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US11177651B1	Waveform limiter circuit A limiter comprising of a step-up circuit with an input node and an output node for electrically stepping up an output signal at the output node from an input signal at the input node. A threshold switch circuit is connected to the step-up circuit for limiting peak voltages of the output signal from the step-up circuit.
US11177649B2	Safety power disconnection for power distribution over power conductors to power consuming devices Safety power disconnection for remote power distribution in power distribution systems is disclosed. The power distribution system includes one or more power distribution circuits each configured to remotely distribute power from a power source over current carrying power conductors to remote units to provide power for remote unit operations. A remote unit is configured to decouple power from the power conductors thereby disconnecting the load of the remote unit from the power distribution system. A current measurement circuit in the power distribution system measures current flowing on the power conductors and provides a current measurement to the controller circuit. The controller circuit is configured to disconnect the power source from the power conductors for safety reasons in response to detecting a current from the power source in excess of a threshold current level indicating a load.
US11177648B2	System and method for compact motor control with redundant power structures A compact motor control system for selectively controlling power from a power source to a load includes a motor switching assembly having a solid state contactor with a plurality of solid state switches. The motor switching assembly also includes at least one direct current (DC) link coupled to the solid state contactor and redundant first and second inverters coupled to the at least one DC link. The motor switching assembly further includes a first relay coupled between the solid state contactor and an input of the inverter and a second relay coupled between the solid state contactor and an input of the second inverter. In addition, the motor control system includes a control system programmed to control the motor switching assembly to selectively supply power to the load from the power source.
US11177645B2	Systems and methods for improving restricted earth fault protection A transformer system including a transformer including a set of wye windings, a three-phase current transformer, a neutral-current transformer, and a controller. The three-phase current transformer outputs a first signal indicative of a three-phase current conducting through the set of wye windings and the three-phase current transformer. The neutral-current transformer couples the current flowing from the ground to the neutral node of the transformer, and outputs a second signal indicative of a neutral current conducting from the ground node to the neutral node of the transformer. The controller receives the first signal and the second signal, determines whether an external ground fault condition or an internal ground fault condition is present based on the three-phase current and the neutral current, and determines whether a wiring error is present for the three-phase current transformer or the neutral-current transformer based on the three-phase current and the neutral current.
US11177643B2	Electronic fuse A device includes a current monitor, an electronic switch, an energy harvester, and a load controller. The current monitor monitors current drawn by a load coupled to the device and generate an alert signal in response to the monitored current exceeding a predefined threshold value. The electronic switch decouples a battery from the load in response to the alert signal, the electronic switch being electrically disconnected from a negative terminal of the battery coupled to the device. The energy harvester stores energy from the battery while the load is drawing current from the battery. The load controller receives, from the energy harvester, the stored energy from the energy harvester and generates a voltage to power the current monitor to reset the alert signal while the battery is decoupled from the load.
US11177639B1	Electrical cable passthrough for photovoltaic systems A cable passthrough includes a first layer having a first edge and an aperture, and a second layer overlapping the first layer. The passthrough is configured to be installed on a roof deck, such that the aperture is configured to align with an aperture formed within the roof deck. The passthrough is configured to receive at least one cable having a first end and a second end. The second end of the cable is capable of extending outwardly from the first edge of the first layer and the first edge of the second layer of the passthrough. The cable is configured to be positioned intermediate the first layer and the second layer.
US11177638B2	Cable foil processing equipment A cable foil layer processing equipment includes a rack, a knife holder installed on the rack, a plurality of cutters movably installed on the knife holder and arranged in a crisscross manner in a vertical plane, and a linear moving mechanism configured to move linearly in a horizontal direction parallel to an axial direction of a cable. The rack is installed on the linear moving mechanism so as to move linearly in the horizontal direction along with the linear moving mechanism. The cutters clamp a foil layer of the cable in a radial direction of the cable. The linear moving mechanism drives the knife holder to move in the horizontal direction so as to cut the foil layer of the cable into a plurality of equal parts.
US11177637B1	Core-including item provided with staggered anchoring locations for holding windable material and associated method An item and an associated method utilizing an elongated core defining an outer surface having a series of axially-disposed regions about which windable materials can be wound involves anchoring locations at which the terminal ends of windable materials are anchorable. The series of regions are arranged along the core of the item in a sequential fashion with a first region being disposed adjacent a first end of the core, and the anchoring location of each subsequent region in the series of regions subsequent to the first region is circumferentially spaced about the outer surface of the core from the anchoring location of the region which immediately precedes the subsequent region by a predetermined distance and in a circumferential direction therealong which is opposite the direction in which the item is rotated during a material unwinding process.
US11177632B2	Augmented semiconductor lasers with spontaneous emissions blockage A device and a method to produce an augmented-laser (ATLAS) comprising a bi-stable resistive system (BRS) integrated in series with a semiconductor laser. The laser exhibits reduction/inhibition of the Spontaneous Emission (SE) below lasing threshold by leveraging the abrupt resistance switch of the BRS. The laser system comprises a semiconductor laser and a BRS operating as a reversible switch. The BRS operates in a high resistive state in which a semiconductor laser is below a lasing threshold and emitting in a reduced spontaneous emission regime, and a low resistive state in which a semiconductor laser is above or equal to a lasing threshold and emitting in a stimulated emission regime. The BRS operating as a reversible switch is electrically connected in series across two independent chips or on a single wafer. The BRS is formed using insulator-to-metal transition (IMT) materials or is formed using threshold-switching selectors (TSS).
US11177627B2	Tunable laser A discrete wavelength tunable laser capable of switching between a plurality of lasing channels of different wavelengths, the tunable laser comprising: a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA); a wavelength demultiplexer (Demux), having a Demux input which receives the output from the SOA, and a plurality of Demux outputs, each Demux output defining a different spatial path for a respective lasing channel; each of the respective lasing channels being within the bandwidth of the SOA; a reflector located within each spatial path for reflecting light of the respective lasing channel; and a lasing suppression mechanism located within each lasing channel; wherein one or more desired lasing channels are selected by application of the lasing suppression mechanism in each spatial path other than the one or more spatial paths corresponding to the one or more desired lasing channels.
US11177626B2	CTE-tuned pyrolytic graphite (PG) substrate to minimize joining stress between laser diode and the substrate A pyrolytic graphite (PG) substrate and laser diode package includes a substrate body having a PG crystalline structure with a basal plane oriented at a pre-determined orientation angle as measured from a longitudinal axis of a heat generating material, such as a laser diode, mounted on a surface of the PG substrate, so that a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of the PG substrate is substantially matched with a CTE of the material.
US11177617B2	Pad extending member A pad extender for connecting a conductor cable to a transformer. The pad extender includes a planar body including a first portion and a second portion. The pad extender further includes a pair of through-openings defined in the first portion of the planar body. Each of the pair of through-openings is configured to receive two fasteners. The pad extender further includes at least one aperture defined in the second portion of the planar body. The planar body is slidable relative to the transformer along the pair of through-openings.
US11177615B2	Electrical connector An electrical connector includes: terminal pairs to which wire pairs are attached; a terminal holding part made of insulating material and holding the terminal pairs; an outer shell made of electric conductive material and accommodating the terminal holding part and end portions of the wire pairs; a fitting part fitted to a counter connector; and a shield member disposed in the outer shell and made of electric conductive material. The shield member includes wire separation walls twisted around the axial center of the shield member. The wire separation walls separate the wire pairs for each wire pair, and two insulated wires of each wire pair are curved in the same direction as each other.
US11177612B2	Plug connector with a connector position assurance device and connector assembly including the same A plug connector with a connector position assurance device adapted for being docked with a socket connector, includes a main body, a plurality of terminals, a plurality of cables connected with the plurality of the terminals, and a connector position assurance device. The main body has a plurality of terminal slots. A top of the main body is bent frontward to form a buckling portion. The main body is spaced from the buckling portion and the two locking portions to form a locating space among the main body, the buckling portion and the two locking portions. The plurality of the terminals are assembled in the plurality of the terminal slots. The connector position assurance device has an abutting block. When the plug connector with a connector position assurance device is inserted into the socket connector, the abutting block moves into the locating space.
US11177609B2	Coaxial cable connector having an activatable seal A connector includes a cavity for stowing a pre-installed sealing member. The cavity is defined by a first or coupler seal cavity formed on the inside surface of a coupler and a second or insert seal cavity formed on the outer periphery of an insert. Relative motion of the coupler and the insert during assembly causes the sealing member to be displaced from a stowed or inactive seal position to an assembled or active seal position.
US11177608B2	Standby connector A standby connector 13 connectable to a device-side connector 10 mounted on a solenoid 12 includes a connector housing 22 connectable to the device-side connector 10 along a connecting direction, and a holder 33 for holding the connector housing 22. The holder 33 includes a pair of resilient deforming portions 35 located on both lateral sides of the connector housing 22 with respect to an intersecting direction intersecting the connecting direction and resiliently deformable in the intersecting direction. The pair of resilient deforming portions 35 come into contact with the connector housing 22 to be resiliently deformed when a force in the intersecting direction is applied to the connector housing 22.
US11177606B2	Housing with lateral hooks A fluid ejection device, in an example, that includes a housing with the housing including a plurality of lateral hooks to engage with a plurality of posts of a connector, the lateral hooks running, at least partially, parallel to a cable receiving surface wherein a portion of a printed circuit board (PCB) comprising electrical interconnects extends beyond the cable receiving surface to interface with the connector.
US11177601B2	Terminal having a conductor and a spring A terminal, including: a conductor made of a metal material, the conductor being in a form of a plate and being provided with a contact point to be conductively connected to a mating terminal; and a spring formed to be thinner than the conductor and resiliently deformable and provided with a mount mounted on the conductor and a cantilever cantilevered from the mount and relatively displaceable with respect to the conductor, the mating terminal being resiliently held in contact with the contact point by being pressed by the cantilever, a tip of the mating terminal being disposed between the mount and the contact point.
US11177599B2	Power connector for a bus bar A power connector includes a housing having a mating slot at a front having terminal channels holding power terminals between the slot and the corresponding side of the housing. Each power terminal includes a plate extending from the slot through a rear of the housing to an exterior of the housing for termination to a corresponding power element. The power terminal has a contact array of contacts discrete from and coupled to the plate. Each contact has a plate interface electrically coupled to the plate and a bus bar interface configured to be electrically coupled to a corresponding rail of the bus bar. The contacts are arranged along a corresponding side of the slot for interfacing with the bus bar.
US11177597B2	Connector adapted to be connected to flexible conductor A connector includes a first insulator having a through-hole for contact, a contact held by the first insulator and having a projecting portion inserted into the through-hole for contact, and a receiving member disposed on a side of a second surface of the first insulator and surrounding the projecting portion of the contact, the flexible conductor being disposed along the second surface of the first insulator, the contact including an extending portion formed on another end of the projecting portion and disposed on the side of the second surface of the first insulator to extend outside of the through-hole for contact along the second surface, a part of the flexible conductor being held between the extending portion of the contact and the receiving member to contact the extending portion, whereby the contact is electrically connected to the flexible conductor.
US11177590B2	Printed circuit board with a connector for electric connection of the PCB with another apparatus Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an apparatus comprising a printed circuit board (PCB) with a connector to electrically connect the PCB with another apparatus. In embodiments, the apparatus may include a PCB having a via that begins on a first surface of the PCB and ends inside the PCB. The apparatus may further include a connector to electrically connect the PCB with another apparatus or another portion of the apparatus. The connector may include a pin to provide connectivity between the PCB and the connector. The pin may be inserted into the via in response to an attachment of the connector to the PCB. The PCB may include a space that extends from an end of the via inside the PCB to a second surface of the PCB opposite the first surface, to accommodate layers for signal routing inside the PCB. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11177586B2	Contact device and system A contact device includes a first contact housing extending along a longitudinal axis and a shielding-spring unit electrically and mechanically connected to the first contact housing. The shielding-spring unit contacts an electrically conductive housing of a system. The shielding-spring unit has a first shielding spring and a second shielding spring arranged in a rotated manner relative to the first shielding spring in a circumferential direction around the longitudinal axis. The first shielding spring and the second shielding spring engage one another and lie against one another in an axial direction.
US11177581B2	Multi-chip system for an antenna array A multi-chip system is configured as an antenna array. The multi-chip system includes at least two transmitting sets distributed over one or more transmitting chips, where the transmitting sets each include an integrated transmitting antenna and an integrated up-conversion circuit. The multi-chip system further includes at least two receiving chips, where the receiving chips each include at least one integrated receiving antenna and at least one integrated down-conversion circuit.
US11177580B2	Multiband linear waveguide feed network A linear multiband waveguide feed network device, which includes a first section, a second section, a third section and an inverse-ridge receive (Rx)-reject filter. The second section is coupled to the first section via a first split-plane. The third section is coupled to the second section via a second split-plane. The inverse-ridge Rx-reject filter is implemented as a first half-portion and a second half-portion. The first half-portion and the second half-portion are implemented in the second section and the third section, respectively. The first split-plane and the second split-plane are on a zero-current region of the device.
