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US11134600B2	Assembly system An assembly system that includes a robot adapted to grip an electronic device to be mounted on a circuit board, a first vision system that identifies a position and a posture of the electronic device gripped by the robot, a fixing device that fixe a plurality of circuit boards thereon, and a second vision system that identifies a position and a posture of the circuit board fixed on the fixing device. The robot mounts the gripped electronic device on a circuit board under the visual guidance of the first vision system and the second vision system. The view field of the second vision system is not capable of completely covering a surface region of all circuit boards fixed on the fixing device. The assembly system further includes a moving mechanism that moves the second vision system in a first horizontal direction and a second horizontal direction perpendicular to the first horizontal direction, so that the second vision system completes identification of all circuit boards on the fixing device step by step. With this assembly system, the robot complete the assembly work of all circuit boards at an assembly station. Also, a method of assembling a circuit board that mounts a gripped electronic device on a circuit board.
US11134599B2	Component mounter and component mounting system for mounting stacked components During mounting of an upper component on a lower component, after mounting the lower component on a board, the Z-axis position of a suction nozzle tip is detected during mounting of the lower component on the board and memorized as a lower component height, and when mounting the upper component PU, the suction nozzle is lowered at relatively high speed until reaching a specified position that is a distance above the lower component height, and the suction nozzle is lowered at a speed that is slower than the speed after arriving at the specified position until contact with the lower component.
US11134597B2	Component mounting device A component mounting device includes a mounting portion that mounts a component on a bonding material disposed on a substrate, and a measurement unit that measures a state of the bonding material at least after an operation of mounting the component performed by the mounting portion. The component mounting device further includes a control unit that verifies the state of the bonding material based on a measurement result obtained by the measurement unit when defective mounting of the component has occurred.
US11134593B2	Touch substrate, manufacturing method thereof, and touch display device A touch substrate and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The touch substrate includes a base substrate including a touch area and a light shielding area surrounding the touch area. A first ground wiring and a second ground wiring which lies in a different layer from the first ground wiring are disposed in the light shielding area. The first ground wiring includes a first terminal exposed on a surface of the touch substrate. The second ground wiring includes a second terminal exposed on the surface of the touch substrate. The first terminal and the second terminal do not overlap with each other in a direction perpendicular to the base substrate.
US11134592B2	Power conversion device A power conversion device capable of suppressing air from flowing back into a housing is provided. The power conversion device includes a power conversion unit configured to perform power conversion, a housing for accommodating the power conversion and having an air inlet and an air outlet, a fan provided inside the housing and generating airflow in such a manner that air flows to the outside of the housing via the air outlet after flowing into the housing via the air inlet, and a cover provided at the air outlet, the cover being configured to be brought into an opened state with respect to the air outlet if the airflow generated by the fan is stronger than airflow moving from the outside of the housing toward the air outlet, and to be brought into a closed state with respect to the air outlet if the airflow generated by the fan is weaker than the airflow moving from the outside of the housing toward the exhaust of the housing.
US11134586B2	External robotic system for liquid immersion cooling platform An autonomous vehicle is disclosed which can map a facility and navigate its way to a particular liquid cooling system. The vehicle can be in communication with a central server, which can control the vehicle. The vehicle can align itself against the liquid cooling system and receive a computing device on a platform of the vehicle. The platform can be lowered and secured in an enclosure of the vehicle. Then, the vehicle can transport the computing device to a storage facility.
US11134584B2	Wireless device charger with cooling device A wireless device charger is configured to produce an alternating magnetic field, thereby inducing an alternating electrical current within a capture coil of a personal electronic device proximate to the wireless device charger. The wireless device charger includes a source coil having a ferrite element configured to generate the alternating magnetic field, a housing formed of a thermally conductive material in thermal communication with the ferrite element, and an air movement device configured to produce a turbulent air flow across a surface of the housing flowing from an air inlet to an air outlet, thereby reducing a housing temperature.
US11134578B2	Locking device and chassis using locking device A locking device includes a housing, a first linking member, a second linking member, a push-pull member, and a stopper. The push-pull member defines a first sliding groove. A first end portion of the first linking member is slidably received in the first sliding groove, and a second end portion of the first linking member is rotationally fixed on the housing. The housing defines a second sliding groove. The stopper is slidably received in the second sliding groove. A second end portion of the second linking member is rotationally mounted on the first linking member. The first end portion of the first linking member is driven by the push-pull member to move along the first sliding groove, which drives the second linking member to rotate, which drives the stopper to move along the second sliding groove.
US11134576B2	Printed circuit board A printed circuit board has a first base region and a flexible region. The printed circuit board includes a core layer including a first insulating layer including a high elastic material and a first wiring layer disposed on the first insulating layer; a first build-up layer disposed on the core layer in the first base region, and including a second insulating layer including a low elastic material, and having a first through portion penetrating through the second insulating layer; and a first electronic component disposed in the first through portion and connected to the first wiring layer.
US11134574B2	Double-sided circuit board and method for preparing the same A method for preparing a conductive circuit can begin with the preparation of a non-conductive substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface, and then utilizing a pulse laser to create a top circuit pattern upon the top surface, a bottom circuit pattern upon the bottom surface, and a through hole connecting the top circuit pattern with the bottom circuit pattern. Subsequently, a conductive circuit is formed upon the top circuit pattern and the bottom circuit pattern and inside the through hole, wherein the conductive circuit is restricted from being formed upon the top surface outside of the top isolation region and the bottom surface outside of the bottom isolation region.
US11134572B2	Circuit board structure and method for manufacturing a circuit board structure The present publication discloses a method for manufacturing a circuit-board structure. In the method, a conductor layer is made, which comprises a conductor foil and a conductor pattern on the surface of the conductor foil. A component is attached to the conductor layer and the conductor layer is thinned, in such a way that the conductor material of the conductor layer is removed from outside the conductor pattern.
US11134569B2	PCB transformer The present invention provides for a PCB transformer comprising a core and planar PCB winding, wherein the core has two legs extending from a table portion, and wherein a planar PCB winding extends around each of the said legs, and wherein the outer dimensions of the table portion in regions overlying the planar PCB windings match substantially the outer dimension of the planar PCB winding so as to achieve particularly efficient coupling between the winding and the core.
US11134566B2	Apparatus for fabricating stretchable electrical circuit Disclosed is an apparatus for fabricating a stretchable electrical circuit, including: a stretching device configured to stretch a mounted stretchable substrate in two different directions; a marking device configured to mark a mark on the stretchable substrate; an image device configured to obtain an image of the stretchable substrate on which a plurality of alignment marks are marked by the marking device; and a control device configured to control the stretching device, the image device, and the marking device. The control device forms a first axis and a second axis using the plurality of alignment marks marked on the image obtained by the image device and marks one point of a surface of the stretchable substrate with coordinates made by the first axis and the second axis using the first axis and the second axis.
US11134562B2	Chip interconnect devices An interconnect device may include a first center conductor of a first material that has a first durometer. The first center conductor may be surrounded by a first inner dielectric ring, which may be surrounded by a conductive region of a second material having a second durometer. The second durometer may be different from the first durometer. The conductive region may have a first end that defines a first plane and a second end that defines a second plane. An outer dielectric ring may surround the conductive region. The first center conductor may have a first bulb and a second bulb, the first bulb may extend in a direction away from the second plane and beyond the first plane, and the second bulb may extend in a direction away from the first plane and beyond the second plane.
US11134561B2	Wiring board and method for producing the same A wiring board includes a rod-shaped shaft member including at one end a flange that has a larger diameter than any other portion, a heat-releasing plate including a first through-hole in which the shaft member is inserted, and a board including a second through-hole in which the shaft member is inserted. In the wiring board, a gap is formed at least in part between the heat-releasing plate and the board.
US11134555B1	Power cable for light string and power supply device A power cable for a light string includes two wires, a body and a switching circuit. The two wires extend from a first end to a second end. The body is disposed on the two wires. The switching circuit includes a normally open contact switch and a voltage dividing resistor. The normally open contact switch is connected in series with the voltage dividing resistor and is electrically connected to two wires. The normally open contact switch and the voltage dividing resistor are disposed in the body, and the normally open contact switch is at least partially exposed on the surface of the body. The normally open contact switch is configured to be repeatedly pressed, so that the voltage division state between the two wires changes to form a trigger signal combination.
US11134554B2	Control method for combined lamp, and illumination system The present disclosure provides a method for controlling a combined lamp, a lighting system and an electronic device, and the method includes connecting a main controller to any lamp unit of the combined lamp, taking a lamp unit which is physically connected to the main controller as a reference, configuring address information for lamp units of the combined lamp according to a preset algorithm strategy and according to a connection relationship between the lamp units of the combined lamp. The main controller carries the address information parsed from a control instruction in the control signal and sends the control signal to the combined lamp, and enables a lamp unit, which is matched with the address information in the control signal, to utilize the control signal to control a light-emitting state of the lamp unit.
US11134553B2	Lighting memory device and memory module A lighting memory device and a memory module are provided. A lighting control circuit receives at least one lighting mode selection signal through lighting mode control pins and controls luminous characteristics of a plurality of light sources according to a lighting control mode corresponding to the lighting mode selection signal.
US11134540B2	Mixed mode bluetooth communications A device and a method for mixed mode communication are disclosed. For example, a Bluetooth master device transmits data packets to a Bluetooth slave device and receives acknowledgments from the Bluetooth slave device, by controlling a transceiver to transmit the data packets based on a Bluetooth Basic Rate/Enhanced Data Rate (BR/EDR) protocol, and to receive the acknowledgements packet (ACK) based on a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) protocol. In another example, a Bluetooth slave device receives the data packets from a Bluetooth master device and transmits acknowledgments to the Bluetooth master device, by controlling a transceiver to receive the data packets based on a BR/EDR protocol, and to transmit the ACK based on a BLE protocol.
US11134535B2	Radio terminal and base station A user equipment for a mobile communication system, includes: a receiver configured to receive a radio resource control (RRC) release message for transitioning the user equipment to a specific state, from a base station via a serving cell; and a controller configured to cause the user equipment to transition to the specific state in response to the reception of the RRC release message. The RRC release message includes: a radio access network (RAN) paging area identifier indicating a RAN paging area configured by the base station to the user equipment; and a public land mobile network (PLMN) identifier indicating a PLMN corresponding to the RAN paging area. The controller is configured to perform a process of transmitting a notification to a cell when the user equipment moves to the cell that does not belong to the RAN paging area after transitioning to the specific state.
US11134533B2	SMS processing method in internet of things, mobility management network element, and terminal device The present disclosure relates to an SMS processing method in an Internet of Things, a mobility management network element, and a terminal device, to provide an SMS service for an Internet of Things terminal device. One example method includes receiving, by a mobility management network element in a packet switched (PS) domain, a non-combined registration request from a terminal device. The non-combined registration request carries SMS only indication information. When determining that the mobility management network element in the PS domain cannot transfer an SMS for the terminal device through the PS domain, the mobility management network element in the PS domain sends a location update request to a mobility management network element in a circuit switched (CS) domain. The location update request is used to implement registration of the terminal device with the CS domain.
US11134528B2	Method and apparatus for operating wireless communication system having separated mobility management and session management The present invention defines signaling required for separating a network entity (NE) responsible for mobility management (MM) and session management (SM), which are main function of a control plane (CP) in a next generation (NextGen) mobile communication system, and presents a basic procedure for providing mobile communication services including the signaling. Therefore, complexity of core equipment responsible for the CP is reduced in order to implement a network slice function and provide various levels of mobility, and an effect of minimizing a signaling load therebetween can be obtain. In addition, it is possible to efficiently manage the resources of a base station (radio access network (RAN)) and a user plane network entity (UP NF).
US11134527B2	Radio configuration method and corresponding user equipment The present disclosure provides a method executed at UE. The method comprises: determining whether a DRB-related identifier that is part of current UE configurations is included in a received RRC configuration, wherein the DRB-related identifier comprises one of the following: a PDU session identifier, a QoS flow identifier, and an SDAP identifier, and if the DRB-related identifier is included in the RRC configuration, then releasing one or a plurality of the following items of a DRB associated with the DRB-related identifier: a PDCP entity, an RLC entity, a DTCH, a DRB identifier, and an SDAP entity. The present disclosure further provides corresponding UE.
US11134526B2	Automatic update of connection to a movable object Described herein are systems, methods, storage media, and computer programs that support communication in a movable object environment. In one embodiment, information for a set of communication parameters is provided, a modified value for at least one of the set of communication parameters is obtained from an affiliated device; and a connection established between the movable object and the affiliated device is configured based on the modified value. In another embodiment, a connection between a movable object and an affiliated device is established, wherein the connection uses a set of communication parameters, values of which are set to default values; a modified value for at least one of the set is obtained, based on values for the set of communication parameters provided by the movable object and values for the set of communication parameters provided by the affiliated device, and the connection is configured based on the modified value.
US11134523B2	Uplink transmission control method and apparatus and communication system An uplink transmission control method and apparatus and a communication system. The network device explicitly or implicitly indicates dynamic scheduling information of RACH resources via control signaling. After selecting RACH resources, the user equipment (UE) monitors control signaling corresponding to the RACH resources. According to situations of receiving the control signaling, when the selected RACH resources are available, the UE directly transmits a random access request matched with the RACH resources; and when the selected RACH resources are unavailable, the UE further selects RACH resources according to configuration or indication of a base station, and until an RACH resource is available, the UE transmits a random access request matched with the RACH resource. Hence, normal random access of the UE may be ensured, and interference to other UEs may be reduced.
US11134518B2	Cooperative multi-band operation schemes in wireless local area networks A cooperative multi-band wireless station architecture that enables full duplex operations of wireless stations (STAs). Such an STA includes a WIFI transceiver and one or more additional transceivers. The two transceivers (and the associated channels) operate in mutually exclusive WIFI bands or different types of protocols and therefore can transmit and/or receive simultaneously without signal interference to each other. The multiple transceivers can perform independent clear channel assessment (CCA) and then simultaneously perform signal transmission or reception jointly or independently. In a cooperative multi-band operation, one channel may be used as an independent assistant channel and responsible for supplying assistant information relevant to a transmission opportunity (TXOP) for the other channel (primary channel) to take corresponding actions. Alternatively, coordinated by a cooperative management unit (CMU) in the STA, the multiple channels in the STA may jointly and simultaneously perform data transmission or reception as peers.
US11134514B2	Random access method, network device, and terminal device Example random access methods and apparatus are described. In one example method, a terminal device receives a system message that is sent by a network device on a first downlink carrier. The system message includes first information for performing random access on a first uplink carrier and second information for performing random access on a second uplink carrier. A frequency of the first uplink carrier is higher than a frequency of the second uplink carrier, and a frequency of the first downlink carrier is the same as the frequency of the first uplink carrier. The terminal device sends a random access request message on the first uplink carrier or on the second uplink carrier, and receives a random access response message that is sent by the network device on the first downlink carrier.
US11134513B2	Radio access node, communication terminal and methods performed therein Embodiments herein relate to a communication terminal (10) for handling communication, which communication terminal (10) is being served by a radio access node (12, 13) in a first cell (11) on a carrier of a licensed frequency spectrum and cross-carrier scheduled in a second cell (14) on a carrier of an unlicensed frequency spectrum by the radio access node (12, 13) via the first cell (11). The communication terminal receives an indication that data may be scheduled for the communication terminal (10) on a data channel in the second cell (14). The communication terminal attempts to detect presence of the data channel intended for the communication terminal (10). Then, in case the communication terminal (10) detects presence of the data channel intended for the communication terminal (10), the communication terminal (10) decodes the data channel. In case the communication terminal (10) does not detect presence of the data channel intended for the communication terminal (10), the communication terminal (10) indicates a non-detection of the data channel to the radio access node (12, 13).
US11134512B2	Scheduling device, scheduled device, and resource scheduling method and apparatus Embodiments of the present invention provide a resource scheduling method. The method includes: receiving, by a scheduled device, pre-scheduling information and dynamic scheduling information sent by a scheduling device, and when the pre-scheduling information indicates that the scheduling device allocates a radio resource to the scheduled device in a pre-scheduling resource range, performing data reception or sending or control signaling detection on the radio resource indicated by the pre-scheduling information; and when the dynamic scheduling information indicates that the scheduling device allocates a radio resource to the scheduled device in a dynamic scheduling resource range, performing control signaling detection on a resource in the dynamic scheduling resource range.
US11134510B1	Transmit scheduling in multi-radio devices Technologies transmit scheduling in multi-radio devices are described. One multi-radio device includes first and second radios and a scheduler circuit. The scheduler circuit outputs a first signal to the radios in a first mode in which the first radio is transmitting first data and the second WLAN radio is transmitting second data concurrently. The first signal increases a first clear channel assessment energy detect (CCA-ED) threshold to a second CCA-ED threshold. The scheduler circuit outputs a second signal to the second WLAN radio in a second mode. The second signal causes transmission of fourth data to be delayed until after the first radio completes reception of third data. In a third mode, the scheduler circuit outputs a third signal to the first WLAN radio. The third signal causes transmission of fifth data to be delayed until after the second radio completes reception of sixth data.
US11134506B2	Systems and methods for avoiding delays for ULL traffic Delays in the transmission of ULL traffic are avoided or substantially reduced by the initiation of opportunistic and probability-based in-band, traffic-free time period windows that do not correspond to time periods of ULL traffic transmissions.
US11134501B2	Method and system for transitioning station to uplink multi-user disable mode and uplink multi-user enable mode A method and system for providing transitioning a station (STA) to an uplink multi-user (UL MU) disable mode and to a UL MU enable mode is provided. According to one embodiment, a method includes entering, with the STA, a UL MU enable mode, and determining whether to transition the STA to a UL MU disable mode based on a predetermined interrupt condition or actively monitoring conditions of the STA.
US11134499B2	Method and apparatus for requesting system information by using preamble in next generation mobile communication system The present disclosure relates to a communication scheme for convergence of an IoT technology and a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to an intelligent service (for example, a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail business, a security and security related service, or the like) on the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT related technology. The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for efficiently transmitting or receiving system information by using a preamble in a next generation mobile communication system.
US11134498B2	Coverage mode identification method and apparatus Example coverage mode identification methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes determining a first coverage mode by a terminal. The terminal determines a preamble sequence based on the first coverage mode, and sends the preamble sequence to a base station, where the preamble sequence is used to determine the first coverage mode. Because the base station can determine the coverage mode of the terminal by using only the preamble sequence sent by the terminal, without using a channel used to receive a signal of the terminal, resources do not need to be grouped or planned, and there is no need to strictly distinguish between different coverage mode sets or groups.
US11134495B2	Data processing method based on radio access technology, and transmission node Provided are a data processing method based on a radio access technology, and a transmission node. The method includes: selecting, by a first transmission node, a radio access technology (RAT) according to a specific rule, where the specific rule includes selecting the RAT according to at least one of the following: a coverage level, a frequency domain bandwidth, a resource unit type, a transmission mode, a pre-configuration of a first node, and a second transmission node capability; the RAT includes at least one of the following: a multiple access mode, a modulation mode, a sub-carrier spacing, and a maximum number of carriers used for carrying data; and the second transmission node capability is defined according to an RAT supported by a second transmission node; and receiving or sending, by the first transmission node, data on a radio resource unit corresponding to the selected RAT according to the selected RAT.
US11134491B2	Radio with antenna array and multiple RF bands A fixed wireless access radio is disclosed that is compact, light and low power for street level mounting, operates at 100 Mb/s or higher at ranges of 300 m or longer in obstructed LOS conditions with low latencies of 5 ms or less, can support PTP and PMP topologies, uses radio spectrum resources efficiently and does not require precise physical antenna alignment.
US11134489B2	Frequency or radio access technology (RAT) selection based on slice availability Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to frequency or RAT selection based on slice availability. In one aspect, a core network function is provided for determining information for RAT and/or frequency selection based on knowledge of network slices and providing that information to a RAN node, which may provide that information to a UE. The information may be a RFSP index or other index parameter, which may be set based on subscription related information or other information. Slice knowledge may include knowledge of availability of network slices at the network, active slices for the UE, slices to which the UE is registered or connected, and/or slices to which the UE is allowed access. In another aspect, a RAN node performs mapping to mobility policies for UE active or idle mobility based on the determined information along with slice or subscription information provided by a CN node.
US11134482B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting uplink control information The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for transmitting uplink control information. One example method includes generating, by a terminal device, an encoded uplink data packet, where the uplink data packet belongs to an uplink channel, the uplink channel is carried on a candidate time-frequency resource in a first time transmission interval (TTI), the candidate time-frequency resource is a first time-frequency resource or a second time-frequency resource, and a second time-domain start point of the second time-frequency resource is later than a first time-domain start point of the first time-frequency resource, performing, by the terminal device, detection on a carrier in which the candidate time-frequency resource is located, and sending, by the terminal device, the uplink channel on the candidate time-frequency resource based on a result of the detection, where the uplink channel includes uplink control information and the encoded uplink data packet.
US11134476B2	Method for information transmission, base station, and user equipment Embodiments of the present application provide a method for information transmission. The method includes determining multiple enhanced transmission occasion configurations; determining a first enhanced transmission occasion configuration according to a channel loss magnitude with a user equipment, a time width occupied by the enhanced transmission occasion is greater than a time width occupied by a non-enhanced transmission occasion; and sending information according to the first enhanced transmission occasion configuration. Embodiments of the present application also provide a base station and user equipment, configured to determine an enhanced transmission occasion configuration according to the range which the channel loss magnitude belongs to. Therefore, the base station and user equipment may send and/or receive information on a suitable time-frequency resource and power configuration according to the channel loss magnitude.
US11134474B2	Multi-user multiple input multiple output operation with heterogeneous numerology systems Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for transmitting, receiving, and processing multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) signals for heterogeneous numerology systems. An exemplary method performed, for example, by a scheduling entity generally includes signaling an indication of numerology parameters to be used in transmitting first and second multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) signals to first and second user equipments (UEs) using shared resources and transmitting the first and second MU-MIMO signals to the first and second UEs, in accordance with the numerology parameters.
US11134473B2	Antenna element set selection system This disclosure generally relates to systems, devices, apparatuses, products, and methods for wireless communication. For example, a user equipment (UE) device within a wireless communication system determines one or more performance metrics associated with an operation of the UE. The UE selects, based at least in part on the one or more performance metrics, one or more sets of antenna elements from a plurality of sets of antenna elements available for an inter-band carrier aggregation communication across at least two radio frequency (RF) chains between the UE and one or more base stations. The UE sends an indication of the one or more selected sets of antenna elements from the UE to the one or more base stations.
US11134471B2	Apparatuses and methods for coordinating operations of receiving cell broadcast messages using different subscriber numbers and sharing schedule information therebetween A mobile communication device including a single Radio Frequency (RF) device is provided for coordinating operations of receiving cell broadcast messages using different subscriber numbers camped on the same cell. The mobile communication device is characterized in that one subscriber number is prioritized at a time for receiving all the blocks of a CBS message or a schedule message, allowing at least one subscriber number to receive a complete CBS message or a complete schedule message. In addition, the mobile communication device is characterized in that the schedule information received for one subscriber number is shared between the operations associated with other subscriber numbers, allowing the CBS messages for all subscriber numbers to be received.
US11134466B2	Sending notifications to mobile devices over paging networks A notification system that provides a notification to a mobile device over a pager network is described. In some embodiments, the system receives, at an interface device associated with the mobile device, a notification from a server over a radiofrequency communications network, and transmits the notification from the interface device to the mobile device over a short area communications channel, such as a Bluetooth channel.
US11134465B2	Location determination with a cloud radio access network A communication system that includes a plurality of radio points is disclosed. Each radio point is configured to exchange radio frequency (RF) signals with a wireless device that transmits a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) from a first physical location in a site; and extract at least one SRS metric from the SRS. The communication system also includes a baseband controller communicatively coupled to the plurality of radio points. The baseband controller is configured to determine a signature vector based on the at least one SRS metric from each of the plurality of radio points. The communication system also includes a machine learning computing system communicatively coupled to the baseband controller. The machine learning computing system is configured to use a machine learning model to determine location data for the first physical location of the wireless device based on the signature vector.
US11134464B2	UE capability indication to positioning server Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for delivering UE capability indication to a positioning server in a wireless communication network. A user equipment (UE) or access note (AN) may notify a positioning server of UE capability information associated with positioning measurements so that the positioning server may determine corresponding positioning measurement configurations based on acknowledgement of such UE capability information in terms of the positioning measurement. Embodiments describe UE capability indications to a positioning server that may enable flexible deployment and integration of various types of UEs. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US11134462B2	Supporting a secure terrestrial transmitter based positioning A device with transmitter broadcasts packets including a transmitter identifier via a radio interface with varying timings of transmissions. It determines a current timing of transmissions based on clock signals and a secret code, using a cryptographic function. A mobile device detects radio signals conveying such packets and performs measurements on the signals. It determines a currently used timing of transmissions, assembles a positioning request including the transmitter identifier, results of the measurements and an indication of the timing of transmissions, and transmits the request. A server receives the request. It generates for the transmitter an expected timing of transmissions using a cryptographic function, based on a signal of a master clock and based on a stored secret code assigned to the transmitter. It provides position information as trusted position information only in the case of a match between the indicated and the expected timing of transmissions.
US11134458B2	Synchronizing indoor radio nodes A communication technique for synchronizing a set of radio nodes is described. In this communication technique, the radio node arbitrates (e.g., using a precision time protocol or PTP) with the other radio nodes based on a selection technique to select a synchronization master in the set of radio nodes. This synchronization master may be selected to have a predefined performance based on a type of communication environment of the set of radio nodes. For example, the type of communication environment may include overlap between at least one of the radio nodes in the set of radio nodes and a macrocell in a cellular-telephone network, or may exclude overlap between the set of radio nodes and the macrocell. Moreover, the synchronization master may specify time, frequency, and phase synchronization for the set of radio nodes. Thus, when the synchronization master is different from the radio node, the radio node synchronizes with the synchronization master.
US11134454B2	Method for operating a system for intralogistic transport and system In a method for operating a system for intralogistic transport and system, the system having subscribers, in particular vehicles, which are connected via a data transmission channel such that each subscriber is a subscriber of a group of subscribers connected for data transmission via the data transmission channel, the data transmission being in particular not real-time capable, the data transmission channel being in particular a WLAN connection, each subscriber having a time base, in particular a clock, a group is formed; the time base of each subscriber of the group is synchronized, that is, in particular the time of the time base of the subscriber modified by a specific time offset by the synchronization is used as the time for operation; and subscribers are moved in dependence on a respective subscriber functioning as a master or in mutual dependence, in particular the position activated by the respective subscriber, in particular at the respective point in time, depending on the respective position of at least one other subscriber of the group or on the respective position of multiple or all other subscribers of the group.
US11134450B2	Mobile terminal, position confirmation device, position confirmation system, position specification program, position confirmation program, position specification method and position confirmation method A position confirmation device is provided. The position confirmation device comprises: a registration portion, which registers event information comprising information of a place where an event is conducted; a setting portion, which sets a safety range capable of being specified as a position of a user during the event from the information of the place and a position specification accuracy of a first mode for specifying the position; an acquisition portion, which acquires position information relating to a position of a mobile terminal specified by the mobile terminal carried by the user; and a transmission portion, which transmits a switching instruction to the mobile terminal when the position indicated by the position information deviates from the safety range set by the setting portion, wherein the switching instruction instructs switching to a second mode for specifying the position by a greater power consumption and a higher accuracy than the first mode.
US11134447B2	Power control method for transmitting uplink channel This application provides a power control method, a terminal, and a network device. The power control method includes: receiving, by a terminal, at least one piece of downlink control information (DCI) sent by at least one network device, where the at least one piece of DCI includes at least two transmit power control commands; and determining, by the terminal, a transmit power on an uplink channel in a same carrier based on the at least two transmit power control commands. According to the power control method in the embodiments of this application, the terminal can determine the transmit power on the uplink channel based on a plurality of transmit power control commands, thereby ensuring efficient and proper power allocation and improving overall system performance.
US11134445B2	Method and system for minimizing power consumption of user equipment during cell detection A method and system for minimizing the battery power consumption of user equipment (UE) during inter-frequency cell detection in a heterogeneous network is disclosed. A serving cell in the heterogeneous network provides a relaxed cell detection indication to the UE on a specified frequency for cell detection. The UE applies the relaxed cell detection for detecting the cells on the specified frequency. During inter-frequency cell detection on specified frequency, the UE discards some normal measurement gaps. The inter-frequency cell detection is delayed as compared to normal cell detection time requirement using the normal measurement gaps. The UE deactivates the relaxed detection indication, upon detecting the inter-frequency cell and performs the continuous RSRP and RSRQ measurements for detected inter-frequency cell using all the normal measurement gaps to meet normal measurement accuracy and measurement reporting requirement.
US11134443B2	Systems and methods for generating and transmitting short low power wake-up request (WUR) frames in a wireless communication system Embodiments described herein provide a method for creating a low power wake-up radio frame. The method comprises generating, at an access point, a wake-up radio frame for transmission to one or more client stations, determining whether the wake-up radio frame is to be transmitted inside or outside a basic service set associated with the access point, the basic service set having a basic service set identifier that is used to identify the access point. And in response to determining that the wake-up radio frame is to be transmitted outside the basic service set, computing, a target frame check sequence for the wake-up radio frame without using the basic service set identifier associated with the basic service set, appending the target frame check sequence to the wake-up radio frame; and transmitting, to one or more client stations, the wake-up radio frame with the appended target frame check sequence.
US11134438B2	Selection of a serving node in a wireless communication system Some aspects of the disclosure provide various methods, apparatuses and computer-readable medium configured for wireless communication. A method operable at a user equipment (UE) may include transmitting a connection request message configured to request initial connection with a radio access network (RAN) node. The connection request message may include information configured to indicate a service profile of the UE. A method operable at the RAN node may include receiving the connection request message from the UE. The connection request message may include information configured to indicate the service profile of the UE. A method operable at a serving node may include receiving a connection request message from the RAN node. The connection request message may be configured to establish communication with the UE and may include a service profile corresponding to the UE.
US11134437B2	Method of wireless network communication connection The present innovation patent relates to a wireless network communication connection method that is applied to a wireless network, the wireless network including a master controller, a first access point, a second access point, and a third access point. After the second access point has been connected with the master controller and the device list of the second access point is not provided with the UUID of the third access point, the third access point is able to deliver the UUID of the third access point to the second access point through the master controller, so that the second access point can scan again after receiving the UUID of the third access point, and can reselect a next desired connection point according to the device list of its determining condition. It is provided for determining connection quality and selecting the better and the practicality will be enhanced thereby.
US11134436B2	Method for selecting access network type, device, and system Embodiments of this application provide a method for selecting an access network type, a device, and a system, to flexibly select an access network type. An example method includes: determining, by a policy control function PCF entity, that a network status of a first network does not meet a preset condition, where the first network is a network currently accessed by a terminal; and sending, by the PCF entity, an access network type corresponding to a second network to the terminal, where the access network type corresponding to the second network is used to instruct the terminal to redirect a session of the terminal to the second network, and the second network is a network other than the first network.
US11134434B2	System for wireless connectivity continuity and quality Configurations are described for maintaining a continuity and quality of wireless signal connection between a mobile device and systems accessible through the internet. In particular, configurations are disclosed to address the challenge of a mobile device that moves through a physical environment wherein the best wireless connectivity performance is achieved by switching between available connection sources and constantly evaluating a primary connection with other available connections that may be switched in to become a new primary connection. The mobile device may be self-propelled or carried by some other mobilizing means.
US11134432B2	System information acquisition enhancements for wireless devices An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) includes processing circuitry configured to decode a master information block (MIB) using a set of physical broadcast channel (PBCH) symbols received within a downlink frame to obtain system frame number (SFN) information. The downlink frame includes multiple copies of the PBCH symbols within at least three subframes of the downlink frame. A system information block (SIB) may be decoded based on the SFN information, to obtain uplink channel configuration information. Random access channel (RACH) procedure may be performed with a base station (BS) based on the uplink channel configuration information, to obtain an uplink resource assignment. A connection setup completion message can be encoded for transmission to the BS using the uplink resource assignment. The set of PBCH symbols can include a set of four legacy PBCH symbols.
US11134428B2	Vehicle cellular connectivity control A system for a vehicle includes a modem and a telematics controller. The modem is configured to operate in a normal service mode in which the modem connects to a mobile network whenever possible according to a subscriber identity module (SIM) configuration of the modem, and in an emulated limited service mode in which the modem emulates network conditions of a limited service mode by refraining from providing data or voice connectivity outside of emergency services. The telematics controller is programmed to responsive to receipt of an indication to transition from the normal service mode to the limited service mode, wait for any active data or voice connections to the mobile network to terminate, and responsive to termination of any active data or voice connections to the mobile network, transition the modem from the normal mode to the emulated limited service mode.
US11134424B2	Communications for network slicing using resource status information Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A base station may receive resource status information. The base station may use the resource status information for serving one or more network slices for a wireless device.
US11134415B2	Method and apparatus for processing PDCP control data in system supporting high-reliability low-latency service The disclosure relates to A communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method for efficiently processing PDCP control data of a PDCP layer device if a system supporting a high-reliability low-latency service employs a packet duplication transmission technology is provided.
US11134414B2	Method for transmitting and receiving signal including physical protocol data unit in wireless LAN system and apparatus therefor Disclosed in the present specification are a method for transmitting and receiving a signal including a physical protocol data unit (PPDU) in a wireless LAN (WLAN) system and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, disclosed in the present specification are a method for transmitting and receiving a signal and an apparatus therefor, which, in a PPDU supported by a specific wireless LAN system, can minimize an overall length error (also known as “spoofing error”) of the PPDU that is assumed to occur between a station capable of decoding all fields in the PPDU and a station capable of decoding only some fields in the PPDU.
