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| US11845074B2 |
Antioxidant protection for ion exchange resins
Methods of stabilizing virgin ion exchange resin material are provided. The methods include cleansing the virgin ion exchange resin material with a preparation comprising a non-ionic detergent. The methods include cleansing the virgin ion exchange resin material with a preparation comprising an alcohol solvent. The methods include rinsing virgin ion exchange resin material with deoxygenated water. the methods include introducing the cleansed/rinsed virgin ion exchange resin material into a gas impermeable vessel and hermetically sealing the vessel. The methods include introducing an oxygen scavenging material into the gas impermeable vessel, and hermetically sealing the vessel. A method of facilitating water treatment in a site in need thereof by providing a cleansed virgin ion exchange resin material in deoxygenated water is also disclosed. |
| US11845072B2 |
Process and apparatus for indirect catalyst heating
A process and apparatus for indirect heating of catalyst in the regeneration zone is disclosed. A hot flue gas flows within a heating tube and the catalyst to be heated flows outside the heating tube. The hot flue gas is generated by igniting a fuel stream. The hot flue gas is generated directly in the heating tube or is generated in a separate burner outside the heating tube. |
| US11845070B2 |
Surface plasmon enhanced photocatalysis
Plasmonically-enhanced catalytic surfaces and accompanying optics are described herein. These elements facilitate efficient coupling of light energy into a photocatalytic system by way of a surface plasmon. Various compatible optical configurations are presented, with an emphasis on the broadband coupling of light into a single plasmon mode. In an example embodiment, dispersive optics are used to direct polychromatic light onto a grating-embossed SPR-active surface. Dispersive optics allow resonance to be achieved at a wide range of incident wavelengths. Energy then transfers from the excited plasmon to an adjacent photocatalyst. The plasmon mode thus acts as a “funnel” of broadband light energy to the catalytic materials. High-efficiency incoupling and outcoupling from the plasmon mode suggest overall enhancement of catalytic activity, and broad applicability is anticipated due to the inherent flexibility of the system. The catalytic surfaces and optical components can be fabricated as sheets or 3D arrays, justifying industrial-scale manufacturing. |
| US11845069B2 |
Catalyst composition, a process for preparing the catalyst composition, and a use of the catalyst composition
Disclosed is catalyst composition, a process for preparing the catalyst composition, and a use of the catalyst composition. The catalyst composition comprises 1 wt % to 4 wt % of free azacarbene, 1 wt % to 2 wt % of azacarbene iron, 15 wt % to 30 wt % of a phase transfer catalyst, 1 wt % to 5 wt % of a hydrogen donor, 5 wt % to 10 wt % of phosphoric acid, 0.5 wt % to 1 wt % of emulsifier, with the rest being solvent. This disclosure also provides a process for preparing the catalyst composition, comprising: mixing the free azacarbene and the azacarbene iron with the solvent according to a ratio, then adding and mixing the phase transfer catalyst and the hydrogen donor, then adding and mixing the phosphoric acid and the emulsifier to obtain the catalyst composition. The beneficial effect of this disclosure is: only less azacarbene iron and free azacarbene are needed to achieve rapid and efficient viscosity reduction of heavy oil. |
| US11845064B2 |
Composite, zoned oxidation catalyst for a compression ignition internal combustion engine
A composite oxidation catalyst (18, 20) for use in an exhaust system for treating an exhaust gas produced by a vehicular compression ignition internal combustion engine (30) and upstream of a particulate matter filter (44, 50) in the exhaust system comprises a substrate (5) having a total length L and a longitudinal axis and having a substrate surface extending axially between a first substrate end (I) and a second substrate end (O); and three or more catalyst washcoat zones (1, 2, 3; or 1, 2, 3, 4) arranged axially in series on and along the substrate surface, wherein a first catalyst washcoat zone (1) having a length L1, wherein L1 |
| US11845063B2 |
TWC activity using rhodium/platinum and tannic acid as a complexing and reducing agent
A method of manufacturing a catalyst article, the method comprising: providing a complex of a polyphenol and a PGM, the PGM comprising rhodium and/or platinum, the polyphenol comprising an ester functional group; providing a support material; applying the complex to the support material to form a loaded support material; disposing the loaded support material on a substrate; and heating the loaded support material to form nanoparticles of the PGM on the support material. |
| US11845059B2 |
Chromatographic cassette
A chromatographic cassette includes a cassette including a chamber, chromatographic media disposed within the cassette chamber, a distribution network fluidly coupled to the chromatographic media and an inlet port and an outlet port coupled to the distribution network. A hyper-productive chromatography technique includes providing a scalable and stackable chromatographic cassette, loading a sample to be processed, operating the scalable chromatographic cassette having an adsorptive chromatographic bed having a volume greater than 0.5 liter by establishing a flow at a linear velocity greater than 500 cm/hr with a residence time of the loading step of less than one minute. |
| US11845056B2 |
Peptide synthesis instrumentation
A peptide synthesis instrument can be used for small scale peptide synthesis. The instrument can include several unique features, including a compression style reaction vessel permitting quick setup of the reaction vessel, a double reaction vessel system permitting efficient mixing without loss of solvent or solvent-to-resin contact, gravity-fed heated reservoirs establishing a fixed volume for delivery to the reaction vessel, fume-free solvent addition permitting solvent addition to fixed bottles, and an improved amino acid manifold assembly which reduces the number of components and increases the ease of use of the instrument. Each of these features improve upon the current state of the art in solid phase automated peptide synthesizers. |
| US11845050B2 |
System and method for producing a mixture of liquids
A system and a method for generating a liquid mixture are provided. The system may comprise: a plurality of reservoirs, wherein the reservoirs are configured to hold a plurality of viscous liquids; at least one mixing device, wherein the mixing device is configured to mix at least two liquids from the plurality of reservoirs, and wherein the mixing device includes a static mixer; a plurality of peristaltic pumps configured to deliver the liquids from the reservoirs to the mixing device; at least one electronic system, wherein the electronic system is configured to receive at least one user-specific information regarding a mixing ratio of the at least two liquids from a computer app on at least one mobile device, and wherein the system is configured to mix the at least two liquids according to the predefined mixing ratio by employing the plurality of peristaltic pumps and the static mixer. |
| US11845049B2 |
Apparatus for mixing including a liquid injection nozzle
An apparatus for mixing a particulate material with a liquid in a container is adapted for tumble blending. The apparatus comprises a mixing device and a liquid injection nozzle. The mixing device includes mixer elements adapted to mix a particulate material by mechanical action. The nozzle is disposed to direct liquid in the direction of the mixer elements when mixing is taking place and ingress of material is prevented from entering into the nozzle. |
| US11845037B2 |
Systems and methods for removing mercury from emissions
The present technology is generally directed to systems and methods for removing mercury from emissions. More specifically, some embodiments are directed to systems and methods for removing mercury from exhaust gas in a flue gas desulfurization system. In one embodiment, a method of removing mercury from exhaust gas in a flue gas desulfurization system includes inletting the gas into a housing and conditioning an additive. In some embodiments, conditioning the additive comprises hydrating powder-activated carbon. The method further includes introducing the conditioned additive into the housing and capturing mercury from the gas. |
| US11845035B2 |
Self-cleaning air filter system
A method of operating a cleaning process on a filter in a vehicle air intake includes passing air through the filter from an upstream side to a downstream side, and providing an exhaust duct having an inlet end adjacent the upstream side of the filter and an outlet end adjacent a cooling fan or other air-extraction device of the vehicle arranged to draw air through the exhaust duct from the inlet end to the outlet end. In a periodic cleaning subroutine, the rotational speed of the fan is increased from a first speed to a second speed, while a pulse of pressurized fluid is applied to a downstream side of the filter. The exhaust duct carries away material dislodged from the upstream side of the filter by the applied pulse, and the rotational speed of the fan is reduced to its original level. |
| US11845033B2 |
Exhaust gas purification filter
An exhaust gas purification filter includes a cell assembly including cells each having a quadrangular cross-sectional shape and a partition wall, seal members, and a skin member. The partition wall has a porosity P1 of 50% to 70%, and the skin member has a porosity P2 of 50% to 70%, the porosity P1 and the porosity P2 satisfy a relationship P1 |
| US11845029B2 |
Scent presentation system and method of use
A scent presentation system for segregating a desired scent from other scents suspended in a gas. The desired scent has a density that differs from that of another scent in the gas. The system includes a housing having a sloping top wall and a pair of elongated sloping side walls extending downward from the top wall on opposite sides of the top wall. The top wall and the pair of side walls define a channel extending between an upstream end and a downstream end of the housing. The system has a separating gate extending downward into the channel from the top wall to a lower end positioned inside the channel. The gate separates the channel into upstream and downstream chambers. The upstream end has an inlet port allowing the gas to enter the channel, and the downstream end has an outlet port allowing the gas to exit the channel. |
| US11845017B2 |
Systems and methods for integrated management of associated gas and produced water at oil well extraction sites
The present system is for integrated management of associated gas and produced water at oil well extraction sites. The system includes a controller that makes gas allocation determination (e.g., directs conditioned gas to (i) gas flare, (ii) produced water reduction system, and/or (iii) generator) when a change in conditioned gas flow is detected based on first plurality of inputs. If the conditioned gas is directed to the generator, then the controller makes an electricity allocation determination (e.g., (i) increase a data processing operating rate on a data processing server, (ii) start up idle data processing equipment, (iii) direct generated electric current to a power grid, and/or (iv) charge a storage battery) based on second plurality of inputs. By operating the system of gas consumption and electricity production/consumption in an integrated fashion, benefits of flaring prevention, resource conversation, and more efficient economic operations are optimized to a degree not previously attainable. |
| US11845013B2 |
Wheel for a toy vehicle and a toy vehicle with wheels
A wheel for a toy vehicle, the wheel comprising an axle hub defining a wheel axis of rotation and a rim with an inboard flange and an outboard flange each having an outer diameter. The wheel further comprises a primary tire forming the tread of the wheel with a tread diameter and a tread width. The primary tire is attached to the axle hub between the inboard and the outboard flange such that it rotates with the axle hub. The wheel further comprises an outboard slip ring rotatably mounted between the primary tire and the outboard flange so that the outboard slip ring can rotate with respect to the primary tire about the wheel axis of rotation. The outboard slip ring has an outer diameter smaller than the tread diameter and larger than the outer diameter of the outboard flange. |
| US11845011B2 |
Individualized stream customizations with social networking and interactions
The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for providing individual customizations of a stream for an eSports event of eSports events. The customizations including incorporating customized graphic and audio displays into a viewed stream. Additionally, viewers may be able to access a limited social network for spectators having similar interests or viewing rights. In other aspects, the eSports presentation may be linked to third-party services for enhancing spectator engagement. |
| US11845008B2 |
Building virtual reality (VR) gaming environments using real-world virtual reality maps
A method for building a gaming environment. The method includes accessing a base VR model of a real-world environment from a third party mapping data store, wherein the real-world environment includes a plurality of real-world objects. The method includes augmenting a first object in the base VR model that corresponds to a first real-world object in the real-world environment. The method includes stitching in the first object that is augmented into the base VR model to generate an augmented base VR model. The method includes storing the augmented base VR model to a library data store comprising a plurality of augmented base VR models for use as virtual environments of corresponding gaming applications storing the augmented base VR model to a library data store comprising a plurality of augmented base VR models. The method includes using one or more of the plurality of augmented base VR models to define a virtual environment of a gaming application. |
| US11845006B2 |
Skeleton model updating apparatus, skeleton model updating method, and program
A skeleton model updating apparatus, a skeleton model updating method, and a program by which time and effort for changing the pose of a skeleton model to a known standard pose can be reduced. A target node identifying section identifies target nodes from among a plurality of nodes included in a skeleton model that is in a pose other than a standard pose. A reference node identifying section identifies a reference node that is positioned closest to the side of the target nodes, from among nodes that are connected to all of the target nodes via one or more bones. A position deciding section decides positions of the target nodes such that relative positions of the target nodes with respect to the position of the reference node are adjusted to predetermined positions. |
| US11845005B2 |
Game quality-centric matchmaking for online gaming
A system and method optimizes game quality by matching players for an online game to one of several virtual games. This matching process may involve filtering the players who wish to play according to various constraint minimizing criteria, packing the players into one or more virtual games to optimize game quality factors of the virtual games, and then instantiating the virtual games to actual online games played by the players. The game packing process may be iterative and may involve adding a new player into a virtual game. Game quality factor (GQF) values prior to and after the placement of the new player in the virtual game may be compared. The comparison of the GQF values may be used, at least in part to determine whether the new player is to remain in the virtual game. Various criteria may be considered in instantiating a virtual game. |
| US11844998B2 |
Caster boards with removable insert
A caster board can include a front platform, a rear platform, and at least two neck sections extending between the front platform and the rear platform. The neck sections can serve as a torsion element allowing twisting of the front platform relative to the rear platform. An aperture between the neck sections can be configured to receive an insert. The insert can alter a structural characteristic of the caster board, such as the torsional stiffness of the caster board. |
| US11844997B2 |
Support and suspension assembly for a snow sports board
Disclosed is a support and suspension assembly for a snow sports board. The assembly includes a base configured to be attached to a snow sports board and a frame above the base. The frame includes a first portion extending vertically upward or upward and forward to an upper end. The frame further includes a second portion extending generally rearward from the upper end of the first portion. A seat is on the second portion of the frame. A shock absorber is connected between the base and the frame. A linkage assembly is pivotably connected between the base and the first portion of the frame. |
| US11844995B2 |
Wall-traversal amusement attraction
An amusement attraction features a wall structure, a respective set of illuminable handholds distributed over a wall surface of at least one upright wall of the structure, a floor surface residing adjacent to the upright wall on a side thereof faced by the wall surface, and one or more detection devices operable to detect landing of a participant on the floor surface during attempted traversal of the wall surface. A controller is operable to illuminate the handholds in different colour-coded patterns. Each pattern includes illumination of “authorized” handholds in a first colour, illumination of “prohibited” handholds in a second colour, and illumination of “targeted” handholds in a third colour. In a game-play session, participants are tasked with grasping of the targeted handholds while traversing the wall structure, with penalties applied for detected landing of participants on the floor surface and gripping of prohibited handholds. |
| US11844994B2 |
Stick handling training device
A stick handling training device is provided. A stick handling training device for practicing stick handling drills having a board surface. A plurality of lights affixed to an underside of the board surface. One or more sensors affixed to the underside of the board surface that detects a presence of one or more physical stimuli. One or more objects for stick handling having a member that generates physical stimuli and an interface display, wherein a user moves the one or more objects across the board surface. The plurality of lights turning on and off in a specific order such that only one light is on at a same time providing an appearance that a single light may be moving in a drill pattern. One or more sensors tracking at least one characteristic of the one or more objects for stick handling and the interface displaying at least one characteristic. |
| US11844991B2 |
Golf system
A golf system includes a striking area; a target area including a plurality of physical targets positioned at different locations relative to the striking area; and at least one sensing device for sensing one or more parameters regarding the travel of a physical golf ball. A processor is configured to: access a database including golf hole data, the golf hole data defining relative positions of a tee-off location and a pin location for a virtual golf hole; based on the one or more parameters regarding the travel of the physical golf ball struck from the striking area, update a virtual location of a virtual golf ball on the virtual golf hole; and generate signals to provide an indication of which of the plurality of physical targets represents a direction of the pin location based on the virtual location of the virtual golf ball and the locations of the physical targets. |
| US11844989B2 |
Impact sensor embedded protector with nine-axis inertial measurement unit for scoring combative sports
A motion tracking device for tracking athletic movement for accurate competitive scoring, the device having a nine-axis inertial measurement unit comprising a three-axis magnetometer, a three-axis accelerometer and a three-axis gyroscope and at least one other type of sensor. |
| US11844988B2 |
Universal heavy bag attachment kit
An attachment kit for a heavy bag includes a securing strap having a length between a first end and a second end and a securing mechanism that retains the securing strap about a perimeter of the heavy bag. The kit includes a plurality of connecting straps, each of the plurality of connecting straps having a length between a first connecting end and a second connecting end, wherein the first connecting end is positioned about the securing strap. The kit includes a tether having a top end and a bottom end, the top end couples to each of the second connecting ends of the plurality of connecting straps and a bottom end is couples to an anchor. When the securing strap is secured about a perimeter of the heavy bag and the tether is secured to the anchor, movement of a lower end of the heavy bag is limited. |
| US11844985B2 |
Touch-free solar-powered golf ball washer
A touch-free solar powered golf ball washer (1) includes a housing (4) a conduit having an inlet (7), a porous conduit section (6) containing brushes (2) immersed in a cleaning fluid solution (9), an air blowing motor (3), the motor configured to blow air through an air flow tube (20) into the conduit porous section (6) and a non-porous conduit section (15) at through which a golf ball passes on its way to an outlet (8). The washer motor is preferably powered by a solar power circuit (10) in electrical communication with a solar panel (11). The motor can be activated by waiving one's hands proximate a touch-free activator panel (17) on the housing of the washer. |
| US11844982B1 |
Swimming goggles with top anchor
Swimming goggles includes a main body and a top anchor. The main body includes a lens unit, at least one gasket, and a strap. The at least one gasket is made of soft material and is disposed on a rear side of the lens unit for abutting a face of a wearer. The strap is coupled with the lens unit. A top anchor disposed on top of the main body. The top anchor includes a front end connected to the top portion of the lens unit and extends upward and rearward. Top anchor is configured to abut an upper portion and a rear portion of a head of the wearer wearing the swimming goggles. Thus, the swimming goggles can withstand the water resistance to improve the wearing stability while preventing water leakage into the swimming goggles. |
| US11844980B2 |
Exercise device
Systems and methods directed to a multi-configurable fitness device are disclosed. The device includes an upper base, a lower base, one or more wings, and a pivoting mechanism. The upper base and the one or more wings form a device holder being shaped and sized to receive an electronic device. |
| US11844979B2 |
Core exercise device
An exercise device includes a body engagement portion and a ground engagement portion. The body engagement portion is capable of supporting a user. The body engagement portion includes a base surface capable of supporting the user in a standard plank position. The ground engagement portion includes an arched contact surface that allows the user to rotate between a first side plank position, the standard plank position, and a second side plank position relative to a support surface while the arched contact surface remains in contact with the support surface and the body engagement portion supports the user. |
| US11844977B2 |
Double retractable rowing resistance system with configurable and convertible swinging seat-based exercise machine
An exercise machine is described that incorporates a double retractable resistance band system for rowing exercises and that includes a multi-purpose, morphable swinging seat assembly that applies to convertible exercise machines and rowing boats. The double retractable rowing system is detachably integrated into a base plate (inclined planar board) of the exercise machine. The base plate consists of a platform set at an angle consistent with the foot-placements of sit-down rowing machines and rowing shells together with an integral set of quick-release slots located above and to the outside of the toes of the foot placement positions. The multi-purpose, morphable swinging seat assembly provides an improved method/structural assembly for seat-based rowing machines, convertible/multi-purpose exercise machines and an improved architecture for boat-based rowing systems. |
| US11844974B2 |
Free-standing portable firefighting training apparatus
A simulated roof firefighting training apparatus includes a rectangular frame having first and second side members and bottom and top members attached to the first and second side members to form a roof area, each of the bottom and top members including spaced apart rafter supports on inner faces thereof, first and second lifting arms having first ends pivotally mounted to the first and second side members, first and second vertical supports attached, respectively, to the first and second side members at positions proximate to the bottom member of the frame, raising mechanisms pivotally mounted between the side members and the first and second lifting arms, respectively, and fixed vertical supports attached to side members or the top member at a position proximate to where the side members are attached to the top members. |
| US11844973B2 |
Remote monitoring of a pipe network by means of sensors
A system for monitoring a pipe network for a fire protection system having an evaluation unit with a communication device, and at least one sensor which is arranged on or within at least one pipe of a plurality of pipes of the pipe network and is in communicative signal connection with the communication device. The at least one sensor is configured to collect measurement data indicative of changes in a hydraulic condition of the at least one pipe and to transmit this measurement data to the communication device of the evaluation unit. The evaluation unit is configured to evaluate the measurement data based on assigning the at least one pipe to the specific pipe category in order to generate an evaluation data record indicative of the hydraulic condition of the at least one pipe. |
| US11844966B2 |
Plasmonic photoelectrochemical oxidation face mask
A breathing system for removing harmful contaminants, such as microbes and volatile organic compounds, is provided. The breathing system includes a face mask, an inhalation limb, and a plasmonic device. As a contaminated gas flows through an internal chamber of the plasmonic device, the contaminates are oxidized. Specifically, the internal chamber includes a source of photons spaced apart from the nanostructure. The nanostructure is coated in a plasmonic layer, including noble metal nanoparticles. The plasmonic layer is protected from oxidation through a photocatalyst layer disposed thereon. |
| US11844965B2 |
Rail type anti-falling safety device
The invention discloses a rail type anti-falling safety device including a primary bearing block, an anti-falling tongue through-groove is opened on an upper end face of the primary bearing block, an anti-falling tongue pin is provided in the through-groove, an anti-falling tongue is provided on and rotatable about the anti-falling tongue pin, the anti-falling tongue is pressed tightly against a T-shaped steel-rail surface under the action of an elastic element, the anti-falling tongue has a cam structure at the end pressed against the T-shaped steel rail surface and a hanging loop at the end far from the end pressed against the T-shaped steel rail surface. A first clamping block is provided on a lower end face of the primary bearing block. The invention allows adjustments to the groove width of the anti-falling device while the safety and reliability is ensured, thereby providing uninterrupted personal safety guarantee for the worker. |
| US11844961B2 |
Method for providing result data which is suitable for use in planning the irradiation of a patient
Computed tomography (CT) measurement data of the patient is acquired using a CT device having a quantum counting X-ray detector, and the CT measurement data is processed to generate result data, considering a specific information content of the CT measurement data resulting from the use of the quantum counting X-ray detector in acquiring the CT measurement data. The result data is suitable for use in the planning of irradiation of the patient. The result data is provisioned to an interface such that the result data is usable for planning the irradiation of the patient. |
| US11844959B2 |
Blood-tissue surface based radiosurgical renal treatment planning
Devices, systems, and methods for planning radiosurgical treatments for neuromodulating a portion of the renovascular system may be used to plan radiosurgical neuromodulation treatments for conditions or disease associated with elevated central sympathetic drive. The renal nerves may be located and targeted at the level of the ganglion and/or at postganglionic positions, as well as preganglionic positions. Target regions include the renal plexus, celiac ganglion, the superior mesenteric ganglion, the aorticorenal ganglion and the aortic plexus. Planning of radiosurgical treatments will optionally employ a graphical representation of a blood/tissue interface adjacent these targets. |
| US11844957B2 |
LED lighting apparatus having sterilizing function
A lighting apparatus is disclosed. The lighting apparatus according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a white light emitting device including at least one first light emitting diode and a wavelength converter to implement white light; and at least one second light emitting diode emitting light suitable for producing a cell activating substance, wherein the first light emitting diode emits light having a central wavelength in a range of about 300 nm to about 420 nm, the second light emitting diode emits light having a central wavelength in a range of about 605 nm to about 935 nm, the wavelength converter includes a plurality of wavelength conversion substances to convert light of the first light emitting diode into white light, the lighting apparatus emits the white light implemented in the white light emitting device and light generated by the second light emitting diode to the outside, and, in irradiance spectrum of the white light implemented in the white light emitting device, irradiance of the central wavelength of light emitted from the first light emitting diode is smaller than that of a peak wavelength of blue light emitted from the wavelength conversion substance. |
| US11844954B2 |
WCD monitor supporting serviceability and reprocessing
A wearable cardioverter defibrillator monitor case includes a housing configured to surround a defibrillator electronics assembly, a front cover removably attachable to the housing, and a rear cover removably attachable to the housing. The wearable cardioverter defibrillator case has a shock indicator positioned on the housing at an interface between the housing and the front cover. |
| US11844953B2 |
Wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD)
A wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) comprises a plurality of electrocardiography (ECG) electrodes, a right-leg drive (RLD) electrode, and a plurality of defibrillator electrodes to contact the patient's skin when the WCD is delivering therapy to the patient, a preamplifier coupled to the ECG electrodes and the RLD electrode to obtain ECG data from the patient as one or more ECG vectors, a processor to receive ECG data from the preamplifier and an abort signal from a user interface, an isolation barrier to isolate the preamplifier from the processor, and a high voltage subsystem to provide a defibrillation voltage to the patient through the defibrillator electrodes in response to a shock signal received from the processor. A shock is provided when an abort signal is not received within a predetermined time period of a shock criterion being met. Less than one false alarm occurs every ten patient-days. |
| US11844952B2 |
System for wirelessly coupling in vivo
Implantable systems are described that include a stimulation device positionable in vivo and configured to communicatively couple to electrodes configured to stimulate or block body tissue and an auxiliary device positionable in vivo and including one or more coils configured to wirelessly couple, in vivo, to the stimulation device and to wirelessly couple to an ex vivo device. The auxiliary device may include a coil driver and a power source controlled by a processor and memory for storing data instructions for the coil driver and for storing data received from the stimulation device. The auxiliary device may also include a radio transceiver and an antenna. The stimulation device may include a housing, a coil, a power source and an integrated circuit for controlling the electrodes. The stimulation device may be coupled to a cuff via a lead and physically coupled to the auxiliary device. |
| US11844950B2 |
Method and system utilizing a percentage-based atrio-ventricular delay adjustment
A method and device for dynamic device based AV delay adjustment are provided. The method provides electrodes that are configured to be located proximate to an atrial (A) site and a right ventricular (RV) site. The method utilizes one or more processors, in an implantable medical device (IMD), for detecting an atrial paced (Ap) event or atrial sensed (As) event. The method determines a measured AV interval corresponding to an interval between the Ap event or the As event and a ventricular sensed event and calculates a percentage-based (PB) offset based on the measured AV interval. The method automatically dynamically adjusting an AV delay, utilized by the IMD, based on the measured AV interval and the PB offset and manages a pacing therapy, utilized by the IMD, based on the AV delay after the adjusting operation. |
| US11844941B2 |
Self-expanding nerve cuff electrode
An electrode lead comprises an elongated lead body, at least one lead connector terminal affixed to the proximal end of the lead body, and an electrically insulative cuff body affixed to the distal end of the lead body. The cuff body is configured for being circumferentially disposed around a nerve. The cuff body comprises cutouts, slits, a wrinkled portion, a thin stretchable portion, and/or a serpentine strap, which increases that increase the expandability of the cuff body when disposed around the nerve. The electrode lead further comprises at least one electrode contact affixed to the cuff body, and at least one electrical conductor extending through the lead body between the at least one lead connector terminal and the electrode contact(s). If the cuff body comprises cutouts or slits, the electrode lead can further comprise a thin stretchable film affixed to the cuff body over cutouts or slits. |
| US11844940B2 |
Blood pump assembly having a sensor and a sensor shield
A blood pump assembly can include various components such as a housing and a sensor configured to detect one or more characteristics of the blood. In some embodiments, the sensor can be coupled to the housing and can include a sensor membrane configured to deflect in response to a change in a blood parameter (e.g., pressure). The blood pump assembly can include a shield that covers at least a portion of the sensor membrane so as to protect the sensor from damage when the blood pump assembly is inserted through an introducer and navigated through the patient's vasculature and/or when the blood pump assembly is inserted into the heart in a surgical procedure. One or more protective layers can be deposited over the sensor membrane to prevent the sensor membrane from being dissolved through interactions with the patient's blood. |
| US11844937B2 |
System and method for adjustable length needle
An injection system includes a body member having a body connection member at a distal end thereof. The system also includes a needle hub assembly coupled to the distal end of the injection system body. The needle hub assembly includes a needle hub coupled to the body connection member, a needle coupled to the needle hub, and a spacer removably coupled to the needle hub. The spacer reduces an exposed length of the needle. |
| US11844932B2 |
Slip-resistant autoinjectors
In an embodiment, the present invention provides an autoinjector that has one or more slip-resistant features. In certain embodiments, the exterior surface of the autoinjector housing forms at least one of indentures and protrusions that impart a slip-resistant texture to the housing of the autoinjector. In other embodiments, the one or more slip-resistant features are included on a label, which comprises a label substrate and is attached to the exterior surface of the housing of the autoinjector. The features are designed to improve the handling properties of the autoinjector and reduce the likelihood that the autoinjector will slip out of a user's or caregiver's hand during use. |
| US11844928B2 |
Syringe pump with flange clamp sensor
Syringe pumps are described herein. A syringe pump is disclosed comprising a syringe pump body, a flange clamp and a sensing switch. The syringe pump body defining a syringe body recess and a syringe plunger recess, wherein the syringe body recess and the syringe plunger recess are configured to cooperatively receive a syringe. The flange clamp is coupled to a mating surface of the syringe pump body disposed between the syringe body recess and the syringe plunger recess, wherein the flange clamp is configured to be spaced apart from the mating surface to receive a syringe flange of the syringe. The sensing switch extends through the mating surface, wherein the sensing switch is configured to be in a closed state when the flange clamp is in contact with the sensing switch and in an open state when the flange clamp is spaced apart from the sensing switch. |
| US11844927B2 |
System for verifying accuracy of serially-connected drug modules in a combinatorial drug delivery device
In one aspect, a system is provided of verifying the accuracy of a plurality of serially-connected drug modules of a combinatorial drug delivery device, each of the drug modules including a drug reservoir, the system including: a machine-readable code located on each of the drug modules; application software configured to generate an activation code based on the machine-readable codes and the sequence of the machine-readable codes; a flow controller on the drug delivery device which is selectively actuatable to a use state to permit flow of drug from the drug delivery device; and, a control unit on the drug delivery device having a computing processing unit configured to compare the activation code with an authentication code, and, wherein, if the authentication code matches the activation code, the computing processing unit causes actuation of the flow controller to permit flow of the drug from the drug delivery device. |
| US11844926B2 |
Adhesive and peripheral systems and methods for medical devices
A system is disclosed. The system includes a reservoir for containing a fluidic medium, the reservoir including a front surface, a resilient cylindrical flexure portion connected to the front surface, the resilient cylindrical flexure portion comprising an accordion-like structure that is able to expand and contract to change an interior volume within the resilient cylindrical flexure portion, a central passageway within the resilient cylindrical flexure, and a collection chamber connected to the central passageway. Also, a system including a reservoir, a plunger head located within the reservoir, a plunger arm connected to the plunger head, a driving shaft connected to the plunger arm, and a motor connected to the driving shaft, the motor controllable to move the drive shaft in a first motion and a second motion so as to move the advance plunger head and retract the plunger head within the reservoir. |
| US11844925B2 |
Fluid infusion systems
Fluid infusion systems such as a portable fluid infusion device includes a housing configured to accommodate a removable fluid reservoir. The housing has a largest dimension and a smallest dimension. The portable fluid infusion device includes a drive system configured to be serially coupled to the removable fluid reservoir such that a combined dimension of the drive system and the removable fluid reservoir is less than or equal to the largest dimension. The portable fluid infusion device includes a planar battery configured to supply power to the drive system. The planar battery has a plurality of faces comprising one or more faces having a largest area, and the planar battery being situated such that the one or more faces are parallel to the largest dimension and the smallest dimension. |
| US11844921B2 |
Hemostasis valves and methods of use
Devices, systems, and methods for sealing medical devices, particularly during intravascular access, are disclosed herein. Some aspects relate to a hemostatic valve for sealing a wide range of medical devices, such as catheters, wires, embolectomy systems. The valve can include an elongate member having a first end, a second end, and a central lumen extending therebetween. A reinforcement structure extends along at least a portion of the elongate member and is coupled to the elongate member. A shell defining a first aperture and a second aperture may be included, which first and second apertures can be fluidly coupled by the elongate member. A tensioning mechanism is coupled to the shell and to the elongate member, the tensioning mechanism can be moveable between a first configuration wherein the tensioning mechanism is collapsed and the central lumen is sealed and a second configuration wherein the central lumen is open. |
| US11844918B2 |
Apparatus for use with a pressure-regulating device
An apparatus for use in applying a therapy to a human limb includes a bag for surrounding all or part of the limb. The apparatus also includes a connection arrangement, mounted to a wall of the bag in a distal portion of the bag, that enables therethrough a flow of a gas between a pressure-regulating device and an interior space of the bag. The apparatus also includes a gas-permeable strip affixed to an interior surface of the bag and having a length equal to at least 70% of the bag's length. The distal end of the strip is in communication with the connection arrangement in the distal portion of the bag, and a proximal end of the strip is disposed in a proximal portion of the bag. The strip contains a partially compressible, gas-permeable material forming a lengthwise gas-flow pathway. |
| US11844916B2 |
Ear irrigation device
An ear irrigation device includes a water reservoir, a water inlet chamber, a water inlet assembly communicating with the water inlet chamber and a water outlet assembly communicating with the water inlet chamber. A piston is inserted at one end of the water inlet chamber, the piston and an interior of the water inlet chamber form a chamber, a recess is formed on a side of the piston away from the chamber, a rotor is rotatably connected in the recess, the rotor is connected with a link, an end of the link away from the rotor is connected with an eccentric rotating assembly, one end of the water inlet assembly communicates with the water reservoir, a check valve is arranged in the water inlet assembly, and another check valve is arranged in the water outlet assembly. |
| US11844908B2 |
Generating a multi-sensory media experience in a vibroacoustic therapy bed based on user-selected clips
A multi-sensory media experience delivery platform includes a vibroacoustic therapy bed that delivers a multi-sensory media experience locally stored, streaming, on-demand, or real-time signals. The vibroacoustic therapy bed drives a plurality of sensory output devices based on a set of sensory output channels to produce sounds, vibrations, light patterns, or other sensory outputs. The channels may be derived from dedicated signals created for a specific sensory output device or may be derived from an audio file or other general set of waveforms. The multi-sensory media experience may be customized to a user based on user profile data, metadata associated with the multi-sensory media experience, or biometric data. Furthermore, users can create customized multi-sensory media experiences from libraries of sounds or other media. |
| US11844904B2 |
Taking up system and process with a filter unit for the receiving of gas from a medical apparatus
An taking up/receiving system (100) and a process for taking up/receiving of gas from a medical apparatus (1) are provided. The taking up/receiving system includes a feed line (6), a discharge line (8), a filter unit (4) with a filter and at least one buffer storage device. The feed line establishes a fluid connection between the medical apparatus and the filter unit. The discharge line establishes a fluid connection between the filter unit and a fluid taking up/receiving unit (7). The gas is discharged from the medical apparatus and is passed through the feed line to the filter unit and from there through the discharge line to the fluid taking up/receiving unit. The filter filters at least one gas component out of the gas that is passed through the filter unit. The one or more buffer storage device absorbs and again discharges gas from time to time. |
| US11844901B2 |
System and method for detecting agitation, discomfort and/or self-extubation during intubation
A method of monitoring patient use of an endotracheal tube with a ventilator includes receiving in a controller, such as in a stand-alone monitoring device or in the ventilator itself, force data indicative of a biting force of the patient on the endotracheal tube, wherein the force data is based on force signals generated by a force sensor coupled to the endotracheal tube (e.g., either directly or by way of a bite block). The method further includes analyzing the force data in the controller, and determining in the controller from the analyzing of the force data that the force data is indicative of one or more of: (i) at least a predetermined threshold level of agitation or discomfort of the patient, and (ii) a current or likely attempt to self-extubate by the patient. |
| US11844895B2 |
Method for removing bacteria from blood using high flow rate
The present invention provides methods for removing a significant amount of bacteria (e.g., gram-negative bacteria and gram-positive bacteria, including bacteria with no or low affinity for heparan sulfate) from whole blood, serum or plasma using an adsorption media. The method can be used in extracorporeal treatments involving high volumetric flow rates and high linear flow rates. |
| US11844893B2 |
Shunts with blood-flow indicators
An apparatus for shunting blood includes a flow-indication chamber shaped to define an entry port and an exit port, and one or more moveable objects disposed within the flow-indication chamber and configured to move in response to a flowing of the blood from the entry port to the exit port. At least a portion of a wall of the flow-indication chamber is transparent so as to expose the moveable objects to sight. Other embodiments are also described. |
| US11844889B2 |
Extracorporeal blood treatment device and method for operating an extracorporeal blood treatment device
An extracorporeal blood treatment device is provided that includes a hydraulic system having a plurality of flow paths. A control unit provides an operating mode for disinfecting the hydraulic system with a liquid supplied via one of the flow paths. A method for operating the extracorporeal blood treatment device is also provided. The hydraulic system has a valve device that provides several switching positions. The valve device has an inlet for a liquid for disinfecting the hydraulic system, and a plurality of outlets. In a first switching position, the inlet is connected to one of the outlets. In another switching position, the inlet is connected to a plurality of the outlets. The inlet of the valve device is in fluid communication with a first flow path and the outlets are in fluid communication with another flow path. Disinfecting liquid can simultaneously be supplied to the individual flow paths. |
