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US11017328B2	Methods and systems for automatic registration using previously used credentials Today an individual attending an event must undertake a second registration and purchasing sequence in order to attend a subsequent occurrence of the event. However, by the time they remember to re-register their interest may have waned or the event is sold out. In other instances, they forget even though the event does not sell out. Accordingly, it would be beneficial to provide registrants of an event with a means to re-register for the next occurrence of the event in a manner that was quick, simple, independent of execution of the registration/purchase steps with a service provider, and independent of completion of service provider support for the next event. Further, it would be beneficial to leverage the credential provided to the registrant for the current event in progress or just completed in the re-registration of the registrant for the next event. It would be further beneficial for said method to leverage the technology and devices of portable electronic devices associated with the registrant.
US11017327B2	Systems and methods for providing information for on-demand services The present disclosure relates to systems, methods and non-transitory computer readable media for determining at least one candidate order in response to an on-demand service. The system may include at least one computer-readable storage medium including a set of instructions and at least one processor in communication with the at least one computer-readable storage medium. When executing the set of instructions, the at least one processor is directed to: receive a request associated with a terminal device, the request including at least one of a current time or a current location of the terminal device; obtain a plurality of historical orders associated with the terminal device based on the request; determine at least one candidate order based on the plurality of historical orders and the request; and transmit the at least one candidate order to the terminal device in response to the request.
US11017326B2	Method, apparatus and computer program product for reservations, inventory control, shopping, and booking with attribute based pricing A method is provided for booking a hotel room that improves the satisfaction level for a consumer and increases revenue for the hotelier. Consumers may benefit from being able to select property-specific and room-specific attributes for which they perceive enhanced value, while property-specific and room-specific attributes that a consumer does not particularly value may be avoided in an effort for the consumer to spend on features they desire. Further, hoteliers may benefit from being able to offer room-specific attributes and add-on features that create additional revenue streams for the hotel. Additionally, the transparency afforded the consumer of the room-specific attributes available versus those selected provides the consumer with a level of expectation that is more aligned with the hotel and the specific room they selected, thereby improving customer satisfaction.
US11017325B2	Passive visit detection This disclosure relates to systems and methods for passive visit detection. In aspects, a mobile device comprising a set of sensors may collect and store sensor data from the set of sensors in response to detecting a movement event or user interaction data. The collected sensor data may be processed and provided as input to one or more predictive or statistical models. The model(s) may evaluate the sensor data to detect mobile device location, movement events and visit events. The model(s) may also be used to determine correlations between features of the sensor data and movement- or location-based events, optimize the types of data collected by the set of sensors, extend localized predictions to large-scale ecosystems, and generate battery-efficient state predictions. In aspects, the model(s) may be trained using labeled and/or unlabeled data sets of sensor data.
US11017324B2	Tree ensemble explainability system In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for optimizing machine-learned tree ensemble prediction systems are presented. A plurality of instances may be processed by a tree ensemble. Determinations regarding the expected output values of one or more nodes of the tree ensemble may be made based, at least in part, on the processed instances. Further determinations regarding the node contribution values of one or more nodes of the tree ensemble to downstream nodes may be made based on the node output values. In some examples, feature value ranges may be computed for one or more features of the tree ensemble. One or more tree ensemble optimization operations may be performed based on the information determined from one or more of the above-described operations.
US11017319B1	Method for training obfuscation network which conceals original data to be used for machine learning and training surrogate network which uses obfuscated data generated by obfuscation network and method for testing trained obfuscation network and learning device and testing device using the same A method for training an obfuscation network and a surrogate network is provided. The method includes steps of: a 1st learning device (a) inputting original data of a 1st party, corresponding thereto, into the obfuscation network to generate obfuscated data wherein the 1st party owns the original data or is an entity to whom the original data is delegated; (b) transmitting the obfuscated data and the ground truth to a 2nd learning device corresponding to a 2nd party, and instructing the 2nd learning device to (i) input the obfuscated data into the surrogate network to generate characteristic information, (ii) calculate 1st losses using the ground truth and one of the characteristic information and task specific outputs, and (iii) train the surrogate network minimizing the 1st losses, and transmit the 1st losses to the 1st learning device; and (c) training the obfuscation network minimizing the 1st losses and maximizing 2nd losses.
US11017314B2	Method and device for searching new material A method for searching a new material includes: performing a learning on a material model, which is modeled based on a known material; determining a candidate material by inputting a targeted physical property to a result of the learning; and determining the new material from the candidate material.
US11017308B2	Graphical interactive model specification guidelines for structural equation modeling designs The computing device receives a first user input request to modify a structural equation model (SEM) in a graphical user interface. The modification of the SEM includes modifying one or more SEM path diagram elements. The computing device detects whether a first SEM path diagram element is modified responsive to the received first user input request. Based on the detection, the computing device determines whether the modification violates a first set of SEM rules, a second set of SEM rules, or one or more launch conditions prior to initiating execution of the SEM. Based on determining a violation of the SEM rules or the launch conditions or that there was not a violation, the computing device displays a graphical indicator for indicating a fatal error for the SEM modification, a warning error for the SEM modification, or a valid SEM modification.
US11017305B2	System for alerting a user before a breakdown of a component present in a vehicle Disclosed is a system for alerting a user before a breakdown of a component present in a vehicle. In order to alert the user, initially, the system determines a status of a vehicle based on one or more sensors being deployed in the vehicle. Upon determining the status, the system computes component usage data, pertaining to a component, and residual life of the component. The component usage data may be computed based on the status of the vehicle and metadata associated to the status. The residual life of the component, on the other hand, may be computed based on reliability data associated to each component and the component usage data. Upon computation of the component usage data and the residual life, the system generates an alert to indicate a user regarding a breakdown of the component when the residual life is less than a predefined threshold life.
US11017302B2	Computer systems and methods for creating asset-related tasks based on predictive models Computer systems, devices, and methods are provided for improving the technology related to asset condition monitoring. For instance, an asset data platform may be configured to receive data related to asset operation, ingest, process, and analyze the received data, and then provide a set of advanced tools that enable a user to monitor asset operation and take action based on that asset operation. The set of advanced tools may include (1) an interactive visualization tool, (2) a task creation tool, (3) a rule creation tool, and/or (4) a metadata tool.
US11017301B2	Obtaining and using a distributed representation of concepts as vectors An approach is provided for automatically generating and processing concept vectors by extracting concept sequences from one or more content sources and generating a first concept vector for a first concept by supplying the concept sequences as inputs to a vector learning component, such that the first concept vector comprises information interrelating the first concept to other concepts in the concept sequences which is inferred from the concept sequences.
US11017298B2	Cognitive modeling apparatus for detecting and adjusting qualitative contexts across multiple dimensions for multiple actors The present design is directed to a system for detecting and adjusting qualitative contexts across multiple dimensions for multiple actors with cognitive computing techniques including a series of periodic execution components configured to operate over full or partial sets of received data, the series of periodic components comprising a peer to peer analyzer configured to detect anomalous behaviors among work-specific peer actors sharing similar types tasks, an actor behavior analyzer configured to examine change in an actor's behavior over time by comparing the similarity of past behavior and current behavior, a rate of change predictor configured to study changes in behavior over time for peer to peer performance according to the peer to peer analyzer, actor behavior change according to the actor behavior analyzer, and actor correlation analysis, and a semantic rule analyzer configured to encode conditional, provisional, cognitive, operational, and functional knowledge, and a plurality of signal managers.
US11017290B2	Signal processing module, especially for a neural network and a neuronal circuit A signal processing module comprises at least one operational unit incorporating computation units, input and output interfaces able to be linked to a bus and a memory storing data destined for the computation units, the memory being organized so that each data word is stored column-wise over several addresses according to an order dependent on the application, a column having a width of one bit, the words being transferred in series to the computation units.
US11017289B2	Method and system for improving a policy for a stochastic control problem A method and system for improving a stochastic control problem policy, the method including a sampling device obtaining data representing sample Boltzmann machine configurations, obtaining a stochastic control problem's initialization data and initial policy; assigning representative data of initial coupler weights and node biases and the Boltzmann machine's transverse field strength to the sampling device; until a stopping criterion is met, generating a present-epoch state-action pair, amending, sampling for the present-epoch state-action pair, approximating a present-epoch state-action Q-function value, obtaining a future-epoch state-action pair through a stochastic state process including a stochastic optimization test on all state-action pairs to provide the action at the future-epoch and update the future-epoch state's policy; amending the representative data, sampling for the future-epoch state-action pair, obtaining a future-epoch state-action Q-function value, updating each weight and bias and providing the policy when the stopping criterion is met.
US11017286B2	Neuromorphic device including a synapse having a variable resistor and a transistor connected in parallel with each other A neuromorphic device may include a pre-synaptic neuron, a row line extending in a row direction from the pre-synaptic neuron, a post-synaptic neuron, a column line extending in a column direction from the post-synaptic neuron, and a synapse disposed at an intersection region between the row line and the column line. The synapse may include a first node electrically connected with the row line, a second node electrically connected with the column line, and a variable resistor and a first transistor electrically coupled between the first node and the second node. The variable resistor and the first transistor may be electrically connected with each other in parallel.
US11017285B2	Method for optimizing the antenna configuration of a booster A system, method and computer program product for optimizing an antenna pattern for a booster, in which input signals from different operators are transmitted at different carrier frequencies within an operating bandwidth. An input bandwidth of a plurality of input signals are monitored at an input of the booster, the input bandwidth being within the operating bandwidth. One or more peak signal levels of the plurality of input signals within the input bandwidth are detected. Each of the detected one or more peak signal levels of the plurality of input signals at the input of the booster are then adjusted, such that a peak signal level of each of the plurality of input signals are substantially equal.
US11017284B2	RFID tag A highly reliable RFID tag is provided that is lighter and smaller and has a desired communication distance, and that can be applied to deformable articles. The RFID tag includes a first end of a first power feeding coil that is connected to a first input and output terminal of an RFIC element, a second end of the first power feeding coil that is connected to one end of a second power feeding coil, and the other end of the second power feeding coil is connected to a second input and output terminal of the RFIC element. Moreover, the RFID tag has a spring-shaped antenna that has a first region with magnetic field coupling of the first power feeding coil, and a second region with magnetic field coupling of the second power feeding coil. The first region and the second region are continuous via a region having an inductance component.
US11017281B2	Methods and arrangements to detect a payment instrument malfunction Logic may detect a malfunctioning payment interface on a customer's payment instrument. Logic may receive transaction data about at least one transaction performed via a payment instrument associated with a customer. The transaction data may indicate a payment interface of the payment instrument through which the customer conducted the at least one transaction and the payment instrument may comprise one or more payment interfaces. Logic may determine, by a model, based on the transaction data, a probability of a malfunction by at least one interface of the one or more payment interfaces. The model may be trained based on a pattern of transactions associated with malfunctioning payment instruments. Logic may compare the probability of the transaction against a threshold. And logic may determine whether to contact a customer associated with the payment instrument, based comparison of the probability of the transaction against the threshold.
US11017278B2	Method of optimizing printing A method of optimizing printing is applied to a printing apparatus and has following steps of retrieving an input image, executing a tagging process on the input image for tagging one of an edge tag, a fuzzy tag, and a photo tag on each sub-image of the input image, executing the different printing converting process on each sub-image according to its tag for obtaining a printable image, and printing according to the printable image. The present disclosed example can deepen the object edges in the image being printed, improving the image quality of non-edge regions, and improving the printing quality.
US11017276B2	Information processing apparatus, printing system, printing method, and storage medium that correct widths of lines in a first direction included in a print image based on a print result of a line width detection image An information processing apparatus processes image information printed by a printing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a data obtaining unit to obtain print data for printing a line-width detection image including first multiple patches. Each of the first multiple patches includes multiple lines at substantially equal intervals in a first direction, each line having a first width in the first direction and extending in a second direction intersecting the first. The first multiple patches include first and second patches. A first substantially equal interval between a first plurality of lines in the first patch differs from a second substantially equal interval between a second plurality of lines in the second. An information obtaining unit obtains information on a print result of the printed line-width detection image. A correction unit corrects widths of lines in the first direction included in an image to be printed based on the obtained information.
US11017275B2	Method and apparatus for multi-scale SAR image recognition based on attention mechanism Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for multi-scale SAR image recognition based on attention mechanism. According to the method, a whole image recognition network is adjusted by training a SAR training image by an attention prediction subnet, a region-of-interest positioning subnet and an image classification subnet in combination with a network loss, which greatly improves a network performance; and in addition, an attention prediction map is generated by attention mechanism to position a most prominent feature part in the SAR image, which greatly eliminates a redundancy of image features in a machine vision, effectively determines a region-of-interest, reduces interference of image noises, greatly reduces an image processing time, improves a target recognition accuracy, is beneficial to next target positioning, and has a significant improvement on a network recognition speed integrally.
US11017273B2	Currency classification device and currency classification method A currency classification device that classifies currency types using currency images includes a feature value calculator, a storage, and an output unit. The feature value calculator calculates feature values for every currency type that is a candidate for classification from an image area common in images of every currency type. The storage stores the feature values calculated by the feature value calculator from learning images, which are currency models, as templates for every currency type. The output unit outputs the currency type corresponding to the template having a highest value of similarity with the feature value calculated by the feature value calculator an input image, which is a currency image subject to classification, in the templates stored in the storage as a classification result.
US11017269B2	System and method for optimization of deep learning architecture A method for determining optimized deep learning architecture includes receiving a plurality of training images and a plurality of real time images corresponding to a subject. The method further includes receiving, by a medical practitioner, a plurality of learning parameters comprising a plurality of filter classes and a plurality of architecture parameters. The method also includes determining a deep learning model based on the plurality of learning parameters and the plurality of training images, wherein the deep learning model comprises a plurality of reusable filters. The method further includes determining a health condition of the subject based on the plurality of real time images and the deep learning model. The method also includes providing the health condition of the subject to the medical practitioner.
US11017263B2	Apparatus and method for recognizing object in image An electronic device is provided and includes a housing having a first external surface; a first imaging device exposed through a first portion of the first external surface and comprising a first field of view (FOV); a second imaging device exposed through a second portion adjacent to the first portion and comprising a second FOV narrower than the first FOV; a communication circuit; at least one processor operatively connected to the first imaging device, the second imaging device, and the communication circuit; and a memory operatively connected to the processor and configured to store instructions executed through the processor that cause the processor to generate a first image including a first object and a second object from a first time point through the first imaging device, generate a second image including the first object simultaneously with the generation of the first image from the first time point through the second imaging device, transmit the first image and the second image to an external server through the communication circuit, receive object recognition information of the first object and the second object, detect motion of the electronic device, generate a third image including the second object from a second time point different from the first time point through the second imaging device, extract an object image from the third image, based at least partially on the information or the detected motion, the object image being smaller than the third image, and transmit the object image and the object recognition information to the external server through the communication circuit.
US11017255B2	Apparatus, method and computer program for analyzing image The present disclosure relates to an image analysis method, system, and computer program. The image analysis method of the present disclosure includes: receiving a query image; extracting one or more regions of interest from the query image; calculating a first feature for each of the regions of interest by respectively applying the regions of interest to one or more ROI (region of interest) feature extraction models independently learned in order to extract features of the regions of interest; and calculating analysis values of the query image by applying the first features of the regions of interest to a pre-learned integration analysis model. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to reduce the influence on an analysis model by an error that training data created for map learning of an entire image may have, and it is also possible to increase learning accuracy and objectivity of a deep neural network.
US11017254B2	Image data retrieving method and image data retrieving device An image data retrieving method and an image data retrieving device are provided. The image data retrieving method includes: receiving an image including a plurality of data from a communication interface; obtaining a plurality of regions of interest from the image, wherein each of the regions of interest is a data image including at least one of the data; dividing the regions of interest into a plurality of groups, wherein at least one of the data included in the regions of interest of each of the groups has a same type; combining the regions of interest of each of the groups into a to-be-recognized image; and performing an optical character recognition to the to-be-recognized image corresponding to each of the groups respectively to obtain the data corresponding to the regions of interest of each of the groups.
US11017252B2	Detection of liveness Detecting a replay attack on a voice biometrics system comprises: receiving a speech signal; generating an ultrasound signal; detecting a reflection of the generated ultrasound signal; detecting Doppler shifts in the reflection of the generated ultrasound signal; and identifying whether the received speech signal is indicative of the liveness of a speaker based on the detected Doppler shifts. Identifying whether the received speech signal is indicative of liveness based on the detected Doppler shifts comprises determining whether the detected Doppler shifts correspond to a speech articulation rate.
US11017251B2	Ultrasonic imaging devices and methods An apparatus may include an ultrasonic sensor array and a control system. The control system may be configured to acquire first image data generated by the ultrasonic sensor array corresponding to at least one first reflected ultrasonic wave received by at least a portion of the ultrasonic sensor array from a target object during a first acquisition time window. The control system may be configured to acquire second image data generated by the ultrasonic sensor array corresponding to at least one second reflected ultrasonic wave received by at least a portion of the ultrasonic sensor array from the target object during a second acquisition time window that is longer than the first acquisition time window. The control system may further be configured to initiate an authentication process based on the first image data and the second image data.
US11017250B2	Vehicle manipulation using convolutional image processing Disclosed embodiments provide for vehicle manipulation using convolutional image processing. The convolutional image processing is accomplished using a computer, where the computer can include a multilayered analysis engine. The multilayered analysis engine can include a convolutional neural network (CNN). The computer is initialized for convolutional processing. A plurality of images is obtained using an imaging device within a first vehicle. A multilayered analysis engine is trained using the plurality of images. The multilayered analysis engine includes multiple layers that include convolutional layers hidden layers. The multilayered analysis engine is used for cognitive state analysis. The evaluating provides a cognitive state analysis. Further images are analyzed using the multilayered analysis engine. The further images include facial image data from one or more persons present in a second vehicle. Voice data is collected to augment the cognitive state analysis. Manipulation data is provided to the second vehicle based on the evaluating.
US11017247B2	Traffic signal recognition system Camera image information includes an image that is imaged by a camera installed on a vehicle. Lamp pattern information, which is information on a traffic signal having plural lamp parts, indicates a relative positional relationship between the plural lamp parts and an appearance of each lamp part when lighted. A system detects a subject traffic signal around the the vehicle based on the camera image information to acquire traffic signal detection information that indicates at least an appearance of each of plural detected parts of the subject traffic signal. The system compares the traffic signal detection information with the lamp pattern information. The system recognizes a lighting state of the plural lamp parts that is consistent with the appearance of each of the plural detected parts of the subject traffic signal as a lighting state of the subject traffic signal.
US11017242B2	System and method using complex centroids for detecting object-of-interest speeds from two dimensional pictures A traffic monitoring system includes a first car moving on a first path; a camera having a field of vision including at least a portion of the first path; and a computing system. The computing system receives a plurality of images from the camera. The computing system has a processor. When instructed, the processor performs circling a perimeter of the first car on each of the images with a first rectangle; composing a first set of points, each point of the first set of points representing a center of the first rectangle; finding a first centroid using the first set of points, wherein the first centroid represents the first path; and calculating a speed of the first car using the first centroid.
US11017236B1	Anomalous object interaction detection and reporting Techniques are disclosed for analyzing a scene depicted in an input stream of video frames captured by a video camera. The techniques include evaluating sequence pairs representing segments of object trajectories. Assuming the objects interact, each of the sequences of the sequence pair may be mapped to a sequence cluster of an adaptive resonance theory (ART) network. A rareness value for the pair of sequence clusters may be determined based on learned joint probabilities of sequence cluster pairs. A statistical anomaly model, which may be specific to an interaction type or general to a plurality of interaction types, is used to determine an anomaly temperature, and alerts are issued based at least on the anomaly temperature. In addition, the ART network and the statistical anomaly model are updated based on the current interaction.
US11017232B2	System for providing live virtual-reality and augmented reality environments A system for generating a low latency, ultra-high resolution representation of a surveillance subject at a remote location relative to a viewing site at which the representation is presented includes a surveillance module configured to obtain image data of the surveillance subject, a mobile HPC module in communication with the surveillance module via a first communication link to receive the image data and process the image data, a long range link in communication with the mobile HPC module via a second communication link to communicate the processed image data to the viewing site via a third communication link, and an integration module disposed at the viewing site. The integration module is configured to receive the processed image data via the third communication link, and display a virtual environment based on the processed image data.
US11017228B2	Method and arrangement for condition monitoring of an installation with operating means A method for condition monitoring of an installation with operating devices, in which overview data is detected by a first vehicle with an overview sensor arrangement for optical detection of the facility, and the operating devices are identified in the overview data by an evaluation device and the positions of the operating devices are determined taking into account the position of the first vehicle. Detail shots of the operating devices are produced by a detail camera on-board a second or the first vehicle, which is oriented in relation to the respective positions of the operating devices. There is a corresponding arrangement for carrying out the method. A mode of embodiment relates to the condition monitoring of high-voltage masts with high-voltage free lines that are clamped between the masts. Insulators hang on the transverse members as operating devices.
US11017224B2	System and method of unique identifying a gemstone There is provided a computerized system and method of generating a unique identification associated with a gemstone, usable for unique identification of the gemstone. The method comprises: obtaining one or more images of the gemstone, the one or more images captured at one or more viewing angles relative to the gemstone and to a light pattern, thus giving rise to a representative group of images; processing the representative group of images to generate a set of rotation-invariant values informative of rotational cross-correlation relationship characterizing the images in the representative group; and using the generated set of rotation-invariant values to generate a unique identification associated with the gemstone. The unique identification associated with the gemstone can be further compared with an independently generated unique identification associated with the gemstone in question, or with a class-indicative unique identification.
US11017223B2	Method for evaluating a document Provided is a a method for evaluating a document, including establishing, by a processor of a computing system, a video data link for transmitting a video signal between a second data processing device comprising a video recording device, and a first data processing device, generating, by the processor, an operation identification number assigned to user data, wherein the operating identification number is tamper-proof, transmitting, by the processor, the operating identification number to the second data processing device, transmitting, by the second data processing device, the user data to the first data processing device, transmitting, by the second data processing device, an image of a document captured by means of the video recording device to the first data processing device via the video data link; and evaluating the document.
US11017218B2	Suspicious person detection device, suspicious person detection method, and program The present invention provides a technology that can reduce erroneous detection and detect a suspicious person from an image at high accuracy. A suspicious person detection device according to one example embodiment of the present invention includes: an eye direction detection unit that detects an eye direction of a subject; a face direction detection unit that detects a face direction of the subject; an environment information acquisition unit that acquires environment information indicating arrangement of an object around the subject; and a determination unit that, based on the face direction, the eye direction, and the environment information, determines whether or not the subject is showing suspicious behavior.
US11017216B2	Skin analyzing device, skin analyzing method, and recording medium A skin analyzing device includes: a facial coordinates setting unit that sets facial coordinates on a facial image of a measurement subject by using, as a reference, a position of a facial portion identified from the facial image, a region-of-interest setting unit that sets a first region of interest to a first facial image of the measurement subject, and sets a second region of interest that has facial coordinates in common with the first region of interest to a second facial image of the measurement subject, and a skin analysis user interface (UI) unit that displays the first facial image and the second facial image next to each other, and displays a skin analysis result in the first region of interest with respect to the first facial image and a skin analysis result in the second region of interest with respect to the second facial image.
US11017215B2	Two-stage person searching method combining face and appearance features A two-stage person searching method combining face and appearance features, comprises: detecting a face of a person utilizing a face detector, and outputting a face representation vector based on a face comparing model; ranking person sets to be matched according to an Euclidean distance to acquire a face ranking result; selecting a plurality of samples as multi-matching targets at the next stage according to the ranking result; using the selected multi-matching targets of different persons at the next stage in the same data set as mutual negative samples, so as to compress the sample space matched at the next stage; and finally re-recognizing multi-target persons, and ranking the image sets to be matched according to an average distance or similarity with multiple targets to output a final result.
US11017214B1	Methods and apparatus for biometric verification Aspects of the present disclosure include methods for generating a sampled profile including a plurality of sampling points having a plurality of characteristic values associated with the detected non-visible light, identifying one or more macroblocks each includes a subset of the plurality of sampling points, calculating a number of occurrences of the local pattern value within each subset of the plurality of the sampling points for each of the one or more macroblocks, generating a first array including a plurality of weighted values by calculating the plurality of weighted values based on the numbers of occurrences of the local pattern value and corresponding sizes of the one or more macroblocks, assigning a unique index to each of the plurality of weighted values, generating a second array of the unique index by ranking the plurality of weighted values, and generating a third array including a plurality of ranking distances.
US11017212B2	Methods and apparatus for biometric verification Aspects of the present disclosure include methods for generating a sampled profile including a plurality of sampling points having a plurality of characteristic values associated with the detected non-visible light, identifying one or more macroblocks each includes a subset of the plurality of sampling points, calculating a number of occurrences of the local pattern value within each subset of the plurality of the sampling points for each of the one or more macroblocks, generating a first array including a plurality of weighted values by calculating the plurality of weighted values based on the numbers of occurrences of the local pattern value and corresponding sizes of the one or more macroblocks, assigning a unique index to each of the plurality of weighted values, generating a second array of the unique index by ranking the plurality of weighted values, and generating a third array including a plurality of ranking distances.
US11017211B1	Methods and apparatus for biometric verification Aspects of the present disclosure include methods for generating a sampled profile including a plurality of sampling points having a plurality of characteristic values associated with the detected non-visible light, identifying one or more macroblocks each includes a subset of the plurality of sampling points, calculating a number of occurrences of the local pattern value within each subset of the plurality of the sampling points for each of the one or more macroblocks, generating a first array including a plurality of weighted values by calculating the plurality of weighted values based on the numbers of occurrences of the local pattern value and corresponding sizes of the one or more macroblocks, assigning a unique index to each of the plurality of weighted values, generating a second array of the unique index by ranking the plurality of weighted values, and generating a third array including a plurality of ranking distances.
US11017209B2	Millimeter wave radar and camera fusion based face authentication system An electronic device, a method and computer readable medium for multimodal authentication are disclosed. The method includes receiving a request for authentication, facial signature data generated based on an input from a radar source of the electronic device, and facial image data generated based on an input from a camera of the electronic device. The method also includes identifying an illumination condition and a sensor condition associated with the electronic device. The method additionally includes assigning a weight associated with the camera and the radar source based on the illumination condition and the sensor condition. The method further includes granting the request when at least one of the facial signature data and the facial image data are within a threshold of similarity with a preregistered facial data associated with the weight.
US11017206B2	Image processing method and recording medium for extracting region of imaging target from image An image processing method includes acquiring an original image including cells as an imaging target, performing band-pass filtering on the original image with respect to a spatial frequency component within a band determined in accordance with a width of an outline of the imaging target and attenuating relatively other spatial frequency component outside the band, segmenting an image after the filtering into a first region having density higher than a threshold value and a second region, connecting the first regions sandwiching the second region by changing a portion of the sandwiched second region to the first region in an image after the segmenting, converting a closed region which is the second region in an image after the connection surrounded by the first region into the first region, and dividing the first region having, a neck into regions at a position of the neck in an image after the converting.
US11017203B1	Utilizing sensor data for automated user identification This disclosure describes techniques for identifying users that are enrolled for use of a user-recognition system and updating enrollment data of these users over time. To enroll in the user-recognition system, the user may initially scan his or her palm. The resulting image data may later be used when the user requests to be identified by the system by again scanning his or her palm. However, because the characteristics of user palms may change over the time, the user-recognition system may continue to build more and more data for use in recognizing the user, in addition to removing older data that may no longer accurately represent current characteristics of respective user palms.
US11017200B1	Collimator for under-display optical fingerprint sensing A collimator for under-display fingerprint sensing includes (a) a substrate having opposite facing first and second sides, (b) an array of microlenses disposed on the first surface for focusing light from a fingerprint surface onto a focal plane that is between the array of microlenses and the second side of the substrate such that the light, as projected by the array of microlenses, is diverging when exiting the second side of the substrate, and (c) an array of apertures between the array of microlenses and the substrate, wherein each of the apertures is aligned to and cooperates with a respective one of the microlenses to form a field-of-view-limited lens having a field of view corresponding to a respective local portion of the fingerprint surface.
US11017197B2	Method of operating fingerprint sensing system, and fingerprint sensing system A fingerprint sensing system obtains a fingerprint image of a user by analyzing a partial image sensed with respect to a portion of a fingerprint region of the user, determining a sensing resolution based on a fingerprint pitch of the analyzed partial image, and sensing the fingerprint region with a determined sensing resolution.
US11017195B2	Ultrasonic fingerprint scanning by means of photoacoustic excitation The described techniques support a sensing scheme for electromagnetic excitation in ultrasonic imaging sensors. A biological tissue may be sensed and imaged using an electromagnetic excitation process to generate ultrasonic waves, such as, within the tissue. A component of a device may generate one or more pulses of electromagnetic waves, which may encounter and enter the biological tissue. In some examples, the component may be a display interface or may be different from a display interface of the device. The electromagnetic waves may excite the biological tissue and generate ultrasonic waves via expansion and contraction of the tissue upon heating. The ultrasonic waves may propagate within the biological tissue and may be sensed by an ultrasonic receiver array. The sensed ultrasonic waves may be converted to pixel image data of a biometric image and may be used for biometric authentication.
US11017190B1	Apparatus and method for locating a service object based on a label A service rendering system locates a service object based on a label. A controller of the service rendering system receives an image captured by a camera coupled to the controller, processes the image to identify a label image in the image, identifies a label in the label image as corresponding to the service object, and obtains a service point location encoded in the label, where the service point location comprises a location relative to a location of the label. The controller calculates a label position of the label using the image of the label and calculates a service point position using the service point location and the label position.
US11017189B2	See ID system One of the major issues with adding a driverless vehicle to a roadway, populated or not, is how that vehicle is able to keep its location in the required lane of the roadway in which it is operating. Current GPS systems that provide information to autonomous vehicles are not accurate enough for those vehicles to keep their operating positions in a lane on roadways. In inclement weather the GPS system is even less accurate and may not even function. In alternate embodiments the system can be utilized for equipment and personnel identification, such as identifying the location of construction workers and equipment at a construction site in relation to the system. This will provide benefits including, but not limited to, increasing the safety of a construction site, ensuring that only authorized personnel are present on the site and/or within a given area of the site.
US11017187B1	Fast frequency switching for RFID applications RFID readers may be configured to supply power to tags during frequency hops. When a reader is supplying power to a passive RFID tag via a first RF waveform having a first radio frequency and determines that it is to frequency-hop, the reader may determine whether the tag requires power during the hop. If so, the reader begins (or continues) to synthesize a second RF waveform with a second radio frequency while also synthesizing the first RF waveform, and frequency-hops by transitioning from transmitting the first RF waveform to transmitting the second RF waveform such that the power transmitted during the transition is sufficient for the tag to operate.
US11017182B2	Language translation by dividing character strings by fixed phases with maximum similarity A translation device includes a character string output unit, a fixed phrase acquisition unit, a matching unit, a division processor, and a translation result output unit. The character string output unit outputs a plurality of character strings each configuring at least part of text in a first language and including a head character of the text, in order of character string length. The fixed phrase acquisition unit acquires a fixed phrase in the first language associated with a translation phrase in a second language. The matching unit calculates a similarity between each of the character strings and the fixed phrase in order of the character string length. The division processor divides the text at a position achieving a maximum similarity among values of the similarity exceeding a first threshold. The translation result output unit outputs the translation phrase as translation of the text thus divided.
US11017177B2	Neural network systems and methods for target identification from text Neural network systems are provided that comprise one or more neural networks. The first neural network can comprise a convolutional neural network (CNN) long short-term memory (LSTM) architecture for receiving a primary data set comprising text messages and output a primary data structure comprising a text pattern-based feature. The second neural network can comprise a CNN architecture for receiving a secondary data sets derived from the primary data set and output a plurality of secondary data structures. The third neural network can combine the data structures to produce a combined data structure, and then process it to produce a categorized data structure comprising the text messages assigned to targets. The primary data set can comprise hate speech and the categorized data structure can comprise target categories, for example, hate targets. Methods of operating neural network systems and computer program products for performing such methods are also provided.
US11017175B2	Method, device and system for analyzing comment data about target A method, a device, a system for analyzing comment data about a target are provided. The method includes acquiring the comment data about the target in accordance with a link to the target; and analyzing the comment data and determining a comment topic and a comment viewpoint about the target.
US11017172B2	Proposition identification in natural language and usage thereof for search and retrieval A method for determining whether a text complies with a query, an apparatus and a computer program product, the method comprising: obtaining a macro comprising a plurality of representations of a query; and executing the macro against a database comprising a simplified representation of at least one phrase within the text, to determine 10 whether the text complies with any of the representations of the query. The simplified representation is presented in the form of: conferrer (carrier; bearer; substrate; descriptor) and provides information pertaining to who, what, when and how with respect to the text associated with the simplified representation.
US11017171B2	Relevancy as an indicator for determining document quality A method, computer system, and a computer program product for relevancy-based document quality assessment is provided. The present invention may include computing a document quality score based on at least one container relevancy score determined based on at least one domain link to a domain knowledge base.
US11017170B2	Encoding and storing text using DNA sequences Text can be encoded into DNA sequences. Each word from a document or other text sample can be encoded in a DNA sequence or DNA sequences and the DNA sequences can be stored for later retrieval. The DNA sequences can be stored digitally, or actual DNA molecules containing the sequences can be synthesized and stored. In one example, the encoding technique makes use of a polynomial function to transform words based on the Latin alphabet into k-mer DNA sequences of length k. Because the whole bits required for the DNA sequences are smaller than the actual strings of words, storing documents using DNA sequences may compress the documents relative to storing the same documents using other techniques. In at least one example, the mapping between words and DNA sequences is one-to-one and the collision ratio for the encoding is low.
US11017159B2	Enhancing documents portrayed in digital images The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods that efficiently and effectively generate an enhanced document image of a displayed document in an image frame captured from a live image feed. For example, systems and methods described herein apply a document enhancement process to a displayed document in an image frame that result in an enhanced document image that is cropped, rectified, un-shadowed, and with dark text against a mostly white background. Additionally, systems and method described herein determine whether a stored digital content item includes a displayed document. In response to determining that a stored digital content item does include a displayed document, systems and methods described herein generate an enhanced document image of a displayed document included in the stored digital content item.