US11134407B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing program A center server is an information processing apparatus communicable with a vehicle including an imaging apparatus and a user terminal of a user of the vehicle. The center server includes a data transmission request unit configured to request the vehicle to transmit imaging data captured by the imaging apparatus when a predetermined request signal is received from the user terminal, and a data transmission unit configured to transmit the imaging data received from the vehicle in response to the request to the user terminal.
US11134405B2	Measurement method and user equipment A measurement method and User Equipment UE are provided. The method includes: determining a measurement-related parameter of the UE according to a state parameter of the UE; and performing a measurement on a neighboring cell of the UE and/or a serving cell of the UE according to the measurement-related parameter.
US11134402B1	Systems and methods for beamforming and network optimization based on user equipment usage data derived from battery dissipation signatures A system described herein may provide a technique for the use of artificial intelligence/machine learning (“AI/ML”) techniques to model User Equipment (“UE”) usage information based on battery dissipation and/or other battery performance or characteristic information. A given model (or set of models) may be used to determine UE usage information, such as types of applications or services (e.g., voice calls, content streaming, web browsing, etc.) being used by UEs, amount of traffic sent and/or received by UEs, radio access network (“RAN”) connection or disconnection activity, and/or other types of UE usage information. Network parameters, such as beam configuration parameters, may be modified based on UE usage information determined based on such models.
US11134401B2	Neighbor relation maintaining method and apparatus, and network device Provided are a neighbor relation maintenance method and apparatus, including: a first node configuring measurement and instructing a terminal to report ANR-related information, or requesting a second node to configure measurement and instruct the terminal to report the ANR-related information. If the first node configures measurement and instructs the terminal to report ANR-related information, the first node maintains a neighbor relation of a cell in the first node based on the ANR-related information, and forwards the ANR-related information to the second node for maintaining a neighbor relation of a cell in the second node; if the second node configures measurement and instructs the terminal to report ANR-related information, the second node maintains the neighbor relation of the cell in the second node based on the ANR-related information, and forwards the ANR-related information to the first node for maintaining neighbor relation of the cell in the first node.
US11134395B2	Adaptive antenna configuration Adaptive selection of antenna configurations by wireless nodes that comprise a plurality of antenna elements adapted for a plurality of different antenna configurations. The selection of the antenna configuration is made based on the quality of signal(s) received by the wireless node. The wireless nodes are operable for communication in the mm-wave frequency band and, in specific embodiments, the different antenna configurations include two or more of a wide-coverage area antenna configuration, a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) configuration and a Beamforming (BF) configuration.
US11134392B2	Method and device for managing extender nodes for a wireless device A computer implemented method, device, and computer program product for managing extender nodes for a wireless device. The method identifies request attributes of interest (AOI) associated with a request to route a communication stream for a wireless device. The method detects, at a current physical location of the wireless device, candidate extender nodes to extend a network signal. The method analyzes the candidate extender nodes, based on the request AOI, to determine one or more of: i) predictive characteristics of interest (COI) associated with the corresponding candidate extender node; and ii) an announced behavior COI broadcast by one or more of the candidate extender nodes. The method determines a resultant extender node from the candidate extender nodes based, at least in part, on one or more of the predictive COI and the announced behavior COI. The resultant extender node is determined pursuant to managing switching during performance of the request.
US11134383B2	Offloaded sensor authentication for internet of things An IoT sensor authentication method includes receiving in an IoT gateway or another IoT sensor, a packet of data from a sensor over a wireless computer communications network, placing the packet of data into quarantine in memory of the IoT gateway and offloading authentication of the sensor to an authentication processor executing in a separate process address space in the IoT gateway. Thereafter, an authentication result is received from the authentication processor and, responsive to the authentication result indicating successfully authentication of the sensor, the packet is released from quarantine, a sensor value extracted from the packet of data and the sensor value transmitted to a sensor monitor. But, responsive to the authentication result indicating a failure to authenticate the sensor, the packet of data is discarded and removed from quarantine.
US11134381B2	Method of authenticating user of electronic device, and electronic device for performing the same An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes one or more processors that, while the electronic device is in a locked state, control to detect whether the electronic device is lifted, in response to detecting that the electronic device is lifted, control to activate the display, obtain an image from a camera, detect a face included in the image, and perform authentication of a user based on the face being detected in the image. Based on a result of the authentication, the one or more processors switch a state of the electronic device from the locked state to an unlocked state and display an indicator for indicating that the electronic device is in the unlocked state.
US11134377B2	Encrypting/decrypting data on mobile terminal A method includes: pre-generating a key pair including a first public key and a first private key; acquiring identification information about a mobile terminal; encrypting the key pair including the first public key and the first private key using the identification information to obtain a first encrypted public key and a first encrypted private key and saving same; when a service key is encrypted, encrypting the service key using the first private key to obtain an encrypted service key; when the service key is decrypted, decrypting the encrypted service key using the first public key to obtain the service key; acquiring data needing to be encrypted/decrypted of the mobile terminal; and encrypting/decrypting the data using the service key. The security of the data can be protected off-line with low cost and without hardware protection, so that the data cannot be intercepted and tampered with.
US11134376B2	5G device compatibility with legacy SIM A 5G user equipment (UE) can register for 5G services with a telecommunication network in part using a Subscription Concealed Identifier (SUCI), an encrypted version of a subscriber identifier, so that the actual subscriber identifier is not exposed during network registration. Legacy SIMs originally deployed for 4G/LTE and other legacy wireless access technologies store an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI), but do not store a network public key needed to generate a SUCI. However, a 5G UE can still use a legacy SIM to securely obtain 5G services by encrypting the IMSI from the legacy SIM using a network public key stored in the 5G UE's own memory to generate a SUCI, and then transmitting the generated SUCI to the telecommunication network during network registration. Accordingly, the IMSI on the legacy SIM is not exposed during network registration.
US11134368B1	Conveying precise civic address with an emergency call A system for appending an emergency call (e.g., E911) with a location is described herein. The system appends the emergency call to a public safety answering point (PSAP) with a location from which the E911 call occurred. A user equipment (UE), which places the emergency call, connects to the beacon via short-range communication and acquires the location from a beacon. The UE transmits the location to the PSAP via a telecommunications network.
US11134366B2	Self-directing node Lost, misplaced, incorrectly delivered, and damaged assets are a common occurrence in shipment or asset tracking. Disclosed are various embodiments concerning a battery-less or intermittent battery use environments in which a node uses internal logic (e.g., circuitry and/or software) that, based at least in part on sensor information and stored information regarding the history of the node, may track events that have occurred to the node. The node may be responsive to events and determine whether exceptions have occurred that require attention. For example, detecting damage might cause the node to update an output to indicate the node and associated material, if any, needs to be rerouted to address the exception.
US11134359B2	Systems and methods for calibrated location prediction A system includes a machine learning module configured to train a location prediction model using features constructed from mobile device data with time stamps in a training time period, and labels extracted from mobile device data with time stamps in a training time frame. The system further includes a prediction module configured apply the prediction model to a feature set constructed using mobile device data associated with a mobile device with time stamps in a prediction time period to obtain a prediction result corresponding to the mobile device. The system further includes a calibration module configured to obtain a calibration model corresponding to an information campaign, and a calibrated prediction module configured to apply the calibration model to the prediction result to obtain a calibrated probability for the mobile device to have at least one location event at any of one or more locations associated with the information campaign during a prediction time frame.
US11134357B2	Efficient rendering of virtual soundfields An audio system and method of spatially rendering audio signals that uses modified virtual speaker panning is disclosed. The audio system may include a fixed number F of virtual speakers, and the modified virtual speaker panning may dynamically select and use a subset P of the fixed virtual speakers. The subset P of virtual speakers may be selected using a low energy speaker detection and culling method, a source geometry-based culling method, or both. One or more processing blocks in the decoder/virtualizer may be bypassed based on the energy level of the associated audio signal or the location of the sound source relative to the user/listener, respectively. In some embodiments, a virtual speaker that is designated as an active virtual speaker at a first time, may also be designated as an active virtual speaker at a second time to ensure the processing completes.
US11134354B1	Wear detection A method is used of detecting whether a device is being worn, when the device comprises a first transducer and a second transducer. It is determined when a signal detected by at least one of the first and second transducers represents speech. It is then determined when said speech contains speech of a first acoustic class and speech of a second acoustic class. A first correlation signal is generated, representing a correlation between signals generated by the first and second transducers during at least one period when said speech contains speech of the first acoustic class. A second correlation signal is generated, representing a correlation between signals generated by the first and second transducers during at least one period when said speech contains speech of the second acoustic class. It is then determined from the first correlation signal and the second correlation signal whether the device is being worn.
US11134353B2	Customized audio processing based on user-specific and hardware-specific audio information A method of audio signal processing, the method comprising: accessing user-specific audio processing information for a particular user; determining identity information of an audio device for producing sound output from an audio signal; based on the identity information of the audio device, accessing device-specific audio processing information for the audio device; generating a customized audio-processing procedure for the audio signal based on the user-specific audio processing information and the device-specific audio processing information; and generating a customized audio signal by processing the audio signal with the customized audio-processing procedure.
US11134352B2	Hearing device with wax guard interface An apparatus with a hearing device housing including at least one wall with a sound aperture and a counterbore around the sound aperture, and a bushing, having a portion thereof located within the counterbore and secured thereto, configured to receive a hearing device cerumen guard.
US11134351B1	Hearing aid comprising a physiological sensor The present application relates to a system comprising a hearing aid, the hearing aid configured to be operated based on an estimation of a current listening effort of a hearing aid user. The system comprising an input unit for receiving an input sound signal from an environment of the hearing aid user and providing at least one electric input signal representing said input sound signal, an output unit for providing at least one set of stimuli perceivable as sound to the hearing aid user based on processed versions of said at least one electric input signal, a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) estimator for determining an SNR in the environment of the hearing aid user, a processing unit connected to said input unit and to said output unit and comprising signal processing parameters of the system to provide processed versions of said at least one electric input signal, a memory unit configured to store reference sets of SNR and pulse transition time (PTT) of the hearing aid user, at least a first and a second physiological sensor, wherein the system being configured to determine, based on the first physiological sensor, a first point in time at a first maximum upslope point of a first measured parameter, determine, based on the second physiological sensor, a second point in time at a second maximum upslope point of a second measured parameter, establish a current PTT by calculating a time difference between the first point in time and the second point in time, and determine, based on the current PTT and the stored reference sets of SNR and PTT, a current listening effort of the hearing aid user.
US11134348B2	Method of operating a hearing aid system and a hearing aid system A method of operating a hearing aid system in order to provide improved performance for a multitude of hearing aid system processing stages and a hearing aid system (400) for carrying out the method.
US11134337B2	Variable port microphone A microphone assembly for providing improved directivity at high and low frequencies is disclosed. The microphone assemblies comprise two waveguides each having a microphone, a high-frequency port, and a low-frequency port. The two waveguides are arranged adjacent to each other so that the two low-frequency ports are arranged at a first distance apart from each other and so that the two high-frequency ports are arranged at a second distance apart from each other. The microphone assemblies may comprise two additional waveguides of different length than the first two waveguides, where the two additional waveguides also have low frequency ports and high frequency ports. When the four waveguides are arranged adjacent to each other, all the low-frequency ports are at one distance from each other and all the high-frequency ports are at another distance from each other.
US11134336B2	Cover-baffle-stand system for loudspeaker system and method of use thereof A case-baffle-stand system utilized with a dipole speaker, in which the case-baffle-stand system has a cover that, when opened, is a baffle to enhance the sound waves emitting from the speaker system and is also a stand to stabilize the speaker in its proper standing orientation, and when closed, protects the speaker.
US11134332B2	Acoustic receiver-in-canal ear tip An ear tip for a hearing device includes a body member having a receiver retention portion that is communicably coupled to a sound port. The receiver retention portion is configured to receive and capture a receiver such as a balanced armature receiver. An electrical interface of the receiver is accessible via an opening in the receiver retention portion. The ear tip also includes an ear interface portion that is disposed at least partially about the body member. The ear interface portion is configured to be disposed in a user's ear canal. The ear interface portion and the body member are integrally formed as a unitary member.
US11134328B2	Headphones with magnetic sensor This disclosure includes several different features suitable for use in circumaural and supra-aural headphones designs. Designs that include earpad assemblies that improve acoustic isolation are discussed. User convenience features that include automatically detecting the orientation of the headphones on a user's head are also discussed. Various power-saving features, design features, sensor configurations and user comfort features are also discussed.
US11134327B2	Headphones with telescoping stem assembly This disclosure includes several different features suitable for use in circumaural and supra-aural headphones designs. Designs that include earpad assemblies that improve acoustic isolation are discussed. User convenience features that include automatically detecting the orientation of the headphones on a user's head are also discussed. Various power-saving features, design features, sensor configurations and user comfort features are also discussed.
US11134325B2	Lids with a patterned conductor for microphone transducer packages, and associated modules and devices A microphone assembly has an interconnect substrate and a microphone transducer coupled with the substrate. A lid overlies the microphone transducer. At least a portion of the lid is spaced from the substrate, defining an acoustic chamber for the microphone transducer. The lid can have a layer of discretized metal or other patterned conductor. The discretized layer of metal or other patterned conductor is configured to inhibit formation of eddy currents, as when exposed to electromagnetic radiation. The lid can be grounded. Microphone modules and electronic devices also are described.
US11134324B2	Microphone device and system comprising the microphone device There is described a switchable microphone device which may be switched between a digital output mode and an analog output mode. There is further described a system for use of such a device, which allows for the switching between analog and digital computing modes.
US11134323B2	Component for draining off water from the speakers of a waterproof electronic device A shaped component made of technical fabric for protection of the speakers of electronic devices with waterproofing characteristics of IPx7 degree or higher, which have water-tight speakers. In addition to the function of protection from solid particles, the invention is optimised for guaranteeing fast and efficient draining-off of the water that has penetrated into the water-tight speaker so as to recover as fast as possible the initial acoustic functionality, in an improved way as compared to the solutions currently available. The component according to the present invention comprises within it one or more openings covered by synthetic technical fabric with hydrophilic treatment, to guarantee rapid exit of the water that has entered the speaker module, and one or more openings covered by synthetic technical fabric with hydrophobic treatment, to favour entry of air into the volume in front of the speaker, thus ensuring proper emptying thereof. In detail, among the various possible embodiments, the present invention may be implemented as a multilayer die-cut part that combines a hydrophilic synthetic fabric with a hydrophobic synthetic fabric and with one or more layers of adhesive to enable assembly inside the end products.
US11134315B1	Method of selecting a suitable content for subjective preference judgement The present disclosure relates to a method for processing media content. The method comprises receiving a definition of a user specific media corpus, the media corpus comprising a plurality of media files; ranking candidate media segments generated from the media corpus according to one or more signal characteristics derived from the candidate media segments; processing the media signals of a subset of the ranked candidate media segments with different signal processings; presenting the differently processed media signals to a user for a user preference judgement; and determining a preferred signal processing based on user responses to the presentations.
US11134314B2	Displaying an actionable element over playing content Example methods and systems for displaying actionable elements over playing content, such as video content, are described. In some example embodiments, the methods and systems identify video content currently playing within a display environment provided by a playback device, and display an actionable element within the display environment provided by the playback device that is based on the identified video content and includes one or more user-selectable options to perform an action associated with the identified video content. Further, in some example embodiments, the methods and systems may perform an action (e.g., present supplemental content and/or information) in response to a selection of one or more of the user-selectable options.
US11134313B2	Electronic apparatus and method of controlling the same An electronic apparatus includes: a signal receiver configured to receive a signal; a display; a communicator configured to communicate with an external apparatus; and a processor configured to: receive a signal of content corresponding to one format among a plurality of formats, request and receive playback information about the content corresponding to the format of the content from a server, perform a playback process with regard to the received signal of the content based on the playback information received from the server, and control the display to display an image of the content.
US11134312B2	Methods, systems, and media for presenting contextual information in connection with media content Methods, systems, and media for presenting contextual information in connection with media content are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: causing a media content item to be presented on a user device; receiving, at a first time point from a user of the user device, a user input to display one or more contextual interfaces that present information related to the media content item; identifying a plurality of contextual interfaces based on content included in the media content item at the first time point; causing the media content item to be presented in a first portion of a display of the user device and causing a first contextual interface from the plurality of contextual interfaces to be presented in a second portion of the display of the user device; identifying, at a second time point, an update to the first contextual interface based on content included in the media content item at the second time point; and modifying the first contextual interface based on the update identified at the second time point.
US11134310B1	Custom content service A custom content service provides customized content to a client who has opted-in to share limited location information with the customized content service. For example, the custom content service may customize content streamed to the client, such as videos, video games, audio, etc. based on experiences the client has had during the day. The custom content service may customize content for the client without requiring the client to directly make content selections and without interrupting viewing of content to ask the client to provide inputs for content selection decisions.
US11134308B2	Adapting interactions with a television user Implementations generally relate to adapting interactions with a television user. In some implementations, a method includes interacting with a user based on a first behavior pattern, wherein the first behavior pattern includes one or more predetermined behaviors. The method further includes observing one or more responses from the user, wherein the one or more responses are responsive to the one or more predetermined behaviors. The method further includes modifying at least one of the predetermined behaviors, wherein the modifying of the results in at least one modified behavior. The method further includes observing at least one change in one or more of the responses, wherein the at least one change is responsive to the at least one modified behavior. The method further includes interacting with the user based on a second behavior pattern, wherein the second behavior pattern includes one or more of the predetermined behaviors and the modified behavior.
US11134304B2	Methods and apparatus that facilitate channel switching during commercial breaks and/or other program segments Methods and apparatus that facilitate watching of programming content on a secondary channel during a program segment, e.g., commercial break or program portion which is not of interest to a user, on a primary channel are described. In various embodiments when a user switches to a secondary channel during a program segment, the switch is detected and the program on the primary channel continues to be received and buffered while the content from the secondary channel is output to the display. The program segment on the primary channel may be a commercial break including one or more commercials or a portion of a program identified as a segment in information communicated with the program or via out of band signaling. The end of the segment on the primary channel is detected and the user is notified or automatically switched back to the primary channel at the end of the segment.
US11134303B2	Systems and methods for facilitating setting of television program series recording priority ranking Systems and methods for facilitating setting of television program series recording priority ranking include functionality that monitors television series program viewing habits of a user for a plurality of different television program series. The system then changes television program series recording priority rankings to resolve recording conflicts based on the monitoring of the television series program viewing habits. In some embodiments, the system first sends a notification to the user of an option to upgrade a recording priority ranking. Additionally, the system may record television program episodes whose recordings were skipped due to them having a lower recording priority ranking. The system may record such skipped television program episodes during the next time slot in which a skipped episode is rebroadcast and does not conflict with a higher priority broadcast.
US11134302B2	Method and apparatus for re-using black border regions of a digital TV screen A method and apparatus are described including detecting, if any, black border regions surround a received frame of video program content and determining a size of the detected black border regions and if the sum of the determined size of the top and bottom black border regions surrounding the received frame of video program content is greater than a value, copying to a frame buffer, a video decoder buffer having a decoded frame of video program content stored therein and copying a secondary insertion decoder buffer to the frame buffer.
US11134297B2	Video input port In the described examples, a video integrated circuit (IC) chip includes a video input port (VIP) that receives a video stream. The video IC chip also includes a processing unit coupled to a non-transitory memory and is configured to detect the presence of a data stream provided to the VIP, cause the VIP to switch a target partition for the data stream from a given partition in the memory to another partition in the memory and to write the data stream to the other partition in the memory.
US11134296B2	Information processing apparatus, method therefor, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing information processing program An information processing apparatus includes an addition unit that enables communication between a bio-information measurement device and the information processing apparatus, and adds information specifying an individual who is using the information processing apparatus to information measured by the bio-information measurement device.
US11134295B2	External module comprising processing functionality Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for implementing an external module comprising new and/or offloaded processing functionality. In aspects, an external module may be configured to be selectively and communicatively coupled to an information appliance device. The external module may be configured with or receive hardware, software, data and/or instructions for processing content and operations received by the information appliance device. When operations are received by the information appliance device, the information appliance device may parse the operations into commands to be performed by the information appliance device and commands to be performed by the external module. The information appliance device may transmit the commands to be performed by the external module to the external module. The external module may then process and/or perform the received commands and render the resulting content to a display device.
US11134293B2	Sequentially overlaying media content A method, system, or device to determine when media content has been displayed. The method can include receiving a unique identifier (UID) and fingerprint for a media segment. The method can also include determining a media segment ID for the media segment, generating and submitting a query for the media segment ID in a record database, determining that the media segment ID is not stored in the record database, and identifying an overlay content segment ID. The method can include generating and submitting for the overlay content segment ID in the record database, determining it is not stored in an entry, sending the overlay content segment to the electronic device, and receiving a notification from the electronic device.
US11134287B1	Synchronizing audio content and video content Techniques are described for synchronizing audio content and video content when server-side fragment insertion techniques are used.
US11134285B2	Transmission of applications with content Provided are methods and systems for controlling data such as content and/or application data transmitted to one or more user devices. One method can comprise receiving a request for first content and generating, in response to the request for the first content, a first transport stream comprising the first content and application data relating to a first application. At least a portion of the first transport stream is transmitted to a recipient device. An interruption in the transmission of the first transport stream is detected and a determination is made that only a first portion of the application data has been transmitted to the recipient device. A second transport stream including second content and a second portion of the application data is generated and transmitted.
US11134283B2	Systems and methods for storing a media asset rescheduled for transmission from a different source Systems and methods for efficiently determining that a media asset scheduled to be stored from one content source has been rescheduled to another content source. For example, by examining the contents of data packets received with a media asset which identify the media asset currently being received (e.g., a field in an event information table), a media guidance application executed on a set-top box or other user equipment device may determine in real-time that the media asset scheduled to be stored is not currently being transmitted from the originally-scheduled content source. In response to determining the media asset is not available from the originally-scheduled content source, the media guidance application may search through packets received from other content sources to determine a content source the media asset has been rescheduled to and store the media asset from that content source.
US11134282B2	Scene section and region of interest handling in video streaming A section-specific video data stream is derived by reducing a video data stream pertaining an entire scene with conservation of conformance by use of a file format and incorporating slices into which tiles of a set of tiles are encoded which forms the section, are incorporated into a set of one or more source tracks and a set of one or more gathering tracks including construction instructions is used in order to indicate a synthesis of the section-specific video data stream by signaling replacements of certain portions of the slices and instructing to copy certain portions of the slices. Further, there is described a concept pertaining an indication of a position of a region of interest.
US11134279B1	Validation of media using fingerprinting Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for validation of media using fingerprinting are disclosed. A first plurality of fingerprints are generated based at least in part on contents of a first media comprising a first plurality of media elements. A second plurality of fingerprints are generated based at least in part on contents of a second media comprising a second plurality of media elements. The first and second media are associated with a transcode pipeline. A comparison is performed of the second plurality of fingerprints to the first plurality of fingerprints. The comparison determines whether a characteristic of the first media is maintained in the second media. Based at least in part on the comparison, the second media is determined to be valid or invalid.
US11134278B2	Content boundary based recordings Systems and methods for managing the storage of content are described. A video stream may include a content identifier and content information relating to a boundary that may be used to facilitate recording of at least a portion of the video stream.
US11134277B2	Deblocking filtering control A first filter decision value is calculated for a block of pixels in a video frame based on pixel values of pixels in a first line of pixels in the block. A second filter decision value is also calculated for the block based on pixel values of pixels in a corresponding first line of pixels in a neighboring block in the video frame. The first filter decision value is used to determine how many pixels in a line of pixels in the block to filter relative to a block boundary between the block and the neighboring block. The second filter decision value is used to determine how many pixels in a corresponding line of pixels in the neighboring block to filter relative to the block boundary.
US11134275B2	Method and apparatus for performing primary transform based on filtering of blocks A method of video decoding for a decoder is provided. In the method, prediction information of a current block in a current picture is decoded from a coded video bitstream, where the prediction information is indicative of an inter prediction mode. Whether a filtering process is applied on the current block is determined, where the filtering process adjusts inter prediction samples of the current block based on neighboring reconstructed samples of the current block. A primary transform is thus performed for a transform block according to a pre-defined primary transform type based on that the filtering process is determined to be applied on the current block, where the transform block is partitioned from the current block.
US11134274B2	Apparatus and method for encoding and decoding moving picture using adaptive scanning Provided is an apparatus and method for encoding/decoding a moving picture based on adaptive scanning. The moving picture apparatus and method can increase a compression rate based on adaptive scanning by performing intra prediction onto blocks of a predetermined size, and scanning coefficients acquired from Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) of a residue signal and quantization differently according to the intra prediction mode. The moving picture encoding apparatus includes: a mode selector for selecting and outputting a prediction mode; a predictor for predicting pixel values of pixels to be encoded of an input video based on the prediction mode to thereby output a residue signal block; a transform/quantization unit for performing DCT onto the residue signal block and quantizing the transformed residue signal block; and an encoder for adaptively scanning and encoding the quantized residue signal block based on the prediction mode.
US11134272B2	Memory reduction for non-separable transforms Techniques are described in which a decoder is configured to receive an input data block and apply an inverse non-separable transform to at least part of the input data block to generate an inverse non-separable transform output coefficient block. The applying the inverse non-separable transform comprises assigning a window, assigning a weight for each position inside the assigned window, and determining the inverse non-separable transform output coefficient block based on the assigned weights. The decoder is further configured to forming a decoded video block based on the determined inverse non-separable transform output coefficient block, wherein forming the decoded video block comprises summing the residual video block with one or more predictive blocks.
US11134268B2	Simplified coding of generalized bi-directional index Devices, systems and methods for digital video coding, which include decoder side motion vector derivation (DMVD) tools, are described. An exemplary method for video processing includes making a decision, based on a determination that a current block of a video is coded using a multi-hypothesis prediction mode, regarding a selective enablement of a DMVD tool for the current block, wherein the DMVD tool derives a refinement of motion information signaled in a bitstream representation of the video; and performing, based on the decision, a conversion between the current block and the bitstream representation.
US11134265B2	Method and device for encoding a sequence of images and method and device for decoding a sequence of images A method and device for deriving at least one motion information predictor for encoding of an image portion by motion compensation. At least two distinct first and second subsets of motion information predictors of a first set of motion information predictors are provided. Processing of the first subset of motion information predictors and processing of the second subset of motion information predictors is performed to obtain a final set of motion information predictors usable for predicting said image portion from the reference image portion. Processing of the second subset may comprise removing duplicates from among the motion information predictors of said second subset, and may be performed so as to exclude temporal predictors. At least part of the processing of the second subset of motion information predictors may be performed concurrently with at least part of the processing of the first subset of motion information predictors.
US11134260B2	Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method An encoder that encodes a picture to generate a coded stream includes: circuitry and a memory coupled to the circuitry. The circuitry performs, using the memory: generating a prediction image of a current block included in a current picture by referring to a first region included in a reference picture different from the current picture; operating a bi-directional optical flow process to correct the prediction image by referring to a second region included in the first region, and not operating the bi-directional optical flow process in response to the second region not being included in the first region; and encoding the current block based on the prediction image.
US11134259B2	System and method for enhanced motion compensation using adaptive filtering Video coding systems and methods are described using an enhanced motion compensated picture. In exemplary embodiments, an enhanced motion compensated picture is generated by applying at least one high-pass filter to the motion compensated picture and adding the output of the filter to the motion compensated picture. Coefficients of the high-pass filter are selected by comparing the enhanced motion compensated picture to an original picture. The selected coefficients may be quantized and entropy coded into a bit stream. The high-pass filter may be a cross-plane filter, in which a luma component, which may be an enhanced luma component, is high-pass filtered and the output of the filter is added to at least one of the chroma components to generate an enhanced chroma component.
US11134255B2	Scalable video coding using inter-layer prediction contribution to enhancement layer prediction A scalable video decoder is described which is configured to reconstruct a base layer signal from a coded data stream to obtain a reconstructed base layer signal; and reconstruct an enhancement layer signal including spatially or temporally predicting a portion of an enhancement layer signal, currently to be reconstructed, from an already reconstructed portion of the enhancement layer signal to obtain an enhancement layer internal prediction signal; forming, at the portion currently to be reconstructed, a weighted average of an inter-layer prediction signal obtained from the reconstructed base layer signal, and the enhancement layer internal prediction signal to obtain an enhancement layer prediction signal such that a weighting between the inter-layer prediction signal and the enhancement layer internal prediction signal varies over different spatial frequency components; and predictively reconstructing the enhancement layer signal using the enhancement layer prediction signal.
US11134254B2	Transmission apparatus, transmission method, reception apparatus, and reception method A receiving side is enabled to perform excellent decode processing according to decoding capability.An image encoding unit classifies image data of each picture consisting moving picture data into a plurality of layers, encodes the classified image data of the picture in each of the plurality of layers, and generates video data having the encoded image data of the picture in each of the plurality of layers A data transmission unit transmits the video data. An information transmission unit transmits a level designation value of a bit stream and information on a layer range in each of a plurality of layer ranges having a different maximum layer.
US11134245B2	Bi-prediction with weights in video coding and decoding A video coding or decoding method includes using history-based motion vector prediction (HMVP) for conversion between multiple video blocks including a current block of video and a bitstream representation of the multiple video blocks such that for a uni-predicted block that for which a single reference picture is used for motion compensation, refraining from updating a look-up table for HMVP candidates for the uni-predicted block. The video coding or decoding method further includes performing the conversion using look-up tables for the multiple video blocks.
US11134241B2	Post-production De-mura of a television using a mobile device On-demand, post-production de-mura of a television is described herein. An example system includes a television that comprises a screen and a local de-mura application. The system also includes a mobile device that comprises a mobile de-mura module. In operation, the mobile de-mura module identifies and quantifies mura in the screen of the television for a given IRE index. These operations are repeatedly performed in a measurement loop that iterates over a range of IRE indexes. Raw uniformity data is generated from such iterations. The local de-mura application uses the uniformity data to de-mura the screen and improve gray uniformity performance of the television. Further, the mobile de-mura module and the local de-mura application are configured to fine tune and further de-mura the screen by iterating a verification loop over a range of IRE indexes, wherein operation of the verification loop is substantially similar to operation of the measurement loop.
US11134238B2	Goggle type display device, eye gaze detection method, and eye gaze detection system A goggle type display device with a goggle-shaped frame and a display mounted on said frame includes: an image-capturing unit disposed inside of the frame; and an eye gaze position estimator that estimates an eye gaze position on the basis of images of an eye and a ridge of a nose included in a facial image captured by said image-capturing unit.
US11134237B2	Three-dimensional display system and method A three-dimensional display system includes: an LED array and a light control layer disposed on a base substrate; wherein the LED array is used to form polarized lights of different polarization directions; the light control layer is used to control a light emission order of the polarized lights of different polarization directions.
US11134235B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that make it possible to generate a texture image of high picture quality at a predetermined viewpoint using an omnidirectional image. A drawing section generates a display image of a given viewpoint using a first layer image including a texture image and a depth image of an omnidirectional image at a first viewpoint and a second layer image including a texture image and a depth image at a second viewpoint different from the first viewpoint in an occlusion region at a viewpoint of the first layer image. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to a home server that generates a display image of a predetermined viewpoint from an omnidirectional image or the like.
US11134233B2	Vehicle camera module and control method thereof A vehicle camera module may include: an image sensor; and an image transmission processor that may determine whether to compress or not compress an image captured through the image sensor according to the format of the image or a preset option, and output the compressed or non-compressed image to an external image output device. The image sensor and the image transmission processor may be implemented as an integrated module.
US11134225B2	View system for a vehicle A view system (100A, 100B) for a vehicle (1) has an image capture unit (10, 10A, 10B) for capturing image data of a portion around a vehicle (1), an image processing unit (20A, 20B) for processing the captured image data, and an image reproduction unit (30, 30A, 30B) for reproducing the processed image data. Included are an image sensor (11) and an optical element having a distortion curve. The image data are distorted dependent on the position of the image sensor according to the distortion curve. The image processing unit (20A, 20B) is adapted for taking at least one partial portion (12, 12′) from the image data of the image sensor (11), wherein the geometry of the partial portion (12, 12′) is dependent on the position of the partial portion (12, 12′) on the image sensor (11).
US11134221B1	Automated system and method for detecting, identifying and tracking wildlife A system for autonomously photographing wildlife includes a camera apparatus, camera mount and actuating unit. The camera apparatus records video data may include a camera, a memory and a processing system which includes a processor and an image analysis module including computer executable instructions stored in the memory. The image analysis module receives a video data file; performs an image analysis of discrete portions of the video data file; detects motion within each respective discrete portion; determines whether the detected motion is caused by an animal; calculates an outline for the animal; and stores a selected discrete portion of the video data file in the memory. The selected discrete portion includes an outline of the animal. The camera mount receives the camera thereon and the actuating unit couples the camera to the camera mount and is actuatable to tilt and/or pan the camera.
US11134218B2	Secure teleconference management A secure teleconference with a patient treatment room may be initiated by receiving, at a central facility, a request for a conference from a clinician application, and then identifying a virtual meeting room and sending an identifier for a conference to the treatment room. The conference is then be established by receiving a call at the central facility from the treatment room, where the call identifies the conference. The central facility then joins the treatment room and the clinician application to the virtual meeting room. Teleconferences may thus be established without reference to sensitive patient information. For security, no incoming conferencing calls may be made to the treatment room directly, and virtual meeting rooms may be eliminated after single use. A call may further be initiated by receiving a request from the treatment room, e.g., which is processed by the central facility to alert one or more clinicians.
US11134215B2	Online encounter enhancement systems and methods Computing systems and methods are described in which video calls or other online communications are established or enhanced among two or more live participants. In some variants one or more preferences are gleaned from a first participant's behavior so as to streamline a call establishment with one or more qualified recipients. Alternatively or additionally, enriched auditory message data may be received privately from a sender without leaving a shared space.
