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| US11925675B2 |
Systemic delivery of adeno-associated virus vector expressing gamma-sarcoglycan and the treatment of muscular dystrophy
Described herein are methods of treating muscular dystrophy comprising administering to a subject a recombinant AAV (rAAV) scAAVrh74.MHCK7.hSGCG vector, methods of expressing gamma-sarcoglycan gene in a patient, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the rAAV scAAVrh74.MHCK7.hSGCG for usage in such methods, the doses and the ranges thereof for such methods, and methods of generating and producing the rAAV scAAVrh74.MHCK7.hSGCG. |
| US11925667B2 |
Engineered therapeutic probiotic system and method
The claimed invention provides therapeutic as well as protective measures against colorectal cancer by utilizing genetically modified gut bacteria (101) in conjunction with an optimized diet high in cruciferous vegetable intake. According to the claimed system and method, engineered gut bacteria maximize the therapeutic value of the cruciferous vegetable diet to eradicate, offset or prophylactically prevent the onset of colorectal cancer. In the claimed invention gut bacteria Escherichia coli bind specifically to the heparan sulphate proteoglycan on colorectal cancer cells to secrete the enzyme myrosinase to transform host-ingested glucosinolates which are natural components of cruciferous vegetables to sulphoraphane, an organic small molecule with known anti-cancer activity. |
| US11925666B2 |
Bee venom nanoparticles
Bee venom nanoparticles and methods of synthesizing bee venom nanoparticles are provided. The bee venom nanoparticles may be synthesized by drying bee venom, suspending the dried bee venom in a solvent to form a first bee venom solution, spraying the first bee venom solution into boiling water under ultrasonic conditions to form a bee venom solution including the bee venom nanoparticles, stirring the bee venom solution including the bee venom nanoparticles, and freeze-drying the bee venom solution. The resulting nanoparticles may be used in pharmaceutical compositions, and may be useful for their antimicrobial activities. |
| US11925665B2 |
Extract effective in treating drug addiction
Disclosed an extract that is effective in treating drug addiction and a preparation method therefor. An effective component of the extract has the following chemical structural characteristics: a cholestenol compound with hydroxyl (OH) at position 3 and a double bond between position 5 and position 6, or a cholestenol compound with hydroxyl (OH) at position 3, a double bond between position 5 and position 6 and a double bond between position 22 and position 23. The extract can be extracted from the traditional Chinese medicine Agriolima agrestis. The extract of the present invention is safe in acute toxicity, sedative and hypnotic without physical and psychic dependence, has an inhibitory effect on excitability in mouse caused by morphine and benzedrine and a detoxification treatment effect on the withdrawal symptoms in morphine-dependent rats, and is useful in the development of medications or food for treating drug addiction. |
| US11925657B2 |
Formulations and methods for treating conditions of the eye
The present disclosure relates to methods of treating chronic conditions of the eye, such as dry eye disease and blepharitis, as well as to methods for increasing secretion of meibum. This disclosure also relates to formulations suitable for treating chronic conditions of the eye such as dry eye disease and blepharitis. |
| US11925655B2 |
FAP-activated therapeutic agents, and uses related thereto
Disclosed are prodrugs of anthracyclines (such as doxorubicin) and derivatives thereof that are selectively cleaved and activated by fibroblast activating protein (FAP). The prodrugs are useful for targeted delivery of “warhead” anthracycline or anthracycline derivative to FAP-expressing tissues, including cancer (e.g., solid tumors). Also provided are pharmaceutical compounds comprising the prodrugs, as well as methods of using the prodrugs to treat a disorder characterized by FAP upregulation, e.g., cancer undesirable fibrosis and undesirable inflammation. |
| US11925651B2 |
TEAD inhibitors and uses thereof
The present invention provides compounds, compositions thereof, and methods of using the same. |
| US11925645B2 |
Enhanced caffeinated beverage composition
An enhanced caffeinated beverage composition includes a caffeinated drink combined with an effective blend of methylliberine and theacrine providing increased mood, energy, alertness, focus, motivation, and/or decreased fatigue without adversely affecting heart rate or blood pressure. |
| US11925637B2 |
Phenylpiperazine proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) modulators and their use
This invention is related to the field of PCSK9 biology and the composition and methods of use of small organic compounds as ligands for modulation of PCSK9 biological activity. In particular, the invention provides compositions of small organic compounds that modulate circulating levels of low density lipoproteins by altering the conformation of the protein PCSK9. Binding these small organic compound ligands to PCSK9 alters the conformation of the protein, modifying the interaction between PCSK9 and an endogenous low density lipoprotein receptor, and can lead to reduced or increased levels of circulating LDL-cholesterol. High LDL-cholesterol levels are associated with increased risk for heart disease. Low LDL-cholesterol levels may be problematic in other conditions, such as liver dysfunction; thus, there is also utility for small organic compound ligands that can raise LDL levels. |
| US11925626B2 |
Pharmaceutical formulations containing relacorilant, a heteroaryl-ketone fused azadecalin compound
Disclosed herein are novel formulations containing relacorilant ((R)-(1-(4-fluorophenyl)-6-(1-methyl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)sulfonyl)-4,4a,5,6,7,8-hexahydro-1H-pyrazolo[3,4-g]isoquinolin-4a-yl)(4-(trifluoromethyl)pyridin-2-yl)methanone) that are suitable for administration, including oral administration, to patients suffering from disorders amenable to treatment by glucocorticoid receptor modulators (GRMs). Single unit dosage forms comprise softgel capsules containing these formulations. Such softgel capsules may contain, e.g., relacorilant formulations containing 25 milligrams (mg), 50 mg, 100 mg, 200 mg, 300 mg, 400 mg, 500 mg, or other amounts of relacorilant. These novel formulations and single unit dosage forms may be used to treat diseases and disorders including Cushing's syndrome, Cushing's Disease, and other disorders. |
| US11925625B2 |
Methods of treating chemical gas exposure
A method of treating chemical-induced lung injury in a subject in need thereof includes administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of ibudilast, or a pharmaceutical salt thereof. |
| US11925623B2 |
Methods for the treatment of conditions related to hydrogen sulfide
The invention provides compositions and methods for treating conditions associated with decreased activity of hydrogen sulfide. |
| US11925621B2 |
Medicinal preparation for external use
The present invention pertains to a drug for the treatment and/or prevention of pain, more specifically to a medicinal preparation for external use to treat and/or prevent peripheral neuropathic pain, the medicinal preparation containing as an active ingredient N2-{[1-ethyl-6-(4-methylphenoxy)-1H-benzimidazol-2-yl]methyl}-L-alaninamide. |
| US11925619B2 |
Treatments with nirogacestat
The present disclosure relates to improved methods of treatment with nirogacestat. |
| US11925618B2 |
Pharmaceutical combination for the treatment of cancer
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical combination comprising a CDK inhibitor and at least one antioxidant enzyme inhibitor for use in the treatment of cancer. The present invention also relates to a method for the treatment of cancer comprising administering to a subject in need thereof, a therapeutically effective amount of a CDK inhibitor and a therapeutically effective amount of at least one antioxidant enzyme inhibitor. The pharmaceutical combination of the present invention exhibits synergistic effect when used in the treatment of cancer. |
| US11925616B2 |
Compositions comprising urolithin compounds
The invention provides compositions comprising a medium chain triglyceride and a urolithin. The invention also provides uses and methods associated with, or making use of the compositions, such as a medicament, dietary supplement, functional food or medical food and in the treatment and/or prophylaxis of a muscle-related pathological condition. |
| US11925614B2 |
Fatty acid derivatives for treating non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
The present disclosure provides a compound for use in therapeutic and/or prophylactic treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and/or alcoholic steatohepatitis (ASH). The compound for use according to the invention, is an unsaturated fatty acid with an oxygen incorporated in the β-position, and further comprising an α-substituent. More particularly, the invention provides a compound for use in treatment of NASH and/or ASH, and a method using this, wherein the compound is of Formula (II), wherein RI, R2, R3, X, and Y are as defined in the specification; and wherein this compound may be administered alone or in combination with an additional active agent. |
| US11925612B2 |
Bactericidal and virucidal pharmaceutical composition
A bactericidal and virucidal pharmaceutical composition for use on epithelial tissues such as pulmonary, nasal and oral tissues, which comprises a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) in a concentration between 5 and 500 mM and a salt, being the NSAID preferably solubilized in a hypertonic saline solution applicable in therapies for viral infections of the Herpes simplex type. The composition can be used in therapies for herpes simplex viral infections, be used as a bactericidal mouthwash, or be vehiculated to the lung by using a nebuliser, for cystic fibrosis. |
| US11925610B2 |
Means to facilitate food intake and food retention
The disclosure provides for means for a method to facilitate food intake and food retention in a mammal by applying a sufficient dose of a local anesthetic drug in the lumen of the pharyngeal-esophageal-gastric-duodenal tract before or during or after eating. The local anesthetic can be amethocaine, articaine, benzocaine, bupivacaine, chloroprocaine, cinchocaine, cyclomethycaine, dibucaine, diethocaine, etidocaine, larocaine, levobupivacaine, lidocaine, lignocaine, mepivacaine, novocaine, piperocaine, prilocaine, procaine, proparacaine, propoxycaine, QX-222, QX-314, ropivacaine, tetracaine, trimecaine, menthol, eugenol or a safe pharmaceutical formulations of tetrodotoxin, saxitoxin, or neosaxitoxin. The disclosure is useful for patients having problems with food intake or food retention. |
| US11925609B2 |
Treatments for diabetes mellitus and obesity
Methods of treatment in subjects suffering from diabetes mellitus or obesity are provided. The methods comprise ablation of a region of the small intestine in the subject, in particular ablation of a region of the duodenum. The ablation may be a mechanical, electrical, thermal, radiative, or chemical ablation and may in some cases target a sensory nerve. The methods may, in some cases, comprise the step of administering an active agent directly to the small intestine in the subject, in particular administering the active agent directly to the duodenum. |
| US11925599B2 |
Container for transporting a biopharmaceutical fluid comprising a shape memory material
A container for transporting and/or processing a biopharmaceutical fluid, the container comprising a wall, the wall comprising a shape memory material being adapted to change shape when induced by an external stimulus, so that the container can be alternately in a collapsed state and in an unfolded state, the wall of the container in the unfolded state delimiting an internal cavity adapted to contain the biopharmaceutical fluid. |
| US11925584B2 |
Medical suspension bridge
A medical suspension bridge includes a cross beam, a suspension pipe and a moving module. The cross beam is connected with the suspension pipe. The moving module is movably connected with the cross beam. The cross beam includes a load-bearing beam. The moving module includes a cable carrier moving plate extending to the upper portion of the load-bearing beam. The medical suspension bridge further includes a cable carrier. One end of the cable carrier is connected to the load-bearing beam, and the other end is connected to the cable carrier moving plate. Since cables such as electric wires and air pipes within a box body which needs to be moved are collectively mounted within the cable carrier, not only the routing is more tidy, but also the cables can be well protected. |
| US11925582B2 |
Metal-detectable lens assemblies and protective eyewear including same
Protective eyewear lens assemblies include one or more metal-detectable components and a lens body. The lens body is formed from a polymeric material and the one or more metal-detectable component are permanently encapsulated on, along or within the lens body. Protective eyewear including such lens assemblies and methods of manufacture are also included. |
| US11925580B2 |
Implantable biologic stent and system for biologic material shaping and preparation in the treatment of glaucoma
A system for preparation of an implant and ab interno insertion of the implant into an eye including a handle having one or more actuators and an elongated shaft having an outer sheath and an elongate member positioned within a lumen of the tubular outer sheath. The system includes a recess sized for holding a patch of material fixed relative to the handle and a cutting member movable relative to the handle and to the recess. The cutting member cuts the patch of material into an implant as the cutting member moves towards a cutting configuration. The implant, once cut, is axially aligned with the lumen of the tubular outer sheath. The inner elongate member is movable relative to the tubular outer sheath to advance the implant into a deployment position in the lumen of the tubular outer sheath for delivery into the eye. Related devices and methods are provided. |
| US11925577B2 |
Hydrodynamically actuated preservative free dispensing system
Multi-dose preservative-free ocular fluid delivery devices are provided. The fluid delivery device includes a fluid dispensing system and a fluid package for storing a liquid therein and supplying said liquid to the dispensing system. The dispensing system comprises an elongated chamber which includes a check valve which defines a frontal closure to the chamber. The valve is normally closed and hermetically seals the chamber. The dispenser includes a vibration motor that induces oscillations to the chamber and to the fluid within. The oscillations of the chamber impart momentum to the fluid stored in the chamber which in turn imparts force that cyclically opens the valve to dispense streams or liquid droplets. Fluid is dispensed only when the motor oscillates while otherwise the valve is hermetically closed. |
| US11925575B2 |
Fluid collection devices having a sump between a tube opening and a barrier, and related systems and methods
Examples relate to fluid collection devices, and related systems and methods. A fluid collection device includes a fluid impermeable barrier, a fluid permeable body, a tube, and a sump. The fluid impermeable barrier has a distal end region and defines an opening and a chamber in fluid communication with the opening. The fluid permeable body is positioned within the chamber at least partially at the distal end region. The tube extends into the chamber and has an end positioned proximate to the distal end region of the fluid impermeable barrier. The tube includes a tube opening at least proximate to the end of the tube and oriented to face at least a portion of the fluid permeable body. The sump is positioned in the area between the tube opening and the distal end region. |
| US11925569B1 |
Porous prosthetic sleeve liner material
A material that can be formed into a porous prosthetic sleeve liner that provides particularly useful benefits for prosthetics. The material is breathable and sweat-absorbing, thus minimizing skin morbidity when used as a prosthetic liner. The material can include hydrophilic-lined continuous pores within a hydrophobic polymer, wherein the hydrophilic lining is crosslinked together with the hydrophobic polymer via non-degradable covalent interactions using chain crosslinkers. |
| US11925567B2 |
Cartilage morcellator
The present invention relates to cartilage morcellator for cutting various kinds of cartilage (including costal cartilage and the like) into small pieces by using an elevating-type cutting knife having a simple configuration such that same can be supplied to a plastic surgery part. The cartilage morcellator comprises: an upper body (2) and a lower body (3), which are separated from/coupled to each other; an upper groove (4) and a lower groove (5) formed on the upper and lower portions of the upper body (2), respectively; an isolation portion (6) formed between the upper groove (4) and the lower groove (5); a through-hole (7) formed perpendicularly at the center of the isolation portion (6); an elevating rod (8) fitted to the through-hole (7); a morcellating knife (10) fixed to the bottom surface of the elevating rod (8), the morcellating knife (10) having a zigzag-shaped knife portion (102) and a blade portion (103) formed thereon; a spring (11) fitted to the outer periphery of the elevating rod (8); and a striking portion (12) fastened to the upper portion of the elevating rod (8) and elastically supported by a spring (11). The cartilage morcellator further comprises: a morcellation chamber (13) formed in the lower body (3) and provided with a bottom; a prop plate (14) formed on the bottom of the morcellation chamber (13); a first gripping portion (21) formed on the outer periphery of the upper body (2) so as to have an outer diameter smaller than the outer diameter of the upper end of the upper body (2); a second gripping portion (22) formed to have an outer diameter larger than the outer diameter of the first gripping portion (21); and a plate body (101) having a predetermined thickness, which is fixed to the upper portion of the knife portion (102). |
| US11925565B2 |
Variable lordosis spacer and related methods of use
An expandable fusion device may include a first endplate and a second endplate. The expandable fusion device may also include first and second ramps configured to mate with both the first and second endplates. The first ramp may include a mating feature having a first angle relative to a vertical axis, and the second ramp may include a mating feature having a second angle relative to the vertical axis such that the first angle is different from the second angle. In particular, the first and second ramps may be configured to provide for symmetrical expansion of the first and second endplates. |
| US11925564B1 |
Method and apparatus for placement of a reduced vertebral body replacement device during a surgical operation on the cervical portion of the spine including into a transcorporeal void
A method of providing a Vertebral Body Replacement (VBR) device for placement into a cervical spine between two endplates of a single vertebra during the course of an anterior spinal surgical procedure upon the cervical spine, wherein the VBR device has been given a PLR product code from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). |
| US11925562B2 |
Lateralized dual-mobility assembly
A modular acetabular cup assembly includes an acetabular cup, and a liner seated in the cup. The cup includes an end face, an apex opposite the end face, and a central axis extending between the apex and a center point of the end face. The liner includes an articular surface having a center of rotation which defines a pivot point of the acetabular cup assembly. In certain embodiments, the pivot point is laterally offset from the center point such that the end face is located between the pivot point and the apex. |
| US11925561B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for attachment of porous coatings to implants and products thereof
There are provided herein methods and products resulting therefrom. The methods include attaching a pre-fabricated porous ingrowth structure to a substrate by applying heat, or creating and bonding an in-situ-formed porous ingrowth structure from beads on a substrate by applying heat. In some embodiments, an oxidized metal surface of the substrate is diffusion hardened during the heating process. In some embodiments, a vacuum is applied during the heating process. In some embodiments, pressure is applied during the heating process. Also provided herein are assemblies for compressing the pre-fabricated porous ingrowth structure or the beads onto the substrate during the heating process. |
| US11925556B2 |
Passive alignment of commissures in prosthetic heart valve implantation
A delivery device for a collapsible prosthetic heart valve includes an inner shaft, an outer shaft, and a distal sheath. The distal sheath may be disposed distal to the outer shaft and about a portion of the inner shaft to form a compartment with the inner shaft. The compartment may be sized to receive the prosthetic heart valve. The inner shaft and the distal sheath may be movable relative to one another. A spine may extend along the outer shaft, the spine biasing the outer shaft so that the outer shaft tends to bend in a pre-determined direction. |
| US11925554B1 |
Method and apparatus for antegrade transcatheter valve repair or implantation
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for performing a valve replacement or repair. Apparatuses may include systems and may include an outer catheter, one or more interchangeable inner catheters, a guidewire and an expandable chordae tendinae deflector. Also described herein are rapid pacing sheaths that may be used with any of these apparatuses and methods. |
| US11925552B2 |
Stent device with skirt folds and processing method thereof, skirt folding method, and heart valve
A stent device with skirt folds and a processing method thereof, a skirt folding method, and a heart valve. The stent device comprises a stent (1, 105) and a flexible skirt (2, 107), the skirt (2, 107) having an expanded state, in which the skirt is axially extended and surrounds the stent (1, 105) before release thereof, and a folded state, in which the skirt is driven by the deformation caused when the stent (1, 105) is released, collapses and folds axially along the released stent (1, 105) so as to form an annular peripheral leakage-blocking portion. The peripheral leakage prevention technology enables an interventional stent to fit to the inner wall of a vessel more snugly, such that the stent does not easily move and is more stable, thereby being suitable for more people, reducing additional risks of surgery and preventing complications such as peripheral leakage and thrombus. The present disclosure can provide better blood dynamics, increase the crawling capability of endothelial cells of a host, reduce the probability of occurrence of endocarditis, and restore a normal blood supply functionality of vessels. |
| US11925551B2 |
Leaflet attachment frame for prosthetic valve
An implantable prosthetic valve has an upper frame section and a lower frame section. The upper frame section has a plurality of struts and a first leaflet receiving surface at a lower portion of the upper frame section. The lower frame section has a second leaflet receiving surface at an upper portion of the lower frame section. An edge of a flexible leaflet is disposed between the first and second leaflet receiving surfaces to attach the leaflet to the upper and lower frame sections. |
| US11925548B2 |
Hydraulic delivery of surgical implants
An apparatus for delivering an implant to an eye using hydraulic fluid flow or pressure. An implant may be stored, advanced, and delivered to an eye using hydraulic fluid stored in a sterile container through a hollow advancement plunger. The plunger may rigidly advance the implant to a sealed position in a first phase, and then the implant may be advanced into the eye via hydraulic pressure or fluid flow in a second phase. |
| US11925547B2 |
Prosthesis for in vivo insertion, coated with cross-linked polyphosphorylcholine
The present invention relates to a coating composition for an in-vivo implantable prosthesis including a photoinitiator, a crosslinking agent, and a phosphorylcholine (pc) monomer having an acrylate group, a method of coating an in-vivo implantable prosthesis using the coating composition, and a cosmetic prosthesis coated with the crosslinked polyphosphorylcholine.An in-vivo implantable prosthesis coated with crosslinked polyphosphorylcholine may be manufactured by a simple method of applying a coating composition including a photoinitiator, a crosslinking agent, and a phosphorylcholine (pc) monomer having an acrylate group according to the present invention, and then irradiating uv rays. The crosslinked polyphosphorylcholine coating may provide hydrophilicity for the surface and may also remarkably reduce adsorption of proteins and fibroblasts, which may cause side effects such as capsular contracture. Further, the coating has strong enough not to peel off even under stimulation, and therefore, it is maintained under vigorous activity after implantation, thereby being usefully applied to the manufacture of an in-vivo implantable prosthesis with reduced side effects, such as breast prosthesis for cosmetic surgery. |
| US11925545B2 |
Adjustable fixation device
An adjustable fixation device includes a cleat portion and a suture portion, where the suture portion has a loop portion and a suture tail. Pulling on the suture tail places in tension a graft coupled to the loop portion. The suture is arranged to convey a mechanical advantage so that substantial force can be readily and controllably applied to the graft. |
| US11925542B1 |
Mesh assembly for cosmetic surgery
A mesh assembly for cosmetic surgery that can be used for tissue lifting is proposed. The mesh assembly includes: a mesh sleeve that includes a multiple number of helical string members, which are entwined in intersecting directions to form a passage having a particular diameter within the mesh sleeve; a core that extends along a first direction and is positioned within the passage; and a protrusion that protrudes from the outer perimeter of the core in a direction inclined towards one side and extends through a gap between the string members to the outside of the mesh sleeve. The mesh assembly can have a drastically greater strength compared to a regular surgical thread and can also be joined to the surgical site with high strength, thus providing greater utility in procedures such as tissue lifting. |
| US11925541B2 |
Package of absorbent articles utilizing a shaped nonwoven
A package of personal care articles. Each of the personal care articles has a nonwoven substrate as a component. The nonwoven substrate can have a first surface defining a plane of the first surface and a non-regular pattern of a plurality of three-dimensional features extending outwardly from the plane of the first surface. The non-regular pattern can include a first zone of first three-dimensional features and a second zone of second three-dimensional features, wherein in at least one of the first or second zones of the plurality of three-dimensional features has a first three-dimensional feature having a first intensive property and a second three-dimensional feature having a second, different intensive property. The personal care articles can be compressed in the package. |
| US11925539B2 |
Disposable absorbent article
A material web having a film layer and a nonwoven layer, along with methods of making the material web, are described. The material web has a plurality of micro-deformations and a plurality of macro-deformations, each of the macro-deformations having a distal end, wherein a first portion of macro-deformations has an open or partially open distal end and wherein a second portion of macro-deformations has distal ends which are configured differently than the distal ends of the first portion, and wherein the material web forms a portion of the topsheet. |
| US11925532B2 |
Vented wound dressing barrier
A vented wound dressing barrier includes one or more membrane layers with a plurality of vents. The vents are cut along a perimeter of the vents through the one or more membrane layers. Each vent having a connection portion uncut relative to the one or more membrane layers thereby forming a hinge configured to allow the vents to open for drainage when exposed to fluid underlying the vented wound dressing barrier. The plurality of vents is each cut along the perimeter without removal of any of the membrane layer. The one or more membrane layers with the plurality of vents has a surface for covering a wound, the surface area in the absence of a fluid pressing on the vents having no openings or voids which reduce the surface area of a vented wound dressing barrier area covering a wound. |
| US11925525B2 |
Three-dimensional visualization of clinical dentition incorporating view state and modified clinical data
Methods of representing user edits or modifications of a treatment plan for a dental apparatus (e.g., one or a series of aligners) by managing an original clinical data set and a set of modifications of the clinical data set. Also described herein are methods of displaying, condensing, storing and reconstructing collision regions between two or more teeth. |
| US11925523B2 |
Multi-suction dental devices, assemblies, systems, and methods of using the same
The present disclosure is directed to improved multi-suction dental devices, assemblies, systems and methods and of using the same. The multi-suction dental devices can be configured to suction both liquids and aerosols during dental procedures. Each multi-suction dental device can comprise at least one low-volume evacuation (LVE) suction pathway and at least one high-volume evacuation (HVE) suction pathway. |
| US11925516B2 |
Dental treatment apparatus and method of driving the same
A root canal treatment instrument 100 continues drive of a cutting tool 5 in forward rotation drive until reaching 180 degrees, and when a load applied to the cutting tool 5 is equal to or greater than a reference load, drive of the cutting tool 5 is switched to reverse rotation drive until reaching 90 degrees. In the root canal treatment instrument 100, when a cumulative amount of rotation is equal to or greater than a reference amount of rotation, change to a drive pattern is made, forward rotation drive is continued until reaching 90 degrees, and when a load applied to the cutting tool 5 is equal to or greater than the reference load, drive of the cutting tool 5 is switched to reverse rotation drive until reaching 180 degrees. |
| US11925509B2 |
Ultrasonic probe, ultrasonic diagnostic system, method of controlling ultrasonic probe, and non- transitory computer-readable recording medium
An ultrasonic probe includes a transducer; a pulser; an amplifier; a wireless transmitter; temperature detectors at two or more locations from among a location of the pulser, a location of the amplifier, and a location of the wireless transmitter; and a processor comparing temperatures detected by the temperature detectors with first temperature thresholds set for the temperature detectors, and, when one or more temperature detectors detect temperatures that exceed corresponding first temperature thresholds, selecting any one of low power consumption operating modes based on which temperature detectors are the one or more temperature detectors detecting the temperatures that exceed corresponding first temperature thresholds, and switching an operating mode of each of one or more from among the pulser, the amplifier, and the wireless transmitter from a normal operating mode to the selected low power consumption operating mode. |
| US11925505B2 |
Minimum catheter length tool
An ultrasound imaging system includes an ultrasound probe designed to produce an ultrasound image including one or more blood vessels below a skin surface of a patient, and a console with a display. The console is operably coupled to the ultrasound probe. The console includes a memory including instructions capable of causing a processor to determine a depth of the user selected blood vessel and a selection of medical devices based on a user selection including one or both of a minimum dwell length and an angle of insertion. The processor can be configured to determine these parameters prior to insertion of a user selected medical device into a user selected blood vessel from the one or more blood vessels below the skin surface of the patient. The display depicts the ultrasound image, the user selected blood vessel, and the user selected medical device. |
| US11925503B2 |
Shear wave elasticity imaging method and ultrasonic imaging device
Shear wave elasticity imaging methods and ultrasound imaging devices are provided. The method may include: generating a shear wave in a target area of an object being examined; transmitting a first ultrasonic wave to the target area and receiving first echo data; determining an elasticity parameter of the target area according to the first echo data; obtaining a motion parameter of the target area; and displaying the elasticity parameter and the motion parameter. |
| US11925502B2 |
Systems and methods for producing real-time calibrated stereo long radiographic views of a patient on a surgical table
Tracked mobile x-ray imaging equipment is used to produce single or stereo long calibrated views of the anatomy of a patient on the operating table. The system estimates the position and orientation of the anatomical planes, virtually places measurement grids over these reference planes, and transforms any radiographic views taking by the x-ray imaging system onto these calibrated planes. The system may apply information about the depth of the anatomy to remove parallax artifacts. This system enables displaying and evaluation of the entire radiographic length of the anatomical planes using a mobile x-ray equipment. It also provides a platform for overlaying the real time x-ray images taken during operation with radiographic images of the patient or schematic of the surgical plan developed before the surgery for quick evaluation of a surgical plan. |
| US11925499B2 |
Image interpretation support apparatus, and operation program and operation method thereof
An image interpretation support apparatus includes an acquisition unit, an acceptance unit, and a specifying unit. The acquisition unit acquires a two-dimensional standard image having information on a breast, and a plurality of tomographic images in a plurality of tomographic planes of the breast which are obtained by tomosynthesis imaging of the breast. The acceptance unit accepts a selection instruction of a location on the two-dimensional standard image. In a case where the selection instruction is accepted in the acceptance unit, the specifying unit specifies a corresponding tomographic plane corresponding to a selected location which is the location of which the selection instruction is accepted in the acceptance unit, from among the plurality of tomographic planes on the basis of the plurality of tomographic images. |
| US11925498B2 |
Reconstructing image
The present disclosure relates to reconstructing an image. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, identifying a plurality of first scan data sets and a second scan data set from PET scan data, wherein each of the first scan data sets corresponds to an intra-crystal Compton scattering event occurred in a plurality of crystals of a detector and includes two or more first single event data groups, and each of the first single event data groups comprises an energy value less than a preset first energy threshold, the second scan data set comprises one or more second single event data groups and each of the second single event data groups comprises an energy value exceed a preset second energy threshold; for each of the plurality of first scan data sets: searching the second scan data set for a target second single event data group which matches with the first scan data set; obtaining first coincidence event data from each of the first single event data groups in the first scan data set and the target second single event data group as coincidence event data recovered from an intra-crystal Compton scattering event corresponding to the first scan data set; reconstructing an image with the first coincidence event data and second coincidence event data which involves coincidence events corresponding to the second scan data set. |
| US11925496B2 |
Apparatus for x-ray CT scanning
Apparatus for x-ray CT scanning of an object includes an x-ray generator 1 mounted on a first support 3 on an outer ring 4 and an x-ray detector 2 mounted on a second support 10 on an inner ring 11, and a drive mechanism arranged to rotate the outer and inner rings 4, 11. The outer and inner rings have a first common axis of rotation and the diameter of the outer ring 4 is greater than the diameter of the inner ring 11 The drive mechanism includes a gearing arrangement connecting the outer and inner rings 4,11. The gearing arrangement comprises first and second toothed rotary gears 14,16. The ratio of the number of teeth on the outer and inner rings 4,11 are the same as the ratio of the number of teeth on the first and second rotary gears 14,16 so that the outer and inner rings 4,11 rotate at substantially the same angular speed in the same direction, whereby x-ray radiation emitted by the x-ray generator 1 is directed towards the x-ray detector 2 whilst the first and second supports 3,10, on which the x-ray generator 1 and x-ray detector 2 are respectively mounted, are moving along respective first and second annular concentric paths defined by the outer and inner rings 4,11. |
| US11925492B2 |
Image processing apparatus and image processing method
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored an image processing program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process includes extracting a plurality of consecutive pixels corresponding to a first part or a second part of a body, from a pixel column in a predetermined direction of an image of the body, obtaining a statistical value of pixel values of the plurality of consecutive pixels, and identifying a part corresponding to the plurality of consecutive pixels, among the first part or the second part, based on the statistical value. |
| US11925491B1 |
Sterile surgical implant holder
A sterile holder for sterile surgical implants. The implant holder is an ergonomically shaped body of deformable material having an implant-receiving cavity similar in size and shape to the implant. To remove the implant from the holder, the surgeon mates a sterile tool to the implant and gently pries the implant out of the holder by deforming the body. Preferably the tool used to pry the implant out of the body is an insertion tool mated to the implant which is also used to insert the implant in a patient. In this way the surgeon retrieves the implant from its container without touching the container and directly inserts the implant in the patient without risking contamination: sterility is maintained for both the surgeon and the implant. In a preferred embodiment, the implant holder is configured to hold two pedicle screws and their set-screws. |
| US11925488B2 |
Tools and instruments for use with implantable encapsulation devices
Embodiments herein describe tools and instruments for holding, transferring, delivering, deploying an implantable device and methods and means of aseptically storing and shipping the implantable device including but not limited to a device case for protecting, housing and filling the device, a surgical sizer for preparing the implantable site, a deployer for transferring the implantable device from the device case and delivering or deploying the implantable device at the prepared implantable site. |
| US11925484B2 |
Alert system for hypo and hyperglycemia prevention based on clinical risk
A device for generating alerts for Hypo and Hyperglycemia Prevention from Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) determines a dynamic risk based on both information of glucose level and a trend obtainable from a CGM signals. The device includes a display whose color depends on the DR (for example, red for high DR, green for low risk). When DR exceeds a certain threshold, alerts are generated to suggest the patient to pay attention to the current glucose reading and to its trend, both of which are shown on the display in numbers and symbols (e.g. an arrow with different slope or color). |
| US11925483B2 |
Risk estimation apparatus, risk estimation system, risk estimation method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium
A risk estimation apparatus includes a data acquisition unit that acquires measured data of foot pressures of the left foot and the right foot obtained by sensors that are provided in shoes and measure the foot pressures, a stance phase identification unit that identifies a starting timing and an ending timing of a stance phase of each of the left foot and the right foot from the measured data of the foot pressures, and a risk estimation unit that estimates a risk of abnormality of a lower limb on the basis of asymmetry between the foot pressures of the left foot and the right foot during the stance phase. |
| US11925481B2 |
Information processing device, information processing method, and program
Information representing a physique of a subject is extracted from an image obtained by imaging the subject. A group in which the subject is classified is specified, using the extracted information representing the physique of the subject. Image data representing a medical image obtained by imaging the subject is input to a learned model corresponding to a specified group among learned models obtained for each group by machine learning using learning data for each group. Information representing an area extracted from the medical image is acquired, which is output from the learned model with the input. |
| US11925473B2 |
Detecting sleep intention
A wearable physiological monitoring device is configured to determine a wearer's sleep intention. In particular, the device evaluates activity that might be objectively associated with awaking from sleep in order to distinguish between a wearer's intention to end sleep and transitory stirring or other intermittent activity occurring in the context of a longer sleep interval. By evaluating sleep intention more accurately in this manner, the device can advantageously request sleep analysis from a remote server in those instances where a user intends to end a period of sleep (so that this data can be available to the user more quickly), while avoiding unnecessary or redundant server-side processing of sleep data in those instances where a user intends to continue sleeping. |
| US11925463B2 |
Method and multisensory device for non-invasive blood glucose level monitoring
The present invention allows for non-invasive monitoring of the blood sugar levels in diabetic patients. At least one heat and waterproof applicator is applied to the skin surface by a dosage pressure. Temporal dynamics of physiological parameters of the local tissue region are measured under the applicator. Temporal dynamics of climatic parameters of the environment are measured simultaneously or before the beginning of measurement of physiological parameters in the monitoring mode. Further, enthalpy of tissue is calculated with account for the influence of climatic parameters. Magnitude of thermal effect of metabolism of the local area of living tissue is calculated on the basic thermodynamics equation, connecting enthalpy of tissue with variables of thermodynamic state. Relative changes in the level of glucose are calculated in blood, proportional to the value of the thermal metabolism of the local area of living tissue. |
| US11925461B2 |
Physiological signal monitoring device and sensor holder thereof
The present invention discloses a holder carrying thereon a sensor to measure a physiological signal of an analyte in a biological fluid, wherein the sensor has a signal detection end and a signal output end, and the holder includes an implantation hole being a channel for implanting the sensor and containing a part of the sensor, a fixing indentation containing the sensor, a filler disposed in the fixing indentation to retain the sensor in the holder, and a blocking element disposed between the implantation hole and the fixing indentation to hold the sensor in the holder and restrict the filler in the fixing indentation. |
| US11925448B2 |
Tomographic systems for determining characteristics of inhomogeneous specimens using guided electromagnetic fields
A system for determining characteristics of a specific region within an inhomogeneous dielectric specimen by guiding propagation of electric fields through the inhomogeneous dielectric specimen is provided herein. Various embodiments include at least one source of electromagnetic energy for generating electromagnetic waveforms, the electromagnetic waveforms comprising electric fields propagating along a prescribed path that defines a series of spatial regions through which the electric fields propagate. In some embodiments the prescribed path includes electric field modulating elements that determine a rate of electric field propagation along the prescribed path. Some embodiments include a plurality of conductors for guiding the electric field propagation through an inhomogeneous dielectric specimen in the prescribed path, the electric fields spanning between two or more of the plurality of conductors as the electric fields propagate along the prescribed path. In some embodiments the plurality of conductors are external to the inhomogeneous dielectric specimen. |
| US11925447B1 |
Out-of-bed zone generation and monitoring associated with respiratory activity tracking
A method and system including a monitoring device to detect, during a session, a set of radar signals associated with first respiratory-related movements of a first person and second respiratory-related movements of a second person located within a detection zone comprising at least a portion of a bed. The method and system dynamically generate an out-of-bed zone adjacent to a side of the bed. The out-of-bed zone is monitored to detect motion within the zone to determine when the first person exits and enters the bed. The method and system identify a portion of the set of radar signals collected during a time period when the first person is determined to be out of the bed. The identified portion of the set of radar signals is removed from the set of radar signals collected during the sleep session. |
| US11925445B2 |
Patient monitoring system
A method of determining blood pressure measurements includes inflating a cuff, receiving an indication of pressure inside the cuff during inflation, determining a blood pressure based at least in part on the received indication, assigning a confidence level to the blood pressure, and determining whether the confidence level satisfies a threshold confidence level. Based at least on a determination that the confidence level satisfies a threshold confidence level, the method can include causing a display to display the blood pressure. Based at least on a determination that the confidence level does not satisfy a threshold confidence level, the method can include deflating the cuff, receiving an indication of pressure inside the cuff during deflation, determining another blood pressure, and causing a display to display a blood pressure. |
| US11925439B2 |
Data playback interface for a medical device
A medical device for review of clinical data in a playback mode is described. The medical device includes at least one output device comprising at least one display screen, at least one memory, and at least one processor coupled to the at least one memory and the at least one output device, the at least one processor configured to receive signals indicative of patient data from one or more patient interface devices communicatively coupled to the medical device, control the at least one display screen to provide a first visual representation of the patient data as an operational interface, and selectively display a playback interface at the at least one display screen wherein the playback interface enables user interactive review of the patient data based on a second visual representation of the patient data. |
| US11925438B2 |
Apparatus and method for estimating body temperature, and healthcare device
An apparatus for estimating body temperature of an object is provided. The apparatus for estimating body temperature includes: a sensor configured to obtain spectra through a plurality of light paths of an object; and a processor configured to obtain a temperature slope between temperatures corresponding to the plurality of light paths based on the spectra of the plurality of light paths and a reference spectrum measured at a reference temperature, and estimate the body temperature of the object based on the temperature slope. |
| US11925436B2 |
Acoustic wave device and control method of acoustic wave device