US11177578B2	Antenna device for vehicle An antenna device for a vehicle includes: an antenna base to be attached to the vehicle; a first antenna for a first frequency band provided on the antenna base; and a second antenna for a second frequency band provided on the antenna base, in which the first frequency band and the second frequency band are different from each other, and the second antenna serves as a reflector of the first antenna in the first frequency band of the first antenna.
US11177576B2	Antenna having deployable antenna fins and associated methods An outer space deployable antenna may include a support shaft, a plurality of antenna fins, and an actuator. At least one draw cord may be coupled between the antenna fins and the actuator so that the antenna fins are moveable from a flat stored configuration to a fanned-out deployed configuration surrounding the support shaft.
US11177567B2	Antenna array calibration systems and methods Aspects of this disclosure relate to an antenna array system and method of calibration using one or more probes disposed equidistant between antenna elements. In certain embodiments, calibration is performed between a probe and antenna elements, between a plurality of antenna elements, and/or between antenna elements on different antenna arrays.
US11177566B2	Electronic devices having shielded antenna arrays An electronic device may be provided with a dielectric cover and a phased antenna array for conveying millimeter wave signals. A conductive pocket may be mounted to the cover. The pocket may include a conductive rear wall and conductive sidewalls that extend from a periphery of the rear wall to the cover. The array may be mounted to the rear wall and may convey signals through the cover. The sidewalls may extend from the cover at non-zero angles with respect to the normal axis of the cover. The shape of the pocket and the cover may be selected so that the pocket is non-resonant at frequencies handled by the array, to mitigate destructive interference within the pocket, to block surface waves from propagating along the cover, and to tweak the radiation pattern of the array to exhibit a desired shape and directionality.
US11177562B2	Electronic device An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a metal housing, an insulation element, and an antenna unit. The insulation element is disposed on the metal housing and includes a first heat dissipation hole. The antenna unit is disposed on the insulation element and includes a radiation portion and a feeding portion. The radiation portion is composed of a conductor. The feeding portion is electrically connected to the radiation portion and a grounding plane. In this way, according to the electronic device, space configuration inside the electronic device is saved and a shielding effect of the metal housing is prevented from affecting stability of sending and receiving a signal.
US11177559B2	Radiator assembly for base station antenna A radiator assembly for a base station antenna has a central axis and two dipoles arranged in a crossed manner, where each of the dipoles includes two dipole arms, and each of the dipole arms have a radiating surface which has an outer contour. The radiator assembly comprises an electrically conductive annular element that mounted above the radiating surfaces. The annular element is configured to be closed circumferentially and has an inner contour which is compliant to an outer contour line of the combination of all four radiating surfaces.
US11177557B2	Electronic device comprising communication device including sensing electrode An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present disclosure can comprise: a housing including a first plate, a second plate oriented in the direction opposite to that of the first plate, and a side member surrounding the space between the first plate and the second plate; a plurality of insulating layers interposed between the first plate and the second plate; a printed circuit board in parallel to the second plate; an array of first conductive plates mounted on one layer of the printed circuit board; a second conductive plate mounted on one layer of the printed circuit board so as not to overlap the array when viewing from the top of the second plate; a wireless communication circuit electrically connected to the array and set to provide wireless communication at a frequency of 20-100 GHz; and a grip sensing circuit electrically connected to the second conductive plate. Other various embodiments can be possible.
US11177553B2	Interface connector for supporting millimeter wave wireless communications Aspects described herein relate to at least a portion of a connector configured to support wireless communications that includes multiple chambers, each at least partially enclosed by a continuous isolation structure to provide electrical signal isolation and defining an inner surface. At least one terminal in a first chamber of the multiple chambers is configured for a first interface, and at least one terminal in a second chamber of the multiple chambers is configured for a second interface.
US11177545B2	Full band orthomode transducers A full band waveguide orthomode transducer (OMT) includes first, second, and third waveguide sections coupled to one another, the first, second, and third waveguide sections respectively having a first port, a second port, and a third port. A first wire grid polarizer in the first waveguide section is transparent to electromagnetic signals having a first polarization and reflective of electromagnetic signals having a second polarization orthogonal to the first polarization. A second wire grid polarizer in the second waveguide section is transparent to electromagnetic signals having the second polarization and reflective of electromagnetic signals having the first polarization. The third waveguide section is configured to transmit and/or receive electromagnetic signals having the first polarization and/or the second polarization.
US11177541B2	Battery and device The present application provides a battery including an electrode tab assembly that including an electrode tab and a protective layer arranged on the electrode tab including a first connecting layer arranged outside the protective layer, and a package film including a second connecting layer arranged outside the first connecting layer; after the electrode tab assembly is packaged, a first step and a second step are formed outside the package film, and the first step and the second step have a first thickness h and a second thickness j in a first direction of the battery. An object of the present application is to provide a battery capable of ensuring high sealing strength without leakage and penetration.
US11177540B2	Manufacturing methods for negative tab and positive tab of pouch cell A method for manufacturing a negative tab of a pouch cell includes following step of cleaning and surface roughening a copper foil substrate, plating a nickel film, cleaning and surface roughening the nickel film, plating a passivated metal film and cleaning and surface roughening the passivated metal film. A method for manufacturing a positive tab of a pouch cell includes following step of cleaning and surface roughening an aluminum foil substrate, plating a passivated metal film and cleaning and surface roughening the passivated metal film.
US11177539B2	Current collector and secondary battery The present application relates to a current collector and a secondary battery. The current collector is used to electrically connect a pole and tab of a secondary battery, and comprises: a first sheet; a second sheet that is disposed to intersect the first sheet, the second sheet being used to electrically connect to the pole; a current collection unit, the current collection unit and the second sheet being disposed at two opposite sides of the first sheet in a first thickness direction thereof, and the first thickness direction thereof intersecting with a second thickness direction of the second sheet; the current collection unit comprises a first current collection sheet, the first current collection sheet is used to electrically connect to the tab, and the first current collection sheet is provided with a first connection terminal that is connected to the first sheet.
US11177538B2	Wiring module and power storage module The reliability of electrical connection between electrode terminals of power storage devices and bus bars can be improved. A bent portion that is provided on each bus bar is formed at a position shifted in the left-right direction from an intermediate position between one contact portion of two contact portions of the bus bar and the other contact portion positioned next to the one contact portion. In a bus bar housing portion, a beam portion on which a corresponding bus bar is placed is formed extending in the front-rear direction. Each beam portion is formed at a position shifted in the left-right direction from the bent portion in a state where the bus bar is housed in the bus bar housing portion.
US11177536B2	Separator with reduced ignition phenomenon upon battery perforation and battery including the same Disclosed is a separator which includes a porous polymer substrate including a polymer showing a variation in phase angle represented by the following Formula 1 at 0.1 Hz depending on an increase in temperature. An electrochemical device including the separator is also disclosed. Variation in phase angle at 0.1 Hz=[(Phase angle190−Phase angle280)/(Phase angle190)]×100≥0%, [Formula 1] wherein Phase angle190 means the phase angle of the porous polymer substrate at 0.1 Hz and 190° C., and Phase angle280 means the phase angle of the porous polymer substrate at 0.1 Hz and 280° C.
US11177535B2	Separator and non-aqueous electrolyte battery A non-aqueous electrolyte battery of the present invention includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and a non-aqueous electrolyte, and the separator contains polyphenylenesulfide fibers, aramid fibers, and cellulose fibers at ratios of 50 to 85 mass %, 10 to 30 mass %, and 5 to 35 mass %, respectively. This makes it possible to provide a non-aqueous electrolyte battery with characteristics that are less likely to deteriorate under a high-temperature environment and in which few defects occur during assembly.
US11177534B2	Binder composition for non-aqueous secondary battery porous membrane, slurry composition for non-aqueous secondary battery porous membrane, porous membrane for non-aqueous secondary battery, and non-aqueous secondary battery Disclosed is a binder composition for a non-aqueous secondary battery porous membrane which comprises: a particulate polymer; a sulfosuccinic acid ester and/or a salt thereof; and water, wherein the particulate polymer has a surface acid amount S of 0.05 mmol/g or more and 0.50 mmol/g or less, and a ratio L/S which is a ratio of an acid amount L in a liquid phase of the binder composition to the surface acid amount S is 0.1 or more and 0.2 or less.
US11177532B2	Pouch-type secondary battery having gas discharge means A pouch-type secondary battery includes an electrode assembly including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween, a pouch-type case configured to wrap around the electrode assembly, a first pair of insulative films disposed in a predetermined region of an edge of the pouch-type case, a positive electrode lead, one side of which is electrically connected to a positive electrode current collector of the electrode assembly and another side of which protrudes out of the case between the first films, a second pair of insulative films disposed in a predetermined region of the edge of the pouch-type case, a negative electrode lead, one side of which is electrically connected to a negative electrode current collector of the electrode assembly and another side of which protrudes out of the case between the second films, and a gas discharge member interposed between the first or second films.
US11177529B2	Battery container device, battery device, and method of removing battery A battery container device includes a battery container that removably contains a battery that supplies power to a driver, and a stopper member provided at a removal port for the battery in the battery container. In the battery container device, the stopper member includes an opening part that allows a first wheel provided on the removal port side in the battery to pass through the removal port during removal of the battery from the battery container, and a restrictor that restricts a second wheel provided on a side opposite to the removal port in the battery from passing through the removal port during removal of the battery from the battery container.
US11177527B2	Battery lower casing and battery system The disclosure relates to a battery lower casing and a battery system. The battery lower casing includes: a bottom plate; a plurality of fixing beams sequentially connected end to end and fixed to the bottom plate; a cross beam disposed between the oppositely disposed fixing beams; and a supporting bracket including a base plate and limiting portions, wherein the limiting portions are connected to the base plate and disposed opposite to each other, the base plate and the oppositely disposed limiting portions enclose and form a recess, the base plate is connected to the fixing beam and an end portion of the cross beam adjacent to the fixing beam is embedded in the recess such that the cross beam is connected to the fixing beam.
US11177520B2	Modular battery pack system with multi-voltage bus A method and system provide a plurality of power cell modules. The power cell modules can be stacked together such that they are electrically connected and share a collective multi-voltage bus. Electronic appliances can be connected to one of the power cell modules to be powered by all of the connected power cell modules. Power cell modules can be easily added or removed from the bank without interrupting the supply of power to the electronic appliance.
US11177519B2	Secondary battery A secondary battery comprises an electrode assembly comprising radical units in which first and second electrodes are alternately laminated with a separator therebetween and a separation film surrounding the radical units to be repeatedly laminated, wherein the electrode assembly comprises a protection unit laminated on an outermost separation film disposed on the uppermost end or lowermost end of the separation film, the protection unit has a structure comprising a second protection electrode, a separator, and a first protection electrode which are successively laminated from the outermost separation film disposed on the uppermost end or lowermost end of the electrode assembly, the second protection electrode has a cross-sectional coating structure comprising a second collector and a second electrode active material portion coated with a second electrode active material on an inner surface of the second collector, and the inner surface is a surface facing a center of the electrode assembly.
US11177516B2	Thermal event mitigation for battery packs This disclosure relates to thermal event mitigation for battery packs of electrified vehicles. An example electrified vehicle includes a battery assembly with an enclosure assembly surrounding at least one battery array and a bag configured to selectively release nitrogen. The electrified vehicle further includes a controller configured to issue a plurality of corrective action commands in response to a detected thermal event. One of the corrective action commands includes instructing the bag to generate and release nitrogen within the enclosure assembly. Among other benefits, which will be appreciated from the below description, the disclosed arrangement promptly mitigates a thermal event of the battery assembly and takes additional corrective actions, such as providing various prompts and status indicators to the user.
US11177513B2	Rechargeable lithium-ion cell A rechargeable lithium-ion cell has a cell capacity and includes a positive electrode having a recharged potential and a negative electrode. The rechargeable lithium-ion cell also includes a charge-carrying electrolyte. The charge-carrying electrolyte includes a charge-carrying medium and a lithium salt. The rechargeable lithium-ion cell also includes a redox shuttle having the following structure Formula (I).
US11177510B2	Electrode assembly of novel structure and battery cell comprising the same Disclosed herein is an electrode assembly configured to have a structure in which a bi-cell and two or more monocells are folded in a state in which the bi-cell and the two or more monocells are arranged on a continuous separation film. The bi-cell includes electrodes in the form of at least one cathode and at least one anode stacked so that a separator is disposed between the cathode and the anode, the bi-cell having a first dimension in a first direction substantially equal to w. The two or more monocells each include electrodes in the form of at least one cathode and at least one anode stacked so that a separator is disposed between the cathode and the anode, each cathode and each anode of each monocell having a first dimension in the first direction substantially equal to 2 times the first dimension w of the bi-cell.
US11177509B2	Electrolytes for a metal-ion battery cell with high-capacity, micron-scale, volume-changing anode particles In an embodiment, a metal-ion battery cell comprises an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, a separator, and electrolyte ionically coupling the anode electrode and the cathode electrode. The anode electrode is a high-capacity electrode (e.g., in the range of about 2 mAh/cm2 to about 10 mAh/cm2) and the cathode electrode comprises an intercalation-type active material including at least Li, one or more metals, and oxygen. The electrolyte includes a solvent composition having low-melting point (LMP) solvent(s) in the range from about 10 vol. % to about 95 vol. % of the solvent composition.
