving privacy of application content Implementations set forth herein relate to an automated assistant that allows third party applications to inject dependencies to leverage automated assistant functions. Furthermore, enabling such dependency injections can allow third party applications to preserve privacy of any application content that is used during execution of automated assistant functions. In some implementations, a third party application can initialize a function with an assistant dependency using parameters that are tagged as private. Initializing a function in such as a way can allow private content communicated between the third party application and the automated assistant to be abstracted for security purposes. The abstracted content can thereafter be communicated to a remote server—such as a server hosting an extensively trained machine learning model. Intelligent output provided by the server can then be incorporated into one or more processes of the third party application without comprising security.
US11750537B2	Evaluating digital media proficiency utilizing digital media bots within a social networking platform This disclosure describes methods, non-transitory computer readable storage media, and systems that generate digital content for users to access in a social networking platform and detect user interactions with such digital content as part of user-interaction evaluations to determine the users' digital media literacy. For instance, the disclosed systems receive a request to initiate a user-interaction evaluation in a social networking platform. In response to the request, the disclosed systems generate digital content (e.g., social networking posts from a digital media bot) as part of the user-interaction evaluation for users to access in the social networking platform. The disclosed systems further detect interactions by user accounts with the digital content within the social networking platform and then generate digital-media-proficiency metrics for the users based on the interactions. The disclosed systems accordingly determine digital media proficiency of the users according to the user-interaction evaluations by leveraging targeted digital content.
US11750535B2	Transmitting device, receiving device, packet transfer system,packet transfer method, and packet transfer program A transmission device (10) includes a flow table (11) that stores identification information about an uninterruptible target flow; a transmission-side identification unit (12) that identifies whether a received packet is from the target flow or a non-target flow based on whether the received packet matches the identification information about the target flow stored in the flow table (11); a tag application unit (13) that applies, to packets from the target flow, an uninterruptible identifier indicating that the packets are from the target flow and a sequence number for distinguishing the packets from other packets; and a branch unit (14) that branches the packets from the target flow processed by the tag application unit (13) into packets to be transferred to an active path (41) among redundant routes and packets to be transferred to a backup path (42) among the redundant routes.
US11750531B2	FPGA-based virtual fabric for data center computing A data center fabric includes a plurality of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), each FPGA interconnected by a plurality of links with other FPGAs, a plurality of servers in a data center, and physical network functions associated with the data center, wherein the plurality of FPGAs form a virtual fabric for switching between the FPGAs, the plurality of servers, and the physical network functions, and wherein the virtual fabric is arranged in a compound graph and a flat network with each FPGA being a node and a diameter of the compound graph and the flat network is indicative of a maximum number of hops for a packet through the virtual fabric.
US11750529B2	Communication control method In a smartphone or a personal computer, when there is an application which performs communication which a user is unconscious of, a communication volume increases unintentionally, and there arise problems in that a maximum communication volume is exceed, a network bandwidth of a base station is compressed, or communication being intentionally performed is disturbed. In order to solve the above problems, provided is a communication control method used in a communication control device capable of performing communication using an application via a communication line, and includes an application control step of switching a plurality of applications between a foreground state and a background state and a communication control step of changing an allocation amount of a network bandwidth of an application in accordance with whether the switched application is in the foreground state or the background state.
US11750528B2	Communication session addition via a host in deny new service mode Communication servers hosting interactions between requesting devices and resources may require load sheading or maintenance and, as a result, be placed in Deny New Service (DNS) mode, whereby a subsequent session request is refused while existing sessions continue until concluded. However, an interaction comprising an existing session may be supplemented by a subsequent session, often utilizing a different application layer implementation. By providing the requesting device with an interaction identifier, a subsequent session made after the server has been placed in DNS mode, may be accepted and associated with the same resource associated with the existing session.
US11750523B2	Method and apparatus for traffic detection Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for traffic detection. The method which may be performed by a first network node includes receiving a message from a second network node. The method further includes determining packet flow description information for traffic detection according to the message. The packet flow description information may indicate a combination criterion for two or more packet flow descriptions, and/or a protocol matching criterion for a domain name in a packet flow description. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the packet flow description definition can be extended to support more accurate traffic detection.
US11750519B2	Dynamic proxy operations in wireless mesh networks Implementations disclosed describe techniques and systems that improve connectivity and reduce network traffic and interference in wireless mesh networks by maintaining various mesh network devices (proxy nodes, beacon devices, printers, and the like) in an operating mode in which the mesh network devices do not advertise their presence to client devices. An outside client device seeking connection to mesh network devices, transmits a solicitation to the mesh network. Having received a solicitation, a mesh network device responds with one or more announcements (proxy node announcement, location beacon announcement, printer announcement, and so on). In response to receiving solicitations from one or more mesh network devices, the client device performs an action, such as selecting and establishes a proxy connection or a printer connection, determining a current location of the client device, or initiating some other action.
US11750516B2	Programmatically determining next-hop mac address Systems, media, and methods are capable of determining a layer 2 destination address that can then be used by a network acceleration application to populate data packets to be transmitted using accelerated networking techniques. The systems and methods provide for a software application executed on a computing device that controls a NIC interface to provide for an accelerated network. The software application resides in the application layer of a networking stack and is interfaced via a virtual NIC or TUN/TAP device with the kernel and the networking stack and operating system (OS) facilities to determine a layer 2 destination address for use in accelerated network applications. Embodiments herein, through the combination above, are able to account for firewall rules, static ARP entries, or any other system-administrator rules put in place for network operations.
US11750515B2	Data transmission method and apparatus Embodiments of this application provide a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes receiving, by a first device, a data packet, and extracting first address information of the data packet, where the first address information indicates a VNF; retrieving, by the first device based on the first address information, an SRv6 tunnel policy that corresponds to the first address information and that is from a SRv6 tunnel list; obtaining, by the first device, a forwarding path corresponding to a first SRv6 VPN SID, where the forwarding path is used as a data transmission path when the first device communicates with a second device corresponding to the first SRv6 VPN SID; and forwarding, by the first device, the data packet to the VNF based on the forwarding path.
US11750513B2	System and method for scalable multi-homed routing for vSwitch based HCA virtualization Systems and methods are provided for supporting scalable multi-homed routing for virtual switch based host channel adapter (HCA) virtualization in a subnet. An exemplary method can provide one or more switches, a plurality of host channel adapters, a plurality of hypervisors, and a plurality of virtual machines. The method can arrange the plurality of host channel adapters with one or more of a virtual switch with prepopulated local identifiers (LIDs) architecture or a virtual switch with dynamic LID assignment architecture. The method can further perform a multi-homed routing for the subnet, wherein at least one of the plurality of host channel adapters comprises two virtual switches, wherein the two virtual switches are treated as endpoints of the subnet, and wherein the multi-homed routing for the subnet ensures that each the two virtual switches are routed through independent paths.
US11750511B2	Multi-functional device for communications networks and methods and systems utilizing same The present subject matter relates to methods, circuitry and equipment providing a multi-functional, cost effective, media independent, open platform device for communication services using differential signaling interfaces. The methods, circuitry and equipment comprise a plurality of input amplifiers, output amplifiers, and retimers. A non-blocking cross-point switch may be used to switch any differential signals from the cross-point switch input to output. The device aggregates communication services from a plurality of lower service capacity connectors and interfaces to a single higher capacity connector and interfaces. The device can establish a demarcation point with a single device capable of supporting any communication services, any physical media interfaces, from any location.
US11750506B2	System and method for adaptive traffic path management A system and method for adaptive traffic path management, the method including: receiving at least one packet associated with a traffic flow; determining whether the traffic flow is a roaming traffic flow; determining application parameters associated with the at least one packet; determining attributes correlated with the traffic flow associated with the at least one packet; analyzing the application parameters and attributes to determine a Network Address Translation (NAT) pool for the traffic flow; determining if a modified NAT is needed based on the NAT pool for the traffic flow; if a modified NAT is needed, modifying the NAT for the at least one packet associated with the traffic flow; and sending the at least one packet and the traffic flow associated with the at least one packet to a path associated with the modified NAT.
US11750501B1	Upgrading meshnet connections in a mesh network A method including receiving, by a first device from a second device in a mesh network, coordination information including identification information that identifies an optimal midpath node and timing information that indicates a connection time associated with connecting with the optimal midpath node to enable utilization of the optimal midpath node for communicating meshnet data between the first device and the second device; and transmitting, by the first device, connection information to connect with the optimal midpath node based at least in part on utilizing the identification information. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US11750498B2	Guarantying SLA thru edge cloud path orchestration The present application relates to communications between a partner network and a wide area network (WAN) via the Internet. Although Internet service providers may act as autonomous systems, the WAN may control routing from the partner network by advertising unicast border gateway protocol (BGP) address prefixes for a plurality of front-end devices in the WAN. An agent in the partner network measures a plurality of paths to a service within the WAN. Each of the plurality of paths is associated with one of the plurality of front-end devices and a respective unicast BGP address prefix. The WAN selects a path within the WAN for the service. The WAN exports a routing rule to the agent. The agent forwards data packets for the service to the respective BGP address prefix via the Internet. The WAN receives data packets for the service of the partner network at the selected device.
US11750488B1	Minimizing latency of round trip network communication in a computing infrastructure A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer system for minimizing latency in an infrastructure. One or more servers receive a request of deploying a new extract, load, and transform (ELT) logic. One or more servers analyze the new ELT logic to identify source and target locations, analyze logs of existing ELT logics, identify physical locations of infrastructure resources, and identify available physical spaces for moving the infrastructure resources close to each other. One or more servers determine infrastructure resources that need to be moved so that round trip network communication of the new ELT logic are optimized, based on the physical locations of the infrastructure resources, the available physical spaces, and parameters identified through analysis of existing ELT logics. One or more servers move the infrastructure resources that need to be moved.
US11750487B1	Traffic analyzer for network device Approaches, techniques, and mechanisms facilitate actionable reporting of network state information and real-time, autonomous network engineering directly in-network at a switch or other network device. A data collector within the network device collects state information and/or data unit information from various device components, such as traffic managers and packet processors. The data collector, which may optionally generate additional state information by performing various calculations on the information it receives, is configured to then provide at least some of the state information to an analyzer device connected to an analyzer interface. The analyzer device, which may be a separate device, performs various analyses on the state information, depending on how it is configured. The analyzer device outputs reports that identify statuses, errors, misconfigurations, and/or suggested actions to take to improve operation of the network device. In an embodiment, some or all actions that may be suggested therein ae executed automatically.
US11750486B2	Device state management A computing environment is disclosed that receives from devices requests directed toward services accessible in the environment, and that forwards communications from services in the environment to devices registered with the environment. During a registration process at the environment, devices are assigned a device identifier that is used to identify and authenticate each particular device and requests communicated from and to the device via the environment. The computing environment maintains state information for each device that has been registered with the system. As the device interacts with the system, the state information is updated to reflect the changes in the device. When requests to perform functions are received from devices, the computing environment determines for the particular device and the particular function requested what processing needs to be performed by the environment in response to the request.
US11750482B2	Automatic health check and performance monitoring for applications and protocols using deep packet inspection in a datacenter A method of collecting health check metrics for a network is provided. The method, at a deep packet inspector on a physical host in a datacenter, receives a copy of a network packet from a load balancer. The packet includes a plurality of layers. Each layer corresponds to a communication protocol in a plurality of communication protocols. The method identifies an application referenced in the packet. The method analyzes the information in one or more layers of the packet to determine metrics for the source application. The method sends the determined metrics to the load balancer.
US11750481B2	Application assessment and visibility for micro-segmentation of a network deployment A method for visualizing network flows of a network is provided. The method monitors network flows between a group of machines in a network. The method associates identifiers with the monitored network flows. The method aggregates the monitored network flows into a set of groups based on the associated identifiers. The method displays a set of flow records for the each group of the set of groups.
US11750479B1	System and method for managing issues based on pain reduction efficiency Methods and systems for managing customer encountered issue resolution are disclosed. To manage the customer encountered issue resolution, tickets for the customer encountered issues may be managed to reduce suffering and reduce the rate of ticket churn. To do so, customer pain levels may be identified and used to prioritize resource deployment for ticket resolution. The tickets may be classified into groups for resolution via automated or human-assisted processes, which may be limited in capacity. To ascertain the pain levels of the customers, communications from the customers may be emotionally analyzed to identify emotions present in the customers. The identified emotions may be used to identify whether performed remediation processes for resolving the customer encountered issues were successful, and to what extent they were successful. Information obtained through previous ticket resolutions may be used to prioritize which approach to use to resolve subsequently encountered tickets for customer encountered issues.
US11750477B2	Adaptive ambient services Adaptive ambient services are provided. In some embodiments, an adaptive ambient service includes providing an ambient service profile. In some embodiments, an ambient service includes implementing an ambient service profile for assisting control of the communications device use of an ambient service on a wireless network, in which the ambient service profile includes a plurality of service policy settings, and in which the ambient service profile is associated with an ambient service plan that provides for initial access to the ambient service with limited service capabilities prior to activation of a new service plan; monitoring use of the ambient service based on the ambient service profile; and adapting the ambient service profile based on the monitored use of the ambient service.
US11750476B2	Service operation chaining For a multi-tenant environment, some embodiments of the invention provide a novel method for forwarding tenant traffic through a set of service machines to perform a set of service operations on the tenant traffic. In some embodiments, the method performs a classification operation on a data message flow of a tenant, in order to identify a set of service operations to perform on the data message flow. For some data message flows, the classification operation selects the identified set of service operations from several candidate sets of service operations that are viable service operation sets for similar data message flows of the tenant. In some embodiments, the classification operation is based on a set of attributes associated with the data message flow (e.g., five tuple identifier, i.e., protocol and source and destination ports and IP addresses).