| US11844884B2 |
Ultraviolet pathogen disinfection system
A pathogen disinfection apparatus includes an ultraviolet (UV) light source configured to emit UV light toward a target location to at least partially inactivate pathogens exposed to the emitted UV light in the path of the emitted light and a surface of the target location. The UV light has a mean peak wavelength between 200-280 nanometers. Further, the pathogen disinfection apparatus includes a distance sensor configured to determine a distance between the UV light source and the target location. Moreover, the pathogen disinfection apparatus includes dosimetry circuitry configured to monitor a dose of the UV light at the target location in real-time based at least in part on an intensity of the UV light and the distance between the UV light source and the target location. |
| US11844883B2 |
Disinfecting fluid using disinfection light
An air disinfection device includes: a housing that includes an inlet port for taking air therethrough and a disinfection chamber that has a shell in a shape of a truncated ellipsoid. The device also includes: a disinfection head that is disposed in the inlet port and includes a light source for generating disinfection light that disinfects the air in the disinfection chamber, where the light source is located substantially on a plane where a first focal point of the truncated ellipsoid is located. The disinfection head further includes a fan for taking the air through the inlet port to the disinfection chamber and a filter for filtering the air. The device further includes a power source electrically coupled to the disinfection head and configured to provide electrical power for the disinfection head. |
| US11844879B2 |
Articles of poly(butylene succinate) and copolymers thereof
Resorbable implants, coverings and receptacles comprising poly(butylene succinate) and copolymers thereof have been developed. The implants are preferably sterilized, and contain less than 20 endotoxin units per device as determined by the limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL) assay, and are particularly suitable for use in procedures where prolonged strength retention is necessary, and can include one or more bioactive agents. The implants may be made from fibers and meshes of poly(butylene succinate) and copolymers thereof, or by 3d printing molding, pultrusion or other melt or solvent processing method. The implants, or the fibers preset therein, may be oriented. These coverings and receptacles may be used to hold, or partially/fully cover, devices such as pacemakers and neurostimulators. The coverings, receptacles and implants described herein, may be made from meshes, webs, lattices, non-wovens, films, fibers, foams, molded, pultruded, machined and 3D printed forms. |
| US11844876B2 |
Two-part clotting composition and methods of making and using thereof
A non-immunogenic two-part clotting composition derived from human umbilical cords and methods of making thereof. The non-immunogenic two-part clotting composition may be used for dental purposes (periodontic and/or endodontic purposes) such as packing a subject's gum post-tooth extraction and/or for other wound packing purposes. |
| US11844875B2 |
Microstructured haptotaxic implant
The invention relates to the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, and particularly to a three-dimensional biomimetic tissue scaffold that exploits the use of three-dimensional print technology. Surface energy is controlled by precisely placing polymers with differing surface chemistry, and using surface texture and bulk composition to pattern absorbable and non-absorbable polymers for the purpose of promoting functional healing in a mammalian body. |
| US11844871B2 |
Method for sanitizing the sand of a beach or of a strand
A method for sanitizing the sand of a beach or strand, comprising a step of scattering on the sand to be treated at least one first layer of lime, followed by a step of mechanical mixing of the sand treated with the lime. It is then optionally possible to repeat the two preceding steps to then move on to a step of mechanical ventilation of the sand treated with the lime. |
| US11844865B2 |
Abuse-proofed oral dosage form
The present invention relates to an abuse-proofed, oral dosage form with controlled opioid-release for once daily administration, characterised in that it comprises at least one opioid with potential for abuse (A), at least one synthetic or natural polymer (C), optionally delayed-release matrix auxiliary substances, physiologically acceptable auxiliary substances (B), optionally a wax (D) and optionally at least one delayed-release coating, component (C) or (D) in each case exhibiting a breaking strength of at least 500 N, preferably of at least 1000 N. |
| US11844862B2 |
Treatment of ocular conditions utilizing a histone/protein deacetylase inhibitor
A method for treating an ocular disorder in a subject comprising administering a therapeutic agent-loaded carrier to an ocular site of the subject in need thereof, wherein the therapeutic agent is a histone deactylase inhibitor. |
| US11844858B2 |
Aqueous ophthalmic solutions of phentolamine and medical uses thereof
The invention provides aqueous ophthalmic solutions of phentolamine or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, medical kits, and methods for using such ophthalmic solutions to improve visual performance in a patient. Exemplary aqueous ophthalmic solutions include those containing phentolamine mesylate, mannitol, sodium acetate, and water. |
| US11844857B2 |
Treating gynecological malignancies with deployable implants
A method of treating a gynecological malignancy includes introducing an implant within a uterus of a patient and positioning the implant adjacent to an endometrium of the uterus to enable a bioactive agent supported on the implant to treat the gynecological malignancy. The implant may be one or more deployable implants including a balloon, an IUD, a stent, or combinations thereof. Such implants may be introduced by one or more surgical instruments. |
| US11844854B2 |
Fragrance materials
The present application relates to perfume raw materials, perfumes, perfume delivery systems and consumer products comprising such perfume raw materials, perfumes and/or such perfume delivery systems, as well as processes for making and using such perfume raw materials, perfume delivery systems and consumer products. The perfumes disclosed herein expand the perfume communities' options. |
| US11844844B2 |
Fusion protein comprising glutathione-s-transferase and protein having binding affinity target cell or target protein, and use thereof
Provided are a fusion protein including glutathione-S-transferase and a protein having binding affinity for a target cell or a target protein, and use thereof as a drug delivery carrier and a pharmaceutical composition. The fusion protein and the drug delivery carrier including the same according to an aspect may sustain an in vivo residence time, and may also have improved target cell-targeting ability, and thus may be effectively delivered to target cells. Accordingly, it may be usefully applied to a targeted therapeutic agent. |
| US11844842B2 |
Composition of polyethylene glycol maleimide derivative and polymerization inhibitor
The present invention provides a composition of a polyethylene glycol maleimide derivative and a polymerization inhibitor. In particular, the present invention provides a composition of an 8-arm polyethylene glycol maleimide derivative and a phenolic polymerization inhibitor. The ingredient and content of the polymerization inhibitor in the composition are reasonably chosen, thereby significantly increasing stability of the polyethylene glycol maleimide derivative, effectively avoiding the undesirable effect of gel solidifying due to polymerization during storage and transportation, and extending a pot life and shelf life of a product thereof. |
| US11844833B2 |
Expression system for expressing herpesvirus glycoprotein complexes
An expression system for expressing a herpesvirus glycoprotein complex including a vector inserted with two or more nucleic acid sequences that encode two or more subunits of a herpesvirus glycoprotein complex linked by one or more linking sequences such that the subunits are co-expressed simultaneously and self-processed to assemble into a glycoprotein complex. The expression system or the vector can be included in a vaccine composition. The vaccine composition can be used for preventing or treating herpesvirus infections. |
| US11844829B2 |
Microparticles from Streptococcus pneumoniae as vaccine antigens
An isolated Streptococcus pneumoniae membrane vesicle microparticle (MP), wherein said MP comprises: the protein Ply at the level of ≥0.070 μg/μg total protein in the MP; and/or the protein LytA at the level of ≥0.070 μg/μg total protein in the MP; and/or the protein PspC at the level of ≥0.130 μg/μg total protein in the MP; and/or the protein RrgB at the level of ≥0.020 μg/μg total protein in the MP. Compositions comprising such MPs. Uses thereof in particular in immunization, as well as methods of manufacture thereof. |
| US11844824B2 |
Nucleic acid molecules and methods of using the same
Nucleic acid molecules are provided herein that can be used, for example, to treat cancer or infections, or to induce an immune response in a subject, or to deliver or express a target molecule in or from a cell. |
| US11844822B2 |
Solid formulation and method for preventing or reducing coloration thereof
The present invention relates to stabilization of a certain benzothia(dia)zepine derivative in a solid formulation containing the same. In the present invention, in a solid formulation containing the benzothia(dia)zepine derivative mentioned above, a combination of polyethylene glycol and polyvinyl alcohol is not blended, or alternatively, in the case of blending polyethylene glycol and polyvinyl alcohol in the solid formulation, the aforementioned derivative is isolated from the combination of polyethylene glycol and polyvinyl alcohol. |
| US11844821B2 |
Fenugreek extract for the treatment of poly cystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS)
Discloses is a single herb extract for the treatment of PCOS (Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome) when given in oral dosage form as capsules of 500 mg, twice a day for period of time ranging from 30-90 days. The extract is obtained from fenugreek seeds using a specific method of extraction and comprises five furostanolicsaponins present in synergistic ratios as in Table 1 and having analytical profile as in FIG. 1. |
| US11844820B2 |
Topical formulation and uses thereof
The present invention provides a topical formulation including (i) comfrey or a comfrey-derived compound, or an analogue or derivative thereof and (ii) a penetration enhancer, and optionally including tannic acid, or an analogue or derivative thereof. The present invention also provides a topical formulation including (i) comfrey or a comfrey-derived compound, or an analogue or derivative thereof, and (ii) tannic acid, or an analogue or derivative thereof, optionally including a penetration enhancer. Also provided are kits and methods of prophylactic or therapeutic treatment of inflammatory and/or degenerative conditions using the combination of active ingredients as herein described. |
| US11844819B2 |
Oil extract of cannabis and method for obtaining
The present invention provides for a method for obtaining an oil extract of cannabis. The method includes: (a) contacting cannabis biomass and an edible oil; (b) pressing between a pair of plates to provide spent cannabis and an oil extract of cannabis; and (c) separating the spent cannabis biomass and the oil extract of cannabis. |
| US11844818B2 |
Aeromonas hydrophila bacteriophage Aer-HYP-3 and use thereof for inhibiting growth of Aeromonas hydrophila bacteria
The present invention relates to a Myoviridae bacteriophage Aer-HYP-3 (Accession number: KCTC 13479BP) isolated from nature, which has the ability to kill Aeromonas hydrophila bacteria and has the genome represented by SEQ ID NO: 1, and to a method of preventing and treating a disease caused by Aeromonas hydrophila bacteria using a composition containing the same as an active ingredient. |
| US11844816B2 |
Compositions and methods for augmenting the nasal microbiome
Embodiments of the invention provide a method of reducing colonization of a subject's anterior nares and/or nasal cavity by a microorganism (e.g., Staphylococcus aureus). In some aspects, the method may include administering a pharmaceutical composition to the subject, wherein the pharmaceutical composition comprises a therapeutically effective amount of at least one probiotic. |
| US11844815B2 |
Purified anthelmintic compositions and related methods
Compositions and methods for treating or reducing the severity of occurrence of a parasitic worm or helminth infection in a subject are described. The methods include administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a composition comprising isolated native, bioactive nematicidal crystals formed from a single type of nematicidal crystal protein. The isolated native, bioactive nematicidal crystals are substantially free of any bacterial spores or host bacterial proteins, other than nematicidal crystal protein in the form of a crystal. Methods for making isolated native, bioactive nematicidal crystals are also described. The crystal proteins may be full length, truncated, variant, or sub-variant Cry proteins. Examples of crystal proteins include Cry5B, Cry21, Cry14A, Cry6A, and Cry13A. |
| US11844811B2 |
Methods and compositions for alleviating respiratory dysfunction
Compositions, methods of manufacturing compositions, methods of protecting against respiratory problems including coronavirus and coronavirus-associated severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in humans and animals, are provided. Compositions comprising inorganic nitrate used for improving nitric oxide levels, improving health and/or reducing symptoms of SARS are provided. The compositions and methods are applicable for subjects experiencing SARS, and for protecting non-infected subjects against SARS. Compositions and methods for improving nitric oxide levels in a subject disclosed herein comprise administration of compositions comprising inorganic nitrate such as potassium nitrate or sodium nitrate optionally combined with ascorbate. |
| US11844805B2 |
Formulations of testosterone and methods of treatment therewith
The present disclosure relates to novel pharmaceutical composition for the administration of testosterone or testosterone derivatives. The present disclosure also provides methods of treatment of diseases and disorders associated with fear and anxiety, a decrease in libido, or hypogonadism. |
| US11844802B2 |
Compounds and compositions for ossification and methods related thereto
The disclosure relates to compounds and compositions for forming bone and methods related thereto. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a composition comprising a compound disclosed herein, such as 2,4-diamino-1,3,5-triazine derivatives or salts thereof, for use in bone growth processes. In a typical embodiment, a bone graft composition is implanted in a subject at a site of desired bone growth or enhancement. |
| US11844798B2 |
Procaspase combination therapy for glioblastoma
The invention provides compositions and methods for the induction of cell death, for example, cancer cell death. Combinations of compounds and related methods of use are disclosed, including the use of compounds in therapy for the treatment of cancer and selective induction of apoptosis in cells. The disclosed drug combinations can have lower neurotoxicity effects than other compounds and combinations of compounds. |
| US11844794B2 |
Pharmaceutical compositions
The invention provides (+)-α-dihydrotetrabenazine succinate salt.Also provided are (+)-α-dihydrotetrabenazine succinate salt for use in medicine, pharmaceutical compositions comprising (+)-α-dihydrotetrabenazine succinate salt and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient and the uses of (+)-α-dihydrotetrabenazine succinate salt as a VMAT2 receptor antagonist and in the treatment of a movement disorder such as Tourette's syndrome.The invention further provides a method for preparing the (+)-α-dihydrotetrabenazine succinate salt. |
| US11844793B2 |
Liquid formulations of indacaterol
Aqueous formulations of indacaterol are disclosed. The formulations may find use in the treatment of respiratory disorders, inflammatory disorders, or obstructive airway diseases. Methods of using the formulations and kits comprising the formulations are also encompassed by the disclosure. |
| US11844792B2 |
Treatment for severe acute respiratory illness associated with coronavirus
A method is provided for identifying a patient having a respiratory illness and administering to the patient a combination of an anti-inflammatory agent and a leukotriene inhibitor. The method may include treating respiratory illness associated with a coronavirus, and may it may further include reducing or preventing an inflammatory response or cytokine storm for those patients without impairing their immune response against the underlying pathogen. |
| US11844784B2 |
Stable pharmaceutical compositions of bendamustine
Stable, injectable pharmaceutical compositions are provided, which are useful as ready-to-dilute (RTD) or ready-to-use (RTU) liquid injectable compositions comprising bendamustine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and which are suitable for intravenous administration. Preferably, solution formulations comprise (a) bendamustine, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, or hydrates thereof, (b) at least one pharmaceutically acceptable non-aqueous solvent; (c) optionally, at least one pharmaceutically acceptable excipient, and (d) optionally, a pH adjuster, where the pharmaceutical composition is antioxidant-free, and formulated as a ready-to-dilute or ready-to-use liquid composition suitable for parenteral administration. The invention further relates to methods for manufacturing stable, antioxidant-free injectable solutions of bendamustine. |
| US11844781B1 |
Polymeric clotrimazole biofilm for the treatment of otomycosis
The polymeric clotrimazole biofilm for the treatment of otomycosis contains clotrimazole or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as the active pharmaceutical ingredient in a polymer biofilm thug delivery vehicle. The polymer may be a bio compatible polymer, such as hydroxypropylmethylcellulose (HPMC). Propylene glycol may be added to the mixture as a plasticizer to promote formation of the film. The drug and the polymer may be solvated in a casting solvent and then mixed in a 1:3 ratio of drug:polymer. About 15% propylene glycol may be added to the mixture, which is then heated at 40° C. until a thin, flexible film forms. A round, knife-thick patch of the biofilm may be applied to the patient's ear through the external canal and over the tympanic membrane. |
| US11844779B2 |
PKC-Delta-I inhibitor formulations and uses thereof
Provided herein are formulations that can contain an effective amount of a PKCδ inhibitor. Also provided herein are methods of inhibiting a PKCδ in a subject in need thereof, that can include the step of administering an effective amount of a compound that is capable of inhibiting a PKCδ. |
| US11844775B2 |
Method of treating fatty acid oxidation disorders using Omega3/Omega6 unsaturated or branched chain fatty acids
A method of treating medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency, very long chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency, long chain hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency, trifunctional protein deficiency, or CPT II deficiency in a patient is provided comprising administering to the patient a therapeutic amount of a triglyceride or other conjugated fatty acid, that bypasses or leads to an intermediate that bypasses the deficient enzyme. Amino acid-conjugated fatty acids also are provided as well as compositions comprising the amino acid-conjugated fatty acids. |
| US11844769B2 |
Use of cysteamine and derivatives thereof to suppress tumor metastases
The present Disclosure is directed to methods for inhibiting or suppressing metastasis of a tumor in a mammalian subject using a cysteamine product, e.g., cysteamine or cystamine or a derivative thereof. Also described herein is a method for treating pancreatic cancer in a mammalian subject by administering a cysteamine product described herein. |
| US11844768B2 |
Terameprocol and nordihydroguaiaretic acid (NDGA) derivatives as coronavirus anti-viral agents
Nordihydroguaiaretic acid (NDGA) derivatives, including terameprocol (TMP) have utility as anti-viral agents for use on patients infected with or at risk of infection with a coronavirus, including SARS-CoV-2. In vitro studies show coronavirus-infected cells treated with 0.2 μM-20 μM TMP show reduced viral RNA activity in vitro. Treatment-related cytotoxicity is not shown at 0.2 μM TMP with a low percentage of cytotoxicity shown at 5 μM TMP. In application, the NDGA derivatives may be administered to a patient intravenously at a molar concentration of 0.1-50 μM or orally at a molar concentration of 0.1-100 μM. |
| US11844762B2 |
Fat absorption inhibiting agent, food and defatted sesame seeds, and method for inhibiting obesity
Problem to be solved: An object of the present invention is to provide a novel fat absorption inhibiting agent.Solution to the problem: The present invention provides a fat absorption inhibiting agent comprising pulverized defatted sesame seeds or a processed product thereof. The present invention also provides a fat absorption inhibiting agent comprising defatted sesame seeds having a 50th percentile particle size of 1 to 200 μm as determined by laser diffraction/scattering and a compressibility index of 30 to 80%. The fat absorption inhibiting agent of the present invention preferably has lipase inhibitory activity. The present invention also provides a food comprising the agent. The present invention also provides defatted sesame seeds having a 50th percentile particle size of 1 to 200 μm as determined by laser diffraction/scattering and a compressibility index of 30 to 80%. The present invention provides a method for inhibiting obesity in a human or animal, the method comprising administering to a human or animal the agent, the food or the defatted sesame seeds. |
| US11844760B2 |
Altering microbial populations and modifying microbiota
The invention relates to methods, uses, systems, arrays, engineered nucleotide sequences and vectors for inhibiting bacterial population growth or for altering the relative ratio of sub-populations of first and second bacteria in a mixed population of bacteria. The invention is particularly useful, for example, for treatment of microbes such as for environmental, medical, food and beverage use. The invention relates inter alia to methods of controlling microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) or biofouling of a substrate or fluid in an industrial or domestic system. |
| US11844759B2 |
Compositions comprising circular polyribonucleotides and uses thereof
This invention relates generally to pharmaceutical compositions and preparations of circular polyribonucleotides and uses thereof. |
| US11844758B2 |
Therapeutically active compounds and their methods of use
Provided are compounds useful for treating cancer and methods of treating cancer comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a compound described herein. |
| US11844753B2 |
Transdermal drug delivery system for delivering a drug to a patient
A system that transdermally delivers a drug to a patient can be used to reduce suffering from acute/chronical musculoskeletal pain. The system includes a backing layer, an adhesive layer, a topical applicator, a suitable quantity of drug, and a quantity of topical carrier. The topical applicator is connected across and against the backing layer by the adhesive layer. The suitable quantity of drug and the quantity of topical carrier are homogenously mixed together as a topical medication, which is retained and dispensed from the topical applicator. The topical applicator includes a flat applicator body, a plurality of blunted spikes, and a containment rim. The flat applicator body is the structural base of the topical applicator. The containment rim is used to perimetrically confine the topical medication. The blunted spikes are used to increase the surface area of the topical applicator in order to improve its retention of the topical medication. |
| US11844746B2 |
Protective housing for a biopharmaceutical liquid bag, protective assembly and method of assembly thereof
The invention relates to a protective housing for a biopharmaceutical liquid bag having a lower shell with a bottom and side walls, and an upper shell. The upper shell includes a housing for receiving the bag, and can be inserted into the lower shell, in such a way that the opening of the housing is adjacent to and facing the bottom of the lower shell, and in such a way that the upper shell is laterally held in place between the side walls of the lower shell. |
| US11844742B2 |
Methods and systems to reduce brain damage
A method to improve neurologically-intact survival rates after cardiac arrest may include performing CPR on an individual in cardiac arrest while the individual is in a supine position in general alignment with a horizontal plane. The method may include elevating the individual's head, shoulders, and heart relative to the individual's lower body while the individual's lower body remains generally aligned with the horizontal plane to cause blood to actively drain venous blood from the brain to reduce intracranial pressure. The method may include performing chest compressions on the individual and actively decompressing the individual's chest while the individual's head, shoulders, and heart are elevated. |
| US11844740B2 |
Torque pattern adjustment apparatus and method for adjusting torque pattern using the same
An torque pattern adjustment apparatus including a display configured to display a first torque pattern corresponding to a gait cycle, and a generator configured to generate a second torque pattern by adjusting at least a portion of the first torque pattern in response to a reception of an input, and a torque pattern adjustment method using the same may be provided. The first torque pattern may be applied to a joint of a user. |
| US11844736B2 |
Apparatus, system, and method for tissue regeneration
An apparatus, system, and method for the regeneration of tissue by pre-tensioning of tissue prior to or in conjunction with the application of mechanotransduction therapy. |
| US11844733B1 |
Patient securement system for the surgical Trendelenburg position
A patient securing overlay includes a sheet of fabric configured to support a patient's torso on a surgical table. The sheet of fabric includes friction enhancing elements applied to at least a portion of an upper surface. The sheet of fabric is attached near its side edges to two or more side flaps that extend laterally outward from the side edges of the sheet of fabric. Each of the side flaps is attached to the surgical table at two or more attachment points. A distance between adjacent attachment points is greater than a distance between an attachment point and the sheet of fabric in order to naturally create a favorable retaining force vector angle of less than 45° between the attachment point and the sheet of fabric. |
| US11844730B2 |
Patient support apparatus for supporting a patient for movement assisted by first and second caregivers
A patient support apparatus supports a patient for movement assisted by first and second caregivers and includes a litter. The litter includes a patient support deck extending between first and second ends and defines at least one cavity. First and second evacuation interfaces are coupled to the litter. The first and second evacuation interfaces pivot between first and second unfolded positions and first and second upright positions, respectively, and move between first and second lengthened positions and first and second shortened positions, respectively. The first and second evacuation interfaces are disposed in the cavity when the first and second evacuation interfaces are in the first and second unfolded positions and the first and second shortened positions, respectively, and configured to be grasped and lifted by the first and second caregivers when the first and second evacuation interfaces are in the first and second upright positions, respectively. |
| US11844714B2 |
Dynamic exoskeletal orthosis
An exoskeletal orthosis includes a proximal cuff including a hinge along an upper edge of the cuff; an ankle section/footplate; and at least one posterior strut connecting the proximal cuff to the ankle section and foot plate. |
| US11844710B2 |
Adjustable prosthetic limb system
An adjustable socket system includes a socket frame having a proximal area, a distal area opposite the proximal area, a first component arranged along a first side of the socket system, and a second component arranged along a second side of the socket system. The first component is connected to the second component. A tubular insert is arranged on an interior of at least the proximal area of the socket frame. The tubular insert forms an interior surface of the socket system. At least one tensioning element operatively connects the tubular insert to the first and/or second components. At least one tensioner is attached to the at least one tensioning element that selectively tensions the tensioning element to adjust a circumference of at least one area of the socket system. |
| US11844705B2 |
Implant guide system for hip replacement surgery
An implant guide system for hip replacement surgery includes an angle guide member and a first positioning plate. The angle guide member has a body and a protrusion that are substantially connected to each other. The body has a curved surface corresponding in shape to a surface of a patient's acetabulum. The protrusion has a first through hole extending to the body. An acute angle is defined between an extension line of the first through hole and a flat surface of the body. The first positioning plate has a first holding portion and a first spacing portion that are substantially connected to each other. The first spacing portion has a second through hole, a third through hole and a fourth through hole that are parallel to each other. |
| US11844703B2 |
Expandable fusion device and method of installation thereof
The present invention provides an expandable fusion device capable of being installed inside an intervertebral disc space to maintain normal disc spacing and restore spinal stability, thereby facilitating an intervertebral fusion. In one embodiment, the fusion device includes a body portion, a first endplate, and a second endplate, the first and second endplates capable of being moved in a direction away from the body portion into an expanded configuration or capable of being moved towards the body portion into an unexpanded configuration. The fusion device is capable of being deployed and installed in both configurations. |
| US11844702B2 |
Nubbed plate
A separate nub component between the plate and an intervertebral fusion cage, wherein the nub is attached to the plate. The nub lessens the undesired pivotal movement of the plate. It is believed that when the nub fits snugly between the endplates of the adjacent vertebral bodies, it acts as a stop against the undesired pivotal movement of the plate. |
| US11844699B2 |
Method of making a prosthetic intervertebral disc joint assembly
A prosthetic intervertebral disc joint assembly for replacing at least a portion of an intervertebral disc between first and second adjacent vertebrae. A first component has an intervertebral portion insertable between adjacent vertebrae, with a bone-engaging side and a convex articulating inner side opposite the bone-engaging side. A second component engages the second vertebra and has a concave articulating surface. The first and second components each include a fixation portion for securing the component to the anterior side of the respective vertebra. |
| US11844698B2 |
Adjustable orthopedic connections
The disclosure includes methods and systems for making orthopedic connections where there is unique adjustability to the connection. Illustratively, one embodiment provides a connecting assembly for connecting a plurality of orthopedic components. Such connecting assemblies can include a first orthopedic component that provides a female bore. Additionally the assembly can include a second orthopedic component that can be or include a male-type connecting member that is positionable in the bore of the first orthopedic component. In one preferred form, the male-type connecting member will be a quasi-spherical member. The quasi-spherical member can include a textured outer surface, e.g., for contacting one or more walls or surfaces in the bore in a fashion that removeably locks or helps to removeably lock or fix the quasi-spherical member in the bore. |
| US11844697B2 |
Systems and methods for knee arthroplasty
A patella implant for knee arthroplasty includes a cap and a base. The cap has an articulating surface and a plurality of first connection members. The base is to be attached to the backside of a patella of a patient. The base includes a cap support mounted to the cap. The cap support includes a plurality of first connection recesses. Each first connection member of the cap is disposed in a corresponding one of the first connection recesses of the cap support to mount the cap to the base. |
| US11844696B2 |
Medical implant surface treatment and method
Medical implant surface treatments and methods are described. Such a surface treatment may provide an uneven texture that is configured to interlock with adjoining bone and/or an uneven texture on another implant, such as an augment for an acetabular cup for revision hip surgery. At least one of the uneven texture of the cup bone-facing surface and the uneven texture of the augment cup-facing surface may include a web of rods. The rods may be configured to interlock with each other when the two implants are urged together. |
| US11844694B2 |
Simplified coaxial shaft design delivery system and implant for mitral valve annulus reduction
An implant includes a pair of anchors and a pair of anchor housing assemblies, wherein an anchor housing assembly includes an anchoring component configured to translate the anchor proximally-distally through the anchor housing assembly and a cinch component configured to control a space between the pair of anchor housing assemblies. |
| US11844693B2 |
Devices, systems and methods for accurate positioning of a prosthetic valve
The invention is a system and method for accurately positioning a prosthetic valve such as a prosthetic heart valve at a desired position for deployment. The invention includes extendable positioning elements which provide tactile feedback to a user to confirm proper positioning of the catheter with respect to the native valve annulus. During delivery, the extendable positioning elements may lie against or near the catheter, over the prosthetic valve and expandable balloon, providing a low profile for advancing the catheter to the desired treatment location via small passages such as body lumens. Prior to valve deployment, the positioning elements are extended and brought into contact with tissue of the native annulus to confirm the proper positioning of the delivery system and prosthetic valve. |
| US11844687B2 |
Methods of making implants having gel zones with higher levels of cohesiveness for eschewing scalloping, dimpling, and wrinkling
A method of making an implantable prosthesis includes applying a gelling enhancer layer over an inner surface of a wall of a silicone shell having anterior and posterior walls surrounding an interior volume. The method includes filling the interior volume of the shell with a silicone gel and curing the silicone gel. The cured silicone gel that is located within a zone that is in the vicinity of the gelling enhancer layer has a higher level of cohesiveness than the cured silicone gel that is located outside the zone. The zone of the silicone gel having the higher level of cohesiveness has a thickness of 2-10 mm. The silicone gel located outside the zone has a first concentration level of a gelling enhancer and the silicone gel located within the zone has a second concentration level of the gelling enhancer that is 5%-300% greater than the first concentration level. |
| US11844681B2 |
Stent graft with a position adjustment portion
The stent graft (10) is to be placed in a tubular tissue and is equipped with: a skeleton portion (11); a tubular graft portion (12) having, in part of a tube wall, a side opening (opening 121a of branch portion 121) that communicates with the lumen, the graft portion being provided along the skeleton portion; and a position adjustment portion (13) capable of adjusting the relative position of the side opening in the graft portion when the stent graft is placed in the tubular tissue. |
| US11844673B2 |
Trimmable conformable wound dressing
Trimmable conformable wound dressings, kits containing the same and methods of using the same. The wound dressings may protect a treatment site from microbial contamination or other disturbances while a wound heals or to enable the application and maintenance of vacuum over the treatment site. The wound dressings may include first and second sections of support layer material on opposite sides of one or more intermediate sections of support layer material. The first and second sections of support layer material meet the intermediate sections of support layer material along peel tab junctions that provide peel tabs. |
| US11844671B2 |
Nano-enhanced wound dressing
The present disclosure relates to a dermal drug delivery platform comprising: a primary wound dressing comprising three-dimensional polymer protuberances that extend upward from the dressing surface to engage the wound. The protuberances comprise at least one biocompatible and/or biodegradable polymer and medicinal nanoparticles. In one embodiment, the medicinal nanoparticles may be metallic and provide surface-area-enhanced galvanic action to drive medicinal ions into the wound bed. Various methods of making the disclosed dermal drug delivery platform, as well as three-dimensional methods of treating a wound using the platform are also disclosed. |
| US11844667B2 |
Disarticulated compression socket
The invention provides for an improved disarticulated compression socket configured to secure a residual limb. The disarticulated compression socket may include a rigid socket frame, and preferably a 3-D printed socket having one or more surface channels that may secure a compression cord optionally positioned within a cord cylinder. Such compression cord may be responsive to a compression actuator and one or more disarticulated compression inserts such that activation of the compression actuator causes the retraction of the compression cord initiating the coordinated inward compression of each of said disarticulated compression inserts securing the residual limb within said socket frame. |
| US11844661B2 |
Flosser
Flossers are designed to simplify flossing with braces including facilitating the insertion of floss into and the maneuvering of the floss within the embrasure spaces. The flossers can include an inner prong and an outer prong between which a length of floss extends. The outer prong can be configured to insert between the teeth and the wire of the braces while the inner prong is positioned inside the teeth. While positioned between the wire and the teeth, the outer prong can be maneuvered to thereby floss the embrasure spaces. |
| US11844660B2 |
Gypsum-based investment material composition for casting, and method for manufacturing gypsum-based investment material composition for casting
The present invention provides a gypsum-based embedding material composition for casting useful for forming a rapid-heating type gypsum-based embedding material and a method for producing the same. The gypsum-based embedding material is formed of the gypsum-based powdery embedding material composition by adding a malaxation liquid into the composition and heating the mixture in a high-temperature furnace. The gypsum-based embedding material composition contains as main components, at least one co-pulverized material selected from a co-pulverized material of calcined gypsum and quartz, that of calcined gypsum and cristobalite, and that of calcined gypsum, quartz, and cristobalite. The composition further contains a powdery moisture-retaining component or a liquid moisture-retaining component having a low water content, and has an average particle diameter of 30 μm or less. |
| US11844657B2 |
Ultrasound diagnostic system, ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, and diagnosis assisting server
A display frame data array is transferred from an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus to a diagnosis assisting server. The display frame data array is analyzed in the diagnosis assisting server, and a diagnosis assisting data array is generated. The diagnosis assisting data array is transferred from the diagnosis assisting server to the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus. A display processing unit combines the display frame data array and the diagnosis assisting data array while synchronizing the data arrays. |
| US11844650B1 |
Thermoacoustic measurement probe
A thermoacoustic measurement probe includes an open-ended hollow radio-frequency (RF) waveguide; at least two RF feeds positioned within the open-ended hollow RF waveguide, wherein each RF feed is configured to provide RF energy; and a thermoacoustic transducer, wherein the open-ended hollow RF waveguide, in the form of a sleeve, surrounds and is mechanically joined to the thermoacoustic transducer. |
| US11844646B2 |
Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus and operating method for the same
An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes: a display; a memory storing one or more instructions; and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory to: generate a plurality of ultrasound images of an object including a plurality of entities, based on echo signals received from the object; detect first and second entities among the plurality of entities in each of the plurality of ultrasound images; acquire size information regarding the detected first entity and size information regarding the detected second entity from each of the plurality of ultrasound images; and control the display to display, based on the size information regarding the first entity and the size information regarding the second entity, a first ultrasound image showing a largest size of the first entity and a second ultrasound image showing a largest size of the second entity, from among the plurality of ultrasound images. |
| US11844641B2 |
Method and device for producing and using multiple origins of x-radiation
An x-ray tube source is disclosed that allows differential phase shift, attenuation, and x-ray scattering features of an object to be acquired in a single exposure. Such multiplexed x-ray tube source includes multiple x-ray spot origins controlled in such a way that each slightly separated spot is temporally modulated “ON and OFF” at differing frequencies. In an x-ray interferometer system, such x-ray tube source forms multiple illumination beams of a single angular view of an object's feature but each with different interference fringe locations. A composite image can be acquired with a high frame-rate digital detector as a component element in such x-ray interferometer system. Such composite image can be subsequently de-multipexed and separately presented according to each spot-source illumination beam. Such isolated images of an object's feature, each having different fringe locations, allows for post-acquisition “fringe-mapping” analysis of the feature's full interaction with x-rays, including refraction, scattering, and absorption. |
| US11844639B2 |
System and method for utilizing dual energy imaging in a computed tomography imaging system
A method includes acquiring a first dataset of projection measurements at a first energy spectrum and a second dataset of projection measurements at a second energy spectrum different from the first energy spectrum by switching between acquiring the first dataset for a set number of consecutive views at different projection angles at the first energy spectrum and acquiring the second dataset for the set number of consecutive views at different projection angles at the second energy spectrum. The set number of consecutive views is greater than one. The method includes supplementing both the first dataset with estimated projection measurements at the first energy spectrum and the second dataset with estimated projection measurements at the second energy spectrum to provide missing projection measurements at different projection angles not acquired during the imaging scan for the first dataset and the second dataset. |
| US11844637B2 |
Therapeutic radiation beam detector for radiation treatment systems
A self-shielded and computer controlled system for performing non-invasive stereotactic radiosurgery and precision radiotherapy using a linear accelerator mounted within a two degree-of-freedom radiation shield coupled to a three-degree of freedom patient table is provided. The radiation shield can include an axial shield rotatable about an axial axis and an oblique shield independently rotatable about an oblique axis, thereby providing improved range of trajectories of the therapeutic and diagnostic radiation beams. Such shields can be balanced about their respective axes of rotation and about a common support structure to facilitate ease of movement. Such systems can further include an imaging system to accurately deliver radiation to the treatment target and automatically make corrections needed to maintain the anatomical target at the system isocenter. Various subsystems to automate controlled and coordinated movement of the movable shield components and operation of the treatment related subsystems to optimize performance and ensure safety are also provided. |
| US11844627B2 |
Catheter force control device
A device including a base sized to be hand-held, the base defining a longitudinal axis between first and second opposing longitudinal ends, a cover reversibly fastened to the base in a closed position; a sheath clamp coupled to the base, the sheath clamp capturing a sheath handle of a sheath to immobilize the sheath handle relative to the base, wherein the sheath clamp is an aperture formed in corresponding abutting edges of the cover and the base, the aperture being formed when the cover and the base are in the closed position; a catheter clamp capturing a catheter, a remote end of the catheter configured to deliver a catheterized medical procedure; the catheter clamp aligned to be substantially co-axial with the sheath clamp; and a linear actuator effecting back-and-forth linear motion of the catheter clamp relative to the sheath clamp. |
| US11844626B2 |
Fitness systems and methods
The invention is directed to systems and methods that can determine a user's fitness based on a single factor such as oxygen lung volume (pmVO2). A heart rate measurement is conducted on the user after the user performs a physical test specified by a fitness application of the system. The heart rate measurement is converted into a pmVO2 value and compared to pmVO2 values of other individuals. The system assigns the user a fitness grade based on the comparison result. The system further includes an artificial intelligent system that helps the user to move from a grade to a higher grade. |
| US11844618B2 |