US11177507B2	Electrolyte for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery including the same Provided is an electrolyte for a secondary battery including a lithium salt, a nonaqueous organic solvent, and a cyclic phosphate compound represented by the following Chemical Formula 2: wherein R1 to R6 and R′ and R″ are independently of one another hydrogen or C1-C7 alkyl; L2 is —(CR7R8)n—; R7 and R8 are independently of each other hydrogen or C1-C7 alkyl; and n is an integer of 1 to 3. Also provided is a lithium secondary battery including the electrolyte.
US11177506B2	Non-aqueous electrolyte for lithium ion battery and lithium ion battery To address the existing problem of insufficient cycle performance and high-temperature storage performance of lithium ion battery electrolyte at high pressure, the disclosure provides a non-aqueous electrolyte for lithium ion battery. The non-aqueous electrolyte for lithium ion battery comprises a cyano-containing compound A and a compound B represented by formula I, The non-aqueous electrolyte for lithium ion battery provided by the disclosure contains both the cyano-containing compound A and the compound B, so that the lithium ion battery containing the non-aqueous electrolyte can have better cycle performance and high-temperature storage performance at high pressure.
US11177504B2	Method for fabricating a polymeric material for use in an energy storage apparatus, a polymeric material and an energy storage apparatus comprising thereof A method for fabricating a polymeric material for use in an energy storage apparatus, a polymeric material, and an energy storage apparatus including the polymeric material, where the polymeric material includes a polymer arranged to combine with a plurality of chemical ions so as to form an ion-conducting material, wherein the ion-conducting material is in solid-state.
US11177503B2	Garnet materials for Li secondary batteries and methods of making and using garnet materials Set forth herein are garnet material compositions, e.g., lithium-stuffed garnets and lithium-stuffed garnets doped with alumina, which are suitable for use as electrolytes and catholytes in solid state battery applications. Also set forth herein are lithium-stuffed garnet thin films having fine grains therein. Disclosed herein are novel and inventive methods of making and using lithium-stuffed garnets as catholytes, electrolytes and/or anolytes for all solid state lithium rechargeable batteries. Also disclosed herein are novel electrochemical devices which incorporate these garnet catholytes, electrolytes and/or anolytes. Also set forth herein are methods for preparing novel structures, including dense thin (<50 um) free standing membranes of an ionically conducting material for use as a catholyte, electrolyte, and, or, anolyte, in an electrochemical device, a battery component (positive or negative electrode materials), or a complete solid state electrochemical energy storage device. Also, the methods set forth herein disclose novel sintering techniques, e.g., for heating and/or field assisted (FAST) sintering, for solid state energy storage devices and the components thereof.
US11177502B2	Solid electrolyte for all solid-state lithium-ion battery and manufacturing method therefor The method for manufacturing a solid electrolyte using an LLZ material for a lithium-ion battery comprises the steps of: providing a starting material in which lanthanum nitrate [La(NO3)3.6H2O] and zirconium nitrate [ZrO(NO3)2.6H2O] are mixed at a mole ratio of 3:2; forming an aqueous solution by dissolving the starting material; forming a precipitate by putting ammonia, which is a complex agent, and sodium hydroxide, which adjusts the pH of a reactor, into the aqueous solution, mixing the same, and then co-precipitating the mixture; forming a primary precursor powder by cleaning, drying and pulverizing the precipitate; forming a secondary precursor powder by mixing lithium powder [LiOH.H2O] with the primary precursor powder and ball-milling the mixture so as to solidify the lithium; and forming a solid electrolyte powder by heat-treating the secondary precursor powder.
US11177498B1	Redox flow batteries, components for redox flow batteries and methods for manufacture thereof A redox flow battery includes a positive terminal, a negative terminal, and a solid state ionic conductive membrane on a macro porous support scaffold between the positive terminal and the negative terminal.
US11177492B2	Method for controlling fuel cell vehicle A method for controlling a fuel cell vehicle including a fuel cell to generate electric power via an electrochemical reaction between fuel gas and oxidant gas, the method includes determining whether the fuel cell vehicle is in a fuel supply state in which the fuel gas is supplied from an outside of the fuel cell vehicle into a fuel storage chamber via a filling lid box of the fuel cell vehicle. It is determined that the fuel gas does not leak, even if a fuel gas detector provided in the filling lid box detects the fuel gas when the fuel cell vehicle is in the fuel supply state.
US11177490B2	Fuel cell system and control method thereof A fuel cell system includes a nozzle for guiding a fuel gas injected from a first injector and a second injector to a diffuser. An injector control portion performs a first injection control mode when a fuel cell stack is in a first load state. When the fuel cell stack is in a second load state, the injector control portion switches between a second injection control mode and a third injection control mode depending on the circumstances.
US11177489B2	Centrifugal compressor with diffuser A centrifugal compressor includes a rotation shaft, a compressor impeller attached to one end of the rotation shaft, and a first wall surface and a second wall surface formed inside a housing so as to face each other in an axial direction. A diffuser is formed between the first wall surface and the second wall surface in the axial direction, and a wall portion separates the diffuser from an axial space inside the housing in which the rotation shaft extends. The wall portion includes at least one extraction hole that fluidly couples the diffuser to the axial spate and that is configured to extract a gas from the diffuser.
US11177488B2	System comprising a fuel-cell stack, and associated control method A fuel cell system comprises a stack of electrochemical cells forming a fuel cell with an ion-exchange polymer membrane and a fuel gas supply circuit connecting a fuel gas reservoir to the anode of the fuel cell, the system being characterized in that it comprises: a hydrogen purge valve (305) installed on the anode outlet of the stack, a receiver (310) of the purged hydrogen, and means for redirecting the purged hydrogen to the anode inlet of the fuel cell. There is also an associated control method.
US11177486B2	Gasket sealing material for fuel cells A gasket sealing material for a fuel cell comprising: at least 25% dry w/w chemically exfoliated vermiculite; and at least 15% dry w/w plate-like filler; wherein the plate-like filler has an average particle size of less than or equal to 10 μm. Gaskets, fuel cells, uses of the gasket and sealing material are also defined.
US11177484B2	Battery cathode, composition for battery cathode catalytic layer, and battery A battery cathode, a composition for a catalyst layer of a battery cathode, and a battery, each achieves excellent performance while using a non-platinum catalyst. The battery cathode includes a catalyst layer, wherein the catalyst layer contains a non-platinum catalyst, has a thickness of 15 μm or more, and has a conductance per 1 cm2 of an electrode area of more than 100 S and less than 350 S.
US11177483B2	Electrocatalyst composition comprising noble metal oxide supported on tin oxide The present invention relates to a catalyst composition, comprising tin oxide particles which are at least partially coated by a noble metal oxide layer, wherein the composition contains iridium and ruthenium in a total amount of from 10 wt % to 38 wt %, and all iridium and ruthenium is oxidized, —has a BET surface area of from 5 to 95 m2/g, and —has an electrical conductivity at 25° C. of at least 7 S/cm.
US11177481B2	Lithium secondary battery including nonaqueous electrolyte having lithium-ion conductivity A lithium secondary battery includes a positive electrode, negative electrode, a separator, and a nonaqueous electrolyte having lithium-ion conductivity. The positive electrode contains a positive electrode active material containing lithium. The negative electrode faces the positive electrode. The separator is disposed between the positive and negative electrodes. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector. The negative electrode current collector includes a layer having a first surface, and protrusions protruding from the first surface. The first surface is a surface on which lithium metal is deposited during charge. The protrusions do not divide the first surface into parts.
US11177479B2	Current collector, electrode plate including the same and electrochemical device The present disclosure relates to the field of battery and, in particular, relates to a current collector, an electrode plate including the current collector, and an electrochemical device. The current collector of the present disclosure includes an insulation layer and a conductive layer. The insulation layer is used to support the conductive layer. The conductive layer is used to support an electrode active material layer and is located on at least one surface of the insulation layer. The insulation layer has a density smaller than that of the conductive layer. The insulation layer has a thickness of D1 satisfying 1 μm≤D1≤10 μm. The conductive layer has a thickness of D2 satisfying 200 nm≤D2≤1.5 μm. The insulation layer has a tensile strength greater than or equal to 150 MPa.
US11177474B2	Electrochemical cells with a high voltage cathode The present disclosure provides a rechargeable electrochemical cell including an electrolyte side, a cathode side, and a polymer/plasticizer. The electrolyte side includes a solid glass electrolyte including an electrolyte mobile cation and electric dipoles, as well as an anode including a metal of the electrolyte mobile cation and contacting the solid glass electrolyte at an anode: solid glass electrolyte interface. The cathode side includes a cathode including a cathode active material into which a cathode guest cation is reversibly extracted/inserted. The cathode active material has a voltage versus lithium (Li) metal of between 3V and 15V. The polymer/plasticizer contacts the solid glass electrolyte at a solid glass electrolyte:polymer/plasticizer interface and the cathode at a polymer/plasticizer:cathode interface such that the cathode guest cation is confined to the cathode side and the electrolyte mobile cation is confined to the anode side during charge and discharge of the electrochemical cell.
US11177472B2	Cathode of all-solid lithium battery and secondary battery using the same Disclose are a cathode of an all-solid lithium battery, and a secondary battery system using the same. The cathode includes a lithium composite, and a method of manufacturing the lithium composite comprises: dispersing a solid electrolyte to be uniformly distributed in the pores of a mesoporous conductor to provide a solid electrolyte composite, and coating the solid electrolyte composite on the surface of a lithium compound including nonmetallic solids such as S, Se, and Te.
US11177470B2	Composite coating systems and methods for lithium metal anodes in battery applications A battery structure with a cathode, an electrolyte, and a lithium metal anode is coated with a composite coating including a mixture of a polymer and a reinforcing fiber. The cathode and the lithium metal are held apart by a porous separator soaked with the electrolyte. The reinforcing fiber is dispersed in the polymer matrix. The composite coating is porous or non-porous. The composite coating conducts lithium ions. The reinforcing fiber is chemically functionalized.
US11177469B2	Cathode, electrochemical device and electronic device comprising the same The present application relates to a cathode, an electrochemical device and an electronic device comprising the same. The cathode comprises: a cathode current collector; a first cathode active material layer, comprising a first cathode active material; and a second cathode active material layer, comprising a second cathode active material, wherein the first cathode active material layer is disposed between the cathode current collector and the second cathode active material layer, and the first cathode active material layer is formed on at least one surface of the cathode current collector; and wherein the second cathode active material is embedded in the first cathode active material layer and forms a continuous transition layer with the first cathode active material at an interface between the first cathode active material layer and the second cathode active material layer. The technique of firstly coating two active material layers and then performing cold pressing together is adopted to lower the probability of separation of the first cathode active material layer and the second cathode active material layer, thereby enhancing the safety performance of the electrochemical device.
US11177467B2	Electrodes, electrochemical cells, and methods of forming electrodes and electrochemical cells Electrodes and methods of forming electrodes are described herein. The electrode can be an electrode of an electrochemical cell or battery. The electrode includes a current collector and a film in electrical communication with the current collector. The film may include a carbon phase that holds the film together. The electrode further includes an electrode attachment substance that adheres the film to the current collector.
US11177459B2	Light-emitting element encapsulation structure, method for fabricating the same and display panel Disclosed are a light-emitting element encapsulation structure, a method for fabricating the same, and a display panel, and the light-emitting element encapsulation structure includes: a first substrate; a second substrate arranged opposite to the first substrate; a light-emitting element located on the side of the second substrate facing the first substrate; an encapsulation layer made of a water-absorbent material, and filled in edge areas of the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein a hermetic space is defined by the encapsulation layer, the first substrate, and the second substrate, and the light-emitting element is located in the hermetic space; and a filler; the hermetic space is full of the filler except for an area occupied by the light-emitting element.
US11177457B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus includes a substrate, an element layer, a protective film, a mechanical member, a first adhesive layer and a second adhesive layer. An opening of the protective film is located between a first portion of the protective film and a second portion of the protective film. The first portion of the protective film, the second portion of the protective film and the opening of the protective film are respectively overlapped with a first portion of the substrate, a second portion of the substrate and a third portion of the substrate. The first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer are respectively disposed on a first surface and a second surface of the mechanical member. The third portion of the substrate is connected between the first portion of the substrate and the second portion of the substrate, and the third portion of the substrate is bent.
US11177454B2	Display apparatus Provided is a window of a display apparatus. The window includes a front surface part including first short sides extending in a first direction to face each other in a second direction crossing the first direction, first long sides extending in the second direction to face each other in the first direction, and first rounded portions respectively extending from both sides of the first long sides and respectively connected to both sides of the first short sides disposed adjacent to the first long sides, side surface parts respectively extending from the first long sides and bent in a third direction crossing a plane parallel to the first and second directions, and a rear surface part extending from one of the side surface parts to face the front surface part.
US11177448B2	Flexible display device and manufacturing method The present disclosure provides a flexible display device and a manufacturing method. The manufacturing method includes: forming a layer of flexible display devices on a support plate; etching the layer of flexible display devices on the support plate to expose a portion of the support plate at a cutting region, the cutting region being a predetermined region between two adjacent flexible display devices; and removing the layer of flexible display devices from the support plate after the etching process so as to obtain a plurality of flexible display devices separated from each other.