US11017148B2	Multi-patterning graph reduction and checking flow method A method of generating a plurality of photomasks includes generating a circuit graph. The circuit graph comprises a plurality of vertices and a plurality of edges. Each of the plurality of vertices is representative of one of a plurality of conductive lines. The plurality of edges are representative of a spacing between the conductive lines less than an acceptable minimum distance. Kn+1 graph comprising a first set of vertices selected from the plurality of vertices connected in series by a first set of edges selected from the plurality of edges and having at least one non-series edge connection between a first vertex and a second vertex selected from the first set of vertices is reduced by merging a third vertex into a fourth vertex selected from the first set of the plurality of vertices. An n-pattern conflict check is performed and the photomasks generated based on the result.
US11017147B2	Edge-based camera for characterizing semiconductor layout designs System and methods for an edge-based camera are disclosed. Semiconductor layout designs are a representation of an integrated circuit that are used to manufacture the integrated circuit. Parts of the layout design, such as points of Interest (POIs), may be subject to analysis with regard to a downstream application, such as hotspot detection. Unlike pixel-based characterizations, POIs are characterized using topological features indicative of quantized values and dimensional features indicative of analog values. For example, an edge may be characterized using a set of relations, which characterizes corners and polygons (including the polygon on which the POI resides and external polygons). In turn, the set of relations may be used to define image representations, including images in different directions relative to the POI (including cardinal and ordinal image). In this way, the topological/dimensional characterization of the POI may be used to analyze the POI in the layout design.
US11017146B2	Integrated circuit and method of forming the same An integrated circuit includes a first set of devices, a set of metal layers and a header circuit. The first set of devices are configured to operate on a first supply voltage, and are located on a first layer of the integrated circuit. The set of metal layers are above the first layer, and includes a first metal layer and a second metal layer. The first metal layer extends in at least a first direction and a second direction. The header circuit is above the first set of devices. At least a portion of the header circuit is positioned between the first metal layer and the second metal layer. The header circuit is configured to provide the first supply voltage to the first set of devices, and is configured to be coupled to a second voltage supply having a second supply voltage different from the first supply voltage.
US11017142B1	Methods and apparatuses of configurable integrated circuits According to one implementation of the present disclosure, a method includes determining one or more of a read current threshold, a leakage current threshold or a minimum assist voltage threshold; identifying a logic design, wherein the logic design is based the on one or more of the read current threshold, the leakage current threshold, or the minimum assist voltage threshold; identifying a bitcell-type and a corresponding version of the bitcell-type, wherein each version of the bitcell-type is associated with performance and power attributes of a bitcell of a memory array; and determining a memory optimization mode based on the identified logic design and the identified version of the bitcell-type.
US11017141B2	Method for troubleshooting the program logic of a system of distributed progammable gate arrays A method for troubleshooting the program logic of a computer system. A first logic circuit and a first monitoring circuit, which is communicatively isolated from it, are programmed on a first programmable gate array of the computer system. A second logic circuit and a second monitoring circuit, which is communicatively isolated from it, are programmed on a second programmable gate array of the computer system. After an error has been detected in the program logic of the computer system, a first signal line, which applies a signal from the first logic circuit to a first signal input of the first monitoring circuit, is programmed in the first programmable gate array without changing the first logic circuit, and a second signal line, which applies a signal from the second logic circuit, is programmed in the second programmable gate array without changing the second logic circuit.
US11017135B2	Scan logic for circuit designs with latches and flip-flops Embodiments of the present disclosure may include a system for scanning a circuit, the embodiments including flip-flops, latches interleaved between the flip-flops, multiplexers configured to propagate scan data between the flip-flops and latches, and scan logic configured to control the multiplexers to load test data into the flip-flops and latches. A first pair of latches are interleaved between a first pair of flip-flops.
US11017131B2	System and methods for optimizing distribution network designs in real-time A system and methods for optimizing distribution network designs are disclosed. In some embodiments, the disclosed system detects placement of a component in a network design. In response, the disclosed system generates multiple design alternatives incorporating the component in different configurations and/or at different locations. The disclosed system determines in parallel a design goal metric associated with at least one design goal that is to be optimized for each of the design alternatives including the original design. The disclosed system then identifies a preferred network design based on the goal metrics. The goal metric of the preferred distribution network design indicates a higher level of optimization with respect to the at least one design goal compared to other of the design alternatives. By performing the optimization, the disclosed system ensures that the optimal configuration is selected and applied in the design.
US11017124B2	Secure crypto module including optical security pathway An optical electromagnetic radiation (EM) emitter and receiver are located upon a printed circuit board (PCB) layer and are connected to an optical security pathway. A predetermined reference flux is determined, the reference flux being the expected EM transmitted by the optical security pathway and received by the receiver. When the PCB is subject to an unauthorized access thereof (e.g., drilled, sawed, cut, etc.), the optical EM transferred by optical security pathway is altered. An optical monitoring device that monitors the flux of the optical EM received by the receiver detects a change in flux, in relation to the reference flux, and passes a tamper signal to one or more computer system devices to respond to the unauthorized access. For example, one or more cryptographic adapter card or computer system functions or secured crypto components may be disabled.
US11017119B2	Methods, systems, and media for detecting alteration of a web page Methods, systems, and media for detecting alteration of a web page are provided. In some embodiments, a method for detecting alteration of a web page is provided, the method comprising: analyzing a web page; generating a forensic footprint associated with the web page based on the analyzing; determining whether the forensic footprint matches reference information associated with the web page; and in response to determining that the forensic footprint does not match the reference information, blocking at least a portion of the web page from being presented.
US11017118B2	Cognitive survey policy management While managing private data in cognitive surveys, a method, system, and computer program product may deploy a set of gather agents. Access credentials for a plurality of participants may be obtained from an encrypted data store and verified. The set of gather agents may gather a set of target data associated with the plurality of participants, and the set of target data may be collected according to a set of policy criteria. It may be determined whether one or more participants of the plurality of participants has requested to review a subset of the target data, and those participants may be prompted to review the subset of target data. It may be determined whether the one or more participants rejected the subset of target data. The subset of target data may be filtered, and the filtered subset of target data may be posted to a results database.
US11017108B2	Storage unification with security management A computer-implemented method includes receiving a respective indication of each of two or more clouds. The two or more clouds are added to a user account. A first file is received for storage in the user account. The first file is split into a plurality of data blocks. The plurality of data blocks of the first file are distributed across the two or more clouds. An indication of a respective location of each data block of the first file is saved.
US11017105B2	System and method for preventing access to data on a compromised remote device The invention discloses a system and method for selective erasure, encryption and or copying of data on a remote device if the remote device has been compromised or the level of authorization of a roaming user in charge of the remote device has been modified.
US11017096B2	Prediction of software vulnerabilities Aspects of software vulnerability prediction are described. In some examples vulnerability data is obtained from a vulnerability database for the software. The total cumulative vulnerability of the software is estimated using the vulnerability data. The total cumulative vulnerability is based at least in part on a time based nonlinear differential equation model. The time based nonlinear differential equation model generates a complete vulnerability life cycle. A graph is generated to display a cyclic increasing behavior of the complete vulnerability life cycle of the software.
US11017094B2	System and method for java deserialization vulnerability detection A method for generating a deserialization vulnerability report of a Java project, includes: determining, by a computing device, if interior knowledge of the Java project is available, and when the interior knowledge of the Java project isn't available, performing a black box analysis to generate the deserialization vulnerability report; and when the interior knowledge of the Java project is available, determining by the computing device if source code of the Java project is accessible, when the source code of the Java project is accessible, performing a white box analysis to generate the deserialization vulnerability report, and when the source code of the Java project isn't accessible, performing a gray box analysis to generate the deserialization vulnerability report.
US11017093B2	System and method for creating and executing breach scenarios utilizing virtualized elements A system for analyzing a computing system for potential breach points, the system comprising a memory device having executable instructions stored therein, and a processing device, in response to the executable instructions, configured to parse a breach scenario file, the breach scenario file comprising a graph including action component nodes connected by edges, determine a root node from the action component nodes, execute the root node with breach point data, generate a root node return value based on the execution of the root node, the root node return value including a modified copy of the breach point data, determine children nodes from the action component nodes connected to the root node, execute the children nodes wherein each execution of the children nodes produces children node return values for a subsequent one of the children nodes, and return a final return value from the execution of the children nodes.
US11017090B2	Verification of a state of a platform A method of certifying a state of a platform includes receiving one or more software elements of a software stack of the platform by an authentication module and performing a hash algorithm on the software stack to generate one or more hash values. The software stack uniquely determines a software state of the platform. The method includes generating creation data, a creation hash, and a creation ticket, corresponding to the hash values and sending the creation ticket to the platform. The method also includes receiving the creation ticket by the authentication module and certifying the creation data and the creation hash based on the creation ticket. The method further includes generating a certified structure based on the creation data and performing the hash algorithm on the certified structure to generate a hash of the certified structure. The certified structure uniquely determines the software state of the platform.
US11017078B2	Environmentally-trained time dilation Techniques for performing environmentally-trained time dilation are provided. According to certain embodiments, a computer system can determine an initial set of parameter values for implementing one or more time dilation algorithms with respect to a program, where the algorithms cause the program to observe a dilated view of time relative to real time, and where the initial set of parameter values is determined via one or more functions that take into account a current runtime environment of the system. The system can apply the initial set of parameter values to the time dilation algorithms. At a later point in time, the system can detect an event that causes a change in the current runtime environment. Upon detecting the event, the system can determine, via the functions, a new set of parameter values responsive to the change and apply the new set of parameter values to the time dilation algorithms.
US11017076B2	Enhancing security using anomaly detection Certificate usage data is generated which identifies which processes or applications use which specific certificates. A certificate-specific usage model is generated based upon the certificate usage data and is used to detect anomalous usage of a certificate, by an application or process that has not previously used the certificate to authenticate itself to the computing system.
US11017072B2	Scalable authentication between heterogeneous services Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods include, for instance: receiving a request for a private credential of a first service of the two or more services from the first service, generating the private credential of the first service based on identity information of the first service, storing the private credential of the first service and the identity information of the first service in a local database, and sending the private credential of the first service to the first service for secure communication from the first service.
US11017071B2	Apparatus and method to protect an information handling system against other devices An information handling system includes a processor, a peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) endpoint, and a PCIe downstream port. The PCIe downstream port blocks PCIe vendor-defined messages (VDMs) from the PCIe endpoint as a default mode, changes to a second mode in response to the PCIe endpoint being verified, and allows PCIe VDMs from the PCIe endpoint while in the second mode.
US11017065B2	Authority revoking method and device An authorizing party determines an authorization record set that needs to be revoked, where an authorization record included in the authorization record set corresponds to a token that is issued to an authorized party after the authorizing party grants access to the authorized party, and where each authorization record includes an authorization validation moment for a corresponding token. A time validity attribute of the authorization record set is configured. For a specific point-in-time, a value associated with the time validity attribute is set. A determination is performed as to whether the authorization record is revoked based on the authorization validation moment and the value associated with the time validity attribute.
US11017059B2	License management server, license management system, and storage medium When a license management server according to the present exemplary embodiment receives a request for changing a license of a first version to a license of a second version from a license operation server that leases a license to a client, the license management server changes an expiration date of the license of the first version to a predetermined period of time later, and issues the license of the second version. Then, the license of the first version of which expiration date has been changed to the predetermined period of time later and the issued license of the second version are transmitted to the license operation server.
US11017058B1	Expert medical system and methods therefor A network-based, collaborative, medical expert system and method for its use, the system is adapted to receive patient billing data from a plurality of care providers worldwide, the patient billing data including billing codes and de-identified patient data, the system further comprising an analysis component adapted to transform the billing codes and the patient data into multidimensional vectors and super-vectors, analyze the super-vectors via vector analysis to correlate diagnoses, treatment regimens, and treatment results with ailments of human anatomy, physiology, and psychology, and return a collaborative patient treatment guide to a user interface of at least a subset of the plurality of care providers, based on a continuous real time receipt of patient billing data, transformation of the billing data, and analysis of the super-vectors.
US11017056B2	Abnormal data detection This specification describes techniques for detecting abnormal data in a data set. One example method includes obtaining, by a data processing platform, a to-be-validated data group including to-be-validated data corresponding to a predetermined feature; obtaining, by the data processing platform, a comparison data group including historical data associated with the to-be-validated data group, wherein the historical and the to-be-validated data are from a same data source; performing, by the data processing platform, a two-group significance test on the to-be-validated data group and the comparison data group to generate a test result; and determining, by the data processing platform, whether there is abnormal data in the to-be-validated data group based on the test result.
US11017051B2	Analyzing readability of communications A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for analyzing readability of a communication intended for a target audience includes: analyzing the communication to determine a first readability measure associated with the communication; determining a second readability measure associated with the target audience based on one or more historical communications previously transmitted or received by the target audience; and generating a readability feedback signal for the communication based on the first readability measure and the second readability measure.
US11017042B2	Profile spam removal in search results from social network Techniques for improving a search user interface by demoting a set of spam user profiles included in a listing of candidate user profiles that are to be presented in response to a search request are disclosed herein. The search request is received from a client device. The search request requests the listing of candidate user profiles corresponding to a search query. The listing of candidate user profiles corresponding to the search query is determined. A trained spam detection model is applied to each of the candidate user profiles to identify the set of spam user profiles. The demoting of the spam user profiles is performed. The listing of candidate user profiles is communicated for presentation in the search user interface, the presentation reflecting the demoting of the spam user profiles.
US11017037B2	Obtaining responsive information from multiple corpora Techniques are described herein for automated assistants that search various alternative corpora for information. In various implementations, a method may include receiving, by an automated assistant via an input component of a first client device, a free form input, wherein the free form input includes a request for specific information; searching a general purpose corpus of online documents to obtain a first set of candidate response(s) to the request for specific information; searching a user-specific corpus of active document(s) to obtain a second set of candidate response(s) to the request for specific information; comparing the first and second sets of candidate responses; based on the comparing, selecting a given response to the request for specific information from the first or second set; and providing, by the automated assistant, output indicative of the given response.
US11017036B2	Publicly verifiable proofs of space A mining operator entity is configured to implement a given mining instance having a designated amount of storage available for generating proofs of space in a proof of space based mining system. The given mining instance generates a given proof of space in response to a challenge that is computed at least in part from ledger values of a distributed ledger associated with the proof of space based mining system. Utilizing the given mining instance to generate the given proof of space comprises generating the given proof of space based at least in part on a personalized challenge for the given mining instance, the personalized challenge having an associated difficulty determined based at least in part on a comparison of the designated amount of storage available for generating the proofs of space and a maximum amount of storage for a mining instance in the proof of space based mining system.
US11017034B1	System and method for search with the aid of images associated with product categories The present application describes performing a user initiated search query comprising receiving user input comprising description details of at least one desired object, retrieving a plurality of objects from a database sharing one or more of the description details of the user input, retrieving an image of the at least one desired object based on one or more of the plurality of objects, generating a contour of the image and comparing the generated contour with other related contours of other images stored in the database, displaying all of the available contours of all of the images that match the generated contour, receiving a selection of one of the available contours from the user and performing the search query based on the user selected contour.
US11017033B2	Systems and methods for modeling free-text clinical documents into a hierarchical graph-like data structure based on semantic relationships among clinical concepts present in the documents The present disclosure pertains to modeling free-text clinical documents into a hierarchical graph-like data structure based on semantic relationships among clinical concepts present in the documents. A method comprises parsing, identifying, and annotating clinical terms within free-text clinical documents. This is accomplished by storing identified clinical terms in a concept node. The concept node is a data structure that has a set of properties to categorize stored concepts. Clinical concepts of free-text clinical documents are classified into clinical event classes. The free-text clinical documents include clinical terms that were associated with clinical concept categories. Classifying clinical concepts includes organizing clinical text-free documents into sections that describe a specific aspect of the clinical text-free documents that include one or more of clinical, technical, or administrative aspects of the documents. Links are provided between clinical concepts such that individual clinical concepts correspond to individual concept nodes.
US11017030B1	Method, apparatus, and system for receiving and weighting non-schema data entries in spatial instances of heterogeneous databases A computing system receives non-schema data pieces including electronic identifications and one or more attributes that are associated each of the electronic identification. Each of the one or more attributes associated with an electronic identification has a quantity. The computing system generates, in a data store, one or more sets of one or more data fields to store the each of the electronic identifications and each of the one or more attributes associated with each of the one or more electronic identifications. A quantity of each set of one or more data fields is equal to one more than a quantity of one or more attributes associated with a particular electronic identification. The computing system stores each of the electronic identifications and each of the one or more attributes associated with each of the electronic identifications in a different data field of each set of one or more data fields.
US11017029B2	Data transfer system, data transfer apparatus, data transfer method, and computer-readable recording medium A data transfer system includes a management server 1 for managing user information, browsing setting information that defines a user who can browse data, and transfer setting information that designates a transfer destination of the data, a data transfer apparatus 2 for setting, for the data, browsing authorization that allows only a specific user to browse the content of the data, based on the user information and the browsing setting information, and transferring the data for which the browsing authorization is set to the designated transfer destination based on the transfer setting information, and a data browsing apparatus 3 for determining whether or not a user has the browsing authorization that is set for the data, based on the user information, the browsing setting information, and the transfer setting information, and presenting the content of the data to the user if the user has the browsing authorization.
US11017028B2	Systems and methods for intelligent responses to queries based on trained processes Systems and methods are provided that use a trained process to reply to a request comprising query data defining a query and context data defining contextual factors for the query from a device. The query is answered by one or more selected APIs of a plurality of APIs that invoke respective services to prepare a response. The trained process determines an execution plan responsive to the query data and the context data and is configured using training to define execution plans comprising selected APIs where a particular API is selected for the plan if it answers at least a portion of the query and the selected APIs together prepare the response optimized for the device according to the context data. The plan is provided to an execution component to execute the plan using the selected APIs and send the response to the requesting device.
US11017025B2	Relevance-based image selection A system, computer readable storage medium, and computer-implemented method presents video search results responsive to a user keyword query. The video hosting system uses a machine learning process to learn a feature-keyword model associating features of media content from a labeled training dataset with keywords descriptive of their content. The system uses the learned model to provide video search results relevant to a keyword query based on features found in the videos. Furthermore, the system determines and presents one or more thumbnail images representative of the video using the learned model.
US11017021B2	Generating and distributing playlists with music and stories having related moods An embodiment may involve a server device obtaining an audio file containing a story. The server device may determine a mood of the story. The server device may select an audio file containing music, where the audio file containing the music is associated with a music attribute that is indicative of the mood. The server device may generate a playlist for the client device, where the playlist includes (i) a reference to the audio file containing the music, and (ii) a reference to the audio file containing the story. The server device may transmit the playlist, over a wide area network, to the client device. Reception of the playlist at the client device may cause an audio player application to retrieve and play out each audio file therein.
US11017019B1	Style classification for authentic content search Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for authentic content search using style classifications. A system may be a search engine that uses a set of style classifiers to detect one or more styles associated with an image and a logistic regression model to determine a level of authenticity for the image based on the associated styles. Training images are fed to train a series of neural networks that output a set of style classifiers. An image is processed through the style classifiers to determine respective probabilities for each style classification. The results from the set of style classifiers are then input to the logistic regression model to determine an authenticity score for the image. For example, the authenticity score shows how authentic is an image (e.g., a score of 1.0 refers to 100% authenticity, whereas a score of 0.0 represents a non-authentic image).
US11017017B2	Real-time vision assistance Systems, methods, and computer program products for a cognitive personalized channel on a computer network or telecommunications network, such as a 5G mobile communication network, which can be used for medical purposes to assist color-blind users and people afflicted with achromatopsia. The personalized channel can be a bidirectional channel capable of identifying color and serve as an enhanced medical service. The service operates by collecting collects inputs and streaming data, creates situation-based tags and embeds the tags on human-readable displays to assist users understanding of additional context of the streaming data that might otherwise not be understood due to the user's medical condition. The systems, methods and program products use the embedded tags to create a manifestation of the colors in images, videos, text and other collected visual streams by taking advantage of end-to-end service orchestration provided by 5G networks.
US11017015B2	System for creating interactive media and method of operating the same A technology for allowing anyone to easily create interactive media capable of easily recognizing a user interaction by using a stored image is provided. A system according to the present invention includes an image reconstruction server, an image ontology, and an image repository. The image reconstruction server includes an image reconstruction controller, a natural language processing module, and an image search module. The image reconstruction controller of the image reconstruction server receives a scenario based on a natural language from a user and searches for images desired by the user by using the natural language processing module, the image search module, and the image repository. The natural language processing module of the image reconstruction server performs a morphological analysis and a syntax analysis on the scenario input by the user as a preliminary operation for the search of the image ontology. The image search module of the image reconstruction server automatically generates an ontology search query sentence, such as SPARQL, by using a result of natural language processing, and searches the image ontology by using the generated query sentence.
US11017012B2	Dynamically ranking media effects based on user and device characteristics The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for ranking media effects. For example, systems and methods described herein enable a user to select and apply one or more media effects to a media communication such as a digital photograph or video. Systems and methods described herein identify and rank media effects based on characteristics associated with the user and the user's client-computing device. Furthermore, systems and methods described herein automatically present the top-ranked media effects to the user such that the user can easily select and apply one or more media effects that are tailored specifically to the user.
US11017009B2	Systems and methods for arranging contextually related media assets Systems and methods are provided herein for automatically arranging media assets that are contextually related to a requested media asset for access prior to a start time of the requested media asset. In some embodiments, user input circuitry may receive a user request to access a media asset. Control circuitry may identify, by consulting a database, a first set of media assets that share a context with the requested media asset and were released prior to the release date of the requested media asset. Control circuitry may determine a subset of media assets of the first set of media assets by performing a comparison of each media asset of the first set of the media assets against a viewing history of the user. Control circuitry may access a user profile to determine a user constraint, and generate a recommendation for display based on a first aspect of the user constraint.
US11017006B2	Method and system for generating review summaries The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for generating sentiment-based summaries for a user review. In an embodiment, a text analyzer receives a block of text indicating a user review. The text analyzer may generate one or more vectors for the plurality of words. Further, a relation is identified among the one or more vectors. A model is trained to identify a relation among the one or more vectors. Using the relation between the one or more vectors, a sentiment associated with the block of text is determined. Thereafter, one or more keywords from the block of text contributing to the determined sentiment is are identified and are classified into categories according to the sentiment contributed by the one or more words. Thereafter, the summary is generated for each category using the corresponding one or more words.
US11017004B2	Systems and methods for updating email addresses based on email generation patterns The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for updating email addresses based on email generation patterns. The method includes accessing a plurality of electronic activities used to update a plurality of member node profiles. The method includes determining that the plurality of member node profiles is linked to a group node profile of a group entity. The methods includes identifying, for each of the plurality of member node profiles, a first field-value pair of the member node profile corresponding to an email address. The method includes determining, for each member node profile, a correlation between the email address, a second field-value pair corresponding to a first name and a third field-value pair corresponding to a last name. The method includes determining, based on the determined correlation, an electronic account identifier pattern. The method includes storing an association between the group node and the electronic account identifier pattern.
US11016998B2	Building management smart entity creation and maintenance using time series data One or more non-transitory computer readable media contain program instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to: receive first raw data including one or more first data points generated by a first object of a plurality of objects associated with one or more buildings; generate first input timeseries according to the one or more data points; access a database of interconnected smart entities, the smart entities including object entities representing each of the plurality of objects and data entities representing stored data, the smart entities being interconnected by relational objects indicating relationships between the smart entities; identify a first object entity representing the first object from a first identifier in the first input timeseries; identify a first data entity from a first relational object indicating a relationship between the first object entity and the first data entity; and store the first input timeseries in the first data entity.
US11016997B1	Generating query results based on domain-specific dynamic word embeddings The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating query results based on domain-specific dynamic word embeddings. For example, the disclosed systems can generate dynamic vector representations of words that include domain-specific embedded information. In addition, the disclosed systems can compare the dynamic vector representations with vector representations of query terms received as part of a search query. The disclosed systems can further identify one or more digital content items to provide as part of a query result that include words corresponding to the query terms based on the comparison of the vector representations. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems can also train a word embedding model to generate accurate vector representations of unique words.
US11016990B2	Fencing out nodes in a distributed clustered system Techniques are disclosed relating to fencing out a first one of a plurality of nodes configured to handle requests for data stored in a distributed storage. A database system, in various embodiments, stores a value indicating that the first node is permitted to update a catalog stored at a metadata server. In response to a determination to prevent the first node from updating the catalog and writing to the distributed storage, in various embodiments, the database system updates the value to indicate that the first node is not permitted to update the catalog and instructs the distributed storage to prevent write operations to a particular portion allocated to the first node for writing data.
US11016988B1	Matched array flight alignment system and method A matched array technology system and method for displaying in a two-dimensional array the structured interaction between different parameters of an aircraft flight. Specific applications effectively support improved flight safety and greater fuel efficiency. Proxy values of flight metrics are defined and scaled so the axes of the array contain corresponding indicators resulting in a matched array and an embedded, unique alignment vector showing the relationships between different flight variables. The flight alignment system may be used with flight data that contain discontinuities and nonlinear reversions. Wherever values intersect, flight alignment system indicators can depict proximity to the alignment vector, as well as the direction and extent of adjustments to either or both selected flight metrics to achieve and maintain controlled flight.
US11016987B2	Shared folder backed integrated workspaces Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for shared folder backed integrated workspaces. In some implementations, a content management system can provide a graphical user interface (GUI) that integrates communications and content management into a single user interface. The user interface can include mechanisms that allow a user to provide input to generate a new workspace. The user interface can provide a mechanism to allow a user to view conversations related to the workspace and/or content items associated with the workspace. The user interface can present representations of content items associated with the workspace and allow the user to provide input to generate, view, edit, and share content items associated with the workspace.
US11016983B2	Entity-level search models with tree interaction features In an example embodiment, gradient boosted decision trees are used to generate tree interaction features, which encode a set of decision rules for features of search results and hence allow feature interactions. These tree interaction features may then be used as features of a GLMix model, essentially injecting non-linearity into the GLMix model.
US11016982B2	Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for outputting improved autosuggestions in a group-based communication platform An apparatus is provided for outputting suggested query items by a group-based communication platform. The apparatus may include at least one memory and at least one processor configured to detect group-based communication platform query data stored in a memory of the apparatus. The processor is also configured to rank suggested query items based on the group-based communication platform query data. The processor is further configured to detect non-keystroke engagement of a search input interface of the group-based communication platform. The processor is further configured to determine a first subset of the suggested query items based on the ranking of the suggested query items and automatically launch a query suggestion interface including a first subset of the suggested query items in response to detecting the non-keystroke engagement of the search input interface. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided.
US11016978B2	Joiner for distributed databases A joiner accesses a first sorted dataset and a second sorted dataset. Each dataset includes a corresponding plurality of data blocks, each including a set of records. Each record is associated with a corresponding record key. A set of first records for each first data block of the first dataset is arranged based on values of the first record keys. A set of second records for each second data block of the second dataset is arranged based on values of the second record keys. A first root element is extracted from the first sorted dataset. A second root element is extracted from the second sorted dataset. In response to determining that the first and second root elements match, an output is generated by joining the first record associated with the first root element with the second record associated with the second root element.
US11016977B2	System and method for detecting a pattern of events A method for detecting a pattern of events, comprising: receiving a template defining the pattern of events to detect; producing a join query for a relational database from the template; selecting a cost function for the join query, wherein a computation cost of the join query is equivalent to a computation cost of matching between a plurality of events from a plurality of streams of events and the template; identifying a preferred plan for executing the join query according to a minimal value of the cost function; producing an ordered set of a plurality of patterns, according to the preferred plan, by converting a plurality of database operations of the preferred plan into the ordered set of the plurality of patterns; and using the ordered set as an input for detecting a plurality of matches between the plurality of patterns and the plurality of events.
US11016969B1	Systems and methods for managing a highly available distributed hybrid transactional and analytical database Systems and methods for managing a highly available distributed hybrid database comprising: a memory storing instructions; and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to: receive a query from a user device to retrieve data from a distributed database comprising a source node, a first plurality of replica nodes, and a second plurality of replica nodes, wherein the source node and the first plurality of replica nodes form a transactional cluster, and wherein the second plurality of replica nodes forms an analytical cluster; determine whether to process the query using the transactional cluster or the analytical cluster based on one or more rules; translate the query into a first protocol that the determined cluster comprehends; select a replica node corresponding to the determined cluster; process the query using the selected replica node; and send data associated with results from processing the query to the user device.
US11016967B2	Automated sequential site navigation A website is navigated automatically in a sequential manner, for example by performing a series of specific network requests in a specified order, without necessarily using a browser, and without necessarily rendering each web page in the sequence. Interactions with a website are automatically recorded, stored, and analyzed. Requests and responses can be associated with particular in-put/output operations. Based on the analysis, the system can determine what data is expected by web servers, so that it can effectively simulate browser operations in connection with those web servers, and extract useful information from the data received in response to those operations. Thus, data extraction and/or other operations can be performed more efficiently and more quickly, while reducing the computing resources needed.
US11016966B2	Semantic analysis-based query result retrieval for natural language procedural queries Various embodiments describe techniques for retrieving query results for natural language procedural queries. A query answering (QA) system generates a structured semantic representation of a natural language query. The structured semantic representation includes terms in the natural language query and the relationship between the terms. The QA system retrieves a set of candidate query results for the natural language query from a repository, generates a structured semantic representation for each candidate query result, and determines a match score between the natural language query and each respective candidate query result based on the similarity between the structured semantic representations for the natural language query and each respective candidate query result. A candidate query result having the highest match score is selected as the query result for the natural language query. In some embodiments, paraphrasing rules are generated from user interaction data and are used to determine the match score.
US11016962B2	Blockchain data storage based on shared nodes and error correction code Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for storing blockchain data. One of the methods includes determining block data and current state data associated with a current block of a blockchain; sending the current state data to one or more shared storage nodes of a blockchain network; performing error correction coding of the block data to generate encoded block data; dividing, based on one or more predetermined rules, the encoded block data into a plurality of data sets; storing, based on the one or more predetermined rules, one or more data sets of the plurality of data sets; hashing each data set of remaining data sets of the plurality of data sets to generate one or more hash values corresponding to the remaining data sets; and storing the one or more hash values and the current state data.
US11016960B2	Systems and methods to record and verify virtual item transactions Systems and methods to perform virtual item transactions within a collaboration platform. In some implementations, entries in a secure ledger are generated to record transactions of virtual items making up an exchange or trade transaction. Entries in the secured ledger are each linked to a preceding entry using one or more hash values. A claim can be received from a first user account to dispute a transaction. Responsive to the claim, the transaction can be verified and an account restore operation can be performed when a transaction was not completed according to user intent, and virtual items can be restored to user accounts when a transaction was not completed as intended according to the secure ledger.
US11016957B2	Sensor data based query results A system for generating sensor data based query results can include a processor to detect sensor data from a plurality of sensors and store the sensor data as aggregated sensor data. The sensor data can be aggregated based on a time corresponding to the sensor data, wherein the sensor data is stored with a notification based push operation in response to a change in value of the sensor data exceeding a predetermined threshold. The processor can also convert the aggregated sensor data to an indexable data format (IDF) and provide a low latency query result to a query based on the aggregated sensor data in the IDF.
US11016956B2	Database management system with database hibernation and bursting A data processing network includes a database management for a plurality of databases serviced by a server comprising a plurality of data processors. Each server data processor includes a copy of the database management system and a monitor for measuring and analyzing various parameters for each server data processor and each included database and performing various methods transparently to a user. For example, when a parameter or combination thereof indicates that a database in one data processor is inactive or requires additional resources, that database is set to an inactive state or is transferred to another data processor with greater resources, respectively. An inactive database is recalled upon receipt of a request for access to that database. A database in a data processor of greater resources can be returned to a server data processor or another data processor with fewer resources. These operations are transparent to database users and independent of user or administrator intervention.
US11016953B2	Information processing device, method, and program recording medium An information processing device includes acquisition means for acquiring a plurality of tree structure data in which information groups are represented by tree structures and merge means for generating merged tree structure data merging the plurality of tree structure data. The merge means merges, for information satisfying a condition indicating that a certain distance from other information in the tree structure data is maintained, a subtree at a level below the information in the tree structure data, into the merged tree structure data, wherein the information satisfying the condition is included in a node selected from the plurality of tree structure data; and reorganizing for information satisfying a condition indicating that the distance between pieces of information is short, a merged subtree by merging subtrees below the information in the tree structure data into the information.
US11016950B2	Bulk management of registry objects A system and method for modifying a bulk set of domain names through bulk operations. A request to modify a bulk set of data associated with domain names is received by a registry. A bulk processing engine associated with the registry can analyze the requested update job, and enforce compliance with a set of policies governing the operation of registry. A priority level can also be assigned to the requested job, so that it will be executed before or after other pending jobs. The user can likewise provide user-supplied policies, which can also be validated against the set of registry policies. Data faults can be reduced or eliminated, and update operations can be performed by comparatively inexperienced personnel.
US11016949B2	Database system In various examples, there is a database system which comprises an operating system, a query engine, a transaction manager and components implementing database administration functionality. The query engine and the transaction manager are configured to be executed within one or more memory enclaves of a host computer system separately from the operating system and the components implementing database administration functionality.
US11016947B1	Apparatus and method for recommending and maintaining analytical views A system has a distributed database with database partitions distributed across worker nodes connected by a network. An analytical view recommendation engine defines an analytical view comprising attributes and measures defined prior to the receipt of a query. The analytical view is maintained as a data unit separate from the distributed database. The analytical view recommendation engine includes instructions executed by a processor to identify a poorly performing report, evaluate queries associated with the poorly performing report, create a recommended analytical view to enhance the performance of the poorly performing report, and deploy the recommended analytical view.
US11016938B2	Consolidating information relating to duplicate images Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are described for resolving duplicate images. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a selection of a single image from among a plurality of duplicate images. Each duplicate image has an associated set of metadata. The method also includes aggregating each set of metadata into aggregated information, and storing the selected image together with the aggregated information on data storage accessible to a data processing apparatus.
US11016932B2	Systems, methods, and apparatuses for simplifying filesystem operations utilizing a key-value storage system Systems and methods for providing key-value based filesystem operations are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving at least one file operation from an application, the file operation including a file path and a requested operation; generating a key-value operation based on the file operation, the key-value operation including a key including the file path; executing the key-value operation at a key-value storage engine; receiving, from the key-value storage engine, a result of the key-value operation; generating a result value based on the result of the key-value operation; and returning the result value to the application.