An acoustic wave device includes: an insertion object having a photoacoustic wave generator; an insertion object image signal generator that generates an insertion object image signal from a reception signal of an acoustic wave from the photoacoustic wave generator; a first signal width detector that detects a first signal width of a portion of a predetermined signal strength in the insertion object image signal; and an insertion object display image signal generator that generates, in a case where the first signal width is larger than a second signal width, an insertion object display image signal of a width having a center at a peak position of the insertion object image signal and corresponding to the second signal width, and generates, in a case where the first signal width is smaller than the second signal width, an insertion object display image signal having a width smaller than the second signal width. |
| US11925435B2 |
Intra-oral scanning device with integrated optical coherence tomography (OCT)
An intra-oral scanning device includes a light source and an optical system, and communicates with a display system. The device provides for more efficient transmission and capture of images. It integrates OCT scanning with RGB-based scanning. In operation, the device is used for recording topological characteristics of teeth, dental impressions, or stone models by digital methods and for use in CAD/CAM of dental restorative prosthetic devices. To that end, the RGB-based scan obtains surface data (e.g., a margin), while the OCT scan penetrates the surface. The two scanners operate from within the same physical housing and preferably at the same time such that only one scanning pass (to obtain all necessary data) is required. The 3D data obtained from the OCT scan is registered with the 3D data obtained from the RGB-based scan by virtue of being captured using a common return path. Preferably, the 3D surface data is used to align the volume data, such that the OCT scan operates over a much sparser scanning volume than would otherwise be required if the OCT scan were carried out separately. In this manner, there is less stitching of data required to build the output images, thereby enabling a “one-pass” operation. |
| US11925432B2 |
Systems and methods for mitigating premature light deactivation of light deactivated adhesive drapes
Provided herein is a system and method for mitigating premature light deactivation of light deactivated adhesive drapes. One aspect provides a system comprising a drape, an adhesive layer, and a release agent, where the system is adapted to be coupled to a tissue site and released therefrom upon or after exposure to an external stimulus such as certain wavelengths of light. The system may have a photochromic layer that may transition between a blocking transmittance state and a non-blocking transmittance state to block or allow certain wavelengths of light to pass through. Some systems may use a combination of a photochromic layer and a filter layer to prevent the adhesive from being exposed to deactivation wavelengths prematurely. Another aspect provides a method for application and removal of a drape using by removing one or more of a photochromic layer and a filter layer and applying light to the drape to deactivate the adhesive layer and promote easy, clean, and less painful removal of the drape. |
| US11925429B2 |
Repositioning method of input device for robotic surgical system
A robotic surgical system includes a linkage, an input handle, and a processing unit. The linkage moveably supports a surgical tool relative to a base. The input handle is moveable in a plurality of directions. The processing unit is in communication with the input handle and is operatively associated with the linkage to move the surgical tool based on a scaled movement of the input handle. The scaling varies depending on whether the input handle is moved towards a center of a workspace or away from the center of the workspace. The workspace represents a movement range of the input handle. |
| US11925428B2 |
Manual end effector activation for robotic surgical systems
A robotic surgical instrument includes a housing having a shaft extending therefrom. A spring compression assembly is supported within the housing and includes: a proximal hub configured to secure a drive rod disposed therethrough, the proximal hub including teeth; a distal hub spaced from the proximal hub and including teeth; and a compression spring mounted between the proximal and distal hubs. A drive gear includes a proximal portion extending therefrom having threads disposed thereabout configured to engage the teeth of the proximal and distal hubs such that rotation thereof translates the hubs relative to one another and actuates the end effector assembly. A thumb wheel is included that has a portion exposed outside the housing for external manipulation thereof. The thumb wheel is selectively positionable between a disengaged position spaced relative to the drive gear and an engaged position to matingly engage the drive gear. |
| US11925427B2 |
Biometrically scalable AI designed articulated catheter device
Computerized system and method of manufacturing an articulated surgical device. Surgical device pathway data (often from medical scans), target and entry point location data, and design parameters in computer memory are used to automatically design, and subsequently manufacture the customized device. The device typically comprises a plurality of units, which may have varying lengths and widths, connected to other units by at least one moveable joint. The device is configured to accommodate multiple pull cables, often running from the distal to the proximal end. These cables enable an operator, often using a proximal control device, to precisely control the orientation of the distal end as the device traverses a patient's body pathways. The distal end of the device may have an effector unit configured to perform a medical task. Design and manufacture are facilitated by use of AI computerized design methods and computer controlled (CNC, laser cutting, 3D printing) methods. |
| US11925425B2 |
Surgical robotic devices and systems for use in performing minimally invasive and natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgical actions
Example embodiments relate to surgical systems and methods. The system includes an arm assembly and end-effector assembly. The arm assembly includes a first drive portion and wrist drive portion. The end-effector assembly is securable to and removable from the arm assembly. The end-effector assembly includes an instrument assembly and wrist assembly. The instrument assembly includes a first instrument, first instrument driven portion, and first instrument insulative portion. The first instrument driven portion is configured to move the first instrument relative to a first axis when the first instrument driven portion is driven by the first drive portion. The wrist assembly includes a wrist driven portion. The wrist driven portion is configured to move the first instrument relative to a second axis when the wrist driven portion is driven by the wrist drive portion. The end-effector assembly is secured to and removable from the arm assembly via a wrist connector portion. |
| US11925424B2 |
Systems and methods for dynamic adjustments based on load inputs for robotic systems
Systems and methods for dynamic adjustments based on load inputs for robotic systems are provided. In one aspect, a robotic system includes a first robotic arm having at least one joint, a set of one or more processors, and at least one computer-readable memory in communication with the set of one or more processors and having stored thereon computer-executable instructions. The computer executable instructions cause the one or more processors to determine a first external load threshold for the at least one joint based on a maximum safe load capability of the first robotic arm, and adjust the first external load threshold during a medical procedure. |
| US11925423B2 |
Guidance for positioning a patient and surgical robot
Provided in accordance with the present disclosure are systems, methods, and computer readable media for providing guidance for positioning a body and a surgical robot. An exemplary system includes an image capture device configured to capture an image of a surgical training environment and generate image data of the surgical training environment, a head-mounted display, and a computing device configured to receive a surgical training parameter, receive the image data of the surgical training environment, detect a pose of the table and the surgical robot, generate a virtual training environment based on the surgical training environment, determine a pose of a user relative to the surgical training environment, generate guidance for positioning a body on the table or the surgical robot about the body, based on the surgical training parameter and the determined pose of the user, and cause the head-mounted display to display the generated guidance. |
| US11925422B2 |
Systems, apparatus and methods for continuously tracking medical items throughout a procedure
Systems, methods and apparatus are disclosed for improving medical procedures and medical procedure management, and, more particularly, for tracking medical instruments throughout a procedure and assisting medical personnel throughout the procedure or at least at the conclusion of the procedure. In one form, an apparatus for tracking medical instruments throughout a procedure is disclosed having a single camera for tracking movement and/or detecting position of a plurality of medical instruments during a medical procedure as at least one of the plurality of medical instruments is moved between multiple zones at least including a first prep zone and a second procedure zone. The apparatus having a controller connected to and collecting images from the camera, and a display in electrical communication with the controller and/or the camera for displaying medical instrument data pertaining to the movement and/or position of the plurality of medical instruments. |
| US11925420B2 |
Adjustment system and method for patient position intraoperatively using radiographic measurements
A system and method provide for image-guided implant placement as a function of at least one intraoperative image during a surgical procedure. At least one computing device is configured by executing code stored in non-transitory processor readable media to process at least one preoperative image to assess axial rotation and/or sagittal pelvic inclination. Further, as a function of a plurality of identified anatomical landmarks in the at least one preoperative image, at least one of distances, angles, and areas is measured. Thereafter, as a function of calculations associated with the at least one of distances, angles, and areas, axial rotation associated with at least one image is measured. Thereafter, at least one value associated with placement of an implant during the surgical procedure is adjusted and information associated therewith is provided via a graphical user interface. |
| US11925414B2 |
Optical trial frame
Embodiments relate to an optical trial frame that includes: left and right frames extending in the left and right directions respectively; a bridge located between and connected to the left and right frames such that the left and right frames can move relative to each other along a longitudinal axis of the bridge; left and right temples connected to the respective left and right frames; left and right lens holders rotatably coupled to the left and right frames respectively and configured to receive and retain lenses in use; and, capacitive sensing means configured to detect and measure at least one of: a lateral position of one of the frames; and, a rotational position of one of the lens holders. |
| US11925412B2 |
Gaze tracking apparatus and systems
A head-mountable display (HMD) system includes at least one detector to detect a gaze direction of an eye of a user wearing the HMD, receiving circuitry to receive a user input from the user indicating a type of eye condition for the eye of the user associated with at least partial vision loss for a region of vision, a display unit to display one or more images to the user, and a processor to generate the one or more images for display to the user by the display unit in dependence upon the type of eye condition and an output of the at least one detector indicative of the detected gaze direction of the eye. |
| US11925407B2 |
Fractional treatment of urinary incontinence
Apparatus for tissue treatment includes a central blunt urethra fixator, which may serve as a return electrode. An array of electrodes is positioned circumferentially about the central blunt urethra fixator and distanced radially from the central blunt urethra fixator. At least one of the electrodes is an active electrode. The central blunt urethra fixator and electrodes protrude from a housing. A main unit includes an RF generator, a controller unit, a power supply and a user interface. The main unit delivers RF energy between the return electrode and a conductive tip of the active electrode to create collagen contraction in a vicinity of the active electrode. |
| US11925403B2 |
Cryoablation catheter, cryoablation operating apparatus and cryoablation equipment
A cryoablation catheter, including a first capsule body, a core tube and a heat insulation part, wherein the first capsule body is mounted at a front end of the core tube, and has a front end area adapted for fitting to myocardial tissue during a cryoablation process and a rear end area exposed to blood; the core tube has a first looping path provided therein which is adapted for a first fluid with low temperature to be filled into or flow out of the first capsule body; the heat insulation part is at least partially fitting to the rear end area, and is adapted for reducing heat exchange efficiency between the first fluid and the blood in an atrium. The cryoablation operating apparatus and the cryoablation equipment thereof can effectively reduce the heat exchange between the cryoablation catheter and the blood during a cryoablation process. |
| US11925399B2 |
Self-holding screw head
A screw insertion system has a screw having a threaded shaft and a head. The head has a conically tapered outer surface, the taper increasing in distance from a central longitudinal axis of the screw from a free end of the head towards a larger diameter adjacent the connection between the head and the threaded shaft. The conically tapered head outer surface has preferably two helically extending partially rounded threads. The head has a drive element for engaging a driver. A tubular screw holder has an outer surface and internal bore extending between a leading end and a trailing end for receiving the screw. The leading end having a conically tapered inner threaded portion for engaging the conically tapered outer thread of the screw head. The tubular screw holder outer surface having a diameter less than or equal to the maximum diameter of the conically tapered head. |
| US11925397B2 |
System and method for bone fixation
A system for fixating a bone includes a buckle having a plurality of lock bars and a hook. A cord may connect the hook with an opposite end of the buckle and around a bone. The buckle may include lock bars on the opposite end of the buckle to receive the cord and allow a frictional resistance to a loosening of the cord around the bone to facilitate a reduction of a fracture of the bone. |
| US11925392B2 |
Pivotal bone anchor assembly with bottom loaded spherical shank head having a planar upper surface
A pivotal bone anchor assembly includes a receiver with a base defining an internal cavity with a seating surface adjacent a bottom opening and an upper portion defining a channel configured to receive an elongate rod. The assembly also includes an anchor member having a proximal end portion with a partial spherical or spheroid shaped head to establish pivotable motion between the anchor member and the receiver, and a planar top surface surrounding an internal drive socket. The assembly further includes an insert positionable within the channel to transfer a downwardly-directed force onto the proximal end portion to lock a position of the anchor member relative to the receiver, with the planar top surface remaining spaced apart from the insert so as to not directly receive the downwardly-directed force therefrom. A method of use is disclosed. |
| US11925388B1 |
Systems and devices for facilitating conception
The present disclosure provides for systems, methods, and devices for facilitating conception. According to the present disclosure, a conception facilitating device may comprise at least one frame and at least one base. In some embodiments, the at least one frame may be configured to at least partially surround the at least one base. In some aspects, the conception facilitating device may be configured to be insertable into a vaginal canal. The conception facilitating device may be comfortably inserted into a vaginal canal for a period of time, which may increase the possibility of conception. |
| US11925387B2 |
Surgical access device with fascial closure system
A surgical access device is disclosed and includes a housing, a cannula, a guide, and an expandable member. The cannula extends distally from the housing and defines a longitudinal axis. A wall of the cannula includes a first slot defined therein. The guide is engagable with the housing and defines a first channel. The first channel is disposed at a non-parallel angle relative to the longitudinal axis. The expandable member is disposed adjacent a distal portion of the cannula and is transitionable between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration. A first surgical instrument is insertable through the first channel of the guide and through the first slot of the cannula. |
| US11925386B2 |
Endoscopic ultrasound guided access needle
An access needle includes a hollow shaft having a lumen sized and shaped to slidably receive a guidewire therein and having a distal end including an angled surface extending proximally and transversely from a sharpened distal-most tip of the shaft to a beveled smoothed area of the shaft proximal and transverse to the sharpened tip. The beveled smoothed area is positioned to slidably engage a guidewire extended distally out the distal end of the needle so that, as the guidewire is retracted proximally into the needle, the beveled smoothed area slidably engages the guidewire to minimize abrasion to the guidewire. |
| US11925377B2 |
Full-circumferential tissue resectioning
The present disclosure relates generally to apparatuses, devices, and methods for performing endoscopic tissue resectioning in the gastrointestinal tract. In some embodiments, a tissue resectioning device may include first and second scaffolds each arranged in a tubular configuration. The tissue resectioning device may further include a hook tool engageable with the first scaffold and/or the second scaffold to bias the scaffolds to engage a target section of tissue between the first scaffold and the second scaffold. The hook tool may also engage the section of tissue to pull the section of tissue into the path of a cutting edge of each of the first and second scaffolds. In some embodiments, the tissue resectioning device is provided over a scope, which extends within a lumen of an overtube. |
| US11925375B2 |
Medical instrument and method
The invention relates to a medical instrument having an elongated shaft, a movable tool at a distal end of the shaft, a handle with a movable grip part at a proximal end of the shaft, and a force transmission element which can be moved in the longitudinal direction of the instrument and is operatively connected to the movable grip part and to the tool such that an actuation of the movable grip part is converted into a movement of the tool. The instrument has a spring assembly that is arranged on the handle and has at least one leg spring, which has at least one winding and two legs, and a pin, wherein the at least one winding extends about the pin. When the movable grip part is actuated, a force is applied to at least one of the legs of the leg spring, said force reducing the friction between the winding and the pin such that the leg spring can be rotated about the pin and the force transmission element and the tool can be moved. When a force is transmitted from the tool to the force transmission element in the longitudinal direction thereof, the leg spring cannot be rotated about the pin such that the force transmission element and the tool cannot be moved. |
| US11925372B2 |
Surgical clamp and clamp jaw
A surgical clamp jaw is disclosed, having an inner profile and a deflection control profile opposite the inner profile. In one embodiment, the inner profile has a first substantially concave profile in an unclamped position and a second substantially flat profile in a clamped position. In one embodiment, the deflection control profile has one or more sets of corresponding abutment surfaces, at least one set of which is not contacting each other when the inner profile is in the unclamped position and which is contacting each other when the inner profile is in the clamped position. In one embodiment, the surgical clamp jaw defines one or more flexion assistance voids, wherein at least one of the one or more flexion assistance voids is in contact with a gap between one of the one or more sets of corresponding abutment surfaces. |
| US11925367B2 |
Power parameters for ultrasonic catheter
In one embodiment of the present invention, a method of applying ultrasonic energy to a treatment site within a patient's vasculature comprises positioning an ultrasound radiating member at a treatment site within a patient's vasculature. The method further comprises activating the ultrasound radiating member to produce pulses of ultrasonic energy at a cycle period T≤1 second. The acoustic parameters such as peak power, pulse width, pulse repetition frequency and frequency or any combination of them can be varied non-linearly. |
| US11925366B2 |
Catheter with multiple shock wave generators
A catheter includes multiple shock wave generators electrically controlled to produce shock waves simultaneously, sequentially or in pre-determined patterns for intracorporeal treatment of blood vessels. |
| US11925364B2 |
Implant, alignment guides, system and methods of use
Bone fusion system, devices, guides, implant and methods for using the bone fusion system, devices, guides and implant are disclosed. The fusion system includes a first alignment guide, a second alignment guide, and an implant. The first alignment guide couples to an intermediate portion of the implant and the second alignment guide couples to a distal portion of the implant. The implant includes a body portion, a first extension portion extending away from a first end of the body portion, a second extension portion extending away from a posterior of the body portion, and a third extension portion extending away from a distal end of the body portion. Finally, methods for using the bone fusion system, devices, guide and implant are disclosed. |
| US11925361B2 |
Intraosseous modular power
An intraosseous access system, including an access assembly having a needle configured to drill into bone via rotation of the needle and a driver. The driver can include a housing, a power converter configured to impart rotational power to the needle, a first power source coupled to the power converter, and a second power source selectively coupleable to the power converter, where the second power source is configured to be disposed at least partially external to the housing. A method of drilling through a bone includes providing the intraosseous access system, applying rotational power to the needle, and placing the needle in contact with the bone. The method can further include coupling the second power source to the power converter so that power from the second power source is combined with power from the first energy source. |
| US11925358B2 |
Surgical cutting apparatus
A surgical rongeur device has an interchangeable, locking tip at a cutting end for engageable replacement with a variety of cutting tips for facilitating sterilization and blade changes. A detachable linkage between a handle portion and an interchangeable cutting tip (tip) provides a strong connection for actuation by the handle end but allowing for tip replacement via slidable, lateral displacement of the tip. The tip includes a blade and footplate formed from an amorphous metal for longevity and strength advantages. A handle provides a lever to actuate the tip from slidable communication via the detachable linkage. An interlocking member extends longitudinally from the handle into an internal slot on the tip for locking the tip by preventing lateral movement out of alignment with the handle. The aligned tip is responsive to actuation from the handle via a rail for disposing the blade longitudinally against the footplate. |
| US11925354B2 |
Staple cartridge comprising staples positioned within a compressible portion thereof
A fastener cartridge can comprise a support portion, a tissue thickness compensator positioned relative to the support portion, and a plurality of fasteners positioned within the support portion and/or the tissue thickness compensator which can be utilized to fasten tissue. In use, the fastener cartridge can be positioned in a first jaw of a surgical fastening device, wherein a second jaw, or anvil, can be positioned opposite the first jaw. To deploy the fasteners, a staple-deploying member is advanced through the fastener cartridge to move the fasteners toward the anvil. As the fasteners are deployed, the fasteners can capture at least a portion of the tissue thickness compensator therein along with at least a portion of the tissue being fastened. |
| US11925352B2 |
Systems and methods for installing a surgical buttress on an end effector and using same
A buttress device includes an applicator assembly including an applicator body, the applicator body being flexible, and a release liner. The release liner is coupled to the applicator body. The buttress device includes a buttress positioned on the applicator body, and a buttress fastener, the buttress fastener configured to couple the buttress to an end effector. The buttress fastener is configured to be releasably fastened to the release liner. The buttress device has a first configuration in which the buttress is coupled to the applicator assembly, and a second configuration in which the buttress is uncoupled from the applicator assembly, wherein the sacrificial tab is removed from the applicator assembly in the second configuration. |
| US11925343B2 |
Traction apparatus and traction ring for traction apparatus
A traction apparatus, comprising a clip portion (2) and a traction portion (1), the traction portion containing a closed traction structure (11); the closed traction structure being made from an elastic material; the clip portion comprising a main clip body (23, 25) and a clip arm (24, 26); the main clip body being capable of passing through a biopsy channel (4) of an endoscope (3), the clip arm being capable of clip the closed traction structure. Also disclosed is a traction ring used for the traction apparatus, the traction ring being a single closed traction structure or being formed by connecting several closed traction structures, the traction ring being made from an elastic material. |
| US11925339B2 |
Blood vessel access and closure devices and related methods of use
A medical device may include an outer assembly having a first shaft, a first lumen extending through the first shaft, and an atraumatic first tip removably coupled to a distal end of the first shaft; an inner assembly configured to extend through the first lumen of the outer assembly, the inner assembly including a second shaft, a second lumen extending through the second shaft, and a second tip removably coupled to a distal end of the second shaft, the second tip being configured to pierce tissue; and a plug assembly configured to extend through the second lumen of the inner assembly, the plug assembly including a third shaft and a plug removably coupled to a distal end of the third shaft. |
| US11925333B2 |
System for fluoroscopic tracking of a catheter to update the relative position of a target and the catheter in a 3D model of a luminal network
A system and method for confirming placement of a biopsy tool in a target including a navigation component to track the position of a catheter navigated into a luminal network, and a catheter configured to receive a biopsy tool. The system and method receive a first plurality of fluoroscopic images, generate a first fluoroscopic three-dimensional reconstruction from the plurality of fluoroscopic images, and present a first slice of the 3D reconstruction depicting the catheter in relation to a target visible in the slice of the 3D reconstruction. |
| US11925327B2 |
Endoscope comprising a dichroic prism assembly with at least four channels
An endoscope includes a dichroic prism assembly configured to receive light from an object image through an entrance face. The assembly includes a first prism and a further dichroic prism assembly for splitting light in three light components, the first prism having a cross section with corners designed so that an incoming beam is partially reflected twice inside and exits the first prism through an exit face towards a first sensor. The dichroic prism assembly includes a compensator prism between the first prism and the further dichroic prism assembly. A first path length travelled by the part of the incoming beam reflected twice inside the first prism towards the first sensor is the same as path lengths travelled by a part of the incoming beam entering the further dichroic prism assembly towards each of three sensors, accounting for adjustment for focal plane focus position difference in wavelengths at the sensors. |
| US11925325B2 |
Medical system, media and/or energy source, and trocar
A medical system including: a trocar configured to provide an artificial access to a body cavity of a patient; a medical instrument configured to be inserted through the trocar and into the body cavity of the patient for performing a medical function in the body cavity of the patient; and a controller configured to: determine whether the medical instrument is inserted into the trocar; and enable the performing of the medical function by the medical instrument only if the medical instrument is determined to be inserted into the trocar. |
| US11925322B2 |
Endoscope with extensible work channel
A work channel arrangement of an endoscope for guiding medical tools and/or for the through-flow of media. The work channel arrangement has a work channel which is flexible at least in part and extensible relative to the endoscope and which can be moved from a first position, in which the work channel outlet is oriented in the axial direction of the endoscope head, to a second position in which it is extended in the distal direction relative to the first position and in which the work channel outlet is or can be deflected, by means of a guide mechanism, to a predetermined lateral or rearward direction. |
| US11925319B2 |
Endoscopic accessory
Devices and methods of use for an endoscopic accessory device that can be assembled and advanced over an endoscope positioned at a site within the body, the endoscopic accessory device including a body structure having seam structures on opposite sides of an elongate body structure, where the seam structures can be releasably joined to transform the body structure from a planar configuration to a tubular configuration. |
| US11925316B2 |
Endoscope
Provided is an endoscope that can easily perform the attachment and detachment work of a proximal end side of a wire with respect to a slider.An endoscope includes a base member (98) that forms a slider housing space (150) that is independent of an internal space of an operating part (22), an opening part (94) that is provided at a proximal end of a wire channel (62) and delivers the proximal end side of the wire (60) to a slider housing space (150), a slider (96) that is disposed in the slider housing space (150) and moves in a longitudinal direction of the operating part (22) depending on the operation of an erection operating lever (20) so as to be movable forward and backward, an engaged part (152) that is provided in the slider (96) and recessed toward a lateral side orthogonal to a movement direction of the slider (96), and an engaging member (154) that is provided at the proximal end of the wire (60) and is pushed into and engageable with the engaged part (152) from the lateral side. |
| US11925314B2 |
Ultrasound endoscope
There is provided an ultrasound endoscope of which a distal-end-part body of an insertion unit can be reduced in size.In an ultrasound endoscope according to an embodiment of the invention, a straight pipe portion of a first three-way pipe and a straight pipe portion of a second three-way pipe are arranged adjacent to each other in a direction orthogonal to the direction of a longitudinal axis of an insertion unit, and a branch pipe portion and the straight pipe portion are arranged at positions overlapping with each other in a case where the first three-way pipe and the second three-way pipe are projected onto a plane perpendicular to the direction of the longitudinal axis. |
| US11925313B2 |
Endoscope and endoscope system
An endoscope includes: an insertion portion configured to be inserted into a subject; and a channel fixing portion disposed on an outer periphery of the insertion portion and configured such that a part or all of a long channel tube is fixed in a state of being embedded in a distal end portion of the insertion portion. |
| US11925309B2 |
Method of using imaging devices in surgery
A surgical hub for use with a surgical system in a surgical procedure performed in an operating room is disclosed. The surgical hub comprises a control circuit configured to generate a first image of a surgical site from a real-time imaging source, receive a second image of the surgical site from a non-real-time image source, align the first image and the second image, generate a representation of the surgical site based on the first image and the second image as aligned, display the representation on a display screen, receive a first user selection to overlay hidden structures on the representation, receive a second user selection to manipulate the representation, and adjust the representation based on the second user selection. |
| US11925308B2 |
Ionizing radiation-free dental imaging by near-infrared fluorescence, and related systems
According to some embodiments of the invention, a near-infrared fluorescence endoscopic dental imaging system includes an endoscope forming a plurality of lumens therein; a spectrometer optically coupled to a first lumen of the endoscope; a near-infrared camera optically coupled to a second lumen of the endoscope; a data processor in communication with the spectrometer and the near-infrared camera; and a display system in communication with the data processor. The near-infrared camera is configured to capture a near-infrared two-dimensional dental image of a specimen and transmit the near-infrared two-dimensional dental image to the data processor. The spectrometer is configured to capture fluorescent light from the specimen and provide a spectroscopic signal to the data processor. The display system is configured to communicate with the data processor to receive the near-infrared two-dimensional dental image and the spectroscopic signal and to display a two-dimensional dental image of the specimen. |
| US11925299B2 |
Rotary molding system
A rotary molding system configured to mold food products includes a fill plate through which food product is configured to pass, a cylindrical rotatable drum having mold cavities into which the food product is configured to be deposited, and a platen mounted within the drum. The platen has a plurality of passageways configured to be in communication with the mold cavities. Drum roller supports and rollers are provided on the platen. The extends partially outwardly from the platen and are in contact with the drum. |
| US11925295B2 |
Grinding device and method for adjustment thereof
A grinding device comprises a grinding housing with mutually co-acting grinding bodies. A lower of the two grinding bodies is both driven and axially adjustable for the purpose of setting a grind size. An upper grinding body is removable. A grind size of the grinding device can be adjusted in absolute manner between a first extreme position and a second extreme position, corresponding to a fixed setting range between a minimal clearance between the two grinding surfaces and a maximum clearance between the two grinding surfaces. An extreme position of the adjustable grinding body is imposed by a stop which is encountered by the adjusting means in the relevant extreme position. A coffee machine uses the absolute grind size and/or a fine-tuning for an optimal contact time between coffee and through-flowing water. |
| US11925292B2 |
Hot air cooking appliance
Disclosed is a hot air cooking appliance comprising a base seat provided with a receiving chamber, the base seat is provided with a heating device and an air supply device capable of supplying and circulating hot air in the receiving chamber, the hot air cooking appliance is provided with an air exhaust port disposed distally from the air supply device, and during the process of cooking by the hot air cooking appliance, the water vapor generated in the receiving chamber is discharged into the atmosphere through the air exhaust port. The hot air cooking appliance of the present application is structurally simple and capable of reducing heat loss, noise, oily fume emissions, and indoor air pollution, as well as ensuring adequate amount of water vapor is generated to accomplish cooking. |
| US11925287B1 |
Additive container with inlet tube
Containers are provided for use with a beverage dispensing device. The container can include a housing defining a hollow interior and having an inlet leading to the hollow interior therein, an outlet disposed on the housing and leading to the hollow interior, a tube extending from the inlet and through the hollow interior toward a wall of the housing opposite the inlet, and a valve disposed in the outlet. |
| US11925280B2 |
Product holder system having sign retainer
A product holder system includes a bracket including a front wall. A rear panel is coupled to the bracket. One or more product holders are coupled to the bracket. The one or more product holders are configured to retain one or more products. One or more securing assemblies are configured to secure the product holder system to a surface of a component. A sign retainer is defined between the front wall and the rear panel. The sign retainer includes a retaining channel having an open top. The sign retainer is configured to retain a sign within the retaining channel. The sign is configured to be inserted into and removed from the retaining channel through the open top. |
| US11925279B2 |
Exhaust system for an internal combustion engine of a vehicle
An exhaust system for a combustion engine vehicle includes an exhaust pipe extending between an exhaust inlet disposed opposite an exhaust outlet. The exhaust inlet and exhaust outlet are in fluidic communication with one another. The exhaust inlet is configured to receive an exhaust gas produced by an internal combustion engine of the combustion engine vehicle. A second pipe has an air inlet extending from and connected to the exhaust pipe. The second pipe is configured to be in fluidic communication with the exhaust outlet. The air inlet is configured to receive an outside flow of air. The exhaust gas from the combustion engine vehicle and the outside flow of air captured by the air inlet when the combustion engine vehicle is moving forward are configured to be combined and to cooperatively exit out the exhaust outlet. |
| US11925277B2 |
Cosmetic sponge holding assembly
A cosmetic sponge holding assembly for holding cosmetic sponges includes a base that is positionable on a horizontal support surface. A plurality of support members is each coupled to and extends upwardly from the base. A plurality of holding members is provided and the plurality of holding members includes a plurality of sets of holding members. Each of the sets of holding members is coupled to a respective one of the support members. Furthermore, each of sets of holding members on each of the support members angles away from the respective support member that each of the sets of holding members defines a holder for holding a cosmetic sponge. |
| US11925276B2 |
Expandable display frame
A display frame comprises exterior shelf units. The frame has interior shelf units which slidably and directly engage with each other and the exterior shelf units. The frame also comprises exterior connectors for connecting the exterior shelf units and the interior connectors. The interior connectors are hash shaped and oriented at an angle with respect to the vertical plane of the display frame and the sliding together of the exterior shelf units with the hash shaped connectors are used to expand display shelf frame. The exterior shelf units and the interior shelf units are slideably engaged with each other. |
| US11925275B2 |
Bag and system for use thereof
A sustainable and lightweight bag having a unique weaving pattern. A system utilizing the bag having multiple systems to provide a sustainable alternative to single use plastic bags. |
| US11925273B2 |
Armrest for chair
An armrest for a chair includes a first member and a second member. The first member includes a body extending in a longitudinal direction from a first end to a second end. The body includes one or more recesses. The first member also includes one or more magnets disposed in the one or more recesses. The second member is releasably attached to the first member. The second member includes a cavity configured to receive the first member and one or more magnetizable plate members disposed in the cavity. The one or more magnetizable plate members are adjacent the one or more magnets when the first member is received in the cavity. |
| US11925272B2 |
Furniture and item coverings and methods of making same
A furniture covering includes a main body extending from a first end to a second end, the main body having a pair of first tabbed ends at the first end, and the pair of second tabbed ends at the second end, a pair of end portions coupled to a midsection of the main body, a pair of first wings coupled to the first tabbed ends, and a pair of second wings coupled to the second tabbed ends, the pair of first wings and the pair of second wings being set back from respective edges of the tabbed ends. |
| US11925269B2 |
Mattress system and assembly
A mattress system with at least two inflatable bladders located within a tub compartment of a foam encasement is enclosed. The bladders are surrounded on all sides by foam layers and the bladders are inflated and deflated by a control unit. The control unit is positioned within the tub compartment near the foot of the mattress and centered between the two bladder assemblies. The control unit is adhered to the foam encasement. |
| US11925267B2 |
Bed frame and support member for bed frame
The present disclosure provides a foldable bed frame and associated methods for deploying the foldable bed frame. The bed frame may comprise one or more supporting members for supporting at least a portion of the bed frame, wherein the one or more supporting members comprise: a first bar comprising an opening; a second bar comprising a groove having a first end and a second end; and a locking mechanism comprising an elastic element and a pin. The pin may be inserted into (i) the opening of the first bar and (ii) the groove of the second bar to couple the first and second bars together. The first and second bars may be movable relative to each other when the pin is moved from a first position to a second position in response to a force applied to the elastic element. |
| US11925265B2 |
Transmission rod assembly and a height-adjustable desk thereof
A transmission rod assembly for a height-adjustable desk comprises: a first transmission head having positioning grooves; a second transmission head having positioning blocks; an elastic piece axially limiting abutment of the first and second transmission heads, the positioning blocks positioning respective positioning grooves; a sleeve pipe having an end mounted to the second transmission head, the elastic piece being mounted in the sleeve pipe, and an end of the elastic piece abutting the second transmission head; a first transmission rod having an end protruding into the other end of the sleeve pipe and abutting the other end of the elastic piece, the sleeve pipe limiting the first transmission rod; and a locking assembly mounted on the other end of the sleeve pipe, the locking assembly limiting the sleeve pipe and clamping the first transmission rod. Thus, mounting can be completed by elastic squeeze, bringing simple structure and easy operation. |
| US11925259B2 |
Nightstand for continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device
A nightstand designed to support and contain various CPAP machines and associated CPAP equipment including air tubing, cleaning devices and distilled water storage. Separate drawers and compartments are provided to house the CPAP machine, CPAP cleaning device, and water supply containers. Various openings are designed to increase utility and convenience in the operation and storage of CPAP devices and associated equipment. A pump may be provided to transfer water from water supply containers to the CPAP machine reservoir. The CPAP nightstand is designed to be located at bedside and provides easy access to the CPAP machine and its ancillary devices while keeping all equipment in dedicated drawers. Each dedicated drawer provides openings to allow passage of air tubing, water hoses and power cords. The CPAP nightstand also has generic drawers for additional storage. |
| US11925254B2 |
Article shield apparatus
An article shield apparatus adapted to protectively encompass an article, the apparatus including a first flexible surrounding sidewall that acts as a protective cover, a second flexible surrounding sidewall that is nested within the first flexible surrounding sidewall, the second surrounding sidewall functions as a radio frequency shield, in addition, a third flexible surrounding sidewall that is nested within the second surrounding sidewall with the third surrounding sidewall being constructed with from a waterproof material, wherein the third surrounding sidewall holds the article thus resulting in operationally the article being substantially protected from water and radio frequency waves. |
| US11925253B2 |
Wearable drive system for a work apparatus
A drive system includes a carrying device with a wearable carrying frame, an energy store carried by the carrying frame, and at least one electric drive motor carried by the carrying frame. A coupling device is configured to mechanically couple a work apparatus to the drive system. The carrying device is formed as a shoulder bag or backpack, having at least one strap that permits the carrying device to be worn over a shoulder of a user. Two straps may be provided that permit the carrying device to be worn over both shoulders of a user. Also disclosed is a tool having such a drive system and a work apparatus, which may be concrete vibrator. |
| US11925252B2 |
System and device for customization of cosmetics
The presently disclosed subject matter relates to a system, device, and method for customizing a cosmetic product. The system includes: an interface device, in electronic communication with a single batch cosmetic device. A plurality of cartridges for holding cosmetic additive which can be dispensed by a mixing assembly in accurate units to create customized cosmetics. |
| US11925250B2 |
Cosmetic applicator
A cosmetic applicator for applying a product including a cosmetic, care or pharmaceutical product onto the keratinous substrate. The cosmetic applicator comprises an applying member and a shank. The applying member comprises a first application face and a second application face opposite to the first application face, a first peripheral edge, and a second peripheral edge opposite the first peripheral edge. The applying member has a plurality of bulged portions on the second application face and a corresponding plurality of depressed portions on the first application face. The plurality of bulged portions extend from the first peripheral edge towards a central longitudinal axis of the applying member but do not extend up to the second peripheral edge. Each of the plurality of bulged portions has an arched structure, and each of the plurality of depressed portion has a concave bowl structure. |
| US11925246B2 |
Trimming guide
The present invention relates generally to a trimming guide to enable a person with or without particular skill, or a robot, or a computer, or a numerical device to cut a predetermined design, style or shape. More particularly, the invention relates to a trimming guide that would enable a person by him or herself, with or without training or particular skill, or through the use of a robot or a computer or a numerical device to trim his or her own hair, or another person's hair to a quality, finished state which is a predetermined design, style or shape. |
| US11925245B2 |
Bag