US11177447B2	Flexible display and manufacturing method thereof A method for manufacturing a flexible display includes forming a coating film. Forming the coating film includes depositing a high rigidity material layer on a substrate and forming a transfer layer on the high rigidity material layer. The coating film is bonded to a display surface of a display panel by the transfer layer. The substrate is removed after the coating film is bonded to the display surface of the display panel.
US11177446B2	Silicon containing organic fluorescent materials Novel silicon containing compounds for organic electroluminescent devices is disclosed. The compounds can be used as emitters in the emissive layer of the organic electroluminescent device. More specifically, these compounds can emit blue light. The devices incorporating these compounds as emitters show unexpecting higher efficiency and longer lifetime than prior art compounds. Also disclosed is an organic electroluminescent device and a formulation.
US11177443B2	Compound and light emitting diode including same A light emitting diode according to the present invention comprises: a first electrode; an organic layer provided on the first electrode; a light emitting layer provided on the organic layer; an electron transport layer provided on the light emitting layer; and a second electrode provided on the electron transport layer, wherein the organic layer includes a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1. In Chemical Formula 1, below, Ar1, Ar2, Ar3, L1, L2, L3 and Y are as defined in the present specification.
US11177437B2	Alignment through topography on intermediate component for memory device patterning An intermediate semiconductor device structure includes a first area including a memory stack area and a second area including an alignment mark area. The intermediate structure includes a metal interconnect arranged on a substrate in the first area and a first electrode layer arranged on the metal interconnect in the first area, and in the second area. The intermediate structure includes an alignment assisting marker arranged in the second area. The intermediate structure includes a dielectric layer and a second electrode layer arranged on the alignment assisting marker in the second area and on the metal interconnect in the first area. The intermediate structure includes a hard mask layer arranged on the second electrode area. The hard mask layer provides a raised area of topography over the alignment assisting marker. The intermediate structure includes a resist arranged on the hard mask layer in the first area.
US11177436B2	Resistive memory with embedded metal oxide fin for gradual switching A method is presented for enabling heat dissipation in resistive random access memory (RRAM) devices. The method includes forming a first thermal conducting layer over a bottom electrode, depositing a metal oxide liner over the first thermal conducting layer, forming a second thermal conducting layer over the metal oxide liner, recessing the second thermal conducting layer to expose the first thermal conducting layer, and forming a top electrode in direct contact with the first and second thermal conducting layers.
US11177435B2	Cross-point memory-selector composite pillar stack structures and methods of forming the same A via-level dielectric material layer is formed over a first dielectric material layer embedding a first conductive structure. A via cavity is formed through the via-level dielectric material layer. A least one straight sidewall vertically extends from a closed upper periphery of the via cavity at a top surface of the via-level dielectric material layer to a closed lower periphery of the via cavity that is adjoined to a top surface of the first conductive structure. A pillar stack structure is formed in the via cavity by sequentially forming a set of material portions containing a lower pillar structure and an upper pillar structure. The lower pillar structure and the upper pillar structure include a selector material pillar and a memory material pillar. A second conductive structure may be formed on a top surface of the pillar stack structure. The pillar stack structure may be used in an array configuration.
US11177429B2	Vibrator element, vibrator, oscillator, electronic apparatus, and vehicle A vibrator element includes a substrate that performs thickness-shear vibration, wherein an outer shape of the substrate in a plan view has a first side and a second side arranged in a first direction along a direction of the thickness-shear vibration and extending along a second direction crossing the first direction, a third side and a fourth side arranged in the second direction and extending in the first direction, a first connecting portion connecting the first side and the third side, and a second connecting portion connecting the first side and the fourth side, the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion are located inside of a region surrounded by the first side, the second side, the third side, the fourth side, and extension lines of these sides in the plan view, and the substrate has broken-off portions projecting from the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion.
US11177427B2	Fabrication of magnetic nanowire for Majorana qubits According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for fabricating a Majorana fermion structure includes providing a substrate, and depositing a superconducting material on the substrate. The method includes depositing a magnetic material on the superconducting material using angled deposition through a mask. The method includes annealing the magnetic material and the superconducting material to form a magnetic nanowire partially embedded in the superconducting material such that the magnetic nanowire and the superconducting material form a Majorana fermion structure.
US11177426B2	Low-temperature high-performance thermoelectric material and preparation method thereof A low-temperature high-performance thermoelectric material possesses a chemical formula of (AgyCu2−y)1−xTe1−zSez, wherein −0.025≤x≤0.075, 0.6≤y≤1.4, 0
US11177425B2	Driving backplane, method for manufacturing the same, and display device The present disclosure provides a driving backplane, a method for manufacturing the same, and a display device. The driving backplane includes: a substrate; and a bonding layer located on a side of the substrate and configured to bond with a plurality of Micro LEDs arranged in an array, wherein the bonding layer comprises a bonding metal layer and a conductive protection layer that are stacked sequentially along a direction away from the substrate, an orthographic projection of the conductive protection layer on the substrate substantially coinciding with an orthographic projection of the bonding metal layer on the substrate.
US11177424B2	Dual in-line package LED device A dual in-line package (DIP) light emitting diode (LED) device includes a molded member, a positive lead passing through and fixed to the molded member, the positive lead comprising an upper end and lower end, a negative lead passing through and fixed to the molded member, the negative lead comprising an upper end and lower end, and at least one LED body connected to the top ends of the positive lead and the negative lead. The lower ends of the positive lead and the negative lead are flush with each other. The top end of the positive lead is higher than the top end of the negative lead. The positive lead and the negative lead are both bent at the top ends thereof.
US11177423B2	Light emitting device Provided is a light-emitting device wherein short-wavelength light included in emitted white light is attenuated with a small increase in manufacturing cost and a small decrease in luminous flux. The light-emitting device includes a mount board, LED elements mounted on the mount board and emitting first light which is blue light or has a shorter wavelength than blue light, and a sealing resin containing phosphor particles and titanium-dioxide particles and filled on the mount board to integrally seal the LED elements, the phosphor particles being excited by the first light to emit second light. The first light and the second light are mixed and emitted as white light, and transmitting through the sealing resin causes the first light to be attenuated more than the second light by the titanium-dioxide particles.
US11177421B2	Optoelectronic component An optoelectronic component includes an optoelectronic semiconductor chip including a connection surface; a first potting body; and a second potting body, wherein the first potting body covers all lateral side surfaces and the top surface of the semiconductor chip, the first potting body has a bottom surface flush with the connection surface, the second potting body has a bottom surface flush with the bottom surface, the second potting body completely covers all side surfaces of the first potting body facing away from the semiconductor chip, a top surface of the second potting body on the opposite of the connection surface is convexly curved, the first and second potting bodies have a contour in a lateral plane that is not similar, and the optoelectronic semiconductor chip has exclusively on its connection surface exposed electrical contact surfaces via which the semiconductor chip is electrically connectable and operable.
US11177417B2	Light emitting device including phosphor layer with protrusions and recesses and method for manufacturing same A method for manufacturing a light emitting device includes: providing a wafer that includes, successively from an upper face side, an electrode structure that includes multilayer wiring, a semiconductor layer electrically connected to the electrode structure, and a growth substrate; bonding the wafer to a support substrate; exposing the semiconductor layer by removing the growth substrate from the wafer; separating the semiconductor layer into a plurality of light emitting elements, which comprises forming grooves on a semiconductor layer side surface of the wafer; and forming a phosphor layer having protrusions and recesses at a surface thereof such that the phosphor layer covers surfaces of the light emitting elements, which comprises: forming a coating film on surfaces of the light emitting elements by applying a slurry comprising phosphor particles contained in a solvent, and vaporizing the solvent in the coating film to form the phosphor layer.
US11177416B2	Optoelectronic component, a module having at least two optoelectronic components, and a method for producing an optoelectronic component An optoelectronic component may include at least one semiconductor chip for emitting electromagnetic radiation, a conversion element, and an optical element. The conversion element may at least partially convert primary radiation emitted by the semiconductor chip(s) into secondary radiation where the conversion element is arranged downstream of the semiconductor chip(s) in the emission direction and is arranged on the semiconductor chip(s). The optical element may be arranged downstream of the conversion element in the emission direction and where the conversion element is subdivided into individual portions.
US11177414B2	Optoelectronic component and method for producing an optoelectronic component An optoelectronic component may include a semiconductor body and a radiation transmissive bonding layer. The semiconductor body may include a first region of a first conductivity type, a second region of a second conductivity type, and an active region. The active region may be disposed between the first region and the second region. The first region may include a recess and a contact region adjacent to the recess. The active region may be arranged to emit electromagnetic radiation. The semiconductor body may have a first radiation exit surface at a main surface of the second region remote from the active region, and a portion of the electromagnetic radiation may exit the semiconductor body through the first radiation exit surface. The semiconductor body may include a first electrical connection layer and a second electrical connection layer where the second electrical connection layer is arranged at least partially in the recess.
US11177413B2	Passivation covered light emitting unit stack A light emitting diode pixel for a display including a substrate, a first LED sub-unit disposed on the substrate, a second LED sub-unit disposed on the first LED sub-unit, a third LED sub-unit disposed on at least one of the first and second LED sub-units, and vias formed in the substrate, in which each of the first to third LED sub-units comprises a first conductivity type semiconductor layer and a second conductivity type semiconductor layer, and each of the vias is electrically connected to at least one of the first, second, and third LED sub-units.
US11177411B2	Photosensitive field-effect transistor A photosensitive field-effect transistor comprising a substrate with a source electrode, a drain electrode and a gate electrode. The transistor comprises a photoactive layer which at least partly covers the gate electrode, and a channel layer which covers the photoactive layer and at least partly covers both the source electrode and the drain electrode. The channel layer comprises a two-dimensional material whose conductivity is modulated by charge carriers transferred from the photoactive layer when electromagnetic radiation is absorbed in the photoactive layer.
US11177409B2	On-chip integration of MMIC and single photon detectors A photon detection device and method of fabricating a photon detection device are provided. The photon detection device comprises a first input terminal for receiving a DC input voltage, a second input terminal for receiving an AC input voltage and a bias tee connected to the first and second input terminals and configured to combine the AC and DC input voltages to form a combined voltage on an output of the bias tee. A first single photon detector is connected to the output of the bias tee and configured to receive the combined voltage from the bias tee, register a detection signal based on only a single photon being incident on the first single photon detector and output the detection signal indicative of the detected photon. A first output terminal is connected to an output of the first single photon detector for outputting the detection signal. The photon detection device is formed in a single integrated circuit.
US11177406B2	Solar cell and solar cell module using the same A solar cell and a solar cell module are disclosed. The solar cell module includes a plurality of solar cells each including a semiconductor substrate and first and second electrodes on the semiconductor substrate, the first and second electrodes being alternately positioned in a first direction and extended in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a first conductive line extended in the first direction to intersect the first and second electrodes, connected to the first electrode by a first conductive layer, and insulated from the second electrode by an insulating layer, and a second conductive line positioned in parallel with the first conductive line, connected to the second electrode by the first conductive layer, and insulated from the first electrode by the insulating layer.
US11177402B2	Light scattering structures for thin-film solar cells and methods of making the same The present disclosure relates to a method that includes contacting a surface of a first layer that includes a Group III element and a Group V element with a gas that includes HCl, where the first layer is positioned in thermal contact with a wafer positioned in a chamber of a reactor, and the contacting results in a roughening of the surface.
US11177401B2	System and method for illuminating a sample and collecting light reflected from the sample A scanning system can include an illuminator, configured to produce an illuminating beam, and a fixation unit, configured to mechanically support a sample to be measured within the illuminating beam. The illuminating beam can reflect off the sample to produce reflected light. The system can further include a sensor, positioned angularly away from the illuminator, configured to receive the reflected light. The illuminating beam can include a wavelength spectrum having a FWHM less than 100 nm. In some examples, the fixation unit can be positioned based, in part, on a position of the illuminator and the sensor. In some examples, the sensor can include at least one imaging element that produces an image of the sample. In some examples, the illuminating beam can include a calibration pattern. In some examples, the illuminating beam and the reflected light can be angularly separated between ten degrees and fifteen degrees.
US11177396B2	Window-integrated photovoltaic devices The present disclosure relates to a device that includes a perovskite layer, a first charge-transport layer, and an adhesion layer, where the adhesion layer is positioned between the charge transport layer and the perovskite layer, the adhesion layer forms a first bond with the charge transport layer, and the adhesion layer forms a second bond with the perovskite layer.
US11177393B2	Semiconductor device with dual types of zero cost embedded memory An integrated circuit includes two different types of embedded memories, with cells that have different retention characteristics, and situated in different areas of the substrate. In some applications the cells are both non-volatile memories sharing a common gate layer but with different oxide layers, different thicknesses, etc. The first type of cell is a conventional flash cell which can be part of a logic/memory region, while the second type of cell uses capacitive coupling and can be located in a high voltage region. Because of their common features, the need for additional masks, manufacturing steps, etc. can be mitigated.
