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| US11088629B2 |
Isolated converter with high boost ratio
An isolated converter with high boost ration includes a transformer, a first bridge arm, a second bridge arm, and a boost circuit. The transformer includes a secondary side having a secondary side first node and a secondary side second node. The first bridge arm includes a first diode and a second diode. The second bridge arm includes a third diode and a fourth diode. The boost circuit includes at least one fifth diode coupled between the first bridge arm and the secondary side second node, at least one sixth diode coupled between the second bridge arm and the secondary side first node, and at least two capacitors coupled to the secondary side first node and the secondary side second node. |
| US11088628B2 |
Switching power supply device
A switching power supply device includes a transformer for voltage conversion, a synchronous rectification MOS transistor, a secondary side control circuit, and a minimum on-time setting circuit. The synchronous rectification MOS transistor is connected in series to a secondary side coil of the transformer. The secondary side control circuit performs on/off control of the synchronous rectification MOS transistor based on a drain voltage of the synchronous rectification MOS transistor. The minimum on-time setting circuit sets a minimum on-time when turning on the synchronous rectification MOS transistor based on a peak period and a bottom period detected by the secondary side control circuit. |
| US11088624B2 |
Voltage conversion apparatus for implementing zero-voltage switching based on recovering leakage inductance energy
A voltage conversion apparatus for implementing zero-voltage switching based on recovering leakage inductance energy is provided. A leakage inductance energy recovery circuit is coupled to a primary side auxiliary winding and a control circuit, and recovers leakage inductance energy of a transformer circuit to supply an operating power to the control circuit. Before a main switch is turned on the next time, leakage inductance energy recovered previously is used to lower a cross-voltage of the main switch, so that transient loss of conduction of the main switch is eliminated or reduced, and circuit efficiency is improved. |
| US11088621B2 |
Secondary controller for use in synchronous flyback converter
A secondary controller for use in a power converter includes a drive circuit coupled to a secondary side of the power converter. The drive circuit is coupled to generate a first signal to enable a first switch coupled to a primary side of the primary converter. The first signal is generated in response to a feedback signal representative of an output of the power converter. A control circuit is coupled to receive the first signal and an input signal representative of a secondary winding voltage of the power converter. The control circuit is coupled to generate a second signal to control a second switch coupled to the secondary side of the power converter in response to the first signal and the input signal. |
| US11088610B2 |
Driving and controlling method for switching element and circuit thereof
A driving and controlling method and a circuit thereof are provided. The method includes: sending, by a primary controller, a first signal that includes a first type of pulse sequence and a second type of pulse sequence; receiving the first signal, by a secondary controller, and identifying a pulse type of the first signal; when a first type of pulse is detected, the secondary controller outputs multiple switching signals to respectively control multiple switching elements to turn off; when a second type of pulse is detected, the secondary controller outputs multiple switching signals to respectively control multiple switching elements to work as normal. A level of the first signal is maintained constant between the first type of pulse sequence and the second type of pulse sequence. The disclosure features cost-efficiency and low driving delay. |
| US11088605B2 |
Magnet generator with resin-made ceiling
The present invention provides a magnet generator that can reduce a mass without lowering a desired inertia and can prevent an engine from being locked by vibration or impact in a high rotation speed region. In a magnet generator including a rotor including a bowl-like flywheel having a cylindrical section and a ceiling section, a plurality of permanent magnets arranged over the inner circumferential wall surface of the cylindrical section, and a boss arranged in the center of the ceiling section and attached to an output shaft of an engine, and a stator facing the permanent magnets, fixed to the engine side inside the flywheel and including laminated steel plates and coils, wherein at least a part of the ceiling section of the flywheel is formed of a synthetic resin and the remaining part is formed of a metal. |
| US11088598B2 |
Arrangement of a rotational angle measuring system on a housing
An arrangement of a magnet-based rotational angle measuring system on a drive motor housing part. The arrangement includes the drive motor housing part, a drive shaft with a free end which extends out of the drive motor housing part, an exciter unit connected to the free end of the drive shaft to rotate therewith, a stationary sensor unit which cooperates with the exciter unit to detect a rotary movement of the drive shaft, a shielding body arranged between the stationary sensor unit and the drive motor housing part, and an alignment element which directly aligns the stationary sensor unit with respect to the drive motor housing part. |
| US11088594B2 |
Motor and electric power steering device
A motor includes a rotor, a stator, a housing, a heat sink, a substrate, a connector, and a cover. The connector includes a connector shell with a shell projection or shell recess. The heat sink includes a heat sink body and a heat sink protrusion. The heat sink protrusion includes a heat sink recess or heat sink projection. The shell projection or shell recess, and the heat sink recess or heat sink projection are fitted through a gap. |
| US11088591B2 |
Motor and actuator
A motor comprising a frame and one or a plurality of magnets disposed inside the frame, wherein a gap extending in a circumferential direction is provided between an inner peripheral surface of the frame and an outer peripheral surface of the magnet, and the magnet and the frame arranged at both sides of the gap are coupled together in a rotational shaft direction by means of an adhesive. |
| US11088590B2 |
Connection unit for a wiper motor and wiper motor
The invention relates to a connection unit (20; 20a) for a wiper motor (100) for windshield wiper systems, with a plug connector element (22) for the reception of electric connection lines (24), which are formed for the at least indirect contacting of a commutator (6) of an electric motor (1), and with a carrier element (26; 26a) in which connection elements (40) for contacting the commutator (6) and/or at least one component of an electric circuit are arranged. |
| US11088589B2 |
Power transmission device
A power transmission device having a motor which includes a stator around which a coil is wound, a motor frame which covers the stator, and a cover which covers an axial end portion of the motor frame. In addition, the cover is formed of a non-conductive material, and a shortest creeping distance between a coil end of the coil and the cover is shorter than 6.3 mm. |
| US11088588B2 |
Motor with an upper bearing including a washer, a lower bearing, and bearing holding portions
A motor includes a rotor that includes a shaft centered on a central axis extending in an upward and downward direction; a stator that is disposed to face the rotor in a radial direction; a bearing that supports the shaft; a bearing holder that holds the bearing; and a housing that accommodates the rotor, the stator, and the bearing holder, and opens to an upper side. The housing includes a controller accommodating region that accommodates at least a portion of a controller electrically connected to the stator on an upper side from the bearing holder. An inner diameter of the housing in the controller accommodating region is larger than an inner diameter of the housing at a position to which the bearing holder is attached. The bearing holder is held on an inner peripheral surface of the housing by interference fitting. |
| US11088587B2 |
Motor
A motor provided with: a resin sealing member that is made from a resin and that covers a stator; and a cover member that is fixed to the resin sealing member. The protrusions protruding radially outward are formed on the resin sealing member. A part of the cover member on a Z2 direction side thereof is configured as a cylindrical cover section covering the resin sealing member from the outer circumferential side. The cover section has formed therein notch sections, engagement grooves that extend toward one side in the circumferential direction from the ends of the notch sections on a Z1 direction side and with which the protrusions engage, and a stopper restricting movement of the cover member toward the other side in the circumferential direction. The widths of the notch sections are wider than the widths of the protrusions in the circumferential direction. |
| US11088584B2 |
Motor and pump device
A motor includes a rotor, a stator having coils, a connector for supplying electrical power to the coils, and a resin sealing member. The resin sealing member comprises an opposite-to-output side sealing part and a connector sealing part covering the connector. The connector comprises a frame part into which the cable side connector is to be inserted, and the opposite-to-output side sealing part comprises a first protruded part and a second protruded part. A tip end face of the first protruded part and a tip end face of the second protruded part are located on one imaginary face intersecting the rotation center line, a tip end on the opposite-to-output side of the frame part is located on the output side with respect to the imaginary face, and the second protruded part is provided at a position closer to the frame part between the first protruded part and the frame part. |
| US11088583B2 |
Rotary-electric-machine stator coil, rotary-electric-machine stator having the same, and rotary electric machine having the same
Provided are a rotary-electric-machine stator coil, a rotary-electric-machine stator having the same, and a rotary electric machine having the same, capable of improving a bonding strength and insulation reliability of a conductor bonding portion. A rotary-electric-machine stator coil includes: a conductor 110 having a bonding portion 104 bonded to other conductors; and a bonding member 401 having a melting point lower than a melting point of the conductor, wherein a tip of the bonding portion has an alloy layer 402 formed of an alloy of the conductor and the bonding member, and a root of the bonding portion is electrically connected by the bonding member. |
| US11088579B2 |
Rotor for an electric machine
The present disclosure relates to a rotor (3) for an electric machine (1). The rotor (3) is composed of a support frame (5) having a centre section (8) and a plurality of spokes (9). The spokes (9) extend outwardly from the centre section (8). The spokes (9) each have at least first and second bridge elements (12A, 12B) formed by one or more flux barrier (13). The first and second bridge elements (12A, 12B) are configured to control magnetic flux leakage into said centre section (8). The present disclosure also relates to an electric machine (1) having a rotor (3) of this type. |
| US11088577B2 |
Permanent magnet synchronous machine and method for manufacturing permanent magnet synchronous machine stator
A permanent magnet synchronous machine includes a stator including a plurality of split core blocks that are continuously arranged in a rotation direction of a rotor. The plurality of split core blocks each includes: a permanent magnet; a pair of teeth arranged on both ends of the permanent magnet so as to sandwich the permanent magnet in the rotation direction; and connection teeth, which are provided on axial end portions of the pair of teeth sandwiching the permanent magnet, and are configured to connect the pair of teeth. |
| US11088575B2 |
Reliably informing user of electronic device state during charging
An electronic unit includes an electricity reception section that receives power transmitted using one of a magnetic field or an electric field, a secondary battery that is charged based on a received power received by the electricity reception section, and a state notification section that provides notification to outside as to a state of its own unit. A charging period during which the secondary battery is charged based on the received power and a non-charging period are set in a time-divisional manner. The state notification section notifies of the unit state based on the received power in both of the charging period and the non-charging period. |
| US11088565B2 |
Load-based management of multiple dc power sources
Techniques for power source management in an information handling system (IHS) include detecting connection of multiple power sources to the IHS through respective DC adapters, obtaining data indicating the capabilities of each power source, obtaining data indicating a system load for the IHS, and generating, based on the obtained data, a load management plan specifying a target combined input power amount for power supplied by the multiple power sources and respective amounts of electrical power to be supplied by a single selected power source or by multiple selected power sources. The techniques also include combining the power supplied by each of the selected power sources into a combined input power and supplying the combined input power to the IHS. Prior to the combining, the voltage of the power supplied by a power source may be stepped up or down to a common voltage, or a power source may be de-rated. |
| US11088564B2 |
Wireless charging indicator
Systems and methods for providing a wireless charging placement and/or alignment indicator(s) are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a chassis and a controller coupled to the chassis, the controller configured to: identify a direction of movement between the device and a wireless charger that increases a charging efficiency between the device and the wireless charger; and indicate the direction of movement via a Light-Emitting Diode (LED) disposed on the chassis. |
| US11088559B2 |
Current protection for battery charger
A device includes a battery current sense circuit configured to generate a battery current feedback voltage based on a current provided to a battery, a current regulation feedback loop configured to regulate the current provided to the battery based on the battery current feedback voltage and a configurable battery current reference voltage, and a precharge regulation feedback loop configured to regulate the current provided to the battery based on the battery current feedback voltage and a configurable precharge reference voltage. The device also includes a processor configured to set the battery current reference voltage to a first value and set the precharge current reference voltage to a second value. The first value is less than the second value during a transition state. |
| US11088558B2 |
Method and apparatus for charging battery
A battery charging method and apparatus are provided. The battery charging apparatus receives a desired charging time of a battery, generates charging currents of charging steps to charge the battery based on the desired charging time, acquires a charging limit condition including an internal state condition and a maximum charging time for each of the charging steps based on the desired charging time and an electrochemical model of the battery, and generates a charging profile including the charging currents and charging times of the charging currents based on the charging limit condition. |
| US11088554B2 |
In-vehicle charging station for an electrically heated aerosol-generating device
A charging station for an electrically heated aerosol-generating device which is adapted for stationary arrangement in a vehicle. The charging station includes a docking port for removably receiving the aerosol-generating device and a charging circuit operatively connectable to the aerosol-generating device when being received in the docking port for charging an electrical power supply of the aerosol-generating device. The charging station further includes a releasable retaining device configured for securely retaining the aerosol-generating device in the docking port such as to allow for one-handed removing of an aerosol-forming substrate from the aerosol-generating device. A charging assembly includes an electrically heated aerosol-generating device and a charging station. A vehicle may include a charging station being stationarily arranged in the vehicle. |
| US11088551B2 |
Power supply and battery pack including same
The described technology relates to a power supply and a battery pack including the same. In one embodiments, the power supply includes an input terminal configured to receive input power, a regulator configured to reduce a voltage of the input power, and a sensing circuit configured to sense an output voltage of the regulator. The power supply also includes a reference voltage controller configured to receive the input power as driving power and to feedback-control the output voltage of the regulator to correspond to a preset reference voltage, based on the sensed output voltage. The power supply further includes a switch arranged between the input terminal and the reference voltage controller and configured to control the driving power applied to the reference voltage controller. |
| US11088550B2 |
Vehicle having an energy storage element
A vehicle having an energy storage element including a drive inverter and a charging unit. The energy storage element further includes a first control apparatus, modules, an interconnection apparatus, and two first poles, the drive inverter is connected to said two first poles. Each modules of said modules has an energy storage unit. The interconnection apparatus has connections between the modules and first switches provided on the connections in order to allow different interconnections of the modules and different voltages at the first poles based on a state at the first switches. Different interconnections of the modules allow at least two interconnections from the group of interconnections. The first control apparatus is configured to actuate the interconnection apparatus based on a voltage setpoint value in order to influence the different voltages at the two first poles based on the voltage setpoint value. |
| US11088548B2 |
Verifying status of a termination end cap of a microinverter chain
A photovoltaic (PV) system includes a system control module that determines the presence of a microinverter chain termination end cap. The end cap includes an embedded circuit. The embedded circuit includes components having resistive, reactive, or impedance values. A signal source provides a signal through the microinverter chain. A parameter for a sensed signal detected by the system control module is used to determine the presence of the end cap using a change between the parameter for the sense signal and a reference parameter. |
| US11088547B1 |
Method and system for integration and control of power for consumer power circuits
In one embodiment, a power distribution system includes a DC power input for receiving DC power from a renewable energy source, an AC power input for receiving AC power, a multi-phase pulse power output for transmitting multi-phase pulse power, an AC power output for transmitting the AC power, and a controller for allocating power to the multi-phase pulse power output and the AC power output. |
| US11088545B2 |
Self-powered utility delivery system
The present disclosure relates to a self-powered utility delivery system that includes an energy generator that produces electrical energy and consequently regulates a pressure of utility flowing through the self-powered utility delivery system. Additionally, the self-powered utility delivery system includes an electronic utility meter that monitors a quantity (e.g., volume) of utility that flows through the self-powered utility delivery system and toward a consumer. |
| US11088542B1 |
System and method for temperature compensated ESD protection
In accordance with an embodiment, a method for electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection includes: dividing a voltage between a plurality of circuit nodes using a voltage divider circuit to form a divided voltage; compensating a temperature dependency of the divided voltage to form a temperature compensated divided voltage; monitoring the voltage between the plurality of circuit nodes using a transient detection circuit to form a transient detection signal; and activating a clamp circuit coupled between the plurality of circuit nodes based on the temperature compensated divided voltage and based on the transient detection signal. |
| US11088531B2 |
Device, battery and method for spark detection based on transient currents
A device, battery and method for spark detection based on transient currents is provided. The battery includes: a cell; an interface; a first protection circuit and a second protection circuit. The first protection circuit comprises a first switch between the cell and the interface. The second protection circuit comprises a second switch between the cell and the interface. The first protection circuit is configured to: measure a load current on the cell; and open the first switch according to a first delay time based on the measurement of the load current. The second protection circuit is configured to: measure a transient current on the cell above the load current; and open the second switch according to a second delay time, lower than the first delay time, based on the measurement of the transient current. |
| US11088528B2 |
Arc detection circuit, switch system, power conditioner system and arc detection method
An arc detection circuit that detects an arc that occurs in a transmission path that transmits power from a power supply apparatus to a power conditioner, the arc detection circuit includes: a current detector that detects a current flowing through the transmission path; a storage unit configured to store a base characteristic which is a frequency characteristic of the current flowing through the transmission path when the arc is not present; and an arc determination unit configured to determine whether the arc has occurred based on a result of a comparison between the base characteristic and a detection characteristic which is a frequency characteristic of the current detected by the current detector. |
| US11088525B2 |
Grommet, battery pack, and electronic apparatus
A grommet is provided. The grommet includes a pedestal and a wire fixing member configured to fix a wire, wherein each of the pedestal and the wire fixing member has at least one hole through which the wire is configured to be inserted, and the pedestal has a pool portion configured to accommodate a resin agent. |
| US11088520B2 |
Safety cover for electrical box mounted device and methods thereof
The present invention relates to a safety cover for an electrical box mounted device. The safety cover is configured to be mounted between the device and a face plate to prevent access to exposed wires and energized terminals inside the electrical box when the face plate is removed. |
| US11088518B2 |
Mounting mechanism for an electrical device
An apparatus, such as an electrical device or a wall box, may have a mounting mechanism that may be configured to mount the apparatus to a wall in a manner that may facilitate secure fastening to the wall. The apparatus may comprise at least one mounting clamp that may have a fin and a drum that receives a mounting screw. The fin of the mounting clamp may be configured to be located within a pocket formed in the body. When a mounting screw is driven, the mounting clamp may rotate from the pocket into a position in which the drum of the mounting clamp may be received in a channel formed in the body. The drum may be configured to move through the channel as the mounting screw is further driven. The gap may be sized to retain the mounting clamp within the channel as the drum moves therethrough. |
| US11088515B2 |
Press fitting for electrical conduit
A press fitting for an electrical conduit includes a fitting body and a press connector in a press-connection section of the fitting body to allow press-fit connection to a conduit. A conduit retainer in the press fitting releasably grips and removably retains the electrical conduit in the fitting body before the press-connection section is deformed radially inward during the press connection process. A socket in the press fitting has a cross-sectional diameter that tapers in a direction away from the press-connection section. |
| US11088514B2 |
Power distributor
A power distributor having a plurality of power distribution modules arranged in a row, for directly mounting on a carrier rail, having a supply module arranged on one end face and a signal module arranged on the opposite end face, and having at least one connection module arranged therebetween. The supply module has a supply connection for a main power line for tapping off a supply power. The connection module is fitted or can be fitted with a protective switch that can be actuated and a plurality of load connections for connecting to an interruptible load circuit by means of the protective switch. The signal module has a first signal connection for a switch signal actuating the protective switch, and the power distribution modules are or can be coupled to each other in an electrically conductive manner. |
| US11088513B2 |
Laser diode device
A laser diode device includes a thermally conductive substrate that has a planar surface for dissipating ambient heat, and a plurality of laser diodes situated thereon, each of which includes at least one epitaxial layer that is situated on a side of the laser diode facing the substrate. The laser diodes are each electrically activated via an electrically conductive coating situated between the at least one epitaxial layer and the substrate. The substrate includes a plurality of metallized cavities that accommodate the plurality of laser diodes so that the plurality of laser diodes have an essentially uniform height above the substrate. |
| US11088512B2 |
Nitride semiconductor element
This invention aims at providing a nitride semiconductor causing no element breakdown even in driving under a high current density.A nitride semiconductor element is provided with a nitride semiconductor active layer made of AlxGa(1-x)N and a composition change layer made above the nitride semiconductor active layer and made of Alx3Ga(1-x3)N in which an Al composition ratio x3 decreases in a direction away from the nitride semiconductor active layer. The composition change layer has a first composition change region having a thickness larger than 0 nm and smaller than 400 nm and a second composition change region which is a region further away from the nitride semiconductor active layer than the first composition change region and in which the change rate of the Al composition ratio x3 in the thickness direction of the film thickness of the composition change layer is higher than that of the first composition change region, in which, in the first composition change region, the Al composition ratio continuously changes in the thickness direction of the film thickness. |
| US11088507B1 |
Laser source apparatus
A laser illumination or dazzler device and method. More specifically, examples of the present invention provide laser illumination or dazzling devices power by one or more violet, blue, or green laser diodes characterized by a wavelength from about 390 nm to about 550 nm. In some examples the laser illumination or dazzling devices include a laser pumped phosphor wherein a laser beam with a first wavelength excites a phosphor member to emit electromagnetic at a second wavelength. In various examples, laser illumination or dazzling devices according to the present invention include polar, non-polar, or semi-polar laser diodes. In a specific example, a single laser illumination or dazzling device includes a plurality of violet, blue, or green laser diodes. There are other examples as well. |
| US11088499B2 |
Wear measuring system and method
The disclosure relates to a wear measuring system for friction elements, in particular for brushes and the like, as well as to a method for measuring the wear of friction elements, comprising at least one consumable friction element, a holding device for movably positioning the friction element relative to a friction surface, and a measuring device for determining a wear status of the friction element relative to a wear length of the friction element, wherein the measuring device has a potentiometer, wherein the potentiometer is mechanically coupled with the friction element in such a way that a movement by the friction element relative to the friction surface induces a movement by the potentiometer. |
| US11088495B2 |
Common mode choke
A cable distribution plant is protected from noise where a modem housing includes a switching power supply and modem digital electronics, the switching power supply for receiving AC mains power from an AC supply via an EMI filter and the modem digital electronics for receiving a switching power supply output from the switching power supply via an LC filter for filtering noise at a switching power supply frequency wherein multiple switching noise filters communicate with respective modems at subscriber sites protect a head end from switching power supply harmonic noise otherwise aggregated by distribute nodes and passed to the head end. |
| US11088494B2 |
High speed communication jack
A circuit board for a high speed communication jack including a rigid circuit board in the housing having a substrate, a plurality of vias extending through the substrate with each via being configured to accommodate a pin on the housing, a plurality of traces on a middle layer in the substrate, with each trace extending from a corresponding one of the plurality of vias, a first shielding layer on a first side of the middle layer in the substrate, a second shielding layer on a second side of the middle layer in the substrate, and a third shielding layer adjacent to the second shielding layer. |
| US11088493B2 |
Lever-type connector
A lever-type connector (1) is provided with a connector housing (10) including a wire holding portion (11). Wires W have end parts held in the wire holding portion (11) and extend from the connector housing (10). A lever (20) is assembled with the connector housing (10) and is rotatable from a connection start position to a connection end position. A cover (50) covers the wires W extending from the connector housing (10) by being assembled with the connector housing (10). The cover 50 includes positioning portions (55A), and the lever (20) includes positioning receiving portions for positioning the cover (50) at a proper mounting position by contacting the positioning portions (55A) when the lever (20) is at the connection end position. |
| US11088491B2 |
Housing with lock piece
A housing includes a housing main body configured to be fitted with a mating housing, and a cover configured to be mounted to an end portion of the housing main body from which an electric wire is drawn out and to cover the electric wire drawn out from the housing main body. The housing main body includes a lock arm for locking a protruding portion of the mating housing, and a release arm that swings when an operation portion of the release arm is pressed to release a locking of the protruding portion and the lock arm. The cover has a lock piece that is interposed between the housing main body and the operation portion when the cover is mounted to the housing main body so as to restrict a swing of the release arm. |
| US11088489B2 |
Shielded connector having a mechanism for preventing water invasion
A connector includes: a terminal connected to an end terminal of an electrical wire, the terminal being inserted into an insertion hole of a housing of a device, the terminal being connected to a counterpart terminal of the counterpart device; an inner housing housing the terminal and the electrical wire; a shield shell having a sleeve body that houses the inner housing in the sleeve body and is inserted into the insertion hole, and an outer housing covering a rear side of the sleeve body in an advancing direction from an outside at the time of inserting the sleeve body into the insertion hole, wherein the outer housing has a fixing portion that fixes the outer housing to the housing, and the sleeve body has an electric contact that is brought into contact with an inner peripheral wall of the insertion hole. |
| US11088485B2 |
Connector and electrical connection device
A connector including a terminal having a flat facing surface facing a mating terminal of a mating connector; a resilient conductor provided to contact the facing surface, the resilient conductor being capable of contacting the mating terminal while being resiliently deformed in a direction orthogonal to the facing surface, the terminal being electrically connectable to the mating terminal via the resilient conductor, and a movable protecting body configured to be movable between a protection position that covers the facing surface on a front side in an assembling direction toward the mating terminal and a retracted position closer to the facing surface than the protection position, the movable protecting body including an insertion opening into which the resilient conductor is inserted at the retracted position, the resilient conductor projecting from the insertion opening being capable of contacting the mating terminal with the movable protecting body held at the retracted position. |
| US11088482B2 |
Metallic material and connection terminal
A metallic material that includes a base material; and a surface layer formed on a surface of the base material and exposed on an outermost surface, wherein the surface layer contains Ag, and In less than the Ag in atomic ratio, and a connection terminal being made of the metallic material, wherein the surface layer is formed on a surface of the base material, at least in a contact portion electrically contacting an opposite electrically conductive member. |
| US11088480B2 |
High density receptacle
A connector is disclosed that includes a set of wafers formed of terminals supported by an insulative frame. The set of wafers can be positioned in a cage without a housing. Card slot members are aligned with contacts of the terminals. In an embodiment a connector can include a wafer that supports two rows of terminals on both sides of a card slot. At least some of the terminals (553) include a contact (553b) at one end which is over molded with an insulative material. These contacts are over molded except for the end (553a) of the terminal which is left exposed. |
| US11088473B2 |
Overvoltage protection device with at least one overvoltage protection unit, consisting of a socket part and a plug part which can be connected to the socket part
The invention relates to an overvoltage protection device with at least one overvoltage protection unit, consisting of a socket part and a plug part which can be connected to the socket part and which receives means for protecting against an overvoltage, wherein insulated electric conductors can be introduced into the socket part, said electric conductors being contacted using vampire or cutting clamps, thereby penetrating the conductor insulation, and with contact surfaces which can be found on the socket part and which correspond to mating contact surfaces on the base of the plug part. According to the invention, the socket part is made of multiple parts consisting of a base part and a lever part. The base part is designed as a marble panel and has multiple parallel grooves for inserting and receiving the insulated electric conductors. On one face of the base part, hook-shaped protrusions are provided parallel to the grooves. The lever part has axle stubs, which engage into the hook-shaped protrusions, on one lever end. The lever part has at least one cutting clamp on the lever part lower face facing the marble panel and in the vicinity of the axle stubs, wherein the cutting clamp leads to a plug contact which can be found in the lever part and which can be accessed from the upper face of the lever part in order to receive the plug part. |
| US11088472B2 |
Tin-plated copper terminal material, terminal, and wire terminal part structure
On a base member made of copper or a copper alloy, a zinc-nickel alloy layer including zinc and nickel, and a tin layer made of tin alloy are laminated in this order: the zinc-nickel alloy layer has a thickness of 0.1-5 μm inclusive and has a nickel content of 5-50 mass % inclusive, the tin layer has a zinc concentration of 0.6-15 mass % inclusive, and, under an oxide layer which is the outermost layer, a metal zinc layer, having a zinc concentration of 5-40 at % inclusive and a thickness of 1-10 nm inclusive in SiO2 conversion, is formed on the tin layer. |
| US11088468B2 |
Antenna module
An antenna module including two or more substrates stacked and having different flexibility, a patch antenna disposed above or within an uppermost substrate from among the two or more substrates, and an IC disposed below or within a lowermost substrate from among the two or more substrates, and electrically connected to the patch antenna through the substrates, wherein the two or more substrates comprise a first substrate and a second substrate, and wherein the second substrate is more flexible than the first substrate, and extends in a lateral direction to have an overlap region overlapping the first substrate and an extension region not overlapping the first substrate. |
| US11088465B2 |
Substrate-loaded frequency-scaled ultra-wide spectrum element
A unit cell of for a phased array antenna includes a base plate, a first dielectric layer projecting from the base plate, and a first conductive layer disposed on a side of the first dielectric layer, the first conductive layer includes a ground pillar, a first ground member spaced apart from a first edge of the ground pillar, and a first signal member disposed between the ground pillar and the first ground member, wherein: the first signal member is electrically insulated from the ground pillar and the first ground member, and an edge of the first signal member is configured to capacitively couple to the first edge of the ground pillar. |
| US11088464B2 |
Slot array antenna
A slot array antenna includes: first and second conductive members; and a ridge-shaped waveguide member on the second conductive member and conductive rods surrounding it. The waveguide member has a waveguide face which is opposed to a conductive surface of the first conductive member and which extends along a first direction. The first conductive member includes first and second slot groups each arranged along the first direction. The second conductive member has a throughhole which splits the waveguide member into first and second ridges. Some slots in the first and second slot groups are connected to a waveguide within the throughhole via a waveguide extending between the waveguide face of the first ridge and the conductive surface, and the remaining slots are connected to the waveguide within the throughhole via a waveguide extending between the waveguide face of the second ridge and the conductive surface. |
| US11088463B1 |
Realization and application of simultaneous circular polarization in switchable single polarization systems
A system and method provide simultaneous dual polarization operation using a linearly-polarized planar antenna and a polarizer spaced apart from the linearly-polarized planar antenna, the polarizer including a first polarization state having primarily one of left-hand circular polarization (LHCP) or right-hand circular polarization (RHCP), and a third polarization state having linear polarization from which a combination of both LHCP and RHCP is simultaneously derived. The polarizer is placed in the first polarization state to at least one of transmit or receive a signal having primarily one of LHCP or RHCP, and the polarizer is placed in the third polarization state to simultaneously transmit and/or receive two different signals, where a first signal of the two different signals has primarily LHCP and a second signal of the two different signals has primarily RHCP. |
| US11088459B2 |
Reflector for an antenna
Examples reflectors for an antenna is provided. One example reflector comprises a support structure for supporting radiating elements and for providing mechanical stiffness of the reflector, and a separate conductive member acting as an electrically reflective surface attached to the support structure and covering at least a portion of the support structure. |
| US11088458B2 |
Reducing mutual coupling and back-lobe radiation of a microstrip antenna
A microstrip antenna is disclosed. The microstrip antenna includes a dielectric substrate with a first relative permittivity, a metal patch, and a magneto-dielectric superstrate. The metal patch is printed on the dielectric substrate, and the magneto-dielectric superstrate is placed above the metal patch. |
| US11088456B2 |
Cavity backed notch antenna with additively manufactured radome
The system and method for an additively manufactured radome for a cavity backed notch comprising at least one lattice structure wherein the antenna works over any 4:1 bandwidth, from VHF to mmW. In some cases, the radome lattice has a density that changes with distance from the antenna. In some cases multiple antennas are used for direction finding. The radome may be additively manufactured from glass-loaded polymer or other materials having a low dielectric constant. In some cases, the radome has a dielectric contract that approaches that of air. |
| US11088455B2 |
Spiral wideband low frequency antenna
An antenna may include a ground plane, a tuning stub, and a shorted spiral antenna element connected to the tuning stub. The shorted spiral antenna element may include a plurality of spiral traces shorted together by a shorting element extending radially outward to contact each of the spiral traces. |
| US11088452B2 |
Electronic devices having antennas with symmetric feeding
An electronic device may be provided with a phased antenna array. Each antenna in the array may include a patch element having first, second, third, and fourth positive antenna feed terminals. The first and second terminals may convey first signals with a first polarization. The third and fourth terminals may convey second signals with a second polarization. Phase shifting components such as phase shifting transmission line segments or phase shifter circuits may ensure that the first signals at the first terminal are out of phase with respect to the first signals at the second terminal and may ensure that the second signals at the third terminal are out of phase with respect to the second signals at the fourth terminal. This may allow antenna current density for both polarizations to be symmetrically distributed about a normal axis of the patch element. |
| US11088450B2 |
Antenna module for near field communication
Disclosed is an antenna module for near field communication, which stacks laminates on which a vertical winding radiation pattern and a horizontal winding radiation pattern are formed, respectively, thereby improving communication performance on the side surface and one surface of a portable terminal while minimizing a mounting space. The disclosed antenna module for near field communication includes a first magnetic member; a vertical winding radiation pattern winding the outer circumference of the first magnetic member; a second magnetic member stacked on the lower surface of the first magnetic member; a horizontal winding radiation pattern formed on one surface of the second magnetic member; a dielectric stacked on the lower surface of the second magnetic member; and a terminal portion formed on the dielectric to be connected to at least one of the vertical winding radiation pattern and the horizontal winding radiation pattern. |
| US11088442B2 |
Ultra-wideband LTE antenna system
An antenna system capable of operating among all LTE bands, and also capable of operation among all remote side cellular applications, such as GSM, AMPS, GPRS, CDMA, WCDMA, UMTS, and HSPA among others. The antenna system provides a low cost alternative to active-tunable antennas suggested in the prior art for the same multi-platform objective. |
| US11088439B2 |
Mobile device and detachable antenna structure
A mobile device includes a main antenna structure and a detachable antenna structure. The main antenna structure includes a feeding radiation element, a grounding radiation element, a dielectric substrate, and an iron element. The grounding radiation element is adjacent to the feeding radiation element. The feeding radiation element and the grounding radiation element are disposed on the surface of the dielectric substrate. The iron element is coupled to the grounding radiation element. The detachable antenna structure includes a first radiation element, a second radiation element, a third radiation element, and a magnetic element. The third radiation element is coupled between the first radiation element and the second radiation element. The magnetic element is coupled to the third radiation element. When the magnetic element is attracted to the iron element, the detachable antenna structure can enhance the radiation gain of the main antenna structure. |
| US11088436B2 |
NFC antenna module
Provided is an NFC antenna module which connects a side cover (i.e. metal frame), which is formed at one side of a portable terminal, to the antenna pattern so that the side cover is operated as an auxiliary radiator of an antenna pattern. The presented NFC antenna module comprises: a side cover made of a metal material and coupled to one side of the portable terminal; an antenna pattern having one end connected to a short-range communication chipset embedded in the portable terminal; a first terminal portion of the antenna pattern, the first terminal portion having one end connected to the short-range communication chipset and the other end connected to the side cover; and a second terminal portion having one end connected to the other end of the antenna pattern and the other end connected to the side cover. |
| US11088433B2 |
Thermal compensation for a holographic beam forming antenna
The invention compensates for abnormal operating temperatures and/or abnormal behaviors of a holographic metasurface antenna (HMA) that is generating a beam based on a holographic function. The HMA is characterized with different holographic functions for a plurality of operating temperatures and a plurality of behaviors during the manufacturing process. The characterization of the HMA identifies different hologram functions that cause the HMA to generate more or less heat or exhibit more or less abnormal behavior while generating equivalent beams. Further, or more characterizations of a hologram function may be performed remotely after the HMA is installed in a real world environment. An operating temperature and/or a temperature gradient may be detected by temperature sensors physically located on a circuit board for the HMA. |
| US11088432B2 |
Waveguide coupler
An apparatus is provided. In the apparatus, there is an antenna package and an integrated circuit (IC). A circuit trace assembly is secured to the IC. A coupler (with an antenna assembly and a high impedance surface (HIS)) is secured to the circuit trace assembly. An antenna assembly has a window region, a conductive region that substantially surrounds the window region, a circular patch antenna that is in communication with the IC, and an elliptical patch antenna that is located within the window region, that is extends over at least a portion of the circular patch antenna, and that is in communication with the circular patch antenna. The HIS substantially surrounds the antenna assembly. |
| US11088431B2 |
Multimode resonators with split chamfer
A multimode radio frequency resonator is provided. The multimode radio frequency resonator comprises: a monoblock of dielectric material having an initial shape that allows for multimode resonance, the initial shape comprising surfaces areas and edges between the surface areas. The multimode radio frequency resonator also comprises a conductive layer covering the whole surface of the monoblock, and a split chamfer disposed at one of the edges of the monoblock. The split chamfer includes two symmetrical cut-outs at the outer-most sides of the edge of the monoblock, and a central portion that is intact with respect to the initial shape of the monoblock and separates the symmetrical cut-outs. A method for tuning such a multimode radio frequency resonator is also described. |
| US11088428B2 |
Rechargeable battery
A rechargeable battery includes an electrode assembly in a case, and a cap assembly coupled to the case, the cap assembly having a cap plate sealing the case, the cap plate including a short-circuit hole and a conductive groove surrounding the short-circuit hole, an inversion plate in the conductive groove of the cap plate, a connection plate covering the short-circuit hole of the cap plate, and a short-circuit member between the connection plate and the inversion plate, the short-circuit member at least partially passing through the short-circuit hole and contacting the connection plate. |