An example bag may include an outer shell comprising a front panel, a rear panel, a top sidewall, a bottom sidewall, a first sidewall, a second sidewall forming, and a closure configured to move from an open position to a closed position. The bag may also include a pair of adjustable straps. The adjustable straps can be configured to move from a first backpack carry position to a second hand carry position by releasing the adjustable straps from the outer shell of the bag from the first carry position and securing the adjustable straps to the second carry position. |
| US11925242B2 |
Buckle with pull ring
A pull ring for a buckle assembly that has a main body with a first hook element facing a rear end, and an actuation button. The actuation button is connected to the main body by a spring so that the actuation button can move between an extended resting position and a compressed position. The actuation button has a second hook element on a bottom surface and which faces the front end of the main body. The pull ring is connected to the main body and actuation button by fitting the pull ring around the first hook element, pressing the actuation button, pivoting the actuation button and main body until the second hook element is disposed within a central aperture of the pull ring, and releasing the actuation button so that the pull ring is retained in the hook elements under pressure by the spring. |
| US11925241B2 |
Buckle assembly
A buckle assembly includes a first buckle component, a second buckle component and an operating component. The first buckle component includes a locked portion. The second buckle component includes a locking portion. The locking portion engages with the locked portion along a lateral direction of the buckle assembly when the second buckle component is mated with the first buckle component along a mating direction. The operating component is partially embedded in and partially exposed out of the second buckle component. The operating component is slidable relative to the second buckle component. The operating component drives the locking portion to move away from the locked portion for disengaging the locking portion from the locked portion during a sliding movement of the operating component relative to the second buckle component. The present invention has advantage of saving labor and easy operation. |
| US11925240B2 |
Article with fiber pattern and method of manufacturing the article using an embroidery machine
A method of manufacturing an article may include positioning a first textile sheet against a second textile sheet and reciprocating a single needle of an embroidery machine through the first textile sheet and the second textile sheet, the needle forcing fibers of the second textile sheet through the first textile sheet. The fibers may have terminal ends extending outward of an exterior side of the first textile sheet through which the fibers are forced. A method may include forcing fibers from a second side to an opposite side of a single textile sheet to create a pattern of the fibers on the opposite side. Various articles such as footwear uppers may be manufactured according to the method. |
| US11925239B2 |
Foot presence sensing systems for active footwear
A foot presence sensor system for an active article of footwear can include a sensor housing configured to be disposed at or in an insole of the article, and a controller circuit, disposed within the sensor housing, configured to trigger one or more automated functions of the footwear based on a foot presence indication. In an example, the sensor system includes a capacitive sensor configured to sense changes in a capacitance signal in response to proximity of a body. A dielectric member can be provided between the capacitive sensor and the body to enhance an output signal from the sensor. |
| US11925236B2 |
Footwear having an integral and non-removable insole
A non-removable insole, that is an integral part of a shoe or other footwear article, includes at least: a top layer, a middle layer, and a bottom layer. The middle layer of the insole has apertures or cavities, that define several discrete storage chambers within the insole. Each storage chamber stores a mixture of two or more particulate materials. The mixture includes one or more materials selected from Group A, which includes natural sand, synthetic sand, artificial sand, kinetic sand, silica, quartz. The mixture further includes one or more materials selected from Group B, which includes: powdered aluminum, powdered titanium, powdered zinc, powdered magnesia, powdered silver, powdered anti-bacterial agent, powdered metal, powdered talcum, grained cork, grained coal, grained wood. |
| US11925234B2 |
Article of footwear having an upper assembly
An article of footwear includes an upper with an outer layer, an elastic layer, and a lacing system. The outer layer extends through a forefoot region, a midfoot region, and a heel region of the article of footwear and covers, at least partially, a medial side and a lateral side of the article of footwear. The elastic layer extends through the midfoot region and the heel region of the article of footwear and covers, at least partially, an instep region of the article of footwear. The lacing system extends, at least partially, across the instep region, and the outer layer includes a first elasticity and the elastic layer includes a second elasticity at least three times greater than the first elasticity. |
| US11925233B2 |
Structurally-colored articles and methods for making and using structurally-colored articles
As described above, one or more aspects of the present disclosure provide articles having structural color, and methods of making articles having structural color. The present disclosure provides for articles that exhibit structural colors through the use of an optical element, where structural colors are visible colors produced, at least in part, through optical effects. The optical element (e.g., a single layer reflector, a single layer filter, a multilayer reflector or a multilayer filter) can include the reflective layer(s), constituent layers, and an optional textured surface. The optical element has a minimum percent reflectance in a wavelength range within the wavelength range of about 380 to 625 nanometers. The optical element imparts a structural color that corresponds substantially to the range of wavelength range. |
| US11925231B2 |
Safety glasses for human user; safety system
Protective goggles for human use including a pair of protective goggles for human use with at least one lens, an upper edge that is positioned against the user's forehead and a lower edge that is positioned against the user's cheek. Each of the user's eyes are covered by a separate section of lens and each of these sections extends along at least one line of curvature. It is intended that each lens section has a first and a second line of curvature that, at least in substantial part, are positioned transversely to one another, and along which the individual sections of lens extend; furthermore, that the lines of curvature of one lens section are inclined towards the lines of curvature of the other lens section in terms of their positioning. |
| US11925227B2 |
Shadow neutral 3-D visualization of garment
A tool allows a user to create new designs for apparel and preview these designs in three dimensions before manufacture. Software and lasers are used in finishing apparel to produce a desired wear pattern or other design. Based on a laser input file with a pattern, a laser will burn the pattern onto apparel. With the tool, the user will be able to create, make changes, and view images of a design, in real time, before burning by a laser. Input to the tool includes fabric template images, laser input files, and damage input. The tool allows adding of tinting and adjusting of intensity and bright point. The user can also move, rotate, scale, and warp the image input. |
| US11925226B2 |
Spectrally selective textile for passive radiative outdoor personal cooling
A textile includes: (1) a matrix; and (2) particulate fillers dispersed within the matrix. The textile has a transmittance of infrared radiation at a wavelength of 9.5 μm of at least about 40%, and the textile has a weighted average reflectivity of radiation over a wavelength range of 0.3 μm to 2 μm of at least about 40%. |
| US11925219B2 |
Fashionable high-visibility safety apparel
Embodiments of the invention include a garment; a first design including fluorescent material placed on the garment, wherein the first design is externally visible when the garment is worn by a wearer; a second design including reflective material overlaid on the first design to create a resulting design, wherein the resulting design provides 360 degree external visibility of the wearer when the garment is worn by the wearer; and wherein the resulting design is an artistic expression. Other embodiments include the steps of: creating a design, wherein the design is an artistic expression and includes a first partial design and a second partial design; transferring the first partial design to a garment included of clothing fabric using a fluorescent material; and transferring the second partial design to the garment using a reflective material, wherein all the materials cause a wearer of the garment to have 360 degree external visibility. |
| US11925213B2 |
Output control circuit
An output control circuit is applied in an electronic cigarette including a battery assembly and an atomizer. The output control circuit includes a controller, a first switching circuit, a driving circuit and a second switching circuit. The controller is for controlling switching-on or switching-off of the first switching circuit, and providing PWM signals to the driving circuit. The first switching circuit is respectively electrically connected with the battery assembly, the controller and the atomizer. The driving circuit is used for driving to switch on or switch off the second switching circuit according to the PWM signals. The second switching circuit is respectively electrically connected with the battery assembly, the driving circuit and the atomizer. The first switching circuit, the atomizer and the second switching circuit are electrically connected in series. The atomizer is switched on when the first switching circuit and the second switching circuit are switched on simultaneously. |
| US11925209B2 |
Cartridge for aerosol generating device and method for manufacturing the same
There is provided an aerosol generating device including: an aerosol generating material delivery element configured to absorb an aerosol generating material stored in the cartridge; a heating element configured to heat the aerosol generating material; a support that includes a through-hole and accommodates the heating element and the aerosol generating material delivery element such that an end of the heating element passes through the through-hole and is exposed to an outside of the support; and a connector comprising a terminal providing power, and coupled to the support such that the end of the heating element contacts the terminal. |
| US11925208B2 |
Non-nicotine e-vaping device
A reservoir assembly that holds a non-nicotine pre-vapor formulation in a reservoir includes a reservoir assembly connector assembly defining a connector conduit, and which may be configured to detachably couple with a non-nicotine vaporizer assembly based on a connector element of the non-nicotine vaporizer assembly engaging with the connector conduit of the connector conduit. The reservoir assembly may include an isolation structure configured to move in relation to both the reservoir and the non-nicotine vaporizer connector assembly between a first position where the isolation structure exposes the non-nicotine vaporizer assembly to the reservoir and at least partially obstructs the connector conduit to restrict the connector element from disengaging from the connector conduit, and a second position where the isolation structure isolates the non-nicotine vaporizer assembly from the reservoir and opens the connector conduit to enable the connector element to disengage from the connector conduit. |
| US11925205B2 |
Electronic aerosol provision device
There is provided a hatch section for an electronic aerosol provision device, wherein the hatch section includes a sleeve for receipt of an aerosol forming component, the sleeve defining a longitudinal axis and including first and second sections spaced along the longitudinal axis which exert different rotational biases on the aerosol forming component when inserted into the sleeve. |
| US11925203B2 |
Aerosol generating article, a method for manufacturing an aerosol generating article and an aerosol generating system
An aerosol generating article includes a body of aerosol forming material and a tubular inductively heatable susceptor surrounding the body of aerosol forming material which includes a rolled sheet having a longitudinally extending joint between opposite edges thereof. The aerosol generating article includes a magnetic shielding material, preferably in the form of a magnetic shielding strip, extending along the longitudinally extending joint so that the joint is covered by the magnetic shielding strip and a non-electrically conductive material between the magnetic shielding strip and the joint. Methods for manufacturing the aerosol generating article and an aerosol generating system are also described. |
| US11925200B2 |
Capsules, heat-not-burn (HNB) aerosol-generating devices, and methods of generating an aerosol
A capsule for an aerosol-generating device may include a first heater, a second heater, and a frame sandwiched between the first heater and the second heater. The frame may define open spaces therein and have a rigidity that is adequate to support the first heater and the second heater. The open spaces within the frame may be interconnected and sized for aerosol-permeability and capillary action. A nicotine-containing material, such as tobacco, may be disposed within the capsule. |
| US11925189B2 |
Gummy composition and method for producing the same
A raw material for a gummy composition, and a gummy candy composed of the gummy composition, contain pyroglutamic acid, preferably in an amount of 0.08 mass % to 1.5 mass %. By adding pyroglutamic acid, the gummy candy has an improved melt-in-the-mouth feeling, while also being non-adhesive and soft, and having improved flavor release during chewing. |
| US11925188B2 |
Cultured dairy products and method of preparation
A method for preparing a cultured dairy product comprising: blending water, ultra-filtered milk and other ingredients to form a blended milk containing about 1.6% lactose, about 3.9% protein and about 0.8% fat; culturing the blended milk by adding a starter culture and fermenting the blended milk to produce a cultured dairy product; and processing the cultured dairy product with only mechanical steps to form a finished cultured dairy product containing less than 4% total sugar and less than 0.1% lactose. |
| US11925186B2 |
Fish head cutting machine
A fish head cutting machine for decapitating a fish, comprising: a) a fish support for supporting a fish in an infeed loading zone with its belly side down and its backbone in a substantially horizontal orientation; b) a guide mechanism positioned adjacent the fish support to hold the fish via an anatomical body part, such as its gill plate, collar bone, pectoral fin or pelvic fin, so that only the body of the fish is supported by the fish support; c) a drive mechanism transporting the fish in a downward direction and at an acute angle to vertical from the infeed loading zone downstream to a head cutting zone while the fish is supported on the fish support and held by the guide mechanism; d) a head pusher located between the infeed loading zone and the head cutting zone that engages the head of the fish and tips the head of the fish upwardly and rearwardly as the fish moves downstream to the head cutting zone; and e) head cutting blades located downstream of the head pusher in the cutting zone that cut the head of the fish from the body of the fish. |
| US11925184B2 |
Method and system for processing an extruded food material
A food-processing system having a metering pump for filling a casing with food material, a linker for forming links in the filled casing and depositing a linked strand on a conveyor, and a plurality of servo motors arranged to drive each of a plurality of driven components of the processing system. The food-processing system being implemented according to a two-step ramp-up method that enables increased control of a first end and a second end of the linked strand using a first speed, and enables faster processing of the linked strand between the ends at a second speed higher than the first speed. |
| US11925176B2 |
Programmable fishing rod vibrator with sensory feedback controller
A fishing rod vibration system including a battery powered electronics system, programmable motor controller, and user interface, as well as a vibrator selectively and detachably coupled to the electronics system for receiving output signals from the motor controller. The electronics system and user interface may be disposed in or on a fishing reel, and the electronic vibrator may be collocated with the electronics system or disposed on a fishing rod separated from the electronics system. |
| US11925175B2 |
Water supply device for pets and method for controlling same
The present disclosure relates to a water supplier for a pet and a control method thereof, that is, a water supplier for a pet that operates a thermoelectric element by sensing the temperature of water stored in a water tub through a water temperature sensor, operates a warning unit by sensing the level of the water stored in a water tub through a water level sensor, operates a pump by sensing a pet within a predetermined distance range through a proximity sensor, and cuts power or keeps the inclination of a water dispenser horizontal by sensing the inclination of the water tub through a gyro sensor, and a method of controlling the water supplier. |
| US11925173B2 |
Data collection system and method for feeding aquatic animals
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for collecting and/or pre-processing data related to feeding animals in water. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for minimising wasted feed used in a fish farm. According to an aspect, there is a provided a computer-implemented method for detecting motion in relation to one or more aquatic animals, the method comprising the steps of: receiving sensor data; determining from the sensor data one or more moving objects using one or more learned functions; and generating output data in relation to the determined one or more moving objects. |
| US11925170B2 |
Disposable cat litter box
A cat litter box is designed to be folded into a compact form for storage and shipment to a customer and unfolded by the customer for use. When it is time to replace the litter box, the cat litter box can be refolded back into a compact form for disposal. A lid protects the box during storage and shipment. |
| US11925169B2 |
Automated litter device
An automated litter device having: a base; and a chamber configured for retaining a litter and rotatably supported by the support base, wherein the chamber includes: an entry opening so that an animal can enter and exit the chamber; and a waste opening generally opposing the entry opening configured so that an animal waste passes through the waste opening into the base upon rotation of the chamber; wherein the automated litter device includes one or more of: i) one or more sensors located adjacent to the entry opening which are adapted to sense the presence of the animal within the chamber, the presence of the waste in the base, a level of litter in the chamber, a position of the chamber relative to the base, or any combination thereof; ii) a filtering system configured for reducing, eliminating, and/or preventing, malodors building in the base; and/or iii) a litter dispenser in communication with the chamber to transfer some of the litter to the chamber. |
| US11925159B2 |
Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH010992
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH010992. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH010992, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH010992 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH010992. |
| US11925157B2 |
Canola hybrid 18GG0651G
Provided is a canola variety designated 18GG0651G and seed, plants and plant parts thereof produced from a cross of inbred varieties. Methods for producing a canola variety comprise crossing canola variety 18GG0651G with another canola plant. Methods for producing a canola plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 18GG0651G through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the canola seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Canola variety, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, plant parts and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of canola variety are disclosed. |
| US11925150B2 |
Grow system
A grow system. The system includes growing plants in grow modules that are individually moveable. The plants grow in trays where roots never touch the water supply. The plumbing to the grow modules is a low flow, one way flow continual drip system that is hands free. A mobile robot can navigate around a growspace, bring any grow module from one location to another, and perform growspace operations. The growspace is a control space with data source zones and a control space manager. The control space manager can collect data and control different variables across different data source zones in order to determine optimal policies and conditions for data source growth and generation. |
| US11925145B2 |
Threshing spine
A harvesting machine that has a first rotor rotationally coupled to a chassis, a second rotor rotationally coupled to the chassis, and a spine separating the first rotor from the second rotor. Wherein the spine has threshing inserts coupled thereto to facilitate threshing of crop processed by the first and second rotors. |
| US11925143B2 |
Infeed belt conveyor at combine feeder
A header of a combine harvester includes a belt conveyor configured to direct a movement of harvested crop material toward a feederhouse of the combine harvester. The belt conveyor is located adjacent an inlet of the feederhouse. The belt conveyor includes at least one protrusion extending radially from the belt conveyor that helps direct movement of harvested crop material toward the feederhouse. |
| US11925142B2 |
Electric motor and blade assembly for a lawn mower
A configuration of a direct drive lawnmower spindle assembly to protect sensitive electric motor components is provided. A spindle shaft of the spindle assembly is supported by upper and lower bearings. An upper end of the spindle shaft is mounted to a rotor of the electric motor and a lower end of the spindle shaft extends through the clearance opening. The lower bearing is supported by a lower bearing carrier that is mounted to the bottom of the spindle housing. The lower bearing can be serviced by removing the lower bearing carrier. A clearance gap between the spindle shaft and the clearance opening is sufficiently small to limit spindle shaft tipping to a degree that will not damage the motor. The invention also provides a friction coupling system for coupling a blade with the rotating spindle shaft. |
| US11925141B2 |
Mulching mower deck with rear discharge features
A mower deck is disclosed. The mower deck includes a housing having a top wall, at least one blade rotated downwardly of the top wall and about a vertical shaft, and a blade baffle unit extending downwards from the top wall in such a manner as to surround an outer circumferential area of a rotational path of the blade to create therein a mulching blade rotation space, the blade baffle unit having a front baffle located on an advancing side of the traveling vehicle and a rear baffle located on a reversing side of the traveling vehicle. The front baffle extends downwards from the top wall to exceed the rotational path so as to prevent discharge of cut grass pieces via a lower end of the front baffle. The rear baffle extends downwards from the top wall by such an extent to allow discharge of the cut grass pieces. |
| US11925140B2 |
Trimmer line cutting head for mounting on a drive shaft of a trimmer
A trimmer line cutting head has a trimmer line spool rotatably supported about an axis of rotation and disposed slidably between housing and housing cover along the axis of rotation. A spring element pretensions the trimmer line spool in an operating position of the trimmer line cutting head. An indexing device has a terminal stop connecting the trimmer line spool in the operating position to the housing in fixed connection for common rotation of trimmer line spool and housing. By applying an actuating force to the indexing device, the trimmer line spool is adjustable from the operating position axially into an inoperative state of the trimmer line cutting head for paying out trimmer line. The indexing device has a rotational stop formed in a slot in a wall of the trimmer line spool and limiting rotation of the trimmer line spool relative to the housing in the inoperative state. |
| US11925139B2 |
Permanent lawn mower
The permanent lawn mower, or inground lawn mower, is designed to be an alternative to conventional mobile mowing. Its focus is small grassy areas that are dangerous or impractical to mow by other means. In a first embodiment, the system includes three primary components: a drive unit that supplies rotational motion; a cable that carries rotational motion away from the drive unit, and one or more cutting heads that convert the rotational motion into a cutting action. In a second embodiment, the drive unit is combined with the cutting head, avoiding the need for a cable to carry rotational motion. |
| US11925136B2 |
Spreading machine
A spreading machine, in particular a precision seed drill, includes at least one seed hopper, at least one fertilizer tank, and a several spreading units. Each of the spreading units includes at least one pneumatically operated separating device, to or from which a separation air flow is suppliable or dischargeable, and a fertilizer application device. The spreading machine includes a conveying air-driven seed feeding device for providing seed from the seed hopper to the spreading units, and an energy-powered fertilizer supply device for providing fertilizer to the fertilizer application devices. To refine a spreading machine that includes a plurality of consumers, the spreading machine includes at least two separate energy suppliers, in particular blowers or pumps, for providing the separation air flows to the separating devices, the conveying air to the seed feeding device, and the energy to the fertilizer supply device. |
| US11930723B1 |
Systems and methods for dynamically reconfigurable artificial synapses and neurons with tunable activation functions
An ionic redox transistor comprises a solid channel, a solid reservoir layer, and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the channel and the reservoir layer. The channel exhibits a substantially linear current-voltage relationship in a first range of voltages, and a nonlinear current-voltage relationship in a second range of voltages that is greater than the first range of voltages. One or both of the substantially linear current-voltage relationship or the nonlinear current-voltage relationship of the channel is varied by changing the concentration of ions such as oxygen vacancies in the channel. Ion or vacancy transport between the channel and the reservoir layer across the electrolyte layer occurs in response to applying a voltage between the channel and the reservoir layer. Subject to the first range of voltages, the channel can function as a synapse device. Subject to the second range of voltages, the channel can function as a neuron device. |
| US11930721B2 |
Systems and methods for fabrication of superconducting integrated circuits
Various techniques and apparatus permit fabrication of superconductive circuits. A niobium/aluminum oxide/niobium trilayer may be formed and individual Josephson Junctions (JJs) formed. A protective cap may protect a JJ during fabrication. A hybrid dielectric may be formed. A superconductive integrated circuit may be formed using a subtractive patterning and/or additive patterning. A superconducting metal layer may be deposited by electroplating and/or polished by chemical-mechanical planarization. The thickness of an inner layer dielectric may be controlled by a deposition process. A substrate may include a base of silicon and top layer including aluminum oxide. Depositing of superconducting metal layer may be stopped or paused to allow cooling before completion. Multiple layers may be aligned by patterning an alignment marker in a superconducting metal layer. |
| US11930719B2 |
Magnetic memory device using doped semiconductor layer
Magnetic memory devices are provided. The devices comprise a first ferromagnetic layer, a second ferromagnetic layer, and a tunnel barrier layer composed of a doped semiconductor (instead of an insulator or a dielectric) between the first and second ferromagnetic layers and forming at least one ferromagnetic-doped semiconductor interface. |
| US11930716B2 |
Reduction of capping layer resistance area product for magnetic device applications
A ferromagnetic layer is capped with a metallic oxide (or nitride) layer that provides a perpendicular-to-plane magnetic anisotropy to the layer. The surface of the ferromagnetic layer is treated with a plasma to prevent diffusion of oxygen (or nitrogen) into the layer interior. An exemplary metallic oxide layer is formed as a layer of metallic Mg that is plasma treated to reduce its grain size and enhance the diffusivity of oxygen into its interior. Then the plasma treated Mg layer is naturally oxidized and, optionally, is again plasma treated to reduce its thickness and remove the oxygen rich upper surface. |
| US11930713B2 |
Piezoelectric element and vibrating device
A piezoelectric element includes a piezoelectric body, an electrode layer, and a reinforcing layer. The piezoelectric body has a first main surface, a second main surface, and a side surface. The first main surface and the second main surface oppose each other. The side surface extends in an opposing direction in which the first main surface and the second main surface oppose each other in such a way as to connect the first main surface and the second main surface. The electrode layer is provided in the piezoelectric body. The reinforcing layer is provided on the first main surface. The electrode layer is provided opposing the first main surface and apart from the side surface. When viewed from the opposing direction, the electrode layer has a corner. When viewed from the opposing direction, the reinforcing layer overlaps the corner. |
| US11930711B2 |
Vibration structure and vibration generator
A vibration structure that includes a piezoelectric film constructed to deform in a plane direction as a voltage is applied thereto, a frame-shaped member, a vibration portion surrounded by the frame-shaped member in a plan view of the vibration structure, a support portion connecting the vibration portion and the frame-shaped member, and supporting the vibration portion within the frame-shaped member such that the vibration portion vibrates in the plane direction when the piezoelectric film is deformed in the plane direction, a first connection member that connects the piezoelectric film to the vibration portion, and a second connection member that connects the piezoelectric film to the frame-shaped member. Of the connection members, the first connection member is disposed between the center of gravity of the vibration portion and the second connection member. |
| US11930710B2 |
Hybrid structure and a method for manufacturing the same
A hybrid structure and a method for manufacturing a hybrid structure comprising an effective layer of piezoelectric material having an effective thickness and disposed on a supporting substrate having a substrate thickness and a thermal expansion coefficient lower than that of the effective layer includes: a) a step of providing a bonded structure comprising a piezoelectric material donor substrate and the supporting substrate, b) a first step of thinning the donor substrate to form a thinned layer having an intermediate thickness and disposed on the supporting substrate, the assembly forming a thinned structure; c) a step of heat treating the thinned structure at an annealing temperature; and d) a second step, after step c), of thinning the thinned layer to form the effective layer. The method also comprises, prior to step b), a step a′) of determining a range of intermediate thicknesses that prevent the thinned structure from being damaged during step c). |
| US11930709B2 |
Electrical machine and power electronics converter
Integrated arrangements of electrical machines and power electronics converters are described. One such arrangement comprises: an electrical machine comprising one or more windings; a power electronics converter arranged to supply current to or receive current from the one or more windings of the electrical machine; a magnetocaloric effect (MCE) material in thermal contact with the power electronics converter; and a heat sink for removing heat from the MCE material. The MCE material is arranged in proximity to the one or more windings of the electrical machine whereby, in use, stray magnetic flux from the windings of the electrical machine passes through the MCE material and activates the MCE material. The repeated application and removal of the stray flux during normal operation of the electrical machine creates cycles of magnetic refrigeration, which removes heat from the power electronics converter. |
| US11930708B2 |
Thermoelectric generation module
A thermoelectric generation module includes a first substrate and a second substrate, a plurality of first electrodes and second electrodes that are arranged on the first substrate and the second substrate, a thermoelectric conversion element arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a terminal pin connected to the second electrode. The second substrate includes an insulator layer made of an electrical insulating material, a through-hole that penetrates the insulator layer for insertion of the terminal pin, and an annular metal layer arranged at a peripheral portion of the through-hole. A space between the terminal pin and the through-hole is sealed by solder. |
| US11930705B2 |
Diaryloxybenzoheterodiazole compounds di-substituted with thienothiophenic groups
There is a diaryloxybenzoheterodiazole compound di-substituted with thienothiophenic groups having general formula (Ia): The diaryloxybenzoheterodiazole compound di-substituted with thienothiophenic groups having general formula (Ia) can be advantageously used as a spectrum converter in luminescent solar concentrators (LSCS) capable, in turn, of improving the performance of photovoltaic devices (or solar devices), selected for example, between photovoltaic cells (or solar cells), photovoltaic modules (or solar modules), either on a rigid support, or on a flexible support. More particularly, said photovoltaic devices (or solar devices) can be advantageously used in the construction of greenhouses. |
| US11930704B2 |
Organic electroluminescent device comprising an electron buffer layer and an electron transport layer
The present disclosure relates to an organic electroluminescent device. The organic electroluminescent device of the present disclosure comprises a specific combination of an electron buffer material and an electron transport material which can provide high efficiency and/or long lifespan. |
| US11930690B2 |
Mask plate
The embodiments of the present disclosure provides a mask plate, including a rectangular area and two gripper areas which are respectively disposed on two opposite sides of the rectangular area, wherein each of the two gripper areas has a first side and a third side which are arranged opposite to each other, and a second side and a fourth side which are arranged opposite to each other, and the first side is disposed on a side of the rectangular area, and a minimum horizontal spacing between the second side and the fourth side is less than a side length of the first side. |
| US11930689B2 |
Bonding device and method of manufacturing display device using the same
A bonding device includes: a support in which a plurality of through-holes is defined, a diaphragm disposed on the support to cover the support, a pressing pad disposed on the diaphragm over a top surface of the support, and a window fixing chuck disposed on the pressing pad and in which a groove facing the pressing pad is defined. Here, the pressing pad includes a pad and at least one support bar disposed in the pad and extending in a first direction. |
| US11930687B2 |
Organic light emitting diode display device with a blocking member
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display panel and a display device are provided. The OLED display panel includes a light emitting functional layer and a display area disposed on a transistor array substrate. The reinforcement layer is formed on a surface of a bending area of the transistor array substrate. A blocking member is formed on a surface of the transistor array substrate and located between the reinforcement layer and the light emitting functional layer. By providing the blocking member, the control accuracy of the amount of glue overflow in the bending area is improved. |
| US11930684B2 |
Display device
Provided is a display device. The display device includes a first base portion, a second base portion facing the first base portion, a light emitting layer disposed on one surface of the first base portion and emitting first light, a first wavelength conversion pattern disposed on the light emitting layer and converting the first light into second light having a different wavelength from the first light, a first color filter overlapping the first wavelength conversion pattern on one surface of the second base portion and spaced apart from the first wavelength conversion pattern, and an air layer interposed between the first wavelength conversion pattern and the first color filter. |
| US11930676B2 |
Display panel and display device
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a base substrate, a plurality of pixel drive circuit units, n first signal lines, a touch layer, and a light emitting element. A distance between first extending portions of two adjacent first signal lines is greater than a distance between first bending portions of the two adjacent first signal lines. An orthogonal projection overlap area between the first connecting portion and first extending portions of the n first signal lines is S1, and an orthogonal projection overlap area between the first connecting portion and first bending portions of the n first signal lines is S2. S1≥S2. A length of a first extending portion of at least one first signal line is L1, a distance between the first extending portion of at least one first signal line and the second electrode is H1, and H1≥(S1/n)/L1. |
| US11930674B2 |
Display substrate and preparation method thereof, and display apparatus
Provided is a display substrate, including: a silicon-based substrate having a display area, a binding area located on one side of the display area, and a trace area located between the display area and the binding area; a trace protection structure is arranged on the silicon-based substrate in the trace area, and a pad assembly is integrated in the silicon-based substrate in the binding area; and a minimum distance between an edge of an orthographic projection of the trace protection structure on the silicon-based substrate and an edge of an orthographic projection of an opening of the pad assembly on the silicon-based substrate is smaller than a maximum size of one subpixel. |
| US11930670B2 |
Display device including an interlayer insulating layer selectively overlapping an active layer of a driving transistor and method for manufacturing the same
A display device comprises a substrate; a driving transistor including a first active layer and a switching transistor including a second active layer, the first active layer and the second active layer being disposed on the substrate; a first gate insulating layer disposed on the first active layer of the driving transistor and the second active layer of the switching transistor; first and second gate electrodes disposed on the first gate insulating layer to overlap the first active layer of the driving transistor and the second active layer of the switching transistor, respectively; a first interlayer insulating layer disposed on the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode; and a second interlayer insulating layer disposed on the first interlayer insulating layer to overlap the first active layer without overlapping the second active layer in a plan view. |
| US11930666B2 |
Light-emitting device and light-emitting system
A first electrode (110) has optical transparency, and a second electrode (130) has light reflectivity. An organic layer (120) is located between the first electrode (110) and the second electrode (130). Light-transmitting regions (a second region (104) and a third region (106)) are located between a plurality of light-emitting units (140). An insulating film (150) defines the light-emitting units (140) and includes tapers (152, 154). A sealing member (170) covers the light-emitting units (140) and the insulating film (150). A low reflection film (190) is located on the side opposite to a substrate (100) with the second electrode (130) therebetween. The low reflection film (190) covers at least one portion of the tapers (152 and 154). |
| US11930665B2 |
Display substrate and manufacturing method thereof, and display apparatus
A display substrate has a display region and a peripheral region. The display substrate includes a substrate, a first dam, a second dam and a connection portion. The first dam and the second dam are located on a side of the substrate, and are located in the peripheral region. The second dam is farther from the display region than the first dam. A height of the second dam is greater than a height of the first dam. The connection portion is located between the first dam and the second dam. The connection portion connects the first dam and the second dam, and a height of the connection portion is less than the height of the first dam. At least a portion of the first dam, at least a portion of the connection portion and at least a portion of the second dam are of an integrative structure. |
| US11930663B2 |
Display panel
A display panel includes a first substrate, pixel structures, a first common pad, a second substrate, a second common electrode, a display medium and a conductive particle. The pixel structures are disposed on an active area of the first substrate. The first common pad is disposed on a peripheral area of the first substrate, and is electrically connected to first common electrodes of the pixel structures. The second common electrode is disposed on the second substrate. The conductive particle is disposed on the first common pad, and is electrically connected to the first common pad and the second common electrode. The conductive particle includes a core and a conductive film disposed on a surface of the core, where the conductive film has a main portion and raised portions, and a film thickness of each of the raised portions is greater than a film thickness of the main portion. |
| US11930661B2 |
Display apparatus having encapsulating layers terminating at a peripheral area of a substrate and method of manufacturing the same
A display apparatus includes a substrate on which a central area having a display area and a peripheral area disposed around the central area are defined. The display apparatus includes a display area inorganic layer on the display area and extending to a portion of the peripheral area; and an encapsulation inorganic layer covering the display area, on the display area inorganic layer, and having an edge that is in parallel with or extending over an edge of the display area inorganic layer. |
| US11930657B2 |
Display apparatus having substrate hole
The present disclosure discloses a display apparatus, including a substrate including a pixel area including a disconnected area which encloses a hole area, an organic light emitting diode formed in the pixel area and the disconnected area, a plurality of inorganic insulating layers disposed below the organic light emitting diode, a disconnection structure which is disposed in the disconnected area and encloses the hole area, and an internal dam which is disposed in the disconnected area and encloses the disconnection structure, and in which the disconnection structure includes an eave portion which is simultaneously formed with the internal dam and a trench which is formed by etching the plurality of inorganic insulating layers disposed below the eave portion, and the disconnection structure is configured to have a predetermined overhang and a predetermined depth by the eave portion and the trench structure. |
| US11930656B2 |
Foldable display device
A foldable display device assembly includes a rigid film having first and second sections spaced apart from each other, the rigid film being foldable about a folding axis disposed between the first and second sections of the rigid film; an adhesion structure having first and second adhesion sections spaced apart from each other, the first and second adhesion sections being disposed on the first and second sections of the rigid film, respectively; a lower flexible module disposed on the adhesion structure; a flexible display module disposed on the lower flexible module; and an upper flexible module disposed on the flexible display module. |
| US11930655B2 |
Display device including touch sensor and manufacturing method for the same
A display device is provided that includes a substrate including an active area and a non-active area, a planarization film disposed over the substrate, an anode electrode disposed on the planarization film and including a first hole in the non-active area, a bank disposed on the anode electrode, a cathode electrode disposed on the bank, an encapsulation layer disposed on the cathode electrode, and a touch sensor disposed on the encapsulation layer and including a touch line in the non-active area. Here, the first hole may be disposed not to overlap with the touch line. |
| US11930653B2 |
Light-emitting device, light-emitting appliance, display device, electronic appliance, and lighting device
A light-emitting device with high emission efficiency and reliability is provided. The light-emitting device includes a fluorescent light-emitting layer and a phosphorescent light-emitting layer. A host material used in the fluorescent light-emitting layer has a function of converting triplet excitation energy into light emission and a guest material used in the fluorescent light-emitting layer emits fluorescence. The guest material has a molecular structure including a luminophore and a protecting group, and one molecule of the guest material includes five or more protecting groups. The introduction of the protecting groups into the molecule inhibits transfer of triplet excitation energy from the host material to the guest material by the Dexter mechanism. An alkyl group or a branched-chain alkyl group is used as the protecting group. The longest wavelength absorption band in the absorption spectrum of the guest material in the phosphorescent light-emitting layer has an overlap with the emission spectrum of the host material in the phosphorescent light-emitting layer. |
| US11930652B2 |
Organic light emitting display apparatus including sub light emitting layers
An organic light emitting display apparatus including a substrate including a plurality of pixel areas; a pixel electrode on the substrate; an opposite electrode on the pixel electrode, the opposite electrode transmitting light; an organic light emitting layer between the pixel electrode and the opposite electrode, the organic light emitting layer emitting a first light toward the opposite electrode; a light emitting layer on the opposite electrode, the light emitting layer absorbing a portion of the first light and emitting a second light; and a sealing layer on the light emitting layer, the sealing layer sealing the pixel electrode, the opposite electrode, the organic light emitting layer, and the light emitting layer. |
| US11930642B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a stacked structure including conductive layers and gaps respectively interposed between the conductive layers, a channel layer passing through the stacked structure, a ferroelectric layer surrounding a sidewall of the channel layer, and first dielectric patterns interposed between the ferroelectric layer and the conductive layers, respectively. The gaps extending between the first dielectric patterns. |
| US11930640B2 |
Three-dimensional semiconductor device having a support pattern in contact with a side surface of a contact plug
The semiconductor device includes a substrate having a cell area and a via area; a transistor and a logic interconnection disposed over the substrate; a lower insulating layer covering the transistor and the logic interconnection; a lower conductive layer on the lower insulating layer in the cell area; a support pattern disposed on the lower insulating layer in the via area; a lower via plug having a side surface in contact with the support pattern and a bottom surface in contact with the logic interconnection; a word line stack disposed on the lower conductive layer in the cell area; an dielectric layer stack disposed on the support pattern in the via area; a vertical channel pillar penetrating the word line stack to be connected to the lower conductive layer; and an upper via plug penetrating the dielectric layer stack to be vertically aligned with the lower via plug. |