US11134208B1	Increasing dynamic range of digital pixels by utilizing polling during integration Digital circuitry is provided that periodically reads at least one bit of digital counters associated with pixels of an image sensor. When the read bit(s) of a particular digital counter decrease between subsequent reads, then the digital circuitry increments an overflow counter associated with the particular digital counter. The value of each of the overflow counters of the digital circuitry are used with the corresponding values of the digital counters to generate pixel values for a frame (also referred to as an image).
US11134206B2	Imaging system An imaging system includes an image combiner, at least one reflecting mirror, an image generating device and an indication mark. The at least one reflecting mirror is disposed with respect to the image combiner. The image generating device is disposed with respect to the at least one reflecting mirror. When the image generating device displays an image, a light projected by the image generating device is reflected by the at least one reflecting mirror to the image combiner, so as to form a virtual image through the image combiner. The indicating mark is disposed at a periphery of the image combiner.
US11134202B2	Plenoptic camera comprising a spatial light modulator A plenoptic camera including a camera lens, a lenslet array having a plurality of microlenses and a photosensors array and having a plurality of photosensors. The camera lens has a spatial light modulator arranged in the aperture stop plane of the camera lens.
US11134201B2	Vision assisted driving system using a vertically extendable camera A method, a device, a system, a computer program product, and a computer system drives a vehicle with vision assistance. The device includes an imager vertically extendable from a surface of a vehicle from a retracted position to an extended position. The imager is configured to capture images from a predetermined height above the vehicle while the imager is in the extended position. The images capture a field of view including a predetermined distance from the vehicle. The device includes a mount coupled to the imager and having an extendable length to position the imager in the retracted position and the extended position. The device includes a processor configured to process the images to determine a recommendation for driving the vehicle based on driving conditions present at the predetermined distance based on the images.
US11134197B2	Driving device, image blur correction device, and image pickup apparatus including image blur correction device Provided is an image blur correction device, including a driven member configured to hold a correction target member; a plurality of actuators configured to move a driven member within a plane; a first movable member configured to guide a movement of the driven member in a first direction; a second movable member configured to guide a movement of the driven member in a second direction different from the first direction; and a fixing member configured to movably hold the driven member, the first movable member, and the second movable member, wherein the fixing member is sandwiched at least between the driven member and the first movable member or between the driven member and the second movable member.
US11134196B2	Apparatus and methods for stabilization and vibration reduction An imaging system includes an imaging device and a frame assembly. The imaging device includes a first housing containing an optical unit and a second housing separated from the first housing and containing a non-optical unit. The non-optical unit is configured to communicate with the optical unit. The non-optical unit includes a memory device configured to store images captured by the optical unit. The frame assembly supports the optical unit and does not support the non-optical unit. The non-optical unit does not rotate with the optical unit when the frame assembly rotates the optical unit about at least one rotational axis.
US11134193B2	Information processing system, information processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium An information processing system includes a server apparatus including one or more processors configured to analyze a plurality of wide angle images acquired through photographing, and transmit a result image indicating a result of analyzing to an information processing terminal; and the information processing terminal communicable with the server apparatus and including one or more processors configured to receive the result image, and display the result image on a display.
US11134190B2	Imaging device, imaging method, electronic device, and signal processing device The present disclosure relates to an imaging device, an imaging method, an electronic device, and a signal processing device capable of reducing an amount of information of a set value to be stored in an image processing block for reducing noise according to a noise amount and an interpolation operation amount thereof. Signal processing is performed on an image captured by an image sensor on the basis of a Gain value of the image sensor offset according to a temperature value of the image sensor. The present disclosure can be applied to an imaging device.
US11134187B2	Electronic device, and control method for electronic device An electronic device includes: a control unit configured to control so as to execute a predetermined function in accordance with a predetermined touch operation with respect to a touch operation member in a case where the touch operation member is in an enabled state, and not to execute the predetermined function in a case where the touch operation member is in a restricted state; and a switching unit configured to switch to the enabled state in accordance with a first touch operation with respect to the touch operation member in the restricted state, a touch continuation time of the first touch operation reaching a first time, and switch to the restricted state in accordance with a second touch operation with respect to the touch operation member in the enabled state, a touch continuation time of the second touch operation reaching a second time.
US11134182B2	Gimbal system A digital video transmitter includes a video converter configured to convert a digital video signal obtained from an imaging device to a serial differential signal, a filter electrically coupled to the video converter through a differential signal transmission line and configured to filter an interference introduced by an electronic adjuster or a motor, and an image transmitter electrically coupled to the filter and configured to receive and transmit the serial differential signal.
US11134180B2	Detection method for static image of a video and terminal, and computer-readable storage medium Disclosed are a detection method for static image of a video, a detection terminal, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a frame image from the video as a reference frame image in a playback order, obtaining an image set comprising n frame images after the reference frame image in the playback order; sequentially determining whether first (n−1) frame images in the currently obtained image set satisfy a preset static image brightness requirement; determining whether a nth frame image in the image set satisfies a preset gray histogram judgment condition; determining whether a stop condition is satisfied according to the reference frame image and the nth frame image in the currently obtained image set; if the above determination results are yes, determining that a video image including the frame images from the reference frame image to the nth frame image in the current image set is a static image.
US11134176B2	Lookup table smoothing Certain examples described herein relate to smoothing a lookup table for an imaging system. The lookup table comprises entries to map elements in a first color space to corresponding elements in a second color space. In certain cases, the entries of the lookup table are classified into a plurality of classes, each of the plurality of classes being based on a color space characteristic in the first color space or the second color space. Each of the plurality of classes of entries is sequentially smoothed.
US11134171B1	Image reading apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image reading method that perform image processing for each area Provided is an image reading apparatus capable of improving the image quality of a document in which texts and images are appeared in the same page. The camera captures a document in page units to obtain captured image data. An area classifying unit classifies the captured image data into areas for each content. An area selecting unit selects whether or not to output the captured image data based on the classification of the area and state of the captured image data. An image scanner scans the area of the document for the area selected not to output the captured image data. An image processing unit processes the captured image data or scanned image data for each area and outputs or deletes it as area data. A document output unit collects the processed area data, reconstructs the data into document data, and outputs it.
US11134170B2	Correction of feed skewed images According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory on which is stored machine readable instructions executable by the processor to detect edges of a scanned object image. The instructions may also cause the processor to determine, based on the detected edges, that a feed skew has occurred on the scanned object image. In addition, based on a determination that the feed skew has occurred, the instructions may cause the processor to identify curved edges of the scanned object image, de-curve the identified curved edges through horizontal scanline scaling of the scanned object image to form a de-curved image, and produce a corrected image through vertical scanline scaling of the de-curved image.
US11134168B2	Printing from a handheld device via a remote server Systems and methods are provided though which a transaction, e.g., in a multi-tier, distributed application may be initiated from a portable or hand-held device, such as a smartphone. A computer system or systems, possibly remote from the device, may approve the transaction, complete it, or both, and the remote computer system or systems may cause a document to be printed, e.g., by a printer physically proximate to the device.Aspects of the invention are illustrated by embodiments in which a drug prescription may be created electronically using a hand-held device. In such an embodiment, the prescription may be transmitted to one or more remote computer systems, such as an application server, for processing. If specified, the remote computer systems may cause a prescription to be printed, e.g., at a printer near the prescriber's location. The prescriber may sign the printed prescription and give it to a patient or pharmacy.
US11134161B2	Mobile terminal that performs near field wireless communication to search image processing apparatus and display a message on lock screen, control method for the mobile terminal, and storage medium A mobile terminal capable of securely achieving log-in to a desired MFP. The mobile terminal detects at least one image processing apparatus which performs near field wireless communication. The mobile terminal transmits, to a detected image processing apparatus, user information used to log into the image processing apparatus. The mobile terminal displays, in a case where a plurality of image processing apparatus is detected, a selection screen through which a user selects an image processing apparatus to be logged in by using the user information.
US11134160B2	Image scanning device An image scanning device includes: a storage that stores therein an image feature of image data attached to a sent email; an image scanner that scans a document to obtain scanned data; and a hardware processor. The hardware processor extracts an image feature from the scanned data, and judges whether the image feature extracted from the scanned data is similar to the image feature of the image data attached to the sent email. When judging affirmatively, the hardware processor generates a new email by using part of the sent email, and sends the new email with an attachment of the scanned data.
US11134157B2	Recharging prepaid accounts based on charging detail records within a telecommunications network Systems and methods are described herein for recharging prepaid accounts within a telecommunications provider, such as a network carrier, using information provided by postpaid account subscribers. For example, the systems and methods facilitate the receipt of instructions from mobile devices associated with postpaid accounts. Upon receipt of the messages, the systems and methods (such as systems within a charging system of the network carrier or provider) identify intended or recipient mobile devices associated with prepaid accounts. Once identified, the systems and methods recharge the prepaid accounts, based on the instructions received from the postpaid account mobile devices.
US11134155B1	Technologies for automated generation of contact center system embeddings A method for automated generation of contact center system embeddings according to one embodiment includes determining, by a computing system, contact center system agents, contact center system agent skills, and/or contact center system virtual queue experiences; generating, by the computing system, a matrix representation based on the contact center system agents, the contact center system agent skills, and/or the contact center system virtual queue experiences; generating, by the computing system and based on the matrix representation, contact center system agent identifiers, contact center system agent skills identifiers, and/or contact center system virtual queue identifiers; transforming, by the computing system, the contact center system agent identifiers, the contact center system agent skills identifiers, and/or the contact center system virtual queue identifiers into the contact center system agent embeddings, contact center system agent skills embeddings, and/or contact center system virtual queue embeddings, wherein weights of the contact center system agent embeddings, the contact center system agent skills embeddings, and/or the contact center system virtual queue embeddings are randomly initialized; and training, by the computing system, the contact center system agent embeddings, the contact center system agent skills embeddings, and/or the contact center system virtual queue embeddings by applying machine learning to obtain final weights of the contact center system agent embeddings, the contact center system agent skills embeddings, and/or the contact center system virtual queue embeddings.
US11134152B2	System and method for managing a dialog between a contact center system and a user thereof A root behavior tree is stored with a flow control node and a plurality of child nodes. The flow control node may determine a sequence of execution of child nodes. A first-level behavior tree is stored and executed to accomplish a task with associated intent. The first-level tree comprises a child node of the root tree and nodes defining actions. A dialog between contact center and user is hosted over a communication channel and a processor receives inputs from the dialog and executes the root tree and the first-level tree as a child node of the root tree in response. Upon detecting a match between an input and a data pattern, the execution sequence within the root tree or a further tree is altered. Responsive to the altered sequence, an output is provided to cause an action.
US11134148B2	Controlling mobile computing device according to user's responsiveness A method is proposed for operating a mobile computing device. A potentially dangerous condition for a user of the mobile computing device is detected according to its position. A responsiveness level of the user (to recognize the potentially dangerous condition) is determined according to one or more operative parameters of the mobile computing device. One or more interactive functionalities of the mobile computing device are controlled in response to the potentially dangerous condition according to the responsiveness level. A computer program and a computer program product for performing the method are also proposed. Moreover, a mobile computing device for implementing the method is proposed.
US11134143B2	Call processing method and mobile terminal A call processing method and a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes: if a dial control instruction specific to a destination number currently obtained by a mobile terminal is detected and the mobile terminal is in an international roaming state, querying whether a prestored contact database includes contact information associated with the destination number; if the contact database includes the contact information associated with the destination number, determining, according to the contact information, an international roaming number used to call a target user corresponding to the destination number; and calling the target user according to the international roaming number.
US11134142B2	Simplified user interface for identifying people when making electronic communications A request to identify a person is received from a user. For example the user may say “Find me the name of a person who sent me an email regarding Project X last week.” The request is to identify the person in order to establish an electronic communication session with the identified person. The request is parsed to identify one or more filtering criteria. One or more electronic record stores are determined based on the one or more filtering criteria. For example, specific devices on a network are identified. The one or more electronic record stores are searched using the one or more filtering criteria to create a filtered list of persons. The filtered list of persons is displayed on a first communication device in a simplified user interface. The simplified user interface dramatically reduces the time and steps necessary to identify the person and establish the communication session.
US11134139B2	Systems and methods for cloud based messaging between electronic database infrastructure A method of cloud based messaging includes receiving a message and a message topic from a message sender, storing the message topic and the message on a message queue, retrieving the message from the message queue, translating the message from a message bus protocol to a recipient protocol and transmitting the translated message to a message recipient.
US11134135B1	Mobile storage system for storing and transferring data generated by Internet of Things (IoT) devices A mobile storage system receives, by a short range network interface, data from an internet of things (IoT) device. The data is stored in storage. A communication bandwidth to a cloud data storage and a power level of a power supply is determined. Based on the communication bandwidth to the cloud data storage and the power level of the power supply, the data to the cloud data storage is transferred via a long range network interface.
US11134128B2	Methods and systems for provisioning a user profile on a media processor Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting a plurality of mobile devices in proximity to a device. Further embodiments can include identifying a user identifier associated with each of the plurality of mobile devices resulting in a plurality of user identifiers. Additional embodiments can include obtaining a user profile associated with each of the plurality of user identifiers resulting in a plurality of user profiles. Also, embodiments can include identifying a first user profile having a first priority among the plurality of user profiles. Further embodiments can include provisioning the first user profile on a media processor or set top box and providing media content for presentation on a display according to the first user profile. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11134121B2	Method and system for recovering data in distributed computing system The time required for recovery in a distributed computing system can be reduced. At least one node (for example a server) or a different computer (for example a management server) are provided in the distributed computing system which includes a plurality of nodes existing at a plurality of sites. One or more sites at which one or more nodes that hold one or more datasets identical to one or more datasets held by a node to be recovered are identified. For the recovery, it is determined, on the basis of the one or more identified sites, a restore destination site that is a site of a node to which the one or more identical datasets are to be restored from among the plurality of sites.
US11134119B1	Intent tracking for asynchronous operations Systems and methods are provided for intent tracking asynchronous operations. An example method can include receiving, at a content management system (CMS), a first request to perform an operation on a content item stored at the CMS; adding the request to perform the operation to a queue of operations to be processed by the CMS; and prior to completing the operation: receiving, from a client device associated with a user account registered at the CMS, a second request to access the content item; in response to the second request, determining a predicted state of the content item, the predicted state of the content item reflecting a result of performing the operation on the content item; and providing, to the client device, a response including the predicted state of the content item.
US11134115B2	Systems and methods for frame duplication and frame extension in live video encoding and streaming Embodiments of the invention provide for live encoding systems that can replicate a current encoded frame instead of re-encoding said current frame, and then adjust the replicated frame to different bitrates, resolutions, and/or contexts as necessary for the several different adaptive bitrate streams. In addition, various embodiments of the invention can extend a duration of a current frame being repackaged and/or re-encoded. Utilizing these and other techniques, live encoding systems in accordance with embodiments of the invention can more efficiently handle gaps in received data, slower feeding of data, and/or heavy loads on server hardware.
US11134111B2	Method and system for managing a meeting session The present disclosure relates to a method and system for managing a meeting session. In accordance with one example, there is provided a method of managing a meeting session on a server that manages the meeting session, the meeting session comprising one or more participant devices and a presenter device. The method comprises receiving one or more break request messages from the participant devices, and sending a break message to the participant devices, the break message causing a break notification to be displayed on a display of the participant devices.
US11134107B2	Third-party system for controlling conference equipment A third-party system for controlling conference equipment includes at least one conference device, at least one server, and at least one host device. The conference device, arranged in a physical room, corresponds to at least one recognition datum, and the recognition datum corresponds to the physical position of the physical room. The server, signally connected to the conference device, stores the recognition datum. The host device, wirelessly connected to the server, stores the recognition datum. The host device has at least one first control APP program built therein, and the first control APP program corresponds to the server. The host device uses the first control APP program and the recognition datum to control the conference device through the server during at least one given period.
US11134105B2	Method and apparatus for providing a profile A method for downloading a profile by a terminal and the terminal for performing the same are provided. The method includes acquiring information including an access token for transmitting a profile request to a profile server, transmitting a first message including the access token and a universal integrated circuit card (UICC) information of the terminal to the profile server, receiving a second message including a verification result from the profile server, and receiving a profile package corresponding to the access token from the profile server. The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for internet of things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology.
US11134104B2	Secure execution of enterprise applications on mobile devices A system is disclosed that includes components and features for enabling enterprise users to securely access enterprise resources (documents, data, application servers, etc.) using their mobile devices. An enterprise can use some or all components of the system to, for example, securely but flexibly implement a BYOD (bring your own device) policy in which users can run both personal applications and secure enterprise applications on their mobile devices. The system may, for example, implement policies for controlling mobile device accesses to enterprise resources based on device attributes (e.g., what mobile applications are installed), user attributes (e.g., the user's position or department), behavioral attributes, and other criteria. Client-side code installed on the mobile devices may further enhance security by, for example, creating a secure container for locally storing enterprise data, creating a secure execution environment for running enterprise applications, and/or creating secure application tunnels for communicating with the enterprise system.
US11134102B2	Verifiable device assisted service usage monitoring with reporting, synchronization, and notification Various embodiments are disclosed for a services policy communication system and method. In some embodiments, a communications device implements a service policy for assisting control of the communications device use of a service on a network; and monitors use of the service based on the service policy, in which a local service usage is synchronized with a network based service usage.
US11134101B2	Techniques for detecting malicious behavior using an accomplice model The present disclosure generally relates to web page analysis, and more particularly to detecting malicious behavior using an accomplice model. In certain embodiments, the accomplice model may determine that a URI is associated with malicious behavior based upon the URI being associated with an attribute determined to be related to malicious behavior. Examples of an attribute include a host system, a domain, or an element of a document used to render the web page. Examples of an element of a document used to render the web page may include an active/dynamic element (e.g., a function, a script, etc.) or an inactive/static element (e.g., a string, a number, a frame, a tracking username, a social networking username, etc.).
US11134099B2	Threat response in a multi-router environment Systems, methods, and software to implement network configuration updates in a computing network. In one implementation, a method includes identifying a threat related to an internet protocol (IP) address, wherein the IP address corresponds to a computing node in the computing network. After identifying the threat, the method further includes generates one or more routing update packets that indicate a block request for at least the IP address. Once generated, the method also provides communicating the one or more routing update packets to one or more routers in the computing network.
US11134096B2	Method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for generating data proliferation graph An apparatus, computer-readable medium, and computer-implemented method for generating a data proliferation graph, including receiving a selection of a target data store, identifying a plurality of data stores which have either received data that was previously on the target data store or which have sent data that was subsequently on the target data store, the plurality of data stores being divided into a plurality of proliferation levels corresponding to degrees of separation from the target data store and direction of data propagation relative to the target data store, generating a data proliferation graph, and transmitting at least one portion of the data proliferation graph.
US11134091B2	System and method for reducing false positive security events A cybersecurity platform that process collected data using a data model to generate security events linked to IP addresses, locations, or other variable information. The platform identifies potential false positive security events using a stability measure based on the variable information, which is then used to constrain the set of security events to reduce the effect of or remove the false positive security events from an output data structure.
US11134089B2	Malware analysis method, malware analysis device, and malware analysis system A malware analysis device 10 includes: a dynamic analysis unit 11 which performs dynamic analysis of malware; a communication determination unit 12 which determines whether communication by the malware occurs when the dynamic analysis unit 11 performs dynamic analysis; a static analysis requesting unit 13 which suspends communication when the communication determination unit 12 determines that the communication by the malware occurs to present a request to perform static analysis; and a setting changing unit 14 which sets a device as a communication destination of the malware to make a response obtained by the static analysis as being expected by the malware.
US11134086B2	Consent conversion optimization systems and related methods In particular embodiments, a consent conversion optimization system is configured to test two or more test consent interfaces against one another to determine which of the two or more consent interfaces results in a higher conversion percentage (e.g., to determine which of the two or more interfaces lead to a higher number of end users and/or data subjects providing a requested level of consent for the creation, storage and use or cookies by a particular website). The system may, for example, analyze end user interaction with each particular test consent interface to determine which of the two or more user interfaces: (1) result in a higher incidence of a desired level of provided consent; (2) are easier to use by the end users and/or data subjects (e.g., take less time to complete, require a fewer number of clicks, etc.); (3) etc.
US11134085B2	Cloud least identity privilege and data access framework A network-accessible service provides an enterprise with a view of identity and data activity in the enterprise's cloud accounts. The service enables distinct cloud provider management models to be normalized with centralized analytics and views across large numbers of cloud accounts. Using a domain-specific query language, the system enables rapid interrogation of a complete and centralized data model of all data and identity relationships. The data model also supports a cloud “least privilege and access” framework. Least privilege is a set of minimum permissions that are associated to a given identity; least access is a minimal set of persons that need to have access to given piece data. The framework maps an identity to one or more actions collected in cloud audit logs, and dynamically-build a compete view of an identity's effective permissions. The resulting least privilege and access policies are then applied natively to a given cloud environment to manage access.
US11134084B1	Diversified authentication and access control The invention provides for an improved and diversified system, apparatus and method for authenticating and/or authorizing an identity of an action requester within a secure environment. The invention provides for human and non-human agents as authentication factors that can be communicated with in real time via a communications network, such as via the Internet. The invention also provides for facilitating authorization of action requests that are received from non-human action requesters.
US11134081B2	Authentication mechanism utilizing location corroboration Described are techniques for collaboration-based authentication including a method comprising storing a user profile comprising information related to a user account, a plurality of user devices, and a user calendar. The method further comprises detecting an authentication attempt associated with the user account and retrieving device information associated with a first device initiating the authentication attempt, a first location of the first device, a second location of a second device of the plurality of user devices, and a scheduled location based on the user calendar. The method further comprises determining that the authentication attempt comprises a security risk based on the device information associated with the first device, the first location of the first device, the second location of the second device, and the scheduled location. The method further comprises performing a mitigation action in response to determining that the authentication attempt comprises the security risk.
US11134074B1	Systems and methods for secure HTTP connections using a distributed certificate validation model Systems and methods for establishing a secure connection between a client computing device and a server hosted website. The method includes requesting an HTTPS connection with a server hosted website. The method further includes receiving a certificate from the server hosted website. The certificate is signed by a certificate authority and certificate validators. The method also includes delivering the certificate to each of the certificate validators. The method further includes receiving a certificate status for each of the certificate validators. Each certificate status indicates whether the certificate is valid or has been revoked. The method also includes determining a quantity of valid certificate statuses received from the certificate validators. The method further includes establishing the HTTPS connection with the server hosted website in response to determining that the quantity of valid certificate statuses meets or exceeds an assurance quantity threshold or a Transmission Layer Security Level of Assurance (“TLS-LoA”).
US11134071B2	Data exchange during multi factor authentication An example system and method facilitates establishment of secure communications between software systems, e.g., a client computing device and one or more servers (e.g., a cloud) using Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) via strategic use of tokens. An example method for overcoming longstanding security loopholes and usability issues with conventional MFA methods includes efficiently securing registration code (e.g., via public key cryptography and tokens) and exchanged data (e.g., message payloads), in part by embedding a signed token (e.g., a JWT token signed by a private key of the server system) in a registration link used by a client system to communicate with one or more servers of a server system.
US11134069B2	Method for authorizing access and apparatus using the method A method for authorizing access includes generating a public identity parameter and a private identity parameter for each server, and using the public identity parameter of a first server indicated by a first credential from a resource owner to perform identity encryption on the first credential and a first random parameter so as to generate and transmit a first request message to the first server. The private identity parameter is used to decrypt the first request message. The public identity parameter of a second server indicates by the second credential to perform identity encryption on the second credential and a second random parameter so as to generate and transmit a second request message. The second server uses the private identity parameter to perform decryption on the second request message, and the method determines, according to the decrypted second credential, a resource to be provided to the client.
US11134067B1	Token management in a managed directory service A centralized policy management may allow for one set of credentials to various applications and services offered by a computing resource service provider or other third-party servers. Systems, methods, and computer readable medium can be configured to receive a request to access a first computing system service provided by the computing resource service provider, generate an encrypted data bundle including at least a user identifier and a data type, and transmit the encrypted data bundle to a recipient, wherein the encrypted data bundle is configured to be returned to the one or more computing devices to facilitate access to the first computing system service provided by the computing resource service provider.
US11134065B2	Secured extended range application data exchange An application data exchange technique may include a communication device establishing a communication channel with an access device, receiving an access device profile of the access device, and emulating a virtual access device on the communication device based on the access device profile. The virtual access device executing on the communication device may issue a set of application commands to a transaction applet executing on the communication device, and receive a set of application data responses from the transaction applet in response to the set of application commands. The communication device, may then generate a data packet by concatenating application data contained in the set of application data responses, and transmitting the data packet to the access device via the communication channel.
US11134062B1	Isolating and disabling unauthorized applications Typically, a business desires to track and monitor all applications run on its servers. Nonetheless, one or more unauthorized applications may be running on the business's servers, exposing the business to potential regulatory liability and security breaches. Apparatus and methods are provided for isolating and disabling one or more unauthorized applications running on a server. The apparatus may comprise a system including a content-filtering web proxy server configured to filter outgoing requests and data associated with the requests. The system may also include a remediation framework configured to monitor request data in a proxy log stored by the proxy server. The remediation framework may be triggered to perform remedial action when the remediation framework determines that a request and associated data, as stored in the proxy log, meets predetermined conditions. The remediation framework, when triggered, may execute steps to truncate functionality of the unauthorized applications.
US11134060B2	Mobile virtual private network configuration Example implementations relate to mobile virtual private network (mVPN) configuration. For example, a system for mVPN configuration may include a configuration selector to intercept an internet protocol (IP) packet in a mobile virtual private network (mVPN) and select a mVPN configuration for the IP packet using a lookup table. The system may further include a configuration adapter to adapt the IP packet according to the selected mVPN configuration.
US11134058B1	Network traffic inspection Network traffic inspection is disclosed. An application executing on a client device as an operating system that uses a virtual private network (VPN) stack of the operating system intercepts a first IP packet. The application determines that a policy should be applied to the intercepted first IP packet. The policy is applied to the intercepted first IP packet.
US11134056B2	Portal for managing admission of unrecognized devices to an enterprise network A threat management facility detects a device on an enterprise network and determines whether the device is one of a set of managed devices for the enterprise network. When the device is not one of the set of managed devices, the device may be directed to a portal that manages admission of unrecognized devices onto the enterprise network. Based on a response of the unrecognized device to the portal (e.g., if the unrecognized device does not respond to the portal), the device may be listed on an unclaimed device page published by the portal and accessible to authorized users of the enterprise network. An authorized user may claim the unrecognized device from the unclaimed device page and, in the process, may provide additional information regarding the unrecognized device. Once claimed, the previously unrecognized device may be permitted to communicate over the enterprise network.
US11134055B2	Naming service in a distributed memory object architecture Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for a naming service in a distributed memory object system. In one embodiment, a name service method includes electing a primary node for the master key value store from a plurality of name service nodes, the primary node to receive master key value requests, a master key value store containing an entry for each directory within the distributed memory object, wherein the master key value store is configured for associating a directory pathname to a uniform unique identifier, and replicating the master key value store across the plurality of name service nodes. In another embodiment, a name service computing device includes a primary node for the master key value store, wherein the primary node is selected from a plurality of name service nodes and is configured to receive master key value requests, a master key value store containing an entry for each directory within the distributed memory object, wherein the master key value store is configured to associate a directory pathname to a uniform unique identifier, and the system further being in communication with the plurality of name service nodes, wherein the master key value store is replicated across the plurality of name service nodes.
US11134051B2	Apparatus and method for managing notification A method for managing notifications in an electronic device is provided. The method may include displaying at least one notification message, associated with a first application, in a notification area of the electronic device; detecting a first user input performed on the at least one notification message displayed in the notification area; and displaying a graphical element including at least one data item corresponding to the at least one notification message within the notification area, where the at least one data item is associated with a second application.
US11134050B2	Private data sharing system A novel architecture for a data sharing system (DSS) is disclosed and seeks to ensure the privacy and security of users' personal information. In this type of network, a user's personally identifiable information is stored and transmitted in an encrypted form, with few exceptions. The only key with which that encrypted data can be decrypted, and thus viewed, remains in the sole possession of the user and the user's friends/contacts within the system. This arrangement ensures that a user's personally identifiable information cannot be examined by anyone other than the user or his friends/contacts. This arrangement also makes it more difficult for the web site or service hosting the DSS to exploit its users' personally identifiable information. Such a system facilitates the encryption, storage, exchange and decryption of personal, confidential and/or proprietary data.
US11134045B2	Message sorting system, message sorting method, and program A message sorting systems includes: an extraction block configured to extract some of a plurality of posted messages on the basis of a rule with respect to message posting person, reply destination, or contents; and a sorting block configured to sort the extracted messages through a machine-learning sorting device. A message sorting method includes: extracting some of a plurality of posted messages on the basis of a rule with respect to message posting person, reply destination, or contents; and sorting the extracted messages through a machine-learning sorting device.
US11134041B1	System and method for interactive online entertainment Disclosed is a system and method for allowing one or more users to interact with models from a distance, for example, by enabling the users to input the models during online video chat sessions, wherein the models can define input parameters and provide at least one interactive interface, receive an interactive result according to the interactive interface to perform predefined acts, via an adult toy, based on the the interactive result received. The adult toy can be Wi-Fi or Bluetooth™ enabled to receive commands directly from the server via a web browser extension, the website hosting an online video chat session, or connect to an application installed on a device operated by the model, wherein the application communicates with the web browser extension to relay commands to the adult toy therefrom. In some embodiments, the interactive interface provides a finger guessing game, a dice game or a lottery game.
US11134039B1	Dynamically controlling messaging platform client-side and server-side behavior Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing dynamic control of social messaging platform client-side and server-side behavior according to current and historical environmental, service, and application conditions.
US11134038B2	Occasionally-connected computing interface Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for allowing a user to switch between interfacing with a service through a network or through short message service (SMS). A chat service is executed through which a first user at a first computer can communicate directly with a second user at a second computer. A request is received from the first computer to enable the first user to interface with the chat service through a mobile device of the first user using SMS instead of through the network using the first computer. The chat service is configured to interface with the mobile device through SMS, including communicating chat information through SMS to the first user's mobile device, and communicating control information through SMS to the first user's mobile device such that the first user can control a full functionality of the chat service using SMS.
US11134035B2	Method and device for securely sending message The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for securely sending a message. The method for securely sending a message includes: receiving a new message; determining the user group to which the new message is to be sent according to the identification of the user group; and sending the new message to the group members in the user group except the target group member after determining that the new message is related to a shielded user of the target group member.
US11134032B1	Augmenting data plane functionality with field programmable integrated circuits Some embodiments use one or more FPGAs and external memories associated with the FPGAs to implement large, hash-addressable tables for a data plane circuit. These embodiments configure at least one message processing stage of the DP circuit to store (1) a first plurality of records for matching with a set of data messages received by the DP circuit, and (2) a redirection record redirecting data messages that do not match the first plurality of records to a DP egress port associated with the memory circuit. These embodiments configure an external memory circuit to store a larger, second set of records for matching with redirected data messages received through the DP egress port associated with the memory circuit. This external memory circuit is a hash-addressable memory in some embodiments. To determine whether a redirected data message matches a record in the second set of record, the method of some embodiments configures an FPGA associated with the hash-addressable external memory to use a collision free hash process to generate a collision-free, hash address value from a set of attributes of the data message. This hash address value specifies an address in the external memory for the record in the second set of records to compare with the redirected data message.
US11134025B2	Dynamic resource allocation method and apparatus in software-defined network The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system to be provided for supporting a data rate higher than that of a 4G communication system such as LTE. A dynamic resource allocation method of an intelligent orchestrator in a software-defined network (SDN) according to the present invention includes acquiring operation data related to resource allocation in the SDN, adjusting at least one of virtual switch and host parameters based on the operation data and a preconfigured scheduling policy, and allocating resources dynamically according to the adjustment result.
US11134023B2	Network path redirection A method for directing network traffic includes, at a network device, receiving network traffic provided by one or more client computing devices. The network device directs the network traffic to a service entity over a first network path. A path quality indicator is received that indicates whether the network traffic directed over the first network path satisfies one or more experience criteria. Based at least on the path quality indicator indicating that the network traffic directed over the first network path does not satisfy the one or more experience criteria, the network device redirects some or all of the network traffic to the service entity over a second network path.
US11134022B2	Simple integration of an on-demand compute environment Disclosed are a system and method of integrating an on-demand compute environment into a local compute environment. The method includes receiving a request from an administrator to integrate an on-demand compute environment into a local compute environment and, in response to the request, automatically integrating local compute environment information with on-demand compute environment information to make available resources from the on-demand compute environment to requestors of resources in the local compute environment such that policies of the local environment are maintained for workload that consumes on-demand compute resources.
US11134021B2	Techniques for processor queue management Techniques and apparatus for processor queue management are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus to provide queue congestion management assistance may include at least one memory and logic for a queue manager, at least a portion of the logic comprised in hardware coupled to the at least one memory, the logic to determine queue information for at least one queue element (QE) queue storing at least one QE, compare the queue information to at least one queue threshold value, and generate a queue notification responsive to the queue information being outside of the queue threshold value. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11134020B1	Flow control of two TCP streams between three network nodes A system for forwarding packets between a first endpoint and a second endpoint, comprising one or more processors; a first network interface for communication with the first endpoint and a second network interface for communication with the second endpoint; and non-transitory memory comprising instructions. The instructions cause the one or more processors to receive a first packet from the first endpoint comprising a first data payload; generate a second packet, comprising the first data payload and an indicator of remaining buffer capacity different from an actual buffer capacity of the system; transmit the second packet to the second endpoint; receive a third packet from the second endpoint comprising a second data payload; generate a fourth packet, comprising the second data payload and an indicator of remaining buffer capacity different from an actual buffer capacity of the system; and transmit the fourth packet to the first endpoint.