US11016930B2	Digital processing connectivity A connectivity has a first network (25) of signal-links interconnecting a large plurality of address-bearing, computing cells (20 and 22). Some of the links are selectable according to addresses hierarchically ordered along a recursive curve. Most of the address-designated links that form the network are switchably operable between cells such that a first selectable set of cells along one segment of the recursive curve form signal-routes to a second selectable set of cells, along a second segment. For receipt of instructions and for synchronisation, some segments have a switchable signal-path from one controlling cell of that segment. A second network (23) has signal-links interconnecting a plurality of processing cells (19 and 21) some of which control the loading of data into cells of the first network. The computing and processing cells have pairwise matching of addresses and are pairwise coterminous, which ensures that control of the connectivity by second network (23) is directed to localisably-selectable segments of first network (25).
US11016927B2	Disjoint array computer A hierarchical array computer architecture comprised of a master computer connected to a plurality of node computers wherein each node has a memory segment. A high speed connection scheme between the master computer and the nodes allows the master computer or individual nodes conditional access to the node memory segments. The resulting architecture creates an array computer with a large distributed memory in which each memory segment of the distributed memory has an associated computing element; the entire array being housed in a blade server type enclosure. The array computer created with this architecture provides a linear increase of processing speed corresponding to the number of nodes.
US11016922B2	Interface for bridging out-of-band information from a downstream communication link to an upstream communication link A device includes a first interface to receive a signal from a first communication link, wherein the receive signal includes out-of-band (OOB) information. A detector coupled to the first interface detects the OOB information. An encoder coupled to the detector encodes the OOB information into one or more symbols (e.g., control characters). A second interface is coupled to the encoder and a second communication link (e.g., a serial transport path). The second interface transmits the symbols on the second communication link. The device also includes mechanisms for preventing false presence detection of terminating devices.
US11016921B2	Appliances and methods for off-board data storage An appliance, as provided herein, may include a cabinet, a control board, an intermediate dongle, and an electrical feature. The control board may be mounted within the cabinet to selectively direct one or more operation of the appliance. The intermediate dongle may be spaced apart from the control board within the cabinet. The intermediate dongle may include a connector body and a memory device housed within the connector body. The intermediate dongle may be in electrical communication with the control board. The electrical feature may be connected to the intermediate dongle within the cabinet of the appliance. The electrical feature may be in electrical communication with the control board through the intermediate dongle.
US11016917B2	Data storage system and method for multiple communication protocols and direct memory access A flash storage device provides direct memory access based on a first communication protocol. A host selects the first communication protocol and provides a request to the flash storage device for a direct memory access. Additionally, the host provides data blocks to the flash storage device for the direct memory access. In the first communication protocol, the host need not provide an address to the flash storage device for the direct memory access. The flash storage device stores the data blocks at sequential addresses starting at a predetermined address in the flash storage device. Another host may then select a second communication protocol and transfer the data blocks in the flash storage by using the second communication protocol.
US11016916B2	Generation of processor interrupts using averaged data In an embodiment, a processor includes at least one execution unit to execute instructions, and an interrupt generation unit. The interrupt generation unit may be to: receive a plurality of values indicating thermal status values for a memory unit at multiple points in time across a first time window; determine a running average value based on the plurality of values indicating thermal status values in the memory unit; and in response to a determination that the running average value has exceeded a high thermal status threshold value, generate a thermal interrupt indicating a high thermal status event in the processor. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11016913B1	Inter cluster snoop latency reduction In one embodiment, a cache coherent system includes one or more agents (e.g. coherent agents) that may cache data used by the system. The system may include a point of coherency in a memory controller in the system, and thus the agents may transmit read requests to the memory controller to coherently read data. The point of coherency may determine if the data is cached in another agent, and may transmit a copy back request to the other agent if the other agent has modified the data. The system may include an interconnect between the agents and the memory controller. At a point on the interconnect at which traffic from the agents converges, a copy back response may be converted to a fill for the requesting agent.
US11016910B2	Memory region locking using lock/unlock flag state for exclusive rights to control memory access Apparatus for processing data uses memory access circuitry to enforce ownership rights of a plurality of memory regions within a memory, a given memory region among the plurality of memory regions having a given owning process specified from among a plurality of processes. A given owning process has exclusive rights to control access to given owned data stored within the given memory region. The memory access circuitry is responsive to a first access command from a first processing element for the given memory region to perform an access sequence comprising switching a lock flag for the given memory region to a locked state, performing an access operation specified by the access command, and switching the lock flag to an unlocked state. The memory access circuitry is responsive to a second access command from a second processing element for the given memory region while the lock flag is in said locked state to block action of the second access command.
US11016909B2	Cache page retention based on page cost A method for retaining data pages in a cache is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method stores multiple data pages in a cache. The method calculates, for each data page, a cost associated with promoting the data page from persistent storage media to the cache. The cost takes into account any data transformations (decryption, decompression, etc.) that are needed to promote the data page from the persistent storage media to the cache. In certain embodiments, the cost is represented as a score that is assigned to each data page. The method retains each data page in the cache for an amount of time that is related to its cost, such that data pages with a higher cost are retained in the cache longer than data pages with a lower cost. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also disclosed.
US11016908B2	Distributed directory of named data elements in coordination namespace An approach is described that provides a distributed directory structure within a storage of an information handling system (a local node). A request is received with the request corresponding to a shared virtual address. The shared virtual address that is shared amongst a number of nodes that includes the local node and some remote nodes. A Global Address Space Directory (GASD) is retrieved that corresponds to a global virtual address space. The GASD is stored in a Coordination Namespace that is stored in a memory that is distributed amongst the nodes. A mapping that is included in the GASD is used to determine the node where the shared virtual address currently resides. The shared virtual address is then accessed from the node where it currently resides.
US11016904B2	Storage device for performing map scheduling and electronic device including the same A storage device includes a controller and a memory. In response to a request of a host, the controller generates: (A) a first list as a result of counting: (1) the number of first page numbers included in a first range among page numbers included in a logical address received from the host and (2) the number of second page numbers included in a second range not overlapping the first range, (B) generates a second list as a result of respectively grouping the first page numbers and the second page numbers based on the first list, and (C) translates the logical address to a physical address based on the second list and the first map data. The memory stores the first map data to be provided to the controller. The first map data matches the first page numbers and the second page numbers with respective physical addresses.
US11016900B1	Limiting table-of-contents prefetching consequent to symbol table requests Technology for selectively prefetching data, such that less data is prefetched when it is determined that the requested data is located in logical addresses allocated to a symbol table data structure. In some embodiments, data is still prefetched when the request is directed to the symbol table, but the amount of data prefetched (measured in memory lines, bytes or other unit) is decreased relative to what it otherwise would be in the context of a non-symbol-table request. In other embodiments, prefetching is simply not performed at all when the request is directed to the symbol table.
US11016894B2	Techniques to provide cache coherency based on cache type Techniques and apparatus to manage cache coherency for different types of cache memory are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may include at least one processor, at least one cache memory, and logic, at least a portion comprised in hardware, the logic to receive a memory operation request associated with the at least one cache memory, determine a cache status of the memory operation request, the cache status indicating one of a giant cache status or a small cache status, perform the memory operation request via a small cache coherence process responsive to the cache status being a small cache status, and perform the memory operation request via a giant cache coherence process responsive to the cache status being a small cache status. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11016884B2	Virtual block redirection clean-up Virtual block redirection clean-up is accomplished for a virtual block in a mapper tree for a logical volume that is redirected to a destination virtual block in the mapper tree. In response to redirection of the virtual block, a redirection notification is sent to each component in a set of dependent components. Each dependent component may store one or more pointers to pointers located within virtual blocks of the mapper tree. The redirected virtual block is cleaned up in response to determining that each dependent component has expressly indicated, in response to the redirection notification, that it does not store any pointer to any pointer that is located within the redirected virtual block.
US11016881B2	Memory system and operating method thereof A memory system includes a memory device for storing first and second mapping information associated with target logical addresses for an unmap command, and a controller for loading the first and second mapping information from the memory device, comparing a size of target map data corresponding to the target logical addresses with a threshold value, sorting a plurality of map segments mapped with a plurality of target logical groups including the target logical addresses, respectively, into a plurality of regions based on a result of the comparing, and performing an unmap operation on each of the map segments included in the regions, wherein the first mapping information includes information on mapping relationships between the plurality of map segments and the plurality of target logical groups, and the second mapping information includes information on mapping relationships between the target logical addresses and corresponding physical addresses.
US11016880B1	Data storage system with read disturb control strategy whereby disturb condition can be predicted A system may consist of a network controller connected between a non-volatile memory and a host with a disturb module connected to the non-volatile memory. A received data write request from a host may prompt the assignment of a first physical block address in the non-volatile memory to a data block of the data write request with the network controller. The data block and first physical block address can each be characterized with the disturb module before the first physical block address is altered to a second block address in the non-volatile memory in response to a disturb strategy generated by the disturb module. The second block address can be selected based on the characterization of the data block and first physical block address with respect to a risk of a disturb condition occurring in the non-volatile memory.
US11016877B2	Remote virtual code tracking of participant activities at a website A remote website participant activity tracker accesses, at a participant device, codes including a virtual tracking code, a task display code, a response collection code, and a card-sorting redirection code. The task display code includes a plurality of tasks associated with a target website displayed at the participant device. The plurality of tasks includes one or more card sorting study for optimizing an architecture and a layout of the target web site. The card sorting study can be randomized to save time and cost.
US11016871B1	Reducing resource consumption associated with executing a bootstrapping process on a computing device Resource consumption associated with executing a bootstrapping process on a computing device can be reduced. For example, a system can receive a dataset including observations. The system can then instantiate one or more thread objects configured to execute a bootstrapping process that involves multiple iterations. Each iteration can involve: determining a respective set of probabilities based on an observation distribution associated with the dataset, executing a function based on the respective set of probabilities to determine a respective metric value, and storing the respective metric value in memory. This iterative process may be faster and less computationally intensive than traditional bootstrapping approaches. After completing the iterative process, the system may access the memory to obtain the metric values, determine a distribution of metric values based on at least some of the metric values, and store the distribution of metric values in the memory for further use.
US11016868B2	Application usage estimation device and rule formulation device An application usage estimation device includes: a rule DB serving as a rule holding unit configured to hold an application usage estimation rule for estimating, based on location information, whether a specific application is used; and an application usage estimation unit configured to acquire the location information from a user terminal and to estimate, based on the application usage estimation rule held in the rule DB, whether the specific application is used in the user terminal.
US11016865B2	Database-level automatic storage management Techniques are describe herein for associating storage management properties with a group of files of a database referred to herein as a “file group”. In this system, storage management properties are defined at the database-level. Thus, multiple databases can be stored across a single disk group, gaining the benefits of having multiple block access devices working in parallel, but each respective database may be associated with a respective file group in a one-to-one relationship, so that each database can have different storage management properties.
US11016861B2	Crash recoverability for graphics processing units (GPU) in a computing environment Embodiments for crash recoverability for graphics processing units (GPUs) by a processor. GPU application data and kernel execution state of one or more GPUs may be checkpointed. The checkpointed GPU application data and the kernel execution state may be recovered. The checkpointed GPU application data and the kernel execution state may be persisted on non-volatile memory.
US11016851B2	Determine recovery mechanism in a storage system by training a machine learning module A machine learning module receives inputs comprising attributes of a storage controller, where the attributes affect failures that occur in the storage controller. In response to a failure occurring in the storage controller, a plurality of output values corresponding to a plurality of recovery mechanisms to recover from the failure in the storage controller are generated via forward propagation through a plurality of layers of the machine learning module. A margin of error is calculated based on comparing the generated output values to expected output values corresponding to the plurality of recovery mechanisms, where the expected output values are generated from an indication of a correct recovery mechanism for the failure. An adjustment is made of weights of links that interconnect nodes of the plurality of layers via back propagation to reduce the margin of error, to improve a determination of a recovery mechanism for the failure.
US11016849B2	Kernel software raid support for direct-access file systems A method comprises detecting a write fault associated with a first page of a first plurality of pages of a first persistent memory and resolving the write fault. The method further comprises writing, in response to resolving the write fault, data to the first page. The method further comprises context switching, by a processing device, into a kernel associated with the persistent memory to provide a write confirmation to a client device requesting the data be written. The method further comprises updating, in response to the context switching, a parity block associated with the first page. The method further comprises providing, in response to updating the parity block, the write confirmation to the client device.
US11016846B2	Storage device using host memory and operating method thereof A storage device sharing a host memory of a host, the storage device includes a serial interface that exchanges data with the host, and a storage controller that stores buffering data in a host memory buffer allocated by the host through the serial interface. The storage controller performs error correction encoding and error correction decoding on the buffering data.
US11016843B2	Direct-input redundancy scheme with adaptive syndrome decoder Methods, systems, and devices for operating memory cell(s) using a direct-input column redundancy scheme are described. A device that has read data from data planes may replace data from one of the planes with redundancy data from a data plane storing redundancy data. The device may then provide the redundancy data to an error correction circuit coupled with the data plane that stored the redundancy data. An output of the error correction circuit may be used to generate syndrome bits, which may be decoded by a syndrome decoder. The syndrome decoder may indicate whether a bit of the data should be corrected by selectively reacting to inputs based on the type of data to be corrected. For example, the syndrome decoder may react to a first set of inputs if the data bit to be corrected is a regular data bit, and react to a second set of inputs if the data bit to be corrected is a redundant data bit.
US11016842B2	Methods and apparatus to detect and correct errors in destructive read non-volatile memory In described examples, data are stored in a destructive read non-volatile memory (DRNVM). The DRNVM includes an array of DRNVM cells organized as rows of data. The rows of data are subdivided into columns of code word symbols. Each column of code word symbols is encoded to store an error correction code symbol for each column of code word symbols.
US11016839B2	System and method for processing storage device abnormally powered down A system and a method for processing storage device occurring abnormal power interruption are provided. The method includes the following steps: (a) providing data to the storage device by a master controller; (b) outputting an address storing instruction from the master controller; (c) storing an address of a storage block in an address storage; (d) executing a program for accessing the data by the storage device; (e) determining whether the storage device is abnormally powered down by the master controller, if yes, performing step (f), and if not, performing step (g) after completing the execution of the program; (f) instructing an storage control circuit of the storage device to execute an error processing procedure on the storage block corresponding to the address by the master controller, and then performing step (a); (g) clearing the address stored in the address storage according to an instruction from the master controller.
US11016838B2	Method, apparatus and computer storage medium for error diagnostics of an application Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatus, and computer storage media for application error diagnosis. The method of application error diagnosis may include obtaining information related to an error in an application, generating a code of the information related to the error in the application, determining a similarity between the code and at least one predetermined code, wherein the at least one predetermined code is being associated with a known software bug. The method further includes determining at least one software bug related to the error in the application by comparing the similarity with a predetermined threshold.
US11016833B2	Remote debug for scaled computing environments Techniques and apparatus for remotely accessing debugging resources of a target system are described. A target system including physical compute resources, such as, processors and a chipset can be coupled to a controller remotely accessible over a network. The controller can be arranged to facilitate remote access to debug resources of the physical compute resources. The controller can be coupled to debug pin, such as, those of a debug port and arranged to assert control signals on the pins to access debug resources. The controller can also be arranged to exchange information elements with a remote debug host to include indication of debug operations and/or debug results.
US11016831B2	System and method for linearizing messages from data sources for optimized high-performance processing in a stream processing system A data object from a data source is received by a distributed process in a data stream. The distributed process has a sequence of categories, each category containing one or more tasks that operate on the data object. The data object includes files that can be processed by the tasks. If the task is able to operate on the data object, then the data object is passed to the task. If the task is unable to operate on the data object, then the files in the data object are passed to a file staging area of the distributed process and stored in memory. The files in the file staging area are passed, in sequence, from the file staging area to the task that was unable to operate on the data object. The data object is outputted to a next category or data sink after being operated on by the task.
US11016828B2	Task support system and method A task support system and method improve an operator's handling of an unknown new event. The task support system and method handle an event that occurred in a management target, in relation to an unknown event, and one or more event types are evaluated as event type candidates. A first event type candidate group having a high confidence score among the evaluated event type candidates is extracted and a first candidate confidence score is calculated from each confidence score of each event type candidate of the first event type candidate group. A first candidate importance is calculated from first importance held by an event type corresponding to each event type candidate belonging to the first event type candidate group and information other than the first importance. A diagram corresponding to each event is represented in a coordinate space by using the first candidate confidence score and the first candidate importance.
US11016823B2	Remote service discovery and inter-process communication One embodiment provides for an electronic device comprising a first processor to execute a first operating system and a second processor to execute a second operating system. The second processor a set of input/output devices within the electronic device. The electronic device additionally includes an interconnect to enable communication between the first processor and the second processor. The operating systems include communication modules which establish a bi-directional network connection over the interconnect. Via the bi-directional network connection, the communication modules establish a multi-channel inter-process communication link between a first process on the first processor and a second process on the second processor to enable communication between the processes.
US11016822B1	Cascade streaming between data processing engines in an array Examples herein describe techniques for communicating directly between cores in an array of data processing engines. In one embodiment, the array is a 2D array where each of the data processing engines includes one or more cores. In addition to the cores, the data processing engines can include a memory module (with memory banks for storing data) and an interconnect which provides connectivity between the cores. Using the interconnect, however, can add latency when transmitting data between the cores. In the embodiments herein, the array includes core-to-core communication links that directly connect one core in the array to another core. The cores can use these communication links to bypass the interconnect and the memory module to transmit data directly.
US11016821B2	Resegmenting chunks of data for efficient load balancing across indexers Resegmenting chunks of data for load balancing is disclosed. A plurality of first chunks of data is received. The plurality of first chunks of data includes one or more entries that include raw data produced by a component of an information technology environment and that reflects activity in the information technology environment. The plurality of first chunks of data is resegmented into a plurality of second chunks of data based on entry boundaries in at least some of the plurality of first chunks of data. A first subset of the plurality of second chunks of data is distributed to a first indexer of a set of indexers. An occurrence of a trigger event is determined, and in response to the trigger event, a second subset of the plurality of second chunks of data is distributed to a second indexer of the set of indexers.
US11016820B2	Load balancing of resources Embodiments presented herein techniques for balancing a multidimensional set of resources of different types within a distributed resources system. Each host computer providing the resources publishes a status on current resource usage by guest clients. Upon identifying a local imbalance, the host computer determines a source workload to migrate to or from the resources container to minimize the variance in resource usage. Additionally, when placing a new resource workload, the host computer selects a resources container that minimizes the variance to further balance resource usage.
US11016810B1	Tile subsystem and method for automated data flow and data processing within an integrated circuit architecture A system and method for a computing tile of a multi-tiled integrated circuit includes a plurality of distinct tile computing circuits, wherein each of the plurality of distinct tile computing circuits is configured to receive fixed-length instructions; a token-informed task scheduler that: tracks one or more of a plurality of distinct tokens emitted by one or more of the plurality of distinct tile computing circuits; and selects a distinct computation task of a plurality of distinct computation tasks based on the tracking; and a work queue buffer that: contains a plurality of distinct fixed-length instructions, wherein each one of the fixed-length instructions is associated with one of the plurality of distinct computation tasks; and transmits one of the plurality of distinct fixed-length instructions to one or more of the plurality of distinct tile computing circuits based on the selection of the distinct computation task by the token-informed task scheduler.
US11016807B2	Intermediary system for data streams A computer-implemented method include sending a first cycle of received event data to an external system for processing and while waiting for the external system to confirm that processing of the first cycle of received event data has been completed, receiving a stream of additional event data for processing and assigning some of the additional event data to a second cycle of received event data, wherein the second cycle has a scheduled transmission time to be sent to the external system for processing. The second cycle of received event data is prevented from being sent to the external system when the scheduled transmission time arrives because the external system has not returned confirmation that processing has been completed for the first cycle.
US11016806B2	Dynamic generation and adjustment of scheduling logic for packet processing by sets of processing modules A service scheduling method, including: obtaining scheduling information of multiple services deployed on a network device; generating scheduling logic according to the scheduling information, invoking, according to the generated scheduling logic, each processing module to process a packet received by the network device, and invoking, according to the scheduling point information of each service, a corresponding service at a scheduling point of each service. Accordingly, the embodiments of the present invention also provide a service scheduling apparatus and a network device.
US11016805B2	Programmatically applying labels to nodes in cluster orchestration platforms Systems, methods, and computer program products to programmatically apply labels to nodes in a cluster orchestration platform managing a cluster comprising a plurality of nodes. A microservice may be submitted to the cluster orchestration platform. The cluster orchestration platform may execute the microservice on a first node of the plurality of nodes. The microservice may receive, from a virtual machine manager, an instance identifier of a virtual machine instance executing the first node and the microservice. The microservice may receive, from the virtual machine manager based on the instance identifier, a plurality of labels applied to the virtual machine instance. The microservice may validate each received label based on at least one rule. The microservice may receive, from the cluster orchestration platform, an identifier of the first node in the cluster orchestration platform. The microservice may apply each received label to the first node in the cluster orchestration platform.
US11016803B2	Coordination of batch transmissions and processing between transmitting and receiving computing systems Techniques are disclosed relating to coordinating processing data transmissions between computing systems over a network. In various embodiments, a system includes a coordinator that receives information about an expected batch transmission between a data publishing application at a first computing system and a data processing application at a second computing system. Based on the received information, the coordinator determines a time when the data publishing application is expected to publish the batch transmission to the data processing application and causes the second computing system to initiate execution of the data processing application in conjunction with the determined time to receive and process the batch transmission from the data publishing application.
US11016800B2	Directed interrupt virtualization with interrupt table An interrupt signal is provided to a guest operating system executed using one or more processors of a plurality of processors. One or more bus connected modules are operationally connected with the plurality of processors via a bus attachment device. The bus attachment device receives an interrupt signal from one of the bus connected modules with an interrupt target ID identifying one of the processors assigned for use by the guest operating system as a target processor for handling the interrupt signal. The bus attachment device translates the received interrupt target ID to a logical processor ID of the target processor using an interrupt table entry stored in a memory operationally connected with the bus attachment device and forwards the interrupt signal to the target processor for handling. The logical processor ID of the target processor is used to address the target processor directly.
US11016785B2	Method and system for mirror image package preparation and application operation A method for mirror image package preparation and application operation includes: acquiring a launch operation package and launch mirror image package; upon launching of the target application, establishing a first channel between a local buffer manager and the launch mirror image package, and a second channel between the local buffer manager and a server; creating a first virtual file system locally, and establishing a third channel between the local buffer manager and the first virtual file system; if a received file access request is a read request, acquiring first data from the launch mirror image package, and/or from an original mirror image package on the server; feeding the first data back to the target application, wherein storage directory structures of data sets in the launch mirror image package and original mirror image package individually correspond to logic directory relations of file sets in an original data package.
US11016783B2	Secure storage access utilizing multi-path layer of host device to identify processes executed on the host device with authorization to access data of a storage system An apparatus comprises a host device configured to communicate over a network with a storage system comprising a plurality of storage devices. The host device is further configured to execute multiple processes that generate input-output (IO) operations for delivery to the storage system. The host device comprises a multi-path input-output (MPIO) driver configured to store for each of one or more of the storage devices information specifying one or more of the processes executing on the host device that are permitted to access that storage device, and for each of at least a subset of the IO operations, to determine the particular storage device to which the IO operation is directed, to identify the process that generated the IO operation, and to control delivery of the IO operation based at least in part on whether or not the stored information indicates that the identified process is permitted to access the particular storage device.
US11016782B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium A printer driver and an advanced UI application are associated with each other during installation, and the advanced UI application is activated in a different process using a COM when the printer driver is called.
US11016776B2	System and method for executing instructions The present disclosure provides systems and methods for executing instructions. The system can include: processing unit having a core configured to execute instructions; and a host unit configured to: compile computer code into a plurality of instructions that includes a set of instructions that are determined to be executed in parallel on the core, wherein the set of instructions each includes an operation instruction and an indication bit and wherein the indication bit is set to identify the last instruction of the set of instructions, and provide the set of instructions to the core.
US11016772B2	System and method for executing scripts in a virtual network function A method and system for proxy scripting in a network functions virtualization environment is disclosed. The method comprises the step of sending scripting instructions from a server to a proxy virtual network function, the scripting instructions being indicative of a script to be executed on a target virtual network function. Then, in response to receiving the scripting instructions by the proxy virtual network function, opening a remote command execution session from the proxy virtual network function to the target virtual network function. Then, the method further includes sending the script from the proxy virtual network function to the target virtual network function, before executing the script on the target virtual network function.
US11016770B2	Distinct system registers for logical processors Distinct system registers for logical processors are disclosed. In one example of the disclosed technology, a processor includes a plurality of block-based physical processor cores for executing a program comprising a plurality of instruction blocks. The processor also includes a thread scheduler configured to schedule a thread of the program for execution, the thread using the one or more instruction blocks. The processor further includes at least one system register. The at least one system register stores data indicating a number and placement of the plurality of physical processor cores to form a logical processor. The logical processor executes the scheduled thread. The logical processor is configured to execute the thread in a continuous instruction window.
US11016759B2	Issue tracking systems and methods Described herein is a computer implemented method. The method comprises receiving, by an issue tracking system, a deployment update from a deployment system which includes deployment information in respect of one or more issues maintained by the issue tracking system. The method further comprises associating one or more issues maintained by the issue tracking system with deployment information by identifying the one or more issues to which the deployment information in the deployment update relates, extracting the deployment information from the deployment update, and associating the deployment information with each of the identified issues.
US11016758B2	Analysis software managing system and analysis software managing method Proposal of data analysis components is enabled to be performed irrespective of the quantity of an implementation history of data analysis, and thus efficiency and cost reduction of production of software for data analysis are promoted. A data utilization platform server 101 is configured to includes a arithmetic device 112 which executes processing of generating analysis relationship information prescribing linkage between analysis target data and an analysis component executing analysis processing for the analysis target table on the basis of a relationship among a plurality pieces of the analysis target data collected from a plurality of predetermined systems; and processing of specifying a combination of a plurality of the analysis components available for predetermined data designated as an analysis target by a user on the basis of the analysis relationship information.
US11016757B2	Content deployment system having a proxy for continuously providing selected content items to a content publishing engine for integration into a specific release and methods for implementing the same Content deployment systems and methods are provided for continuously integrating and deploying selected content items from a plurality of content sources into a specific release as part of the specific release. For example, a first content source stores a plurality of first content items for potential inclusion in the specific release. A manifest record for the specific release specifies release items that are allowed to be part of the specific release. A proxy can periodically retrieve selected ones of the first content items that are specified in the manifest record, and push them to a content publishing engine. Any content items that are not specified in the manifest record are rejected by the proxy. A processor of the content publishing engine can allow for continuous integration of the selected ones of the first content items into the specific release.
US11016754B2	Infusion pumps with RFID user identification An infusion pump system including an RFID reader and an infusion pump device, the latter containing a controller, a communication interface, and a fluidic pump. The RFID reader includes a microcontroller, a memory storage, an RFID reader communication device, and an RFID manager that is configured to read a user identification parameter from the RFID reader communication device. The RFID reader communication device is configured to communicate with an access unit connected to a network, to query user-related information based on the user identification from a server over the network and to communicate with the communication interface of the infusion pump to forward the user related information to the infusion pump device.
US11016753B2	Flaw handling system, and handling method and program for flaw handling system A flaw handling system includes an off-line management server configured to manage an off-line robot and a data analysis server configured to determine whether or not an in-line robot can be updated using update-software. The off-line management server installs the update-software transmitted from a manufacturer's server in the off-line robot corresponding to the in-line robot, evaluates the update-software, and transmits a result of the evaluation of the update-software to the data analysis server. When the data analysis server determines that it is impossible to update the in-line robot using the update-software based on the result of the evaluation of the update-software by the off-line management server, the data analysis server transmits a result of the determination that the update using the update-software is impossible and the result of the evaluation of the update-software to the manufacturer's server.
US11016742B2	Channel sizing for inter-kernel communication Systems and methods for dynamically sizing inter-kernel communication channels implemented on an integrated circuit (IC) are provided. Implementation characteristics of the channels, predication, and kernel scheduling imbalances may factor into properly sizing the channels for self-synchronization, resulting in optimized steady-state throughput.
US11016741B2	Pixel perfect real-time web application framework A system and methods for a real-time web application framework including a server controlled real-time web application with synchronized server components mapped to client widgets, a method for modal execution support in a real-time web application environment, a pixel perfect designer having a designer, an image renderer, and server components, the image renderer configured to render a client widget based on the properties of a server component, and a theming system implemented by the real-time web application during run-time.
US11016735B2	Extensible meta model for capturing solution patterns An XML schema defining elements representing different point of variability (POV) types for points of variability of a pattern is provided. The elements belong to an XML schema POV data-type substitution group that allows the POV types to be substituted for one another. A pattern author is allowed to add new or custom POV data types to the substitution group, thereby allowing the pattern author to extend the pattern meta model to include new POV data types. Once the desired POV data types are defined, the pattern author is allowed to generate an instance of the pattern that applies programmatic operations of the new or custom POV data types created and substituted by the end user to each respective system object.
US11016734B1	Chip dithering using permuted randomized selection sets to enhance the LPI/LPD characteristics of a waveform A communications system that pseudo-randomly dithers the widths of chips that are multiplied by bit symbols for spread spectrum purposes. The system includes a first random sequence generator that generates a first sequence of random numbers at a sample rate and a decision processor responsive to the first sequence of random numbers that generates a separate command at the sample rate each time one of the random numbers exceeds a predetermined threshold. The system further includes a second random sequence generator that generates select random numbers, where the second random number generator changes the select random number each time it receives one of the commands. The system also includes a chip width processor responsive to the random numbers from the second random sequence generator, where the chip width processor selects a new set of chips each having a certain width in response to receiving each random number.
US11016726B2	Information processing apparatus and information processing method An information processing apparatus including an estimation section that, when it is determined that a user is able to receive vocal information presentation, estimates a duration for which it is possible to receive the information presentation and an adjustment section that adjusts an amount of information to be presented to the user in accordance with the estimated duration.
US11016725B2	System and method connected to a casket to play audio file over a network The embodiments herein provide a system connected to a casket to play an audio file selected by a user. The system includes an above-ground unit arranged to lead down into the casket. The above-ground unit includes a wireless module, controller, first speakers, light-emitting devices (LEDs), solar panel, and second speakers. The wireless module establishes a wireless connection with a computing device of the user. The controller facilitates the user to initiate the wireless connection on receiving a push gesture through buttons. The first speakers are configured within an amplifier chassis to generate audio data corresponding to the audio file through the computing device. The LEDs indicate the power status of the system and the connection status of the wireless module. The solar panel generates direct current (DC) electricity. The second speakers generate the audio data corresponding to the audio file selected by the user through the computing device.
US11016724B2	Method for changing audio signal path according to external electronic device transmitting EM signal and electronic device therefor An electronic device and method for changing a path of an audio signal by the electronic device are provided. The method includes obtaining an electromagnetic signal (EM) signal of an external electronic device through EM sensing circuitry, identifying the external electronic device based on the obtained EM signal, changing the path of the audio signal that is output by the electronic device to be output through the external electronic device, when the identified external electronic device is capable of inputting or outputting the audio signal and is connected with the electronic device, and displaying, on a touchscreen display of the electronic device, a screen for establishing a communication connection with the external electronic device, when the identified external electronic device is capable of inputting or outputting the audio signal and is not connected with the electronic device.
US11016720B2	Audio system An audio system with an audio playback device that is configured to operatively connect to a digital audio source for playback of content from the digital audio source and a software program configured to run on a separate computer, wherein the software program provides a user interface configured to present to a first authorized user a selection of whether the audio playback device will be public and thus available to other authorized users or private and thus not available to other authorized users. In response to the first authorized user making a selection of whether the audio playback device will be public or private, an audio playback device access control is provided, wherein the access control is configured such that if the audio playback device is public, other authorized users are able to access and control the public audio playback device and if the audio playback device is private, other authorized users are not able to control the private audio playback device.
US11016719B2	Systems and methods for aggregating content A method for producing an audio representation of aggregated content includes selecting preferred content from a number of sources, wherein the sources are emotion-tagged, aggregating the emotion-tagged preferred content sources, and creating an audio representation of the emotion-tagged aggregated content. The aggregation of emotion-tagged content sources and/or the creation of the audio representation may be performed by a mobile device. The emotion-tagged content include text with HTML tags that specify how text-to-speech conversion should be performed.
US11016717B1	Selective electronic content casting Techniques for casting electronic content, including identifying, at a first time, a first action by a user of a presenter device affecting rendering of a content item casted to a target device; determining that the presenter device is in a first casting mode at the first time; based on the presenter device being in the first casting mode at the first time, changing a rendering of the content item by the target device by causing the first action to be reported in real-time to the target device; identifying, at a second time, a second action by the user that affects a rendering of the content item; determining that the presenter device is in a second casting mode at the second time; and determining that the second action will not be reported to the target device based on the presenter device being in the second casting mode at the second time.
US11016706B2	Apparatuses for in-memory operations An example apparatus includes a processing in memory (PIM) capable device having an array of memory cells and sensing circuitry coupled to the array, where the sensing circuitry includes a sense amplifier and a compute component. The PIM capable device includes timing circuitry selectably coupled to the sensing circuitry. The timing circuitry is configured to control timing of performance of compute operations performed using the sensing circuitry. The PIM capable device also includes a sequencer selectably coupled to the timing circuitry. The sequencer is configured to coordinate the compute operations. The apparatus also includes a source external to the PIM capable device. The sequencer is configured to receive a command instruction set from the source to initiate performance of a compute operation.
US11016701B2	Oscillator circuitry to facilitate in-memory computation Techniques and mechanisms for a memory device to perform in-memory computing based on a logic state which is detected with a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO). In an embodiment, a VCO circuit of the memory device receives from a memory array a first signal indicating a logic state that is based on one or more currently stored data bits. The VCO provides a conversion from the logic state being indicated by a voltage characteristic of the first signal to the logic state being indicated by a corresponding frequency characteristic of a cyclical signal. Based on the frequency characteristic, the logic state is identified and communicated for use in an in-memory computation at the memory device. In another embodiment, a result of the in-memory computation is written back to the memory array.
US11016696B2	Redundant distributed data storage system An improved information management system is provided herein for managing secondary storage computing devices when one or more become unavailable. For example, a first secondary storage computing device in a pool of secondary storage computing devices can run a storage manager virtual machine (VM) that manages secondary copy and restore operations. A second secondary storage computing device in the pool can run a virtualization engine that manages the storage manager VM. The virtualization engine can replicate the storage manager VM data to other secondary storage computing devices in the pool. If the first secondary storage computing devices becomes unavailable, the second secondary storage computing device can instruct a third secondary storage computing device in the pool to launch a replicated storage manager VM using the replicated storage manager VM data stored therein. Thus, the third secondary storage computing device can act as the now unavailable first secondary storage computing device.