System and method for cardiovascular monitoring and reporting
A system and method for cardiovascular monitoring and reporting are disclosed. The system (CV monitoring system) includes a data analysis system and an in-ear biosensor system that preferably includes left and right earbuds. The earbuds include infrasound/vibration sensors that detect biosignals from the individual including signals associated with cardiovascular activity (CV signals). The analysis system calculates cardiovascular function measurements (CV function measurements) based upon the CV signals. The CV monitoring system uses machine learning to predict blood pressure (BP) measurements of the individual based upon the CV signals and the calculated CV function measurements. In an embodiment, the CV monitoring system includes an EKG detection system that detects EKG signals associated with heart function. The analysis system can calculate additional CV function measurements from the EKG signals to augment the CV function measurements calculated from the CV signals, and predict BP measurements using the full complement of CV function measurements. |
| US11844617B2 |
Optimizing mapping of ECG signals retrospectively by detecting inconsistency
A system includes signal acquisition circuitry and a processor. The signal acquisition circuitry is configured to receive multiple intra-cardiac signals acquired by multiple electrodes of an intra-cardiac probe in a heart of a patient. The processor is configured to perform a sequence of annotation-visualization operations at subsequent times, by performing, in each operation: extracting multiple annotation values from the intra-cardiac signals, selecting a group of the intra-cardiac signals, identifying in the group one or more annotation values that are statistically deviant by more than a predefined measure of deviation, and visualizing the annotation values to a user, while omitting and refraining from visualizing the statistically deviant annotation values. The processor is further configured to assess, over one or more of the annotation-visualization operations, a rate of omissions of annotation values, and to take a corrective action in response to detecting that the rate of omissions exceeds a predefined threshold. |
| US11844615B2 |
Catheter and method to localize ectopic and reentrant activity in the heart
Techniques are provided that identify and localize on to reentrant and ectopic patterns of electrical activation in the heart wall. These patterns may correspond to atrial fibrillation, ventricular fibrillation, or other heart arrhythmia conditions. The techniques detect these patterns of electrical activity using a multi-lead an intra-cavitary catheter that, along with a controller, is able to track, over a multi-dimensional cubic space, reentrant activity and identify filaments in the heart cavity. The intra-cavitary catheter includes multiple conducting poles positioned in a configuration relative to each other and functioning as either or both sensing and active poles for measuring electrical pathways in the heart wall and over the multi-dimensional space. |
| US11844609B2 |
Fingerprint capture system, fingerprint capture device, image processing apparatus, fingerprint capture method, and storage medium
A fingerprint capture system, a fingerprint capture device, an image processing apparatus, a fingerprint capture method, and a storage medium that can acquire a high quality fingerprint image are provided. A disclosed example includes: a capture unit that captures a fingerprint; an image processing unit that processes a transferred fingerprint image captured by the capture unit; a display unit on which the fingerprint image transferred to the image processing unit is displayed; a recording unit where the fingerprint image transferred to the image processing unit is recorded by the image processing unit; and an instruction unit that inputs, in the image processing unit, a record instruction that instructs the image processing unit to record the fingerprint image in the recording unit. The image processing unit records, in the recording unit, the fingerprint image displayed on the display unit at the time the record instruction is input by the instruction unit. |
| US11844604B1 |
Method for analyzing a subject's breath
A method for evaluating for the presence of the COVID disease by detecting one or more biomarkers using a breathalyzer (138). The breath sample (2) taken from the subject (10) is passed over a sensor (140) which changes resistance in the presence of nitric oxide as a function of concentration. The resistance pattern of the subject (10) having the COVID disease will have a distinct shape, approximating the appearance of the small Greek letter omega (ω). Test results can be generated in less than a minute. |
| US11844602B2 |
Impedance-enriched electrophysiological measurements
A diagnostic system includes an array of electrodes, which are coupled to a body surface of a living subject at different, respective positions in proximity to a region of interest within the body. A switched impedance network applies varying loads to the electrodes. A processor is coupled to receive and measure electrical signals from the electrodes as a function of the varying loads, and to analyze the measured signals so as to compute a local electrical characteristic of one or more locations within the region of interest. |
| US11844600B2 |
MRI transfer station and dock
A patient table adapted for use in association with an MR scanner for neonatal infants is provided. The patient table has an extendable patient bed attached to and extendable from the patient table. The patient bed may be at least partially inserted into an MR scanner without requiring the patient table to enter the MR scanner. A transport mechanism is on the underside of the patient table so that it may be readily moved over the floor on which it rests. The patient table includes a latching mechanism that may operate to releasably attach the patient table to a patient table docking assembly. The docking assembly is operative to selectively move the patient table towards, into and away from the MR scanner. |
| US11844597B2 |
Wireless pressure measurement and monitoring for shunts
Disclosed is a system that includes pressure sensors to assist in monitoring pressure at a selected location. Pressure sensors may be applied to or incorporated into catheters and/or shunts positioned within a patient. A monitoring system may then receive signals from the pressure sensors to monitor pressure at the location over time. |
| US11844594B2 |
Method, an apparatus and a computer program product for estimating the quality of a signal
A method for estimating the quality of a signal comprising: receiving a periodic signal comprising a first wave and a second wave; estimating similarity between the first wave and the second wave; assigning a weight for the second wave based on the similarity between the first wave and the second wave; classifying the second wave as non-reliable when the weight fails to exceed a predefined threshold. |
| US11844592B2 |
Impeller and frame for blood pump
Apparatus and methods are described including a ventricular assist device that includes an impeller configured to be placed inside a subject's left ventricle. A frame is disposed around the impeller, the frame defining generally-cylindrical central portion, and a proximal conical portion that widens from a proximal end of the frame to a proximal end of the generally-cylindrical central portion. A motor drives the impeller to pump blood from the left ventricle to the subject's aorta, by rotation of the impeller. The impeller is configured to be disposed at least partially within the proximal conical portion of the frame during at least some of a time during which the impeller rotates. Other applications are also described. |
| US11844591B2 |
Multi-model blood pressure estimation
One aspect of the subject matter described in this disclosure can be implemented in a device capable of use in estimating blood pressure. The device includes one or more arterial sensors configured to obtain arterial measurements at two or more elevations. The device additionally includes one or more processors configured to determine one or more calibration parameters for a first blood pressure model based on the arterial measurements and a hydrostatic pressure difference between at least two of the elevations. The processors also are configured to determine a first blood pressure based on the first blood pressure model, the calibration parameters and the arterial measurements. The processors also are configured to determine a second blood pressure based in part on a second blood pressure model, one or more calibration parameters and the arterial measurements. The processors are further configured to provide a final blood pressure based on the first and second blood pressures. |
| US11844587B2 |
Ultrasonic transmission instrument and ultrasonic imaging device
To provide an ultrasonic transmission instrument that can uniformly transmit ultrasonic waves in each direction around the instrument, even when the instrument is made of a material through which the ultrasonic waves cannot be transmitted. In an ultrasonic transmission instrument according to the invention, a light transmission member is disposed at an emission end of an optical waveguide, and an outer peripheral member covers an outer periphery of the light transmission member and is made of a light absorbing material. |
| US11844583B2 |
Co-manipulation surgical system having an instrument centering mode for automatic scope movements
Co-manipulation robotic systems are described herein that may be used for assisting with laparoscopic surgical procedures. The co-manipulation robotic systems allow a surgeon to use commercially-available surgical tools while providing benefits associated with surgical robotics. Advantageously, the surgical tools may be seamlessly coupled to the robot arms using a disposable coupler while the reusable portions of the robot arm remain in a sterile drape. Further, the co-manipulation robotic system may operate in multiple modes to enhance usability and safety, while allowing the surgeon to position the instrument directly with the instrument handle and further maintain the desired position of the instrument using the robot arm. |
| US11844581B2 |
Tool with torque-actuated end effector
Provided is a system comprising a tool (50) and a stator unit (500). The tool (50) comprises an instrument (100, 102) having a proximal end (20) and a distal (40) end, an end effector (300) at the distal end (40) actuated by torque, and a rotor unit (400) body (410) having at least two cammed surfaces to provide the torque. The stator unit (500) comprises a plurality of stator pushers (530-Ua, 530-Va, 530-Wa, 530-Ub, 530-Vb, 530-Wb, 530-Uc, 530-Vc, 530-Wc) configured for movement in a direction radial to a centre of rotation (405) of the body (410) of the rotor unit (400) and for the application of the radial force, whereby movement of the stator pushers induces rotation of the body (410) around the axis of rotation (210). |
| US11844577B2 |
System and method for verifying calibration of a surgical system
A surgical system includes a robotic arm, an end effector coupled to the robotic arm, a divot at the end effector, a probe configured to be inserted into the divot, a tracking system configured to obtain data indicative of a position of the probe while the probe is in the divot, and circuitry configured to verify a proper physical configuration of the surgical system based on the data indicative of the position of the probe while the probe is in the divot. |
| US11844569B1 |
Methods and devices for endovascular ablation of a splanchnic nerve
Systems, devices, and methods for transvascular ablation of target tissue are disclosed herein. The devices and methods may, in some examples, be used for splanchnic nerve ablation to increase splanchnic venous blood capacitance to treat at least one of heart failure and hypertension. For example, the devices disclosed herein may be advanced endovascularly to a target vessel in the region of a thoracic splanchnic nerve (TSN), such as a greater splanchnic nerve (GSN) or a TSN nerve root. Also disclosed are method of treating heart failure, such as HFpEF, by endovascularly ablating a thoracic splanchnic nerve to increase venous capacitance and reduce pulmonary blood pressure. |
| US11844568B2 |
Systems, devices, and associated methods for neuromodulation with enhanced nerve targeting
Systems and methods for neuromodulation therapy are disclosed herein. A method in accordance with embodiments of the present technology can include, for example, positioning a plurality of reference electrodes at the skin of a human patient and intravascularly positioning a plurality of ablation electrodes within a blood vessel lumen at a treatment site. The method can include obtaining impedance measurements between different combinations of the reference electrodes and the ablation electrodes and, based on the impedance measurements, identifying two or more electrode groups for treatment, where at least two of the electrode groups include a different one of the reference electrodes and a different one of the ablation electrodes. |
| US11844567B2 |
Fitting and directing an expandable catheter based on automatic pulmonary veins anatomical characterization
A method includes, using anatomical data, calculating multiple cross-sectional shapes of a lumen of an organ in a body of a patient at multiple respective positions on a medial axis of the lumen. One or more of the positions on the medial axis are identified, at which a given expandable frame of a catheter would fit the cross-sectional shapes. The one or more identified positions are presented to a user. |
| US11844566B2 |
Devices and methods for left atrial appendage closure
Described here are devices, systems, and methods for closing the left atrial appendage. The methods described here utilize a closure device for closing the left atrial appendage and guides or expandable elements with ablation or abrading elements to ablate or abrade the left atrial appendage. In general, these methods include positioning a balloon at least partially within the atrial appendage, positioning a closure assembly of a closure device around an exterior of the atrial appendage, inflating the balloon, partially closing the closure assembly, ablating the interior tissue of the atrial appendage with the inflated balloon, removing the balloon from the atrial appendage, and closing the atrial appendage with the closure assembly. |
| US11844562B2 |
Electrosurgical forceps for grasping, treating, and/or dividing tissue
An electrosurgical forceps includes a first shaft member including a first inner frame. A first jaw member extends distally from the first inner frame. A first outer housing is supported by the first inner frame. The first inner frame includes a first member stamped from sheet metal. A second shaft member includes a second inner frame. A second jaw member extends distally from the second inner frame. A second outer housing is supported by the second inner frame. The second inner frame includes a second member stamped from sheet metal and a rigid filler member disposed on the second member. |
| US11844558B2 |
Methods for treating eating disorders in patients via renal neuromodulation
Methods for treating eating disorders and for reducing a risk associated with developing an eating disorder in patients via therapeutic renal neuromodulation and associated systems. Renal sympathetic nerve activity can be attenuated to improve a patient's eating disorder status or risk of developing an eating disorder. The attenuation can be achieved, for example, using an intravascularly positioned catheter carrying a therapeutic assembly configured to modulate the renal sympathetic nerve. |
| US11844555B2 |
Bone plate with movable joint
System, including methods and devices, for fixing bone. The system may include a bone plate having two or more plate members connected to one another with one or more movable joints. Each joint may permit the orientation of the plate members to be adjusted relative to one another in a single plane or two or more nonparallel planes. The joint may have a movable configuration and a fixed configuration. Methods of creating the bone plate are also provided. |
| US11844553B2 |
Intramedullary bone fixation device for ribs
An intramedullary bone fixation device that includes a shaft with a flexible region. The flexible region may be configured to flex from a first shape to a second shape as the shaft moves along a curved medullary canal. For example, the bone fixation device may include a distal bone screw that is configured to move along the curved medullary canal of first and second segments of a fractured bone (e.g., two segments of a broken rib) and fasten to the segment bone segment. The bone fixation device may include a locking member (e.g., a proximal bone screw) that is configured to lock the shaft to the first bone segment. For example, the shaft may be fixed to the distal bone screw and ratchetably coupled to the shaft such that the first and second bone segments can be compressed together by urging together the distal bone screw and the locking member. |
| US11844550B2 |
Retractable burr hole plate and method
A plate assembly for attaching a bone flap to a skull is provided and may include a first plate member attached to the bone flap and a second plate member supported by the first plate member and movable between a retracted position and an extended position relative to the first plate member. The second plate member may be removed from a cut line between the bone flap and the skull in the retracted position and may extend over the cut line in the extended position. |
| US11844543B2 |
Rotary oscillating/reciprocating surgical tool
A surgical tool that has a pair of transmissions coupled to one another to effect driving of a cutting tool in both an oscillating manner and a reciprocating manner. The transmissions are driven by a motor coupled to one of the transmissions. |
| US11844535B2 |
Dual coupling reamer handle
A surgical tool handle comprising a tool attachment coupling having locking piston subassembly is described. The attachment coupling is designed with a bayonet-type fitting having a series of coupling grooves constructed to accept surgical cutting tools having an attachment member of different cross-sectional geometries. More specifically, the attachment coupling comprises a coupling groove that accepts tool attachment members having both curved and rectangular cross-sectional geometries. In addition, a locking piston subassembly biases against the surgical tool attachment member received in the coupling groove to further stabilize the tool during a surgical procedure. |
| US11844528B2 |
Multiple layer filamentary devices for treatment of vascular defects
Braid-balls suitable for aneurysm occlusion and/or parent vessel occlusion/sacrifice (e.g., in treating neurovascular defects) are disclosed. Especially for aneurysm treatment, but also for either one of the aforementioned treatments, the form of the ball is very important. In particular, the density of the device is paramount in applications where braid itself is intended to moderate or stop blood flow—allowing thrombosis within a volume formed by the ball. |
| US11844523B2 |
Multidirectional apparatus
The present disclosure is directed to a multidirectional apparatus that can be attached to a stapler reload apparatus. The multidirectional apparatus can include at least two articulation elements each comprising a cylindrical proximal end, a hemispherical distal end, a central lumen, a wall surrounding the central lumen, and a first pull wire lumen within the wall surrounding the central lumen, wherein the hemispherical distal end of a first articulation element of the at least two articulation elements is nested in the cylindrical proximal end of a second articulation element of the at least two articulation elements and a first pull wire positioned within the first pull wire lumen, and wherein tension applied to the first pull wire causes the second articulation element to move away from a longitudinal axis of the at least two articulation elements in a direction of the first pull wire which is experiencing the tension. |
| US11844519B2 |
Systems, devices, and related methods for fastening tissue
According to one aspect, a tissue fastening device may comprise a body configured to include a plurality of fasteners; an anvil rotatable relative to the body; and a tissue cutting device. The body may define a longitudinal channel configured to receive the tissue cutting device. The tissue fastening device may further comprise a fastener actuator configured to move proximally relative to the body to deploy the plurality of fasteners from the body; and an actuation wire coupled to the tissue cutting device and the fastener actuator. The actuation of the actuation wire may cause the fastener actuator to deploy at least one of the plurality of fasteners into tissue distally of tissue cut by the tissue cutting device. |
| US11844518B2 |
Method for operating a surgical instrument
A surgical instrument comprising an end effector including a first jaw and a second jaw rotatable relative to the first jaw is disclosed. One or both of the first jaw and the second jaw comprise an arrangement for maintaining the alignment between the first jaw and the second jaw. The alignment arrangement can also provide tactile feedback to the operator of the surgical instrument that the surgical instrument is reaching a fully-closed position during a closure stroke. |
| US11844515B2 |
Suturing systems and methods
A medical device including an elongate member extending from a proximal end toward a distal end, the elongate member having a lumen with a longitudinal axis, a hub portion towards the proximal end of the elongate member and configured for a user to hold and manipulate a position of the elongate member, a base portion including a first groove and a second groove separated by an opening, and two wings disposed towards a distal end of the medical device, the two wings being opposite each other across the longitudinal axis and on opposite sides of the base portion, wherein, the two wings are configured to move in relation to the longitudinal axis and wherein each wing has an elongate slot having a closed first end at a location between the base portion and a peripheral end of the wing. |
| US11844514B2 |
Sutures and related medical devices
Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward apparatuses, systems, and methods that include a cord that is flexible and elongated defining a length. The cord may include a core having a porous surface and a porosity-reducing element on at least a portion of the core. |
| US11844508B2 |
Filamentary fixation device
In one embodiment of the present invention, a fixation device including a sleeve member including an interior and an exterior surface along a length defined between a first end and a second end, and at least two openings positioned along the length and extending from the interior and through the exterior surface; and a filament including a first free end and a second free end and a length therebetween, the filament positioned relative to the sleeve member such that the free ends extend from the sleeve member at the first and second ends of the sleeve member, the filament being disposed inside the interior from the first end to a first opening, outside the sleeve member from the first opening to a second opening, and inside the interior from the second opening to the second end of the sleeve member. |
| US11844507B2 |
Flat-type sleeve anchor
A flat-type sleeve anchor is shape-deformed after being inserted into a bone so as to fix, to the bone, soft tissues such as tendons, ligaments, and muscles and, particularly, to a flat-type sleeve anchor which employs an anchor body made of a flat material, so that the anchor can be easily inserted into a bond and then shape-deformed. |
| US11844504B2 |
Radiolucent surgical retractor
A self-supporting surgical retractor is provided for retracting soft tissue and anatomy at a spinal surgical site. The retractor includes a tubular base defining an upper rim and a lower rim and a working channel there between the upper and lower rims, in which the base and lower rim are sized and configured to be seated on adjacent vertebral bodies spanning an intervertebral space. At least two elongated legs are provided, each projecting from the upper rim and each including a fixation feature at a free end thereof. Each of the legs has a length sufficient for the fixation feature to be outside the body of a patient when the lower rim is seated on adjacent vertebral bodies of the patient. The retractor is formed of a radio-transparent or radio-lucent material. |
| US11844503B2 |
Flexible surgical instrument system
Disclosed is a flexible surgical instrument system, comprising a flexible continuum structure consisting of a distal structure, a middle connecting body and a proximal structure linked in sequence, and further comprising a transmission driving unit linked to the proximal structure. The transmission driving unit comprises a plurality of transmission mechanisms respectively driving corresponding proximal segments. The transmission mechanisms are operable to control the direction of a bending plane of the proximal segments and to control the bending angle of the proximal segments in the bending plane, so as to drive the proximal segments in the proximal structure to bend or turn in any arbitrary direction, and to further drive distal segments in the distal structure linked thereto to bend or turn in the opposite direction. |
| US11844499B2 |
Systems and methods for processing real-time video from a medical image device and detecting objects in the video
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for processing real-time video and detecting objects in the video. In one implementation, a system is provided that includes an input port for receiving real-time video obtained from a medical image device, a first bus for transferring the received real-time video, and at least one processor configured to receive the real-time video from the first bus, perform object detection by applying a trained neural network on frames of the received real-time video, and overlay a border indicating a location of at least one detected object in the frames. The system also includes a second bus for receiving the video with the overlaid border, an output port for outputting the video with the overlaid border from the second bus to an external display, and a third bus for directly transmitting the received real-time video to the output port. |
| US11844498B2 |
Handheld surgical endoscope
A handheld surgical endoscope has a disposable, single-use handle, cannula and an imaging module at a distal tip. A multiple-use display unit is removably mounted on and supported by the handle and includes a touch-sensitive display screen configured to respond to touch commands to control taking of images with the imaging module and further configured to display the images. The display unit and the handle include respective mechanical connectors that engage each other to removably mount the display unit on the handle by sliding motion relative to each other, and the display unit is removable tool-free from said handle for disposal of the handle and cannula after a medical procedure therewith. |
| US11844496B2 |
Imaging system
In an imaging system, an image transmission circuit is configured to output image data to a signal line in a first mode. A signal reception circuit is configured to receive a clock control signal for adjusting a frequency of a camera clock from an image reception unit in a second mode. A signal output circuit is configured to output a first electric potential and the clock control signal to the signal line. The first electric potential corresponds to a signal level that is not included in a range of a signal level of the image data output to the signal line. A communication control circuit is configured to switch communication modes from the first mode to the second mode when the communication control circuit detects the first electric potential in the first mode. |
| US11844495B2 |
Techniques for detecting errors or loss of accuracy in a surgical robotic system
Systems and methods for detecting an error in a surgical system. The surgical system includes a manipulator with a base and a plurality of links and the manipulator supports a surgical tool. The system includes a navigation system with a tracker and a localizer to monitor a state of the tracker. Controller(s) determine values of a first transform between a state of the base of the manipulator and a state of one or both of the localizer and the tracker of the navigation system. The controller(s) determine values of a second transform between the state of the localizer and the state of the tracker. The controller(s) combine values of the first transform and the second transform to determine whether an error has occurred relating to one or both of the manipulator and the localizer. |
| US11844493B2 |
Electrosurgical apparatus with dynamic leakage current compensation and dynamic RF modulation
The present disclosure is directed toward an electrosurgical apparatus including an electrosurgical generator that may be coupled to an electrosurgical applicator. In one aspect of the present disclosure, a controller of the electrosurgical generator is configured to execute a dynamic leakage current compensation algorithm or function to compensate for the leakage current of an electrosurgical applicator and accompanying cable coupling the electrosurgical applicator to electrosurgical generator. In another aspect of the present disclosure, the controller of the electrosurgical generator is configured to execute a dynamic radio frequency modulation algorithm or function to dynamically control the crest factor of the output waveform of the electrosurgical generator based on the measured impedance across an active and return terminal of the electrosurgical generator. |
| US11844491B2 |
Surgical stapler handle assembly having actuation mechanism with longitudinally rotatable shaft
A handle assembly for a surgical stapler can comprise a rotatable actuation shaft. The actuation shaft can have a first rotational orientation in which it can actuate a jaw assembly in a repeatable open and close mode, a second rotational orientation in which it can actuate a jaw assembly in a staple firing mode, and a third rotational orientation in which it can actuate a jaw assembly in a reversing mode. The handle assembly can include a rotational mechanism arranged to discretely position the rotatable actuation shaft in one of the rotational orientations. The rotational mechanism can be arranged for single handed operation such as by including a slidable switch or selector to rotate the actuation shaft. |
| US11844482B2 |
Cleaning device
A cleaning device includes a host, a drag head assembly and a water spray assembly. The host includes a housing, a control device housed in the housing and a handle member fixedly connected to the housing. The housing contains a water inlet pipe for connecting to a water source. The drag head assembly is fixed on the housing and electrically connected to the control device. The control device is used to control the drag head assembly for cleaning operations. The drag head assembly includes a cleaning brush head. The water spray assembly is fixed in the drag head assembly and connected to the end of the water inlet pipe away from the water source. The water spray assembly has evenly set spray holes. The direction of the spray holes is towards the cleaning brush head. |
| US11844480B2 |
Dishwasher in the form of a commercial utensil washer or dishwasher which is designed as a batch dishwasher
A batch dishwasher is realized as a hood-type dishwasher having a treatment chamber (2) with at least one recirculating wash system for spraying wash liquid in the treatment chamber (2), and has at least one final rinse system for spraying final rinse liquid in the treatment chamber (2). The treatment chamber (2) has a first treatment zone (6) and at least one further, second treatment zone (7), wherein items of washware can be treated independently of one another and at least temporarily at the same time in the first and in the at least one second treatment zone (6, 7). |
| US11844479B2 |
Device for the hot cleaning of various types of surfaces
A device for hot cleaning of various types of surfaces, such as floors, tiled wall, large windows, mirrors, large household appliances, etc. The device includes a core body, including a steam generator and dispenser, suitable to generate steam under pressure and at high temperature, a metal heating plate with an heating element, a metal heated lower base to support and heat a cleaning cloth, a first valve, such as for example a solenoid valve, a second valve, such as for example a solenoid valve, a series of nozzles, a series of steam dispensers, and provided at the top with an articulated joint, a long hollow stiff thermally insulated element, such as a cylindrical tube, an ergonomic control and command system hollow along the length, and a hose. |
| US11844478B2 |
Spray mop
The spray mop includes a handle having a mop head at its lower end and a grip at its upper end. The mop includes a receiver adapted to hold an inverted bottle of cleaning solution, as sold at retail with an attached sprayer. The mop includes an adapter that is screwed onto the bottle of cleaning solution after the original sprayer is removed, whereby the bottle of cleaning solution can be inverted and inserted into the receiver. A spring-loaded retainer securely holds the bottle of cleaning solution in the receiver so that if the mop is dropped, inverted, or bumped there will be no leakage, while a trigger on a handgrip at the upper portion of the mop handle activates a valve in the adapter whereby cleaning solution is dispensed through a spray nozzle at the lower portion of the receiver. |
| US11844476B2 |
Extraction cleaner
A surface cleaning apparatus includes a housing having a base and a partition, a supply tank removably mounted on the housing, and a recovery tank removably mounted on the housing. The tanks can be mounted within voids defined by portions of the housing. Latches can secure the tanks to the housing. |
| US11844472B2 |
Foot-washing bowl system
The present invention relates to a foot-washing bowl system. The system may be comprised of a free-standing foot-washing stand and/or a toilet-mounted foot-washing stand. The free-standing foot-washing stand has a bowl that receives a water source to allow water to flow through the stand and out at least one opening of a cross-member to wash the feet of the user. The toilet-mounted embodiment features a stand identical to the free-standing stand that is further comprised of a toilet seat assembly that allows the system to attach and be used as a toilet seat. |
| US11844471B2 |
Dispenser with automatic stub roll drop down
Various dispensing systems with drop-down features are disclosed. In certain embodiments, the dispensing system includes a roll support with a sensor and a piston. The sensor can move as the roll decreases in size (e.g., the outside diameter decreases) and can apply a force to the roll. The piston can move to become less engaged with the roll, such as becoming less received in a roll plug or the hollow core of the roll. When the roll has decreased to a threshold size, the piston substantially or fully disengages from the roll and/or the sensor applies a force to dislodge the roll from the roll support. This results in the roll automatically dropping off the roll support. The roll support is thus available to receive a fresh roll. |
| US11844467B2 |
Removable one-piece cookware handle
The handle includes first and second spaced sets of prongs. Each of the prong sets has a first prong and a second prong spaced from the first prong a distance sufficient to receive the cookware rim therebetween. The prongs in each of the prong sets diverge as the prongs progress away from the cookware body. A locking mechanism is situated between the prong sets for engaging the cookware rim to removably secure the handle to the cookware. The locking mechanism includes a spring-loaded pin adapted to be received in an opening in the cookware rim. The pin is situated on the unattached end of a leaf spring prong extending from the body of the handle. The pin has an inclined surface which facilitates the insertion of the pin into the opening in the cookware rim to lock the handle to the cookware. The handle is formed of a single piece of material and may be sold in combination with the cookware or separately. |
| US11844465B2 |
Single-use food preparation container assemblies, systems and methods
A product preparation system and method for processing a container including a cup body and a cup closure assembly configured for removable operative engagement with the cup body, the cup closure assembly including a hinged spout cover and a user-removable multi-function restricting portion integrally formed as part of the cup closure assembly and detachable therefrom, the user-removable multi-function restricting portion being operative, when integrally attached to the cup closure assembly to prevent normal user opening of the hinged spout cover. |
| US11844459B2 |
Aluminum pot with increased thermal absorption
A tunnel tube cooking pot that substantially improves thermal absorption of an aluminum boiling pot by welding specially designed and tuned pieces of aluminum channel or tubing on the bottom of the pot. |
| US11844457B2 |
Coffee grinder
A tamping augur may be controlled in various ways to obtain a consistent fill height and uniformity in the distribution of coffee grinds in a portafilter. |
| US11844453B2 |
Capsule for the preparation of a beverage
The document describes an assembly of a capsule and brew chamber for a beverage preparation machine. The brew chamber has a first brew chamber part including a cavity for the capsule, and knives for piercing the capsule. The aluminum capsule body is frusto conical shaped and has a bottom, a side wall, a flange and a lid for closing the capsule. The flange is configured to be held between the first and a second brew chamber part, to provide a seal cooperating with a rim of the brew chamber parts. The bottom includes a slanted wall portion under an angle with a longitudinal axis through the capsule, and configured for cooperating with the knives which engage therewith upon closing of the brew chamber. This enables centering of the capsule relative to the central axis of the brew chamber prior to piercing thereof. |
| US11844452B1 |
Multifunctional pillow
A multifunctional pillow includes a flexible pillowcase having a first end, an opposite second end, two opposing sides, a top face and a bottom face; a pillow body provided inside the pillowcase, the pillow body being made of a soft material; and a storage bag attached to and provided at the second end of the pillowcase. The pillow is rollable from the first end towards the second end, and the rolled up pillow is insertable into the storage bag, which is sized and shaped to fittingly hold the rolled up pillow. The storage bag can be a flexible bag or a pocket. The multifunctional pillow can be configured into a waist pillow, a wrist rest pillow, or a neck pillow configuration. |
| US11844445B2 |
Shelf element for a shelf system of a rack, extruded profile, shelf frame, shelf system and rack
A shelf element comprises an upper side, a lower side and an elongated main body. The main body has two limb portions and an intermediate portion located therebetween. The intermediate portion is assigned to the upper side of the shelf element. The main body also has at least one through-passage opening that passes transversely through at least one of the limb portions and/or the intermediate portion. At least one coupling location is provided in each of the longitudinal-side ends of the shelf element, to couple an add-on part and/or a shelf component and/or a rack component. At least one rib is provided, which is assigned to the intermediate portion and has a longitudinal extent in the longitudinal direction of the main body. A separate reinforcing element may be assigned to the main body, in order to reinforce the main body against forces acting transversely with respect to its longitudinal extent. |
| US11844440B2 |
Chair
A chair having a chair base (1), a seat part (5, 6, 7, 8) connected thereto, a backrest (9, 16, 17) connected thereto, the seat 5 part (5, 6, 7, 8) pivotable about at least one horizontal or inclined horizontal axis and the backrest (9, 16, 17) are spatially adjustable. The seat part (5, 6, 7, 8) has at least three seat elements (5, 6, 7) that can be adjusted in relation to one another and whose operating positions can be adjusted individually. |
| US11844434B2 |
Ergonomic chairs supporting asymmetric leg configurations
An ergonomic chair has a back support member and means for arranging and supporting legs of the user in an asymmetric configuration, with a first leg extending in front of a body of the user and a second leg aligned with or extending behind the body of the user. An angle between the first and second legs in a side view can be at least 30 degrees. The means for arranging and supporting legs can comprise one or more fixed structures that support the first leg in a first orientation, or one or more dynamic structures that can be positioned by the user to support the first leg in a first orientation. In some embodiments, with the legs of the user in the asymmetric configuration, a centerline of the user is offset from a centerline of the back support member with respect to a lateral direction. |
| US11844427B2 |
Self-sustained portable music stand extender
A portable music stand extender may include extendable arms constructed and arranged to expand and retract. The portable music stand extender may extend such that a user may position books, sheets, or printed paper in an upright position for ease of visibility. The portable music stand extender may retract when not in use to reduce the size of the extender and increase portability. |
| US11844426B1 |
Desk with an upright partition on a work surface that supports laterally-movable attachments
A desk with an upright partition is disclosed. The upright partition connects to the work surface of the desk. The upright partition is configured to support laterally-movable attachments. Exemplary implementations may include one or more of a work surface, a left-side support structure, a right-side support structure, a core body, a working body that provides the work surface, an upright partition that supports laterally-movable attachments, one or more laterally-movable attachments, and/or other components. The one or more laterally-movable attachments can be mechanically coupled to the upright partition and are supported by the upright partition. |
| US11844425B2 |
Applicator for applying a cosmetic product
The present invention relates to an applicator for applying a cosmetic, makeup or care, product to the eyelashes and/or eyebrows, having an applicator member including a core that extends along a longitudinal axis (X), and, carried by the core, longitudinal rows of islets of spikes that are separated by areas free of spikes, wherein, in said applicator, the islets of spikes include a series of spikes in the longitudinal direction and a series of spikes in the circumferential direction. |
| US11844420B2 |
Methods for cleaning a surface
A method of cleaning a surface includes steps of (1) positioning a brush in contact with the surface; (2) rotating the brush relative to a drum about a second axis; and (3) rotating the drum relative to a bracket, supporting the drum, about a first axis, parallel to the second axis, such that the brush orbitally revolves about the first axis. |
| US11844419B2 |
Cleaning element carrier and toothbrush head comprising it
A cleaning element carrier for a toothbrush in a form of a disk has a back surface including a central depression covering at least 70% of the back surface and forming an edge at the border. The carrier's front surface includes at least one protrusion so that the front surface comprises two levels, wherein the area covered by the depression is larger than the area covered by the protrusion. |
| US11844416B2 |
Attachment device
The present disclosure provides an attachment device comprising a first subassembly, comprising a mounting component, a retainer component, coupled to a second subassembly comprising a first rotatable component, a second rotatable component, and a trigger assembly. The mounting component comprises an opening defining at least one slot. The retainer component is coupled to the mounting component defining a first cavity. The spring component, housed in the first cavity, is coupled to the retainer component. The first rotatable component is coupled to the second rotatable component to define a second cavity extending from a first surface of the first rotatable component to a second surface of the second rotatable component. A trigger actuator of the trigger assembly is housed in the second cavity. The first rotatable component defines at least one tab defined to be received within the at least one slot of the mounting component. |
| US11844407B2 |
Waterproof case
A protective case for an electronic device that includes a case member, the case member including slots and ports formed therein for allowing interaction with a device positioned within the case member. The case member includes inner and outer surfaces. Separate button features are assembled to the case member sealing the case member and providing actuation of the device. The case member and lid are removably joined to define an air and water tight volume receiving the device. The button features are assembled from outside the case member and include a membrane attached to an inside of the case member. The plug core transmits force directly to the underlying device and displaces the flexible membrane so that it undergoes elastic deformation but is still secured to the case member to toggle the device. |
| US11844406B1 |
Reusable storage wrap and placemat
A container assembly which is especially adaptable to form a final presentation enclosure is constructed from a flat blank of material, optionally having fold lines delineating a bottom, side, and top wall portions which act in conjunction with one another to enclose a space. The side walls may be connectable by joining portions constituting bellows-type folding members. From flat, the container is constructed by folding. Joining members are folded inwardly thereby drawing up respective side walls to which they are attached. The top walls are formed so as to be exposed at the top of the container to allow securing of the top wall portions by any suitable means. There is also provided a variable volume container by means of the joining members which extend into the interior of the container. The joining members act to center and protect a smaller item within the container or can be completely moved to make available the total volume of the container. |
| US11844402B2 |
Compact motorized tensioning device for footwear
A tensioning system for articles of footwear and articles of apparel is disclosed. The tensioning system includes a spool system that can be engaged or disengaged from a driveshaft through the use of a cam device. The motorized tensioning device includes a torque transmitting system that allows for incremental tightening, incremental loosening and full loosening of the tensile element. |
| US11844398B2 |
Article of footwear incorporating particulate matter
A sole structure for an article of footwear is provided and includes a midsole having a first surface, a second surface formed on an opposite side of the midsole than the first surface, a first cavity formed in the first surface and tapering in a direction from the first surface toward the second surface, and a second cavity formed in the second surface and tapering in a direction from the second surface toward the first surface. A first quantity of particulate matter is disposed within the first cavity and a second quantity of particulate matter is disposed within the second cavity. |