| US11930634B2 |
Methods of forming microelectronic devices
A method of forming a microelectronic device comprises forming a microelectronic device structure comprising memory cells, digit lines, word lines, and at least one isolation material covering and surrounding the memory cells, the digit lines, and the word lines. An additional microelectronic device structure comprising control logic devices and at least one additional isolation material covering and surrounding the control logic devices is formed. The additional microelectronic device structure is attached to the microelectronic device structure. Contact structures are formed to extend through the at least one isolation material and the at least one additional isolation material. Some of the contact structures are coupled to some of the digit lines and some of the control logic devices. Some other of the contact structures are coupled to some of the word lines and some other of the control logic devices. Microelectronic devices, electronic systems, and additional methods are also described. |
| US11930632B2 |
Gate structure and manufacturing method thereof
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a height of the work function layer, especially a height of the second portion of the work function layer, is significantly increased, and a height of the first gate material layer is significantly reduced, so that the height ratio of the second portion of the work function layer to the first gate material layer to the second gate material layer is maintained at 3 to 8:1 to 1.5:1; therefore, it can be ensured that the work function of the WL groove filling material layer of the recessed gate structure with a small WL width will be significantly increased, thereby greatly weakening the row hammer effect at the bottom of the WL groove and obviously reducing the GIDL effect at the upper part of the WL groove. |
| US11930628B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
A device includes a substrate, a pull-down transistor over the substrate, a pass-gate transistor over the substrate, and a pull-up transistor over the substrate. The pull-up transistor includes a first gate structure and first source/drain epitaxy structures on opposite sides of the first gate structure, in which each of the first source/drain epitaxy structures comprises a first epitaxy layer and a second epitaxy layer over the first epitaxy layer, wherein a germanium concentration of the first epitaxy layer is higher than a germanium concentration of the second epitaxy layer. |
| US11930621B2 |
Folding thermal ground plane
Some embodiments include a thermal ground plane comprising a first and second casing with folding and non-folding regions. The thermal ground plane may also include a vapor structure and a mesh. The mesh may be disposed on an interior surface of the second casing and the mesh include a plurality of arteries extending substantially parallel with a length of the thermal ground plane. The folding region of the first casing may have an out-of-plane wavy structure. The valleys and peaks of the out-of-plane wavy structure, for example, may extend across a width of the first active region substantially parallel with a width of the thermal ground plane. |
| US11930620B2 |
Vapor chambers
There is disclosed in one example a heat dissipator for an electronic apparatus, including: a planar vapor chamber having a substantially rectangular form factor, wherein a second dimension d2 of the rectangular form factor is at least approximately twice a first dimension d1 of the rectangular form factor; a first fan and second fan; and a first heat pipe and second heat pipe discrete from the planar vapor chamber and disposed along first and second d1 edges of the planar vapor chamber, further disposed to conduct heat from the first and second d1 edges to the first and second fan respectively. |
| US11930616B2 |
Combined heat exchanger and RF shield
A thermal component has a shield portion and a heat exchanger portion. The shield portion includes a plurality of cells adapted to inhibit radio radiation (RF) having a frequency within a target frequency range, while the heat exchanger portion includes a plurality of elongated channels, each one of the elongated channels being physically connected to and in fluid communication with at least one corresponding cell of the plurality of cells. |
| US11930614B2 |
Storage device frame assembly and server
A server includes a casing, a storage device, and a storage device frame assembly. The casing includes a first side plate. The storage device frame assembly includes a support frame and a handle. The support frame accommodates the storage device and is removably mounted on the first side plate. The handle includes a pivotable component and a slidable component. The pivotable component is pivotably disposed on the support frame. The slidable component is slidably disposed on the pivotable component. The slidable component is slidable between a first position and a predetermined position relative to the pivotable component, a longitudinal axis of the slidable component in the first position is non-parallel to the longitudinal axis of the slidable component in the predetermined position. |
| US11930613B2 |
Electronic assembly with glide surfaces and related methods
An electronic assembly includes a chassis having electronic module mounting positions. The electronic assembly also includes a respective electronic module received in each electronic module mounting position and having a module cooling gas passageway. Each electronic module has a module glide surface. The electronic assembly includes a respective sealing retainer coupled between the chassis and each electronic module. The sealing retainer has a cooling gas passageway aligned with a chassis cooling gas passageway and the module cooling gas passageway. The sealing retainer includes a retainer body having a retainer glide surface, and a gas sealing gasket carried by the retainer body. The module glide surface and the retainer glide surface have respective cooperating features so that the respective electronic module is maintained in spaced relation from the sealing gasket as the respective electronic module is slidably inserted into a seated position. |
| US11930611B2 |
Configurable chassis supporting replaceable hardware accelerator baseboards
Systems are provided where a chassis houses an Information Handling System (IHS). The chassis includes a motherboard with one or more CPUs configured to operate as a root complex for a PCIe switch fabric that includes a plurality of PCIe devices of the IHS. The chassis also includes an I/O module providing I/O capabilities for the motherboard. The I/O module includes a network controller configured to allocate network bandwidth for use by a hardware accelerator sled installed in the chassis, unless an integrated network controller is detected as a component of a hardware accelerator baseboard installed in the hardware accelerator sled. The I/O module also includes a PCI switch configured to operate with the CPUs as the root complex of the PCIe switch fabric and further configured to operate with the hardware accelerator baseboard as the root complex of the PCIe switch fabric. |
| US11930604B1 |
Portable electronic device case accessory system
Systems involve implementations such as a first case assembly including a base including an interior surface and an exterior surface, first, second, and third side walls and an interior surface at least partially bounding an interior area to receive at least a portion of a portable electronic device, and a coupler assembly including a portion of the exterior surface of the base; and an accessory assembly configured to provide at least one electric communication or power function for the portable electronic device, wherein the accessory assembly being sized and shaped to couple with the coupler assembly of the case assembly. Other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. |
| US11930601B2 |
Method for manufacturing printed wiring board
A method for manufacturing a printed wiring board includes forming a seed layer on a surface of a resin insulating layer, applying a dry film onto the seed layer using a laminating roll device, cutting the dry film applied onto the seed layer to a predetermined size, applying pressure and heat to the dry film, forming a plating resist on the seed layer from the dry film using photographic technology, forming an electrolytic plating film on part of the seed layer exposed from the resist, removing the resist from the seed layer, and removing the part of the seed layer exposed from the electrolytic plating film. The applying of the pressure and heat includes applying the pressure and heat to the dry film applied onto the seed layer such that the pressure and heat are applied to the entire surface of the dry film cut to the predetermined size simultaneously. |
| US11930600B2 |
Three-dimensional measurement apparatus and three-dimensional measurement method
A three-dimensional measurement apparatus measures measurement targets placed in a target measurement area on a measurement object. The apparatus includes: a measurement module that: is positioned with respect to the target measurement area, and includes: a first irradiator that irradiates the target measurement area with predetermined light for height measurement; a second irradiator that irradiates the target measurement area with predetermined patterned light for three-dimensional measurement; and an imaging device that takes an image of the target measurement area; and a control device that moves the measurement module in a height direction and successively positions the measurement module at a predetermined height position determined by mapping, and performs, based on image data taken by irradiating the target measurement area with predetermined patterned light, three-dimensional measurement to the measurement targets at the predetermined height position. |
| US11930599B2 |
Constitutive device quality determination server, inspection system, inspection system terminal device, and inspection device
A constitutive device quality determination server is communicably connected to an inspection device via the internet, the inspection device performing an inspection on a constitutive device configuring a board work machine by operating the constitutive device in accordance with to a type of the inspection, and includes an inspection data acquisition section that designates a predetermined type of the inspection for the inspection device and acquires inspection data obtained by the inspection by the inspection device, a determination section that determines quality of the constitutive device based on the acquired inspection data, and a transmission section that transmits a quality determination result determined by the determination section to a terminal device communicably connected over the internet. |
| US11930598B2 |
Three dimensional printed resistor for downhole applications
Aspects of the disclosure relate to apparatus and methods for producing a downhole electrical component, having steps of providing a non-conductive polymer substrate, establishing an active area on the non-conductive polymer substrate, patterning the active area on the non-conductive polymer substrate with a conductive material through an additive manufacturing process and incorporating the patterned non-conductive polymer substrate into a final arrangement. |
| US11930595B2 |
Circuit material and circuit board containing the same
The present application provides a circuit material and a circuit board containing the same. The circuit material comprises a conductive metal layer and a dielectric substrate layer, and an adhesive layer arranged therebetween, wherein the adhesive layer is made of a material which comprises an adhesive composition comprising a resin component and a non-resin component, wherein the resin component is composed of unsaturated polyphenylene ether resin, SBS resin and maleimide resin; and the non-resin component comprises an initiator; and the adhesive layer is obtained by applying the adhesive composition dissolved in a solvent onto the surface of the conductive metal layer or the dielectric substrate layer in the form of a solution, or by applying to a release material and removing the release material after partially curing or completely curing. |
| US11930594B2 |
Adhesive film for multilayer printed-wiring board
The present invention relates to an adhesive film for a multilayer printed-wiring board, in which a property of filling irregularities is excellent even when silica filler is highly filled. Specifically, there is provided an adhesive film for a multilayer printed-wiring board, which includes a resin composition layer that is obtained by forming a layer of a resin composition containing: (A) a novolac type phenolic resin in which a dispersity (Mw/Mn) of a weight average molecular weight (Mw) and a number average molecular weight (Mn) ranges from 1.05 to 1.8; (B) an epoxy resin represented by general formula (1); and (C) inorganic filler, on a support film. An average particle size of the (C) inorganic filler in the resin composition layer is 0.1 μm or more, and a content of the (C) inorganic filler in a resin solid content ranges from 20% to 95% by mass. |
| US11930591B2 |
Flexible substrate
According to one embodiment, a flexible substrate includes a support plate including a first surface, a line portion located on the first surface and including a first side surface and a second side surface on an opposite side to the first side surface and a protective member which covers the line portion, in contact with the first surface. The line portion includes a flexible insulating base located on the first surface and a wiring layer disposed on the insulating base, the protective member is separated from at least a part of the first side surface via an air layer and from at least a part of the second side surface via an air layer, and the air layers extend along the line portion. |
| US11930586B2 |
Wiring substrate, electronic device and electronic module
A wiring substrate includes: an insulating substrate including a base portion comprising a through hole having a first opening and a second opening, and a frame portion located on the base portion; and a heat dissipator disposed on a side of the base portion that is opposite to the frame portion so as to block the second opening, wherein an inner surface of the through hole faces a side surface of the heat dissipator with a clearance being provided between the inner surface of the through hole and the side surface of the heat dissipator. |
| US11930585B2 |
Material synthesis technology by microwave plasma torch with atmospheric pressure and high temperature
An apparatus for a material synthesis technology by microwave plasma torch with atmospheric pressure and high temperature. The apparatus includes a plasma torch system and a material growth system. In the plasma torch system, the cutting-edge breakdown happens through inputting the high-power microwave. Then the stable plasma torch with atmosphere pressure and high temperature is achieved in precursor at the open-end of the cylindrical metal tube. The precursors are decomposed by the plasma torch with high temperature and the active particles for material growth are achieved. In the material growth system, the motion and ingredients proportion of negative and positive icons or particles in the active particle beam are controlled by the adjustable static electric field in the space between the plasma torch and material growth space. The material-controlled growth is implemented by the heating system and the adjustable static electrical field. |
| US11930582B2 |
Method and apparatus for torsional magnetic reconnection
A method and apparatus for forming torsional magnetic reconnection, and converting stored magnetic energy into charged particle kinetic energy and particle acceleration, is claimed. A torsional magnetic reconnection apparatus generally comprises (1) a vacuum environment housing (2) a plurality of conducting coils to form a magnetic field fan-spine topology and (3) a plasma generation device providing an azimuthal magnetic field perturbation such that current sheets are formed and magnetic reconnection processes can occur. Electric current energization of the plurality of conducting coils generates a potential magnetic fan-spine topology. A simultaneous capacitor bank discharge forms and axially drives a plasma sheath, featuring an azimuthal magnetic field, toward the fan-spine magnetic null that forces the diffusion of magnetic flux through the plasma. This magnetic to plasma kinetic energy conversion process accelerates charged particles far away from the reconnection region along open magnetic field lines. |
| US11930580B2 |
Cooking apparatus
Provided is a cooking apparatus. The cooking apparatus includes a cabinet having a cooking space therein, a tray on which an object to be cooked is placed on a top surface thereof, and a pair of elevation devices configured to connect both side surfaces of the inside of the cabinet to both side surfaces of the tray, the pair of elevation devices being configured so that the tray is insertable into and withdrawable from the cooking space. Each of the pair of elevation devices includes a fixed rail fixed to a side surface of the cabinet, a movable rail configured to move in a front and rear direction along the fixed rail in a state of being connected to the fixed rail, and an arm member having one end rotatably connected to an outer surface of the movable rail and the other end connected to a side surface of the tray to elevate the tray. The arm member includes a front arm and a rear arm, which are disposed to be spaced apart from each other in the front and rear direction. |
| US11930577B2 |
Usage-level based lighting adjustments to computing device housings
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a computing device is described. The computing device includes a housing and a light source to illuminate through a window in the housing. The computing device also includes a controller. The controller determines a usage level of a processor of the computing device. The controller also adjusts a characteristic of the light source based on a determined usage level of the processor. |
| US11930575B2 |
Lamp lighting assembly and lighting fixture
The present disclosure discloses a lamp lighting assembly and lighting fixture. The lamp lighting assembly includes an anti-lightning-strike rectifier module, a high-voltage linear drive module, and a lighting module. The anti-lightning-strike rectifier module includes a first input terminal and a first output terminal, to convert an input current/input voltage of the first input terminal into a safe current/safe voltage and output the safe current/safe voltage to the first output terminal, and the anti-lightning-strike rectifier module is soldered to a pluggable fiberglass board. The high-voltage linear drive module includes a second input terminal and a second output terminal, the second input terminal is electrically connected to the first output terminal, and the second output terminal is electrically connected with the lighting module to drive the lighting module to work, and the high-voltage linear drive module and the lighting module are arranged on a substrate outside the fiberglass board. |
| US11930574B2 |
Drive circuit for a light-emitting diode light source
A controllable lighting device may utilize a controllable impedance circuit to conduct a load current through an LED light source. The controllable impedance circuit may be coupled in series with a first switching device, which may be rendered conductive and non-conductive via a pulse-width modulated signal to adjust an average magnitude of the load current. The controllable lighting device may further comprise a control loop circuit that includes a second switching device. The second switching device may be rendered conductive and non-conductive in coordination with the first switching device to control when a feedback signal is provided to the control loop circuit and used to control the LED light source. The control loop circuit may be characterized by a time constant that is significantly greater than an operating period of the load current. |
| US11930572B2 |
Shared power topology for LED luminaires
A system for emitting light (such as a luminaire) includes a first light emitting diode (LED) string and a first LED driver that is electrically connected in parallel to the first LED string. The system also may include a second (or more) LED string(s), each associated with an additional LED driver. One-way conductors and normally-open switches are used so that if one LED driver fails, the remaining LED driver(s) will deliver power to the failed driver's LED string so that the light remains operational, but with a reduced brightness. |
| US11930570B2 |
Illumination device for adjusting color temperature based on brightness and time of day
An illumination device, system, and method are provided herein for emulating sunlight along a daytime or nighttime locus. Color temperature is determined using a first color temperature curve that includes data representative of a first color temperature as a function of a time of day. In response to a request to a change in brightness of one or more LED chains, a target color temperature output as a function of the current time of day is determined using a second color temperature curve based on the requested change in brightness. The second color temperature curve includes the target color temperature corresponding to the determined current time of day. The target color temperature output includes a lesser change in color temperature at solar noon than the change in color temperature at sunrise and sunset. |
| US11930568B2 |
Controller for controlling a light source module
A controller for controlling a light source module including a first LED array and a second LED array includes a first driving terminal and a second driving terminal. The controller is operable for turning on a switch between a power converter and the first LED array by the first driving terminal to deliver electric power from the power converter to the first LED array in a first sequence of discrete time slots, and for turning on a second switch between the power converter and the second LED array by the second driving terminal to deliver electric power from the power converter to the second LED array in a second sequence of discrete time slots, where the first sequence of discrete time slots and the second sequence of discrete time slots are mutually exclusive. |
| US11930566B2 |
Electrically heated aerosol-generating system with end heater
An electrically heated aerosol-generating system configured to receive an aerosol-forming article is provided, including a tubular portion configured to receive the aerosol-forming article; and a heater element including an end face, the heater element being disposed proximate an end of the tubular portion so that the end face is proximate an end of the aerosol-forming article when the aerosol-forming article is inserted into the tubular portion, the system being configured to supply a first amount of electrical energy to the heater element to heat the heater element to a first temperature, and to supply a second amount of electrical energy to the heater element to maintain the heater element at a second temperature, wherein a difference between the first and second temperatures is at least about 100° C. |
| US11930565B1 |
Carbon nanotube heater composite tooling apparatus and method of use
The present invention is an apparatus for curing composites out-of-autoclave and out-of-oven. The apparatus is a multilayered composite tool for shaping and curing composites. It also contains a sealant layer and composite resistive heating element on the tool's surface. This heating element provides heat to the composites during cure while binding it to the other layers, eliminating the need for external heat from autoclave and oven sources. A ceramic layer is applied to the top surface of the resistive heater for electrical insulation, heater protection and to provide a smooth surface for finish for the composite components being processed with the invention. A method for using the invention is also described. Finally, one embodiment of the invention is presented where a negative composite tool is created to apply additional pressure to the composite component during curing. This additional pressure enables the current invention to more closely mimic autoclave composite processing. |
| US11930564B2 |
Ceramic electric heating element
Disclosed is a ceramic electric heating element. The ceramic electric heating element is completely wrapped by an insulating layer. The ceramic electric heating element can prevent the occurrence of a short circuit when the ceramic electric heating element is in use or is installed. The strength of the ceramic electric heating element is increased, and the shock resistance is enhanced. The service life of the ceramic electric heating element is prolonged, and the power-on duration of the ceramic electric heating element is prolonged. Moreover, the process is simplified, the structure is simple, and the cost is low. |
| US11930561B2 |
Aerosol provision device
An aerosol provision device includes a power source, at least one heating element for generating aerosol, and temperature monitoring means configured to monitor the temperature of the heating element. In an operational configuration the device is configured to control the supply of power to the heating element to: supply power to the heating element to initially raise the temperature of the heating element to a first threshold temperature; remove power supplied to the heating element when the temperature monitoring means detects that the temperature of the heating element is at the first threshold temperature, such that the temperature of the heating element decreases to a second threshold temperature; supply power to the heating element when the temperature monitoring means detects that the temperature of the heating element has reduced to the second threshold temperature, such that the temperature of the heating element increases towards the first threshold temperature. |
| US11930559B2 |
Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) layer control for wireless user equipment
A wireless communication device controls Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) layers that use a radio band. The wireless communication device determines radio band status for the radio band. The wireless communication device wirelessly indicates the radio band status for the radio band to a wireless access node. The wireless access node selects a number of the MIMO layers based on the radio band status for the radio band. The wireless communication device wirelessly receives signaling from the wireless access node that indicates the number of the MIMO layers. The wireless access node wirelessly receives user data from the wireless access node over the radio band using the number of MIMO layers in response to the signaling. |
| US11930558B2 |
Method for providing subscription profiles, subscriber identity module and subscription server
The invention relates to a method for providing subscription profiles to a subscriber identity module, preferably an eUICC, by means of a subscription server, preferably an SM-DP, wherein: the subscription server has knowledge of a first subscription profile, which is installed in the subscriber identity module, has a first profile file structure and first profile data stored in the first profile file structure; and at least a portion of a second profile file structure of a second subscription profile is flagged in the subscription server and the second subscription profile is sent to the subscriber identity module, the flagged portion of the second subscription profile being sent without second profile data. The invention additionally relates to a corresponding method in a subscriber identity module, a subscriber identity module, a subscription server and a computer program product. |
| US11930552B2 |
Timers for enhanced coverage with non-terrestrial network
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may start a timer after a repetition of a communication, where calculation of a length of the timer includes an offset that corresponds to a propagation delay between the UE and a base station via a non-terrestrial network (NTN) entity. The UE may start a discontinuous reception (DRX) retransmission timer after expiration of the timer. Numerous other aspects are described. |
| US11930548B2 |
Establishing multiple infrastructure connections to multiple access points via a single wireless network interface controller
Techniques are described herein that are capable of establishing multiple infrastructure connections to multiple access points via a single wireless network interface controller (WNIC). Capability information is analyzed to determine combination(s) of identified frequency bands over which the WNIC is capable of communicating simultaneously. Availability information is analyzed to determine signal qualities associated with respective available frequency bands. A primary infrastructure connection is established to a first access point via the WNIC based at least in part on a first frequency band associated with the first access point being included among the identified frequency bands and being associated with a relatively high signal quality. A secondary infrastructure connection is established to a second access point via the WNIC based at least in part on a second frequency band associated with the second access point being included among the identified frequency bands in a combination that includes the first frequency band. |
| US11930546B2 |
Mobile nodes in an integrated access backhaul network
Techniques are discussed herein for providing wireless communication services using mobile nodes in a cellular network, such as a 5G network. The mobile nodes may operate as Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) nodes which are utilized to provide wireless backhaul links and access links in a 5G network. One or more mobile nodes may be wirelessly coupled to a base station node (which may also be referred to herein as a “wired node”), such as a gNodeB, that includes a wired connection to the core network. The wireless backhaul extends coverage to user equipment (UE) that are not directly connected to a gNodeB base station. |
| US11930545B2 |
Configuring sidelink communications
Systems and methods to configure sidelink resources in a dual connectivity operation are provided. In some aspect, a method comprising: transmitting, from a user equipment (UE), a first message to a first evolved Node B (eNB), wherein the first message indicates a request to establish a sidelink communication; receiving, at the UE, a second message from the first eNB, wherein the second message indicates a frequency that is used by a secondary evolved Node B (SeNB); transmitting, from the UE, a measurement result to the first eNB; and receiving, at the UE, sidelink configuration information from the first eNB, wherein the sidelink configuration information indicates sidelink resources managed by the secondary eNB. |
| US11930543B2 |
Method of radio bearer transmission in dual connectivity
A method of radio bearer transmission in dual connectivity for a network in a long term evolution (LTE) system comprises generating at least a packet data convergence protocol protocol data unit (PDCP PDU) by a PDCP entity of the network corresponding to a radio bearer (RB), and assigning each PDCP PDU with an identity, wherein the identity indicates which PDCP entity the PDCP PDU belongs to. |
| US11930542B2 |
Source device switching method and device through Bluetooth connection information sharing
A method and a device is provided for switching a source device through sharing of Bluetooth connection information, the device comprising a communication module, a memory, and a processor operatively connected to the communication module or the memory, wherein the processor is configured to connect with an external device via the communication module through a first network, broadcast device information of the external device through a second network, transmit connection information associated with the first external device to an external electronic device responsive to a connection request received from the external device for a connection with the first external device through the second network, release a connection between the first network and the first external device, without processing a reconnection message received from the external device. |
| US11930541B2 |
Coordinating best effort traffic to an associationless, overhead mesh of access points
In one embodiment, an access point of an overhead mesh of access points in an area selects a range of client identifiers. The access point sends, via a beam cone transmitted in a substantially downward direction towards a floor of the area, a trigger signal that includes the range of client identifiers and prompts client devices having identifiers in that range to send best effort transmissions towards the overhead mesh. The access point detects a collision between the best effort transmissions of the client devices. The access point adjusts the range of client identifiers so as to avoid future collisions between the best effort transmissions of the client devices. |
| US11930537B2 |
Random access method, communications apparatus, chip, and storage medium
Embodiments of this application provide a random access method, a communications apparatus, a chip, and a storage medium. A network device sends a first synchronization signal/PBCH block SSB on a first candidate SSB occasion, and/or sends a second SSB on a second candidate SSB occasion, where both the first candidate SSB occasion and the second candidate SSB occasion are associated with a first random access channel time-frequency-code resource. The network device receives random access information sent by a terminal device on the first random access channel time-frequency-code resource. According to the embodiments of this application, two candidate SSB occasions are mapped to a same PRACH time-frequency-code resource. In this way, even if an SSB cannot be sent on one of the two candidate SSB occasions due to a channel sensing failure, but another SSB can be sent on the other candidate SSB occasion due to a channel sensing success. |
| US11930535B2 |
Trigger-based random access for wireless device
A wireless device initiates an Up-Link Trigger Based Multi-User communication by transmitting a trigger frame. The communication may be an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access communication. The trigger frame includes allocation information for resources of the communication, including Random Access (RA) allocation information. The trigger frame may also include a padding field after the allocation information. A length of the padding field is determined according to an amount of time needed for a station receiving the trigger frame to process the RA allocation information. The amount of time may correspond to a time between an end of a last RA allocation information and an end of a Physical layer Protocol Data Unit including the trigger frame. The amount of time may be determined according to a maximum processing time of stations associated with the wireless device, or may be determined according to a predetermined interval. |
| US11930533B2 |
Channel occupancy time aware sensing and resource selection for new radio-unlicensed sidelink
Channel occupancy time (COT) aware sensing and resource selection for new radio-unlicensed (NR-U) sidelink operations is disclosed. A first sidelink user equipment (UE) determines a sensing window or resource selection window (RSW) based on a projected listen-before-talk (LBT) completion time. The UE may sense for a subset of sideline resources within the RSW and COT-SI from a neighboring sidelink UE including identification of a COT initiated by the neighboring UE and one or more parameters associated with the COT. The UE may identify in-COT resources of located within the COT and out-of-COT resources located outside of the COT and then randomly select a set of transmission resources from the in-COT and out-of-COT resources. The UE may then transmit to a second UE using the set of transmission resources. |
| US11930529B2 |
Short control signaling in unlicensed operation
There is disclosed a method of operating a radio node in a wireless communication network, the radio node being adapted for accessing a carrier for transmission based on a Clear Channel Assessment procedure, the method including transmitting Short Control Signaling on the carrier without a CCA procedure and/or with limited CCA procedure based on the fulfillment of one or more SCS criteria. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods. |
| US11930528B2 |
Uplink null data packet format for passive location
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to uplink (UL) null data packet (NDP) format for passive location. A device may cause to send a trigger frame that solicits poll response to one or more anchor stations involved in a passive ranging measurement. The device may identify one or more polling response frames received from the one or more anchor stations. The device may cause to send a trigger frame that solicits uplink null data packet (NDP) to the one or more anchor stations, wherein the uplink NDP comprises an indication of a high efficiency (HE) single user (SU) frame type. The device may identify one or more uplink NDPs received from the one or more anchor stations. |
| US11930525B2 |
Random access method, terminal device, and network device
Embodiments of this application provide a random access method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method includes: A terminal device sends random access information to a network device. The random access information is used to indicate a quantity of sending times of the random access information sent by the terminal device to the network device; or the random access information is used to indicate a random access response window length corresponding to the random access information, and the random access response window length is configurable. The terminal device detects a random access response in a random access response window. According to the random access method, the terminal device, and the network device provided in the embodiments of this application, the random access response window length can flexibly vary with the quantity of sending times of the random access information, to meet requirements of different unlicensed spectrum systems. |
| US11930524B2 |
Techniques for inter-UE coordination prioritization for collision indication
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. An example method for wireless communication at a first user equipment (UE) may include receiving at least a first sidelink transmission from a second UE, wherein at least a second sidelink transmission from a third UE is scheduled contemporaneously with at least the first sidelink transmission from the second UE. The method may also include transmitting an indication in a transmission occasion to at least one of the second UE or the third UE based at least in part on a prioritization of information for the transmission occasion, wherein the indication indicates that at least the first sidelink transmission from the second UE is scheduled contemporaneously with at least the second sidelink transmission from at least the third UE. |
| US11930522B2 |
Reduced CSI (channel state information)-RS (reference signal) density support for FD (full dimensional)-MIMO (multiple input multiple output) systems
Techniques discussed herein can facilitate reduced density CSI (Channel State Information)-RS (Reference Signals). One example embodiment can be employed at a UE (User Equipment) and can comprise processing circuitry configured to receive and process a configuration message that comprises one or more configuration parameters for one or more CSI (Channel State Information)-RS (Reference Signal) APs (Antenna Ports) of a configurable density CSI-RS. The configuration parameters indicate a density of CSI-RS resource per Physical Resource Block (PRB) per CSI-RS AP and a PRB offset. The processing circuitry is further configured to determine a set of REs (Resource Elements) for the one or more CSI-RS APs of the configurable density CSI-RS based on the one or more configuration parameters and perform measurements on the configurable density CSI-RS from the set of REs to determine one or more CSI parameters. The one or more configuration parameters are provided per CSI-RS resource configuration. |
| US11930521B2 |
Interference mitigation for remote devices
The described techniques relate to improved methods, systems, devices, and apparatuses that support interference mitigation for remote devices. A first wireless device (e.g., a base station) may detect remote interference with its communications caused by a second wireless device (e. g., a second, remote base station) based on, for example, a measured interference over thermal noise level exceeding a threshold. The first wireless device may identify a set of time-frequency resources for remote interference reference signals and a data transmission for a user equipment (UE) that is in communication with the first wireless device. The first wireless device may transmit a remote interference signal to a second wireless device (e. g., a second base station) via the set of time-frequency resources. The first wireless device may further signal a resource allocation to the UE for the UE to use for transmitting uplink transmissions to the first wireless device. |
| US11930520B2 |
Interference management in wireless systems
A method of wireless communication includes receiving, at a first communication node, information that includes one or more parameters indicating a time-domain characteristic of one or more interfered symbols due to a remote interference between the first communication node and a second communication node. The method also includes performing, by the first communication node, subsequent communications based on the information. |
| US11930519B2 |
Mechanism of measurement sharing and restriction for CSI-RS and SSB based UE activities in NR
Measurement resources are often limited in 5G and 4G-LTE communications. As a result, SMTC and CSI-RS measurement windows will occasionally be assigned to the same resource elements of a signal frame. This results in a collision that must be resolved, since both measurements cannot be performed simultaneously. The collision can be resolved using restriction, where overlapping resource elements are assigned to either the SMTC or the CSI-RS measurements, or can be resolved using measurement sharing, where overlapping resource elements are divided among the two measurements according to a measurement sharing factor. Various factors, including priority or window periodicity may be taken into account by the measurement rules that dictate collision resolution. |
| US11930517B2 |
CSI difference report
Methods, computer programs products, and apparatuses for CSI difference report are provided. An example method at a UE includes receiving, from a base station, a configuration for a channel state information (CSI) difference report that reports one or more statistics for a difference between at least one source CSI associated with a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) and at least one target CSI associated with a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) or a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). The example method further includes transmitting, to the base station, the CSI difference report based on the received configuration. |
| US11930516B2 |
Positioning calibration with reference point
Disclosed are various techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) may determine that the UE is or will be at a location within a calibration region. The UE may report, to a network entity, location information, the location information being associated with the location within the calibration region. In an aspect, a network entity may obtain calibration error information associated with a user equipment (UE) and a calibration region. The network entity may send the calibration error information to the UE, to a base station, or to combinations thereof. |
| US11930515B2 |
Default beam for communication networks
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may determine an inactivity timer associated with a first set of one or more beams used for communicating with a network entity associated with a satellite has expired. The UE may identify location information corresponding to the location of the UE with respect to the network entity. The UE may identify beam geometry information for one or more beams associated with the network entity. For example, the UE may receive the beam geometry information from the network entity. The UE may process the location information and the beam geometry information to identify a second set of one or more beams, the second set different than the first set. The UE and the network entity may communicate according to the second set of one or more beams. |
| US11930513B2 |
Resource selection method of sidelink terminal in wireless communication system, and terminal using method
A resource selection method of a sidelink terminal in a wireless communication system is presented. The method determines resource selection sub windows in a resource selection window on the basis of a repetitive transmission frequency for a sidelink message, and selects a resource for the transmission of the sidelink message in each of the resource selection sub windows, wherein the repetitive transmission frequency includes initial transmission and retransmission frequency for the sidelink message. |
| US11930512B2 |
Method and apparatus for performing ranging in wireless communication system
In an embodiment of the disclosure, a method of operating an electronic device to perform ranging using ultra wideband (UWB) in a wireless communication system includes broadcasting or multicasting a first message to start the ranging; and transmitting a third message, based on whether a second message to respond to the first message is received within a predetermined period from another electronic device having received the first message. |
| US11930510B2 |
Base station device, mobile station device, program, uplink synchronization requesting method, and synchronization-shift measurement signal transmitting method
A mobile station device that receives control information having a downlink control information format and addressed by a Cell-Radio Network Temporary Identifier on a physical downlink control channel from a base station device. The mobile station device also transmits a random access preamble using a random access channel to the base station device based on receiving the control information which provides a random access order. The downlink control information format includes a first field for downlink resource assignment. In a first case that the downlink control information form at is used for the random access order, a fixed value is set to the first field, while in a second case in which the downlink control information format is used for downlink scheduling, a first value different from the fixed value is set to the first field. |
| US11930509B2 |
Bandwidth part timer management for sidelink
A wireless device receives, from a base station, one or more radio resource control messages indicating: a first value of a first bandwidth part (BWP) inactivity timer for a first cell, and a second value of a second BWP inactivity timer for a second cell. A downlink control information (DCI) is received, via the first cell, indicating a set of sidelink resources for sidelink transmission via the second cell. In response to the DCI, the first BWP inactivity timer is restarted based on the first value. A transport block, of the sidelink transmission, is transmitted via a sidelink resource of the set of sidelink resources. In response to transmitting via the sidelink resource, the second BWP inactivity timer is restarted based on the second value. |
| US11930507B2 |
Acknowledgement feedback in in unlicensed new radio
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) and a base station may communicate in an unlicensed spectrum (e.g., a shared radio frequency spectrum band). As such, the UE may determine a codebook size for transmitting hybrid access request (HARQ) acknowledgement (ACK) feedback with respect to the unlicensed spectrum. Accordingly, the UE may base the HARQ ACK codebook size on a number of HARQ processes with which the UE has been configured. Additionally or alternatively, the UE may base the HARQ ACK codebook size on a number and/or duration of downlink channel monitoring occasions indicated by the base station. In some cases, the UE may base the HARQ ACK codebook size on a combination of the techniques described herein. |
| US11930505B2 |
Communication method and communication apparatus