US11016695B2	Methods and apparatus to perform memory copy operations A disclosed example method to perform memory copy operations includes copying a first portion of data from a source location to a destination location, the first portion of the data being less than all of the data intended to be copied from the source location to the destination location; determining a cache miss measure indicative of an amount of the first portion of the data that is located in a cache; selecting a type of memory copy operation based on the cache miss measure; and initiating a memory copy operation based on the selected type of memory copy operation to copy a second portion of the data from the source location to the destination location.
US11016690B2	Partition splitting method and apparatus, electronic device, and readable storage medium Implementations of the present application provide a partition splitting method. Data files in a target source partition are divided into at least two data groups. A first data group from the at least two data groups is selected as a target splitting data group. A first splitting step is performed on the target splitting data group, including: splitting the target splitting data group into a plurality of data sub-groups based on a predetermined splitting rule, wherein each data sub-group of the plurality of data sub-groups corresponds to a new partition of at least two new partitions for the target source partition, and assigning each data sub-group to the new partition corresponding to the data sub-group. A second data group from the at least two data groups is selected as the target splitting data group, wherein the second data group is different from the first data group.
US11016689B2	Data storage system A data storage system that provides improved reliability and performance comprises a first memory device including a plurality of first storage components and a first memory controller, the first memory controller controls operation of the first storage components, a second memory device including a plurality of second storage components and a second memory controller, the second memory controller controls operation of the second storage components, a grading device determining grades for each of the first storage components and the second storage components, and a system controller that the location of data based on the grades of the first storage components and the second storage components.
US11016684B1	System and method for managing data and metadata where respective backing block devices are accessed based on whether request indicator indicates the data or the metadata and accessing the backing block devices without file system when the request indicator is not included in request Disclosed herein are systems and method for managing blocks of data and metadata. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises, receiving, by a virtual block device (VBD), a request from a file system, wherein the request includes one or more of: a type of operation requested by the file system, including one of a read operation or a write operation, and/or an indication as to whether the request is for a block of data or a metadata of the file system, when the request includes the indication as to whether the received request is for a block of data or a metadata, selecting, based on the indication, one of two or more separate storage locations associated with the requested block of data or a metadata respectively, and accessing the determined storage location to perform the requested operation on the block of data or the metadata in the storage location.
US11016682B2	Multi-mode NVMe over fabrics device for supporting CAN (controller area network) bus or SMBus interface A memory device is configured to communicate with one or more external devices, the memory device including a configurable bit or a mode select pin for determining which one of two or more different communication protocols that the memory device uses to communicate with the one or more external devices, wherein the two or more different communications protocols include at least a Controller Area Network (CAN) protocol and a System Management Bus (SMBus) protocol.
US11016681B1	Multi-threshold parameter adaptation An apparatus may include a circuit configured to receive an input signal at an input and process the input signal using a set of channel parameters. The circuit may further determine an error metric for the processing of the input signal using the set of channel parameters, compare the error metric to a plurality of thresholds, and when the error metric matches one of the plurality of thresholds, adapt, using an adaptation algorithm, the set of channel parameters to produce an updated set of channel parameters for use by the circuit as the set of channel parameters in subsequent processing of the input signal, the adaptation of the set of channel parameters being based on a weight corresponding to the matching threshold of the plurality of thresholds.
US11016677B2	Dual-splitter for high performance replication An aspect of performing dual splitting functions in a data replication system include receiving an I/O from a host computer. The host computer includes a first splitter configured to perform control path functions. An aspect also includes adding, via the first splitter, metadata for the I/O to a backlog at the host computer, and sending the I/O to a storage array. The storage array includes a second splitter configured to perform data path functions. An aspect further includes receiving, by the storage array, the I/O from the host computer, and sending, via the second splitter, the I/O to at least one storage device of the storage array and to a data protection appliance (DPA). The control path functions include tracking I/Os and maintaining backlogs including the backlog at the host computer, and the data path functions include mirroring operations in the storage array.
US11016674B2	Method, device, and computer program product for reading data Techniques are directed to reading data. Such techniques involve in response to receiving a read request for the target data, determining that target data is stored in both a first storage device and a second storage device. Such techniques further involve determining at least one of reliability and access load for each of the first storage device and the second storage device. Such techniques further involve: determining, based on the at least one of the reliability and the access load, one of the first storage device and the second storage device as a target storage device so as to respond to the read request. By means of certain techniques, at least one of the access load and service lives is balanced between storage devices so as to improve the efficiency of data read and the overall performance of a storage system.
US11016673B2	Optimizing serverless computing using a distributed computing framework Aspects of the technology provide improvements to a Serverless Computing (SLC) workflow by determining when and how to optimize SLC jobs for computing in a Distributed Computing Framework (DCF). DCF optimization can be performed by abstracting SLC tasks into different workflow configurations to determined optimal arrangements for execution in a DCF environment. A process of the technology can include steps for receiving an SLC job including one or more SLC tasks, executing one or more of the tasks to determine a latency metric and a throughput metric for the SLC tasks, and determining if the SLC tasks should be converted to a Distributed Computing Framework (DCF) format based on the latency metric and the throughput metric. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US11016671B2	Snapshot block storage path structure wherein identification of blocks that are identical between two snapshots are determined without performing block by block comparison between the two snapshots Generally described, one or more aspects of the present application relate to a public snapshot service for creating and managing block-level snapshots. For example, the public snapshot service can create a snapshot based on (i) a specification of a parent snapshot to be used as a basis for a given snapshot, and (ii) a specification of the data blocks to be backed up in the given snapshot. The data blocks in the snapshot may be stored in a specific storage path structure that facilitates computation of a block difference with respect to the parent snapshot.
US11016670B2	Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device comprises a cell unit including a first and a second selection gate transistor and a memory string provided between the first and second selection gate transistors and composed of a plurality of serially connected electrically erasable programmable memory cells operative to store effective data; and a data write circuit operative to write data into the memory cell, wherein the number of program stages for at least one of memory cells on both ends of the memory string is lower than the number of program stages for other memory cells, and the data write circuit executes the first stage program to the memory cell having the number of program stages lower than the number of program stages for the other memory cells after the first stage program to the other memory cells.
US11016666B2	Memory system and operating method thereof A memory system includes a memory blade including a plurality of operation memories; and a controller coupled to the memory blade, wherein the controller includes: a data base (DB) memory suitable for storing a data base (DB) having first information, which is an average usage amount of an operation memory used for processing a generated target workload, as a field and workloads as an entry; an allocation unit suitable for allocating an usage amount of an operation memory for processing a current target workload based on a value of the first information stored in the DB, corresponding to the current target workload requested to be processed; and a monitor suitable for updating the value of the first information to the average usage amount of the operation memory allocated for processing the current target workload after the processing of the current target workload is completed.
US11016663B2	Memory system A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory, a controller, and a temperature sensor. The controller includes an interface circuit that controls an access to the nonvolatile memory. The temperature sensor measures a temperature of the memory system. The controller is configured to acquire a first temperature from the temperature sensor, acquire a first parameter set corresponding to the first temperature from parameter information including a plurality of parameter sets respectively corresponding to plurality of temperatures, and set the first parameter set in the interface circuit.
US11016662B2	Keyboard trading system The present invention relates to systems and methods for providing customized keyboards for receiving user inputs, and view regions for displaying information for users in useful arrangements. Such keyboards include keys that are pre-programmed to reflect the issues present in each trading pane of the view regions. Using such keys, a user may direct the trading application to quickly and efficiently switch between multiple issues, and place, manipulate or cancel orders on them. The keyboard may also be designed such that multiple keys may be disabled, replaced or mapped to perform different functions.
US11016657B2	Electronic device for interacting with custom user interface elements An electronic device is described that displays and enables interaction with custom user interface (“UI”) elements. The electronic device may include a display, an actuatable button, and controls enabling user selection of individual custom UI elements. The device may determine a category of custom UI elements to display based on geolocation data, previous interactions with custom UI elements, user preferences, or other information, and may display a custom UI elements from the category. When the button is actuated, the electronic device causes an action associated with the displayed custom UI element to be performed. The electronic device may additionally display details regarding the action to be performed, status information regarding a previously performed action, or other related information.
US11016655B2	Reconfiguring a user interface according to interface device deterioration For reconfiguring a user interface (UI) layout according to a deterioration of an interface device, a UI layout is analyzed to determine a position of a UI element on the interface device according to the UI layout determination is made that the UI element is positioned in a first area of the interface device, the first area having a first sensitivity to touch, where the first sensitivity is below a level of sensitivity. A second area of the interface device is identified, the second area having a second sensitivity to touch, where the second sensitivity is at least equal to the level of sensitivity. The UI element is relocated from the first area to the second area thereby forming a modified UI layout. The modified UI layout is sent for rendering on the interface device.
US11016650B1	Building data metric objects through user interactions with data marks of displayed visual representations of data sources A method visualizes data sources. A user selects a data source, and the computer system displays a first data visualization according to placement of data fields in shelves of the user interface. The data visualization comprises visual data marks representing the data source. A user selects some of the data marks. In response, the system displays a metric window including a data metric object preview, a summary of the selected data marks, and setting controls. The user provides input to create the data metric object. In response, the system creates the data metric object, including: configuration parameters derived from the first data visualization; an initial extract from the data source according to the configuration parameters; and a schedule for recurring retrieval of data from the data source to update the extract. The system then displays a second data visualization according to the configuration parameters and the extract.
US11016649B2	Presentation of multivariate data on a graphical user interface of a computing system Various systems, methods, and media allow for graphical display of multivariate data in parallel coordinate plots and similar plots for visualizing data for a plurality of variables simultaneously. These systems, methods, and media can aggregate individual data points into curves between axes, significantly improving functioning of computer systems by decreasing the rendering time for such plots. Certain implementations can allow a user to examine the relationship between two or more variables, by displaying the data on non-parallel or other transformed axes.
US11016647B2	Web-based client-server geometric design methods A method comprises: sending, to a client, data specifying a plurality of commands for use in producing a design; receiving, from the client, one of the plurality of commands, wherein the received command is for creating or modifying a new or existing element of the design, respectively; updating a data structure associated with the design in accordance with the command, wherein the update comprises adding or modifying data associated with the new or existing element, respectively; and sending, to the client, data for enabling the new or modified element to be represented via a user interface.
US11016646B1	Method and mechanism for context driven alteration of UI artifacts instances behavior using expression based pluggable UI aspects A selection of a user interface artifact from a set of one or more user interface artifacts associated with a first user interface to an enterprise content management system is received. A selection of a user interface aspect from a set of one or more user interface aspects is received. Each user interface aspect in the set of user interface aspects is capable of modifying at least one user interface artifact from the set of user interface artifact. A second user interface to the enterprise content management system is generated using the selected user interface artifact and the selected user interface aspect where the selected user interface artifact in the second user interface is implemented per the selected user interface aspect.
US11016635B2	Layout system for devices with variable display screen sizes and orientations A method for operating a data processing system having a display screen on which a GUI is displayed is disclosed. The GUI has a plurality of configurations having different aspect ratios or numbers of pixels. The method includes providing a layout description and a runtime system that generates the GUI in response to the layout description and the display configuration. The layout description defines a first container having a plurality of components to be shown in the GUI within a first container space. Each component has a component layout description within the first container. The runtime system automatically allocates the first container space depending on the display configuration, and automatically divides the first container space into a plurality of component spaces. Each component is shown in a corresponding one of the component spaces. The first container space and the component spaces automatically change when the display configuration changes.
US11016625B2	Display panel and deformation sensing method thereof, and display device A display panel and deformation sensing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a substrate, and a deformation sensing unit on the substrate; the deformation sensing unit includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode, the second electrode and the third electrode being configured to form a first capacitor, the first electrode and the second electrode being configured to form a second capacitor, the first electrode and the third electrode being configured to form a third capacitor, and the first capacitor, the second capacitor, and the third capacitor being configured to determine a shape-state of the display panel.
US11016623B2	Touch sensor panel A touch sensor panel may be provided that includes a plurality of drive electrodes formed in a first layer; and a plurality of receiving electrodes which are arranged to cross the plurality of drive electrodes and are formed in a second layer. In the plurality of drive electrodes, a column of drive electrodes is formed by connecting a plurality of lozenge-shaped unit electrodes in a column direction, and the drive electrodes of each column are disposed at a regular interval in a row direction. The plurality of receiving electrodes are composed of a line having a predetermined width and are arranged in the row direction in such a way as to pass through a center of the unit electrode. Through this, the touch sensor panel capable of linearly detecting the change of the capacitance is provided, so that touch position can be accurately detected.
US11016619B2	Touch panel, method of manufacturing the same and touch display panel Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a touch panel a method of manufacturing the touch panel and a touch display panel. The touch panel includes a touch substrate; and a plurality of touch electrodes on the touch substrate, the plurality of touch electrodes being spaced apart from each other in a first direction and extending in a second direction different from the first direction, wherein a width of each of the touch electrodes gradually increases or decreases in the second direction.
US11016617B2	Touch sensitive processing method and apparatus and touch sensitive system A touch sensitive processing method, comprising: selecting a detection area including N first electrodes; repeating following steps N times: designating N−1 of the first electrodes among the N first electrodes as a i-th combination, where i is a positive integer ranged from 1 to N; simultaneously applying driving signals to the first electrodes designated as the i-th combination in a first time period; and retrieving i-th period one-dimension sensing information based on sensed induced driving signals of the second electrodes; adding all of the i-th period one-dimension sensing information to generate one all-period one-dimension sensing information; and calculating a two-dimension sensing information according to the all-period one-dimension sensing information and all of the i-th period one-dimension sensing information.
US11016613B2	Image recognition device, image recognition method and image recognition unit An image recognition device, an image recognition method and an image recognition unit capable of performing touch recognition high in accuracy. The image recognition device includes a pattern display section adapted to display a first pattern in which bright lines are arranged with a first pitch, and a second pattern in which bright lines are arranged with a second pitch at respective time points different from each other, a measurement point determination section adapted to detect a finger located between a camera and a screen, and determine a fingertip of the finger, and a position detection section adapted to detect the position of the fingertip with respect to the screen based on an image including the first pattern and an image including the second pattern obtained by the camera.
US11016611B2	Touch processing method and electronic device for supporting the same An electronic device and method thereof are provided. In one aspect, the electronic device includes a housing, a touch screen with edges, and one or more processors. First and second touch recognition regions are defined adjacent to one of the touch screen edges. The one or more processors determine whether to ignore a touch input based at least on whether the touch input is in one of the first and second touch recognition region and at least one of the type and the duration of the touch input.
US11016606B1	Method and device for controlling touch screen, and electronic device The present disclosure provides a method and device for controlling a touch screen, and an electronic device. The method includes: applying a first driving voltage to a voltage input terminal of the bridge, and obtaining a first voltage difference between a first voltage output terminal and a second voltage output terminal of the bridge corresponding to the first driving voltage; determining a first equivalent resistance value of the bridge corresponding to the first driving voltage at a current temperature according to the first driving voltage and a preset equation; determining a first compensation voltage value corresponding to the current temperature according to the first equivalent resistance value, the first voltage difference, and a preset formula; determining whether to trigger a touch unit corresponding to the bridge according to the first voltage difference and the first compensation voltage value.
US11016599B2	Light distribution controllable touch panel device and display device Disclosed is a light distribution controllable touch panel device including: an upper transparent substrate; a lower transparent substrate; one or more lower light distribution control electrodes on a top face of the lower transparent substrate; touch panel electrodes on an underface of the upper transparent substrate; electrophoretic elements sandwiched between the one or more lower light distribution control electrodes and the touch panel electrodes, each of the electrophoretic elements including colored electrophoretic particles and dispersion medium; and a controller. The controller is configured to: provide driving potentials to the touch panel electrodes in measuring capacitances for detecting a touch point; and provide driving potentials to the one or more lower light distribution control electrodes with reference to the driving potentials given to the touch panel electrodes to control a state of the colored electrophoretic particles in the plurality of electrophoretic elements.
US11016597B2	Haptic device with indirect haptic feedback A device including a body configured to be grasped by a user's hand and a touch surface oriented on a first surface of the body, wherein the touch surface is configured to be engaged by an appendage of the user's hand when the body is grasped by the user's hand. The device also includes a friction modulator associated with the touch surface, wherein the friction modulator is configured to modulate a coefficient of friction between the user's appendage and the touch surface to provide haptic feedback.
US11016596B2	Input device and image processing apparatus In an input device: a position detection portion includes a main surface that faces up, and detects a position where an external force is applied on the main surface; a cover member is separated upward from a specific portion of the main surface, covers the specific portion, and exposes an operation portion of the main surface excluding the specific portion; a base portion is provided to be in contact with the cover member, above a separate portion that is a portion of the specific portion and is separated from the operation portion; and a flexible portion extends from the base portion toward the operation portion, and is in contact with an adjacent portion that is a portion of the specific portion and is located between the operation portion and the separate portion, the flexible portion being separated downward from the cover member and flexible with respect to the base portion.
US11016595B1	Film sensor and touch display including the same A film sensor includes a substrate, a metal nanowire layer, and an optical adhesive layer. The metal nanowire layer is formed on the substrate and includes a plurality of electrode wires spaced apart from one another. The optical adhesive layer is formed on the metal nanowire layer and is matched with the metal nanowire layer, such that a line resistance variation of the electrode wires is less than 10% and an insulation resistance between adjacent two of the electrode wires is greater than 300 MΩ under a weathering test conducted at a high temperature of 65° C., a high relative humidity of 90%, and a DC voltage of 5V for 240 hours.
US11016594B2	Touch sensing type display device and method of fabricating the same A touch sensing type liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate includes a first substrate, a common electrode, a pixel electrode, and a touch sensing unit; a color filter substrate including a second substrate and facing the array substrate; an anti-static layer on an outer side of the second substrate and including an organic material and a carbon nano-tube; and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and an inner side of the second substrate.
US11016590B2	Vehicle interior systems having a curved cover glass and display or touch panel and methods for forming the same Embodiments of a vehicle interior system are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the system includes a base with a curved surface, and a display or touch panel disposed on the curved surface. The display includes a cold-bent glass substrate with a thickness of 1.5 mm or less and a first radius of curvature of 20 mm or greater, and a display module and/or touch panel attached to the glass substrate having a second radius of curvature that is within 10% of the first radius of curvature. Methods for forming such systems are also disclosed.
US11016587B2	Watch crown haptic support to provide detent-like operation In an embodiment, a system implements detent operation using tactile and audio effects that give the user the effect of a detent without including the mechanical devices that detents would normally imply. The detent operation may be implemented in software and may be synchronized to events on the display of the system (e.g. animation events), which may provide a convincing user experience. A low latency path from the applications and user interface program of the system to the hardware that implements the detent operation may be provided to help ensure that the synchronization of animation events and detent operations is maintained.
US11016586B2	Method using active stylus and sensor controller, sensor controller, and active stylus A method of using an active stylus and a sensor controller is provided including generally four steps. The active stylus, in response to a trigger indicative of a pen lowering operation, sends replaceable pen tip information indicating a type of a replaceable pen tip that forms a pen tip of the active stylus. The sensor controller receives the replaceable pen tip information and identifies the replaceable pen tip type of the active stylus. The active stylus repeatedly sends a data signal including a pen pressure value applied to the replaceable pen tip. The sensor controller derives a position of the active stylus based on the data signal using a position deriving method that corresponds to the replaceable pen tip information.
US11016585B2	Electronic pen including waterproof structure and electronic device including the same According to various exemplary embodiments, an electronic pen and an electronic device for detecting the same are provided. The electronic pen includes: a pen housing; a substrate assembly mounted inside the pen housing, and comprises a coil and a substrate which configured to generate a resonant frequency by an induced current generated in the coil; and at least one packing member disposed on at least a part of the substrate of the substrate assembly, and includes at least a part thereof overlap an inner surface of the pen housing when the substrate assembly is mounted in the pen housing.
US11016584B2	Electronic device having a curved display and control method thereof An electronic device and a method for controlling the same are provided. The electronic device includes a display including a main display area and an auxiliary display area extended from the main display area, a sensing part configured to detect a signal of an electronic pen located on the display, and a processor configured to control the electronic device according to the detected signal. The processor is further configured to, based on an area in which the signal is detected being a first area of the auxiliary display area, carry out a first function corresponding to the signal, and based on an area in which the signal is detected being a second area of the auxiliary display area, to carry out a second function corresponding to the signal.
US11016580B1	Mouse A mouse includes an optical module and a casing. The optical module includes an optical element and two rotation portions. The optical element locates between the rotation portions. The casing includes a body, two extension portions, a driving piece and a rod. The extension portions connect to the body and define a space therebetween. The optical module locates at the space. The rotation portions insert into the extension portions. The driving piece moves inside the body and the extension portions. The driving piece is connected with one of the rotation portions and configured to rotate the corresponding rotation portion such that the optical element faces to a first direction or a second direction different from the first direction. A first end of the rod connects with the driving piece to move the driving piece. A second end of the rod is exposable outside the body.
US11016574B2	Millimeter-wave-radar-based electromagnetic apparatus A wearable electromagnetic, EM, apparatus includes: at least one antenna operable in a millimeter-wave-radar-based, MWRB, application; at least one computer processor disposed in signal communication with the at least one antenna; an attachment system configured and adapted to attach to an actor; the at least one antenna and the at least one computer processor disposed in a supported relationship with the attachment system, such that the attachment system with the supported at least one antenna and the at least one computer processor at least partially forms a wearable apparatus that is wearable by the actor.
US11016572B2	Efficient detection of human machine interface interaction using a resonant phase sensing system A system may include a tactile actuator for providing tactile feedback and a resonant phase sensing system. The resonant phase sensing system may include a resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor and a measurement circuit communicatively coupled to the resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor and the tactile actuator. The resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor may be configured to measure phase information associated with the resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor, based on the phase information, detect an indication of human interaction with the system proximate to the resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor, and trigger the tactile actuator to generate tactile feedback responsive to detecting the indication of human interaction.
US11016571B2	Operator control unit for a device The operator control unit (10) for a device is provided with an operator control element (14) which has a touch-sensitive operator control surface (16). The operator control element (14) is, for the purpose of being automatically returned to its inoperative position after being deflected out of said inoperative position, elastically mounted in said inoperative position. The mechanical excitation of the operator control element (14) out of its inoperative position for the purpose of tactile feedback in response to operation of the operator control element (14) is performed by means of an actuator (24). A sensor (26) identifies the movement of the operator control element (14) and/or an acceleration and/or force acting on the operator control element (14). When a movement of the operator control element (14) and/or an acceleration and/or force acting on the operator control element (14) are/is identified without sensing contact with the operator control surface (16), the evaluation and actuation unit (22) actuates the actuator (24) to maintain the inoperative position of the operator control element (14) and/or to move the operator control element (14) back to its inoperative position and/or to stabilize the operator control element (14).
US11016569B2	Wearable device and method for providing feedback of wearable device A method performed by a wearable device to provide feedback includes detecting a user motion; determining, based on the detected user motion, a body part to which a feedback signal is to be transmitted; generating the feedback signal; and outputting the feedback signal, wherein the feedback signal is an electrical signal to stimulate muscles of the body part.
US11016567B1	Letter and number recognition system using EEG-fNIRS for speech impaired people A brain-computer interface (BCI) designed with a hybrid electroencephalography (EEG) and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) for letter and number recognition system for people who cannot speak. By this system, the words and numbers a subject thinks of are reflected on a display screen. A speech tool has been designed for these individuals allowing them to express themselves.
US11016564B2	System and method for providing information Systems, methods and apparatus for presenting information using an electronic device. In an aspect, when a standby or idle device detects that a user gazes at it, it starts showing content items on a display. In other aspects, when a standby or idle device detects that a user shakes it, taps on it, or speaks to it, plus that the user gazes at it, the device begins to show content items on a display. The content items may include advertisements.
US11016563B2	Image changes based on voice An embodiment combines the concepts of image enhancement and voice-sound command and control to enhance the experience of viewing images by tracking where the viewer is indicating with his/her voice. The result is to make the viewing experience more like viewing the original scene, or to enhance the viewing experience in new ways beyond the original experience, either automatically, or by interacting with a photographer's previously specified intentions for what should happen when the viewer identifies, with his/her voice sounds, including, but not limited to, words, voice tone, voice inflection, voice pitch, or voice loudness, a particular portion of an image or images taken by that photographer.
US11016561B2	Multimodal eye tracking A method is disclosed, the method comprising the steps of receiving, at a first time interval from a first sensor configured to output data indicative of a first position of an eye, first data; receiving, at a second time interval from a second sensor configured to output data indicative of a delta position of the eye, second data; determining, based on the first data, a first position of the eye; determining, based on the second data, a delta position of the eye; determining, using the first position of the eye and the delta position of the eye, a second absolute position of the eye; and in response to determining the second position of the eye, generating an output signal indicative of the second position of the eye.
US11016560B1	Video timewarp for mixed reality and cloud rendering applications A mixed reality (MR) system is disclosed. The MR system may determine a first predicted head pose corresponding to a time that virtual reality imagery is rendered, determine a second predicted head pose corresponding to a selected point in time during a camera shutter period, and combine the virtual reality imagery with the stereoscopic imagery based on the first predicted head pose and the second predicted head pose. A simulator that employs remote (e.g., cloud) rendering is also disclosed. The simulator/client device may determine a first pose (e.g., vehicle pose and/or head pose), receive video imagery rendered by a remote server based on the first pose, and apply a timewarp correction to the video imagery based on a comparison of the first pose and a second pose.
US11016559B2	Display system and display control method of display system A terminal display device which a user wears on a user's head displays on a display unit an information object to be overlapped with a field of view of the user, detects a motion of the terminal display device, and stores a pattern of a motion of the terminal display device and an operation content of the information object that is displayed in association with each other. An information type management memory unit stores information related to a display mode of each of the information objects. A display control unit determines an operation content of the terminal display device based on the motion that is detected and an association between the motion pattern and the operation content, specifies the information object disposed at a predetermined position of the display unit, and performs an operation specified with the determined operation content on the specified information object.
US11016556B2	Instruction and logic for parallel multi-step power management flow A parallel multi-step power management flow apparatus and method for using the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, an integrated circuit comprises a plurality of processing entities to execute operations, a power controller coupled to the plurality of processing entities to control power management for the plurality of processing entities, and a plurality of agents, where each of the plurality of agents is operable to perform a power control flow for one of the processing entities by separately scheduling, using a scheduler, and executing a plurality of power control flow phases in response to a plurality of requests received from the power controller, and each agent is operable to send a plurality of acknowledgements, one acknowledgement for each phase, upon completion of the plurality of power control flow phases.
US11016554B2	Semiconductor apparatus A semiconductor apparatus includes a plurality of chips and a first bypass switch. The chips are coupled in series between a power end and a reference ground end. The first bypass switch is coupled in series between a first end and a second end of a first chip among the chips, wherein the first end is coupled to the power end and the second end is coupled to the reference ground end. The first bypass switch is turned on according to a first control signal when an operational efficiency of the first chip is less than a threshold value and the first chip is determined to be damaged.
US11016552B2	Image forming apparatus To provide an image forming apparatus whose detection range of a person by using a pyroelectric sensor is adjustable without adjusting sensitivity of the pyroelectric sensor, an image forming apparatus includes: an image forming apparatus main body; and a pyroelectric sensor that detects presence of a person based on light received from the periphery of the image forming apparatus main body, wherein the pyroelectric sensor is rotatably mounted to the image forming apparatus main body.
US11016551B2	Thermal rotation of power supply phases Power supply circuitry and enhanced associated techniques are presented herein. In one example, a method includes powering a circuit with a plurality of power supply phases, and monitoring thermal properties of the plurality of power supply phases. Responsive to the thermal properties indicating at least one of the plurality of power supply phases exceeds a thermal threshold, the method includes selecting a dormant power supply phase to supplant the at least one of the plurality of power supply phases.
US11016547B2	Control of electronic displays An electronic display has a display panel with a display surface visible through a housing. A processor controls functions of the display and operating conditions within the housing. Input sensors are disposed within the housing and sense operating conditions within the housing. Output components respond to control signals. Modules have a unique address identifier and a connection to one of the input sensors and output components. A CAN bus communicates between the modules and electronic processor. Processing of signals received from the input sensors and control signals is distributed amongst microcontrollers on the modules. The processor uses a unique address identifier to receive a temperature reading from a module connected to a temperature sensor; process the temperature reading to determine one or more new fan speed setting; and send data via the bus to a module to a fan speed to the new setting.
US11016542B1	Touch pad sensors operative as antennas Apparatuses, methods, and systems for touch pad sensors that are further operative as antennas, are disclosed. One apparatus includes a plurality of touch sensors, a controller, and a radio. The controller is operative to receive sensed signals of the plurality of touch sensors, and provide controls of the apparatus in response to the receive sensed signals of the plurality of touch sensors. The radio is operative to wirelessly communicate with an external wireless device. One or more conductive lines electrically connect the radio with one or more of the plurality of touch sensors, wherein the plurality of touch sensors operate as one or more antennas for facilitating the wireless communication.
US11016540B2	Bi-stable synchronized dual axle hinge A portable information handling system housing rotationally couples first and second housing portions with a hinge assembly having first and second breakaway brackets that define an adjacent position of the first and second housing portions relative to each other and a spread position. The first and second breakaway brackets expand the spacing between the first and second housing portions in the event that the housing portions close over an object disposed between them. The breakaway brackets bias to the adjacent position with a biasing device and a retainer that maintains the adjacent position unless a predetermined force is applied through the hinge assembly at the breakaway brackets.
US11016537B2	Mobile terminal and control method therof A mobile terminal includes a body including first and second bodies and being in one of a first state where the first and second bodies are positioned on the same plane and a second state where one of the first and second bodies is folded with respect to the other, and a display assembly disposed at one side of the first and second bodies, at least part of the display assembly being superposed on the first and second bodies. The display assembly includes a flat area remaining flat in the second state, and a bent area bent in the second state. The display assembly includes a display panel, a first layer provided to the front side of the display panel, and a second layer provided to the rear side of the display panel.
US11016531B2	Foldable device and method for controlling image capturing by using plurality of cameras The disclosure relates to a foldable electronic device and a method for controlling image capturing by using a plurality of cameras. The foldable electronic device includes: a first housing including a first surface and a third surface; a second housing including a second surface and a fourth surface; a first display disposed on the first and second surfaces; a second display disposed on the third surface; a first camera module disposed on the third surface; second camera modules disposed on the fourth surface; a memory; and a processor. The processor is configured to: when the foldable electronic device is in a closed state, display a preview image obtained from the first camera module on the second display; detect a user input for changing an image capturing mode; sense whether a state of the foldable electronic device is changed; and when the state of the foldable electronic device is changed, display information relating to the second camera modules on the second display. Other embodiments are possible and disclosed.
US11016528B2	Foldable electronic device A foldable electronic device includes a first body, a second body, a pivot module, a linkage mechanism, and an input module. The pivot module is connected to the first body and the second body. The second body is pivoted on the first body through the pivot module. The linkage mechanism is disposed in the first body and is connected to the pivot module. The input module is movably disposed on the first body through the linkage mechanism. The linkage mechanism is configured to be driven by the pivot module to cause the input module to move to be close to or away from the pivot module and cause the input module to be inclined or parallel to the first body.
US11016527B2	Electronic device including foldable housing and flexible display Disclosed is an electronic device capable of maintaining flatness of a display by minimizing stress occurring at an inflection point at which a length of the display changes rapidly upon folding.
US11016526B2	Integrated circuit with clock distribution An integrated circuit (10, 10a-d) is disclosed, which is configured to be connected to an antenna module (3) having multiple antenna elements (17). The integrated circuit (10, 10a-d) comprises a plurality of communications circuits (50j), each of which is configured to be connected to an antenna element (17) of the antenna module (3). It also comprises a first clock input terminal (551) configured to receive a reference clock signal from outside the integrated circuit (10, 10a-d) and a first clock-distribution network (601) connected between the first clock input terminal (551) and a first subset (651) of the communication circuits (50j). Furthermore, it comprises a second clock input terminal (552) configured to receive a reference clock signal from outside the integrated circuit (10, 10a-d) and a second clock-distribution network (601) connected between the second clock input terminal (552) and a second subset (652) of the communication circuits (50j).
US11016516B2	Energy packet switches Energy packet switches (EPS) employing supercapacitors as storage provide aggregation and delivery of energy to users based on shared-capacitance in a digital power grid. The EPS aggregates energy from one or multiple energy sources, stores and dispatches the energy in discrete amounts as energy packets to one or multiple users. The payload of the energy packet is adjusted by the voltages of the supercapacitors which are used as energy containers for both the EPS and the users. The EPS has a control plane where data transmitted is used to control the operation of the EPS, and a power plane to receive and transmit energy between ports. The power and data planes work in parallel and with a parallel data network. Control and management of the EPS are based on a request-grant transport protocol. The data network is used to receive energy requests and grants, and a granting scheme is used to select which loads are granted energy. By sending addresses of granted loads on the data network and energy on the energy grid, energy is delivered to addressed destinations.
US11016514B2	Control line stabilizer for a pressure regulator A control line stabilizer includes a body defining an inlet chamber, an outlet chamber, a passageway connecting the inlet chamber and the outlet chamber, a first seat, and a second seat. A disc is disposed in the passageway and is movable between a first closed position, in which the disc engages the first seat, an open position, in which the disc is spaced away from the first seat and the second seat, and a second closed position in which the disc engages the second seat. A first spring is disposed in the outlet chamber and is operatively coupled to the disc. A second spring is disposed in the inlet chamber and is operatively coupled to the disc. The disc restricts fluid flow through the passageway by moving to the first closed position and by moving to the second closed position.
US11016512B2	Externally adjustable flow management valve assembly and system Disclosed is a system and valve assembly that can be used to promote the laminar flow of a variety of fluids and gases. In one embodiment, the valve assembly can be used to remove entrained water bubbles from a water supply. This, in turn, increases the density of water running through an associated water meter. This ensures that the water meter is not inaccurately including entrained air as metered water. The result is more accurate water readings and reduced utility bills. The assembly can be externally adjusted using an adjustment tool so as to increase or decrease the tension on an interior spring which, in turn, increases or decreases the rate at which the interior block oscillates.