| US11844392B2 |
Rapid-entry shoe
A rapid-entry shoe allows the shoe to be rapidly entered and readied for wearing by the user. The shoe may be any of a wide variety of shoe types, including shoes of a wide variety of styles and functions. The rapid entry features of the shoes utilize various movable elements that are attached to a sole portion or other portion of the shoe and allow movement of a portion of the shoe under pressure to allow rapid entry of the user's foot into the shoe. The moveable elements may include flexible elements, elements having constructed to have a memory of a native position, magnetic elements, and/or elastic elements. |
| US11844382B2 |
Automated face shield assembly
An automated face shield assembly includes a band that is wearable around a user's head. A pair of actuators is coupled to the band and a face shield is coupled to the pair of actuators. The face shield covers the user's face when the actuators are actuated into a first condition. The face shield exposes the user's face when the actuators are actuated into a second condition. Moreover, the face shield is comprised of a fluid impermeable material to inhibit airborne transmission of infectious diseases between the user and another person. A pair of motion sensors is each coupled to a respective one of the actuators. The actuators are actuated into the first condition when the motion sensors sense motion to cover the user's face when the person approaches the user. Additionally, the actuators are actuated into the second condition when the motion sensors do not sense motion. |
| US11844378B2 |
Infant sleep garment with weighted sleeves and methods thereof
Described herein is an infant or toddler sleep device or accessory in the form of a garment with two detachable or non-removable weighted sleeves—one for each arm—to provide gentle pressure on the infant's arms to reduce the moro (startle) reflex. This device safely mimics the swaddling effect by adequately reducing the startle reflex and flailing of arms and safely exerting the benefits of deep pressure touch stimulation (DPST) without weighing down the infant's torso, thus helping baby sleep safely for longer periods of time. The weighted sleeves may be removed once the startle reflex decreases in intensity and the infant/toddler can still continue to wear the sleep garment to sleep. The sleep device may eliminate the risk of suffocation or overheating that other swaddle or swaddle transition garments or devices might pose. |
| US11844377B2 |
Liquid dispensing and vending
A liquid dispensing and vending apparatus comprises filling module(s), user container holder(s), positioning mechanism(s) and controller module(s). The filling module(s) comprise: machine container(s) configured to hold liquid(s), nozzle(s) configured to dispense liquid(s) to user container(s), and measuring pump module(s) configured to pump a measured amount of liquid(s) from machine container(s) to nozzle(s). The user container holder(s) are configured to hold user container(s). Positioning mechanism(s) align user container holder(s) with filing module(s). Controller module(s) execute production instructions causing liquid formulations to be dispensed into user container(s). |
| US11844373B2 |
Rigid package of articles, in particular from smoke, shaped like a rod and its method of realization
Rigid pack for rod-shaped articles includes; a parallelepiped-shaped container, which houses the group of articles and has at least a lower wall, a front wall, a rear wall and two side walls; and a support system arranged in the container and has at least a first containing wall, which is parallel to the lower wall and is provided with a plurality of through holes, each engaged by a corresponding smoking article. The support system consists of a first articulated parallelogram having a frame glued to the rear wall of the container, two cranks and a connecting rod, which only rests against the front wall of the container, so that, while the rigid pack is being manufactured, the support system can be formed with the first articulated parallelogram in a flat condition and can subsequently be expanded by opening the first articulated parallelogram by rotation of both cranks. |
| US11844372B1 |
Hookah head
The specification discloses a hookah head defined by a sidewall. The sidewall has a bottom end and a top end. The top end forms an upper surface, which preferably is made of metal. An air channel runs from the upper surface to the bottom end of the body. The air channel has a top end corresponding to the upper surface and a bottom end that corresponds to the bottom end of the body. The interior wall forms the cylinder that defines the air channel. The body of the hookah head defines a cavity configured to contain a quantity of liquid. The bottom end of the air channel is configured to be fitted on top of an air channel of the hookah body, with the air channel of the hookah head then having air communication with the grommet of the hookah device. |
| US11844370B2 |
Electronic cigarette and atomizer thereof with heating assembly
The present disclosure provides an electronic cigarette atomizer, including an atomization assembly and a liquid reservoir engaging with the atomization assembly; the liquid reservoir includes a liquid storage cavity; wherein the atomization assembly includes a lower holder, an upper holder installed on the lower holder, and a heating assembly clamped between the lower and the upper holders; the heating assembly includes a porous body and at least one heater engaging with the porous body, and the porous body has an atomizing surface and a liquid-absorbing surface; and the liquid-absorbing surface communicates with the liquid storage cavity, and an atomization cavity is formed between the atomizing surface and the lower holder. In the present disclosure, the heating assembly is a porous body and is clamped by the upper holder and the lower holder, thus, the structure is stable and the assembly of the heating assembly is facilitated. |
| US11844368B2 |
Flavoured moist oral pouched nicotine product comprising monoglyceride
The present disclosure relates to an oral pouched nicotine product comprising a moist filling material and a saliva-permeable pouch of a packaging material enclosing the moist filling material, wherein the moist filling material comprises a particulate non-tobacco material; a non-encapsulated non-particulate flavouring agent; a nicotine source; a pH adjusting agent; a monoglyceride; and tobacco material within the range of from 0% to % by weight, based on the total weight of the moist filling material. |
| US11844365B2 |
Glucosyl Stevia composition
Glucosyl Stevia compositions are prepared from steviol glycosides of Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni. The glucosylation was performed by cyclodextrin glucanotransferase using the starch as source of glucose residues. The short-chain glucosyl Stevia compositions were purified to >95% content of total steviol glycosides. The compositions can be used as sweetness enhancers, flavor enhancers and sweeteners in foods, beverages, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. |
| US11844362B2 |
Microbial-based process for high-quality protein concentrate
The present invention describes a bio-based process to produce high quality protein concentrate (HQPC) by converting plant derived celluloses into bioavailable protein via aerobic incubation, including the use of such HQPC so produced as a nutrient, including use as a fish meal replacement in aquaculture diets. |
| US11844359B2 |
Squeezable spread containing butter and methods of making the same
Butter spreads include at least butter, canola oil, palm oil, cream, and buttermilk powder. The spreads are squeezable from a package and maintain their consistency over repeated package handling and repeated cycling between refrigeration and ambient temperatures. |
| US11844355B2 |
Element opening and closing machine
A machine opening and closing element for processing raw material having a first element and a second element through which the processed raw material passes, wherein the first element is connected to a mechanism which is connected to a power shaft, said first mechanism being in charge of generating a motion of the first element towards the second element. In particular, the machine for opening and closing element has a coupling arranged in a perforation of a support, such that the coupling may rotate in the perforation. |
| US11844353B2 |
Microorganisms for the production of insect pheromones and related compounds
The present application relates to recombinant microorganisms useful in the biosynthesis of unsaturated C6-C24 fatty alcohols, aldehydes, and acetates which may be useful as insect pheromones, fragrances, flavors, and polymer intermediates. The C6-C24 fatty alcohols, aldehydes, and acetates described herein may be used as substrates for metathesis reactions to expand the repertoire of target compounds and pheromones. The application further relates to recombinant microorganisms co-expressing a pheromone pathway and a pathway for the production of a toxic protein, peptide, oligonucleotide, or small molecule suitable for use in an attract-and-kill pest control approach. Also provided are methods of producing unsaturated C6-C24 fatty alcohols, aldehydes, and acetates using the recombinant microorganisms, as well as compositions comprising the recombinant microorganisms and/or optionally one or more of the product alcohols, aldehydes, or acetates. |
| US11844351B2 |
Method of treating a glazed ceramic article
A method of treating a glazed ceramic article comprises applying an antimicrobial composition on top of an outermost surface of a glazed ceramic article. The antimicrobial composition comprises an antimicrobial additive. The antimicrobial composition further comprises a carrier medium. The antimicrobial additive is selected from the group consisting of Bi2O3, ZnO, Ag2CO3, Ag2O, Zn, Bi, Ag, and a combination thereof. |
| US11844350B2 |
Plant growth regulation
The present invention relates to a new plant growth regulation composition comprising a compound of Formula (Ia) and trinexapac-ethyl. (Ia). It also relates to a method for enhancing or regulating the growth of plants comprising applying said composition. |
| US11844341B2 |
Pruning robot for removing processionary caterpillar nests
Pruning robot including means for removing processionary caterpillar nests, the robot being characterized in that it is carried by a drone provided with an onboard automaton, which is equipped with an electromechanical tool consisting of a gripper associated with a cutting device intended to cut the branches supporting the nests that are to be removed. |
| US11844336B2 |
Method for producing chimeric animal
The present invention provides a method for producing a chimeric animal using a primed pluripotent stem cell, a tissue stem cell, a progenitor cell, a somatic cell, or a germ cell. The method for producing a chimeric animal according to the present invention comprises introducing a mammal-derived cell into the embryo of a mammal, the cell being primed pluripotent stem cell, tissue stem cell, progenitor cell, somatic cell, or germ cell. |
| US11844331B2 |
Pet caring diaper having an excrement-collection function
A pet caring diaper having an excrement-collection function includes a diaper body and a first collection bag. The diaper body is provided with a first hole, and the first hole is provided with a first connecting member around an outer side of the first hole; the first collection bag is provided with a second connecting member around a mouth of the first collection bag, and sealed at a bottom of the second collection bag; and the second connecting member of the first collection bag matches the first connecting member of the diaper body, and the second connecting member and the first connecting member are connected to each other. The pet caring diaper has advantages of being convenient and sanitary to use, having a low cost, and being comfortable to wear for animals. |
| US11844325B1 |
Maize hybrid X05R366
A novel maize variety designated X05R366 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X05R366 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X05R366 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X05R366, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X05R366 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X05R366 and methods of using maize variety X05R366 are disclosed. |
| US11844321B2 |
Grain production with male-sterile female plants
This invention describes a new method to increase grain yields in any crop plant by modifying pollination to effect an increase in grain yield, a change in grain content or characteristics, a decrease in contamination, or a combination of these attributes. The process involves the intentional delivery of pollen of the male plant at will to designated male-sterile female plants as available either in a preserved pollen bank, or real-time collection from male plants as they become available, in a growth chamber for example. Desired pollen is delivered to fertile females. The delivered pollenM is in such amounts and fortuitously timed that it preferentially pollinates the females and pollination from neighboring male-fertile plants. The intentional delivery of genetically different pollen will result in increased heterosis and accompanying grain yield increases resulting from increased grain size and the potential to influence grain content and constituents. The invention also permits real-time agronomic decision making in order to maximize grain yield by overcoming biotic and abiotic challenges in the growing season which may or may not have been anticipated. |
| US11844319B1 |
Support clip for potted plant support stakes
A support clip for a potting container for plants and seedlings that is attachable to the side of the potting container. The support clip has attached thereto a receptacle for the placement therein of support stakes for a plant or seedling in the container. The receptacle remains on the outside of the potting container, thereby preserving space inside of the potting container for soil and amendments for the plant or seedling. The support clip and receptacle are connected by an angle adjustment knob that allows for the angle at which support stakes placed in the receptacle can be placed relative to the plant or seedling planted therein such that the support stakes are appropriate for the growth stage of the plant or seedling. |
| US11844318B2 |
Injection systems, injection tools and methods for same
A plant injection system includes an injection tool configured to penetrate a plant and distribute a liquid formulation to the plant. The injection tool includes abase having an inlet port and a penetrating distribution body extending along a longitudinal body axis. The penetrating distribution body includes a penetrating element and one or more distribution ports in communication with the inlet port. The one or more distribution ports are spaced from the penetrating element. The injection tool includes penetrating and distribution configurations. In the penetrating configuration the penetrating element is configured to penetrate the plant along the longitudinal body axis. In the distribution configuration the one or more distribution ports are configured to distribute the liquid formulation to the plant transversely relative to one or more penetrating directions, at least one of the penetrating directions corresponding to the longitudinal body axis. |
| US11844314B1 |
Sod roll stacking technique
Sod harvesters can be configured to stack rolls of sod in unique layers on a pallet. A sod harvester can include control circuitry that is configured to operate a stacking head and a stacking conveyor in a manner that enables the layers to be formed. The structure of the layers can facilitate harvesting wider rolls even when narrower pallets are used to transport the rolls. |
| US11844310B2 |
System and method for controlling reel of combine harvester
A system and a method for controlling a reel of a combine harvester, wherein, the system comprises a satellite positioning receiver, a driving device, a controller and a rotating speed sensor; the rotating speed sensor collects and transmits an actual rotating speed of the reel to the controller, and the controller provides the driving device with a speed regulation signal according to the actual rotating speed and the operation running speed. The rotating speed of the reel can be automatically, accurately and quickly adjusted according to the operation running speed of the combine harvester during the operation of the combine harvester, and improve the operation efficiency and quality while ensuring the crop feed quantity. |
| US11844305B2 |
Walk-behind self-propelled working machine
A walk-behind self-propelled working machine includes a main body, an operation switch, and a handle device. The main body includes a moving assembly and a drive motor. The operation switch is connected to the drive motor. The handle device is connected to the main body and includes an operation member, a connecting rod, and a sensing device. The operation member includes a gripping portion for a user to hold. The connecting rod is connected to the main body. The sensing device is configured to sense a thrust that is applied to the handle device to drive the walk-behind self-propelled working machine and further includes a pressure sensor and a pressing member. When the gripping portion receives the thrust, the pressing member applies a force along a preset straight line to the pressure sensor to drive the pressure sensor to deform. |
| US11844304B2 |
Autonomous travel work machine
An autonomous travel work machine includes a main body and a wheel, and is configured to execute a predetermined operation on an operation target while causing the main body to autonomously travel with the wheel. The autonomous travel work machine includes: an operation unit having a shape projecting from an upper face of the main body, the operation unit being operated by being pressed from an upper face side; and a protection unit located at a front side in a traveling direction of the main body relative to the operation unit, the protection unit being disposed at a height equal to or higher than an upper end of the operation unit. |
| US11844299B2 |
Seed meter singulator
A seed meter includes a meter housing having a first chamber for seeds and a second chamber. A seed disk is rotatably supported within the meter housing and has a first side and a second side. The first side is exposed to the first chamber and the second side is exposed to the second chamber. The seed disk includes a plurality of seed openings that extend between the first and second sides at a predetermined radial position. A singulator is positioned against the first side of the seed disk and has at least one structure for removing excess seeds from the seed openings as the seed meter disk rotates relative to the singulator. A radial position of the singulator is controlled at least in part by a hub portion of the seed meter. A biasing spring is positioned to exert an axially-oriented bias force pressing the singulator against the first side of the seed meter disk. |
| US11849647B2 |
Nonmetallic liner around a magnetic tunnel junction
A semiconductor structure may include a magnetic tunnel junction layer on top and in electrical contact with a microstud, a hard mask layer on top of the magnetic tunnel junction layer, and a liner positioned along vertical sidewalls of the magnetic tunnel junction layer and vertical sidewalls of the hard mask layer. A top surface of the liner may be below a top surface of the hard mask layer. The semiconductor structure may include a spacer on top of the liner. The liner may separate the spacer from the magnetic tunnel junction layer and the hard mask layer. The semiconductor structure may include a first metal layer below and in electrical contact with the microstud and a second metal layer above the hard mask layer. A bottom portion of the second metal layer may surround a top portion of the hard mask layer. |
| US11849645B2 |
Integrated circuit
An integrated circuit includes a substrate, a bottom electrode, a dielectric layer, a metal-containing compound layer, a resistance switching element, and a top electrode. The bottom electrode is over the substrate, the bottom electrode having a bottom portion and a top portion over the bottom portion. The bottom portion of the bottom electrode has a sidewall slanted with respect to a sidewall of the top portion of the bottom electrode. The dielectric layer surrounds the bottom portion of the bottom electrode. The metal-containing compound layer surrounds the top portion of the bottom electrode. A top end of the sidewall of the bottom portion of the bottom electrode is higher than a bottom surface of the metal-containing compound layer. The resistance switching element is over the bottom electrode. The top electrode is over the resistance switching element. |
| US11849643B2 |
Circuitry for estimating displacement of a piezoelectric transducer
Circuitry for estimating a displacement of a piezoelectric transducer in response to a drive signal applied to the piezoelectric transducer, the circuitry comprising: monitoring circuitry configured to be coupled to the piezoelectric transducer and to output a sense signal indicative of an electrical signal associated with the piezoelectric transducer as a result of the drive signal; wherein the circuitry is configured to generate a difference signal based on the drive signal and the sense signal; and wherein the circuitry further comprises processing circuitry configured to apply at least one transfer function to the difference signal to generate a signal indicative of the displacement of the piezoelectric transducer. |
| US11849640B2 |
Thermoelectric conversion element and manufacturing method for thermoelectric conversion element
Thermoelectric conversion cells of a thermoelectric conversion element include a thermoelectric conversion layer formed on a main surface of a substrate, an insulating layer covering the thermoelectric conversion layer, a first electrode including a first layer and a second layer, and a second electrode. The first layer connects to the main surface of the thermoelectric conversion layer via a first contact hole, and the second layer covers the first layer. The second electrode connects to the main surface of the thermoelectric conversion layer via a second contact hole. The second layer and the second electrode, and the first layer are formed from materials having different work functions. In thermoelectric conversion cells that are adjacent to each other, the second layer of one of the thermoelectric conversion cells and the second electrode of the other of the thermoelectric conversion cells are formed integrally, and the thermoelectric conversion cells are connected in series. |
| US11849633B2 |
Organic electroluminescence device and monoamine compound for organic electroluminescence device
An organic electroluminescence device includes a first electrode, a hole transport region disposed on the first electrode, an emission layer disposed on the hole transport region, an electron transport region disposed on the emission layer, and a second electrode disposed on the electron transport region, wherein the hole transport region includes a monoamine compound represented by Formula 1, thereby providing high emission efficiency: |
| US11849631B2 |
Organic molecules for optoelectronic devices
An organic molecule for use in optoelectronic devices having a structure of formula I wherein RI and RII are independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, deuterium, N(R5)2, OR5, SR5, Si(R5)3, B(OR5)2, OSO2R5, CF3, CN, halogen, C1-C40-alkyl, C1-C40-alkoxy, C1-C40-thioalkoxy, C2-C40-alkenyl, C2-C40-alkynyl, C6-C60-aryl, and C3-C57-heteroaryl, which are optionally substituted with one or more substituents R5. |
| US11849630B2 |
Organic electroluminescence device and organometallic compound for organic electroluminescence device
An organic electroluminescence device of an embodiment includes a first electrode, a second electrode on the first electrode, and an emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the emission layer includes an organometallic compound represented by Formula 1, and may show high emission efficiency properties. |
| US11849629B2 |
Fused dithieno benzothiadiazole polymers for organic photovolatics
A method of reacting with to produce In this method Y1 and Y2 are independently selected from the group consisting of: H, Cl, Br, I, and combinations thereof. Additionally in this method M is selected from the group consisting of H, trialkylstannane, boronate, or ZnX, wherein X is Cl, Br, or I. Furthermore in this method Z is a divalent linking group selected from the group consisting of: Lastly, in this method R1 is selected from: H, unsubstituted or substituted branched alkyls with 1 to 60 carbon atoms or unsubstituted or substituted linear alkyls with 1 to 60 carbon atoms. |
| US11849622B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device including a display panel which displays an image, an input sensor on the display panel, and including a first sensing electrode, a second sensing electrode crossing the first sensing electrode, first and second signal lines connected to ends of the first sensing electrode, and a third signal line connected to one end of the second sensing electrode, and a circuit board electrically connected to the input sensor. The circuit board includes a plurality of insulating layers, a first group signal line disposed on the plurality of insulating layers, and one end of which is electrically connected to the first signal line, a second group signal line disposed on the plurality of insulating layers, and one end of which is electrically connected to the second signal line, and an electromagnetic shielding layer disposed on a portion of the second group signal line. |
| US11849618B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device is provided and includes a first voltage trace, a second voltage trace, a first region electrode, a second region electrode, and a voltage source module. The second voltage trace is electrically insulated from the first voltage trace, the first region electrode is electrically connected to the first voltage trace, and the second region electrode is electrically connected to the second voltage trace. The voltage source module provides a first driving voltage to the first voltage trace and provides a second driving voltage to the second voltage trace, in which the first driving voltage is different from the second driving voltage. In a top-view direction of the electronic device, the first voltage trace is separated from the second voltage trace, and the first voltage trace and the second voltage trace are formed of a conductive layer. |
| US11849617B2 |
Display panel and display device
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a base substrate, a plurality of pixel units and a plurality of gate line groups. At least one pixel unit includes a plurality of sub-pixels. At least one sub-pixel includes a sensing transistor and a driving transistor. Each gate line group includes a first gate line and a second gate line; for the first gate line and the second gate line corresponding to the sub-pixels in the same row, the positions of the sensing transistors are closer to the second gate lines, and the positions of the driving transistors are closer to the first gate line, For two sub-pixels close to each other and located in different pixel units in the same row, at least one signal line has a double-layer alignment structure, and the double-layer alignments are electrically connected with each other. |
| US11849616B2 |
Display device
A display device includes first and second signal lines, first and second signal pads, and a pad insulating layer overlapping with the first and second signal lines. The first signal pad includes an intermediate conductive pattern overlapping with and connected to an end portion of the first signal line, and an upper conductive pattern on the intermediate conductive pattern, the upper conductive pattern being exposed through the pad insulating layer. The intermediate conductive pattern includes a first portion overlapping with the end portion of the first signal line, and a second portion between the end portion of the first signal line and an end portion of the second signal line and extending from the first portion. The upper conductive pattern is connected to the second portion of the intermediate conductive pattern. |
| US11849611B2 |
Method for manufacturing display panel including forming through hole using upper mask and lower mask
A display panel including: a substrate having a through hole, a conductive part disposed on an inner surface of the through hole and a resin part in the through hole and adjacent to the conductive part; a circuit layer disposed at a first side of the substrate; and a pad disposed at a second side of the substrate and electrically connected to the circuit layer by the conductive part, wherein a width of the through hole is larger near the first side or the second side of the substrate than at a center of the through hole. |
| US11849609B2 |
Display device
According to one embodiment, a display device including, a substrate including a first area including a display area, a second area including a mount area, and a third area located between the first area and the second area, a first inorganic insulating layer provided on the substrate in the first area and the second area, a line provided on the first inorganic insulating layer and extending across the first area, the second area, and the third area, and, a second inorganic insulating layer provided on the line, the second inorganic insulating layer extending to an area overlaid on at least the first inorganic insulating layer. |
| US11849608B2 |
Flexible display substrate and method for preparing the same, and display device
The present disclosure provides a flexible display substrate, a method for preparing the same and a display device. The flexible display substrate includes a flexible substrate and a display function layer, the display function layer including a first metal layer and a second metal layer; the flexible display substrate includes a display area and a peripheral area, and the peripheral area including a bending area, a first wiring area located between the display area and the bending area, and a second wiring area located on a surface of the bending area away from the display area; the signal wiring of the first wiring area and the second signal wiring of the second wiring area being electrically connected through the signal connection line of the bending area, and the signal connection line being made of the first metal layer and/or the second metal layer. |
| US11849605B2 |
Display device having pixel-defining layers
A display device includes a main display area in which main display elements are arranged and a component area in which auxiliary display elements and a transmission area are arranged, the display device including: a first pixel-defining layer arranged in the main display area, the first pixel-defining being between first pixel electrodes of the main display elements; a second pixel-defining layer arranged in the component area, the second pixel-defining layer being between second pixel electrodes of the auxiliary display elements; a black matrix arranged on the main display elements, the black matrix being around emission areas of the main display elements; and color filters arranged on the main display elements and the auxiliary display elements, the color filters being arranged to correspond to the emission areas of the main display elements and emission areas of the auxiliary display elements, respectively. |
| US11849604B2 |
Display device and pixel array substrate thereof
A display device includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixels, and a sensor disposed below the pixel array that includes a first region having a low resolution and overlapping the sensor, and a second region having a high resolution and disposed adjacent to the first region, the first region includes a plurality of first pixels having a first structure, the second region includes a plurality of second pixels having a second structure different from the first structure, and a light-emitting region of each of the first pixels is wider than a light-emitting region of each of the second pixels. |
| US11849603B2 |
Display module
A display module includes a display panel on which a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area are defined and a functional layer disposed on the display panel. Here, the functional layer includes a color filter layer including a plurality of color filters and a plurality of first light shielding layers each disposed between the plurality of color filters, a light control layer including a plurality of light control parts overlapping the plurality of color filter layers, respectively, wherein at least one of the plurality of light control parts includes a quantum dot, and a heat conductive layer. The heat conductive layer includes at least one of metal, graphite, and silicon carbide. |
| US11849600B2 |
Protective film, display module, display device, method of manufacturing display module, and method of manufacturing display device
A display module includes a display panel for displaying an image, and a protective film adhered to a back surface of the display panel. The protective film includes a compensation layer being in contact with the back surface of the display panel, a first release layer disposed under the compensation layer, a cushion layer disposed under the first release layer, and a second release layer disposed under the cushion layer. An adhesive strength of the first release layer is less than an adhesive strength of the second release layer. |
| US11849599B2 |
Display device having a sealing film including multiple layers
The organic electroluminescence display device of an embodiment of the present invention includes a substrate, a plurality of pixels formed on the substrate, and a sealing film that covers the plurality of pixels. The sealing film includes a first barrier layer, a base layer covering the top surface of the first barrier layer, an inter layer locally formed on the top surface of the base layer, and a second barrier layer covering the top surface of the base layer and the top surface of the inter layer. The inter layer is formed so as to cover a step on the top surface of the base layer. |
| US11849598B2 |
Organic light-emitting component having a light-emitting layer as part of a charge generation layer
An organic light-emitting component is disclosed. The component includes an organic functional layer stack between two electrodes, where the organic functional layer stack has at least two organic light-emitting layers and at least one charge generation layer, and where at least one of the at least two organic light-emitting layers is part of the charge generation layer. |
| US11849594B2 |
Quantum dot emitting diode and quantum dot display device including the same
A quantum dot emitting diode includes first and second electrodes facing each other; a quantum dot emitting material layer between the first and second electrodes; and an electron transporting layer including an electron transporting material and disposed between the quantum dot emitting material layer and the second electrode, wherein the electron transporting material includes a core of metal oxide and a shell of silica. |
| US11849592B2 |
Magnetoresistive random access memory and method for fabricating the same
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a logic region and a magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) region, a MTJ on the MRAM region, a metal interconnection on the MTJ, and a blocking layer on the metal interconnection. Preferably, the blocking layer includes a stripe pattern according to a top view and the blocking layer could include metal or a dielectric layer. |
| US11849590B2 |
Capacitor comprising a bismuth metal oxide-based lead titanate thin film
In some examples, a system comprises a capacitor including a first plate, a second plate, and a ferroelectric material disposed between the first and the second plates and comprising a Bismuth Metal Oxide-Based Lead Titanate thin film. The capacitor further comprises a dielectric layer disposed on a transistor, wherein the capacitor is disposed on the dielectric layer. |
| US11849587B2 |
Three-dimensional memory device and manufacturing method thereof
A three-dimensional memory device including first and second stacking structures and first and second conductive pillars is provided. The first stacking structure includes first stacking layers stacked along a vertical direction. Each first stacking layer includes a first gate layer, a first channel layer, and a first ferroelectric layer between the first gate and channel layers. The second stacking structure is laterally spaced from the first stacking structure and includes second stacking layers stacked along the vertical direction. Each second stacking layer includes a second gate layer, a second channel layer, and a second ferroelectric layer is between the second gate and channel layers. The first and second gate layers are disposed between the first and second ferroelectric layers, and the first and second conductive pillars extend along the vertical direction in contact respectively with the first and second channel layers. |
| US11849586B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device is provided, including: a substrate; a first stacked portion including a plurality of first electrode layers stacked in a first direction via a first insulator; a second stacked portion provided above the first stacked portion and including a plurality of second electrode layers stacked in the first direction via a second insulator; a connection portion provided between the first stacked portion and the second stacked portion, and including a third insulator; a column-shaped portion extending in the first stacked portion, the second stacked portion, and the connection portion in the first direction, and including a semiconductor body and a charge storage portion; and a semiconductor pillar provided between the substrate and the column-shaped portion, and in contact with the substrate and the semiconductor body of the column-shaped portion. |
| US11849582B2 |
Memory stacks having silicon nitride gate-to-gate dielectric layers and methods for forming the same
Embodiments of 3D memory devices and methods for forming the same are disclosed. In an example, a method for forming a 3D memory device is disclosed. a memory stack including a plurality of interleaved gate conductive layers and gate-to-gate dielectric layers above a substrate is formed. Each of the gate-to-gate dielectric layers includes a silicon nitride layer. A NAND memory string extending vertically through the interleaved gate conductive layers and gate-to-gate dielectric layers of the memory stack is formed. A slit structure extending vertically through the interleaved gate conductive layers and gate-to-gate dielectric layers of the memory stack is formed. |
| US11849581B2 |
Electronic devices with recessed conductive structures
An electronic device comprises a stack structure comprising vertically alternating insulative structures and conductive structures arranged in tiers, pillars extending vertically through the stack structure, and a barrier material overlying the stack structure. The electronic device comprises a first insulative material extending through the barrier material and into an upper tier portion of the stack structure, and a second insulative material laterally adjacent to the first insulative material and laterally adjacent to at least some of the conductive structures in the upper tier portion of the stack structure. At least a portion of the second insulative material is in vertical alignment with the barrier material. Additional electronic devices and related methods and systems are also disclosed. |
| US11849577B2 |
Virtual ground non-volatile memory array
A memory device with memory cell pairs each having a single continuous channel region, first and second floating gates over first and second portions of the channel region, an erase gate over a third portion of the channel region between the first and second channel region portions, and first and second control gates over the first and second floating gates. For each of the pairs of memory cells, the first region is electrically connected to the second region of an adjacent pair of memory cells in the same active region, and the second region is electrically connected to the first region of an adjacent pair of the memory cells in the same active region. |
| US11849576B2 |
Non-volatile memory device and manufacturing method thereof
A memory device includes a first semiconductor structure and a second semiconductor structure. The memory device further includes a bonding structure between the first semiconductor structure and the second semiconductor structure, the bonding structure comprising a first bonding pattern and a second bonding pattern in contact with each other, the first semiconductor structure being electrically connected with the second semiconductor structure through the bonding structure. The memory device further includes a shielding structure between the first semiconductor structure and the second semiconductor structure and surrounding the bonding structure, the shielding structure comprising a third bonding pattern and a fourth bonding pattern in contact with each other, the shielding structure being electrically connected with a biased voltage. |
| US11849565B2 |
Two phase fluid management system for data center
A two-phase fluid management system, may include a sealed container and a mobile condenser that moves within the sealed container. The sealed container may include a plurality of input ports, each to receive a two-phase fluid as vapor from a respective one of a plurality of IT enclosures and a plurality of output ports, each to return the two-phase fluid as liquid to the respective one of the plurality of IT enclosures. The mobile condenser may be coupled to or include an actuator to move the mobile condenser to a respective one of a plurality of positions within the sealed container. An air intake and air outlet of the mobile condenser may form a sealed connection with a pair of condenser ports when the mobile condenser moves to the respective one of the plurality of positions. |
| US11849564B2 |
Server rack component for advanced fluid arrangement
An adopting core device including a main board, a server connector module, a leaking sensor, and an electromagnet device is proposed in the current application. In an embodiment, a main board including a fluid channel assembled by a manual mating connector through hoses and a blind mating connector fixed on the other side. In an embodiment, the manual mating connector is connected to a rack connector of a rack manifold of an electronic rack coupled to an external cooling fluid source to receive and to return cooling fluid from and to the external cooling fluid source. For example, the blind mating connector is capable of being engaged with or disengaged from a server fluid connector of a server chassis. In an embodiment, the server chassis comprises a leaking sensor configured to detect leakage of the cooling fluid within the server chassis. |
| US11849560B1 |
Holding module and electronic device
A holding module is installed in a chassis of an electronic device. The holding module is used to hold an expansion module and includes a holding member, a fixation member, and a linkage member. The holding member includes a carrier plate, a first side plate, and a second side plate. The first side plate and the second side plate are connected to two opposite sides of the carrier plate, respectively. The fixation member is pivotally connected to the first side plate and the second side plate. The fixation member is provided with a linkage portion. The linkage member is rotatably arranged in the holding member. The linkage member includes a docking portion and a pushing portion. The docking portion is connected to the linkage portion. The pushing portion is connected to the expansion module selectively. |
| US11849555B2 |
Subsea enclosure arrangement
A subsea enclosure arrangement for a subsea component, the enclosure includes walls of a fluid tight material, each wall terminating in a flange; a cover for closing the enclosure; an elastomeric seal between the flange and the cover; compressive members to apply a compressive force to the elastomeric seal, via the cover and the flange; a bracket connecting the flange to the cover; a weld seal between the bracket and the flange; and a weld seal between the bracket and the cover. |
| US11849539B2 |
Embedded cooling systems utilizing heat pipes
Embedded cooling systems and methods of forming the same are disclosed. An embedded cooling system includes a PCB having a first major surface opposite a second major surface and power device stacks embedded within the PCB between the first major surface and the second major surface. Each power device stack includes a first substrate and a second substrate, and an electrical insulation layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The embedded cooling system further includes a power device coupled to the first substrate of each power device stack and heat pipes having a first end and a second end spaced a distance apart from the first end. The first end is embedded within the PCB substrate and the second end extends outside of the PCB substrate. The second substrate of the one or more power device stacks is coupled to the one or more heat pipes. |
| US11849538B2 |
Composite wiring board, package, and electronic device
A terminal substrate includes a signal terminal disposed on a terminal surface of an insulation ceramic layer. An insulation resin layer of a flexible substrate includes a first surface facing the terminal surface, and a second surface on an opposite side of the first surface. A first signal pad disposed on the first surface is joined to the signal terminal. A first penetration conductive part penetrates the insulation resin layer from the first signal pad. A first signal line is disposed on the second surface. A second penetration conductive part penetrates the insulation resin layer from the first signal line. A second signal line is disposed on the first surface. A third penetration conductive part penetrates the insulation resin layer from the second signal line. A second signal pad is disposed on the second surface. |
| US11849537B2 |
Filter module for reducing differential and common mode noise and method to manufacture such a filter module
A filter module for reducing differential and common mode electrical noise may include at least a first electrically conductive busbar and a second electrically conductive busbar spaced apart from the first busbar, an at least partially electrically conductive housing at least partially enclosing the first busbar and the second busbar, at least a first common mode choke and a second common mode choke arranged in the housing and spaced apart from each other, at least a first bypass capacitor electrically connected to the first busbar and the second bus bar, at least a second bypass capacitor electrically connected to the first busbar and a midpoint, and at least a third bypass capacitor electrically connected to the second busbar and the midpoint. |
| US11849534B2 |
Modular based design for data centers
The disclosure provides a system, for designing and developing immersion cooling in data centers. The system includes an internet technology (IT) tank that houses a computing device immersed in a two phase coolant; an aisle, in which the immersion tank is disposed, that captures a first vaporized portion of the two phase coolant escaped from the immersion tank; a condenser that transforms the first vaporized portion of the two phase coolant that escaped from the immersion tank into a first liquid portion of the two phase coolant; a second condenser captures and condenses a second portion of vapor; and a liquid distributor manages the cooling fluid and coolant fluid for the IT tank and two condensers. |