US11134016B2	Monitoring a communication network Methods and systems for monitoring a communication network using machine-learning techniques are disclosed. In some implementations, a forecasted amount of traffic for a communication network is determined using one or more network traffic forecasting models being configured to generate the forecasted amount of traffic based on data indicating one or more previous amounts of traffic for the communication network. A measure of network health is generated based on a measured amount of traffic and the forecasted amount of traffic. Data indicating one or more characteristics of the communication network is processed using one or more machine learning models to generate a predicted measure of network health for a future time period. An indication of the predicted measure of network health for the future time period is provided.
US11134015B2	Load balancing through selective multicast replication of data packets Load balancing through selective multicast replication of data packets in a computer network. Specifically, selective multicast replication entails facilitating the graceful removal or hitless addition of one or more load balancing nodes in a load balancing cluster by multicasting, rather than encapsulating, received data packets from any given client to the load balancing cluster. Further, selective multicast replication considers whether received data packets are synchronize (SYN) or non-synchronize (non-SYN) data packets, in order to employ an appropriate forwarding group towards forwarding the received data packets to one or more appropriate load balancing nodes in the load balancing cluster.
US11134013B1	Cloud bursting technologies In some examples, a multi-cloud bursting service generates cloud agnostic burst templates for bursting workload environments on different clouds, each of the cloud agnostic burst templates defining a stack for a workload environment and tasks for provisioning cloud resources and deploying, on the cloud resources, the workload environment associated with the stack, the stack including applications, libraries, services, data, and/or an operating system. The multi-cloud bursting service can receive, from a local compute environment, a request to burst the workload environment onto a selected cloud and, based on a cloud agnostic burst template identified for the request, provision the cloud resources from the selected cloud and deploy the workload environment on the cloud resources from the selected cloud.
US11134012B2	Communication system, communication device, controller, and method and program for controlling forwarding path of packet flow A communication apparatus for controlling a received packet includes a memory configured to store program instructions, and a processor configured to execute the program instructions to select, whether the received packet is controlled with one of the communication apparatus or an external control apparatus, based on an input port of the received packet, send a notice of detecting a new packet flow to the external control apparatus when the processor selects to control the received packet with the external control apparatus, and set a processing rule for processing the received packet to the communication apparatus when the processor selects to control the received packet with the communication apparatus.
US11134009B2	Packet processing method and apparatus The present invention provides a packet processing method and an apparatus. The method includes: determining a to-be-installed flow entry and packet sending information; and sending, to a switch, a flow entry installation message carrying the to-be-installed flow entry and the packet sending information, so that the switch obtains the to-be-installed flow entry and the packet sending information from the flow entry installation message, installs the flow entry, and sends a packet according to the packet sending information. In the present invention, a controller sends a flow entry installation message carrying a to-be-installed flow entry and a packet sending message, where the to-be-installed flow entry and a to-be-sent packet are simultaneously sent, so that a switch simultaneously receives the to-be-installed flow entry and the to-be-sent packet, and performs flow entry installation and packet sending, thereby reducing unnecessary signaling exchange, and improving efficiency of flow entry installation and packet sending.
US11134007B2	Network congestion reduction using boolean constrained multipath routing A packet routing method includes computing, for a source node in the data network and a destination node in the data network, a set of multiple routes providing a set of shortest routes from the source to the destination that satisfy all the truth assignments for the Boolean algebra available from the path in the network. The method selects, for a packet flow, a route where logical conjunction of the policy constraints of the flow and the route is satisfied and where the route has sufficient bandwidth.
US11134002B2	Packet network interworking including segment routing In one embodiment, a network comprises a first forwarding domain using a first data plane forwarding protocol and a second forwarding domain using a second data plane forwarding protocol different than the first data forwarding plane forwarding protocol. The first forwarding domain includes a first path node and a particular border node. The second forwarding domain includes a second path node and the particular border node. The particular border node performs Segment Routing or other protocol interworking between the different data plane forwarding domains, such as for transporting packets through a different forwarding domain or translating a packet to use a different data forwarding protocol. These forwarding domains typically include Segment Routing (SR) and SR-Multiprotocol Label Switching (SR-MPLS). Paths through the network are determined by a Path Computation Engine and/or based on route advertisements such associated with Binding Segment Identifiers (BSIDs) (e.g., labels, Internet Protocol version 6 addresses).
US11133998B2	Method, apparatus, and system for measuring network delay A method, an apparatus, and a system for measuring a network delay are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring delay measurement information obtained by measuring a service flow by at least one target logical port TLP, where the delay measurement information includes: timestamp information, a service flow identifier, and a TLP identifier; and transmitting the delay measurement information to a measurement control point MCP, so that the MCP determines details about a network delay according to the timestamp information, the service flow identifier, and the TLP identifier. Embodiments of the present application further provide an apparatus and a system for measuring a network delay. Embodiments of the present application achieve direct and accurate delay measurement of a service flow in scenarios of point to point transmission or point to multipoint transmission on the network, and reflect details about a real delay of the service flow.
US11133997B2	Edge system health monitoring and auditing Various embodiments herein each include at least one of systems, methods, software, and devices for edge system health monitoring and auditing. One embodiment, in the form of a method includes performing a system audit over a first network of devices deployed within the facility to determine a status of each respective device. This embodiment further includes determining an overall system status for the facility based on results of the system audit including consideration of a status of each of the devices deployed within the facility and storing data representative of the overall system status of the facility. This embodiment also transmits at least a portion of the data representative of the overall system status of the facility over a second network to a facility system status monitoring application which may then present a single indicator of the overall system status or health.
US11133996B2	Method and system for connectivity diagnostics in communication systems Described is a method and system for connectivity diagnostics in communication systems. The method comprises: querying a first communication device at a first time and a second time to determine whether a second communication device is connected to the first communication device and to determine a value of an operational parameter at the first and second times; and determining the second communication device disconnected from the first communication device based on detecting the second communication device was connected to the first communication device at both the first time and the second time, and detecting the value of the operational parameter at the second time is inside a range of threshold values. In one embodiment, the method comprises determining a link is unstable for connectivity based on connection duration, number and/or pattern of connection and/or disconnection events, and/or traffic activity during connection and/or disconnection events.
US11133984B2	Internet-of-things device autonomous activation Various techniques are described herein for autonomously registering and/or activating Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, provisioning wireless network access of those devices, and connecting the IoT device to an NB-IoT network with agreed-to terms for network usage. In various embodiments, IoT devices may be configured to negotiate for NB-IoT network access by (i) sharing their data with the NB-IoT network provider, (ii) security storing and using cryptocurrency to obtain NB-IoT network access, and/or (iii) automatically providing the NB-IoT network provider with access to data from other associated IoT devices and/or with payment from a separate payment provider. Individual IoT devices may be preconfigured with negotiation terms for NB-IoT network access, pre-associated with other devices/users, and/or pre-loaded with cryptocurrency in a secure storage.
US11133983B2	Provisioning edge devices in a mobile carrier network as compute nodes in a blockchain network Technologies for using edge devices in a cellular network as compute nodes to participate in a blockchain network are described. A cellular network may provision one or more edge devices in communication with the cellular network to instantiate a virtual machine on the edge device to act as a compute node. The cellular network may submit a bid to solve a blockchain hash function using the compute nodes and may instruct the edge to solve the blockchain hash function.
US11133981B2	Device and method of handling a data radio bearer A first network node of a first radio access technology (RAT) handling a data radio bearer (DRB) for establishing a connection to a communication device; transmitting a first plurality of configurations of the first RAT, a first DRB configuration of the first RAT and a second DRB configuration of a second RAT, to the communication device via the connection, to configure a DRB, wherein the first DRB configuration and the second DRB configuration comprise a DRB identity identifying the DRB and the first plurality of configurations are associated to the first DRB configuration; and transmitting a first DRB release configuration of the first RAT and a second DRB release configuration of the second RAT to the communication device via the connection, to release the DRB, wherein the first DRB release configuration and the second DRB release configuration comprise the DRB identity.
US11133976B2	Distributed network query using walker agents In one embodiment, a device in a network receives a query walker agent configured to query information from a distributed set of devices in the network based on a query. The device executes the query walker agent to identify the query. The device updates state information of the executing query walker agent using local information from the device and based on the query. The device unloads the executing query walker agent after updating the state information. The device propagates the query walker agent with the updated state information to one or more of the distributed set of devices in the network, when the updated state information does not fully answer the query.
US11133973B2	Methods and apparatuses for quadrature amplitude modulation optimized for phase noise Methods and apparatus for facilitating wireless communication using digital Quadrature Amplitude Modulation are disclosed. A wireless communication device utilizes a signal constellation for quadrature modulating a signal for transmission or quadrature demodulating a received signal. The signal constellation includes multiple constellation symbols and associated bit sequences, which can be translated there between. Specific signal constellations are disclosed.
US11133971B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving downlink channel The present disclosure discloses a method of receiving a downlink channel by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method includes receiving a synchronization signal block (SSB) including a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), and a physical broadcast channel (PBCH), obtaining information about the position of a downlink bandwidth from the PBCH, and receiving the downlink channel within the downlink bandwidth determined on the basis of the obtained information about the position of the downlink bandwidth. The information about the position of the downlink bandwidth is an offset from the position of a bandwidth of the SSB to the position of the downlink bandwidth.
US11133969B2	Low peak to average power ratio single tone sparse transmission Aspects of the present application use a linear transformation of a sparse mapped single carrier transmission at a transmitter, for which a comparable inverse transform of the linear transform applied at the transmitter can be applied at the receiver. The linear transform reduces the sparsity of sparse mapped symbols. The use of the linear transform to reduce the sparsity enables peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) and/or cubic metric to be reduced as compared to if the linear transform is not used. The linear transforms may be implemented in a block-wise manner, element-wise manner or combination thereof.
US11133965B2	Apparatus, system and method of communicating a wakeup packet For example, an apparatus may include one or more processors comprising circuitry to cause a first wireless device to generate a wakeup packet comprising a payload comprising at least one payload field modulated according to an On-Off keying (OOK) modulation, the payload field comprising a sequence of a plurality of codes to encode binary bit values of the payload field according to an encoding scheme having a code rate less than one, a first code of the encoding scheme representing a binary bit value of “0” comprising a first sequence of two or more bits comprising at least one bit having a value of “1”, and a second code of the encoding scheme representing a binary bit value of “1” comprising a second sequence of two or more hits comprising at least one bit having a value of “1”; and to transmit the wakeup packet to a second wireless device.
US11133962B2	Device synchronization with noise symbols and pattern recognition Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems and machine-readable mediums which allow for more secure and robust synchronization by implementing synchronization systems with sequences that may include interspersed noise symbols. These systems, which still synchronize despite one or more noise symbols N in indeterminate positions that are not known by the recipient device during a synchronization attempt reduce the amount of failed synchronization attempts.
US11133959B1	Apparatuses and methods for routing packets for a time-sensitive networking (TSN) network by virtual local area network (VLAN) tag replacement An apparatus including a storage medium and a controller is provided. The storage medium stores a mapping of stream Identifiers (IDs) to Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) tags. The controller is coupled to the storage medium and configured to route a packet for a Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) network according to the mapping. The routing of the packet includes replacing a VLAN tag in the packet according to the stream ID of the packet and the mapping, so as to maintain the real-time deterministic behavior of delivering data streams in the TSN network.
US11133958B2	Resilient multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) rings using segment routing A ring node N belonging to a resilient MPLS ring (RMR) provisions and/or configures clockwise (CW) and anti-clockwise (AC) paths on the RMR by: (a) configuring two ring node segment identifiers (Ring-SIDs) on the ring node, wherein a first of the two Ring-SIDs (CW-Ring-SID) is to reach N in a clockwise direction on the ring and a second of the two Ring-SIDs (AC-Ring-SID) is to reach N in an anti-clockwise direction on the ring, and wherein the CW-Ring-SID and AC-Ring-SID are unique within a source packet routing in networking (SPRING) domain including the ring; (b) generating a message including the ring node's CW-Ring-SID and AC-Ring-SID; and (c) advertising the message, via an interior gateway protocol, for receipt by other ring nodes belonging to the ring such that (1) a clockwise multipoint-to-point path (CWP) is defined such that every other one of the ring nodes belonging to the ring can be an ingress for the CWP and such that only the node is an egress for the CWP, and (2) an anti-clockwise multipoint-to-point path (ACP) is defined such that every other one of the ring nodes belonging to the ring can be an ingress for the ACP and such that only the node is an egress for the ACP.
US11133955B2	Testing automated smart device functions within smart environments System and methods for testing smart device functions within a smart environment are disclosed. In embodiments, a method includes accessing test case data that associates one or more smart device commands with an event type based on historic event data from a plurality of participating smart environments; determining a test case for the event type based on the test case data, wherein the test case is configured to initiate a test of a smart device command of a smart device within a smart environment of a participant; determining that the test case can be initiated at the smart environment based on rules and participant data indicating a location of the participant with respect to the smart environment; and initiating execution of the test case by a smart device controller of the smart environment, wherein the execution causes the smart device controller to test the smart device command.
US11133954B1	Device, system, and method of wirelessly controlling electronic devices and appliances Devices, systems, and methods of wirelessly controlling appliances and electronic devices, such as ceiling fans, air conditioners, garage doors, or the like. A receive-only garage door system is wirelessly controlled by a proprietary remote control unit. A cloning unit is able to clone or duplicate the proprietary wireless signal, and to replay it or re-generate it in response to a triggering command that a user submitted via a smartphone or tablet; thereby enabling to control such garage door system via mobile electronic devices. The cloning unit utilizes recording of the wireless signal payload and carrier frequency; wireless signal analysis; image analysis of the appliance or of the remote control unit; queries to a remote server to obtain properties of the proprietary wireless signal; or other techniques of signal analysis or duplication.
US11133953B2	Systems and methods for home automation control In one embodiment, a computing system may receive one or more input signals comprising information related to a user of the computing system. The computing system may determine an interpretation of the one or more input signals using a knowledge graph. The knowledge graph may include a number of layers of knowledge about the user or an environment of the computing system. The interpretation of the input signals may be determined based on the knowledge in the knowledge graph. The system may perform one or more execution operations based on the determined interpretation of the one or more input signals. The execution operations may include configuring one or more controllable systems associated with the computing system.
US11133947B2	Multicast routing In accordance with one example embodiment, a system configured for programming a network layer multicast address entry in a routing table of an ingress line card module is disclosed. The network layer multicast address entry includes a network layer address associated with at least one egress line card. The system is further configured for programming a data link layer multicast routing address entry in a routing table of a fabric card module in which the data link layer multicast routing address entry corresponds to the network layer multicast address entry.
US11133945B2	Online charging of ro fail-open sessions Techniques for allowing online charging in cases where the online charging system (OCS) is unreachable or partially unreachable are discussed herein. For example, when the OCS cannot be reached and is unable to authorize the requested services, the services can be provided (e.g., a voice communication session established between two devices) without having to wait for authorization from the OCS. Upon completion of the communication session, the OCS is contacted to report the actual number of units used during the session so that the account of the subscriber can be adjusted. In some examples, the IMS tags the CDR provided to the billing system to indicate that the OCS was not able to authorize the communication session. In this way, the billing system is notified that the OCS is to be contacted so that the subscriber's balance can be adjusted.
US11133937B2	Method and system for facilitating electronic witnessing of electronic signatures Disclosed is a method of facilitating electronic signing of a document. The method may include receiving a first confirmation from a witness electronic device associated with a witness. Furthermore, the method may include making a document available to a signor electronic device based on the first confirmation. Further, the signor electronic device may be configured to present the document to the signor and receive an electronic signature from the signor. Additionally, the method may include receiving a second confirmation from the witness electronic device. Further, the method may include receiving a signed document from the signor electronic device. Furthermore, the signed document may include the electronic signature of the signor. Additionally, the electronic signature may be validated based on receipt of each of the first confirmation and the second confirmation.
US11133936B1	Methods and systems for introducing self-contained intent functionality into decentralized computer networks Methods and systems for introducing self-contained intent functionality into decentralized computer networks is described. Specifically, the methods and systems for encoding user intent (e.g., what functions a value may be used for) into data structures for computer programs and/or transaction protocols intended to automatically execute, control, or record events and actions according to predetermined terms or criteria are described herein. For example, the methods and systems may include using a permission structure native to one or more cryptocurrencies to provide additional functionality that allows for an intent to be introduced into the computer program and/or transaction protocol. This intent may be introduced using a routing data structure indicating exchange eligibility of resource sources.
US11133934B2	Systems and methods for single-step out-of-band authentication A method of performing out-of-band user authentication includes, by a service electronic device associated with a service a request to initiate a session of the service, generating an authentication token, encrypting the authentication token to generate an encrypted authentication token, and transmitting the encrypted authentication token to the electronic device.
US11133933B1	Rapid secure authentication and communications through multitenant components in provider networks Techniques for rapid secure authentication and communications through multitenant components in a provider network are described. A main database cluster can request a burst cluster from a burst service, which can provide the main cluster with a shared secret associated with only a selected burst cluster. The main cluster can use the shared secret to encrypt a value that can be passed, via a proxy, to the selected burst cluster in a connection request. The selected burst cluster can validate that the connection request was truly originated by the main cluster by validating the encrypted value using the shared secret.
US11133932B2	Secure data channel in a networked gaming system A method includes: initiating a data channel over a networked gaming service, including generating a channel key, the channel key being used to encrypt content communicated over the data channel, and generating a first encrypted channel key by encrypting the channel key with a public key associated to an owner of the data channel; adding a participant to the data channel, including generating a second encrypted channel key by encrypting the channel key with a public key associated to the participant; wherein a message sent via the data channel includes encrypted content generated by using the channel key to encrypt content for the message, and further includes the first encrypted channel key and the second encrypted channel key.
US11133931B2	Security service providing apparatus and method for supporting lightweight security scheme The present invention relates to security service providing apparatus and method for supporting lightweight security which provides lightweight security by using an error coefficient and a hash of a chain block used for time synchronization with the terminal for generation of an encryption key to improve security complexity while securing security for communication with terminals and also securing security for an encryption key through the blockchain. According to the present invention, for security for the communication session between the service providing apparatus and the terminal, the encryption key of the terminal is generated as the hash through the hash algorithm by combining the time difference generated in the time synchronization process with the terminal and the hash generated based on the information related to the encryption key of the other terminal stored in the blockchain to generate a symmetrical encryption key which cannot be inferred and has high security.
US11133929B1	System and method of biobehavioral derived credentials identification A system and method for biobehavorial identification may include a user device, a secure system/client device, and a server. The elements of the system work together to monitor the biologic features (e.g., fingerprints, pupils, or the like) and behavior (e.g., wake time, exercise time, location) to verify the authenticity of a user requesting access to a database and/or secure facility.
US11133928B2	Method and apparatus for quantum key distribution on basis of photon subtraction from receiver The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for quantum key distribution according to a continuous-variable quantum key distribution protocol, which distributes the quantum key in a reverse post-processing manner and, after photon sub traction at a receiver (Bob), detects bit information from a received quantum state to calculate and share the quantum key, such that security can be further enhanced and a cryptographic key generation rate can be increased since the cryptographic key is not exposed to an attacker (Eve).
US11133927B1	Moving target defense for a serial communications system A moving target defense scheme for a serial communications system is disclosed herein. A bus controller generates and broadcasts a nonce to remote terminals over a bus. The bus controller and the remote terminals generate a randomized sequence based upon the nonce and a shared secret that is shared between the bus controller and the remote terminals. The bus controller broadcasts first messages over the bus on first addresses that are derived from first portions of the randomized sequence. The remote terminals listen for the first messages that are broadcast over the bus on the first addresses. The bus controller broadcasts a shift message that causes the remote terminals to listen for second messages that are broadcast over the bus on second addresses that are derived from second portions of the randomized sequence.
US11133918B2	Terminal and radio communication method A terminal is disclosed that includes a receiver that receives downlink control information used for scheduling a physical shared channel and a processor that determines a symbol section that is allocated to the physical shared channel by using information, included in the downlink control information, regarding a resource to be allocated. In other aspects, a radio communication method for a terminal is disclosed.
US11133913B2	Method and device for turning off and turning on packet data convergence protocol packet replication function Disclosed are a method and device for turning off and turning on a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) packet replication function, a method and device for sending a media access control control element (MAC CE), a user equipment, a base station and a computer readable storage medium. The method for taming off a PDCP packet replication function comprises: receiving at least one MAC CE from a base station, the MAC CE carrying target carrier information; and turning off a PDCP packet replication function of a DRB or SRB that is mapped on a logical channel corresponding to a target carrier and the PDCP packet replication function of which is turned on according to the MAC CE. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, a PDCP packet replication function of a DRB or SRB that is mapped on a logical channel corresponding to a target carrier and the PDCP packet replication function of which is turned on is turned off so as to solve the problem of a data packet on a logical channel corresponding to a deactivated target carrier not being able to be transmitted.
US11133908B2	Apparatus and method for physical layer transmission of paging and broadcasted system information One embodiment is directed to a method comprising generating information related to resource which can be used for allocating a data transmission; transmitting the information to a user equipment, and sending the data transmission within the resource. In some embodiments, the resource is a frequency domain resource and the information indicates whether the resource comprises a RMSI CORESET bandwidth or a RMSI CORESET bandwidth and a SS/PBCH block frequency allocation.
US11133907B2	Downlink pilot assignment in massive MIMO A network node (110) and a method for downlink pilot signal assignment and transmission, and for data transmission. The network node has a plurality of antenna elements distributed over an area. The network node determines a respective Channel State Information (CSI) and/or a respective channel hardening degree for a wireless device (120) based on an uplink pilot signal. Possibly, the network node determines a mobility condition for the wireless device. Based on one or more out of: the determined respective CSI, the determined respective channel hardening degree and the determined respective mobility condition, the network node obtains a pilot utility metric for the wireless device. Further, the network node assigns a downlink pilot signal to at least one wireless device having a pilot utility metric exceeding a predetermined threshold value. Furthermore, the network node transmits, to the at least one wireless device, data and possibly an assigned downlink pilot signal.
US11133899B2	Hybrid automatic repeat request feedback method and device A method and device for hybrid automatic repeat request feedback are provided. The method includes: a terminal device sends data to be transmitted to a network device; if the terminal device determines that feedback information for the data to be transmitted is not received in a first target time period, the terminal device sends feedback request information to the network device, the feedback request information is used for requesting the network device to send feedback information for the data to be transmitted, a start time point of the first target time period is a time point that the terminal device finishes sending the data to be transmitted, and a time length of the first target time period is a first time length.
US11133898B2	Retransmission handling at TTI length switch A network node, a wireless device for communication with a network node and corresponding methods are provided. The network node includes processing circuitry configured to stop a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process associated with data to be retransmitted and retransmit the data using a procedure that is different from the stopped HARQ process.
US11133897B2	Data transmission method and apparatus Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a data transmission method and apparatus. The data transmission method includes: performing, by a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) entity, lossless transmission on PDCP protocol data units (PDUs) or PDCP service data units (SDUs), where each of the PDCP PDUs or the SDUs is associated with one serial number. In this embodiment, during lossless transmission, no data packet is lost, thereby ensuring communication quality in an inter-station carrier aggregation scenario and achieving an optimization objective.
US11133895B2	Channel coding method, data receiving method, and related device A method may include: dividing, by a sending device into k code blocks CBs, a TB into which a cyclic redundancy check bit is loaded; then separately performing channel coding on the k CBs, to obtain a bit sequence Sj, where j=1, 2, . . . , and k, and a set S={S1, S2, . . . , Sk}; and mapping, by the sending device, some or all bit sequences in all elements in S to transmission resources in N basic transmission time units, where some or all bit sequences in the Sj are mapped to transmission resources in Mj basic transmission time units, and a last bit in the Sj mapped to an mth basic transmission time unit in the Mj basic transmission time units and a first bit in the Sj mapped to an (m+1)th basic transmission time unit are contiguous in the Sj.
US11133889B2	Network node, UE and methods therein for detecting a damaged transmission of data due to data puncturing A method performed by a network node for handling a damaged transmission of data due to data puncturing is provided. The network node receives (201), from a User Equipment, (UE) a Negative Acknowledgment (NACK) feedback of a previous transmission of data transmitted to the UE. The network node checks (202) whether or not the data is punctured in the previous transmission corresponding to the NACK feedback. When the data is punctured in the previous transmission, the network node selects (203) a Redundancy Version (RV), for a retransmission of the data, according to characteristics of the punctured data and puncturing data. The network node then sends (204) a Puncturing Indication (PI), the selected RV and the retransmission of the data to the UE.
US11133888B2	Codec configuration adaptation based on packet loss rate A method of communication includes receiving configuration data at a first device from a configuration server, the configuration data indicating a first packet loss rate threshold associated with a first codec configuration. The method includes determining a packet loss rate at the first device, the packet loss rate associated with one or more first packets received at the first device via a network from a second device. The method includes, based on determining that a decoder of the first device has the first codec configuration and that the packet loss rate satisfies the first packet loss rate threshold, sending, to the second device, a request to change a codec configuration of the second device. The method also includes receiving a second packet at the first device via the network from the second device, the second packet encoded based on a second codec configuration.
US11133887B2	Reliable link quality estimation in multi-rate networks Techniques are directed to using communication metric data associated with multiple modulation schemes to achieve a link quality metric that is representative of the link as a whole, across the multiple modulation schemes that may be employed on the link. A calculation of a link quality metric may be triggered by a network layer transmission attempt, with communication metrics accumulated at the link layer of the link. A filter used to calculate the link quality metric may be updated based on network layer transmission attempts, based on successful and/or unsuccessful transmissions at a Media Access Control (MAC) layer of the link. More generally, a calculation of link quality may be triggered by a higher layer transmission attempt while being calculated based on transmission attempts at a lower layer of the link.
US11133885B2	Methods and devices for synchronization in communication networks A method for assisting in synchronization of slave clocks in a communication network comprises receiving, in a node of the communication network, a message comprising a value of a synchronization accuracy (σrec) of a first upstream node in the communication network. A value of an accuracy (σlink) of a link latency unbalance between forward and reverse signalling in a link on which the node received the message is obtained. A value of a total synchronization accuracy (σtot) of the node comprises at least the accuracy (σlink) of the link latency unbalance of the link on which the node received the message is calculated. A node for assisting in synchronization of slave clocks in a communication network is also presented.
US11133884B2	Determining required processing time of a data network End-to-end latency in a data network containing a succession of network devices through which a data packet passes via data connections is determined by first providing the data packet with a trigger packet. Then each device generates and adds to the trigger packet a respective reception timestamp indicating when the packet is received by the respective device. This added data indicates time needed for travel from the immediately upstream network device such that, when reaching the furthest downstream device of the succession of network devices, the trigger packet holds a plurality of timestamp representing when the trigger packet was received by the network devices. Finally the end-to-end latency is calculated at the furthest downstream network device from all of the time stamps in the trigger packet.
US11133877B2	Method and apparatus for determining pathloss in wireless communication system The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security or safety services.
US11133875B2	Over-the-air reciprocity calibration for distributed-multiple input—multiple output systems The present disclosure relates to over-the-air, OTA, reciprocity calibration for a distributed multiple input-multiple output, D-MIMO, system. By having antennas of the system divided in two separate groups, based on pairwise path loss, and by performing two measurements only, one of which is transmitting by the first group and simultaneously receiving by the second group, and the second by transmitting by the second group and simultaneously receiving by the first group, relations between receiver and transmitter impairments used in the measurements are determined, assuming reciprocity. By relating receive to transmitter impairments for each antenna relative to one or more anchor antennas, calibration values are calculated. By adjusting a quota of the receiver to the transmitter impairment for each antenna such that the relations are fulfilled, reciprocity calibration is achieved, based on two measurements only.
US11133874B2	PAM-based coding schemes for parallel communication Encoders and decoders for encoding and decoding data according to a coding scheme. The encoder converts N bits of input data into M voltage signals for transmission over M parallel wires to a decoder having one or two decoding stages that recover the N bits of data from the M voltage signals. The coding scheme is an N-bit, M-wire PAM-Q code in which each voltage signal wi has one of Q voltage levels l1-lQ, where l1
US11133870B2	Fiber optic connectors and connectorized fiber optic cables that include integrated photonic optical mode field converters and related methods Fiber optic connectors are provided that include a substrate having a groove therein, an optical fiber that is at least partly in the groove, an optical mode field converter or other focusing reflector that is positioned to receive an optical signal that is output from the optical fiber and a housing that surrounds the substrate and the optical fiber.
US11133869B1	Satellite system with networked gateways A satellite system may have a constellation of communications satellites that provides services to users with electronic devices such as portable electronic devices and home/office equipment. The satellites may support communications between the electronic devices of the users and gateways. Each gateway may have satellite transceiver circuitry that transmits and receives satellite signals. Each gateway may also have an optical add-drop multiplexer coupled to a fiber ring and radio-frequency-over-fiber circuitry coupled between the satellite transceiver circuitry and the optical add-drop multiplexer. A metropolitan point-of-presence may be in communication with the fiber ring and may have modems for centrally processing communications (received and transmitted in an intermediate frequency) in the satellite system.
US11133863B2	Method and apparatus for the detection of distortion or corruption of cellular communication signals A system for troubleshooting signals in a cellular communications network, and in particular, for determining the cause of distortion or corruption of such signals, includes a robotic or other type of switch. The robotic switch can tap into selected uplink fiber-optic lines and selected downlink fiber-optic lines between radio equipment and radio equipment controllers in a wireless (e.g., cellular) network to extract therefrom the I and Q data. The selected I and Q data, in an optical form, is provided to an optical-to-electrical converter forming part of the system. The system includes an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) or the like, and an analytic computer unit, or web server, and SSD (Solid State Drive) and magnetic disk storage, among other components of the system. The system analyzes the I and Q data provided to it, and determines the cause, or at least narrows the field of possible causes, of impairment to transmitted signals. The system includes a display which provides the troubleshooting information thereon for a user of the system to review, or other form of a report, and may communicate the analytical findings to a remote location over a public or private internet protocol network.
US11133862B2	Using a low-latency network to allocate return-link bandwidth on a high-latency network Described herein are systems, devices, and methods that improve network communication on a high-latency network by using a low-latency network to manage return-link bandwidth. Embodiments of the systems described herein include a user terminal that is communicatively coupled to a high-latency network and a low-latency network. The user terminal is configured to communicate with a gateway routing device over the low-latency network. The user terminal requests return-link bandwidth and the gateway routing device provides a transmission schedule to the user terminal over the low-latency network. The user terminal can be configured to transmit a message over the high-latency network using the scheduled return-link bandwidth.
US11133854B1	Digital predistortion using coding for phased antenna arrays Digital predistortion (DPD) arrangements that use coding to differentiate between contributions from individual power amplifiers (PAs) is disclosed. When used with a phased antenna array having N antenna elements and N corresponding PAs, the arrangements may sequentially apply N codes to input signals provided to N PAs. Each code is a vector having N elements, where each element corresponds to a different PA in that the element is a complex gain applied to an input signal for the PA. Together, the N codes may be arranged as N rows or N columns of a matrix P. The disclosed arrangements may generate N feedback signals by applying the matrix P to a signal generated by a probe antenna element sensing wireless RF signals transmitted by the N antenna elements, and to update DPD coefficients based on the N feedback signals. The N codes may be either orthogonal or non-orthogonal.
US11133853B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) Disclosed is a method for transmitting and receiving a channel state information (CSI)-reference signal (RS) in a wireless communication system.Specifically, the method performed by a base station may include: configuring control information indicating that an antenna port for all CSI-RS resources included in a CSI-RS resource set is same, wherein the CSI-RS resource set is used for tracking at least one of a time or a frequency; transmitting the configured control information to a user equipment (UE); and transmitting the CSI-RS to the UE through all the CSI-RS resources.In doing so, the UE is capable of performing time/frequency tracking more precisely.
US11133851B1	Beamforming configuration via cross-mixing Systems and methods for beamforming based on mixing elements together instead of conventional phase shifting are provided. A beamformer can be used to cross-mix the elements with one another to compensate for delays in signal reception. By replacing phase shifters with mixers, the system becomes agnostic to frequency of operation and angle of arrival.
US11133850B1	Systems and methods for calculating frequency-localized adaptive beamformer weights using weighted overlapping beamform and add techniques applied to adjacent subbands Examples described herein include Weighted Overlap Beamform and Add techniques for calculating frequency-localized weights for adaptive beamformers. Intermediate weights are calculated for overlapping subbands (e.g., using a least-squares solution or a windowed least-squares solution). Each set of intermediate weights may be multiplied by an overlap factor, and combined to provide final weights for a subcarrier.
US11133847B2	Channel estimation method and apparatus This application discloses a channel estimation method and apparatus, and relates to the field of communications technologies, to help reduce indication overheads. The method may include: generating and sending indication information. The indication information indicates K N-dimensional spatial-domain component vectors, L M-dimensional frequency-domain component vectors, and a weight matrix, for constructing an M×N-dimensional spatial-frequency matrix, or an M×N or N×M spatial-frequency matrix.
US11133845B2	Detuning detection and compensation for inductive coupling systems This disclosure describes techniques for operating an inductive coupling reader. The techniques include operations comprising: detecting a change in a resonance frequency of the inductive coupling reader; comparing the change in the resonance frequency to a threshold; determining that the change in the resonance frequency falls outside the threshold; and activating a compensation circuit to offset the change in the resonance frequency of the inductive coupling reader in response to determining that the change in the resonance frequency falls outside the threshold.
US11133844B2	Device for detecting an item of electronic equipment and for communicating with two near-field communication antennae A device for detecting the approach of a portable electronic apparatus and for communicating in the near field with a first antenna for communication at high frequency and an electrical power-supply and control unit having a device for measuring a variation in the amplitude of an electrical parameter representative of detection of the approach of the apparatus. The device includes a second near-field communication antenna housed in a space delimited by the first antenna and associated with a resonance circuit by being connected to the control unit by a switch having a first position for near-field communication where the second antenna is not supplied with power and a second position for approach detection where the second antenna is connected and enters into resonance with the first, active antenna.