US11016506B2	Propulsor trim prediction for aircraft A control circuitry includes a first filter configured to filter a gravity compensated longitudinal acceleration of an aircraft to generate a filtered gravity compensated longitudinal acceleration. The propulsor trim control circuitry also includes a second filter configured to generate a filtered speed of the aircraft based on a speed of the aircraft. The propulsor trim control circuitry includes intermediary circuitry configured to generate a filtered longitudinal control effector error based on the filtered gravity compensated longitudinal acceleration and the speed. The propulsor trim control circuitry also includes a third filter configured to generate a filtered longitudinal thrust effector command value based on a longitudinal thrust effector command value. The propulsor trim control circuitry further includes output circuitry configured to generate a predicted longitudinal thrust effector trim value for a target horizontal state based on the filtered longitudinal control effector error and the filtered longitudinal thrust effector command value.
US11016502B1	Autonomous travel system There is provided an autonomous travel system with which a travel route of an autonomous travel device can be easily set.The autonomous travel system includes an autonomous travel device (2), a line (1) for guiding travel that is placed on a travel route traveled by the autonomous travel device (2), and a marker (3) that is placed on the travel route. To the marker (3), operation control information related to an operation of the autonomous travel device (2) is recorded so as to be readable. The autonomous travel device (2) includes a detection unit (line sensor (21)) that detects the line (1), an acquisition unit (detection sensor (22)) that acquires the operation control information from the marker (3), and a control unit (23) that controls an operation of the autonomous travel device (2) on the basis of a detection result from the detection unit and the operation control information acquired by the acquisition unit.
US11016496B2	Transferring synthetic LiDAR system data to real world domain for autonomous vehicle training applications Methods and systems are disclosed for correlating synthetic LiDAR data to a real-world domain for use in training an autonomous vehicle in how to operate in an environment. To do this, the system will obtain a data set of synthetic LiDAR data, transfer the synthetic LiDAR data to a two-dimensional representation, use the two-dimensional representation to train a model of a real-world environment, and use the trained model of the real-world environment to train an autonomous vehicle.
US11016495B2	Method and system for end-to-end learning of control commands for autonomous vehicle Systems and methods are provided for end-to-end learning of commands for controlling an autonomous vehicle. A pre-processor pre-processes image data acquired by sensors at a current time step (CTS) to generate pre-processed image data that is concatenated with additional input(s) (e.g., a segmentation map and/or optical flow map) to generate a dynamic scene output. A convolutional neural network (CNN) processes the dynamic scene output to generate a feature map that includes extracted spatial features that are concatenated with vehicle kinematics to generate a spatial context feature vector. An LSTM network processes, during the (CTS), the spatial context feature vector at the (CTS) and one or more previous LSTM outputs at corresponding previous time steps to generate an encoded temporal context vector at the (CTS). The fully connected layer processes the encoded temporal context vector to learn control command(s) (e.g., steering angle, acceleration rate and/or a brake rate control commands).
US11016493B2	Planning robot stopping points to avoid collisions An example method includes determining a path to be followed by a vehicle through an environment. The path includes an ordered sequence of positions. The method also includes determining an intersection between a first object in the environment and a first area planned to be occupied by the vehicle while moving along the path and, in response, sequentially testing the ordered sequence of positions to identify a first ordinal position in the ordered sequence of positions, where the first ordinal position corresponds to a second area planned to be occupied by the vehicle while moving along the path, and where the second area is within a threshold distance of the first object. The method additionally includes trimming the path to remove (i) the first ordinal position and (ii) any positions subsequent thereto and causing the vehicle to stop at an end of the trimmed path.
US11016488B2	Aerial operation support and real-time management A method for supporting aerial operation over a surface includes obtaining a representation of the surface that comprises a plurality of flight sections, and identifying a flight path based on the representation of the surface. The flight path allows an aircraft, when following the flight path, to conduct an operation over the flight sections.
US11016487B1	Optimizing a navigation path of a robotic device Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for using a drone to monitor a community. The drone may include a processor and a storage device storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the one or more processors to perform operations. The operations may include receiving an instruction to deploy based on a determination, by a community monitoring system that an event was detected at a property of the community, navigating towards the property along an initial navigation path, obtaining local monitoring system data from a local monitoring system of a property of the community, generating based on the local monitoring system data a navigational model that identifies a location of each of one or more surveillance objectives, determining an adjusted navigation path to a location of a surveillance objective of the one or more surveillance objectives, and navigating along the adjusted navigation path.
US11016481B2	Error detection and resetting of a robotic work tool A method of controlling a mobile communication device comprising a wireless communication interface and a display is disclosed. The method comprising: executing a mobile application for controlling a robotic work tool; receiving an error signal through said wireless communication interface from said robotic work tool; displaying an error status on the display; disabling functions relating to an operating state; receiving a reset signal through said wireless communication interface from said robotic work tool; and in response thereto enabling the functions relating to an operating state.
US11016479B2	System and method for fleet reliabity monitoring A computer-based monitoring system and monitoring method implemented in computer software for analyzing the reliability data collected in the maintenance and repair operations in a fleet of assets with parts of the same type over a period of time. The reliability data include reliability event data, such as failures, repairs, and replacements of the parts. The reliability data further include asset usage data, such as usage time, or usage missions, or usage mileage, or usage flight hours, or such. The monitoring system analyses historical reliability data to build a reliability model. This model is further used in reliability SPC algorithms detecting bad actor assets and bad actor parts that show consistently worse reliability than normal parts and assets.
US11016476B2	Monitoring and reporting of industrial equipment status A system includes one or more sensors coupled to industrial equipment, wherein the one or more sensors are configured to obtain one or more measurements associated with one or more operating characteristics of the industrial equipment. The system also includes a computing device that includes a user interface and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to: receive the one or more measurements of the one or more operating characteristics of the industrial equipment; determine a status of the industrial equipment based on the one or more measurements; determine a date and a time based on the one or more measurements; and update a cell in a grid of cells organized according to time increments based on the status, the date, and the time.
US11016473B2	Process control system and data processing method A process control system includes: one or a plurality of field devices configured to be placed in a plant; and a control apparatus configured to perform at least one of input and output on the field device to control the plant; and a change trend calculation device configured to calculate a change trend in time-series data including an observed value at each point in time of the field device.
US11016471B2	Commitment of technical development data A method for semi-automated development data management for control devices includes saving a development data model in a central data store comprising a plurality of mutually related configuration data units, wherein the configuration data units each store control commands and/or configuration parameters. The method further includes providing a ruleset and identifying an initial configuration data unit, wherein it is possible, using the ruleset, to identify further configuration data units automatically on a basis of a relationship thereof with the initial configuration data unit. In addition, the method includes applying the provided ruleset to the development data model in order to identify a subset of configuration data units within the development data model and saving the identified subset.
US11016470B2	Conversion of mesh geometry to watertight boundary representation Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures include: obtaining a first 3D model including a polygon mesh associated with one or more modelled solids, the one or more modelled solids being in a boundary representation format; producing from the polygon mesh a quad patch network that combines, using transfinite interpolation, the polygon mesh with one or more smooth boundary curves corresponding to the one or more modelled solids; defining one or more locally refinable smooth surface representations using the quad patch network as input and based at least in part on a smallest dimension representable by a geometry modeling kernel of a computer aided design program; and combining the one or more locally refinable smooth surface representations with the one or more modelled solids to form a second 3D model that is watertight at the one or more smooth boundary curves.
US11016462B2	Method, system and apparatus for communication of operational status of controllers on a vehicle An illustrative example embodiment of a method of communicating between controllers on a vehicle includes communicating a first operation request from a first controller to a second controller. The first operation request is indicative of the second controller performing a first operation. The second controller attempts to perform the first operation at a time when it cannot be performed, determines that the first operation cannot be performed, and communicates an indication that the first operation request cannot currently be satisfied. The second controller continues to attempt to perform the first operation at a subsequent time.
US11016458B2	Methods and systems for adjusting power consumption based on dynamic power option agreement Examples relate to adjusting load power consumption based on a power option agreement. A computing system may receive power option data that is based on a power option agreement and specify minimum power thresholds associated with time intervals. The computing system may determine a performance strategy for a load (e.g., set of computing systems) based on a combination of the power option data and one or more monitored conditions. The performance strategy may specify a power consumption target for the load for each time interval such that each power consumption target is equal to or greater than the minimum power threshold associated with each time interval. The computing system may provide instructions the set of computing systems to perform one or more computational operations based on the performance strategy.
US11016457B1	Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system for use with SCADA devices having disparate communication technologies A supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system includes an input/output (I/O) management system in communication with a SCADA application and multiple SCADA devices. The I/O management system is configured to receive multiple request messages, and for each of the messages, forward the request message to a device driver associated with the SCADA device, and establish an asynchronous connection for communicating with the SCADA device. The I/O management system then receives request message data associated with the request message from the device driver, and forwards the request message data to the SCADA device through the asynchronous connection. When response message data is received from the SCADA device, the I/O management system forwards the response message data to the device driver for generating a response message. When response message is received from the device driver, the I/O management system forwards the response message to the SCADA application. The request message data is transmitted independently of when the request message data associated with each of the other request messages are transmitted.
US11016450B2	Real-time predictive systems for intelligent energy monitoring and management of electrical power networks A system for intelligent monitoring and management of an electrical system is disclosed. The system includes a data acquisition component, a power analytics server and a client terminal. The data acquisition component acquires real-time data output from the electrical system. The power analytics server is comprised of a real-time energy pricing engine, virtual system modeling engine, an analytics engine, a machine learning engine and a schematic user interface creator engine. The real-time energy pricing engine generates real-time utility power pricing data. The virtual system modeling engine generates predicted data output for the electrical system. The analytics engine monitors real-time data output and predicted data output of the electrical system. The machine learning engine stores and processes patterns observed from the real-time data output and the predicted data output to forecast an aspect of the electrical system.
US11016449B2	Duplexing process control device An address and a control data accessed when the CPU performs the program calculation in the control data memory of the control system controller are transmitted to the standby system controller, in the standby system controller, the control data transmitted from the control system controller to the address transmitted from the control system controller before the program calculation of the CPU of the standby system controller is expanded, the control data equalization of the control system controller and the standby system controller is performed, the control data is efficiently transmitted from the control system controller to the standby system controller, thus, the processing performance of the duplexing process control device is improved.
US11016443B2	Holographic reconstruction apparatus and method Provided are an improved holographic reconstruction apparatus and method.A holographic reconstruction method includes: obtaining an object hologram of a measurement target object; generating a digital reference hologram calculated from the obtained object hologram; extracting each of a first phase information of the object hologram and a second phase information of the calculated digital reference hologram; calculating a phase information difference from the first phase information of the object hologram and the second phase information of the calculated digital reference hologram; and compensating for distorted phase information based on the calculated phase information difference, and calculating quantitative thickness information of the measurement target object by using the compensated distorted phase information to reconstruct 3-dimensional (3D) shape information and quantitative thickness information of the measurement target object.
US11016439B2	Process cartridge There is provided a process cartridge that includes a driving assembly engageable with a driving shaft having a recess in an image forming apparatus. The driving assembly includes a coupling member, configured to receive a driving force from the driving shaft and provided with a power receiving portion engageable with the recess of the driving shaft; and a body portion capable of rotating after receiving the driving force transmitted by the power receiving portion. When the driving assembly is mounted in the image forming apparatus, the power receiving portion can urge the axis of the driving shaft to be inclined with respect to the axis of the driving assembly. The coupling member urges the driving shaft to be inclined to implement engagement and disengagement, thus solving the technical problem in the prior art that the driving assembly has complicated molding process, high production costs and unstable transmission of the driving force.
US11016437B2	Image forming apparatus that controls regulation unit to switch regulating state of a detachable replacement The image forming apparatus includes a cartridge replaceable by detachably mounting to the image forming apparatus, a door that takes a closed state or an open state, a locking pin that switches a state of the regulation unit between a regulating state in which the replacement unit is prevented to be detached from the image forming apparatus and a release state in which the replacement unit is to be detachable from the image forming apparatus, and a lock control unit (a control unit) that makes a determination as to whether or not the state of the regulation unit is to be switched from the release state to the regulating state, at a predetermined timing when initial processing is completed after a power source is turned on or a state of the door becomes the closed state from the open state.
US11016435B2	Drum cartridge and developing cartridge capable of suppressing variation in position of electrical contact surface A drum cartridge includes: a drum frame to which a developing cartridge including a storage medium having an electrical contact surface is detachably attachable; a photosensitive drum; a transfer roller; and a conveying roller. The drum is rotatable about a first axis extending in a first direction and positioned at one end portion of the frame in a second direction. The transfer roller is rotatable about a second axis extending in the first direction and in contact with the drum. The conveying roller is rotatable about a third axis extending in the first direction and separated from the transfer roller in the second direction. A first opening of the frame is positioned between the transfer roller and the conveying roller in the second direction. The electrical contact surface is exposed to an outside through the first opening in a case where the developing cartridge is attached to the frame.
US11016426B1	Fixing device and image forming apparatus According to one embodiment, a fixing device, includes a fixing member having a first surface configured to be pressed against a recording medium and a heater on a second surface of the fixing member. A first heat conducting member contacts aback surface side of the heater, and a second heat conducting member is provided to be moveable between a first state, in which the second heat conducting member is in contact with the first heat conducting member and the second surface of the fixing member, and a second state, in which the second heat conducting member is contacting the first heat conducting member, but separated from the second surface of the fixing member.
US11016425B2	Image heating device and image forming apparatus In a case where an image formed on a recording material includes a contiguous image portion formed across a plurality of heating regions at a given density, power supplied to a plurality of heating elements that heat the plurality of heating regions is controlled by correcting respective control heating amounts of the plurality of heating regions set in accordance with respective maximum densities of image regions resulting from dividing the image into the plurality of heating regions, so that a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of the control heating amounts among the plurality of heating regions in which the image portion is heated from among the plurality of heating regions, lies within a predetermined range.
US11016424B2	Image forming apparatus and developer container An image forming apparatus of the embodiment has a fixing unit and a temperature controller. The fixing unit performs the fixing process of developer transferred to a sheet by applying heat to the sheet at a predetermined fixing temperature. The temperature controller corrects the fixing temperature in the fixing process based on information indicating the manufacturing time of the developer.
US11016421B1	Belt positioning structure, belt roller unit, and image forming apparatus According to one embodiment, a belt positioning structure includes a belt roller around which an endless belt is wound. The belt comprises a belt-side positioning component curbing position aberration from the belt roller in a roller shaft direction. The belt roller comprises a roller-side positioning component curbing position aberration of the belt in a belt shaft direction. The roller-side positioning component comprises a regulation plate formed along a virtual tapered surface that has a diameter on one side in the roller shaft direction larger than a diameter on an opposite side of the regulation plate. The regulation plate comprises a movement regulation component that regulates movement of the belt-side positioning component to the one side of the belt-side positioning component in the roller shaft direction and strengthens a movement regulation force to the one side of the belt-side positioning component in the roller shaft direction.
US11016420B2	Inhibiting ink flow streaks A technique includes rotating a squeegee roller to regulate a film thickness of ink on a developer roller; and using the developer roller to transfer a portion of the ink from the developer roller to a photoconductive member. The technique includes creating, by an electrode, a potential bias with the developer roller to transfer the ink to the developer roller; and inhibiting flow streaks on the developer roller, where inhibiting the flow streaks includes restricting a flow of ink between the squeegee roller and the electrode.
US11016419B2	Printing fluid developer assembly A binary printing fluid developer assembly may include a developer roller to receive a printing fluid and transfer a portion of the printing fluid to a photoconductive member; a number of electrodes to create an electrical potential bias between the number of electrodes and the developer roller; a cleaner roller to remove an amount of printing fluid from the developer roller; and a sponge roller to clean the cleaner roller wherein a gap is maintained between the sponge roller and the number of electrodes.
US11016413B2	Image forming apparatus that controls a thermal fixing condition of a fixing portion based on thermal characteristic information of toner An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of cartridges containing toners, each cartridge including a storage element that stores a type of thermal characteristic information of the toner contained therein, and a reading portion configured to read the type of thermal characteristic information. A fixing portion thermally fixes a toner image, formed by a plurality of toners of different colors contained in the cartridges, respectively, onto a recording material, and a control portion controls the fixing portion by switching a thermal fixing condition in accordance with a combination of the types of the thermal characteristic information read by the reading portion, the thermal fixing condition being a condition that prioritizes the performance of fixing, to a recording material, a toner, of the toners that form the toner image, that is transferred first to the recording material, from among the plurality of toners of different colors.
US11016410B2	Image forming apparatus and process cartridge The image forming apparatus includes a drum cartridge having a photosensitive drum and a drum drive input member; a developing cartridge configured to be movably mounted to the drum cartridge, the developing cartridge comprising a developing roller disposed so as to face the photosensitive drum and a developing drive input member; a drum drive transmission member configured to engage with the drum drive input member and configured to transmit drum driving force to the drum drive input member while permitting a positional gap of the drum drive input member within a predetermined range; and a developing drive transmission member configured to engage with the developing drive input member and configured to transmit developing driving force to the developing drive input member while permitting a positional gap of the developing drive input member within a predetermined range.
US11016406B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatuses includes an apparatus body configured to house a replacement part. The apparatus body includes a guiding face configured to guide a guided face of the replacement part. The guided face is on a side along a movement direction in which the replacement part moves between a set position in the apparatus body and an attaching and detaching position at which the replacement part is attached to and detached from the apparatus body. The apparatus further include a moving device configured to move the replacement part between the set position and the attaching and detaching position, and a pressing device configured to press the guided face of the replacement part against the guiding face of the apparatus body while the replacement part moves between the set position and the attaching and detaching position.
US11016405B2	Electrophotograph toner A toner for electrophotography includes a toner particle including a binder resin, a colorant, and a releasing agent, and an additive material including a quantum dot-inorganic particle composite. The additive material is attached to an external surface of the toner particle. The quantum dot-inorganic particle composite includes quantum dot particles and inorganic particles present between the quantum dot particles.
US11016400B1	Extreme ultraviolet exposure system An extreme ultraviolet exposure system includes an exposure chamber having an internal space, upper and lower electrostatic chucks, a power supply, a light source, and a mask. The upper electrostatic chuck includes first and second electrodes that are adjacent to one another and that generate an electric field of different polarities, respectively, to provide an electrostatic force. The mask is attachable to the lower surface of the upper electrostatic chuck by the electrostatic force. The mask has a metal thin film pattern including a first region in which a metal thin film that shields the electric field, and a second region in which the metal thin film is not disposed and through which the electric field is transmitted. When the mask is attached, the electric field transmitted through the second region applies an attractive force or a repulsive force to charged particles in the exposure chamber.
US11016398B2	Integrated circuit overlay test patterns and method thereof Integrated circuits and methods for overlap measure are provided. In an embodiment, an integrated circuit includes a plurality of functional cells including at least one gap disposed adjacent to at least one functional cell of the plurality of functional cells and a first overlay test pattern cell disposed within the at least one gap, wherein the first overlay test pattern cell includes a first number of patterns disposed along a first direction at a first pitch. The first pitch is smaller than a smallest wavelength on a full spectrum of humanly visible lights.
US11016397B2	Source separation from metrology data A method and a computer program product that relates to lithographic apparatuses and, processes, and more particularly to a method and computer program to inspect substrates produced by the lithographic apparatuses and processes. The method and/or computer program product includes determining contributions from independent sources from results measured from a lithography process or a substrate processed by the lithography process, wherein the results are measured using a plurality of different substrate measurement recipes.
US11016395B2	Methods of determining scattering of radiation by structures of finite thicknesses on a patterning device A method including: obtaining a thin-mask transmission function of a patterning device and a M3D model for a lithographic process, wherein the thin-mask transmission function represents a continuous transmission mask and the M3D model at least represents a portion of M3D attributable to multiple edges of structures on the patterning device; determining a M3D mask transmission function of the patterning device by using the thin-mask transmission function and the M3D model; and determining an aerial image produced by the patterning device and the lithographic process, by using the M3D mask transmission function.
US11016394B2	Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method An immersion lithographic apparatus has adaptations to prevent or reduce bubble formation in one or more gaps in the substrate table by preventing bubbles escaping from the gap into the beam path and/or extracting bubbles that may form in the gap.
US11016393B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus may include a display panel, an optical member that is disposed behind the display panel and that is configured to guide light to the display panel, a light source that is configured to irradiate light to the optical member, a holder that is configured to support the display panel and the optical member, and a contraction member that is disposed parallel to the optical member, and that comprises a negative thermal expansion (NTE) substance.
US11016392B2	Amide combinations for cleaning and stripping of electronic parts A solvent consisting essentially of: (A) a first component consisting of N,N-diethylacetamide (DEAC); (B) a second component consisting of 3-methoxy-N, N-dimethyl propionamide (M3DMPA); and (C) an optional third component consisting of one or more glycol ethers or glycol ether acetates; or a solvent consisting essentially of: (1) a first component consisting of one or more acyclic amides of Formula (I): and (2) an optional second component consisting of one or more of DEAC, M3DMPA, N,N-dimethylpropionamide, one or more glycol ethers or glycol ether acetates, and one or more cyclic amides of Formulae (II-IV).
US11016387B2	Chemically amplified positive-type photosensitive resin composition, method of manufacturing substrate with template, and method of manufacturing plated article A chemically amplified positive-type photosensitive resin composition containing a predetermined amount of organic solvent (S1) having a boiling point of 120 to 180° C., and satisfying the following requirements: a solvent residual rate measured by the following steps (1) and (2) is 3.5% by mass or less: (1) forming a coated film of 40 μm by applying the photosensitive resin composition to a substrate; and (2) baking the coated film at a temperature that is higher by 10° C. than the boiling point of the organic solvent (S1) for 30 seconds, and calculating the rate of the organic solvent (S1) in a total mass of the coated film after baking by gas chromatography.
US11016386B2	Photoresist composition and method of forming photoresist pattern A method of forming a photoresist pattern includes forming a protective layer over a photoresist layer formed on a substrate, and selectively exposing the protective layer and the photoresist layer to actinic radiation. The protective layer and the photoresist layer are developed to form a pattern in the photoresist layer, and the protective layer is removed. The protective layer includes a polymer having pendant fluorocarbon groups and pendant acid leaving groups.
US11016383B2	Pellicle for an EUV lithography mask and a method of manufacturing thereof A pellicle for an EUV photo mask includes a first capping layer, a matrix layer disposed over the first capping layer, a second capping layer disposed over the matrix layer; and a metallic layer disposed over the second capping layer.
US11016380B2	Projection video display apparatus A projection video display apparatus includes: a video projection screen, having a front and a rear surface, arranged in an indoor space. The video projection screen transmits video light from behind the rear surface or in front of the front surface to display video on the front surface. The front surface functions as a video display surface. A video projecting apparatus, arranged in a side of the rear surface or the front surface, enlarges and projects the video light from the rear or front surface. The video projecting apparatus is configured by an optical scanning video projecting apparatus that forms the video by scanning video light composed of coherent light on the video projection screen. The video projection screen guides the video light from the video projecting apparatus toward a direction to the front surface, and causes part of the light in the indoor space to be transmitted therethrough.
US11016379B2	Projector and control method of projector for notifying image supply device of resolution information A projector includes: a projecting section projecting a second image based on image information onto a projection surface onto which a first image is projected by another projector; a generating section generating resolution information indicating a resolution different between a first mode in which the first image and the second image are portions of an image indicated by the image information and the second image is connected with the first image and a second mode in which the first image and the second image are the image indicated by the image information and the second image is superimposed on the first image; and a notifying section notifying an image supply device supplying the image information of the resolution information generated by the generating section.
US11016378B2	Laser light source The present invention is directed to a laser light source.
US11016377B2	Image display apparatus and control method thereof A projector includes an image projection unit for displaying an image by a liquid crystal panel, and a controller that powers off the projector after displaying a black image in the image projection unit for a predetermined time (a set refresh time) in a refresh mode for improving burn-in of the liquid crystal panel, in which the controller stops the refresh mode when an interrupt event is generated before the set refresh time elapses in the refresh mode and powers off the projector after executing an interrupt process according to the interrupt event.
US11016374B2	Apparatus for projecting a light spot The disclosed subject matter relates to an apparatus for projecting a light spot, comprising a light source emitting a light beam having a wavelength and a divergence angle, a mirror arranged in the path of the light beam to deflect said light beam about a nominal deflection angle, the mirror having a surface with a known curvature, and a collimation lens arranged between the light source and the mirror in the path of the light beam, wherein the lens is mounted at a distance z1≠f1 from the light source, f1 being the focal length of the lens, and wherein the distance z1 is chosen such that the width of the deflected light beam has a minimum at a pre-determined projection distance.
US11016371B2	Gimbal and photographing assembly having the gimbal The present application relates to the technical field of a photographing apparatus, provides a gimbal and a photographing assembly having the gimbal. The gimbal includes: a stability augmentation assembly configured to mount the photographing apparatus; a handle connected to the stability augmentation assembly; a display screen mounted to the handle and configured to display an image photographed by the photographing apparatus, so that a user may control the stability augmentation assembly according to the photographed image.
US11016369B2	Camera supporting base A camera supporting base includes a mounting platform with a mounting surface, a lower surface, and a recess area. The mounting surface is raised above and non-coplanar with the lower surface of the mounting platform. The camera supporting base also includes a pliable mass surrounding the mounting platform. The mounting surface of the mounting platform is recessed below a highest contour of the pliable mass.
US11016365B2	Lens apparatus and imaging system using the same A lens apparatus includes a conductive mount member, and a nonconductive fixed member fixed onto the mount member and having a conductive pattern.
US11016360B1	Optical modulator RF electrodes The performance of an electro-optic modulator depends in part on the capacitance, the inductance, the electric field distribution, and the signal insertion loss of a microwave transmission line that modulates the refractive index of a waveguide via the electro-optic effect. Conventional electro-optic modulators are typically unable to improve one of these properties without negatively affecting other properties, resulting in lower performance. These shortcomings may be overcome, in part, by the inclusion of capacitive structures to decouple these properties. The capacitive structure may include a fang and/or a hook to tune the capacitance and the electric field distribution without appreciably changing the inductance or the signal insertion losses. The inductance and the signal insertion losses may be tuned by changing the sizes and shapes of a signal conductor, a ground conductor, and a slot formed between the signal and ground conductors without appreciably changing the capacitance or the electric field distribution.
US11016359B2	Hydrogen occlusion body, gasochromic light control element, hydrogen sensing element, and hydrogen sensor In one aspect of the present invention, a hydrogen occlusion body includes: a hydrogen occlusion layer containing a material whose optical property reversibly changes upon hydrogenation and dehydrogenation; and a catalyst layer containing a palladium-ruthenium alloy.
US11016358B2	Porous backplane for electro-optic display A backplane for an electro-optic display including an electrode and a substrate. The substrate may be porous to liquids, e.g., water, and may formed, from cellulose or a similar hydrophilic polymer. The electrode is desirably also porous to the same liquid as the substrate, so that the electrodes do not form liquid-impervious areas on the substrate. For example, when the liquid is water (or an aqueous solution) the electrodes may be formed of a hydrophilic carbon black, which may be coated or screen-printed on to the substrate.
US11016357B2	Self-contained EC IGU Onboard EC window controllers are described. The controllers are configured in close proximity to the EC window, for example, within the IGU. The controller may be part of a window assembly, which includes an IGU having one or more EC panes, and thus does not have to be matched with the EC window, and installed, in the field. The window controllers described herein have a number of advantages because they are matched to the IGU containing one or more EC devices and their proximity to the EC panes of the window overcomes a number of problems associated with conventional controller configurations. Also described are self-meshing networks for electrochromic windows.
US11016356B2	Display device According to one embodiment, a display device comprises a color filter layer, an illumination device and a selection layer. The illumination device illuminates the color filter layer with mixed light including first and second components. The color filter layer includes first and second filters. The selection layer includes a phase element layer including first and second phase elements, and first and second polarizers. The first phase element changes a polarization state of the mixed color light such that the first component is transmitted through the second polarizer. The second phase element changes a polarization state of the mixed color light such that the second component is transmitted through the second polarizer.
US11016354B2	Liquid crystal display device and electronic device To provide a semiconductor device, a liquid crystal display device, and an electronic device which have a wide viewing angle and in which the number of manufacturing steps, the number of masks, and manufacturing cost are reduced compared with a conventional one. The liquid crystal display device includes a first electrode formed over an entire surface of one side of a substrate; a first insulating film formed over the first electrode; a thin film transistor formed over the first insulating film; a second insulating film formed over the thin film transistor; a second electrode formed over the second insulating film and having a plurality of openings; and a liquid crystal over the second electrode. The liquid crystal is controlled by an electric field between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US11016352B1	Electro-optical device, manufacturing method for electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus An electro-optical device includes a pixel electrode group including a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode, a layered body including a plurality of insulating layers, a first transistor, and a second transistor, a lens layer including a first lens overlapping with the first pixel electrode and a second lens overlapping with the second pixel electrode, a first contact that electrically couples the first transistor and the first pixel electrode, and a second contact that electrically couples the second transistor and the second pixel electrode. The layered body, the lens layer, and the pixel electrode group are arranged in this order. Each of the first lens and the second lens, and the layered body are disposed with a space interposed therebetween layered body, and each of the first contact and the second contact extends through the lens layer and the space.
US11016349B2	Display device A display device includes a substrate including a first display area and a second display area. The first display area includes first pixel areas, each including one or more first pixels. The second display area includes second pixel areas including one or more second pixels and a light transmittance area having a higher light transmittance than the second pixel area. The first and second display areas include a common electrode that transmits a constant common voltage. The common electrode in the second display area includes patterned regions that correspond to a first light transmittance area included in the light transmittance area. A thickness of the common electrode in the patterned regions is smaller than a thickness of the common electrode in a region other than the patterned regions or equals zero. The patterned regions and the second pixel areas extend alternately along a first direction in the second display area.
US11016347B2	Display device An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a display device including a substrate including a display area in which a plurality of pixel groups are disposed and a peripheral area disposed around the display area, and a plurality of alignment keys disposed on the substrate, wherein each of the pixel groups may include a plurality of pixels displaying different colors, and the plurality of alignment keys may include first alignment keys that are disposed in the pixel groups adjacent to edges of at least two corners of the display area and that are disposed in a plurality of first pixels that display the same color among a plurality of pixels included in the pixel group.
US11016346B2	Display substrate, display apparatus, and method of fabricating display substrate The present application discloses a display substrate having an array of a plurality of pixel areas. The display substrate includes a base substrate and a plurality of main spacers on the base substrate. The array of the plurality of pixel areas includes at least one group of pixel areas. Each of the at least one group of pixel areas includes a matrix of pixel areas. In each of the at least one group of pixel areas, each row of the plurality of pixel areas corresponds to at least one of the plurality of main spacers, and each column of the plurality of pixel areas corresponds to at least one of the plurality of main spacers.
US11016345B2	Liquid crystal cell and liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal cell 10A according to the present invention includes: a pair of substrates 11 and 12 facing each other and having alignment films 11a and 12a formed on surfaces of the substrates, respectively, the surfaces facing each other; and a liquid crystal layer LC interposed between the substrates 11 and 12. The alignment films 11a and 12a contain a polymer for alignment films which has a hydrazide functional group represented by Chemical Formula (1).
US11016339B2	Backlight module and in vehicle display device The present disclosure provides a backlight module and an in-vehicle display device. The backlight module includes a back plate, a light board, a diffusion plate, and a bracket layer. The bracket layer is arranged between the light board and the diffusion plate. The bracket layer is used to support the diffusion plate and spaces the light board apart from the diffusion plate to form a light mixture space. By adjusting a height of the bracket layer, it is convenient to adjust a distance of the light mixture space formed between the diffusion plate and the light board. Accordingly, backlight display performance of the backlight module and the in-vehicle display device is improved.
US11016336B2	Bragg grating-based display filtering A display includes a display modulation layer, a backlight unit configured to generate light for illumination of the display modulation layer, and a filter film disposed between the backlight unit and the display modulation layer. The filter film includes a plurality of Bragg grating sets. Each Bragg grating set is configured to reflect the light in a wavelength-selective and angular-selective manner rearward toward the backlight unit.
US11016333B2	Polarizer and liquid crystal display device having porous protective layer The present disclosure discloses a polarizer and a liquid crystal display device, comprising: a first protective layer (1); a polarizing layer (2), wherein the first protective layer is located on one layer surface of the polarizing layer; and a second protective layer (3) located on another layer surface of the polarizing layer; wherein at least one of the first protective layer (1) and the second protective layer (3) has a porous structure.
US11016332B2	Display panel and display device A display panel including a plurality of pixel units is provided. The display panel includes: a first substrate and a second substrate opposite to each other a first light-shielding layer including a plurality of first openings as light-transmitting regions for the pixel units, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. Each pixel unit includes a first electrode, a second electrode and a lens. The first electrode and the second electrode are configured to form an electric field in response to receiving a voltage, the electric field is configured to drive liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer to deflect to change a ratio of transmission and reflection of linearly polarized light incident onto the liquid crystal layer at the light incident surface of the lens.
US11016330B2	Color substrate including retroreflective layer and display device including the color substrate A color substrate and a display device including the same. The color substrate includes: a substrate including first and second pixel regions spaced apart from each other, and a light shielding region between the first and second pixel regions; a first color conversion layer over the first pixel region and configured to convert incident light into first color light; a second color conversion layer over the second pixel region and configured to convert the incident light into second color light; and a retroreflective layer over the light shielding region and configured to retroreflect incident light through the first and second color conversion layer.
US11016329B2	Display panel, data processor, and method for manufacturing display panel Provided is a novel display panel that is highly convenient or reliable, a novel data processor that is highly convenient or reliable, or a method for manufacturing a novel display panel that is highly convenient or reliable. The display panel includes a pixel and a terminal electrically connected to the pixel. The pixel includes a first insulating film, a first contact portion in a first opening provided in the first insulating film, a pixel circuit electrically connected to the first contact portion, a second contact portion electrically connected to the pixel circuit, a first display element electrically connected to the first contact portion, and a second display element electrically connected to the second contact portion. The first insulating film includes a region lying between the first display element and the second display element. The terminal includes a surface at which contact with other component can be made.
US11016326B2	Curved display panel and method of producing the same A curved display panel including a display surface curved around one curving axis includes a first substrate, a second substrate disposed opposite the first substrate while having a space therebetween, first pixel sections included in the first substrate and arranged within a surface area of the display surface, and second pixel sections included in the second substrate and arranged within the surface area of the display surface and overlapping the first pixel sections, respectively, in a curved state of the display surface. For at least some of the second pixel sections that are to be displaced by curving, position relation with respect to the first pixel sections in the flat state of the display surface is changed from that in the curved state of the display surface by a correction displacement amount based on an assumed displacement amount corresponding to a position within the surface area of the display surface.