| US11849531B2 |
Underwater plasma generating apparatus
A underwater plasma generating apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a reactor inside of which a flow path, through which a working fluid passes, is formed along a length direction; and a dielectric insertion which is disposed on the flow path, partitions the flow path into a plurality of spaces, has therein one or more through holes for connecting the plurality of spaces and having a smaller cross-sectional width compared to the flow path, and has on one side, a metal catalyst coming into contact with the working fluid which has flowed in through the through holes. |
| US11849530B2 |
Compact cyclotron resonance high-power acceleration for electrons
Apparatuses and methods for accelerating electrons including an electron source configured to provide a beam of electrons and an accelerator utilize electron cyclotron resonance acceleration (eCRA). The accelerator includes a radio frequency (RF) cavity having a longitudinal axis, one or more inlets, and one or more outlets and an electro-magnet substantially surrounding at least a portion of the cavity and configured to produce an axial magnetic field. At least one pair of waveguides couple the cavity to an RF source configured to generate an RF wave. The RF wave is a superposition of two orthogonal TE111 transverse electric modes excited in quadrature to produce an azimuthally rotating standing-wave mode configured to accelerate the beam of electrons axially entering the cavity with non-linear cyclotron resonance acceleration. |
| US11849529B2 |
Fiber reinforced systems with electrostatic dissipation
Systems and methods of forming fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites with electrostatic dissipative properties are described herein. The FRP composite is bonded to a surface and integrates a grounding system to dissipate electro-static energy, thus eliminating the potential risk of explosion. The system can be used for structures that require reinforcement and that are susceptible to electro-static explosions. |
| US11849528B1 |
Impedance matching apparatus and method for solid-state microwave source
Disclosed are an impedance matching apparatus and method for a solid-state microwave source. The impedance matching apparatus is connected to a solid-state microwave source and includes a detection module and a control module. The control module includes a frequency control unit and a power determining unit. The frequency control unit is configured to adjust a current frequency of a phase-locked source of the solid-state microwave source according to a received frequency modulation (FM) instruction. The power determining unit is configured to perform following steps: controlling a driver module of the solid-state microwave source to gradually increase a total incident power, and determining a change trend of a total reflected power of the solid-state microwave source; controlling the driver module to reduce the incident power; setting the FM instruction, and sending the set FM instruction to the frequency control unit. |
| US11849527B2 |
Oven appliance with improved convection cooking performance
An oven appliance for providing convection and microwave heating includes a cabinet having a chamber positioned within the cabinet. The chamber is configured for receipt of food items for cooking and has a plurality of walls including a top wall, a bottom wall, a back wall, and opposing sidewalls defining the chamber. At least one of the plurality of walls defines a plurality of apertures and a first duct in fluid communication with the chamber through the plurality of apertures. The oven appliance also includes at least one convection heating element for heating the chamber. Further, the oven appliance includes a convection fan in fluid communication with the first duct. The convection fan is operable to cause air to flow out of the apertures. Moreover, the oven appliance includes a convection motor having a motor shaft. The convection motor is operably coupled to the convection fan for rotating the convection fan about the motor shaft. The convection fan is electrically separated from the convection motor to prevent microwave energy from leaking from the apertures. |
| US11849514B1 |
Current regulator circuits with self-adaptive power offloading
A circuit may be configured to deliver current to one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs). The circuit may comprise a first current path configured to deliver a first current to the one or more LEDs, and a second current path in parallel with the first current path, wherein the second current path is configured to deliver a second current through a voltage drop element and to the one or more LEDs. According to this disclosure, a sum of the first current and the second current is regulated based on a sensed current through the circuit. |
| US11849507B2 |
Temporary identification for a terminal device
A method comprising receiving, from a network node, a temporary terminal device identity that identifies a type of a terminal device; transitioning to a radio resource control inactive state or to a radio resource control idle state; and transmitting a radio resource control request message comprising the temporary terminal device identity that identifies a type of a terminal device, wherein the radio resource control request message comprises: a radio resource control connection resume request message, if the transition was to the radio resource control inactive state; or a radio resource control setup request message if the transition was to the radio resource control idle state. |
| US11849506B2 |
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for routing inter-public land mobile network (inter-PLMN) messages related to existing subscriptions with network function (NF) repository function (NRF) using security edge protection proxy (SEPP)
A method for routing inter-public land mobile network (inter-PLMN) messages relating to existing subscriptions with a network function (NF) repository functions (NRFs) includes, at a security edge protection proxy (SEPP) implemented using at least one processor, automatically populating, by the SEPP, a subscription identifier to target NRF resource identification information mapping database accessible to the SEPP with mappings between subscription identifiers and target NRF resource identification information. The method further includes receiving an inter-PLMN message for modifying or deleting a subscription. The method further includes reading a subscription identifier from the message for modifying or deleting the subscription. The method further includes using the subscription identifier from the message for modifying or deleting the subscription to access the database and obtain an identifier associated with an NRF that created the subscription. The method further includes forwarding the message for updating or deleting the subscription to the NRF. |
| US11849501B2 |
Method for obtaining UE counting result, method and apparatus for suspending data transmission
The present disclosure provides a method for obtaining a UE counting result. The method includes: establishing, by the UE, a RRC connection; sending a UE counting response via the RRC connection; or, sending, by the UE, a RRC establishing message, and configuring a reason of establishing the RRC as MBMS UE counting. The present disclosure also provides a method for obtaining a UE counting result, a method and apparatus for suspending data transmission. By using the present disclosure, when the UE needs to receive the GCSE service, the MCE may obtain a correct counting result and not make wrong decision no matter whether the UE is in the RRC connected mode or in the idle mode. Therefore, the UE does not need to establish the point-to-point channel, and interruption of the data transmission and unnecessary power consumption are avoided. |
| US11849498B2 |
Communication system
There is presented a method performed by a central unit of a distributed base station apparatus in a cellular communication system, as part of a change of a UE context from a source distributed unit to a target distributed unit. A first message is sent to the target distributed unit of the distributed base station apparatus. A second message is received, from the target distributed unit of the distributed base station apparatus. The second message includes configuration information for the target distributed unit which may be full or delta. A third message is sent to a further base station apparatus that contains the received configuration information for the target distributed unit and an indication of whether a full or a delta type of configuration, has been used. |
| US11849491B2 |
Communication method, apparatus, and system
Example communication methods, apparatus, and systems are described. One example system includes a centralized unit control plane (CU-CP) and at least one distributed unit (DU). The CU-CP includes at least one first entity and a second entity, where the second entity is configured to perform a function of a radio resource management (RRM) algorithm in a base station, and the at least one first entity is configured to perform functions of a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) layer and a radio resource control (RRC) layer in the base station. |
| US11849490B2 |
Communication device, second communication device, communication system, and communication method
A communication device that performs a random access procedure, the communication device includes a transmitter and a controller. The transmitter configured to transmit a first signal in the random access procedure and a second signal which is not a signal of the random access procedure. The controller configured to perform control so that first information included in a first subheader corresponding to the first signal is included in a second subheader corresponding to the second signal and is transmitted. |
| US11849489B2 |
Random access transmission method and terminal
The present disclosure discloses a random access transmission method and a terminal. The method includes: obtaining a data scrambling parameter of a physical uplink shared channel PUSCH; and sending a random access message based on the data scrambling parameter, where the random access message corresponds to the PUSCH and a physical random access channel PRACH. In a random access process of a terminal in embodiments of the present disclosure, a random access message is sent on a random access resource based on a data scrambling parameter of a PUSCH. Correspondingly, a network device decodes the PUSCH on the random access resource based on the data scrambling parameter, to obtain the corresponding random access message. |
| US11849486B2 |
Channel detection method and apparatus
A channel detection method can be applied to a base station operating on an unlicensed spectrum, and include: detecting that a first uplink transmission is not successfully performed; determining a target channel detection mechanism for performing channel detection for a first downlink transmission, wherein the first downlink transmission represents a next downlink transmission following the first uplink transmission; and performing the channel detection for the first downlink transmission based on the target channel detection mechanism. Therefore, it can be specifically selected that which channel detection mechanism to use according to actual conditions, thereby improving the accuracy and efficiency of channel detection. |
| US11849484B2 |
Transport block transmission
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for transport block transmission. One method includes determining a failure of a listen-before-talk procedure for transmission of a transport block on a configured uplink grant at a first transmission opportunity associated with a hybrid automatic repeat request process. The method includes, in response to determining the failure of the listen-before-talk procedure, not transmitting the transport block on the configured uplink grant at the first transmission opportunity corresponding to the listen-before-talk procedure. The method includes autonomously triggering transmission of the transport block in a second transmission opportunity using the hybrid automatic repeat request process, wherein autonomously triggering the transmission comprises triggering the transmission without receiving network signaling for the transmission and, the second transmission opportunity occurs after the first transmission opportunity. |
| US11849482B2 |
Synchronization of listen before talk back-off for synchronous access in unlicensed spectrum
Synchronization of listen before talk (LBT) back-off for synchronous access in unlicensed spectrum is disclosed. For nodes of a coordinated group of nodes, when one or more such nodes detects a failed LBT attempt, it pauses the contention widow countdown at the current counter value. According to such aspects, a procedure may be provided that specifies when such nodes can restart the contention window countdown using the current counter value or when the nodes can redraw the pseudo-random number for the contention window countdown in order to synchronize the contention window counters. |
| US11849481B2 |
Techniques for configuring multiple-SCS and multi-beam direction communications
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications in unlicensed spectrum are described. In some wireless communications systems, a user equipment may identify a service parameter configured for the user equipment for a shared radio frequency channel, such as a subcarrier spacing or beam direction for a directional beam for communications with a base station. The base station may acquire a channel occupancy time for the shared radio frequency channel. The user equipment may monitor for and receive a control message for the channel occupancy time from the base station. The control message may include an indication of service associated with the service parameter and a remaining duration of the channel occupancy time. Based on the indications, the user equipment may adapt one or more receive parameters (e.g., a monitoring periodicity, monitoring time occasions, and whether to skip monitoring) for communicating with the base station during the channel occupancy time. |
| US11849478B2 |
Transmission of uplink control information in new radio
Aspects directed towards new radio (NR) transmissions of uplink control information (UCI) are disclosed. In a particular example, a priority is assigned to each of a plurality of UCI components such that the priority is assigned according to at least one of a type or payload size respectively associated with each of the plurality of UCI components. The plurality of UCI components are then transmitted based on the priority respectively assigned to each of the plurality of UCI components. |
| US11849476B2 |
Method and device for controlling interference in a received signal when scheduling
There is provided a method for controlling interference in a received signal when scheduling in a network node for wireless communication with a set of user equipment's, UEs, said set comprising a first UE and at least a second UE, wherein the interference is passive-intermodulation interference, PIM. The method comprises receiving a scheduling request from at least the first UE transmitting on a first frequency and scheduling at least the first UE based on an interference scenario report and available PIM cancellation resources to enable efficient PIM control. The method is performed by a control device. |
| US11849474B2 |
Methods for modeling intermodulation distortion (IMD) present in received signals
Embodiments include methods for determining intermodulation distortion (IMD) present in an uplink channel received by a network node in a wireless communication network. Such embodiments include, for each of a plurality of time period pairs comprising first and second time periods: measuring a first parameter for an uplink channel received and a second parameter for each of a plurality of downlink channels transmitted by the network node; and for the uplink channel, determining a first difference between the first parameter measured during the first time period and the first parameter measured during the second time period. Such embodiments also include, based on the first difference and the second parameters, determining a predictive model for an IMD signal, associated with the downlink channels, that can be received by the network node in the uplink channel. For example, the predictive model can be used to adjust transmitter settings to improve IMD performance. |
| US11849472B2 |
Wi-fi traffic aware system with wireless accessories
Methods and apparatuses are presented to facilitate coexistence between multiple wireless communication protocols implemented by a wireless communication device, by dynamically adjusting priority between the two protocols. The wireless communication device may typically favor a first protocol (e.g. Bluetooth/BTLE), prioritizing resource requests by the first protocol. In certain use cases, the first protocol may demand high resource usage for an extended time, particularly for newer tracking and wearable devices, such as location tags, watches, headsets, etc. Such applications can disrupt existing use cases for a second protocol (e.g., Wi-Fi). Therefore, the wireless communication device may dynamically determine whether the second protocol is performing critical operations, such as latency-sensitive applications or high-performance operations. If so, the wireless communication device may allocate resources accordingly in real time, e.g., by reducing or limiting the resources assigned to the first protocol, to allow increased resources for the second protocol. |
| US11849469B2 |
Orbital angular momentum capability in millimeter wave and higher frequency bands
Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed herein for orbital angular moment capability in millimeter wave and higher frequency bands. An example method for wireless communication at a first communication device includes transmitting, to a second communication device, OAM capability information indicating a capability to receive an OAM waveform. Additionally, the example method includes receiving one or more OAM transmissions from the second communication device, the one or more OAM transmissions based on the OAM capability information. |
| US11849464B2 |
Method for transmitting and receiving control information for device-to-device (D2D) communication in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor
A method of transmission by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, and including receiving, by the UE from a eNB, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) including a downlink control information (DCI) format 0, based on a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS)—radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) (SPS-RNTI); and transmitting, by the UE, a signal related to a SPS. Further, based on that the SPS-RNTI is related to a sidelink communication, wherein a three bit field corresponding to cyclic shift DMRS (DeModulate Reference Signal) in the DCI format 0 is related to a resource information for a sidelink communication. |
| US11849463B2 |
Method and apparatus for supporting multiple services in advanced MIMO communication systems
A user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The UE comprises at least one processor configured to determine a first subcarrier spacing and a transceiver configured to transmit, to a base station (BS), random access signals generated with the first subcarrier spacing and receive a downlink control signaling comprising a physical (PHY) resource configuration that includes a second subcarrier spacing. The UE further comprises at least one processor configured to set the PHY resource configuration for at least one of uplink transmission or downlink reception. |
| US11849461B2 |
UL transmission multiplexing and prioritization
Systems for providing prioritization of UL transmissions in a UE are described. The prioritization information is used to resolve resource conflicts among UL transmissions that include conflicts between high priority UL transmissions, between an aperiodic-channel state information transmission and a scheduling request, and between a low priority UL transmission and a high priority UL transmission when timeline conditions for multiplexing in a single UL transmission are not met. The prioritization is based on timing and priority of the UL transmissions to determine which of the UL transmissions to transmit and which to cancel. Additional prioritization is based on reception by the UE of a cancelation index or in an additional overlapping high priority UL grant received in a DCI of a PDCCH that overlaps with at least one other PDCCH associated with the UL transmissions. |
| US11849460B2 |
Methods and apparatus for managing a bandwidth part
A terminal for managing a bandwidth part in a wireless communication system is provided. The terminal includes a transceiver and at least one processor configured to receive, from a base station, a first radio resource control (RRC) message including a bandwidth part (BWP) configuration, receive, from the base station, downlink control information including a bitmap indicating whether each of at least one downlink (DL) BWP is activated as a first BWP or a second BWP, wherein the first BWP is configured with a non-dormant BWP in the first RRC message, and the second BWP is configured with a dormant BWP in the first RRC message, when a first bit of the bitmap is 0, determine an active DL BWP corresponding to the first bit as the second BWP, and when the first bit of the bitmap is 1, determine whether a current active DL BWP corresponding to the first bit is the second BWP, when the current active DL BWP is the second BWP, set the current active DL BWP to the first BWP, and when the current active DL BWP is not the second BWP, determine to maintain the current active DL BWP. |
| US11849454B2 |
Method and device for configuring demodulation reference signal for uplink control channel in wireless cellular 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 smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A base station in a wireless communication system includes a transceiver configured to transmit and receive a signal; and a controller configured to transmit, to a terminal, a control message including first information configuring a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource of a PUCCH format 2, second information associated with a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) for physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) of a mapping type A, and third information associated with a DMRS for PUSCH of a mapping type B, identify the PUCCH resource based on the first information, and receive, from the terminal on the PUCCH resource, a DMRS for PUCCH format 2 based on the control message. A sequence of the DMRS for PUCCH format 2 is generated based on a scrambling identity (ID) included in the third information of the control message. |
| US11849452B2 |
Configuration of signal field comprising information related to transmission mode
The present disclosure proposes an example related to the signal field of the wireless LAN system. For example, a transmission/reception physical protocol data unit (PPDU) includes a first control signal field, and the first control signal field includes information related to a plurality of transmission modes which are related to SU, OFDMA, full bandwidth MU-MIMO, NDP, etc. The second control signal field of the transmission/reception PPDU may include various common fields and user specific fields configured based on a transmission mode. |
| US11849449B2 |
Base station apparatus, terminal apparatus, communication method, and integrated circuit
A terminal apparatus receives a higher layer parameter and a PDSCH, and generates a HARQ-ACK codebook and transmits the generated HARQ-ACK codebook on a PUCCH. In a case that a first parameter is configured, a first HARQ-ACK codebook and a second HARQ-ACK codebook are generated, the first HARQ-ACK codebook is used to transmit a HARQ-ACK bit corresponding to a PDSCH A, and the second HARQ-ACK codebook is used to transmit a HARQ-ACK bit corresponding to a PDSCH B. In a case that the first parameter is not configured, the first HARQ-ACK codebook is generated, and the first HARQ-ACK codebook is used to transmit the HARQ-ACK bit corresponding to the PDSCH B. |
| US11849448B2 |
Preemption indication for DL multiplexing of different types of traffic with non-coherent joint transmission
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for indicating a preemption of resources impacting a joint transmission from multiple transmitting entities to a user equipment. The transmitting entities may be associated with a virtual cell ID or a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) port group ID. |
| US11849446B2 |
Method for transmitting uplink data and terminal device
A method for transmitting uplink data and a terminal device are provided. In the method: first downlink control information (DCI) used for scheduling transmission of first uplink data is received from a network device, the first DCI comprising indication information of first reference signal resource set and indication information of first reference signal resource; the first reference signal resource set is determined according to the indication information of the first reference signal resource set, the first reference signal resource set comprising at least one reference signal resource; at least one first reference signal resource is determined from the first reference signal resource set according to the indication information of the first reference signal resource; and a transmission parameter for transmission of the first uplink data is determined according to the at least one first reference signal resource. |
| US11849445B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting data in RRC deactivated or activated state
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for combining a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than a 4G system with an IoT technology, and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to 5G communication and IoT related technology-based intelligent services (e.g., smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety related services, etc.). Disclosed is a technology for adding uplink data to a radio resource control (RRC) connection request message corresponding to an RA response message and transmitting the same to a base station when the terminal is in an RRC deactivated state in a method for transmitting, by a terminal, uplink data in a wireless communication system. |
| US11849443B2 |
Electronic device, radio communication method, and computer readable storage medium
An electronic device, a radio communication method, and a computer readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises a processing circuit, and is configured to use a group common-physical downlink control channel (GC-PDCCH) to transmit control information relating to data in a time slot preceding a time slot of the GC-PDCCH. In the invention, a GC-PDCCH can be better designed according to characteristics of an NR communication system. |
| US11849441B2 |
Using power domain NOMA for continuous bandwidth requests
The present disclosure relates to multi-MAC controller and single PHY systems and methods. An example method may include transmitting, via a first device in a Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) network, a first block of data within a first time slot and at a first power level. The example method may also include transmitting, via a second device in the DOCSIS network, a second block of data within the first time slot and at a second power level, the second power level being based on an attenuation of the first network tap device associated with the first device, wherein the first power level is different from the second power level. |
| US11849440B2 |
Asynchronous carrier aggregation slot alignment
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive information identifying an offset between a start of a frame on a first component carrier and a start of a frame on a second component carrier, wherein the first component carrier is one of a primary cell (PCell) or a secondary cell (SCell), and wherein the second component carrier is the other of the PCell or the SCell; determine that a slot on the first component carrier is aligned with a slot on the second component carrier; identify the slot on the second component carrier in accordance with the offset; and communicate on the first component carrier or the second component carrier based at least in part on the start of the slot on the second component carrier. Numerous other aspects are provided. |
| US11849437B1 |
Management of carriers to help ensure QoS for single-carrier UEs
Disclosed are methods and systems to facilitate management of carriers to help ensure QoS for single-carrier UEs. In particular, a base station may serve one or more first user equipment devices (UEs) on just a first carrier. While doing so, the base station may determine that each of the one or more first UEs being served on just the first carrier is receiving threshold low quality of service from the base station on the first carrier. Responsive to this determining, the base station may (i) select one or more second UEs based on the one or more second UEs being served by the base station on both the first carrier and one or more other carriers and (ii) discontinue serving each selected second UE on the first carrier while continuing to serve each selected second UE on one or more other carriers. |
| US11849436B2 |
Radio communication method and device
Provided in an implementation of the present invention are a radio communication method and device capable of realizing feedback acknowledgement for a downlink channel repeatedly transmitted in a 5G system. The method comprises: a terminal transmitting feedback information at a first time unit, wherein the feedback information comprises feedback acknowledgement information corresponding to a first downlink channel transmitted by means of a target resource set, resource units in the target resource set belong to the same carrier, and repeated transmission of the first downlink channel occupies multiple resource units in the target resource set. |
| US11849434B2 |
Preempting, overwriting, or canceling symbols in a slot format indicator allocation
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may generate a request to overwrite or cancel a communication mode of a symbol in a slot of a communication with a base station based at least in part on interference in communications with the base station on one or more frequency bands used for carrier aggregation and transmit the request to the base station. Numerous other aspects are provided. |
| US11849429B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for resource management in a multi-carrier telecommunications system
The embodiments of the present invention relate to apparatuses and methods for resource management in a multi-carrier system wherein a plurality of component carriers (CCs) is defined per cell. According to a method in an apparatus corresponding to a radio base station, a message is assembled comprising information on the structure of the cell served by the radio base station; the information including one or more CCs used in the cell that is/are available for a user equipment for performing initial access in the cell. The method also comprises, transmitting the assembled message to the user equipment and indicating to the user equipment to what resources to use for random access in the cell. The exemplary embodiments of the present invention also relates to a method in the user equipment, to a radio base station and to a user equipment. |
| US11849427B2 |
Managing the selection of reference physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates in deployments featuring PDCCH repetition with overlapping search space (SS) sets
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for maintaining, between a user equipment (UE) and a component of a base station (BS), a mutual understanding of multiple sets of linked physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates if some PDCCH candidates of the multiple sets of linked PDCCH candidates occupy a same set of resources. In one aspect, the UE may select to monitor one of the PDCCH candidates that occupy the same set of resources in accordance with a prioritization rule. Upon selecting one of the PDCCH candidates that occupy the same set of resources for monitoring by the UE, the UE and the component of the BS may select a reference PDCCH candidate for one or more of the multiple sets of PDCCH candidates in accordance with a reference selection rule. |
| US11849426B2 |
Systems and methods for sharing a resource pool in sidelink communications
Systems and methods for sharing a resource pool in wireless sidelink communications are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method performed by a first node is disclosed. The method comprises: sensing on a resource pool shared by a group of nodes for sidelink communications; and transmitting a report related to the shared resource pool to a second node, wherein the second node is outside the group of nodes and schedules sidelink communication resources for at least one node of the group of nodes based on the report. |
| US11849423B2 |
Systems and methods for updating subsets based on changing of proximity and time
Methods, systems, and devices including transmitting, by a server, a first signal to a set of user equipment; receiving, by a user equipment, the transmitted first signal; transmitting a response indicating whether the user equipment is located within a first specified distance from the provider; determining a subset of user equipment that are within the first specified distance; transmitting a second signal to the determined subset of user equipment; transmitting a third signal to the subset of user equipment; receiving the transmitted third signal while a received countdown timer is still running; transmitting a response indicating whether the user equipment is located within a second specified distance from the provider; determining a second subset of user equipment that are within the second specified distance; and transmitting a fourth signal comprising a second specified amount of time to be added to the previously running countdown timer. |
| US11849421B2 |
Methods to avoid sounding reference signal suspension due to multi-subscriber paging occasion collision
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Some user equipment (UE) may be equipped with multiple subscriber identity modules (SIMs). A multi-SIM UE may receive a control message at a first SIM which indicates a set of sounding reference signal (SRS) resources for receiving SRS according to a first periodicity. The UE may also receive a registration message at a second SIM which includes a first parameter indicating a first set of paging occasions for receiving paging messages in accordance with a second periodicity. The UE may identify a collision in time between the one or more SRS resources and paging resources, and may transmit a registration request message to a base station. The UE may then receive a second registration message which includes a second parameter for calculating a second set of paging occasions that have a third periodicity that are non-overlapping with the SRS resources. |
| US11849418B2 |
Wireless communication method, terminal device, and network device
In a wireless communication method, a terminal device obtains a first uplink (UL) alignment timer, where the first UL alignment timer corresponds to a first timing advance group (TAG), the first TAG corresponds to a first serving cell group, the first serving cell group comprises at least one serving cell, and the first UL alignment timer is used for UL synchronization maintenance for the at least one serving cell in the first serving cell group. |
| US11849409B2 |
Techniques for reporting power headroom for multiple uplink shared channel repetitions
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to receive control signaling scheduling multiple uplink transmission repetitions including first and second sets of repetitions associated with first and second sounding reference signal (SRS) resource sets, respectively. The UE may determine first and second power headroom (PHR) values for the respective sets of repetitions, where at least the second PHR value is determined in accordance with a first rule as either an actual value based on a transmission power of one of the uplink transmission repetitions or a virtual value based on default transmission power settings, the first rule pertaining to PHR determination for multiple sets of repetitions corresponding to multiple SRS resource sets. The UE may generate a PHR report that includes the first PHR value, the second PHR value, or both, and may transmit the PHR report to the base station. |
| US11849408B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting a power headroom report of a UE in a wireless communication system
A method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes, in case that a first message to perform a handover from a first base station to a second base station is received, from the first base station, performing a medium access control (MAC) reset, wherein performing the MAC reset includes stopping a power headroom report (PHR) periodic timer; receiving, from the second base station, first information related to a first uplink resource; in case that the first uplink resource is first allocated for a new transmission since the MAC reset is performed, starting the stopped PHR periodic timer; transmitting, to the second base station, a second message to confirm the handover using the first uplink resource; triggering a PHR, in case that the started PHR periodic timer expires; receiving, from the second base station, second information related to a second uplink resource; and transmitting, to the second base station, the triggered PHR using the second uplink resource. |
| US11849406B2 |
Electronic device and method for wireless communication, and computer-readable storage medium
Provided are an electronic device and method for wireless communication, and a computer-readable storage medium. The electronic device comprises a processing circuit configured to: determine the first power limiting region of the first primary user of a main system, wherein the first power limiting region is a three-dimensional space defined by the directional beams of the first primary user to the third primary user of the main system; and determine one or more secondary users in the first power limiting regions. |
| US11849403B2 |
Transmission of uplink reference signals
There is provided mechanisms for transmitting uplink reference signals. A method is performed by a terminal device. The method comprises obtaining, from a network node, a configuration of transmission of the uplink reference signals. The configuration comprises an indication of a first frequency interval in which the uplink reference signals are to be transmitted. The method comprises distributing transmission power available for transmitting the uplink reference signals over the first frequency interval based on channel information for the first frequency interval. The method comprises transmitting the uplink reference signals in accordance with the distributed transmission power. |
| US11849395B2 |
Adapting wake up signal repetitions
A method, network node and wireless device for determining wake up signal (WUS) repetitions are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method implemented in a wireless device, WD, includes determining information about a transmit antenna configuration of a network node; determining information about an activity level of the WD; determining a number of wake up signal, WUS, repetitions based on the transmit antenna configuration and the activity level; and receiving a WUS signal, the WUS signal having at least the determined number of WUS repetitions. A method implemented in a network node includes obtaining information about an activity level of a wireless device, WD; selecting a transmit antenna configuration; determining a number of wake up signal, WUS, repetitions based on the transmit antenna configuration and the activity level; and transmitting a WUS signal, the WUS signal having at least the determined number of WUS repetitions. |
| US11849385B2 |
Target cell access method and device
Embodiments of this application disclose a cell access method and a device, to provide a network slice service area identifier and network slice configuration information for a terminal device, so that the terminal device accesses a target cell. The method in the embodiments of this application includes: obtaining, by a terminal device, a network slice service area identifier from a serving access network device corresponding to a serving cell in which the terminal device is located, where the network slice service area identifier is used to indicate an area served by a network slice; determining, by the terminal device, a target cell based on network slice configuration information and the network slice service area identifier, where the network slice configuration information includes a correspondence among a network slice, an area, and a service; and accessing, by the terminal device, the target cell. |
| US11849383B2 |
Routing packets in a data network
Packets are routed in a data network comprising a wireless mesh network and a controller providing IPv6 management traffic to nodes of the wireless network. A monitor function and a route table manager are used to generate a route table relating IPv6 addresses to each of the nodes via a respective one of a plurality of POP nodes, by accessing a pre-configured topology file, determining the reachability of each of the plurality of POP nodes from the controller by periodically sending test messages from the monitor function to each POP and detecting acknowledgement of the test messages. If a POP node is not reachable, the route table is updated to relate the IPv6 subnet of the POP that is not reachable to the address of a POP node that is reachable. A Layer 2 network is used to direct the IPv6 management traffic according to the amended route table. |
| US11849382B2 |
Methods, apparatus, and systems for fast path switching in wireless communications with user equipment (UE) cooperation
Multiple communication paths are established for communications between a User Equipment (UE) and a wireless communication network, before switching between those paths is initiated. Signaling that includes an explicit indication that the UE is to switch between the multiple communication paths is transmitted to and received by at least the UE for which the multiple communication paths were established. Responsive to the explicit indication, communications are switched between the communication paths. At least one of the communication paths includes a relay path between the UE and the wireless communication network through another UE. Establishment of the multiple paths in advance of the switching may be useful in enabling fast switching with low latency and/or no traffic loss. |
| US11849380B2 |
Call flow system and method for use in a VoIP telecommunication system
A method of establishing a communication link between a mobile terminal of a wireless network and a subscriber of a network, such as an enterprise network, and/or a residential network. |
| US11849372B2 |
System and method for location determination using mesh routing
Embodiments of the invention relate to determining a mobile communication device's location, even if the mobile communication device does not have an active data connection. Embodiments of the invention also relate to achieving connectivity between a mobile communication device not having an active data connection and to another mobile communication device, server computer, or third-party computer. |
| US11849371B2 |
System and methods for low latency positioning using fast uplink signaling
During a positioning session, a user equipment (UE) is provided with an early uplink grant to respond to a request for location service information from a location server. The location service information, for example, may be a request for positioning capabilities, a request for positioning measurements or a position estimate, and may be a request for a single, periodic or triggered location information. The early uplink grant may be requested by the UE prior to needing the uplink grant, e.g., before the positioning measurements have been completed. The location server may instigate the early uplink grant, e.g., at or near the same time that the location server sends the request for information to the UE. The early uplink grant may be used, e.g., during high priority or emergency related positioning sessions, in order to reduce delay in the UE providing a response to the request for location information. |
| US11849369B2 |
Multi-device wireless sensing
Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for report identification and power control for multi-device wireless sensing in a wireless network are disclosed. An apparatus of an access point (AP) is disclosed, where the apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to encode for transmission to a station (STA) a frame comprising a configuration hold subfield, the hold subfield indicating whether the STA should maintain a transmit configuration unchanged during uplink (UL) sensing. The processing circuitry further configured to encode for transmission a trigger frame (TF) for sensing, the TF for sensing including an identification of the STA, an indication of a resource unit (RU) for the STA to use to transmit an uplink (UL) sensing packet, and TF type subfield, the a TF type subfield indicating the TF for sensing. |
| US11849368B2 |
Apparatus and method for container labeling
An apparatus includes a communication device affixed to or placed within a transport container. The apparatus further includes processing circuitry configured to initiate display, via the communication device, of first routing information indicating a first destination along a geographic route from a first location to a second location and to, in response to a condition indicating movement of the container from the first location to an intermediate location, initiate display, via the at least one communication device, of second routing information indicating a second destination or a final destination that is different than the first destination. |
| US11849367B2 |
Systems, methods, and manufactures for providing network services including mobile services to a location
A method for pooling resources in a mobile network includes allocating baseband resources between a plurality of virtual baseband engines supporting the mobile network, determining a change in a usage of the mobile network, and re-allocating, in response to the change in the usage of the mobile network, the baseband resources between the plurality of virtual baseband engines. |
| US11849365B2 |
Terminal apparatus, method, and integrated circuit
A terminal apparatus for communicating with a base station apparatus is provided. The terminal apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a first message from the base station apparatus, and a processing unit configured to establish a second packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity with a configuration identical to a configuration of a first PDCP entity for a first signaling radio bearer, based on a fact that a first configuration is configured. The first configuration is configured based on the first message. |
| US11849363B2 |
Terminal apparatus, method, and integrated circuit