US11177388B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes thin film transistors each having an oxide semiconductor. The oxide semiconductor has a channel region, a drain region, a source region, and low concentration regions which are lower in impurity concentration than the drain region and the source region. The low concentration regions are located between the channel region and the drain region, and between the channel region and the source region. Each of the thin film transistors has a gate insulating film on the channel region and the low concentration regions, an aluminum oxide film on a first part of the gate insulating film, the first part being located on the channel region, and a gate electrode on the aluminum oxide film and a second part of the gate insulating film, the second part being located on the low concentration regions.
US11177387B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device includes channel layers disposed over a substrate, a source/drain region disposed over the substrate, a gate dielectric layer disposed on and wrapping each of the channel layers, and a gate electrode layer disposed on the gate dielectric layer and wrapping each of the channel layers. Each of the channel layers includes a semiconductor wire made of a first semiconductor material. The semiconductor wire extends into the source/drain region. The semiconductor wire in the source/drain regions is wrapped around by a second semiconductor material.
US11177384B2	Method of forming a semiconductor device A method of making a semiconductor device includes depositing an isolation region between adjacent fins of a plurality of fins over a substrate, wherein a top-most surface of the isolation region is a first distance from a bottom of the substrate. The method further includes doping each of the plurality of fins with a first dopant having a first dopant type to define a first doped region in each of the plurality of fins, wherein a bottom-most surface of the first doped region is a second distance from the bottom of the substrate, and the second distance is greater than the first distance. The method further includes doping each of the plurality of fins with a second dopant having a second dopant type to define a second doped region in each of the plurality of fins, wherein the second doped region contacts the isolation region.
US11177383B2	Semiconductor device structure and method for forming the same A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a substrate having a base and a fin over the base. The semiconductor device structure includes a gate stack wrapping around a first upper portion of the fin. The semiconductor device structure includes a first stressor and a second stressor respectively over opposite first sides of the fin. The semiconductor device structure includes a spacer structure between the gate stack and the first stressor. The semiconductor device structure includes a first spacer layer covering a sidewall of the gate stack, the spacer structure, and the first stressor. The semiconductor device structure includes a dielectric layer over the first spacer layer. The semiconductor device structure includes an etch stop layer between the first spacer layer and the dielectric layer. The semiconductor device structure includes a seal structure between the second upper portion and the third upper portion.
US11177380B2	Silicon carbide semiconductor component A drift structure having a drift zone of a first conductivity type is formed in a SiC semiconductor body of a semiconductor component. Transistor cells each include a doping region and a source region in the SiC semiconductor body. The doping region forms a first pn junction with the drift structure and a second pn junction with the source region. The doping region is electrically connected to a first load electrode. A diode region is formed between the transistor cells and a side surface of the SiC semiconductor body. The diode region is electrically connected to the first load electrode and forms a third pn junction with the drift structure. An emitter efficiency of the diode region is higher than an emitter efficiency of the doping region.
US11177379B2	Gate-sinking pHEMTs having extremely uniform pinch-off/threshold voltage A gate-sinking pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor comprises a compound semiconductor substrate overlaid with an epitaxial structure which includes sequentially a buffer layer, a channel layer, a Schottky layer, and a first cap layer. The Schottky layer comprises from bottom to top at least two stacked regions of semiconductor material. Each of the two adjacent stacked regions differs in material from the other and provides a stacked region contact interface therebetween. In any two adjacent stacked regions of the Schottky layer, one stacked region composed of AlGaAs-based semiconductor material alternates with the other stacked region composed of InGaP-based semiconductor material. A gate-sinking region is beneath the first gate metal layer of the gate electrode, and the bottom boundary of the gate-sinking region is located at the one of the at least one stacked region contact interface of the Schottky layer.
US11177377B2	Semiconductive device with mesa structure and method of fabricating the same A mesa structure includes a substrate. A mesa protrudes out of the substrate. The mesa includes a slope and a top surface. The slope surrounds the top surface. A lattice damage area is disposed at inner side of the slope. The mesa can optionally further includes an insulating layer covering the lattice damage area. The insulating layer includes an oxide layer or a nitride layer.
US11177374B1	Heterojunction bipolar transistor and method for forming the same A heterojunction bipolar transistor includes an emitter layer on a base layer on a collector layer on an upper sub-collector layer over a bottom sub-collector layer, a first dielectric film over the bottom sub-collector layer, the base layer and the emitter layer, a base electrode on the first dielectric film, electrically connected to the base layer through at least one first via hole in the first dielectric film, a second dielectric film on the first dielectric film and the base electrode, and a conductive layer on the second dielectric film, with conductive layer electrically connected to base electrode through a second via hole disposed in the second dielectric film, first dielectric film between the base electrode and first sidewall of a stack including the base layer and the collector layer, and second via hole laterally separated from the base layer.
US11177372B2	Stacked vertical transport field effect transistor electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) devices A vertically stacked set of an n-type vertical transport field effect transistor (n-type VT FET) and a p-type vertical transport field effect transistor (p-type VT FET) is provided. The vertically stacked set of the n-type VT FET and the p-type VT FET includes a first bottom source/drain layer on a substrate, that has a first conductivity type, a lower channel pillar on the first bottom source/drain layer, and a first top source/drain on the lower channel pillar, that has the first conductivity type. The vertically stacked set of the n-type VT FET and the p-type VT FET further includes a second bottom source/drain on the first top source/drain, that has a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type, an upper channel pillar on the second bottom source/drain, and a second top source/drain on the upper channel pillar, that has the second conductivity type.
US11177370B2	Vertical field effect transistor with self-aligned source and drain top junction A semiconductor structure, and a method for forming the same includes an amorphous semiconductor layer in contact with a top surface of a channel fin extending vertically from a bottom source/drain located above a substrate. A hard mask memorization layer is formed directly above the amorphous semiconductor layer, portions of the amorphous semiconductor layer in contact with the top surface of the channel fin are recrystallized forming recrystallized regions. The amorphous semiconductor layer is selective removed and a second dielectric layer is deposited to form a top spacer. The hard mask memorization layer and the recrystallized regions are removed, and a first epitaxial region is formed above the channel fin followed by a second epitaxial region positioned above the first epitaxial region and between the second dielectric layer forming a top source/drain of the semiconductor structure.
US11177362B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device including: a substrate that includes a first active region and a second active region; a first source/drain pattern on the first active region; a second source/drain pattern on the second active region; a separation dielectric pattern on the substrate between the first source/drain pattern and the second source/drain pattern; and a first contact pattern on the first source/drain pattern, wherein the first contact pattern includes: a first metal pattern; a first barrier pattern between the first metal pattern and the first source/drain pattern; and a second barrier pattern between the first barrier pattern and the first source/drain pattern, wherein the first barrier pattern contacts the separation dielectric pattern and extends along a sidewall of the first metal pattern adjacent to the separation dielectric pattern.
US11177357B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor part, first and second electrodes and a control electrode. The semiconductor part is provided between the first and second electrode. The control electrode is provided in a trench between the semiconductor part and the second electrode. The semiconductor part includes first and second layers. Between the first layer of a first conductivity type and the second electrode, the second layer of a second conductivity type is provided. The second electrode includes first and second contact portions. The first contact portion extends into the second layer. The second contact portion contacts a surface of the semiconductor part. In the second layer, the first contact portion has a first width at a first position and a second width at a second position. The first position is positioned between the first electrode and the second position. The first width is larger than the second width.
US11177356B2	Thin film transistor, array substrate, display apparatus, and method of fabricating thin film transistor The present application discloses a thin film transistor. The thin film transistor includes a first source electrode and a first drain electrode spaced apart from each other; an active layer on the first source electrode and the first drain electrode, the active layer having a channel part between the first source electrode and the first drain electrode, a source electrode contact part in contact with the first source electrode, and a drain electrode contact part in contact with the first drain electrode; a second source electrode on a side of the source electrode contact part distal to the first source electrode, the second source electrode being electrically connected to the first source electrode; and a second drain electrode on a side of the drain electrode contact part distal to the first drain electrode, the second drain electrode being electrically connected to the first drain electrode.
US11177347B2	Heterojunction bipolar transistor The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to heterojunction bipolar transistors and methods of manufacture. The structure includes a collector region composed of semiconductor material; at least one marker layer over the collector region; a layer of doped semiconductor material which forms an extrinsic base and which is located above the at least one marker layer; a cavity formed in the layer of doped semiconductor material and extending at least to the at least one marker layer; an epitaxial intrinsic base layer of doped material located within the cavity; and an emitter material over the epitaxial intrinsic base layer and within an opening formed by sidewall spacer structures.
US11177345B1	Heterojunction bipolar transistor The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to heterojunction bipolar transistors and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a first semiconductor layer including a device region; a second semiconductor layer under the first semiconductor layer; a layer of conductive material between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer; at least one contact extending to and contacting the layer of conductive material; and a device in the device region above the layer of conductive material.
US11177341B2	Display device A display device includes a flexible substrate which includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface and includes, sequentially, a first portion in the display region, a second portion in the non-display region, a third portion bent in a direction opposite to a display surface, a fourth portion, a fifth portion bent in a direction toward the display surface, and a sixth portion; a plurality of signal wirings on the first surface at the second to sixth portions; and a plurality of first connection wirings on the second surface at the second portion, and the second portion overlaps with the fourth portion, the fifth portion, and the sixth portion, and the signal wirings and the first connection wirings are coupled to each other on the second surface at the second portion.
US11177335B2	Display device A display device includes a substrate including a display area and a peripheral area disposed outside of the display area. The display area includes a plurality of pixels. The display device further includes an inorganic insulating layer disposed in the display area. The inorganic insulating layer includes a groove disposed in a region between the plurality of pixels. The display device further includes an organic material layer filling the groove, a first connection wiring, and a second connection wiring. The first connection wiring is disposed on the organic material layer, overlaps the plurality of pixels, and extends in a second direction. The second connection wiring is insulated from the first connection wiring, and extends in a first direction that crosses the second direction.
US11177326B2	Method of patterning film, display device with patterned film and method for preparing the same A method of patterning a film, a display device and a method for preparing the same. The method of patterning a film includes preparing a magnetic substrate by forming a magnetic material pattern within a flexible substrate; disposing a film to be processed and a first rigid substrate opposite to and spaced apart from each other, and placing the magnetic substrate against a surface of the film to be processed at a side thereof facing away from the first rigid substrate; pushing a portion of the film to be processed corresponding to the magnetic material pattern to project towards and to attach onto the first rigid substrate, by the magnetic material pattern via a magnetic effect of a magnetic force of a magnetic field which is applied onto the magnetic substrate; and forming a patterned film on the first rigid substrate.
US11177323B2	Display device and manufacturing method thereof A display device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The display device includes a display panel and a photosensitive imaging device. The display panel includes a display side and a back side opposite to the display side, and the display panel further includes a filter layer disposed at the back side of the display panel. The photosensitive imaging device is stacked with the display panel and located at a side of the filter layer facing away from the display side, and the photosensitive imaging device is configured to detect a skin texture image of a user touching the display panel.
US11177322B2	Image sensor and method of fabricating thereof A color filter is disposed on a substrate. An organic photodiode is disposed on the color filter. The organic photodiode includes an electrode insulating layer having a recess region on the substrate, a first electrode on the color filter, the first electrode filling the recess region of the electrode insulating layer, a second electrode on the first electrode, and an organic photoelectric conversion layer interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The first electrode includes a seam extending at a first angle from a side surface of the recess region of the electrode insulating layer.
US11177320B2	Variable resistance memory device and method of fabricating the same Disclosed are variable resistance memory devices and methods of fabricating the same. The variable resistance memory device may include: a plurality of memory cells, each comprising a variable resistance pattern and a switching pattern; a plurality of conductive lines to which the memory cell is connected; a bottom electrode connecting at least one of the conductive lines to the variable resistance pattern; and a spacer pattern formed on the bottom electrode to be in contact with the variable resistance pattern. The spacer pattern includes a dielectric material doped with an impurity.
US11177318B2	Semiconductor package and method of forming the same Various embodiments may provide a semiconductor package. The semiconductor package may include a substrate including a via hole. The semiconductor package may also include a chip attached to the substrate. The semiconductor package may further include a prefabricated ferromagnetic pin having a first portion held by the via hole, a second portion extending from a first end of the first portion, and a third portion extending from a second end of the first portion opposite the first end. The semiconductor package may also include a first magnetic shield structure attached to or extended from the second portion of the prefabricated ferromagnetic pin. The semiconductor package may further include a second magnetic shield structure attached to or extended from the third portion of the prefabricated ferromagnetic pin, such that at least a portion of the chip is between the first magnetic shield structure and the second magnetic shield structure.
US11177314B2	Photoelectric conversion apparatus and image pickup system A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a plurality of units each including a charge generation region disposed in a semiconductor layer. Each of a first unit and a second unit of the plurality of units includes a charge storage region configured to store charges transferred thereto from the charge generation region, a dielectric region located above the charge generation region and surrounded by an insulator layer, and a first light-shielding layer covering the charge storage region that is located between the insulator layer and the semiconductor layer, and the first light-shielding layer having an opening located above the charge generation region. The charge generation region of the first unit is able to receive light through the opening of the first light-shielding layer. The charge generation region of the second unit is covered with a second light-shielding layer.