US11133841B2	Data transmission via power line At least some aspects of the present disclosure provide for a method. In some examples, the method includes receiving 2-line data in an embedded Universal Serial Bus (eUSB) format. The method further includes encoding the 2-line data into a single signal. The single signal comprises a first symbol corresponding to a first state change of the 2-line data and a second symbol corresponding to a second state change of the 2-line data.
US11133840B2	Cable modem transceiver, cable modem, cable modem communication system, processor for a cable modem transceiver, method for calibrating a cable modem transceiver, and computer program A cable modem transceiver includes a processor configured to derive an instant of time for an upstream calibration signal on basis of upstream scheduling information. Further, the cable modem transceiver includes a transmitter configured to generate the upstream calibration signal at the derived instant of time. The cable modem transceiver additionally includes a detector configured to determine a property of the generated upstream calibration signal. The processor is further configured to derive at least one calibration parameter for the transmitter on basis of the detected property.
US11133839B2	Detection of intermodulation issues and transmission scheme configuration to remedy intermodulation issues Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to detect intermodulation issues and configure a transmission scheme to remedy detected intermodulation issues. The wireless device may perform measurements on a downlink carrier while one uplink carrier is scheduled for the wireless device. The wireless device may also perform measurements on the downlink carrier while two uplink carriers are scheduled for the wireless device. The wireless device may provide information based on those measurements to a serving base station. The base station may determine that an intermodulation issue is occurring at the wireless device based on the information provided, and may configure the wireless device to use a single uplink carrier at a time based at least in part on the intermodulation issue.
US11133836B1	High isolation radio frequency switch A radio frequency (RF) switch circuit is provided. The switch includes a branch configured and arranged to transfer an RF signal coupled at an input node to an output node when a control signal is at a first logic value. A first transistor in the branch includes a first current electrode coupled at the input node and a second current electrode coupled to an intermediate node. The first transistor is formed in a first isolation well coupled to a bias voltage supply terminal. A second transistor in the branch includes a first current electrode coupled to the second current electrode of the first transistor at the intermediate node and a second current electrode coupled at the output node. The second transistor is formed in a second isolation well coupled to the bias voltage supply terminal. A third transistor includes a first current electrode coupled at the first intermediate node and a second current electrode coupled at a first supply terminal.
US11133834B2	Device and method of compensating for nonlinearity of power amplifier Systems and methods are described to perform wireless communication. The device includes a pre-distortion circuit configured to pre-distort an input signal based on a parameter set including a plurality of coefficients and generate a pre-distorted signal, a power amplifier configured to amplify the pre-distorted signal and generate an output signal, and a parameter obtaining circuit configured to perform an iterative approximation operation based on the output signal and the pre-distorted signal, which change over time, according to an indirect training structure configured to minimize a difference between an intermediate signal obtained based on the output signal and the pre-distorted signal, and obtain the parameter set.
US11133833B2	Power tracker for multiple transmit signals sent simultaneously Techniques for generating a power tracking supply voltage for a circuit (e.g., a power amplifier) are disclosed. The circuit may process multiple transmit signals being sent simultaneously on multiple carriers at different frequencies. In one exemplary design, an apparatus includes a power tracker and a power supply generator. The power tracker determines a power tracking signal based on inphase (I) and quadrature (Q) components of a plurality of transmit signals being sent simultaneously. The power supply generator generates a power supply voltage based on the power tracking signal. The apparatus may further include a power amplifier (PA) that amplifies a modulated radio frequency (RF) signal based on the power supply voltage and provides an output RF signal.
US11133832B2	Data processing method and device Embodiments of this application disclose a data processing method and a data processing device. The method includes: obtaining a first to-be-processed bit sequence, where the first to-be-processed bit sequence is a transport block or a code block generated by performing code block segmentation on a transport block; encoding the first to-be-processed bit sequence to obtain a first encoded bit sequence; storing all or at least some bits of the first encoded bit sequence into a circular buffer; and outputting a first output bit sequence from the bits stored in the circular buffer. According to the method and the device that are provided in this application, rate matching can be implemented for a sequence generated through LDPC encoding.
US11133831B2	Code rate adaptation A method includes programming data in a block of a storage device, and reading back the programmed data and determining a maximum error count for the block. A code rate index that satisfies correction of the maximum error count for the block is determined. A current code rate index is adjusted to the code rate index that satisfies correction of the maximum error count for the block.
US11133815B2	Resampling circuit, physical quantity sensor unit, inertial measurement unit, and structure monitoring device A resampling circuit converts first data updated synchronously with a first clock signal into second data updated synchronously with a second clock signal asynchronous with the first clock signal and outputs the second data. The resampling circuit measures a first time interval between a plurality of successive edges of the first clock signal, and a second time interval between one of the plurality of edges of the first clock signal and an edge of the second clock signal, with a third clock signal having a higher frequency than the first clock signal and the second clock signal. The resampling circuit calculates and outputs the second data updated at the edge of the second clock signal, based on the first time interval and the second time interval, and a plurality of the first data updated at the plurality of edges of the first clock signal.
US11133814B1	Continuous-time residue generation analog-to-digital converter arrangements with programmable analog delay An example residue generation arrangement for a continuous time or hybrid ADC includes a delay circuit having a cascade of analog delay sections, each section to provide a respective delay to an analog input signal, thus providing a delayed analog input signal at the output of the delay circuit. The delay circuit further includes a selector, configured to select an input or an output of one of the delay sections to provide as an input signal to a quantizer of a feedforward path. The quantizer may generate a digital input to a DAC of the feedforward path based on the output of the selector, and the DAC may generate a feedforward path analog output based on the digital signal generated by the quantizer. The arrangement further includes a summation node, configured to generate a residue signal based on the delayed analog input and the feedforward path analog output.
US11133812B1	Asynchronous SAR ADC using two-stage comparator having separate resets Systems and circuits for an asynchronous SAR ADC are described. The SAR ADC includes a two-stage comparator with a preamplifier first stage and a latch second stage. The preamplifier first stage is activated by an active pulse of a first clock signal and the latch second stage is activated by an active pulse of a second clock signal. The Done signal from a done detector is fed back as the active pulse of the first clock signal. The leading edge of the active pulse of the second clock signal is driven by the leading edge of the active pulse of the first clock signal via an RS latch. The Done signal is further fed back through the RS latch to drive a trailing edge of the active pulse of the second clock signal.
US11133811B2	High resolution analog to digital converter (ADC) with improved bandwidth A high resolution analog to digital converter (ADC) with improved bandwidth senses an analog signal (e.g., a load current) to generate a digital signal. The ADC operates based on a load voltage produced based on charging of an element (e.g., a capacitor) by a load current and a digital to analog converter (DAC) output current (e.g., from a N-bit DAC). The ADC generates a digital output signal representative of a difference between the load voltage and a reference voltage. This digital output signal is used directly, or after digital signal processing, to operate an N-bit DAC to generate a DAC output current that tracks the load current. In addition, quantization noise is subtracted from the digital output signal thereby extending the operational bandwidth of the ADC. In certain examples, the operational bandwidth of the ADC extends up to 100s of kHz (e.g., 200-300 kHz), or even higher.
US11133807B2	Phase-locked loop slip detector A phase-locked loop (PLL) includes a phase-frequency detector (PFD) having a first PFD input, a second PFD input, and a PFD output. The PFD is configured to generate a first signal on the PFD output. The first signal comprises pulses having pulse widths indicative of a phase difference between signals on the first and second PFD inputs. A low pass filter (LPF) has an LPF input and an LPF output. The LPF input is coupled to the PFD output. A flip-flop has a clock input and a flip-flop output. The clock input is coupled to the LPF output. A lock-slip control circuit is coupled to the flip-flop output and to the first PFD input. The lock-slip control circuit is configured to determine phase-lock and phase-slip based at least in part on a signal on the flip-flop output.
US11133805B2	Superconducting logic circuits A device includes a plurality of superconducting components, each having a first terminal and a second terminal; a plurality of current sources, being electrically-connected to the first terminal of a corresponding superconducting component and configured to selectively provide a first current; and a bias current source electrically-connected to the respective first terminal of each of the plurality of superconducting components. The bias current source is configured to provide a second current adapted to bias the superconducting components such that (1) a combination of the second current and the first current from each current source causes the plurality of superconducting components to transition from the superconducting state to the non-superconducting state, and (2) a combination of the second current and the first current from each current source of only a subset of the plurality of current sources does not cause the plurality of superconducting components to transition to the non-superconducting state.
US11133802B2	Repeater for an open-drain communication system using a current detector and a control logic circuit This disclosure generally relates to repeaters, and, in particular, repeaters for open-drain systems. In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a first port, a second port, a current detector, a transistor, and a control logic circuit. A current detector input of the current detector is coupled to the first port. A transistor channel electrode of the transistor is coupled to the second port. A control logic circuit input of the control logic circuit is coupled to the current detector output, and a control logic circuit output of the control logic circuit is coupled to a transistor control electrode of the transistor.
US11133796B2	Dynamic IGBT gate drive to reduce switching loss A vehicle includes an electric machine, an IGBT, and a gate driver. The IGBT has a gate, an emitter, and a collector and is configured to flow an electric charge through a phase of the electric machine. The gate driver is configured to flow current onto the gate at a first level, and in response to a time integral of a voltage across the phase exceeding a predetermined level, transition from the first level to a second level less than the first level.
US11133792B1	Pre-drive level shifter with compact bias generator A level shifter includes a compact bias generator. The compact bias generator generates a first bias signal and a second bias signal, in the absence of a buffer. The level shifter also includes a first latch in a first stage to translate a first voltage to a second voltage based on the first bias signal. The level shifter further includes a second latch in a second stage to translate the first voltage to a third voltage based on the second bias signal. The first bias signal is independent of the second bias signal.
US11133789B2	Multilayer piezoelectric substrate An acoustic wave device includes a layered substrate having a piezoelectric material layer bonded to a second material layer including a material having a higher thermal conductivity than the piezoelectric material layer, interdigital transducer electrodes disposed on a surface of the piezoelectric material layer, contact pads disposed on the piezoelectric material layer and in electrical contact with the interdigital transducer electrodes, external bond pads disposed on the second material layer, and conductive vias passing through the layered substrate and providing electrical contact between the contact pads and external bond pads.
US11133787B2	Methods and apparatus to determine automated gain control parameters for an automated gain control protocol Methods and apparatus to determine automated gain control parameters for an automated gain control protocol are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a first tuner to amplify an audio signal. Disclosed example apparatus also include a second tuner to amplify the audio signal. Disclosed example apparatus also include a first controller to tune the first tuner to apply a first gain representative of a first range of gains to the audio signal to determine a first amplified audio signal and tune the second tuner to apply a second gain representative a second range of gains to the audio signal to determine a second amplified audio signal, the second range of gains lower than the first range of gains. Disclosed example apparatus also include a second controller to select the first range of gains to be utilized in an automated gain control protocol when the first gain results in clipping of the first amplified audio signal and the second gain does not result in clipping of the second amplified audio signal.
US11133783B2	Power amplifier and impedance adjustment circuit A power amplifier may comprise: an element for amplifying an electrical signal received through an input terminal, and outputting the amplified electrical signal through an output terminal; a first impedance adjustment circuit connected to the input terminal of the element and adjusting impedance with respect to a frequency of a fundamental component at the input terminal; a second impedance adjustment circuit connected to the input terminal of the element and adjusting impedance with respect to a frequency of a multiplied harmonic component at the input terminal; a third impedance adjustment circuit connected to the output terminal of the element and adjusting impedance with respect to the frequency of the fundamental component at the output terminal; a fourth impedance adjustment circuit connected to the output terminal of the element and adjusting impedance with respect to the frequency of the multiplied harmonic component at the output terminal; a first frequency separation circuit which prevents an impedance change by the first impedance adjustment circuit with respect to the frequency of the multiplied harmonic component at the input terminal, and prevents an impedance change by the second impedance adjustment circuit with respect to the frequency of the fundamental component at the input terminal; and a second frequency separation circuit which prevents an impedance change by the third impedance adjustment circuit with respect to the frequency of the multiplied harmonic component at the output terminal, and prevents an impedance change by the fourth impedance adjustment circuit with respect to the frequency of the fundamental component at the output terminal.
US11133781B2	Doherty amplifier and Doherty amplifier circuit Included is a compensation circuit having one end connected to another end of a first output circuit and another end of a second output circuit and another end grounded, the compensation circuit having an electrical length of 90 degrees at a first operation frequency and an electrical length of 45 degrees at a second operation frequency which is half of the first operation frequency.
US11133780B2	Non-break power transfer for variable frequency generators An aircraft includes an engine and a first variable frequency generator having a first rotor that is rotatable at a rate that is based on a rotational rate of the engine to cause the first variable frequency generator to generate a first multiphase signal. The aircraft further includes a second variable frequency generator having a second rotor that is rotatable at the rate to cause the second variable frequency generator to generate a second multiphase signal. The first multiphase signal is phase aligned with the second multiphase signal. The aircraft further includes one or more switches coupled to a first electrical system and configured to selectively provide power to the first electrical system based on either the first multiphase signal or the second multiphase signal.
US11133776B2	Photovoltaic module Discussed is a photovoltaic module including: a solar cell module including a plurality of solar cells; a converter to convert a level of first direct current (DC) power input from the solar cell module, and to output second DC power; an inverter to convert the second DC power supplied from the converter into alternating current (AC) power; and a controller to control the converter and the inverter, wherein the converter comprises: a full-bridge switching part to switch the first DC power; a transformer having an input side connected to an output terminal of the full-bridge switching part; and a half-bridge switching part connected to an output side of the transformer, wherein the controller changes a switching frequency of the full-bridge switching part and the half-bridge switching part in a first section of a waveform.
US11133767B2	Pulsed electric machine control using tables A variety of methods, controllers and electric machine systems are described for pulse control of electric machines (e.g., electric motors and generators). To improve the energy conversion efficiency of the machine, pulse control involves determining if the machine should operate in a continuous mode or pulse mode, and if the latter, defining a magnitude, duty cycle, and frequency for the pulses. One or more tables, indexing by a wide range of speeds and torque requests, is/are used to define the pulsing frequency or a pulsing frequency pattern.
US11133766B2	Electric working machine, and method for supplying electric power to controller of electric working machine An electric working machine in one aspect of the present disclosure includes a driving device, a controller, a control power source, and an operation state determiner. The control power source includes a first converter and a second converter. The control power source transitions to a first conversion state when the operation state determiner determines that the controller is in a control operation state. The control power source in the first conversion state supplies a first control current to the controller. The control power source transitions to a second conversion state when the operation state determiner determines that the controller is in a low power operation state. The control power source in the second conversion state (i) stops operation of the first converter, and (ii) supplies a second control current to the controller.
US11133765B2	Method and apparatus for driving motor for eco-friendly vehicle An apparatus for driving a motor for an eco-friendly vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes a motor that has a rotor and a stator and a controller that operates the motor. The motor includes a plurality of stator coils and stator relays and the controller operates the stator relays based on an operation mode to adjust the number of turns of the stator coils.
US11133764B2	Signal converter A signal converter, including: a power circuit, a microprocessor, a plurality of input signal interface circuits, a first multiplexer switch, and an output signal interface circuit. The power circuit supplies power for each circuit of the signal converter. The plurality of input signal interface circuits is disposed side by side, and in operation, one of the plurality of input signal interface circuits is connected to the first multiplexer switch to work. The plurality of input signal interface circuits includes input terminals and output terminals. The input terminals receive corresponding input signals, and the output terminals are connected to the microprocessor. The microprocessor includes an output terminal which is connected to the output signal interface circuit. The microprocessor controls the first multiplexer switch to connect to one of the plurality of input signal interface circuits.
US11133761B2	Motor arrangement A motor arrangement comprising: motor having a rotor, a stator, and a plurality of windings mounted on one of the rotor and the stator for acting on the other of the rotor and the stator, and a plurality of inputs coupled to the windings; and control circuit configured to operate in a riving mode in which it dynamically energises the windings via the motor inputs so as to cause the rotor to rotate relative to the stator, the control circuit being further configured to operate in a braking mode in which it continually connects at least a first and a second one of the windings to a common rail to form a closed current path to induce braking of the rotor relative to the stator, wherein the control circuit is configured to enter the braking mode in response to a trigger exogenous to the motor indicative of a fault condition.
US11133756B2	Static electrostatic generator for high voltage low power applications A Static Electrostatic Generator (SEG) is disclosed which produces static charges at high voltage and low current. The SEG is capable of generating positive or negative charges on a metal sphere by reversing the polarity of a DC source. The conversion efficiency of the system is about 47% and its design is simple, lightweight, and easy to manufacture. The SEG is a static device and no mechanical movement is required to produce charges. Also, the design is easily scalable.
US11133755B2	Triboelectric nanogenerator including storage layer via anodic oxidation process and fabricating method thereof A triboelectric nanogenerator according to the present invention includes an electrode layer, a storage layer disposed to be in contact with a top of the electrode layer, a contact layer disposed to be in contact with a top of the storage layer, and a counterpart layer disposed above the contact layer in a spaced manner to face the contact layer and brought into contact with the contact layer by an external force, wherein the storage layer is formed by an electrochemical reaction of the electrode layer.
US11133754B2	Flexible alternating current transmission system with multilevel inverter A multilevel inverter includes an inner DC source group circuit that generates a plurality of voltage levels, and an outer DC source group circuit that generates a substantially sinusoidal output voltage. The substantially sinusoidal output voltage is generated using, at least in part, the plurality of voltage levels generated by the inner DC source group circuit. An H-bridge circuit supplies the substantially sinusoidal output voltage at alternating polarities to a load.
US11133752B2	Modular multilevel converter with multi-port DC power flow control and control method thereof A modular multilevel converter with multi-port DC power flow control includes a modular multilevel converter topology and a DC power flow controller, wherein an input terminal of the DC power flow controller is connected in series to uppermost submodules of upper arms of the modular multilevel converter topology, and with power transfer and energy interaction between the modular multilevel converter topology and an AC power grid, a converter station or a solid state transformer based on the modular multilevel converter topology has a function of direct current power flow control. The output terminal of the DC power flow controller adopts DC/DC converters to regulate the output voltage, and a plurality of DC/DC converters share a common DC bus with the ports connected with different DC outlet lines, thereby providing a plurality of flexible and controllable DC ports.
US11133751B2	Apparatus, inverter system, and method for synchronizing carriers This application discloses an apparatus, an inverter system, and a method for synchronizing carriers. The apparatus includes a modulation unit, a current processing unit, and a control unit. The control unit can adjust, based on a change trend between an amplitude of a first harmonic current and an amplitude of a second harmonic current and a change trend between a phase of a first carrier and a phase of a second carrier, a phase of an input carrier input into the modulation unit, to decrease an amplitude of a harmonic current output by an inverter and improve stability of a distributed power supply system. Further, a prior-art problem that impact of a harmonic current on a power supply system cannot be reduced by synchronizing carriers in a process of synchronizing carriers based on a zero sequence current is avoided, thereby improving the stability of the distributed power supply system.
US11133749B2	Power module for a converter of electrical magnitudes A power module for a converter of electrical magnitudes having an electronic board on which a first electrical circuit is fashioned which defines a positive pole of a direct magnitude, a second electrical circuit is fashioned which defines a negative pole of a direct magnitude, and a third electrical circuit is fashioned which conducts an alternating magnitude. There is one or more first and second electronic switching devices arranged between the first and second electrical circuit, and the third electrical circuit so as to realize the conversion. The first and second electrical circuit are, at least for respective coupling portions, arranged in proximity to the electronic switching devices, neared and superposed at a same face of the board so that a capacitive and/or inductive coupling between the two circuits is realized.
US11133748B2	Simple stabilization of half-bridge converter over its operating temperatures A half bridge DC-DC converter device includes a primary circuit and a secondary circuit, which include separate windings that are disposed around a magnetic core. The first circuit includes two switches and a drive circuit to turn the two switches on and off in an alternating fashion. The primary circuit further includes two thermal regulating components to regulate the current at the base of the two switches over a range of operating temperatures. The regulation of base current over a range of different operating temperatures results in the half bridge converter device being efficient and maintaining a stable switching frequency over the operational temperature range.
US11133747B1	Auto-tuned synchronous rectifier controller An apparatus includes a high-pass filter circuit configured to receive a drain-source voltage from a drain node of a synchronous rectifier switch at a secondary-side of a power converter and to generate a filtered drain-source voltage using the received drain-source voltage. A current comparison circuit of the apparatus is configured to receive a current indicative of a current through the synchronous rectifier switch and to generate a current comparison signal using the received current. An auto-tuning controller of the apparatus is configured to turn the synchronous rectifier switch on upon determining a body diode conduction of the synchronous rectifier switch, commence an auto-tuned delay upon determining that the current through the synchronous rectifier switch has changed direction, turn the synchronous rectifier switch off upon expiration of the auto-tuned delay, and update, during a detection window of time, a duration of the auto-tuned delay based on the filtered drain-source voltage.
US11133746B1	Battery life extender and method A method and system to increase life of a direct current (DC) battery that powers an electronic device is disclosed. In one embodiment the system includes a first stage to convert the DC from the battery to an alternating current (AC), and a second stage to covert the AC from the first stage to a regulated direct current.
US11133742B2	Switched capacitor converter, current control circuit and current control method thereof A current control circuit can include: a current detection circuit configured to obtain a current detection signal for characterizing an output current of a switched capacitor converter, where the switched capacitor converter includes a plurality of first switch groups coupled between an input terminal and a ground, and where each first switch group comprises two switches coupled in series; and a voltage regulation circuit configured to regulate the output current by adjusting an equivalent impedance of the switched capacitor converter in accordance with the current detection signal.
US11133739B2	Multi-level hysteresis voltage controllers for voltage modulators and methods for control thereof Systems and methods that facilitate multilevel hysteresis voltage control methods for cascaded multilevel voltage modulators having a plurality of power cells connected in series and has any positive integer number of output voltage levels to control any unipolar voltage on the load of the voltage modulator, and transfer electrical power from an electrical grid via AC/DC converters or directly from energy storage elements of the power cells to that load. A method of operational rotation of the power cells of a multilevel voltage modulator, which ensures an equal power sharing among the power cells and voltage balancing of the energy storage elements of the power cells of the modulator.
US11133736B2	Vibration actuator, wearable terminal, and device with incoming notification function In the movable body one of a magnet and a core that has a magnetic pole surface disposed so as to face a magnetic pole surface of the magnet via an air gap and around which a coil is wound is provided on each of both sides across the shaft of the support shaft part in the movable body, and in the fixing body the other is provided facing the magnet or core disposed on both sides of the shaft of the support shaft part in the movable body. The movable body is elastically supported by magnetic attractive force generated between the magnetic pole surfaces at each of both sides across the shaft and vibrates back and forth in the direction of the shaft of the support shaft part with respect to the fixing body by the coil interacting with the magnet.
US11133731B2	Printed circuit board and electric filter A printed circuit board and an electric filter. The printed circuit board is arranged to accommodate an electric circuitry on one side, and an electrically conductive material on the other side which forms a common ground point with the electric circuitry and a device contacting the conductive material. The electric filter for filtering electric signals of a DC motor includes a freewheeling diode coupled in parallel to the motor, a capacitor coupled in parallel to the motor, where a ground terminal of the capacitor is coupled to a chassis of the motor, a low pass filter including a ferrite bead and another capacitor is connected to each motor terminal (M+, M−), and a resistor-capacitor filter is coupled in parallel to the motor.
US11133729B2	Methods and apparatus for providing electricity to a vehicle This application is directed to an apparatus for providing electrical charge to a vehicle. The apparatus comprises a driven mass configured to rotate in response to a kinetic energy of the vehicle, the driven mass coupled to a shaft, where rotation of the driven mass causes the shaft to rotate. The apparatus further comprises a hardware controller. The hardware controller identifies output power parameters for the vehicle and generate a control signal based on the identified output power parameters for the vehicle. The apparatus also comprises a generator that generates an electrical output based on a mechanical input and a conditioning circuit electrically coupled to the generator. The conditioning circuit receives the electrical output from the generator and the control signal from the hardware controller, generates a charge output based on the electrical output and the control signal, and conveys the charge output to the vehicle.
US11133727B2	Electric actuator An electric actuator includes a motor including a rotor having a motor shaft extending along a central axis and a stator, a deceleration mechanism connected to the motor shaft, an output shaft, a first bearing, a second bearing, and a deceleration mechanism case. The first bearing is fitted on an eccentric axis part of the motor shaft. The deceleration mechanism includes an internal gear in a ring shape, an external gear connected to the eccentric axis part, and an output flange part which transmits rotation of the external gear around the central axis to the output shaft. The deceleration mechanism case includes a case body and a cup member. The cup member includes a first cylinder part to which the internal gear is fitted on the radial-direction inner side, and a second cylinder part to which the second bearing is fitted on the radial-direction inner side.
US11133714B1	Apparatus for wireless power transmission and method of use thereof A wireless power transfer apparatus for providing wireless power; it has an array of resonators; a powered resonator for providing power through electromagnetic resonance to said array of resonators; wherein said resonators transfer power from said powered resonator to any one of said array of resonators for delivering wireless power to said device by a modified connection between said array of resonators except the powered resonator; and/or wireless weak electromagnetic field coupling between neighboring resonators of said array of resonators each having a tuning frequency of resonance wherein said array of resonators has at least two distinct tuning frequencies from all the resonators constituting said array of resonators; wherein said modified connection is one of or a combination of: a wired connection; and a strong electromagnetic field coupling.
US11133713B2	Wireless electric field power transfer system and transmitter, and method of wirelessly transferring power A transmit resonator is provided. The transmit resonator comprises: two inductors; a switching network electrically connected to the inductors; a plurality of capacitive electrodes electrically connected to the switching network; a detector communicatively connected to the capacitive electrodes; and a controller communicatively connected to the switching network and the detector. The detector is configured to detect impedance. The controller is configured to control the switching network to control which electrodes are connected to the inductors based on the detected impedance. The inductors and electrodes are configured to resonate to generate an electric field.
US11133708B1	Automated installation of electronic devices on infrastructure components The disclosed apparatus may include (1) a mount of an infrastructure component, where the mount includes an installation surface that contacts an installed electronic device, and (2) a coupling mechanism that (a) provides a force causing a corresponding installation surface of the installed electronic device to maintain contact with the installation device, and (b) delivers electrical power via the installation surface to the installed electronic device. Various other apparatuses, devices, and methods are also disclosed.
US11133707B2	Wireless electric field power transfer system, transmitter and receiver A resonator is provided. The resonator comprises at least two inductors and at least four capacitive electrodes electrically connected to the inductors. The capacitive electrodes and the inductors are configured to resonate and generate or couple with an electric field. The electrodes have either four fold mirror or rotational symmetry.
US11133704B2	Synchronous soft-start networking control strategy for parallel auxiliary converters of EMU A synchronous soft-start networking control strategy for parallel auxiliary converters of EMU, that is, when a first auxiliary converter is connected to the bus, non-first auxiliary converters complete the networking during an amplitude soft-start process of the first auxiliary converter. Specific solution is: fast networking logic, bus fast-tracking logic and PQ droop networking control strategy. Wherein, the fast networking logic comprises recognizing the first auxiliary converter and the non-first auxiliary converter; the bus fast-tracking logic comprises tracking phase, frequency and amplitude; the PQ droop networking control strategy comprises introducing a correction coefficient K. The synchronous soft-start networking control strategy for the parallel auxiliary converters of EMU can realize quickly and reliably automatic networking in an emergency traction mode of EMU, and significantly shorten networking time in a network normal mode of EMU. Therefore, it can ensure that EMU can complete startup loading within a specified time under various working conditions, which provides strong guarantee for stable and reliable operation of EMU.
US11133700B2	Power supply device and charging control method The present disclosure provides a power supply device and a charging control method. The power supply device includes a primary conversion circuit, a secondary conversion circuit, a transformer, a feedback control circuit, and a power adjustment circuit. An input end of the feedback control circuit is coupled to both ends of an inductance element in the secondary conversion circuit. The feedback control circuit is configured to sample an output current of the power supply device based on the impedance of the inductance element to obtain a current sampling value, and to generate a feedback signal according to the current sampling value. The power adjustment circuit is coupled to an output end of the feedback control circuit, and is configured to adjust a power coupled from the primary conversion circuit to the secondary conversion circuit via the transformer according to the feedback signal.
US11133699B2	Charging systems for devices related to dialysis treatments In one aspect of the invention, a method of charging a medical device includes receiving radiofrequency signals from a remote machine remote from the medical device via a receiver of the medical device. The method includes converting the radiofrequency signals into electrical energy via a generator of the medical device. The method includes storing the electrical energy in an energy cell of the medical device. The method also includes powering a power consumption component of the medical device by transmitting the energy from the energy cell to the power consumption component.
US11133695B2	Control device, electronic device, and control method It is possible to prevent user's convenience from decreasing during charging. A control device includes a current level adjusting section that adjusts, in accordance with temperatures detected at a plurality of locations in a mobile terminal, output current levels of output currents to be outputted from respective plurality of charging circuits, i.e. first to fourth charging circuits.
US11133693B2	Apparatus, systems, and methods for distributed charging and discharging An apparatus may include a power rail, a subassembly, an additional subassembly, and an interface coupling the subassembly to the additional subassembly. The subassembly may include a load, an energy-storing component, a charger having an output coupled to the energy-storing component, and a reverse-current limiter having a first terminal coupled to the energy-storing component. The additional subassembly may include an additional energy-storing component, an additional charger having an output coupled to the additional energy-storing component, and an additional reverse-current limiter having a first terminal coupled to the additional energy-storing component. The power rail may cross the interface and may couple the load, an input of the charger, a second terminal of the reverse-current limiter, an input of the additional charger, and a second terminal of the additional reverse-current limiter. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US11133690B1	Large-format battery management system A battery system with a large-format Li-ion battery powers attached equipment by discharging battery cells distributed among a plurality of battery packs. The discharging of the battery cells is controlled in an efficient manner while preserving the expected life of the Li-ion battery cells. Each battery pack internally supports a battery management system and may have identical components, thus supporting an architecture that easily scales to higher power/energy. Battery packs may be added or removed without intervention with a user, where one of battery packs serves as a master battery pack and the remaining battery packs serve as slave battery packs. When the master battery pack is removed, one of the slave battery packs becomes the master battery pack. Charging and discharging of the battery cells is coordinated by the master battery pack with the slave battery packs over a communication channel such as a controller area network (CAN) bus.
US11133687B2	Wireless charging holster for portable electronic device Wireless charging holsters for portable electronic devices (PEDs) are disclosed. A wireless charging holster may include a wireless charger and a holster frame. The holster frame may include a receptacle to integrate the wireless charger within the frame. The wireless charging holster may accept a PED in the proper positioning relative to the wireless charger to charge a battery of the PED without physically obstructing a space between a surface of the wireless charger and the PED.
US11133684B1	Battery drone Systems and techniques are provided for charging devices at a property using battery-charging drones. In some implementations, a monitoring system is configured to monitor a property and includes a battery-powered sensor configured to generate sensor data. The system includes a drone that is configured to navigate the property and charge the battery-powered sensor. A monitor control unit is configured to obtain a battery level from the battery-powered sensor and compare the battery level to a battery level threshold. Based on the comparison, the monitor control unit determines that the battery level does not satisfy the threshold. Based on the determination, the monitor control unit generates and transmits an instruction to a drone for the drone to navigate to the battery-powered sensor and charge a battery of the battery-powered sensor. The monitor control unit receives data from the drone that indicates whether the drone charged the battery of the sensor.
US11133679B2	System and method for operating a hybrid energy facility having multiple power sources A method for operating a renewable energy facility having a plurality of power sources includes defining a plurality of modes of operation for each of the plurality of power sources. The method also includes receiving one or more required active power set points for the renewable energy facility and/or groups of the plurality of power sources. Further, the method includes determining an operating mode command that defines which of the plurality of modes of operation to use for each of the plurality of power sources to reach the one or more required active power set points. Moreover, the method includes dynamically switching into the plurality of modes of operation defined in the operating mode command.
US11133676B2	System and method for fluctuating renewable energy-battery optimization to improve battery life-time A system and method for energy optimization is disclosed. The system may collect information from an information collector data including energy usage and storage data of at least one renewable energy generation system and battery energy storage system (BESS). The system may identify historical events that result in curtailment of renewable energy production, determine whether there is a curtailment of renewable energy production based at least on one historical event supervise the charge and discharge cycles of the at least one BESS; and ensuring that the diesel generators minimum up/down time is satisfied based on controlling at least one parameter of the BESS.
US11133670B2	Air gap metal tip electrostatic discharge protection An air gap metal tip structure is provided for (ESD) protection. The structure includes first and second metal tips disposed along at least one horizontal axis that is parallel to a upper substrate and a lower substrate. The structure includes an air chamber formed between the upper and lower substrate within which the first metal tip and the second metal tip are disposed. The air chamber includes a portion between points of the metal tips. The structure includes an under fill level disposed between the lower and upper substrates, and above one or more layers having the metal tips. Oxygen trapped in the air chamber is converted into ozone responsive to an arc between the metal tips to dissipate the arc, and the ozone is decomposed back into the oxygen responsive to an absence of the arc between the metal tips to maintain the ESD protection for subsequent arcs.