In a case of using one PDCP entity to communicate with a source cell and a target cell, a terminal apparatus associates, with the PDCP, a radio bearer of the source cell and a radio bearer of the target cell that are associated with an identical EPS bearer identity, and the PDCP manages two keys. |
| US11849360B2 |
Conditional handover (CHO) deconfiguration and failure handling in wireless communications
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for management of conditional handover (CHO) configurations. A source base station may configure a user equipment (UE) with one or more CHO configurations for multiple target base stations. The CHO configurations may provide, for each target base station, one or more associated conditions that may trigger the UE to initiate a handover to the particular target base station, or to deconfigure a CHO configuration, such as based on a measurement threshold of one or more target base station measurements, one or more source base station measurements, or combinations thereof. The CHO configurations may also include failure handling information for initiating one or more subsequent handovers responsive to a failure of an initial handover attempt. |
| US11849355B2 |
Handover optimization using time sensitive communication assistance information
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for handover optimization using time sensitive communication assistance information. The method may include, receiving, from a network element, a handover request message or a context message. At least one of the handover request message or the context message may include time sensitive communication assistance information. The method may also include at least one of performing an admission control procedure based on the time sensitive communication assistance information, and scheduling data transmission with a user equipment based on the time sensitive communication assistance information. |
| US11849351B2 |
Removal of application identifier
A method for operating a user plane entity configured to handle a user plane of data packet sessions exchanged in a cellular network, each data packet session comprising data packet flows of a plurality of applications, the data packet flows of each application being identified by an application identifier, the method includes: determining that a tracking of data packet flows identified by an application identifier should be stopped, determining one or more application detection filters configured to detect data packet flows identified by the application identifier, removing the one or more application detection filters and the application identifier from the user plane entity, and requesting a session control entity configured to control the data packet sessions to remove packet detection rules usable to detect the data packet flows identified by the application identifier, wherein the request includes the application identifier. |
| US11849346B2 |
Unilateral quality-of-service mirroring
An electronic device may receive multiple uplink packets or frames associated with a second electronic device. Then, based at least in part on information included in or associated with the group, the electronic device may unilaterally calculate the QoS of the multiple uplink packets or frames. Moreover, the electronic device may provide the multiple uplink packets of frames to a third electronic device. Next, the electronic device may receive multiple downlink packets or frames associated with the third electronic device. Furthermore, the electronic device may provide the multiple downlink packets or frames to the second electronic device, where additional multiple uplink packets or frames and/or the multiple downlink packets or frames have a priority corresponding to the calculated QoS. |
| US11849345B2 |
Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and method
Provided is a technology related to a terminal apparatus, a base station apparatus, a method, and an integrated circuit capable of reducing complexity of protocol processing, reducing deterioration of phone call quality, and efficiently performing communication. A terminal apparatus for communicating with a base station apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to receive an RRC message from the base station apparatus; and a processing unit configured to configure a packet loss prohibit timer according to a packet loss rate report prohibit timer field included in the RRC message and configured to, based on reception of a report of a packet loss rate from a higher layer and a fact that a packet loss rate report prohibit timer is not running, create a packet loss rate report content, start the packet loss rate report prohibit timer, and perform transmission to the base station apparatus. The packet loss rate report content includes information of a direction for indicating whether the direction is an uplink direction or a downlink direction, and information of the packet loss rate. |
| US11849340B2 |
Information feedback method, device and system
An information feedback method, device and system are provided. The method includes: determining, by a first communication node, feedback information for indicating a status of communication links between the first communication node and a serving communication node, where the feedback information includes at least one of the following: failure information of a first type of transmission link, a request for training signal of transmission modes and/or a request for training signal of receiving modes, and indication information of M preferred transmission links, and the first type of transmission link and the M preferred transmission links include transmission links from the serving communication node to the first communication node, where M is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1; and transmitting, by the first communication node, the feedback information to the serving communication node. The present disclosure solves the problem in the existing art of a low resource utilization rate because a receiving end and a transmitting end cannot learn a communication link failure in time, enables the receiving end and the transmitting end to learn a status of communication links between them in time, and effectively improves the resource utilization rate. |
| US11849338B2 |
Systems and methods for providing cellular network enhancements
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing cellular network enhancements may utilize sensors mounted on or within a cellular base stations to collect information concerning environmental and/or shelter conditions. The collected information may be used by processing devices to predict a future load on a cellular network and may be used to optimize the number of channels needed for a particular base station. The collected information may also be transmitted to electronic devices in a cell coverage area to inform users of the electronic devices of the detected environmental and/or shelter conditions. |
| US11849337B1 |
Method and apparatus for processing bandwidth intensive data streams using virtual media access control and physical layers
A wireless networking system is disclosed. The wireless networking system includes an application layer associated with one or more applications having a wireless bandwidth requirement. A first wireless transceiver resource associated with an actual MAC layer and PHY layer is employed. The first wireless transceiver resource has a first bandwidth availability up to a first actual bandwidth. A second wireless transceiver resource associated with the actual MAC layer and the PHY layer is employed. The second wireless transceiver resource has a second bandwidth availability up to a second actual bandwidth. A processing layer evaluates the wireless bandwidth requirement and the first and second bandwidth availabilities of the wireless transceiver resources. The processing layer includes a bandwidth allocator to allocate at least a portion of each of the first and second actual bandwidths to virtual MAC and virtual PHY layers, and to satisfy the application layer wireless bandwidth requirement. |
| US11849336B2 |
Wireless access point deployment method and apparatus
Embodiments of this application disclose a wireless access point deployment method and apparatus. In the method, after receiving a first operation, a terminal device displays a floor plan determining interface. Then, the terminal device receives a second operation for the floor plan determining interface, and determines a first floor plan based on the second operation. The terminal device determines an AP type recommended to be deployed currently. Next, the terminal device displays an AP deployment interface based on the first floor plan and the AP type, where the AP deployment interface is used to display a quantity of APs recommended to be deployed and locations of the APs recommended to be deployed. |
| US11849333B2 |
System, method, and apparatus for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum management and utilization
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data. |
| US11849330B2 |
Geolocation-based policy rules
A system for providing geolocation-based policy rules is provided. The system includes a policy engine and a memory communicatively coupled to the policy engine. The policy engine is configured to receive geolocation data for a plurality of objects. The policy engine is configured to create, based on the geolocation data, location policy attributes for the plurality of objects. The policy engine is configured to incorporate the location policy attributes into policy rules. The policy rules include rules for accessing the plurality of objects. The policy engine is further configured to execute the policy rules with regard to the plurality of objects. |
| US11849329B2 |
Vehicle authentication apparatus
A vehicle authentication apparatus includes first and second communication devices, first and second area determination devices, and a control execution device. The first communication device specifies a first area as a communication area. The second communication device specifies a second area as the communication area. The first area determination device determines whether the mobile devices are present at the first area based on a communication status of the first communication device with the mobile devices. The second area determination device determines whether at least one of mobile devices is present at the second area based on a communication status of the second communication device with the mobile devices. The control execution device executes predetermined vehicle control in response to determining no mobile devices being present at the first area; and determining at least one of the mobile devices being present at the second area. |
| US11849327B2 |
Bluetooth low energy (BLE) advertising packet security
Secure pairing of computing devices, such as a field tool and a battery-powered device (BPD), may include generating by the BPD a challenge message including a randomly-generated challenge, and receiving at the field tool a challenge message from the BPD via a Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) advertisement message. The challenge message can include a randomly-generated challenge and can be issued in a scannable undirected advertising message. The challenge key can be calculated via a secure hash algorithm (SHA) to obtain a response solution. The response solution can be sent by the field tool to the advertising device in response to the challenge message. The response solution can be verified by the BPD using a cryptographic message authentication code such as an HMAC, and the BPD sends a confirmation message to the field tool indicating that the response solution is verified as correct. |
| US11849318B2 |
Wireless communication network authentication
A method of authenticating a device subscribed to a first wireless communication network on a second wireless communication network, the method including: deriving at a node within the first wireless communication network a set of one or more network keys for the second wireless communication network from one or more network keys of the first wireless communication network that uniquely identify the device within the first wireless communication network; communicating the derived set of one or more network keys to the device; storing a first copy of the derived set of one or more network keys within an identification module at the device and a second copy of the derived set of one or more network keys within a secure area of the device; and authenticating the device on the second wireless communication network using the second copy of the derived set of one or more network keys stored in the secure area of the device. |
| US11849315B2 |
Wireless communications
A method for operating a User Equipment (UE) is disclosed, wherein the UE is served by a source first network function in a first network and requires to register with a target second network function in a second network. The method comprises generating a registration request with integrity protection for at least a part of the registration request, and sending an integrity protected part of the registration request to the source first network function via the target second network function. |
| US11849314B2 |
Selectable tunnel encryption level management for multi access user equipment
A method for ensuring secure wireless communication of a first device in a communication system includes: retrieving information about a type of trustiness of a first communication link of a first access technology and about a type of trustiness of a second communication link of a second access technology, wherein a second device and the first device are configured to communicate data with each other via the first communication link and the second communication link; determining, by a processor of the first device and/or a processor of the second device, security levels based on the information about the type of trustiness of the first communication link and about the type of trustiness of the second communication link. |
| US11849312B2 |
Agent device and method for operating the same
An agent device for assisting one or more users is provided. The agent device supports a first operation mode in which the agent device is configured to identify individual users. Further, the agent device supports a second operation mode in which the agent device is configured to not identify individual users. The agent device includes a receiver circuit configured to receive, from an external device, a signal indicating that a person in the vicinity of the agent device does not want to be identified. Additionally, the agent device includes a control circuit configured to set an operation mode of the agent device to the second operation mode in response to receiving the signal. |
| US11849310B2 |
Synchronized reception in mesh networks
This document describes techniques and devices to synchronize communications between devices in a wireless mesh network. Based on the requirements of an end device that sleeps (e.g., is out of communication with the wireless mesh network) for periods of time, the end device indicates to a parent wireless mesh network device that the end device wants to configure operations in a synchronized-reception mode, which causes the parent device to reply with an indication of the clock accuracy of the parent device. The end device uses the clock accuracy of the parent device to determine parameters for synchronized-reception and transmits the parameters to the parent device. The end device activates its receiver based on the parameters to receive data from the parent device. |
| US11849309B2 |
Wireless communication device for controlling transmission power and operating method thereof
A method of controlling transmission power of a wireless communication device includes obtaining first electromagnetic wave information from the wireless communication device, the first electromagnetic wave information being obtained during a target duration, obtaining electromagnetic wave tendency information in the target duration based on the first electromagnetic wave information and second electromagnetic wave information, the second electromagnetic wave information being obtained during at least one previous duration, and controlling the transmission power based on the electromagnetic wave tendency information. |
| US11849301B2 |
Information processing apparatus and method, and program
The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus and method, and a program that enable more efficient edit.The information processing apparatus includes a control unit that selects and groups a plurality of objects existing in a predetermined space, and changes the positions of the plurality of the objects while maintaining the relative positional relationship of the plurality of the grouped objects in the space. The present technology can be applied to information processing apparatuses. |
| US11849300B2 |
Transfer function modification system and method
A head-related transfer function, HRTF, dataset modification system, the system including an HRTF identifying unit operable to identify a first HRTF from an HRTF dataset, a filter generating unit operable to generate a filter in dependence upon the first HRTF, and an HRTF modification unit operable to modify the first HRTF by applying the generated filter to generate an output HRTF, where the generating comprises the steps of: identifying a spectral response of the first HRTF, identifying a plurality of second HRTFs within the HRTF dataset, each within a predetermined distance of the first HRTF, and a spectral response associated with each of the second HRTFs, generating an average of each of the identified spectral responses of the first and second HRTFs, and generating a filter using the inverse of this average. |
| US11849299B2 |
Media playback based on sensor data
Example techniques relate to playback based on acoustic signals in a system including a first network device and a second network device. A first network device may detect a presence of a user using a camera and/or infrared sensors. The first network device sends, in response to detecting the presence of the user, a particular signal via the first network interface. The second network device receives data corresponding to the particular signal and plays back an audio output corresponding to the particular signal. |
| US11849298B2 |
Diaphragm assembly and loudspeaker module
Disclosed in embodiments of the present disclosure are a diaphragm assembly, a loudspeaker module and an electronic device, the diaphragm assembly including a diaphragm body and an intermediate patch plate, wherein the diaphragm body includes a first diaphragm body and a second diaphragm body; the first diaphragm body is provided with a first hole; the intermediate patch plate includes a first intermediate patch plate; the second diaphragm body at least partially cover the first hole; the first intermediate patch plate is respectively connected to the first diaphragm body and the second diaphragm body; the first intermediate patch plate is configured to have an enclosed structure, or the intermediate patch plate includes a second intermediate patch plate connected to the second diaphragm body, such that the mid-high frequency curves of the loudspeaker module are smoother, thereby effectively improving the mid-high frequency tone quality. |
| US11849297B2 |
Balanced acoustic device with passive radiators
An acoustic device including a first passive radiator structure and a second passive radiator structure is provided. The first passive radiator structure includes a passive diaphragm mechanically coupled to a first enclosure member via a first flexible suspension element, and is configured to vibrate relative to the first enclosure member. The second passive radiator structure includes a second enclosure member, and is configured to vibrate relative to the first enclosure member. The second passive radiator structure further includes a second flexible suspension element mechanically coupled to the first enclosure member and the second enclosure member. The second passive radiator structure further includes an active electro-acoustic transducer mechanically coupled to the second enclosure member. The second passive radiator structure moves when the active electro-acoustic transducer vibrates. A first mass of the first passive radiator structure is less than a second mass of the second passive radiator structure. During operation, the first enclosure member experiences substantially no vibrations. |
| US11849294B2 |
Headrest provided with a system for two-way sound transmission by bone conduction
A sound transmission system for a headrest has a bone conduction speaker and bone conduction microphone mounted on the same printed circuit board. Additional components of the bone conduction two-way sound transmission system, such as a control unit, contact sensors or proximity sensors, and an antenna for communication with external electronic devices can be mounted on the same printed circuit board. |
| US11849291B2 |
Spatially informed acoustic echo cancelation
A plurality of microphone signals can be captured with a plurality of microphones of the device. One or more echo dominant audio signals can be determined based on a pick-up beam directed towards one or more speakers of a playback device. Sound that is emitted from the one or more speakers and sensed by the plurality of microphones can be removed from plurality of microphone signals, by using the one or more echo dominant audio signals as a reference, resulting in clean audio. |
| US11849289B2 |
Electronic device for outputting sound and method for operating the same
According to an embodiment, an electronic device comprises a memory, a communication module, a first speaker including at least one vibration component, at least one first microphone, and a processor configured to output a first sound having a predetermined frequency via the first speaker when a closed space is formed with the electronic device mounted on a cradle, obtain a third sound, which is a reflection of the first sound in the closed space, via the at least one first microphone, obtain a fourth sound, which is a reflection of a second sound in the closed space, via the at least one first microphone, the second sound output from a second speaker included in an external electronic device located in the closed space, and identify whether the performance of the first speaker, the at least one first microphone, and the second speaker is normal, based on the third sound and the fourth sound. |
| US11849288B2 |
Usability and satisfaction of a hearing aid
The present disclosure relates to a method of improving usability of, and satisfaction with, a hearing aid. Further provided is a system comprising a hearing aid, wherein the system is configured to perform the method. |
| US11849281B2 |
Apparatus
An apparatus includes a display member configured to display an image, a front member at a front surface of the display member, a vibration apparatus at a rear surface of the display member, and an adhesive member between the display member and the front member, the adhesive member including a piezoelectric material. |
| US11849277B2 |
Loudspeaker system
A loudspeaker system, having a good low-frequency response without a large box and effectively improving the efficiency of the loudspeaker system, so as to increase the output sound pressure level of the system, comprises a box and a plurality of loudspeakers arranged in the box and connected in parallel with each other, wherein each of the loudspeakers comprises a frame, a diaphragm arranged on the frame, and a voice coil for driving a vibration of the diaphragm; front surfaces of the diaphragms of the loudspeakers are arranged to face each other; a sound cavity is formed among the front surfaces of the diaphragms, and the sound cavity is in communication with the outside of the box; and each of the frames is located between a rear surface of its corresponding diaphragm and an inner wall of the box. |
| US11849272B2 |
Neckband headset, start up method, system, apparatus, and computer medium
A neckband headphone, a method, a system and a device for starting up a neckband headphone, as well as a computer readable storage medium are provided. The neckband headphone according to the present disclosure includes a neckband, a first earbud connected to an end of the neckband, a second earbud connected to another end of the neckband, a detector, and a processor connected to the detector. The detector is configured to acquire state information of the neckband headphone. The processor is configured to: determine whether the neckband headphone is worn based on the state information; control the neckband headphone to wake up when determining that the neckband headphone is worn, and control the neckband headphone to be in a low-power mode when determining that the neckband headphone is not worn. |
| US11849270B2 |
Electronic device with sealing structure
An electronic device may include: a housing including a front plate oriented in a first direction, a rear plate oriented in a second direction opposite the first direction, and a side member enclosing at least a part of a space between the front plate and the rear plate. The electronic device further including a display disposed to be visible through the front plate; a printed circuit board disposed between the display and the rear plate; a support structure having a first face oriented in the first direction and supporting the display and a second face oriented in the second direction and supporting the printed circuit board; a conductive member disposed between the support structure and the rear plate; and a sealing structure disposed between the conductive member and the rear plate, the sealing structure extending along a periphery of the conductive member and formed in a closed curve shape. |
| US11849267B2 |
Apparatus and vehicular apparatus including the same
An apparatus includes a vibration member, a housing at a rear surface of the vibration member, a connection member between the vibration member and the housing, and a vibration apparatus configured to vibrate the vibration member, the vibration member includes at least one flat portion and at least one flexural portion adjacent to the at least one flat portion. |
| US11849259B1 |
Enterprise metaverse management
Examples described herein include systems and methods for managing user interaction within a virtual space. An example method can include installing management software on one or more user devices and requesting a digital ID that represents a combination of a user and at least one user device. The method can further include configuring a virtual reality (“VR”) space including virtual meeting rooms and a notification service. An administrator can set the number of rooms, place virtual objects within each room, and set requirements for entering each room based on the digital IDs. The administrator can also configure a notification service to provide guided notifications to users during their VR experiences. For example, the notification service can utilize the digital ID to identify the appropriate instructions to provide to the user as they are navigating the VR space. |
| US11849258B2 |
Systems and methods for offloading processing-intensive video conferencing task to edge computing device
Systems and methods are described for determining that a conferencing device participating in a video conference via a conferencing server is a mobile device. The mobile device may be performing virtual background processing to generate for display a virtual background during the video conference. Based on a monitored parameter of the mobile device, a determination may be made whether the virtual background processing being performed by the mobile device should be offloaded to an edge computing device. In response to determining the virtual background processing should be offloaded, at least a portion of the virtual background processing being performed by the mobile device may be offloaded to the edge computing device, and the edge computing device may be configured to receive a video feed from the conferencing device, modify the video feed by performing the virtual background processing, and transmit the modified video feed to the conferencing server. |
| US11849255B2 |
Multi-participant live communication user interface
An electronic device is disclosed. The device can display a live video communication user interface of a live video communication application that includes participant affordances corresponding to participants. In response to detecting an input that corresponds to a request to initiate a process of starting a new live communication session, the device can: in accordance with the input corresponding to selection of the first participant affordance, initiate a process of starting a new live communication session that includes a group of three or more participants; and in accordance with the input corresponding to selection of the new session affordance, initiate a process for selecting two or more participants and start a new live communication session that includes a participant associated with the device and the selected participants. |
| US11849247B2 |
Magnetic template with adjustable magnetic force and display device using the same
A magnetic template with adjustable magnetic force is provided. The magnetic template is applied to a display device. The display device can be fixed on a plane by the magnetic template, wherein the magnetic template includes an assembly shell and an adjustment element. A magnetic element is arranged inside the assembly shell. The adjustment element is arranged in the assembly shell and is configured to adjust the magnetic force of the magnetic element relative to the plane or adjust the magnetic force of the magnetic element. |
| US11849246B1 |
Television mounting systems
A mounting system capable of mounting objects to support structures. The mounting system includes a wall mount including a display bracket configured to hold the object, a fixed support bracket coupleable to a vertical support structure, and a linkage assembly. The linkage assembly has a low-profile stowed configuration in which the object is held in a raised position close to the support structure. The linkage assembly moves to another configuration to move the object. The object can be held in a lowered position. A biasing mechanism can facilitate convenient movement of the object. |
| US11849245B2 |
Participation management system for videoconferencing
A method may include receiving a videoconference stream from a client device of a plurality of client devices participating in a videoconference, the videoconference stream comprising video content of a user of the client device and audio content of the user of the client device. The method may also include generating, during the videoconference and based at least in part on at least one of the video content and the audio content, a participation metric for the user of the client device, displaying, to the user and during the videoconference, first information based on the participation metric, updating the participation metric during the videoconference to produce an updated participation metric, and displaying, to the user and during the videoconference, second information based on the updated participation metric. |
| US11849244B2 |
System and method for temporal keying in a camera
A system is provided for capturing a key signal within video frames that includes a camera that captures a sequence of media content of a live scene that includes an electronic display having a higher frame rate than an output frame rate of the camera, and a key signal processor that convert all frames in the sequence of media content to the output frame rate of the camera, analyzes a sequence of frames to determine the key signal based on the electronic display outputting a sequence of frames including media content and at least one key frame included in the sequence, and combine remaining frames of the sequence of frames to create a live output signal. Moreover, the key signal processor determines, for each pixel in the frames, whether the pixel has a set chromaticity, and generates a key mask for each pixel in each frame. |
| US11849243B2 |
Video control apparatus and video control method
A video control apparatus includes a display that displays a video, a capturer that captures a video of a display screen of the display, an area determiner that determines whether or not a second area that displays a video of a display screen that has been previously captured is included in a first area that is an area of a capturing target of the video, and a video generator that generates a video in which the video of the second area is not displayed from a video that has been captured from the first area and displays the generated video on the display if the second area is included in the first area. |
| US11849240B2 |
Dynamically configured processing of a region of interest dependent upon published video data selected by a runtime configuration file
A method of processing first video data of a region of interest from incoming video data includes preprocessing, according to preprocessing parameters defined within a runtime configuration file, incoming video data to create the first video data of the first region of interest and processing, by a computer processor, the first video data to determine at least one output that is indicative of a first inference dependent upon the first video data. The preprocessing parameters that format incoming video data to create the first video data are dependent upon the processing to be performed on the first video data. |
| US11849239B2 |
Photoelectric conversion device and imaging system
The photoelectric conversion device includes a plurality of pixels arranged to form a plurality of columns, a plurality of AD conversion circuits provided corresponding to the plurality of columns, and a control circuit configured to control the AD conversion circuits. The plurality of pixels includes an OB pixel arranged in a first column and an effective pixel arranged in a second column. The plurality of AD conversion circuits each include a first AD conversion circuit including a first comparator receiving a signal of the OB pixel, and a second AD conversion circuit including a second comparator receiving a signal of the effective pixel. The control circuit controls the first and second comparators such that the result of the AD conversion by the first AD conversion circuit is determined earlier than the result of the AD conversion by the second AD conversion circuit for signals of the same level. |
| US11849234B2 |
Imaging device or imaging system
An imaging device with a novel structure is provided. The imaging device includes an imaging region provided with a plurality of pixels. The plurality of pixels included in the imaging region include a first pixel and a second pixel. The imaging device has a function of selecting a first region or a second region. The first region includes the same number of pixels as the second region. The first region includes at least the first and second pixels. The second region includes at least the second pixel. The pixels included in the first region or the second region have a function of outputting imaging signals obtained by the pixels. The imaging device generates first image data by concurrently reading the imaging signals output from the pixels included in the first region and performing arithmetic operation on the signals. The imaging device generates second image data by concurrently reading the imaging signals output from the pixels included in the second region and performing arithmetic operation on the signals. A first conceptual image can be generated with the use of the first image data and the second image data. |
| US11849230B2 |
Digital-to-analog converter, analog-to-digital converter, signal processing device, solid-state imaging device, and driving method
A digital-to-analog converter comprising: a plurality of capacitances and a plurality of switches. A capacitance among the plurality of capacitances, of which the number corresponds to the resolution of the analog signal to be output, is used as a voltage value generation capacitance, so as to generate a voltage value based on the reference voltage to be added or subtracted, by switching a node to which the second terminal is connected by a corresponding switch. A remaining capacitance, which is not used as the voltage value generation capacitance among the plurality of capacitances, is used as a gain adjustment capacitance, so as to adjust gain of a voltage value based on the reference voltage to be added or subtracted, by holding a node to which the second terminal is connected by a corresponding switch. |
| US11849229B2 |
Image capturing apparatus having photon detection and control method therefor
An image capturing apparatus includes M detection elements, a readout circuit, and a control pulse providing circuit. Each of the M detection elements includes a detection pixel configured to detect incidence of a photon and a generation circuit configured to generate a readout request and data based on the detection of the photon in the detection pixel. The readout circuit is configured to receive the readout request and the data from each of the M detection elements. The control pulse providing circuit is configured to provide a control pulse to the M detection elements and the readout circuit. The readout circuit determines the generation circuit corresponding to the readout request and a generation timing at which the readout request is generated, based on a counter value of the time counter and the number of delay cycles included in the data corresponding to the received readout request. |
| US11849226B2 |
Image processing device including neural network processor and operating method thereof
An image processing device includes: an image sensor configured to generate first image data by using a color filter array; and processing circuitry configured to select a processing mode from a plurality of processing modes for the first image data, the selecting being based on information about the first image data; generate second image data by reconstructing the first image data using a neural network processor based on the processing mode; and generate third image data by post-processing the second image data apart from the neural network processor based on the processing mode. |
| US11849219B2 |
Image pickup device and electronic apparatus with an image plane phase difference detection pixel
The present disclosure relates to an image pickup device that enables inhibition of occurrence of color mixture or noise, and an electronic apparatus. The image pickup device of the present disclosure includes an image plane phase difference detection pixel for obtaining a phase difference signal for image plane phase difference AF. The image plane phase difference detection pixel includes: a first photoelectric conversion section that generates an electric charge in response to incident light; an upper electrode section that is one of electrodes disposed facing each other across the first photoelectric conversion section, the upper electrode section being formed on an incident side of the incident light on the first photoelectric conversion section; and a lower electrode section that is another of the electrodes disposed facing each other across the first photoelectric conversion section, the lower electrode section being formed on an opposite side of the incident side of the incident light on the first photoelectric conversion section, the lower electrode section being multiple-divided at a position that avoids a center of the incident light. The present disclosure is applicable to image sensors. |
| US11849218B2 |
Lens apparatus, image pickup apparatus, camera apparatus, controlling method, and computer-readable storage medium
A lens apparatus is provided that includes: an optical member; a driving device configured to drive the optical member; and a controller configured to control the driving device based on a first learned model, wherein the first learned model is a learned model obtained by learning with respect to the lens apparatus using a second learned model as an initial learned model, the second learned model being obtained by learning with respect to an apparatus different from the lens apparatus. |
| US11849217B2 |
Image pickup apparatus used as action camera, calibration system, control method for image pickup apparatus, and storage medium storing control program for image pickup apparatus
An image pickup apparatus that is capable of eliminating change of an image pickup direction by a user during an image pickup operation and of easily obtaining an image that records experience while focusing attention on the experience. An observation direction detection unit is worn on a body part other than a head of a user and detects an observation direction of the user. An image pickup unit is worn on a body and picks up an image. A recording direction determination unit determines a recording direction using a detection result of the observation direction detection unit. A deviation detection unit detects a deviation of the image pickup apparatus with respect to the body. An image recording unit records a part of the image picked up by the image pickup unit in a recording area that is determined in accordance with the recording direction and the deviation. |
| US11849216B2 |
Imaging apparatus detecting a pupil in moving and still images
An imaging apparatus includes: a detection unit that detects a pupil in a captured image; an autofocus control unit that executes a pupil autofocus control to perform autofocus on the pupil detected by the detection unit according to a predetermined operation in a still image capturing mode, and executes a pupil autofocus control when the pupil is detected by the detection unit in a moving image capturing mode; and a display control unit that performs a control to display a pupil frame indicating the pupil that is in focus on the captured monitor image when focusing is achieved by the pupil autofocus control. |
| US11849213B2 |
Parallel preview stream and callback stream processing method and device
Embodiments of this application provide a callback stream processing method and a device, and relate to the field of electronic technologies. In a callback stream scenario, an electronic device may set a preview stream and a callback stream in parallel. After an application sets a callback function, the electronic device may directly return, by using the callback function, callback stream data to the application for processing. This can shorten a time consumed for creating a preview stream and a callback stream, shorten a time consumed for obtaining callback stream data, and shorten a user waiting time. |
| US11849210B2 |
Photographing method and terminal
A method includes detecting a first operation from a user to start a camera of an electronic device, when a display of the electronic device is unfolded to a plane state, starting a camera application, displaying a preview interface in a first display area of the display, where the preview interface includes a viewfinder frame, and the viewfinder frame includes a first picture, detecting a second operation from the user to indicate photographing, controlling the camera to perform a photographing action to generate a first multimedia file, simultaneously displaying the preview interface and a gallery application interface in the first display area of the display, where the gallery application interface displays the first multimedia file, and the gallery application interface includes a deletion control, detecting a deletion operation from the user, deleting the first multimedia file, and displaying the preview interface in the first display area of the display. |
| US11849209B2 |
Dynamically operating a camera based on a location of the camera
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for dynamically operating a camera based on a location of the camera. A definition of a user-defined region and a set of rules for operating a camera within the user-defined region are obtained from a user. How to operate the camera within the user-defined region is then determined based on the set of rules. After receiving the definition of the user-defined region, it is determined whether the camera is located within the user-defined region, and upon determining that the camera is located within the user-defined region, the camera is to begin operation in accordance with the set of rules. |
| US11849204B2 |
Vehicular camera assembly process using laser brazing during active focus and alignment to secure lens relative to imager
A vehicular camera includes a lens barrel having a lens, a front camera housing having an aperture therethrough, and an imager printed circuit board (imager PCB) having an imager. The imager PCB is attached at the front camera housing with the imager aligned with the aperture. An attaching portion of the lens barrel is positioned at least partially in the aperture of the front camera housing with a gap between the attaching portion and the front camera housing that circumscribes the attaching portion. With the attaching portion positioned at least partially in the aperture, a filler material is disposed at least partially within the gap. After the lens is aligned relative to the imager, the filler material is heated to melt and flow into the gap, whereby the melted filler material hardens upon cooling to secure the lens barrel relative to the front camera housing and the imager PCB. |
| US11849199B2 |
Glass rear cover, electronic device and method of manufacturing glass rear cover
A glass rear cover includes a light-transmitting region. The light-transmitting region at least partially overlaps with a camera assembly in a thickness direction of the glass rear cover. The light-transmitting region allows light out of the glass rear cover to pass through the light-transmitting region to enter the camera assembly. The glass rear cover includes a first predetermined region and a second predetermined region. The first predetermined region is configured close to the light-transmitting region, and a strength of the first predetermined region is less than a strength of the second predetermined region. Therefore, when the glass rear cover is stressed, an extension direction of the crack on the glass rear cover is turned at the first predetermined region without reaching the light-transmitting region, avoiding the impact on image capturing of the camera assembly. |
| US11849198B2 |
Outdoor camera assembly
The various implementations described herein include a video camera assembly that includes: (1) a housing; (2) an image sensor encased in the housing and configured to capture activity of the smart home environment; (3) a wireless radio configured to transmit video frames captured by the image sensor to an electronic device via a remote server; (4) at least one infrared transmitter configured to selectively illuminate the smart home environment; (5) one or more circuit boards encased in the housing, the one or more circuit boards including at least one processor mounted thereon; and (6) a heating component coupled to the image sensor, the heating component configured to continuously maintain the image sensor at a temperature above a threshold temperature while the image sensor is capturing the activity of the smart home environment. |
| US11849197B2 |
Camera assembly with waterproof features
This application is directed to a surveillance camera system including a magnet mount for physically receiving a camera module. The camera module includes a housing having an exterior surface of a first shape. A surface of the magnet mount has a second shape that is substantially concave and complementary to the first shape, and is configured to engage the exterior surface of the housing of the camera module. A magnetic material is disposed inside the magnet mount and configured to magnetically couple to a magnetic material of the camera module. A friction pad is embedded on the surface of the magnet mount, has a substantially concave shape and protrudes beyond the second surface. The friction pad is configured to come into contact with the exterior surface of the housing of the camera module at least via a peripheral edge of the substantially concave friction pad. |