US11177312B2	Image sensor and image capture device A first circuit layer including a first semiconductor substrate with photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically converts incident light and generates charge, and a first wiring layer with wiring that reads out signal based upon charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit; second circuit layer including a second wiring layer with wiring connected to the wiring of the first wiring layer, and a second semiconductor substrate with a through electrode connected to the wiring of the second wiring layer; third circuit layer including a third semiconductor substrate with a through electrode connected to the through electrode of the second circuit layer, and third wiring layer with wiring connected to the through electrode of the third semiconductor substrate; and a fourth circuit layer including a fourth wiring layer with wiring connected to the wiring of the third wiring layer, and fourth semiconductor substrate connected to the wiring of the fourth wiring layer.
US11177311B2	Image sensor and image capture device An image sensor includes: a plurality of pixels having photoelectric conversion units that convert incident light to charges, and readout units; a first signal line, connected to the plurality of pixels, that outputs a first signal transferred to the readout unit based upon the charge converted by the photoelectric conversion unit; and a second signal line, connected to the plurality of pixels, that outputs a second signal after the readout unit has been reset.
US11177305B2	Method for fabricating image sensor A method includes depositing a first reflective layer over a substrate. A first dielectric layer is deposited over the first reflective layer. A second dielectric layer is deposited over the first dielectric layer. The second dielectric layer, the first dielectric layer, and the first reflective layer are etched to form a grid isolation structure that defines a recess. The recess is filled with a color filter.
US11177304B2	Method for forming light-sensing device A method for forming a light-sensing device is provided. The method includes forming a light-sensing region in a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate has a front surface and a light-receiving surface opposite to the front surface. The method also includes forming a first dielectric layer over the front surface and forming a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer. The second dielectric layer has a different refractive index than that of the first dielectric layer, and the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer together form a (or a part of a) light-reflective element. The method further includes partially removing the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer to form a contact opening. In addition, the method includes forming a conductive contact to partially (or completely) fill the contact opening.
US11177302B2	CMOS image sensor structure with microstructures formed on semiconductor layer A semiconductor device includes a device layer, a semiconductor layer, a sensor element, a dielectric layer, a color filter layer, and a micro-lens. The semiconductor layer is over the device layer. The semiconductor layer has a plurality of microstructures thereon. Each of the microstructures has a substantially triangular cross-section. The sensor element is under the microstructures of the semiconductor layer and is configured to sense incident light. The dielectric layer is over the microstructures of the semiconductor layer. The color filter layer is over the dielectric layer. The micro-lens is over the color filter layer.
US11177297B2	Array substrate and manufacturing method therefor, and display device An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a base substrate and a thin film transistor on the base substrate; a light shielding layer is disposed between the thin film transistor and the base substrate, and the light shielding layer includes a light shielding metal layer and a light reflection adjusting layer which are stacked on the base substrate, the light reflection adjusting layer covers the light shielding metal layer, and a reflectance of the light reflection adjusting layer is lower than a reflectance of the light shielding metal layer.
US11177293B2	Array substrate and fabricating method thereof, and display device A fabricating method of an array substrate includes: forming a first semiconductor pattern and a first insulating layer on a substrate; forming a first gate pattern and a second gate pattern isolated from each other; forming a second insulating layer; forming a second semiconductor pattern; forming a first metal pattern and a second metal pattern and a third metal pattern respectively lap-jointed with the second semiconductor pattern; forming a third insulating layer; and forming a first via hole, a second via hole, first source and drain electrodes, and second source and drain electrodes, where the first source and drain electrode are respectively connected to the first semiconductor pattern through the first via hole, and the second source and drain electrodes are respectively connected to the second semiconductor pattern through the second via hole.
US11177291B2	Displays with silicon and semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels on a substrate. The display pixels may be organic light-emitting diode display pixels or display pixels in a liquid crystal display. In an organic light-emitting diode display, hybrid thin-film transistor structures may be formed that include semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors, silicon thin-film transistors, and capacitor structures. The capacitor structures may overlap the semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors. Organic light-emitting diode display pixels may have combinations of oxide and silicon transistors. In a liquid crystal display, display driver circuitry may include silicon thin-film transistor circuitry and display pixels may be based on oxide thin-film transistors. A single layer or two different layers of gate metal may be used in forming silicon transistor gates and oxide transistor gates. A silicon transistor may have a gate that overlaps a floating gate structure.
US11177283B2	Electronic device and method of manufacturing the same Provided are an electronic device and a method of manufacturing the same. The electronic device may include a first device provided on a first region of a substrate; and a second device provided on a second region of the substrate, wherein the first device may include a first domain layer including a ferroelectric domain and a first gate electrode on the first domain layer, and the second device may include a second domain layer including a ferroelectric domain and a second gate electrode on the second domain layer. The first domain layer and the second domain layer may have different characteristics from each other at a polarization change according to an electric field. At the polarization change according to the electric field, the first domain layer may have substantially a non-hysteretic behavior characteristic and the second domain layer may have a hysteretic behavior characteristic.
US11177275B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same Provided herein are a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes an etch stop pattern having a top surface and a sidewall disposed over a gate stack having interlayer insulating layers alternately stacked with conductive patterns. The semiconductor device also includes a plurality of channel structures passing through the etch stop pattern and the gate stack. The semiconductor device further includes an insulating layer extending to cover the top surface and the sidewall of the etch stop pattern, wherein a depression is included in a sidewall of the insulating layer. The semiconductor device additionally includes a contact plug passing through the insulating layer so that the contact plug is coupled to a channel structure of the plurality of channel structures.
US11177273B2	Nonvolatile memory device including row decoder A nonvolatile memory device includes a substrate; a memory cell array formed on the substrate in a vertically stacked structure; and a row decoder configured to supply a row line voltage to the memory cell array, the row decoder including a plurality of pass transistors. The row line voltage is supplied through a plurality of row lines connecting the pass transistors to the memory cell array. Each of the row lines includes a wiring line parallel with a main surface of the substrate and a contact perpendicular to the main surface of the substrate. The wiring line of at least one row line among the row lines includes a plurality of conductive lines.
US11177272B2	Three-dimensional memory device and method for manufacturing the same A three-dimensional (3D) memory device is provided and includes a substrate, an alternating stack and a channel structure. The alternating stack is disposed on the substrate, and the alternating stack includes a plurality of conductive layers and a plurality of air gap layers alternately stacked. The channel structure is disposed on the substrate and extends vertically through the conductive layers and the air gap layers. The alternating stack further includes a plurality of etching stop blocks between the air gap layers and the channel structure.
US11177271B2	Device, a method used in forming a circuit structure, a method used in forming an array of elevationally-extending transistors and a circuit structure adjacent thereto A device comprises an array of elevationally-extending transistors and a circuit structure adjacent and electrically coupled to the elevationally-extending transistors of the array. The circuit structure comprises a stair step structure comprising vertically-alternating tiers comprising conductive steps that are at least partially elevationally separated from one another by insulative material. Operative conductive vias individually extend elevationally through one of the conductive steps at least to a bottom of the vertically-alternating tiers and individually electrically couple to an electronic component below the vertically-alternating tiers. Dummy structures individually extend elevationally through one of the conductive steps at least to the bottom of the vertically-alternating tiers. Methods are also disclosed.
US11177270B2	Three-dimensional memory device and method for forming the same Embodiments of a three-dimensional (3D) memory device are provided. A method for forming a 3D memory device is disclosed. A dielectric stack including interleaved sacrificial layers and dielectric layers is formed over a substrate. Channel holes and contact holes are formed through the dielectric stack. The contact holes extend vertically into the substrate and are each surrounded by channel holes of nominally equal lateral distances to the respective contact hole in a plan view. A channel structure is formed in each of the channel holes. A memory stack having interleaved conductive layers and dielectric layers is formed by replacing, through the contact holes, the sacrificial layers in the dielectric stack with the conductive layers. A spacer is formed along a sidewall of each of the contact holes to cover the conductive layers of the memory stack. A contact is formed over the spacer in each of the contact holes. The contact is electrically connected to a common source of the channel structures.
US11177266B2	Array of capacitors, an array of memory cells, a method of forming an array of capacitors, and a method of forming an array of memory cells A method of forming an array of capacitors comprises forming a vertical stack above a substrate. The stack comprises a horizontally-elongated conductive structure and an insulator material directly above the conductive structure. Horizontally-spaced openings are formed in the insulator material to the conductive structure. An upwardly-open container-shaped bottom capacitor electrode is formed in individual of the openings. The bottom capacitor electrode is directly against conductive material of the conductive structure. The conductive structure directly electrically couples the bottom capacitor electrodes together. A capacitor insulator is formed in the openings laterally-inward of the bottom capacitor electrodes. A top capacitor electrode is formed in individual of the openings laterally-inward of the capacitor insulator. The top capacitor electrodes are not directly electrically coupled together. Structure independent of method is disclosed.
US11177262B2	Semiconductor device or memory device A novel semiconductor device is provided. Alternatively a memory device which can retain more multi-level data is provided. One of a source or a drain of a write transistor is electrically connected to a bit line, and the other of the source or the drain of the write transistor is electrically connected to a data retaining portion. Data written to the data retaining portion is provided to the data retaining portion through a write bit line and the write transistor. Rising of a threshold voltage which is caused in a write operation can be inhibited and more multi-level data can be retained(stored) through electrically connecting a back gate of the write transistor to the write bit line.
US11177260B2	Semiconductor device having fin-type field effect transistor and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a first fin structure disposed on a substrate. The first fin structure extends in a first direction. A first sacrificial layer pattern is disposed on the first fin structure. The first sacrificial layer pattern includes a left portion and a right portion arranged in the first direction. A dielectric layer pattern is disposed on the first fin structure and interposed between the left and right portions of the first sacrificial layer pattern. A first active layer pattern extending in the first direction is disposed on the first sacrificial layer pattern and the dielectric layer pattern. A first gate electrode structure is disposed on a portion of the first active layer pattern. The portion of the first active layer is disposed on the dielectric layer pattern. The first gate electrode structure extends in a second direction crossing the first direction.
US11177250B2	Method for fabrication of high density logic and memory for advanced circuit architecture Techniques herein include methods for fabricating high density logic and memory for advanced circuit architecture. The methods can include forming multilayer stacks on separate substrates and forming bonding films over the multilayer stacks, then contacting and bonding the bonding films to form a combined structure including each of the multilayer stacks. The method can be repeated to form additional combinations. In between iterations, transistor devices may be formed from the combined structures. Ionized atom implantation can facilitate cleavage of a substrate destined for growth of additional multilayers, wherein an anneal weakens the substrate at a predetermined penetration depth of the ionized atom implantation.
US11177249B2	Semiconductor memory device and method of manufacturing the same The semiconductor memory device includes: a first substrate including a peripheral circuit, first conductive contact patterns connected to the peripheral circuit, and a first upper insulating layer having grooves exposing the first conductive contact patterns; a second substrate including a memory cell array, a second upper insulating layer disposed on the memory cell array, the second upper insulating layer formed between the memory cell array and the first upper insulating layer, second conductive contact patterns protruding through the second upper insulating layer into an opening of the grooves; and conductive adhesive patterns filling the grooves to connect the second conductive contact patterns to the first conductive contact patterns.
US11177248B2	Light-emitting component, display device and method for manufacturing a display device A light-emitting component may include an IC chip and an LED chip arranged on a top surface of the IC chip and electrically coupled thereto. The LED chip may be electrically controllable by means of the IC chip. The IC chip may have at least two electrical connecting surface on a bottom surface remote from the LED chip. The light-emitting component is electrically contactable and operable by means of the connecting surfaces.
US11177247B2	Display apparatus and manufacturing method thereof A display apparatus includes a driving substrate and a first light emitting diode element. The driving substrate has a plurality of driving structures. Each of the driving structures includes a first pad, a second pad, a third pad and a fourth pad. The plurality of driving structures include a first driving structure. The first light emitting diode element is electrically connected to a first pad and a second pad of the first driving structure, and the first light emitting diode element crosses a line connecting a third pad and a fourth pad of the first driving structure. A manufacturing method of the display apparatus is also provided.
US11177246B2	Photo-sensitive silicon package embedding self-powered electronic system A self-powered electronic system comprises a first chip of single-crystalline semiconductor embedded in a second chip of single-crystalline semiconductor shaped as a container bordered by ridges. The assembled chips are nested and form an electronic device assembled, in turn, in a slab of weakly p-doped low-grade silicon shaped as a container bordered by ridges. The flat side of the slab includes a heavily n-doped region forming a pn-junction with the p-type bulk. A metal-filled deep silicon via through the p-type ridge connects the n-region with the terminal on the ridge surface as cathode of the photovoltaic cell with the p-region as anode. The voltage across the pn-junction serves as power source of the device.
US11177238B2	Semiconductor structure A semiconductor structure includes a plurality of first dies, a second die disposed over each of the first dies, and a dielectric material surrounding the first dies and the second die. The second dies overlaps a portion of each of the first dies. A dimension of the second die is different from a dimension of the first dies.