US11016320B2	Display device with viewing angle switching, display method and fabrication method thereof A display device with viewing angle switching, and its display method and fabrication method are provided. The display device includes a display module and a guest-host effect box. The guest-host effect box includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a display dielectric layer. A first transparent electrode is disposed on a surface of the first substrate and a second transparent electrode is disposed on a surface of the second substrate. A first alignment film layer is disposed on a surface of the first transparent electrode, and a second alignment film layer is disposed on a surface of the second transparent electrode. When a bias voltage is not applied to the first and second transparent electrodes, a display mode is a narrow viewing angle mode; and when the bias voltage is applied to the first and second transparent electrodes, the display mode is a wide viewing angle mode.
US11016319B2	Display device mountable to wall surface A display device includes a display panel that displays an image, a back cover disposed on a back face side of the display panel, and a mounting member for fixing the display device to a wall surface. The mounting member is provided in a region extending from a front end of the display panel on a display surface side to a back end of the back cover on the back face side so as to fall within a region of the display device when seen from a side of the display device.
US11016318B2	Optical stack for switchable directional display A privacy display comprises a spatial light modulator and a compensated switchable liquid crystal retarder arranged between first and second polarisers arranged in series with the spatial light modulator. In a privacy mode of operation, on-axis light from the spatial light modulator is directed without loss, whereas off-axis light has reduced luminance. The visibility of the display to off-axis snoopers is reduced by means of luminance reduction over a wide polar field. In a wide angle mode of operation, the switchable liquid crystal retardance is adjusted so that off-axis luminance is substantially unmodified.
US11016314B2	Non-volatilely programmable optical devices and methods to configure such optical devices A method to configure an optical device. The method may rely on an optical device that includes two parallel mirrors extending, each, parallel to a reference plane, and an active material extending between the mirrors. An average plane of the active material is parallel to said reference plane, so as to form an optical resonator. The active material is energized so as to non-volatilely alter a refractive index and/or an optical absorption in one or more regions of said material. This results in forming one or more cavities, respectively, in which light can be laterally confined, in-plane with said average plane, in addition to being confined between the mirrors, along a direction perpendicular to said reference plane. Each of the one or more cavities has an altered mode profile compared to a non-altered region of the active material. Related methods and optical devices are also disclosed.
US11016310B2	Method for determining a three dimensional performance of an ophthalmic lens; associated method of calculating an ophthalmic lens A method for determining a three dimensional performance of an ophthalmic lens including: calculating a domain in which a condition between a local optical criterion and at a threshold value is fulfilled; determining the three dimensional performance of the ophthalmic lens according to the domain. A method of calculating an ophthalmic lens includes the method.
US11016307B2	Method and apparatus for a shaped optical path length extender A digital light path length modulator includes an optical path length extender (OPLE) and a polarization modulator. The OPLE has two light paths with different path lengths, such that the light having a first polarization is directed through a first light path, and the light having a second polarization is directed through a second light path.
US11016300B2	Architectures and methods for outputting different wavelength light out of waveguides Architectures are provided for selectively outputting light for forming images, the light having different wavelengths and being outputted with low levels of crosstalk. In some embodiments, light is incoupled into a waveguide and deflected to propagate in different directions, depending on wavelength. The incoupled light then outcoupled by outcoupling optical elements that outcouple light based on the direction of propagation of the light. In some other embodiments, color filters are between a waveguide and outcoupling elements. The color filters limit the wavelengths of light that interact with and are outcoupled by the outcoupling elements. In yet other embodiments, a different waveguide is provided for each range of wavelengths to be outputted. Incoupling optical elements selectively incouple light of the appropriate range of wavelengths into a corresponding waveguide, from which the light is outcoupled.
US11016298B2	Microlens collimator for scanning optical fiber in virtual/augmented reality system A display subsystem for a virtual image generation system for use by an end user comprises a planar waveguide apparatus, an optical fiber, at least one light source configured for emitting light from a distal end of the optical fiber, and a collimation element mounted to a distal end of the optical fiber for collimating light from the optical fiber. The virtual image generation system further comprises a mechanical drive assembly to which the optical fiber is mounted to the drive assembly. The mechanical drive assembly is configured for displacing the distal end of the optical fiber, along with the collimation element, in accordance with a scan pattern. The virtual image generation system further comprises an optical waveguide input apparatus configured for directing the collimated light from the collimation element down the planar waveguide apparatus, such that the planar waveguide apparatus displays image frames to the end user.
US11016297B2	Image generation apparatus and image generation method Methods and apparatus provide for receiving an image to be displayed on the head-mounted display unit generated in a first frequency by an image generation apparatus using information relating to at least one of a position and a rotation of the head of a user who wears a head-mounted display unit, where the information is acquired at a certain point of time; correcting the image using updated information relating to at least one of the position and the rotation at a different point of time, where the receiving and correcting includes receiving updated information relating to at least one of a position and a rotation in a second frequency corresponding to a frame rate of the head-mounted display unit, and performing multiple times of correction of the image in the first frequency using a plurality of the updated information relating to at least one of the position and the rotation received in the second frequency higher than the first frequency.
US11016295B2	Eyeglasses wearable device, method of controlling the eyeglasses wearable device and data management server According to one embodiment, an eyeglasses wearable device includes a sensing signal acquisition module configured to acquire sensing signals from potential sensors, a display configured to display display data, a display data output module configured to transmit first display data to the display, a characteristic determination module configured to determine at least timing of blinking of the user based on variations in the sensing signals when the first display data is displayed on the display, and an oversight determination module configured to determine whether the user has overlooked an important display position in the first display data by comparing the timing of blinking with an elapsed time position of the first display data.
US11016293B2	Virtual reality head-mounted apparatus Methods, systems, and apparatus for a virtual reality (VR) head-mounted apparatus are provided. One of the apparatus includes an apparatus body and a heat-generating element. The apparatus body may comprise an installation space and a heat dissipating channel having a non-straight-line structure. The heat-generating element may be installed in the installation space, and two ends of the heat dissipating channel may be in connection with the installation space and the exterior of the apparatus body. The VR head-mounted apparatus provides improved heat dissipating capability without adversely affecting immersive VR experience.
US11016286B2	Light beam irradiation device A light beam irradiation device includes a light source unit that emits a light beam, a reflection mirror and a driving unit that swings the reflection mirror under supply of a driving signal, and comprises the light deflection unit receiving and reflecting the light beam emitted from the light source unit using the reflection mirror, a light deflection angle detection unit that includes a light reception surface that receives the light beam reflected by the reflection mirror, the light deflection angle detection unit detecting a position of the light beam on the light reception surface at a frequency equal to or higher than four times a resonance frequency of the light deflection unit and outputting a detection signal indicating the position, and an operation control unit that corrects the driving signal on the basis of the detection signal and outputs the corrected driving signal to the light deflection unit.
US11016285B2	Shuttered switch mirror Methods and apparatus for a sensor system having a structure having a reflective surface, wherein the structure is rotatable about a longitudinal axis. Channels provide respective paths from an entry into the channels to the reflective surface. A shroud selectively block ones of the channels to provide an operational configuration and a calibration configuration.
US11016279B2	Observation device An observation device includes: an illumination optical system that irradiates illumination light onto a sample, an objective optical system that has a phase modulation region and a light blocking region and that acquires an image of the illumination light transmitted through the sample, and an autofocus mechanism. The objective optical system selectively outputs the illumination light from a first output region disposed at a position where the illumination light is to be projected onto the phase modulation region and a second output region disposed at a position where a portion of the illumination light is to be projected onto the light blocking region. The autofocus mechanism causes the objective optical system to acquire an image of the illumination light while causing the illumination light to be output from the second output region, and detects the focus position of the objective optical system based on the contrast of the acquired image.
US11016278B2	Reflective objective lens and observation method An objective lens according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a first element having a first surface to a fourth surface and a second element having a first planar surface and a second planar surface and being located on the specimen-side of the first element. The first surface is a transmissive planar surface located on the optical axis, the second surface is a reflective convex surface located on the optical axis, the third surface is a reflective concave surface located on the outer side of the first surface, and the fourth surface is a transmissive planar surface located on the outer side of the second surface. The first planar surface is a transmissive planar surface to be joined to the fourth surface and the second planar surface is a transmissive planar surface parallel to the first planar surface.
US11016275B2	Wide-angle lens A wide-angle lens 100 includes a first lens 10, a second lens 20, a third lens 30, a diaphragm 72, a fourth lens 40, and a fifth lens 50. The first lens 10 is a negative meniscus lens whose lens surface on an image side Lb is a concave curved surface. The second lens 20 is a negative lens whose lens surface on the image side Lb is a concave curved surface and whose lens surface on the object side La is convex curved surface. The third lens 30 is a positive lens whose lens surface on the image side Lb is a convex curved surface. The fourth lens 40 is a negative lens whose lens surface on the image side Lb is a concave curved surface. The fifth lens 50 is a biconvex lens. A refractive index n1 of the first lens 10 satisfies a conditional expression.
US11016270B2	Photographing optical lens assembly, imaging apparatus and electronic device A photographing optical lens assembly includes seven lens elements, which are, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof and an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The sixth lens element with positive refractive power has an image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The seventh lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof and including at least one convex critical point in an off-axis region thereof.
US11016267B2	Imaging lens An imaging lens includes a first lens; a second lens; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; and a sixth lens, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. The second lens has a convex surface facing the object side near an optical axis thereof. The fifth lens has a convex surface facing the image plane side near an optical axis thereof. The sixth lens has a convex surface facing the image plane side near an optical axis thereof. The first lens is arranged so that a surface thereof on the object side is away from an image plane by a specific distance on an optical axis thereof. The second lens is arranged to be away from the third lens by a specific distance on the optical axis thereof. The third lens has a specific Abbe's number.
US11016266B2	Ocular optical system, and observation apparatus and imaging apparatus including the same In an ocular optical system including a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens having negative refractive power, a third lens having positive refractive power, and a fourth lens having positive refractive power which are arranged in this order from an object side to an observation side, the shape and position of each lens is set appropriately to increase the angle of view and to minimize on-axis and magnification chromatic aberrations.
US11016265B2	Mounting assembly for a mirror in a laser scanning unit of an image forming device A mounting assembly for mounting a mirror to a frame in a laser scanning unit of an electrophotographic image forming device includes a bracket attached between the frame and the mirror. The bracket includes a body having a first surface and a second surface transverse to the first surface. A first set of protrusions extends from the first surface for defining a first gap between the frame and the bracket that limits adhesive thickness therebetween when the first surface of the bracket is adhesively attached to the frame. A second set of protrusions extends form the second surface for defining a second gap between the mirror and the bracket that limits adhesive thickness therebetween when the second surface of the bracket is adhesively attached to the mirror.
US11016258B2	System for locking optical fibers within a fiber optic cable The present disclosure includes a fiber optic cable having a conduit including a conduit wall defining a conduit passage that extends longitudinally through the conduit. The conduit also includes an adhesive injection port defined through the conduit wall and at least one optical fiber within the conduit passage. The cable further includes a fiber lock including an adhesive volume in communication with the adhesive injection port. The adhesive volume includes a main adhesive volume positioned within the conduit passage and bonded to the optical fiber. The main adhesive volume is fixed to prevent longitudinal movement relative to the conduit.
US11016256B2	Flame retardant optical cable A flame-retardant optical cable is disclosed which includes a polymeric central loose tube housing optical fibres, a metallic armour surrounding the polymeric central loose tube, and a multi-layered sheath surrounding and in direct contact with the metallic armour. The multi-layered sheath includes an inner layer, an intermediate layer, and an outer layer, all made of a LSoH flame-retardant material. The LSoH flame-retardant material of the intermediate layer has a limiting oxygen index (LOI) higher than the LOI of the LSoH flame-retardant material of the inner layer and of the outer layer. Such cable has improved flame-retardant properties, particularly in terms of slowing flame propagation, heat release, droplets and emission of smokes, when it is exposed to flames during fire.
US11016254B2	Wearable device, optical module and driving method thereof An optical module includes an optical transmitting assembly and a driver. The optical transmitting assembly is configured to emit an optical signal based on a driving current. The driver includes a calibration circuit and a driving current setting circuit. The calibration circuit is configured to obtain an original monitoring current feedback value MONDACbefore corresponding to a monitoring current of the optical transmitting assembly, obtain a tracking error value TE of a current temperature relative to a reference temperature, and calibrate the original monitoring current feedback value MONDACbefore based on the tracking error value to obtain a calibrated monitoring current feedback value MONDACafter. The driving current setting circuit is configured to set the driving current based on the calibrated monitoring current feedback value MONDACafter to control the optical power output by the optical transmitting assembly.
US11016253B1	Adiabatic waveguide couplers with ultra-low back-reflection An optical coupler comprises an adiabatic waveguide structure having a proximal end and a distal end, with the adiabatic waveguide structure comprising: a first waveguide comprising an input section at the proximal end; a first coupling section contiguous with the input section and extending toward the distal end; and a first laterally displaced section contiguous with the first coupling section. The first waveguide narrows along the first coupling section, from the input section to the first laterally displaced section. A second waveguide is separate from the first waveguide and comprises a second laterally displaced section adjacent to the proximal end; a second coupling section contiguous with the second laterally displaced section and extending toward the distal end; and an output section contiguous with the second coupling section. The second waveguide widens along the second coupling section, from the second laterally displaced section to the output section.
US11016239B1	Lighting device and display device A lighting device includes light guide plates each of which includes a light exit section including a light it surface and a light entering section extending from the light exit section toward a light source row and including an extended end surface as a light entering surface. The light exit section has a thickness dimension that is smaller than that of the light entering section at an extended end thereof. The light guide plates are stacked on each other such that the light exit sections thereof overlap each other seen from a normal direction of the light exit surface. The light entering section of one light guide plate and the light entering section of another light guide plate are disposed next to each other in an arrangement direction of the light sources so as not to overlap each other seen from the normal direction of light exit surface.
US11016235B2	Multiview backlighting having a color-tailored emission pattern Multiview backlighting having a color-tailored emission pattern provides directional light beams corresponding to a plurality of different views of a multiview image. A multiview backlight includes a light guide configured to guide light as guided light and a color-tailored multibeam element. The color-tailored multibeam element is configured to provide emitted light having the color-tailored emission pattern from the guided light. The emitted light includes a plurality of directional light beams having different principal angular directions corresponding to respective different view directions of a multiview display. The color-tailored emission pattern corresponds to an arrangement of color sub-pixels of a view pixel in the multiview display.
US11016234B2	Electronic device stack assembly An electronic device includes a stack assembly and a cover glass. The stack assembly includes an electrophoretic display sub-assembly for rendering content, a front light sub-assembly comprising a light guide, a light FPC, and a plurality of light sources, and a capacitive touch sensing sub-assembly for detecting touch inputs. A yellow-pigmented tape is applied over the light sources and an edge of the light guide. A stiffener member is coupled to the light FPC opposite the yellow-pigmented tape.
US11016233B2	Optical waveguide structure, phosphor element, and method for manufacturing optical waveguide structure An optical waveguide structure includes an optical waveguide, a reflection film provided on the optical waveguide and reflecting a light propagating in the optical waveguide, a metal film provided on the reflection film, and a surface oxidized film provided on the metal film and generated by surface oxidation of the metal film.
US11016231B2	Retarder A retarder including first and second outer layers and a birefringent layer disposed between and in direct contact with the first and second outer layers is described. The birefringent layer may include a first polyester having greater than 45 mole percent naphthalate units and greater than 45 mole percent ethylene units. Each of the first and second outer layers includes a second polyester which may include 40 to 50 mole percent naphthalate units, at least 25 mole percent ethylene units, and 10 to 25 mole percent of branched or cyclic C4-C10 alkyl units. The retarder has a retardance in a range of 1 micrometer to 100 micrometers.
US11016230B2	Optical element and optical device Provided is an optical element including a wavelength selective reflective polarizer and a λ/2 plate in which the λ/2 plate includes an optically anisotropic layer which has an optical axis in a direction parallel to a surface and is formed of a cured layer of a liquid crystal composition and has a liquid crystal alignment pattern in which an orientation of the optical axis changes while continuously rotating in at least one direction in a plane of the optically anisotropic layer, and light in the specific wavelength range which is circularly polarized light oriented in a direction opposite to that of the specific circularly polarized light among light incident on a surface of the optical element on the λ/2 plate side is reflected in a direction different from a regular reflection direction of the incident light.
US11016228B2	System and method for forming diffracted optical element having varied gratings Embodiments herein provide systems and methods for forming an optical component. A method may include providing a plurality of proximity masks between a plasma source and a workpiece, the workpiece including a plurality of substrates secured thereto. Each of the plurality of substrates may include first and second target areas. The method may further include delivering, from the plasma source, an angled ion beam towards the workpiece, wherein the angled ion beam is then received at one of the plurality of masks. A first proximity mask may include a first set of openings permitting the angled ion beam to pass therethrough to just the first target area of each of the plurality of substrates. A second proximity mask may include a second set of openings permitting the angled ion beam to pass therethrough just to the second target area of each of the plurality of substrates.
US11016224B2	Combination microlens optical device An optical device, preferably a security device for a security document, including a substrate having a first side and a second side, an arrangement of microlenses located on the first side and an arrangement of microimages such that the microimages are viewable or can be made viewable through the microlenses, wherein the arrangement of microlenses includes first and second microlenses and wherein the arrangement of microimages includes first and second microimages, wherein the first microlenses and first microimages are configured for providing a first visual effect and wherein the second microlenses and second microimages are configured for providing a second visual effect, and wherein the first microlenses are of a different height with respect to the substrate than the second microlenses.
US11016217B2	Water crest monitoring using electromagnetic transmissions Provided are systems and methods for monitoring water cresting in a subsurface formation. Embodiments include, for each of a plurality of locations along a length of a horizontal section of a wellbore extending into a hydrocarbon reservoir of a subsurface formation, advancing an omnidirectional electromagnetic logging tool (ODEMLT) to the location, operating the ODEMLT to transmit (into a portion of the subsurface formation below the horizontal section of the wellbore) an electromagnetic (EM) source signal comprising a multi-frequency waveform, operating the ODEMLT to sense an EM return signal comprising a reflection of the multi-frequency waveform from the subsurface formation, and generating a subset of saturation data for the location corresponding to the sensed EM return signal, and generating, based on the subsets of saturation data, a radargram including a two-dimensional mapping of water saturation within the portion of the subsurface formation.
US11016216B2	Multi-spacing array tool for determining pipe thickness of a multi-pipe structure Systems and methods to investigate multi-pipe structures for detection of corrosion and quantitative assessment of thickness in the multiple pipes can be implemented in a variety of applications. Systems can include a set of transmitters and multiple receivers arranged on a tool structure with variable distances to the transmitters of the set of transmitters, where the receivers are arranged to measure electromagnetic responses from a multi-pipe structure to excitation of the set of transmitters with the tool structure disposed in the multi-pipe structure. The electromagnetic responses may include responses correlated to a near field zone, a transition zone, and a far field zone, where the electromagnetic responses can be processed to recover individual thicknesses of each pipe of the multi-pipe structure. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US11016214B2	Dolomite reservoir prediction method and system based on well and seismic combination, and storage medium The invention discloses a dolomite reservoir prediction method and system based on well and seismic combination, and storage medium. The method steps include: obtaining the dolomite index characteristic curve through well log sensitivity analysis, and distinguishing the dolomite and limestone according to the difference in their response range; after the artificial intelligence deep learning is performed on the dolomite index characteristic curve of the drilling area, the dolomite index characteristic curve of the virtual drilling area is obtained; according to the dolomite index characteristic curve of the drilling area and the virtual drilling area, the post-stack seismic data is used for inversion to obtain the distribution and development status of the dolomite reservoir in the test area. The invention effectively distinguishes the dolomite and limestone through the dolomite index characteristic curve, and accurately predicts the distribution and development status of the dolomite reservoir in the test area with less wells.
US11016213B2	Gradient-based 4D seabed acquisition positioning A method includes receiving desired locations of nodes for deployment on a seabed of a seismic survey where each of the nodes includes a sealed housing and, within the sealed housing, at least one battery and spaced seismic sensors electrically powered by the at least one battery; determining locations of the nodes as deployed on the seabed where at least some of the determined locations differ from their corresponding desired locations; acquiring seismic data sensed by the spaced seismic sensors of the nodes where the acquired seismic data corresponds to the determined locations; and, based at least in part on the acquired seismic data, a spacing of the spaced seismic sensors and the desired locations, generating seismic data for the desired locations.
US11016210B2	Stimulated fracture network partitioning from microseismicity analysis An illustrative hydraulic fracture mapping method includes: collecting microseismic signals during a multistage hydraulic fracturing operation; deriving microseismic event locations from the microseismic signals to create a microseismic event map for each stage of the operation; fitting a set of fracture planes to the microseismic event maps; determining a stimulated reservoir volume (“SRV”) region for each said stage; identifying where SRV regions overlap to form an overlap region; partitioning the overlap region to eliminate any overlap between the SRV regions; truncating the set of fracture planes for the SRV regions to discard any portion outside the revised SRV regions; and storing or displaying the truncated set of fracture planes for the first revised SRV region.
US11016204B2	Imaging system and method for making the same An imaging system is provided. A method for installing the imaging system is provided. The imaging system may include a first modality imaging apparatus. The first modality imaging apparatus may have a detector including a scintillator unit, a photodetector unit, a circuit unit, a supporting block, and a supporting board. The supporting block may be disposed on an end of the scintillator unit. The supporting board may be disposed between the photodetector unit and the circuit unit.
US11016200B2	Signal receiving station for an ADS-B surveillance system A signal receiving station for an ADS-B surveillance system used in air traffic control includes a housing to be attached to a mast. The housing includes an ADS-B signal receiving antenna, a GPS signal receiving antenna, and an electronic module for receiving and processing ADS-B signals and GPS signals. The ADS-B signal receiving antenna and GPS signal receiving antenna are connected to the electronic receiving and processing module inside the housing.
US11016199B1	System and method for validating GNSS ambiguities A system and method for determining a mobile receiver position includes receiving a first and a second set of satellite observations; determining a first and second fixed ambiguity set associated with a first and second transformation respectively; determining cross-validated ambiguities between the first and second fixed ambiguity sets; and determining the mobile receiver position based on at least one of the first or second fixed ambiguity sets.
US11016197B1	LIDAR system A LIDAR system includes a laser source, a first scanner, and a second scanner. The first scanner receives a first beam from the laser source and applies a first angle modulation to the first beam to output a second beam at a first angle. The second scanner receives the second beam and applies a second angle modulation to the second beam to output a third beam at a second angle.
US11016195B2	Apparatus and method for managing coherent detection from multiple apertures in a LiDAR system An aperture array comprises apertures arranged over one or more dimensions. Each aperture is configured to receive a respective portion of a received optical wavefront. Each aperture is coupled to a respective optical mixer that coherently interferes the respective portion of the received optical wavefront with a respective local oscillator optical wave. A processing module is configured to process electrical signals detected from outputs of the optical mixers, including: for each optical mixer, determining at least one phase/amplitude information from at least one electrical signal detected from at least one output of that optical mixer, determining direction-based information, associated with a subset of the field of view, based on phase/amplitude information derived from at least two optical mixers of the plurality of optical mixers, and determining distance information from the direction-based information.
US11016189B2	Systems and methods for security system device tamper detection Systems and methods for detecting tampering with a security device are provided. Some systems can include detecting an object within a detection range of one or more sensors of the security device, analyzing position data from the one or more sensors, wherein the position data is indicative of a position of the object relative to the security device, determining whether the positon data indicates that the object is approaching a security device, and when the position data indicates that the object is approaching the security device, issuing a warning signal.
US11016185B1	Systems and methods for bi-static or multi-static holographic navigation The application relates to bi-static or multi-static holographic navigation systems, including methods of localizing an emitter or receiver with high precision relative to the sea floor. The system and methods can be used with a fully active sonar or radar system using well synchronized transmitters and receivers. The system and methods can be used with a passive sonar or radar system localizing a transmitter or a receiver based on poorly timed received signals.
US11016184B2	Device for determining a distance from an object, and corresponding method The invention relates to a device for determining a distance from an object, including a transmission device for emitting several light pulses including a pulse duration, including a reception device for receiving signals and for generating detection signals, and including an evaluation device for evaluating the detection signals. The evaluation device determines, on the basis of a number of the light pulses emitted and on the basis of the detection signals, probability values of several time windows which each have a respective time period equaling the pulse duration which relate to probabilities for reception of a signal within one of the time windows, respectively. In addition, the evaluation device determines, in accordance with the time-of-flight method, a measure of the distance of the object on the basis of the probability values determined. In addition, the invention relates to a corresponding method.
US11016183B2	Real time LiDAR signal processing FPGA modules Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system and method for performing time of flight estimation of a laser pulse using a LiDAR signal processing. A plurality of digital waveforms are correlated to a transmitted pulse for time of flight estimation. Each of the plurality of digital waveforms can be correlated independently by a corresponding correlator in a plurality of correlators working in parallel. Each of the correlators can include signal processing modules for time of flight estimation including an interpolating filters and peak detect modules.
US11016178B2	Eye-safe scanning LIDAR system A LIDAR illuminator includes a plurality of laser sources, each comprising an electrical input that receives a modulation drive signal that causes each of the plurality of laser sources to generate an optical beam. A controller having a plurality of electrical outputs, where a respective one of the plurality of electrical outputs is connected to an electrical input of a respective one of the plurality of laser sources, generates a plurality of modulation drive signals that cause the plurality of laser sources to generate a plurality of optical beams that form a combined optical beam. A peak optical energy of the combined optical beam in a measurement aperture at a measurement distance is less than a desired value.
US11016174B2	Radar mounting estimation with unstructured data The present application describes a method including transmitting at least two radar signals by a radar unit of a vehicle, where a first signal is transmitted from a first location and a second signal is transmitted from a second location. The method also includes receiving a respective reflection signal associated with each of the transmitted signals. Additionally, the method includes determining, by a processor, at least one stationary object that caused a reflection. Further, the method includes based on the determined stationary object, determining, by the processor, an offset for the radar unit. The method yet further includes operating the radar unit based on the determined offset. Furthermore, the method includes controlling an autonomous vehicle based on the radar unit being operated with the determined offset.
US11016173B2	System and methods for calibrating an antenna array using targets Systems, device and methods are provided for calibrating an antenna array comprising a plurality of antennas such as a plurality of transmit and receive antennas by utilizing an arena comprising one or more targets and a medium. The methods may comprise transmitting a plurality of Radio Frequency (RF) signals from at least one RF antenna of a plurality of RF antennas towards an arena, obtaining by the antenna array affected multiple RF signals from the arena, measuring the plurality of reflected RF signals by a Radio Frequency Signal Measurement Unit (RFSMU) and calculating a plurality of channel responses from said plurality of affected RF signals, providing by at least one processing unit a first model, which is configured to produce an expected electromagnetic (EM) channel responses of the antenna array and the arena and providing a second model, which comprises a relation between the first model and the antenna array calibration parameters and calculating the array calibration parameters to calibrate the antenna array.
US11016171B2	Radar sensing with phase correction A radar method is described herein. In accordance with one embodiment the method includes receiving a plurality of chirp echoes of transmitted radar signals, generating a digital signal based on the plurality of chirp echoes, and calculating a range map based on the digital signal. The range map includes a plurality of values, each value is represented by an amplitude value and a phase value, and each value is associated with one frequency bin of a set of frequency bins and one chirp echo of the plurality of chirp echoes. The method further includes identifying chirp echoes which are affected by interference and determining, for one or more selected frequency bins, corrected phase values based on phase values that are associated with chirp echoes not identified as affected by interference.
US11016169B2	Method and system for reducing interference caused by phase noise in a radar system A method is described in particular for reducing interference due to phase noise in a radar system, in which in a first noncoherent transceiver unit (NKSE1) a first signal (sigTX1) is generated and transmitted, in particular emitted, via a path (SP), in a further, in particular second noncoherent transceiver unit (NKSE2), a first signal (sigTX2) is generated and transmitted, in particular emitted, via the path (SP), the signals (sigTX1 and sigTX2) are received directly or indirectly in the respective other transceiver unit and are processed further therein as received signals sigRX12 and sigRX21, in the first transceiver unit (NKSE1), a comparison signal (sigC12) is formed from its first signal (sigTX1) and from such a first signal (sigRTX2) received from the further transceiver unit (NKSE2) via the path (SP), and in the further transceiver unit (NKSE2), a further comparison signal (sigC21) is formed from its first signal (sigTX2) and from such a first signal (sigTX1) received from the first transceiver unit (NKSE1) via the path (SP), wherein the further comparison signal (sigC21) is transmitted, in particular communicated, from the further transceiver unit (NKSE2) to the first transceiver unit (NKSE1), wherein in a first step, deviations of the signals sigC21 and sigC12 which are induced by systematic deviations in the transceiver units (NKSE2, NKSE1), are compensated for, wherein in a second step, at least one complex value from a first of the two comparison signals or from a signal which was derived from this first comparison signal is used for the purpose of adapting at least one complex value of the second of the two comparison signals or a value of a signal which was derived from the second comparison signal, and thus to form a signal (sigCC), wherein the adaptation takes place such that by a mathematical operation, the vector sum or the difference of the complex values is formed or the sum or the difference of the phases of the complex values is formed.
US11016167B2	Three dimensional object-localization and tracking using ultrasonic pulses A tracking method includes displaying visual content on a screen of a head mounted display (HMD). One or more base stations may be stationary with respect to the screen while the visual content is being displayed. In contrast, one or more objects may move with respect to the screen while the visual content is being displayed. Time-difference-of-arrival (TDoA) and/or time-of-flight (ToF) may be measured for one or more ultrasonic pulses transmitted from the base station, one or more objects, or HMD. Position and orientation of the objects and HMD may be calculated based on the TDoA and ToF. Different frequencies of pulses may be used to locate the HMD and the objects. An electromagnetic synchronization signal from the HMD and/or base station may be used to measure TDoA. Position and orientation measurements may be fused with outputs from IMUS (inertial measurement units) to reduce jitter.
US11016161B2	Method and an apparatus for reconstructing magnetic resonance image Provided is an apparatus of reconstructing a magnetic resonance (MR) image, the apparatus including: a memory storing instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: obtain a plurality of segments of K-space data corresponding to a plurality of pulses which are applied to an object based on a pulse sequence; determine, based on radio frequency (RF) coils of the apparatus, a correction coefficient for merging the plurality of segments of K-space data; and generate a magnetic resonance (MR) image of the object by merging the plurality of segments of K-space data based on the determined correction coefficient.
US11016160B2	Parkinson's disease diagnosing apparatus and method Disclosed are Parkinson's disease diagnosing apparatus and method and a configuration which includes an image acquiring unit which acquires a multi-echo magnitude and a phase image from MRI obtained by capturing a brain of a patient, an image processing unit which post-processes only substantia nigra and a nigrosome-1 region proposed as an imaging biomarker of the Parkinson's disease from the acquired image to be observed; an image analyzing unit which classifies images including the nigrosome-1 region by analyzing the processed images and detects the nigrosome-1 region from the classified image, and a diagnosing unit which determines whether the nigrosome-1 region is normal in the classified image to diagnose the Parkinson's disease is provided so that only the image which includes the nigrosome-1 region is classified in the MRI and the nigrosome-1 region is analyzed from the classified image to diagnose the Parkinson's disease.
US11016152B2	Method for creating hyperpolarization at microtesla magnetic fields Provided are methods for nuclear spin polarization enhancement via signal amplification by reversible exchange at very low magnetic fields. The spin polarization is hyperpolarization of isotopically enriched heteronuclei by using a catalyst and parahydrogen to create a complex using iridium and applying magnetic fields in the microtesia range to transfer the spin order from parahydrogen to the complex.
US11016149B2	Detecting internal short circuits in batteries A battery management system (BMS) described herein determines the internal resistance for a cell that may have an internal short circuit. In one aspect, the BMS monitors the voltage across each of a plurality cells that are coupled in series. If the voltage across one of the cells differs from the voltages across the other cells, the BMS can flag the cell as potentially having an internal short circuit. Once flagged, the BMS can use a simulator that stores a model cell that has similar characteristics as the cells monitored by the BMS to determine the internal resistance of the flagged cell. In one aspect, the simulator changes the value of a surrogate resistor that is parallel with the model cell until the voltage across the model cell matches the voltage of the flagged cell. The value of the surrogate resistor indicates the internal resistance of the flagged cell.
US11016140B1	Battery diode fault monitoring A system is disclosed to detect failure of a diode that is connected in series with a battery and a contactor or other switch configured to connect the battery to a load when the contactor or other switch is in a closed position and to isolate the battery from the load when the contactor or other switch is in an open position. In various embodiments, the system includes a high value resistor connected between the anode terminal of the diode and ground, the connection to the anode terminal being on a load side of the contactor or other switch; and a voltage meter configured to measure a voltage across the high value resistor at least during a test in which a voltage is applied to a bus associated with the load while the contactor or other switch is in the open position.
US11016138B2	Diagnosis system for power conversion device, diagnosis method for semiconductor module, and power conversion device A diagnostic system for a power conversion apparatus including a semiconductor device and performing a switching operation for carrying and interrupting a main current to a main current is disclosed. This system includes a trigger circuit that acquires reference time for the switching operation; and a delay time calculation circuit that acquires first time at which the main current takes a first main current set value and second time at which the main current takes a second main current set value, and that detects numerical data about a difference between the first time and the reference time and numerical data about a difference between the second time and the reference time.
US11016137B2	Semiconductor inspection jig A semiconductor inspection jig includes: a jig body having a recessed part provided on a top surface of the jig body; a printed circuit board provided on the top surface of the jig body; a GND block provided in the recessed part and having first and second side faces opposite to each other; first and second blocks provided in the recessed part and sandwiching the GND block; a push-up part pushing up the GND block from a bottom surface of the recessed part; a first press part pressing the first block against the first side face of the GND block; and a second press part pressing the second block against the second side face of the GND block.
US11016135B2	Systems and methods for ground fault detection in power systems using communication network Systems, methods, storage media, and computing platforms for determining a fault in a power system, executing on a controller are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive a first value of current flow from a first current sensor installed on a first bus of the power system; receive a second value of current flow from a second current sensor installed on a second bus of the power system; determine a first direction of power flow in the first current sensor using the first value of current flow; determine a second direction of power flow in the second current sensor using the second value of current flow; and determine a power fault is located on one of the first bus of the power system or the second bus of the power system based on the first direction of power flow and the second direction of power flow.