US11750469B2	Edge-based artificial intelligence enablement An edge computing telecommunications network is provided for efficiently generating and updating computing models for use at distributed devices connected to different edge compute sites of the network. A network orchestration system may track devices connected to the network and the edge compute sites to which they are connected. The devices may comprise limited computing power and may include sensors or other data collection mechanisms. Raw data may be provided from connected devices to one or more edge compute sites. Edge compute sites may be instructed, e.g., by the network orchestration system, whether to replicate the raw data, modify the data to make it ready for consumption by a computing model, replicate the modified data, refine the computing model, replicate the refined computing model, and/or share some or all of the raw data, modified data, and/or refined computing model with other edge computing sites and/or connected devices.
US11750466B2	RIC and RIC framework communication To provide a low latency near RT RIC, some embodiments separate the RIC's functions into several different components that operate on different machines (e.g., execute on VMs or Pods) operating on the same host computer or different host computers. Some embodiments also provide high speed interfaces between these machines. Some or all of these interfaces operate in non-blocking, lockless manner in order to ensure that critical near RT RIC operations (e.g., datapath processes) are not delayed due to multiple requests causing one or more components to stall. In addition, each of these RIC components also has an internal architecture that is designed to operate in a non-blocking manner so that no one process of a component can block the operation of another process of the component. All of these low latency features allow the near RT RIC to serve as a high speed IO between the E2 nodes and the xApps.
US11750465B2	Message management system for adjusting a transmission of a scheduled message In some implementations, a system may receive a status associated with a service of a user account. The system may schedule, based on the status, a transmission of a message at an expiration of a time period, wherein the message is generated to indicate the status. The system may monitor, during the time period, the status to detect an event associated with the service. The system may detect, based on an occurrence of the event, an update to the status. The system may perform, prior to the expiration of the time period, an action associated with the message to account for the update to the status.
US11750462B2	System, method, and apparatus for extra vehicle communications control An example system includes a vehicle having a first network zone and a second network zone of a different type than the first network zone; a gatekeeper interface circuit interposed between the first network zone and a transceiver selectively couplable to an external device; a policy manager circuit structured to interpret a policy comprising an external data routing description; and a configuration circuit structured to configure the gatekeeper interface circuit in response to the external data routing description; wherein: the gatekeeper interface circuit is structured to regulate communications between end points of the first network zone and the transceiver, and to regulate communications between end points of the second network zone and the transceiver; the external data routing description comprises a plurality of local communicating devices, each corresponding to an external data routing path; and each external data routing path comprises an access point name of a regulated communication.
US11750461B2	Systems and methods for managing group service plan transactions A transaction management platform may partition an amount associated with a group service plan into a plurality of portions. The transaction management platform may provide a graphical user interface to a primary user device of the plurality of user devices. The transaction management platform may receive, from the primary user device, a request for a transaction associated with a portion of the plurality of portions. The portion may be attributable to a secondary user device of the plurality of user devices. The transaction management platform may provide to the secondary user device of the plurality of user devices a unique link that has been generated based on one or more parameters and that enables the secondary user device to complete the transaction. Based on the secondary user device completing the transaction, the transaction management platform may process the transaction to provide an updated amount.
US11750457B2	Automated zoning set selection triggered by switch fabric notifications An apparatus in one embodiment includes at least one processing device configured to receive at least one notification from a switch of a switch fabric coupled between one or more host devices and a storage system, to select a particular one of a plurality of zoning sets based at least in part on the one or more received notifications, and to send an indication of the selected zoning set to the switch. The indication of the selected zoning set illustratively comprises a command that instructs the switch to alter its zoning configuration in accordance with the selected zoning set. In some embodiments, the processing device comprises a data protection appliance coupled to a storage area network that includes the switch fabric. The switch may comprise a Fibre Channel (FC) switch of an FC switch fabric, and the notification may comprise a fabric performance impact notification (FPIN) generated by the switch.
US11750455B2	Secure configuration of cloud computing nodes Methods and systems for configuring nodes in a cloud computing network are described. One example method includes receiving a request from a user to create and configure a node in the cloud computing network, the request including attributes associated with the node; verifying that user is authorized to create and configure the node; in response to verifying that the user is authorized, creating the node; receiving a configuration request from the node identifying configuration actions to perform on the node based on the attributes; in response to receiving the configuration request, sending, to the node, a configuration command corresponding to one or more of the identified configuration actions, wherein the node executes the configuration command upon receipt to perform the identified configuration actions; receiving, from the node, reporting information related; and determining that the configuration command was executed successfully based on the reporting information.
US11750454B2	RIS acquisition procedure based on sidelink discovery An apparatus receives reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) information in a sidelink message from a controller of an RIS and transmits the RIS information to a base station. A base station receives RIS information for an RIS and transmits, to the RIS, a message indicating for the RIS to stop transmitting the RIS information. An RIS transmits, via a controller at the RIS, a sidelink message comprising RIS information for the RIS and receives, from a base station, an indication to stop transmitting the RIS information.
US11750453B2	Network slice configuration method, apparatus, and system This application provides a network slice configuration method, apparatus, and system, and pertains to the field of wireless communications technologies. The method includes: after receiving a management request of a network slice, obtaining or determining, by a network slice manager, network resource information corresponding to a subnet included in the network slice, and then sending, in a form of a subnet management request to a subnet manager, the network resource information corresponding to the subnet, so that the subnet manager configures the corresponding subnet based on the network resource information corresponding to the subnet. In this application, network slice configuration efficiency can be improved.
US11750452B2	Fail-over in cloud services A cloud extension agent can be provided on a customer premise for interfacing, via an outbound secure connection, cloud based services.
US11750448B2	Network device-integrated asset tag-based environmental sensing with mutual authentication Systems and methods are provided for providing supplemental information or data to location-based data provided by conventional asset tags. In particular, sensors such as environmentally-aware sensors, Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, and the like may be incorporated into asset tag devices. In turn, these enhanced asset tags may be integrated into network devices, such as access points, network switches, etc. Accordingly, network devices can be leveraged to provide location-based information, in addition to other information, such as environmental operating conditions relative to the location of such network devices. Moreover, secure communication links can be created between the enhanced asset tags, network devices, and controlling entities in the network, such as network management servers through a mutual authentication mechanism.
US11750445B2	Configuring measurement reference signals for MIMO Systems and methods relating to 6-port and/or greater than 8-port Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) configurations are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a radio access node in a cellular communications network comprises configuring a plurality of CSI-RS ports for a wireless device, where the plurality of CSI-RS ports is six CSI-RS ports, ten CSI-RS ports, twelve CSI-RS ports, fourteen CSI-RS ports, or sixteen CSI-RS ports, depending on the embodiment. The method further comprises transmitting CSI-RS on at least a subset of the plurality of CSI-RS ports configured for the wireless device. In this manner, support for, e.g., an increased number of antenna ports and/or support for two-dimensional (2D) antenna arrays is provided.
US11750444B2	Implementation of compliance settings by a mobile device for compliance with a configuration scenario Embodiments described herein are directed to implementing compliance settings by a computing device for bringing the computing device into compliance with a configuration scenario. For instance, a computing device may receive, from a server, configuration information describing compliance settings for implementing by the computing device to bring the computing device into compliance with a configuration scenario. Moreover, the computing device may identify a state machine indicated by the configuration information that describes a configuration process for implementing the compliance settings and execute the state machine to configure the computing device with the compliance settings.
US11750442B2	Fault determining method and apparatus A fault determining method, includes: a first terminal device monitors a parameter of a sidelink between the first terminal device and a second terminal device, to determine whether a unicast connection on the sidelink satisfies a first condition; and when the unicast connection satisfies the first condition, the first terminal device determines that the unicast connection is faulty.
US11750440B2	Fast forwarding re-convergence of switch fabric multi-destination packets triggered by link failures A network device receives multi-destination packets from a first node and forwards at least a first of the multi-destination packets to another network device using a first multi-destination tree with respect to the network device. The network device detects that a link associated with the first multi-destination tree satisfies one or more criteria and, in response to detecting that the link satisfies the one or more criteria, selects a second multi-destination tree with respect to the network device. The network device forwards at least a second of the multi-destination packets to the other network device using the second multi-destination tree.
US11750439B2	Method and device for determining root cause of fault, server and computer-readable medium The present disclosure provides a method and a device for determining a root cause of fault, a server and a computer-readable medium. The method for determining a root cause of fault includes: determining fault characteristic information when a fault occurs in a service, and determining a fault root cause node according to the fault characteristic information and a preset fault propagation graph, the fault propagation graph is configured to represent directed association relationships among different fault propagation nodes, and directed association relationships among a fault node, the fault propagation nodes and fault root cause nodes, and the nodes in the fault propagation graph are configured to represent the fault characteristic information.
US11750438B2	Network log time alignment method, apparatus, and host A network log time alignment method and an apparatus are provided. The method includes: obtaining log data stored in multiple network devices; parsing the log data to obtain features of each network device; determining associated features of the multiple network devices according to the features of each network device, where the associated features are features that are of the network devices and that have an association in space; and then, performing alignment on log time in multiple pieces of log data according to the associated features. Therefore, associated features of related devices of a network fault can be found, and log time are automatically aligned according to the associated features, thereby improving the efficiency and the accuracy of the fault location and sectionalization.
US11750436B2	Learning in communication systems An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: initialising trainable parameters of a transmission system having a transmitter, a channel and a receiver; generating training symbols on the basis of a differentiable distribution function; transmitting modulated training symbols to the receiver over the channel in a training mode; generating a loss function based on the generated training symbols and the modulated training symbols as received at the receiver of the transmission system; and generating updated parameters of the transmission system in order to minimise the loss function.
US11750432B2	Systems and methods for multi-carrier or multi-band low-PAPR precoding that handle cyclic prefix Systems and methods are disclosed herein that relate to Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) reduction in a MIMO OFDM transmitter system. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a transmitter system includes, for each carrier of two or more carriers, performing precoding of frequency-domain input signals for the carrier to provide frequency-domain precoded signals for the carrier, the frequency-domain input signals for the carrier being for a plurality of transmit layers for the carrier, respectively. The method further includes processing the two or more pluralities of frequency-domain precoded signals for the two or more carriers, respectively, in accordance with a multi-carrier processing scheme to provide a plurality of multi-carrier time-domain transmit signals for a plurality of antenna branches, respectively, of the MIMO OFDM transmitter system. The multi-carrier processing scheme provides PAPR reduction for Cyclic Prefixes (CPs) of the plurality of multi-carrier time-domain transmit signals for the plurality of antenna branches.
US11750431B2	Peak reduction tones for full duplex communication Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, information indicating at least one of a first set of peak reduction tones (PRTs) for uplink communication, or a second set of PRTs for downlink communication, for use in a full-duplex communication mode. The first set of PRTs and the second set of PRTs may share at least one PRT. The UE may transmit, to the base station, or receive, from the base station, at least one signal based at least in part on the at least one of the first set of PRTs or the second set of PRTs. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11750427B1	Low-noise highly-linear wideband vector modulators Vector modulation is illustrated. A method includes receiving an input signal. The input signal is split into a first 0° output and a 90° output. The first 0° output is split into a second 0° output and a first 180° output using a continuous transmission line. The 90° output is split into a third 0° output and a second 180° output using a continuous transmission line. The second 0° output, the first 180° output, the third 0° output, and the second 180° output are modulated. The modulated second 0° output, the first 180° output, the third 0° output, and the second 180° output are recombined to produce an output signal, where all four of the modulated second 0° output, the first 180° output, the third 0° output, and the second 180° output are used to create the output signal.
US11750423B2	Common phase error and/or inter-carrier interference Described are methods for dealing with phase noise, e.g., common phase error and/or inter-carrier interference, in communication systems, and apparatuses for the same. A method can include at least: transmitting one or more reference signals (in-band signals within a channel); and mapping the reference signals to radio resources in the channel for transmission of the reference signals. An amount of the radio resources may depend on, e.g., information about a modulation and coding scheme used for transmission. An associated method can include at least: receiving one or more reference signals, and mapping the reference signals to radio resources in the channel for reception of the reference signals; receiving information about a modulation and coding scheme to be used, an amount of the radio resources depending on, e.g., information about the modulation and coding scheme used for reception; and using the reference signals to compensate for phase noise.
US11750422B2	Methods and apparatus for decoding received uplink transmissions Methods and apparatus for decoding received uplink transmissions. In an embodiment, a method includes receiving a stream having data LLRs and second channel state information (CSI2) LLRs, and separating the data LLRs into a data stream and the CSI2 LLRs into a CSI2 stream based on configuration parameters. The method also includes decoding the data stream to generate decoded data, and decoding the CSI2 stream to generate decoded CSI2 information. An apparatus includes a first LLR preprocessor that receives a stream having data LLRs and second channel state information (CSI2) LLRs and separates the data LLRs into a data stream, and a second LLR preprocessor that receives the stream and separates the CSI2 LLRs into a CSI2 stream. The apparatus also includes a data decoder that decodes the data stream to generate decoded data, and a CSI2 decoder that decodes the CSI2 stream to generate decoded CSI2 information.
US11750414B2	Bidirectional security sensor communication for a premises security system A security system architecture including bidirectional communication between a sensor control device and one or more sensor devices coupled to the controller is provided. Such functionality is provided by virtue of a bidirectional wireless transceiver and processor in each sensor device. Embodiments of the present invention further provide this functionality by virtue of a coordinating transceiver coupled to the security system controller for communication with the sensor devices.
US11750408B2	Method and apparatus for updating UE policy, and computer storage medium A method and apparatus for updating a User Equipment (UE) policy and a computer storage medium are provided. The method includes that: UE receives a first UE policy and/or first indication information from a network device; and the UE executes an operation of updating an association between an application data stream and a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session and/or an operation of updating Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) access selection and/or an operation of updating network slice information and/or an operation of updating a PDU session based on the first UE policy and/or the first indication information.