US11133669B2	Adjustable power limiter with integrated power detector A limiter having a more ideal limiting function, a short response time, and an adjustable limiting threshold. In one embodiment, a self-activating limiter stack is coupled between circuit ground and a signal line between a source and a receiver. The limiter stack limits the power from the source when the voltage on the signal line exceeds the breakdown voltage of the limiter stack. The threshold of the limiter stack is controlled in part by a first control voltage applied to a control input. A rectifying power detector circuit connected between a node on the signal line and the control input of the limiter stack provides a second control voltage as a function of the signal power at the node. The combined first and second control voltages are applied to the control input to modulate the ON resistance of the limiter stack, thereby limiting the leakage power reaching the protected receiver.
US11133667B2	Protection circuit, corresponding system and method A protection circuit for an automotive wiring harness includes an input node receiving a sensing signal indicating intensity of current in a conductor, an output node emitting a current control output signal to reduce the current and/or emitting a warning signal indicating the current intensity having reached a limit value. Signal processing circuitry coupled to the input node compares the current intensity with a reference value, and produces a comparison signal indicating whether the current intensity exceeds the reference value. A counting circuitry driven by the comparison signal counts in a first count direction as a result of the comparison signal indicating that the current intensity exceeds the reference value. Latching circuitry coupled to the counter circuitry generates the output signal at the output node as a result of the count value of the counter circuitry reaching a limit value.
US11133660B2	Structural arrangement for use in a conducting busbar A busbar and constructive variations thereof, which has a closed tubular format, based on single, double and triple walls, and said busbar can be manufactured by extrusion, profiling or bending process.
US11133656B2	Vertical cable manager A cable manager includes one or more cable manager units. Each cable manager unit includes a pair of side cable guides, each comprised of a plurality of finger-like projections extending forwardly from a support column. At least one of the pair of support columns has a socket arranged at a side thereof. Each cable manager unit further includes a separate midsection member capable of insertion into the socket for interconnecting the pair of side cable guides.
US11133647B2	Impedance matching circuit for optical transmitters and methods of making and using the same Embodiments of the disclosure pertain to an optical transmitter comprising a laser configured to generate an optical signal from a single-ended electrical signal, a housing or (sub)assembly containing the laser, a driver configured to generate the single-ended electrical signal, a direct current (DC) return path, and an alternating current (AC) return path. The laser has a DC power pin, and the DC power has a DC component and an AC component. The driver has a first impedance at a first output through which the single-ended electrical signal passes. The housing or (sub)assembly has a second impedance matching the first impedance. The DC return path comprises an inductor and is configured to carry or conduct the DC component of the DC power from the laser (e.g., to an input pin on the driver). The AC return path is configured to carry or conduct the AC component of the DC power from the laser. Methods of using and manufacturing the same are also disclosed.
US11133645B2	Laser integration into a silicon photonics platform The present disclosure provides for laser integration into photonic platforms in which a first wafer, including a first substrate and a first insulator that includes a first plurality of dies that each include a first set of optical waveguides, is bonded to a second wafer, including a second substrate and a second insulator that includes a second plurality of dies that each include a second set of optical waveguides. The bond between the two wafers defines a wafer bond interface joining the first insulator with the second insulator and vertically aligning the first plurality of dies with the second plurality of dies such that respective first sets of optical waveguides are optically coupled with respective second sets of optical waveguides.
US11133638B2	Apparatus for combining laser beams in optical fibers, and corresponding method An apparatus comprises a multi-clad fiber that includes a light-guiding core surrounded by at least a cladding layer, and an input interface including a first set of input channels in the core configured to receive a first optical fiber, and a second set of input channels in the cladding layer configured to receive a second optical fiber. The apparatus further includes an optical switch module having an input port, a first and a second output port, a first optical path between the input port and the first input channel, and a second optical path between the input port and a second input channel in the second set of input channels. The optical switch module is controllable to switch between the first and the second optical paths. The apparatus also includes a set of laser modules.
US11133636B2	Method for manufacturing a male power terminal, and male power terminal A male power terminal and method for manufacturing a male power terminal are described. This terminal comprises a contact portion and a connection portion intended to electrically connect the terminal to an electrical circuit. This method comprises an operation of cutting a metal sheet, to form the contact portion and the connection portion. This method also comprises an operation of forming of bending the metal sheet so as to form the contact portion with a tubular shaped and a connection portion with two thicknesses of metal sheet. The method also comprises inserting a portion of a protection cap into the contact portion.
US11133635B2	System and method for multi-stage crimping and stripping A system for multi-stage crimping of a contact to a wire includes a first crimping die having a first portion of a selected shape defined therein, and a second crimping die having a complementary second portion of the selected shape defined therein. The system also includes the first and second crimping dies being operable to be displaced towards each other and along a first axis during a compression stroke. The first and second crimping dies are also operable to be displaced along a second axis during a closing stroke subsequent to the compression stroke, where the second axis is generally perpendicular to the first axis. In addition, the system includes the first and second crimping dies cooperating to crimp the contact into the selected shape to the wire upon completion of the closing stroke.
US11133634B2	Terminal-equipped electric wire manufacturing apparatus and terminal-equipped electric wire A terminal-equipped electric wire manufacturing apparatus, includes: a placing table on which a crimp terminal is placed while kept crimped to an electric wire; and a supply device that supplies an anticorrosive material to the crimp terminal placed on the placing table while kept crimped to the electric wire. While kept crimped to the electric wire, the crimp terminal has a communication hole allowing communication between a gap space portion in the crimp terminal and outside of the crimp terminal gap space portion. The placing table has a distribution hole positioned opposite the communication hole of the placed crimp terminal, the distribution hole allowing the anticorrosive material, supplied from the supply device, to flow in the distribution hole.
US11133630B2	Lamp connector The present invention discloses a lamp connector for connecting several lamps each provided with a power cable, a control cable, and female connector terminals, including a connector body, a power cable, a control cable, and male connector terminals, where the male connector terminals match the female connector terminals; receptacles for accommodating the male connector terminals are disposed in the connector body, and one male connector terminal is disposed on both sides of the connector body to connect the connector body to two lamps simultaneously; each of the male connector terminals includes a power cable terminal and a control cable terminal, two ends of the power cable are respectively connected to the two power cable terminals, and two ends of the control cable are respectively connected to the two control cable terminals; and both the power cable and the control cable are disposed in the connector body. According to the present invention, lamps having matched female connector terminals can be connected by simply performing plugging and unplugging operations, without needing a professional to connect cables for the lamps. As such, the operations are simple and quick.
US11133629B2	Busway systems and related assemblies and methods A busway assembly includes first and second busway sections and a joint assembly connecting the first and second sections. Each busway section includes a housing including first and second opposing side portions. Each busway section includes a first insulator held in the first side portion and a second insulator held in the second side portion. The first and second insulators each hold one or more bus bar conductors. The joint assembly includes first and second connected joint housings and plurality of joint conductors held in the first and second housings. A first exposed portion of each joint conductor extends out of the first housing and is electrically connected with one of the bus bar conductors of the first busway section. A second exposed portion of each joint conductor extends out of the second housing and is electrically connected with one of the bus bar conductors of the second busway section.
US11133627B2	Power distribution system A power distribution system includes a plurality of wires extending between a first end and a second end. The wires extend continuously between the first and second ends, Each wire includes an electrical conductor and an insulation layer. The power distribution system further includes a receptacle selectively positionable at any position along a length of the wires. The power receptacle includes a housing defining at least one power outlet. A plurality of connection members is positioned within the housing. Each connection member includes a first end and a second end. The first end is configured to contact the electrical conductors within the insulation layers of the plurality of wires for electrically connecting the plurality of connection members to the plurality of wires. The second end is configured to electrically connect the plurality of connection members to the at least one power outlet.
US11133624B2	Electrical plug having a temperature sensor Disclosed are embodiments of an electrical plug, in particular a medium voltage plug or a high voltage plug, for a power cable including at least one housing configured to receive at least one electrical plug module. The plug includes at least one fiber optic cable arranged in the housing as a temperature sensor of a temperature measuring arrangement.
US11133623B2	Wet contact detection in external accessory connector A conductive liquid path detection circuit for detecting a conductive liquid present in a receptacle connector and/or a mating connector plug is configured for discharging an electron charge from any conductive liquid present on a connector pin in the receptacle connector and/or a mating connector plug. The conductive liquid path detection circuit charges any conductive liquid present on the connector pin with an electron charge. The circuit repeatedly samples and retains the samples of the measurements of a voltage level present at the connector pin. The conductive liquid path detection circuit then analyzes the samples of the measurements to determine a slope of the samples of the measurements of a voltage level over time; and determines when an amplitude of a final measurement of the voltage level is less than a conductive liquid detection threshold level.
US11133621B2	Electric wire cover An electric wire cover includes a first cover and a second cover, the electric wire cover being to be attached to a connector and to cover and protect an electric wire drawn out from the connector. The first cover includes a side plate and a locking claw. The second cover includes a lock piece and a protective wall, the lock piece protruding in a direction in which the second cover is attached to the first cover, the lock piece being to lock the locking claw, the protective wall surrounding the lock piece. The protective wa1l includes an outer wall portion and side wall portions, the outer wall portion being provided with a first gap between the outer wall portion and an outer surface of the lock piece, the side wall portions being provided with second gaps between the side wall portions and side portions of the lock piece.
US11133619B2	Method for improving clearance and creepage in a high voltage connector assembly using a female terminal position assurance (TPA) device A method for improving clearance and creepage in a high voltage connector assembly using a female terminal position assurance (TPA) device. The female housing in this invention is highly suitable for high voltage electrical terminals, which are larger terminals. The female TPA device in this invention includes two frontward extending members, while the female housing includes a front portion for terminals to reside. With the above-described characteristics of this invention, the creepage and the clearance of an electrical path between one terminal to another terminal are advantageously increased. The electrical path one of the a electric high voltage electrical terminal to another high voltage electrical terminal extending along the front portion of the female housing and between the front downward extending members of the frontward extending members of the female TPA device.
US11133617B2	Plug connection having an auxiliary contact An electrical plug connection has two main contacts—one plug-in contact and one socket contact configured to mate when the contacts are connected. In the connected state, the contacts contact each other at a main contact point. An auxiliary contact is associated with one of the two main contacts to form an assembly and plug unit. The auxiliary contact is designed as a spring contact which contacts the other main contact in the region of a second contact point. When the two plug-in contacts are disconnected, the auxiliary contact is connected in an electrically non-conductive manner to the main contact with which it is associated. In the mating or connected state where the two main contacts contact each other, the auxiliary contact contacts the other main contact with which it is not associated to form an assembly and plug unit at an auxiliary contact point for measuring the power loss across the plug connection.
US11133608B2	Contact member for an IDC terminal, contact member assembly, set of contact members and housing comprising a contact member A contact member for an insulation displacement contact (IDC) terminal includes an encasement wall at least partially surrounding a receptacle volume receiving a wire or cable, an IDC member having an IDC blade penetrating an insulation of the wire or cable and a contact edge electrically contacting a core of the wire or cable, and a cutting blade cutting the wire or cable. The receptacle volume has an opening at least partially framed by the encasement wall. The IDC member is formed in a first wall section of the encasement wall. The cutting blade is formed in a second wall section of the encasement wall opposite the first wall section. Both the IDC blade and the cutting blade face the opening.
US11133607B2	Electrical connection assembly, method of electrically connecting a conductor of a cable with a metallic textile An electrical connection assembly includes a cable having a conductor, a metallic textile in electrical contact with the conductor, and a crimp element creating a pressure between the conductor and the metallic textile.
US11133600B2	Spatial feeding end-fire array antenna based on electromagnetic surface technologies The present disclosure provides a spatial feeding end-fire array antenna based on electromagnetic surface technologies, including: a primary feed, configured to transmit and/or receive electromagnetic waves; and a single-layer and/or multi-layer medium-metal combination surface, configured to convert the electromagnetic waves emitted from the primary feed to an end-fire focused beam, or to concentrate space waves received in an end-fire direction into the primary feed. The single-layer and/or multi-layer medium-metal combination surface has a thickness that is equal to or less than one percent of working wavelength of the antenna.
US11133599B2	Phased array antenna The invention provides a phased array antenna, which includes a core board, as well as an antenna module and a radio frequency module respectively arranged at two sides of the core board, where the radio frequency module includes a device attached to a surface far away from the core board and a circuit layer electrically connected to the device, and the device and the circuit layer at least form a phase control unit to control a phase of each antenna unit in the antenna module and a beam synthesis unit to control a beam shape of the phased array antenna.
US11133597B2	Antenna array and wireless device An antenna array and a wireless device using the antenna array are disclosed. The antenna array includes a first antenna set and a first radio frequency lens set. The first antenna set includes a plurality of antennas, and the first radio frequency lens set includes a plurality of radio frequency lenses. The plurality of antennas and the plurality of radio frequency lenses are arranged according to rules. According to the rules, the first radio frequency lens set can be used to increase a phase difference between radio signals from antennas.
US11133591B2	Antenna device, position input device including antenna device, and display device including antenna device An antenna device includes antenna portions arranged side by side in columns with a partial overlap between the antenna portions next to each other, and common lines each connected to and shared by a set of the antenna portions not overlapping each other to collectively activate the set of the antenna portions.
US11133589B2	Antenna A dual band horizontally polarized omnidirectional antenna is disclosed herein. The antenna comprises a dielectric, a top low band dipole arm, a narrow section of the arm, a capacitive extension of the arm, a top high band dipole arm, a narrow section of the high band arm, a first section of a transmission line, a second section of the transmission line, a feed pad, a coax center pin solder point, a bottom side array, a bottom side ground pad, and a hole for feed.
US11133588B1	Phase change material based reconfigurable intelligent reflective surfaces Ultra-reconfigurable reflectarrays using vanadium dioxide (VO2) are provided, as well as methods of fabricating and using the same. The ultra-reconfigurable reflectarrays operate based on the unique phase-change properties of VO2, by including a heating element configured to heat desired areas of a VO2 layer/reflector, such that the VO2 reflector/layer can be reconfigured to have a desired pattern heated (and therefore changed to a conducting state) at a given time, with a good spatial resolution of the desired pattern.
US11133587B2	Antenna device and array antenna device An antenna device includes: a dielectric substrate 1; a first conductor 2 provided on a first surface of the dielectric substrate 1; a second conductor 100 provided on a second surface of the dielectric substrate 1, the second surface being opposite to the first surface on which the first conductor 2 is provided, the second conductor 100 having a feeding point 12; a third conductor 200a provided on the same second surface on which the second conductor 100 is provided; and a pair of transmission lines that electrically connect the second conductor 100 and the third conductor 200a.
US11133583B2	Dynamic information storage to enable angle-of-arrival smart antennas An apparatus comprises an antenna array, a block of switches, a programmable logic device and a memory device. The antenna array comprises a plurality of antenna elements. The block of switches is configured to selectively connect respective ones of a subset of the plurality of antenna elements to corresponding ones of a plurality of transceivers in a host device. The programmable logic device is configured to communicate with the host device and to control the block of switches. The memory device is coupled to the programmable logic device, and is configured to store information allowing the host device to determine how to control connectivity of individual antenna elements to respective ones of the plurality of transceivers of the host device as part of transmit and/or receive operations of the host device.
US11133581B2	Electronic device comprising antenna An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a support member, a front plate disposed on a front surface of the support member, a back plate disposed on a back surface of the support member, a non-conductive structure interposed between the back plate and an edge of the support member and fixed to the support member, and an antenna structure interposed between the back plate and an edge of the support member. At least a portion of the antenna structure may be disposed to face the non-conductive structure. In a region of the non-conductive structure, which faces the antenna structure, a separated distance from the antenna structure varies depending on a distance from a bottom surface of the support member to which the non-conductive structure is fixed.
US11133580B2	Antenna device An antenna device is provided, which includes a first substrate, and a second substrate facing and spaced with the first substrate in a distance. At least one working element disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the at least one working element is filled with a modulation material. At least one buffer element is connected with the at least one working element for adjusting the amount of the modulation material in the at least one working element.
US11133577B2	Intelligent meta-structure antennas with targeted polarization for object identification Examples disclosed herein relate to an intelligent meta-structure antenna module for use in a radar for object identification, the module having a first Intelligent Meta-Structure (“iMTS”) antenna with a set of slots in a longitudinal direction for horizontal polarization and configured to detect a vehicle, and a second iMTS antenna with a set of slots in a transverse direction for vertical polarization and configured to detect a pedestrian.
US11133576B2	Rectenna A rectenna for high efficiency RF-to-DC wireless energy harvesting that includes an off-center-fed patch (OCFP) antenna and a rectifying circuit. The input impedance of the antenna may be tunable and directly conjugate matched to an impedance of the rectifying circuit over a wide range of frequencies and/or under different operating conditions. An impedance matching network required by rectenna systems may therefore be eliminated using the methods disclosed for the design and implementation of the OCFP rectenna. The OCFP rectenna offers consistently high RF-to-DC power conversion efficiency over a wide range of frequencies and under different operating conditions.
US11133574B2	Communication device A communication device includes: a first body including a first display portion; a second body including a second display portion; a communication circuit that carries out millimeter-wave band communication; and one or more millimeter-wave band communication antennas provided in at least one of the first body and the second body.
US11133572B2	Electronic device with segmented housing having molded splits The disclosure is directed to a multi-segment housing for an electronic device that includes multiple conductive segments that are structurally coupled by one or more non-conductive housing segments or splits. One or more of the conductive segments may be configured to operate as an antenna and the non-conductive housing segments may provide electrical insulation between the conductive segment and one or more adjacent housing segments. The non-conductive housing segment may be formed from a polymer having an array of fibers dispersed within the polymer. The fibers may be aligned along one or more fiber directions, which may be substantially perpendicular to an exterior surface of the housing.
US11133571B2	Electronic apparatus and control method therefor An electronic apparatus, according to various embodiments of the present invention, comprises: a first antenna of a first bandwidth; a second antenna of a second bandwidth which partially overlaps with the first bandwidth; a third antenna of the first bandwidth; a fourth antenna of the second bandwidth; a transmission/reception path corresponding to each of a plurality of bandwidths; a reception path corresponding to each of the plurality of bandwidths; and a path formation unit which forms a path such that any one of the first antenna and the third antenna is connected to the transmission/reception path, the other of the first antenna and the third antenna is connected to the reception path, and any one of the second antenna and the fourth antenna is connected to the transmission/reception path, and the other of the second antenna and the fourth antenna is connected to the reception path.
US11133570B2	Holder for antennas A holder for antennas includes at least one circuit board, at least one carrier and at least one antenna. The at least one carrier, disposed to a lateral side of the at least one circuit board, has at least one honeycomb structure. The at least one antenna, disposed at the at least one carrier, is electrically connected with the at least one circuit board. The antenna, the carrier and the circuit board are formed as a modular structure beneficial to be assembled into or disassembled from the casing of the electronic device.
US11133569B2	Compact connector for transmitting super high frequency signal A compact connector for transmitting super-high-frequency signals is adapted to connect a printed circuit board (PCB) to a single or multiple high-frequency signal lines transmitting super-high frequency signals therethrough. The compact connector includes: a male connector connected to the single or multiple super-high frequency signal lines and including a male connector housing receiving, securing, and protecting terminals of the single or multiple super-high frequency signal lines; and a connector socket mounted on the PCB and receiving the male connector housing fastened to the male connector, wherein the super high-frequency signal line terminals in the male connector are brought into direct contact with and connected to signal line terminal pads formed on the printed circuit board, respectively.
US11133568B2	Semiconductor package structure having antenna module A semiconductor package structure having an antenna module includes: a substrate, having a first surface, a second surface, and at least one via hole made by a laser running through the substrate; a rewiring layer, disposed on the first surface of the substrate; metal bumps, disposed on the rewiring layer and electrically connected to the rewiring layer; a semiconductor chip, disposed on and electrically connected to the rewiring layer; a conductive column, filling the via hole, and an antenna module, disposed on the second surface of the substrate and electrically connected to the metal bumps through the conductive column and the rewiring layer.
US11133566B2	Branch-line directional coupler and power amplifier device A branch line directional coupler has a first line, a second line, a first open-ended coupled circuit, and a second open-ended coupled circuit. The first and second lines have a first characteristic impedance and a quarter wavelength length. The first open-ended coupled line has one end connected to the first line and the other end connected to the second line. The second open-ended coupled line has one end connected to the first line and the other end connected to the second line. The first open-ended coupled line has two coupled lines having a coupling length of a quarter wavelength, an open stub, and a connecting line, and has a total length of one-half wavelength. The second open-ended coupled line includes two coupled lines having a coupling length of ¼-wavelength, open stubs, and a connecting line, and has a total length of ½-wavelength.
US11133564B2	Positive electrode plate and electrochemical device This application relates to a positive electrode plate and an electrochemical device. The positive electrode plate includes a current collector, a safety coating, a difficultly soluble layer and a positive active material layer, wherein the safety coating, the difficultly soluble layer and the positive active material layer are successively disposed on the current collector; wherein the safety coating includes a polymer matrix, a conductive material and an inorganic filler; wherein the difficultly soluble layer includes a binder and a conductive agent, and wherein the binder of the difficultly soluble layer has a solubility in an oil solvent smaller than the solubility of the polymer matrix of the safety coating in such oil solvent.
US11133562B2	Integrated electrode separator assemblies for lithium ion batteries The invention relates to integrated electrode separators (IES), and their use in lithium ion batteries as replacements for free standing separators. The IES results from coating an electrode with a fluoropolymer aqueous-based emulsion or suspension, and drying the coating to produce a tough, porous separator layer on the electrodes. The aqueous fluoropolymer coating may optionally contain dispersed inorganic particles and other additives to improve electrode performance such as higher ionic conduction or higher temperature use. The IES provides several advantages, including a thinner, more uniform separator layer, and the elimination of a separate battery component (separator membrane) for a simpler and cost-saving manufacturing process. The aqueous separator coating can be used in combination with a solvent cast electrode as well as an aqueous cast electrode either in two separate process steps, or in a one-step process.
US11133548B2	Interface sealing component for a battery cover assembly, and related systems and methods An interface sealing component for enclosing electrical battery cable between a cover and an array of batteries includes a base member having a first side shaped to matingly engage a battery surface of one or more batteries. A second side of the interface sealing component is opposite the first side, and is shaped to matingly engage a battery cover so that the base member forms an interior volume between the battery surface and the battery cover. Each battery surface has at least one terminal disposed on the battery surface into the interior volume through a base aperture in the base member. In this manner, the interface sealing component and battery cover can seal a number of battery terminals from outside environmental conditions, such as dust, moisture, or chemical exposure that can damage the battery terminals and reduce the operating life of the battery.
US11133547B2	Rechargeable battery A rechargeable battery according to one aspect of the present invention includes: an electrode assembly that includes a first electrode and a second electrode; a case of which one side is opened, and that receives the electrode assembly; a cap assembly that includes a cap plate covering the opened portion of the case; a first current collecting member that is disposed at a lower side of the cap assembly and is thus connected with the first electrode; a sealing member that is made of an insulation material and penetrates the cap plate and the first current collecting member; and a first terminal in which a base portion fixed to an outer side of the cap plate and an extension portion formed to penetrate the sealing member such that first current collecting member is fixed to the cap assembly are formed as a single body.
US11133546B2	Battery and electronic device having the same An electronic device and battery included therein are disclosed. The device includes a battery which itself comprises a jelly-roll structure having a rolled stack of a cathode, a separator, and an anode; an outer cover layer enclosing surfaces of the jelly-roll; and a pouch sealing the jelly-roll and the outer cover layer. The jelly-roll includes a first surface, a second surface disposed in a opposite direction, a third surface corresponding to one side of the rolled stack and connecting the first surface and the second surface, and a fourth surface corresponding to other side of the rolled stack, connecting the first surface and the second surface, and disposed in a direction opposite to the third surface. The outer cover layer includes a first portion, a second portion, a third portion, and a fourth portion bonded to first, second, third and fourth surfaces, respectively.
US11133544B2	Carbon composite, electrode and lithium air battery comprising the carbon composite, and method of preparing the carbon composite A carbon composite includes: a carbonaceous core; and a polymer electrolyte membrane disposed on the carbonaceous core, the polymer electrolyte membrane including: a first ionic liquid, a first polymer layer disposed on the carbonaceous core and having a first ionic charge, and a second polymer layer disposed on the first polymer layer and having a second ionic charge opposite to the first charge of the first polymer layer.
US11133542B2	Battery pack including heat conduction medium with louver fin shape Disclosed is a battery pack, which includes a plurality of battery modules; a tray giving a space where the plurality of battery modules are placed; a plurality of beam frames installed to traverse an upper surface of the tray to partition spaces where the plurality of battery modules are capable of being individually placed; and a plurality of heatsinks formed to have a hollow structure through which a coolant flows, the plurality of heatsinks being selectively coupled to a part of the plurality of beam frames so as to be disposed to face a side surface of the battery modules, respectively, wherein a heat conduction medium having a louver structure is interposed at a thermal interface of the heatsink and the battery module.
US11133540B2	Battery thermal management system A battery thermal management system according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a battery assembly and a coolant subsystem that circulates coolant through the battery assembly. The battery assembly is heated by a first portion of the coolant from an engine if a temperature of the battery assembly is below a first temperature threshold and is cooled by a second portion of the coolant from a chiller if the temperature is above a second temperature threshold.
US11133535B2	Method for controlling a plurality of batteries and electronic device thereof A method for controlling a plurality of batteries and an electronic device thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a power management circuit configured to supply power to the electronic device; a first battery electrically connected with a power input port of the power management circuit; a second battery electrically connected with the power input port; a first charging circuit configured to charge the first battery; a second charging circuit configured to charge the second battery; a first current control circuit electrically connected between the first charging circuit and the first battery, and configured to control a first charging current supplied from the first charging circuit to the first battery and a leakage current due to a voltage difference between the first battery and the second battery; and a second current control circuit electrically connected between the second charging circuit and the second battery, and configured to control a second charging current supplied from the second charging circuit to the second battery and the leakage current.
US11133534B2	Programmable battery pack The present disclosure relates to a reconfigurable battery system and method of operating the same. The reconfigurable battery system comprising a plurality of switchable battery modules, a battery supervisory circuit, and a battery pack controller, where the plurality of switchable battery modules electrically arranged in series to define a battery string defining an output voltage. The battery pack controller operably coupled to the battery supervisory circuit to selectively switch, for each of the plurality of switchable battery modules, the battery switch between the first position and the second position based at least in part on the one or more parameters of the battery and in accordance with a predetermined switching routine.
US11133532B2	Membrane-electrode assembly for lithium battery, method of manufacturing the same, and lithium battery including the same A membrane-electrode assembly for a lithium battery includes: a cathode including a cathode current collector and a composite cathode active material layer on the cathode current collector, wherein the composite cathode active material layer includes a cathode active material and a first electrolyte including a high concentration lithium salt and a first ionic liquid; an electrolyte reservoir layer on a surface of the cathode, wherein the electrolyte reservoir layer includes a second electrolyte including a polymer and a second ionic liquid; and a solid electrolyte on a surface of the electrolyte reservoir layer.
US11133529B2	Fluorinated acrylates as additives for Li-ion battery electrolytes A compound of formula (I) for use in electrolyte compositions for electrochemical cells, wherein R1 and R2 are selected independently from each other from H, F, CN, R′, OR′, OC(O)R′, and OP(O)R″2, R3 is selected from H, C1 to C12 alkyl, C3 to C6 (hetero)cycloalkyl, C2 to C12 alkenyl, C2 to C12 alkynyl, C5 to C12 (hetero)aryl, and C6 to C24 (hetero)aralkyl, R4 is selected from C1 to C12 alkyl, C3 to C6 (hetero)cycloalkyl, C2 to C12 alkenyl, C2 to C12 alkynyl, C5 to C12 (hetero)aryl, and C6 to C24 (hetero)aralkyl, or R3 and R4 are bound together and form together with the group —C—C(O)—O— a 5- to 6-membered heterocycle which may be substituted by one or more substituents selected from F and optionally fluorinated C1 to C12 alkyl.
US11133528B2	Electrochemical energy storage devices with sodium-ion conducting solid-state electrolytes Electrochemical energy storage devices are provided comprising an anode, a cathode and a solid-state electrolyte adapted for Na-ion conduction between the anode and cathode. The solid-state electrolyte includes, for example, a solid solution of doped NaAlO2 having a composition defined by one of Dx(NaAlO2)1-x in which D is at least one of GeO2, SnO2, TiO2, ZrO2 and HfO2, and Dx/2(NaAlO2)1-x in which D is PAlO4, where 0
US11133526B2	Solid electrolyte having magnesium ion conductivity and magnesium secondary battery using the same A solid electrolyte has a composition represented by the formula: MgxMySiOz, where M represents at least one selected from the group consisting of Ti, Zr, Hf, Ca, Sr, and Ba; x satisfies 0
US11133525B2	Lithium-ion secondary battery and method of producing the same A lithium-ion secondary battery includes at least a negative electrode, a positive electrode, and an electrolyte solution. The negative electrode includes at least negative electrode active material particles. Each of the negative electrode active material particles contains at least a SiOx particle and a Si layer. The Si layer covers a surface of the SiOx particle. The Si layer has a thickness not smaller than 10 nm and not greater than 100 nm. The electrolyte solution contains at least one selected from the group consisting of FEC and VC.
US11133524B2	Negative electrode active material, negative electrode including the same and lithium secondary battery including the same The present invention relates to a negative electrode active material which includes a secondary particle including a first particle which is a primary particle, wherein the first particle includes a first core and a first surface layer which is disposed on a surface of the first core and contains carbon, and the first core includes a metal compound which includes one or more of a metal oxide and a metal silicate and one or more of silicon and a silicon compound; a method of preparing the same; an electrode including the same; and a lithium secondary battery including the same.
US11133522B2	Lithium-sulfur battery, a dual blocking layer, methods of making, and methods of use thereof The present disclosure provides for a lithium-sulfur battery with a dual blocking layer between the anode and cathode, providing for high storage capacity and improved performance.
US11133521B2	Binder and slurry compositions and solid state batteries made therewith Described herein are various embodiments of binder and slurry compositions and methods of making a solid-state battery therefrom. An solid-state electrochemical cell may include a first electrode substrate with a separator layer that is continuously interleaved in an alternating pattern with a second electrode substrate. A method of making a solid-state electrochemical cell may include applying a separator layer to a first electrode substrate and continuously interleaving folded portions of the first electrode substrate with alternating folded portions of a second electrode substrate to form an electrochemical cell.
US11133514B2	Resin frame equipped membrane electrode assembly and method of producing the same A resin frame equipped membrane electrode assembly includes a membrane electrode assembly and a resin frame member around an outer peripheral portion of the membrane electrode assembly. An inner end of the resin frame member is joined to an electrolyte membrane. In the state before the inner end is joined to the electrolyte membrane, the inner end is narrowed inward in a manner that a surface of the inner end adjacent to the electrolyte membrane gets closer to a surface of the inner end opposite to the electrolyte membrane.
US11133513B2	Separator for fuel cell A separator for a fuel cell includes a separator base, crest sections, and trough sections. Regions surrounded by the respective trough sections and a corresponding electrode layer each constitute a passage that supplies oxidation gas or fuel gas to the electrode layer. A thin film having conductivity is placed at least on the top surface of each crest section. The thin film on the top surface of each crest section has a groove that connects the passages on the opposite sides of the crest section to each other. Each trough section has a flow resistance increasing portion on the downstream side of the groove in the flow direction of the gas. The flow resistance increasing portion reduces the cross-sectional flow area of the passage such that the cross-sectional flow area at the flow resistance increasing portion is smaller than that at the section to which the groove is connected.
US11133511B2	Method of providing a functionally graded composite layer for coefficient of thermal expansion compliance in solid oxide fuel cell stacks and system components A buffer layer between an interconnect and an electrolyte of a solid oxide fuel cell, the buffer layer having a gradient in coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE), wherein the buffer layer minimizes electrolyte damage due to a difference in CTE between the interconnect and electrolyte.
US11133502B2	Cathode including sintered polycrystalline material, secondary battery including the cathode, and method of manufacturing the cathode A cathode includes a cathode collector layer, and a cathode active material layer on a surface of the cathode collector layer. The cathode active material layer includes a sintered polycrystalline material having a plurality of crystal grains of a lithium-based oxide, and each of the plurality of crystal grains includes a seed template, and a matrix crystal around the seed template, where the seed template is a single crystal and having a shape of a plate.
US11133500B2	Reversible manganese dioxide electrode, method for the production thereof, the use thereof, and rechargeable alkaline-manganese battery containing said electrode The invention relates to a reversible manganese dioxide electrode, comprising an electrically conductive carrier material having a nickel surface, a nickel layer made of spherical nickel particles adhering to each other and having an inner pore structure applied to the carrier material, and a manganese dioxide layer applied to the nickel particles, wherein the manganese dioxide layer is also present in the inner pore structure of the nickel particle.The invention also relates to a method for producing such a manganese dioxide electrode, the use thereof in rechargeable alkaline-manganese batteries, and a rechargeable alkaline-manganese battery containing a manganese dioxide electrode according to the invention.
US11133497B2	Alkaline cell with improved discharge efficiency A gelled anode for an alkaline electrochemical cell contains zinc-based particles, an alkaline electrolyte, a gelling agent, and two or more additives selected from the group consisting of an alkali metal hydroxide, an organic phosphate ester surfactant, a metal oxide, and tin, which as reduced cell gassing properties relative to cells lacking such additives.
US11133495B2	Advanced lithium (LI) ion and lithium sulfur (LI S) batteries This disclosure provides a lithium (Li) ion battery that includes an anode, a cathode positioned opposite to the anode, a porous separator positioned between the anode and the cathode, and a liquid electrolyte in contact with the anode and the cathode. The anode includes an electrically conductive substrate. A first film is deposited on the electrically conductive substrate. The first film includes a first concentration of carbon particles in contact with each other and defines a first electrical conductivity for the first film. Each of the carbon particles includes a plurality of aggregates formed of few layer graphene sheets. The plurality of aggregates form a porous structure configured to undergo a lithiation, which can include any one or more of an intercalation operation or a plating operation. The anode and the cathode can include an electroactive material. The porous structure can provide conduction between the few layer graphene sheets.