US11016131B2	Monitoring circuitry In an example, monitoring circuitry includes a first and a second coupling to electrically connect the monitoring circuitry to a monitored circuit having a resistance. The resistance of the monitored circuit may be indicative of a status, and the monitored circuit may be connected in series between the first and second coupling. The first coupling comprises a plurality of galvanically separated connection elements which are to form an electrical connection with a common connection element of the monitored circuit. The monitoring circuitry further comprises a monitoring apparatus to determine the resistance of the monitored circuit via the first coupling and the second coupling. The monitoring apparatus is to acquire a plurality of electrical values and to use the plurality of electrical values to determine a value of the resistance of the monitored circuit.
US11016129B1	Voltage event tracking and classification A monitoring system that is configured to monitor a property is disclosed. In one aspect, the monitoring system includes a sensor that is located at the property and that is configured to generate sensor data. The monitoring system further includes a voltage sensor that is configured to generate voltage data by measuring voltage at an electrical outlet located at the property. The monitoring system further includes a monitor control unit that is configured to receive the sensor data; receive the voltage data; determine an action of an electrical device that is located in the property or that is located at a neighboring property in a vicinity of the property; determine whether the electrical device is located at the property or at the neighboring property in the vicinity of the property; and perform a monitoring system action.
US11016128B2	Method and apparatus for electrical line testing A method and apparatus for electrical line testing. The method and apparatus provides audio, visual and/or electronic information to indicate electricity is flowing or not flowing through an electrical circuit controlled by a remote circuit breaker. The method and system help identify which electrical sockets are controlled by which remote circuit breakers. The method and apparatus is used over short distances in a residential home or over long distances in a commercial building such as a warehouse or factory. The method and apparatus is used with or without an external network devices such as a smartphone, electronic tablet, wearable device, etc.
US11016125B2	Current sensor A current sensor includes a substrate, a first bus bar, and a second bus bar. The first bus bar includes a first terminal portion, a first rising portion, a first extending portion, a first cutout portion, and a first stepped portion. The second bus bar includes a second terminal portion, a second rising portion, a second extending portion, a second cutout portion, and a second stepped portion. The second stepped portion and the second rising portion are connected together. A second magneto-electric conversion element is mounted on the lower surface of the substrate. A first magneto-electric conversion elements is mounted on the upper surface of the substrate.
US11016120B2	Sharpening method for probe tip of atomic force microscope (AFM) A sharpening method for a probe tip of an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) includes the steps of dripping a prepared slurry on a glass slide to form a droplet on the glass slide, where particles of the prepared slurry are diamond powder; infiltrating the tip to be sharpened with the prepared slurry; setting operation mode of the AFM to tapping in the fluid and lowering the probe into droplet till the probe cantilever beam is immersed completely in the droplet; setting vibration parameters, scanning parameters, and sharpening time, performing tip sharpening; and evaluating the sharpening results, and finishing sharpening. When the AFM works in a tapping mode in fluid, the tip of the self-excited oscillating probe is sharpened under the grinding effect of the diamond particles. The method is simple and effective, and easy to implement.
US11016117B2	Air data probe replacement determination system Method and systems of determining when to replace an air data probe are provided. The method includes measuring a temperature of a heating element of an air data probe; tracking an amount of time the heating element is within at least one temperature range; and providing an air data probe replacement indication when a replacement threshold is met that is at least in part based on reaching a cumulative amount of time the heating element has a measured temperature within the at least one temperature range.
US11016116B2	Correction of accumulated errors in inertial measurement units attached to a user A system including: a plurality of sensor modules having inertial measurement units and attached to different parts of a user (e.g., head, hands, arms) to measure their orientations; a plurality of optical marks attached to the user; a camera attached to the user; and a computing device configured to correct an accumulated error by detecting the optical marks in an image generated by the camera and identifying mismatches in directions of the optical marks (or the sensors, or parts of the users) as measured and/or calculated based on the image and the corresponding directions of the optical marks (or the sensors, or parts of the users) as measured and/or calculated from the orientation measurements generated by the sensor modules.
US11016114B1	Determining aircraft flying conditions based on acoustic signals caused by airflow Apparatus and associated methods relate to determining airspeed and/or altitude based on acoustic waves caused by airflow. One of more acoustic transducers are positioned along an exterior surface of an aircraft. Each of the one or more acoustic transducers is configured to detect acoustic waves caused by the airflow. The acoustic waves detected are indicative of an airstream condition proximate the acoustic transducer, such as, for example, airspeed and/or altitude. A processor is configured to determine airspeed and/or altitude of the aircraft based, at least in part, on the acoustic waves detected.
US11016113B2	Sensor bearing unit, assembly method of said unit and method for assembling said sensor bearing unit on shaft Sensor bearing unit providing at least two bearings stacked one relative to the other and each having an inner ring and an outer ring, the sensor bearing unit having a sleeve radially surrounding the bearings and having a radial projection in axial contact with one of the bearings, an annular flange having a radial portion in axial contact with the other bearing and an axial portion radially surrounding the sleeve and connected to the sleeve, and a wire carrier configured to support at least one wire and at least one connector, the wire carrier includes at least one fastening element mounted on the bearing.
US11016108B2	Microfluidic devices and methods for performing serum separation and blood cross-matching Microfluidic cartridges or devices for serum separation and blood cross-match analysis are provided. The devices may include a serum separation subcircuit alone or in combination with a solute mixing subcircuit. The serum separation subcircuit promotes on-cartridge clotting of a blood sample and manipulates the flow of the separated serum sample for subsequent cross-match analysis with a second blood sample, for example. The solute mixing subcircuit includes at least two intake channels, one for a whole blood sample from, for example, a blood donor and the other for the separated serum sample from, for example, a transfusion recipient. The solute mixing subcircuit further includes a serpentine mixing channel conjoined to a downstream channel. Under vacuum generated by a conjoined finger pump, the two input streams fill the serpentine mixing and downstream channels due to capillary action, enabling visualization of an agglutination reaction.
US11016101B2	Simplified nuclei analysis platform and biomarker matrix that supports genotoxic mode of action determinations The present invention relates a simple method for evaluating free eukaryotic cell nuclei for biomarkers of DNA damage and/or transcription factor activation, activity, or expression levels and/or epigenetic modifications to chromatin or chromatin-associated factors. The invention also teaches useful strategies for combining nuclear biomarkers into a matrix of endpoints that are capable of elucidating genotoxicants' primary mode of DNA-damaging activity. Kits for conducting methods according to the invention are also described.
US11016098B2	Method for determining a concentration of a target analyte in a sample of bodily fluid A method and an apparatus for determining a concentration of a target analyte in a sample of bodily fluid are disclosed. The method involves providing a sample of bodily fluid including the target analyte, providing an internal standard solution including a mixture of components having a plurality of isotopes of the target analyte, wherein a concentration of each isotope is unknown, adding the internal standard solution to the sample, analyzing the sample including the internal standard solution using a mass spectrometer, creating a sample function curve based on signal intensities, wherein the signal intensities define arbitrary units, transferring an analyte signal into a corresponding arbitrary analyte unit by means of the sample function curve, and transferring the arbitrary analyte unit into the concentration of a target analyte by means of a standardization function representing a curve of concentrations depending on the arbitrary units.
US11016094B2	Compositions and methods for allergen detection The present invention is drawn to nucleic acid aptamer based signaling polynucleotides (SPNs) for allergen detection in samples. Disclosed herein include compositions, compounds, assays and methods of using said SPNs to detect one or more allergens in a sample, particularly food allergens in a food product.
US11016088B2	Chemically-sensitive field effect transistors, systems, and methods for manufacturing and using the same This invention concerns Chemically-sensitive Field Effect Transistors (ChemFETs) that are preferably fabricated using semiconductor fabrication methods on a semiconductor wafer, and in preferred embodiments, on top of an integrated circuit structure made using semiconductor fabrication methods. The instant ChemFETs typically comprise a conductive source, a conductive drain, and a channel composed of a one-dimensional (1D) or two-dimensional (2D) transistor nanomaterial, which channel extends from the source to the drain and is fabricated using semiconductor fabrication techniques on top of a wafer. The ChemFET also includes a gate, often the gate voltage is provided through a fluid or solution proximate the ChemFET. Such ChemFETs, preferably configured in independently addressable arrays, may be employed to detect a presence and/or concentration changes of various analyte types in chemical and/or biological samples, including nucleic acid hybridization and/or sequencing reactions.
US11016087B2	Implement for inspection, inspecting device and inspecting method Provided is an implement for inspection capable of measuring the concentration of a test substance with high accuracy. The implement for inspection according to the present invention is an implement for inspection used for measuring the concentration of a test substance that includes a compound for reacting with a test substance to form a granular substance or a compound which is for being bound to the test substance and is a granular substance, and a wall portion having a periodic structure on its surface.
US11016085B2	ZNT8 assays for drug development and pharmaceutical compositions The present invention describes methods of identifying drugs for the treatment or prevention of diabetes by measuring the activity of the human zinc transporter ZnT8 and pharmaceutical compositions.
US11016080B2	Medical device and method operating same The present invention refers to a medical device (100) comprising: •a measurement unit (110) adapted to measure a value of a physiological parameter, for example a blood glucose level, •a data storage (130) adapted to store ∘a plurality of measurement values of the physiological parameter, ∘for each measurement value an associated event tag, ∘for each measurement value an associated time stamp, ∘for each at least one predefined event an associated current time range for tagging preselection, •a processor (140) adapted to ∘receive from the measurement unit (110) or from the data storage (130) a new measurement value with an associated time, ∘comparing the associated time stamp of the new measurement value with the stored at least one time range for tagging preselection, ∘if the time stamp is within one current time range for tagging preselection the corresponding tag of the predefined event is preselected and initiated for user confirmation, ∘in case one particular predefined tag of one particular predefined event is then selected and confirmed with regard to the new measurement value, the associated time stamps of a predefined number of consecutive recent measurement values tagged with the one particular predefined event is received from a data storage (130), ∘calculate a new time range for tagging preselection for the one predefined event at least partly based on the associated time stamps of the predefined number of consecutive recent measurement values and on the associated time stamp of the new measurement value, preferably only if at least one validation criterion is met, and ∘initiate storing the new time range as current time range for tagging preselection for the one particular predefined event in the data storage (130), preferably only if the at least one validation criterion is met. The invention further refers to a corresponding method and computer program for operating a medical device as well as to a corresponding computer program product.
US11016078B2	Electrochemical measurement method, electrochemical measurement device and transducer An electrochemical measurement method is provided in which a working electrode that causes an oxidation-reduction reaction with a measurement target and a counter electrode connected to the working electrode are provided in an electrolytic solution containing the measurement target, and a measuring voltage is applied between the working electrode and the counter electrode to measure a current that flows between the working electrode and the counter electrode in proportion to the amount of the measurement target, wherein an eliminating electrode is provided in the electrolytic solution, and the method performs: eliminating the measurement target by applying an eliminating voltage, which has the same polarity as the measuring voltage, between the eliminating electrode and the counter electrode to oxidize or reduce the measurement target; diffusing a new measurement target; and measuring the current by applying the measuring voltage between the working electrode and the counter electrode.
US11016076B2	Evaluation of component condition through analysis of material interaction There is described herein methods and systems relating to the use of the interaction of different materials to perform early detection of component failure. In particular, when the debris in a fluid sample comes from more than one source, a “level of interaction” is determined in order to monitor the degradation of the parts or components associated with the debris, as a function of the composition of the particles found in the fluid sample.
US11016072B2	Transmitter and receiver configuration for detecting content level A measurement device includes a transmitter configured to transmit an interrogation signal. The measurement device also includes a receiver configured to receive the interrogation signal that has been reflected within a container. The received reflected interrogation signal corresponds to a fill level of the container. A protective barrier covers at least the transmitter or the receiver. If the protective barrier covers the transmitter, the transmitter transmits the interrogation signal through the protective barrier and the transmitter and the protective barrier are separated by a gap.
US11016070B2	System for assessing the quality of air and drinking water A system for assessing the quality of air and/or drinking water, the system comprising a plurality of sample traps, wherein each of the sample traps is configured to test for a different environmental contaminant; a base unit having a pump for drawing air, a mount for connecting a sample trap to the pump so as to draw air through that sample trap when the pump is operated, a central processing unit (CPU) pre-programmed to operate the pump in a plurality of modes of operation, and a plurality of buttons communicating with the CPU; and a marking scheme comprising a plurality of unique markings, wherein each of the buttons is marked with a different unique marking, and further wherein each of the sample traps is marked with the same unique marking as the button which causes the pump to operate in a particular mode of operation.
US11016068B2	Replaceable emitter assembly for interfacing a separation column to a mass spectrometer An electrospray emitter assembly for interfacing a separation column to a mass spectrometer is disclosed. An emitter capillary includes an inlet end and an outlet end. A fitting is coupled to the inlet end of the emitter, configured to be removably connected to the separation column A stop with a defined through hole is integrated proximate the inlet end of the emitter to produce a path for liquid to flow from the separation column to the emitter via the through hole where a voltage is applied to the liquid entering the emitter.
US11016066B2	Compact gas analysis device and method A gas analysis device suited for e.g. medical analysis of exhaled breath from a subject. A gas inlet receives a gas sample to a flow path for guiding the gas sample to two or more gas separators, e.g. gas chromatography columns, with respective molecule selectivity properties which are different. One or more detectors, each with a sensor, are arranged to generate respective responses to outputs from the two or more gas separators. A communication module generate output data in response to the respective responses from the one or more detectors, e.g. data indicative of selected molecules in the gas sample, e.g. data indicative of one or more diseases identified as a result of identified biomarkers in the gas sample. The device is suitable as a compact device, e.g. a handheld breath analysis device, since the use of a plurality of gas separators allows use of very molecule specific gas separators which can be implemented with a small size. E.g. a flow path with several parallel paths each comprising one or more gas separator may be used.
US11016062B2	System and method of measuring cell viability and growth A novel SH-SAW biosensor capable of non-invasive and touch-free detection of cancer cell viability and growth or proliferation in two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) cell cultures as well as stem cell regeneration as it pertains to cancer cell biology and anti-cancer drug development is presented. The biosensor includes two pairs of resonators including interdigital transducers reflecting fingers to quantify mass loading by the cells in suspension as well as within a tumoroid culture platform. The biosensor can be part of a perfused 3PNS-tumoroid system that is amenable to real-time non-invasive monitoring of the cell proliferation, viability, and multiplexed detection of key physiologic and clinical biomarkers.
US11016060B2	Method and apparatus for evaluating damage to magnetic linear body A damage evaluation apparatus, to evaluate damage to a tendon embedded in concrete. The apparatus includes a magnetizer for generating magnetic force, and a detector for detecting change in magnetism produced from a damaged area of the tendon when magnetized. The magnetizer includes a excitation coil; an iron core passing through a center hole of the excitation coil; a pair of columnar yokes connected to respective ends of the iron core and extending toward the concrete; and a pair of plate-shaped yokes connected to the pair of columnar yokes at a distal end thereof for forming magnetic poles having spread along the surface of the concrete. By passing an electric current through the excitation coil, a magnetic circuit is formed by the yoke shaft, the pair of columnar yokes, the pair of plate-shaped yokes, and the tendon over a range thereof situated between the pair of plate-shaped yokes.
US11016057B2	Pulse-field multiplex capillary electrophoresis system The invention is a multiplex, pulsed-field capillary electrophoresis instrument with the ability to analyze DNA fragments with sizes greater than 150,000 base pairs. The parallel capillary electrophoresis system allows for the simultaneous analysis of at least 12 samples while applying a pulse or varying electric field for separation. Sequences of pulse-field electric fields are iterated to achieve accurate separation of DNA smears.
US11016055B2	Sensors with a front-end-of-line solution-receiving cavity Structures for transistor-based sensors and related fabrication methods. A layer stack is formed that includes a semiconductor layer and a cavity. A transistor is formed that has a gate electrode over the layer stack, and an interconnect structure is formed over the layer stack and the transistor. First and second openings are formed that extend through the metallization levels of the interconnect structure and the semiconductor layer to the cavity. The first opening defines a fluid inlet coupled to the cavity, and the second opening defines a fluid outlet coupled to the cavity.
US11016047B2	Temperature-corrected control data for verifying of structural integrity of materials The disclosure describes techniques for detecting a crack or defect in a material. A computing device may determine whether a tested material includes a crack or other defect based on a temperature-scaled control data set and a measurement data set.
US11016041B2	Apparatus and method for calculating a recording trajectory A calculating unit for calculating a recording trajectory of a CT system has a receive interface, an optimizer and a control unit. The receive interface serves for receiving measurement and simulation data relative to the object to be recorded. The optimizer is configured to determine the recording trajectory based on known degrees of freedom of the CT system, based on the measurement and simulation data and based on a test task from a group having a plurality of test tasks. The control unit is configured to output data in correspondence with the recording trajectory for controlling the CT system.
US11016035B2	Smart defect calibration system and the method thereof A smart defect calibration, diagnosis, sampling system and the method thereof for manufacturing fab is provided. The intelligent defect diagnosis method includes: receiving pluralities of defect data, design layout data, analyzing the defect data, design layouts, by a Critical Area Analysis (CAA) system, selecting defect samples based on the defect classification data, selecting alarm defect and filtering false defect with pattern match with defect pattern library and frequent failure defect library, performing coordinate conversion and pattern match between defect image contour, defect image pattern, and design layout for coordinate correction, creating a CAA accuracy correction system and defect size calibration system by analyzing original defect size data and defect contour size from image analysis, evaluating the defect size using measurement uncertainty analysis with statistical analysis methods to reach the purposes of increasing CAA accuracy and Killer Defect identification rate.
US11016033B2	Diamond clarity measurement process and system A process operable using a computerized system (300) grades the clarity of a diamond (315, 400) as a function of internal defects within its body (315, 400). The computerized system (300) includes an optical image acquisition device (310), a processor module (320) and an output module (340) operably interconnected together. The process includes the steps of (i) acquiring via an optical image acquisition device (310) a plurality of top view images of a diamond (315, 400); (ii) in a processor module (320), detecting defects within the body of the diamond (315, 400); and (iii) from an output module (340), providing a signal indicative of the clarity grade assigned in (ii).
US11016031B2	Ballast water analysis system The present invention relates in one aspect to a ballast water analysis system comprising fluorometer and light scattering meter. The fluorometer comprises a first light source arranged to illuminate a first ballast water sample for obtaining a first fluorescence measurement on a first ballast water sample. The light scattering meter comprises a second light source arranged to illuminate a second ballast water sample with a second light beam and first and second photodetectors arranged to receive light at respective angles relative to a direction of the second light beam. The second and third photodetectors are configured to receive scattered light resulting from interaction between light from the second light source and matter, such as viable or non-viable microorganisms and other particles, in the second ballast water sample.
US11016029B2	Measuring chamber, working method of measuring chamber, chemiluminescence measurement method of measuring chamber and chemiluminescence detector The present disclosure relates to a measuring chamber, a working method of the measuring chamber, a chemiluminescence measurement method of the measuring chamber and a chemiluminescence detector. The measuring chamber includes a dark chamber, a first substrate nozzle, a photomultiplier detection component, a waste liquor adsorption needle component, a reaction cup turntable and a plurality of reaction cup processing stations; the reaction cup turntable is provided in the measuring chamber rotationally; and the plurality of reaction cup processing stations are sealed in a mutually light-isolated manner. When the instrument works, reaction cups in the reaction cup turntable are moved in the dark chamber; and after the reaction cups are moved to corresponding processing stations for processing the reaction cups, the plurality of different processing stations for processing, the reaction cups may simultaneously process the reaction cups moved to the corresponding reaction cup processing stations.
US11016025B2	Systems and methods for determining sample osmolarity Systems and methods for determining the osmolarity of a sample are provided. Aspects of the subject methods include contacting a sensing surface of a surface plasmon resonance based sensor with a sample, and generating one or more data sets at at least two wavelengths over a time interval, wherein the data sets are used to determine the osmolarity of the sample. The subject methods find use in determining the osmolarity of a sample, such as a biological sample (e.g., a tear fluid), and in the diagnosis and/or monitoring of various diseases and disorders, such as, e.g., dry eye disease.
US11016023B1	Far-infrared spectroscopic device and far-infrared spectroscopic method In an is-TPG method in which lasers having two different wavelengths are used to generate a wavelength-variable far-infrared light, a far-infrared light (TPG light) having an unstable output at a broad wavelength is also slightly generated at the same time with only one laser light. The generated is-TPG and the TPG light are converted, after passing through a specimen, to near-infrared light inside a nonlinear optical crystal for detection and are observed by a detector. The signal light output of the is-TPG light becomes unstable due to the TPG light. According to the present invention, the TPG light is removed by means of a slit and the like (filter) immediately before the specimen and is not introduced into the nonlinear optical crystal for detection. At this time, by using a change in the emission direction when the frequency of the is TPG light is changed, the filter is moved in accordance with the frequency so that only the is-TPG light passes therethrough (see FIG. 1C).
US11016022B2	Multimodal imaging system A multimodal imaging system comprises a light source, an image sensor comprising a plurality of pixels, and an optical filter comprising a first filter element and a second filter element. The light source emits partially coherent polarized light, and the first filter element and second filter element are arranged as an array parallel to the image sensor. The first filter element is configured for attenuated transmission of a first light spectrum, which comprises polarized light emitted by the light source, and the second filter element is configured for transmission of a second light spectrum. The image sensor is configured to simultaneously capture light impinging on the image sensor from both the first filter element and the second filter element. Each filter element of the optical filter is configured for transmission of light to a subset of the imager pixels.
US11016013B2	Apparatus for measuring blood coagulation data, and use method and calibration method thereof An apparatus for measuring blood coagulation data, and a use method and calibration method thereof are disclosed. The apparatus comprises: a movable support part (101), a fixed support part (102), a connection part (103), a rotary shaft (104), a magnet (105), a Hall element (106), and a processing unit (107). One end of the movable support part (101) is fixedly connected to the rotary shaft (104), and the other end of the movable support part (101) is connected to the fixed support part (102) by means of the connection part (103); the movable support part (101) is fixedly connected to the magnet (105); the rotary shaft (104) is able to rotate relative to the fixed support part (102) under the driving force of measured blood and drive the movable support part (101) to rotate; the movable support part (101) is able to move the magnet (105) to cause a change in the magnetic field of the magnet (105); the Hall element (106) is connected to the processing unit (107); the Hall element (106) is used for outputting a measurement electric signal according to the magnetic field change of the magnet (105); and the processing unit (107) is used for determining blood coagulation data of the measured blood according to the measurement electric signal. The present apparatus can improve the accuracy in measurement of blood coagulation data.
US11016011B2	Breaking prediction method, program, recording medium, and arithmetic processing device In a breaking prediction method of predicting a breaking portion of a component, which is obtained by forming a metal sheet, by using a finite element method, the breaking portion is easily and reliably extracted. This breaking prediction method includes a first step of performing forming analysis by using a finite element method in each of a case where the metal sheet is divided on the basis of a first mesh coarseness and a case where the metal sheet is divided on the basis of a second mesh coarseness which is coarser than the first mesh coarseness, a second step of obtaining a maximum main stress for each mesh in each of the case of the first mesh coarseness and the case of the second mesh coarseness, and a third step of obtaining a difference value between the maximum main stress in the case of the first mesh coarseness and the maximum main stress in the case of the second mesh coarseness in each portion of the component, and extracting a portion in the case of the first mesh coarseness, which corresponds to a portion in which the difference value is larger than a predetermined value, as the breaking portion.
US11016010B1	Triaxial rock mechanics test system for high-strain-rate cyclic dynamic loading A triaxial rock mechanics test system for high-strain-rate cyclic dynamic loading is provided, including: a host loading module, a dynamic cyclic loading module, and a dynamic measurement module. The host loading module includes a loading frame, a triaxial pressure mechanism and an actuator that are provided inside the loading frame. The dynamic cyclic loading module includes a driving mechanism, a fixed mechanism and a mobile mechanism. The dynamic measurement module is configured to acquire axial pressure data, radial deformation data and axial deformation data of the rock sample during a test. In the triaxial rock mechanics test system for high-strain-rate cyclic dynamic loading of the present invention, an energetic rod is driven by an electrical explosion of a metal wire to generate a strong shock wave with controllable peak pressure, duration and waveform.
US11016008B2	Reagent nozzle sipper mixing system and method An analysis instrument may perform analytical operations on an analyte that is combined with multiple reagents prior to being introduced into a flow cell. The instrument may include a nozzle sipper that aspirates reagents from a recipient, along with an analyte. The reagents may be directed to a volume and may be repeatedly moved into and out of the volume by cycling of a pump. The reagents may be ejected into a destination recipient with the nozzle sipper promoting vorticity in the recipient to enhance mixing. The repeated aspiration and ejection through the nozzle sipper effectively mixes the reagents and the template in an automated or semi-automated fashion.
US11016007B2	System and method for the automated preparation of biological samples The present invention describes an automated platform for inoculating a variety of receptacles with biological samples for testing and analysis. The lab automation system includes a plurality of modules used to automate the inoculation of media for subsequent analysis. In this regard, the lab automation system has one module to enter specimen/order information and store an inventory of petri dishes. Another module is used to label the sample receptacles with a unique identifier that associates the receptacles with the sample. Yet another module includes a robot for retrieving sample and inoculating the receptacles. The sample inoculation module also includes an apparatus that will receive slides, inoculate those slides, and further process the slides for analysis. Finally, the lab automation system includes a module that streaks the culture media with the sample. Thus, the automated lab system described herein provides consistent samples with minimal input from a lab operator.
US11016002B2	In situ vibration-based verification of vehicle doors In situ vibration-based verification of vehicle doors may be performed to identify defects in the doors. An example vehicle includes a vibration exciter affixed to a door and a vibration sensor affixed to a window of the door. The example vehicle also includes a processor coupled to memory storing expected vibration data. The processor performs, via the vibration exciter, a sine sweep on the door and measures, via the vibration sensor, a vibration response of the door to the sine sweep. Based on the vibration response and the expected vibration data, the processor determines whether the door is defective.
US11016001B2	Systems and methods for leak detection in liquid-cooled information handling systems The method may include: in a first measurement phase, generating a first input signal to the first input terminal of a leak detection cable interface circuit and receiving a first response signal in response the first input signal; in a second measurement phase, generating a second input signal to the second input terminal of the leak detection cable interface circuit and receiving a second response signal in response the second input signal; and based on at least the first response signal and the second response signal, determining a state of a leak detection cable communicatively coupled to the leak detection cable interface circuit.
US11016000B2	Purging for welding A system and method of purge testing for welding piping, including flowing a purge gas through a test pipe, determining concentration of a gas component in the purge gas discharged from the test pipe, and determining a time period to reach a lower threshold of the concentration. The testing may consider different flow rates, pipe sizes, and inlet/outlet bore sizes.
US11015995B2	In-situ pressure sensor bias determination apparatus, subsea sensor node apparatus and method of determining a bias of a pressure sensing apparatus An in-situ pressure sensor bias determination apparatus (300) comprises a measurement pressure sensor (400), a reference pressure sensor (402), an electronically controllable pressure adjustment device (406), and a fluid conduit network (410) having an ambient access port (412). The measurement pressure sensor (400) has a greater operating pressure range than the reference pressure sensor (402). The measurement pressure sensor (400), the reference pressure sensor (402) and the pressure adjustment device (406) are sealingly coupled to the fluid conduit network (410) so as to define a volume that is open only at the ambient access port (412). An ambient isolation device (420) is arranged to isolate selectively the ambient access port (412) from the measurement pressure sensor (400), the reference pressure sensor (402) and the pressure adjustment device (406), thereby closing the open volume.
US11015992B2	Load sensor unit and input device A load sensor unit according to an aspect of the present invention includes an operating part movable forward and backward in a first direction; a load sensor that has a pressure receiving part and outputs a signal according to a load received in the first direction by the pressure receiving part; a linking part that has one end part linked to the operating part and an other end part that causes the pressure receiving part to operate and is movable forward and backward in the first direction in synchronization with the operating part; and an elastic member that gives biasing force to the other end part of the linking part and gives an initial load to the pressure receiving part through the other end part. This can prevent a load sensor from being broken by an overload with a simple configuration and fully demonstrate detection accuracy of the load sensor.
US11015991B2	Bending sensor for flexible display panel Disclosed herein are flexible display panels and bend detection circuits for flexible display panels where the bend detection circuit can be formed on a flexible substrate of the flexible display panel stack. The bend detection circuit including a number of sensor elements arranged to change an electric response to an applied electric signal based on an applied physical force. The bend detection circuits also including a bend sensing circuit arranged to measure a time delay of the number of sensor elements to the applied electric signal.
US11015989B2	Resistive-capacitive deformation sensor A deformation sensing apparatus comprises an elastic substrate, a first strain-gauge element formed on a first surface of the elastic substrate, and configured to output a first signal in response to a strain applied in a first direction, and a second strain-gauge element formed on a second surface of the elastic substrate opposite to the first surface, and configured to output a second signal in response to a strain applied in the same first direction.
US11015986B2	Temperature sensor A temperature sensor comprising a light emitter, an electrical circuit for applying a reverse bias voltage across the light emitter and for measuring a reverse current, and means for calculating a temperature from the measured reverse current.
US11015981B2	Method and optical system for acquiring the tomographical distribution of wave fronts of electromagnetic fields The invention relates to a method for the two-dimensional reconstruction of wave fronts (104) of light for use in an optical system (100) comprising: measuring the distribution function of the light intensity in at least two images at different optical planes (101, 102) having an optical path difference. In particular this method is suitable for probing the tomographical distribution of wave fronts of electromagnetic fields with an image detector, e.g. any standard two-dimensional camera.
US11015980B2	Infrared radiation sensors and methods of manufacturing infrared radiation sensors An infrared radiation sensor comprises a substrate, a membrane formed in or at the substrate, a first counter electrode, a second counter electrode, and a composite comprising at least two layers of materials having different coefficients of thermal expansion. At least a portion of the membrane forms a deflectable electrode and the deflectable electrode is electrically floating. A first capacitance is formed between the deflectable electrode and the first counter electrode, and a second capacitance is formed between the deflectable electrode and the second counter electrode. The membrane comprises the composite or is supported at the substrate by the composite. The membrane comprises an absorption region configured to cause deformation of the composite by absorbing infrared radiation, the deformation resulting in a deflection of the deflectable electrode, which causes a change of the first and second capacitances.
US11015978B2	Infrared image sensor An image sensor includes on a support a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels intended to detect an infrared radiation emitted by an element of a scene. Each of the pixels includes a bolometric membrane suspended above a reflector covering the support, wherein the reflector of each of the first pixels is covered with a first dielectric layer, and the reflector of each of the second pixels is covered with a second dielectric layer differing from the first dielectric layer by its optical properties.
US11015975B2	Fast computational phase and timing correction for multiheterodyne spectroscopy Disclosed herein is an all-digital phase and timing correction procedure for coherent averaging in dual-comb and multiheterodyne spectroscopy—applicable to any dual-comb spectroscopy setup. It can account for large frequency/phase instabilities of the used sources, yielding a significant reduction of the noise pedestal and an increase in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the radio frequency (RF) beat notes. This technique is computationally efficient and can be conveniently implemented either as a post-processing algorithm or in a real-time data acquisition and processing platform without the necessity of adding any additional optical elements to the dual-comb spectroscopy system. By implementing this technique, the performance of any comb- or comb-like-source-based DCS system with a sufficient degree of mutual coherence between the optical modes can be improved in terms of SNR and number of spectroscopically-usable RF beat notes. The described technique is compatible with a DC-centered RF spectrum, where the negative frequencies are folded to the positive domain to double the number of beat notes within the detector bandwidth. The technique enables coherent averaging over extended time-scales even for free-running combs, thus increasing the sensitivity of absorption and dispersion DCS measurements.
US11015972B2	Apparatus for monitoring the condition of a machine A method for analyzing the condition of a machine, and an apparatus for analyzing the condition of a machine are described.
US11015968B2	Fluid flow sensor system having a universal stem A universal fluid flow sensor system and method installable in a toilet tank. A system is disclosed that includes a housing that contains a power source and an event processing system; a flow sensor coupled to a base of the housing, wherein the flow sensor provides flow rate data to the event processing system, the flow sensor having an inlet adapted to receive an inflow of water from a fill tube and an outlet adapted to expel an outflow; a universal stem that extends from the housing and includes at least two different mounting systems adapted to seat the housing onto different overflow tube types, wherein the universal stem includes an elbow assembly configured to receive and redirect the outflow into an overflow tube; and a pair of cylindrical probes positioned in parallel within the elbow assembly, wherein the probes activate the event processing system in response to a detection of water contacting the probes.
US11015962B2	Fluid monitoring assembly with replaceable sensor functionality A fluid monitoring assembly includes a conduit having a wall defining a lumen for carrying fluid. A sensor mount is integrally formed with the wall of the conduit and extends generally transverse with respect to a longitudinal axis of the conduit, the sensor mount including an aperture defining an inner surface extending to the lumen. The assembly includes a sensor configured to be removably secured within the sensor mount, the sensor having an elongate body terminating at one end thereof in a sensing portion, the elongate body having a male projection on a portion thereof and configured to rest within the inner surface of the sensor mount. The assembly further includes a housing having first and second portions connected to one another, the housing defining an interior portion configured to encapsulate the conduit, at least a portion of the elongate body of the sensor, and the sensor mount.
US11015959B2	Encoder and control system A control system in which an encoder and a controller are connected by serial communication. The encoder includes a data transmission unit configured to: embed, in serial data, position information which is information related to a position of a detection object, and position information generation timing information that indicates a timing at which the position information is generated; and transmit to the controller the serial data. The controller includes a correction unit configured to correct, based on the position information and the position information generation timing information received from the encoder, the position information of the detection object.
US11015954B2	Step detection using IMU and magnetometer data fusion Systems and methods for detecting and counting steps. Acceleration data is used to determine acceleration norms. Peaks and valleys in the resulting acceleration norms data are then detected. These peaks and valleys are indicative of steps and are validated using measurements from gyroscopes and magnetometers. The systems and methods can thus be used to assist in location tracking and/or navigation.