US11750404B2	Decentralized group signature scheme for credential systems with issuer anonymization A decentralized group signature method for an issuer-anonymized credential system includes (a) an initial system setup operation of defining elements of a group signature method and information that is generated and shared by each group member, (b) an initial group member setup operation, (c) a group member participation operation of adding a new group member to a group, (d) a group signature operation of putting a group signature on a specific message, (e) an operation of verifying the group signature, (f) an operation of removing anonymity from a group signature for a specific group member with agreement of group members, and (g) an operation of revoking a specific group member with agreement of the group members. Exclusive authority of a group manager is distributed to the group members.
US11750402B2	Message index aware multi-hash accelerator for post quantum cryptography secure hash-based signing and verification In one example an apparatus comprises a computer readable memory, a signature logic to generate a signature to be transmitted in association with a message, the signature logic to apply a hash-based signature scheme to the message using a private key to generate the signature comprising a public key, or a verification logic to verify a signature received in association with the message, the verification logic to apply the hash-based signature scheme to verify the signature using the public key, and an accelerator logic to apply a structured order to at least one set of inputs to the hash-based signature scheme. Other examples may be described.
US11750397B2	Attribute-based encryption keys as key material for key-hash message authentication code user authentication and authorization Resource user authentication and authorization is provided. An authentication code is generated based on using a retrieved attribute-based encryption user key as a secret key for a keyed-hash message authentication code digital signature over a set of header fields of a protected resource access request received from a client device of a resource user via a network. The generated authentication code is compared with an authentication code read within an embedded header field of the protected resource access request. It is determined whether a match exists between the generated authentication code and the authentication code read within the embedded header field. In response to determining that a match does exist, the resource user is authenticated. Decryption of an encrypted protected resource corresponding to the protected resource access request is performed using the retrieved attribute-based encryption user key corresponding to the resource user in response to authentication of the resource user.
US11750391B2	System and method for performing a secure online and offline login process A computer-based system and method for performing an offline login to a local device, including: generating a pair of an auxiliary (AUX) public key and an AUX private key; receiving a password at the local device; reconstructing a symmetric key from a first value stored on the local device and a second value stored on an authenticator; encrypting the password with the AUX public key to obtain a locally encrypted password; encrypting the AUX private key with the symmetric key to obtain an encrypted AUX private key; and deleting the symmetric key, and when performing the offline login: reconstructing the symmetric key; decrypting the encrypted AUX private key with the symmetric key to obtain the AUX private key; decrypting the locally encrypted password with the AUX private key to obtain the password; and using the password to perform the offline login.
US11750390B2	System and method for producing a unique stable biometric code for a biometric hash Biometric data such as iris, facial, or fingerprint data may be obtained from a user. A public code may be generated from the biometric data, but does not obtain any of the biometric data or information that can be used to identify the user. The public code includes information that can be used to extract from the biometric data a biometric code that is suitable for bitwise comparison. Neither the underlying biometric data nor information from which the biometric data may be determined is stored as only the public code and the actual biometric feature of the user is required to generate the biometric code.
US11750387B2	End-to-end encryption for sessionless communications Presented herein are systems and methods for end-to-end encryption for session-less communications. A first server may receive, from a second server, a request to retrieve keys for a customer device to access a service. The request may include a device identifier and a first token encrypted using a first encryption key. The first server may determine, responsive to validating, that the customer device is to be issued a second token. The first server may identify least a portion of the first token decrypted using the first encryption key. The first server may generate a set of second encryption keys to be used by the customer device. The first server may package the second token to include (i) at least the portion of the first token and (ii) the set of second encryption keys. The first server may transmit, to the second server, a response including the second token.
US11750386B1	Asynchronous step-up authentication for client applications Embodiments described herein disclose methods and systems for authorizing transactions received from client applications. The transaction request can include a first access token. After validating the first access token, the system can determine whether additional authentication is needed to authorize the transaction. If additional authentication is needed, the system can determine the authentication requirements. Once the additional authentication is received and verified, the system can generate a second access token and authorize the transaction by releasing the first access token.
US11750382B2	Cloud based WiFi network setup for multiple access points Methods, systems, and devices for facilitating the automated configuration of one or more new 802.11 access points (APs) are disclosed herein. A cloud server may receive a message associated with a customer account for one or more new APs. The cloud server may associate a first AP of the one or more new APs based on the message. The cloud server may then retrieve a public key associated with the first AP which has a reciprocal private key. The cloud server may send the public key to a gateway (GW) associated with the customer account. The GW may encrypt the GW credentials, such as a password and SSID, into a ciphertext using the public key and then broadcast this information. When the first AP has been powered on it may decrypt the ciphertext using the private key and use the credentials to act as a node in the GW's network.
US11750380B2	Storing and retrieving user data using joint, non-correlative, irreversible and private indexical expressions In accordance a method for storing a dataset, the dataset may be split into fragments that are distributed among different nodes of a network for storage. The fragments may then be retrieved as and when needed and re-assembled. The method allows multiple different fragments to be stored and re-assembled on demand. The dataset is initially stored in a user computing device in communication with a data storage system and a custodial entity. The fragments are stored so that no single computing entity in the storage system or the custodian ever contains or gains knowledge of all the fragments. Additionally, the user computing device that was initially in possession of the dataset and which caused the fragments to be stored in the storage system may be replaced with different user computing devices without losing the capability of storing and re-assembling the user data on demand by the replacement user computing device.
US11750377B2	Multi-source encrypted image retrieval method based on federated learning and secret sharing Disclosed is a multi-source encrypted image retrieval method based on federated learning and secret sharing, including the following steps: S1. performing model training on a convolutional neural network of double cloud platforms based on federated learning, with an image owner joining the double cloud platforms as a coalition member; and S2. completing, by an authorized user, encrypted image retrieval based on additive secret sharing with the assistance of the double cloud platforms. The present disclosure provides a multi-source encrypted retrieval scheme based on federated learning and secret sharing, which simplifies the neural network model structure for retrieval by using federated learning, to obtain better network parameters. Better neural network parameters and a more simplified network model structure are achieved by compromising overheads on the image owner side, such that a better convolutional neural network can be used in encrypted image retrieval.
US11750376B2	Threshold scheme enabled symmetric key member deletion A method of securing, by a managing node, communication in a network of member nodes including a first member node. Communication is secured using a (k, n1) secret sharing scheme during a first phase. The managing node announces a phase shift to a subsequent phase relative to the first phase. The managing node secures communication in the network during the subsequent phase using a (k+x, n2) secret sharing scheme. Each of the member nodes is previously in possession of exactly one corresponding unique share for the second key. The first member node is previously in possession of a first unique share for the second key. The managing node deletes the first member node from the subsequent phase by broadcasting the first unique share for the second key.
US11750373B2	Method and apparatus for managing security key A technique, performed by an electronic device, of managing a security key is provided. The electronic device may receive security information from each of at least one other electronic device, determine a master electronic device based on a security level of the electronic device and a security level of a security level of the at least one other electronic device, the security level of the at least one other electronic device being included in the received security information, generate a security key as the electronic device is determined as the master electronic device, and determine a portion to be removed from the security key for each security level of a plurality of electronic devices including the electronic device and the at least one other electronic device, and provide each partial security key from which the determined portion is omitted, to the at least one other electronic device.
US11750372B2	BIOS/OS key provisioning system A BIOS/OS key provisioning system includes an NVMe storage device coupled to a server device via a network. The server device includes an operating system engine and a BIOS engine. Subsequent to a current initialization of the server device and prior to an immediately subsequent initialization of the server device, the BIOS engine retrieves a key from a key storage subsystem and stores the key in a BIOS memory subsystem. When the BIOS engine receives a current key request that identifies the key from the operating system engine and determines that the key stored in the BIOS memory system has not previously been accessed subsequent to the current initialization and prior to the subsequent initialization, it provides the key from the BIOS memory subsystem to the operating system, and prevents the key from being provided from the BIOS memory subsystem in response to any subsequent key request.
US11750370B2	Programmable blockchain solid state drive and switch A programmable data storage device includes: a non-volatile memory; a storage controller configured to control the non-volatile memory; a network interface; and a field programmable gate array configured to: implement a blockchain algorithm; and store at least one block of a blockchain corresponding to the blockchain algorithm in the non-volatile memory via the storage controller; and a processor having memory coupled thereto, the memory having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: send and receive one or more blocks of the blockchain via the network interface; and control the field programmable gate array to execute the blockchain algorithm on the one or more blocks of the blockchain.
US11750369B2	Circuit module of single round advanced encryption standard A single round advanced encryption standard circuit module includes a substitution byte/inverse substitution byte unit, configured to substitute elements of an input state array to generate an output state array and to respectively generate a first state array, a plurality of second state arrays, a third state array, a plurality of fourth state arrays and the output state array according to a first tier circuit unit, a second tier circuit unit, a third tier circuit unit, a fourth tier circuit unit and a fifth tier circuit unit; wherein the first state array, the plurality of second state arrays, the third state array and the plurality of fourth state arrays are represented by register-transfer level codes; wherein the substitution byte/inverse substitution byte unit is implemented by composite field arithmetic of sharing operators and operands.
US11750364B2	Fuzzy datamatching using homomorphic encryption Computer-implemented methods and systems (DMS) for facilitating data similarity queries across a network (CN) of data memories (DM1, DM2). The disclosed methods and system are configured for matching data items held in the data memories (DM1, DM2) in a probabilistic manner with cryptographic protection of the data items. The data matching methods and systems (DMS) are robust against inconsistencies within the data to be matched (such as typographical errors, minor mismatches etc), within a certain predetermined similarity threshold (q), usually described as a percentage. The disclosed methods and systems (DMS) allow fast, low latency turnaround by aggregating the data items to be matched into data structures (M1, M2) that facilitate group-wise matching as opposed to pair-wise matching.
US11750361B2	Clock period randomization for defense against cryptographic attacks Methods, systems, and apparatuses for defending against cryptographic attacks using clock period randomization. The methods, systems, and apparatuses are designed to make side channel attacks and fault injection attacks more difficult by using a clock with a variable period during a cryptographic operation. In an example embodiment, a clock period randomizer includes a fixed delay generator and a variable delay generator, wherein a variable delay generated by the variable delay generator is based on a random or pseudorandom value that is changed occasionally or periodically. The methods, systems, and apparatuses are useful in hardware security applications where fault injection and/or side channel attacks are of concern.
US11750360B2	Apparatus for radio-frequency receiver with multiple operational modes and associated methods An apparatus includes a radio frequency (RF) receiver to receive packets. The RF receiver includes first and second synchronization field detectors (SFDs). The first and second SFDs detect synchronization headers generated using first and second physical layer (PHY) modes, respectively.
US11750355B2	Base station, terminal, and communication method A communication apparatus includes circuitry that determines a number of resource blocks forming a resource block group, which is a unit used to allocate a resource to the communication apparatus, in a first band or in a second band that is an expanded band to which the first band is expanded, and a subcarrier spacing for the second band is same or different from a subcarrier spacing for the first band; and a transceiver that is coupled to the circuitry and that communicates with a base station using the resource. One of the number of resource blocks set for the first band and the number of resource blocks set for the second band is an integer multiple of the other, and the number of resource blocks set for the first band and the number of resource blocks set for the second band are values that are a power of two.
US11750350B2	Small packet optimizations for internet-of-things applications Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for optimizing delivery of a small amount of mobile originated (MO) or mobile terminated (MT) data.
US11750348B2	Method and system for transmitting and receiving protocol data unit in communication networks The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A method and system for managing data transmission in a communication network is provided. During Data Resource Bearer (DRB) creation, network signals to a transmitting node, the data transfer requirement. The network uses a signaling parameter to indicate a large data transfer requirement. Based on the data transfer requirement information collected from the network, the transmitting node determines the type of data format that needs to be used for the data transmission. If the network signals large data transfer requirement, then the transmitting node selects a Subheader format in which the length field of the data format suits the large data transfer requirement. Further, data communication is initiated using the selected Subheader format.
US11750341B2	Demodulation reference signal and phase rotation for sub-physical resource block allocation with two tone modulation Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for wireless communication are provided. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to determine a phase rotation for a symbol based at least in part on a tone index. The UE may be configured to apply the phase rotation to the received symbol, and transmit the uplink symbol. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11750338B2	Hybrid automatic repeat request feedback for sidelink Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A device may receive a grant that schedules a set of sidelink occasions associated with sidelink communication from the device, and that indicates a set of uplink occasions for indicating feedback associated with the sidelink communication. The device may transmit a sidelink message during a sidelink occasion of the set of sidelink occasions, and generate feedback information based on the transmitted sidelink message. The feedback information may include an acknowledgement (ACK) or a negative acknowledgment (NACK) associated with the sidelink message. The device may transmit an uplink feedback message including the feedback information during an uplink occasion of the set of uplink occasions. The feedback information may include an indication of the ACK or the NACK.
US11750334B2	Data collection management device and data collection system The data collection management device (10) is connected via a network to a plurality of communication devices (20) performing cyclic communication and includes: a network configuration storage (17) to store network configuration information indicating the communication devices participating in the cyclic communication; a data receiving unit (11) to receive communication data multicast from each communication device (20); a received data storage (12) to store the received communication data as collected data; a received data determination unit (13) to determine whether there is missing data in the collected data and identify unreceived communication data, based on information specifying communication cycles included in the collected data, on information specifying sender communication devices included in the collected data, and on network configuration information; and a retransmission requesting unit (15) to transmit a retransmission request of the unreceived communication data to one of the plurality of communication devices (20).