The present disclosure relates to communication methods and communication apparatus. One example method includes determining a quantity and a position of control channel element (CCE) used by a control channel of user equipment, where each of the CCE corresponds to a plurality of resource element groups (REGs), the plurality of REGs form at least one REG bundle, and any REG bundle in the at least one REG bundle includes a plurality of resource blocks (RBs) that are consecutive or adjacent in at least one of time domain or frequency domain, and receiving, from a network device, the control channel by using the CCE. |
| US11930504B2 |
Data transmission method and terminal device
A data transmission method and a terminal device are disclosed, which may solve the data transmission problems of a sidelink when the size of a time unit of a downlink and the size of a time unit of the sidelink are not the same. The method includes that a terminal device receives first control information sent by a network device, and determines a sending time for sidelink data according to the first control information. |
| US11930502B2 |
Terminal and radio communication method for changing a frequency bandwidth
A terminal is disclosed including a receiver that monitors downlink control channel candidates in a predetermined frequency bandwidth out of a plurality of frequency bandwidths; and a processor that performs a control to change the predetermined frequency bandwidth in accordance with a predetermined timer. In another aspect, a radio communication method is also disclosed. |
| US11930501B2 |
Terminal, communication method, base station, and system for receiving synchronization and/or broadcast signals in a given transmission time interval
The present invention is designed to realize appropriate communication in next generation communication systems. a control section that controls communication by using a radio frame that includes a plurality of transmission time intervals (TTIs), in which the downlink and the uplink can be switched, and a given TTI, which is for DL transmission and which is configured in a given cycle, and a receiving section that receives a synchronization signal and a broadcast signal in the given TTI are provided. |
| US11930500B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting buffer status report by wireless node in wireless communication system
The present invention relates to a method of transmitting a buffer status report (BSR) by a wireless node in a wireless communication system. In particular, the method includes the steps of: receiving first logical channel group (LCG) configuration information including identities of LCGs from a network; generating the BSR including a LCG field; and transmitting the BSR to the network, wherein a length of the LCG field is configured according to a highest value of the identities of LCGs. |
| US11930497B2 |
Method whereby user equipment receives data signal in wireless communication system, and user equipment and base station which support same
Disclosed are a method whereby user equipment receives a data signal in a wireless communication system, and devices which support same. According to one embodiment applicable to the present disclosure, on the basis of (i) configuration information related to dynamic bundling for a precoding resource block (PRB) and (ii) control information for scheduling a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), both pieces of information being received from a base station, user equipment can receive a data signal via the first PDSCH on the basis of an assumption related to the first PDSCH. |
| US11930488B2 |
Techniques for signaling uplink transmission configuration indicator states
Techniques for signaling uplink transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states are disclosed. In an example, a base station may determine one or more capabilities of a user equipment (UE). The base station may also determine one or more uplink TCI states for the UE to use based on the one or more capabilities. The base station may also transmit, to the UE, signaling of the one or more uplink TCI states. |
| US11930486B2 |
Methods and apparatus for backhaul and access link scheduling in integrated access and backhaul networks and synchronized networks
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in which a scheduling entity determines a first direction of a backhaul link traffic between a first scheduling entity and a second scheduling entity, and determines a second direction of an access link traffic between the scheduling entity and a user equipment (UE) based on the first direction of the backhaul link traffic to reduce potential interference caused by the access link traffic. The scheduling entity transmits or receives the access link traffic in the second direction utilizing at least one of a same transmission resource of the backhaul link traffic. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described. |
| US11930485B2 |
User equipment and base stations that achieve ultra reliable and low latency communications
A user equipment, including: receiving circuitry and transmitting circuitry. The receiving circuitry configured to receive a first radio resource control (RRC) message including first information used for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission corresponding to a configured grant, and a second RRC message comprising second information used for a PUSCH transmission scheduled by a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) with cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled by a cell-radio network temporary identifier (C-RNTI). The first information including first parameters and a second parameter, and the second information including a third parameter. The transmitting circuitry configured to perform a PUSCH initial transmission corresponding to the configured grant by using the first parameters and the second parameter, and perform, based on detection of a second PDCCH, the PUSCH retransmission corresponding to the configured grant by using the first parameters and the third parameter. |
| US11930484B2 |
Methods and apparatus for system information management in a wireless system
Methods and apparatus for managing system information message transmission in a distribution network (e.g., a wireless network such as one compliant with 3GPP 5G NR-U). In one embodiment, transmission of multiple SI (System Information) messages with overlapping SI-windows is enabled but with no soft-combining support. In another embodiment, transmission of multiple SI-messages with overlapping SI-windows is enabled with soft-combining support. In yet another embodiment, aperiodic OSI transmission is enabled. Moreover, the present disclosure provides mechanisms for notifying UE of an SI change. |
| US11930477B2 |
Aligning paging occasions across at least two identities
There is provided reduced power consumption in devices that use at least two identities for communications. A method comprises aligning (1302) a plurality of paging occasions across at least two identities of a communication device. The aligning is performed via requesting and receiving (1306) from a communication network a paging occasion for the communication device with at least two identities using at least one of the identities. |
| US11930474B2 |
Selection of core network based on supported cellular internet of things (CIoT) features
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for a user equipment (UE) of a wireless communication system. The UE includes a processor circuitry, and radio front end circuitry coupled to the processor circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to determine and indicate, to a core network via a radio access network (RAN), one or more cellular internet of things (CIoT) features that are required by the UE and CIoT network behavior expected from the core network to support the one or more CIoT features that are required by the UE. The processor circuitry is configured to select either an enhanced packet core (EPC) or a 5G core (5GC) to establish a wireless connection with the core network, based on a first set of CIoT features supported by the EPC and a second set of CIoT features supported by the 5GC received from the core network. |
| US11930472B2 |
Target information acquisition method and terminal device
A target information acquisition method and a terminal device are provided. The method includes transmitting an information-acquisition request to a terminal device, the information-acquisition request indicating the terminal device to transmit target information; receiving the target information transmitted by the terminal device; and transmitting the target information to a management device of the terminal device, the management device authenticating or authorizing the terminal device according to the target information. |
| US11930471B2 |
Supporting information centric networking in next generation cellular networks
Technology for an Information Centric Networking gateway (ICN-GW) operable to modify an ICN message received from a user equipment (UE) in a Fifth Generation (5G) cellular network is disclosed. The ICN-GW can decode the ICN message received from the UE via a Next 5 Generation NodeB (gNB) and an ICN point of attachment (ICNPoA). The ICN-GW can modify the ICN message to produce a modified ICN message. The ICN-GW can encode the modified ICN message to route the modified ICN message to a data network. |
| US11930469B2 |
Timing advance in full-duplex communication
Aspects of the disclosure relate to a user equipment (UE) that receives a timing advance command from a network access node, sends a value indicative of a timing advance capability to the network access node, adjusts a timing advance indicated by the timing advance command based on the timing advance capability to yield an adjusted timing advance, and transmits an uplink signal to the network access node using the adjusted timing advance. Further aspects relate to a network access node that transmits a timing advance command to a user equipment (UE), receives a value indicative of a timing advance capability of the UE, and receives an uplink signal adjusted by a timing advance according to the timing advance capability of the UE. The timing advance capability may indicate that the UE has, or does not have, a capability to adjust the timing advance indicated by the timing advance command. |
| US11930467B2 |
Preconfigured uplink resources—configuration for TA validity in entire cell
Systems and methods for determining timing advance (TA) validity are disclosed. In some embodiments, systems and methods are disclosed herein in which a wireless device implicitly considers a TA to be valid in a full cell when no TA validation mechanisms are explicitly configured. In other embodiments, systems and methods are disclosed herein in which a timer serves a dual purpose. If the timer is set to infinity, a wireless device will always consider a TA to be valid within a given cell, and at the same time will disable other TA validation mechanisms. Otherwise, the wireless device will interpret the timer as indicating for how long the TA value that the wireless device possesses is considered to be valid. Benefits of the solutions described herein include reducing signaling bits in the configuration and avoiding the possibility of conflicting configurations. |
| US11930459B2 |
Dynamic modification of antenna beamforming functionality
Methods and systems are provided for dynamically disabling beamforming functionality of one or more frequency bands. For example, a frequency band may have beamforming enabled. One or more user devices may be connected to the frequency band having beamforming enabled for access to a wireless telecommunications network. User devices connected with the frequency band may be at various locations of a network cell of the wireless telecommunications network (e.g., a cell center, middle cell, cell edge). Fading information may be received by one or more of the user devices connected with the frequency band. One or more fading channel measurements of the first frequency band may be above a threshold. In some embodiments, a fading channel measurement of the first frequency band is higher than another available frequency band having beamforming enabled. As such, beamforming of the first frequency band can be dynamically disabled. |
| US11930458B2 |
Maximum power reduction
One disclosure of the present specification provides user equipment (UE). The UE comprises: a transmission and reception unit for transmitting and receiving a signal; and a processor for controlling the transmission and reception unit. The UE may output at a maximum of 26 dBm. The processor determines a transmission power on the basis of additional maximum power reduction (A-MPR). The A-MPR: is configured on the basis of a carrier frequency; is configured on the basis of a modulation scheme; and is configured on the basis of LCRB, startRB, and RB allocation. The transmission and reception device may transmit a sidelink signal to another UE by means of the transmission power. |
| US11930455B2 |
Method for controlling network connection, terminal and non-transitory storage medium
Embodiments of the present application provide a method for controlling a network connection, a terminal and a non-transitory storage medium. The method includes: detecting a state of a terminal, where the terminal is configured to communicate with both of a first base station and a second base station in the dual connectivity mode and the state of the terminal represents a connection status between the terminal and a network where the first base station locates; and prohibiting the terminal from connecting with the second base station in response to the state of the terminal representing the terminal is in an idle state and the terminal having been in the idle state for a predetermined time. |
| US11930452B2 |
Techniques for improving power consumption state latency in wireless communications
Aspects described herein relate to instructing, from a layer of a modem processor, a host processor to utilize an increased power consumption state for processing data from a network node. The instructing can be performed based on transmitting a signal to the network node and/or receiving signals from the network node, and at a time that allows the host processor to wake up before receiving data from the modem processor for processing. |
| US11930449B2 |
User equipment controlled mobility in an evolved radio access network
Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a user equipment (UE) may enter into an E-UTRAN Routing Area Paging Channel state, and is configured with an E-UTRAN Routing Area and an Anchor identifier to identify an anchor evolved Node B (eNB) for the UE. The UE selects to a new cell without performing a handover procedure, and performs a cell update procedure. The UE also may enter into a Cell Update Connected state, and is configured with an Anchor identifier. The UE selects to a new cell, performs a cell update procedure, performs a buffer request procedure, and performs a cell update procedure to download buffered data and to perform data transmission with the new cell. |
| US11930446B2 |
Method for operating user equipment with a base station of cellular network
The present invention relates to a method for operating a user equipment with a base station assigned to at least two core networks in co-existence mode of a cellular network, the user equipment operating in a data communication mode with direct connection termination in the at least one core network, the method comprising the steps for the user equipment of:—camping on a base station with access to at least two core networks of different technology standards, —receiving a transmission from said base station indicating available radio resources of the first and of the second core network, —selecting the core network which is appropriate for said envisaged connection, —sending a connection request for envisaged connection to the base station using parts of said indicated radio resources belonging to the selected core network, —receiving a response indication from the base station. |
| US11930441B2 |
Event-based modification of personal device settings
Aspects described herein may relate to systems and methods for automatically adjusting user device settings when a user attends an event or otherwise brings a user device into a context in which an automatic adjustment of settings is appropriate. By providing for automatic adjusting of user device settings, the systems and methods may achieve greater compliance with rules and other policies of airlines, performance venues, schools, and/or other entities associated with events and/or contexts in which user device settings should be adjusted. Aspects described herein may allow for automatic adjustment of user device settings without compromising a user's privacy, security, or control of a user device. |
| US11930440B2 |
Communication control apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium storing communication control program, and communication control system for preventing terminal from connecting to failed wireless communication line
A communication control apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire communication information representing connection information of a first network slice, which is assigned as a connection destination of a terminal used by a user, among wireless communication lines respectively provided by communications carriers, from a control apparatus that controls the first network slice; and perform control to switch a network slice such that a second network slice different from the first network slice is assigned to the terminal, in a case where a deterioration of a communication quality of the first network slice is notified by using the communication information. |
| US11930435B2 |
Device pairing taking into account at least one condition
Some embodiments of the present invention include pairing two wireless devices by placing at least one of two devices in a pairing mode; performing at least one pairing motion event with at least one of the wireless devices to satisfy at least one pairing condition; detecting satisfaction of the at least one pairing condition; and pairing the two wireless devices in response to detecting satisfaction of the at least one pairing condition. Numerous other aspects are provided. |
| US11930430B2 |
Specialized wireless network arrangements for industrial applications
An application-specific wireless communication network for use in an industrial environment based on parameters defined by the IEEE 802.11 standard, modified by providing software-defined control of an assigned operating frequency band and software-defined control of the channel size, allowing the channel size to be relatively small as appropriate for the particular industrial application. The application-specific wireless communication network further controls other parameters defined by the standard to configure at least optimum transmitter power, receiver sensitivity, transmission latency, and ACK-retransmit to values appropriate for the specific industrial application. |
| US11930429B2 |
Non-contact laundry service system, and service-providing method
The present invention relates to a method of providing a contactless laundry service including executing an application of a contactless laundry service, receiving a charge system of the contactless laundry service from a user, latching, by the user, a laundry container, into which laundry is put, for the contactless laundry service, and performing, by the user, a collection request using a collection request button of the application. |
| US11930428B2 |
Method and system for realizing service-based mobile originated short message service
Provided are a method and system for realizing a service-based mobile originated short message service. The method for realizing a service-based mobile originated short message service (MO SMS) includes: after receiving a short message transferred from a user equipment, an SMSF entity querying, from a NRF entity, information of a network function that can provide a MO SMS forwarding service; when it is determined, according to a query result, that a corresponding SMS-IWMSC can provide the MO SMS forwarding service, the SMSF entity sending the short message to the SMS-IWMSC; and the SMS-IWMSC sending the short message to a SC, so that the SC sends the short message to a corresponding receiver of the short message. |
| US11930426B2 |
Providing access to applications with varying enrollment levels
Examples of detecting whether a device meets an enrollment level are disclosed. In one case, a method for providing access to an application on a client device includes receiving a request to access an application from the client device, determining an enrollment level associated with the application, and determining that multi-factor authentication is required for access to the application on the client device based on the enrollment level associated with the application. The method can also include initiating multi-factor authentication on the client device before access to the application is permitted. The method can also include determining that multi-factor authentication is successful on the client device, transmitting a management component to the client device, and installing the management component on the client device for enrollment as a managed device with a management service. |
| US11930423B2 |
Communication method and communications apparatus
A communication method and a communications apparatus are disclosed. The method is performed by a control plane function entity and includes: obtaining a correspondence between address information of a user plane function entity and a user plane capability supported by the user plane function entity; receiving a request message from an application server, where the request message is used to request to establish a session for a first service and includes service information of the first service, and the service information includes at least one of broadcast area information and service type information; determining address information of a target user plane function entity based on the correspondence and the service information; and establishing a session connection to the target user plane function entity based on the address information. |
| US11930419B2 |
Autonomous handover on a shared communication medium
Techniques for autonomous handover signaling on a shared communication medium are disclosed. An access terminal may receive, from an access point, one or more configuration messages configuring the access terminal for autonomous handover and including a parameter defining one or more autonomous handover triggering events. The access point may perform one or more mobility measurements on a communication medium and monitor for the one or more autonomous handover triggering events based on the one or more mobility measurements. The access terminal may perform an autonomous handover from a source access point to a target access point based on the monitoring. |
| US11930416B2 |
Context preparation for consecutive conditional handovers
A method includes determining, by a source base station, based on at least one of a measurement report received from a terminal device and a mobility trajectory of the terminal device, a prepared cell list that includes a set of cells where the terminal device is capable of handover. The method includes sending at least one required context for the handover to the set of cells in the prepared cell list. The method also includes receiving acknowledgement from the set of cells. The method further includes sending a handover complete message, which contains the prepared cell list, to the terminal device. The prepared cell list provides a capability for the terminal device to make a number of handovers when the terminal device is within a coverage area of the set of cells. |
| US11930415B2 |
Relay apparatus, program, communication system, and communication method for handover connections
A movable relay apparatus for relay communication, the relay apparatus transmits handover destination information to a communication terminal. The handover destination information indicates a handover destination, which allows the communication terminal to carry out a handover. |
| US11930413B2 |
Network initiated connection transfer
Apparatus, systems, and methods for a network-initiated packet data network connection in communication systems are described. |
| US11930411B2 |
Secondary link for AR/VR applications
Disclosed herein a system, a method and a device for selecting between a primary link and a secondary link for AR/VR applications. A console can provide a VR/AR session to a user through a head wearable display. The console can determine that a first measurement of a primary link between the console and a head wearable display is less than a first threshold. The first measurement can include a quality metric of the primary link. The console can activate a secondary link between the console and the head wearable display. The console can determine whether a second measurement of the primary link between the console and the head wearable display is less than a second threshold. The console can transition when the second measurement is less than the second threshold, traffic on the primary link to the activated secondary link. |
| US11930404B1 |
Systems and methods for radio access network small cell
A radio access network (RAN) node is provided for a small cell of a wireless access network having a coaxial line. The RAN node includes an input operably coupled with the coaxial line and an output configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one user equipment device within an operable vicinity of the wireless access network. The RAN node further includes a transmission path configured to (i) connect the input to the output, and (ii) communicate a first radio frequency (RF) signal from the input to the output, and a reception path separate from the transmission path, and configured to (i) connect the output to the input, and (ii) communicate a second radio frequency (RF) signal from the output to the input. The RAN node is configured to dynamically switch between the transmission path and the reception path in response to a tone received from the wireless access network. |
| US11930402B1 |
Systems and methods for interfacing an information technology device with an application server
A method for wireless communication network control includes (1) receiving, at an information technology (IT) device, a first steering policy from an application manager remote from the IT device, the first steering policy specifying a first allocation of data among a plurality of wireless communication links available to the IT device; and (2) sending uplink or downlink data from a first application client on the IT device to a mobility manager remote from the IT device over at least one of the plurality of wireless communication links available to the IT device, according to the first allocation of data. |
| US11930401B2 |
Control device, control method, and computer-readable storage medium
A control device acquires information regarding a communication quality of a base station that performs a predetermined type of communication, and performs a control for moving a mobile base station to a position associated with the base station in a case where it is determined that the communication quality is lower than a predetermined communication quality. |
| US11930398B2 |
Wireless communication method for transmitting ACK and wireless communication terminal using same
Provided is a wireless communication terminal that communicates wirelessly. The terminal includes: a transceiver; and a processor. The terminal includes a transceiver, and a processor. The processor is configured to receive an Aggregate-MAC Protocol Data Unit (A-MPDU) from an originator using the transceiver, and when receiving all MPDUs included in the A-MPDU, transmit to the originator a block ACK (BA) frame signaling that all MPDUs included in the A-MPDU are received without a bitmap indicating whether each MPDU included in the A-MPDU is received. |
| US11930395B2 |
Method of Transmitting data, user equipment, network side device and computer readable storage medium
A method of transmitting data, a UE, a network side device and a computer readable storage medium are provided. The method of transmitting data is applicable to the UE and includes: transmitting, by the UE, duplicated transmission data to different radio link control (RLC) entities respectively when a network side configures or activates a packet duplication mode for a bearer; transmitting, by one of the different RLC entities, the transmission data through one of logical channels to a master medium access control (MAC) entity and transmitting, by each of the others of the different RLC entities, the transmission data through a different one of the logical channels to a different one of one or more secondary MAC entities; and transmitting, by the master MAC entity and the one or more secondary MAC entities, the transmission data to the network side through different carriers. |
| US11930392B2 |
Latency-bounded packet delivery in mobile communication system
There are provided measures for enabling/realizing latency-bounded packet delivery in a mobile communication system, particularly in a mobile communication system (or mobile networking) being integrated in a time-sensitive communication system (or time-sensitive networking). Such measures exemplarily comprise that a quality-of-service flow within a packet data unit session in a mobile communication system is configured by a quality-of-service profile of deterministic communication based on setting information of the quality-of-service profile of deterministic communication, in which minimum required latency and maximum allowed latency for delivery of user plane data packets are defined, said quality-of-service flow being for delivery of user plane data packets including data of a time-sensitive communication system, a user plane data packet is received in the configured quality-of-service flow within the packet data unit session, and the received user plane data packet is processed in accordance with the quality-of-service profile of deterministic communication. |
| US11930391B2 |
Wireless communications apparatus and methods
A method of transmitting data by a communications device, the method comprising receiving a plurality of service data units including a first service data unit and a second service data unit at a Service Data Adaptation Protocol (SDAP), service access point (SAP) according to one or more quality of service (QoS) flows, each of the QoS flows defining a quality of service for the data received from the service data units, mapping the service data units received according to the one or more QoS flows on to one or more radio bearers, each of the one or more radio bearers being defined by a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity within a PDCP layer, forming the service data units into protocol data units for transmission via the radio bearer to which the corresponding QoS flow has been mapped, and transmitting the protocol data units via the corresponding radio bearer. |
| US11930389B2 |
Target BLER change request
Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage medium for changing BLER are provided. An example method may include transmitting, to the base station, a request to change a target BLER. The example method may further include receiving, from the base station and in response to the request, an indication to change the target BLER. |
| US11930388B2 |
Computer-based systems configured for managing mesh networks having integrated roofing components and methods of use thereof
Systems and methods of the present disclosure enable mesh network capacity management via network metering using a processor an integrated roofing mesh network node in a mesh network to receive and transmit data packets in the mesh network. Each data packet includes a source address, a destination address, and a payload of data. The processor determines passthrough traffic including a subset of data packets routed between radio nodes of the mesh network through the gateway based on the source address and the destination address of each data packet and an address associated with the gateway. The processor determines a passthrough data capacity based on the payload of each data packet in the subset and determines a metric based on the passthrough data capacity to signify an amount of mesh network bandwidth provided by the integrated roofing mesh network node. |
| US11930387B2 |
Method for filtering vehicle-to-X messages, vehicle-to-X communication device, and computer-readable storage medium
A method for filtering vehicle-to-X messages, having the following steps: receiving a number of vehicle-to-X messages and adapting a filter parameter for filtering the received vehicle-to-X messages in such a manner that a number of vehicle-to-X messages to be discarded leaves a number of vehicle-to-X messages to be processed from the number of received vehicle-to-X messages. The adaptation is carried out on the basis of a correction value for describing a deviation of the number of vehicle-to-X messages to be processed in a specified duration from a number of vehicle-to-X messages provided for processing in the specified duration. Also disclosed are a corresponding vehicle-to-X communication device and to a computer-readable storage medium. |
| US11930386B2 |
Method and device for transmitting signal, and storage medium
Provided are a method and device for receiving a measurement reference signal. The method includes: receiving control signaling; where the control signaling includes configuration information of a measurement reference signal, and the configuration information satisfies the following feature: configuring the measurement reference signal to occupy a frequency domain resource in a time domain symbol of a first set of time domain symbols in which a downlink control channel is located; and receiving the measurement reference signal according to the control signaling; wherein the first set of time domain symbols comprise M symbols, where M is a natural number; where the first set of time domain symbols in which the downlink control channel are determined by semi-static signaling; where a beam for the measurement reference signal and a beam for the downlink control is located channel are same in the time domain symbol. |
| US11930378B2 |
Apparatus and method for performing calibration in wireless communication system
Provided is a method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The method includes performing communication with a base station based on a full-duplex mode, transmitting, to the base station, a first message for requesting a duration for calibration of a circuit for analog self-interference cancellation (SIC), receiving, from the base station, a second message for allocating the duration, and performing the calibration of the circuit during the duration. Herein, during the duration, the UE is controlled to operate based on a half-duplex mode. |
| US11930367B2 |
Inline eSIM generation
eSIM generation software creates eSIMs in real-time within a WSP secure private network to route via computer components inside or outside of the secure private network to download eSIMs to wireless subscriber devices. eSIM generation software is integrated to eSIM profile creation tool to automatically select an eSIM profile template. Based on selected eSIM Profile template, an eSIM profile may be generated and stored on a case-by-case basis instead of generating all of a large quantity, or batch, and then storing all of the batch. Transport of highly guarded security information, like master keys, outside of the secure private network does not occur. |
| US11930366B1 |
Automated suspect device filtering on equipment identity registers
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for improving wireless network services by carrying out various procedures to identify and filter suspect user devices. A network function may monitor a plurality of network service requests from a particular user device and determine, based on the plurality of network services requests, that the requesting user device is engaged in suspicious activity. Upon such a determination, the network function may initiate one or more enforcement actions by communicating an instruction to an equipment identity register to add the requesting user device to a suspect device list stored on a unified data repository. |
| US11930362B2 |
System and method for providing additional functionality to existing software in an integrated manner
An improved system and method are disclosed for improving functionality in software applications. In one example, the method includes a computing entity having a network interface, a processor, and a memory configured to store a plurality of instructions. The instructions include instructions for a superblock application having instructions for a function block included therein. The function block is configured to provide functions that are accessible to the superblock application via an application programming interface (API). The functions are provided within the superblock application itself and are accessible within the superblock application without switching context to another application on the computing entity. |
| US11930359B2 |
Wireless access point with multiple security modes
There is disclosed in an example, a gateway apparatus, including a hardware platform having a processor and a memory; a wireless network interface; and instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to: provide a first virtual access point (VAP) secured by an IEEE 802.1x extensible authentication protocol (EAP) enterprise security method; provide a second VAP secured by a WiFi protected access pre-shared key (WPA-PSK) method; onboard a device, comprising determining whether the device supports the EAP method, and enrolling the device with the EAP method if the device supports the EAP method; and if the device does not support the EAP method, enrolling the device with the WPA-PSK method. |
| US11930358B2 |
Seamless handoff between wireless access gateways
A method of data communication includes receiving, by a first wireless access gateway (WAG), at least a first data packet corresponding to a first data flow transmitted from user equipment (UE) and receiving, by a second WAG, at least a second data packet transmitted from the UE. In response to receiving the second data packet, the second WAG determines an identity of the first WAG, and in response to determining the identity of the first WAG, the method includes establishing a tunnel connection between the first WAG and the second WAG. After establishing the tunnel connection, the method includes receiving by the second WAG at least a third data packet corresponding to the first data flow transmitted from the UE, and the second WAG transmits to the first WAG, via the tunnel connection, the third data packet. |
| US11930353B2 |
Method for monitoring or tracking between mobile devices
In a method for monitoring or tracking between mobile devices of a same group, mobile devices broadcast messages in broadcast mode over a radio interface in compliance with a short-range digital communication protocol. The messages can be received by all other mobile devices in the vicinity and can communicate according to the protocol. The messages include encrypted data encrypted using at least one identifier of the emitter device and a seed intended for single use or having a short period of validity. The encrypted data can only be decrypted by a limited group of devices. The mobile devices receive messages broadcast by other devices and decrypt the messages intended for a group to which they belong. If the protocol provides that the message includes an address field of the emitter device, this field is filled with a randomised address intended for single use or having a short period of use. |
| US11930348B2 |
Computer system for realizing customized being-there in association with audio and method thereof
A method by a computer system including generating audio files based on respective audio signals, the audio signals having been respectively generated from a plurality of objects at a venue, generating metadata including spatial features at the venue that are respectively set for the objects, and transmitting the audio files and the metadata for the objects to a first electronic device to cause the first electronic device to realize a being-there at the venue by rendering the audio files based on the spatial features in the metadata may be provided. |
| US11930340B2 |
System for cooling the stationary winding of an induction motor
The present invention relates to principles for cooling the stationary winding of an induction motor, said winding being positioned outside the movable armature. The cooling can be achieved by means of cooling fins, openings allowing the ventilation of the winding with or without a fan, a fluid circuit outside the bowl, a fluid circuit inside the bowl, a fluid circuit inside the winding, and/or the addition of heat pipes inside the bowl. This motor as presented can be used, without limitation, inside loudspeakers or vibrators. |
| US11930339B2 |
Nano membrane, method of manufacturing nano membrane, and apparatus for speaker and microphone using nano membrane
Disclosed herein is a nano membrane. The nano membrane includes an insulating layer having a thickness corresponding to a diameter of each of metal nanowires and configured to contain the metal nanowires therein, and the metal nanowires arranged to cross and having portions of side surfaces which protrude from one surface of the insulating layer. |
| US11930338B2 |
Display apparatus
A display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image by emitting light, and a sound generating device on a rear surface of the display panel. The sound generating device includes a bobbin, and a protection member on the bobbin. |
| US11930337B2 |
Audio encoding with compressed ambience
An audio device can sense sound in a physical environment using a plurality of microphones to generate a plurality of microphone signals. Clean speech can be extracted from microphone signals. Ambience can be extracted from the microphone signals. The clean speech can be encoded at a first compression level. The ambience can be encoded at a second compression level that is higher than the first compression level. Other aspects are also described and claimed. |
| US11930336B2 |
Audio system
An audio system includes an audio/video receiver, a power supply/wireless audio distribution assembly connected to the audio/video receiver, speaker wire, and speakers compatible with the power supply/wireless audio distribution assembly. |
| US11930333B2 |
Noise suppression method and system for personal sound amplification product
In certain aspects, a noise suppression method and system for a personal sound amplification product (PSAP) are disclosed. An environmental audio signal acquired through one or more microphones is processed to generate a set of first sub-band signals in a set of first sub-bands. The environmental audio signal is also processed to generate a set of second sub-band signals in a set of second sub-bands. A set of first gains for the set of first sub-band signals in the set of first sub-bands is determined based on the set of second sub-band signals in the set of second sub-bands. The set of first sub-band signals is processed based on the set of first gains to generate a noise-suppressed audio signal. |
| US11930332B2 |
Method for recognizing at least one naturally emitted sound produced by a real-life sound source in an environment comprising at least one artificial sound source, corresponding apparatus, computer program product and computer-readable carrier medium
The disclosure relates to a method for recognizing at least one naturally emitted sound produced by a real-life sound source in an environment comprising at least one artificial sound source. The method is implemented by an audio recognition device, and it includes simultaneously obtaining a first audio signal from a first microphone located in the environment and a second audio signal from an audio acquisition device associated with the at least one artificial sound source; analyzing the first audio signal, delivering a first list of sound classes corresponding to sounds recognized in the first audio signal; analyzing the second audio signal, delivering a second list of sound classes corresponding to sounds recognized in the second audio signal; and delivering a third list of sound classes, comprising only sound classes included in the first list of sound classes which are not included in the second list of sound classes. |
| US11930331B2 |
Method, apparatus and device for processing sound signals
A method, an apparatus and a device for processing sound signals are provided in the present application. The method comprises: receiving a first sound signal through a first sound reception apparatus and a second sound signal through a second sound reception apparatus respectively; the first sound reception apparatus and the second sound reception apparatus have a corresponding reception delay constant therebetween; performing delay processing on the first sound signal according to the reception delay constant at each signal processing time to acquire a signal correlation coefficient between the first sound signal after the delay processing and the second sound signal; detecting whether the first sound signal and the second sound signal include a coherent noise signal according to the signal correlation coefficient between the first sound signal after the delay processing and the second sound signal; filtering out the coherent noise signal from the first sound signal and the second sound signal when the coherent noise signal is included in the first sound signal and the second sound signal to acquire and output a target sound signal at a corresponding signal processing time. |
| US11930327B2 |
Wax protection for in-canal hearing device
A hearing aid assembly includes a receiver speaker enclosed within a receiver housing. The receiver housing defines a circuitous receiver acoustic channel, wherein the receiver channel defines an open side along at least a portion of the receiver channel. The receiver channel also defines a pass-through passage extending from a first side of the receiver housing to a second side of the receiver housing, wherein the pass-through passage is partially defined by the wall defining a receiver opening. The hearing aid assembly also includes an earbud configured to fit over at least a portion of the receiver housing and partially cover the open side of the receiver channel. |
| US11930326B2 |
Hearing aid charging case
Implemented is a hearing aid charging case that can charge hearing aids without a user having to toggle or figure out any small buttons or switches. The charging case utilizes wireless charging technology and an internal power bank, which provides the electrical current from which the power bank charges the hearing aids. The charging case comes with a protective layer inside of the upper case that provides delicate support to the hearing aids when charging. The hearing aids rest on charging pads positioned inside the lower case to receive a charge from the power bank. Each charging pad is connected to a respective indicator light informing the user of each hearing aid's charging status, such as fully charged or still charging. An outer indicator light positioned on the outside of the charging case can inform the user of the charge state of the power bank. |
| US11930325B2 |
Direct print chassis for contact hearing system
A contact hearing device includes a chassis, sulcus platform and umbo platform wherein the chassis is formed as a single continuous material, the sulcus platform is formed as a single continuous material, and the umbo platform is formed as a single continuous material. The chassis may include a receiver mount, a motor mount pocket and a central frame. The sulcus platform includes one or more registration features adapted to mate with at least a portion of the chassis, the umbo platform includes a drive post landing pad, the drive post landing pad including at least one alignment feature. |
| US11930323B2 |
Method and system for customized amplification of auditory signals providing enhanced karaoke experience for hearing-deficient users
Disclosed herein are method, system, and computer program product embodiments for performing the continuous tuning of received audio input from an earpiece or microphone, wherein the audio input is independently altered in the frequency domain for output to an earpiece worn by a user as well as separately for an additional audio output to an external connected speaker, for an optimal experience. |
| US11930319B2 |
Underwater ear pod system
The underwater ear pod system is a multifunctional device that allows a user to listen to music and other audio signals transmitted through a transmitting device during underwater activities, while keeping water out of the swimmer or diver's ear. To accomplish this, the system comprises a waterproof earplug device and a well-connected communicating system, wherein the transmitting device may be positioned outside the water body or maintained floating over the surface of the water body, depending on the activity of the user. Further, the device can have emergency SOS signals automatically sent at predetermined intervals or on an as-needed basis based on button/touch inputs to add a layer of safety for swimmer's or divers. Furthermore, the device is compact, thereby facilitating portability and ease of storage. Thus, the underwater ear pod system is a multifunctional and cost-efficient ear pod system that can make aquatic activities more enjoyable, convenient, and safe. |