US11177234B2	Package architecture with improved via drill process and method for forming such package Embodiments include a package substrate, a method of forming the package substrate, and a self-assembled monolayers (SAM) layer. The package substrate includes a SAM layer on portions of a conductive pad, where the SAM layer includes light-reflective moieties. The package substrate also includes a via on a surface portion of the conductive pad, and a dielectric on and around the via, the SAM layer, and the conductive pad, where the SAM layer surrounds and contacts a surface of the via. The SAM layer may be an interfacial organic layer. The light-reflective moieties may include a hemicyanine, a cyclic-hemicyanine, an oligothiophene, and/or a conjugated aromatic compound. The SAM layer may include a molecular structure having a first end group of a first monolayer, an intermediate group, a fifth end group of a second monolayer, and one or more of a first and second light-reflective moieties.
US11177231B2	Bonding contacts having capping layer and method for forming the same Embodiments of bonded semiconductor structures and fabrication methods thereof are disclosed. In an example, a semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor structure, a second semiconductor structure, and a bonding interface between the first and second semiconductor structures. The first semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a first device layer disposed on the substrate, and a first bonding layer disposed above the first device layer and including a first bonding contact. The second semiconductor structure includes a second device layer, and a second bonding layer disposed below the second device layer and including a second bonding contact. The first bonding contact is in contact with the second bonding contact at the bonding interface. At least one of the first bonding contact and the second bonding contact includes a capping layer at the bonding interface and having a conductive material different from a remainder of the respective first or second bonding contact.
US11177228B2	Semiconductor device and bump formation process A semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor substrate, a conductive pad over the semiconductor substrate, a conductive bump over the conductive pad, a conductive cap over the conductive bump, and a passivation layer over the semiconductor substrate and surrounding the conductive bump. A combination of the conductive bump and the conductive cap has a stepped sidewall profile. The passivation layer has an inner sidewall at least partially facing and spaced apart from an outer sidewall of the conductive bump.
US11177226B2	Flexible shield for semiconductor devices An electronic device and associated methods are disclosed. In one example, the electronic device includes a first device and a second device coupled to a surface of a substrate, and a continuous flexible shield woven over the first device and under the second device to separate the first device from the second device. In selected examples, the continuous flexible shield may be formed from a laminate and one or more of the devices may be coupled through an opening or via in the continuous flexible shield.
US11177224B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor device A flat plate frame is formed, which is flat plate-shaped, which has an opening penetrating its front and rear surfaces and groove terminal patterns formed on its front surface, and which contains a semi-cured thermosetting resin. Then, an insulating substrate is disposed on the rear surface so as to cover the opening of the flat plate frame, external connection terminals are disposed on the terminal patterns, and heating is carried out. As a result, a terminal package to which the insulating substrate and external connection terminals are firmly joined is produced using the flat plate frame. The external connection terminals included in the terminal package are reliably and firmly joined to the terminal package. Therefore, the external connection terminals are not displaced when wires are bonded to the external connection terminals.
US11177219B1	Photonic integrated circuit with integrated optical transceiver front-end circuitry for photonic devices and methods of fabricating the same Examples include a photonic device including a photonic integrated circuit (PIC), an optical transceiver (OTRx) front-end circuitry integrated with the PIC, an electronic integrated circuit (EIC) and an interposer. The PIC and the EIC are disposed on the interposer. The EIC is electrically interconnected to the OTRx front-end circuitry in the PIC. Some examples include a method of fabricating a photonic device.
US11177211B2	Method of manufacturing via structures of semiconductor devices A semiconductor device includes a plurality of lower conductive lines overlying a substrate and extending in a first direction, an insulating layer overlying the plurality of lower conductive lines, a plurality of upper conductive lines overlying the insulating layer and the first conductive lines and extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and a plurality of vias filled with a conductive material formed in the insulating layer. The plurality of upper conductive lines are arranged in the first direction with a first pitch. The plurality of vias includes first vias and second vias. At least one via of the first vias connects at least two lines of the plurality of lower conductive lines and one line of the plurality of upper conductive lines. An average width in the first direction of the first vias is different from an average width in the first direction of the second vias.
US11177207B2	Compact transistor utilizing shield structure arrangement A transistor includes a semiconductor substrate having a first terminal and a second terminal. An interconnect structure is formed on an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, the interconnect structure being formed of multiple layers of dielectric material and electrically conductive material. The electrically conductive material of the interconnect structure includes a pillar in electrical contact with the first terminal, a first runner electrically connected to the pillar, a tap interconnect in electrical contact with the second terminal, a second runner electrically connected to the tap interconnect, a shield structure positioned between the pillar and the tap interconnect, and a shield runner electrically connected to the shield structure, the shield runner overlying the second runner in a direction perpendicular to the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US11177195B2	Multi-lead adapter In some examples, a device comprises an electronic component having multiple electrical connectors, the multiple electrical connectors configured to couple to a printed circuit board (PCB) and having a first footprint. The device also comprises a multi-lead adapter comprising multiple rows of leads arranged in parallel, the leads in the rows configured to couple to the electrical connectors of the electronic component and having a second footprint that has a different size than the first footprint.
US11177194B2	Semiconductor device with interconnect structure and method for preparing the same A semiconductor device includes a conductive pattern disposed over a semiconductor substrate, and an interconnect structure disposed over the conductive pattern. The semiconductor device also includes an interconnect liner formed between the interconnect structure and the conductive pattern and surrounding the interconnect structure. The inner sidewall surfaces of the interconnect liner are in direct contact with the interconnect structure, and a maximum distance between outer sidewall surfaces of the interconnect liner is greater than a width of the conductive pattern. The semiconductor device further includes a semiconductor die bonded to the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor die includes a conductive pad facing the interconnect structure, wherein the conductive pad is electrically connected to the conductive pattern.
US11177193B2	Reservoir structure and system forming gap for liquid thermal interface material The disclosure describes a heat-dissipating object having a reservoir structure so that a reservoir system can be formed in an electronic device, allowing for a liquid TIM in the gap between the heat-dissipating object and the electronic device. The reservoir structure comprises a seal ring, a connecting hole and a reservoir which is a tube for taking in a liquid material and releasing it again when needed. A heat-dissipating object, including a heat sink, a cold plate and a vapor chamber and an electronic device, including a flip chip package and a lidded flip chip package are particularly described in details of the embodiments of the present invention.
US11177190B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device, including a first conductive portion including a first conducting region and a first wiring region communicating with the first conducting region via a first communicating portion, a second conductive portion including a second conducting region and a second wiring region that communicates with the second conducting region via a second communicating portion and that faces the first wiring region with a prescribed space therebetween, and a wiring member electrically connecting the first wiring region and the second wiring region in a wiring direction. The first communicating portion and the second communicating portion are separate from each other when viewed from the wiring direction.
US11177186B2	Bonded body and insulated circuit board A bonded body is formed by bonding a ceramic member formed of an Al-based ceramic and a copper member formed of copper or a copper alloy, in which, in a bonding layer formed between the ceramic member and the copper member, a crystalline active metal compound layer formed of a compound including an active metal is formed on a ceramic member side, and, the Al concentration is 0.15 at % or less in a thickness range of 0.5 μm to 3 μm from an interface of the active metal compound layer on a copper member side toward the copper member.
US11177177B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacture A semiconductor device and method for forming the semiconductor device are provided. A first layer is formed over a semiconductor layer, and a first patterned mask is formed over the first layer. A cyclic etch process is then performed to define a second patterned mask in the first layer. The cyclic etch process includes a first phase to form a polymer layer over the first patterned mask and a second phase to remove the polymer layer and to remove a portion of the first layer. A portion of the semiconductor layer is removed using the second patterned mask to define a fin from the semiconductor layer.
US11177175B2	Microelectronic devices and methods for filling vias in microelectronic devices Microelectronic devices and methods for filling vias and forming conductive interconnects in microfeature workpieces and dies are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes providing a microfeature workpiece having a plurality of dies and at least one passage extending through the microfeature workpiece from a first side of the microfeature workpiece to an opposite second side of the microfeature workpiece. The method can further include forming a conductive plug in the passage adjacent to the first side of the microelectronic workpiece, and depositing conductive material in the passage to at least generally fill the passage from the conductive plug to the second side of the microelectronic workpiece.
US11177171B2	Encapsulated top via interconnects Integrated chips and methods of forming the same include forming a lower conductive line over an underlying layer. An upper conductive via is formed over the lower conducting lines. An encapsulating layer is formed on the lower conductive line and the upper conductive via using a treatment process that converts an outermost layer of the lower conductive line and the upper conductive via into the encapsulating layer.
US11177167B2	Ultrathin multilayer metal alloy liner for nano Cu interconnects Compositions of matter, compounds, articles of manufacture and processes to reduce or substantially eliminate EM and/or stress migration, and/or TDDB in copper interconnects in microelectronic devices and circuits, especially a metal liner around copper interconnects comprise an ultra thin layer or layers of Mn alloys containing at least one of W and/or Co on the metal liner. This novel alloy provides EM and/or stress migration resistance, and/or TDDB resistance in these copper interconnects, comparable to thicker layers of other alloys found in substantially larger circuits and allows the miniaturization of the circuit without having to use thicker EM and/or TDDB resistant alloys previously used thereby enhancing the miniaturization, i.e., these novel alloy layers can be miniaturized along with the circuit and provide substantially the same EM and/or TDDB resistance as thicker layers of different alloy materials previously used that lose some of their EM and/or TDDB resistance when used as thinner layers.
US11177160B2	Double patterned lithography using spacer assisted cuts for patterning steps A method includes forming a dielectric layer on a semiconductor substrate, forming a first mandrel layer and a second mandrel layer on the dielectric layer and patterning the first mandrel layer and the second mandrel layer to form respective first and second patterns in the first and second mandrel layers. The first pattern includes a first line segment and a first wing segment. The first wing segment is filled with a first spacer material to form a first spacer. The method further includes removing exposed portions of the first and second mandrel layers, transferring an image of the first and second patterns, patterning the dielectric layer and depositing a metal into the patterned dielectric layer to form a metallic interconnect structure. The metallic interconnect structure includes first and second metallic lines with the second metallic line having a line break corresponding to the first spacer.
US11177158B2	Integrated circuit structure with semiconductor-based isolation structure and methods to form same Embodiments of the disclosure provide an integrated circuit (IC) structure, including a semiconductor-based isolation structure on a substrate. A shallow trench isolation (STI) structure may be positioned on the semiconductor-based isolation structure. An active semiconductor region is on the substrate and adjacent each of the semiconductor-based isolation structure and the STI structure. The active semiconductor region includes a doped semiconductor material. At least one device on the active semiconductor region may be horizontally distal to the STI structure.
US11177156B2	Semiconductor package, manufacturing method of semiconductor device and semiconductor package A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes the following steps. A semiconductor wafer having an active side and a back side opposite to the active side is provided. A plurality of conductive bumps are provided on the active side. A protection film is laminated on the active side, wherein the protection film includes a dielectric film covering the plurality of conductive bumps and a cover film covering the dielectric film. A thinning process is performed on the back side to form a thinned semiconductor wafer. The cover film is removed from the dielectric film. A singularization process is performed on the thinned semiconductor wafer with the dielectric film to form a plurality of semiconductor devices.
US11177149B2	Wafer jig with identification mark Disclosed herein is a wafer jig with an identification mark for use in inspecting the function of an identification mark reading mechanism for reading an identification mark on a device wafer. The wafer jig includes a wafer piece cut from a region of a device wafer where an identification mark is formed, and a circular plate having the same diameter as the device wafer. The wafer piece is fixed to the circular plate such that the identification mark on the wafer piece is positionally aligned with the identification mark on the device wafer.
US11177145B2	Apparatus and method for manufacturing plurality of electronic circuits A method of manufacturing a plurality of electronic circuits is disclosed. Each electronic circuit comprises a respective first portion, comprising a respective group of contact pads, and a respective integrated circuit, IC, comprising a respective group of terminals and mounted on the respective group of contact pads with each terminal in electrical contact with a respective contact pad. The method comprises: providing a first structure comprising the plurality of first portions; providing a second structure comprising the plurality of ICs and a common support arranged to support the plurality of ICs; transferring said ICs from the common support onto a first roller having a removable surface portion; and transferring said ICs from the first roller onto the first structure such that each group of terminals is mounted on a respective group of contact pads.
US11177138B2	Double patterning method The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to a method of forming an integrated circuit. The method includes forming a first hard mask layer over a substrate and forming a second hard mask layer over the first hard mask layer. The second hard mask layer is patterned to define an island having a first width along a first direction. The island is patterned to form a patterned island having a second width along the first direction that is less than the first width. A sacrificial mask is formed over the first hard mask layer and the first hard mask layer is patterned according to the patterned island and the sacrificial mask.
US11177137B2	Wafer etching process and methods thereof A method includes bonding a first surface of a first semiconductor substrate to a first surface of a second semiconductor substrate and forming a cavity in the first area of the first semiconductor substrate, where forming the cavity comprises: supplying a passivation gas mixture that deposits a passivation layer on a bottom surface and sidewalls of the cavity, where during deposition of the passivation layer, a deposition rate of the passivation layer on the bottom surface of the cavity is the same as a deposition rate of the passivation layer on sidewalls of the cavity; and etching the first area of the first semiconductor substrate using an etching gas, where the etching gas is supplied concurrently with the passivation gas mixture, etching the first area of the first semiconductor substrate comprises etching in a vertical direction at a greater rate than etching in a lateral direction.