US11750333B2	System and method for long range wireless local area network communications A method in a monitoring station configured for communication with a wireless device is described. The method includes determining a round trip time, RTT, that corresponds to a first packet transmitted to the wireless device; receiving a second packet from the wireless device; determining the second packet from the wireless device has been received without error based at least in part on an error-detecting field; and receiving a subsequent packet from the wireless device. The method further includes determining that the subsequent packet received is a second packet retransmission; determining a preamble receipt time of the subsequent packet; determining a delay value based in part on the RTT of the first packet, the length field of the subsequent packet, and data rate field of the subsequent packet. The first acknowledgement packet is transmitted timed at the delay value after the preamble receipt time of the subsequent packet.
US11750331B2	Method for transmitting multiplexed HARQ feedbacks in a carrier aggregation system and a device therefor A method for a wireless device operating in a wireless communication system includes receiving configuration information for configuring a non-Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) cell; and transmitting a Hybrid Automatic Repeat request (HARQ) feedback of the non-PUCCH cell on a special cell (SpCell) or a PUCCH cell other than SpCell, according to indication information. Further, when the indication information is not received with the configuration information, the HARQ feedback is transmitted on the SpCell, and when the indication information is received with the configuration information, the HARQ feedback is transmitted on the PUCCH cell.
US11750330B2	Radio link monitoring for sidelink communications Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may communicate with one or more other UEs over a sidelink communications link, and may perform radio link monitoring (RLM) of the sidelink. A first UE may transmit, to a second UE, a first message in a first transmission time interval (TTI) via a sidelink communication link. The first UE may monitor the sidelink communications link during a second TTI subsequent to the first TTI for a feedback message from the second UE in response to the first message transmitted by the first UE. The monitoring may be a part of a RLM procedure for the sidelink communications link. The first UE may increment a counter based on or an unsuccessful receipt of the feedback message in the second TTI.
US11750325B2	Self referenced single-ended chip to chip communication A system and method for efficiently transporting data in a computing system are contemplated. In various embodiments, a computing system includes a source, a destination and multiple lanes between them for transporting data. Multiple receivers in the destination has a respective termination resistor connected to a single integrating capacitor, which provides a reference voltage to the multiple receivers. The receivers reconstruct the received data by comparing the corresponding input signals to the reference voltage. The source includes a table storing code words. The source maps a generated data word to a code word, which is sent to the destination. The destination maps the received code word to the data word. The values of the code words are selected to maintain a nearly same number of Boolean ones on the multiple lanes over time as a number of Boolean zeroes.
US11750321B2	Peak rate enhancement for constellation shaping This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to enhanced constellation shaping. A device may generate payload bits associated with a frame, wherein the payload bits comprise a first portion and a second portion. The device may send the first portion of the payload bits through a shaping encoder. The device may generate shaped bits from the shaping encoder. The device may determine a number of amplitude bits based on the shaped bits. The device may generate parity bits from the shaped bits and the second portion going through an low-density parity-check (LDPC) encoder. The device may select sign bits comprising the second portion and a first subset of the parity bits. The device may send the amplitude bits with the sign bits to a modulator before transmitting the frame to a first station device.
US11750318B1	Edge-wavelength-switching system, associated optical network, and failover recovery method thereof An edge wavelength-switching system includes an optical switch and a wavelength selective switch. The optical switch includes a west hub-side port, an east hub-side port, a west local-side port, and an east local-side port. The wavelength selective switch includes (i) a multiplexed port optically coupled to the west local-side port and (ii) a bypass port optically coupled to the east local-side port, and (iii) a plurality of demultiplexed ports. An optical network includes a network hub including an M-by-N1 wavelength-selective switch, N1>M≥1, a first network node, and a second network node. Each of the first and second network nodes includes a respective edge wavelength-switching system. The network hub, the first network node, and the second network node are optically coupled.
US11750316B2	Wavelength division multiplexing with parallel arrayed signal paths for increased channel density Disclosed herein is wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) and demultiplexing with signal entry and exit in a common routing surface to increase channel density. In particular, disclosed is a WDM assembly including a plurality of common ports and a plurality of channel sets having one or more channel ports. The WDM assembly includes a first routing surface with a first WDM passband and a second routing surface offset from the first routing surface. The second routing surface is configured to reflect at least one signal passed through the first routing surface back through the first routing surface at a laterally different location. Optical signal paths of at least a portion of the common ports are parallel to and offset from one another. In certain embodiments, such a configuration may increase channel density and decrease a form factor (e.g., footprint).
US11750315B2	Delivery of GPON technology A wall-mountable outlet comprising an enclosure and a faceplate mechanically coupled to the enclosure. An optical network terminal (ONT) is provided in the enclosure. In one example embodiment, the ONT comprises an optical-electrical (O-E) data module, and the O-E data module comprises an O-E converter. The O-E data module can further comprise a switch arranged to selectively couple at least one signal with the O-E converter. The O-E data module further can comprise a Passive Optical Network (PON) controller interposed between the O-E converter and the switch.
US11750310B2	Clock synchronization packet exchanging method and apparatus A clock synchronization packet exchanging method includes sending, by a first device in a Flexible Ethernet (FlexE) group, a first FlexE instance at a first physical layer (PHY), where the first FlexE instance includes a clock synchronization packet, and a second FlexE instance sent by the first device in the FlexE group at a second PHY also includes a clock synchronization packet. The clock synchronization packets are carried in a plurality of FlexE instances transmitted between a transmit end and a receive end in the FlexE group.
US11750309B2	Operation panel for audio processing apparatus An audio mixer includes an operation panel having a plurality of faders, a display device, and a first surface, a second surface, and a third surface, the second surface extending from the first surface and the third surface extending from the second surface, in a front-back direction. The plurality of faders are disposed along the first surface and arranged in a left-right direction. The display device is disposed along the third surface. A first reference distance from a common reference point to a first point of the first surface is equal to greater than a second reference distance from the common reference point to a second point of the third surface. The first point is disposed at a frontmost portion of the operation panel. The second point is disposed higher than the first point, at an uppermost portion of the third surface. The common reference position is disposed higher than the second point.
US11750308B2	Interference management techniques Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station (BS) may determine a first planned transmit beam configuration of the first BS. The BS may obtain a second planned transmit beam configuration of a second BS. The BS may determine that a first planned transmit beam of the first planned transmit beam configuration will interfere with a second planned transmit beam of the second planned transmit beam configuration. The BS may modify the first planned transmit beam, the second planned transmit beam, or both, based on the interference determination.
US11750305B2	Empirically modulated antenna systems and related methods Empirically modulated antenna systems and related methods are disclosed herein. An empirically modulated antenna system includes an antenna and a controller programmed to control the antenna. The antenna includes a plurality of discrete scattering elements arranged in a one- or two-dimensional arrangement. A method includes modulating operational states of at least a portion of a plurality of discrete scattering elements of the antenna in a plurality of different modulation patterns. The plurality of different modulation patterns includes different permutations of the discrete scattering elements operating in different operational states. The method also includes evaluating a performance parameter of the antenna responsive to the plurality of different empirical one- or two-dimensional modulation patterns. The method further includes operating the antenna in one of the plurality of different one- or two-dimensional empirical modulation patterns selected based, at least in part, on the performance parameter.
US11750297B2	Voltage controlled electro-optical serializer/deserializer (SerDes) An optoelectronic transmitter (10) includes an electro-optic modulator (12), digital driving circuitry (14), and feedback circuitry (30). The electro-optic modulator is configured to modulate an optical signal in response to an electrical drive signal. The digital driving circuitry is coupled to the electro-optical modulator and is configured to generate the electrical drive signal. The feedback circuitry is configured to measure a quantity indicative of a power level of the modulated optical signal produced by the electro-optic modulator, and to adapt a supply voltage to the digital driving circuitry in response to the measured quantity.
US11750294B2	Optical communication interface system Systems and methods for optical communication are provided. For instance, a method for optical communication can include receiving, by a first coupling module, a power-on signal from a first electronic device coupled to the first coupling module. The method can also include relaying, by the first coupling module, a first optical signal to a second coupling module coupled to a second electronic device. The method can also include relaying, by the second coupling module, in response to receipt of the first optical signal, a second optical signal to the first coupling module. The method can also include activating, by the first coupling module, in response to receipt of the second optical signal, a data transfer circuit for relaying data via an optical communication interface between the first coupling module and the second coupling module.
US11750293B1	Butterfly-type packaged optical transceiver with multiple transmission and reception channels A butterfly-type packaged optical transceiver with multiple transmission and reception channels includes a box-shaped housing, a cover plate, an optical receiving module, an optical emitting module, a polarizing prism module, an optical fiber connector and electrical connection elements. The sealed housing encloses the optical receiving module, the optical emitting module, and the polarizing prism module. Electrical connection elements penetrate both side surfaces of the housing and are in contact with the optical fiber connector and the optical receiving module and the optical emitting module. A first incoming optical signal is transmitted to the optical receiving module via the optical fiber connector, the through hole, and the prism module, and the optical emitting module emits an outgoing second optical signal through the prism module, the through hole, and the optical fiber connector.
US11750291B2	PON slicing method and device using network sharing A passive optical network (PON) method and device using network sharing are disclosed. The PON slicing method includes identifying network elements included in a plurality of physical PONs (pPONs), abstracting the identified network elements to be recognized as a same software block, generating a plurality of virtual PONs (vPONs) according to a user requirement using the plurality of pPONs, and mapping the generated plurality of vPONs by performing PON slicing on the abstracted network elements.
US11750281B2	Methods and apparatus to bridge communications between devices using low-energy devices Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, and at least one processor to execute instructions to at least convert a first data packet to a second data packet, the first data packet having a first format based on an industrial communication protocol, the second data packet having a second format based on a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) communication protocol, the second data packet including a first payload having a first size, remove first data from the second data packet, increase the first size of the first payload to a second size to generate a second payload, add second data to the second payload, and transmit the second data packet to a remote device via a BLE network, the second data packet including the second payload.
US11750280B2	Millimeter wave repeater systems and methods In one embodiment, an over-the-air millimeter wave repeater for a communications network comprises: a donor unit including a first plurality of modular electronic components and an access point including a second plurality of modular electronic components. The donor unit communicates downlink mmWave spectrum wireless signals received from a base station to the access point and radiates uplink mmWave spectrum wireless signals received from the access point to the base station. The access point radiates the downlink mmWave spectrum wireless signals received from the donor unit into a coverage area, receives the uplink mmWave spectrum wireless signals received from the coverage area, and communicates the uplink mmWave spectrum wireless signals to the donor unit. The first and second plurality of modular electronic components includes at least one of a modular antenna component, a modular signal conditioning component, a modular signal interface component, and a modular controller.
US11750278B2	Satellite terminal power back-off A terminal computer includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to determine an initial power back-off value for establishing a communication link to a satellite as a function of a distance of a location of a satellite terminal antenna within a satellite beam footprint from a specified reference point within the satellite beam footprint, and to initiate communication with the satellite based on the determined initial power back-off value.
US11750276B2	Optimizing signal transmission handoff via satellite based core network This present disclosure describes techniques for a satellite core network to relay user plane data to a recipient device. An orchestration controller on the satellite core network is described that is configured to receive an indication that the satellite core network has received user plane data for transmission to a recipient device, detect a constellation of secondary LEO satellites to transmit the user plane data to the recipient device, and select an initial LEO satellite to relay the user plane data to the recipient device.
US11750264B2	Methods for beam control signaling, related network nodes and wireless devices The present disclosure provides a method, performed at a network node, for beam control signalling. The network node is configured to communicate with a wireless device comprising one or more physical antenna panels. Each physical antenna panel is configured to communicate with the network node using one or more panels. The method comprises receiving, from the wireless device, control signalling indicative of an association of the one or more panels with one or more corresponding physical antenna panels. The method comprises selecting, based on the association, one or more beams to be used by the wireless device in communication with the network node.
US11750261B2	Analog beamformer used for array antenna and operating method thereof An analog beamformer used for array antenna and an operating method thereof are provided. The analog beamformer used for array antenna includes an intermediate-frequency amplifying circuit, multiple local oscillators, multiple mixers, multiple radio-frequency amplifying circuits, and a frequency locking circuit. The analog beamformer uses a master-oscillator and multiple slave-oscillators which embed a resonant network of frequency-and-phase-locking. The intermediate-frequency amplifying circuit receives a baseband signal to provide an intermediate-frequency signal. Power supplies or grounding ports of different local oscillators are connected together to provide multiple local-oscillating signals with consistent frequency but different phases. The mixers individually receive the intermediate-frequency signal and one of the local-oscillating signals to provide multiple mixed signals. The radio-frequency amplifying circuits receive the mixed signals to provide multiple radio-frequency signals with consistent frequency but different phases to each antenna. The frequency locking circuit only locks a frequency of one of the local-oscillating signals.
US11750257B2	Information reporting method, terminal and network device Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an information reporting method, a terminal and a network device for defining reporting rules of CSI report for the terminal which is in the DRX mode and in the inactive time. The method includes: when the terminal is in a discontinuous reception (DRX) mode, determining, according to first information, whether the terminal in an inactive time reports a channel state information (CSI) report. The first information is configured to indicate allowing the terminal in the inactive time to report the CSI report at a CSI report instant, or prohibiting the terminal in the inactive time from reporting a semi-persistent or aperiodic CSI report reported on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) at the CSI report instant.
US11750256B2	Directed wireless communication Disclosed herein are methods and apparatuses configured to direct wireless communication. In some embodiments, a networking apparatus is configured to generate a plurality of sequences of symbols for transmission to plurality of client devices; transmit the plurality of sequences to the plurality of client device via one or more beams focused toward the client devices; and transmit the first sequence of symbols and the second sequence of symbols at least partly simultaneously.