| US11088424B2 |
Battery module
The present disclosure relates to a battery module comprising a first battery unit and a second battery unit, each of which comprises N secondary batteries, N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and each secondary battery comprises a first electrode lead and a second electrode lead having opposite polarities. The first electrode lead has a melting point higher than that of the second electrode lead, and N first electrode leads of the first battery unit and N second electrode leads of the second battery unit are arranged to form a layered construction. The battery module has a plurality of connection points distributed in the layered construction, the number of which is greater than or equal to N, and each connection point is adapted to electrically connect one first electrode lead of the first battery unit to at least one second electrode lead of the second battery unit. |
| US11088422B2 |
Method for manufacturing laminated bus bar, manufacturing apparatus for laminated bus bar, laminated bus bar
A method for manufacturing a laminated bus bar includes a first base member forming process of forming a plurality of first through-holes in a conductive flat plate-shaped first base member, a second base member forming process of forming a conductive flat plate-shaped second base member, a laminating process of forming a laminated body configured by laminating and fixing flat surfaces of the first base member and the second base member on and to each other, and a punching process of forming, in the second base member of the laminated body, second through-holes forming pairs with the first through-holes, the second through-holes being smaller than the first through-holes in portions overlapping with the first through-holes in a lamination direction of the first base member and the second base member. |
| US11088418B2 |
Battery module
The present disclosure provides a battery module, including: a plurality of batteries that is stacked; an end plate disposed at an end of the plurality of batteries in a direction, along which the plurality of batteries are stacked; an electric insulation component disposed between the end plate and a battery of the plurality of batteries adjacent to the end plate, the electric insulation component comprising at least one mounting portion; and at least one heat insulation component disposed below the end plate and connected to a bottom of the end plate. Each of the at least one heat insulation component is detachably connected to a corresponding one of the at least one mounting portion. |
| US11088417B2 |
Cell cartridge and battery module including the same
A cell cartridge having a first pouch cell having a first fixing portion extending from a sealing portion thereof, a second pouch cell having a second fixing portion extending from a sealing portion thereof, and a cartridge configured to accommodate a cell stack formed by stacking the first pouch cell and the second pouch cell is provided. The first fixing portion is bent toward the second pouch cell to restrict movement of the second pouch cell. The second fixing portion is bent toward the first pouch cell to restrict movement of the first pouch cell. |
| US11088414B2 |
Battery housing apparatus and unmanned aerial vehicle
The present disclosure discloses a battery housing apparatus. The apparatus includes a housing body and a battery locking mechanism. The housing body is configured with at least one battery compartment for housing a battery. The battery locking mechanism is disposed on the housing body and configured to indicate whether the battery is mounted in place during a process of mounting the battery in the battery compartment and to lock the battery in the battery compartment after the battery is mounted in place. |
| US11088413B2 |
Energy storage module and method for production thereof
The invention relates to an energy storage module, which is produced by a continuous production method, and which comprises the following: a plurality of energy storage cells, electrically connected in series, and a housing, produced at least in regions and preferably completely from plastic, in which the plurality of energy storage cells is received. A barrier layer is arranged between the housing and the energy storage cells at least in regions, preferably completely. The invention further relates to a production method of such an energy storage module, which is produced by means of a continuous production method. |
| US11088410B2 |
Battery module
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a battery module. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a battery module including a plurality of battery cells each including at least one electrode tab, and a bus bar in contact with the electrode tabs to electrically connect the plurality of battery cells, wherein the bus bar includes a plate in which a plurality of holes are formed, and the electrode tabs are inserted into at least a portion of the plurality of holes to electrically connect the plurality of battery cells. |
| US11088409B2 |
Energy store in an installation housing and in a cooling air flow
The invention relates to an energy store comprising an arrangement of battery cells (70, 80, 90) in an installation housing (2), wherein groups (I, II, III) of battery cells (70, 80, 90) follow one another in the direction of the longitudinal axis (10) of the installation housing (2). Within each group (I, II, III) of battery cells (70, 80, 90), a flow path (50, 51, 52) for cooling air is formed, which flow path connects a feed air opening (35, 36, 46) for a cooling air flow (5, 6) to a cooling air outlet (20, 21, 23). In order to achieve effective cooling, first feed air openings (35) and a first cooling air outlet (20) are associated with a first flow path (50) in a first group (I) of battery cells (70) and second feed air openings (36) and a second cooling air outlet (21) are associated with a second flow path (51) in a second group (II) of battery cells (80). The cooling air flow (5) of the first flow path (50) is led to the first cooling air outlet (20) separately from the cooling air flow (6) of the second flow path (51) and the cooling air flow (6) of the second flow path (51) is led to the second cooling air outlet (21) separately from the cooling air flow (5) of the first flow path (50). |
| US11088407B2 |
System and method of managing battery cells
In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, methods, and/or processes may determine that a timeout value has been reached; for each battery cell of multiple of battery cells: may determine if a temperature value associated with the battery cell meets or exceeds a threshold temperature value; if the temperature value associated with the battery cell does not meet or exceed the threshold temperature value, may permit the battery cell to be charged and discharged; if the temperature value associated with the battery cell meets or exceeds the threshold temperature value: may increment a temporary fail count associated with the battery cell; and may prevent at least one of charging and discharging the battery cell; may determine if temporary fail count exceeds a temporary fail count threshold; and if the temporary fail count does not exceed the temporary fail count threshold, may permit charging and discharging the battery cell. |
| US11088405B2 |
Battery pack temperature detection system
Disclosed is a battery pack temperature detection system, comprising: a battery pack disposed with a plurality of temperature monitoring points; a plurality of sampling circuits, wherein each temperature monitoring point is disposed with at least two of the plurality of sampling circuits, and the at least two of the plurality of sampling circuits disposed for one temperature monitoring point are different sampling circuits; and a control module configured to acquire temperature data of each temperature monitoring point by each of the disposed sampling circuits, and determine a current temperature of the battery pack according to the temperature data to determine whether the temperature of the battery pack exceeds a preset value. |
| US11088403B2 |
Method for preventing swelling of battery cell and battery pack using same
A method for preventing swelling of a battery cell in advance by counting a time while a temperature and a cell voltage of the battery cell are maintained equal to or greater than respective reference values, and by dropping a charging voltage to lower the temperature and the cell voltage of the battery cell, when the time is a reference time or longer. |
| US11088400B2 |
Battery management system
A battery management system comprises a battery manager and battery sensors for sensing related information of each battery in a battery string. The batteries in the battery string are divided into a plurality of first groups. The battery sensors are divided into a plurality of second groups. Each second group senses the batteries in a corresponding first group, and each battery sensor senses at least one battery. Each of a part of the communication ports of the battery manager is signally connected to the battery sensors of one of the second groups. The number of the battery sensors in each second group is less than or equal to the number of battery sensors that each communication port can support. The battery manager merges the battery sensors signally connected to the part of the communication ports into one group according to a merging command, and regards the merged battery sensors as battery sensors of a same battery string accordingly. |
| US11088397B2 |
All-solid-state battery and production method therefor
[SUMMARY][OBJECT]To provide an all-solid-state battery in which the occurrence of short-circuiting can be prevented and in which damage to the electrode can be prevented, and a method for producing the all-solid-state battery.[SOLVING MEANS]An all-solid-state battery, wherein on a first side surface of an all-solid-state battery laminate, a first electrode current collector layer includes a first electrode current collector protruding part, which protrudes in a surface direction, and a second electrode current collector layer includes a second electrode current collector protruding part, which protrudes in a surface direction, a surface direction area of a second electrode-solid electrolyte laminate is larger than a surface direction area of a first electrode laminate, the first electrode laminate is laminated on the inside of the second electrode-solid electrolyte laminate when viewed from the lamination direction, and on the first side surface, an edge of the second electrode-solid electrolyte laminate in the surface direction is at least partially covered with a resin layer so that the first electrode current collector protruding part does not directly contact the edge in the surface direction of the second electrode-solid electrolyte laminate. |
| US11088395B2 |
Additives for electrochemical cells
Articles and methods including additives in electrochemical cells, are generally provided. As described herein, such electrochemical cells may comprise an anode, a cathode, an electrolyte, and optionally a separator. In some embodiments, at least one of the anode, the cathode, the electrolyte, and/or the optional separator may comprise an additive and/or additive precursor. For instance, in some cases, the electrochemical cell comprises an electrolyte and an additive and/or additive precursor that is soluble with and/or is present in the electrolyte. In some embodiments, the additive precursor comprises a disulfide bond. In certain embodiments, the additive is a carbon disulfide salt. In some cases, the electrolyte may comprise a nitrate. |
| US11088394B2 |
Compounds with mixed anions as solid Li-ion conductors
A solid-state lithium ion electrolyte is provided which contains a composite material having at least 94 mole % lithium ions as cation component and multiple anions in an anionic framework capable of conducting lithium ions. An activation energy for lithium ion migration in the solid state lithium ion electrolyte is 0.5 eV or less. Composites of specific formulae are provided. A lithium battery containing the composite lithium ion electrolyte is also provided. |
| US11088391B2 |
Lithium ion battery
Provided is a lithium ion battery whose manufacturing process is simple and which has high energy density and heat resistance. A lithium ion battery capable of storing and releasing lithium ions, and being provided with a separator between a positive electrode and a negative electrode having irreversible capacity at the initial charge/discharge, and having a structure in which void portions in the separator are filled with a nonaqueous electrolytic solution including lithium ions, wherein a positive electrode active material contained in the positive electrode has a first charge-discharge efficiency of 80% to 90% when charged/discharged using metal Li as an counter electrode; a negative electrode active material contained in the negative electrode includes a mixed material of a silicon compound and a carbon material; in the negative electrode, lithium corresponding to an irreversible capacity at the initial charge/discharge is not doped; a capacity ratio of the negative electrode to the positive electrode at the initial electric charge capacity of the positive electrode and the negative electrode is 0.95 or more and 1 or less; the positive electrode binder contained in the positive electrode is an aqueous binder; the negative electrode binder contained in the negative electrode is a polyimide; and the nonaqueous electrolyte contains lithium bis(oxalate) borate. |
| US11088390B2 |
Positive electrode active material, method of manufacturing the same and all-solid battery including the same
Disclosed are a positive electrode active material capable of suppressing a reaction between a core and a solid electrolyte, a method of manufacturing the same and an all-solid battery including the same.Provided is a positive electrode active material for all-solid batteries including a core comprising a lithium-containing metal oxide, and a coating layer comprising LiI applied to the surface of the core. |
| US11088385B2 |
Fuel cell system and method of replacing stack module of fuel cell system
A fuel cell system for enabling maintenance of a stack module without stopping operation thereof, and a method of replacing a stack module of the fuel cell system are provided. The fuel cell system includes a plurality of stack modules that are connected in parallel to a hydrogen line and an air line. Two or more of the stack modules are connected to form a group, and an inverter is connected to the group of the stack modules and is capable of being turned on and off. |
| US11088384B2 |
Fuel cell module
A fuel cell module is equipped with a fuel cell stack having a stack body in which a plurality of flat plate-shaped fuel cells adapted to generate electrical power by an electrochemical reaction between a fuel gas and an oxygen-containing gas are stacked, and a start-up combustor adapted to generate a combustion gas for raising a temperature of the fuel cells. In the fuel cell module, the start-up combustor is arranged in the vicinity of oxygen-containing gas introduction ports through which the oxygen-containing gas in the interior of the fuel cell stack is introduced into the fuel cells. |
| US11088383B2 |
Fuel cell vehicle
A fuel cell vehicle that reduces damage on a fuel gas pump and deformation of a dash panel toward a cabin side when the vehicle collides head-on. The fuel gas pump is secured to a stack frame via a bracket such that a rotation, axis line of a motor adapted to drive a fuel gas pump inclines with respect to a reference line along the from-rear direction of the vehicle in plan view of the vehicle. Two fastening members secure the stack frame to the bracket in a state of being respectively inserted through a through hole and a cutout portion formed at a mounting portion. The cutout portion is formed such that, when the bracket turns together with the fuel gas pump with respect to the stack frame using one fastening member as a rotational center, the other fastening member exits out of an opening of the cutout portion. |
| US11088380B2 |
Electrolyte solution for redox flow battery and redox flow battery comprising same
The provided are an electrolyte for redox flow battery and a redox flow battery comprising the same, wherein the electrolyte for redox flow battery comprises a solute and a solvent, wherein said solute comprises at least one of anode active material and cathode active material, wherein said anode active material comprises at least one of organic compounds having a carbonyl group such as benzophenone-, benzoquinone-, dimethyl terephthalate-, and 1,4-diacetylbenzene-based organic compounds, and said cathode active material comprises at least one of amine-, tetrathiafulvalene-, and N,N,N′,N′-tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine-based organic compounds. |
| US11088373B2 |
Seal for solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell
A sealed membrane electrode assembly (MEA) and a method of sealing the MEA comprises the steps of providing a frame around a periphery of the MEA to form a framed MEA; providing a through-hole in the frame; placing the framed MEA into a seal mold, the seal mold comprising a reservoir region, a seal bead region, and at least one runner region; feeding a flow-processable seal material into the reservoir region in the seal mold that is aligned with the throughhole in the frame; feeding the flow-processable seal material from the reservoir region to the seal bead region through the at least one runner region; wherein a hydraulic diameter of the at least one runner region is less than a hydraulic diameter of the reservoir region. |
| US11088369B2 |
Clad material for negative electrode collector of secondary battery and method for manufacturing the same
A clad material (50) for a negative electrode collector of a secondary battery includes a Ni alloy layer (51) made of a Ni alloy that contains 0.005 mass % or more and 0.50 mass % or less of C, Ni, and inevitable impurities, and a pair of Cu layers (52, 53) respectively bonded to opposite surfaces of the Ni alloy layer and that contain 99 mass % or more of Cu. |
| US11088358B2 |
Method of manufacturing electrode plate and device for manufacturing electrode plate
In manufacturing an electrode that is obtained by forming an active material layer on a current collector foil, a film formation process unit that forms the active material layer by layering granules obtained by granulating a powder of an active material and supplying the layered granules onto a first surface of the current collector foil, and a flattening process unit that chips off a convex portion on a surface of the active material layer that has exited the film formation process unit by a tip of a blade are used. |
| US11088356B2 |
Display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same
In a method of manufacturing a display apparatus, the method includes: providing a first mother substrate; forming, on the first mother substrate, a pixel layer comprising a light-emitting device; providing a second mother substrate; forming, on the second mother substrate, a diffraction pattern layer configured to diffract light emitted from the light-emitting device; forming a bonded substrate structure by bonding the first mother substrate, on which the pixel layer is formed, and the second mother substrate, on which the diffraction pattern layer is formed; forming, by cutting the bonded substrate structure, a plurality of unit substrate structures each comprising a first substrate on which the pixel layer is formed and a second substrate on which the diffraction pattern layer is formed; forming a protection member on the diffraction pattern layer; and removing a foreign material on the diffraction pattern layer with the protection member. |
| US11088354B2 |
Light-emitting panel and manufacturing method thereof
A light-emitting panel and its manufacturing method are provided. The light-emitting panel includes a backboard, an electroluminescence device and an adhesive layer that are sequentially laminated; the light-emitting panel further includes a convex lens array, which includes a plurality of convex lenses on a side of the adhesive layer close to the electroluminescence device. A light-emitting surface of the electroluminescence device faces the adhesive layer, and the plurality of convex lenses included by the convex lens array protrude toward the adhesive layer. |
| US11088349B2 |
Display module
A display module includes a base substrate including an upper surface where a display area and a non-display area are defined, a lower surface, and a plurality of side surfaces, a circuit element layer including a planarization layer, a pixel defining layer defining an opening portion that overlaps the display area and exposes a portion of the planarization layer, a display element layer including a first electrode disposed on the planarization layer exposed by the opening part, a light emitting layer, and a second electrode, and a sealing layer disposed on the display element layer. A dam hole is defined, which is adjacent to an edge where two side surfaces of the side surfaces are connected in a plan view of the base substrate, overlaps the non-display area, and penetrates at least one of the planarization layer and the pixel defining layer. |
| US11088343B2 |
Electronic device including display panel including electrodes having different shapes for respective areas
Disclosed is an electronic device. The electronic device may include a light-receiving sensor and a display panel and the light-receiving sensor may be disposed below a predetermined area of the display panel. The display panel may include: a pixel layer including at least one first pixel disposed in the predetermined area, and at least one second pixel disposed outside the predetermined area; and an electrode layer including at least one first electrode electrically connected to the at least one first pixel and disposed in the predetermined area, and at least one second electrode electrically connected to the at least one second pixel and disposed outside the predetermined area. The electrode layer may be disposed below the pixel layer, and the first electrode may have a shape different than a shape of the second electrode. |
| US11088342B2 |
Display device
A display device is provided. The display device includes a substrate, a driving transistor, a first insulation layer, a first electrode and a second insulation layer. The driving transistor is disposed on the substrate and includes a gate electrode, and the gate electrode projects a first projection profile on the substrate. The first insulation layer is disposed on the driving transistor. The first electrode is disposed on the first insulation layer, and projects a second projection profile on the substrate. The second insulation layer is disposed on the first electrode and the first insulation layer. The second insulation layer has an opening, the opening exposes a portion of the first electrode, and the opening projects a third projection profile on the substrate. |
| US11088340B2 |
Display device and method for manufacturing display device
To provide a display device including a light emitting element layer including an anode electrode, a light emissive layer formed on the anode electrode, and a cathode electrode formed on the light emissive layer, and a bank formed on the lower electrode and having an opening, in which the lower electrode is partially exposed, wherein the light emissive layer includes a p-doped hole transport layer containing p-dopant, and the p-doped hole transport layer contains a larger amount of p-dopant in an area close to an end portion of the opening of the bank than the amount of p-dopant contained in other areas. |
| US11088338B2 |
Excitonic energy transfer to increase inorganic solar cell efficiency
The present disclosure relates to a photosensitive optoelectronic device comprising two electrodes, an inorganic subcell positioned between the two electrodes, wherein the inorganic subcell comprises at least one inorganic semiconductor material having a band gap energy (EG), and an organic sensitizing window layer disposed on the inorganic subcell. In one aspect, the organic sensitizing window layer comprises a singlet fission material. In another aspect, the organic sensitizing window layer comprises a singlet fission host and a phosphorescent emitter dopant, where the singlet fission host exhibits an excitation triplet energy (ET-SF) greater than or equal to an excitation triplet energy (ET-PE) exhibited by the phosphorescent emitter dopant. |
| US11088336B2 |
Flexible display device
A flexible display device includes a display panel, the display panel including a display surface and a rear surface opposite each other, and a plurality of adhesive films on at least one of the display surface and the rear surface, each of the plurality of adhesive films including at least one hole, wherein the plurality of adhesive films have a decreasing density, as a distance from a neutral plane of the flexible display device increases. |
| US11088334B2 |
Organic electroluminescent element
Provided is an organic electroluminescence device (organic EL device) that is driven at a low voltage, exhibits high luminous efficiency and has a long service life. The organic EL device contains one or more light emitting layers and one or more electron transport layers between opposing anode and cathode, wherein at least one of the electron transport layers contains a an indolocarbazole compound represented by general formula (1) below and an electron donor. In the formula, ring A represents an aromatic hydrocarbon ring represented by formula (1a), ring B represents a heterocyclic ring represented by formula (1b), L represents a single bond or aromatic hydrocarbon group, X represents N or C—Ar1 and at least one of X represents N, and Y and Ar1 represent a hydrogen atom, aromatic hydrocarbon group or aromatic heterocyclic group. |
| US11088327B2 |
Method for patterning a coating on a surface and device including a patterned coating
An opto-electronic device includes: a first electrode; an organic layer disposed over the first electrode; a nucleation promoting coating disposed over the organic layer; a nucleation inhibiting coating covering a first region of the opto-electronic device; and a conductive coating covering a second region of the opto-electronic device. |
| US11088326B2 |
Substrate for use in manufacturing display device and method for forming element on substrate
A substrate is for use in manufacturing a display device. The substrate includes a first area that corresponds to pixel positions. The substrate further includes a second area adjacent to the first area. The substrate further includes a first mark disposed in the second area, wherein a first virtual line corresponds to the first mark. The substrate further includes a second mark disposed in the second area and spaced from the first mark, wherein a second virtual line corresponds to the second mark and intersects the first virtual line at a virtual reference point. The substrate further includes an indicator disposed in the second area, spaced from the first mark and the second mark, and corresponding to an opening of a mask, wherein a positional relation between the virtual reference point and a point of the indicator represents a positional relation between the substrate and the mask. |
| US11088325B2 |
Organic vapor jet micro-print head with multiple gas distribution orifice plates
Embodiments of the disclosed subject matter provide a micronozzle array including a linear array having a plurality of depositors connected in series, where a first depositor of the plurality of depositors may border a second depositor on a least one side boundary. The micronozzle array may include plurality of orifice arrays, where a width of each orifice in the plurality of orifice arrays is 20 μm or less in a minor axis of its cross section to flow, to regulate flow through a delivery gas distribution channel. The micronozzle array may include a plurality of exhaust distribution channels, where the delivery gas distribution channel and at least one of the plurality of exhaust distribution channels have separate fluid communication with each of the plurality of depositors. |
| US11088321B2 |
Highly selective ion beam etch hard mask for sub 60nm MRAM devices
A via connection is provided through a dielectric layer to a bottom electrode. A MTJ stack is deposited on the dielectric layer and via connection. A top electrode is deposited on the MTJ stack. A selective hard mask and then a dielectric hard mask are deposited on the top electrode. The dielectric and selective hard masks are patterned and etched. The dielectric and selective hard masks and the top electrode are etched wherein the dielectric hard mask is removed. The top electrode is trimmed using IBE at an angle of 70 to 90 degrees. The selective hard mask, top electrode, and MTJ stack are etched to form a MTJ device wherein over etching into the dielectric layer surrounding the via connection is performed and re-deposition material is formed on sidewalls of the dielectric layer underlying the MTJ device and not on sidewalls of a barrier layer of the MTJ device. |
| US11088313B2 |
Layered body
A layered body includes: a polymer film (A), the polymer film (A) including an organic piezoelectric material having a weight average molecular weight of from 50,000 to 1,000,000, having a standardized molecular orientation MORc at a reference thickness of 50 μm of from 1.0 to 15.0 as measured by a microwave transmission molecular orientation analyzer, having a degree of crystallinity of from 20% to 80% as measured by a DSC method, and having an internal haze of 50% or less with respect to visible light; and a peelable protective film (B) that contacts one main face of the polymer film (A). The maximum indentation depth h max on a face of the protective film (B) that contacts the polymer film (A) is from 53 nm to 100 nm as measured by a nanoindentation method. |
| US11088312B2 |
Method for the in situ production of Majorana material superconductor hybrid networks and to a hybrid structure which is produced using the method
A method for producing a hybrid structure, the hybrid structure including at least one structured Majorana material and at least one structured superconductive material arranged thereon includes producing, on a substrate, a first mask for structured application of the Majorana material and a further mask for structured growth of the at least one superconductive material, which are aligned relatively to one another, and applying the at least one structured superconductive material to the structured Majorana material with the aid of the further mask. The structured application of the Majorana material and of the at least one superconductive material takes place without interruption in an inert atmosphere. |
| US11088311B2 |
Three-dimensional integration for qubits on multiple height crystalline dielectric
Techniques related to a three-dimensional integration for qubits on multiple height crystalline dielectric and method of fabricating the same are provided. A superconductor structure can comprise a first buried layer that can comprise a first patterned superconducting layer of a first wafer bonded to a second patterned superconducting layer of a second wafer. The superconductor structure can also comprise a patterned superconducting film attached to the second wafer. Further, the superconductor structure can comprise a second buried layer that can comprise a third patterned superconducting layer of a third wafer bonded to the patterned superconducting film that can be attached to the second wafer. |
| US11088309B2 |
Thermoelectric conversion element and thermoelectric conversion module
A thermoelectric conversion element includes a thermoelectric member that is columnar and an insulator formed around the thermoelectric member. Particles are enclosed between the thermoelectric member and the insulator. |
| US11088308B2 |
Junction structure
A bonding structure is a bonding structure which bonds a light emitting element and a substrate and includes a first electrode formed on the light emitting element, a second electrode formed on the substrate, and a bonding layer which bonds the first electrode and the second electrode, and the bonding layer contains a first bonding metal component and a second bonding metal component different from the first bonding metal component. |
| US11088307B2 |
Semiconductor light-emitting device
A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a lead frame, a semiconductor light-emitting element mounted on the top surface of the bonding region, and a case covering part of the lead frame. The bottom surface of the bonding region is exposed to the outside of the case. The lead frame includes a thin extension extending from the bonding region and having a top surface which is flush with the top surface of the bonding region. The thin extension has a bottom surface which is offset from the bottom surface of the bonding region toward the top surface of the bonding region. |
| US11088304B2 |
Display device and method for manufacturing the same
Provided is a display device including a plurality of display modules each including a plurality of inorganic light emitting elements mounted on a mounting surface of a substrate, a light absorbing pattern formed between the plurality of display modules and an encapsulation layer formed on mounting surfaces of the plurality of display modules to cover the mounting surfaces of the plurality of display modules. |
| US11088303B2 |
Light emitting device
A light emitting device includes a wiring substrate including an n-electrode and a p-electrode wired on a surface of the substrate, a light emitting element including an n-pad electrode joined directly to the n-electrode and a p-pad electrode joined directly to the p-electrode, a first gap between the n-electrode and the p-electrode, with the light emitting element being installed across that first gap, and an underfill, which fills a space between the wiring substrate and the light emitting element. At least one of the n-pad electrode and the p-pad electrode is divided into two islands with a linear shape second gap therebetween. The second gap is continuous with a linear shape third gap between the n-pad electrode and the p-pad electrode. |
| US11088301B2 |
Display device using semiconductor light-emitting element
The present disclosure relates to a display device and, in particular, a display device using a semiconductor light-emitting device. The display device according to the present disclosure comprises: a substrate having a wiring electrode; a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements are electrically connected to the wiring electrode; a plurality of fluorescent substance layers for converting a wavelength of light; a wavelength conversion layer having a plurality of light-emitting elements formed from a plurality of fluorescent substance layers, and a color filter disposed so as to cover the wavelength conversion layer, where at least one of the plurality of fluorescent substance layers has a plurality of layers. |
| US11088296B2 |
Light-emitting diode substrate and manufacturing method thereof, and display device
A light-emitting diode (LED) substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The LED substrate includes a receiving substrate, the receiving substrate is provided thereon with a pixel definition layer and a plurality of LED units, the pixel definition layer defines a plurality of sub-pixel regions, each of the plurality of sub-pixel regions is configured to receive at least one of the plurality of LED units, and a solder point and an auxiliary metal member are both provided in the sub-pixel region, the auxiliary metal member is provided at a periphery of the solder point, an interval is provided between the solder point and the auxiliary metal member in a plan view of the receiving substrate, and a melting point of the auxiliary metal member is higher than a melting point of the solder point. |
| US11088293B2 |
Methods and apparatus for producing copper-indium-gallium-selenium (CIGS) film
Methods and apparatus form a photon absorber layer of a photodiode with characteristics conducive to applications such as, but not limited to, image sensors and the like. The absorber layer uses a copper-indium-gallium-selenium (CIGS) material with a gallium mole fraction of approximately 35% to approximately 70% to control the absorbed wavelengths while reducing dark current. Deposition temperatures of the absorber layer are controlled to less than approximately 400 degrees Celsius to produce sub-micron grain sizes. The absorber layer is doped with antimony at a temperature of less than approximately 400 degrees Celsius to increase the absorption. |
| US11088292B2 |
Methods of forming a colored conductive ribbon for integration in a solar module
The present disclosure describes methods of forming a colored conductive ribbon for a solar module which includes combining a conductive ribbon with a channeled ribbon holder, applying a color coating to at least the conductive ribbon within the channel, curing the color coating on the conductive ribbon, and separating the conductive ribbon from the channeled holder. |
| US11088290B2 |
Semiconductor apparatus
Provided is a semiconductor apparatus in which the buried region includes an end portion buried region continuously disposed from a region below the contact opening up to a region below the interlayer dielectric film while passing below an end portion of the contact opening in a cross section perpendicular to the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, and the end portion buried region disposed below the interlayer dielectric film is shorter than the end portion buried region disposed below the contact opening in a first direction in parallel with the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate. |
| US11088286B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device
A semiconductor device with excellent electric characteristics is provided. The semiconductor device includes an oxide in a channel formation region. The semiconductor device includes the oxide over a substrate, a first insulator over the oxide, a second insulator over the first insulator, a third insulator, and a conductor over the third insulator. The oxide and the first insulator are in contact with each other in a region. An opening exposing the oxide is provided in the first insulator and the second insulator. The third insulator is placed to cover an inner wall and a bottom surface of the opening. The conductor is placed to fill the opening. The conductor has a region overlapping with the oxide with the third insulator between the conductor and the oxide. The first insulator contains an element other than a main component of the oxide. |
| US11088284B2 |
Display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same
A display apparatus includes: a substrate on which a first area, a second area spaced apart from the first area, and a bending area between a first area and a second area and bent along a bending axis are defined; a first thin-film transistor (“TFT”) and a second TFT; and a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer. The first TFT includes: a first active layer including polycrystalline silicon; a first gate electrode; and a first electrode disposed at a level which is the same as a level of the first conductive layer, and the second TFT includes: a second active layer including an oxide semiconductor; a second gate electrode; and a second electrode disposed at a level which is the same as a level of the second conductive layer. |
| US11088283B2 |
Thin film transistor, method of fabricating thin film transistor and array substrate
The present application provides a thin film transistor, a method of fabricating a thin film transistor and an array substrate. The thin film transistor includes: a gate electrode on a substrate and having first and second side surfaces facing each other; and an active layer between the first side surface and the second side surface of the gate electrode and having a third side surface and a fourth side surface. The third side surface of the active layer and the first side surface of the gate electrode face and are spaced apart from each other, the fourth side surface of the active layer and the second side surface of the gate electrode face and are spaced apart from each other, and at least one portion of the gate electrode is in the same range as at least one portion of the active layer in a height direction. |
| US11088281B2 |
Semiconductor arrangement and method of manufacture
A method for forming a semiconductor arrangement comprises forming a fin over a semiconductor layer. A gate structure is formed over a first portion of the fin. A second portion of the fin adjacent to the first portion of the fin and a portion of the semiconductor layer below the second portion of the fin are removed to define a recess. A stress-inducing material is formed in the recess. A first semiconductor material is formed in the recess over the stress-inducing material. The first semiconductor material is different than the stress-inducing material. |
| US11088280B2 |
Transistor and method of forming same
The disclosure provides for a transistor which may include: a gate stack on a substrate, the gate stack including a gate dielectric and a gate electrode over the gate dielectric; a channel within the substrate and under the gate stack; a doped source and a doped drain on opposing sides of the channel, the doped source and the doped drain each including a dopant, wherein the dopant and the channel together have a first coefficient of diffusion and the doped source and the doped drain each have a second coefficient of diffusion; and a doped extension layer separating each of the doped source and the doped drain from the channel, the doped extension layer having a third coefficient of diffusion, wherein the third coefficient of diffusion is greater than the first coefficient of diffusion and the second coefficient of diffusion is less than the third coefficient of diffusion. |
| US11088279B2 |
Channel strain formation in vertical transport FETS with dummy stressor materials
Techniques for forming VTFET devices with tensile- and compressively-strained channels using dummy stressor materials are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming a VTFET device includes: patterning fins in a wafer; forming bottom source and drains at a base of the fins; forming bottom spacers on the bottom source and drains; growing at least one dummy stressor material along sidewalls of the fins above the bottom spacers configured to induce strain in the fins; surrounding the fins with a rigid fill material; removing the at least one dummy stressor material to form gate trenches in the rigid fill material while maintaining the strain in the fins by the rigid fill material; forming replacement gate stacks in the gate trenches; forming top spacers on the replacement gate stacks; and forming top source and drains over the top spacers at tops of the fins. A VTFET device is also provided. |
| US11088276B2 |
Silicon carbide semiconductor device
A plurality of trench gate electrodes are formed from an upper surface to reach an intermediate depth of an n-type SiC epitaxial substrate including an n-type drain region on a lower surface and an n-type source region on an upper surface in contact with the source region to be arranged in a direction along the upper surface. Here, at least three side surfaces among four side surfaces of each of the trench gate electrodes having a rectangular planar shape are in contact with a p-type body layer below the source region. In addition, a JFET region in the SiC epitaxial substrate and a source electrode connected to the source region immediately above the JFET region extend along a direction in which the plurality of trench gate electrodes are arranged. |
| US11088275B2 |
Method for operating a superjunction transistor device
A method for operating a superjunction transistor device and a transistor arrangement are disclosed. The method includes operating the superjunction transistor device in a diode state. Operating the superjunction transistor device in the diode state includes applying a bias voltage different from zero between a drift region of at least one transistor cell of the superjunction transistor device and a compensation region of a doping type complementary to a doping type of the drift region. The compensation region adjoins the drift region, and a polarity of the bias voltage is such that a pn-junction between the drift region and the compensation region is reverse biased. |
| US11088272B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer having a first main surface on one side and a second main surface on the other side, a unit cell including a diode region of a first conductivity type formed in a surface layer portion of the first main surface of the semiconductor layer, a well region of a second conductivity type formed in the surface layer portion of the first main surface of the semiconductor layer along a peripheral edge of the diode region, and a first conductivity type region formed in a surface layer portion of the well region, a gate electrode layer facing the well region and the first conductivity type region through a gate insulating layer and a first main surface electrode covering the diode region and the first conductivity type region on the first main surface of the semiconductor layer, and forming a Schottky junction with the diode region and an ohmic junction with the first conductivity type region. |
| US11088266B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a fin structure having a bottom part and an upper part on the bottom part is formed over a substrate. The bottom part is trimmed so that a width of an uppermost portion of the bottom part is smaller than a width of the upper part. Bottom end corners of the upper part are trimmed to reduce a width of the upper part at a bottom of the upper part. An isolation insulating layer is formed so that the upper part protrudes from the isolation insulating layer. A dummy gate structure is formed. A source/drain structure is formed. An interlayer dielectric layer is formed over the dummy gate structure and the source/drain structure. The dummy gate structure is replaced with a metal gate structure. |
| US11088265B2 |
Semiconductor structure having a repaired dielectric layer
A semiconductor structure is provided. The semiconductor structure includes a base substrate; and a first doped epitaxial layer and a second doped epitaxial layer in the base substrate. Each of the first and second doped epitaxial layers is corresponding to a different gate structure on the base substrate. The semiconductor structure further includes a repaired dielectric layer formed on and surrounding each of the first and second doped epitaxial layer; a metal layer on the repaired dielectric layer; an interlayer dielectric layer over the base substrate and covering tops of gate structures; and a conductive plug on the metal layer and through the interlayer dielectric layer. |
| US11088264B2 |
Self-aligned channel-only semiconductor-on-insulator field effect transistor
In one example, a field effect transistor includes a fin. The fin includes a conducting channel formed from semiconductor-on-insulator and source/drain regions formed on opposite ends of the conducting channel, wherein the source/drain regions are formed from a material other than semiconductor-on-insulator. A gate is wrapped around the conducting channel, between the source/drain regions. In another example, a method for fabricating a field effect transistor includes forming a fin on a wafer. The fin includes a conducting channel formed from semiconductor-on-insulator and source/drain regions formed on opposite ends of the conducting channel, wherein the source/drain regions are formed from a material other than semiconductor-on-insulator. A gate is also formed between the source/drain regions and wraps around the conducting channel. |
| US11088262B2 |
Radical etching in gate formation
A method includes providing a structure having a substrate and a fin protruding from the substrate; forming a dummy gate stack over the fin; forming a gate spacer on sidewalls of the dummy gate stack; removing the dummy gate stack using a radical etch process, resulting in a gate trench; and forming a metal gate stack in the gate trench. |
| US11088258B2 |
Method of forming multiple-Vt FETs for CMOS circuit applications
A field-effect transistor (FET) device having a modulated threshold voltage (Vt) includes a source electrode, a drain electrode, a channel region extending between the source electrode and the drain electrode, and a gate stack on the channel region. The gate stack includes an ultrathin dielectric dipole layer on the channel region configured to shift the modulated Vt in a first direction, a high-k (HK) insulating layer on the ultrathin dielectric dipole layer, and a doped gate metal layer on the HK insulating layer configured to shift the modulated Vt in a second direction. |
| US11088257B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same