| US11930315B1 |
Open earphones
Disclosed is an open earphone, comprising a sound production component and an ear hook. The ear hook may include a first portion and a second portion connected in sequence. The first portion may be hung between the auricle of a user and the head of the user, the second portion may extend toward a front outer side of the auricle and connect the sound production component, and the sound production component may be located close to the ear canal but not block the opening of the ear canal; wherein the sound production component and the auricle may have a first projection and a second projection on a sagittal plane, respectively, a centroid of the first projection may have a first distance from a highest point of the second projection in a vertical axis direction, a ratio of the first distance to a height of the second projection in the vertical axis direction may be within a range of 0.25-0.6, the centroid of the first projection may have a second distance from an end point of the second projection in a sagittal axis direction, and a ratio of the second distance to a width of the second projection in the sagittal axis direction may be within a range of 0.4-0.7. |
| US11930314B2 |
Acoustic device
The present disclosure may provide an acoustic device. The acoustic device may include a housing, at least one low-frequency acoustic driver, at least one high-frequency acoustic driver, and a noise reduction assembly. The housing may be configured to be rested on a shoulder of a user. The at least one low-frequency acoustic driver may be carried by the housing and configured to output first sound from at least two first sound guiding holes. The at least one high-frequency acoustic driver may be carried by the housing and configured to output second sound from at least two second sound guiding holes. The noise reduction assembly may be configured to receive third sound and reduce noise of the third sound. |
| US11930308B2 |
Image processing device and image processing method that reduce variation in output value among imaging devices
Provided are a device and a method for executing gain calculation processing and gain adjustment processing for matching an output of an imaging element of a multispectral camera with an output of a reference machine, on the basis of a reference machine band-corresponding pixel value that is a pixel value within a specific band acquired on the basis of an output value of an imaging element of the reference camera, and an adjustment machine band-corresponding pixel value that is a pixel value within a specific band acquired on the basis of an output value of an imaging element of the adjustment camera. |
| US11930306B2 |
Projection apparatus, projection method, and control program
A projection apparatus includes a projection portion that performs irradiation with projection light, and a moving mechanism that moves a projection range of the projection light. In a state where the projection range is maintained, the projection apparatus displays an image showing a movement destination of the projection range in response to a first operation by the projection portion. The projection apparatus moves the projection range to the movement destination by the moving mechanism. |
| US11930305B2 |
Circuit apparatus, control apparatus, and laser projector
A circuit apparatus is used in a laser projector that projects an image onto a projection surface by using laser beams having different wavelengths or a plurality of colors. The circuit apparatus includes a distortion correction circuit and an output circuit. The distortion correction circuit performs distortion correction on a color basis on display image data corresponding to the plurality of colors. The output circuit outputs the display image data as a result of the distortion correction. The distortion correction circuit performs the distortion correction on a color basis by using warp parameters different from one another among the plurality of colors. |
| US11930303B2 |
Automated digital parameter adjustment for digital images
Systems and techniques for automatic digital parameter adjustment are described that leverage insights learned from an image set to automatically predict parameter values for an input item of digital visual content. To do so, the automatic digital parameter adjustment techniques described herein captures visual and contextual features of digital visual content to determine balanced visual output in a range of visual scenes and settings. The visual and contextual features of digital visual content are used to train a parameter adjustment model through machine learning techniques that captures feature patterns and interactions. The parameter adjustment model exploits these feature interactions to determine visually pleasing parameter values for an input item of digital visual content. The predicted parameter values are output, allowing further adjustment to the parameter values. |
| US11930295B2 |
Handling of non-VCL NAL units in picture unit construction
Systems, methods and apparatus for processing visual media data are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between visual media data and a visual media file that includes one or more tracks that store one or more bitstreams of the visual media data according to a format rule; wherein the visual media file includes a base track that references one or more subpicture tracks, and wherein the format rule specifies an order of non-VCL (video coding layer) NAL (network abstraction layer) units in a sample of the base track in reconstructing a video unit from the sample of the base track and samples in the one or more subpicture tracks. |
| US11930293B2 |
Systems and methods for redaction of screens
Systems, devices, and methods redact one or more light-emitting screens in data recorded on a recording device. The redaction may include receiving recorded data comprising a plurality of pixel values. The redaction may include detecting one or more light-emitting screens in the received image. The redaction may include redacting a subset of the pixel values from the recorded associated with the one or more detected light-emitting screens. The redaction may be commonly applied to multiple frames of recorded data through the use of a unique identifier assigned to a same detected light-emitting screen. A same light-emitting screen may be tracked across multiple non-sequential or sequential frames and assigned a same unique identifier. |
| US11930290B2 |
Panoramic picture in picture video
One embodiment provides a method, including: capturing, from each of at least two cameras, video from a vantage point of an event; generating an immersive video stream from the video captured by the at least two cameras; producing a transport video stream by combining the immersive video stream with a production camera video stream, wherein the transport stream is available for user consumption and providing, to a display device, a streamed production to a user, wherein the streamed production comprises the immersive video stream and the production camera video stream, the streamed production comprising an overlay window comprising at least one of the immersive video stream and the production camera video stream and a primary view comprising at least one of the immersive video stream and the production camera video stream. |
| US11930288B2 |
Pixel drive voltage generation using a charge pump
An image sensor comprises an array comprising rows and columns of pixels, a first number N of connection lines connected to a first number N of pixels of the array, a voltage regulating circuit having an output, a first terminal, and a driver circuit. The driver circuit has a first number N of switches coupled to the first number N of connection lines and to the output of the voltage regulating circuit, and a first number N of further switches coupled to the first number N of connection lines and to the first terminal. The first number N is at least two. |
| US11930287B2 |
Imaging element and electronic device
An imaging element according to an embodiment includes: a light receiving unit including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged in a lattice-pattern array, and a plurality of lenses provided for respective sets of elements on a one-to-one basis, each set of elements including two or more of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements arranged adjacent to each other. In the light receiving unit, among a plurality of pixel sets each including the set of elements and one of the plurality of lenses provided in the set of elements, at least two pixel sets adjacent to each other are different from each other in pupil correction amount. |
| US11930285B2 |
Image sensing device having a normal mode and a multi-sampling mode and operating method thereof
Disclosed is an image sensing device including a plurality of selectors suitable for generating a plurality of selected pixel signals corresponding to one of a plurality of pixel signals; a plurality of signal converters suitable for: setting a plurality of initial voltages which are different from one another, on the basis of a plurality of initialization signals during an initialization period, and generating a plurality of converted pixel signals to which the plurality of initial voltages are respectively reflected, on the basis of the plurality of selected pixel signals and a ramp signal during a readout period; and a calculation circuit suitable for averaging the plurality of converted pixel signals. |
| US11930276B2 |
Monitoring device and vehicle having the same
A monitoring device and a vehicle having the same. The monitoring device includes a camera configured to obtain an image; a display configured to display the image; a tilting adjustor configured to adjust a tilting angle of the camera; and a controller configured to recognize a brightness of a first image displayed on the display and control the tilting adjustor to adjust the tilting angle of the camera in response to determining that the recognized brightness is greater than or equal to a reference value, and after adjusting the tilting angle of the camera, control the tilting adjustor to adjust the tilting angle of the camera to an initial tilting angle in response to determining that a brightness of a second image displayed the display is less than or equal to a release value. |
| US11930275B2 |
Control device of imaging device, imaging device, control method of imaging device, and control program of imaging device with image shake correction
A control device of an imaging device that includes an imaging element which images a subject through a lens device including a vibration-proof lens includes: an image shake correcting unit that corrects an image shake of a captured image output from the imaging element by moving the imaging element or moving an acquisition range of the captured image on a light receiving surface of the imaging element; and a lens position acquiring unit that acquires a position of the vibration-proof lens in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis of the lens device, and the image shake correcting unit controls a movable range of the imaging element or a movable range of the acquisition range based on the position of the vibration-proof lens acquired by the lens position acquiring unit. |
| US11930267B2 |
Location systems for electronic device interactions with environment
An electronic device may be provided with control circuitry, wireless transceiver circuitry, and a display. The electronic device may be used to provide information to a user in response to being pointed at a particular object. The control circuitry may determine when the electronic device is pointed at a particular object using wireless control circuitry and/or motion sensor circuitry. In response to determining that the electronic device is pointed at a particular object, the control circuitry may take suitable action. This may include, for example, displaying information about an object when the electronic device is pointed at the object, displaying control icons for electronic equipment when the electronic device is pointed at the electronic equipment, and/or displaying a virtual object when the electronic device is pointed at real world object. |
| US11930263B2 |
Slim pop-out wide camera lenses
Pop-out lens systems for compact digital cameras, comprising an image sensor and a lens with a field of view FOV>60 deg and having i lens elements L1-Li starting with L1 from an object side toward an image side, each lens element Li having a respective focal length fi, the lens elements divided into two lens groups G1 and G2 separated by a big gap (BG), the lens having a pop-out total track length TTL<20 mm in a pop-out state and a collapsed total track length c-TTL in a collapsed state, wherein BG>0.25×TTL, wherein either G1 can move relative to G2 and to the image sensor for focusing or G1 and G2 can move together relative to the image sensor for focusing, and wherein a ratio c-TTL/TTL<0.7. |
| US11930260B2 |
Optical path switching method and surveillance module
An optical path switching method is applied to a surveillance module. The method includes: determining a target magnification; and (i) when the target magnification is less than or equal to a maximum magnification of a camera, setting a magnification of the camera to the target magnification, determining that a reflection element is at a first location or in a first working state, and performing image capture by using the camera alone; or (ii) when the target magnification is greater than a maximum magnification of the camera, setting a magnification of the camera to a first magnification, determining that the reflection element is at a second location or in a second working state, and performing image capture by using both the camera and a teleconverter, where a product of the first magnification and a magnification of the teleconverter is the target magnification. The method increases a surveillance distance while reducing costs. |
| US11930255B2 |
Color and infrared image sensor
A color and infrared image sensor includes a silicon substrate, MOS transistors formed in the substrate and on the substrate, first photodiodes at least partly formed in the substrate, a photosensitive layer covering the substrate, and color filters, the photosensitive layer being interposed between the substrate and the color filters. The image sensor further includes first and second electrodes on either side of the photosensitive layer and delimiting second photodiodes in the photosensitive layer, the first photodiodes being configured to absorb the electromagnetic waves of the visible spectrum and of a first portion of the infrared spectrum and the photosensitive layer being configured to absorb the electromagnetic waves of the visible spectrum and to give way to the electromagnetic waves of said first portion of the infrared spectrum. |
| US11930254B2 |
Patchable remote element for data manipulation
There is included a method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to perform obtaining media content from a first content server, determining whether a manifest indicates presence of a remote element, resolving the remote element, manipulating an updated remote element, and streaming at least one of the media content from the first content server and another media content from a second content server based on manipulating the updated remote element. |
| US11930252B2 |
Video recommendation method and apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium
A video recommendation method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: receiving highlight information of a target video, wherein the quantity of the highlight information is at least one, and the highlight information corresponds to a predetermined playback position in the target video; and displaying the highlight information, and after receiving a triggering operation of a user on the basis of the highlight information, playing the target video. By using the technical solution, a playback position corresponding to a clip or highlight point in a long video can be taken as a starting point in the highlight information, a user is guided to browse the long video, so that the user can acquire the highlight content of the long video at a fastest speed, and watch the long video seamlessly. |
| US11930249B2 |
Single MAC device feeding multiple physical layer devices
A network communications node includes a local processor, a first remote physical device (RPD), and at least a second RPD all contained in a node housing. The local processor receives a first signal on a logical link control layer and transforms it to a second signal on a medium access control (MAC) layer. The first and second RPDs receive the second signal and respectively convert it to third and fourth signals on a physical layer. The two RPDs implement different communication protocols. Amplification for the RPDs occurs mostly outside the node housing. The node is upgraded by software patching the local processor or by physically swapping one or more of the RPDs. |
| US11930248B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, transmission apparatus, and transmission method
The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, information processing method, transmission apparatus, and transmission method, capable of improving the convenience of a voice AI assistance service used in cooperation with content.The convenience of the voice AI assistance service used in cooperation with the content can be improved by providing an information processing apparatus including a control unit configured to control a timing of a voice response upon using a voice AI assistance service in cooperation with content on the basis of voice response time information indicating time suitable for the voice response to an utterance of a viewer watching the content. The present technology can be applied to a system in cooperation with a voice AI assistance service, for example. |
| US11930245B2 |
Mobile information terminal
Provided is a mobile information terminal that performs data transmission and reception, the data transmission and reception including video data reception. The mobile information terminal includes a communication management execution module that obtains a communication amount of data transmitted and received by the mobile information terminal in a predetermined period, and a remote viewing execution module that compares the obtained communication amount to a preset predetermined value and makes an image quality of the video data selectable according to a relationship between the obtained communication amount and the predetermined value. |
| US11930243B2 |
Peripheral device registration in and migration between environments
Systems and methods described herein may provide a system that enables game play or other application sessions from a set of candidate game hosts and environments to consumption devices of a user's choice while the user moves about their home between the different environments. The system may employ methods to determine where a user is located within the home, availability and selection of candidate game hosting and target environments, homing and direction of related I/O and audio-visual (AV) content for consumption. The solution accommodates multiple users simultaneously within the home, whether in single player, multiplayer using the same screen, or multiplayer using separate screen games. The solution may configure AV and input/output (I/O) such that multiple users can consume one or multiple games in the home simultaneously, whether in separate locations or when seated together in front of the same consumption device. |
| US11930232B2 |
Video playing control method, terminal device, server, and storage medium
A video playing control method includes obtaining a video playing policy, where the video playing policy determines information about a control algorithm used for video playing, determining according to the video playing policy, a target control algorithm used for video playing, downloading and playing a video by using the target control algorithm, collecting video playing quality indicator data in a process of downloading and playing the video, and uploading the quality indicator data to a server, to indicate the server to adjust the video playing policy based on the quality indicator data. |
| US11930231B2 |
Digital display method and system, digital display device and digital display server
A digital display method for controlling the display of digital content items by digital display devices, comprising: generating, by a server, playlists comprising digital content identifiers and download manifests comprising loading addresses of digital content items; updating the playlists and download manifests of digital display devices from the server; reading, by each digital display device, the digital content items corresponding to its playlist. |
| US11930228B2 |
Computer program, server device, terminal device and method
A computer program according allows a processor to function such that a first stream of a first data type including a motion, a sound, a comment, or information according to gifting is retrieved, a second stream of a second data type including a video is retrieved, data according to the first stream and data according to the second stream are synthesized, and the synthesized data is provided. In addition, the first data type includes intermediate information according to the video. In addition, the intermediate information includes depth information according to the video. |
| US11930224B2 |
Method, apparatus and system for encoding and decoding a tree of blocks of video samples
A method of decoding coding blocks of a coding tree unit in an image. The method comprises obtaining the coding tree unit in the image from a bitstream, the coding tree unit having chroma channels and a luma channel; and determining luma split options for the luma channel of the coding tree unit according to dimensions of a region of the coding tree unit. The method also comprises determining chroma split options for the chroma channels of the coding tree unit according to dimensions of a region of the coding tree unit, the chroma split options being different to the luma split options, the allowable chroma split options resulting in chroma intra predicted blocks with a minimum size of 16 samples; and decoding the coding blocks by determining flags from the bitstream to select one of the determined luma split options and one of the determined chroma split options. |
| US11930223B2 |
Method for picture decoding, decoder and storage medium
An image decoding method, a decoder and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: receiving code stream data, and parsing the code stream data to obtain a coding tree unit corresponding to the code stream data; parsing an i-th node of i-th layer corresponding to the coding tree unit to obtain i-th state parameter and i-th flag parameter corresponding to the i-th node; performing detection processing on the i-th node according to the i-th state parameter and the i-th flag parameter to obtain an i-th detection result; acquiring a (i+1)th node of a (i+1)th layer corresponding to the coding tree unit; continuing to perform detection processing on the (i+1)th node, and traversing all the nodes corresponding to the coding tree unit until all the coding unit data corresponding to the coding tree unit is obtained; and generating a decoded image corresponding to the code stream data. |
| US11930219B2 |
Adaptation parameter set signaling based on color format
A video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video comprising a video unit and a bitstream of the video according to a rule. The rule specifies whether or how to include, in an adaptation parameter set (APS), information related to a scaling list of the video is based on a first syntax element. The first syntax element indicates whether the APS includes chroma component related syntax elements and is independent of one or more syntax elements in a sequence parameter set (SPS). |
| US11930217B2 |
Method for padding processing with sub-region partitions in video stream
A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for video coding. The method may include decoding coded syntax elements corresponding to a wrap-around padding process based on shifting a reference block by a width value that is determined based on luma samples in the reference block; and reconstructing at least one coded current picture using the wrap-around padding process, wherein the wrap-around padding process is applied at boundaries of subpictures. |
| US11930216B2 |
Recursive splitting of video coding blocks
A method of video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current block in a video region of a video and a coded representation of the video, that splitting the current block into multiple transform units is permitted based on a characteristic of the current block. A signaling of the splitting is omitted in the coded representation. The method also includes performing the conversion based on the determining. |
| US11930213B2 |
Method for encoding a matrix of image views obtained from data acquired by a plenoptic camera
In one embodiment of the disclosure, it is proposed a method for encoding a matrix of image views obtained from data acquired by a plenoptic camera. The method is remarkable in that it comprises: obtaining at least one reference image view from a combination of at least two image views from said matrix of image views; encoding image views that are different from said at least one reference image view, based on said at least one reference image view. |
| US11930208B2 |
Method and apparatus for signaling skip mode flag
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. In some embodiments, processing circuitry decodes, prediction information for a block in an I slice from a coded video bitstream, and determines, whether an intra block copy (IBC) mode is possible for the block in the I slice. In response to a slice type parameter indicating I slice and at least a width or height of the block being greater than 64, the processing circuitry sets a current mode type parameter to MODE_TYPE_INTRA. Further, in an embodiment, the processing circuitry decodes a flag that indicates whether a skip mode is applied on the block from the coded video bitstream. Then, the processing circuitry reconstructs the block at least partially based on the flag. |
| US11930206B2 |
Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method
An encoder which includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry generates a list which includes candidates for a first motion vector for a first partition. The list has a maximum list size and an order of the candidates, and at least one of the maximum list size or the order of the candidates is dependent on at least one of a partition size or a partition shape of the first partition. The circuitry selects the first motion vector from the candidates included in the list; encodes an index indicating the first motion vector among the candidates in the list into the bitstream based on the maximum list size; and generates the predicted image for the first partition using the first motion vector. |
| US11930205B2 |
Side motion refinement in video encoding/decoding systems
A method for decoding a current block in a current picture of a video bitstream includes decoding, from the video bitstream, a first motion vector for the current block relative to a first reference block of a first reference picture having a first picture order count, and decoding, from the video bitstream, a second motion vector for the current block relative to a second reference block of a second reference picture having a second picture order count. A similarity metric is generated based on a comparison of the first motion vector and the second motion vector. The method further includes determining whether to refine the first motion vector based on the similarity metric, generating a first refined motion vector from the first motion vector, and performing motion compensation to derive a first reference block from the first reference picture using the first refined motion vector. |
| US11930203B2 |
Image decoding method
An image decoding method includes: dividing a current block into sub-blocks; deriving, for each sub-block, one or more prediction information candidates; obtaining an index; and decoding the current block using the prediction information candidate selected by the index. The deriving includes: determining whether a neighboring block neighboring each sub-block is included in the current block, and when not included in the current block, determining the neighboring block to be a reference block available to the sub-block, and when included in the current block, determining the neighboring block not to be the reference block; and deriving a prediction information candidate of the sub-block from prediction information of the reference block; and when the number of prediction information candidates is smaller than a predetermined number, generating one or more new candidates without using the prediction information of the reference block till the number of prediction information candidates reaches the predetermined number. |
| US11930202B2 |
Method and apparatus for video watermarking, and storage medium
Disclosed are method and apparatus for video watermarking, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method includes steps described below. Image data of a target video frame is converted from an RGB format to a YUV format; in the YUV format, an offset with a preset value is superimposed on a pixel value of a pixel point corresponding to a shape be watermarked on the target video frame; and the target video frame on which the offset is superimposed is encoded. |
| US11930196B2 |
Reuse of block tree pattern in video compression
A method includes transcoding a first block from a spatial region. The first block is associated with a first block tree pattern defining a structure of splitting a block into smaller blocks. A bit string of bits for the first block tree pattern is included in an encoded bitstream. The method determines a location of the first block in the spatial region when the first block tree pattern of the first block can be reused for a second block tree pattern of a second block. The spatial region includes blocks and the location is based on the first block being in the spatial region. Information for the second block is included in the encoded bitstream that indicates the location of the first block in the spatial region. The location allows the bit string for the first block tree pattern to be retrieved for use to decode the second block. |
| US11930190B2 |
Scanning orders for non-transform coding
Non-transform blocks of video content may be coded by selectively changing a scanning order. in some implementations, an encoder or decoder may perform a scanning process on a block according to a scanning order. When the block has not been transformed, the encoder or decoder may selectively change the scanning order to a different order. For example, if the block is associated with a particular type of prediction, the scanning order may be changed to a different order. In another example, if the non-transform block has a size that is smaller than a predetermined size, the scanning order may be changed to a different order. |
| US11930189B2 |
Parallel metadata generation based on a window of overlapped frames
One embodiment provides a method comprising segmenting an input video into a first video chunk and one or more subsequent video chunks. The method further comprises, for each subsequent video chunk, generating a corresponding window of overlapped frames by selecting a subsequence of frames from a different video chunk immediately preceding the subsequent video chunk. The method further comprises generating metadata corresponding to each video chunk by processing each video chunk in parallel. Each subsequent video chunk is processed based in part on a corresponding window of overlapped frames. The method further comprises, for each subsequent video chunk, discarding a portion of metadata corresponding to the subsequent video chunk, where the portion discarded is specific to a corresponding window of overlapped frames. The method further comprises merging each video chunk into a single output video. Each video chunk merged is associated with any remaining corresponding metadata. |
| US11930186B2 |
Method and apparatus for video coding
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus including processing circuitry for video decoding. The processing circuitry decodes coded information for a transform block (TB) from a coded video bitstream. The coded information indicates one of intra prediction mode information that indicates an intra prediction mode used for the TB, a size of the TB, and a primary transform type used for the TB. The processing circuitry determines a context for entropy decoding a secondary transform index based on the one of the intra prediction mode information for the TB, the size of the TB, and the primary transform type used for the TB. The secondary transform index indicates a secondary transform in a set of secondary transforms that is to be performed on the TB. The processing circuitry entropy decodes the secondary transform index based on the context and performs the secondary transform. |
| US11930183B2 |
Video encoder, a video decoder and corresponding methods of processing MMVD distance
A method of determining a distance table of a merge with motion vector difference (MMVD) mode, wherein the method comprises determining a reference picture from at least one reference picture list of a current processing unit based on at least one parameter of the reference picture, and obtaining the distance table for the current processing unit based on the reference picture, wherein the at least one parameter of the reference picture comprises a picture order count (POC) number of the reference picture, a number of MMVD blocks of the reference picture, a reference picture list index of the reference picture, a reference picture index of the reference picture, and a quantization parameter (QP) of the reference picture. |
| US11930182B2 |
Motion vector derivation between dividing patterns
A method for processing video data, including: deriving one or more motion vectors for a first set of sub-blocks belonging to a first dividing pattern of a current video block of a video; and performing, based on the one or more motion vectors, a conversion between the current video block and a bitstream of the video. |
| US11930181B2 |
Method for colour component prediction, encoder, decoder and storage medium
A method for colour component prediction, an encoder, a decoder and a storage medium are provided. The method includes that: prediction parameters of a current block are determined, the prediction parameters including a prediction mode parameter and a size parameter of the current block; when the prediction mode parameter indicates that a Matrix-based Intra Prediction (MIP) mode is adopted to determine an intra prediction value of the current block, an MIP weight matrix of the current block, a shift factor of the current block and an MIP input sample matrix of the current block are determined; and the intra prediction value of the current block is determined according to the MIP weight matrix, the shift factor and the MIP input sample matrix. |
| US11930180B2 |
Method and apparatus for intra-prediction coding of video data
A method and an apparatus are configured for intra prediction coding of video data. An apparatus for decoding video data includes: a decoding unit which obtains, from a bitstream, information on a luma prediction mode and information on a chroma prediction mode of a current coding block; and an intra prediction unit which generates luma prediction samples and chroma prediction samples of the current coding block. The intra prediction unit derives a luma intra prediction type and a luma intra prediction mode of the current coding block on the basis of the information on the luma prediction mode, and determines a chroma intra prediction mode of the current coding block on the basis of the luma intra prediction type and the luma intra prediction mode of the current coding block, and the information on the chroma prediction mode. |
| US11930178B2 |
Image encoding apparatus, image encoding method, image decoding apparatus, image decoding method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
An image encoding apparatus for encoding an image comprises a generation unit configured to generate, from a first quantization matrix having a size of ×N (N is a positive, a second quantization matrix having a size of ×Q (P and Q are positive integers which satisfy P |
| US11930175B2 |
Block size dependent use of video coding mode
Methods, systems, and devices for coding or decoding video wherein the picture partition mode is based on block size are described. An example method for video processing includes using a dimension of a virtual pipeline data unit (VPDU) used for a conversion between a video comprising one or more video regions comprising one or more video blocks and a bitstream representation of the video to perform a determination of whether a ternary-tree (TT) or a binary tree (BT) partitioning of a video block of the one or more video blocks is enabled, and performing, based on the determination, the conversion, wherein the dimension is equal to VSize in luma samples, wherein dimensions of the video block are CtbSizeY in luma samples, wherein VSize=min(M, CtbSizeY), and wherein M is a positive integer. |
| US11930168B2 |
Consistent adjustment of parameters for video encoding
An encoder calculates a first local encoding parameter for a first block of video content based on one or more local metrics. The encoder modifies the first local encoding parameter based on one or more second local encoding parameters for one or more second blocks of video content that are adjacent to the first block of video content. The encoder then encodes the first block using the modified first local encoding parameter. In some cases, the local encoding parameters are quantization parameters used to quantize values of pixels or compression parameters used to compress values of the pixels. The local metric can include one or more of a target bit rate, a texture complexity, a contrast, an indicator of motion in the first block, and an importance map. |
| US11930167B2 |
Wide-angle intra prediction
A method for video decoding is provided. The method includes determining an intra prediction angle that corresponds to an intra prediction mode of a plurality of intra prediction modes, a subset of the plurality of intra prediction modes being mapped to a plurality of wide-angle intra prediction modes based on a ratio of a width of a block and a height of the block not being equal to 1, a number of the subset of the intra prediction modes mapped to the plurality wide-angle intra prediction modes being based on the ratio of the width of the block and the height of the block. At least one sample of the block is reconstructed based on the intra prediction angle that is determined to correspond to the intra prediction mode. |
| US11930165B2 |
Size dependent inter coding
Techniques for implementing video processing techniques are described. In one example implementation, a method of video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current block of a video and a bitstream representation of the video, a manner in which coding information of the current block is represented in the bitstream representation in part based on whether a condition associated with a size of the current block is satisfied. The method also includes performing the conversion based on the determining. |
| US11930163B2 |
Methods and systems for combined lossless and lossy coding
A decoder includes circuitry configured to receive a bitstream identify, in the bitstream, a current frame, wherein the current frame includes a plurality of regions, detect, in the bitstream, an indication that a first region is encoded according to a lossless encoding protocol and another region is encoded according to a lossy encoding protocol, and decode the current frame, wherein decoding the current frame further comprises decoding the first region using a lossless decoding protocol corresponding to the lossless encoding protocol. |
| US11930160B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program
A polarization imaging unit 20 acquires a polarized image including polarization pixels with a plurality of polarization directions. An information compression unit 40 sets reference image information based on polarized image information of reference polarization pixels with at least a plurality of polarization directions in the polarized image and generates difference information between the polarized image information of each of polarization pixels different from the reference polarization pixels in the polarized image and the reference image information. In addition, the information compression unit 40 reduces the amount of information of the difference information generated for each of the polarization pixels with the plurality of polarization directions to generate compressed image information including the reference image information and the difference information with the reduced amount of information. An information decoding unit 70 applies a decoding process corresponding to the compression process of the information compression unit 40 to the compressed image information acquired through a recording medium 50 or a transmission path 60 to generate the polarized image and outputs the polarized image to a polarized image using unit 80. |
| US11930151B2 |
Image processing apparatus for reducing likelihood of authentication information for a chat service being leaked
An image processing apparatus that communicates with a chat server for controlling, based on received information indicating a talk room of the chat server and received information corresponding to a user, display of image data received from the user, in the talk room. The image processing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive predetermined information corresponding to the user, by transmitting authentication information for the user to log into a chat service, to the chat server, and a storage unit configured to store the predetermined information received by the reception unit, instead of the authentication information, in association with identification information for the user to log into the image processing apparatus. The image data, information indicating the specified talk room, and the predetermined information are transmitted to the chat server. |
| US11930144B2 |
Energy-saving information processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and method for controlling energy-saving information processing apparatus
An information processing apparatus that switches a normal mode and an energy-saving mode includes control circuitry, an operation unit, and a device. The control circuitry controls processing of the information processing apparatus. The operation unit includes a display. The device mounted on the control circuitry or the operation unit writes change information indicating change of an operation mode in response to switching between the normal mode and the energy-saving mode. The device has a limit to a number of times of writing. The control circuitry counts the number of times of writing of the change information into the device, predicts a life of the device on a basis of a count value of the number of times of writing, and diagnoses appropriateness of the count value used for prediction of the life of the device when an increase rate of the count value exceeds a predetermined increase rate. |
| US11930142B2 |
Identification apparatus, processing apparatus, processing method, and storage medium
An identification apparatus for identifying a type of a sheet obtains, by a sensor, a plurality of parameters including a parameter concerning a characteristic of the sheet, and identifies the type of the sheet based on a result of inputting the plurality of parameters obtained by the sensor to an estimation model obtained by machine learning using, as input data, parameters corresponding to the parameters which are obtained by the sensor and include a first parameter and a second parameter classified in accordance with whether a value tends to change due to a predetermined element, and also using, as supervised data, a type of a sheet if the parameters are obtained. The estimation model includes a first partial model to which the first parameter is input and the second parameter is not input, a second partial model to which the second parameter is input and the first parameter is not input, and a third partial model that outputs a result concerning the type of the sheet based on an output from the first partial model and an output from the second partial model. |
| US11930141B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer-readable storage medium with display of preview corresponding to page included in printed product having book form
An information processing apparatus comprising an allocation unit for rearranging an order of original data of a plurality of pages and allocating the original data to book data used to generate a printed product having a book form, a display unit for displaying each of the original data and the book data along one direction on a predetermined display unit, and a setting unit for setting a binding method of the printed product having the book form, wherein the allocation unit changes, based on the setting of the binding method, an arrangement order of the book data to be displayed by the display unit. |
| US11930140B2 |
Information processing device, information processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program
An information processing device includes an acquisition unit configured to obtain a group datum in which a plurality of print layers to be printed in a stacked manner is grouped, and a display controller configured to make a display unit output a plurality of icons which corresponds respectively to the plurality of print layers included in the group datum, and which is arranged in an order of stacking the print layers corresponding to the icons, as layer configuration information representing a layer configuration of the group datum. |
| US11930139B2 |
Control device including processor that simultaneously displays a selection list of tasks and slide button, information processing apparatus, and recording medium storing control program for information processing apparatus
A control device includes a processor and a memory coupled to or integrated with the processor and controls an information processing apparatus, in which the processor is configured to simultaneously display, in an operation screen, a selection list of tasks for selecting a task to be executed by the information processing apparatus and a slide button as an execution button for instructing execution of the selected task, and once an operation of instructing execution of the task by the slide button is detected, performs control to change the slide button to a cancel button for canceling the task that is being executed. |
| US11930138B2 |
Management apparatus, system, and management method
A management apparatus that manages a plurality of image forming apparatuses, the management apparatus includes: a storage that stores histories of user operations on the image forming apparatuses for the plurality of image forming apparatuses, respectively; and a hardware processor that determines an image forming apparatus recommended to be operated from among the plurality of image forming apparatuses based on the histories of the user operations of the image forming apparatuses and outputs a notification indicating the determined recommended image forming apparatus. |
| US11930137B2 |
Image reading apparatus to set information processing apparatus capable of executing imaging control
An information processing apparatus includes an imaging device to image a medium, a communication device provided so as to communicate with a plurality of information processing apparatuses, and a processor to acquire a use state of the image reading apparatus, set an information processing apparatus capable of executing imaging control of the imaging device, and control the imaging device according to an instruction signal from the set information processing apparatus. The processor determines whether to set a second information processing apparatus as the information processing apparatus capable of executing the imaging control, based on the use state, when receiving a request signal of the imaging control from the second information processing apparatus in a state where a first information processing apparatus is set as the information processing apparatus capable of executing the imaging control. |
| US11930133B2 |
Systems and methods for redirecting an emergency callback to a contact of an emergency caller
A device may determine that a failure occurred in an emergency call between a public-safety answering point (PSAP) and a first user device associated with an emergency caller, and may identify, based on determining the failure, one of a first option, a second option, or a third option for redirecting an emergency callback to a contact of the emergency caller. The device may cause, when the first option is identified, the emergency callback to be redirected to a second user device associated with the contact of the emergency caller, and may cause, when the first option is identified, a bearer path to be established between the PSAP and the second user device for the emergency callback. |