US11750255B1	Beamforming calibration A base station includes an array of transceiver chains, each characterized by a bandwidth and including a transmit chain and a receive chain. The base station determines, at each center frequency and sub-bandwidth covering the bandwidth: a first set of interchain transmit gain and phase/delay differences across transmit chains; and a first set of interchain receive gain and phase/delay differences across the receive chains. The base station then determines, in a same manner as the first determining: a second set of inter-chain transmit differences; and a second set of inter-chain receive differences. The base station adjusts each transmit chain by the difference between the second set of inter-chain transmit differences and the first set of inter-chain transmit differences. The base station adjust each receive chain by the difference between the second set of inter-chain receive differences and the first set of inter-chain receive differences.
US11750252B2	Methods and apparatus for providing an adaptive beamforming antenna for OFDM-based communication systems Methods and apparatus for providing an adaptive beamforming antenna for OFDM-based communication systems. In one embodiment, a method includes forming a matrix (A) of cyclic prefix values and a matrix (B) of tail values from an orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbol, and forming a summation matrix (S) and a difference matrix (D) from the matrix A and the matrix B. The method also includes multiplying a beamformer preset matrix (W) with the matrix S and the matrix D to determine a matrix (P) and a matrix (Q), and determining a beam identifier from the P and Q matrices.
US11750250B2	Communications method and device Disclosed are a communications method and device. The method includes: sending, by a network device, configuration information to a terminal device; determining, by the terminal device, channel state information CSI measurement behavior and/or CSI feedback related information, where the channel state information CSI measurement behavior and/or the CSI feedback related information are/is related to the configuration information; and performing, by the terminal device, CSI measurement based on the configuration information and the CSI measurement behavior and/or the CSI feedback related information, to obtain at least one piece of CSI, and sending all or some of the at least one piece of CSI to the network device. It can be learned that, in a scenario in which a plurality of transmission modes are supported, according to the foregoing method, the terminal device can measure CSI, and feed back the measured CSI to the network device.
US11750246B2	Magnetic field communication method and apparatus using GMI magnetometer A magnetic field communication method and apparatus using a giant magnetoimpedance (GMI) magnetometer are disclosed. The magnetic field communication apparatus includes a GMI magnetometer configured to detect a first communication signal based on a received magnetic field signal, a first signal extractor configured to extract a second communication signal comprising a message signal from the first communication signal, a second signal extractor configured to extract a third communication signal by removing a magnetization frequency signal from the second communication signal, and a third signal extractor configured to extract the message signal by removing a carrier wave frequency signal from the third communication signal.
US11750241B2	Synchronized multi-channel access system Systems and methods are provided for synchronizing multiple channels in an access network, where the multiple channels are neighboring channels such that a guard band between them or use of a diplexer to prevent inter-channel interference is not required. Synchronization is achieved by defining channel MAP (media access plan) cycle structures such that all channels work in the same direction (upstream US or downstream DS) at any given time. Moreover, the network controller of channel may send out a beacon to allow new nodes to join. A long MAP cycle (402) may be followed by three consecutive regular MAP cycles (404, 406), and (408). These MAP cycles are repeated between beacon transmissions. Synchronization allows multiple channels to be configured contiguous (without a guard band between neighbouring channels) and without utilizing diplexers. A plurality of customer premises equipment may operate on each of the communications channels.
US11750240B2	Method using ultra wide band (UWB) and UWB system for determining a location of an object inside a plant growing environment A method using ultra wide band (UWB) communication for determining a location of an object inside a plant growing environment, wherein the object is provided with an UWB transmitter; the plant growing environment is provided with multiple UWB receivers; and the receivers are connected to a processing unit. The method includes: broadcasting a message from the object over UWB using the transmitter; receiving the message at at least some of the receivers; and determining a location estimate for the object through lateration and/or angulation, by the processing unit. A UWB communication system for performing the method and a plant growing environment comprising such a system.
US11750237B2	Case of flexible display device The present disclosure relates to a flexible display device case that is mounted to a flexible display device including a first body and a second body configured to be movable relative to the first body, and including a first member mounted to the first body to surround a side surface portion of the first body, and a second member mounted to the second body to surround a side surface portion of the second body, wherein an area overlapped by the first member and the second member changes as the first body and the second body move relative to each other.
US11750232B2	Hybrid GMP/equalizer digital self interference cancelation for MIMO transmitters A base station configured to perform a method for self-interference cancelation (SIC) is provided. The method includes transmitting, by a transceiver configured to transmit an uplink channel and a downlink channel concurrently, one or more signals, the transceiver coupled to, or including, a first number of transmit antennas and a second number of receive antennas. The method also includes, for at least one receive antenna of the second number of receive antennas, applying a forward path model including a non-linear component corresponding to a transmit path in the transceiver, and applying an equalizer function to a first signal to be transmitted by at least one transmit antenna of the first number of transmit antennas determine a self-interference (SI) estimate; and subtracting, in SIC circuitry, the SI estimate from the signal received via at least one receive antenna of the second number of receive antennas to obtain an residual signal.
US11750229B2	Electromagnetic wave transmission device and electromagnetic wave communication system An electromagnetic wave transmission device according to the present invention includes: a transmission unit that has, in voltage-current characteristics, a local maximum value and a local minimum value located on a higher voltage side than the local maximum value and transmits an electromagnetic wave indicating a modulation signal; and a modulation unit which modulates an acquired digital signal to the modulation signal using first voltage values of two or more levels in a first voltage region, which is equal to or greater than a voltage of the local maximum value and is equal to or less than a voltage of the local minimum value, and a second voltage value in a second voltage region, which is less than the voltage of the local maximum value, and a third voltage value in a third voltage region, which is on a higher voltage side than the voltage of the local minimum value. A first signal which transits to any one voltage value of the first voltage values from any voltage value in the first voltage region via the second voltage value and a second signal which transits to the any one voltage value from the any voltage value via the third voltage value are the same signals. The modulation unit selects, out of the first signal and the second signal, the signal having a smaller total transition potential difference.
US11750226B2	Error correction code system with augmented detection features Various embodiments include an error correction code (ECC) system that provides protection against various errors in addition to data bit errors. In general, ECC codes protect against data bit errors, where one or more data bits in a data word contain the wrong value. The ECC code is based on the original data bits, such that a data bit error results in a data word that is inconsistent with the ECC code generated for and stored with the data word. The present embodiments generate ECC codes based on address information and/or sequencing information in addition to the data bits in the data word. As a result, the present embodiments detect bit errors in this address information and/or sequencing information. Such errors include write address decoding errors, read address decoding errors, write enable errors, and stale data errors.
US11750225B2	Bit interleaver for low-density parity check codeword having length of 64800 and code rate of 2/15 and 256-symbol mapping, and bit interleaving method using same A bit interleaver, a bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) device and a bit interleaving method are disclosed herein. The bit interleaver includes a first memory, a processor, and a second memory. The first memory stores a low-density parity check (LDPC) codeword having a length of 64800 and a code rate of 2/15. The processor generates an interleaved codeword by interleaving the LDPC codeword on a bit group basis. The size of the bit group corresponds to a parallel factor of the LDPC codeword. The second memory provides the interleaved codeword to a modulator for 256-symbol mapping.
US11750223B2	Low-power block code forward error correction decoder A system comprises a forward error correction decoder comprising syndrome computation circuitry, key-equation solver circuitry, and search and evaluator circuitry. The syndrome computation circuitry may comprise a plurality of syndrome compute units connected in parallel. The syndrome computation circuitry may be dynamically configurable to vary a quantity of the syndrome compute units used for processing of a codeword based on conditions of a channel over which the codeword was received. The syndrome computation circuitry may be operable to use a first quantity of the syndrome compute units for processing of a first codeword received over the channel when the channel is characterized by a first bit error rate and a second quantity of the syndrome compute units for processing of a second codeword received over the channel when the channel is characterized by a second bit error rate.
US11750217B2	Polar coding method and apparatus This application relates to the field of communication technologies, and discloses a polar coding/decoding method and apparatus, to improve sequence lookup efficiency. The method includes: obtaining a first sequence from a polar code construction sequence table based on a coding parameter, where the polar code construction sequence table includes at least one coding parameter and at least one sequence corresponding to the at least one coding parameter, the coding parameter is mapped to the sequence in a one-to-one manner, the first sequence is one of the at least one sequence; and selecting serial numbers of K polarized channels from the first sequence based on a rate matching scheme and/or a reliability order, placing to-be-coded bits based on the selected serial numbers of the K polarized channels, and performing polar coding, to obtain a coded bit sequence.
US11750215B2	Method and device in UE and base station for channel coding The disclosure discloses a method and device in UE and a base station for channel coding. A first node first determines a first bit block and then transmits a first radio signal, wherein bits of the first bit block are used to generate bits of a second bit block, a third bit block comprises bits of the second bit block and the first bit block, and the third bit block is used to generate the first radio signal. The first bit block, the second bit block and the third bit block comprise P1, P2 and P3 bits, respectively.
US11750211B2	Encoding method and apparatus, storage medium, and computer device An encoding method includes traversing a to-be-encoded string, searching for a preset string in the to-be-encoded string, and deleting the preset string in the to-be-encoded string if the preset string is found, to obtain a target string.
US11750206B2	System and method for analog-to-digital signal conversion Example embodiments relate to systems and methods for analog-to-digital signal conversion. One embodiment includes a system for analog-to-digital signal conversion. The system includes an analog input signal. The system also includes a digital-to-analog converter configured to generate a reference signal. Further, the system includes an amplifier configured to amplify an error signal that includes a difference between the analog input signal and the reference signal. Additionally, the system includes a level-crossing based sampling circuit that includes a first comparator configured to compare the error signal with respect to a first reference level, and a second comparator configured to compare the error signal with respect to a second reference level, thereby generating event-based reset signals corresponding to a plurality of sampling instances in order to reset the digital-to-analog converter. Yet further, the system includes a trigger circuit configured to generate reset signals asynchronous to the event-based reset signals.
US11750205B1	Current digital-to-analog converter with distributed reconstruction filtering A method for digital-to-analog signal conversion with distributed reconstructive filtering includes receiving a digital code synchronous to a clock signal having a first frequency, determining next states of a plurality of digital-to-analog current elements based on the digital code, combining a plurality of currents to generate an output current, and generating the plurality of currents. Each of the plurality of currents is based on a corresponding control signal of a plurality of control signals. The method includes generating the plurality of control signals based on the next states of the plurality of digital-to-analog current elements. Each of the plurality of control signals selects a first voltage level, a second voltage level, or a transitioning voltage level for use by a corresponding digital-to-analog current element. The transitioning voltage level linearly transitions from the first voltage level to the second voltage level over a predetermined number of periods of the clock signal.
US11750204B2	Atomic resonator This atomic resonator for causing a resonance frequency by CPT resonance includes: a gas cell having alkali metal atoms enclosed; a photodetector configured to detect light having passed through the gas cell and convert the light to an electric signal; a high-frequency oscillator configured to receive the electric signal and output the signal after a frequency thereof is divided by two; and a laser light source configured to modulate and introduce, into the gas cell, light based on the signal output from the high-frequency oscillator. The high-frequency oscillator has an injection-locked frequency divider circuit including an acoustic resonator as an oscillation element.
US11750203B2	Techniques for controlling vapor pressure of subject materials in vapor cells and related methods Methods of using vapor cells may involve providing a vapor cell including a body defining a cavity within the body. At least a portion of at least one surface of the vapor cell within the cavity may include at least one pore having an average dimension of about 500 microns or less, as measured in a direction parallel to the at least one surface. A vapor pressure of a subject material within the cavity may be controlled utilizing the at least one pore by inducing an exposed surface of a subject material in a liquid state within the at least one pore to have a shape different than a shape the exposed surface of the subject material in a liquid state would have on a flat, nonporous surface.
US11750197B1	AND-OR-invert logic based on a mix of majority OR minority logic gate with non-linear input capacitors and other logic gates A class of complex logic gates are presented that use non-linear polar material. The logic gates include multi-input majority gates. At least one input to an individual multi-input majority gate is a fixed input. Other inputs are driven to non-linear input capacitors on their respective first terminals. The second terminals of the non-linear input capacitors are coupled a summing node, which provides a majority function of the inputs. The summing node is coupled to a CMOS logic. Leakage through the capacitors is configured such that capacitors of a majority gate have substantially equal leakage, and this leakage has a I-V behavior which is symmetric. As such, reset device(s) on the summing node are not used. The non-linear charge response from the non-linear input capacitors results in output voltages close to or at rail-to-rail voltage levels, which reduces the high leakage problem faced from majority gates that use linear input capacitors.
US11750194B2	Semiconductor device An object is to provide a semiconductor device that can maintain the connection relation between logic circuit units or the circuit configuration of each of the logic circuit units even after supply of power supply voltage is stopped. Another object is to provide a semiconductor device in which the connection relation between logic circuit units or the circuit configuration of each of the logic circuit units can be changed at high speed. In a reconfigurable circuit, an oxide semiconductor is used for a semiconductor element that stores data on the circuit configuration, connection relation, or the like. Specifically, the oxide semiconductor is used for a channel formation region of the semiconductor element.
US11750190B2	Encoded on-die termination for efficient multipackage termination On-die termination (ODT) is triggered through a serial signal encoding on an ODT signal line instead of a simple binary enable signal. An ODT circuit applies one of multiple termination impedances based on the ODT signal encoding. An ODT enable signal line receives an ODT enable signal as multiple serial bits to encode the selected termination impedance, to cause the ODT circuit to apply the selected termination impedance.
US11750189B2	Programmable and reprogrammable quantum circuit Devices and/or computer-implemented methods to facilitate a programmable and/or reprogrammable quantum circuit are provided. According to an embodiment, a device can comprise a superconducting coupler device having a superconducting fuse device that is used to alter the coupling of a first quantum computing element and a second quantum computing element.