Provided is a semiconductor device including a first n-type fin field effect transistor (FinFET) and a second n-type FinFET. The first FinFET includes a first work function layer. The first work function layer includes a first portion of a first layer. The second n-type FinFET includes a second work function layer. The second work function layer includes a second portion of the first layer and a first portion of a second layer underlying the second portion of the first layer. A thickness of the first work function layer is less than a thickness of the second work function layer. A method of manufacturing the semiconductor device is also provided. |
| US11088255B2 |
Semiconductor devices
A semiconductor device and a method of forming the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes a first gate-all-around (GAA) transistor over a first region of a substrate and a second GAA transistor over a second region of the substrate. The first GAA transistor includes a plurality of first channel members stacked along a first direction vertical to a top surface of the substrate and a first gate structure over the plurality of first channel members. The second GAA transistor includes a plurality of second channel members stacked along a second direction parallel to the top surface of the substrate and a second gate structure over the plurality of second channel members. The plurality of first channel members and the plurality of second channel members comprise a semiconductor material having a first crystal plane and a second crystal plane different from the first crystal plane. The first direction is normal to the first crystal plane and the second direction is normal to the second crystal plane. |
| US11088253B2 |
Gate structure of semiconductor device and manufacturing method therefor
A gate structure of a semiconductor device, includes: a trench gate and a planar gate including a plurality of polysilicon structures (406) separated from each other; the gate structure of the semiconductor device further includes a well region (503) being adjacent to the trench gate and being disposed under the planar gate; a first conduction type doped region (504) being disposed in the well region (503) and including a plurality of regions separated from each other, wherein each region is disposed under adjacent polysilicon structures (406), and respective regions are electrically connected to the planar gate; and a source (504a) being disposed in the well region (503); wherein the trench gate includes: a silicon oxide filler (202) including a side wall silicon oxide and a bottom silicon oxide; a control gate (402) being located over the trench gate, wherein a side wall of the control gate is enclosed by the side wall silicon oxide, and the control gate (402) is electrically-connected to the planar gate; a shield gate (404) having a single segment structure or a longitudinally arranged multiple segments structure; and an insulation silicon oxide (204) being filled between adjacent control gate and shield gate in vertical direction. |
| US11088252B2 |
Three-dimensional memory device with a silicon carbon nitride interfacial layer in a charge storage layer and methods of making the same
An alternating stack of insulating layers and spacer material layers is formed located over a substrate. The spacer material layers are formed as, or are subsequently replaced with, electrically conductive layers. Memory openings are formed through the alternating stack. A memory stack structure is formed within each memory opening. Each memory stack structure includes a memory film and a vertical semiconductor channel. A silicon nitride layer is formed over a sidewall of each memory opening as a component of the memory film. A silicon carbon nitride interfacial layer is formed on the silicon nitride layer, and a tunneling dielectric layer is formed on the silicon carbon nitride interfacial layer. |
| US11088250B2 |
Fin field effect transistor (FinFET) device structure with dual spacers and method for forming the same
A FinFET device structure is provided. The FinFET device structure includes a first gate structure formed over a fin structure and a first spacer layer formed on the first gate structure. The FinFET device structure includes a first insulation layer formed over the fin structure, and the first insulating layer is adjacent to and separated from the first spacer layer. The FinFET device structure includes a conductive plug formed over the first gate structure, and the conductive plug is formed over the first spacer layer and the first insulation layer. |
| US11088246B2 |
Method of manufacturing a field effect transistor using carbon nanotubes and a field effect transistor
In a method of forming a gate-all-around field effect transistor (GAA FET), a fin structure is formed. The fin structure includes a plurality of stacked structures each comprising a dielectric layer, a CNT over the dielectric layer, a support layer over the CNT. A sacrificial gate structure is formed over the fin structure, an isolation insulating layer is formed, a source/drain opening is formed by patterning the isolation insulating layer, the support layer is removed from each of the plurality of stacked structures in the source/drain opening, and a source/drain contact layer is formed in the source/drain opening. The source/drain contact is formed such that the source/drain contact is in direct contact with only a part of the CNT and a part of the dielectric layer is disposed between the source/drain contact and the CNT. |
| US11088243B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type having a device forming region and an outside region, an impurity region of a second conductivity type formed in a surface layer portion of a first main surface in the device forming region, a field limiting region of a second conductivity type formed in the surface layer portion in the outside region and having a impurity concentration higher than that of the impurity region, and a well region of a second conductivity type formed in a region between the device forming region and the field limiting region in the surface layer portion in the outside region, having a bottom portion positioned at a second main surface side with respect to bottom portions of the impurity region and the field limiting region, and having a impurity concentration higher than that of the impurity region. |
| US11088241B2 |
Pin diode including a conductive layer, and fabrication process
A diode is formed by a polycrystalline silicon bar which includes a first doped region with a first conductivity type, a second doped region with a second conductivity type and an intrinsic region between the first and second doped regions. A conductive layer extends parallel to the polycrystalline silicon bar and separated from the polycrystalline silicon bar by a dielectric layer. The conductive layer is configured to be biased by a bias voltage. |
| US11088237B2 |
Self-light emitting display device
A self-light emitting display device comprises a circuit board including a driving thin-film transistor; a cathode; an organic film disposed between the circuit board and the cathode; an anode disposed between the circuit board and the organic film; and a color filter disposed between the circuit board and the anode and including a first color filter unit, a second color filter unit, and a third color filter unit; wherein the third color filter unit has a portion disposed between the first color filter unit and the second color filter unit, and wherein the third color filter unit is thicker than the first color filter unit and the second color filter unit. |
| US11088235B2 |
Display panel and display device for improving display effect
A display panel and a display device are provided. The resistance of a first equivalent resistor is set to be larger than the resistance of a second equivalent resistor so that voltage across the first equivalent resistor can be higher. In this way, when a second type of sub-pixel is driven to be lightened, and a first type of sub-pixel is driven not to be lightened, the first type of sub-pixel can be avoided from being lightened, due to the higher voltage across the first equivalent resistor despite leakages current, thus alleviating a display abnormality, and improving a display effect. |
| US11088229B1 |
Pixel driving circuit and manufacturing method thereof
A pixel driving circuit and a manufacturing method thereof according to the present application use a process to manufacture a metal layer that includes a first metal pattern, a first shading pattern, a second metal pattern, a second shading pattern, a third shading pattern, and a third metal pattern on a substrate, and form a first anode pattern and a second anode pattern on a passivation layer, to form a drain of a first transistor, a drain of a second transistor, and a drain of a third transistor. |
| US11088228B2 |
Light-emitting device and light-emitting system
A first electrode (110) has optical transparency, and a second electrode (130) has light reflectivity. An organic layer (120) is located between the first electrode (110) and the second electrode (130). Light-transmitting regions (a second region (104) and a third region (106)) are located between a plurality of light-emitting units (140). An insulating film (150) defines the light-emitting units (140) and includes tapers (152, 154). A sealing member (170) covers the light-emitting units (140) and the insulating film (150). A low reflection film (190) is located on the side opposite to a substrate (100) with the second electrode (130) therebetween. The low reflection film (190) covers at least one portion of the tapers (152 and 154). |
| US11088218B2 |
Electric panel and electronic device including the same
Provided is an electronic device including: a display panel having a front surface and a rear surface that faces the front surface and including a plurality of light emitting areas each of which is disposed on the front surface and displays light, a light sensing module disposed on the rear surface and including a light detection element, and a lattice filter disposed between the display panel and the light sensing module, and including a plurality of light transmission parts arranged on the rear surface while being spaced apart from each other. |
| US11088214B2 |
Display device and method for manufacturing the same
A display device achieves a high resolution and a low power consumption through provision of subpixels each including a single light emitting layer and subpixels each including a plurality of overlapping light emitting layers. In the display device, it is also unnecessary to increase the number of expensive fine metal masks even for rendering of various grayscales. In addition, in the display device, different light emitting layers overlap with each other, and a charge generation layer is disposed between the overlapping light emitting layers, and, as such, emission of a secondary color can be achieved without necessity of a material for an additional light emitting layer of the secondary color. |
| US11088213B1 |
Display substrate, display apparatus, method of controlling display substrate, and method of fabricating display substrate
A display substrate is provided. The display substrate includes a first chromogenic layer; a plurality of first columns of light emitting elements on the first chromogenic layer; a second chromogenic layer on a side of the plurality of first columns of light emitting elements away from the first chromogenic layer; and a plurality of second columns of light emitting elements on a side of the second chromogenic layer away from the first chromogenic layer. The plurality of first columns of light emitting elements are arranged along substantially a same direction as the plurality of second columns of light emitting elements. The plurality of second columns of light emitting elements are spaced apart by a plurality of inter-column gap regions respectively. A respective one of the plurality of first columns of light emitting elements is at least partially in a respective one of the plurality of inter-column gap regions. |
| US11088209B2 |
Pixel structure of organic light emitting diode display
A pixel structure of an organic light emitting diode display comprises a substrate and a plurality of pixels arranged on the substrate. The plurality of pixels is closely arranged. Each of the pixels is a light-emitting region. Each of the pixels comprises a plurality of sub-regions arranged in at least one column. Each sub-region of each of the column of the pixels comprises a color sub-pixel, a transparent sub-pixel or a sensing component. At least one of the pluralities of sub-regions of each pixel is the sensing component and the sensing component is arranged in the light-emitting region. The pixel structure of the organic light emitting diode display of the disclosure has a sensing function in addition to the display function, and at the same time the such arrangement enables the display to have a resolution of more than 500 ppi. |
| US11088208B2 |
Display apparatus
A display device comprises a substrate provided with a first subpixel area and a second subpixel area, a first electrode provided on the substrate, including a first sub electrode provided in the first subpixel area and a second sub electrode provided in the second subpixel area, an organic light emitting layer including a first organic light emitting layer arranged on the first sub electrode and a second organic light emitting layer arranged on the second sub electrode, and a second electrode arranged on the organic light emitting layer, wherein the first organic light emitting layer includes a first pattern layer, a second pattern layer provided on the first pattern layer and a third pattern layer provided on the second pattern layer, the second organic light emitting layer includes a first pattern layer, a second pattern layer provided on the first pattern layer and a third pattern layer provided on the second pattern layer, the first pattern layer of the first organic light emitting layer is spaced apart from the first pattern layer of the second organic light emitting layer, the second pattern layer of the first organic light emitting layer is spaced apart from the second pattern layer of the second organic light emitting layer, and the third pattern layer of the first organic light emitting layer is connected with the third pattern layer of the second organic light emitting layer, and the second pattern layer of the first organic light emitting layer is provided to cover an upper surface and a side of the first pattern layer of the first organic light emitting layer. Therefore, a damage of the light emitting layer can be reduced. |
| US11088203B2 |
3D RRAM cell structure for reducing forming and set voltages
An RRAM cell stack is formed over an opening in a dielectric layer. The dielectric layer is sufficiently thick and the opening is sufficiently deep that an RRAM cell can be formed by a planarization process. The resulting RRAM cells may have a U-shaped profile. The RRAM cell area includes contributions from a bottom portion in which the RRAM cell layers are stacked parallel to the substrate and a side portion in which RRAM cell layers are stacked roughly perpendicular to the substrate. The combined side and bottom portions of the curved RRAM cell provide an increased area in comparison to a planar cell stack. The increased area lowers forming and set voltages for the RRAM cell. |
| US11088202B2 |
Method of forming memory cell
The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to an integrated chip. The integrated chip includes a plurality of lower interconnect layers disposed within a dielectric structure over a substrate. The integrated chip further includes a memory device having a data storage structure disposed between a bottom electrode and a top electrode. The bottom electrode is electrically coupled to the plurality of lower interconnect layers. A sidewall spacer continuously extends from an outermost sidewall of the data storage structure to below an outermost sidewall of the bottom electrode. |
| US11088197B2 |
Light emitting device and manufacturing method of the light emitting device
A light-emitting device includes: a substrate; a unit light-emitting area disposed on the substrate; first and second electrodes disposed in the unit light-emitting area to be separated from each other; a plurality of rod-shaped LEDs disposed between the first and second electrodes; a reflective contact electrode disposed on opposite ends of the rod-shaped LEDs to electrically connect the rod-shaped LEDs to the first and second electrodes; and a light-transmitting structure disposed between the first and second electrodes and extending to cross the rod-shaped LEDs. |
| US11088190B2 |
Optical semiconductor device
An optical semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a plurality of photoelectric conversion parts and having a trench formed to separate the plurality of photoelectric conversion parts from each other, an insulating layer formed on at least an inner surface of the trench, a boron layer formed on the insulating layer, and a metal layer formed on the boron layer. |
| US11088189B2 |
High light absorption structure for semiconductor image sensor
A semiconductor device is operated for sensing incident light and includes a carrier, a device layer, and a semiconductor layer. The device layer is disposed on the carrier. The semiconductor layer is disposed on the device layer. The semiconductor layer includes light-sensing regions. The semiconductor layer has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface that is adjacent to the device layer. The second surface has a lattice plane which is tilted with respect to a basal plane, and the semiconductor layer has various pit portions arranged on the second surface. |
| US11088187B2 |
Solid-state imaging device and method for manufacturing solid-state imaging device, and electronic device
A solid-state imaging device includes a first-conductivity-type semiconductor well region, a plurality of pixels each of which is formed on the semiconductor well region and is composed of a photoelectric conversion portion and a pixel transistor, an element isolation region provided between the pixels and in the pixels, and an element isolation region being free from an insulation film and being provided between desired pixel transistors. |
| US11088185B2 |
Image sensor including particular readout circuit arrangement
An image sensor includes a polarizer array and a depth pixel array. The polarizer array may include first to fourth unit pixels, which are arranged in a first direction and a second direction crossing each other, and may include polarization gratings respectively provided in the first to fourth unit pixels. The polarization gratings of the first to fourth unit pixels may have polarization directions different from each other. The depth pixel array may include depth pixels corresponding to the first to fourth unit pixels, respectively. Each of the depth pixels may include a photoelectric conversion device and first and second readout circuits, which are connected in common to the photoelectric conversion device. |
| US11088181B2 |
Method of fabricating array substrate, array substrate, and display apparatus thereof
The present application discloses a method of fabricating an array substrate. The method includes forming a first conductive material layer on a base substrate; forming an insulating layer on a side of the first conductive material layer distal to the base substrate, the insulating layer formed to cover a first part of the first conductive material layer, exposing a second part of the first conductive material layer; over-etching the first conductive material layer to remove the second part of the first conductive material layer, and remove a portion of a periphery of the first part of the first conductive material layer to form a recess between the insulating layer and the base substrate, thereby forming a first electrode; and subsequent to forming the first electrode and the recess, annealing the insulating layer to mobilize a portion of the insulating layer above the recess and fill the recess with a mobilized insulating material. |
| US11088176B2 |
Display device
The present disclosure provides a display device including an array substrate. At least one wiring on array is arranged on a surface of the array substrate, the wiring on array including a plurality of signal wires, and all the signal wires of the wiring on array being the same in impedance and different in length and in cross-sectional area. At least one first driving component is arranged at one side of the array substrate, adjacent first driving components being electrically connected via one wiring on array. At least one second driving component is arranged at the same side or different sides of the array substrate as the first driving member, adjacent second driving components being electrically connected via one wiring on array or adjacent first and second driving components being electrically connected via one wiring on array. |
| US11088175B2 |
Display panel, method for driving the same, and display device
The disclosure discloses a display panel, a method for driving the same, and a display device, where a control electrode is arranged on the side of an active layer of a thin film transistor away from a gate electrode, and the thickness of a buffer layer between the control electrode and the active layer is controlled so that the buffer layer is thicker than a gate insulation layer between the gate electrode and the active layer, to adjust the distance between the control electrode and the active layer to be larger than the distance between the gate electrode and the active layer; and at least when a gate off voltage is applied to the gate electrode so that the thin film transistor is switched off, a first control voltage is applied to the control electrode to vary a voltage Vg of the thin film transistor. |
| US11088172B2 |
Array substrate and manufacturing method thereof, liquid crystal display panel and liquid crystal apparatus
The present disclosure provides an array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, a liquid crystal display panel, and a liquid crystal display apparatus, which can solve a problem that an independent backlight of the related liquid crystal display device is easy to cause light leakage, resulting in a thicker product. Both a light emitting structure and an array structure are disposed on the array substrate of the present disclosure, wherein a control device of the light emitting structure can control the light emitting source to emit light. That is, in the present disclosure, the light emitting structure is directly formed in the array substrate, which is equivalent to a built-in light emitting source, so that it is no longer necessary to adhere an external backlight, and no adhesive gap is generated to cause light leakage, and the thickness of the product can be reduced. |
| US11088169B2 |
Integrated assemblies having thicker semiconductor material along one region of a conductive structure than along another region, and methods of forming integrated assemblies
Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a conductive structure which includes a semiconductor material over a metal-containing material. A stack of alternating conductive levels and insulative levels is over the conductive structure. A partition extends through the stack. The partition has wall regions, and has corner regions where two or more wall regions meet. The conductive structure includes a first portion which extends directly under the corner regions, and includes a second portion which is directly under the wall regions and is not directly under the corner regions. The first portion has a first thickness of the semiconductor material and the second portion has a second thickness of the semiconductor material. The first thickness is greater than the second thickness. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies. |
| US11088168B2 |
Semiconductor devices and methods of fabrication
Some embodiments include a semiconductor device having a stack structure including a source comprising polysilicon, an etch stop of oxide on the source, a select gate source on the etch stop, a charge storage structure over the select gate source, and a select gate drain over the charge storage structure. The semiconductor device may further include an opening extending vertically into the stack structure to a level adjacent to the source. A channel comprising polysilicon may be formed on a side surface and a bottom surface of the opening. The channel may contact the source at a lower portion of the opening, and may be laterally separated from the charge storage structure by a tunnel oxide. A width of the channel adjacent to the select gate source is greater than a width of the channel adjacent to the select gate drain. |
| US11088167B2 |
Transistor, three dimensional memory device including such transistor and method of fabricating such memory device
The invention discloses a transistor, a three dimensional memory device including such transistors and a method of fabricating such memory device. The transistor according to the invention includes a pillar of a semiconductor material, extending in a normal direction of a semiconductor substrate, a gate dielectric layer and a gate conductor. The pillar of the semiconductor material has a base side face parallel to the normal direction, a tapered side face opposite to the base side face, a top face perpendicular to the normal direction, a bottom face opposite to the top face, a front side face adjacent to the base side face and the tapered side face, and a rear side face opposite to the front side face. A first elongated portion, sandwiched among the base side face, the front side face, the bottom face and the top face, forms a source region. A second elongated portion, sandwiched among the base side face, the rear side face, the bottom face and the top face, forms a drain region. A plate portion, on the base side face and between the first elongated portion and the second elongated portion, forms a channel region. Other portion of the pillar forms a body region. The gate dielectric layer is formed to overlay the base side face of the pillar of the semiconductor material. The gate conductor is formed to overlay the gate dielectric layer. |
| US11088164B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes: first interconnect layers; a second interconnect layer separate from the first interconnect layers; a third interconnect layer separate from the first interconnect layers and adjacent to the second interconnect layer in a second direction; a first memory pillar which passes through the second interconnect layer; a second memory pillar which passes through the third interconnect layer. The second interconnect layer includes a first portion connected to a first contact plug. The third interconnect layer includes a second portion connected to a second contact plug. The first and second portions are arranged along a third direction which intersects the second direction. |
| US11088160B2 |
Vertical semiconductor device and fabrication method thereof
A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes forming an alternating stack that includes a lower multi-layered stack and an upper multi-layered stack by alternately stacking a dielectric layer and a sacrificial layer over a substrate, forming a vertical trench that divides the upper multi-layered stack into dummy stacks, and forming an asymmetric stepped trench that is extended downward from the vertical trench to divide the lower multi-layered stack into a pad stack and a dummy pad stack, wherein forming the asymmetric stepped trench includes forming a first stepped sidewall that is defined at an edge of the pad stack, and forming a second stepped sidewall that is defined at an edge of the dummy pad stack and occupies less area than the first stepped sidewall. |
| US11088159B2 |
Inter-digitated capacitor in flash technology
The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to an integrated chip. The integrated chip includes a plurality of upper electrodes disposed over a substrate and a lower electrode disposed between the plurality of upper electrodes. A charge storage layer continuously extends from along a first side of the lower electrode to along a second side of the lower electrode opposing the first side. The charge storage layer separates the lower electrode from the plurality of upper electrodes and the substrate. A silicide is disposed over the lower electrode and the plurality of upper electrodes. The silicide has sidewalls that are laterally separated by a distance directly overlying a top of the charge storage layer. |
| US11088158B2 |
SONOS memory and method for manufacturing the same
The present invention discloses a SONOS memory in which two storage gates in a storage unit are self-aligned on the side of a selection gate, states of information stored in two storage gates in the same storage unit being opposite, the storage information of the storage unit being judged by comparing the magnitude of reading currents corresponding to two storage gates. The present invention further discloses a method for manufacturing a SONOS memory. The present invention can improve the reliability of the product and reduce the area of the device at the same time. |
| US11088157B2 |
Three-dimensional semiconductor device having stepped gate electrodes
A three-dimensional semiconductor device includes a first gate group on a lower structure and a second gate group on the first gate group. The first gate group includes first pad regions that are: (1) lowered in a first direction that is parallel to an upper surface of the lower structure and (2) raised in a second direction that is parallel to an upper surface of the lower structure and perpendicular to the first direction. The second gate group includes second pad regions that are sequentially raised in the first direction and raised in the second direction. |
| US11088155B2 |
Method for fabricating split-gate non-volatile memory
The present disclosure provides a method for fabricating split-gate non-volatile memory. The method comprises the following: 1) preparing a semiconductor substrate by forming at least one shallow trench isolation structure in the semiconductor substrate to isolate at least one active region in the semiconductor substrate; 2) forming at least one word line on the semiconductor substrate; 3) forming at least one source and at least one drain in the semiconductor substrate, and forming at least one floating gate on a sidewall of the word line on a side close to the source; 4) removing part of the word line by adopting an etching process; 5) forming a tunneling dielectric layer and an erasing gate at the top portion of the floating gate; and 6) forming a conductive plug on the drain and forming at least one metal bit line on the conductive plug. |
| US11088150B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
A method includes forming a semiconductor fin over a substrate; forming a plurality of isolation structures adjacent to the semiconductor fin; etching the semiconductor fin to form a recess between the isolation structures; forming a first epitaxy layer in the recess; forming a second epitaxy layer over the first epitaxy layer; forming a third epitaxy layer over the second epitaxy layer, in which the first epitaxy layer has a higher germanium (Ge) concentration than the second and third epitaxy layers; etching the third epitaxy layer; and forming a dielectric layer in contact with the third epitaxy layer after etching the third epitaxy layer. |
| US11088148B2 |
Semiconductor memory devices including separate upper and lower bit line spacers
A volatile memory device can include a bit line structure having a vertical side wall. A lower spacer can be on a lower portion of the vertical side wall, where the lower spacer can be defined by a first thickness from the vertical side wall to an outer side wall of the lower spacer. An upper spacer can be on an upper portion of the vertical side wall above the lower portion, where the upper spacer can be defined by a second thickness that is less than the first thickness, the upper spacer exposing an uppermost portion of the outer side wall of the lower spacer. |
| US11088144B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device includes a substrate comprising a plurality of active regions extending in a first direction and a device isolation region electrically isolating the plurality of active regions, a gate trench extending across the plurality of active regions and the device isolation region, a gate structure extending in the gate trench of each of and along opposite sidewalls of the plurality of active regions, a gate dielectric film formed between the gate trench and the gate structure in each of the plurality of active regions, and an insulating barrier film provided in each of the plurality of active regions under the gate trench spaced apart from a lower surface of the gate trench and extending in an extension direction of the gate trench. |
| US11088138B2 |
Semiconductor device for testing characteristics of transistors and method for testing semiconductor device
A semiconductor device for evaluating characteristics of a transistor is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, an active area defined on the substrate, an insulated gate configured to be formed on the active area, a first source layer and a first drain layer configured to be formed on the active area in a first two-way direction of the gate, and a second source layer and a second drain layer configured to be formed on the active area in a second two-way direction of the gate. The first source layer, the first drain layer, and the second drain layer are formed as a first conductive type. The second source layer is formed as a second conductive type. |
| US11088135B2 |
Electrostatic discharge protection apparatus and integrated passive device with capacitors
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection apparatus and an integrated passive device (IPD) with capacitor(s) are provided. The ESD protection apparatus includes a transistor, an impedance, and a capacitor disposed in a redistribution layer (RDL) structure of a package. The first terminal and the second terminal of the transistor are respectively coupled to a first power rail and a second power rail of the RDL structure. A first terminal of the impedance is coupled to the first power rail. A second terminal of the impedance is coupled to a control terminal of the transistor. A first terminal of the capacitor is coupled to the second terminal of the impedance. A second terminal of the capacitor is coupled to the second power rail. |
| US11088134B2 |
Electrostatic discharge device and split multi rail network with symmetrical layout design technique
A symmetrical layout technique for an electrostatic discharge ESD device and a corresponding power supply network is presented. The ESD device protects an electronic circuit against an overvoltage or overcurrent and contains a first contact area to establish an electrical contact with a first supply rail, a second contact area to establish an electrical contact with a second supply rail, and a third contact area to establish an electrical contact with a third supply rail. The first and third supply rails provide a first supply voltage, and the second supply rail provides a second supply voltage. Within the ESD device, an axis of symmetry passes through the second contact area, and the first contact area and the third contact area are arranged on opposite sides with regard to the axis of symmetry. The symmetrical layout technique allows flipping the orientation of the ESD device with regard to the supply rails. |
| US11088133B2 |
Electrostatic discharge protection device
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device includes a pad, a diode, a gate ground NMOS (GGNMOS) transistor and a thyristor. The diode includes an anode connected with the pad. The GGNMOS transistor is connected between a cathode of the diode and a ground terminal. The thyristor is formed between the diode and the ground terminal when an ESD current may flow from the pad. |
| US11088132B2 |
Semiconductor device for enhancing electrostatic discharge protection and layout structure thereof
A semiconductor device for enhancing electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection and a layout structure thereof are provided. An ESD protection device and a protected device (300) with a small feature linewidth are located on the same well region. The device (300) with the small feature linewidth is located at a middle portion. The ESD protection device is disposed at both sides of the device (300) with the small feature linewidth. |
| US11088130B2 |
3D semiconductor device and structure
A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level, where the first level includes a first layer, the first layer including first transistors, and where the first level includes a second layer, the second layer including first interconnections; a second level overlaying the first level, where the second level includes a third layer, the third layer including second transistors, and where the second level includes a fourth layer, the fourth layer including second interconnections; and a plurality of connection paths, where the plurality of connection paths provides connections from a plurality of the first transistors to a plurality of the second transistors, where the second level is bonded to the first level, where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bond regions, where the bonded includes metal to metal bond regions, where the third layer includes crystalline silicon, and where the second level includes at least one phase-lock-loop (“PLL”) circuit. |
| US11088127B2 |
Multichannel monostatic rangefinder
The present disclosure relates to optical systems and methods for their manufacture. An example optical system includes a first substrate having a mounting surface and a spacer structure having at least one cavity. The spacer structure is coupled to the mounting surface of the first substrate. The optical system also includes a light-emitter device that is coupled to the spacer structure and a detector device coupled to the first substrate such that the at least one detector device is disposed within the at least one cavity of the spacer structure. The optical system also includes a second substrate that mounts a lens and a waveguide and is coupled to the spacer structure. The optical system also includes a shim coupled between the second surface of the spacer structure and a mounting surface of the second substrate. |
| US11088126B2 |
Display device and method of manufacturing the same
A display device includes a pixel circuit, a first insulating layer covering the pixel circuit, a first electrode disposed on the first insulating layer, a second electrode disposed on the first insulating layer and spaced apart from the first electrode in a first direction, and a light emitting element electrically connected to the first electrode and the second electrode and disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. A recess is provided in a first region of the first insulating layer between the first electrode and the second electrode when viewed in a plan view, and a width of the recess in the first direction is greater than a length of the light emitting element in the first direction. The first electrode and the second electrode do not overlap the recess when viewed in a plan view. |
| US11088118B2 |
Semiconductor device
According to an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first metal plate, a second metal plate, and two or more semiconductor units. The two or more semiconductor units are disposed on the first metal plate. The each of the two or more semiconductor units includes a first metal member, a second metal member, and a semiconductor element. The first metal member has a first connection surface connected to the first major surface. The second metal member has a second connection surface connected to the second major surface. The semiconductor element includes an active region having surfaces respectively opposing the first connection surface and the second connection surface. A surface area of the first connection surface is greater than a surface area of the surface of the active region opposing the first connection surface. A surface area of the second connection surface is greater than a surface area of the surface of the active region opposing the second connection surface. |
| US11088114B2 |
High density pillar interconnect conversion with stack to substrate connection
A semiconductor device assembly can include a first semiconductor device and an interposer. The interposer can include a substrate and through vias in which individual vias include an exposed portion and an embedded portion, the exposed portions projecting from one or both of the first surface and the second surface of the substrate, and the embedded portions extending through at least a portion of the substrate. The interposer can include one or more test pads, a first electrical contact, and a second electrical contact. The semiconductor device assembly can include a controller positioned on an opposite side of the interposer from the first semiconductor device and operably coupled to the interposer via connection to the second electrical contact. |
| US11088112B2 |
Radio frequency system-in-package with stacked clocking crystal
A packaged module for use in a wireless communication device has a substrate supporting a crystal and a first die that includes at least a microprocessor and one or more of radio frequency transmitter circuitry and radio frequency receiver circuitry. The first die is disposed between the crystal and the substrate. An overmold encloses the first die and the crystal. The substrate also supports a second die that includes at least a power amplifier for amplifying a radio frequency input signal, where the second die is disposed on an opposite side of the substrate from the first die and the crystal. |
| US11088111B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes: a through via formed to penetrate a semiconductor substrate; first and second buffer circuits; a wiring forming layer formed in an upper layer of the semiconductor substrate; a connecting wiring portion formed in an upper portion of the through via assuming that a direction from the semiconductor substrate to the wiring forming layer is an upward direction, the connecting wiring portion being formed on a chip inner end face that faces the upper portion of the semiconductor substrate at an end face of the through via; a first path connecting the first buffer circuit and the through via; and a second path connecting the second buffer circuit and the through via. The first path and the second path are electrically connected through the connecting wiring portion. |
| US11088105B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for fabricating a semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes: a carrier having a die pad and a contact; a semiconductor die having opposing first and second main sides and being attached to the die pad by a first solder joint such that the second main side faces the die pad; and a contact clip having a first contact region and a second contact region. The first contact is attached to the first main side by a second solder joint. The second contact region is attached to the contact by a third solder joint. The first contact region has a convex shape facing towards the first main side such that a distance between the first main side and the first contact region increases from a base of the convex shape towards an edge of the first contact region. The base runs along a line that is substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the contact clip. |
| US11088102B2 |
Bonded structures for package and substrate
The embodiments described provide elongated bonded structures near edges of packaged structures free of solder wetting on sides of copper posts substantially facing the center of the packaged structures. Solder wetting occurs on other sides of copper posts of these bonded structures. The elongated bonded structures are arranged in different arrangements and reduce the chance of shorting between neighboring bonded structures. In addition, the elongated bonded structures improve the reliability performance. |
| US11088100B2 |
Semiconductor package and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor package and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The semiconductor package includes a first and a second active dies separately arranged, an insulating encapsulation at least laterally encapsulating the first and the second active dies, a redistribution layer disposed on the insulating encapsulation, the first and the second active dies, and a fine-pitched die disposed on the redistribution layer and extending over a gap between the first and the second active dies. The fine-pitched die has a function different from the first and the second active dies. A die connector of the fine-pitched die is connected to a conductive feature of the first active die through a first conductive pathway of the redistribution layer. A first connecting length of the first conductive pathway is substantially equal to a shortest distance between the die connector of the fine-pitched die and the conductive feature of the first active die. |
| US11088092B2 |
Via rail solution for high power electromigration
The present disclosure relates to a method of forming an integrated chip. The method may be performed by forming first and second source regions within a substrate. The first and second source regions are separated by a drain region along a first direction. First and second middle-end-of-the-line (MEOL) structures are formed over the substrate. The first and second MEOL structures have bottom surfaces that continually extend past edges of the first and second source regions, respectively, along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. A power rail is formed that is electrically coupled to the first and second MEOL structures. The power rail has a first interconnect wire, a via rail on and in contact with the first interconnect wire, and a second interconnect wire on and in contact with the via rail. The via rail continuously extends along the first direction past the first and second MEOL structures. |
| US11088089B2 |
Package substrate
A package substrate includes a wiring substrate comprising an insulating layer, a first wiring layer, and a second wiring layer, wherein the first wiring layer comprises a first pad pattern, and the second wiring layer comprises a second pad pattern; a first passivation layer disposed on the insulating layer, and having a first opening portion passing through a region corresponding to at least a portion of the first pad pattern; a second passivation layer disposed on the insulating layer, and having a second opening portion passing through a region corresponding to at least a portion of the second pad pattern; and a reinforcing layer disposed on the second passivation layer, and having a through portion exposing the second opening portion. An upper surface of the first wiring layer is located in a position higher than a position of the lower surface of the insulating layer. |
| US11088088B2 |
Microelectronic devices with polysilicon fill material between opposing staircase structures, and related devices, systems, and methods
Microelectronic devices include a stack structure of insulative structures vertically alternating with conductive structures and arranged in tiers forming opposing staircase structures. A polysilicon fill material substantially fills an opening (e.g., a high-aspect-ratio opening) between the opposing staircase structures. The polysilicon fill material may have non-compressive stress such that the stack structure may be partitioned into blocks without the blocks bending and without contacts—formed in at least one of the polysilicon fill material and the stack structure—deforming, misaligning, or forming electrical shorts with neighboring contacts. |
| US11088083B2 |
DC and AC magnetic field protection for MRAM device using magnetic-field-shielding structure
In some embodiments, the present application provides a memory device. The memory device includes a chip that includes a magnetic random access memory (MRAM) cell. A magnetic-field-shielding structure at least partially surrounding the chip including a multilayer stack. The multilayer stack includes a magnetic layer and a dielectric layer. A first magnetic region is located inside an inner surface of the magnetic field shielding structure and a second magnetic region is located immediately outside an outer surface of the magnetic field shielding structure. A magnetic field in the first magnetic region is less than a magnetic field in the second magnetic region. |
| US11088074B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing same
A multi-finger transistor including plural control electrodes (2), plural first electrodes (3), and plural second electrodes (4) is provided on a semiconductor substrate (1). A resin film (14,15) covers the transistor. A first wiring (8) electrically connecting the plural first electrodes (3) to one other is provided on the resin film (14,15). The resin film (14,15) covers contact portions between the first wiring (8) and the plural first electrodes (3). A first hollow structure (16) sealed with the resin film (14,15) is provided around the plural control electrodes (2) and the plural second electrodes (4). |