| US11930132B2 |
Method, system, and computer program product to accurately route a call request
A system, method, and computer program product to accurately route a call is disclosed, by providing a resource interface having one or more interface elements mapping a resource to a call based on current calls and predicted calls, determining a dynamic handling profile from a plurality of dynamic handling profiles that include call information which maps to a resource to provide a ruleset for handling one or more types of call requests, identifying a routing rule comprising one or more routing rules of the ruleset based on caller information, receiving an activation of a resource interface element of the resource interface to initiate a call routing request to forward an assigned call to the resource, and controlling the call routing request according to the routing rule of the dynamic handling profile to perform a call function associated with the assigned call. |
| US11930129B1 |
Systems and methods for determining the driver of a vehicle
A system and method for disabling distracting apps on a driver's personal devices while allowing passengers travelling in the same vehicle to have full use of their personal devices. The system works by first identifying all the personal devices that are in the vehicle and then establishing a loose mesh network between those devices. Once the mesh network is established, the system identifies which of the personal devices is associated with the driver, and ensures that any distracting apps on the driver's personal device are disabled, while allowing full functionality for any passenger's personal devices. |
| US11930126B2 |
System and method for secure relayed communications from an implantable medical device
The present invention provides systems and methods for supporting encrypted communications with a medical device, such as an implantable device, through a relay device to a remote server, and may employ cloud computing technologies. An implantable medical device is generally constrained to employ a low power transceiver, which supports short distance digital communications. A relay device, such as a smartphone or WiFi access point, acts as a conduit for the communications to the internet or other network, which need not be private or secure. The medical device supports encrypted secure communications, such as a virtual private network technology. The medical device negotiates a secure channel through a smartphone or router, for example, which provides application support for the communication, but may be isolated from the content. |
| US11930117B2 |
Method and apparatus for reversible tokenization with support for embeddable role-based access control
Participants as requestors using a requesting network element request one or more tokenization processors to generate tokens that represent a sanitized version of data such that the resultant tokens are amenable to comparison across participants. As circumstances warrant, one or more such tokens can be submitted to the tokenization processor(s) to privately retrieve the original data. Role-based access control scope parameters and tokenization processor-specific tokenization processor secrets can be embedded into reversible tokens that remain invariant under updating of the tokenization processor secrets across tokenization processors. By another approach, role-based access control scope parameters and tokenization processor-specific tokenization processor secrets are embedded into tokens and corresponding key tokens such that upon authorized presentation of a token by a requestor, the corresponding key token is recovered so that the keying material that was used to generate ciphertext is retrievable in order to recover the corresponding plaintext. |
| US11930115B2 |
Management of devices joining a network
A method by a management node for managing a device operable to join a network includes receiving from the device a request to join the network, the request including a device specific parameter and a token, and generating an authentication parameter from the device specific parameters and the token. The method further includes authorising the device to join the network if the authentication parameter fulfils a validity criterion. Generating an authentication parameter from the device specific parameters and the token includes generating an input including the device specific parameters and the token, computing a cryptographic function of the generated input, and setting an output of the cryptographic function as the authentication parameter. Also disclosed are a method for operating a device, a management node, a device and a computer program. |
| US11930113B2 |
Blockchain hybrid consensus-based system for maintaining domain name information
Provided in the embodiments of the present application is a blockchain hybrid consensus-based system for maintaining domain name information. A gTLD blockchain is formed by first network nodes where international generic top-level domain registries are located, and a ccTLD blockchain is formed by second network nodes where various countries codes top-level domain registries are located. In each blockchain, various network nodes of the blockchain participate in the domain name information update process, so that the domain name information update process will not be affected by a mistake or an attack on one network node. Compared to centralized maintenance methods, this decentralized maintenance method is more secure and is beneficial to maintaining the stability of the system. International generic domain name information maintenance and country code domain name information maintenance are performed separately, and thus differences in information maintenance between local domain names and generic domain names are adapted and the efficiency of information maintenance is improved. In addition, domain name information is prevented from being maliciously tampered by means of blockchain technology and thus a reliable data source is provided for update of domain names. |
| US11930111B2 |
System and method for generating and depositing keys for multi-point authentication
The present invention is an platform and/or agnostic authentication method and system operable to authenticate users, data, documents, device and transactions. Embodiments of the present invention may be operable with any client system. The authentication method and system are operable to disburse unique portions of anonymous login related information amongst multiple devices. These devices and the disburse unique portions of anonymous login information are utilized by the solution to authenticate users, data, documents, device and transactions. Login-related information is not stored in any portion of the solution, users and devices are anonymously authenticated. The solution also permits a user to access secured portions of the client system through a semi-autonomous process and without having to reveal the user's key. |
| US11930108B1 |
Password requirement conformity check
Various embodiments include systems and methods to implement a password requirement conformity check. During a password reset process, a proposed password is received. A homomorphic encryption operation may be performed on the proposed password to generate a first character string. The first character string may be compared to a previous character string associated with a previous password to determine a password similarity metric. The password similarity metric may or may not satisfy at least a distance threshold. Responsive to determining that the password similarity metric does not satisfy the distance threshold, there may be a rejection of the proposed password and a prompt to receive an alternative proposed password during the password reset process. |
| US11930106B2 |
Quantum communication system that switches between quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols and associated methods
A quantum communications system includes a communications system that operates with a quantum key distribution (QKD) system, which includes a transmitter node, a receiver node, and a quantum communications channel coupling the transmitter node and receiver node. The transmitter node may be configured to transmit to the receiver node a bit stream of optical pulses, and switch between first and second QKD protocols based upon at least one channel condition. |
| US11930101B2 |
System and method for mitigating key-exhaustion in a key distribution protocol
A system and method are provided for mitigating key-exhaustion attacks in a key exchange protocol. The method includes computationally confirming an exchange of key bits has provided fresh shared key material before information theoretically confirming the exchange of key bits has provided fresh shared key material, while maintaining synchronization between messaging parties. In one implementation, maintaining synchronization includes updating keys in between each post-processing message session and managing a local state of each messaging party in the key exchange protocol prior to sending a next post-processing message. In another implementation, maintaining synchronization includes hiding a message containing the information theoretic authenticator by executing a decoy authentication process, prior to using an information theoretical key. |
| US11930100B2 |
Fund conversion between blockchains
An approach is disclosed for running a first smart contract on a first blockchain platform which restricts access to a client's funds appropriated to a second smart contract running on a second blockchain platform. A transaction is received by invoking the first smart contract authorizing the second smart contract. In response to receiving an indication of a successful completion of the first smart contract, a plurality of client's authorization tickets are sent to the second smart contract which restricts access to the client's funds appropriated to the second smart contract running on the second blockchain platform. The invoked smart contract receives the set of authorization information and records the set of authorization information. After receiving a set of authenticated authorization tickets exceeding a predetermined threshold, the funds are atomically eliminated on the first blockchain platform and a converted funds generated on the second blockchain platform. |
| US11930097B2 |
Integrated orchestration of intelligent systems
Systems and methods for integrated orchestration of intelligent systems. An intelligent systems orchestration system harvests and combines aspects of disparate intelligent systems for use in intelligent virtual assistant applications and automation applications. In one aspect, the system provides an intelligent orchestration between cognitive plugins, such as natural language processing, sentiment analysis, speech recognition, text-to-speech, and computer vision. The intelligent systems orchestration system supports the building and deployment of cognitive applications (e.g., training, agent assist, customer assist, next best action and compliance) for enhancing a brand customer experience, and agent proficiency. The system also provides multi-IVA orchestration and supports session, context, and state management. Furthermore, the intelligent systems orchestration system includes a Conversation Control Language for the normalization of conversations across multiple channels and bots. |
| US11930089B2 |
Highway detection system for generating customized notifications
A highway detection system may include a telematics device associated with a vehicle having one or more sensors arranged therein, a mobile device associated with a user traveling in the vehicle, and a server computer. The server computer may receive traveling data for a trip of the user from the one or more sensors and via the telematics device. The server computer may then determine whether the user is traveling within a city or on a highway based on analysis of the traveling data for the trip of the user, which may include a statistical analysis to calculate standard deviations of metrics in the traveling data. In response to the determination, the server computer may generate a notification to transmit to the user based on whether the user is traveling within a city or on a highway and transmit the notification to the mobile device associated with the user. |
| US11930085B2 |
Matching and attribution of user device events
A method includes receiving first event data from a device, the first event data including a first identifier (ID) that identifies the device, web browser metadata, and data associated with an application state. The method includes generating a first persona including the first ID and a first event identifier that identifies a first user action. The method includes receiving second event data, the second event data including device metadata and a second ID that identifies the device. The method includes generating a second persona based on the second event data, the second persona including the second ID and a second event identifier that identifies a second user action. Additionally, the method includes determining that the first and second personas are associated with the device based on matches between the browser metadata and device metadata and transmitting a response to the device configured to route the device to the application state. |
| US11930080B1 |
Vehicle-mounted heterogeneous network collaborative task unloading method and system based on smart lamp posts
The present application discloses a vehicle-mounted heterogeneous network collaborative task unloading method, which comprises the following steps: calculating a communication delay when a vehicle requests a cache from a smart lamp post for a vehicle terminal; taking the maximum communication delay in all the caches as the communication delay between the vehicle and the smart lamp post network, and determining whether the communication delay is less than the time when the vehicle sends a request to a cloud center, if so, unloading a task to the smart lamp post network, otherwise, unloading a task to the cloud center; taking profit of a single smart lamp post itself as an index for the smart lamp post terminal, dividing the smart lamp post network into a plurality of coalitions, taking the profit maximization of the coalition as an optimization objective, optimizing a smart lamp post combination in the coalition. |
| US11930075B2 |
System and method for efficient virtualization in lossless interconnection networks
Systems and methods for supporting efficient virtualization in a lossless interconnection network. An exemplary method can provide, one or more switches, including at least a leaf switch, a plurality of host channel adapters, wherein each of the host channel adapters comprise at least one virtual function, at least one virtual switch, and at least one physical function, a plurality of hypervisors, and a plurality of virtual machines, wherein each of the plurality of virtual machines are associated with at least one virtual function. The method can arrange the plurality of host channel adapters with one or more of a virtual switch with prepopulated local identifiers (LIDs) architecture or a virtual switch with dynamic LID assignment architecture. The method can assign each virtual switch with a LID. The method can calculate one or more linear forwarding tables based at least upon the LIDs assigned to each of the virtual switches. |
| US11930065B2 |
Automatic discovery and reporting of streaming content of interest and connection of user to same
Embodiments are directed to computer systems and methods that stream selected media content to a client device. Selection of particular content to stream to a device of a given user is performed based on parameters specified in advance by the given user. Selection is made from received content that is parsed, indexed, and stored in real-time in such a way as to allow for real-time monitoring and searching of the content according to the user-specified parameters. The user is alerted as to the discovery of the selected content and enabled to connect to a stream presenting the selected content. The selected content is presented within the stream beginning from a playback time corresponding to a moment that triggered the discovery of the selected content, even if the moment has passed, thus providing the user with a comprehensive presentation of the selected content. |
| US11930056B1 |
Reducing noise for online meetings
An embodiment for automatically controlling peripheral devices based on online meeting participant information. The embodiment may detect participants of an online meeting and generate a participant information table. The embodiment may generate a participant group table including one or more preliminary participant groups based on the participant information. The embodiment may generate and send audio through peripheral devices associated with at least one participant in each of the one or more preliminary participant groups to identify the participants in physically shared meeting spaces. The embodiment may update the participant group table to include confirmed participant groups based on the identified participants in the physically shared meeting spaces. The embodiment may determine a presenter for each of the confirmed participant groups and update the participant information. The embodiment may control, for the confirmed participant groups, the peripheral devices of the identified participants in the physically shared meeting. |
| US11930055B2 |
Animated chat presence
The present invention relates to a method for generating and causing display of a communication interface that facilitates the sharing of emotions through the creation of 3D avatars, and more particularly with the creation of such interfaces for displaying 3D avatars for use with mobile devices, cloud based systems and the like. |
| US11930053B2 |
Chirp signal filtering for digital gateway
A system and method for filtering chirp noise as it passes through a Radio over Internet Protocol (RoIP) gateway in a communication network is disclosed. Radio signals often include a short burst of chirp noise. Incoming signals are buffered and any chirp noise is detected. A chirp filter performs the filtering operation to remove chirp signal while ensuring true audio is not clipped. Without audio clipping the integrity of the audio signals are preserved. |
| US11930051B2 |
Network service system, computer storage medium for communication, and network service method
A network service system, a computer storage medium for communication, and a network service method are provided. The system includes: a communication module and a data processor, the data processor including a storage module, the storage module storing an identification code; and the communication module is configured to receive a communication request from a user terminal, the communication request including the identification code; and the communication module is further configured to establish a communication connection to a target terminal according to the identification code set by the network service system and a target code, the target code enabling the target terminal to communicate with the user terminal in real time by using an Internet Protocol (IP) network. |
| US11930050B2 |
Multimodal transmission of packetized data
A system of multi-modal transmission of packetized data in a voice activated data packet based computer network environment is provided. A natural language processor component can parse an input audio signal to identify a request and a trigger keyword. Based on the input audio signal, a direct action application programming interface can generate a first action data structure, and a content selector component can select a content item. An interface management component can identify first and second candidate interfaces, and respective resource utilization values. The interface management component can select, based on the resource utilization values, the first candidate interface to present the content item. The interface management component can provide the first action data structure to the client computing device for rendering as audio output, and can transmit the content item converted for a first modality to deliver the content item for rendering from the selected interface. |
| US11930048B1 |
Testing complex decision systems using outcome learning-based machine learning models
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for adjusting access control policies of access controlled systems, such as techniques for identifying a vulnerability or for identifying parameters and values achieving a specified result from a system whose access is controlled by the policy. Requests to the system can be made using a testing system that executes test scripts using avatars having various parameter types and values. The avatar information and results of the test scripts are provided as training data to a machine learning model training system to generate a model that provides recommendations for parameter types and values likely to achieve a particular result. The recommendations are used to execute the test script to determine results including a rate of success for the recommended parameters and/or values. Various actions, such as adjusting or adding a rule to an access control policy, can be performed based on the results. |
| US11930047B2 |
Unified policy broker
One aspect described in this application provides a unified policy broker. During operation, the system receives configuration information from the set of network devices. At least two network devices in the network can be equipped with a first and a second policy enforcement engine, respectively, for enforcing one or more given policy rules. The system can determine, based on the configuration information, a first and a second representation of the similar policy function corresponding to the first and the second policy enforcement engine, respectively. The system can apply a unified policy model to perform a first mapping from a unified representation of the similar policy function to the first and the second representation. The system can create a unified API based on the unified representation. The system applies, via a user interface, the unified API to configure the similar policy function across the first and the second policy enforcement engines. |
| US11930045B1 |
Secure network access from sandboxed applications
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for enabling any sandboxed user-defined function code to securely access the Internet via a cloud data platform. A remote procedure call is received by a cloud data platform from a user-defined function (UDF) executing within a sandbox process. The UDF includes code related to at least one operation to be performed. The cloud data platform provides an overlay network to establish a secure egress path for UDF external access. The cloud data platform enables the UDF executing in the sandbox process to initiate a network call. |
| US11930042B2 |
Cloud-native global file system with rapid ransomware recovery
A cloud-native global file system, in which one or more filers are associated with a volume of a versioned files system in a private, public or hybrid cloud object store, is augmented to include a rapid ransomware recovery service. Upon detecting a ransomware attack associated with one or more files or directories of the volume, read and write access to the volume is restricted. A recovery filer is then activated or designated in the cloud. A restore operation is then initiated at the recovery filter. Following completion of the restore operation, a new clean (healthy) snapshot of the volume is then created using the recovery filer For any filer other than the recovery filer, a determination is made whether the filer has completed a merge operation with respect to the new clean snapshot. If so, read and write access to the volume is re-enabled from that filer. |
| US11930041B2 |
Generalized localization system based on physical layer supported spoofing detection and identification verification
A generalized localization system based on a physical layer aided spoofing signal attacks detection and an identification verification for hybrid heterogeneous networks including aerial and terrestrial communication systems is provided. The generalized localization system includes: a data preprocessing and separation block, a parameter extraction block, a local localization engine, a reliability assessment and trust management block, a location based anomaly detector block and a global fusion center. |
| US11930036B2 |
Detecting attacks and quarantining malware infected devices
Attacks on a network device, e.g. an IoT device, are detected by analyzing network traffic and subsequently quarantining or blocking the network device on the network to prevent lateral movement of malware. The techniques described herein relate to developing a baseline of network device activity corresponding with a network device during a learning period and comparing the baseline of network device activity with new network activity by the network device in order to identify potentially unusual network device activity by the network device. If unusual network activity is found, remedial actions such as quarantining the network device or restricting some access to a network may be initiated. |
| US11930035B2 |
Communication control system, information processing apparatus, and communication control method
An information processing apparatus detects an unauthorized attack and transmits attack detection information concerning the detected attack to a communication control device. The communication control device selects an attack countermeasure instruction associated with an attack detection content that matches the attack detection information and an attack countermeasure function of the information processing apparatus by using the transmitted attack detection information and the attack countermeasure information stored in advance, decides a countermeasure method to be executed against the attack, and transmits the attack countermeasure instruction information including the decided countermeasure method to the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus is characterized to decide the countermeasure method to be executed against the attack from the received attack countermeasure instruction information and to execute the decided countermeasure method against the attack. |
| US11930034B2 |
Techniques for determining legitimacy of email addresses for online access control
Various aspects involve determining legitimacy of an email address for risk assessment or other purposes. For instance, a risk assessment computing system receives a risk assessment query that identifies an email address. The risk assessment computing system determines a set of features for the email address. For each feature, the risk assessment computing system calculates an illegitimacy score by calculating a deviation of the feature from an expected safe value for the feature that is determined from historical email addresses. The risk assessment computing system aggregates the illegitimacy scores of the plurality of features into an aggregated illegitimacy score and further transmits a legitimacy risk value to a remote computing system. The legitimacy risk value indicates the aggregated illegitimacy score and can be used in controlling access of a computing device associated with the email address to one or more interactive computing environments. |
| US11930028B2 |
Systems and methods for providing user interfaces based on actions associated with untrusted emails
The present disclosure describes a system that notifies users regarding specific user decisions with respect to solution phishing emails. The system notifies users when users perform specific actions with respect to the untrusted phishing emails. The system pauses execution of these actions and prompts the user to confirm whether to take the actions or to revert back to review the actions. In contrast from anti-ransomware technologies which are entirely in control, the system gives the user autonomy in deciding actions relating to untrusted phishing emails. The system interrupts execution of actions related to untrusted phishing emails in order to give users a choice on whether to proceed with actions. |
| US11930021B2 |
Unauthorized frame detection device and unauthorized frame detection method
An unauthorized frame detection device that can keep an unauthorized ECU from spoofing as a legitimate server or client while suppressing an overhead during communication is provided. The unauthorized frame detection device includes a plurality of communication ports corresponding to the respective of networks, a communication controller, and an unauthorized frame detector. The plurality of communication ports are each connected to a corresponding predetermined network among the plurality of networks and each transmit or receive a frame via the predetermined network. The unauthorized frame detector determines whether an identifier of a service, a type of the service, and port information that are each included in the frame match a permission rule set in advance and outputs a result of the determination. |
| US11930014B2 |
Information security using multi-factor authorization
A system includes a central server and one or more user devices connected by a network. The central server receives a request initiated by a user using a user device for a data interaction associated with a data file. The central server checks whether the user is authorized to perform the requested data interaction based on a list of user authorizations. If the user is authorized to perform the data interaction, the central server checks whether the data interaction satisfies at least one rule defined for the user relating to a type of the requested data interaction. If the data interaction satisfies the at least one rule, the central server performs an additional level of authorization to verify an identity of the user. The central server further processes the data interaction when the additional level of authorization is successful. |
| US11930009B2 |
Optimized authentication mechanism
A method including receiving, at a processor, credential requests for accessing the VPN environment from a first user device using a first interface and from a second user device using a second interface; transmitting, to the first user device, a first credential based at least in part on the first user device using the first interface; and transmitting, to the second user device, a second credential based at least in part on the second user device using the second interface, the first credential being different from the second credential. Various other aspects are contemplated. |
| US11930007B2 |
Methods for internet communication security
The present disclosure relates to network security software cooperatively configured on plural nodes to provide authenticated and authorized communication, node protection, and prevention of a compromised node from contaminating other nodes. |
| US11930006B2 |
System and method for hosting FIDO authenticators
A system or method for hosting and managing FIDO authenticators in local network or cloud for users in a shared multi-user environment; which receives an authentication request initiated by a relying party application on a computing device via Web Authentication (WebAuthn) interface; and uses unique identifiers (such as RFID tags) to distinguish the hosted authenticators associated with each user to forward the authentication request; and receiving a response to that authentication request from the hosted authenticator on the local network or cloud; and transmitting the authentication response back to the sender application on the computing device for authentication purposes. |
| US11930003B2 |
Workflow service back end integration
Disclosed are various approaches for workflow service back end integration. In some examples, a workflow service identifies a workflow action and a user account that is responsible for the workflow action. A command to present the workflow action for user authorization is transmitted to a client device associated with the user account. The workflow service transmits a command to perform the workflow action based on an identification of the user authorization. |
| US11929996B2 |
Secure wireless cooperative broadcast networks
Cryptographically secure data communications between layered groups of devices in a wireless cooperative broadcast network encrypts datagrams twice prior to transmission by a source device, first using an inner layer key that is shared by a first group of devices, and second using an outer layer key that is shared by a second group of devices; the devices of the first group being members of the second group. Received datagrams are recovered by first decrypting with the outer layer key and second decrypting with the inner layer key. |
| US11929995B2 |
Method and apparatus for protecting confidential data in an open software stack
A method is provided for securely providing data for use in a consumer electronics device having a processor performing instructions defined in a software image. The method includes receiving the data encrypted according to a global key, further encrypting the data according to a device-unique hardware key, storing the further encrypted data in a secure memory of the consumer electronics device, providing the global key to a whitebox encoder for encoding according to a base key to generate a whitebox encoded global key, and transmitting the software image to the consumer electronics device for storage in an operating memory of the consumer electronics device, the software image having a whitebox decoder utility corresponding to the whitebox encoder and the whitebox encoded global key. |
| US11929991B2 |
Data aggregation using proxy entry of credentials
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for entering user credentials through a proxy. One example method generally includes receiving, at a user device, a push request for user data from a cloud server and receiving a request file from an aggregation system. The method further includes injecting user credentials stored on the user device into the request file, wherein when injected the user credentials replace at least one dummy entry of the request file, and transmitting the request file to a data source associated with the request file. The method further includes receiving user data from the data source and transmitting the user data to the aggregation system. |
| US11929990B1 |
Dynamic management of servers based on environmental events
A method including utilizing, by a VPN server, a first exit IP address to transmit a first query to a host device for retrieving data of interest requested by the user device; predicting or determining, by the VPN server, potential overloading of the VPN server; establishing, by the VPN server based on predicting or determining a breach, a secure connection with a secondary server to enable communication of encrypted information between the VPN server and the secondary server; and transmitting, by the VPN server to the secondary server over the secure connection, an encrypted message identifying the host device and the data of interest to enable the secondary server to transmit a second query to request the data of interest based at least in part on utilizing a second exit IP address, different from the first exit IP address is disclosed. Various other aspects are contemplated. |
| US11929989B2 |
Systems and methods for orchestrated VPN consolidation for modern workspaces
Systems and methods are provided for consolidation of IHS (Information Handling System) VPN (Virtual Private Network) resources utilized by workspaces operating on the IHS, where the workspaces operate in isolation from the operating system of the IHS. A remote workspace orchestration service manages deployment of workspaces on the IHS. The workspaces are instantiated and operate according to a workspace definition provided by the workspace orchestration service. An embedded controller of the IHS registers a VPN consolidation function of the IHS with the workspace orchestration service, which notifies the workspaces of the VPN consolidation function. A VPN workspace is instantiated that operates according to a workspace definition provided by the workspace orchestration service. The respective workspace definitions of the workspaces are updated to route VPN communications to the VPN workspace. Based on the updated workspace definitions, the VPN communications in each of the workspaces are redirected to the VPN consolidation function. |
| US11929987B1 |
Preserving packet flow information across bump-in-the-wire firewalls
Techniques are disclosed for a network device to preserve packet flow information across bump-in-the-wire (BITW) firewalls. For example, a method comprises receiving, by a network device, a packet. The method also comprises determining, by the network device, that the packet matches a packet flow that is associated with an action to redirect the packet to a firewall configured as a bump-in-the-wire. The method further comprises, in response to the determination: modifying, by the network device, a Media Access Control (MAC) address field of a layer 2 (L2) packet header with a flow identifier of the packet flow; sending, by the network device, the packet to the firewall; receiving, by the network device, the packet from the firewall; and recovering, by the network device, the packet flow by modifying the packet according to the flow identifier in the packet to restore the L2 packet header of the packet. |
| US11929982B2 |
Controllers of a vacuum pumping and/or abatement system
A method of assigning an identifier to a controller of a modular vacuum pumping and/or abatement system, the method including: determining, by a first controller of the modular vacuum pumping and/or abatement system, that a first identifier is to be assigned to a second controller of the modular vacuum pumping and/or abatement system, wherein the second controller is located at a module of the modular vacuum pumping and/or abatement system; transmitting, by the first controller, a first signal indicative of the first identifier to the second controller; receiving, by a user input device coupled to the module, a user input; and adopting, by the second controller, the first identifier as its identifier in response to the user input. |
| US11929981B2 |
Batch assignment of IP addresses in a building control network
A method of assigning IP addresses to devices of a building control network includes receiving a selection of selected devices of a plurality of devices from a user interface. The selected devices are displayed in a predetermined order on a display. A proposed static IP address for a first device in the predetermined order of the selected devices is received from the user interface. A static IP address is sequentially assigned to each of the selected devices following the first device in accordance with the predetermined order, assuming the subnet mask has been confirmed as valid. The selected devices in the predetermined order along with the assigned static IP addresses for each of the selected devices are displayed on the display. The assigned static IP address for each of the selected devices are downloaded to the corresponding one of the selected devices. |
| US11929977B2 |
System, apparatus and method to support data server selection
A communication system includes a user plane function (UPF) configured to receive a domain name system (DNS) query from a user equipment (UE). The DNS query includes a first destination address of a first DNS server. The DNS query is for determining an address of a data server in proximity to the UE. According to the first destination address of the first DNS server, the UPF obtains, from a session management function (SMF), a second destination address of a second DNS server for providing the address of the data server. The SMF is configured to provide, to the UPF, the second destination address of a second DNS server. |
| US11929976B2 |
Virtual network routing gateway that supports address translation for dataplane as well as dynamic routing protocols (control plane)
Systems and methods for a virtual network routing gateway that supports address translation for data plane as well as dynamic routing protocols are disclosed herein. The method can include coupling a gateway with a plurality of ports to a network having a plurality of first IP addresses in a private address space, generating a Network Address Translation (“NAT”) function in the gateway, inputting translation information into the NAT function, advertising routes based on the translation information, populating a unified routing table in the gateway based on the plurality of first IP addresses in the private address space and on translated route advertisements, receive an inbound network packet at the gateway, translating an inbound address of the inbound network packet with the NAT function, and delivering the network packet according to the routing table and based on the translated inbound address. |
| US11929974B2 |
Automatically managing email communications using indirect reply identity resolution
Methods and systems are enclosed herein for automatically managing email communication between a group of users and a group of target prospects. A sequence of outbound emails is automatically sent on behalf of a user to a prospect. Based upon the prospect's inbound replies (or lack thereof) the system will perform preconfigured actions, such as stopping automated communications and deferring to the user for manual action. |
| US11929973B2 |
Mail processing method and apparatus, and electronic device, and computer readable medium
A mail processing method is provided. The method includes: sending a first document obtaining request to a server in response to a triggering operation on target control in a mail editing page; receiving first document information of an on-line document sent by the server in response to the first document obtaining request, where authority control information of the first document information matches an account ID of a mail; sending a second document obtaining request to the server in response to a triggering operation to the first document information; receiving second document information sent by the server in response to the second document obtaining request and generating the mail in the mail editing page based on the second document information. |
| US11929968B2 |
Internal message routing system and method
There is provided a system and method for routing messages received from any one of a plurality of external user accounts on any one of a plurality of different messaging applications within an entity. The system and method comprises one or more integration modules coupled to each of the plurality of different messaging applications for receiving messages via the messaging application. These messages are directed to a unique account identifier for the entity using additional address identifier information. A central messaging module is configured to receive from each of the one or more integration modules the messages via a common internal messaging protocol, and distribute the messages to at least one more internal user accounts within the entity using additional address identifier information. |
| US11929962B2 |
Method and system for monitoring and integration of one or more intelligent conversational agents
The present disclosure provides a method and system to perform integration and monitoring of one or more intelligent conversational agents. The system creates an online chatbot marketplace to enable one or more vendors to upload the one or more intelligent conversational agents. The system integrates the one or more intelligent conversational agents to generate a mega bot in real-time. The system generates the mega bot based on integration of the one or more intelligent conversational agents. The system collects a first set of data. The system receives one or more queries from a plurality of users for the mega bot. The system selects a suitable intelligent conversational agent having a trust score above a threshold level based on a plurality of factors and the first set of data. The system creates a primary response for the one or more queries at the mega bot. |
| US11929960B2 |
Resource allocation method and device, storage medium and terminal
A resource allocation method and device, a storage medium, and a terminal are provided. The method comprises: determining, based on a parameter configuration of a transmission resource and a parameter configuration of a logical channel, a first logical channel participating in a Logical Channel Prioritization (LCP); and allocating the transmission resource to a third logical channel in the first logical channel preferentially, on the basis that the transmission resource is not associated with a first resource, wherein the first resource comprises a feedback resource and/or a retransmission resource, and the third logical channel is used to transmit data without information feedback and/or data without retransmission. |
| US11929959B2 |
Bandwidth part-specific downlink-uplink patterns
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a configuration of a plurality of bandwidth parts (BWPs) in a frequency band, wherein the configuration identifies a respective BWP-specific downlink (DL)-uplink (UL) pattern for each BWP of the plurality of BWPs, and wherein at least two of BWPs of the plurality of BWPs are configured with different BWP-specific DL-UL patterns and wherein each DL-UL pattern specifies which time intervals of a plurality of time intervals are dedicated to downlink and which time intervals of the plurality of time intervals are dedicated to uplink. The UE may communicate with the base station in one or more active BWPs of the plurality of BWPs using the respective BWP-specific DL-UL pattern for each of the one or more active BWPs. Numerous other aspects are described. |
| US11929953B2 |
Transmitting apparatus, receiving apparatus and methods thereof
Provided are a transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus and methods thereof. The transmitting apparatus includes: circuitry, which, in operation, generates a signal including a first type of reference signal used for demodulation and a second type of reference signal used for demodulation; and a transmitter, which, in operation, transmits the signal, wherein the first type of reference signal used for demodulation is mapped to a first resource, and the second type of reference signal used for demodulation is mapped to a second resource, the first type of reference signal used for demodulation is used for a first physical control channel and the second type of reference signal used for demodulation is used for a second physical control channel; or the first type of reference signal used for demodulation is used for PSCCH and the second type of reference signal used for demodulation is used for PSSCH. |
| US11929949B2 |
Base station, user equipment and wireless communication method
An integrated circuit includes generation circuitry and transmission circuitry. The generation circuitry uses a reference size for a search space to generate downlink control information (DCI) in a first DCI format used for sidelink communications. The transmission circuitry transmits the DCI in the first DCI format mapped on the search space. When a second DCI format used for base station communications is mapped on the search space and the second DCI format is larger than the first DCI format, the reference size for the search space is based on the second DCI format. When a third DCI format used for sidelink communications is mapped on the search space and the third DCI format is larger than the first DCI format, and the second DCI format larger than the third DCI format is not mapped on the search space, the reference size is based on the third DCI format. |
| US11929946B2 |
Bandwidth parts operation in multiple active bandwidth parts
A wireless device transmits, via a first uplink bandwidth part (BWP), a first preamble for a random-access procedure. A determination is made of a second uplink BWP for transmission of a second preamble for the random-access procedure. The determination is based on not receiving, via a first downlink BWP associated with the first uplink BWP, a random-access response corresponding to the first preamble. Based on the determination of the second uplink BWP, the first downlink BWP is switched to a second downlink BWP associated with the second uplink BWP. The second preamble is transmitted via the second uplink BWP. |
| US11929945B2 |
Managing network traffic in virtual switches based on logical port identifiers
Described herein are systems, methods, and software to enhance network traffic management. In one implementation, a first host identifies a packet to be transferred from a first virtual machine on the first host to a second virtual machine on a second host. In response to identifying the packet, the first host identifies a source logical port for the first virtual machine, and transferring a communication to the second host, wherein the communication encapsulates the data packet and the source logical port. Once the packet is received by the second host, the second host may use the source logical port to determine a forwarding action for the packet. |
| US11929943B2 |
Edge datapath using user space network stack