US11750185B2	Calibrated linear duty cycle correction Examples describe a duty cycle correction circuit for correcting duty cycle distortion from memory. One example is an integrated circuit for correcting an input clock signal. The integrated circuit includes a first leg circuit and a second leg circuit. The first leg circuit and the second leg circuit both comprise a charging circuit and a discharging circuit. Each charging circuit comprises a first plurality of transistors and each discharging circuit comprises a second plurality of transistors. The charging circuit is coupled to the discharging circuit in series. A number of transistors of the first plurality of transistors in the first leg circuit is different from a number of transistors of the first plurality of transistors in the second leg circuit.
US11750180B2	High frequency AC coupled self-biased divider Embodiments herein describe a self-biased divider for a clock in an integrated circuit. In one embodiment, the clock includes a VCO that generates a clock signal that is output to the self-biased divider. However, because the VCO may generate an analog clocking signal (e.g., a low amplitude sine wave of unknown common mode) to reduce jitter, the amplitude can vary which means it may not sufficiently track CMOS parameters. The clocking signals generated by the self-biased divider are used as feedback signals for DC biasing (or DC leveling). In this manner, the divider is referred to a self-biased divider since signals generated by the divider are used to perform DC biasing/leveling.
US11750179B2	Quantum controller with modular and dynamic pulse generation and routing A controller comprises a pulse generation circuit, output management circuitry, and a plurality of outputs configured to connect the controller to a plurality of controlled elements. The pulse generation circuit is configured to generate quantum control pulses. For each control pulse of a plurality of control pulses generated by the pulse generation circuit, the output management circuitry is configured to determine to which of the plurality of outputs to route the control pulse such that a first of the plurality of control pulses is routed to a first of the plurality of controlled elements and a second of the plurality of control pulses is routed to a second of the plurality of control elements.
US11750178B2	Flip-flop with input and output select and output masking that enables low power scan for retention A flip-flop including a scan enable input for receiving a scan enable signal, a clock input for receiving a clock signal, input select circuitry that is configured to select between a data input and a scan input based on a state of the scan enable signal for providing a selected input, latching circuitry that is configured to latch the selected input to a preliminary output node in response to transitions of the clock signal, and output select circuitry that is configured to provide a state of the preliminary output node to a selected one of a scan output and a data output based on a state of the scan enable signal. The flip-flop may be implemented using fast yet leaky transistors. The data output may be disabled to prevent toggling other circuitry when scanning into or out of a memory for data retention.
US11750175B2	Multiplexing resonator induced phase gate drive signals Techniques regarding quantum gate coupling are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a method for driving multiple resonator induced phase gates from the same signal control line. The method can comprise controlling quantum gate coupling, via a quantum circuit, by filtering a resonator induced phase gate signal from a signal control line that is multiplexed with a plurality of resonator induced phase gate signals.
US11750172B2	Multilayer piezoelectric substrate A surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonator comprises a plurality of interdigital transducer electrodes disposed on a multilayer piezoelectric substrate (MPS) including a layer of piezoelectric material having a lower surface bonded to an upper surface of a layer of a second material different from the piezoelectric material that improves the temperature stability and reliability of the SAW resonator, and a layer of dielectric material disposed on an upper surface of the interdigital transducer electrodes and MPS.
US11750169B2	Electrode-defined unsuspended acoustic resonator A bulk acoustic resonator operable in a bulk acoustic mode includes a resonator body mounted to a separate carrier that is not part of the resonator body. The resonator body includes a piezoelectric layer, a device layer, and a top conductive layer on the piezoelectric layer opposite the device layer. The piezoelectric layer is a single crystal of LiNbO3 cut at an angle of 130°±30°. A surface of the device layer opposite the piezoelectric layer is for mounting the resonator body to the carrier.
US11750167B2	Apparatus for radio-frequency matching networks and associated methods A radio-frequency (RF) apparatus includes a wideband receive (RX) impedance matching circuit to provide a received differential RF signal to RF receive circuitry. The wideband RX impedance matching circuit includes first and second inductors to receive the differential RF signal. The wideband RX impedance matching circuit further includes a third inductor coupled across an input o the RF receive circuitry. The third inductor performs the functionality of a capacitor having a negative capacitance value.
US11750165B2	Vibration generating apparatus, operating method thereof, and apparatus including vibration generating apparatus A vibration generating apparatus comprises a vibration apparatus and a vibration driving circuit including a driving signal generator configured to supply a driving signal to the vibration apparatus, wherein the driving signal generator is configured to adjust a frequency-based gain compensation value based on at least one of a circuit internal temperature value of the vibration driving circuit and a temperature prediction value of the vibration apparatus corresponding to a current value of an nth driving signal, compensate for a frequency-based gain value based on the adjusted frequency-based gain compensation value, compensate for an (n+1)th driving signal based on the compensated frequency-based gain value, and supply the compensated (n+1)th driving signal to the vibration apparatus.
US11750161B2	Microwave and radio frequency (RF) power electronics system having power combiner circuit A power combiner circuit comprises a network topology for broadband RF and microwave systems that includes coupling elements, internodal matching sections, and an output matching section. The network topology serves as a combining mechanism for power from multiple power amplifiers. The network topology is designed so that characteristic impedances of transmissions lines serving as the coupling elements, internodal matching sections, and an output matching section produce a load impedance at an output port that is matched to the impedances seen by each power amplifier providing power to the power combiner circuit. Such a network topology is scalable to an unlimited number of power amplifiers, and enables a desired broadband frequency response for power amplification, while realizing a very low level of power output loss between input and output ports.
US11750159B2	Devices and methods related to unpowered switching module Devices and methods related to unpowered switching module. A method of forming a switching module can include providing a first input terminal of the switching module; providing a second input terminal of the switching module; and providing an output terminal of the switching module configured to output a radio-frequency (RF) component of an input signal received on the first input terminal or the second input terminal in response to the input signal including a positive direct-current (DC) voltage.
US11750158B2	Radio frequency module and communication apparatus A radio frequency module includes a mount board, an acoustic wave filter, a temperature sensor, and a correction circuit. The mount board has a first principal surface and a second principal surface on opposite sides of the mount board. The acoustic wave filter is disposed on the first principal surface side of the mount board. The temperature sensor is disposed on the second principal surface side of the mount board. The correction circuit corrects a pass band of the acoustic wave filter in accordance with a temperature measured by the temperature sensor.
US11750157B2	Common-mode leakage error calibration for current sensing in a Class-D stage using a pilot tone A system may include a Class-D stage comprising a first high-side switch coupled between a supply voltage and a first output terminal of the Class-D stage, a second high-side switch coupled between the supply voltage and a second output terminal of the Class-D stage, a first low-side switch coupled between a ground voltage and the first output terminal, and a second low-side switch coupled between the ground voltage and the second output terminal. The system may also include current sensing circuitry comprising a sense resistor, such that an output current through a load coupled between the first output terminal and the second output terminal causes a first sense voltage proportional to the output current across the sense resistor. The system may additionally include a modulator for generating a differential pulse-width modulation driving signal to the first high-side switch, the second high-side switch, the first low-side switch, and the second low-side switch and pilot tone injection circuitry configured to inject a periodic pilot tone into the differential pulse-width modulation driving signal at a pilot tone frequency.
US11750155B2	Class-AB stabilization Aspects of the description provide for a circuit. In some examples, the circuit includes a input pair of transistors, a bias transistor having a bias transistor gate, a bias transistor drain, and a bias transistor source, the bias transistor drain coupled to the input pair of transistors and the bias transistor source coupled to ground, and a resistor coupled between the bias transistor gate and the input pair of transistors.
US11750153B2	High-frequency circuit A high-frequency circuit includes an amplifier, a power distributor disposed on an output route of the amplifier, a first by-pass route that bypasses the amplifier, a second by-pass route that bypasses the power distributor, a first switch and a second switch disposed in series on the first by-pass route, and a third switch disposed in series on the second by-pass route. The first by-pass route is connected to a first node on a route connecting a signal input terminal and the amplifier and a second node on a route connecting the amplifier and the power distributor. The second by-pass route is connected to a third node between the first switch and the second switch and a fourth node on an output route of the power distributor.
US11750148B2	Systems and methods for solar power plant assembly In an aspect, the present disclosure describes a method comprising using at least one robot to fully autonomously position and assemble at least one solar module and its supporting structure at a sensed geolocation without aid from a user.
US11750147B2	Solar tracker system A photovoltaic system includes a collection of photovoltaic modules, a base supporting the collection of photovoltaic modules, and a damper coupled between the collection of photovoltaic modules and the base. The damper resists movement of the photovoltaic modules relative to the base. The damper has a first damping ratio when the collection of photovoltaic modules moves at a first rate relative to the base and a second damping ratio when the collection of photovoltaic modules moves at a second rate relative to the base, and the damper passively transitions from the first damping ratio to the second damping ratio.
US11750146B2	Tilting solar panels for high altitude balloons A stratospheric balloon may include an upper structure having a pulley, a lower structure, at least one solar panel suspended between the upper structure and the lower structure, and a first orientation control member connected, at a first end thereof, to a first transverse edge of the at least one solar panel and, at a second end thereof, to a second transverse edge of the at least one solar panel. The first orientation control member is wound about the pulley such that rotating the pulley changes the orientation of the at least one solar panel relative to the upper structure and the lower structure. In another example, the pulley may be replaced by first and second support mechanisms and the system may include a second orientation control member. The first and second orientation control members are connected to the first and second support mechanisms, respectively, and to the solar panel.
US11750145B2	Modular solar skid with enclosures A modular solar skid includes a base including a skid, a panel support structure extending from the skid, at least one solar panel coupled to the panel support structure, and at least one enclosure coupled to the skid. The at least one enclosure is located within a cavity defined between the skid and the panel support structure.
US11750142B2	System for converting energy A system includes one or more electric motors, this system comprising a set of at least one load and an inverter comprising transistors, the inverter being intended to convert a DC voltage into an AC voltage that is intended to electrically power the set of at least one load, the inverter being able to be in a set of states comprising a nominal regime and a transitory regime wherein the set of at least one load draws, from the inverter, a power higher than a maximum power drawn from the inverter when the inverter is in nominal regime, the electrical-energy-converting system comprising means for cooling the transistors comprising a holder that is joined to at least one of the transistors of the inverter, the holder comprising a phase-change material that is able to melt, the system comprising one or more electric motors being configured so that, at a preset ambient temperature, the phase-change material melts when the inverter is in the transitory regime and so that, at this ambient temperature, the phase-change material does not melt when the inverter is in the nominal regime.
US11750132B2	System and method for damping of mechanical oscillaton of a rotor of an electric machine in a vehicle An inverter system for mitigating oscillation of an electric motor that drives a load comprises a torque command generation module for receiving a commanded torque from an operator of a vehicle. A torque damping module is configured to receive the commanded torque and generating a commanded compensating torque to dampen any mechanical oscillation or resonance of the electric motor based on the observed rotational speed of the motor. The torque damping module further comprises a digital filter of order greater than one, a gain adjuster and a limiter.
US11750131B2	Motor drive method and motor drive apparatus A motor drive method is a method of driving a motor by a motor drive apparatus. The motor drive apparatus includes an inverter that regulates supplied power to the motor that is a position sensorless synchronous machine, and includes a controller that outputs a control signal to control the inverter. The method includes reducing output torque of the motor to be less than maximum output torque, in a speed range that is lower than a first speed at which the motor rotates. The maximum torque that is output from the motor is the maximum output torque in a case the motor drive apparatus drives the motor.
US11750130B2	Method of controlling sensorless motor for air compressor Provided is a method of controlling a sensorless motor for an air compressor. The method controls early driving of a sensorless motor for an air compressor, overcomes related-art problems, and improves control response. A position of a rotor of the motor, finally estimated by a sensorless control logic at a point in time at which the motor is determined to be in the stopped state, is determined to be an alignment target position. An alignment start position is determined from the alignment target position in accordance with a predetermined alignment offset angle. The position of the rotor of the motor is controlled to change from the determined alignment start position to the alignment target position.
US11750125B2	Motor drive control device, motor unit, and motor drive control method A motor drive control device includes a control unit generating a control signal Sd such that one-phase excitation of exciting, of coils and of two phases of a two-phase stepping motor, a coil for one phase and two-phase excitation of exciting the coils for two phases are alternately repeated, and a drive unit driving the coils of two phases based on the control signal Sd. An energization angle θ representing a magnitude of an electric angle for continuously energizing the coil of one phase in one direction is capable of being set in the control unit. Specifically, the control unit determines a period T1n for performing the one-phase excitation based on a back electromotive voltage generated in the coil non-excited in the one-phase excitation, and determines a period T2n for performing the two-phase excitation based on an elapsed time per unit angle while the two-phase stepping motor is being excited and the energization angle θ.
US11750121B2	Fault tolerant multiple rotary actuator assembly An actuator assembly comprising an output member rotatable about a center axis relative to a structure, a first actuator having a first stator fixed to the structure and a first rotor rotatable about the center axis relative to the first stator, a second actuator having a second stator coupled to the first rotor such that the second stator rotates about the center axis relative to the first stator with rotation of the first rotor about the center axis and having a second rotor rotationally coupled to the output member, a controller configured in a failure mode to drive one of the first actuator or the second actuator to selectively control the rotation of the output member about the center axis with an operational failure of the other of the first actuator or the second actuator.