| US11088073B2 |
Semiconductor device
In some examples, a semiconductor device includes a substrate, an interlayer insulating film, a gate pad provided on the interlayer insulating film, a source electrode that is provided on the interlayer insulating film, source wiring provided on the interlayer insulating film, and gate wiring that is provided on the interlayer insulating film and is electrically connected to the gate pad. The size of the source wiring is not increased, and a high impurity concentration region having a higher impurity concentration than a drift layer is formed on the surface of the substrate at a location directly below the gate pad. |
| US11088068B2 |
Semiconductor packages and methods of manufacturing the same
Semiconductor packages and methods of forming the same are disclosed. The semiconductor package includes a package, a device and a screw. The package includes a plurality of dies, an encapsulant encapsulating the plurality of dies, and a redistribution structure over the plurality of dies and the encapsulant. The device is disposed over the package, wherein the dies and the encapsulant are disposed between the device and the redistribution structure. The screw penetrates through the package and the device. |
| US11088067B2 |
Semiconductor device and layout design thereof
A device includes gates and a first conductive segment. A first distance is present between a first gate of the gates and the first conductive segment. A second distance is present between a second gate of the gates and the first conductive segment. The first distance is greater than the second distance. |
| US11088060B2 |
Package module including a plurality of electronic components and semiconductor chip(s) embedded in a single package
A package module includes a core structure including a dummy member, one or more electronic components disposed around the dummy member, and an insulating material covering at least a portion of each of the dummy member and the electronic components, the core structure including a first penetration hole passing through the dummy member and the insulating material, a semiconductor chip disposed in the first penetration hole and having an active surface on which a connection pad is disposed and an inactive surface, an encapsulant covering at least a portion of each of the core structure and the semiconductor chip and filling at least a portion of the first penetration hole, and a connection structure disposed on the core structure and the active surface and including a redistribution layer electrically connected to the electronic components and the connection pad. |
| US11088052B2 |
Integrated circuit package electronic device including pillar contacts and electrical terminations
A surface mount electronic device providing an electrical connection between an integrated circuit (IC) and a printed circuit board (PCB) is provided and includes a die and a dielectric material formed to cover portions of the die. Pillar contacts are electrically coupled to electronic components in the die and the pillar contacts extend from the die beyond an outer surface of the die. A conductive ink is printed on portions of a contact surface of the electronic device package and forms electrical terminations on portions of the dielectric material and electrical connector elements that connect an exposed end surface of the pillar contacts to the electrical terminations. |
| US11088049B2 |
Heat sink formed from a high pipe density silicon carbide substrate
Some embodiments may include a porous silicon carbide substrate plugged with dielectric material, the porous silicon carbide substrate including a first side to couple to a heat source and a second side to couple to an electrically conductive surface, wherein the second side is opposite the first side; wherein in the case that an opening on the area of the first side forms a channel with an opening on an area of the second side, a portion of the dielectric material located in the channel is arranged to prevent an electrical short from forming through the porous silicon carbide substrate to the electrically conductive surface. In some examples, the heat source may be one or more semiconductor laser diode chips. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed. |
| US11088035B2 |
Fabrication of thin-film encapsulation layer for light emitting device
An ink jet process is used to deposit a material layer to a desired thickness. Layout data is converted to per-cell grayscale values, each representing ink volume to be locally delivered. The grayscale values are used to generate a halftone pattern to deliver variable ink volume (and thickness) to the substrate. The halftoning provides for a relatively continuous layer (e.g., without unintended gaps or holes) while providing for variable volume and, thus, contributes to variable ink/material buildup to achieve desired thickness. The ink is jetted as liquid or aerosol that suspends material used to form the material layer, for example, an organic material used to form an encapsulation layer for a flat panel device. The deposited layer is then cured or otherwise finished to complete the process. |
| US11088030B2 |
Semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the same
A semiconductor device includes a first gate structure, a second gate structure, a first source/drain structure and a second source/drain structure. The first gate structure includes a first gate electrode and a first cap insulating layer disposed on the first gate electrode. The second gate structure includes a second gate electrode and a first conductive contact layer disposed on the first gate electrode. The first source/drain structure includes a first source/drain conductive layer and a second cap insulating layer disposed over the first source/drain conductive layer. The second source/drain structure includes a second source/drain conductive layer and a second conductive contact layer disposed over the second source/drain conductive layer. |
| US11088029B2 |
Gate stack treatment
The present disclosure describes a method for forming gate stack layers with a fluorine concentration up to about 35 at. %. The method includes forming dielectric stack, barrier layer and soaking the dielectric stack and/or barrier layer in a fluorine-based gas. The method further includes depositing one or more work function layers on the high-k dielectric layer, and soaking at least one of the one or more work function layers in the fluorine-based gas. The method also includes optional fluorine drive in annealing process, together with sacrificial blocking layer to avoid fluorine out diffusion and loss into atmosphere. |
| US11088019B2 |
Method to create air gaps
Tin oxide films are used to create air gaps during semiconductor substrate processing. Tin oxide films, disposed between exposed layers of other materials, such as SiO2 and SiN can be selectively etched using a plasma formed in an H2-containing process gas. The etching creates a recessed feature in place of the tin oxide between the surrounding materials. A third material, such as SiO2 is deposited over the resulting recessed feature without fully filling the recessed feature, forming an air gap. A method for selectively etching tin oxide in a presence of SiO2, SiC, SiN, SiOC, SiNO, SiCNO, or SiCN, includes, in some embodiments, contacting the substrate with a plasma formed in a process gas comprising at least about 50% H2. Etching of tin oxide can be performed without using an external bias at the substrate and is preferably performed at a temperature of less than about 100° C. |
| US11088018B2 |
Method of forming contacts in a semiconductor device
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming semiconductor devices are provided. A method includes forming a first mask layer over a target layer, forming a second mask layer over the first mask layer, patterning the second mask layer, forming a third mask layer over the patterned second mask layer, patterning the third mask layer, etching the first mask layer using both the patterned second mask layer and the patterned third mask layer as a combined etch mask, removing the patterned third mask layer to expose a portion of the first mask layer, performing a trim process on the exposed portion of the first mask layer, and etching the target layer using the first mask layer to form openings in the target layer. |
| US11088014B2 |
Semiconductor device, method, and multi-wafer deposition apparatus
An embodiment is a method. The method includes: dispensing a plurality of precursor materials over a collective wafer platter holding a plurality of wafers; heating the collective wafer platter while dispensing the precursor materials; rotating the collective wafer platter around a first axis while dispensing the precursor materials and heating the collective wafer platter; rotating the wafers around respective second axes while dispensing the precursor materials and heating the collective wafer platter, the first axis different from each of the second axes; and singulating integrated circuit devices from each of the wafers. |
| US11088012B2 |
Wafer susceptor apparatus with thermal insulation and method for manufacturing the same
A plate for supporting wafer has a top for carrying a wafer and a bottom coupled to a pedestal. The plate includes multiple heating units embedded within the plate and at least one set of grooves formed between the top and the bottom of the plate at a radial location between two of neighboring heating units to thereby enhance heat insulation among the heating units. |
| US11088007B1 |
Component tethers with spacers
A component structure comprises a substrate and a sacrificial layer comprising a sacrificial material disposed on or in the substrate. The sacrificial layer defines sacrificial portions laterally spaced apart by anchors. A component is disposed entirely over each sacrificial portion and connected to at least one anchor by a tether. A spacer comprising a spacer material is disposed in or on the sacrificial portion at least partially between the tether and the substrate. For at least one etchant, the spacer material etches faster than the sacrificial material when exposed to the etchant. |
| US11088006B2 |
Electrostatic chuck
An electrostatic chuck includes a platform, a power feed pin, a tubular insulator, an adhesive layer, and a first primer. The platform includes an electrode. The power feed pin contacts the electrode. The tubular insulator is provided around the power feed pin. The adhesive layer bonds the platform and the tubular insulator together. The first primer is provided on a surface of the tubular insulator facing toward the adhesive layer. |
| US11088005B2 |
Electrostatic chuck having thermally isolated zones with minimal crosstalk
A substrate support assembly includes a ceramic puck and a thermally conductive base having an upper surface that is bonded to the ceramic puck. The thermally conductive base includes a plurality of thermal zones and a thermally managed material embedded in the thermally conductive base at the upper surface of the thermally conductive base in one or more of the plurality of thermal zones. The thermally managed material has different thermal conductive properties along a first direction and a second direction. The thermally conductive base further includes a plurality of thermal isolators that extend from the upper surface of the thermally conductive base towards a lower surface of the thermally conductive base between two or more of the plurality of thermal zones without contacting the lower surface of the thermally conductive base. Each of the plurality of thermal isolators provides a degree of thermal isolation. |
| US11087999B2 |
Buffer chamber unit for wafer processing equipment
The present invention relates to a buffer chamber unit for wafer processing equipment. |
| US11087985B2 |
Manufacturing method of TFT array substrate
The invention provides a manufacturing method of the TFT array substrate. Compared to existing 4M process, the invention changes the structural design of the semi-transmissive mask for the photoresist layer for patterning the source/drain metal layer and the semiconductor layer. The edge forms a reduced thickness edge portion, so that the edge of the photoresist layer is thinned, and thereby the width of the photoresist layer is easily reduced in subsequent processes, and the semiconductor layer at the edge of the metal wire structure is easily etched during dry etching, reducing the tailing problem of the active layer at edges of source/drain to achieve finer metal wire structure, and improve optical stability, electrical performance, aperture ratio, reliability, power consumption, and the overall performance of the TFT array substrate. The residual problem of amorphous and heavily doped silicon on source/drain edge in original process is solved or reduced. |
| US11087984B2 |
Selective deposition by laser heating for forming a semiconductor structure
A method for forming a semiconductor structure is provided. The method includes forming a first material and a second material on a semiconductor substrate. The first material is different from the second material. The method also includes heating the first material to a first temperature and the second material to a second temperature with a laser beam. The first temperature is different from the second temperature. The method also includes depositing a third material on the first material. |
| US11087982B2 |
Method and system for fabricating a semiconductor device
The present disclosure provides a method and system for fabricating a semiconductor device. The method and system of the present disclosure, after obtaining the polysilicon layer, first form the protective oxide layer on the surface of the polysilicon layer, and then etch the protective oxide layer and the protrusions on the surface of the polysilicon layer with the buffered oxide etchant based on controllability of the buffered oxide etchant, thereby reducing the protrusions on the surface of the polysilicon layer, while well protecting the surface of the polysilicon layer. Therefore, the technical problem of surface roughness in the existing polysilicon layers is solved. |
| US11087981B2 |
Poly-silicon layer and method of manufacturing the same, methods of manufacturing thin film transistor and array substrate
A poly-silicon layer and a method of manufacturing the same, methods of manufacturing a thin film transistor, and an array substrate are provided. The method of manufacturing the poly-silicon layer includes forming an amorphous silicon layer, crystallizing the amorphous silicon layer to form a first poly-silicon layer, and processing the first poly-silicon layer to form a second poly-silicon layer using a green laser annealing process. |
| US11087979B2 |
Cleaning method
Implementations of the present disclosure generally relate to methods and apparatuses for epitaxial deposition on substrate surfaces. More particularly, implementations of the present disclosure generally relate to methods and apparatuses for surface preparation prior to epitaxial deposition. In one implementation, a method of processing a substrate is provided. The method comprises etching a surface of a silicon-containing substrate by use of a plasma etch process, where at least one etching process gas comprising chlorine gas and an inert gas is used during the plasma etch process and forming an epitaxial layer on the surface of the silicon-containing substrate. |
| US11087970B2 |
Bonded wafer, a method of manufacturing the same, and a method of forming through hole
A bonded wafer includes: a first wafer having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and including a functional element on the first surface; and a second wafer in which a structure having at least one of a hole, a groove and a cavity is formed; wherein an annular protrusion is formed to have a shape to extend along an outer periphery on the second surface of the first wafer; wherein at least a portion of the second wafer is a reduced-diameter portion having a diameter smaller than an inner diameter of the annular protrusion; and wherein, under a state in which the reduced-diameter portion is fitted into a region surrounded by the annular protrusion of the first wafer, the second wafer is bonded to the second surface at least at the region. |
| US11087969B2 |
Charge detection for ION current control
A method for controlling the filling of an ion trap with a predetermined quantity of ions. The method comprises generating an ion current by transmitting ions along an ion path to an ion trap, such that ions are accumulated in the ion trap over a transmission time period, wherein the magnitude of the ion current varies in time. The method further comprises detecting at an ion detector at least some ions from the source of ions during a plurality of distinct sampling time intervals interspersed within the transmission time period, and setting the duration of the transmission time period based on the detection of ions at the ion detector. The time difference between the start of a sampling time interval and the start of an immediately subsequent sampling time interval is less than a timescale for variation of the magnitude of the ion current. A controller for controlling the filling of an ion trap with a predetermined quantity of ions and a mass spectrometer comprising the controller is also described. |
| US11087968B2 |
Traveling wave multipole
A traveling wave multipole comprising two or more pairs of segmented electrodes arranged around a central axis; and a voltage supply. The voltage supply configured to supply the segments of each pair of electrodes with a different RF and DC potential; and match RF and DC potentials with a location of an ion of target m/z moving through the traveling wave multipole such that as the ion travels along the multipole the ion experiences the same RF and DC potentials while another ion of a second target m/z concurrently experiences a different RF and DC potentials at another location within the traveling wave multipole. |
| US11087967B1 |
Open dynamically harmonized ion trap for ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer
The invention discloses design of the open-type dynamically harmonized trap directly incorporated into the body of vacuum chamber of Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass analyzer. The proposed trap provides ultra-high resolution of the mass spectrometer as well as improves performance of the instrument, increases pumping rate (accelerates evacuation), eliminates necessity in vacuum feed-through, and increases maximum trap resolution limit at a fixed magnetic field. |
| US11087963B2 |
In-vehicle biochemical sensors
The devices, systems, and methods described herein generally relate to chemical profiling of an occupant in a vehicle. The devices, systems and methods described herein can detect enclosure-related chemicals, the enclosure-related chemicals including biochemicals expelled by one or more occupants. The enclosure-related chemicals can then be associated to an associated occupant of the one or more occupants. A biological profile can then be created for the associated occupant, the biological profile comprising medical information and historical information related to the enclosure-related chemicals. |
| US11087961B2 |
Quartz component with protective coating
A quartz structure includes a protective layer comprising yttrium oxide. The quartz structure may be fabricated by: (a) receiving a quartz structure; and (b) coating the quartz structure with a protective layer comprising yttrium oxide to form a part to be used in the plasma reactor. The part has a size and shape adapted for forming a window or injector in a plasma reactor. The protective layer does not substantially change the size or shape of the quartz structure. The part may be installed in the plasma reactor at a location where, during operation, a plasma will contact or be proximate to the part. |
| US11087958B2 |
Restoration method for plasma processing apparatus
According to one embodiment, a restoration method for a plasma processing apparatus is provided. The method includes performing application of a restoration liquid from a coating part onto a consumed region on a component for serving as a constituent element of the plasma processing apparatus, by controlling positions of the component and the coating part, and an application amount of the restoration liquid; and solidifying the restoration liquid applied on the component. |
| US11087955B2 |
System combination of a particle beam system and a light-optical system with collinear beam guidance, and use of the system combination
A system combination includes a particle beam system and a light-optical system. The particle beam system can be an individual particle beam system or a multiple particle beam system. A light entry mechanism can provided at a branching site of a beam tube arrangement within a beam switch. A light beam of the light-optical system can enter into the beam tube arrangement through the light entry mechanism such that the light beam impinges, in substantially collinear fashion with particle radiation, on an object to be inspected. Parts of the light-optical beam path and parts of the particle-optical beam path can extend parallel to one another or overlap with one another. This arrangement can allow light of the light-optical system to be incident in perpendicular fashion on an object to be inspected, optionally without impairing the particle-optical resolution of the particle beam system. |
| US11087954B2 |
System and method for bare wafer inspection
A wafer inspection system includes a controller in communication with an electron-beam inspection tool. The controller includes circuitry to: acquire, via an optical imaging tool, coordinates of defects on a sample; set a Field of View (FoV) of the electron-beam inspection tool to a first size to locate a subset of the defects; determine a position of each defect of the subset of the defects based on inspection data generated by the electron-beam inspection tool during a scanning of the sample; adjust the coordinates of the defects based on the determined positions of the subset of the defects; and set the FoV of the electron-beam inspection tool to a second size to locate additional defects based on the adjusted coordinates. |
| US11087953B2 |
Moveable detector
The present invention refers to an apparatus (100) and a method for detecting characteristics of a probe. In an embodiment, the apparatus (100) comprises a vacuum chamber (104) and a beam generator (102) adapted to generate a beam of charged particles within the vacuum chamber (104). When the beam of charged particles falls onto the probe, interaction particles and/or interaction radiation are generated. The apparatus (100) further comprises an electromechanical unit (114) within the vacuum chamber (104) and a detector (110) comprising a plurality of detection units and being arranged on the electromechanical unit (114) allowing for the detector (110) to move from a first position (302) with respect to the beam generator (102) to a second position (304) with respect to the beam generator (102) and vice versa, upon a corresponding actuation of the electromechanical unit (114) performable from outside of the vacuum chamber (104). |
| US11087952B2 |
Linear structure for displacement transmission, and one-dimensional and three-dimensional micro movement device using same
Provided is a linear structure for displacement transmission that can be bent in a second direction or a third direction when force in the second direction or the third direction is applied and can transmit a displacement in a first direction from an end of one side to an end of the other side when force in the first direction is applied. The linear structure includes a displacement transmission plate and a plurality of displacement transmission rods disposed radially on the displacement transmission plate to transmit the displacement in the first direction from the end of one side to the end of the other side. |
| US11087951B2 |
Scanning transmission electron microscope and aberration correction method
In a scanning transmission electron microscope, a control unit performs: processing of calculating a first auto-correlation function that is an auto-correlation function of a first scanning transmission electron microscope image; processing of acquiring a first intensity profile along a straight line that passes through a center of the first auto-correlation function; processing of obtaining a position of an inflection point that is closest to the center of the first auto-correlation function in the first intensity profile and adopting an intensity at the position as a first reference intensity; processing of obtaining an aberration coefficient by fitting a first aberration function to an isointensity line that connects positions where intensity is equal to the first reference intensity in the first auto-correlation function and by fitting a second aberration function to an isointensity line that connects positions where intensity is equal to a second reference intensity in a second auto-correlation function; and processing of controlling an electron optical system based on the aberration coefficient. |
| US11087947B2 |
Electron microscope
To provide an electron microscope capable of performing the switching-over between normal illumination and annular illumination, wide-area irradiation, an interference pattern as desired or normal illumination in an expeditious and readily manner or achieving a better S/N ratio, the electron microscope comprises a photocathode 101 with negative electron affinity in use; an excitation optical system to excite the photocathode; and an electron optics system to irradiate an electron beam 13 generated from the photocathode by excitation light 12 irradiated through the excitation optical system onto a sample, the excitation optical system including a light source device 107 for the excitation light; and an optical modulation means 108 which is disposed in an optical path of the excitation light to perform spatial phase modulation to the excitation light. |
| US11087936B2 |
Light guide structure and light-emitting keyboard device
The invention provides a light guide structure, adapted to be disposed under a baseplate of a keyboard module. The light guide structure includes: a light guide plate, a mask layer and a reflective layer. The light guide plate includes a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a first opening running through the first and second surfaces. The mask layer is located between the baseplate and the light guide plate, and includes a second opening corresponding to the first opening. The reflective layer includes a first part and a second part connected to each other, wherein the first part is disposed on the second surface of the light guide plate, and the second part runs through the first opening and is disposed on a lower surface of the baseplate. The invention further provides a light-emitting keyboard device. |
| US11087934B2 |
Arc-quenching device for direct current switch
An arc quenching device, which is highly reliable, small-sized, and inexpensive, includes: a semiconductor switch connected in parallel to a first switch which is mechanical; a constant voltage circuit configured to use a voltage which is generated between both contact points of the first switch to output a voltage which causes the semiconductor switch to turn on; and a second timer circuit configured to cause the semiconductor switch to turn off after a predetermined time has elapsed since the semiconductor switch turned on. |
| US11087931B2 |
Energy storing electrical device and a method of constructing an electrical device
A system and method for an energy storing electrical device includes a first conductive electrode, a second conductive electrode, an electrolyte disposed between the first conductive electrode and a second conductive electrode, each electrode further comprising an integrated first layer and a second layer, and; wherein the second layer comprises a substrate, the substrate comprising a textile portion or a polymer portion and a conductive layer formed by a noble metal disposed on and attached to the substrate. |
| US11087930B2 |
Oxygen generation apparatus
An oxygen generation electrode includes, a conductive layer including a salt of stannic acid, the salt of stannic acid having a perovskite structure, a light absorption layer disposed on the conductive layer, and a catalyst layer disposed on the light absorption layer, the catalyst layer including an oxide having a perovskite structure and being responsible for an oxygen evolution reaction, the conductive layer being doped to degeneracy with impurities, the light absorption layer forming a Type-II heterojunction with the conductive layer, the catalyst layer being doped to degeneracy with impurities, the upper end of the valence band of the catalyst layer being higher than the upper end of the valence band of the light absorption layer. |
| US11087927B2 |
Substrates employing surface-area amplification, for use in fabricating capacitive elements and other devices
A substrate that includes a base layer having a first principal surface defining a plurality of first trenches and intervening first lands, and a cover layer provided over the first principal surface of the base layer and covering the first trenches and first lands substantially conformally, wherein the surface of the cover layer remote from the first principal surface of the base layer comprises a plurality of second trenches and intervening second lands defined at a smaller scale than the first trenches and first lands. The substrate may be used to fabricate a capacitive element in which thin film layers are provided and conformally cover the second trenches and second lands of the cover layer, to create a metal-insulator-metal structure having high capacitance density. |
| US11087926B2 |
Multilayer ceramic capacitor and manufacturing method of multilayer ceramic capacitor
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes: a multilayer structure in which each of dielectric layers and each of internal electrode layers are alternately stacked, a main component of the dielectric layers being ceramic, wherein: a second-phase has an average diameter of 150 nm or less and is in at least one of interfaces between the dielectric layers and the internal electrode layers; and at least one of the internal electrode layers includes a grain of which a main component is ceramic. |
| US11087925B2 |
Power capacitor module with cooling arrangement
A power capacitor unit including a casing, first and second layers of capacitor elements wherein the first layer of capacitor elements are stacked on the second layer of capacitor elements, a first busbar assembly connected to the capacitor elements of the first layer, a second busbar assembly connected to the capacitor elements of the second layer, wherein the first busbar assembly and the second busbar assembly are arranged between the first layer of capacitor elements and the second layer of capacitor elements, a heat conducting layer provided between the first busbar assembly and the second busbar assembly, wherein the heat conducting layer is in thermal contact with the casing, thereby conducting heat from the first busbar assembly and the second busbar assembly to the casing, and wherein the casing is electrically insulated from the first busbar assembly and the second busbar assembly. |
| US11087922B2 |
Production method of rare earth magnet
A method for producing a rare earth magnet, including preparing a melt of a first alloy having a composition represented by (R1vR2wR3x)yTzBsM1t (wherein R1 is a light rare earth element, R2 is an intermediate rare earth element, R3 is a heavy rare earth element, T is an iron group element, and M1 is an impurity element, etc.), cooling the melt of the first alloy at a rate of from 100 to 102 K/sec to obtain a first alloy ingot, pulverizing the first alloy ingot to obtain a first alloy powder having a particle diameter of 1 to 20 μm, preparing a melt of a second alloy having a composition represented by (R4pR5q)100-uM2u (wherein R4 is a light rare earth element, R5 is an intermediate or heavy rare earth element, M2 is an alloy element, etc.), and putting the first alloy powder into contact with the melt of the second alloy. |
| US11087919B2 |
Inductor array including coil components
A coil component includes a body including first, second, third and fourth coils and including a first end surface and a second end surface opposed in a first direction, a first side surface and a second side surface opposing each other in a second direction, and an upper surface and a lower surface opposing each other in a third direction and a plurality of external electrodes disposed on the body and connected to the first to fourth coils. A first group including the first and second coils is arranged in point symmetry with respect to a second group including the third and fourth coils about a center between the first and second groups. |
| US11087917B2 |
Surface-mount inductor
A surface-mount inductor includes an element assembly having a core, a coil, and a magnetic material; and a pair of external terminals on a mounting surface of the element assembly. The core has a base portion and a columnar portion on an upper surface of the base portion. The coil is disposed on the base portion, and has a wound portion on the columnar portion, and a pair of extended portions extended from the wound portion. In a cross-section parallel to a winding axis, the wound portion has, in at least a part of a region where the upper stage and the lower stage are in contact with or oppose each other, a boundary surface formed by one portion of a conductive wire at one of upper and lower stage sides being in contact with or opposing a plurality of portions of the conductive wire at the other side. |
| US11087914B2 |
Common mode choke coil
In a common mode choke coil having a magnetic core, a decrease in peak value of a common mode impedance in a vicinity of its resonance frequency is suppressed. A common mode choke coil includes a non-magnetic layer, a first magnetic layer formed on a top surface of the non-magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer formed on a bottom surface of the non-magnetic layer, a magnetic core provided between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer so that its axis extends in a top-bottom direction, a first coil conductor embedded in the non-magnetic layer and wound around the magnetic core, a second coil conductor embedded in the non-magnetic layer and wound around the magnetic core, and a first magnetic gap provided between a top surface of the magnetic core and a bottom surface of the first magnetic layer. The magnetic core is made of a ferrite material. |
| US11087913B2 |
Transformer system
A flexible transformer system includes conductive windings extending around a magnetic core of a transformer phase and impedance-varying windings extending around the magnetic core of the transformer phase. The conductive windings and the impedance-varying windings are configured to conduct electric current around the magnetic core of the transformer phase. The system includes an impedance switch coupled with the impedance-varying windings and with the conductive windings. The impedance switch is configured to change an impedance of the system by changing which impedance-varying winding of the impedance-varying windings is conductively coupled with the conductive windings and which impedance-varying winding of the impedance-varying windings is disconnected from the conductive windings. |
| US11087912B2 |
Magnetic field shield sheet for wireless power transmission and wireless power receiving module comprising same
There is provided a magnetic field shielding sheet for wireless power transmission. The present disclosure to provide a magnetic field shielding sheet for wireless power transmission that includes a first shielding sheet for shielding a magnetic field generated from a first wireless power transmission antenna operable in a magnetic induction method, a second shielding sheet for shielding a magnetic field generated from a second wireless power transmission antenna operable in a magnetic resonance method, and a third shielding sheet which is stacked on the same surface of the first shielding sheet and the second shielding sheet so as to cover the first shielding sheet and the second shielding sheet, for shielding the magnetic field generated from the second wireless power transmission antenna. |
| US11087910B2 |
Magnetic potential energy barrier
Theoretical and practical constraints disallow direct determination of the structure of the atomic nucleus. Contained herein is a magnet model of the atomic nucleus, derived from considerations of charge density, RMS charge radii, magnetic moments, and nucleon binding energy. These physical properties point to a sequential, alternating up and down quark structure modeled in the present invention by an array of magnets alternating in polarity. The summation of the pull forces of the two magnet poles is unequal, and when two such magnet arrays are placed opposite one another in magnetic potential energy barrier assembly, the two arrays repel at a distance and attract when near one another. In one embodiment, the ratio of the maximum attractive force to the maximum repulsive force very closely approximates the strong force constant 137. This invention serves as a demonstration of the Coulomb barrier for the student, and a potentially useful model for probing the forces and structure of the atomic nucleus. |
| US11087908B2 |
Method of manufacturing superparamagnetic nanocomposite and superparamagnetic nanocomposite manufactured using the same
The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a superparamagnetic nanocomposite and a superparamagnetic nanocomposite manufactured using the same, and more particularly to a method of manufacturing a superparamagnetic nanocomposite suitable for use in magnetic separation for the detection of a target biomaterial and a superparamagnetic nanocomposite manufactured using the same. The method of manufacturing the superparamagnetic nanocomposite according to the present invention has a higher yield and a high rate without complicated processing than a conventional method of manufacturing a magnetic nanoparticle for magnetic separation and is capable of mass production of the superparamagnetic nanocomposite having excellent properties with uniform size and particle size distribution, high aqueous solution dispersibility and high magnetization and being capable of maintaining superparamagnetism. |
| US11087907B2 |
Artificial permanent magnet and method for producing the artificial permanent magnet
A method is provided for producing an artificial permanent magnet, in a powder preparation step a main phase powder, which includes a rare-earth transition metal compound with permanently magnetic properties and has a first average particle size, is prepared and an anisotropic powder, which has a higher anisotropy field strength than the main phase powder and has a second average particle size, is prepared, wherein the second average particle size is smaller than the first average particle size. In a subsequent powder mixing step, the main phase powder and the anisotropic powder are mixed together to form a powder mixture and, in a subsequent heat treatment step, this powder mixture with the main phase powder of the first average particle size and with the anisotropic powder of the second average particle size is sintered to form an artificial permanent magnet. |
| US11087906B2 |
Amphoteric magnetic material and manufacturing method thereof
A magnetic material having dual properties and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The magnetic material having dual properties consists of: 5% to 88% of a permanent magnetic material, 5% to 88% of a soft magnetic material, 6% to 16% of a binder, and 1% to 10% of an auxiliary agent. The magnetic material having dual properties manufactured by mixing two phases without microscopic intergranular exchange coupling interaction has unexpected effects: the range of a magnetically attracted object is expanded to include a magnet having dual properties; the range of a magnetically attractive object is expanded to include a magnet having dual properties; the minimum value of the magnetic attraction force is increased, the magnetic attraction force is more uniform, and it is smoother to move and rotate an object. The effect obtained by two layers of the soft magnet and the permanent magnet can be realized by a single layer structure of the magnet having dual properties. |
| US11087899B2 |
Self-healing and stretchable polymeric compositions
Disclosed herein a self-healing, flexible, conductive compositions. The conductive compositions include conductive polymers and acidic polyacrylamides. The compositions are useful in a wide range of applications, including wearable electronics and sensors. The compositions may be prepared using environmentally friendly procedures. |
| US11087898B2 |
Disassembly and disposal of munition components
Methods for disposing of munition components may include separating propellants from heavy metal penetrators and disposing of those separated components into different types of geological formations. The initially solid form propellants may be converted into a stable liquified propellant form, by a particular disclosed process, that may be injected within salt water (injection) disposal wells, where distal portions of such salt water disposal wells may be located in a geological formation of substantially at least one salt. The separated heavy metal penetrators (with or without their associated projectile jackets) may be disposed of within human-made caverns, where such human-made caverns may be located within a deep geological formation that is often 2,000 feet or more below the Earth's surface. The heavy metal penetrators may include uranium (depleted uranium). Portions of a given munition, to be disposed of, may be radioactive. |
| US11087895B2 |
Liquid tank inspection including device for launching submersible
A launching tube for use with a liquid filled tank can be sized to accommodate a submersible vehicle for dispensing into the liquid tank. The tank can be an electrical transformer or any other liquid containing tank such as but not limited to a chemical tank. The launching tube can include a valve for insertion into a launching chamber, and a tank side valve for launching of the submersible into the tank. In one form the launching tube includes an antenna for communication with the submersible and/or a base station. The launching tube can also include a sensor such as a camera, as well as an agitator. The agitator can be used to facilitate bubble removal from the inside of the launching tube. |
| US11087886B1 |
Computing system for notifying persons of exposure to an infectious disease in a healthcare facility
An electronic health records application (EHR) receives an indication that a patient in a healthcare facility has been diagnosed with an infectious disease at a datetime. The EHR determines first locations in the healthcare facility in which the patient has been present. The EHR identifies portions of a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system (HVAC) system of the healthcare facility based upon the first locations. The portions of the HVAC system connect the first locations to second locations in the healthcare facility. The EHR identifies a person that has been present in at least one of the first locations or the second locations. The EHR then causes a notification to be transmitted to a computing device operated by the person notifying the person of potential exposure to the infectious disease. |
| US11087885B2 |
Method for searching a text (or alphanumeric string) database, restructuring and parsing text data (or alphanumeric string), creation/application of a natural language processing engine, and the creation/application of an automated analyzer for the creation of medical reports
A sequential series of methods for optimized searching within a text (or alphanumeric string) database to retrieve specific and relevant results, followed by optimized restructuring and parsing of text data (or alphanumeric string), followed by creation/application of a natural language processing engine, followed by the creation/application of an automated analyzer is presented. |
| US11087884B2 |
Method and system for processing images to determine blood flow characteristics
Embodiments include systems and methods for determining cardiovascular information for a patient. A method includes receiving patient-specific data regarding a geometry of the patient's vasculature; creating an anatomic model representing at least a portion of the patient's vasculature based on the patient-specific data; and creating a computational model of a blood flow characteristic based on the anatomic model. The method also includes identifying one or more of an uncertain parameter, an uncertain clinical variable, and an uncertain geometry; modifying a probability model based on one or more of the identified uncertain parameter, uncertain clinical variable, or uncertain geometry; determining a blood flow characteristic within the patient's vasculature based on the anatomic model and the computational model of the blood flow characteristic of the patient's vasculature; and calculating, based on the probability model and the determined blood flow characteristic, a sensitivity of the determined fractional flow reserve to one or more of the identified uncertain parameter, uncertain clinical variable, or uncertain geometry. |
| US11087882B1 |
Signal processing for making predictive determinations
In some examples, unstructured data is evaluated using a natural language processing model to output a set of subjective indicators. These subjective indicators are scored using a predictive model to determine whether a dependent user has or is likely to develop a particular condition such as a cellular abnormality. |
| US11087880B1 |
Machine model generation systems and methods
A method includes defining model attributes of an organizational machine model that organizes feedback data from one or more sources of the feedback data into plural different topic groups based on similarities in concepts expressed in the feedback data. The model attributes represent criteria for establishment of the organizational machine model and include a topic model number that defines how many of the different topic groups are to be created by the organizational machine model and used to organize the feedback data into, a hyperparameter optimization alpha value that defines how likely a feedback datum in the feedback data is to be included in a single topic group of the different topic groupings or multiple topic groups of the different topic groupings, and a hyperparameter optimization beta value that defines how broadly each of the different topic groups are defined relative to the feedback data. |
| US11087879B2 |
System and method for predicting health condition of a patient
According to embodiments illustrated herein, there is provided a system for predicting a health condition of a patient. The system further includes one or more processors configured to separately cluster data points from a set of medical records associated with a first class of patients and a second class of patients. A similarity value of each of the clustered data points with respect to a pre-selected subset of data points that represents landmark points may be determined, using a parameterized similarity measure. One or more classifiers are trained using the determined similarity value of each data point. The trained one or more classifiers are adapted to learn one or more parameters of the parameterized similarity measure during the training. An occurrence of the health condition of the patient may be predicted based on the trained one or more classifiers and one or more medical records of the patient. |
| US11087878B2 |
Methods and systems for improving connections within a healthcare ecosystem
A systems, method, and apparatus to improve connections within a healthcare ecosystem are provided. Example systems, methods, and apparatus can facilitate dynamic interface definition and configuration. An example method includes storing a plurality of reusable interface and route definitions to translate and exchange data messages between source and target systems in a healthcare ecosystem; monitoring message exchanges and message patterns in the healthcare environment via a machine learning system to predict traffic and utilization patterns in the healthcare ecosystem; tracking metadata regarding connections involving the source and target systems and storing the metadata in a graph database; suggesting connections between the source and target systems based on the monitored message exchanges and message patterns and metadata from the graph database using graph analytics; provisioning an interface between the source and target systems based on a suggested connection, the interface provisioned from the reusable interface and route definitions based on the suggested connection. |
| US11087871B2 |
Method for predicting anatomical landmarks and device for predicting anatomical landmarks using the same