US11015950B2	Dynamically controlling map viewport in view of user signals A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores instructions that implement an application programming interface (API) for generating digital maps. When invoked by a software module executing on one or more processors of a client device, the API operates to (i) determine a geographic location to be included in a digital map, where the geographic location is specified by a server device coupled to the client device via a communication network, (ii) select a parameter for a viewport of the digital map based at least on a distance from a current location of the client device to the specified geographic location, (iii) generate the digital map in accordance with the selected parameter, and display the digital map via a user interface of the client device.
US11015947B2	Mobile-object control system [Problem] To simply simulate a situation where a plurality of mobile objects move in a space.[Solution] A mobile-object control system is configured such that the system includes a path-point-data store unit to store path-point data containing coordinates of each of a plurality of path points on a route along which a mobile object moves; a sign-data store unit to store sign data containing coordinates of a sign object that influences moving velocity or moving direction of the mobile object and content of an instruction regarding the moving velocity or the moving direction that the sign object gives to the mobile object which catches this sign object within a prescribed range from the mobile object; a mobile-object-data store unit to store mobile-object data containing current coordinates, current moving velocity and current moving direction of each of a plurality of the mobile objects; and a simulation unit to iteratively calculate the coordinates, the moving velocity and the moving direction of each of the mobile objects moving in the space in every unit time with reference to the path-point data, the sign data and the mobile-object data, and to write the calculated new coordinates, the calculated new moving velocity and the calculated new moving direction of each of the mobile objects into the mobile-object-data store unit.
US11015945B2	Providing information regarding relevant points of interest A device can determine route information associated with a route of a vehicle, identify a point of interest (POI) based on the route information, and identify a portion of the route that has a shortest distance to the POI. The device can determine one or more paths from the POI, and determine whether the portion of the route is included in an initial portion of a path of the one or more paths. The device can determine whether the POI is located to a right of the portion of the route, and perform one or more actions to cause the route information and information regarding the POI to be provided to a user device associated with the vehicle based on whether the portion of the route is included in the initial portion of the path, and whether the POI is located to the right of the portion of the route.
US11015944B2	Method and apparatus for dynamic navigation modification A system includes a processor configured to receive an instruction to avoid a user-identified route-portion. The processor is also configured to send the route-portion to a remote server. The processor is further configured to receive an updated recommendation relating to a size of the route-portion, responsive to the sending, and calculate a route avoiding the route-portion updated by the recommendation.
US11015942B1	Autonomous vehicle routing Methods and systems for autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicle routing are disclosed. Roadway suitability for autonomous operation is scored to facilitate use in route determination. Maps of roadways suitable for various levels of autonomous operation may be generated. Such map data may be used by autonomous vehicles or other computer devices in determining routes based upon criteria for vehicle trips. Such routes may be automatically updated based upon changes in road conditions, vehicle conditions, operator conditions, or environmental conditions. Emergency routing using such map data is described, such as automatic routing and travel when a passenger is experiencing a medical emergency.
US11015940B2	Systems and methods for longitudinal position correction of a vehicle using mapped landmarks System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to correcting the longitudinal position of a vehicle using mapped landmarks. One embodiment identifies, in stored map data, a mapped landmark that is within a predetermined distance from the vehicle; identifies one or more detected stationary objects that are within a predetermined distance from the mapped landmark; tracks the one or more detected stationary objects for at least a first predetermined time period; matches, with the mapped landmark, a particular object among the one or more tracked detected stationary objects; tracks the particular object for at least a second predetermined time period; calculates a longitudinal distance between the particular object and the mapped landmark; and corrects the longitudinal position of the vehicle based on the longitudinal distance.
US11015939B2	Methods and systems for detecting a closure and/or opening of a navigable element A method of detecting the closure and/or opening of a navigable element forming part of a network of navigable elements within a geographic area. A passability parameter is associated with each segment of an electronic map representing the navigable network and indicates a likelihood of closure of the element represented by the segment. The value of the passability parameter decays over time. When a device is detected on the element represented by the segment, the passability parameter is increased, and when a closure report is received relating to the segment, the parameter is decreased. In one set of embodiments, when the passability parameter decreases below a first threshold value, the element represented by the segment is determined to be potentially closed. In another set of embodiments, when the passability parameter increases above a second threshold value, the closed element represented by the segment is determined to be opened.
US11015936B2	Positioning method and device A method includes obtaining a moving track shape of a second device that is presented before and after a wireless communication connection between the second device and the first device is broken, and a moving track of the second device presented before the wireless communication coupling between the second device and the first device is broken, and matching the moving track shape of the second device presented before and after the wireless communication connection between the second device and the first device is broken and the moving track of the second device presented before the wireless communication connection between the second device and the first device is broken to determine a moving track of the second device presented after the wireless communication connection between the second device and the first device is broken.
US11015933B2	Micromechanical detection structure for a MEMS sensor device, in particular a MEMS gyroscope, with improved driving features A micromechanical detection structure includes a substrate of semiconductor material and a driving-mass arrangement is coupled to a set of driving electrodes and driven in a driving movement following upon biasing of the set of driving electrodes. A first anchorage unit is coupled to the driving-mass arrangement for elastically coupling the driving-mass arrangement to the substrate at first anchorages. A driven-mass arrangement is elastically coupled to the driving-mass arrangement by a coupling unit and designed to be driven by the driving movement. A second anchorage unit is coupled to the driven-mass arrangement for elastically coupling the driven-mass arrangement to the substrate at second anchorages. Following upon the driving movement, the resultant of the forces and of the torques exerted on the substrate at the first and second anchorages is substantially zero.
US11015925B2	Flexible display and method for measuring angle of the same A flexible display capable of improving an angle-measuring accuracy using different kinds of sensors and a method of measuring an angle thereof. The flexible display includes a first sensor unit disposed in a first region and including different kinds of sensors, a second sensor unit disposed in a second region adjacent to the first region and including different kinds of sensors, and an angle-measuring unit measuring a folding angle between the first region and the second region in response to sensing signals outputted from the first sensor unit and the second sensor unit.
US11015922B2	Physical parameter estimating method, physical parameter estimating device, and electronic apparatus using sampling theorem in the fractional fourier transform domain A physical parameter estimating method, a physical parameter estimating device, and electronic apparatus are disclosed. The method includes: reading a Newton's rings fringe pattern obtained by performing an interferometric measurement on a unit to be measured; downsampling the Newton's rings fringe pattern to obtain a downsampled Newton's rings fringe pattern; calculating a magnitude spectrum of an intensity distribution signal of at least one first-direction pixel set in the downsampled Newton's rings fringe pattern under each fractional Fourier transform (FRFT) order in a searching range of FRFT orders, the first-direction direction pixel set including a line of pixels in a first direction, the first direction being one of a row direction and a column direction of the downsampled Newton's rings fringe pattern; determining a matched order of the intensity distribution signal according to the calculated magnitude spectrums; and estimating a physical parameter involved in the interferometric measurement according to at least the matched order. Therefore, physical parameters of the unit to be measured can be estimated with high accuracy even in presence of noise and obstacles in the fringe pattern.
US11015921B2	Measurement system A measurement system includes: a measurement device configured to acquire a measurement data of a workpiece, a display configured to display a workpiece information corresponding to the workpiece, a reader configured to read the workpiece information displayed by the display; and a controller having a memory configured to store the workpiece information read by the reader and the measurement data of the workpiece acquired by the measurement device associated with each other.
US11015920B2	Wheel balancer system with hood mounted measurement sensors An apparatus and method for use with a vehicle wheel balancing system (100) to obtain non-contact measurements of dimensions on a wheel assembly (200) secured on a spindle shaft (104), together with identification of, and distances to, operator-selected locations on various surfaces of a wheel assembly 200.
US11015916B2	Distance measuring arrangement for determining a distance from an object A distance measuring arrangement for determining a distance from an object includes at least one light source for producing at least one first monochromatic and interference-capable light beam with a first wavelength and at least one second monochromatic and interference-capable light beam with a second wavelength, a multiplexer for coupling or combining the at least one first light beam and the at least one second light beam into a common measurement beam, an output coupling element for splitting the measurement beam into a reference beam and a signal beam, wherein the reference beam propagates along a reference path and wherein the signal beam propagates along a signal path, and a phase modulator that is arranged in the signal path and configured to modulate the phase of the signal beam periodically in time.
US11015914B2	Capacitive image sensing device and capacitive image sensing method A capacitive image sensing device and a capacitive image sensing method are provided. The capacitive image sensing device includes a sensor array, a first charge amplifier, a second charge amplifier, a differential amplifier and a first switching circuit. The sensor array includes a plurality of sensing electrodes and a first reference sensing electrode. An input terminal of the first charge amplifier is coupled to one of the sensing electrodes. A first input terminal of the differential amplifier is selectively coupled to an output terminal of the first charge amplifier. A second input terminal of the differential amplifier is coupled to an output terminal of the second charge amplifier. The first switching circuit is configured to selectively electrically connect and disconnect the first reference sensing electrode and the input terminal of the second charge amplifier.
US11015910B2	Munitions rack with structural element and insertable ejectors A munitions rack includes a munitions rack structure that houses multiple compact ejectors. The structure includes a pair of internal longitudinal ribs, inboard of a pair of external longitudinal ribs. A spine of the munitions rack structure links all the ribs, and the munitions rack structure may be formed out of a single piece of material. The ribs define a pair of side recesses on the port and starboard sides of the bomb, which each may be further subdivided into a forward pocket and an aft pocket. Removable ejectors are located in the pockets. The ejectors may receive pressurized gas from pressurized gas source(s) located outside of the ejectors. The ejectors may each have multiple forward pistons and multiple aft pistons. The ejectors may include pitch control valving to control the relative amounts of pressurized gas sent to the forward piston(s) and aft piston(s).
US11015909B2	Projectile with steerable control surfaces A projectile (100) with incidence steerable control surfaces (2) each pivotable with respect to the projectile (100), comprises: central control means (5) for controlling the control surfaces (2), a control arm (11) adapted to rotate the central control means (5) around pitch (Y) and yaw (Z) axes of the projectile (100), positioning means for positioning the arm (11), adapted to position one end of the arm (11) in a position determined with respect to an absolute reference frame, the positioning means comprising a cone (13) movable in translation so as to pivot the central control means around an orientation axis (AO), and a toothed wheel (16) meshing with a motorization intended to pilot the angular position of the orientation axis in an absolute reference frame.
US11015906B2	Aerial reconnaissance marking projectile An aerial projectile apparatus provides a means for marking terrestrial and marine locations for identification from afar, as by aerial reconnaissance. The projectile is launched from ground level at a location where identification is desired. When the projectile is lofted to an appropriate elevation, it disperses a spray of marker substance in the form of droplets or solid particles. When the sprayed marker substance settles to ground level, it leaves a mark on the landscape or marine surface indicating the location for identification by aerial reconnaissance.
US11015903B2	Enhanced ballistic protective system A ballistic armor system comprising a metal strike face plate, a laminate composite backing material secured to the metal strike face plate and an air space provided between the metal strike face plate and the laminate composite backing material. The metal strike face plate has a predetermined defined thickness and has a plurality of slotted holes set at an oblique angle relative to the vertical orientation or axis of the metal strike face plate. The plurality of slotted holes is sufficiently small to prevent the passage of a projectile or fragment therethrough. The laminate composite backing material comprises at least one material selected from an aramid fiber material, S-glass, E-glass and UHMWPE, and is provided in combination with a polymer-based resin material. The air space provided between the metal strike face plate and the composite backing material has a depth in the range between 0-10 inches.
US11015900B2	Optic cover with releasably retained display A cover for use with an optic device to hold and display shooting information. The cover may have resilient retention members that allow a display to be releasably attached and detached from the cover. The display may be made from a single substrate or multiple substrates in order to make the shooting information contained thereon highly visible in a variety of conditions and shooting preferences. The cover may include a flexible body for securing the cover to optic devices of a variety of sizes.
US11015898B2	Integrated handgun grip and rail An integrated grip and rail adapter for a handgun includes two side panels having both grip sections that are adapted to form at least portions of the handgun grip and receiver sections that are adapted to extend from the grip sections along the receiver frame of the handgun beyond a trigger guard and beneath a barrel of the handgun. A mounting rail for mounting accessories beneath the barrel of the handgun is formed in the two receiver sections.
US11015896B1	Flying disc launcher A wheel-driven flying disc launcher for conventionally sized and weighted flying discs to achieve optimal velocity, lift and angular momentum for sustained flight. Flying discs having a diameter in the range of 15 cm to 28 cm and a weight in the range of 60 gm to 120 gm engage a spinning drive wheel having a diameter in the range of 10 to 25 cm for discharge through an annulus chute having a width substantially equal to the diameter of the flying disc to be launched and extending through an angle θ around the center of the drive wheel in the range of 45 to 80 degrees.
US11015893B2	Lever-coupled device for selectively preventing a firearm from discharging The present disclosure generally relates to a bolt catch device that prevents the bolt of a bolt carrier assembly of a firearm from moving to its forward position so as to prevent the firearm from being discharged until the user manually moves the bolt catch. The bolt catch is mechanically coupled to the selector of the firearm via a linkage, so that the bolt catch can be moved by way of the selector. This feature can prevent a self-loading firearm that otherwise could function on a semi-automatic basis from operating in such a manner.
US11015890B2	Determination of round count by hall switch encoding This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for detecting and displaying a number of rounds in a firearm magazine comprising a maximum number of N rounds. The magazine may comprise a follower, magnets on the follower, and
US11015885B1	Flat top ARI5 type lower receiver A flat top ar15 type lower receiver for a firearm.
US11015882B2	Adjustable multi-pass heat exchanger system In various implementations, a heat exchanger system may include one or more flow paths. At least one of the flow paths may be associated with more than one pass and/or fluid flow through the flow path may be restricted. A setting of the heat exchanger system may include associations between flow path(s) and/or pass(es). A setting for the heat exchanger system may be determined, and the heat exchanger system may be allowed to operate in the determined setting, in some implementations.
US11015877B2	Energy storage systems including thermal storage tanks Energy storage systems include a heat source and a thermal energy storage system to store thermal energy produced by the heat source. The thermal energy storage system includes a first tank containing a first salt having a first melting temperature and a second tank containing a second salt having a second melting temperature. At least one input conduit is configured for transferring thermal energy from the heat source to the first tank and second tank. A first output conduit is in thermal communication with the first tank. A second output conduit is in thermal communication with the second tank. Additional energy storage systems include a heat booster positioned and configured to add thermal energy to a heated heat transfer fluid prior to reaching a tank containing at least one thermal storage material. Methods include transferring thermal energy from a thermal energy source to a plurality of thermal energy storage tanks.
US11015874B1	Advanced cooling system using throttled internal cooling passage flow for a window assembly, and methods of fabrication and use thereof A window assembly heat transfer system is disclosed in which a window member has a selected transparency to monitored or sensed light wavelengths. One or more passages are provided in the window member for flowing a single-phase or two-phase heat transfer fluid, the passages being optically non-transparent to the monitored or sensed light wavelengths. A mechanism allows either evaporation or condensation of the fluid and/or balancing of a flow of the fluid within the passages. In one embodiment, the window assembly can be made by producing passages in a top surface of a first single plate, optionally producing passages in a bottom surface of a second single plate and bonding the top surface of the first plate to a bottom surface of a second single plate to form the window member with the passage or passages. In another embodiment, the window assembly can be made by providing a core around which the window member material is grown and thereafter removing the core to produce the passage or passages.
US11015870B2	Water tank for use in an air-conditioning or heating system A water tank that is used with a solar air conditioning system and provides a supply of cold water for in-dwellings radiators of the system. In one embodiment, the tank application can begin at 32 F degrees and drop down to many degrees colder, such as, but not limited to, minus 100 F degrees. In one non-limiting embodiment, the tank can hold 2000 gallons of water.
US11015869B2	Method for reducing molten raw materials, and device for carrying out said method A method for reducing molten raw materials, includes placing the raw materials, in a solid or molten state, on an inductively heated bed with coke pieces. The reduced melt that runs off the coke bed is collected and the waste gases are discharged. A coke bed is inwardly limited by a tube-shaped element through which the reaction gases are drawn off via a plurality of draw-off openings in the tube-shaped element. The corresponding device has a reactor for a bed with coke pieces and an induction heater with at least one induction coil. The reactor has a loading opening and a discharge opening for the treated melt. The coke bed is ring-shaped around a tube-shaped element. The material of the tube-shaped element allows inductive coupling to the induction field of the induction coil and it has draw-off openings for drawing off reaction gases from the coke bed.
US11015868B2	Hay bale dryer The present invention provides a hay bale dryer, comprising: a platform, the platform dimensioned to support the hay bale; a spike rack movably coupled to the platform, the spike rack having a plurality of spikes, each spike having a plurality of slots and each spike dimensioned to penetrate through the hay bale; a fan coupled to the spike rack and operative to blow air through the slots in the spikes, wherein the spike rack is raised to permit loading and unloading of the hay bale, and lowered to permit drying of the hay bale via the air blown through the spikes.
US11015865B2	System and method for natural gas liquid production with flexible ethane recovery or rejection A system and method for producing an NGL product stream in either an ethane retention or rejection mode. Rejection modes include (a) two heat exchange stages between a feed stream and first separator bottoms stream and cooling a side stream withdrawn from a fractionation tower through heat exchange with both the fractionation tower and second separator overhead streams; or (b) warming the first separator bottoms stream and fractionation overhead stream through heat exchange with the side stream prior to heat exchange with the feed stream, to achieve 4-15% ethane recovery and 97%+ propane recovery. In ethane retention mode, a portion of the feed stream and portions of a first separator overhead and bottoms streams are separately cooled through heat exchange with other process streams, including the entireties of a recycled residue gas and fractionation column overhead streams, resulting in around 99% ethane and around 100% propane recovery.
US11015864B2	Refrigerator A refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a cabinet, a door configured to open/close the cabinet, an outer plate defining a front surface of the door and having an opening formed therein to pass through the door, a door liner defining a rear surface of the door, lighting members configured to illuminate storage spaces of the door and the cabinet, a transparent panel assembly mounted to shield the opening and allowing the storage spaces to be selectively seen according to an ON/OFF state of the lighting members, an insulator filled between the outer plate and the door liner, and a blocking part arranged inside the door along a periphery of the transparent panel assembly and detachably coupled to a peripheral surface of the transparent panel assembly to fix the transparent panel assembly.
US11015863B2	Refrigerator A refrigerator comprises: a cabinet having a storage chamber; a door to open and close the storage chamber; a drawer assembly connected to the door and having a drawer; a rail assembly to connect the drawer assembly to the cabinet; and a weight balance positioned in the drawer assembly and opposite the door.
US11015858B2	Refrigerator and cold air flow rate monitoring system thereof A refrigerator and a cold air flow rate monitoring system for the refrigerator, the refrigerator including a main body having a refrigerating chamber therein, a cold air passage duct disposed within the main body and provided with a cold air passage therein, a control case coupled to the cold air passage duct and provided with a cold air discharge opening, a knob installed on the control case and opening and closing at least part of the cold air discharge opening in a manner of reciprocally moving in one direction, and a sensing unit provided with a conductive member mounted on the knob and a circuit portion provided on the control case, and configured to sense relative position of the knob with respect to the control case to acquire information related to an opening and closing amount of the cold air discharge opening.
US11015857B2	Refrigerator A refrigerator comprises a refrigerator body, an air-conditioning membrane assembly and an air pump assembly. The refrigerator body defines a storage space and a compressor chamber therein, a storage container is arranged in the storage space, and a freshness-keeping space is defined inside the storage container. The air-conditioning membrane assembly is provided with at least one air-conditioning membrane and an oxygen-rich gas collection chamber and configured to allow more oxygen than nitrogen in airflow in a surrounding space of the air-conditioning membrane assembly to pass through the air-conditioning membrane and enter the oxygen-rich gas collection chamber. An air pump pumps gas in the oxygen-rich gas collection chamber to the outside of the freshness-keeping space, such that a ratio of the content of nitrogen in the freshness-keeping space to the content of oxygen in the freshness-keeping space is greater than 78/21.
US11015856B2	Refrigerator and method of changing a deodorizing mode according to a detected smell A refrigerator may include a smell sensor for detecting smell in the refrigerator; a deodorizer for adsorbing, sterilizing, and deodorizing air in the refrigerator; and a controller for calculating smell values based on the detected smell at the smell sensor, changing a deodorizing mode according to the detected smell, and controlling the deodorizer.
US11015855B2	Refrigeration apparatus for containers A container refrigeration apparatus includes: a casing which forms an external storage space communicating with the exterior of the container and an internal storage space communicating with the interior of the container; a refrigerant circuit; an external fan; an internal fan; and an inside air control system including an exhaust passage which allows a space on a blowout side of the internal fan in the internal storage space to communicate with the external storage space, and controls composition of the inside air in the container. An external end of the exhaust passage is open on a suction side of the external fan in the external storage space.
US11015851B2	Refrigeration cycle device A refrigeration cycle device performs a heating operation and a defrosting operation. A refrigerant circulates in opposite directions in the defrosting operation and the heating operation. The refrigeration cycle device includes a compressor, a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger, a decompressor, and a flow path switch. In the heating operation, the refrigerant circulates in the order of the compressor, the first heat exchanger, the decompressor, and the second heat exchanger. In the defrosting operation, the refrigerant circulates in the order of the compressor, the second heat exchanger, the decompressor, and the first heat exchanger. The defrosting operation includes a first mode and a second mode. The opening of the decompressor is greater in the first mode than in the heating operation. The opening of the decompressor is less in the second mode than in the first mode.
US11015850B2	Oil separator An oil separator includes a capturing member inside a main body container, which includes a first capturing member portion arranged on a side closer to an inflow pipe and a second capturing member portion being arranged on a side closer to an outflow pipe and having a porosity smaller than that of the first capturing member portion. Therefore, a driving force is generated by the capturing member having the different porosities. Through the driving force, a force of gravity, and a capillary phenomenon, oil inside the main body container is transported to an oil return pipe to prevent re-scattering of the oil, thereby being capable of suppressing reduction in oil separation efficiency. At the same time, oil return efficiency to the compressor is improved.
US11015843B2	Caloric heat pump hydraulic system A refrigerator appliance includes a fresh food working fluid circuit that couples a hot side heat exchanger, a fresh food cold side heat exchanger and a fresh food regenerator. A first pair of diverter valves and a hot side reservoir are coupled to the fresh food working fluid circuit. The hot side reservoir is positioned below one or both of the first pair of diverter valves. A freezer working fluid circuit couples a freezer cold side heat exchanger and a freezer regenerator. A second pair of diverter valves and a fresh food cold side reservoir are coupled to the freezer working fluid circuit. The fresh food cold side reservoir is positioned below one or both of the second pair of diverter valves. A liquid-liquid heat exchanger is also coupled to the fresh food working fluid circuit.
US11015840B2	Working fluid for heat cycle, composition for heat cycle system, and heat cycle system An object of the present invention is to provide, as a working fluid to be used for a heat cycle system, a working fluid for heat cycle that has cycle performance replaceable with that of R410A, and at the same time, has a small burden on an apparatus, low flammability, suppressed self-decomposition, and less effect on global warming, and therefore, is usable stably even if leaked, a composition for heat cycle system containing the same, and a heat cycle system using the composition. The working fluid for heat cycle contains trifluoroethylene, difluoromethane, and at least one selected from 1,1-difluoroethane, fluoroethane, propane, propylene, carbon dioxide, 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, and (E)-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene at mass ratios satisfying predetermined expressions and at a ratio of the total content to be 90 to 100 mass % relative to the total amount of the working fluid and has a temperature glide of 10° C. or less.
US11015839B2	Solar concentrator A concentrator (10) of sun rays comprising: a reflective body (15) adapted to reflect incident sun rays towards a focal segment (SF) at which the reflected sun rays intersect, wherein the reflective body (15) comprises a plurality of reflective first sheets (40) alongside each other along a flanking direction parallel to the focal segment (SF) and each of which is inclined with respect to a plane perpendicular to a plane passing through the middle point (PM) of the focal segment (SF) and orthogonal to the focal segment itself, wherein each first sheet (40) comprises a reflective surface defined by a plurality of parabolas (401), which are alongside each other with respect to the flanking direction of the first sheets (40) and each have a vertex (Vn1) placed on a vertex segment (SV1), which joins all the vertices (Vn1) of the parabolas (401) of each first sheet (40) have a focal distance varying along the flanking direction and are configured such that each parabola has a focal point (F1, Fn1, F2) placed on the focal segment (SF).
US11015835B2	Management device, display switch system, and air-conditioning system A management device is connected to an apparatus and is configured to manage the apparatus. The management device includes a display unit, a wireless communication unit, and a control unit. The display unit is configured to display information about the apparatus. The wireless communication unit is configured to wirelessly communicate with a mobile terminal. The control unit is configured to, when a distance between the management device and the mobile terminal is shorter than a threshold, adjust display settings of the display unit to display settings of the mobile terminal.
US11015831B2	Apparatus and methods for controlling a ventilation mechanism The present disclosure provides controls, apparatus, systems and methods for controlling a ventilation mechanism to manage relative humidity of an area. The controls, apparatus, systems and methods utilize sensed relative humidity information and one or more inputs to provide automatic and/or manual control of a ventilation mechanism in response to high humidity events within the area. The controls, apparatus, systems and methods provided herein automatically activate a ventilation mechanism through the use of sensed relative humidity information and user input. The controls, apparatus, systems and methods provided herein automatically deactivate a ventilation mechanism through the use of sensed relative humidity information and user input.
US11015829B2	System, motor controller and associated method An electronic control module is provided. The electronic control module is operably connected to a power supply for providing power to a motor. The electronic control module includes an input device, a processor coupled to the input device, and first and second current supply lines. The processor is configured to generate a command signal in response to an input supplied by the input device and transmit the command signal to the motor. The command signal controls an operating point of the motor. The first and second current supply lines are operably connectable to the motor and the processor. At least one of the current supply lines, the input device and the processor are adapted to utilize the current supply lines both to transmit power to the motor and to transmit the command signal to the motor over the current supply lines.
US11015828B2	Refrigeration system with utilization unit leak detection A refrigeration system includes a plurality of utilization units provided for one air conditioning target space, a refrigerant leakage sensor that detects a leakage of the refrigerant in a lower part of the air conditioning target space, and a control unit. In a case where the refrigerant leakage sensor detects the refrigerant leakage, the control unit performs detection standby control on the utilization units such that the supply of the refrigerant to utilization-side heat exchangers is temporarily stopped. In a case where the refrigerant leakage is detected based on the state quantity of the refrigerant corresponding to the utilization units under the detection standby control, the control unit stops the use of the utilization unit in which the refrigerant leakage has been detected.
US11015826B2	Automated climate control system with override According to one embodiment, a system includes at least one of a cooling system and a heating system, an automation controller, a sensor, and a switch. The automation controller provides a first input indicating a first temperature set point. The sensor detects a temperature of a second space proximate the sensor and provides a second input indicating the temperature of the second space and a second temperature set point. The switch activates at least one of the cooling system and the heating system based on the second temperature set point in response to a determination that the second input overrides the first input.
US11015825B2	Intelligent air-drying system and method An intelligent air-drying system and method are provided. The intelligent air-drying system includes an air-drying device and an application program. The air-drying device includes a device body, a sensing unit, a heater, and a processing unit. The device body has a water-absorbing material for absorbing moisture in the air. The sensing unit is disposed on the device body to detect the humidity of the environment where the air-drying device is located. The heater is disposed on the device body to heat the water-absorbing material. The processing unit is coupled to the sensing unit and the heater, and the processing unit executes the application program. The startup timing of the heater is dynamically predicted based on the daily humidity change measured by the sensing unit, and the heater is started before the water-absorbing material reaches saturation to ensure the water-absorbing and dehumidifying capabilities of the water-absorbing material.
US11015808B2	Aerodynamically enhanced premixer with purge slots for reduced emissions A System for Aerodynamic Premixer for Reduced Emissions comprising a premixer is generally cylindrical in form and defined by the relationship in physical space between a first ring, a second ring, and a plurality of radial vanes. The first and second rings are found to be generally equidistant, one from the other, at all points along their facing surfaces. Radial vanes connect the first ring to the second ring and thereby form the premixer.
US11015806B2	Combustion device test apparatus and method A combustion device test apparatus including a combustion device, a holding station configured to hold the combustion device, a fuel supply conduit, and a pressure wave fuse coupling the fuel supply conduit to the combustion device, the pressure wave fuse being frictionally coupled to one or more of the combustion device and the fuel supply conduit at a frictional coupling such that the pressure wave fuse is configured to disengage one or more of the combustion device and the fuel supply conduit at the frictional coupling upon traversal of a flame front pressure wave through the pressure wave fuse.
US11015804B2	Gas burner system for a plurality of gas types The present invention is a system that utilizes high pressure gas (greater than ½ psig) to control flow rate and gas discharge velocity to enable interchangeability between a plurality of gases without having to change the gas/air mixing venturi size or air opening. A new approach is to use the available incoming higher gas pressure to the appliance then control the volumetric flow rate with the first orifice and then use a second orifice to change the velocity of discharge into the gas/air mixing venturi of the burner and therefore have adjustability of gas air mixing conditions without having to change the burner system or air flow control even when changing between very different fuel gases.
US11015803B2	Combustion device A combustion device includes at least one burner, a supporting assembly, and an infrared ray generation assembly. The at least one burner includes a flame outlet; the front cover of the supporting assembly includes a flat cover plate which has a plurality of holes; the infrared ray generation mesh which is disposed on the supporting assembly is corresponding to the flame outlet; the flames generated by the flame outlet heat the infrared ray generation mesh and the cover plate. The intensity of heating can be effectively increased by generating open fire and infrared rays and uniformly heating could be realized as well.
US11015801B2	Boiler and modifying method thereof A modification of a power boiler is disclosed, which comprises water walls enclosing the furnace for heating water and producing steam; a superheater system provided above the furnace for superheating steam; an additional superheater mounted in the furnace for further superheating steam from the superheater system. A modifying method of a power boiler is also disclosed, which comprises steps of mounting an additional superheater on water walls in a furnace; connecting an output of a superheater system to an inlet of the additional superheater; and connecting an outlet of the additional superheater to a turbine for producing power at an improved plant heat rate.
US11015797B2	Luminaire with wireless node A luminaire includes a housing assembly, a spacer, and a globe optic. A collar may be included on the spacer such that the luminaire can accommodate different sizes of globe optics without requiring complete replacement of the luminaire. The spacer may include airflow apertures that promote air circulation within the luminaire when the luminaire is assembled. A wireless node may be included with the luminaire. In some examples, the wireless node may be positioned on at least one of the housing assembly, the spacer, or the globe optic.
US11015795B2	Light weight radiant heat structure of thermoelectric polymer heat sink and manufacturing method of the same Provided is a heat-conductive polymer heatsink with a lightweight heat-radiating structure, which may include: a base plate; a plurality of heat-radiating fins, which are formed in a lower part of the base plate to be spaced apart; a substrate, which is connected to an upper part of the base plate; and a light source connected to the substrate; wherein the cross-sectional area of the heat-radiating fin among the plurality of heat-radiating fins formed below the light source is larger than that of the adjacent heat-radiating fins.
US11015792B1	Luminaires having a wireless antenna A luminaire includes a housing defining an interior volume. The luminaire also includes a lamp within the interior volume and configured to emit light. Additionally, the luminaire includes a wireless antenna positioned within the interior volume, configured to transmit or receive a wireless signal along a first direction, and configured to be operatively coupled to an access point. The wireless antenna can be entirely within the interior volume. The luminaire can include a first reflective surface within the interior volume and configured to redirect the wireless signal. The lamp can be configured to be electrically coupled to a power inserter that powers the access point.
US11015790B2	Slim linear LED lighting device A slim linear LED lighting device is provided, including: a printed circuit board on which a connecting circuit is provided, at least one power input component, and a plurality of LED Bars. The LED Bar is formed by a plurality of the same kind of LED chips, and has a slim strip-shaped condensing lens structure integrally formed in the LED Bar packaging process by molding process to control the beam angle of the LED Bar and therefore the light distribution of the slim linear LED lighting device. The LED Bar's condensing lens has a small cross-sectional dimension; therefore the effective utilization factor of the light is improved as the slim linear LED lighting device is applied to a linear automotive lamp designed with a thin light blade structure.
US11015789B2	Wiring box for lighting apparatus A wiring box is used for connecting an external wire to a driver circuit and for connecting the driver circuit to a lighting apparatus. The wiring box includes a box container and a foldable top cover. In some embodiments, it is preferable that the lighting apparatus have elongated shapes, like light tubes. The box container has a box opening. The foldable top cover includes a center plate and at least one lateral plate. The center plate is connected to the at least one lateral plate with an axial structure, the lateral plate is folded to align with the center plate in an elongated manner during shipping. The lateral plate is rotated with respect to the center plate along the axial structure to expand and to cover the box opening of the box container.
US11015788B1	Light fixture with integral handle A light fixture having a housing and a handle formed integrally in the housing. In some embodiments, the handle is positioned at a center of gravity of the light fixture so as to facilitate carrying of the light fixture and/or to reduce stress on the carrier's hand.
US11015787B2	Lighting fixtures and systems including them, lighting assembly attachment system, and methods of installing same The present disclosure relates generally to light fixtures and to lighting assembly attachment systems. The present disclosure provides a lighting fixture extending no more than 3 inches from the building surface. A light source is disposed in a housing thereof and is configured to emit light through the open side of the housing so as to direct the light in an upward direction. The disclosure also provides lighting assembly including a housing having a base and a cavity below the base, a light source disposed in the cavity of the housing, and one or more clips configured to attach to a flange of a ceiling support beam. Each clip includes an upper arm, a lower arm, and a retainer disposed on the lower arm configured to engage the base of the housing such that the housing is held up by the one or more clips.
US11015782B2	Lighting device A lighting device extends substantially along a first axis and comprises a LED light source, which has a substantially hemispheric emission on a side of an emission plane, and an optical group, which is placed in front of the light source; the optical group is configured so as to intercept the light emitted by the light source and generate a light ring, which extends at 360° around the light source on opposite sides of the emission plane and is substantially parallel to a meridian plane, which is perpendicular to the emission plane and goes through the axis of the lighting device.
US11015778B2	System for communicating from a vehicle A vehicle indication alert system for improving vehicle visibility for pedestrians and other motorists. The vehicle indication alert system increases the number of turn indicators on a vehicle, so the direction of the turn is more accurately known. The indicators are built directly into a vehicle windshield at the time of manufacture, and alternatively, are added as an after-market feature to an existing vehicle windshield.

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