US11750116B2	Self-powered automobile exhaust gas sensor and preparation method thereof A self-powered automobile exhaust gas sensor including a supporting frame, a ferroelectric-triboelectric coupling functional film, and two metal electrodes. The ferroelectric-triboelectric coupling functional film comprises a first end fixed on the supporting beam in middle of the supporting frame, and a second end is freestanding. The two metal electrodes are grounded and adhered on the upper and lower sides of the supporting frame, respectively. An iron block is mounted on the top of the supporting frame. The ferroelectric-triboelectric coupling functional film includes a negative triboelectric charging layer, a ferroelectric composite material layer and a positive triboelectric charging layer; the ferroelectric composite material layer is prepared via casting method by mixing the ferroelectric material and the gas-sensitive material; the negative triboelectric charging layer has stronger electron affinity ability than the positive triboelectric charging layer, and attracts electrons from the positive triboelectric charging layer.
US11750112B2	Inverter device including a bootstrap circuit To achieve high density integration of components while securing an insulation distance between a bootstrap capacitor and an intelligent power module. In a printed wiring board, a region where a capacitor is mounted is located in a region where an intelligent power module is mounted. Therefore, the capacitor mounted on the printed wiring board is placed between the printed wiring board and the intelligent power module.
US11750111B2	Power supply device, power supply management module, and power supply management method A power supply device, a power supply management module and method are provided. The power supply device includes a power supply management module. The power supply management module includes a first and a second power supply module, a detection unit, and a switching control module. The first power supply module includes a first alternating current input end, a first rectifier circuit, and a first switch unit. A first end of the first switch unit is connected to the first rectifier circuit. The second power supply module includes a second alternating current input end, a second rectifier circuit, and a second switch unit. A third end and a fourth end of the second switch unit are connected to the second rectifier circuit and a second end of the first switch unit, respectively. The switching control module controls the first and the second switch unit according to a detection signal.
US11750102B2	Power conversion apparatus A first capacitor is connected between a first connection point and a second connection point. A second capacitor is connected between a third connection point and a fourth connection point. A current sensor is provided between the first connection point and the third connection point. A sum of the third wiring length which is a length of wiring from the first connection point to the third connection point and the fourth wiring length which is a length of wiring from the second connection point to the fourth connection point is smaller than a sum of the first wiring length which is a length of wiring from a first input terminal to the first connection point and the second wiring length which is a length of wiring from a second input terminal to the second connection point.
US11750101B2	Resonant converter A resonant converter includes an input terminal, an output terminal, a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, a fourth switch, a frequency controller, a resonant capacitor, a first transformer, a second transformer, a feedback circuit and a synchronous rectification controller. The input terminal is connected to an external power supply and the output terminal is connected to an external load. The synchronous rectifier controller is used to output a fourth control signal for controlling the fourth switch based on a voltage at the first terminal of the secondary side of the first transformer, and output a third control signal for controlling the third switch based on a voltage at the second terminal of the secondary side of said second transformer. The present application can effectively reduce the switching losses of the primary side, allowing the resonant converter to operate at a variable high frequency.
US11750099B2	Method and system of a quasi-constant on-time controller Quasi-Constant On-Time Controller. At least one example embodiment is a method of operating a power converter, comprising: charging an inductor of a switching power converter, each charging has an on-time; and then discharging the inductor while providing current to the load; and repeating the charging and the discharging at a switching frequency. During the repeating, the example method may comprise: adjusting the switching frequency proportional to a voltage difference between an output voltage and a setpoint voltage; generating an on-time reference proportional to a frequency difference between the switching frequency and a setpoint frequency, the on-time of each charging of the inductor is based on the on-time reference; and modifying the on-time proportional to the voltage difference.
US11750096B2	Voltage converter and method An embodiment voltage converter includes a first transistor connected between a first node of the converter and a second node configured to receive a power supply voltage, a second transistor connected between the first node and a third node configured to receive a reference potential, a first circuit configured to control the first and second transistors, and a comparator configured to compare a first voltage with a threshold, the first voltage being equal, during a first period, to a first increasing ramp and, during a second period, to a second decreasing ramp, the threshold having a first value during the first period and a second value during the second period, the first and second values being variable.
US11750095B2	Voltage converter In an embodiment, a voltage converter includes: a first transistor coupled between a first rail configured to receive a supply voltage and a first node; and an inductance coupled between the first node and a second node configured to deliver an output voltage, wherein, at each operating cycle of the converter, the first transistor is maintained in the on state for a first time period proportional to the inverse of a voltage difference between the supply voltage and the output voltage.
US11750092B2	Configurable DC-to-DC converter circuit and vehicle electrical system A configurable DC-DC converter circuit has first and second DC voltage connections. The first DC voltage connection connected to a plurality of galvanically isolating DC-DC converters via a configuration circuit that has first and second switches, between which a changeover switch connects the first and second switches to one another via a diode device and connects the first and second switches to one another via a resistor. The DC-DC converters connected to the first and second switches. In the first changeover switch position, the first and the second switch are closed in a first configuration position and connect the DC-DC converters in parallel with one another. If the changeover switch is in the first switching position, the first and second switches, in a second configuration position in which the first and the second switches are open, the DC-DC converters are connected in series with one another via the diode device.
US11750090B2	Semiconductor device and power conversion device A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a first surface, a first electrode, a second electrode and a third electrode formed on the first surface, a first semiconductor element and a second semiconductor element disposed in the interior of the substrate, a first wiring group electrically connecting the first electrode to the first semiconductor element, and a fourth wiring group electrically connecting the second semiconductor element to the second electrode. The first wiring group includes a first connection part disposed in the interior of the substrate. The fourth wiring group includes a second connection part disposed in the interior of the substrate. When a voltage is applied between the first electrode and the third electrode to cause current to flow through the second electrode, a direction of current flowing through first connection part is opposite to a direction of current flowing through the second connection part.
US11750088B2	PFC circuit, control method thereof and power conversion device The application provides a method for controlling a PFC circuit including a diode bridge arm, DNPC bridge arm and capacitor group connected in parallel. The control method includes: switching working mode of the PFC circuit back and forth between first mode and third mode via second mode in each switching cycle when positive half cycle of a modulation wave is modulated, and switching working mode of the PFC circuit back and forth between sixth mode and fourth mode via fifth mode in each switching cycle when negative half cycle of the modulation wave is modulated. The durations of the second and fifth modes are as short as possible, thereby decreasing a current flowing into or out from midpoint of the capacitor group, and reducing voltage fluctuation at the midpoint. The application further provides a PFC circuit using the control method and a power conversion device having the PFC circuit.
US11750087B2	Totem pole bridgeless PFC power converters An electric power supply includes a totem pole bridgeless PFC power converter. The PFC power converter includes an input for coupling to an AC power source, an output, four switching devices coupled between the input and the output, two diodes coupled between the four switching devices and the input, a first inductor coupled between the four switching devices and the two diodes, and a second inductor coupled between the two diodes and the input. Other example electric power supplies and totem pole bridgeless PFC power converters are also disclosed.
US11750084B2	Apparatus and method for actively discharging a DC link capacitor An apparatus for actively discharging at least one DC link capacitor, comprising at least one half-bridge circuit having a high-side transistor and a low-side transistor, wherein the half-bridge circuit is arranged in parallel with the DC link capacitor, wherein a voltage divider comprising at least two resistors is arranged in parallel with the DC link capacitor, wherein a tap of the voltage divider is connected to at least one differentiator, wherein at least one driver module for generating gate driver signals is assigned to the half-bridge circuit, and at least one control unit, wherein the control unit is designed in such a way that, in an active discharge mode, at least one transistor of the half-bridge circuit is controlled as a function of an output signal of the differentiator, as well as to an associated method.
US11750082B2	Power device with protection circuit A power device with a protection circuit is provided. The power device includes a power module, a power output terminal, a converter module, a bus capacitor, and a protection circuit. The power module receives an input power. The converter module, the protection circuit, and the bus capacitor is electrically connected between the power module and the power output terminal. The protection circuit is configured for overvoltage protection when the input power being overvoltage, suppressing the surge current when booting up the power device, and regulating the voltage on the bus capacitor under overvoltage and undervoltage conditions.
US11750074B2	Linear vibration motor with elastic member and flexible PCB fixed on a fixing member via positioning holes The present disclosure discloses a linear motor including a housing with an accommodation space, a vibrator, a stator, an elastic member and a flexible printed circuit board; the vibrator includes an iron core with an axis direction, a coil wounded around the iron core and a fixing member fixed on the iron core; the flexible printed circuit board is fixed on the fixing member. The fixing member serves as a bridge between the coil and the flexible printed circuit board, thus improving the fixation stability between the coil and the flexible printed circuit board and effectively avoiding disconnection of the coil.
US11750073B2	Vibration motor One of the objects of the present invention is to provide a vibration motor with reduced size and enables easier manufacturing process. To achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention provides a vibration motor having a housing with an accommodation space; a vibrator accommodated in the accommodation space; a stator fixed to the housing for driving the vibrator to vibrate; and a spring suspending the vibrator in the accommodation space. The spring includes a first fixed part connecting to the housing, a second fixed part connecting to the vibrator, and an elastic arm connecting the first fixed part to the second fixed part.
US11750070B2	Variable torque generation electric machine employing tunable Halbach magnet array An electric machine with variable torque generation having a tunable Halbach array configuration. The electric machine includes a magnet assembly for generating a magnetic field. The magnet assembly includes a plurality of fixed magnets disposed in a ring arrangement so that fixed magnets having a north pole faced toward the rotor or stator are alternated with fixed magnets having a south pole faced toward the rotor or stator, a plurality of rotatable magnets disposed within a respective slot formed between two adjacent fixed magnets, a drive assembly for turning the rotatable magnets within the slots to vary the magnetic field generated by the magnet assembly in the rotor or stator, the drive assembly configured to turn the rotatable magnets between a first position wherein the magnetic field in the rotor or stator is augmented and a second position wherein the magnetic field in the rotor or stator is cancelled.
US11750066B2	Bearing cap heat sink system for an electric motor The present disclosure provides for an electric motor that comprises a housing and a shaft disposed through the housing. The electric motor further comprises a rotor fitted on the shaft within the housing and a stator disposed within the housing and around the rotor. The electric motor further comprises a fan covering disposed on a first end of the housing and a first bearing cap disposed at the first end of the housing, wherein the first bearing cap is configured to house a first bearing, wherein the first bearing cap comprises a plurality of protrusions configured to operate as a heat sink for the electric motor. The electric motor further comprises a first fan disposed at an end of the shaft and within the fan covering, wherein the first fan is operable to generate a first airflow configured to flow over an external surface of the housing.
US11750065B2	Integrated linear generator system An integrated linear generator system includes, for example, a generator assembly, a control system, a frame system, an exhaust system, an intake system, a cooling system, a bearing system, one or more auxiliary systems, or a combination thereof. The generator system is configured to generate power, as controlled by the control system. The generator assembly may include an opposed- and free-piston linear generator, configured to operate on a two-stroke cycle. The intake and exhaust systems are configured to provide reactants to and remove products from the generator assembly, respectively. The cooling system is configured to effect heat transfer, material temperature, or both, of components of the integrated linear generator system. The bearing system is configured to constrain the off-axis motion of translators of the generator assembly without applying significant friction forces. The frame system is configured to manage rigidity, flexibility, and alignment of components of the integrated linear generator system.
US11750060B1	Electric drive unit with a heat exchanger that is formed by disks having a disk spring portion and which are received into a bore in a rotor shaft of an electric motor An electric drive unit that includes an electric motor having a rotor with a rotor shaft and a heat exchanger that is received in the rotor shaft. The heat exchanger has a plurality of heat exchanger plates, each of which having a hub, a rim member, and disc spring portion that interconnects the hub and the rib member. Each disk spring portion defines a plurality of coolant apertures. The heat exchanger plates are press-fit to the rotor shaft such that each disc spring portion is deflected from a pre-installation state, and each rim member is engaged to an interior surface of the rotor shaft while being spaced apart from adjacent rim members along a rotational axis of the rotor. A first coolant passage is disposed through the hubs of the plates. The coolant apertures in the heat exchanger plates cooperate to form a plurality of second coolant passages.
US11750056B2	Busbar unit for motor A busbar unit electrically connected to a motor comprising a stator around which a coil is wound includes: a first terminal including a first body and a first terminal part protruding from an upper portion of the first body and electrically connected to the coil; a first holder configured to support the first terminal such that the first terminal part is exposed to an outside of the busbar unit; and a second holder disposed on an upper portion of the first holder and configured to press the coil against the first terminal part.
US11750054B2	Modulated litz wire construction for high power-density motors A modulated litz wire wherein the braid of a litz wire is varied along its length such that bulkier sections are located at the end-turns of a motor, while more compact parallel stranded sections are located in stator slots or magnetic gaps. Variations may include parallel stranded sections replaced with a longitudinal twist for improved handling or improved current sharing in strands.
US11750052B2	Rotating electric machine rotor A rotating electric machine rotor according to the present disclosure includes: a rotor shaft extending in a direction of an axis of rotation; and a rotor core fixedly fitted to an outer circumference of the rotor shaft and formed of laminated steel sheets. Further, an inner diameter of the rotor core is smaller than an outer diameter of the rotor shaft. Furthermore, an inner edge part of each laminated steel sheet is made thinner than an outer edge part thereof, and the inner edge part abuts on an outer peripheral surface of the rotor shaft and is curved along the outer peripheral surface of the rotor shaft in the direction of the axis of rotation.
US11750051B1	Magnetic field coupling analysis and modulation method for field-modulated permanent magnet motor based on harmonic group A magnetic field coupling analysis and modulation method for a field-modulated permanent magnet motor based on a harmonic group is provided. The method includes: if a permanent magnet excitation source includes an outer surface-mounted permanent magnet and an intermediate permanent magnet and an armature magnetic source is an outer armature winding, acquiring a normal flux density component of an outer air-gap magnetic field of the motor; if the permanent magnet excitation source includes an inner surface-mounted permanent magnet and the intermediate permanent magnet and the armature magnetic source is an inner armature winding, acquiring a coupled flux density component of the outer air-gap magnetic field; calculating a coupling effect ratio, a harmonic characteristic factor, and a harmonic coupling efficiency in sequence from an air-gap flux density; determining positive and negative coupled harmonics according to the harmonic coupling efficiency; and establishing positive and negative coupled harmonic groups respectively.