The present disclosure provides a method of predicting anatomical landmarks which includes: receiving a medical lateral head image of a subject; predicting landmarks in the medical lateral head image using a landmark prediction model configured to predict anatomical landmarks in the medical lateral head image; and providing an image with the landmark marked, and a device using the method. |
| US11087870B2 |
System and method of traceability of a dental prosthesis, and corresponding dental prosthesis
A system of tracing a dental prosthesis, the prosthesis including an electrical power source coupled with a radio-communications signals transmitter capable of assuming a weakly active state in which it periodically sends out signals at a first transmission frequency, and a highly active state in which it periodically sends out signals at a second, higher transmission frequency, and a presence sensor for sensing presence of the prosthesis in a mouth of a user, capable of delivering information on absence of the prosthesis in the mouth. The transmitter is configured to pass from the weakly active state to the highly active state when the sensor delivers information on absence of the prosthesis in the mouth. The system also includes a base forming a support of the dental prosthesis when not worn by a user, and the transmitter assumes the weakly active state on detecting the prosthesis in proximity to the base. |
| US11087869B2 |
Monitoring operating actions for a dialysis apparatus
An operation checking unit for a dialysis apparatus (such as a hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis machine) is disclosed which comprises an identification unit which is configured to detect a user identity of a user. The operation checking unit also comprises a sensor unit which is configured to detect an operating action of the identified user as an ACTUAL-operation data set, and a processing unit which is configured to compare the detected ACTUAL-operation data set with a DESIRED-operation data set stored in a memory in order to generate a user-specific message in the event of a discrepancy. |
| US11087868B2 |
Methods, devices and systems for analyte monitoring management
Methods of analyte monitoring management are provided. The methods include indicating on a user interface a plurality of analyte management procedures available for user-selection, where the plurality of analyte management procedures relate to analyte management parameters. Embodiments include receiving an indication to initiate a first procedure of the plurality of analyte management procedures, where the first procedure is for determining a first analyte management parameter. The methods may further include outputting user-instructions associated with the first procedure; receiving analyte measurement data for the first procedure; estimating the first analyte management parameter based on the analyte measurement data; calculating a degree of certainty for the estimation of the first analyte management parameter; and, initiating an action in response to an event associated with a status of the estimation of the first analyte management parameter or the degree of certainty. Analyte monitoring devices and systems implementing the methods are also provided. |
| US11087867B2 |
Real time adaptive controller medication dosing
Systems and methods for monitoring accurate, real-time medicament device events, performing analytics on that data, and providing notifications are described. In various embodiments, an application server receives controller medication events, analyzes the events, associated event times, and controller medication dosage plans to characterize event times and send notifications for future doses. The controller medication dosage plan may specify a dose time for a planned dose, a narrow time window comprising the dose time, and an expanded time window comprising the narrow time window and longer in duration than the narrow time window, and the events may be characterized based on their time relative to the dose time, the time windows, and other events. |
| US11087859B2 |
Managing data disturbance in a memory with asymmetric disturbance effects
Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems include determining that data in a group of memory cells of a first memory device is to be moved to a spare group of memory cells. The group of memory cells spans a first dimension and a second dimension that is orthogonal to the first dimension and the spare group of memory cells also spans the first dimension and the second dimension. The data is read from the group of memory cells along the first dimension of the group of memory cells. The data is written to the spare group of memory cells along the second dimension of the spare group of memory cells. |
| US11087858B1 |
In-place refresh operation in flash memory
A memory device comprises, on an integrated circuit or multi-chip module, a memory including a plurality of memory blocks, a controller, and a refresh mapping table in non-volatile memory accessible by the controller. The controller is coupled to the memory to execute commands with addresses to access addressed memory blocks in the plurality of memory blocks. The refresh mapping table has one or more entries, an entry in the refresh mapping table mapping of an address identifying an addressed memory block set for refresh to a backup block address. The controller is responsive to a refresh command sequence with a refresh block address to execute a refresh operation, and is configured to restore mapping of the refresh block address to the backup block address upon power-on of the device, to scan the refresh mapping table for a set entry, and to register the set entry in the refresh mapping table. |
| US11087856B2 |
Memory system and operating method thereof
A memory system includes: a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks; a memory; a data classifier suitable for classifying check-pointing information stored in the memory as selective information and mandatory information; and a check-pointing component suitable for performing a control to periodically perform a check-pointing operation of programming the selective information and the mandatory information in a memory block, wherein the check-pointing component performs the check-pointing operation by performing a control to program the mandatory information after programming the selective information. |
| US11087855B2 |
Shift register unit and driving method, gate drive circuit and display device
A shift register unit, a gate drive circuit, a display device and a driving method are disclosed. The shift register unit includes a first input circuit, a second input circuit, an output circuit and an anti-crosstalk circuit. The first input circuit is configured to input a first input signal to a first node; the second input circuit is configured to input a second input signal to the first node in a situation where the second node is at a first level and to stop inputting the second input signal to the first node in a situation where the second node is at a second level; the output circuit is configured to output or not output an output signal; the anti-crosstalk circuit is configured to prevent a level of the second node from becoming the first level in a situation where the second node is at the second level. |
| US11087854B1 |
High current fast read scheme for crosspoint memory
A high current fast read scheme can enable improved read disturb without negatively impacting read performance. In one example, a fast read scheme involves applying a higher current as soon as the cell thresholds. In one example, circuitry detects the threshold event and turns on a bypass control transistor to bypass the circuitry applying the read voltage to enable a higher voltage and therefore higher current as soon as possible. The read time can thus be decreased (or at least not increased) and read disturb improved. |
| US11087852B2 |
Semiconductor storage device and memory system
A semiconductor storage device includes a first chip and a second chip. In response to a first command that is received on a first terminal of the first chip and a second terminal of the second chip that are connected to a command signal line, the first chip and the second chip execute in parallel a first correction process of correcting a duty cycle of a first output signal generated by the first chip and a second correction process of correcting a duty cycle of a second output signal generated by the second chip, respectively, according a common toggle signal. |
| US11087850B2 |
Sensing in floating-source memory architecture
Algorithms for fast data retrieval, low power consumption in a 3D or planar non-volatile array of memory cells, connected between an accessible drain string and a floating, not directly accessible, source string, in a NOR-logic type of architecture, are presented. |
| US11087848B1 |
Data arranging method, memory control circuit unit and memory storage device for flash memory for improving the performance of valid data merging operation
A data arranging method, a memory control circuit unit and a memory storage device for flash memory are provided. The method can be applied to a flash memory with a three-dimensional (3D) structure, an embedded memory device, or a solid-state hard disk. The method includes: writing at least one piece of data to at least one second physical erasing unit of at least one first physical erasing unit, and obtaining a distribution state of valid data in a plurality of physical erasing units; adjusting a specific threshold value according to the distribution state; and when the number of the at least one first physical erasing unit is less than the specific threshold value, performing a valid data merging operation. |
| US11087845B2 |
Nonvolatile semiconductor memory including a read operation
A memory includes first and second select gate transistors, memory cells, a source line, a bit line, a selected word line which is connected to a selected memory cell as a target of a verify reading, a non-selected word line which is connected to a non-selected memory cell except the selected memory cell, a potential generating circuit for generating a selected read potential which is supplied to the selected word line, and generating a non-selected read potential larger than the selected read potential, which is supplied to the non-selected word line, and a control circuit which classifies a threshold voltage of the selected memory cell to one of three groups by verifying which area among three area which are isolated by two values does a cell current of the selected memory cell belong, when the selected read potential is a first value. |
| US11087844B2 |
Non-volatile memory device
A non-volatile memory device includes a memory cell region including a first metal pad and a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells, and a peripheral circuit region including a second metal pad and vertically connected to the memory cell region. The memory cell region includes a plurality of word lines, a ground selection line in a layer on the word lines, a common source line in a layer on the ground selection line, a plurality of vertical pass transistors in the stair area, and a plurality of driving signal lines in the same layer as the common source line. The word lines form a stair shape in the stair area, and each of the vertical pass transistors is connected between a corresponding one of the word lines and a corresponding one of the driving signal lines. |
| US11087842B2 |
Multifunctional memory cells
The present disclosure includes multifunctional memory cells. A number of embodiments include a charge transport element having an oxygen-rich silicon oxynitride material, a volatile charge storage element configured to store a first charge transported through the charge transport element, and a non-volatile charge storage element configured to store a second charge transported through the charge transport element, wherein the non-volatile charge storage element includes a gallium nitride material. |
| US11087841B2 |
Global bit line pre-charge circuit that compensates for process, operating voltage, and temperature variations
A memory array includes wordlines, local bitlines, two-terminal memory elements, global bitlines, and local-to-global bitline pass gates and gain stages. The memory elements are formed between the wordlines and local bitlines. Each local bitline is selectively coupled to an associated global bitline, by way of an associated local-to-global bitline pass gate. During a read operation when a memory element of a local bitline is selected to be read, a local-to-global gain stage is configured to amplify a signal on or passing through the local bitline to an amplified signal on or along an associated global bitline. The amplified signal, which in one embodiment is dependent on the resistive state of the selected memory element, is used to rapidly determine the memory state stored by the selected memory element. The global bit line and/or the selected local bit line can be biased to compensate for the Process Voltage Temperature (PVT) variation. |
| US11087840B2 |
Method of operating resistive memory device to increase read margin
A method of operating a resistive memory device to increase a read margin includes applying a write pulse to a memory cell such that the memory cell is programmed to a target resistance state, and applying a post-write pulse to the memory cell to increase a resistance of the memory cell that is in the target resistance state, the post-write pulse being applied as a single pulse having at least n stepped voltage levels, n being an integer equal to or more than 2, and an n-th stepped voltage level of the post-write pulse is set to be lower than a minimum threshold voltage level of the target resistance state that is changed by an (n−1)-th stepped voltage level of the post-write pulse. |
| US11087838B2 |
Voltage drivers with reduced power consumption during polarity transition
An integrated circuit memory device having: a memory cell; and a voltage driver of depletion type connected to the memory cell. In a first polarity, the voltage driver is powered by a negative voltage relative to ground to drive a negative selection voltage or a first de-selection voltage; In a second polarity, the voltage driver is powered by a positive voltage relative to ground to drive a positive selection voltage or a second de-selection voltage. The voltage driver is configured to transition between the first polarity and the second polarity. During the transition, the voltage driver is configured to have a control voltage swing for outputting de-selection voltages smaller than a control voltage swing for output selection voltages. |
| US11087837B2 |
Circuit cell for a memory device or logic device
A circuit cell for a memory device or a logic device comprises: (i) first and a second logic gates having respective output nodes; and (ii) first and second memory units, each comprising (a) first and second terminals and (b) a resistive memory element and a bipolar selector connected in series between the first and second terminals, wherein the first terminals of the first and second memory units are connected to the output nodes of the first and second logic gates, respectively, wherein the resistive memory elements are configured to be switchable between first and second resistance states, and wherein in response to a switching current and the bipolar selectors are configured to be conducting in response to an absolute value of a voltage difference across the bipolar selectors exceeding a threshold voltage of the bipolar selectors and non-conducting in response to the absolute value being lower than the threshold. |
| US11087835B2 |
Memory device latch circuitry
Latch circuitry configured to latch data for use in the memory device. The latch circuitry includes latch cells each configured to store a bit of the data. The latch circuitry also includes a data line coupled to a first side of the latch cells and a data false line coupled to a second side of the latch cells. The latch circuitry also includes a write driver that includes an input configured to receive the data to be stored in the latch cells and a pair of inverters coupled to the input and configured to output a data signal to a first side of the latch cells. The latch circuitry also includes an inverter coupled to the input and configured to generate a data false signal to a second side of the latch cells. The data used to generate the data false signal is not passed through the pair of inverters. |
| US11087828B2 |
Semiconductor storage device for high-speed burst access
In writing and reading data at a semiconductor storage device, control is carried out such that, at a time of a burst mode, in a case in which a value of a block address which is, from addresses assigned to a region of an internal address, an address for selecting a sense amplifier block from plural sense amplifier blocks, is a largest value, a first sense amplifier block and a second sense amplifier block are made to access different banks, and, in case in which the value of the block address is not the largest value, the first sense amplifier block and the second sense amplifier block are made to access a same bank of plural banks. |
| US11087824B2 |
Column select swizzle
A memory device includes a memory array having a plurality of memory cells and a column decoder circuit that is configured to provide at least one column select signal for selecting corresponding bit-lines for memory operations on the plurality of memory cells. The memory device also includes a column select section that is configured to route the at least one column select signal such that non-adjacent bit-lines are exclusively selected during a same column select access memory operation. |
| US11087823B2 |
Nonvolatile memory structures with dram
Technologies for a multi-bit non-volatile dynamic random access memory (nvDRAM) device, which may include a DRAM array having a plurality of DRAM cells with single or dual transistor implementation and a non-volatile memory (NVM) array having a plurality of NVM cells with single or dual transistor implementations, where the DRAM array and the NVM array are arranged by rows of word lines and columns of bit lines. The nvDRAM device may also include one or more of isolation devices coupled between the DRAM array and the NVM array and configured to control connection between the dynamic random access bit lines (BLs) and the non-volatile BLs. The word lines run horizontally and may enable to select one word of memory data, whereas bit lines run vertically and may be connected to storage cells of different memory address. |
| US11087822B2 |
Semiconductor memory device having clock generation scheme based on command
A semiconductor memory device includes a command decoder configured to generate an auto-sync signal in response to a command for writing data at a memory cell or reading data from a memory cell, and an internal data clock generating circuit configured to phase synchronize a second clock, having a clock frequency higher than a clock frequency of a first clock, with the first clock in response to the auto-sync signal. |
| US11087819B2 |
Methods for row hammer mitigation and memory devices and systems employing the same
Memory devices and methods of operating memory devices in which refresh management operations can be scheduled on an as-needed basis for those memory portions where activity (e.g., activations in excess of a predetermined threshold) warrants a refresh management operation are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a memory including a memory location, and circuitry configured to determine a count corresponding to a number of activations at the memory location, to schedule a refresh management operation for the memory location in response to the count exceeding a first predetermined threshold, and to decrease the count by an amount corresponding to the first predetermined threshold in response to executing the scheduled refresh management operation. The circuitry may be further configured to disallow, in response to determining that the count has reached a maximum permitted value, further activations at the memory location until after the count has been decreased. |
| US11087818B2 |
Semiconductor storage element, semiconductor storage device, semiconductor system, and control method
Provided is a semiconductor storage element including a first transistor having a gate insulation film that includes a ferroelectric material at least partially and being a transistor to which information is written, and a second transistor that is coupled to, at one of a source and a drain, a source or drain of the first transistor. The first transistor has a threshold voltage smaller than 0 V when writing information and a threshold voltage smaller than 0 V when erasing information. |
| US11087814B2 |
Sensing scheme for STT-MRAM using low-barrier nanomagnets
The present disclosure relates to a structure including a non-fixed read-cell circuit configured to switch from a first state to a second state based on a state of a memory cell to generate a sensing margin. |
| US11087807B2 |
Memory controller and method of operating the same
A memory controller may control a memory device. The memory device may be coupled to the memory controller through a channel. The memory controller may include an idle time monitor and a clock signal generator. The idle time monitor may output an idle time interval of the memory device. The idle time interval may be between an end time of a previous operation of the memory device and a start time of a current operation. The clock signal generator may generate a clock signal based on the idle time interval and output the clock signal to the memory device through the channel to perform a current operation. |
| US11087806B2 |
Apparatuses and methods for adjusting delay of command signal path
Apparatuses and methods related to adjusting a delay of a command signal path are disclosed. An example apparatus includes: a timing circuit that includes a divider circuit that receives a first clock signal having a first frequency and provides a complementary pair of second and third clock signals having a second frequency that is half the first frequency; a first delay circuit that receives the second clock signal and provides a delayed second clock signal responsive to the second clock signal; and a second delay circuit that receives the third clock signal and provides a delayed third clock signal responsive to the third clock signal. The timing circuit receives a first signal, latches the first signal responsive to the delayed second clock signal to provide a second signal and latches the second signal responsive to either the second clock signal or the third clock signal responsive to latency information. |
| US11087803B2 |
Efficient control of memory core circuits
An apparatus including a memory structure comprising non-volatile memory cells and a microcontroller. The microcontroller is configured to output Core-Timing-Control (CTC) signals. The CTC signals are used to control voltages that are applied in the memory structure. For example, CTC signals may be used to control the timing of voltages applied to word lines, bit lines, select lines, and other elements or control lines in the memory core. The microcontroller is configured to output CTC signals having many different variations under various modes/parameter conditions. The apparatus may include storage containing reaction data according to dynamic conditions. The microcontroller may be configured to lookup or compute the CTC signals based on the dynamic conditions and the reaction data. Various data storage formats are disclosed, which can be used to efficiently store many varieties of data with minimum usage of memory. |
| US11087798B2 |
Selective curation of user recordings
The systems and methods provided herein are directed to automatically capturing, curating, and sharing recordings of a user. The automated recording and sharing features are designed to adapt to user preferences based on a history of what the user has chosen to record and share previously. |
| US11087795B2 |
Magnetic disk device
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a housing having a box-shaped base with a bottom wall, a first connection portion provided inside the bottom wall, a second connection portion provided outside the bottom wall and electrically connected to the first connection portion, a control circuit board provided outside the housing, a third connection portion fixed to an inner surface of the control circuit board facing the bottom wall, and abutting on and electrically connecting to the second connection portion, and a reinforcement member positioned between the control circuit board and the bottom wall and provided around the third connection portion. |
| US11087794B2 |
Magnetic recording medium having magnetic layer with a granular structure
The invention provides a magnetic recording medium including a magnetic layer or a magnetic recording layer having a granular structure in which magnetic crystal grains are well separated from each other. The magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, a seed layer, and a magnetic recording layer, wherein the magnetic recording layer includes a first magnetic layer which is a continuous film consisting of an ordered alloy, and a second magnetic layer having a granular structure consisting of magnetic crystal grains consisting of an ordered alloy and a non-magnetic crystal grain boundary, and the seed layer consists of a material selected from the group consisting of an NaCl-type compound, a spinel-type compound, and a perovskite-type compound. |
| US11087792B2 |
Oriented body, method for producing the same, device for producing the same, and magnetic recording medium
There is provided an oriented body containing platinum group-substituted-6 iron oxide particles typified by Rh-substituted ε-iron oxide or Ru-substituted ε-iron oxide applicable to MAMR, MIMR, or F-MIMR system, and a technique related thereto, containing platinum group element-substituted ε-iron oxide particles in which a part of ε-iron oxide is substituted with at least one element of platinum group elements, as magnetic particles wherein the degree of orientation of the magnetic particles defined by the degree of orientation=SQ (direction of magnetization easy-axes)/SQ (direction of magnetization hard-axes) exceeds 5.0, and a coercive force exceeds 31 kOe. |
| US11087790B2 |
Surface acoustic wave-based sensing and actuation of contamination
A method includes producing a first surface acoustic wave (SAW) on a magnetic head slider using a first interdigitated transducer (IDT), wherein the SAW has a first set of wave characteristics. The method also includes receiving the first SAW at a second IDT on the magnetic head slider. The method also includes analyzing the SAW for a second set of wave characteristics. The method also includes determining, based on the analyzing, that a substance having at least one characteristic is located in a path of the SAW on the magnetic head slider. |
| US11087789B1 |
Optimized dual thermal fly-height design for dual writers for advanced magnetic recording
The present disclosure generally relates to a magnetic media drive employing a magnetic recording head. The magnetic recording head comprises a first write head and a second write head each coupled to a first pad and a second pad of a slider pad and an electrical circuit coupled to the first and second pads. The first write head comprises a first main pole and a first thermal fly height (TFH) element, and the second write head comprises a second main pole and a second TFH element. The electrical circuit comprises a capacitor and a connection to the first TFH element of the first write head, and an inductor and a connection to the second TFH element of the second write head. The electrical circuit is configured to independently power the first TFH element and the second TFH element. |
| US11087787B2 |
Magnetic tape, magnetic tape cartridge, and magnetic tape apparatus
The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer, in which the magnetic layer has a timing-based servo pattern, an edge shape of the timing-based servo pattern, specified by magnetic force microscopy is a shape in which a difference L99.9−L0.1 between a value L99.9 of a cumulative distribution function of 99.9% and a value L0.1 of a cumulative distribution function of 0.1% in a position deviation width from an ideal shape of the magnetic tape in a longitudinal direction is 180 nm or less, and an absolute value ΔN of a difference between a refractive index Nxy of the magnetic layer, measured in an in-plane direction and a refractive index Nz of the magnetic layer, measured in a thickness direction is 0.25 or more and 0.40 or less. |
| US11087784B2 |
Data storage devices with integrated slider voltage potential control
Disclosed herein is a data storage device comprising a recording media, a slider comprising a write head having a write-field enhancement structure for recording data to the recording media, an electronics module, and a plurality of lines disposed between and coupled to the slider and the electronics module, wherein at least one line of the plurality of lines is configured to both couple a bias voltage to a body of the slider, and carry a bias current for the write-field enhancement structure. Also disclosed herein is a data storage device comprising a slider with an embedded contact sensor, an electronics module, and a plurality of lines disposed between and coupled to the slider and the electronics module, wherein at least one line of the plurality of lines is configured to both couple a bias voltage to a body of the slider, and provide a signal to the embedded contact sensor. |
| US11087776B2 |
Compressive hear-through in personal acoustic devices
The technology described in this document can be embodied in a method that includes receiving an input signal representing audio captured by a microphone of an active noise reduction (ANR) headphone, processing, by one or more processing devices, a portion of the input signal to determine a noise level in the input signal, and determining that the noise level satisfies a threshold condition. The method also includes, in response to determining that the noise level satisfies the threshold condition, generating an output signal in which ANR processing on the input signal is controlled in accordance with a target loudness level of the output signal, and driving an acoustic transducer of the ANR headphone using the output signal. |
| US11087771B2 |
Inter-channel encoding and decoding of multiple high-band audio signals
A device includes an encoder and a transmitter. The encoder is configured to generate a first high-band portion of a first signal based on a left signal and a right signal. The encoder is also configured to generate a set of adjustment gain parameters based on a high-band non-reference signal. The high-band non-reference signal corresponds to one of a left high-band portion of the left signal or a right high-band portion of the right signal as a high-band non-reference signal. The transmitter is configured to transmit information corresponding to the first high-band portion of the first signal. The transmitter is also configured to transmit the set of adjustment gain parameters corresponding to the high-band non-reference signal. |
| US11087768B2 |
Personalized voice recognition service providing method using artificial intelligence automatic speaker identification method, and service providing server used therein
The present disclosure provides a method for providing a personalized voice recognition service using an artificial intelligence automatic speaker identification method and a service providing server used therein. The present disclosure is implemented through processes of, by a service providing server, receiving a service provision request message including a voice of a speaker from a user terminal, analyzing the voice included in the service provision request message to identify the speaker of the voice, generating a control command needed to provide a customized service for the speaker based on speaker identification information, and transmitting the generated control command to an external electronic device. According to the present disclosure, since the speaker using the voice recognition service can be identified, it is possible to prevent a person who does not have a legal use authority from using a voice recognition service without permission, and provide a customized voice recognition service considering unique information for each individual user when there are a plurality of users using the same voice recognition service. |
| US11087767B2 |
Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium
An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit, one or more first identifying units, a second identifying unit, and an output unit. The receiving unit receives speech information. The one or more first identifying units identify a speaker from the speech information. The second identifying unit identifies an organization to which the speaker belongs. The output unit outputs information regarding the speech information to an output destination corresponding to the organization. |
| US11087766B2 |
System and method for dynamic speech recognition selection based on speech rate or business domain
A dynamic speech processing system and method is provided. The system includes a receiver configured to receive a plurality of audio files. The audio files include sample training audio files and run-time audio files. The system further includes a speech processor coupled to the receiver and configured to compute a variable value for a specific audio file. The speech processor is configured to dynamically select a set of relevant speech recognition engines for a specific run-time audio file based on the variable value. |
| US11087763B2 |
Voice recognition method, apparatus, device and storage medium
A voice recognition method is provided by embodiments of the present application. The method includes: obtaining a voice signal to be recognized; and recognizing a current frame in the voice signal using a pre-trained causal acoustic model, according to the current frame in the voice signal and a frame within a preset time period before the current frame, the causal acoustic model being derived based on a causal convolutional neural network training. In the method provided by the embodiments of the present application, only the information of the current frame and the frame before the current frame is used when performing the recognition of the current frame, thereby solving a problem in voice recognition technologies based on prior art convolutional neural network where a hard delay is created because there is a need to wait for the frames after the current frame, improving the timeliness of the voice recognition. |
| US11087762B2 |
Context-sensitive dynamic update of voice to text model in a voice-enabled electronic device
A voice to text model used by a voice-enabled electronic device is dynamically and in a context-sensitive manner updated to facilitate recognition of entities that potentially may be spoken by a user in a voice input directed to the voice-enabled electronic device. The dynamic update to the voice to text model may be performed, for example, based upon processing of a first portion of a voice input, e.g., based upon detection of a particular type of voice action, and may be targeted to facilitate the recognition of entities that may occur in a later portion of the same voice input, e.g., entities that are particularly relevant to one or more parameters associated with a detected type of voice action. |
| US11087757B2 |
Determining a system utterance with connective and content portions from a user utterance
Described is a voice dialogue system that includes a voice input unit which acquires a user utterance, an intention understanding unit which interprets an intention of utterance of a voice acquired by the voice input unit, a dialogue text creator which creates a text of a system utterance, and a voice output unit which outputs the system utterance as voice data. When creating a text of a system utterance, the dialogue text creator creates the text by inserting a tag in a position in the system utterance, and the intention understanding unit interprets an utterance intention of a user in accordance with whether a timing at which the user utterance is made is before or after an output of a system utterance at a position corresponding to the tag from the voice output unit. |
| US11087751B2 |
Detection of duplicate packetized data for selective transmission into one of a plurality of a user's devices
A system of reducing transmissions of packetized data in a voice activated data packet based computer network environment is provided. A natural language processor component can parse an input audio signal to identify a request and a trigger keyword. Based on the input audio signal, a direct action application programming interface can generate a first action data structure, and a content selector component can select a content item. An interface management component can identify candidate interfaces and determine if prior instances of the packetized data was transmitted to the candidate interfaces. The interface management component can prevent the transmission of the packetized data if determined to be redundant, such as having previously received the data, and instead transmit it to a separate client device of a different device type. |
| US11087750B2 |
Methods and apparatus for detecting a voice command
According to some aspects, a method of monitoring an acoustic environment of a mobile device, at least one computer readable medium encoded with instructions that, when executed, perform such a method and/or a mobile device configured to perform such a method is provided. The method comprises receiving acoustic input from the environment of the mobile device while the mobile device is operating in the low power mode, detecting whether the acoustic input includes a voice command based on performing a plurality of processing stages on the acoustic input, wherein at least one of the plurality of processing stages is performed while the mobile device is operating in the low power mode, and using at least one contextual cue to assist in detecting whether the acoustic input includes a voice command. |
| US11087749B2 |
Systems and methods for improving fulfillment of media content related requests via utterance-based human-machine interfaces
Systems, methods, and devices for human-machine interfaces for improving machine understanding and fulfillment of utterance-based requests provided via the interfaces. Multiple candidate understandings from multiple stages of a natural language processing flow are preserved for arbitration and choosing by an arbitrator that applies arbitration rules to the plurality of candidates and chooses a single candidate for initiation of a corresponding service. In an embodiment, the arbitrator uses a media content taste profile to choose a candidate understanding for initiation of a corresponding service. |
| US11087744B2 |
Masking systems and methods
Term masking is performed by generating a time-alignment value for a plurality of identifiable units of sound in vocal audio content contained in a mixed audio track, force-aligning each of the plurality of identifiable units of sound to the vocal audio content based on the time-alignment value, thereby generating a plurality of force-aligned identifiable units of sound, identifying from the plurality of force-aligned identifiable units of sound a force-aligned identifiable unit of sound to be muddled, and audio muddling the force-aligned identifiable unit of sound to be muddled. |
| US11087742B1 |
Techniques to provide adaptive feedback
Systems and methods are described herein for generating adaptive feedback in response to a user request. Input indicative of a user request may be received and utilized to identify an item in an electronic catalog. A title for the item may be retrieved and provided, as input, to a machine-learning model. The machine-learning model may be trained to identify one or more segments of an input title. A shortened title may be generated from these identified segments and provided as output at the user device (e.g., via audible output provided at a speaker of the user device). In some embodiments, the length and content of the shortened title may vary based at least in part on the contextual intent of the user's request. |
| US11087739B1 |
On-device learning in a hybrid speech processing system
A speech interface device is configured to receive response data from a remote speech processing system for responding to user speech. This response data may be enhanced with information such as remote NLU data. The response data from the remote speech processing system may be compared to local NLU data to improve a speech processing model on the device. Thus, the device may perform supervised on-device learning based on the remote NLU data. The device may determine differences between the updated speech processing model and an original speech processing model received from the remote system and may send data indicating these differences to the remote system. The remote system may aggregate data received from a plurality of devices and may generate an improved speech processing model. |
| US11087738B2 |
System and method for music and effects sound mix creation in audio soundtrack versioning
Implementations of the disclosure describe systems and methods that leverage machine learning to automate the process of creating music and effects mixes from original sound mixes including domestic dialogue. In some implementations, a method includes: receiving a sound mix including human dialogue; extracting metadata from the sound mix, where the extracted metadata categorizes the sound mix; extracting content feature data from the sound mix, the extracted content feature data including an identification of the human dialogue and instances or times the human dialogue occurs within the sound mix; automatically calculating, with a trained model, content feature data of a music and effects (M&E) sound mix using at least the extracted metadata and the extracted content feature data of the sound mix; and deriving the M&E sound mix using at least the calculated content feature data. |
| US11087737B1 |
Method and apparatus for voice recognition unit simulation
An apparatus and method apparatus and/or computer software to automate testing of a voice self service platform. In its software embodiment, the present invention comprises software that runs on the windows platform to simulate all the components of an Interactive Voice Recognition Unit (VRU). In addition this embodiment can also be used as a helper unit to test individual components of an interactive voice recognition (IVR). |
| US11087735B2 |
Active noise control method and system
A method for reducing the power of an acoustic primary noise signal (dm(n)) at one or more control positions in a vehicle passenger compartment using an adaptive filter. The method comprising to compare a mean correlation coefficient (γm(n)) between an electrical error signal (em(n) and a modelled secondary anti-noise signal ŷm(n) with at least one predefined threshold (α, β). |
| US11087734B1 |
Active noise reduction method, system, and new energy vehicle
The present disclosure provides an active noise reduction method, a system, and a new energy vehicle. The active noise reduction method includes: obtaining a frequency of a high-frequency noise signal in an acoustic environment, constructing and generating a harmonic masking signal according to the frequency of the high-frequency noise signal, where the harmonic masking signal includes a harmonic signal and a masking signal, and the harmonic signal is a subharmonic wave of the high-frequency noise signal, and inputting the harmonic masking signal into a sound playback apparatus for playback to output a noise reduction construction sound, and performing noise reduction on the acoustic environment. |
| US11087730B1 |
Pseudo—live sound and music
A method and apparatus for the creation and playback of music and/or sound, so that sound sequences are generated that vary from one playback to another playback. In one embodiment, during composition creation, artist(s) may define how the composition may vary from playback to playback using visually interactive display(s). The artist's definition may be embedded into a composition dataset. During playback, a composition data set may be processed by a playback device and/or a playback program, so that each time the composition is played-back a unique version may be generated. Variability during playback may include: the variable selection of alternative sound segment(s); variable editing of sound segment(s) during playback processing; variable placement of sound segment(s) during playback processing; the spawning of group(s) of alternative sound segments from initiating sound segment(s); and the combining and/or mixing of alternative sound segments in one or more sound channels. MIDI-like variable compositions and the variable use of sound segments comprised of a timed sequence of MIDI-like commands are also disclosed. |
| US11087725B1 |
Universal drumstick
A universal drumstick for use by a drummer, the drummer having a hand with a thumb, an index finger, a middle finger, a ring finger, and a pinkie finger, comprising, a distal tip, a shaft proximal to the distal tip, a handle proximal to the shaft, the handle having a grip therethrough, the grip sized to allow the drummer's little finger and ring finger to extend therethrough, the shaft angled relative to the handle such that at least a portion of the shaft is above the drummer's middle and index fingers when the drummer's pinkie and ring fingers are within the grip, whereby the drummer can play a stick-drum with the universal drumstick and also play a hand-drum without removing the universal drumstick from the drummer's hand. |
| US11087724B1 |
Spring loaded thumb pick
A thumb pick for wearing on the thumb of a musician to strum guitar strings includes a pick having a front side, a rear side, a lower side terminating in a rounded point, and an upper side terminating at a pivot mechanism. A retaining ring has an inside surface, an outside surface, an upper side terminating at the pivot mechanism, and a lower side. The pivot mechanism includes two or more knuckles fixed with the upper side of the pick, two or more knuckles fixed with the upper side of the retaining ring, a pin traversing aligned apertures formed through the knuckles, and a coil spring urging the retaining ring towards the pick. In use, the musician wears the thumb pick encircling his thumb, so that he can strum the guitar strings with the pick. |
| US11087723B2 |
Keyless locking tremolo systems and methods
Embodiments disclosed herein describe keyless locking tremolo systems and methods for musical instruments that are configured to tune and restrain strings for a musical instrument without an external tool. Embodiments are configured to adjust the vertical positioning of a tightening post and string clamp without an external tool. |
| US11087721B2 |
Display driver, circuit sharing frame buffer, mobile device, and operating method thereof
A display driver circuit includes a receiver that receives a still image or a moving image, a frame buffer that stores the still image received by the receiver in a still image mode, an image processor that performs an image enhancement operation on the moving image transferred from the receiver or the still image transferred from the frame buffer, and a motion processor that performs a motion compensation operation using a current frame output from the image processor and a previous frame stored in the frame buffer in a moving image mode. The previous frame is data which, in the moving image mode, are processed by the image processor before the current frame and are then stored in the frame buffer. The previous frame is output from the frame buffer to the motion processor in synchronization with the current frame. |
| US11087718B2 |
Electronic device, and method for controlling operation of electronic device
An electronic device according to one embodiment of the present invention can comprise a display panel, a display controller, a memory, and a processor electrically connected to the display panel, the display controller, and the memory. The memory can store instructions, when executed, which allow the process to: draw an image in response to a periodic synchronization signal; compose the drawl image in response to the synchronization signal after the drawing of the image; transmit the composed image to the display controller in response to synchronization signal after the composing of the image; measure, after the transmitting of the composed image, a first standby time until the next synchronization signal is generated; perform control such that the display panel displays an image in response to the generation of the next synchronization signal; determine a first offset value on the basis of the first standby time; and determine an image composition time point by applying the first offset value to the periodic synchronization Additionally, various examples are possible. |
| US11087715B2 |
Light transmittance adjustable eyewear