| US11849193B2 |
Methods, systems, and apparatuses to respond to voice requests to play desired video clips in streamed media based on matched close caption and sub-title text
Methods, Systems, and Apparatuses are described to implement voice search in media content for requesting media content of a video clip of a scene contained in the media content streamed to the client device; for capturing the voice request for the media content of the video clip to display at the client device wherein the streamed media content is a selected video streamed from a video source; for applying a NLP solution to convert the voice request to text for matching to a set of one or more words contained in at least close caption text of the selected video; for associating matched words to close caption text with a start index and an end index of the video clip contained in the selected video; and for streaming the video clip to the client device based on the start index and the end index associated with matched closed caption text. |
| US11849192B2 |
Methods and systems for implementing an elastic cloud based voice search using a third-party search provider
Systems and methods are described to provide voice search in an elastic cloud environment communicating with a set-top box (STB) by receiving by a voice cloud search server pulse-code modulation (PCM) audio packets transmitted from the STB; sending the PCM audio packets to a natural language processing (NLP) service for converting to text; sending the text sets to an elastic voice cloud search server for querying an electronic program guide (EPG) service, channel and program data associated with the text set wherein the EPG service to at least return identified channel and program data; in response to an identified return of channel and television program data, sending sets of text to a third-party search service for performing an independent search for related data and returning search results of video and image content which is then stripped of dynamic scripts to return to the STB. |
| US11849189B2 |
Video distribution system, storage medium used therefor, and control method
Provided is a video distribution system with which it is possible to improve the motivation of participants with respect to an event that is distributed as a recorded video. A video distribution system is connected via a network to user terminal devices, and distributes a recorded video obtained by recording status of a game event in which a plurality of participants participating therein, to the user terminal devices. And the video distribution system increases the prize money amount set for the game event according to selection of an amount increase option executed by each user via the user terminal device so as to be associated with the recorded video, and decides the individual prize money amount to be awarded to a target participant P based on the prize money amount at the end of a predetermined period. |
| US11849187B2 |
System, device, and processes for intelligent start playback of program content
Systems, devices, and processes are provided to facilitate the streaming of a playback of a recorded program in a video playback recording system. These systems, devices, and processes provide operating the cloud-based DVR in a recording mode for user selection of program content for recordation in a video playback file by the cloud-based DVR wherein the video playback file containing the program content is recorded by the user selection beginning with a start time associated with the DVR event file; and generating a manifest file that contains a program marker of a start time of the program content omitting any recorded commercial content at a beginning of the video playback file associated by beginning of the recording from the start time associated with the DVR event file. |
| US11849184B2 |
System for dynamic multimedia analysis, matching and decision-making
A system and method to dynamically analyze digital media and select multimedia assets or items to render with correlated IP-connected media and apps. Hierarchical Taxonomy, Engagement-based and Neural-based asset matching is rendered with rule-based and Diminishing Perspective decision-making. A user can listen, view and interact with the correlated and rendered material using an input device native to the computing device being used to access the IP-connected media. Embodiments extract features from the digital media. The extracted features are semantically analyzed for an understanding of characteristics associated with the respective features. Topics are extracted from the digital media based on the characteristics. Stored assets are correlated to the extracted topics to select an asset based on characteristics of the extracted topics correlating with the selected asset. The selected asset is rendered with the digital media. |
| US11849183B2 |
Video security system
A system and method to tag portions of a video with an access-control-list (ACL) for those periods of time (e.g., video segments, series of video frames, etc.) within a video that require elevated permission to view or access is provided. At playback time, the access-control-list is dynamically enforced in real-time to ensure that a user viewing or editing the video has permissions to view upcoming portions of the video. When a user has insufficient permission to view a portion of the video, a filler frame, blurred content or blank frame is displayed in the place of the actual video content. Audio may also be muted or beeped out during the periods of the video for which there is insufficient permissions. |
| US11849174B2 |
Systems and methods for pre-caching media content
Methods, systems and devices to stream media content are described. A user interface is presented to a user via a media device. When the media device has determined that an interaction with the user interface has occurred (e.g., the user has begun scrolling through a list, or has performed a keyword search), the media device requests, from a media content source, a subset of first media content based on the interaction with the user interface and prior to selection of the first media content via the user interface. The subset of first media content is then displayed in response to the selection of the first media content. |
| US11849173B1 |
Computer-implemented methods for quality of service optimization using a content adaptive slate image
Techniques for a quality of service optimization using a content adaptive slate image in a media player application are described. According to some embodiments, a computer-implemented method includes sending a request for a video from a client device to a content delivery service that is separate from the client device; receiving, by the client device from the content delivery service, a manifest of the video and an intro slate separate from the manifest and separate from the video; displaying the intro slate on the client device; loading an initial frame of the video identified by the manifest onto the client device concurrently with the displaying of the intro slate; and displaying the video on the client device after the displaying of the intro slate. |
| US11849172B1 |
Latency compensation for external networks
A new configuration associated with a plurality of sources and/or a plurality of sinks is detected. Data associated with a plurality of sources is transmitted to the plurality of sinks via a plurality of networks including at least one external network. A latency adjustment value associated with the plurality of sinks is determined. The latency adjustment value is transmitted to a latency agent that adjusts latency introduced by the external network. |
| US11849166B2 |
Transmitting method, receiving method, transmitting device, and receiving device
A transmitting method according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes transmitting a first stream, the first stream including: timing update identification information id1 indicating whether or not a correspondence relationship between a first reference clock and a second reference clock has been updated, the first reference clock being used to transmit and receive the first stream, and the second reference clock being used to transmit and receive a second stream related to another content to be reproduced in synchronization with the content related to the first stream; a first time according to the first reference clock; and a second time according to the second reference clock, the second time being associated with the first time based on the updated correspondence relationship. |
| US11849162B2 |
Systems and methods for optimizing bandwidth for data transmission
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for optimizing bandwidth for broadcast transmission. The disclosed techniques herein provide for receiving first and second content for transmission to subscriber devices on a first and second channels. The system then determines whether the first and second content contain a common segment. If so, the system updates metadata schema (e.g., homogeneous channel descriptor, homogeneous switch descriptor) to indicate there is a common segment. The system may generate a transport stream during multiplexing of the first and second channels based on the updated metadata schema. The transport stream, for a time duration based on the at least one common segment, includes a first audio feed of the first content and a first video feed of the first content to be provided on the second channel. The system then transmits the transport stream to the one or more subscriber devices. |
| US11849160B2 |
Image analysis system
A method of using applications of pattern recognition or image analysis is disclosed. A request for a content item is received. A version of the content item is selected from a plurality of versions of the content item based on one or more applications of one or more algorithms. The one or more algorithms include one or more image-analysis algorithms, pattern-recognition algorithms, or genetic algorithms. One or more of the plurality of versions has undergone transformation into a plurality of combinations of content segments that comprise the plurality of versions. The one or more algorithms target one or more success rates with respect to one or more metrics. The selected version of the content item is communicated to the device of the user in response to the request. |
| US11849159B2 |
Video distribution apparatus, video distribution method and program
A video streaming device that divides a video in which a plurality of viewing directions are defined into divided data pieces and distributes each of the divided data pieces in a chronological order. The video streaming device includes: a prediction unit that refers to information indicating the viewing direction of a viewer for each of the divided data pieces with respect to multiple views of the video in the past, and predicts, for a terminal playing the video, the viewing direction of a user of the terminal in a first divided data piece that is undistributed; and a streaming unit that distributes the first divided data piece to the terminal by setting an area corresponding to the viewing direction predicted by the prediction unit to be in a relatively high image quality among selectable image qualities. Thereby, probability of viewing the video of a low image quality is decreased. |
| US11849158B2 |
Systems and methods for facilitating adaptive content splicing
Systems, methods, and machine-readable media for adaptive content splicing with respect to content corresponding to a televised event are disclosed. First content may be received and may be determined to correspond to an event that is televised. One or more indicators of one or more state changes with respect to the event may be detected. A content composite may be created. An adaptable content item received from a first system may be processed. A content object re may be processed. The adaptable content item may be modified based at least in part on the content object to form the content composite. The creating the content composite may be a function of rules mapped to a current geolocation. Second content corresponding to the programming content may be received. The second content may be output for display in conjunction with the content composite. |
| US11849157B2 |
Systems and methods for live streaming
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for live streaming. The system may receive a play request associated with a live stream from a terminal device. The system may determine whether there are one or more cached fragments associated with the live stream, wherein the one or more cached fragments are cached from a stream source via a first protocol. In response to determining that there are one or more cached fragments associated with the live stream, the system may determine whether the play request is a request that the terminal device requests the live stream for the first time. In response to determining that the play request is the request that the terminal device requests the live stream for the first time, after a caching of a current fragment is completed, the system may transmit an index file corresponding to the current fragment and at least one of the one or more cached fragments to the terminal device via a second protocol. |
| US11849154B2 |
Sample adaptive offset (SAO) parameter signaling
Techniques for signaling of sample adaptive offset (SAO) information that may reduce the coding rate for signaling such information in the compressed bit stream are provided. More specifically, techniques are provided that allow SAO information common to two or more of the color components to be signaled using one or more syntax elements (flags or indicators) representative of the common information. These techniques reduce the need to signal SAO information separately for each color component. |
| US11849151B2 |
Syntax design method and apparatus for performing coding by using syntax
An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus according to the present disclosure comprises the steps of: decoding, on the basis of a bitstream, an affine flag that indicates whether affine prediction is applicable to a current block and a sub-block TMVP flag that indicates whether a temporal motion vector predictor based on a sub-block of the current block is usable; determining whether to decode a predetermined merge mode flag that indicates whether to apply a predetermined merge mode to the current block, on the basis of the decoded affine flag and the decoded sub-block TMVP flag; deriving prediction samples of the current block on the basis of the determining of whether to decode the predetermined merge mode flag; and generating reconstructed samples of the current block based on the prediction samples of the current block. |
| US11849150B2 |
High level control of filtering in video coding
Several techniques for video encoding and video decoding are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between a video picture of a video comprising one or more slices and a bitstream of the video picture according to a rule. The rule specifies that that whether a first syntax element indicating a usage of a coding tool is present at a first level is based on a syntax flag indicating whether a syntax structure of a second level is not present at the first level, wherein the second level is higher than the first level, and wherein the second level is the video picture level or higher than the video picture level. |
| US11849144B2 |
Signaling of state information for a decoded picture buffer and reference picture lists
Innovations for signaling state of a decoded picture buffer (“DPB”) and reference picture lists (“RPLs”). In example implementations, rather than rely on internal state of a decoder to manage and update DPB and RPLs, state information about the DPB and RPLs is explicitly signaled. This permits a decoder to determine which pictures are expected to be available for reference from the signaled state information. For example, an encoder determines state information that identifies which pictures are available for use as reference pictures (optionally considering feedback information from a decoder about which pictures are available). The encoder sets syntax elements that represent the state information. In doing so, the encoder sets identifying information for a long-term reference picture (“LTRP”), where the identifying information is a value of picture order count least significant bits for the LTRB. The encoder then outputs the syntax elements as part of a bitstream. |
| US11849143B2 |
Image decoding method and apparatus based on motion prediction using merge candidate list in image coding system
An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus according to the present document includes constituting a candidate list for deriving motion information of a sub-block unit for a current block, wherein the merge candidate list includes constructed candidates; deriving control point motion vectors (CPMVs) for control points (CPs) of the current block based on the merge candidate list; deriving prediction samples for the current block based on the CPMVs; and generating a reconstructed picture for the current block based on the derived prediction samples, wherein the constructed candidates are derived based on combination of at least two of a first neighboring block in a first group, a second neighboring block in a second group, a third neighboring block in a third group and a fourth neighboring block, and the first neighboring block, the second neighboring block and the third neighboring block and the fourth neighboring block constituting the combination have the same reference picture index. |
| US11849140B2 |
Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding video using inter-prediction
A video decoding apparatus is provided for decoding pictures using inter-prediction. The video decoding apparatus includes a predictor that generates affine prediction samples for respective subblocks in a target block in a current picture to be decoded by performing affine motion prediction on a subblock-by-subblock basis using control point motion vectors which respectively correspond to corners of the target block. The predictor also modifies sample values of the affine prediction samples by executing a first coding tool, the first coding tool compensating for motion according to sample positions in each of the subblocks using the control point motion vectors. |
| US11849139B2 |
Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method
An encoder that encodes a video includes circuitry and memory connected to the circuitry. In operation, the circuitry: generates a prediction image on a per sub-block basis; and when a sub-block size is 4×4, applies a boundary smoothing process only to sub-block boundaries having boundary positions that are integer multiples of 8. |
| US11849136B2 |
Constraints on number of subpicture in a video picture
Several techniques for video encoding and video decoding are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between a video and a bitstream of the video according to a rule. The rule specifies that a subpicture sequence includes (1) all subpictures within the target CVSs that have a same subpicture index and belong to layers in the multi-subpicture layers, and (2) all subpictures in the target CVSs that have a subpicture index of 0 and belong to layers of the OLSs but not in the multi-subpicture layers. |
| US11849135B2 |
Systems and methods for signaling picture order count values for pictures included in coded video
A video device to determine picture count information for decoding video pictures is provided. The video device decodes a picture order count (POC) most significant bit (MSB) first flag that indicates whether a POC MSB second flag is present. When the POC MSB second flag is present, the video device decodes the POC MSB second flag indicating whether a POC MSB cycle element is present. When the POC MSB cycle element is present, the video device decodes the POC MSB cycle element that specifies a value of a POC MSB cycle. The value of the POC MSB cycle is used to compute a POC MSB value that is combined with a POC least significant bit (LSB) value to produce a POC value used for decoding a first video picture, and a length of the POC LSB value is based on a maximum POC LSB minus four value. |
| US11849132B2 |
Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus using inter prediction
An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus of the present invention may derive motion information of a current block, and perform motion compensation for the current block on the basis of the motion information. The motion information of the current block is derived on the basis of an inter-mode predefined in an encoding/decoding apparatus, and the predefined inter-mode may include at least one of a merge mode, an AMVP mode, an affine mode, or an intra block copy (IBC) mode. |
| US11849130B2 |
Low latency video codec and transmission with parallel processing
Methods and devices for a parallel multi-processor encoder system for encoding video data. The video data comprises a sequence of frames, wherein each frame comprises a plurality of blocks of pixels in sequential rows. For each frame, the system divides the plurality of blocks into a plurality of subsets of blocks, wherein each subset of blocks is allocated to a respective processor of the parallel multi-processor system. Each respective processor of the parallel multi-processor system may sequentially encode rows of the subset of blocks allocated to the respective processor and sequentially transmit each encoded row of blocks as a bit stream to a decoder on a channel. For each row, the respective encoded row of blocks is transmitted to the decoder for each processor prior to transmission of the next sequential respective encoded row of blocks for any processor. Additionally, a similar parallel multi-processor decoder system is described. |
| US11849128B2 |
Dynamic control for a machine learning autoencoder
An autoencoder is configured to encode content at different quality levels. The autoencoder includes an encoding system and a decoding system with neural network layers forming an encoder network and a decoder network. The encoder network and decoder network are configured to include branching paths through the networks that include different subnetworks. During deployment, content is provided to the encoding system with a quality signal indicating a quality at which the content can be reconstructed. The quality signal determines which of the paths through the encoder network are activated for encoding the content into one or more tensors, which are compressed into a bitstream and later used by the decoding system to reconstruct the content. The autoencoder is trained by randomly or systematically selecting different combinations of tensors to use to encode content and backpropagating error values from loss functions through the network paths associated with the selected tensors. |
| US11849123B2 |
Method and apparatus of starting picture display of display device, and display device
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus of starting a picture display of a display device, and a display device. The display device includes a display panel. The method includes: receiving a first video data for an image display, in response to receiving a start signal; setting display parameters of the display panel by using a control data in the first video data; and transmitting a second video data to the display panel for a LOGO display. |
| US11849121B2 |
Inter-prediction method and image decoding device
Disclosed are an inter-prediction method and an video decoding device. One embodiment of the present invention provides an inter-prediction method executed in an video decoding device, including deriving a motion vector of a current block based on motion information decoded from a bitstream; acquiring reference samples of a first reference block by using the motion vector, wherein reference samples of an external region located outside a reference picture among the first reference block are acquired from a corresponding region corresponding to the external region within the reference picture; and predicting the current block based on the acquired reference samples. |
| US11849120B2 |
Image decoding method using context-coded sign flag in image coding system and apparatus therefor
An image decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present document comprises the steps of: deriving a context model for a sign flag of a current residual coefficient of a current block; and decoding the sign flag on the basis of the context model, wherein the context model for the sign flag is derived on the basis of a sign flag of a residual coefficient decoded before the current residual coefficient in the current block. |
| US11849117B2 |
Methods, apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium for cross-component sample adaptive offset
The present disclosure provides a video data processing method for cross-component sample adaptive offset (CCSAO). The method includes determining an index based on a vertical coordinate of a chroma sample within a picture; determining a luma sample based on the index; classifying the chroma sample based on a reconstructed value associated with the luma sample; determining an offset based on the classification; and adding the offset to a reconstructed value associated with the chroma sample. |
| US11849107B2 |
Method and apparatus of quantizing coefficients for matrix-based intra prediction technique
A method of intra prediction of a block, comprising obtaining two lines of reconstructed neighboring samples; deriving a set of reference samples based on the two lines of reconstructed neighboring samples; obtaining a set of MIP coefficients based on a intra prediction mode obtained from a bitstream, wherein a MIP coefficient CMIP of the set of MIP coefficients is obtained based on CMIP=vsgn·(q< |
| US11849105B2 |
Estimating real-time delay of a video data stream
In an arrangement where a physical phenomenon affects a digital video camera and is measured or sensed by a sensor, a delay of a digital video stream from the digital video camera is estimated. The digital video stream is processed by a video processor for producing a signal that represents the changing over time of the effect of the physical phenomenon on the digital video camera. The signal is then compared with the sensor output signal, such as by using cross-correlation or cross-convolution, for estimating the time delay between the compared signals. The estimated time delay may be used for synchronizing when combining additional varied data to the digital video stream for low-error time alignment. The physical phenomenon may be based on mechanical position or motion, such as pitch, yaw, or roll. The time delay estimating may be performed once, upon user control, periodically, or continuously. |
| US11849104B2 |
Multi-resolution multi-view video rendering
A device and method for video rendering. The device includes a memory and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to receive, from a source device, video data including multiple reference viewpoints, determine a target image plane corresponding to a target viewpoint, determine, within the target image plane, one or more target image regions, and determine, for each target image region, a proxy image region larger than the corresponding target image region. The electronic processor is configured to determine, for each target image region, a plurality of reference pixels that fit within the corresponding proxy image region, project, for each target image region, the plurality of reference pixels that fit within the corresponding proxy image region to the target image region, producing a rendered target region from each target image region, and composite one or more of the rendered target regions to create video rendering. |
| US11849100B2 |
Information processing apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer readable medium
An information processing apparatus includes: a processor; and a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the information processing apparatus to obtain an image and correction information on a first optical system and a second optical system, the image including a first area corresponding to a first image inputted via the first optical system and a second area corresponding to a second image inputted via the second optical system having a predetermined parallax with respect to the first optical system; execute correcting processing of correcting, based on the correction information, positions of a pixel included in the first area and a pixel included in the second area in the image, and generate a processed image by executing processing of transforming the corrected first area and the corrected second area. |
| US11849099B2 |
Multi-view image fusion by image space equalization and stereo-based rectification from two different cameras
Methods to solve the problem of performing fusion of images acquired with two cameras with different type sensors, for example a visible (VIS) digital camera and an short wave infrared (SWIR) camera, include performing image space equalization on images acquired with the different type sensors before performing rectification and registration of such images in a fusion process. |
| US11849091B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and method for information processing apparatus
A configuration is provided in which in a case where a user operation is performed on an image forming apparatus or a data processing apparatus while the image forming apparatus and the data processing apparatus are operating in cooperation with each other, the automatic clearing timers of both the apparatuses are reset. |
| US11849086B2 |
Image processing apparatus capable of extracting portion of document image specified by preset index and subjecting character string in extracted portion to processing associated with index
An image processing apparatus includes an image input device and a control device. An image of an original document is input to the image input device. The control device functions as a controller. The controller identifies a preset index contained in the image of the original document input to the image input device, extracts from the image of the original document a portion of the image specified by the index, recognizes a character string in the extracted portion, and subjects the recognized character string to processing associated with the index to generate edition information. |
| US11849081B2 |
Solid state imaging device, method of manufacturing solid-state imaging device, and electronic apparatus
The present technique aims to provide a solid-state imaging device that reduces shading and color mixing between pixels. The present invention also provides a method of manufacturing the solid-state imaging device. The present technique further relates to a solid-state imaging device that enables provision of an electronic apparatus that uses the solid-state imaging device, a method of manufacturing the solid-state imaging device, and an electronic apparatus. The solid-state imaging device includes a substrate, pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit formed in the substrate, and a color filter layer formed on the light incidence surface side of the substrate. The solid-state imaging device also includes a device isolating portion that is formed to divide the color filter layer and the substrate for the respective pixels, and has a lower refractive index than the refractive indexes of the color filter layer and the substrate. |
| US11849079B2 |
Systems and methods to generate metadata for content
Systems and methods are described herein for generating metadata for content. Upon detecting a request for a stored media asset from a first device, a server determines that metadata is needed for the media asset based on determining that (a) the server has access to insufficient metadata associated with the media asset and (b) the popularity of the media asset is sufficiently high. The server then assigns at least a time segment of the media asset to the first device for analysis. After assignment, the first device gathers frame analysis and user input data while the user is viewing the media asset, and transmits the gathered data to the server. The server then uses the frame analysis data and the user input data to generate metadata, and makes the generated metadata available to all devices requesting the media asset. |
| US11849078B2 |
Methods and systems for dynamic media content
Methods and systems are provided for presenting media content capable of being dynamically adapted. One method involves analyzing content of a media program to identify a replaceable object at a spatial location within the content at a temporal location within the content, analyzing the spatial location of the content corresponding to the replaceable object within the content to identify one or more attributes of the replaceable object, identifying a substitute object based at least in part on the one or more attributes associated with the replaceable object, augmenting the temporal location of the content to include the substitute object at the spatial location within the content in lieu of the replaceable object, and providing the augmented version of the content to a media player for presentation. |
| US11849077B1 |
Video coding using a coded picture buffer
Interpolation between explicitly signaled CPB (or HRD) parameters at selected bit rates is used to achieve a good compromise between CPB parameter transmission capacity and CPB parametrization effectiveness and may be, particularly, made in an effective manner. |
| US11849075B2 |
Method and apparatus for processing video signal based on history based motion vector prediction
The disclosure discloses a method for processing video signals and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, the method of processing video signals based on inter prediction, comprising: configuring a merge candidate list based on a spatial neighboring block and a temporal neighboring block to a current block; adding a history-based merge candidate of the current block to the merge candidate list; obtaining a merge index indicating a merge candidate used for an inter prediction of the current block within the merge candidate list; generating a prediction sample of the current block based on motion information of the merge candidate indicated by the merge index; and updating a history-based merge candidate list based on the motion information. |
| US11849072B2 |
Method and system for automating conferencing in a communication session
Methods and system for automating conferencing in a communication session are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for automating conferencing in a communication session includes establishing a communication session between a first end-user device and a second end-user device; receiving a first notification message from the first end-user device indicating that the communication session is at least one of visible or joinable by one or more devices associated with the first end-user device, wherein the one or more devices are associated with the first end-user device when the one or more devices are one of (i) pre-registered and stored with an association to the first end-user device, (ii) pre-authenticated to tether the one or more devices to the first end-user device, or (iii) pre-associated with a same user account profile; and sending a second notification message to the one or more devices associated with the first end-user device. |
| US11849071B2 |
Template-based management of telecommunications services
Certain aspects of the disclosure are directed to template-based management of telecommunications services. According to a specific example, a server is provided comprising one or more computer processor circuits configured to interface with a remotely-situated client entity using a first programming language. The server includes a call control engine that is configured to provide a private branch exchange (PBX) for the client entity, and identify a call control template written in a second programming language. The call control engine is further configured to control call routing by the PBX, by executing the call control template to identify at least one data source that corresponds to a call property for the VoIP telephone call, retrieve data from the data source, and implement one or more call processing functions specified by the call control template as being conditional upon the retrieved data. |
| US11849067B2 |
Method for playing multimedia customized ringing signal and customized alerting tone, and application server
One example method for playing a multimedia customized ringing signal and customized alerting tone includes receiving, by an application server, an initial call request from a calling terminal, sending the initial call request to a called terminal, receiving a provisional response in response to the initial call request from the called terminal, determining customized ring signal media resource information based on the provisional response, sending a first media session update message that carries the customized ring signal media resource information to the called terminal; and receiving a first response from the called terminal, where the initial call request includes SDP information of the calling terminal, and the first response includes a result of a customized ringing signal media resource negotiation between the application server and the called terminal. |
| US11849064B1 |
Techniques for detecting calling anomalies in inbound call traffic in telecommunications networks
Methods identifying inbound call traffic anomalies in a telecommunications system are provided. The method includes receiving expected values for data related to the telecommunications system, the data being associated with call detail records; for each metric in the received data, determining if an observed value is outside defined upper and lower thresholds; selecting a set of residuals based on an aggregation of data in the call detail records if the observed value is outside the defined upper and lower thresholds; computing an anomaly score based the selected set of residuals; determining if multiple, serial anomalous alerting windows are needed to create an alert if the computed anomaly score is greater than a minimum anomaly score; and declaring that the data supports an anomaly in the inbound call traffic if it is determined that multiple, serial anomalous alerting windows are not needed to create an alert. |
| US11849061B2 |
Mobile system with wireless earbud
The disclosure herein provides a mobile system including a mobile base station and a wireless earbud. The base station comprising a connection hole, a user input button, at least one processor, at least one memory, and circuitry. The wireless earbud is configured for plugging into the connection hole of the base station to form an integrated body with the base station. The system establishes a wireless Bluetooth pairing between a smartphone and the wireless earbud using two-way wireless communication to produce Bluetooth communication between the smartphone and the wireless earbud. |
| US11849059B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device includes: a display panel having a first area and a second area, the second area being spaced apart from the first area in a first direction; a support plate under the display panel, the support plate including: a folding part configured to be folded about a folding axis extending in a second direction crossing the first direction; a first support part extending from the folding part in the first direction; and a second support part spaced apart from the first support part with the folding part therebetween; a first plate spaced apart from the first area of the display panel with the support plate therebetween; and an input sensor spaced apart from the second area of the display panel with the support plate therebetween and configured to sense an external input. The first plate and the input sensor face each other. |
| US11849054B2 |
Integrated circuit for physically unclonable function and method of operating the same
An integrated circuit for a physically unclonable function (PUF) includes a controller configured to generate a control signal with reference to an address table, the address table representing a first mapping relationship between a first PUF cell group and a second PUF cell group having a first predetermined mismatch distance in relation to a PUF cell characteristic, and representing a second mapping relationship between a third PUF cell group and a fourth PUF cell group having a second predetermined mismatch distance in relation to the PUF cell characteristic; and a PUF block configured to provide PUF cell data groups in accordance with the first and second mapping relationships to the controller, in response to the control signal. The controller may be configured to generate an authentication key by respectively comparing the PUF cell data groups with reference data groups. |
| US11849053B2 |
Automation of user identity using network protocol providing secure granting or revocation of secured access rights
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for user-controlled access control for user information. One example method includes sending an authentication request to authenticate as a requesting entity to a first decentralized resource directory of a providing entity. An authentication challenge is received, via the connection, from the providing entity, and in response to the authentication request, to store an authentication challenge value for an authentication challenge key in a second decentralized resource directory of the requesting entity. The authentication challenge value for the authentication challenge key is stored in the second decentralized resource directory. An authentication challenge response is sent to the providing entity requesting the providing entity to verify the authentication challenge. An indication is received from the providing entity indicating that the requesting entity is authenticated to the first decentralized resource directory as the requesting entity. |
| US11849051B2 |
System and method for off-chain cryptographic transaction verification
Systems and methods for off-chain verification of cryptographic transactions are disclosed. The system receives a first transaction from a first blockchain, wherein the first transaction is associated with a first address of a first user device and receives a notification of an analysis of a whitelist status for the first transaction. The system performs a first off-chain check on the first transaction to determine validity of the first transaction and if the first off-chain check fails, determines whether a second off-chain check is required. If the second off-chain check is required the system performs the second off-chain check and if the second off-chain check fails, determines whether a supervised check is required. If the supervised check is required, the system sends transaction parameters of the first transaction to a second user device and submits transaction details to the first blockchain if an approval is received from the supervisor user device. |
| US11849044B2 |
Local device authentication system
Various embodiments are generally directed to provide a semi-local authentication scheme. A server can transmit one or more encryption mechanisms to a user device, which in turn can transmit the encrypted mechanisms to one or more secondary devices associated with the user device, where the user device and the secondary devices share a local connection. The secondary devices can transmit the one or more encrypted mechanism utilizing one or more one or more decryption mechanisms supplied by the server, and then transmit the result of the decryption, e.g. decrypted codes, back to the user device, which in turn can then transmit a final decrypted code or codes to the server. Upon confirming receipt of the decryption from the user device, the server can authorize access (via the user device) to one or more devices, networks, applications, and/or components. |
| US11849042B2 |
Virtual access credential interaction system and method
A method includes an authorizing entity computer receiving a request for a virtual access credential from a communication device operated by a user. The authorizing entity computer can then transmit the virtual access credential to the communication device operated by the user. The authorizing entity computer can then receive an authorization request message comprising the virtual access credential from an access device associated with a resource provider for an interaction between the user and the resource provider. The authorizing entity computer can then determine an account identifier linked to the virtual access credential. The account identifier being associated with an account maintained by an external entity computer that is external to the authorizing entity computer. The authorizing entity computer can then determine that the interaction is authorized based upon determining the account identifier associated with the virtual access credential. |
| US11849036B2 |
Key rotation for sensitive data tokenization
This document describes techniques for rotating keys used to tokenize data stored in a streaming data store where data is stored for a maximum time [W]. In some embodiments, a data layer of such a data store can encrypt arriving original data values twice. The original data value is first encrypted with a first key, producing a first token. The original data value is encrypted with a second key, producing a second token. Each encrypted token can be stored separately in the data store. A field may be associated with two database columns, one holding the value encrypted with the first key and the second holding the value encrypted with the second key. Keys are rotated after time [K], which is at least equal to and preferably longer than [W]. Rotation can involve discarding the older key and generating a new key so that two keys are still used. |
| US11849031B2 |
Method and system for digital health data encryption
A system for data encryption includes any or all of: a set of items, a set of keys, and a server. A method for data encryption includes any or all of: encrypting items, sharing items, and reading items. The method can optionally additionally or alternatively include any or all of: performing a registration process, creating items, restricting access of users and/or supplementary systems to items, and/or any other suitable processes. |
| US11849030B2 |
Method and system for anonymous identification of a user
The present invention relates, in general, to computing engineering and, more particularly, to a method and system for anonymously identifying a user as a member of a group of users. The authors provide the improved anonymous identification witness hiding protocol intended to verify membership in a local community of registered participants based on one-way accumulators developed using quasi-commutative one-way elliptic curve functions. The identification protocol according to the present invention provides the required level of cryptographic security with low operational efforts and resource consumption. |
| US11849027B2 |
Organized data storage system
A method including determining, by a device, an assigned key pair including an assigned public key and an assigned private key; determining, by the device for a folder including encrypted content, a folder access key pair including a folder access public key and a folder access private key; encrypting, by the device, the folder access private key by utilizing the assigned public key; and accessing, by the device, the encrypted content based at least in part on decrypting the folder access private key. Various other aspects are contemplated. |
| US11849026B2 |
Database integration with an external key management system