US11750049B2	Rotating electrical machine A rotor has an opposing surface opposed to a stator, the opposing surface has flat surfaces extending in a tangential direction of a circle centered on an axial center of the rotor at a predetermined angular interval centered on the axial center, and a magnet is disposed on this flat surface.
US11750048B2	Motor with novel hollow shaft The hollow shaft motor according to the present invention comprises: a housing 11 having a cylindrical shape; an upper cover 12 coupled to an upper portion of the housing 11; a lower cover 15 coupled to a lower portion of the housing 11; a stator assembly 20 located in the housing 11; and a rotor assembly 30 located in the stator assembly 20 to rotate, comprising a hollow shaft 31, a rotor core 32 coupled to the hollow shaft 31, and a plurality of magnets 33 arranged on an outer circumferential surface of the rotor core 32 at a certain interval, wherein the hollow shaft 31 is manufactured with a plastic resin by an insert injection molding in the state where the rotor core 32 and the magnet 33 are located in an insert injection mold.
US11750047B2	Motor and compressor including the same A motor includes a stator unit formed by coupling plural stators to one another into an annular shape. Each of the stators has: an iron core having an arc-shaped core-back portion and a tooth portion protruding from the core-back portion, the iron core forming slot portions between the iron core and adjacent ones of the stators; insulating members disposed on both end portions, in the axial direction, of the iron core; insulating films disposed so as to be in contact with inner walls of the slot portions of the iron core; and a winding disposed in the slot portions and wound over the iron core with the insulating members and the insulating films interposed therebetween. In a portion of each of the insulating films that is in contact with the inner wall of the slot portion, at least a portion that is in contact with an outer circumferential surface of the tooth tip portion has a length in the axial direction longer than the length of the iron core in the axial direction. Each of the insulating members has position fixing portions that are engaged with the iron core to fix the position of the insulating member.
US11750035B2	Wireless power transfer device with electromagnetic interference (EMI) suppression A wireless power transfer device with EMI suppression includes a power conversion circuit board, a wireless power transfer coil group assembly and an eddy current damper (ECD) with a stable potential. The ECD is close to the wireless power transfer coil group assembly and is connected to a low-alternating current (AC) impedance direct current (DC) plane of the power conversion circuit board through a conductor.
US11750023B2	High temperature hybrid battery pack Systems and methods for operating a circuit. The methods comprise: using a first thermal responsive device to connect a first power source between first and second terminals to which an external load can be connected to the circuit; using a second thermal responsive device to cause a thermal unresponsive device to be in an open circuit condition; and performing operations responsive to a temperature of a surrounding environment exceeding a given temperature value. The operations include: disconnecting the first power source from at least the first terminal by transitioning the first thermal responsive device from a closed state to an open state; and connecting a second power source between the first and second terminals by transitioning the thermal unresponsive device from the open circuit condition to a closed circuit condition using the second thermal responsive device.
US11750022B2	Devices, systems, and methods for reducing standby power consumption A standby circuit includes a power regulator configured to operate in an ON state and an OFF state; a power detecting circuit configured to detect power of a load; an integrated circuit module including two interfaces, each of the two interfaces configured to receive an ON operating command or an OFF operating command from a remote control device; and a proximity detection circuit configured to determine a proximity of each of the two interfaces to the remote control device.
US11750020B2	Portable charger An apparatus includes a housing having a first connector port at a first end of the housing and a second connector port at a second end of the housing. The first end and the second end are opposite one another. An activator is configured to simultaneously move the first connector port and the second connector port when a force is applied. When the first connector port is extended beyond the housing, the second connector port is retracted into the housing, and when the second connector port is extended beyond the housing, the first connector port is retracted into the housing. An internal battery is coupled to the first connector port and configured to be charged via the first connector port from an external power source, and coupled to the second connector port and configured to provide power via the second connector port to an external device.
US11750017B2	Projection system and wireless charging method of projection system A projection system includes a power supply device, a wireless charging transmission device, a projection system control assembly, a storage unit, and an optical system. The projection system control assembly controls a light valve thereof to convert illumination beam into image beam. A projection lens thereof projects the image beam to be a projection image. A user operation information is stored in the storage unit. The projection image includes an operation menu related to the user operation information. The projection system control assembly turns on or turns off the wireless charging transmission device according to the user operation information to wirelessly charge electronic device. A wireless charging method of the projection system is also provided.
US11750015B2	Information processing apparatus, control method of information processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium An information processing apparatus includes a power processor, an interface, a detector that detects at least one of a voltage value and a current value on an electric power line which connects the power processor and the interface, and a controller. The controller notifies a swap request for swapping electric power roles with an external device to the external device via the interface in a case where a detection value of the detector indicates an abnormal value while electric power is supplied to the external device via the interface.
US11750009B2	Apparatus, systems, and methods for distributed charging and discharging An apparatus may include a power rail, a subassembly, an additional subassembly, and an interface coupling the subassembly to the additional subassembly. The subassembly may include a load, an energy-storing component, a charger having an output coupled to the energy-storing component, and a reverse-current limiter having a first terminal coupled to the energy-storing component. The additional subassembly may include an additional energy-storing component, an additional charger having an output coupled to the additional energy-storing component, and an additional reverse-current limiter having a first terminal coupled to the additional energy-storing component. The power rail may cross the interface and may couple the load, an input of the charger, a second terminal of the reverse-current limiter, an input of the additional charger, and a second terminal of the additional reverse-current limiter. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US11750004B2	Battery management system and battery management method A battery management system and a battery management method are provided. The battery management system includes a temperature sampling circuit, a plurality of voltage measurement circuits, a current sampling circuit, and a microcontroller. The temperature sampling circuit is configured to obtain a temperature parameter of a plurality of battery packs. The voltage measurement circuits are configured to obtain a plurality of open circuit voltage parameters of the battery packs. The current sampling circuit is configured to obtain a current parameter of the battery packs. The microcontroller obtains a plurality of initial state-of-charge parameters of the battery packs according to the open circuit voltage parameters and the temperature parameter and respectively calculates a plurality of present battery powers of the battery packs according to the initial state-of-charge parameters, the temperature parameter, and the current parameter.
US11750003B2	Information processing device, information processing system, information processing method, and computer program An information processing device that transmits information on an energy storage device and a power supply-related device in response to a request from the outside or as an event includes, an acquisition unit that acquires information including a state of the energy storage device or the power supply-related device through communication; a storage processing unit that stores the acquired information in a storage medium in association with information that identifies the energy storage device and the power supply-related device, respectively; and a transmission processing unit that transmits display information for collectively displaying the information stored in the storage medium for each system including the energy storage device and/or power supply-related device, or for each place where the energy storage device and/or power supply-related device is installed.
US11750002B2	Battery monitoring apparatus A battery monitoring apparatus includes a circuit board, a signal control unit configured to cause a predetermined AC signal to be outputted from a storage battery through a first electrical path, a response signal input unit configured to input, through a pair of second electrical paths, a response signal of the storage battery to the AC signal, and a calculating unit configured to calculate, based on the response signal, a complex impedance of the storage battery. The first and second electrical paths are provided on a major face of the circuit board. On the circuit board, there is defined a first region which is surrounded by the first and second electrical paths and two terminals of the storage battery. The size of the first region is set to have an electromotive force, which is induced in the second electrical paths by the AC signal, be within an allowable electromotive-force range.
US11749995B2	Electrical energy storage system and energy storage system An electrical energy storage system is provided in this dislosure, which includes: M battery packs; M first DC/DC converters, where first terminals of the M first DC/DC converters are respectively connected to the M battery packs, the M first DC/DC converters are classified into N first DC/DC converter sets; and N second DC/DC converters, where the N second DC/DC converters one-to-one correspond to the N first DC/DC converter sets, a first terminal of each second DC/DC converter is connected to second terminals of all first DC/DC converters in a first DC/DC converter set corresponding to the second DC/DC converter, a second terminal of each second DC/DC converter is connected to a first interface of the electrical energy storage system, the first interface is to receive a direct current from a power generation system or output a direct current to the power generation system.
US11749994B2	Systems, devices, and methods for module-based cascaded energy systems configured to interface with renewable energy sources Example embodiments of systems, devices, and methods are provided herein for energy systems having multiple modules arranged in cascaded fashion for storing power from one or more photovoltaic sources. Each module includes an energy source and converter circuitry that selectively couples the energy source to other modules in the system over an AC interface for generating AC power or for receiving and storing power from a charge source. Each module also includes a DC interface for receiving power from one or more photovoltaic sources. Each module can be controlled by control system to route power from the photovoltaic source to that modules energy source or to the AC interface. The energy systems can be arranged in single phase or multiphase topologies with multiple serial or interconnected arrays. The energy systems can be arranged such that each module receives power from the same single photovoltaic source, or multiple photovoltaic sources.
US11749993B2	Method to overcome electrical circuit voltage and current limitations A power converter system including an input configured to receive input AC power from an input power source, the input power source having a peak voltage limit, at least one output configured to provide output power to at least one load, a charger coupled to the input and configured to convert the input AC power into first DC power, a DC bus configured to receive the first DC power, at least one power converter configured to convert DC power from the DC bus into the output power, and an auxiliary power source coupled to the DC bus and configured to provide second DC power to the DC bus to supplement the first DC power provided by the charger in response to a voltage demand of the at least one load exceeding the peak voltage limit of the input power source.
US11749990B2	Distributed energy system edge unit In accordance with aspects of the present invention a distributed energy system edge unit is presented. An edge unit includes a power grid interface; one or more device interfaces; a processing unit coupled to the power grid interface and the one or more device interfaces, the processing unit including a communication state that allows communications with an external entity; a control and monitor state that communicates with the communication state; a check unit state that communicates with the control and monitor state and provides a unit state data; wherein the control and monitor state and the communication state provide an instruction data set, current operating parameters according to the unit state data, the instruction set data, and a characterization parameter data, and wherein the control and monitor state provides control signals to the power grid interface and the one or more device interfaces.
US11749987B2	Devices and methods for selecting voltage sources Devices and method for selecting voltage sources. A wireless device can include a transceiver configured to process radio-frequency signals, an antenna in communication with the transceiver configured to facilitate transmission of an amplified radio-frequency signal, and a voltage regulator. The wireless device can also include a voltage selection module. The voltage selection module may include an analog voltage input. The voltage selection module may also include a digital based voltage input. The voltage selection module further includes a control component coupled to the analog voltage input and the digital based voltage input, the control component configured to determine whether to use a first voltage received from the analog voltage input or a second voltage received from the digital based voltage input to generate an output voltage.
US11749983B2	Startup protection circuit, for interrupting startup of a boost DC-DC switching converter A Boost DC-DC switching converter, having a safety protection method for a short circuit to ground during normal Boost operations, is described. A short circuit protection mechanism, to be used at startup, is also described. A low current capability active clamp is activated, during a soft or hard short circuit condition, and an isolation switch is turned off. An input of the switching converter is isolated from an output of the switching converter, and the Boost switching converter is able to safely discharge high energy stored in its coil, with no external components and minimum extra silicon area.
US11749981B2	Control device for AC rotating machine, electric braking device for vehicle, and control method for AC rotating machine A control device for an AC rotating machine includes: switching control means for controlling inverters and motor relays 15; and abnormality detection means for detecting an abnormality in each system and outputting a result of the detection to the switching control means. When the abnormality detection means detects an abnormality in at least one of the systems, the switching control means causes the motor relay to block a circuit between windings and the inverter in the system in which the abnormality has been detected, and continues normal control in a system other than the system in which the abnormality has been detected.
US11749980B2	Method for using semiconductor intelligence line The method for using semiconductor intelligence line of the invention, which is to set the semiconductor intelligence line on the drain source voltage axis of the first semiconductor output characteristic, has a gate voltage setting, which indicates the function of limiting the application limit of the drain source current on the output characteristic.
US11749978B1	Cross-arm phase-lifter Disclosed embodiments provide a cross-arm phase-lifter for lifting and maneuvering a utility pole cross-arm without the need to remove the energized power lines from the cross-arm. A first embodiment of the cross-arm phase-lifter may comprise a set of clamps, clamping members, and actuators. When the actuators are driven, the clamping members may secure the clamps onto the cross-arm. Once the clamps are secured, the cross-arm may be lifted and suspended in air. A second embodiment may comprise a lifting plate comprising a plurality of pegs configured to interface with brackets on the cross-arm. When the pegs are engaged with the brackets, the cross-arm may be lifted and suspended in air.
US11749977B2	Cutting device for the severance of an electrical power cable, or of a strand section A device is used to sever an electrical power cable for the transmission of high voltage. The device includes a frame having first movable cutting blade carried thereon and second stationary cutting blades carried thereon. The blades can sever the electrical power cable upon movement of the first cutting blade relative to the frame. A sensor is provided and is configured to register a position of the first cutting blade relative to the frame. An evaluation and/or transmission controller is configured to receive information from the sensor and interrupt severing of the electrical power cable by the blades in response to the information.
US11749976B2	Switch-fuse module A switch-fuse module and a ring main unit. The switch-fuse module includes: a housing having therein a switch enclosure including an insulating gas and a cable compartment that is different and separate from the switch enclosure; at least one switch disconnector arranged within the switch enclosure; and at least one fuse canister with a vertically oriented longitudinal axis; wherein the fuse canister i) is adapted to receive a fuse, and ii) is arranged within the cable compartment, and the insulating gas has a global warming potential less than a global warming potential of SF6.

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