A novel design of a gateway that handles traffic in and out of a network by using a datapath daemon is provided. The datapath daemon is a run-to-completion process that performs various data-plane packet-processing operations at the edge of the network. The datapath daemon dispatches packets to other processes or processing threads outside of the daemon by utilizing a user space network stack. |
| US11929942B2 |
Method and device for network traffic scheduling
A bandwidth scheduling method includes receiving a bandwidth request sent by a data center, where the bandwidth request includes bandwidth required to transmit non-real-time traffic; allocating, based on historical bandwidth information, the bandwidth required by the data center to transmit the non-real-time traffic in a future time period, where the historical bandwidth information is used to predict occupation of total bandwidth by the data center in a region in which the data center is located at each moment in the future time period; and sending a bandwidth response to the data center, where the bandwidth response includes an allocation result. |
| US11929941B2 |
Method and system for managing a decentralized access to a resource in a peer-to-peer mesh overlay network
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to method and a system for managing a decentralized access to a resource. A user of a client device having a third-party application installed therein request to join the mesh network based on invite received from the owner of the IoT gateway. The mesh network comprises one or more IoT gateway. One gateway is identified based on the topology of the client device, and an optimal connection between the client device and the identified gateway is determined. The third-party application may send a resource access request for accessing a resource of the mesh network and access the requested resource through the optimal connection route thus determined. Thus, the disclosure enables a peer-to-peer mesh network infrastructure that allows secure access to the resource by a third-party application without using a cloud server to route the resource access request from the client device to the gateway. |
| US11929938B2 |
Evaluating overall network resource congestion before scaling a network slice
A first network node in a communication network can evaluate whether to scale a first resource of a network slice of the communication network. The first network node can receive, from a second network node of the communication network, a first message indicating a request for approval to scale the first resource of the network slice. Responsive to receiving the first message, the first network node can determine whether to scale the first resource of the network slice based on information regarding a second resource. The first and second resources may be of different types. The first network node can transmit, to the second network node, a second message indicating whether to scale the first resource of the network slice based on determining whether to scale the first resource of the network slice. Related methods are also discussed. |
| US11929937B2 |
Controlling distribution of resources on a network
Disclosed are various embodiments for controlling a distribution of resources on a network. In one example, among others, a system is configured to receive the plurality of resources and a plurality of rules. The system is also configured to determine an authorized location and an authorized area based on the plurality of rules. The authorized location and the authorized area are determined to have different access rights to the plurality of resources. The system is further configured to determine a location of the computing device and grant access to a resource based on the location of the computing device with respect to the authorization location or the authorized area. |
| US11929935B2 |
Systems and methods to maintain time synchronization between networked devices
A time synchronization maintenance method includes determining, by a node of a mesh communication network, a transmission time to transmit data in a transmission queue. The method also includes determining, by the node, an amount of time until commencement of a next beacon signal slot used to transmit a time synchronization beacon signal from the node or another node of the mesh communication network. Further, when the transmission time is greater than the amount of time until commencement of the next beacon signal slot, the method includes delaying transmission, by the node, of at least a portion of the data in the transmission queue until completion of the next beacon signal slot. |
| US11929934B2 |
Reliable credit-based communication over long-haul links
A communication apparatus includes input circuitry, an encapsulator, transmission circuitry and flow control circuitry. The input circuitry is to receive packets from a data source in accordance with a first communication protocol that employs credit-based flow control. The encapsulator is to buffer the packets in a memory buffer and to encapsulate the buffered packets in accordance with a second communication protocol. The transmission circuitry is to transmit the encapsulated packets over a communication link in accordance with the second communication protocol. The flow control circuitry is to receive from the encapsulator buffer status indications that are indicative of a fill level of the memory buffer, and to exchange credit messages with the data source, in accordance with the credit-based flow control of the first communication protocol, responsively to the buffer status indications. |
| US11929931B2 |
Packet buffer spill-over in network devices
A packet processor of a network device receives packets ingressing from a plurality of network links via a plurality of network ports of the network device. The packet processor buffers the packets in an internal packet memory in a plurality of queues, including a first queue. In response to the packet processor detecting congestion in the internal packet memory, the packet processor selectively forwards a group of multiple packets in the first queue from the internal packet memory to a first port, among one or more ports coupled to one or more external memories, to transfer the group of multiple packets to a first external memory that is coupled to the first port so that the first queue is stored across the internal packet memory and the first external packet memory. |
| US11929929B2 |
Methods, apparatus and computer programs for allocating traffic in a telecommunications network
One aspect of the disclosure provides a method for allocating traffic in a telecommunications network. The telecommunications network comprises a plurality of nodes, with pairs of nodes being connected by respective links. A plurality of demands for connectivity between respective first nodes and respective second nodes are allocated to the telecommunications network, with traffic for each demand being directed via a respective plurality of paths between the respective first and second nodes in accordance with respective weights assigned to each path. The method comprises: determining a criticality of each link forming a path of the plurality of paths for a demand of the plurality of demands, the criticality of a link varying as a function of a utilization of that link at a non-constant gradient between a minimum value at a first value of the utilization and a maximum value at a second value of the utilization, wherein the second value corresponds to a utilization which is over a capacity of the link: determining a criticality of the path as a function of the criticality of the links forming the path: and determining the weight for allocation of traffic to the path as a function of the criticality of the path. |
| US11929921B2 |
Communication control apparatus, communication control system, and communication control method
A communication control apparatus that implements at least some functions in flow control of a software defined network (SDN) by hardware, the communication control apparatus includes a processor. The configured to set, when a packet of a flow that is not registered in transfer control information is detected when a plurality of packets that constitutes a flow is transferred, a destination resolution standby state for the flow in the transfer control information, store, into an evaluation queue, at least some of packets received in the destination resolution standby state, stop a pipeline that processes a packet to be transferred after destination resolution for the flow, output a packet that belongs to the flow and is stored in the evacuation queue, and operate the pipeline after the output of the packet stored in the evacuation queue is completed. |
| US11929920B2 |
Managing processing queue allocation based on addressing attributes of an inner packet
Described herein are systems, methods, and software to manage processing queue allocation based on addressing attributes of an inner packet. In one implementation, a first gateway identifies processing queues at a second gateway and assigns a unique flow label to each of the processing queues. The first gateway further receives a packet from a computing node that is directed toward the second gateway. The first gateway hashes addressing information in the packet to select a flow label, encapsulates the packet with the flow label in the outer encapsulation header for the encapsulated packet, and forwards the packet toward the second gateway. |
| US11929916B2 |
Method and device for determining time-to-live value of node in multi-hop network
The present application relates to the field of wireless communication, and provides a method and a device for determining a TTL value of a node in a multi-hop network. The method includes: selecting a target node, sending, by the target node, a packet for requesting node state to a node in the multi-hop network based on a currently planned TTL value, and acquiring the node state to extract a unicast address feedback list; matching unicast addresses in the unicast address feedback list with unicast addresses in a unicast address scan list, and configuring the currently planned TTL value as the TTL value of the packet sent by the target node when it is determined that the unicast addresses in both lists are consistent. For the method and the device for determining a TTL value of a node in the multi-hop network according to the present application. |
| US11929915B2 |
Path calculation method, apparatus, and device
A path calculation method, apparatus, and device, to implement network slicing. The path calculation method includes: obtaining an algorithm constraint supported by each of a plurality of network devices, where the algorithm constraint is a constraint of a forwarding path algorithm, and the forwarding path algorithm is used to calculate, for the network device, a forwarding path that meets the algorithm constraint; performing network topology division on the plurality of network devices, where network devices in a same network topology support a same algorithm constraint; and calculating a forwarding path between network devices in each network topology based on the algorithm constraint, of the forwarding path algorithm, corresponding to the network topology. |
| US11929914B2 |
Method and UE for performing RID update in UE in wireless communication network
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Embodiments herein provide a method for performing a routing ID (RID) update in user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication network. |
| US11929908B1 |
Accessing local network devices via mesh network devices
A method including receiving, by a first device from a second device via a meshnet connection in the mesh network, connection information associated with a LAN to which the second device is connected; calculating, by the first device based on utilizing the connection information, a range of subnet IP addresses associated with the LAN; determining, by the first device, that a LAN device is connected to the LAN based on determining that a sample subnet IP address associated with the LAN device falls within the range of subnet IP addresses associated with the LAN; and transmitting, by the first device to the second device via the meshnet connection in the mesh network, an initiation meshnet packet including information to be transmitted by the second device to the LAN device via a LAN connection between the second meshnet device and the LAN device is disclosed. Various other aspects are contemplated. |
| US11929905B2 |
Network topology determining method and apparatus, and system
A network topology determining apparatus includes: an obtaining module, configured to obtain a connection relationship between a plurality of network elements in a network and a network grade of each network element, where the network grade is used to indicate an importance degree of the network element in the network; a first determining module, configured to determine a plurality of subnets based on the connection relationship between the plurality of network elements and the network grade of each network element; a second determining module, configured to determine location information of each network element in a descending order of the network grades of the network elements in the network based on a connection relationship between network elements in each subnet; and an establishment module, configured to establish a network topology based on the connection relationship between the plurality of network elements and the location information of each network element. |
| US11929903B2 |
Emulating packet flows to assess network links for SD-WAN
Some embodiments provide a novel method for assessing the suitability of network links for connecting compute nodes located at different geographic sites. The method of some embodiments identifies and analyzes sample packets from a set of flows exchanged between first and second compute sites that are connected through a first network link in order to identify attributes of the sampled packets. The method also computes attributes of predicted packets between the identified samples in order to identify attributes of each flow in the set of flows. The method then uses the identified and computed attributes of each flow in the set of flows to emulate the set of flows passing between the two compute sites through the second network link in order to assess whether a second network link should be used for future flows (e.g., future flows exchanged between the first and second compute sites). |
| US11929901B2 |
Infrastructure-agnostic performance of computation sequences
System and methods are described for performing sequences of computations in an infrastructure-agnostic manner. In one implementation, a method comprises: receiving a dispatch request for executing a user-defined pipeline; computing a performance metric based on the dispatch request; and determining, based at least partially on the performance metric, whether to execute the user-defined pipeline locally by the pipeline engine or transmit the dispatch request back to the network adapter. |
| US11929899B2 |
Automation logic to proactively isolate layer 1 faults in a leased unmonitored network
A comprehensive integrated system and method includes (i) proactively monitoring a network for degraded service and to proactively make repairs to components before service outages, (ii) identifying the root causes of hard alarms and failures on a layer 1 transport network and generate trouble tickets; and (iii) after repair, verifying that repaired backbone network meets or exceeds performance criteria of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with customers. A method includes surveilling first equipment in a network wherein the first equipment is in a controlled portion of the network, observing a set of messages wherein the set of messages relate to second equipment in a leased portion of the network, and detecting a fault in the network based on the surveilling step or the observing step. A fault based on the observing step includes the steps of receiving a first message at a first server indicating that a fault was detected in a portion of a leased network, receiving a second message at a second server indicating that the fault was detected in a portion of the leased network, and isolating the fault based on the first message and the second message. |
| US11929897B2 |
Highly-scalable, software-defined, in-network multicasting of load statistics data
In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for highly-scalable, in-network multicasting of statistics data is disclosed. In an embodiment, a method comprises: receiving, from an underlay controller, a match-and-action table that is indexed using one or more multicast (“MC”) group identifiers and includes one or more special MC headers; detecting a packet carrying statistics data; determining whether the packet includes an MC group identifier; in response to determining that the packet includes the MC group identifier: using the MC group identifier, retrieving a special MC header, of the one or more special MC headers, from the match-and-action table; generating an encapsulated packet by encapsulating the packet with the special MC header; and providing the encapsulated packet to an interface controller for transmitting the encapsulated packet to one or more physical switches. |
| US11929896B1 |
System and method for generation of unified graph models for network entities
A system and method for generation of unified graph models for network entities are provided. The method includes collecting, for at least one network entity of a plurality of network entities, at least one network entity data feature, wherein the at least one network entity data feature is a network entity property; genericizing the collected at least one network entity; generating at least a network graph, wherein the generated network graph is a multi-dimensional data structure providing a representation of the plurality of network entities and relations between the network entities of the plurality of network entities; and storing the generated at least a network graph. |
| US11929895B2 |
Communication log aggregation device and communication log aggregation method
A communication log aggregation device includes: a communicator that obtains flow information including one or more flow records and first statistical information for each flow from each of collection devices, the one or more flow records each including flow identification information included in a message received by at least one observer that is disposed in a control network system, the flow being classified based on the flow identification information, the collection devices each collecting the one or more flow records and the first statistical information for each flow from the message received by the observer; and a flow aggregator that generates aggregated flow information by performing at least one of the following: (i) selecting at least one of the one or more flow records, (ii) adding second statistical information, and (iii) deleting at least one of the one or more flow records, and outputs the aggregated flow information. |
| US11929893B1 |
Utilizing customer service incidents to rank server system under test configurations based on component priority
An information handling system instantiates a hardware configuration generator to generate platform configurations. The hardware configuration generator provides a ranked list of the platform configurations, receives platform customer service request information, provides a ranked list of part numbers associated with the platform configurations based upon the customer service request information, and modifies the ranked list of platform configurations based upon the ranked list of part numbers. |
| US11929891B1 |
System and method for distributed management of hardware through relationship management
Methods and systems for managing distributed systems are disclosed. The distributed systems may include any number of data processing systems that may contribute to the functionality of the distributed system. To contribute to the functionality of the distributed system, each of the data processing systems may need to be configured to positively contribute to one or more functions. To manage configuration of data processing system, intermediate representations of roles may be used to flexibly manage system configuration. The roles may be taken on by independent and dependent data processing systems. |
| US11929890B2 |
Microservices application network control plane
Disclosed embodiments are directed at systems, methods, and architecture for operating a control plan of a microservices application. The control plane corresponds with data plane proxies associated with each of a plurality of APIs that make up the microservices application. The communication between the data plane proxies and the control plane enables automatic detection of service groups of APIs and automatic repair of application performance in real-time in response to degrading service node conditions. |
| US11929888B2 |
Technologies for thermal and power awareness and management in a multi-edge cloud networking environment
Technologies for managing Function-as-a-Service function requests based on thermal and power awareness include an edge entity device having a circuitry to receive, from an edge device, a request to execute a function in an edge network environment having a plurality of edge entities. The circuitry is also to evaluate thermal and power criteria associated with the request and determine, as a function of a predicted thermal output over a specified time period relative to thermal and power criteria, whether to execute the function. In response to a determination by the circuitry to not execute the function, the circuitry is to select an edge entity of a plurality of edge entities that is able to satisfy the thermal and power criteria. The circuitry is further to forward the request to the selected edge entity. |
| US11929886B2 |
Model driven intent policy conflict detection and resolution through graph analysis
A method includes maintaining, by a controller device that manages a plurality of network devices, a data structure and receiving, by the controller device, an indication of a stateful intent. The method further includes generating, by the controller device, a logical packet based on the stateful intent and determining, by the controller device, a dependent intent of the data structure based on the logical packet. The method further includes determining that the dependent intent conflicts with the stateful intent. The method further includes, in response to determining that the dependent intent conflicts with the stateful intent, determining, by the controller device, a resolution that resolves the conflict between the dependent intent and the stateful intent based on the dependent intent and the stateful intent and outputting, by the controller device, an indication of the resolution. |
| US11929884B2 |
Network data collection method and device
Provided are a network data collection method, device and system. The network data collection method includes the following. A source Network Data Analytics Function (NWDAF) sends a network function data collection request to a target NWDAF, where the network function data collection request includes a data collection assistance parameter of at least one network function from which data collection is requested. The source NWDAF receives a network function data collection response sent by the target NWDAF, where the network function data collection response includes network data fed back by the at least one network function. |
| US11929880B2 |
Edge computing topology information exposure
An edge computing (EC) entity belongs to an EC system, and a mobile communication core MCC entity belongs to a MCC system, like a 3GPP system. The EC entity is configured to obtain topology information of the EC system, and expose the topology information to another network, in particular to a MCC system. The MCC entity is configured to receive topology information of an EC system from the EC entity, and provide the topology information to a network exposure function (NEF) or to a policy control function (PCF) of the MCC system. |
| US11929877B2 |
Systems and methods for configuration verification across secured network boundaries
A method includes receiving, from a first device, a first request indicating a client characteristic, generating a second request for content that simulates a data request originating at a client device with the client characteristic, identifying data of a response to the generated second request, and providing, to the first device, a report based on the identified data. |
| US11929875B2 |
Methods and apparatus to cross configure network resources of software defined data centers
Methods and apparatus to cross configure network resources of software defined data centers are disclosed. Example instructions cause one or more processors to monitor a component of a network for a probe packet sent to the component. The example instructions cause the one or more processors to, in response to detecting the probe packet, determine whether the probe packet includes a unique source media access control (MAC) address that is included in a probe access control list (ACL), the unique source MAC address included in the probe ACL set by a decision engine. The example instructions cause the one or more processors to, in response to determining that the probe packet does not include the unique source MAC address, record probe packet receipt information indicating that the probe packet did not pass through a network port of the component and transmit the probe packet receipt information to the decision engine. |
| US11929867B1 |
Degradation engine execution triggering alerts for outages
The present disclosure relates to computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for identifying trends in the behavior of execution of services in a cloud platform environment and support alert triggering for expected outages prior their occurrence. Metrics data for performance of the cloud platform is continuously obtained. Based on evaluation of the obtained metrics data, the performance of the cloud platform is tracked over time to identify a trend in a performance of a first service on the cloud platform. The identified trend in the performance is compared with a current performance rate of the first service. Based on an evaluated difference between the current performance rate and the identified trend, the difference is classified into an issue-reporting level associated with a prediction for an outage at the first service. A notification for the trend is reported. |
| US11929866B2 |
Dormant mode measurement optimization
Methods performed by a wireless device operating in a dormant mode comprise performing a measurement on each of a plurality of resources from a predetermined set of resources or demodulating and decoding information from each of a plurality of resources from a predetermined set of resources, such as a set of beams. The methods further include evaluating the measurement or the demodulated and decoded information for each of the plurality of resources against a predetermined criterion, and then discontinuing the performing and evaluating of measurements, or discontinuing the demodulating and decoding and evaluation of information, in response to determining that the predetermined criterion is met, such that one or more resources in the predetermined set of resources are neither measured nor demodulated and decoded. The methods further comprise deactivating receiver circuitry, further in response to determining that the predetermined criterion is met. |
| US11929860B2 |
Uplink sounding reference signals configuration and transmission
A wireless transmit/receiver unit (WTRU) is configured to receive sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration information. The SRS configuration information indicates a plurality of SRS configurations and indicates antenna transmission information. The WTRU is configured to receive SRS trigger information. The SRS trigger information comprises an indication to trigger transmission of one of the plurality of SRS configurations. The WTRU is configured to transmit a plurality of SRS associated with the indication in the SRS trigger information and based on the SRS configuration information. At least a first SRS of the plurality of SRS is transmitted over a first antenna port in a first symbol and at least a second SRS of the plurality of SRS is transmitted over a second antenna port in a second symbol. |
| US11929858B2 |
Integrated circuit for Discrete Fourier Transforming a time signal to a frequency signal
A communication system includes a communication apparatus and a base station. The communication apparatus includes a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) transformer which transforms a time-domain signal into a frequency-domain signal with a DFT size that is a product of powers of a plurality of values; a mapper which maps the frequency-domain signal on a plurality of frequency bands, each frequency band being located at a position separate from position(s) of other(s) of the plurality of frequency bands; and a signal generator which generates a single carrier-frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA) time-domain signal from the mapped signal. The base station includes a receiver which receives the SC-FDMA time-domain signal; a combiner which generates the frequency-domain signal from the SC-FDMA time-domain signal; and a transformer which transforms the frequency-domain signal into the time-domain signal with an inverse Discrete Fourier Transform (IDFT) having the DFT size. |
| US11929856B2 |
Narrowband interference isolation method and communication apparatus
This application provides a narrowband interference isolation method and a communication apparatus. An example method includes: determining a parameter of a narrowband interference signal; determining a coefficient of a first filter based on the parameter of the narrowband interference signal, wherein the first filter is located at a receive end of a master communication device, and the coefficient of the first filter is for filtering out the narrowband interference signal; and sending the parameter of the narrowband interference signal or the coefficient of the first filter to M slave communication devices using an Ethernet operation, administration, and maintenance (OAM) frame, wherein the master communication device is connected to the M slave communication devices, M≥1, and M is an integer. |
| US11929849B1 |
Symmetric routing in software-defined networks
Techniques for ensuring symmetric forwarding between disparate networks. The techniques may include receiving a gateway preference order associated with a route advertised by an edge node, the edge node associated with a first network. The techniques may also include determining, based at least in part on the gateway preference order, that a gateway node is a more preferred gateway for the route than another gateway node, the gateway node configured to facilitate communications between the first network and a second network. In some examples, the techniques may also include converting the gateway preference order into a metric associated with an IP routing protocol that is in use in the second network. In some examples, the route including the metric may be distributed within the second network such that the gateway node is the more preferred gateway for return traffic of the route. |
| US11929847B2 |
Method for controlling a workload of a bus system of a means of transport, and bus system and means of transport
A method, a bus system, and a transportation means control a utilization of the bus system. The method includes determining a first piece of information representing a current and/or a future utilization of the bus system, and determining a second piece of information representing respective data transmission time periods for a plurality of bus subscribers which transmit data by means of the bus system, as a function of the first piece of information. The method also includes transmitting the second piece of information to the plurality of bus subscribers, and adjusting respective data transmission time periods for the plurality of bus subscribers by the respective bus subscribers, as a function of the second piece of information, and transmitting data by the plurality of bus subscribers within the respective adjusted data transmission time periods by means of the bus system. |
| US11929846B2 |
Communication redundancy system for an autonomous vehicle
A communication redundancy system for an autonomous vehicle includes: a vehicle network domain including a bus configured to transmit a signal, terminal end resistors disposed at both ends of the bus, and a plurality of electronic control units (ECUs) connected to the bus; a plurality of gateways connected to the vehicle network domain; and a high-level ECU connected to the plurality of gateways and configured to control the plurality of ECUs to implement autonomous driving of a vehicle. Each of the plurality of gateways detects disconnection of the bus in the vehicle network domain and, when the disconnection of the bus is detected, the plurality of gateways transmit pieces of data of the plurality of ECUs to the high-level ECU. |
| US11929845B2 |
AI-based virtual proxy nodes for intent resolution in smart audio devices
A system and method are disclosed that utilizes an artificial intelligence based virtual proxy node. The virtual proxy node includes an intent resolution model and communicates between a smart audio device and at least one secondary device, wherein the at least one secondary device is configured to be controlled by a smart audio device or smart hub. The virtual proxy node tracks interactions between the smart audio device and the at least one secondary device to derive historical and context data from the tracking interactions. The virtual proxy node uses the historical and context data to predict which secondary device will be successful in responding to the user input command and broadcasts the input command to the virtual proxy node associated with one of the at least one secondary device. The virtual proxy node includes an intent resolution model trained by historical and context data. |
| US11929838B1 |
Egress cost optimization for multi-cloud network
Some embodiments provide a method for evaluating locations of applications in a multi-cloud network with applications located in different cloud datacenters of one or more cloud providers. The method receives data for flows collected from the cloud datacenters. The data for each flow indicates a source and destination of the flow and applications to which at least one of the source and destination of the flow belong. The method uses network topology data to identify a subset of the flows as egress flows, each of which is charged by a cloud provider at which the flow source is located. Based on data from the cloud providers, the method determines a cost for each of the egress flows and a cost associated with each of the applications. The method provides these costs to users of the network for the users to optimize locations of the applications in the different cloud datacenters. |
| US11929837B2 |
Rule compilation schemes for fast packet classification
A classification apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The memory is configured to store rules corresponding to a corpus of rules in respective rule entries, each rule includes a respective set of unmasked bits having corresponding bit values, and at least some of the rules include masked bits. The rules in the corpus conform to respective Rule Patterns (RPs), each RP defining a respective sequence of masked and unmasked bits. The processor is configured to cluster the RPs, using a clustering criterion, into extended Rule Patterns (eRPs) associated with respective hash tables including buckets for storing rule entries. The clustering criterion aims to minimize an overall number of the eRPs while meeting a collision condition that depends on a specified maximal number of rule entries per bucket. |
| US11929833B2 |
HARQ feedback for unscheduled uplink
A network node (14) communicates with a wireless device (12) to provide Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) feedback for autonomous uplink transmissions in an unlicensed spectrum. The network node receives a plurality of autonomous uplink transmissions from the wireless device in the unlicensed spectrum, and transmits HARQ feedback for the plurality of autonomous uplink transmissions to the wireless device, the HARQ feedback comprising a bit map of some or all HARQ processes configured for at least one cell (16) and a corresponding bit acknowledgement mapped to each HARQ process. |
| US11929832B2 |
Hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement [HARQ-ACK] feedback techniques
Techniques are described to feedback hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook. For example, a base station can send HARQ-ACK codebook information to a user equipment, schedule retransmission, and transmit a downlink feedback information (DFI) if the user equipment transmits a code block group (CBG) based autonomous transmission. Techniques are also described for a user equipment to improve the feedback HARQ-ACK efficiency for downlink physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission. |
| US11929828B2 |
Satellite system optimization by differentiating application of adaptive coding and modulation
Systems and methods for differentiated application of an Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM) to enhance link performance in satellite communication systems are disclosed. A system may include a processor and a memory storing instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to dynamically compute bandwidth capacity of a terminal from a plurality of terminals. Based on the computed bandwidth capacity of the terminal, the processor may automatically determine a ModCod to be applied for transmission to or from the terminal to optimize bit error rate (BER) performance. The to processor may determine the ModCod using an ACM technique. For the plurality of terminals, the processor may dynamically determine aggregate bandwidth availability and congestion within the ACM technique to optimize sharing of available bandwidth. |
| US11929824B2 |
Satellite signal frequency translation and stacking
An outdoor satellite receiving unit (ODU) receives several independent satellite signals, selects two signals with a switch matrix, downconverts the two signals to a bandstacked signal with a high and a low band signal, and outputs the bandstacked signal on the same cable to receiver units. Several satellite signals can be selected in groups of two or more and output to independent receiver units. Signal selecting is performed at the received radio frequency (RF) and bandstacking is performed with a single downconversion step to an intermediate frequency (IF). Channel stacking on the same cable of more than two channels from several satellites can be achieved by using frequency agile downconverters and bandpass filters prior to combining at the IF output. A slow transitioning switch minimizes signal disturbances when switching and maintains input impedance at a constant value. |
| US11929821B2 |
Method and apparatus for determining and applying timing advance in communication system
The disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging IoT technology with 5G communication systems designed to support a higher data transfer rate beyond 4G systems, and a system therefor. Provided is a method for operation of a user equipment and a base station in a wireless communication system, including identifying a timing advance (TA) value for transmitting an uplink signal and transmitting the uplink signal, with the TA value identified based on a first value, a second value, and a third value NTA. The first value is based on a random access response or a timing advance medium access control control element, the second value is derived from higher layer parameters, and the third value is obtained by the UE based on a position of the UE and a position of a satellite connected to the UE. |
| US11929819B2 |
System and method for configuring a communications device for space-terrestrial communications
The present teachings is generally directed to facilitating satellite and terrestrial internet communications. In some embodiments, configuration information for configuring a communications device may be retrieved. The configuration information may be provided to the communications device, and the communications device may be caused to be configured based on the configuration information. Responsive to receiving a first data signal from a first satellite, the communications device may be configured to generate and output a second data signal based on the first data signal, the first data signal including first data encoded using one or more space-based communication protocols, and the second data including second data encoded using one or more terrestrial-based communication protocols. |
| US11929818B2 |
Waveguide system
According to an aspect, a waveguide system includes a first node, a second node, and a double-ridge waveguide. The double-ridge waveguide includes a metallic shell surrounding a waveguide core that forms a communication and radio frequency power transmission path in an aerospace environment. The first node is configured to propagate at least one communication channel and a radio frequency power transmission through the waveguide core to the second node during operation of the waveguide system in the aerospace environment. |
| US11929814B2 |
Beamforming based on virtual images
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a network node may determine a reference location associated with a virtual image corresponding to a target area. The network node may transmit a radio frequency signal, wherein the radio frequency signal is beamformed based at least in part on the reference location to direct the radio frequency signal to the target area. Numerous other aspects are described. |
| US11929812B2 |
Techniques for reducing feedback information
This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for techniques for reducing feedback information in an extremely high throughput (EHT) wireless local area network (WLAN). A receiving device (beamformee), such as a station (STA), may receive a sounding signal from a transmitting device (beamformer), such as an access point (AP), and transmit channel feedback. The receiving device may transmit the channel feedback as part of a reduced compressed beamforming feedback (CBF) operation that includes determining a first set of channel characteristics. The receiving device may select a subset of the first set of channel characteristics and determine a set of differential characteristics based on the subset. The transmitting device may then transmit the sets of characteristics as reduced CBF to the transmitting device. The transmitting device may determine a channel estimation for beamformed signaling based on the reduced CBF. |
| US11929810B2 |
Precoder selection in integrated access and backhaul
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless node may transmit configuration information indicating a first precoding matrix indicator (PMI) parameter and a second PMI parameter, wherein the first PMI parameter is associated with non-simultaneous activity of a distributed unit (DU) and a mobile termination (MT), and wherein the second PMI parameter is associated with simultaneous activity of the DU and the MT. The wireless node may perform a communication in accordance with a selected PMI parameter of the first PMI parameter and the second PMI parameter based at least in part on whether the DU and the MT are simultaneously active. Numerous other aspects are described. |
| US11929809B2 |
Method and device for avoiding false alarms of channel state information due to activation of closed loop power control function
A method for avoiding false alarms of Channel State Information (CSI) due to the activation of a Closed Loop Power Control (CLPC) function is provided. The method is executed by a transmitting device and includes: determining whether the CLPC function of the transmitting device is enabled; adding at least one CLPC tag to a physical layer convergence procedure (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) when the CLPC function is enabled; and transmitting the PPDU. |
| US11929802B2 |
Unmanned aerial vehicle communication
An unmanned aerial vehicle can be configured to adjust a beam direction, provide path information, act as a base station, act as a cluster head, include an improved directional antenna or array of directional antennas, communicate in a collaboration using belief propagation, receive communications from a serving station aiding in navigation or improved signal performance, or the like. |
| US11929800B2 |
Method and apparatus for multi-stage UL precoding
Apparatuses and methods for multi-stage UL precoding are provided. The method includes receiving configuration information about resource allocation for an uplink (UL) transmission, the configuration information indicating: allocated resources for an UL transmission, and UL precoding information for the UL transmission on the allocated resources, wherein the UL precoding information indicates: an update precoding matrix V, and basis vectors and coefficients for the update precoding matrix V; determining an UL precoding matrix for the UL transmission based on the update precoding matrix V and a previous UL precoding matrix; and performing UL transmission on the allocated resources using the UL precoding matrix. |
| US11929797B2 |
Wireless communication system, wireless communication method, and transmission device
A transmission apparatus including the number of antennas different from a reception apparatus and performing transmission by SC-MIMO to and from the reception apparatus includes a training signal generation unit that generates a known signal predetermined, a CP addition unit that adds a CP to each symbol of a transmission signal including the known signal, a weight generation unit that multiplies a channel matrix estimated based on the known signal by the reception apparatus by a pseudo-inverse matrix obtained by a predetermined number of iterative calculations to generate a transmission weight that is diagonalizable, and a transmission beam formation unit that uses the transmission weight to form a transmission beam for the transmission signal where the CP is added. |
| US11929795B2 |
Reception-side apparatus and radio communication method
A reception-side apparatus includes: M receive antennas; and a processor configured to execute a first process of acquiring a first signal received from a first transmission-side apparatus from among signals simultaneously received from the N transmission-side apparatuses by receive diversity processing, and acquiring first data by demodulating and decoding the first signal. In the case of N>M, the processor acquires, for each of all patterns of a combination of a first signal, second signals from M−1 transmission-side apparatuses which are to be cancelled by receive diversity processing and third signals from N−M transmission-side apparatuses which are not to be cancelled by the receive diversity processing, a power ratio of power of the first signal relative to total power of the second and third signals based on a predetermined weight and a channel estimate of each signal, and selects a combination with the largest power ratio from among all the patterns. |
| US11929792B2 |
Wireless power transfer using dynamic beamforming
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) using radiative coupling and dynamic beamforming. In some embodiments, a method of operation of an Energy Transmitter (ET) comprises, for each time period (TPi) of a plurality of time periods ({TPi}i=0,1, . . . , I-1), for each time slot (TSi,j) of one or more time slots ({TSi,j}j=0,1, . . . , J-1), transmitting, during TSi,j of TPi on a frequency fmod(i,2), a radio frequency signal (ST(i,j)) that is modulated with a signature of a particular Energy Harvester (EH). The method further comprises, for each TPi, attempting, during TPi, to receive, from the particular EH on a frequency fmod(i+1,2), a radio frequency signal (SR(i)) that is modulated with the signature of the particular EH. In this manner, continuous WPT is provided. Corresponding embodiments of an ET are also disclosed. Embodiments of a method performed by an EH and corresponding embodiments of an EH are also disclosed. |
| US11929791B2 |
Communication system
To be able to check, from a remote location, a switching result of a power supply route, this communication system comprises: a plurality of terminal stations which each have a function of supplying power to a power supply path; a branching device which switches the power supply route, which includes a power supply path; and a monitoring device which, in response to one of the plurality of terminal stations transmitting to the branching device a switching signal specifying the power supply route, compares the voltages of the power supplied to the power supply paths respectively observed by the plurality of terminal stations, before and after transmission of the switching signal, and which, with the compared power supply voltages each having fluctuated by a first threshold or more, determines a switching result of the power supply route in the branching device. |