US11133491B2	Fabrication method of semiconductor device and semiconductor device A high-yield fabricating method of a semiconductor device including a peeling step is provided.A peeling method includes a step of stacking and forming a first material layer and a second material layer over a substrate and a step of separating the first material layer and the second material layer from each other. The second material layer is formed over the substrate with the first material layer therebetween. The first material layer includes a first compound layer in contact with the second material layer and a second compound layer positioned closer to the substrate side than the first compound layer is. The first compound layer has the highest oxygen content among the layers included in the first material layer. The second compound layer has the highest nitrogen content among the layers included in the first material layer. The second material layer includes a resin. In the step of separating, the first material layer and the second material layer are separated from each other by irradiation of an interface between the first material layer and the second material layer or the vicinity of the interface with light.
US11133490B2	Light emitting display apparatus including a selective wavelength absorbing member A light emitting display apparatus is disclosed, which can improve visual characteristic of a black image in accordance with reduction of diffuse reflectance while improving light emission efficiency of light emitted from a light emitting diode. The light emitting display apparatus comprises a substrate including a plurality of pixel areas, a light emission pattern arranged in each of the plurality of pixel areas, a light emitting device layer arranged over the light emission pattern, and a selective wavelength absorbing member overlapped with at least one of the plurality of pixel areas, wherein the selective wavelength absorbing member may reduce transmittance of light of a long wavelength, which is incident.
US11133488B2	Display substrate, display apparatus, and method of fabricating display substrate having enclosure ring in buffer area A display substrate is provided. The display substrate includes a functional area; and a buffer area substantially surrounding the functional area, wherein the functional area includes a display area and a peripheral area between the display area and the buffer area; one or more insulating layers on a base substrate, and in the functional area and the buffer area; and an encapsulating structure on a side of the one or more insulating layers away from the base substrate, and encapsulating a plurality of light emitting elements in the display area. The one or more insulating layers include a first part in the functional area and at least a second part in the buffer area. The second part is spaced apart from the first part. The display substrate further includes a first enclosure ring on a side of the second part away from the base substrate.
US11133484B2	OLED lighting apparatus Disclosed herein is an OLED lighting apparatus which can compensate for high sheet resistance of a first electrode formed of a transparent conductive material while improving light extraction efficiency through enhancement in aperture ratio. For this purpose, the OLED lighting apparatus omits auxiliary wires and, instead of the auxiliary wires, includes a first auxiliary wire and a second auxiliary wire to secure low resistance. As a result, the OLED lighting apparatus can compensate for high sheet resistance of the first electrode, thereby achieving normal light emission without reduction in luminance due to current drop when implemented as a large-area high-resolution lighting apparatus.
US11133481B2	Method for manufacturing solar cell The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing: a perovskite solar cell in which the laminated shape and the composition of a perovskite absorbing layer are controlled; and a tandem solar cell comprising the perovskite solar cell, and the perovskite absorbing layer is formed through a method for manufacturing a solar cell, comprising the steps of: forming, on a substrate, an inorganic seed layer conformal with the substrate by using a BO source, an A-doped BO source or an AxOy source and the BO source; and supplying organic halides onto the seed layer, and thus a perovskite thin film having a complex composition conformal with the substrate can be formed such that an effect of enabling light absorption to increase can be achieved.
US11133480B2	Wearable device comprising strip-shaped substrate and flexible display panel A wearable device includes a strip-shaped substrate, a flexible display panel disposed on the strip-shaped substrate, and a flexible cover plate disposed on the flexible display panel. The wearable device can return from a bent state to a stretched state, so as to provide a user with a larger screen.
US11133479B2	Organic solar cell comprising a phenyldithiophene polymer donor and a non-fullerene acceptor The present specification relates to an organic solar cell including a first electrode; a second electrode; and one or more organic material layers including a photoactive layer, wherein the photoactive layer includes an electron donor and an electron acceptor, the electron donor includes a polymer including a first unit represented by Chemical Formula 1; a second unit represented by Chemical Formula 2; and a third unit represented by Chemical Formula 3, and the electron acceptor includes a non-fullerene-based compound.
US11133478B2	Aromatic amine derivative and organic electroluminescent device using the same Provided are: an aromatic amine derivative in which a terminal substituent such as a dibenzofuran ring or a dibenzothiophene ring is bonded to a nitrogen atom directly or through an arylene group or the like; an organic electroluminescence device including an organic thin film layer formed of one or more layers including a light emitting layer and interposed between a cathode and an anode in which a layer of the organic thin film layer contains the aromatic amine derivative by itself or as a component of a mixture, and the device has a long lifetime and high luminous efficiency; and an aromatic amine derivative for realizing the device.
US11133477B2	Heterocyclic compound and organic light emitting element using same The present application relates to a hetero-cyclic compound represented by Chemical Formula 1, and an organic light emitting device comprising the same.
US11133476B2	Electron transport material, an OLED display panel and an electronic device compromising the same The present disclosure relates to an electron transport material having a structure represented by formula (I). The present disclosure enhances the glass transition temperature of the material by way of increasing the molecular weight thereof through modifying phenanthroline, without influencing the electron transport property of the material. A novel type of electron transport material having a glass transition temperature of more than 100° C. is designed by the present disclosure. The compound provided by the present disclosure is used as an electron transport material, i.e. as an electron transport layer; and the compound is doped with metals for use as an electron injection layer, thereby improving the efficiency of an OLED device and reducing the operation voltage.
US11133473B2	Condensed cyclic compound and organic light-emitting device including the same A condensed cyclic compound and an organic light-emitting device are provided, the condensed cyclic compound being represented by Formula 1. in which R1 may be selected from a C6-C60 aryl group, a C1-C60 heteroaryl group, a monovalent non-aromatic condensed polycyclic group, and a monovalent non-aromatic condensed heteropolycyclic group, each substituted with at least one selected from —F, —Cl, —Br, —I, a cyano group, and a nitro group, and at least one selected from R2 to R13 may be a group represented by Formula 2 *-(L11)a11-(Ar11)b11, Formulae 1 and 2 being fully described in the specification.
US11133471B2	Compound for organic electronic element, organic electronic element using same and electronic device therefor Disclosed is a compound represented by chemical formula (1). In addition, disclosed is an organic electronic element comprising: a first electrode; a second electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the organic layer contains the compound represented by chemical formula (1). Light-emitting efficiency, stability and lifespan may be enhanced when the compound represented by chemical formula (1) is contained in the organic layer.
US11133470B2	Organic electroluminescent device An organic electroluminescent (EL) device having improved emission efficiency and emission lifetime. An embodiment of the organic EL device of the present disclosure includes a plurality of hole transport layers between an anode and an emission layer. The plurality of the hole transport layers may include an anode-side hole transport layer, a middle hole transport layer, and an emission layer-side hole transport layer. The emission layer-side hole transport layer may include an emission layer-side hole transport material represented by the following Formula 1:
US11133469B2	Compounds for organic optoelectronic device and organic optoelectronic device including the same A compound for an organic optoelectronic device represented by Chemical Formula 1 and an organic optoelectronic device including the same are provided. In Chemical Formula 1, R1 to R5 are independently hydrogen, deuterium, —NH2, a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C30 alkylamine group, a substituted or unsubstituted C26 to C30 arylamine group, a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C30 alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C6 to C30 aryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C2 to C30 heteroaryl group, or a combination thereof, at least one of R2, R4, and R5 is a substituted or unsubstituted C6 to C30 aryl group, a substituted or unsubstituted C6 to C30 arylamine group, or a substituted or unsubstituted C2 to C30 heteroaryl group, each of a, c, d, e, and f is an integer of 1 to 4, and b is an integer of 1 or 2.
US11133465B2	Methods for forming three-dimensional phase-change memory devices Embodiments of 3D memory devices and methods for forming the same are disclosed. In an example, a method for forming a 3D memory device is disclosed. A lower bit line contact and a lower bit line in contact with the lower bit line contact are formed. Lower memory cells are formed above and in contact with the lower bit line. Each lower memory cell includes stacked a phase-change memory (PCM) element, a selector, and electrodes. Parallel word lines in a same plane are formed above and in contact with the lower memory cells. Each word line is perpendicular to the lower bit line. Upper memory cells are formed above and in contact with the word lines. Each upper memory cell includes stacked a PCM element, a selector, and electrodes. An upper bit line is formed above and in contact with the upper memory cells. The upper bit line is perpendicular to each word line. An upper bit line contact is formed above and in contact with the upper bit line. At least one of the lower bit line contact and the upper bit line contact is disposed inclusively between the lower and upper memory cells in a plan view.
US11133461B2	Laminate diffusion barriers and related devices and methods Devices and systems having a diffusion barrier for limiting diffusion of a phase change material including an electrode, a phase change material electrically coupled to the electrode, and a carbon and TiN (C:TiN) diffusion barrier disposed between the electrode and the phase change material to limit diffusion of the phase change material are disclosed and described.
US11133459B2	Magnetic element, magnetic memory device, and magnetic sensor According to one embodiment, a magnetic element includes a first layer and a second layer. The first layer includes a first element and a second element. The first element includes at least one selected from the group consisting of Fe, Co, and Ni. The second element includes at least one selected from the group consisting of Ir and Os. The second layer is nonmagnetic.
US11133457B2	Controllable formation of recessed bottom electrode contact in a memory metallization stack A semiconductor device structure includes an MRAM metallization stack. A via is disposed within a dielectric cap layer that is on and in contact with the metallization stack. A liner is disposed on sidewalls and a bottom surface of the via. A recessed electrode contact is disposed within a portion of the via and in contact with a first part of the liner in contact with sidewalls of the via. A second part of the liner is in contact with the sidewalls is above a top surface of the contact. A method for forming the semiconductor device structure includes forming a via within a MRAM metallization stack. The via exposes a top surface of the second metal layer. An electrode contact is formed within a portion of the via. A cap layer is formed within a remaining portion of the via in contact with a top surface of the electrode contact.
US11133452B2	Trilayer Josephson junction structure with small air bridge and no interlevel dielectric for superconducting qubits A technique relates to a trilayer Josephson junction structure. A dielectric layer is on a base electrode layer that is on a substrate. A counter electrode layer is on the dielectric layer. First and second counter electrodes are formed from the counter electrode layer. First and second dielectric layers are formed from the dielectric layer. First and second base electrodes are formed from base electrode layer. The first counter electrode, first dielectric layer, and first base electrode form a first stack. The second counter electrode, second dielectric layer, and second base electrode form a second stack. A shunting capacitor is between first and second base electrodes. An ILD layer is deposited on the substrate, the first and second counter electrodes, and the first and second base electrodes. A contact bridge connects the first and second counter electrodes. An air gap is formed underneath the contact bridge by removing ILD.
US11133451B2	Superconducting bump bonds A device includes a first chip having a first circuit element, a first interconnect pad in electrical contact with the first circuit element, and a barrier layer on the first interconnect pad, a superconducting bump bond on the barrier layer, and a second chip joined to the first chip by the superconducting bump bond, the second chip having a first quantum circuit element, in which the superconducting bump bond provides an electrical connection between the first circuit element and the first quantum circuit element.
US11133449B2	Thermoelectric material and thermoelectric module comprising the same A thermoelectric material includes a lower part from a bottom surface of the thermoelectric material to a point of 30% of an average thickness of the thermoelectric material and having an average content of carbon atoms of 40 at% or more in the thermoelectric material, and an upper part corresponding to a remaining 70% of the average thickness of the thermoelectric material and having an average content of carbon atoms of 20 at% or less in the thermoelectric material.
US11133442B2	Wavelength converted light emitting device with small source size A lighting structure according to embodiments of the invention includes a semiconductor light emitting device and a flat wavelength converting element attached to the semiconductor light emitting device. The flat wavelength converting element includes a wavelength converting layer for absorbing light emitted by the semiconductor light emitting device and emitting light of a different wavelength. The flat wavelength converting element further includes a transparent layer. The wavelength converting layer is formed on the transparent layer.
US11133433B2	Hybrid phonon-enhanced optical absorbers and emitters A semiconductor optical device is comprised of a phonon donating material structurally connected to an indirect bandgap material to improve absorption and emission of light in the indirect bandgap material. An excitation energy source provides excitation radiation to the semiconductor optical device to excite electrons in the semiconductor optical device. Phonons from the phonon donating material present in the indirect bandgap material provide a mechanism for increased rates of electron-hole generation and recombination, and electrical leads provide an electrical connection to the semiconductor optical device.
US11133426B2	Solar cell and method for manufacturing the same A method for manufacturing a solar cell can include forming a tunneling layer on first and second surfaces of a semiconductor substrate, the tunneling layer including a dielectric material; forming a polycrystalline silicon layer on the tunnel layer at the first surface and on the second surface of the semiconductor substrate; removing portions of the tunnel layer and the polycrystalline silicon layer formed at the first surface of the semiconductor substrate; forming a doping region at the first surface of the semiconductor substrate by diffusing a dopant; forming a passivation layer on the polycrystalline silicon layer at the second surface of the semiconductor substrate; and forming a second electrode connected to the polycrystalline silicon layer by penetrating through the passivation layer.
US11133419B2	Semiconductor device An embodiment is a semiconductor device which includes a first oxide semiconductor layer over a substrate having an insulating surface and including a crystalline region formed by growth from a surface of the first oxide semiconductor layer toward an inside; a second oxide semiconductor layer over the first oxide semiconductor layer; a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer which are in contact with the second oxide semiconductor layer; a gate insulating layer covering the second oxide semiconductor layer, the source electrode layer, and the drain electrode layer; and a gate electrode layer over the gate insulating layer and in a region overlapping with the second oxide semiconductor layer. The second oxide semiconductor layer is a layer including a crystal formed by growth from the crystalline region.
US11133418B2	Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same A semiconductor device includes an oxide semiconductor layer, disposed over a substrate. A source electrode of a metal nitride is disposed on the oxide semiconductor layer. A drain electrode of the metal nitride is disposed on the oxide semiconductor layer. A metal-nitride oxidation layer is formed on a surface of the source electrode and the drain electrode. A ratio of a thickness of the metal-nitride oxidation layer to a thickness of the drain electrode or the source electrode is equal to or less than 0.2.
US11133415B2	Gradient doped region of recessed Fin forming a FinFET device An embodiment is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method includes forming a fin on a substrate. A gate structure is formed over the fin. A recess is formed in the fin proximate the gate structure. A gradient doped region is formed in the fin with a p-type dopant. The gradient doped region extends from a bottom surface of the recess to a vertical depth below the recess in the fin. A source/drain region is formed in the recess and on the gradient doped regions.
US11133413B2	High voltage PMOS (HVPMOS) transistor with a composite drift region and manufacture method thereof In one embodiment, method of making a high voltage PMOS (HVPMOS) transistor, can include: (i) providing a P-type substrate; (ii) implanting N-type dopants in the P-type substrate; (iii) dispersing the implanted N-type dopants in the P-type substrate to form a deep N-type well; (iv) implanting P-type dopants of different doping concentrations in the deep N-type well along a horizontal direction of the deep N-type well; and (v) dispersing the implanted P-type dopants to form a composite drift region having an increasing doping concentration and an increasing junction depth along the horizontal direction of the deep N-type well.
US11133412B2	Integrated circuit devices including vertical field-effect transistors (VFETs) Integrated circuit devices including standard cells are provided. The standard cells may include a P-type vertical field effect transistor (VFET) including a first channel region and a first top source/drain region sequentially stacked on a substrate in a vertical direction, an N-type VFET including a second channel region and a second top source/drain region sequentially stacked on the substrate in the vertical direction, and a top contact layer contacting both the first top source/drain region and the second top source/drain region.
US11133406B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device has a semiconductor substrate that includes an element range and a peripheral range. The semiconductor substrate includes: a body region disposed within the element range; a p-type deep region that is disposed from the element range through the peripheral range, is distributed from an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate to a position deeper than a lower end of each gate trench, and involves end gate trench; and a p-type voltage resistance region that is disposed within the peripheral range, and is distributed from the upper surface to a position shallower than a lower end of the p-type deep region. A p-type impurity concentration within the p-type deep region is increased in the direction from the body region toward the p-type voltage resistance region.
US11133402B2	Semiconductor device, method for manufacturing semiconductor device, and electronic appliance having semiconductor device To provide a semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor layer with high and stable electrical characteristics, the semiconductor device is manufactured by forming a first insulating layer, forming oxide over the first insulating layer and then removing the oxide n times (n is a natural number), forming an oxide semiconductor layer over the first insulating layer, forming a second insulating layer over the oxide semiconductor layer, and forming a conductive layer over the second insulating layer. Alternatively, the semiconductor device is manufactured by forming the oxide semiconductor layer over the first insulating layer, forming the second insulating layer over the oxide semiconductor layer, forming the oxide over the second insulating layer and then removing the oxide n times (n is a natural number), and forming the conductive layer over the second insulating layer.
US11133401B2	Fin structures having varied fin heights for semiconductor device A method of forming first and second fin field effect transistors (finFETs) on a substrate includes forming first and second fin structures of the first and second finFETs, respectively, on the substrate. The first and second fin structures have respective first and second vertical dimensions that are about equal to each other. The method further includes modifying the first fin structure such that the first vertical dimension of the first fin structure is smaller than the second vertical dimension of the second fin structure and depositing a dielectric layer on the modified first fin structure and the second fin structure. The method further includes forming a polysilicon structure on the dielectric layer and selectively forming a spacer on a sidewall of the polysilicon structure.
US11133399B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer which has a first device formation region and a second device formation region, a first HEMT which is formed in the first device formation region and has a first two-dimensional electron gas region as a channel, a second HEMT which is formed in the second device formation region and has a second two-dimensional electron gas region as a channel, and a region separation structure which is formed in the semiconductor layer and defines the first device formation region and the second device formation region.
US11133394B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a semiconductor strip over a substrate. The semiconductor strip includes a first semiconductor stack and a second semiconductor stack over the first semiconductor stack. A dummy gate stack is formed to cross the semiconductor strip. The dummy gate stack is replaced with a first metal gate stack and a second metal gate stack. The first metal gate stack is in contact with the first semiconductor layer of the first semiconductor stack and the second metal gate stack is in contact with the first semiconductor layer of the second semiconductor stack.
US11133393B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same The semiconductor device includes, in plan view, a gate electrode having a first portion located on a side surface portion where a plurality of emitter regions are formed, and a gate electrode having a second portion located between the plurality of emitter regions. The second portion of the gate electrode has a length shorter than first portion in the direction from the main surface to the back surface of the gate electrode of the semiconductor substrate.
US11133391B2	Transistor device A transistor device includes, in a semiconductor body, a drift region, a body region, and a source region separated from the drift region by the body region and connected to a source node. The transistor device further includes a gate electrode dielectrically insulated from the body region by a gate dielectric, and a field electrode structure. The field electrode structure includes: a first field electrode connected to the source node and dielectrically insulated from the drift region by a first field electrode dielectric; a second field electrode dielectrically insulated from the drift region by a second field electrode dielectric; and a coupling circuit connected between the second field electrode and the source node and configured to connect the second field electrode to the source node dependent on a voltage between the source node and the second field electrode.
US11133390B2	Low temperature, thin film crystallization method and products prepared therefrom An organic material with a porous interpenetrating network and an amount of inorganic material at least partially distributed within the porosity of the organic material is disclosed. A method of producing the organic-inorganic thin films and devices therefrom comprises seeding with nanoparticles and depositing an amorphous material on the nanoparticles.
US11133388B1	Silicon-germanium heterostructures with quantum wells having oscillatory germanium concentration profiles for increased valley splitting Semiconductor heterostructures, methods of making the heterostructures, and quantum dots and quantum computation devices based on the heterostructures are provided. The heterostructures include a quantum well of strained silicon seeded with a relatively low concentration of germanium impurities disposed between two quantum barriers of germanium or a silicon-germanium alloy. The quantum wells are characterized in that the germanium concentration in the wells has an oscillating profile that increases the valley splitting in the conduction band of the silicon quantum well.
US11133386B2	Multi-layer fin structure The present disclosure provides one embodiment of a semiconductor structure. The structure includes a semiconductor substrate; a fin extending above the semiconductor substrate, wherein the fin includes a first layer over the semiconductor substrate and a second layer over the first layer, wherein the first layer includes silicon germanium having a first concentration of germanium, and wherein the second layer includes silicon germanium having a second concentration of germanium less than the first concentration of germanium; and a gate stack disposed over the fin.
US11133385B2	Semiconductor device A region of a portion directly beneath an OC pad is a sensing effective region where unit cells of a current sensing portion are disposed. Directly beneath the OC pad, a region surrounding a periphery of the sensing effective region is a sensing non-operating region in which no unit cells of the current sensing portion are disposed. In the sensing non-operating region, a first p-type base region that floats is provided in a surface region of the front surface of the semiconductor substrate and is separated from a second p-type base region of the sensing effective region by an n−-type region that surrounds a periphery of the sensing effective region. The n−-type region has a surface area that is greater than that of the sensing effective region. A distance between the first and the second p-type base regions is at least 0.1 μm and is as small as possible.
US11133384B1	Quantum wire resonant tunneling transistor A semiconductor transistor device includes an emitter region that includes a plurality of metal quantum wires and is connected to an emitter terminal, a base region that includes a plurality of metal quantum wires and is connected to a base terminal, a collector region comprising a plurality of metal quantum wires and is connected to a collector terminal, an emitter barrier region between the emitter region and the base region, and a collector barrier region between the collector region and the base region.
US11133380B2	Diode structure of a power semiconductor device A power semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body coupled to first and second load terminals. The body includes: at least a diode structure configured to conduct a load current between the terminals and including an anode port electrically connected to the first load terminal and a cathode port electrically connected to the second load terminal; and drift and field stop regions of the same conductivity type. The cathode port includes first port sections and second port sections with dopants of the opposite conductivity type. A transition between each of the second port sections and the field stop region forms a respective pn-junction that extends along a first lateral direction. A diffusion voltage of a respective one of the pn-junctions in an extension direction perpendicular to the first lateral direction is greater than a lateral voltage drop laterally overlapping with the lateral extension of the respective pn-junction.
US11133379B2	Semiconductor device having a super junction structure and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device having a super junction and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device capable of obtaining a high breakdown voltage are provided, whereby charge balance of the super junction is further accurately controlled in the semiconductor device that is implemented by an N-type pillar and a P-type pillar. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate; and a blocking layer including a first conductive type pillar and a second conductive type pillar that extend in a vertical direction on the semiconductor substrate and that are alternately arrayed in a horizontal direction, wherein, in the blocking layer, a density profile of a first conductive type dopant may be uniform in the horizontal direction, and the density profile of the first conductive type dopant may vary in the vertical direction.
US11133378B2	Semiconductor device including trench contact structure and manufacturing method A semiconductor device is proposed. A trench gate structure extends from a first surface into a silicon carbide semiconductor body along a vertical direction. A trench contact structure extends from the first surface into the silicon carbide semiconductor body along the vertical direction. A source region of a first conductivity type and a body region of a second conductivity type adjoin a first sidewall of the trench gate structure. A diode region of the second conductivity type adjoins a second sidewall of the trench gate structure opposite to the first sidewall. A shielding region of the second conductivity type adjoins a bottom of the trench contact structure, the shielding region being arranged at a lateral distance to the trench gate structure.
US11133372B2	Display device A display device includes a plurality of pixels, first to nth scanning lines, and a first semiconductor film. The plurality of pixels is arranged in first to nth rows and first to mth columns. The first to nth scanning lines are electrically connected to the pixels in the respective first to nth rows. The first semiconductor film overlaps with at least one of first to kth scanning lines. A display region has a cutoff intersecting the first to nth rows, and the first semiconductor film is located in the cutoff. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a light-emitting element (OLED) and a transistor electrically connected to the OLED and having a second semiconductor film. The first semiconductor film and the second semiconductor film exist in the same layer. n and m are each a natural number larger than 1, and k is a natural number smaller than n.
US11133371B2	Display device A display device includes a substrate; an insulating layer in contact with a first surface of the substrate; a display region with a plurality of pixels each including a transistor and a display element on the insulating layer; a terminal region in a region outside the display region over the insulating layer; a wiring between the display region and the terminal region; and a resin film on the substrate. The insulating layer includes an opening in a region between the display region and the terminal region. The resin film is in contact with the first surface in the opening. The wiring is in contact with an upper surface of the resin film through the opening. A surface roughness of the resin film in the opening is larger than a surface roughness of the substrate at a region where the substrate is in contact with the insulating layer.
US11133367B2	Thin film transistor and fabricating method thereof, array substrate and display device A thin film transistor includes: a substrate base; a first gate electrode at a side of the substrate base; an active layer at a side of the first gate electrode away from the substrate base; a second gate electrode at a side of the active layer away from the substrate base; and a source/drain electrode at a side of the second gate electrode away from the substrate base. An orthographic projection of the source/drain electrode on the substrate base is at least partially overlapped with an orthographic projection of the second gate electrode on the substrate base.
US11133366B2	Array substrate and method of manufacturing the same, and display device An array substrate includes a base substrate, a first buffer layer, an oxygen barrier pattern, and a second buffer layer that are disposed on the base substrate in sequence, and a plurality of first thin film transistors (TFTs) that are disposed on the second buffer layer. The oxygen barrier pattern includes a plurality of oxygen barrier portions that are insulated and spaced apart. An orthographic projection of a portion of an active layer of one first TFT between a source and a drain on the base substrate is located within a range of an orthographic projection of one corresponding oxygen barrier portion of the plurality of oxygen barrier portions on the base substrate. And an oxygen content of the first buffer layer is higher than an oxygen content of the second buffer layer.
US11133365B2	AMOLED double-side display An AMOLED doubled-sided display includes an OLED array layer that includes a plurality of top-emitting OLED units and a plurality of bottom-emitting OLED units arranged alternate with each other to form an array. Each of the top-emitting OLD units and the bottom-emitting OLED units has different thickness for respective anodes and cathodes, to realize the top-emitting characteristics of the top-emitting OLED units and the bottom-emitting characteristics of the bottom-emitting OLED units. As such, by designing an algorithm for a single IC to control image displaying, only a display panel and a control IC are sufficient to achieve double-sided displaying, and ensure an observer standing in front of the display panel will not see mirrored image or directional distorted image, as well as achieve low-cost and quality display result.
US11133363B2	Array substrate and manufacturing method thereof, and display device The present discloses an array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The array substrate includes a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistor includes a first active layer, a first gate, a first source and a first drain. The second transistor includes a second active layer, a second gate, a second source and a second drain. An orthographic projection of the second source on the base substrate and an orthographic projection of the second drain on the base substrate at least partially overlap. One of the second source and the second drain is in the same layer as and made from the same material as the first gate. The first source and the first drain are in the same layer as and made from the same material as the other of the second source and the second drain.
US11133360B2	Shift register circuit, display panel, and electronic apparatus Disclosed herein is a shift register circuit that is formed on an insulating substrate with thin film transistors having channels of the same conductivity type and includes shift stages, each of the shift stages including: a first thin film transistor; a second thin film transistor; a 3(1)-th thin film transistor; a 3(2)-th thin film transistor; a 4(1)-th thin film transistor; a 4(2)-th thin film transistor; a fifth thin film transistor; and a sixth thin film transistor.
US11133351B2	3D semiconductor device and structure A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including a first single crystal layer and first transistors, where the first transistors each include a single crystal channel; first metal layers interconnecting at least the first transistors; and a second level including a second single crystal layer and second transistors, where the second level overlays the first level, where the second transistors are horizontally oriented and include a gate dielectric, where the gate dielectric includes hafnium oxide, where the second level is bonded to the first level, and where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bonds.
US11133346B2	Stacked-die image sensors with shielding A stacked-die image sensor may be provided with an array of image pixels. The stacked-die image sensor may include at least first and second integrated circuit dies stacked on top of one another. Some of the pixel circuitry in each pixel may be formed in the first integrated circuit die and some of the pixel circuitry in each pixel may be formed in the second integrated circuit die. Coupling structures such as conductive pads may electrically couple the pixel circuitry in the first integrated circuit die to the pixel circuitry in the second integrated circuit die. A shielding structure may partially or completely surround each conductive pad to reduce parasitic capacitive coupling between adjacent conductive pads. The shielding structure may be a metal wire coupled to a ground voltage. The shielding structure may extend between columns of image pixels and/or between rows of image pixels.
US11133343B2	Imaging device and electronic device configured by bonding a plurality of semiconductor substrates including a first multilayer having a first vertical signal line formed in a differrent layer than the layer of a first wiring of a first connection region An imaging device comprises a first chip that includes a first semiconductor substrate including a photoelectric conversion region. The first chip includes a first insulating layer including a first multilayer wiring electrically connected to the photoelectric conversion region. The first multilayer wiring includes a first vertical signal line (VSL1) to output a first pixel signal, and a first wiring. The imaging device includes a second chip including a second semiconductor substrate including a logic circuit. The second chip includes a second insulating layer including a second multilayer wiring electrically connected to the logic circuit. The second multilayer wiring includes a second wiring. The first chip and the second chip are bonded to one another, and, in a plan view, the first wiring and the second wiring overlap with at least a portion of the first vertical signal line (VSL1).
US11133342B2	Image sensor An image sensor includes a substrate having a plurality of pixel regions, a lower layer on the substrate; a plurality of color filters on the lower layer, and a micro-lens layer on or covering top surfaces of the color filters. The micro-lens layer extends to a location between two of the color filters and contacts the lower layer on one of the pixel regions. The color filters are spaced apart from the lower layer.
US11133341B2	Image pickup apparatus and manufacturing method of image pickup apparatus An image pickup apparatus includes an imager, cover glass and a circuit element, the image pickup apparatus includes a first space filled with a first resin and a second space filled with a second resin, a thermal expansion coefficient of the second resin being smaller than a thermal expansion coefficient of the first resin, and when the image pickup apparatus is virtually divided into a plurality of unit columns, a ratio of the second space is larger in the unit columns in which a ratio of a space filled with resins is large than in the unit columns in which the ratio of the space filled with the resins is small.
US11133339B2	Image sensor, image capturing apparatus and image processing apparatus An image sensor comprises: a pixel region including a plurality of microlenses arranged in a matrix, and a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions provided for each of the microlenses; a plurality of amplifiers that apply a plurality of different gains to signals output from the pixel region; and a scanning circuit that scans the pixel region so that a partial signal and an added signal are read out, the partial signal being a signal from some of the plurality of photoelectric conversion portions, and the added signal being a signal obtained by adding the signals from the plurality of photoelectric conversion portions.
US11133338B2	SLT integrated circuit capacitor structure and methods FET IC structures that enable formation of integrated capacitors in a “flipped” SOI IC structure made using a back-side access process, such as a “single layer transfer” (SLT) process, and which eliminate or mitigate unwanted parasitic couplings to a handle wafer. In some embodiments, a conductive interconnect layer may be patterned, pre-SLT, to form an isolated first capacitor plate. In other embodiments, pre-SLT, a conductive region of the active layer of an IC may be patterned to form an isolated first capacitor plate, with one or more interconnect layers being fabricated in position to form an electrical contact to the first capacitor plate. In either case, a post-SLT top-side layer of conductive material may be patterned to form a second capacitor plate. Couplings to the resulting capacitor structures include only external connections, only internal connections, or both internal and external connections.
US11133337B2	Display device and method for manufacturing same A display device including a substrate having thin film transistors (TFT) comprising: the TFT including an oxide semiconductor film, a gate electrode and an insulating film formed between the oxide semiconductor film and the gate electrode, wherein a first aluminum oxide film and a second aluminum oxide film, which is formed on the first aluminum oxide film, are formed between the insulating film and the gate electrode, an oxygen concentration in the first aluminum oxide film is bigger than an oxygen concentration in the second aluminum oxide film.
US11133332B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the same An object is to provide a semiconductor device with high aperture ratio or a manufacturing method thereof. Another object is to provide semiconductor device with low power consumption or a manufacturing method thereof. A light-transmitting conductive layer which functions as a gate electrode, a gate insulating film formed over the light-transmitting conductive layer, a semiconductor layer formed over the light-transmitting conductive layer which functions as the gate electrode with the gate insulating film interposed therebetween, and a light-transmitting conductive layer which is electrically connected to the semiconductor layer and functions as source and drain electrodes are included.
US11133329B2	3D and flash memory architecture with FeFET A 3D flash memory is provided to includes a gate stack structure comprising a plurality of gate layers electrically insulated from each other, a cylindrical channel pillar vertically extending through each gate layer of the gate stack structure, a first conductive pillar vertically extending through the gate stack structure, the first conductive pillar being located within the cylindrical channel pillar and being electrically connected to the cylindrical channel pillar, and a second conductive pillar extending through the gate stack structure, the second conductive pillar being located within the cylindrical channel pillar and being electrically connected to the cylindrical channel pillar, the first conductive pillar and the second conductive pillar being separated from each other. The 3D flash memory also includes a ferroelectric layer disposed between gate layers of the gate stack structure and the cylindrical channel pillar.
US11133325B2	Memory cell structure of a three-dimensional memory device Various embodiments disclose a 3D memory device, including a substrate; a plurality of conductor layers disposed on the substrate; a plurality of NAND strings disposed on the substrate; and a plurality of slit structures disposed on the substrate. The plurality of NAND strings can be arranged perpendicular to the substrate and in a hexagonal lattice orientation including a plurality of hexagons, and each hexagon including three pairs of sides with a first pair perpendicular to a first direction and parallel to a second direction. The second direction is perpendicular to the first direction. The plurality of slit structures can extend in the first direction.