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for database integration with an external key management system. One example method includes receiving, by a database system, a key encryption key from an external key management system external to the database system that is used to encrypt a data encryption key used to encrypt database data. The data encryption key is obtained, by the database system, using the key encryption key. Encrypted database data is decrypted, by the database system and using the data encryption key, to obtain decrypted database data before performing an operation on the decrypted database data. The database system determines that the external key management system has performed an operation on the key encryption key. In response to determining that the external key management system has performed the operation on the key encryption key, the database system modifies operation of the database system. |
| US11849019B2 |
Encryption system, key generation apparatus, key generation method, key generation program, and homomorphic operation apparatus
An encryption system comprises a key generation apparatus that generates an encryption key relating to the authority to generate a ciphertext from a plaintext, a homomorphic operation key relating to the authority to execute a homomorphic operation on a ciphertext that remains encrypted and whose authority is weaker than that of the encryption key, and a decryption key relating to the authority to decrypt ciphertext; an encryption apparatus that generates a ciphertext from a plaintext using the encryption key; a homomorphic operation apparatus that executes a homomorphic operation on the ciphertext using the homomorphic operation key; and a decryption apparatus that decrypts ciphertext using the decryption key. |
| US11849015B1 |
Shift-register-based clock phase interpolator
An integrated circuit device includes functional circuitry, and serializer/deserializer circuitry for serial communication with the functional circuitry. The serializer/deserializer circuitry includes phase interpolator circuitry for interpolating phases of a clock signal of the integrated circuit device. The phase interpolator circuitry includes a phase shift register having storage locations configured to represent the phases of the clock signal, and phase rotation control circuitry configured to decode a phase code signal to determine a shifting direction for phase selections in storage locations of the phase shift register. The phase rotation control circuitry may be configured to determine the shifting direction based on only the most significant bit and the second most significant bit of the phase code signal. The phase interpolator circuitry may further include weight decoder circuitry configured to derive, from the phase code signal, interpolation weights to control combination of selected phases of the clock signal. |
| US11849007B2 |
Providing data from data sources
Techniques for of providing data from a plurality of data sources are disclosed. A plurality of modules are provided at a common access point. Each module defines data on a respective one of a plurality of data sources, the data including information on data available from the respective data source. In response to a request for data from one of the plurality of data sources at the common access point, data is retrieved from the respective data source using the data on the data source from the respective module. Data is provided from the common access point in dependence on the retrieved data. |
| US11849006B2 |
Method for reporting asynchronous data, electronic device and storage medium
A method for reporting asynchronous data and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: in response to satisfying a data reporting condition, calling a connection opening function for opening a Socket connection of a network resource, and generating a HypertextTransferProtocol (HTTP) request by the connection opening function, in which the HTTP request at least includes address information of a server and data to be reported; calling a writing function to write the HTTP request into an exclusive resource corresponding to the connection opening function, and sending the HTTP request to the server by the exclusive resource; and in response to that sending the HTTP request by the exclusive resource is completed, closing the exclusive resource by calling a close function, so as to stop receiving a feedback message of the HTTP request sent by the server, and terminate data reporting. |
| US11849004B2 |
Activation of dynamic filter generation for message management systems through gesture-based input
Generation of filtering rules for incoming messages can be activated by a user through a gesture-based input. When the user activates filtering rule generation, the message management service can cause a user device to display a prompt requesting additional data to be used to generate the filtering rule. The gesture can be a swipe and hold gesture, where the swipe is associated with an action (archiving, deleting, deferring, or adding the message to a list), and the swipe and hold action can activate filtering rule generation associated with the action. |
| US11849003B2 |
Persisting an HTTP connection between application components
Persistent connections are provided between components in a container environment. A hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) client may include a monitoring service and a proxy service. To obtain information regarding containers in the container environment, the monitoring service communicates a request to the proxy service. The proxy service in turn maintains a persistent connection for a session with a container management service using an authentication token, and communicates the request to the container management service during the session. The container management service obtains the requested information from the container(s) and returns the information in a response to the proxy service, which in turn returns the response to the monitoring service. The session is destroyed/ended only under certain error conditions—otherwise, the session between the proxy service and the container management system is kept persistent. |
| US11849002B1 |
Assigning privacy ratings to tracking domains in order to increase user awareness of online privacy violations
Assigning privacy ratings to tracking domains in order to increase user awareness of online privacy violations. A list of known tracking domains and raw data from a set of host websites may be received. A prevalence, frequency, and role for each tracking domain may be determined from the raw data. Each tracking domain may be assigned to a prevalence cluster, a frequency cluster, and a role cluster. A rank may be determined for each prevalence cluster, frequency cluster, and role cluster. A domain privacy rating may be assigned to each tracking domain that is based on the ranks of the clusters to which each tracking domain is assigned. A privacy action may be performed based on the domain privacy rating assigned to each tracking domain. |
| US11849001B2 |
Systems, methods, and apparatus to monitor mobile internet activity
Systems, methods, and apparatus to monitor mobile Internet activity are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, machine-readable instructions, programmable circuitry to execute the machine-readable instructions to at least assign a first port of a proxy server to a mobile device associated with a panelist, cause transmission of configuration data to the mobile device to instruct the mobile device to transmit future requests the first port of the proxy server, obtain a first request for media on the first port originating from the mobile device, and after a determination that the first request originated from an Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with an IP address range representative of devices on a cellular network, service the first request, generate a data association, request the media from an Internet media provider identified in the first request, and cause transmission of the media to the mobile device. |
| US11848998B2 |
Cross-cloud workload identity virtualization
A system for cross cloud workload identity virtualization including a program having instructions to route a first network call from a workload in a first cloud computing environment addressed to a first cloud computing environment instance metadata service (IMS) having destination data with an IP address of 169.254.169.254 to a universal IMS (UIMS) different from the first cloud computing environment IMS, route a second network call from the workload addressed to a destination other than the first cloud computing environment IMS to the destination indicated by the second network call, respond to the first network call with credentials valid for accessing a cloud service provided in a second cloud computing environment. The workload can access the cloud service from the first cloud computing environment, and access the cloud service from a third cloud computing environment different from the first cloud computing environment. |
| US11848995B2 |
Failover prevention in a high availability system during traffic congestion
In some embodiments, a method detects a state of a first session between a first workload and a second workload. The first workload and the second workload send packets in the first session via a first path to maintain a state of the first session. When the state of the first session indicates the first workload is down, the method receives information for network metrics of network traffic being sent in the first path. The method determines when the second workload should transition from a standby mode to an active mode to take over as an active workload in an active/standby configuration between the first workload and the second workload based on the information for the network metrics. |
| US11848991B2 |
System and method for validating data associated with parameter/s
Aspects of the invention are directed towards a system and a method for validating data associated with parameter/s. One or more embodiments of the invention describe a method comprising steps of receiving a first data associated with a parameter monitored by a first sensing device which is associated with a controller and determining validity of the first data. The method further comprising the steps of receiving a second data from a second sensing device by the controller if the first data is invalid. The method also comprising the steps of connecting with a server if connectivity with the second sensing device is not available and receiving a third data for the second sensing device, wherein the server receives the third data from the second sensing device. And then, the second data or the third data associated with the parameter is validated. |
| US11848987B2 |
Sharded database leader replica distributor
A system can a divide database into a group of shards distributed among a group of data centers, wherein the group of shards comprises respective leader replicas. The system can determine respective correlation values between pairs of shards of the group of shards. The system can examine the pairs of shards in a descending order of respective correlation values, comprising, in response to determining that a respective pair of shards of the pairs of shards has a first correlation value greater than a predetermined threshold value, and that at least one shard of the respective pair of shards is unlocked, reassigning leader replicas of the respective pair of shards to be stored in a same data center of the group of data centers, and locking the leader replicas of the respective pair of shards from being reassigned to another data center of the group of data centers during the examining. |
| US11848986B2 |
Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for managing product feature release in a cloud-based computing environment
Various embodiments herein described are directed to methods, apparatuses and computer program products configured for managing software product feature and version releases in complex and distributed network systems. Various embodiments are directed to systems and network frameworks that are configured to provide controlled release of software features/changes through admin user notification and control interfaces. In some embodiments, a sandbox system environment may be provided to admin users to test and configure upcoming software features/changes. Additional example embodiments provide a release track system that specifies and manages feature release schedules in a complex and multitenant cloud network environment. |
| US11848985B2 |
Mass electronic mail sending system with flexible public sending network addresses
A method by an email sending system to send emails from different public sending network addresses. The method includes receiving, by a load balancer, an email that is to be sent by the email sending system, sending, by the load balancer, the email to a mail transfer agent (MTA) instance from a plurality of MTA instances, wherein each of the MTA instances has access to configuration data that indicates which proxy virtual machines (VMs) serve as egresses for which public sending network addresses, determining, by the MTA instance, a public sending network address to send the email from, determining, by the MTA instance based on consulting the configuration data, a proxy VM that serves as an egress for the public sending network address, and sending, by the MTA instance, the email to the proxy VM for sending to its destination from the public sending network address. |
| US11848982B2 |
Access services in hybrid cloud computing systems
Techniques for facilitating operations in hybrid cloud computing systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method can include receiving, at a public cloud, a plurality of applications deployable in a private cloud and informing an access service of the public cloud computing system regarding the received applications deployable in the private cloud. The method also includes receiving, from a connection service of the private cloud, a request for a list of the received applications available at the public cloud and deployable in the private cloud. The method further includes in response to the received request, selectively identifying to the private cloud the list of applications based on a service subscription associated with the connection service. |
| US11848977B2 |
Providing content to co-located devices with enhanced presentation characteristics
Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a method for providing content. A user of an initiating device is identified. Profile information for the identified user is located. The initiating device includes a display for presenting content to the user. An indication is received from an application running on the initiating device of an intent by the user to receive a first content item on a separate but co-located presentation device having enhanced presentation characteristics for presenting content. Additional content items are selected for delivery along with the first content item. The selection includes identifying a second different content item based on the profile information for the identified user and the enhanced presentation characteristics. The first and second different content items are delivered directly to the co-located presentation device without delivering the first and second different content items to the initiating device. |
| US11848976B2 |
Custom action invocation in a speadsheet integrated with web services
Example embodiments facilitate extending client-side software functionality to leverage server-side functionality, such as server-side business logic implementing custom actions and accessible to a specialized add-in to the client-side software, e.g., a client-side spreadsheet. An example method includes exposing one or more parameters of server-side logic in a client-side spreadsheet, wherein the server-side logic includes code for implementing one or more software actions; providing input to one or more spreadsheet fields corresponding to the one or more parameters, there by allocating one or more values to the one or more parameters; detecting user selection of a User Interface (UI) control for using the server-side logic to implement the one or more software actions; and sending the one or more values to the server-side logic via one or more web services, thereby providing the one or more values as input to the server-side logic. |
| US11848967B2 |
Method for processing telephony sessions of a network
A method for processing telephony sessions of a network including at least one application server and a call router, the method including the steps of assigning a primary Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and at least a secondary URI to an application; mapping a telephony session to the primary URI; communicating with the application server designated by the primary URI using an application layer protocol; receiving telephony instructions from the application server and processing the telephony instructions with the call router; detecting an application event; and upon detecting the application event, communicating with the application server designated by the secondary URI. |
| US11848963B2 |
Method for providing restricted service, and communications device
A method for providing a restricted service and a communications device, where the method includes: receiving, by a policy control function (PCF), an identifier of a terminal and indication information, where the indication information is used to indicate that the terminal is in a state of exception or indicate an exception type of the terminal; and sending, by the PCF, the identifier of the terminal and a first restricted service policy according to the indication information, where the first restricted service policy is used to provide a restricted service for the terminal. |
| US11848959B2 |
Method for detecting and defending DDoS attack in SDN environment
The disclosure provides a method for detecting and defending a Distributed Denial of Service attack in an SDN environment. The method includes: building data messages acquired as feature messages by a proxy module; sending the feature messages to a pre-built detection model to obtain a detection result; making a decision instruction based on the detection result; and performing control operations by the proxy module based on the decision instruction. |
| US11848958B2 |
Methods and apparatus to detect malware based on network traffic analysis
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to detect malware based on network traffic analysis. An example apparatus includes a classification controller to: in response to a first classification score of a first network traffic sample satisfying a first threshold, determine whether a second classification score of a second network traffic sample satisfies a second threshold; and in response to the second classification score of the second network traffic sample satisfying the second threshold, classify network traffic associated with the first network traffic sample and the second network traffic sample as potentially malicious network traffic; and a remediation controller to, in response to the network traffic being classified as the potentially malicious network traffic, execute a remediation action to remediate malicious activity associated with the potentially malicious network traffic. |
| US11848950B2 |
Method for protecting IoT devices from intrusions by performing statistical analysis
Various embodiments provide an approach to detect intrusion of connected IoT devices. In operation, features associated with behavioral attributes as well as volumetric attributes of network data patterns of different IoT devices is analyzed by means of statistical analysis to determine deviation from normal operation data traffic patterns to detect anomalous operations and possible intrusions. Data from multiple networks and devices is combined in the cloud to provide for improved base models for statistical analysis. |
| US11848946B2 |
Efficiently performing intrusion detection
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for performing intrusion detection operations on a host computer. The method receives a data message sent by a machine executing on the host computer. For the data message's flow, the method identifies a set of one or more contextual attributes that are different than layers 2, 3 and 4 header values of the data message. The identified set of contextual attributes are provided to an intrusion detection system (IDS) engine that executes on the host computer to enforce several IDS rules. The IDS engine uses the identified set of contextual attributes to identify a subset of the IDS rules that are applicable to the received data message and that do not include all of the IDS rules enforced by the IDS engine. The IDS engine then examines the subset of IDS rules for the received data message to ascertain whether the data message is associated with a network intrusion activity. For instance, in some embodiments, the IDS engine identifies one rule in the identified subset of IDS rules as matching the received data message, and then processes this rule to determine whether the data message is associated with an intrusion. |
| US11848945B1 |
Stateless system to enable data breach
A method including calculating, by a user device, a hash of private data, the calculated hash to be utilized by an infrastructure device for comparison with a hash of breached data compromised due to a data breach; verifying, by the user device prior to transmitting the hash of the private data to the infrastructure device, that the user device is authorized to have access to a plaintext version of the private data; transmitting, by the user device based on verifying that the user device is authorized to have access to the plaintext version of the private data, the hash of the private data to the infrastructure device; and receiving, by the user device from the infrastructure device based on transmitting the hash of the private data, a notification indicating a result of a comparison of the hash of the private data with the hash of the breached data is disclosed. |
| US11848942B2 |
Method for detecting intrusion in distributed field bus of a network and system thereof
A method and system for detecting intrusion in a distributed field bus of a vehicle network involve using an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) to detect intrusion in the network. In a network with a number of nodes, IDS is configured in each of the number of nodes. The IDS, in a first node configured in a transmission mode, receives at least one message signal. A hash function is performed on at least one message signal for generating a first Honeypot (HPT) signal. Simultaneously, the first node transmits the first HPT signal to the second node. The first node and the second node generates a reference HPT and second HPT respectively using an echo-hash function. The IDS detect intrusion based on a comparison of the reference HPT and the second HPT. The method is independent of network traffic timing and can be performed in real-time. |
| US11848941B2 |
Collection of diagnostic information in a device
A method is provided for collecting diagnostic information in a device having a rich execution environment (REE) and a secure element (SE). The method includes detecting initialization of the device. If it is determined that the initialization of the device was a result of a potential security related event, a communication component of the REE responsible for communicating with the secure element is activated if not already activated. The secure element sends a request to the communication component for diagnostic information related to the security event. The diagnostic information is received in the SE from the communication component and stored in an attack log for storing security events. An attack log is generated in the secure element including the potential security event and the related diagnostic information. The attack log and the related diagnostic information is communicated to a secure server via a secure channel. |
| US11848938B2 |
Distributed content uploading and validation
In accordance with one or more embodiments, aspects of the disclosure provide efficient, effective, and convenient ways of uploading and authenticating content. In particular, a user device may receive validating information from a wireless networking device. The user or client device may record a content item, and may insert a validation tag based on the validating information. The user or client device may then send the content item to the wireless networking device. The wireless networking device may receive the content item at a first location and may determine the validity of the content item based on the validating information. The user device may continually interact with wireless networking devices as it travels to continually upload content items while establishing the validity of the time and location of the content items. |
| US11848937B2 |
Secure communication using blockchain technology
Techniques for secure communication is provided. The techniques include requesting first smart contract execution by one or more nodes of the communication system to determine permissions for communication; performing communication based on the requested permissions; and requesting second smart contract execution by one or more nodes of the communication system to verify information associated with the communication. |
| US11848929B2 |
IMEI storage
A chip set for a terminal comprises at least one secure processor, in which a one-time programmable memory is integrated. At least one terminal serial number of the terminal is stored in the chip set. Information for securing the terminal serial number against tampering is stored in the one-time programmable memory. |
| US11848928B2 |
Participant-managed, independent-trust authentication service for secure messaging
An anonymous authentication service for an invulnerable secret key authentication and encryption token distribution service. Applications place a small code segment within their communications protocol, thereby allowing network participants the full benefit of perfectly secure authenticated and encrypted message traffic without concern for third party key management. This is the world's first participant-managed, independent-trust secure messaging key distribution capability. |
| US11848926B2 |
Network authentication
A method for determining an access right of a user terminal to a first network, wherein the user terminal (110) includes a subscription of a second network (150). The method includes: receiving (310) an access request message (240) including a data record for a user name and a data record for a password; determining (320) that the records are in a pre-determined format and that at least one of them includes data from which a subscriber identity for the second network is derivable; generating (330) an authentication request message from the access server (140) to a server (160) configured to perform authentication related tasks in the second network; receiving (340) information on the outcome of the authentication of the subscriber in the second network, generating (350) an acknowledgement to the user terminal (110) indicating right to access to the first network. |
| US11848924B2 |
Multi-factor system-to-system authentication using secure execution environments
Systems and methods for implementing multi-factor system-to-system authentication using secure execution environments. An example method comprises: determining, by a first computing system, using a secure execution environment, a measure of one or more computing processes running on the first computing system; presenting, to a second computing system, a first authentication factor derived from the measure; computing, using the secure execution environment, a second authentication factor derived from at least one of: one or more first data items received from the second computing system, one or more confidential second data items received from one or more third computing systems, or one or more public data items received from one or more fourth computing systems; and presenting the second authentication factor to the second computing system. |
| US11848923B2 |
Secure peer-to-peer connection network and associated protocols for a group-based communication system
Secure peer-to-peer connection network and/or protocols for a group-based communication system, in which, a peer-to-peer connection request associated with a first identifier for a first client device and a second identifier for a second client device are received. The first identifier and the second identifier are compared to a group-based communication system validation registry associated with the group-based communication system and, based at least in part on a determination that the peer-to-peer connection request is authorized per the group-based communication system validation registry, a peer-to-peer connection between the second client device and the first client device is established. |
| US11848919B1 |
Patternless obfuscation of data with low-cost data recovery
Systems and methods for obfuscating data. The technology herein can be used to produce an obfuscated output that exhibits no easily discernible pattern, making difficult to identify or to filter using regular expressions, signature matching or other pattern matching. The output nevertheless can be reversed and the original data recovered by an intended recipient with a relatively low-cost of processing, making it suitable for low-powered devices. The obfuscation is stateless and does not require encryption. |
| US11848916B2 |
Secure electronic messaging system
A secure electronic messaging system includes processors coupled to a network, and constituent applications, services, and processes configured to securely exchange messages between participants such as hosts and recipients, and to protect personally identifying information (PII). The system and processor(s) are configured to generate a deanonymization probability (DP) for an anonymized dataset (ADS) responsive to a query received from the network, and to generate the ADS with pseudoidentities of recipients, when the DP does not exceed a predetermined DP threshold (DPT). The system thereby reduces the probability that the ADS and or pseudoidentities can be deanonymized, and thereby enables secure message exchanges between the participants, while protecting and without sharing the PII of participant identities. When DPs exceed the DPT, the system generates error messages, and or alternative queries that generate ADSs with DPs that do not exceed the DPT. |
| US11848914B2 |
High-throughput data integrity via trusted computing
Verification system and methods are provided for allowing database server responses to be verified. A proxy device may maintain a data structure (e.g., a Merkle B+-tree) within a secure memory space (e.g., an Intel SGX enclave) associated with a protected application. In some embodiments, the data structure may comprise hashed values representing hashed versions of the data managed by the database server. The proxy may intercept client requests submitted from a client device and forward such requests to the database server. Responses from the database server may be verified using the data structure (e.g., the hashes contained in the Merkle B+-tree). If the data is verified by the proxy device, the response may be transmitted to the client device. |
| US11848908B2 |
Systems and methods for resolving conflicts in internet services
The technology disclosed relates to resolution of conflicts between a requested internet service, requested by an internet service requesting server, and a package internet services. The method disclosed includes sending a conflict check result message to an internet service requesting server, indicating a presence of a conflict between a requested internet service requested by the requesting server and a package of internet services. The method includes receiving from the internet service requesting server a response including a selection from (i) an alternate internet service in the package of internet services to substitute for the requested internet service; (ii) a request to replace an existing connection with a service in the package of internet services with the requested internet service; and (iii) a request to initiate a custom resolution application. The method then responsively performs a respective conflict resolution step. |
| US11848903B2 |
Method and system for synchronizing instant messages between multiple clients
A method of synchronizing the display of instant messages between multiple clients is performed at a computer system. Upon receipt of a first synchronization request from a client, the first synchronization request including a conversation identifier and a last message timestamp, the computer system identifies a conversation including a set of messages associated with the conversation identifier. The set of messages was generated after the last message timestamp and have not been received by the client. The computer system then assigns display parameters to the set of messages based on their read-or-not indicators, content, and their temporal relationship with other messages in the conversation. Next, the computer system sends the set of messages and their respective display parameters to the client in a reverse chronological order. The client then displays the set of messages in accordance with their respective display parameters. |
| US11848902B2 |
Unsubscribe and delete automation
Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses may assist a consumer m unsubscribing from unwanted mailing list traffic and email based relationships. A consumer's discovered accounts and subscriptions may be listed and displayed to the consumer. For each identified account or subscription, an unsubscribe and deletion action may be determined and automated for the consumer. |
| US11848899B2 |
Electronic reader and method of operation
An electronic reader is implemented in a mobile computing device by downloading electronic reader computer instructions to be stored resident in the mobile computing device to permit the mobile computing device to be configured as a stand-alone electronic reader. One or more electronic books are downloaded and temporarily stored in a memory of the electronic reader. Chatroom functionality is integrated into the electronic reader to permit a user to communicate directly from an electronic book to a chatroom to thereby permit communication with selected parties. The user can communicate with other readers in the chatroom, with the author of the book, or with one or more subject matter experts designated by the author or publisher of the book. The integrated chatroom functionality combined with the stand-alone reader functionality provide a quality reading experience for the user as well as interactive capabilities. |
| US11848892B2 |
Method and device in wireless transmission
The present disclosure provides a method and a device in wireless transmission. A User Equipment (UE) receives a first radio signal, then detects a low-latency signaling in L1 time intervals respectively, and transmits first HARQ-ACK information. The low-latency signaling includes a first field, and the first field is used for determining a relationship between a low-latency HARQ-ACK bit group and a first HARQ-ACK bit group. The first HARQ-ACK information includes part or all of HARQ-ACK bits in the first HARQ-ACK bit group. Through the design of the first field, the information in the first HARQ-ACK bit group can be put into the low-latency HARQ-ACK bit group to transmit, thereby optimizing the transmission of the Uplink Control Information (UCI) for HARQ-ACK, reducing the resource overhead and power overhead for the transmission of the UCI, and improving the overall system performance and spectrum efficiency. |
| US11848890B2 |
Method, base station, and user equipment for feeding back ACK/NACK information for carrier aggregation
The present invention provides a method, a base station, and a user equipment for feeding back ACK/NACK information for carrier aggregation. The method includes: configuring a common field preset in DCI as at least one type of command field related to ACK/NACK feedback of at least two types of command fields related to ACK/NACK feedback, where the common field can be configured as the command fields related to ACK/NACK feedback; and sending the DCI to a user equipment, so that the user equipment feeds back ACK/NACK information according to the DCI. |
| US11848889B2 |
Systems and methods for improved uptime for network devices
Systems and methods for remotely resetting networked devices is disclosed. The system can comprise a primary network connection and a secondary network connection to provide communications redundancy. The system can also include physical connections between networked devices to enable devices to be reset regardless of the type of error. The method can include monitoring one or more parameters of a device to determine what type of error is occurring and what action to take. The system can enable a first computer (or other electronic device) to restart applications, adapters, and services on a second computer (or other electronic device). The system can also enable the first computer to reset or restart the second computer. The system can enable networked computers to monitor and restore operation to other computers on the same network without human intervention. |
| US11848885B2 |
System information reception method and apparatus, and system information transmission method and apparatus
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a system information reception method applied to user equipment. The method includes: determining a cell corresponding to system information to be obtained; transmitting a request message to a base station for requesting the system information of the cell, where the request message includes indication information of the cell; and receiving the system information of the cell transmitted by the base station. |
| US11848884B2 |
System and methods for support of frequency hopping for UES with reduced bandwidth support
This application relates to enhanced coverage communication using a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). PUCCH puncturing may be performed in relation to frequency hopping. |
| US11848877B2 |
Sounding feedback utilizing shortened frame structures
Embodiments provide a transceiver, wherein the transceiver is configured to transmit or receive data in at least one transmission time interval on certain allocated resource elements of a wireless communication system, wherein the transceiver is configured to at least partially blank a transmission time interval for a data block to be transmitted or received by the transmitter, wherein the transceiver is configured (a) to signal to another transceiver a transmission grant in a blanked part of the at least partially blanked transmission time interval or (b) to at least partially blank the transmission time interval based on a blanking pattern received from another transceiver. |
| US11848873B2 |
Router fabric for switching broadcast signals in a media processing network
A router fabric for switching real time broadcast video signals in a media processing network includes a logic device configured to route multiple channels of packetized video signals to another network device, a crossbar switch configured to be coupled to a plurality of input/output components and to switch video data of the multiple channels between the logic device and the plurality of input/output components in response to a control instruction, and a controller configured to map routing addresses for each video signal relative to the system clock, and to send the control instruction with the mapping to the crossbar switch and the logic device. |
| US11848872B2 |
Providing on-demand production of graph-based relationships in a cloud computing environment
Described herein is a system for automatically capturing configuration changes to the cloud computing resources. The system for automatically capturing configuration changes may detect changes to configurations of cloud computing resources across the geographic regions, in real-time. The changes may be stored in a central data storage device instantiated by a central cloud computing account. Furthermore, a relationship graph indicating the relationships between the different cloud computing resources may be generated. |
| US11848870B2 |
Deploying shadow buffer in context of clock-synchronized edge-based network functions
A regular buffer and a shadow buffer are maintained at a receiver host. Responsive to receiving a data flow from a sender host that is clock-synchronized with the receiver host using a common reference clock, a first indication of data of the data flow is stored to the regular buffer, the shadow buffer is transitioned from an idle state to an active state, and a counter of the shadow buffer is incremented that indicates a unit of data traffic received. A dynamic drain rate is determined based on a number of units of the data removed from the regular buffer per unit of time while the shadow buffer is in the active state, where the shadow buffer reverts to an idle state responsive to a break in the receiver host receiving the data flow. Dwell time is calculated as a function of the counter of the shadow buffer and the dynamic drain rate, and a congestion signal for the data flow is determined based on the dwell time. |
| US11848867B2 |
Regulation method intended for reducing congestion on a mesh powerline communication network
A regulation method intended to reduce congestion in a mesh powerline communication network that includes a plurality of node devices, a route discovery request being sent by a source node device and requests being relayed by intermediate node devices to a destination node device. The regulation method is implemented by an intermediate node device, which can receive a plurality of route discovery requests, and includes the steps of: detecting a congestion situation when a number of requests received over a time window of predefined duration is above a predefined first threshold; identifying requests as important when the number of any one request received over the time window of predefined duration is above a second predefined threshold; and relaying solely requests identified as important. |
| US11848863B2 |
Universal network protocol encapsulation and methods for transmitting data
A network node configured to transmit packets to a destination node in a packet network, includes at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the network node to: assemble at least a first packet including a plurality of data units, each of the plurality of data units being grouped into one of a connection group, a network function group or an application group; and transmit the first packet to the destination node. |
| US11848862B2 |
Decentralized content fabric
Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, devices, computer program products, and methods implementing aspects of a decentralized content fabric. In some implementations, one or more processors are configured to execute a software stack to define a fabric node of a plurality of fabric nodes of an overlay network situated in an application layer differentiated from an internet protocol layer. The defined fabric node is configured to: obtain a request for digital content from a client device; obtain, from one or more of the plurality of fabric nodes, a plurality of content object parts of a content object representing, in the overlay network, at least a portion of the digital content; generate consumable media using: raw data stored in the content object parts, metadata stored in the content object parts, and build instructions stored in the content object parts; and provide the consumable media to the client device. In some instances, the consumable media is further generated using a digital contract stored in a blockchain. |
| US11848860B2 |
Multicast fast failover turnaround overlap handling
Devices, systems, methods, and techniques for multicast failover handling in a computer communication network are disclosed. The methods herein described are particularly suited to software-defined networks (SDNs), and comply with requirements for assuring delivery of network traffic to each destination from a source engaged in multicast network traffic dissemination, assured delivery of each data packet as introduced into the network by the source device and avoidance of duplicate delivery of data. The methods herein are agile and respond rapidly to changes in a network while traffic is on the network. |
| US11848858B2 |
Bier forwarding entry construction method, apparatus, and system
A bit index explicit replication (BIER) forwarding entry construction method is provided. The method includes receiving, by a second network device, a first message sent by a first network device, where the first message includes a host routing prefix of the first network device, first BIER information, and second BIER information. The first BIER information includes a bit index forwarding table identifier (BIFT ID) of the first network device, the second BIER information includes a bit forwarding router identifier (BFR ID) of at least one bit forwarding router (BFR) in a first area. The second network device constructs a BIER forwarding entry based on the first BIER information, the second BIER information, and the host routing prefix. |
| US11848856B2 |
Shortest path bridging (SPB) multi area and virtual SPB node
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product aspects for generating and/or using virtual node(s) (e.g., virtual SPB node(s)) in a multi-area fabric (e.g., a multi-area SPB fabric). A multi-area network includes a first network area including a first set of network nodes. The multi-area network further includes a second network area including a second set of network nodes, where the second set of network nodes is outside of the first network area. The multi-area network further includes a virtual node including a logical Intermediate System to Intermediate System (ISIS) node representing at least one of the first set of network nodes and the second set of network nodes. |
| US11848855B2 |
System and method for adding routing paths in a network
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for providing multiple egress points from a telecommunications network for a client of the network. In particular, the process and system allows for multiple provider edges of the network to utilize a route reflector server to provide a border gateway protocol (BGP) route to other provider edges in the network. Further, the multiple provider edges may each announce similar interior gateway protocol (IGP) routes through the network such that a provider edge receiving a packet intended for the customer network may select from the multiple IGP routes to provide the intended packet to the customer network. In this manner, the receiving provider edge may load balance among the various connections of the customer network to the telecommunications network. |
| US11848851B2 |
Interactive beam alignment system with delayed feedback
Transmission systems include a configurable antenna, that transmits according to a configured beam, a hardware processor, and a memory that stores a computer program product. When the computer program product is executed by the hardware processor, it causes the hardware processor to send a first probing packet on the antenna using a first scanning beam, selected from a set of scanning beams, to determine feedback about the first probing packet, to send a second probing packet on the antenna using a second scanning beam, selected from the set of scanning beams based on the determined feedback about the first probing packet, to determine feedback about the second probing packet, to determine a data transmission beam based on the set of scanning beams and the received feedback about the first probing packet and the second probing packet, and to transmit data using the antenna, configured according to the determined transmission beam. |