Provided is a light transmittance adjustable eyewear. The light transmittance adjustable eyewear includes a lens unit including a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) panel of which a light transmittance is changed, an illuminance sensor configured to sense an ambient illuminance, and a controller configured to receive an ambient illuminance from the illuminance sensor, increase a light transmittance of the LCD panel in response to the ambient illuminance being equal to or less than a first threshold, and decrease the light transmittance of the LCD panel in response to the ambient illuminance being equal to or greater than the second threshold that is greater than the first threshold. |
| US11087708B2 |
Method for transmitting data from timing controller to source driver and associated timing controller and display system
The present invention provides a method for transmitting data from a timing controller to a source driver, wherein the method includes the steps of: applying a plurality of data rates to a discrete data rate setting; and transmitting image data of a plurality of frames by using a plurality of modulated data rates, respectively; wherein the plurality of modulated data rates are generated by performing spread-spectrum clocking (SSC) upon the plurality of data rates, respectively; and for each of the frames, its corresponding image data is transmitting by using only one of the modulated data rates. |
| US11087707B2 |
Driving method and device for GOA circuit, and display device
A driving method and device for a GOA circuit, and a display device. The driving method includes: reducing a clock signal frequency of the GOA circuit to 1/M of an original clock signal frequency, in a case where data signals of one frame of image satisfy a frequency reduction condition. The frequency reduction condition includes that the data signals of the one frame of image is capable of being equally divided into M parts in time sequence, data signals of each of the M parts are the same, and M is an integer and M≥2. |
| US11087706B2 |
Display driving circuit having source auxiliary circuit and gate auxiliary circuit and driving method thereof, display panel and display device
The present disclosure provides a display driving circuit and a driving method thereof, a display panel, and a display device. The display driving circuit comprises: a gate auxiliary circuit configured to selectively output one of a data signal from a source driver and a common voltage signal in response to a first control signal; and a gate auxiliary circuit configured to selectively output one of a scan signal from a gate driver and an active level signal in response to a second control signal, the active level signal being a signal enabling a corresponding switch transistor to be turned on. |
| US11087705B2 |
Driving circuitry and method of display panel and display device
A driving method of a display panel, a driving circuitry of a display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes Y gate lines, the Y gate lines are divided into a plurality of gate line groups based on a scanning sequence of the Y gate lines, and each gate line group includes at least one gate line; the driving method includes: determining an ith gate line to be scanned; adjusting an original charging duration of a scanning signal corresponding to the ith gate line to an adjustment charging duration, where the adjustment charging duration of every gate line in each gate line group are identical, and the adjustment charging durations of respective gate line groups gradually increase in a direction away from a source driver; and outputting the scanning signal corresponding to the ith gate line to the ith gate line, based on the adjustment charging duration of the ith gate line. |
| US11087702B2 |
Method and device for controlling brightness of display device based on area dimming value and saturation degree, and liquid crystal display
Disclosed are a method and a device for controlling brightness of a display device, and a liquid crystal display. In the method, a saturation signal and an area dimming signal of each of partitioned screens of the display panel are acquired, and a saturation dimming signal of each of partitioned screens of the display panel is calculated according to the saturation signal, for adjusting the backlight brightness. |
| US11087700B1 |
System and method for image enhancement on a digital display device
A system for image enhancement on digital display device is disclosed. The system includes an image processing subsystem including a digital art metadata collection module to measure the ambient condition on a digital art piece using sensors. The digital art metadata collection module collects a set of metadata corresponding to the digital art piece by analysing the ambient condition. The image processing subsystem includes an image adjustment module to modify parameters on digital display device based on the set of metadata using one or more image processing techniques. The image adjustment module generates a target digital image representative of a printed image quality based on the modified parameters. |
| US11087699B1 |
Display device
A display device includes a first substrate, a driving voltage line, a common voltage line, a dam, a second substrate, and a sealant. The driving voltage transfer line is disposed on the first substrate and may transfer a driving voltage. The common voltage transfer line is disposed on the first substrate and may transfer a common voltage. The dam is disposed between the driving voltage transfer line and the common voltage transfer line, is electrically isolated from at least one of the driving voltage transfer line and the common voltage line, and is disposed on the first substrate. The second substrate overlaps the first substrate. The sealant is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and overlaps each of the driving voltage transfer line, the common voltage transfer line, and the dam. |
| US11087697B2 |
Source driver and operating method thereof
A source driver including a digital-to-analog converter and an output buffer with an interpolation function is disclosed. A digital-to-analog converter converts a plurality of digital input voltages into a plurality of analog input voltages. The output buffer interpolates the analog input voltages. The output buffer outputs a first interpolated output voltage at a first time and a second interpolated output voltage at a second time respectively. A first interpolated voltage output curve of the first interpolated output voltage versus a digital input code and a second interpolated voltage output curve of the second interpolated output voltage versus the digital input code are both non-linear and opposite each other. The output buffer averages the first interpolated voltage output curve at the first time and the second interpolated voltage output curve at the second time to achieve a linear interpolated voltage characteristic. |
| US11087695B2 |
Display device and driving method thereof
A display device includes: scan, control, and emission control signal lines, signals transmitted thereby being different from one another; data and driving voltage lines; a first transistor including a first gate electrode and first source and drain; a second transistor including a second gate electrode connected to a first scan line, a second source connected to a first data line, and a second drain connected to the first source; a light-emitting element; a control transistor including a control gate electrode connected to a first control line and between the driving voltage line and the first source or the light-emitting element and the first drain; and an emission control transistor in series between the light-emitting element and the control transistor, the control transistor and the first transistor, or the driving voltage line and the control transistor, and an emission control gate electrode connected to the emission control signal line. |
| US11087692B2 |
Method of driving a display panel and organic light emitting display device employing the same
A method of driving a display panel includes: grouping m adjacent pixels, which output same color light, into one pixel-group in the display panel, where m is an integer greater than or equal to two; determining whether a unit grayscale (UG) to be implemented by the pixel-group is greater than or equal to a determined reference grayscale (REFG) by analyzing respective data signals applied to the pixel-group; performing, in response to the UG being greater than or equal to the REFG, a normal driving that implements the UG by controlling all of the m adjacent pixels to emit light with first luminance corresponding to the respective data signals; and performing, in response to the UG being less than the REFG, a combination driving that implements the UG by controlling only a portion of the m adjacent pixels to emit light with second luminance that is greater than the first luminance. |
| US11087690B2 |
Display substrate, display device, control method and control circuit
The present disclosure provides a display substrate, a display device, a control method and a control circuit. The display substrate includes a bending area. The bending area includes a plurality of first sub-pixels and a plurality of other sub-pixels having a light emission color different from a light emission color of the first sub-pixels. The plurality of first sub-pixels are electrically connected to a first power supply voltage terminal for providing a first power supply voltage. The other sub-pixels are electrically connected to other power supply voltage terminals different from the first power supply voltage terminal. |
| US11087688B2 |
Compensating method for pixel circuit
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a driving method for a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting device and a drive transistor. The method includes: compensating the drive transistor in a first compensation manner including an internal voltage compensation during an operation period of the light emitting device; and compensating the drive transistor in a second compensation manner including the internal voltage compensation and an external voltage compensation during a non-operation period of the light emitting device. |
| US11087683B2 |
Electro-optical device, driving method of electro-optical device and electronic apparatus
A first storage capacitor is provided with respect to a data line. A pixel circuit includes a first transistor supplying current according to a voltage between a gate and a source, a light emitting element emitting light corresponding to current supplied by the first transistor, and a second transistor which is turned on or off between the data lines and the gate node. In a first period, an initial potential is supplied to the data line by turning on the second transistor, and in a second period, a data signal of a potential corresponding to a gradation level is supplied to the other end of the first storage capacitor by turning on the second transistor. After the second period, the second transistor is turned off. |
| US11087682B2 |
Method, apparatus, and system of compensating an OLED in a display panel for efficiency decay
A method, an apparatus, and a system of compensating an organic light emitting diode (OLED) in a display panel for efficiency decay are disclosed. The method includes acquiring an IV curve of the OLED device according to a drain voltage with grayscales applied to a driven thin-film transistor (TFT) and an output current; comparing the IV curve with an IV curve database model, and determining a target curve and a first match curve; determining a second match curve according to a measuring moment; acquiring a target voltage corresponding to a target luminance; acquiring a target current corresponding to the target voltage; and acquiring, based on a characteristic curve of the driven TFT, a compensated gate voltage through the target voltage, the target current, and the drain voltage. The OLED device can be compensated for efficiency decay. Display effects are improved, causing the display panel to display uniformly. |
| US11087675B2 |
Display device, operation method thereof, and electronic device
A display device that can display a high-luminance image is provided. The display device includes a display element and a memory circuit which is electrically connected to a first wiring and a second wiring. First, a reference potential is supplied to the first wiring. Next, a first image signal is supplied to the memory circuit through the second wiring. Then, the second image signal is added to the first image signal by supplying the second image signal to the memory circuit through the first wiring. After that, an image obtained by superimposing an image corresponding to the first image signal and an image corresponding to the second image signal on each other is displayed with the display element. |
| US11087674B2 |
Subpixel circuitry for driving an associated light element, and method, display system and electronic device relating to same
Disclosed is a subpixel circuit 310 comprising: a first switching device 311 responsive to a digital periodic signal VP to provide a digital control signal VC relating to a digital data signal VD, the digital periodic signal VP defining 2N+1 time slots within each frame cycle, where N is a predetermined integer. The digital data signal VD has a predetermined value at a predetermined one of the 2N+1 time slots; and the subpixel circuit 310 further comprises a second switching device 312 responsive to the control signal Vc to drive an associated light emitting element 320. |
| US11087668B1 |
Shift register unit and driving method thereof, gate driving circuit
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a shift register unit and a driving method thereof, and a gate driving circuit. The shift register unit includes an input circuit, a next-stage start circuit, a control circuit, a stabilization circuit, and at least one output circuit. The at least one output circuit each can control a voltage of a signal output terminal according to a voltage of a pull-up node, a voltage of a pull-down node, a first voltage signal, a control clock signal from a control clock signal terminal, and a control voltage signal from a control voltage signal terminal. A high level of a second clock signal begins when a high level of a first clock signal ends, and a high level of a third clock signal begins when a high level of the second clock signal ends. |
| US11087667B2 |
Pixel charging method, circuit, display device and computer storage medium
There are provided a pixel charging method, a circuit, a display device and a computer storage medium. The method includes: acquiring a gray-scale value of each row of sub-pixels in an image frame of an image to be displayed; determining a charging time of each row of the sub-pixels according to the gray-scale value thereof; and charging each row of the sub-pixels according to the charging time thereof when a display panel displays the image frame. The charging time of each row of sub-pixels is determined according to the gray-scale value of each row of the sub-pixels, so as to reduce a charging rate difference between two rows of sub-pixels which have a relatively larger gray-scale value difference therebetween, and achieve an effect of improving the uniformity of the charging rates of all rows of sub-pixels in the display panel. |
| US11087663B1 |
Display device and driving method thereof for reducing difference in brightness between areas with different widths
A driving method of display device configured to be applied to a display device capable of reducing the difference in brightness between areas with different widths of a display panel includes: receiving an input signal by a processor to generate an image signal and an original data enable signal, with the image signal and the original data enable signal configured to control the display panel; and generating a gate control signal and a transmission signal by the controller based on the image signal and the original data enable signal for a scan line driver and a data line driver respectively. The gate control signal comprises a plurality of enable periods for activating the plurality of scan lines respectively, and widths of the enable periods for activating scan lines with different lengths are different. Said display device and a display driving circuit are also disclosed. |
| US11087662B2 |
Display control method for terminal screen, device and storage medium thereof
The present disclosure relates to a display control method for a terminal screen. The terminal screen includes a display layer with an integrated structure, the display layer includes a first display region and a second display region, and a pixel density of the first display region is greater than a pixel density of the second display region. The method includes: controlling a transition region in the first display region to be displayed according to a target pixel density; controlling one or more regions in the first display region other than the transition region to be displayed according to a first pixel density; and controlling the second display region to be displayed according to a second pixel density, wherein the target pixel density is smaller than the first pixel density and greater than the second pixel density. |
| US11087661B2 |
Display device having curved portion
A display device includes a substrate and a plurality of gate driving units. The substrate has at least one curved portion with a curved side edge, and the plurality of gate driving units are disposed along the curved side edge. |
| US11087660B2 |
Timing controller and operating method thereof
A timing controller and an operating method are provided. The timing controller includes a bit capture circuit and a gear position signal generation circuit. The bit capture circuit is configured to capture a first part bit from each of a plurality of original sub-pixel data of a video stream. The gear position signal generation circuit determines a gear position signal related to a current frame according to the first part bits. The gear position signal is provided to a gamma voltage generation circuit of a source driver such that the gamma voltage generation circuit changes a plurality of gamma voltages according to the gear position signal. |
| US11087659B2 |
System, method and device for presenting different functional displays when orientation of the device changes
Different functional views for a mobile device are provided depending on orientation of the device. The mobile device includes an enclosure and a display disposed within the enclosure, wherein the display presents a functional view to a user when the device is positioned in a first orientation and a second functional view when the display is rotated to a second orientation. |
| US11087658B2 |
Displays with pixel elements
The present subject matter relates to displays. A display includes a plurality of pixel elements and a plurality of motors. Each motor is coupled to a pixel element to move the pixel element. |
| US11087653B2 |
Inspection system and method of inspecting a display cell using the same
An inspection system for a display cell having a display part and a plurality of data lines connected to first and second pixel units of the display part. An array test part and a lighting test part are located in a peripheral area around the display part. An inspection apparatus is configured to provide the array test part with an array control signal to block an array data signal from being applied to a plurality of data lines in a period in which a white image is displayed and to provide the lighting test part with a lighting control signal to block a lighting data signal from being applied to a plurality of data lines during a period in which a black image is displayed, during a drive reliability test mode for displaying a test image including the black image and the white image. |
| US11087651B2 |
Underwater image projection display system, lighting control system and device and method of operating same
An underwater image projection system submerged in a body of water and projecting an image within the body of water. The system includes a submerged projection element, a light source steering device, a user interface, and a controller. The submerged projecting element includes a projecting light source that projects an image within the body of water. The light source steering device directs light from the projecting light source. The user interface receives data input from a user including at least one of an input of the image and instructions for displaying the image. The controller retrieves the data input from the user interface, accesses image data corresponding to the image, and controls the projecting light source and the light source steering device to project the image onto a target surface within the body of water based on the data input from the user interface. |
| US11087646B2 |
Electrode or wiring comprising amorphous metal layer, flexible display device comprising the same and manufacturing method thereof
Provided are a flexible display device including an electrode or wiring including an amorphous metal layer using amorphous metal, and a method of manufacturing thereof. Also, provided are a flexible display device including an electrode or wiring including an amorphous metal layer and a crystalline metal layer, and a method of manufacturing thereof. |
| US11087645B1 |
Vehicle mounted sign bracket system
A bracket system for mounting a sign to a vehicle is described. The bracket system may be designed to attach to the hinges and lock rods of the left and right doors of a tractor trailer. The system may include a sign frame that includes a left horizontal bracket(s) that is connected to the left hinge(s) of the left door, a right horizontal bracket(s) that is connected to the right hinge(s) of the right door, a left lock rod bracket(s) connected to the left lock rod, and a right lock rod bracket(s) connected to the right lock rod. Left sign and right sign panels may be connected to the sign frame. The sign panels, the horizontal brackets and the lock rod brackets may be configured to swing open and closed with the respective doors. A multi-part clamp may be used to attach the lock rod brackets to the lock rods. |
| US11087638B2 |
System and method for analysing sports performance data
A computer system and computer-automated method for analyzing sports performance data from a game. A data set is provided that contains a log of a first time sequence of game data events which are classified into event types. A second time sequence is generated from the first time sequence by aggregating the events into game patterns, and a third time sequence is generated by aggregating the game patterns into game strategies. A multi-level time sequence event hierarchy is thus created. These multiple time sequence levels are rendered into a visualization in which the different types at each level are visually distinct from each other. The visualization reveals to a game expert player or team behavior in the data set which can be used for player and team improvement. |
| US11087634B2 |
System, method, and applications for monitoring online usage of minors
Systems, software, and computer implemented methods associated with a smart monitoring system used to monitor, manage, and modify the usage of various applications and/or websites on a mobile or other computing device are described herein. In one example method, user interactions performed at a client device are monitored, and a determination is made as to whether the monitored user interactions are associated with non-educational content or applications. In response to determining that they are, an activity timer is increased based on ongoing interactions with the non-educational content or application. In response to a determination that a current value of the activity timer exceeds a predetermined threshold value, an interruption process is triggered on the client device causing at least one educational activity to be performed by the user of the client device. Before allowing interaction with the non-educational content or application, the educational activities must be satisfactorily completed. |
| US11087631B2 |
Aircraft flight route determination systems and methods
Aircraft flight route determination systems and methods include a route determination control unit that analyzes route data over a selected timeframe to determine one or more efficient routes for aircraft to fly between a first airport and a second airport. |
| US11087628B2 |
Using rear sensor for wrong-way driving warning
Using a read sensor to sense wrong-way driving. A method may include sensing, by a rear sensor of a vehicle, an environment of the vehicle to provide rear sensed information; processing the rear sensed information to provide at least one rear-sensed vehicle progress direction indications; generating or receiving at least one front-sensed vehicle progress direction indications; wherein the at least one front-sensed vehicle progress direction indications is generated by processing front-sensed information acquired during right-way progress; comparing at least one rear-sensed vehicle progress direction indications to the at least one front-sensed vehicle progress direction indications to determine whether the vehicle is wrong-way driving; and responding to the finding of the wrong-way driving. |
| US11087627B2 |
Vehicle and bicycle communication to avoid vehicle door crash accidents
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for communicating between a bicycle and a vehicle to prevent vehicle open door accidents is provided. The present invention may include determining, by a bicycle device, a bicycle is in a stationary state. The present invention may then include sending, by the bicycle device, a request to a user to confirm that the bicycle is in the stationary state. The present invention may further include receiving, from the user, a response to the sent request, wherein the user confirms that the bicycle is in an active state. |
| US11087626B2 |
Automated vehicle control strategy for pedestrian crowds
A system for operating an automated vehicle in a crowd of pedestrians includes an object-detector, optionally, a signal detector, and a controller. The object-detector detects pedestrians proximate to a host-vehicle. The signal-detector detects a signal-state displayed by a traffic-signal that displays a stop-state that indicates when the host-vehicle should stop so the pedestrians can cross in front of the host-vehicle, and displays a go-state that indicates when the pedestrians should stop passing in front of the host-vehicle so that the host-vehicle can go forward. The controller is in control of movement of the host-vehicle and in communication with the object-detector and the signal-detector. The controller operates the host-vehicle to stop the host-vehicle when the stop-state is displayed, and operates the host-vehicle to creep-forward after a wait-interval after the traffic-signal changes to the go-state when the pedestrians fail to stop passing in front of the host-vehicle. |
| US11087621B2 |
Express lane planning method and unit
An express lane planning method includes obtaining, by a traffic control unit, an express lane scheduling request, an identifier of an emergency vehicle, a moment t0 at which the emergency vehicle arrives at a first road controlled by the traffic control unit, and a moment t1 at which the emergency vehicle travels away from the first road, determining, by the traffic control unit, an express lane from at least one lane, sending, by the traffic control unit, a second indication message to a non-emergency vehicle on the first road, to instruct the non-emergency vehicle not to occupy the express lane in a time period from t0 to t1, and sending, by the traffic control unit, a first indication message to the emergency vehicle based on the identifier of the emergency vehicle, to instruct the emergency vehicle to travel on the express lane in the time period from t0 to t1. |
| US11087617B2 |
Vehicle crowd sensing system and method
A vehicle crowd sensing system and method of selective sensing for the vehicle crowd sensing system. The method, in one implementation, involves receiving a plurality of detection reports from a first set of vehicles, each detection report including an event, a position qualifier of the event, and a severity qualifier of the event; developing an inherent error model for the event that includes a compilation of the position qualifiers of the event and the severity qualifiers of the event; and determining a resampling instruction for the event. The resampling instruction is based on an action model and the action model is at least partly a factor of the inherent error model. |
| US11087614B2 |
Methods and systems of smart campus security shield
A Smart Campus Security Shield System comprising a Smart Student ID Card, wherein the card comprises a set of sensors inside the Smart Student ID Card. The set of sensors send a crime alert through a wireless network to a cloud server. The cloud server memory comprises a student crime alert model which describes the crime alert severity, student ID number, name, location, date, time, and a set of details of the student, so that the student risk control model can generate a plurality of corrective actions and preventive actions for each individual student. The crime alerts personalized and adaptive machine learning method presents a set of customized corrective actions and preventive actions to a student, based on at least one student attribute data. A set of student safety performance statistics is used to generate an optimal safety management strategy for the school security staff to reduce school crime. |
| US11087610B2 |
Presence detection and uses thereof
A computer-implemented method comprises detecting, with a presence detector such as a radar device, a presence of a person at a location such as an ATM vestibule. In response thereto, a timer is initiated. After initiating the timer, a portal sensor is used to detect a change in a status of a portal permitting access to the location. In response thereto, the timer is adjusted (for example the timer is reset). Thus, multiple consecutive normal usages of the vestibule do not unnecessarily trigger an alarm. |
| US11087606B2 |
High sensitivity fiber optic based detection
An integrated detection and suppression system includes a fiber harness having at least one fiber optic cable for transmitting light defining at least one node arranged to measure one or more conditions. A light source is operably connected to the fiber harness to transmit light along the fiber harness to the at least one node. A control system is operably coupled to the fiber harness such that scattered light associated with the node is transmitted to the control system, wherein the control system analyzes the scattered light to determine at least one of a presence and magnitude of the one or more conditions. At least one suppressant outlet is associated with at least one node and is operably connected to the control system configured to initiate a response for the delivery of a volume of suppressant through a suppressant outlet associated with a particular node. |
| US11087605B2 |
Smoke detection methodology
A system and method of detecting smoke including establishing a baseline measurement for each of at least three overlapping sensing volumes; comparing a measured reading within each of the at least three sensing volumes and the baseline measurements to determine whether the measured reading is within a sensing threshold, and annunciating a warning signal if the difference is outside the sensing threshold. |
| US11087604B2 |
Controlling device participation in wireless sensing systems
In a general aspect, motion is detected using wireless signals. In an example, a method includes receiving, at a wireless communication device, requests for the wireless communication device to transmit wireless signals, the requests initiated by a wireless sensing system. The method further includes transmitting a series of wireless signals from the wireless communication device in response to the requests, and detecting, at the wireless communication device, a trigger event after transmitting the series of wireless signals. The method additionally includes updating, by the wireless communication device, a state of the wireless communication device based on the trigger event, the updated state indicating that the wireless communication device is not enabled to transmit wireless signals in response to the requests from the wireless sensing system. The method also includes communicating, by the wireless communication device, the updated state of the wireless communication device to the wireless sensing system. |
| US11087597B2 |
Sports betting ticket handling
Systems, methods and apparatus are provided. An apparatus includes a user interface, a processing circuit, a ticket printer that prints tickets that display wager data, and a memory coupled to the processing circuit. The memory includes machine readable instructions that, when executed by the processing circuit, cause the processing circuit to receive, from a player via the user interface, wager inputs corresponding to multiple wagers that correspond to predicted outcomes of multiple events that include a first event and a second event and to cause the printer to print first wager data corresponding to the first event on a first ticket and to print second wager data corresponding to the second event on a second ticket. Each of the first and second tickets include wager data corresponding to multiple ones of the wagers. |
| US11087595B2 |
System and method for wagering on virtual elements overlaying a sports betting field
A system which determines zero, one or more awards based on an event occurring (or not occurring) on a displayed game field associated with a sporting event interacting with a virtual element overlaid on that displayed game field. |
| US11087594B2 |
Gaming environments providing risk-assessable feature termination and award groupings
Gaming environments including gaming systems, apparatuses, and methods facilitate player selection of feature termination versus award groupings, where at least some of such termination/award groupings are associated with a likelihood of success of the feature continuing beyond the current player selection, depending on how the player makes selections. The player selects award groupings having potential ranges of multiple game-related characteristics, where at least one of those game-related characteristics impacts the likelihood of success of continued play of the gaming feature. |
| US11087593B2 |
Method of gaming, a game controller, and a gaming system
An example method of gaming includes: conducting a progressive jackpot including a prize defined by a plurality of digits; and incrementing the progressive jackpot by incrementing a digit of said plurality of digits of the prize in response to a trigger event corresponding to the digit occurring. |
| US11087591B2 |
Anti-fraud cloud gaming blockchain
A method includes: processing a request to execute a purchase transaction for a virtual asset of a video game, to transfer ownership of the virtual asset from a first user account to a second user account, to transfer an amount of virtual currency from the second user account to the first user account; responsive to the request, accessing a blockchain to perform an anti-fraud verification, including analyzing data of a prior transaction involving the virtual asset that is stored to the blockchain; responsive to the anti-fraud verification providing a result that does not indicate fraudulent activity, then generating transaction data based on an identifier for the first user account, an identifier for the second user account, an identifier for the virtual asset, and the amount of virtual currency, and submitting the transaction data to a node network, to write the transaction data to a block of the blockchain. |
| US11087590B2 |
System providing gaming of higher payout odds under baccarat rules
The present invention is a system providing a game of higher payout odds under baccarat rules. A control element first determines whether betting information satisfies an activation condition, and if so, the control element further determines whether a game result satisfies an additional payout condition. If the game result satisfies the additional payout condition, a payout element additionally calculates and generates an additional payout score. Accordingly, the present invention provides a user with a game means of higher payout odds by using existing betting zones, so as to satisfy the need of seeking for excitement for the user. |
| US11087587B2 |
System and method for secondary engagement with table games
A system includes a smart table for a wagering game and which is configured to use radio-frequency identification (RFID)-enabled chips and RFID sensors. The smart table includes a processor configured to open a wagering window for a game round of the wagering game at the smart table, receive a secondary wager from a secondary player computing device for the game round, the secondary wager is placed on an outcome of a primary player during the game round, validate the secondary wager relative to a state of the wagering window, automatically detect the outcome of the primary player during the game round based on input received from the at least one RFID sensor, and resolve the secondary wager for a secondary player based on the detected outcome of the primary player. |
| US11087585B2 |
Gaming device and method for operating a gaming device
A method of operating a gaming device, comprising: displaying an arrangement of a predetermined number of symbol windows; receiving a selection of a number of the windows equal to the unique selection number and causing the display to present a graphical indication of the selected windows; undertaking play of a game, wherein as a result of the base game, each window is associated with a symbol, and wherein each symbol is displayed on the touchscreen display within its associated window, and wherein each symbol is randomly selected from a set comprising one or more first symbols and one or more second symbols; determining that one or more of the selected windows comprises a first symbol as a result of play of the base game; and awarding an award in accordance with the number of selected windows comprising first symbols and an award rule associated with the selected number of windows. |
| US11087581B2 |
Correctly interpreting failed touch input using gesture input at gaming devices, and related devices, systems, and methods
A gaming device, and related devices, methods, and systems, may include a touch input device to detect touch inputs performed by a user, and a gesture input device to detect gesture inputs performed by the user. The gaming device may further includes a processor circuit and a memory coupled to the processor circuit. The memory may include machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor circuit, cause the processor circuit to: receive a first touch input value from the touch input device; receive a first gesture input value from the gesture input device, generate, based on the first gesture input value, a corrected touch input value corresponding to an intended touch input that is determined to be intended by the user, and modify a user interface element of the gaming device based on the first gesture input value and the corrected touch input value. |
| US11087577B2 |
Systems and methods of secure pin code entry
An access control apparatus includes a sensor and an authentication circuit coupled to the sensor. The sensor detects eye movement of a user. The authentication circuit stores predetermined access code data corresponding to the user. The authentication circuit compares the detected eye movement of the user to the predetermined access code data. Based on the comparison indicating that the detected eye movement matches the predetermined access code data, the authentication circuit permits access beyond an access control point. |
| US11087576B2 |
Information output device and system and non-transitory computer readable medium
An information output device includes first and second acquirers and a setter. The first acquirer acquires attribute information concerning an attribute of a user having accessed an area where access control is performed. The second acquirer acquires a setting condition for setting an authenticated output function. The authenticated output function is a function for demanding authentication for outputting information. The setter enables or disables the authenticated output function, based on the attribute information acquired by the first acquirer and the setting condition acquired by the second acquirer. |
| US11087575B2 |
Systems and methods for item delivery integration with a smart home
Systems and methods to deliver items to smart receptacles or locations secured by smart locks. A distribution network can provide access codes or credentials to access smart locks. Access codes or credentials can be provided when a mobile delivery device is determined to be within a geofence of the delivery point and/or when the mobile delivery device meets specified security criteria. |
| US11087570B1 |
Dynamically controlling sensors and processing sensor data for issue identification
Systems and apparatuses for identifying a type of issue associated with a stopped vehicle are provided. The system may determine a current location of the vehicle and determine whether the vehicle is currently located on a highway. In some examples, the determined location of the vehicle may cause the system to transmit instructions controlling an amount or type of data collected by sensors and/or transmitted to the system. If the vehicle is on a highway, the system may then determine whether the vehicle is stopped. If so, the system may determine a reason for the vehicle stopping. Upon determining that the vehicle is stopped for an urgent reason, the system may transmit a request for roadside assistance to a service provider computing device and may generate a first type of notification. Upon determining that the vehicle is stopped for a non-urgent situation reason, the system may generate and transmit a second type of notification for display. |
| US11087569B2 |
Vehicle accident data management system
A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for processing vehicle accident information. Selected information is collected from a sensor system for a vehicle to form initial accident information in response to detecting an accident involving the vehicle. A first assessment of a severity of the accident is determined using the initial accident information. A vehicle notification of the accident is sent by the computer system onto a distributed network. A set of client devices located within a selected distance from the vehicle is searched for in response to the vehicle notification of the accident. Additional accident information is requested from the set of client devices when the set of client devices are present within the selected distance from the vehicle. A second assessment of the severity of the accident is determined using the initial accident information and the additional accident information received from the set of client devices. |
| US11087568B2 |
Privacy-aware signal monitoring systems and methods
Systems and methods are provided for monitoring time-series data relative to a temporal logic specification regarding expected behavior of a system, such as a vehicle. The time-series data and a threshold value(s) specified in the temporal logic specification may be encrypted and analyzed without decrypting the time-series data to maintain the privacy of a user(s) of the vehicle. Encryption of the time-series data and the threshold value(s) may be accomplished using an order preserving encryption scheme. Analysis of the time-series data may be accomplished utilizing a batch processing-type architecture or a continuous processing-type architecture. When utilizing the continuous processing-type architecture, historical time-series data may be stored and utilized to determine whether currently-monitored time-series data satisfies the temporal logic specification. |
| US11087567B2 |
Systems and methods for auxiliary power unit health indicator computation
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for determining an auxiliary power unit health indicator. The system may receive at least one field data of an auxiliary power unit, transforming the field data into at least one corrected field data, filtering the at least one corrected field data into at least one filtered field data, calculating at least one offset field data from the at least one filtered field data, determining a health indicator of the auxiliary power unit based on the at least one offset field data, and determining a maintenance procedure for the auxiliary unit based on the health indicator. |
| US11087561B2 |
Three-dimensional sketching in mobile augmented reality
An enhanced multimodal interface and various enhanced tools are provided to enable a user to create 3-D augmented reality (AR) sketches using a mobile device. Mobile device can comprise a sketch generator component (SGC) that can integrate multiple sources of inputs with enhanced tools, comprising enhanced 3-D snapping and proxy creation tools. The inputs comprise touch screen data, motion data, and image data from a camera. SGC can provide the interface, which can support absolute and relative drawing. Via the interface, the user can select and use desired enhanced tools to create a 3-D AR sketch that augments visual content of a real-world environment captured by the camera with drawing content added by the user using the enhanced tools. SGC enables a user to create desired strokes, planar or curved surface proxies, snapping points, or other sketch features, wherein proxies can align with real-world surfaces. |
| US11087555B2 |
Recognizing objects in a passable world model in augmented or virtual reality systems
One embodiment is directed to a system for enabling two or more users to interact within a virtual world comprising virtual world data, comprising a computer network comprising one or more computing devices, the one or more computing devices comprising memory, processing circuitry, and software stored at least in part in the memory and executable by the processing circuitry to process at least a portion of the virtual world data; wherein at least a first portion of the virtual world data originates from a first user virtual world local to a first user, and wherein the computer network is operable to transmit the first portion to a user device for presentation to a second user, such that the second user may experience the first portion from the location of the second user, such that aspects of the first user virtual world are effectively passed to the second user. |
| US11087553B2 |
Interactive mixed reality platform utilizing geotagged social media
An end-user system in accordance with the present disclosure includes a communication device configured to communicate with a server, a display screen, one or more processors, and at least one memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processor(s), cause the end-user system to access a physical world geographical location from a user, access two-dimensional physical world map data for a region surrounding the physical world geographical location, render for display on the display screen a three-dimensional mirrored world portion based on the two-dimensional physical world map data and render an avatar at a mirrored world location corresponding to the physical world geographical location, access geotagged social media posts which have geotags in the region and which the user is permitted to view, and render the geotagged social media posts as three-dimensional objects in the mirrored world portion. |
| US11087549B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for dynamic navigable 360 degree environments
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for creating freely explorable, dynamic and photorealistic virtual environments, reconstructing view dependent holograms in real-time, and inserting 3D virtual objects into 360 camera based navigable environment. A method, may include simultaneously capturing 360 video data and audio data from a plurality of viewpoints within a real-world environment. The method may also include preprocessing and compressing the 360 video data and the audio data into a three-dimensional representation suitable for display. The method may further include rendering a virtual environment of the real-world environment. In addition, the method may include creating a blended virtual environment by combining the captured 360 video data and the audio data with the rendered virtual environment. Further, the method may include displaying the blended virtual environment in a display apparatus of a user. |
| US11087548B2 |
Authoring and presenting 3D presentations in augmented reality
Various methods and systems are provided for authoring and presenting 3D presentations. Generally, an augmented or virtual reality device for each author, presenter and audience member includes 3D presentation software. During authoring mode, one or more authors can use 3D and/or 2D interfaces to generate a 3D presentation that choreographs behaviors of 3D assets into scenes and beats. During presentation mode, the 3D presentation is loaded in each user device, and 3D images of the 3D assets and corresponding asset behaviors are rendered among the user devices in a coordinated manner. As such, one or more presenters can navigate the scenes and beats of the 3D presentation to deliver the 3D presentation to one or more audience members wearing augmented reality headsets. |