US11133324B2	Vertical memory devices Aspects of the disclosure provide a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes gate layers and insulating layers that are stacked alternatingly along a direction perpendicular to a substrate of the semiconductor device in an array region upon the substrate. Further, the semiconductor device includes an array of channel structures that is formed in the array region. The gate layers and the insulating layers are stacked in a staircase form with stair steps having non-uniform stair depths in a connection region upon the substrate. Further, the semiconductor device includes contact structures to the gate layers. The contact structures are formed on the stair steps that have the non-uniform stair depths.
US11133322B2	Dual-port static random access memory cell layout structure The disclosure provides a dual-port static random access memory cell layout structure, including a pull-down transistor layout structure, a first and a second pass transistor layout structure. Each of them includes an active region pattern and a polysilicon pattern; and contact hole patterns. The active region pattern of the pull-down transistor layout structure and the first pass transistor layout structure are connected together, and share the contact hole pattern at one end. The active region pattern of the pull-down transistor layout structure and the second pass transistor layout structure are connected together, and share the contact hole pattern at the other end. The disclosure optimizes the dual-port static random access memory cell layout structure, improves the influence of the optical fillet effect on device matching, strengthens the performance including read-write crosstalk of the pull-down transistor under the situation of the same area, and increases the read current.
US11133320B2	Method for fabricating semiconductor device A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of: providing a substrate having a memory region and a periphery region; forming a first trench and a second trench in substrate on the memory region, in which a width of the second trench is greater than a width of the first trench; forming a first liner in the first trench and the second trench; forming a second liner on the first liner as the second liner completely fills the first trench and partly fills the second trench; and planarizing the second liner and the first liner to form a first isolation structure and a second isolation structure.
US11133318B2	Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method of the same The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes: a polysilicon layer, having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; a substrate, disposed on the second surface of the polysilicon layer; a bit line structure, disposed on the substrate, penetrating through the polysilicon layer and protruding from the first surface of the polysilicon layer; and a spacer structure, disposed on lateral sidewalls of the bit line structure, including an air gap sandwiched by a first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer, wherein a first portion of the second dielectric layer is in the polysilicon layer, a second portion of the second dielectric layer is outside the polysilicon layer, and a thickness of the second portion of the second dielectric layer is less than a thickness of the first portion of the second dielectric layer.
US11133317B2	DRAM with a hydrogen-supply layer and a high-capacitance embedded capacitor with a cylindrical storage node A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, the device including a substrate; a lower structure including pad patterns on the substrate, upper surfaces of the pad patterns being at an outer side of the lower structure; a plurality of lower electrodes contacting the upper surfaces of the pad patterns; a dielectric layer and an upper electrode sequentially stacked on a surface of each of the lower electrodes; and a hydrogen supply layer including hydrogen, the hydrogen supply layer being between the lower electrodes and closer to the substrate than the dielectric layer is to the substrate.
US11133316B2	Semiconductor device having a serpentine shape isolation The disclosure provides a semiconductor device and a fabrication method thereof. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first and a second polysilicon layers on the substrate, a third polysilicon layer between the first and the second polysilicon layers, a first isolation layer adjacent with the first to the third polysilicon layers, a gate dielectric layer and a gate conductive layer in the third polysilicon layer, a second isolation layer on the gate conductive layer and the third polysilicon layer, a third isolation layer on the first the second isolation layers, a bit line via contact through the first and the third isolation layers, and a conductive layer on the bit line via contact and the third isolation layer. The third polysilicon layer has a concave portion between the first and the second polysilicon layers.
US11133315B2	Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same Disclosed are semiconductor devices and methods of fabricating the same. The semiconductor device comprises a substrate having a trench, a gate dielectric layer covering a surface of the trench, a gate electrode filling a lower portion of the trench, a capping pattern on the gate electrode in the trench, and a work function control pattern between the gate electrode and the capping pattern in the trench. The gate dielectric layer comprises a first segment having a first thickness between the gate electrode and the trench and a second segment having a second thickness between the capping pattern and the trench. The second thickness is less than the first thickness.
US11133313B2	Asymmetric semiconductor memory device having electrically floating body transistor Asymmetric, semiconductor memory cells, arrays, devices and methods are described. Among these, an asymmetric, bi-stable semiconductor memory cell is described that includes: a floating body region configured to be charged to a level indicative of a state of the memory cell; a first region in electrical contact with the floating body region; a second region in electrical contact with the floating body region and spaced apart from the first region; and a gate positioned between the first and second regions, such that the first region is on a first side of the memory cell relative to the gate and the second region is on a second side of the memory cell relative to the gate; wherein performance characteristics of the first side are different from performance characteristics of the second side.
US11133311B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes channel layers on a substrate, the channel layers being spaced apart from each other, and having first side surfaces and second side surfaces opposing each other in a first direction, a gate electrode surrounding the channel layers and having a first end portion and a second end portion, opposing each other in the first direction, and a source/drain layer on a first side of the gate electrode and in contact with the channel layers, a portion of the source/drain layer protruding further than the first end portion of the gate electrode in the first direction, wherein a first distance from the first end portion of the gate electrode to the first side surfaces of the channel layers is shorter than a second distance from the second end portion of the gate electrode to the second side surfaces of the channel layers.
US11133309B2	Multi-threshold voltage gate-all-around transistors A method for forming a semiconductor device structure includes removing a portion of a first dielectric layer surrounding each of a plurality of channel layers of at least a first nanosheet stack. A portion of a second dielectric layer surrounding each of a plurality of channel layers of at least a second nanosheet stack is crystallized. A dipole layer is formed on the etched first dielectric layer and the crystallized portion of the second dielectric layer. The dipole layer is diffused into the etched first dielectric layer. The crystallized portion of the second dielectric layer prevents the dipole layer form diffusing into the second dielectric layer.
US11133308B2	Uniform work function metal recess for vertical transistor complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology A semiconductor device includes a first transistor including a first vertical fin arranged between first bottom source or drain (S/D) region and first top S/D region, and a first recessed gate stack arranged on a sidewall of the first vertical fin. A second transistor includes second vertical fin arranged between a second bottom S/D region and second top S/D region, and a second recessed gate stack arranged on a sidewall of the second vertical fin. A first spacer contacts the sidewall of the first vertical fin and on the first recessed gate stack or the second recessed gate stack. A second spacer contacts the first spacer of the first transistor or the second transistor. The second spacer is on a sidewall of the top S/D region of the first transistor or second transistor. The inner spacer and the outer spacer include different materials.
US11133307B2	FinFETs with locally thinned gate structures and having different distances therebetween Example embodiments relating to forming gate structures, e.g., for Fin Field Effect Transistors (FinFETs), are described. In an embodiment, a structure includes first and second device regions comprising first and second FinFETs, respectively, on a substrate. A distance between neighboring gate structures of the first FinFETs is less than a distance between neighboring gate structures of the second FinFETs. A gate structure of at least one of the first FinFETs has a first and second width at a level of and below, respectively, a top surface of a first fin. The first width is greater than the second width. A second gate structure of at least one of the second FinFETs has a third and fourth width at a level of and below, respectively a top surface of a second fin. A difference between the first and second widths is greater than a difference between the third and fourth widths.
US11133304B2	Packaging scheme involving metal-insulator-metal capacitor A device includes a first die and a second die. The first die includes: a first substrate that contains first electrical circuitry, a first interconnection structure disposed over the first substrate, a first dielectric layer disposed over the first interconnection structure, and a plurality of first bonding pads disposed over the first dielectric layer. The second die includes: a second substrate that contains second electrical circuitry, a second interconnection structure disposed over the second substrate, a second dielectric layer disposed over the second interconnection structure, and a plurality of second bonding pads disposed over the second dielectric layer. The first bonding pads of the first die are bonded to the second bonding pads of the second die. At least one of the first die or the second die includes a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor. The MIM capacitor includes more than two metal layers that are stacked over one another.
US11133301B2	Integrated circuit having a MOM capacitor and transistor An integrated circuit can include a MOM capacitor formed simultaneously with other devices, such as finFETs. A dielectric layer formed on a substrate has a first semiconductor fin therein and a second semiconductor fin therein. Respective top portions of the fins are removed to form respective recesses in the dielectric layer. First and second electrodes are formed in the recesses. The first and second electrodes and the interjacent dielectric layer form a MOM capacitor.
US11133295B2	Methods for manufacturing a display device Methods for manufacturing a display device are provided. The methods include providing a plurality of light-emitting units and a substrate. The methods also include transferring the light-emitting units to a transfer head. The methods further include attaching at least one of the plurality of light-emitting units on the transfer head to the substrate by a bonding process, wherein the transfer head and the substrate satisfy the following equation during the bonding process: Q≤\|∫T1T2A(T)dT−∫T1T3E(T)dT\|<0.01, wherein A(T) is the coefficient of thermal expansion of the transfer head, E(T) is the coefficient of thermal expansion of the substrate, T1 is room temperature, T2 is the temperature of the transfer head, and T3 is the temperature of the substrate.
US11133294B2	Transparent display panel A transparent display panel with a light-transmitting substrate, a plurality of top-emitting micro light emitting diodes, a plurality of bottom-emitting micro light emitting diodes, and a light shielding layer. The light transmissive substrate has a surface. These top-emitting micro light emitting diodes and these bottom-emitting micro light emitting diodes are disposed on the surface of the light transmissive substrate. The bottom-emitting micro light emitting diodes has an epitaxial structure and a light shielding member, the epitaxial structure has a pair of upper and lower surfaces on the opposite sides, the lower surface faces toward the light transmissive substrate, and the light shielding member is disposed on the upper surface to shield the light emitted by the bottom-emitting micro light emitting diodes towards the upper surface.
US11133291B2	Chip package structure with multi-chip stack A chip package structure including a circuit board, a first die, a spacer, and a second die. The first die is disposed on the circuit board, and the spacer is disposed on the circuit board, in which the spacer includes a spacer part and at least one via structure penetrating through the spacer part. The second die is disposed on the first die and the spacer, and the second die is electrically connected to the circuit board through the spacer.
US11133287B2	Semiconductor package including stacked semiconductor chips and method for fabricating the same A semiconductor package may include: a chip stack including first to Nth semiconductor chips having first to Nth chip pads formed in active surfaces thereof, respectively, and sequentially stacked in a vertical direction such that the first to Nth chip pads are exposed, wherein N is a natural number equal to or more than 2; first to Nth vertical wires having first ends connected to the first to Nth chip pads, respectively, and extended in the vertical direction; a coating layer surrounding portions of the first to kth vertical wires, extended from the first ends, among the first to Nth vertical wires, and connection portions between the first ends of the first to kth vertical wires and the first to kth chip pads; and a molding layer covering the chip stack, surrounding the vertical wires, and covering the coating layer.
US11133282B2	COWOS structures and methods forming same A method includes bonding a device die to an interposer. The interposer includes a through-via extending from a top surface of a semiconductor substrate of the interposer into an intermediate level between the top surface and a bottom surface of the semiconductor substrate. A singulation process is performed to saw the interposer and the device die into a package. The method further includes placing the package over a carrier, encapsulating the package in an encapsulant, thinning the encapsulant and the semiconductor substrate of the interposer until the through-via is exposed, and forming redistribution lines, wherein a redistribution line in the redistribution lines is in contact with the through-via.
US11133281B2	Chip to chip interconnect in encapsulant of molded semiconductor package A packaged semiconductor includes an electrically insulating encapsulant body having an upper surface, a first semiconductor die encapsulated within the encapsulant body, the first semiconductor die having a main surface with a first conductive pad that faces the upper surface of the encapsulant body, a second semiconductor die encapsulated within the encapsulant body and disposed laterally side by side with the first semiconductor die, the second semiconductor die having a main surface with a second conductive pad that faces the upper surface of the encapsulant body, and a first conductive track that is formed in the upper surface of the encapsulant body and electrically connects the first conductive pad to the second conductive pad. The encapsulant body includes a laser activatable mold compound.
US11133280B2	Integrated circuit chip and configuration adjustment method for the same An integrated circuit chip includes a core circuit, a first bond pad, a first switch circuit, a second configuration resistor, a control circuit, and a storage unit. The first bonding pad is coupled to a first external reference voltage through a first node, and the first node is coupled to the first external reference voltage through a bonding wire or a first configuration resistor. The first switch circuit is coupled between a first internal reference voltage and the first node. The second configuration resistor is coupled between the first internal reference voltage and the first switch circuit or between the first switch circuit and the first node. In a first mode, the control circuit turns on the first switch circuit, and writes a configuration state of the first bonding pad to the storage unit. In a second mode, the control circuit turns off the first switch circuit.
US11133277B2	Semiconductor device bonded by bonding pads A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor chip having a first bonding layer and a second semiconductor chip stacked on the first semiconductor chip and having a second bonding layer. The first bonding layer includes a first bonding pad, a plurality of first internal vias, and a first interconnection connecting the first bonding pad and the plurality of first internal vias. The second bonding layer includes a second bonding pad bonded to the first bonding pad. An upper surface of the first interconnection and an upper surface of the first bonding pad are coplanar with an upper surface of the first bonding layer. The first interconnection is electrically connected to the plurality of different first internal lines through the plurality of first internal vias.
US11133272B1	Vertically-aligned and conductive dummies in integrated circuit layers for capacitance reduction and bias independence and methods of manufacture Vertically-aligned and conductive dummies in integrated circuit (IC) layers reduce capacitance and bias independence. Dummies are islands of material in areas of metal and semiconductor IC layers without circuit features to avoid non-uniform polishing (“dishing”). Conductive diffusion layer dummies in a diffusion layer and conductive polysilicon dummies in a polysilicon layer above the diffusion layer reduce bias dependence and nonlinear circuit operation in the presence of an applied varying voltage. ICs with metal dummies vertically aligned in at least one metal layer above the polysilicon dummies and diffusion dummies reduce lateral coupling capacitance compared to ICs in which dummies are dispersed in a non-overlapping layout by a foundry layout tool. Avoiding lateral resistance-capacitance (RC) ladder networks created by dispersed dummies improves signal delays and power consumption in radio-frequency (RF) ICs.
US11133271B2	Semiconductor device In a semiconductor device, a first outer edge of a conductive pattern is located between the outermost edge of a first dimple and the innermost edge of a second dimple in a cross-sectional view of the device. When thermal stress due to temperature changes in the semiconductor device is applied to the ceramic circuit board, the first and second dimples suppress deformation of the ceramic circuit board that is caused due to the temperature changes. As a result, cracks in the ceramic circuit board and separation of the metal plate and the conductive pattern are prevented.
US11133270B1	Integrated circuit device and fabrication method thereof An integrated circuit device includes a substrate, an integrated circuit region on the substrate, a seal ring disposed in a dielectric stack of the integrated circuit region and around a periphery of the integrated circuit region, a trench around the seal ring and exposing a sidewall of the dielectric stack, a moisture blocking layer continuously covering the integrated circuit region and extending to the sidewall of the dielectric stack, thereby sealing a boundary between two adjacent dielectric films in the dielectric stack; and a passivation layer over the moisture blocking layer.
US11133267B2	Semiconductor device including a peripheral circuit region and memory cell regions A semiconductor device includes a peripheral circuit region on a lower substrate, and including circuit elements, memory cell regions including memory cells on each of a first upper substrate and a second upper substrate, which are on the lower substrate, at least one cutting region between the first upper substrate and the second upper substrate, and at least one semiconductor pattern between the first upper substrate and the second upper substrate, and adjacent to the at least one cutting region.
US11133264B2	Electronic system comprising a lower redistribution layer and method for manufacturing such an electronic system The invention relates to a method for producing an electronic system, comprising: a step of forming a plurality of interconnect paths obtained via metal deposition on the sacrificial member to form a lower redistribution layer defining a plurality of lower connection ports connected to a plurality of inner connection ports; a step of depositing at least one electronic component on the lower redistribution layer; and a step of forming a plurality of three-dimensional interconnect paths obtained via metal deposition in order to connect the connectors of the electronic component to the inner connection ports of the lower redistribution layer.
US11133261B2	Electronic device packaging An electronic device may be a first package. The first package may include a first substrate having a first mounting surface. A first die may be coupled to the first mounting surface. A first interconnect region may be laterally spaced from the first die. The first package may be interconnected with a second package. The second package may include a second die coupled to a second mounting surface. Interconnection of the first package with the second package may establish one or more electrical communication pathways between the first package and the second package. The interconnection of the first package with the second package may interconnect the first die with the second die such that the first die and second die are in communication only through the one or more electrical communication pathways.
US11133257B2	Bridge interconnection with layered interconnect structures Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards techniques and configurations for layered interconnect structures for bridge interconnection in integrated circuit assemblies. In one embodiment, an apparatus may include a substrate and a bridge embedded in the substrate. The bridge may be configured to route electrical signals between two dies. An interconnect structure, electrically coupled with the bridge, may include a via structure including a first conductive material, a barrier layer including a second conductive material disposed on the via structure, and a solderable material including a third conductive material disposed on the barrier layer. The first conductive material, the second conductive material, and the third conductive material may have different chemical composition. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11133248B2	Semiconductor structure and method for fabricating the same A semiconductor structure and a method of fabricating the same is disclosed. The semiconductor structure includes an interconnect structure that comprises: a plurality of conductive features over a substrate arranged separately adjacent one another; a liner conformally formed over and between the plurality of conductive features and defining a trench having a first depth between adjacent pair of the conducive features, wherein a horizontal coverage of the liner over respective top surfaces of the conductive features has thickness lower than that of a vertical coverage over respective sidewalls of the conductive features; and a dielectric layer on the liner over top surfaces of the conductive features, wherein the dielectric layer seals the respective trench and forms a void between adjacent pair of the conductive features.
US11133247B2	Vias with metal caps for underlying conductive lines A semiconductor device includes a first dielectric layer over a substrate, the first dielectric layer including a first dielectric material extending from a first side of the first dielectric layer distal from the substrate to a second side of the first dielectric layer opposing the first side; a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer; a conductive line in the first dielectric layer, the conductive line including a first conductive material, an upper surface of the conductive line being closer to the substrate than an upper surface of the first dielectric layer; a metal cap in the first dielectric layer, the metal cap being over and physically connected to the conductive line, the metal cap including a second conductive material different from the first conductive material; and a via in the second dielectric layer and physically connected to the metal cap, the via including the second conductive material.
US11133245B2	Semiconductor package structure and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor package structure includes a base, at least one semiconductor element, a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer and a circuit layer. The semiconductor element is disposed on the base and has an upper surface. The first dielectric layer covers at least a portion of a peripheral surface of the semiconductor element and has a top surface. The top surface is non-coplanar with the upper surface of the semiconductor element. The second dielectric layer covers the semiconductor element and the first dielectric layer. The circuit layer extends through the second dielectric layer to electrically connect the semiconductor element.
US11133244B2	Semiconductor device package and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor device package includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a conductive structure, a first solder and a second solder. The second substrate is disposed over the first substrate. The conductive structure is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The conductive structure includes a first wetting portion, a second wetting portion, and a non-wetting portion disposed between the first wetting portion and the second wetting portion. The first solder covers the first wetting portion and connects the conductive structure to the first substrate. The second solder covers the second wetting portion and connects the conductive structure to the second substrate. The first solder is spaced apart from the second solder by the non-wetting portion.
US11133243B2	Electronic device and wiring board An electronic device including: a semiconductor device including plural terminals input with voltages having a same potential; and a wiring board including a mounting region at which the semiconductor device is mounted, wherein the wiring board includes a board wiring line formed on the wiring board from a connection portion at which one terminal of the plural terminals is connected, via an inside of the mounting region, to a connection portion at which another terminal of the plural terminals is connected.
US11133241B2	Semiconductor package with a cavity in a die pad for reducing voids in the solder A semiconductor package having an aperture in a die pad and solder in the aperture coplanar with a surface of the package is disclosed. The package includes a die pad, a plurality of leads, and a semiconductor die coupled to the die pad with a die attach material. A cavity or aperture is formed through the die pad to expose a portion of the die attach material. Multiple solder reflows are performed to reduce the presence of voids in the die attach material. In a first solder reflow, the voids of trapped gas that form when attaching the die to the die pad are released. Then, in a second solder reflow, solder is added to the aperture coplanar with a surface of the die pad. The additional solder can be the same material as the die attach material or a different material.
US11133239B2	Mechanical part for fastening processor, assembly, and computer device In a processor fastening structure, when a compression spring (23) is compressed by shortening a distance between the other end of a screw (24) and a heat sink base (22), the compression spring (23) provides elastic force for both the screw (24) and the heat sink base (22). In addition, because the screw (24) passes through the compression spring (23) to connect to a fastening assembly (21), the elastic force of the compression spring (23) is converted into pressure from the heat sink base (22) to a CPU.
US11133235B2	Heat-dissipating semiconductor package including a plurality of metal pins between first and second encapsulation members A package structure includes a first encapsulation member, a second encapsulation member, at least one semiconductor chip, a plurality of metal pins and a second insulation layer. The first encapsulation member includes a first metal layer, a first insulation layer and a second metal layer. The at least one semiconductor chip is disposed between the first encapsulation member and the second encapsulation member. The at least one semiconductor chip comprises a plurality of conductive terminals connected with the first metal layer or a third metal layer. The plurality of metal pins are disposed between and extended outward from the first encapsulation member and the second encapsulation member. The second insulation layer is disposed between the first encapsulation member and the second encapsulation layer for securing the first encapsulation member, the second encapsulation member, the at least one semiconductor chip, and the plurality of metal pins.
US11133234B2	Semiconductor device and semiconductor device manufacturing method A semiconductor device includes: a wire including a first conductive member disposed at a semiconductor substrate and a second conductive member disposed at a surface of the first conductive member, the second conductive member having an ionization tendency less than the first conductive member, wherein the first conductive member includes a first surface disposed close to the second conductive member and having a width smaller than a width of a second surface of the first conductive member which is disposed close to the semiconductor substrate, and wherein the second conductive member has a width larger than the width of the first surface of the first conductive member and smaller than the width of the second surface of the first conductive member.
US11133232B2	Semiconductor device, method of testing semiconductor device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a functional circuit; a plurality of electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuits formed independently of the functional circuit, wherein each of the plurality of ESD protection circuits includes a plurality of junctions having different sizes and capacities, each of the plurality of ESD protection circuits is configured to perform an ESD test in different processes of fabrication of the semiconductor device; and a plurality of test pads connected to the plurality of ESD protection circuits and the functional circuit, respectively, wherein each of the plurality of test pads is configured to receive a test signal for the ESD test.
US11133227B2	Semiconductor device having active region and method for fabricating the same The instant disclosure discloses a method comprises receiving a substrate having a first region and a second region defined thereon and an insulating structure formed there-between; forming, extending across the first region and the second region, a gate stack including a dielectric layer and a gate poly layer formed thereon; forming a first well mask covering the second region while defining a first opening that projectively overlaps the first region to partially exposes the gate poly layer; performing a first doping process, through the first opening and the gate stack, to form a first well in the substrate beneath the first opening; and performing a second doping process through the first opening to form a first gate conductor in the gate poly layer.
US11133226B2	FUSI gated device formation Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a method for forming a fully silicided (FUSI) gated device, the method including: forming a masking layer onto a gate structure over a substrate, the gate structure comprising a polysilicon layer. Forming a first source region and a first drain region on opposing sides of the gate structure within the substrate, the gate structure is formed before the first source and drain regions. Performing a first removal process to remove a portion of the masking layer and expose an upper surface of the polysilicon layer. The first source and drain regions are formed before the first removal process. Forming a conductive layer directly contacting the upper surface of the polysilicon layer. The conductive layer is formed after the first removal process. Converting the conductive layer and polysilicon layer into a FUSI layer. The FUSI layer is thin and uniform in thickness.
US11133225B2	Mode converter and method of fabricating thereof An optical fiber adapter and method of fabricating the same from a wafer including a double silicon-on-insulator layer structure. The optical fiber adapter may include a mode converter, a trench, and a V-groove, the V-groove and the trench operating as passive alignment features for an optical fiber, in the transverse translational and rotational degrees of freedom, and in the longitudinal translational degree of freedom, respectively. The mode converter may include a buried tapered waveguide.
US11133222B2	Method for manufacturing semiconductor structure Methods of manufacturing a semiconductor structure are provided. One of the methods includes the following operations. A substrate is received, and the substrate includes a first transistor with a first conductive region and a second transistor with a second conductive region, wherein the first transistor and the second transistor have different conductive types. A first laser anneal is performed on the first conductive region to repair lattice damage. An amorphization is performed on the first conductive region and the second conductive region to enhance silicide formation to a desired phase transformation in the subsequent operations. A pre-silicide layer is formed on the substrate after the amorphization. A thermal anneal is performed to the substrate to form a silicide layer from the pre-silicide layer. A second laser anneal is performed on the first conductive region and the second conductive region after the formation of the pre-silicide layer.
US11133217B1	Late gate cut with optimized contact trench size A semiconductor structure is provided including a gate cut region in which the contact trench size has been optimized to increase local interconnect connectivity. The semiconductor structure can include at least one gate structure located laterally adjacent to a gate cut region. At least one metal-containing contact structure is located in the gate cut region, wherein the at least one at least one metal-containing contact structure is confined by a pair of gate dielectric spacers, wherein a first gate dielectric spacer of the pair of gate dielectric spacers has a first width and is located laterally adjacent to the at least one gate structure, and a second gate dielectric spacer of the pair of gate dielectric spacers has a second width and is located laterally adjacent to the at least one metal-containing contact structure, wherein the first width is greater than the second width.
US11133216B2	Interconnect structure A nitridation treatment method is provided. The nitridation treatment method includes executing a nitridation treatment with respect to a hydrophobic surface defining an interconnect trench to convert the hydrophobic surface to a hydrophilic surface. The nitridation treatment method further includes depositing a seed layer including a conductive material and manganese on the hydrophilic surface. The nitridation treatment method also includes thermally driving all the manganese out of the seed layer to form a diffusion barrier including manganese at the hydrophilic surface. In addition, the nitridation treatment method includes filling remaining space in the interconnect trench with the conductive material to form an interconnect.
US11133212B2	High temperature electrostatic chuck A substrate support is disclosed. The substrate support has a dielectric body with a plurality of features formed thereon. A ledge surrounds the plurality of features about a periphery thereof. The features increase in number from a central region of the substrate support towards the ledge. A seasoning layer is optionally disposed on the dielectric body.
US11133209B2	Transfer head for micro LED Disclosed is a transfer head for transferring micro-LEDs from a first substrate to a second substrate, particularly, using a vacuum adsorption method. The transfer head includes a porous member having a plurality of pores, in which the micro-LEDs are transferred by creating or releasing a vacuum pressure in the pore of the porous member.
US11133207B2	Method for forming films on wafers separated by different distances A method for forming a film is provided. The method includes sequentially placing a first wafer, a second wafer, and a third wafer in a chamber. The first wafer is separated from the second wafer by a first distance, the second wafer is separated from the third wafer by a second distance, and the first distance is smaller than the second distance. At least one process gas is introduced sequentially passing through the first wafer, the second wafer and the third wafer in the chamber.
US11133205B2	Wafer out of pocket detection Apparatus and methods to process one or more substrate are described. A processing chamber comprises a support assembly, a chamber lid, and a controller. The chamber lid has a front surface facing the support assembly, a first sensor on the front surface and a second sensor on the front surface, the first sensor positioned at a first distance from the central rotational axis, and the second sensor positioned at a second distance from the central rotational axis greater than the first distance. The controller is configured to determine if a substrate is within or outside of the substrate support region of the support assembly.
US11133203B2	Plasma processing apparatus Temperature uniformity in a mounting surface of a mounting table is improved. A plasma processing apparatus includes the mounting table having thereon the mounting surface on which a work-piece serving as a plasma processing target is mounted; a coolant path formed within the mounting table along the mounting surface of the mounting table; and an inlet path connected to the coolant path from a backside of the mounting surface of the mounting table and configured to introduce a coolant into the coolant path. The inlet path is extended from the backside of the mounting surface of the mounting table such that an extension direction of the inlet path is inclined at an angle greater than 90° with respect to a flow direction of the coolant flowing through the coolant path, and then, connected to the coolant path.
US11133201B2	High definition heater system having a fluid medium A thermal system includes a base member, a two-phase fluid, a tuning heater, and a chuck. The base member includes at least one fluid passageway. The two-phase fluid is disposed within the fluid passageway. A pressure of the two-phase fluid is controlled such that the two-phase fluid provides at least one of heating and cooling to the base member. The tuning heater is secured to the base member. The chuck is secured to the tuning heater opposite to the base member. The tuning heater includes a plurality of zones to fine tune a heat distribution provided by the base member to the chuck.
US11133200B2	Substrate vapor drying apparatus and method A method of processing a semiconductor substrate is provided. The semiconductor substrate may be placed on a spin chuck with a plurality of holding members, each holding member including a pin having a sloped portion to provide a gap between an upper edge of the substrate and the pin. Thereafter, one or more treatment fluids may be dispensed over the substrate.
US11133197B2	Semiconductor structure and method of forming A structure and method of forming are provided. The structure includes a dielectric layer disposed on a substrate. The structure includes a cavity in the dielectric layer, and a plurality of contacts positioned in the cavity and bonded to the substrate. A component is bonded to the plurality of contacts. Underfill is disposed in the cavity between the dielectric layer and the component. A plurality of connectors is on the dielectric layer, the connectors being connected through the dielectric layer to a conductor that is at a same level of metallization as the plurality of contacts.
US11133194B2	Method for selective etching at an interface between materials A method of etching a substrate includes generating plasma comprising a first concentration of an etchant and a second concentration of an inhibitor and etching the substrate by exposing an exposed interface between a first material and a second material to the plasma. The first material includes a lower reactivity to both the etchant and the inhibitor than the second material. The first concentration is less than the second concentration. Etching the substrate includes etching the first material and the second material at the exposed interface to form an etched indentation including an enriched region of the second material, forming a passivation layer at the enriched region using the inhibitor, and etching the first material at the etched indentation. The passivation layer reduces an etch rate of the second material to a reduced rate that is less than an etch rate of the first material.
US11133193B2	Plasma processing device and method of adjusting an edge ring of a plasma processing device A plasma processing device includes an electrostatic chuck supporting a wafer, a base ring surrounding the electrostatic chuck, an edge ring disposed on the base ring, a lift assembly comprising at least one lift pin and at least one driver, and a sensor. Each lift pin movably passes through the base ring to lift the edge ring which is subject to being corroded during a plasma process. The driver is connected to the at least one lift pin to drive the lift pin to move upwards and downwards. The sensor is disposed between the driver and the lift pin to detect a weight of the edge ring when the lift pin raises the edge ring to a preset position as a difference in weight indicates loss of edge ring material due to corrosion.
US11133191B2	Method of producing etching mask, etching mask precursor, and oxide layer, and method of manufacturing thin film transistor The etching mask 80 for screen printing according to one embodiment of the present invention includes aliphatic polycarbonate. Further, the method of producing an oxide layer (the channel 44) according to one embodiment of the present invention includes: an etching-mask forming step of forming a pattern of the etching mask 80 including aliphatic polycarbonate; a contact step of, after the etching-mask forming step, contacting the oxide layer with a solution for dissolving a portion of the oxide layer (the channel 44) which is not protected by the etching mask 80; and a heating step of, after the contact step, heating the oxide layer (the channel 44) and the etching mask 80 to or above a temperature at which the etching mask 80 is decomposed.
US11133190B2	Metal-based passivation-assisted plasma etching of III-v semiconductors According to one embodiment, a method includes performing a plasma etching process on a masked III-V semiconductor, and forming a passivation layer on etched portions of the III-V semiconductor. The passivation layer includes at least one of a group III element and/or a metal from the following: Ni, Cr, W, Mo, Pt, Pd, Mg, Ti, Zr, Hf, Y, Ta, and Sc.
US11133189B2	Metal cut patterning and etching to minimize interlayer dielectric layer loss The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses related to the deposition of a protective layer selective to an interlayer dielectric layer so that the protective layer is formed onto a top portion associated with the interlayer dielectric layer. In some embodiments, a method comprises: forming an interlayer dielectric layer on a substrate; covering a trench region with a metal liner, wherein the trench region is situated above the substrate and formed within the interlayer dielectric layer; and depositing a protective layer selective to the interlayer dielectric layer so that the protective layer is formed onto a top portion associated with the interlayer dielectric layer. In various embodiments, the depositing the protective layer comprises: repeatedly depositing the protective layer via a multi-deposition sequence; or depositing a self-assembled monolayer onto the top portion.
US11133187B2	Methods for forming a photo-mask and a semiconductor device A method for forming a photo-mask includes providing a first pattern, wherein the first pattern includes a first light-transmitting region and a first light-shielding region; transforming the first pattern into a second pattern, wherein the second pattern includes a second light-transmitting region and a second light-shielding region, the second light-transmitting region is located within range of the first light-transmitting region, and the second light-transmitting region has an area which is smaller than that of the first light-transmitting region, the second light-shielding region includes the entire region of the first light-shielding region, and the second light-shielding region has an area which is greater than that of the first light-shielding region; and forming the second pattern on a photo-mask substrate to form a photo-mask, wherein the photo-mask is used in an ion implantation process of a material layer.
US11133186B2	Processing method of workpiece There is provided a processing method of a workpiece. In the processing method, a protective film including a water-insoluble resin is formed on the front surface of a workpiece and the workpiece on which the protective film is formed is processed. Furthermore, the protective film is deteriorated by supplying an organic solvent to the workpiece processed and the protective film is removed from the front surface of the workpiece by supplying cleaning water to the protective film deteriorated.
US11133184B2	Staggered-type tunneling field effect transistor The disclosure describes a tunneling field effect transistor having an overlapping structure between the source and drain regions providing a greater tunneling area. The source or drain region may be a doped region in a semi-conductive substrate. The other source or drain region may be formed by epitaxial deposition over the doped region. The gate is formed over the epitaxial region where the doped and epitaxial regions overlap. The doped region may be formed in a fin structure with the epitaxial region and gate being formed on the top and sides of the fin.

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