| US11087544B2 |
Augmented reality system for fitness
Described herein are embodiments of methods and apparatuses for a wearable augmented reality system for fitness. The embodiments may include producing an avatar in the field of vision of the wearer, wherein a perceived position of the avatar may be controlled to aid the wearer in fitness training by establishing a controllable pace for the wearer. The embodiments may further include an optical system that produces the avatar such that it may be perceived by the wearer of the wearable augmented reality apparatus as a virtual running partner. |
| US11087543B1 |
Crowd sourced mapping system
A crowd-sourced modeling system to perform operations that include: receiving image data that comprises image attributes; accessing a 3D model based on at least the image attributes of the image data, wherein the 3D model comprises a plurality of parts that collectively depict an object or environment; identifying a change in the object or environment based on a comparison of the image data with the plurality of parts of the 3D model, the change corresponding to a part of the 3D model from among the plurality of parts; and generating an update to the part of the 3D model based on the image attributes of the image data. |
| US11087541B2 |
Location-based identification of petrochemical assets in an industrial plant
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for determining the location of a worker in a plant, such as a petrochemical manufacturing or refining facility in order to render an augmented view of at least one asset in the vicinity of a fiducial marker. A field worker mobile device may scan the fiducial marker and render operating values for a measurable element of the assets in the field of view of the mobile device. Location of the mobile device with respect to the assets in the vicinity of the fiducial marker may be determined based upon the known location and orientation of the fiducial marker and/or the known location and orientations of the assets relative to the fiducial marker. |
| US11087530B2 |
Method and system for accessibility and control of parameters in scenegraphs
A method and system for providing access to and control of parameters within a scenegraph includes redefining components or nodes' semantic within a scenegraph. The set of components or nodes (depending on the scenegraph structure) are required to enable access from the Application User Interface to selected scenegraph information. In one embodiment, a user interface is generated for controlling the scenegraph parameters. In addition, constraints can be implemented that allow or disallow access to certain scenegraph parameters and restrict their range of values. |
| US11087527B2 |
Selecting an omnidirectional image for display
Some embodiments involve obtaining access to a number of omnidirectional images each representing a different viewpoint relative to a scene, and to metadata indicating a physical relation between the respective viewpoint and a physical object in the scene. Viewer data may be obtained that is indicative of a current physical relation between a viewpoint of the user and a same type of physical object in a current viewing environment of the user. An omnidirectional image may then be selected for display by comparing the viewer data to the metadata of the omnidirectional images.In other embodiments, an omnidirectional image may be selected, e.g., from omnidirectional images or by being the only available image, and the user may be instructed to assume a viewpoint in which the physical relation to the physical object in the user's current viewing environment corresponds to the physical relation as indicated by the selected image's metadata. |
| US11087526B2 |
Image processing program, image processing apparatus, and image processing method
A non-transitory computer-readable medium including an image processing program is provided. The image processing program causes a terminal device to: obtain a photographed image obtained by photographing a real space; display a display frame having one or more display areas in a display area of the photographed image in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied; obtain virtual space information at least containing three-dimensional virtual object information and positional relationship information, the three-dimensional virtual object information regarding one or more three-dimensional virtual objects arranged in a virtual space in advance; and render a certain three-dimensional virtual object viewed behind the display area when the display frame is photographed from the virtual viewpoint in a case where the display frame in the virtual space is virtually photographed from a virtual viewpoint, and display the certain three-dimensional virtual object in the display area of the display frame. |
| US11087523B2 |
Production ray tracing of feature lines
A computer-implemented method and system provide the ability to draw a feature line on an image. An image is acquired and is represented as a set of pixel samples for every pixel in the image, with each pixel sample including one or more feature attributes. One or more features are detected based on differences between the feature attributes. The detected features are represented by pixel samples. A color of the pixel samples representing the detected features is altered. The image is rendered based on the pixel samples including the altered color, and the feature line includes the altered color. |
| US11087522B1 |
Apparatus and method for asynchronous ray tracing
Apparatus and method for asynchronous ray tracing. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: a bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) generator to construct a BVH comprising a plurality of hierarchically arranged nodes including a root node, a plurality of internal nodes, and a plurality of leaf nodes comprising primitives, wherein each internal node comprises a child node to either the root node or another internal node and each leaf node comprises a child node to an internal node; a first storage bank to be arranged as a first plurality of entries; a second storage bank to be arranged as a second plurality of entries, wherein each entry of the first plurality of entries and the second plurality of entries is to store a ray to be traversed through the BVH; an allocator circuit to distribute an incoming ray to either the first storage bank or the second storage bank based on a relative numbers of rays currently stored in the first and second storage banks; and traversal circuitry to alternate between selecting a next ray from the first storage bank and the second storage bank, the traversal circuitry to traverse the next ray through the BVH by reading a next BVH node from a top of a BVH node stack and determining whether the next ray intersects the next BVH node. |
| US11087518B2 |
Second-person avatars
The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can provide for a second-person avatar. The second-person avatar can rely upon a second-person-based perspective such that the avatar is displayed to appear to encompass all or portions of a target user. Accordingly, actions or a configuration of the avatar can serve as a model or demonstration for the user in order to aid the user in accomplishing a particular task. Updates to avatar activity or configuration can be provided by a dynamic virtual handbook. The virtual handbook can be constructed based upon a set of instruction associated with accomplishing the desired task and further based upon features or aspects of the user as well as those of the local environment. |
| US11087517B2 |
Sketch-based abstraction for character posing and synthesis
In particular embodiments, a 2D representation of an object may be provided. A first method may comprise: receiving sketch input identifying a target position for a specified portion of the object; computing a deformation for the object within the context of a character rig specification for the object; and displaying an updated version of the object. A second method may comprise detecting sketch input; classifying the sketch input, based on the 2D representation, as an instantiation of the object; instantiating the object using a 3D model of the object; and displaying a 3D visual representation of the object. |
| US11087516B2 |
Electronic device and method for correcting handwriting by same
An electronic device and method are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes: a processor, and a memory operatively connected to the processor. The processor implements the method, including: receive an input of handwritten text including characters, set corpus line key points indicating a substantial-top positions of the characters included in the handwritten text and base line key points indicating a substantial bottom positions of the characters, calculate at least a first feature value based on at least one corpus line key point from among the corpus line key points, and a second feature value based on at least one extracted base line key point from among the base line key points, respectively, input the calculated first feature value into a first neural network to cause the first neural network to generate a first result value, input the calculated second feature value into a second neural network to cause the second neural network to generate a second result value, and input the first result value and the second result value into a fully connected neural network to generate a third result value. |
| US11087515B2 |
Losslessly exchanging image layer data between image editing applications
Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for losslessly exchanging image layer data between image applications by generating an edit-restricted layer for one image application to represent an incompatible or unsupported image layer from another image application. For example, the disclosed system can determine that one or more image layers in a layered image file formatted for a layered image application include characteristics incompatible (e.g., unsupported) with a feature-restricted image application. The disclosed system can then generate an edit-restricted image layer representing the image layer(s) in the feature-restricted image application by limiting or preventing edit operations to the edit-restricted layer as a type of preview object. The disclosed system can also store image layer data from the feature-restricted image application back to the layered image file for viewing and editing in the layered image application without loss of image layer data corresponding to the edit-restricted layer. |
| US11087512B2 |
High visibility overlay systems and methods
A highly visible overlay system may include a display system and contrasting visible element configuration components configured to define contrasting visible elements. An imaging component is configured to capture an image of a target scene for display. A processing component is configured to construct the plurality of contrasting visual elements in accordance with a visual acuity factor, and generate an electronic overlay constructed of the contrasting visual elements. A display component is configured to display the constructed overlay in combination with the image of the target scene, with the overlay being displayed as an overlay on the image of the target scene. The contrasting visual elements may include a white block and a black block, configured to satisfy visual acuity factor, display configuration and field of view information. |
| US11087507B2 |
System and method for scatter correction
The present disclosure provides a method for processing projection data. The method may include obtaining a first image generated by performing a first scan to a subject by a first imaging device; determining first projection data based on the first image, the first projection data corresponding to a first area of the subject; obtaining second projection data by performing a second scan of the subject using a second imaging device, the second projection data corresponding to a second area of the subject, the first area at least partially overlapping with the second area in an overlapping area; determining registered first projection data by registering the first projection data to the second projection data with respect to the overlapping area; determining scatter component based on the registered first projection data and the second projection data, the scatter component including low-frequency scattered radiation signals. |
| US11087505B2 |
Weighted color palette generation
In implementations of weighted color palette generation, one or more computing devices implement a generation system which receives input data including an input color palette. A first machine learning model receives the input color palette and generates an unweighted color palette based on the input color palette. A second machine learning model receives the generated unweighted color palette and generates a weighted color palette based on the generated unweighted color palette. The generation system renders the weighted color palette in a user interface. |
| US11087500B2 |
Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus
The present invention relates to an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, A method of decoding an image according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises: decoding transformation information; creating at least one transformed reference picture by applying the transformation information to at least one reference picture organized in a reference picture list; inserting the at least one transformed reference picture into the reference picture list; and performing motion compensation by using the reference picture list. |
| US11087499B2 |
Three-dimensional data encoding method, three-dimensional data decoding method, three-dimensional data encoding device, and three-dimensional data decoding device
A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: extracting, from first three-dimensional data, second three-dimensional data having an amount of a feature greater than or equal to a threshold; and encoding the second three-dimensional data to generate first encoded three-dimensional data. For example, the three-dimensional data encoding method may further include encoding the first three-dimensional data to generate the second encoded three-dimensional data. |
| US11087497B2 |
Chemical detection system for water source
In an approach for chemical detection for a water source, a processor receives, from a network device of a plurality of network devices, data, wherein the data includes at least one of image data, video data, chemical sensor data, and biosensor data. A processor updates a predictive model with the data. A processor receives a table of possible chemical compositions from the predictive model. A processor determines to send an alert based on the table of possible chemical compositions. A processor sends the alert to a user device. |
| US11087493B2 |
Depth-image processing device, depth-image processing system, depth-image processing method, and recording medium
A depth-image processing device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: generate, cased on a synthetic model in which a three-dimensional model of a human body and a three-dimensional model of an object are combined, a plurality of learning images in which a depth image that indicates a distance from a reference position to respective positions on the human body or to respective positions on the object, and a part image to identify any one of respective parts of the human body and a cart of the object are associated with each other, and learn an identifier in which a feature of the depth image and any one of a part of the human body and a part of the object are associated with each other, based on the learning images. |
| US11087490B2 |
Method and device for determining areas of interest based on geolocation data
This application provides a method and a device for determining an area of interest based on geolocation data. The method includes: dividing an area on a map into a plurality of blocks; for each block in the area, determining the number of terminals within the block in a duration as a value of the block in the duration; determining a plurality of anchor points based on the blocks having values greater than a threshold; and obtaining a curve based on some or all of the anchor points, wherein an area bounded by the curve is an area of interest. |
| US11087488B2 |
Automated gesture identification using neural networks
Disclosed are methods, apparatus and systems for gesture recognition based on neural network processing. One exemplary method for identifying a gesture communicated by a subject includes receiving a plurality of images associated with the gesture, providing the plurality of images to a first 3-dimensional convolutional neural network (3D CNN) and a second 3D CNN, where the first 3D CNN is operable to produce motion information, where the second 3D CNN is operable to produce pose and color information, and where the first 3D CNN is operable to implement an optical flow algorithm to detect the gesture, fusing the motion information and the pose and color information to produce an identification of the gesture, and determining whether the identification corresponds to a singular gesture across the plurality of images using a recurrent neural network that comprises one or more long short-term memory units. |
| US11087485B2 |
Cargo sensors, cargo-sensing units, cargo-sensing systems, and methods of using the same
A cargo-sensing unit including: an image sensor; at least one processor; and a memory having stored thereon computer program code that, when executed by the processor, controls the at least one processor to: instruct the image sensor to capture an image of a cargo space within a cargo container; compare the captured image to a baseline image of an empty cargo container; and determine, based on the comparison between the captured image and the baseline image, a cargo space utilization estimate. |
| US11087480B2 |
Image processing apparatus and image processing method
Provided is a drawing section that generates a display image from a predetermined viewpoint by using a texture image and a depth image of a first layer and using a texture image and a depth image of a second layer in which a range of information indicated by a pixel value is different from at least one of the texture image or the depth image of the first layer. |
| US11087476B2 |
Trajectory tracking method and apparatus, computer device, and storage medium
A trajectory tracking method is provided for a computer device. The method includes performing motion tracking on head images in a plurality of video frames, to obtain motion trajectories corresponding to the head images; acquiring face images corresponding to the head images in the video frames, to obtain face image sets corresponding to the head images; determining from the face image sets corresponding to the head images, at least two face image sets having same face images; and combining motion trajectories corresponding to the at least two face image sets having same face images, to obtain a final motion trajectory of trajectory tracking. |
| US11087475B2 |
Heatmap and atlas
A dynamic anatomic atlas is disclosed, comprising static atlas data describing atlas segments and dynamic atlas data comprising information on a dynamic property which information is respectively linked to the atlas segments. |
| US11087474B2 |
Method, apparatus, device, and storage medium for calibrating posture of moving obstacle
A method, an apparatus, a device, and a medium for calibrating a posture of a moving obstacle are provided. The method includes: obtaining a 3D map, the 3D map including first static obstacles; selecting a target frame of data, the target frame of data including second static obstacles and one or more moving obstacles; determining posture information of each of the one or more moving obstacles in a coordinate system of the 3D map; registering the target frame of data with the 3D map; determining posture offset information of the target frame of data in the coordinate system according to a registration result; calibrating the posture information of each of the one or more moving obstacles according to the posture offset information; and adding each of the one or more moving obstacles after the calibrating into the 3D map. |
| US11087473B2 |
Method and pixel array for detecting motion information
A method for detecting motion information includes the following steps. First, a pixel array is provided for detecting an image of a measured object located in a first distance range or in a second distance range, and the pixel array includes a plurality of invisible image sensing pixels and a plurality of visible image sensing pixels. Then, image detection is conducted within the first distance range by using the invisible image sensing pixels to output a plurality of invisible images. Next, the image detection is conducted within the second distance range by using the visible image sensing pixels to output a plurality of visible images. Then, the plurality of invisible images and the plurality of visible images are analyzed by using a processing unit, so as to obtain motion information of the measured object. A pixel array for detecting motion information and an image sensor are also provided. |
| US11087472B2 |
Image processing device, method, and medium for calculating propagation speed and direction of object pulsations
An image processing device includes a processor to detect motion of objects in an observation area on the basis of a captured image. The processor also calculates amounts of each detected motion, and calculates a propagation speed, a propagation direction, or both, of the motion for pulsations of the objects. |
| US11087470B2 |
Image analysis including targeted preprocessing
A system includes a K1 preprocessing module designed to generate at least one intermediate image from an input image using a parameterized internal processing chain and an analysis module to detect a feature or object in the intermediate image. A method to train the system includes feeding a plurality of learning input images to the system, comparing a result provided by the analysis module for each of the learning input images to a learning value, and feeding back a deviation obtained by the comparison to an input preprocessing module and/or adapting parameters of the internal processing chain to reduce the deviation. |
| US11087469B2 |
Method, apparatus, and system for constructing a polyline from line segments
An approach is provided for generating a polyline from line segments (e.g., line segments representing objects detected by a computer vision system). The approach involves selecting a line segment from a plurality of line segments. The approach also involves determining a neighboring line segment from among the plurality of line segments. The determined neighboring line segment has a closest distance to the line segment from among the plurality of line segments. The approach further involves merging the line segment and the neighboring line segment into a polyline based on determining that the closest distance is a mutual closest distance between line segment and the neighboring line segment. |
| US11087468B2 |
Item classification using localized CT value distribution analysis
Among other things, one or more systems and/or techniques for classifying an item disposed within an object are provided herein. A three-dimensional image of the object (e.g., a bag) is segmented into a set of item representations (e.g., laptop, thermos, etc.). An item is identified from the set of item representations based upon item features of the item, such as the laptop that could be used to conceal an item of interest such as an explosive. A region comprising a three-dimensional image of the item is divided into a set of sub-regions (e.g., a first sub-region encompassing a screen, a second sub-region encompassing a motherboard, etc.). The item is classified as a potential first type of item (e.g., an explosive laptop) when any sub-region has a number of voxels, with computed tomography (CT) values within a range of known CT values for a first type of item, exceeding a threshold. |
| US11087466B2 |
Methods and system for compound ultrasound image generation
The invention provides a method for generating a compound ultrasound image. The method includes acquiring and beamforming channel data. Using the beamformed channel data a plurality of images, each image comprising a plurality of pixels, of a region of interest are obtained and an image information metric, wherein the image metric is associated with a pixel of the plurality of pixels, is assessed. The acquiring of the plurality of images and the assessment of the image metric are performed in parallel. For each image of the plurality of images: a per-pixel weighting for each pixel of the plurality of pixels based on the assessment of the image information metric is determined and applied to each pixel of the plurality of pixels. Finally a compound ultrasound image is generated based on the plurality of weighted pixels of the plurality of images. |
| US11087465B2 |
Medical image processing apparatus, medical image processing method, and medical image processing program
A determination processing unit determines a disease region in a medical image including an axisymmetric structure. A first determination section of the determination processing unit generates a feature amount map of the medical image from the medical image. A second determination section second inverts the feature amount map with reference to a symmetry axis to generate an inverted feature amount map. A third determination section superimposes the feature amount map and the inverted feature amount map on each other and determines the disease region in the medical image using the feature amount map and the inverted feature amount map superimposed on each other. |
| US11087460B2 |
Methods and systems for training and validating quantitative imaging biomarkers
Systems and methods for analyzing pathologies utilizing quantitative imaging are presented herein. Advantageously, the systems and methods of the present disclosure utilize a hierarchical analytics framework that identifies and quantify biological properties/analytes from imaging data and then identifies and characterizes one or more pathologies based on the quantified biological properties/analytes. This hierarchical approach of using imaging to examine underlying biology as an intermediary to assessing pathology provides many analytic and processing advantages over systems and methods that are configured to directly determine and characterize pathology from underlying imaging data. |
| US11087459B2 |
Quantitative imaging for fractional flow reserve (FFR)
Systems and methods for analyzing pathologies utilizing quantitative imaging are presented herein. Advantageously, the systems and methods of the present disclosure utilize a hierarchical analytics framework that identifies and quantify biological properties/analytes from imaging data and then identifies and characterizes one or more pathologies based on the quantified biological properties/analytes. This hierarchical approach of using imaging to examine underlying biology as an intermediary to assessing pathology provides many analytic and processing advantages over systems and methods that are configured to directly determine and characterize pathology from underlying imaging data. |
| US11087457B1 |
Digital projection system and associated method
A method and apparatus for assembling components of a workpiece. Some embodiments include a work surface; a first digital projector that projects an image of at least some features of the workpiece onto the work surface, wherein the image includes a plurality of line indicators that have visually discernible different markings such as colors or line types; a camera that obtains input images of the work surface and the components of the workpiece; and a first controller configured to receive the input images from the camera and to control the first digital projector to project the first output digital image on the work surface for assembly of the components to form the workpiece, wherein the first controller is further configured to store distortion-correction parameters and to use the stored distortion-correction parameters to adjust the first projected output digital image. In some embodiments, the workpiece is a lumber truss. |
| US11087455B2 |
Machine vision system
A machine vision system capable of measuring differences on an absolute scale is disclosed. In the machine vision system, a reference object is accurately measured using a reference measurement arrangement, such as a coordinate measurement machine. In the measurement, a set of determined virtual points are measured. The reference measurement is used for computing a deviation matrix between a determined coordinate matrix and the reference measurement results that is later used for computing absolute scale values from machine vision measurements. |
| US11087454B2 |
Defect observation device and defect observation method
A defect observation device comprising: a defect determination coordinate creation unit by which the coordinates of a plurality of second defect candidates are determined as overlapping defect candidate coordinates, the plurality of second defect candidates respectively having, in a plurality of second imaging visual field regions overlapping a first imaging visual field region, a circuit pattern which partly overlaps a circuit pattern in the first imaging visual field region, in which a first defect candidate for defect determination among a plurality of defect candidates of a sample is present; a pseudo-reference image generation unit which generates a pseudo-reference image including a circuit pattern of the first defect candidate by superimposing a plurality of images respectively captured at the plurality of overlapping defect candidate coordinates; and a defect determination unit which compares an image for defect determination captured at the coordinates of the first defect candidate with the pseudo-reference image to determine the presence or absence of a defect in the image for defect determination. |
| US11087453B2 |
Automated failure detection for medical device testing systems and methods
Systems and methods are described for capturing images of articles under test and processing the images to automatically detect the failure of a test article. The described methods include optimizing image capture to allow for the use of low cost imaging devices instead of high speed cameras or other expensive equipment. The described methods also include several methods for processing the images to identify the occurrence of a failure event. |
| US11087452B2 |
False alarm reduction system for automatic manufacturing quality control
A false alarm reduction system and method are provided for reducing false alarms in an automatic defect detection system. The false alarm reduction system includes a defect detection system, generating a list of image boxes marking detected potential defects in an input image. The false alarm reduction system further includes a feature extractor, transforming each of the image boxes in the list into a respective set of numerical features. The false alarm reduction system also includes a classifier, computing as a classification outcome for the each of the image boxes whether the detected potential defect is a true defect or a false alarm responsive to the respective set of numerical features for each of the image boxes. |
| US11087451B2 |
Generating multi-focal defect maps using optical tools
A method comprises obtaining a wafer comprising a plurality of components, wherein each of the plurality of components exposes a first surface of the component present in a first focal plane and a second surface of the component present in a second focal plane. The method comprises generating, by an optical tool, a first image of the first surface and a second image of the second surface of one of the plurality of components. The method comprises comparing, by a processor, the first image with a first reference image to produce a first value and the second image with a second reference image to produce a second value. The method comprises generating, by the processor, a wafer map indicating a quality state of the one of the plurality of components based on the first and second values. |
| US11087450B1 |
Wheel matcher
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for selecting re-usable car wheels, comprising, receiving one or more images of an evaluated used car wheel, transforming one or more of the images to multi-dimension feature vectors, mapping the evaluated used car wheel to one of a plurality of used car wheels by applying one or more trained ML models to classify the multi-dimension feature vector. The one or more trained ML models are trained using a plurality of multi-dimension feature vectors each created based on a plurality of images of a plurality of used car wheels, computing a price value of the mapped used car wheel based on a plurality of sale transactions of used car wheels such as the mapped used car wheel, and generating instructions to indicate whether the evaluated used car wheel is re-usable or not based on comparison between the computed price value and a price threshold. |
| US11087449B2 |
Deep learning networks for nuisance filtering
Methods and systems for detecting defects on a specimen are provided. One system includes a first deep learning (DL) network configured for filtering nuisances from defect candidates detected on a specimen. Output of the first DL network includes a first subset of the defect candidates not filtered as the nuisances. The system also includes a second DL network configured for filtering nuisances from the first subset of the defect candidates. Computer subsystem(s) input high resolution images acquired for the first subset of the defect candidates into the second DL network. Output of the second DL network includes a final subset of the defect candidates not filtered as the nuisances. The computer subsystem(s) designate the defect candidates in the final subset as defects on the specimen and generate results for the defects. |
| US11087448B2 |
Apparatus, method, and non-transitory recording medium for a document fold determination based on the change point block detection
An image processing apparatus includes a character determining unit configured to divide the read image into multiple blocks, each of the multiple blocks including multiple characters, and determine an inclination of each of the multiple characters included in each of the multiple blocks, a block processing unit configured to detect a change point block, the change point block being a block including characters having an inclination included in a first inclination interval, a number of the characters being equal to or larger than a first threshold, and including characters having an inclination included in a second inclination interval, a number of the characters being equal to or larger than the first threshold, the second inclination interval being different from the first inclination interval, and a fold determining unit configured to determine that the document is folded if the change point block is detected. |
| US11087447B2 |
Systems and methods for quality assurance of image recognition model
Disclosed embodiments provide systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for stress testing a vehicle identification model by determining image quality parameters optimizing model confidence values. The embodiments comprise one or more memory devices storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute instructions. The one or more processors perform operations comprising receiving a first set of images of the vehicle, wherein the images contain preset values for parameters comprising at least one of a rotation, a focus, a contrast, and a color. The system further analyzes the first set of images with an identification model and determining an initial identification confidence of the vehicle. The system further modifies the first set of images, compares the modified images to the first set of images, and determines whether the model should be modified based on at least the comparison. |
| US11087443B2 |
Augmented reality system and color compensation method thereof
An augmented reality system and a color compensation method thereof are proposed. The method is applicable to an augmented reality system having a display and an image sensor and include the following steps. A preset object position of a virtual object with respect to an actual scene is set. An image of the actual scene is captured by using the image sensor, and the image of the actual scene is mapped to a field of view of the display to generate a background image with respect to the field of view of the display. Color compensation is performed on the virtual object according to a background overlapping region corresponding to the preset object position in the background image to generate an adjusted virtual object, and the adjusted virtual object is displayed on the display according to the preset object position. |
| US11087442B1 |
Mask-based spatio-temporal dithering
In one embodiment, a computing system may determine, for a pixel of a current subframe of a series of subframes, a compensated target pixel value based on a difference between (1) an aggregated target pixel value of the pixel in the current subframe and previous subframes of the series of subframes and (2) an aggregated actual pixel value of displayed pixel values of the pixel in the previous subframes of the series of subframes. The compensated target pixel value may compensate a quantization error for the pixel displayed in the previously subframes of the series of subframes. The system may access a mask value, corresponding to a pixel position of the pixel, from a dithering mask having a spatial stacking property. The system may determine a quantized pixel value for the pixel of the current subframe by quantizing the compensated target pixel value based on the mask value. |
| US11087435B1 |
Adaptive dewarping of wide angle video frames
A video system processes video frames from a wide angle camera to dewarp the video frames in a manner that preserves conformity of an object of interest. A crop region of a video frame corresponding to the object of interest is determined. An input parameter to a dewarping function is generated based on the detected crop region. The dewarping function is applied to the crop region using the input parameter to generate a dewarped video frame and the dewarped video frame is outputted. The input parameter may be generated in a manner that causes the dewarped video frame to have higher conformity and lower distortion in the region around the object of interest than in a region distant from the object of interest. |
| US11087433B2 |
Convolutional neural network
A convolutional neural network (CNN) for an image processing system comprises an image cache responsive to a request to read a block of N×M pixels extending from a specified location within an input map to provide a block of N×M pixels at an output port. A convolution engine reads blocks of pixels from the output port, combines blocks of pixels with a corresponding set of weights to provide a product, and subjects the product to an activation function to provide an output pixel value. The image cache comprises a plurality of interleaved memories capable of simultaneously providing the N×M pixels at the output port in a single clock cycle. A controller provides a set of weights to the convolution engine before processing an input map, causes the convolution engine to scan across the input map by incrementing a specified location for successive blocks of pixels and generates an output map within the image cache by writing output pixel values to successive locations within the image cache. |
| US11087432B2 |
Multistage neural network processing using a graphics processor
A multistage neural network system can store neural networks as shader programs on GPU memory. Neural network weights can be stored as shader objects or textures on the GPU memory. The GPU can receive a number of neural network image processing tasks to perform on images captured by a client device. The GPU can execute the tasks per driver parameters and display results in real time or near real time on the client device. |
| US11087422B2 |
Method and device for determining a configuration for deployment of a public transportation system
Techniques for determining a configuration for deployment of a public transportation system including a plurality of electric public transportation vehicles, in particular electric buses, are disclosed. At least one processor may determine, prior to deployment of the public transportation system and based on received information on timetables and geographical route profiles, a fleet size of a fleet of electric public transportation vehicles, on-board battery parameters of on-board batteries to be installed in electric public transportation vehicles, and charging infrastructure parameters associated with a charging infrastructure to be installed for charging the on-board batteries of the electric public transportation vehicles. |
| US11087421B2 |
Method and apparatus for improved analysis of legal documents
The present disclosure provides apparatus and method for improving analysis of legal documents. A legal document is parsed to generate a list of desired legal authorities. These legal authorities are then acquired from a trusted repository of authorities and processed through a modified text-to-speech program in a desired order to obtain a brief audio recording of the cited authorities. |
| US11087420B1 |
Energy scoring
Techniques are described for energy scoring of a monitored property and users of the monitored property. A system provides users with information related to the efficiency of the monitored property and aggregates data over multiple monitored properties. The system computes and outputs a score for a monitored property that reflects efficiency of the property and/or the users of the property. The system may track how that score changes through time, and how it relates to neighboring properties. The score may be expressed as both a number and a percentile. |
| US11087418B2 |
Method for implementing O2O catering operation, server and smart cooking device
The present disclosure provides a method for implementing O2O catering operation, a server and a smart cooking device. The method is applied to a server and includes: receiving a recipe uploaded from a merchant terminal; sending the recipe to at least one client terminal; receiving at least one order information sent from the at least one client terminal; decomposing and combining the at least one order information to obtain combined food material information, where the combined food material information includes the food material information obtained by combining same types of food materials in the received at least one order information; sending the at least one order information and the combined food material information to the merchant terminal; and sending an order recipe to a smart cooking device. |
| US11087414B2 |
Distance-based social message pruning
Correspondences in a social networking system are analyzed to determine at least one topic. An activity stream with the at least one topic is analyzed. A target audience for the activity steam is identified. The activity stream is analyzed according to a uniqueness and a relationship criteria to form an assessment. The assessment is analyzed to a predetermined action criteria. Performing an action responsive to determining the assessment satisfies the predetermined action criteria. |
| US11087408B2 |
Method and apparatus for organising financial data
A method of organising financial data is described in which financial data is obtained from one or more data source and imported into a computer program. The data may, for example, be bank account data obtained from a bank via a wireless connection. The computer program modifies the data so obtained into a format suitable for presentation to a user. At least some of said electronic data is obtained without being manually entered by an operator. |
| US11087407B2 |
Systems and methods for mobile image capture and processing
In several embodiments, methods, systems, and computer program products for processing digital images captured by a mobile device are disclosed. The techniques include capturing image data depicting a document; defining a plurality of candidate edge points within the image data; and defining four sides of a tetragon based on at least some of the plurality of candidate edge points; wherein each side of the tetragon corresponds to a different side of the document; wherein an area of the tetragon comprises at least a threshold percentage of a total area of the digital image; and wherein the tetragon bounds the digital representation of the document. |
| US11087402B2 |
Method and device for pushing information and method and device for determining default input value
Implementations of the present specification provide fund-related service information. In an implementation, historical information of a fund item of a user is retrieved. A projected change of the fund item within a time period based on the historical information is determined. Fund-related service information based on the projected change of the fund item within the time period is determined. The fund-related service information to the user to compensate for the projected change is transmitted. |
| US11087400B2 |
Systems and methods for displaying order performance metrics
Systems and methods for generating a graphical representation for and displaying order performance metrics for one or more user orders of one or more market instruments. A graphical representation of the order performance metrics can be aligned with a graphical representation of market data relating to prices and volume of user orders, market orders, user order executions, and market trades. The order performance metrics can be displayed as one or more performance bars or ribbons divided into segments, which can be assigned a color based on a user order's performance with respect to a market benchmark. The graphical representations can be displayed using a display device. |
| US11087397B2 |
Computing systems for managing and administering dynamic letters of credit
Controlling communications between arrangements of computing systems improves letter of credit (“LC”) administration, speed, flexibility, and reach. The computing systems can be operated by an Applicant, Issuer, Custody Bank, and Beneficiary. LC improvements are achieved by the Applicant computing system making a LC request to the Issuer computing system, which obtains a hold on non-cash collateral and provides the hold to the Custody Bank computing system, designating the Custody Bank as both nominated person and paying agent. The Custody Bank computing system obtains a hold on the collateral, using it to immediately act on Beneficiary payment requests in kind of the collateral. Under these arrangements, the LC is capable of immediate payment and automated amendments to Stated Amounts to rebalance capacity amongst Beneficiaries of the Applicant, the LC Stated Amount and collateral values are always equal, and the LC is less susceptible to payment interference, automatic stays, and double payment. |
| US11087396B1 |
Context aware predictive activity evaluation
Systems and techniques for context aware predictive activity evaluation are described herein. A set of transaction variables may be identified for a predicted transaction. A set of inputs may be obtained corresponding to each transaction variable of the set of transaction variables. A value may be determined for each transaction variable using the set of inputs corresponding to each transaction variable of the set of transaction variables. The value for each transaction variable may be compared to a set of transaction models to select a transaction model for the predicted transaction. A probability may be calculated that the predicted transaction will be approved using the transaction model for the predicted transaction. The probability that the predicted transaction will be approved may be displayed on a display device. |
| US11087390B1 |
Method and system for displaying items provided by a merchant
A user interface that facilitates the selection and purchase of an item may be presented on a display. The user interface includes a presentation section and one or more other sections, such as a title section, buy section, alternate image section, package art section, review section, rating section, or other section. The presentation section may extend a full-width of a display or window available for display, while maintaining a desired aspect ratio. Video, slideshows, or other visual information may be played within the presentation section. One or more sections may overlay the presentation section. For example, at least a portion of the buy section may overlay at least a portion of the presentation section. |
| US11087388B1 |
Product-focused search method and apparatus
Provided are a method and computer system for facilitating selection of a paint by a user over a communication network. A server component of the computer system receives a type of the paint available on a website desired by the user over the communication network, and transmits content over the communication network to present the user with an arrangement of available colors for the paint. A desired color selected by the user from the arrangement of available colors is received. Without transmitting content over the communication network to cause the user computer to separately present all variants of the paint comprising both the type of the paint and the desired color selected by the user, content indicative of a collection of variants of the paint and a selectable menu of options for specifying an additional parameter that identifies a desired variant of the paint are transmitted. |
| US11087384B2 |
Information processing system, storage medium storing program, and control method
An information processing system including an information processing device that is used by a first user and a server configured that can communicate with the information processing device is provided. The server is configured to store a first list of commodities which are sold by the first user who uses a vehicle, a second list of commodities which a second user wants to purchase, and position information of a receiving place of the commodities. The information processing device is configured to notify the first user of transaction information when a predetermined condition based on position information or travel route information of the vehicle which is moving and the position information of the receiving place is satisfied. The transaction information is information including identification information of commodities which are common to the first list and the second list and the position information of the receiving place. |
| US11087382B2 |
Adapting digital order to venue service queue
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods include, for instance: obtaining a digital order via a mobile device from a user and determining the digital order is placed within a venue boundary for an immediate pickup. Certain exceptions are checked, and the digital order is merged with a physical queue of patrons waiting to be serviced at a device virtual position, provided the digital order is no exception based on digital order rules. The order is scheduled for later service according to the device virtual position and the user is informed as such. |
| US11087381B2 |
Method for simultaneously one-step filling a virtual shopping cart with many items from one or multiple resources; all items of any type or characteristics from potential resources which have been embodied into a customized list which has been simultaneously generated and sourced in one-step then presented visually to user to select items; culminating and resulting acquisition to be simultaneosly placed in a single virtual shpping cart and all are acquired simultaneously from many source
A method for Simultaneously in one-step filling a Virtual Shopping Cart with many items from one or multiple resources at one time; all items of any type from all potential resources are embodied into a Customized List of All Items, which has been Simultaneously generated and sourced from all potential resources in one-step and then presented visually to the User in a unique format from which the User selects specific designated, approved and desired items, with distinction to the source, type or characteristics of those items; resulting in a Simultaneous one-step of moving all of the selected items into a single Virtual or Online Shopping Cart for purchase or acquisition; ordered and/or ordered and paid for then allocated for acquisition and fulfillment of all items Simultaneously from as many sources as necessary. |
| US11087380B2 |
Method, article of manufacture, and system for provisioning available appointments
The system instantly provisions high demand items to a consumer. The system may be capable of identifying an item for a consumer based on information about the consumer and a demand associated with the item. The system may also be capable of reserving a reservation for the item. The system may further be capable of provisioning the item to the consumer based on a demand associated with the item. In this regard, the item may be instantly available to the consumer. The system may also be capable of adjusting an item inventory in the item inventory database. The system may further provide available appointments to consumers for selection in real-time. |
| US11087375B2 |
Techniques for configurable part generation
Certain example embodiments relate to techniques generating a database of virtual families for real-time generation of part numbers for configurable products. For instance, certain example embodiments may include receiving a search request for part numbers and determining virtual families including entities matching the search request. The number of matching products matching the search request and the part numbers may be determined based on the virtual families and the independent groups stored in the virtual families that match the search request. The part numbers may be determined based on allowed characters, number and/or symbols for the part number positions defined in the independent groups of the virtual families including the entities matching the one or more configurable properties of the user input search request. Facet counts for the configurable product may also be determined based on the results of the user input search request. |
| US11087373B2 |
Embedded retail system
A system and associated method. The system includes a server computer and an integration and dis-integration engine coupled to the server computer. The server computer provides a structure in which the components are integrated via dynamic application programming interface (API) integration. Multiple components are sequenced in a predefined sequential order. A function to be performed is respectively associated with each component. The server computer and the integration and dis-integration engine provide a technology environment that dynamically integrates technology enabled business processes that dynamically, electronically and automatically enter and leave the components integrated in the structure provided by the server computer. The technology enabled business processes are dynamically integrated during implementation of a retail sale of a product to a customer in a de-centralized manner to perform, in the predefined sequential order of the components, all of the functions respectively associated with the components. |
| US11087371B2 |
Blockchain-based invoice creation method apparatus, and electronic device
Computer-implemented methods, non-transitory, computer-readable media, and computer-implemented systems for creating blockchain-based invoices are provided. In a computer-implemented method, an invoice creation transaction for a target payment order is received by a node device in a tax blockchain. The invoice creation transaction includes an identifier of a first collection confirmation transaction whose certificate has been stored in the tax blockchain. The first collection confirmation transaction includes an identifier of a second collection confirmation transaction whose certificate has been stored in a payment blockchain. The first and second collection confirmation transaction are identified based on the identifiers of the first and second collection confirmation transaction, respectively. In response to detecting that collection confirmation data in the first collection confirmation transaction matches collection confirmation data in the second collection confirmation transaction, invoice creation logic declared in a predetermined smart contract is invoked to create an invoice for the target payment order. |
| US11087370B2 |
System and method for administering charitable auctions
A system and method for administering charitable auctions which generates a donation screen in electronic form that includes a donation button that indicates the guest would like to donate a surcharge donation to a philanthropic cause, and a refusal button that indicates that the guest would not like to donate. Once the guest determines whether to donate, a bid authorization is generated for the guest so that he or she may bid in the charitable auction. Following the auction, the guest is charged for any purchases during the auction, plus a surcharge donation if authorized. |
| US11087364B1 |
Advertising delivery control system
A dynamically regulated advertising delivery control system. A campaign is operated by sending bids to an exchange responsive to receiving bid requests from the exchange, each bid request representing an opportunity to expose a browser to content. Won bid notifications are received from the exchange and exposure notifications are received from exposed browsers. Failed exposures are detected by detecting won bid notification identifiers without corresponding exposure notification identifiers. Responsive to the failed exposures exceeding an upper limit, the campaign is operated in a throttled mode by sending bids to the exchange in response to a fraction of the suitable bid requests received from the exchange and ignoring some suitable bid requests. Responsive to detecting successful exposures in the throttled mode, the operation of the campaign is dynamically regulated by increasing the fraction. |
| US11087363B2 |
Apparatus and method for processing user personal information
In an embodiment, a system server receives, from a plurality of advertiser devices, a plurality of advertisements, at least one corresponding personal information value, and a corresponding price. The system server calculates, for each of a plurality of personal information types, a corresponding price. The system server sends, to a first message account, a plurality of messages, in which each message includes a respective advertisement of the subset of advertisements. Then the system server instructs a message device to output an indication of, for each of a plurality of types of personal information, whether a corresponding personal information value has been released. |
| US11087357B2 |
Systems and methods for utilizing a machine learning model to predict a communication opt out event
A device may receive first customer data, and may receive first contact data. The device may generate second customer data that includes the first customer data, and may generate second contact data that includes the first contact data and additional contact data. The device may generate a quantity of simulated future communications based on differences between the first customer data and the second customer data and between the first contact data and the second contact data, and may process the quantity of simulated future communications, with a machine learning model, to determine a probability distribution for an opt out event. The device may determine a relationship between the quantity of simulated future communications and probabilities of the opt out event, and may identify a particular probability of the opt out event based on the relationship. The device may perform actions based on the particular probability. |
| US11087354B2 |
Combination therapies
The present invention relates generally to the fields of molecular biology and growth factor regulation. More specifically, the invention relates to therapies for the treatment of pathological conditions, such as cancer. |
| US11087353B2 |
Extensible point-of-sale platforms and associated methods
A computer-implemented method for an extensible point-of-sale device is disclosed. The method includes registering a third-party application to be notified of a transaction change on the point-of-sale device. The method also includes displaying a user interface to a user during a purchase transaction on a display of the point-of-sale device using one of a register module and a payment module. The method also includes receiving the transaction change via the user interface of the point-of-sale device. The method also includes broadcasting the transaction change to a set of registered applications that includes the third-party application. The method also includes taking an action that modifies the purchase transaction using the third-party application in response to the broadcasting. |
| US11087351B2 |
System and method for managing e-commerce
Disclosed herein includes a system and method for providing an online shopping platform. A memory may store a user's loyalty points for redemption. The platform may display lists of goods for sale provided by different merchants. A user may place a purchase order for a product offered by a first merchant. The purchase order may also include another product offered by a second merchant. The system and method may calculate a total cost of the purchase order. The system and method may deduct at least a portion of the loyalty points available in the user's loyalty account in exchange for a currency value. The system and method may reduce the cost of the purchase order by the currency value. |
| US11087349B1 |
System for generating replacement digital promotions based upon initial promotion expiration and related methods
A system for processing a digital promotion may include a user device associated with a given user and a digital promotion processing server. The digital promotion processing server may include a processor and a memory cooperating therewith to, upon return of a purchased product associated with the given user, determine whether an initial digital promotion was applied to the purchased product, and if so, determine whether the initial digital promotion has expired. When the initial digital promotion has not expired, the processor may generate a first replacement digital promotion having a first promotional value associated therewith, and communicate the first replacement digital promotion to the user device. When the initial digital promotion has expired, the processor may generate a second replacement digital promotion having a second promotional value associated therewith that is less than the first promotional value, and communicate the second replacement digital promotion to the user device. |
| US11087347B1 |
Home maintenance monitoring and rewards
Methods, computer-readable media, systems and apparatuses for home maintenance monitoring and rewarding users for completion of various home maintenance tasks are provided. The systems may receive data associated with a home, such as a plurality of systems and/or devices associated with the home. Based on the received information, the systems may generate a maintenance task list for the home including a plurality of maintenance tasks. Data related to maintenance performed on the home may be received and, based on the received maintenance data, a determination may be made as to whether one or more tasks on the maintenance task list have been completed. Upon completion of a task, a reward, such as points, discounts on future maintenance, insurance premium discounts, etc., may be deposited in an account of the user. In some arrangements, the points may be redeemed as payment on future maintenance, payment on insurance premiums, or the like. |
| US11087342B1 |
Promotion processing system including chatbot based image voting and related methods
A promotion processing system may include user devices that may include a mobile device to acquire an image of a given product having a brand associated therewith. The system may include a promotion processing server to obtain the acquired image of the given product from the mobile wireless device, and use image recognition to determine the brand associated with the given product based upon the acquired image. The server may also operate a chatbot with the user devices. The chatbot may include a social media wall having user-obtained images of different products, and each different product may be associated with the brand. The server may add the acquired image to the social media wall and solicit voting, within the chatbot and from the user devices, for a favored image on the social media wall, and determine and communicate a reward value to the mobile device based upon the voting. |
| US11087332B2 |
Customer communication system including service pipeline
A system for automatic authentication of service requests includes authentication of a remote access device. This authentication may be accomplished automatically prior to text or audio communication between a customer and a service agent. In some embodiments, authentication is accomplished automatically by authentication of the remote access device or accomplished by asking the customer questions. A single authentication of the remote access device may be used to authenticate a service request transferred between service agents. The authentication of the remote device may include, for example, use of a personal identification number, a fingerprint, a photograph, and/or a hardware identifier. Some embodiments include an intelligent pipeline configured for managing queues of customer service requests. |
| US11087331B2 |
Failure detection and logging for a toll-free data service
A first device may receive an error log relating to an error associated with accessing content that is associated with a toll-free data campaign. The error log may include information identifying the error. The first device may determine a cause of the error based on the error log. The first device may determine an updated status of the content or the toll-free data campaign. The first device may generate an error explanation based on the cause of the error and the updated status. The error explanation may identify the cause of the error or the updated status. The first device may cause the error explanation to be provided to a second device that is associated with the error log. |
| US11087329B2 |
Method and apparatus of identifying a transaction risk
A method and an apparatus for identifying a transaction risk are disclosed. The method includes obtaining risk identification information of a sub-network to which a node relating to a transaction to be identified belongs; and identifying a risk of the transaction to be identified based on the risk identification information of the sub-network to which the node relating to the transaction to be identified belongs, wherein the sub-network is a network acquired by partitioning a relationship network based on connectivity, the relationship network is a network built up with entities and activities relating to a plurality of transactions. Embodiments of the present disclosure build up entities and activities relating to a transaction to be identified into a relationship network, and identify whether a risk exists in the transaction to be identified using risk identification information of the network which is difficult to be found or changed, and thus are able to identify a transaction risk in a more effective manner. |
| US11087324B2 |
Pre-authorized secure resource allocation system
An interaction and resource exchange system that provides authentication for a designated user to complete an interaction entered into by an initiating user. An initiating user is able to enter into interactions with third-parties and set one or more interaction limits and/or designated user requirements to allow a designated user to complete the interaction with the third-party should interaction limits and/or designated user requirements be met. The interaction limits and/or the designated user requirements allow for improved security related to these types of interactions and resource exchanges. In particular, the interaction and resource exchange may be implemented through a real-time resource exchange network that efficiently allows for the designated user to complete the interaction. |
| US11087318B1 |
System and method for electronic coupons
Improved checkout systems, apparatuses and methods for managing electronic coupons include a checkout kiosk, a point-of-sale system and a microprocessor with an electronic rules engine. The electronic rules engine is configured to allow application of electronic coupons to customer accounts internally to the point-of-sale system. Redemption of the electronic coupons is allowed by the consumer at the kiosk without a scan-able artifact. |
| US11087313B1 |
Systems, methods, and program products for a digital math-based asset exchange
Systems, methods, and program products for providing exchanges for converting from, to, or between digital assets, and in particular digital math-based assets, such as bitcoins, Namecoins, Litecoins, PPCoins, Tonal bitcoins, IxCoins, Devcoins, Freicoins, I0coins, Terracoins, Liquidcoins, BBQcoins, BitBars, PhenixCoins, Ripple, Dogecoins, Mastercoins, BlackCoins, Ether, Nxt, BitShares-PTS, Quark, Primecoin, Feathercoin, and Peercoin, to name a few, are disclosed. In embodiments, such systems, methods, and program products can further provide or be used in conjunction with automated transactions, digital asset arbitrage systems, and/or kiosk systems for transacting or interacting with digital math-based assets. A kiosk for transacting with digital assets and digital asset exchanges is also disclosed. Systems, methods, and program products for automated transactions and automated digital asset arbitrage transactions are also disclosed. |
| US11087312B2 |
Account tokenization for virtual currency resources
Embodiments of the present invention are used in a token based financial transaction system, whereby individual tokens associated with one or more financial accounts provided to one or more third parties. Embodiments credit an amount of a virtual currency in at least one bank account of a customer, wherein the at least one bank account has an associated amount of funds that is increased by the credit of the amount of virtual currency; generate a payment token associated with the at least one bank account of the customer; receive a transaction request to process a transaction using the token; determine that the transaction request is associated with a transaction having a transaction amount less than or equal to the amount of funds associated with the at least one bank account; and approve and settle the transaction. |
| US11087307B2 |
Kit, system and associated method and service for providing a platform to prevent fraudulent financial transactions
A system and associated method and service for providing a platform that enables members to transfer, receive, or otherwise exchange cash in various international denominations and commodities, such as precious metals (e.g., gold, silver, etc.), in a mobile highly secured telecommunications environment. The system is capable of delivering cash instantly between two or more users by allowing the exchange of secure transactions between system and cash dispensing machines (ATMs). Users may pay, receive, exchange, deposit, transfer, pay bills, exchange currency, retrieve cash, deposit cash and create accounts based on the mobile phone number or a system generated code. |
| US11087304B2 |
Systems and methods for device authentication
Systems and methods for device authentication are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for authenticating a device includes, at a financial institution comprising an acquirer portion, a payment network portion, and an issuer portion: (1) the acquirer portion receiving, from the merchant, a least one mobile device credential and a payment credential that were received electronically from a mobile payment application executed by a mobile electronic device in conjunction with a transaction, the acquirer portion further receiving transaction data for the transaction from the merchant; (2) the issuer portion receiving, via the payment network portion, the mobile device credentials, the payment credentials, and transaction data from the acquirer portion; and (3) at least one computer processor at the issuer portion identifying and authenticating the customer based on the mobile device credentials and the payment credential. |
| US11087303B2 |
Method for reading information from electronic tag
A method for reading information stored in an electronic tag includes (a) initiating a tag reading process during which information stored in an electronic tag is read by an electronic reading device, (b) emitting radio signals from an antenna of the electronic tag reading device toward a predetermined area while moving the antenna, and (c) after step (b), stopping the emitting of the radio signals and the moving of the antenna. Steps (b) and (c) are repeated one or more times during the tag reading process. |
| US11087301B1 |
Tamper resistant device
Aspects of the technology provide systems, devices and methods for filling design voids within an assembled electronic device with tamper solids in order to prevent and/or detect a tampering with the electronic device to gain unauthorized access to the electronic device to steal information. |
| US11087300B2 |
Inventory management computer system
A computer system includes an inventory management server, a plurality of point-of-sale (POS) terminals communicating with the inventory management server over a first network, a face recognition computer having a camera communicating with the inventory management server over the first network, and a portable terminal communicating wirelessly with the inventory management server over a second network. The inventory management server is configured to generates alerts that are displayed on the portable terminal based on first data from the POS terminals and second data from the face recognition computer. |
| US11087295B2 |
System and method for private data transactions
A system and method for transacting private data is described. A request for a transaction between a payor and a payee is received. A need for additional information for at least one of the payor or the payee is further determined from a payment processing partner. The requested additional information is obtained from one of a database or from the one of the payor or the payee. The obtained requested additional information is sent to the payment processing partner. |
| US11087290B2 |
Techniques to improve a schedule with optimization
Techniques to improve a schedule using optimization are described. Some described techniques improve the schedule using optimization upon a user's travel booking operation and/or in response to changes in the user's relationships. The techniques include an apparatus, a method, and a computer-readable medium configured to process relationship data associated with potential candidates for a set of meetings in a schedule, relationship data corresponding to interaction indicia with each potential candidate, generate, from the relationship data, a connectivity network comprising links with the potential candidates, each link of the links corresponding to a relevance value between a user and a specific potential candidate, and populate, via an optimization unit, open meeting spaces in the schedule with meeting data based upon the connectivity network and availability data of the potential candidates, the schedule being configured to substantially maximize relevancy of the set of meetings. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US11087286B2 |
Method and system for scheduling a ride service for one or more third parties
This disclosure generally relates to a method and system for requesting a ride for a third party rider. In one embodiment, a user device may be used to transmit a ride request to a server for a third party rider. The user device may receive an indication of a driver from a set of trusted drivers among a pool of drivers. Further, the user device and a device associated with the third party user may receive a ride confirmation. |
| US11087282B2 |
Content creation, deployment collaboration, and channel dependent content selection
Content creation and deployment collaboration techniques are described. In one or more implementations, metadata that describes the creation of the content may be associated with the content. The content may then be provided from a content creation service to a content deployment service for deployment as part of a marketing activity. Deployment data obtained from this tracking may be utilized to support a variety of functionality, such as by content creators to determine which of their content has been successfully employed as part of marketing activities, marketers may also use knowledge of the deployment of the content to choose content to be included in a marketing activity as well as select content creators that are best suited to provide this content, used to configure badges, by retailers and manufacturers, and so forth. |
| US11087280B2 |
User analytics for interview automation
Methods and media for predicting responses to discovery questions while interviewing a user. Embodiments of the invention begin by collecting information about the user from various sources. Factors affecting likely responses to discovery questions are identified and a score for each discovery question is determined. These scores may be adjusted as additional information is gathered and as the user answers other interview questions. Then, for each discovery question, the score is compared to a first threshold. If the score is above that first threshold, then the discovery question can be skipped. Otherwise the score is compared to a second, lower threshold. If the score is above that threshold, the likely answer to the discovery question can be presented to the user to confirm. Otherwise, the discovery question is presented to the user to answer. |
| US11087275B2 |
Shelf inventory management system
Technologies are described herein for converting the output of a pressure sensitive mat into an image and processing the image to identify the products present on the mat. An example system includes a processor configured to read pressure values from the plurality of pressure sensors on the pressure sensitive mat and generate an image with each pixel in the image encoding a value corresponding to a pressure value read from the pressure sensitive mat. A server may be configured to receive the image from the processor and process the image to identify one or more types of products that may be present on the pressure sensitive mat for each product package detected to be present on the pressure sensitive mat based on a combination of two or more of a shape of the product package, one or more dimensions of the product package, or a weight of the product package. |
| US11087270B1 |
Indexing video for retail investigations
A limited number of items are identified as high-theft items and RFID tags are added to only units of high-theft items. At periodic times during a day, a mobile scanner is taken to each area of a store that contains high-theft items and the mobile scanner is used to read signals from the RFID tags of only the units of high-theft items and thereby generate a periodic inventory count of the high-theft items. The periodic inventory counts for each high-theft item are then electronically stored. |
| US11087267B1 |
Configurable vehicle
A modular vehicle system includes a plurality of vehicle modules with at least one autonomous vehicle module. A request from a user located at a user location specifies a plurality of the vehicle modules. The user location is specified, and a module location is determined for each of the specified vehicle modules. Based on the request, the specified modules are retrieved from the module locations, and assembled into a configured vehicle. The configured vehicle is located at a dispatch location. The configured vehicle is then dispatched from the dispatch location to the user location. |
| US11087265B2 |
System, method and recording medium for causality analysis for auto-scaling and auto-configuration
Similar to other Cloud Service, Solution as Services over Cloud, as single tenant technology, also requires support of agility and flexibility as a fundamental feature of Cloud computing. Different from other Cloud services, the agility and flexibility typically are not triggered by the typical performance metrics, but at the business level of metrics. A causality analysis method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium using a causal graph depicting relationships among observable primitive metrics from infrastructure, middleware, and business metrics and latent business metrics of an application, include identifying a metric value resulting from measuring the system and application metrics, determining an impact of the measurement of the metrics on the business metrics associated with the measurable metrics in the causal graph, and determining an action to take with respect to the impact on the business metric based on the pre-defined business policies. |
| US11087264B2 |
Crowdsourcing of meetings
The method includes receiving a first set of data from a first client device. The method further includes determining a first topic from the first set of data. The method further includes generating a first productivity value for the first topic. The method further includes receiving a second set of date data from a second client device. The method further includes determining a second topic from by the second set of data. The method further includes generating a second productivity value for second set of data. The method further includes comparing the first topic to the second topic. The method further includes in response to comparing the first topic and the second topic and determining the difference between the first productivity value and the second productivity value is above a threshold value, triggering an action. |
| US11087263B2 |
System monitoring with key performance indicators from shared base search of machine data
An automatic service monitor in an information technology environment has its operation controlled by information that, in part, define entities that perform services and define key performance indicators (KPIs) that indicate measures of performance of the services. KPIs are defined in terms of search queries applied against machine data by or about the entities that perform the services. The search query aspects of multiple KPI definitions may be tied to a shared base search. Implementation of the shared base search may permit improved performance of the service monitor and may permit a reduction in administrative burden. |
| US11087258B2 |
Automated process reversal
A method and system for automatically reversing a process is provided. The method includes defining a forward process comprising a set of forward activities for automatically performing an automated task. First undo activities and associated data structures, associated with undoing a first forward activity of the set of forward activities, first interdependencies between the first undo activities are defined. Additionally, first triggers comprising a first link between the first forward activity and the first undo activities are defined. Second undo activities and associated data structures, associated with undoing a second forward activity as well as second interdependencies between the second undo activities are defined. Additional second triggers comprising a second link between the second forward activity and the second undo activities are defined. |
| US11087257B2 |
System and method for modular customization of intermediate business documentation generation
Systems and methods capable of providing customized business processes, such as with regard to intermediate business transaction documents, within a standard business process flow system. The systems and methods may include a process interface for receiving the standard business process flow; a developmental graphical user interface capable of developing a plurality of object-oriented custom modules indicative of a plurality of custom business steps; a plurality of data libraries capable of storing at least configurations and rules applicable to the plurality of object-oriented custom modules; a run time graphical user interface capable of selecting multiple ones of the plurality of object-oriented custom modules for inclusion in a custom process stack; and a trigger sensor capable of receiving a trigger indicated by one of the configurations at the process interface, and capable of diverting the standard business process flow to process the custom process stack related to the trigger according to the configurations and rules upon receipt of the trigger. |
| US11087252B2 |
Interactive real time system and real time method of use thereof in conveyance industry segments
The present invention recognizes that there is a long felt need for more efficient systems in the interactive conveyance industry for goods and services. A first aspect of the present invention generally relates to an interactive real time system in the conveyance and other industries. A second aspect of the present invention generally relates to a real time method of use of the interactive system of the present invention. |
| US11087251B2 |
Automatically creating digital content in a federated application system based on sentiments of electronic responses
The techniques herein include an inquiry controller determining whether timing criteria have been met for sending an inquiry to a particular user account. In response to determining that the timing criteria for sending an inquiry to the particular user account is satisfied, the inquiry is sent to and received by a particular user device associated with the particular user account. When a response is received, a response analyzer analyzes it and selects a first follow-up action, with associated first digital content, for the system to perform for the particular user account based on the analysis. The chosen action may include automatically creating a calendar item in a digital calendar associated with the user account, updating a digital task list for the user account, generating and transmitting a second inquiry to the particular user device, and the like. The follow-up action is then performed. |
| US11087250B2 |
Interactive real time system and real time method of use thereof in conveyance industry segments
The present invention recognizes that there is a long felt need for more efficient systems in the interactive conveyance industry for goods and services. A first aspect of the present invention generally relates to an interactive real time system in the conveyance and other industries. A second aspect of the present invention generally relates to a real time method of use of the interactive system of the present invention. |
| US11087247B2 |
Dynamic optimization for data quality control in crowd sourcing tasks to crowd labor
Systems and methods of dynamic optimization for data quality control in crowd sourcing tasks to crowd labor are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, for dynamically monitoring results received from workers for a task distributed for evaluation via a job distribution platform, incrementally assigning additional workers to the task using the results and continuously monitoring additional results to assign any additional workers if needed to meet a quality metric for the task. |
| US11087242B2 |
Application of spatial dimension to cruise search and cabin selection
A user interface that improves the cruise line itinerary research and selection process by integrating an interactive geographical display that is able to display multiple cruise line itineraries thereby reducing the number of page reloads during the user interaction with the user interface. Further, the user interface improves the cruise line cabin selection process by integrating spatial dimension data into cabin search results across cabin types and/or categories. |
| US11087240B2 |
Enabling secure handover of information between users
System (100) for enabling a secure handover of information between an outgoing user and an incoming user, the system comprising: an interface (120) for accessing handover data (122), the handover data being indicative of information to be communicated from the outgoing user (010) to the incoming user (020) during a handover event; and a monitoring subsystem (140) for i) receiving sensor data (042) from a sensor (040) monitoring the handover event, ii) based on the handover data, determining one or more attributes indicative of communication of the information, and iii) analyzing the sensor data in dependence on the one or more attributes to determine whether the information has been communicated to the incoming user during the handover event; a reporting subsystem (160) for reporting on a result of said determining. |
| US11087239B2 |
System and method for computing a probability that an object comprises a target using segment points
A method for computing a probability that an object comprises a target includes: performing a scan of an area comprising the object, generating points; creating a segment corresponding to the object using the points as segment points, the segment extending from a first segment point to a last segment point, the segment comprising a plurality of the segment points; and applying a metric, computing the probability that the object comprises the target. |
| US11087237B2 |
Machine learning techniques for transmitting push notifications
Systems and methods including one or more processing modules and one or more non-transitory storage modules storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processing modules and perform acts of: utilizing historical transaction information to derive metric information associated with prior transactions; generating a listing of user-item pairs, each of the user-item pairs identifying a user and an item; executing a machine learning model that is configured to generate a transmission list for sending push notifications; generating a transmission list by selecting user-item pairs based on the conversion probability values and the confidence indicators that are assigned to the user-item pairs; customizing content for the push notifications to include information for items identified by the user-item pairs included in the transmission list; and transmitting the push notifications to the users identified by the user-item pairs included in the transmission list. Other embodiments are disclosed herein. |
| US11087234B2 |
Method and system for distributed deep machine learning
The present teaching relates to distributed deep machine learning on a cluster. In one example, a request is received for estimating one or more parameters associated with a machine learning model on a cluster including a plurality of nodes. A set of data is obtained to be used for estimating the one or more parameters. The set of data is divided into a plurality of sub-sets of data, each of which corresponds to one of the plurality of nodes. Each sub-set of data is allocated to a corresponding node for estimating values of the one or more parameters based on the sub-set of data. Estimated values of the one or more parameters obtained based on a corresponding sub-set of data allocated to the node, are received from each of the plurality of nodes. The one or more parameters of the machine learning model are estimated based on the estimated values of the one or more parameters generated by at least some of the plurality of nodes. |
| US11087232B2 |
Quantum hybrid computation
Technologies are described herein to implement quantum hybrid computations. Embodiments include receiving a hybrid program, assigning respective functions corresponding to the hybrid program to either of CPU processing or QPU processing, scheduling processing for the respective functions, initiating execution of the hybrid program, and collating results of the execution of the classical-quantum hybrid program. |
| US11087230B2 |
Determining an optimal region in a target value optimization problem and utilizing the optimal region to perform an action
A device receives an optimization problem and a target value and input data for the optimization problem, and specifies constraints for the optimization problem based on the input data. The device identifies an optimization space for the optimization problem based on the constraints and the input data, and divides the optimization space into sub-regions based on the constraints and the input data. The device performs optimizations of a set of the sub-regions, and determines a respective distance of each sub-region, of the set of the sub-regions, from the target value. The device selects a particular sub-region that is a shortest distance from the target value, and selects a vector from the particular sub-region. The device executes the optimization problem using the vector as an initial parameter and to generate results, and utilizes the results to recommend one or more decisions or modify a process. |
| US11087229B2 |
Accelerated machine learning optimization strategy to determine high performance cluster with minimum resources
A method of machine learning includes performing dimensionality reduction on a parameter space by performing initial tests to determine scores for a plurality of parameter values in the parameter space, determining aggregate scores for a plurality of parameter value combinations, determining a ranking of the plurality of parameter value combinations based on the aggregate scores, and performing cluster analysis on the plurality of parameter value combinations to determine a set having highest aggregate scores. The method further includes performing additional tests, wherein each additional test is for a parameter value combination in the set. For each such parameter value combination, a probability of achieving a key performance indicator (KPI) is computed. Cluster analysis is then performed to determine a first subset of the set having highest probabilities of achieving the KPI. An operation is then performed on the first subset. |
| US11087227B2 |
Anomaly detection in spatial and temporal memory system
Detecting patterns and sequences associated with an anomaly in predictions made a predictive system. The predictive system makes predictions by learning spatial patterns and temporal sequences in an input data that change over time. As the input data is received, the predictive system generates a series of predictions based on the input data. Each prediction is compared with corresponding actual value or state. If the prediction does not match or deviates significantly from the actual value or state, an anomaly is identified for further analysis. A corresponding state or a series of states of the predictive system before or at the time of prediction are associated with the anomaly and stored. The anomaly can be detected by monitoring whether the predictive system is placed in the state or states that is the same or similar to the stored state or states. |
| US11087215B1 |
Machine learning classification system
A computing device classifies unclassified observations. A first batch of noise observations is generated. (A) A first batch of unclassified observations is selected. (B) A first batch of classified observations is selected. (C) A discriminator neural network model trained to classify unclassified observations and noise observations is updated with observations that include the first batch of unclassified observations, the first batch of classified observations, and the first batch of noise observations. (D) A discriminator loss value is computed that includes an adversarial loss term computed using a predefined transition matrix. (E) A second batch of unclassified observations is selected. (F) A second batch of noise observations is generated. (G) A generator neural network model trained to generate a fake observation vector for the second batch of noise observations is updated with the second batch of unclassified observations and the second batch of noise observations. (H) (A) to (G) is repeated. |
| US11087210B2 |
Context and domain sensitive spelling correction in a database
A method of operating a health tracking system is disclosed. The method comprises: receiving a first data record comprising at least a first descriptive string regarding a consumable item, the first descriptive string having at least one word thereof incorrectly spelled; generating a vector using the first descriptive string using a machine learning model; identifying a second descriptive string which corresponds to the consumable item and which has a correct spelling of the at least one incorrectly spelled word by applying the machine learning model to the generated vector; calculating a confidence factor regarding the identified second descriptive string using the machine learning model; and when it is determined that the confidence factor exceeds a predetermined threshold, (i) modifying the first data record by replacing the first descriptive string with the second descriptive string, and (ii) storing the modified first data record in the database. |
| US11087206B2 |
Smart memory handling and data management for machine learning networks
A mechanism is described for facilitating memory handling and data management in machine learning at autonomous machines. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes detecting multiple tables associated with multiple neural networks at multiple autonomous machines, where each of the multiple tables include an index. The method may further include combining the multiple tables and multiple indexes associated with the multiple tables into a single table and a single index, respectively, where the single table is communicated to the multiple autonomous machines to allow simultaneous processing of one or more portions of the single table using one or more memory devices and one or more processors of one or more of the multiple autonomous machines. |