US11177134B2	Conductive pattern and method for manufacturing the same, thin film transistor, display substrate, and display device A conductive pattern and a method for manufacturing the same, a thin film transistor, a display substrate and a display device are provided. The method includes: step A, forming a metal layer on a base substrate; step B, forming a first conductive buffer layer on the metal layer; step C, patterning the metal layer and the first conductive buffer layer to form a conductive sub-pattern; and performing steps A to C repeatedly for N times to form N conductive sub-patterns that are stacked on the base substrate. The conductive pattern comprises the N conductive sub-patterns, and N is a positive integer greater than 1.
US11177130B2	Patterning material film stack with metal-containing top coat for enhanced sensitivity in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography A lithographic patterning method includes forming a multi-layer patterning material film stack on a semiconductor substrate, the patterning material film stack including a resist layer formed over one or more additional layers, and forming a metal-containing top coat over the resist layer. The method further includes exposing the multi-layer patterning material film stack to patterning radiation through the metal-containing top coat to form a desired pattern in the resist layer, removing the metal-containing top coat, developing the pattern formed in the resist layer, etching at least one underlying layer in accordance with the developed pattern, and removing remaining portions of the resist layer. The metal-containing top coat can be formed, for example, by atomic layer deposition or spin-on deposition over the resist layer, or by self-segregation from the resist layer.
US11177129B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor device, method of forming pattern film, and metal-containing organic film According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, includes forming an organic film containing polyacrylonitrile on a target film on a semiconductor substrate; applying a metal compound to the organic film to form a composite film; removing the composite film partially to form a pattern; heating the pattern-formed composite film; and processing the target film by using the heated composite film as a mask.
US11177125B2	Method for cleaning semiconductor wafer A method for cleaning a semiconductor wafer, including: inserting a semiconductor wafer into a hydrofluoric acid tank filled with hydrofluoric acid to immerse the semiconductor wafer in the hydrofluoric acid; pulling out the semiconductor wafer from the hydrofluoric acid tank; and then inserting the semiconductor wafer into an ozone water tank filled with ozone water to immerse the semiconductor wafer in the ozone water for cleaning. The semiconductor wafer is inserted into the ozone water tank at a rate of 20000 mm/min or more at least after a lower end of the semiconductor wafer comes into contact with the ozone water until the semiconductor wafer is completely immersed in the ozone water. A method for cleaning a semiconductor wafer which can prevent and remove contaminant from re-adhering in a method in which a semiconductor wafer is cleaned by immersion in hydrofluoric acid and then cleaned by immersion in ozone water.
US11177123B2	Compound semiconductor laminate substrate, method for manufacturing same, and semiconductor element A compound semiconductor laminate substrate comprising two single-crystalline compound semiconductor substrates directly bonded together and laminated, the single-crystalline compound semiconductor substrates having the same composition including A and B as constituent elements and having the same atomic arrangement, characterized in that the front and back surfaces of the laminate substrate are polar faces comprising the same kind of atoms of A or B, and that a laminate interface comprises a bond of atoms of either B or A and is a unipolar anti-phase region boundary plane in which the crystal lattices of the atoms are matched. In this way, the polar faces of the front and rear surfaces of the compound semiconductor laminate substrate are made monopolar, thereby facilitating semiconductor element process designing, and making it possible to manufacture a low-cost, high-performance, and stable semiconductor element without implementing complex substrate processing.
US11177120B2	Mass spectrometry method, mass spectrometry device, program, and mass spectrometry kit A mass spectrometry method includes: preparing calibration data for performing calibration on a basis of first data obtained by detecting a chlorobiphenyl in first mass spectrometry of a reference sample of the chlorobiphenyl; acquiring second data obtained by detecting, in second mass spectrometry of a sample, at least one chlorobiphenyl that has a same chlorine number as and is different in kind from the chlorobiphenyl detected in the first mass spectrometry; and calculating a quantitative value for the chlorobiphenyl contained in the sample on a basis of the calibration data and the second data.
US11177112B2	Pattern measurement device and non-transitory computer readable medium having stored therein program for executing measurement The present invention proposes a pattern measurement tool characterized by being provided with: a charged-particle beam sub-system having a tilt deflector; and a computer sub-system which is connected to the charged-particle beam sub-system and which is for executing measurement of a pattern on the basis of a signal obtained by said charged-particle beam sub-system, wherein the charged-particle beam sub-system acquires at least two signal profiles by scanning beams having at least two incidence angles, the computer sub-system measures the dimension between one end and the other end of the pattern on the basis of the at least two signal profiles, calculates the difference between the two measurements, and calculates the height of the pattern by inputting the difference value determined by said calculation into a relational formula indicating the relation between the height of the pattern and said difference value.
US11177107B2	Multi charged particle beam writing apparatus Provided is a multi charged particle beam writing apparatus, including: an emission unit emitting a charged particle beam; a first aperture substrate having a plurality of first openings, the first aperture being irradiated with the charged particle beam, and the first aperture allowing a portion of the charged particle beam to pass through the plurality of first openings to form multiple beams; a second aperture substrate having a plurality of second openings through which each beam of the multiple beams passes and the second aperture substrate being capable of independently deflecting the each beam of the multiple beams; and a shielding plate provided so as to be insertable to a space between the first aperture substrate and the second aperture substrate and the shielding plate being capable of simultaneously shielding all the multiple beams.
US11177104B2	Device for controlling electron flow and method for manufacturing said device A device for controlling electron flow is provided. The device comprises a cathode, an elongate electrical conductor embedded in a diamond substrate, an anode, and a control electrode provided on the substrate surface for modifying the electric field in the region of the end of the conductor. A method of manufacturing the device is also provided.
US11177102B2	Volatile organic compound controlled relay for power applications A power relay is controlled by the presence of Volatile Organic Compounds that are often emitted by outgassing from electronic components during overheat and failure conditions. The relay housing contains a standard power relay of single pole single throw (SPST) or a multi-pole double throw relay depending on the application. A micro VOC integrated circuit is placed within the housing allowing access to ambient air through ports in the side of the relay. Air quality is sampled periodically or continuously as is required by the system to adequately monitor for fault events and, in the event of a fault, latch the relay mechanism OPEN breaking the flow of electrical energy the circuit downstream.
US11177101B2	Pyrotechnic fuse for interrupting an electrical circuit The invention relates to a pyrotechnic fuse for interrupting an electrical circuit, comprising a body (9), in which an explosive charge is disposed, wherein: the pyrotechnic fuse comprises a hollow cylinder (11), in which a piston (12) is disposed, beneath which a separation claw (13) is disposed, beneath which the conductor (20), which is to be severed, is disposed; the piston (12) and the separation claw (13) are pressed downwards once the pyrotechnic fuse has been triggered, and the separation claw (13) severs the conductor (20) at two points; a quenching substance storage chamber (14) is disposed outside the cylinder (11), which quenching substance storage chamber, as a result of the piston being pressed downwards once the pyrotechnic fuse has been triggered, is opened towards a separation chamber (15) such that the quenching substance moves into the separation chamber.
US11177100B2	Self-powered piezoelectric-based programmable electronic impulse switches A piezoelectric generator for generating power upon an acceleration and upon a deceleration of a body. The piezoelectric generator including: first and second masses; first and second springs, the first spring being connected to the body at one end and to the first mass at an other end, the second spring being connected to the body at one end and to the second spring at an other end; and a piezoelectric material connected to the first and second masses such that the piezoelectric material generates power when the body is accelerated or decelerated.
US11177096B2	Multifunction switch A multifunction switch has a switching function for an electrical contact switch and a switching function for a mechanical element. The multifunction switch includes a swingable control body having a control pin, a movable contact coming into contact with the control pin, and a movable element having the control pin running therethrough and supported so as to be swingable. With the control pin being swung, the movable contact is pressed by the control pin to come into contact with a fixed contact and the movable element is swung by the control pin to implement mechanical switching for an additional element.
US11177089B2	Switching device A device has a movable contact, a stationary contact and an arc quenching unit, the arc quenching unit has a plurality of arc quenching plates and an electrically isolative housing, each one of the plurality of arc quenching plates has a mounting portion and a receiving portion, the receiving portion has a distributing part, the distributing part has a through hole penetrating through the receiving portion and an inclined plane protruding from the receiving portion, the inclined plane is arranged to a side of the through hole away from an arc entrance and extending to the arc entrance, an angle between the inclined plane and the receiving portion is an acute angle, a root of the inclined plane is continuous with the receiving portion. An inclined plane of a first arc quenching plate is interlacing and opposite with an inclined plane of a second arc quenching plate.
US11177078B2	Light-absorbing layer precursor, organic-inorganic hybrid solar cell manufacturing method using same, and organic-inorganic hybrid solar cell A precursor for a light absorbing layer, including a perovskite precursor, and a fluorine-based organic compound in an amount of 0.005 wt % to 0.5 wt % based on the mass of the perovskite precursor, and a method for manufacturing an organic-inorganic hybrid solar cell using the same.
US11177073B2	Manufacturing method of ceramic powder A manufacturing method of ceramic powder includes: synthesizing barium titanate powder from barium carbonate, titanium dioxide, manganese carbonate, and one of ammonium molybdate and tungsten oxide, wherein: a solid solution amount of the donor element is 0.05 mol or more and 0.3 mol or less; a solid solution amount of the accepter element with respect to the barium titanate is 0.02 mol or more and 0.2 mol or less on a presumption that the amount of the barium titanate is 100 mol and the acceptor element is converted into an oxide; and relationships y≥−0.0003x+1.0106, y≤−0.0002x+1.0114, 4≤x≤25 and y≤1.0099 are satisfied when a specific surface area of the ceramic powder is “x” and an axial ratio c/a of the ceramic powder is “y”.
US11177068B2	On-load tap changer head and on-load tap changer having an on-load tap changer head An on-load tap changer head includes: a first region for an insulating fluid of the on-load tap changer to flow; a second region separated from the first region by a wall; and a detector for detecting an increased flow speed of the insulating fluid. The detector includes: a flow flap in the first region configured to tilt from a defined flow speed of the insulating fluid from a first position to a second position; a first magnet secured to the flap such that in the second position of the flow flap, the first magnet is in an immediate vicinity of the wall; a second magnet in the second region in the immediate vicinity of the wall; and a switch in the second region that is operationally coupled to the second magnet such that tilting over of the flow flap from the first position to the second position actuates the switch.
US11177067B2	Magnetic shielding for plasma sources In some examples, a magnetic shield for a plasma source is provided. An example magnetic shield comprises a back-shell. The back-shell includes a cage defined, at least in part, by an arrangement of bars of ferro-magnetic material. The cage is sized and configured to at least extend over a top side of an RF source coil for the plasma source.
US11177066B2	Egg-shaped continuous coils for inductive components A continuous coil for an inductive component includes a plurality of turns formed by at least one conductor. The continuous coil is substantially egg-shaped. Other example coils, transformers, etc. are also disclosed.
US11177064B2	Advanced 3D inductor structures with confined magnetic field Embodiments of an apparatus that includes a substrate and an inductor residing in the substrate are disclosed. In one embodiment, the inductor is formed as a conductive path that extends from a first terminal to a second terminal. The conductive path has a shape corresponding to a two-dimensional (2D) lobe laid over a three-dimensional (3D) volume. Since the shape of the conductive path corresponds to the 2D lobe laid over a 3D volume, the magnetic field generated by the inductor has magnetic field lines that are predominately destructive outside the inductor and magnetic field lines that are predominately constructive inside the inductor. In this manner, the inductor can maintain a high quality (Q) factor while being placed close to other components.
US11177062B2	Actuator system and use of an actuator system An actuator device has at least one actuator element which at least in part is composed of a magnetically shape-shiftable material, and has a magnet unit which comprises at least one first magnetic element that is implemented as a coil unit and at least one second magnetic element that is implemented as a permanent magnet,at least the first magnetic element and the second magnetic element are configured for interacting in at least one operating state so as to cause a local deformation of the actuator element in a partial region of the actuator element.
US11177058B2	Composite surge arrester module in a die and method of construction A composite surge arrester assembly and method of construction protects electrical devices from voltage spikes by limiting the voltage supplied to an electric device by shorting to ground any unwanted voltages above a safe threshold. The composite surge arrester assembly forms an arrester array from an alternating arrangement of deformable conductive contact plates, and metal oxide varistor (MOV) blocks. The contact plates bend and have various types of surfaces to create uniform contact with MOV blocks. The MOV blocks are dimensioned to minimize metal mass. An epoxy impregnated fiberglass reinforcement member wraps around the arrester array at an angle between 0° to 90°, and preferably 45°, relative to the axial disposition of arrester array, while also purging air pockets therebetween. The reinforcement member dampens acoustic shock waves from high current impulses while maintaining electrical contact between MOV blocks. A polymer housing encapsulates the epoxy and fiberglass reinforced arrester array.
US11177056B2	Waterproofing structure and waterproofing method for shielded cable A waterproofing structure for shielded cable includes: a shielded cable including one or more cables and a braided wire serving as a shielding member and covering the cables; and a grommet serving as a waterproofing member covering a waterproofed portion of the braided wire. Thermoplastic resins serving as waterproofing fillers are respectively disposed on an inner side and an outer side of the waterproofed portion of the braided wire. The gaps between the plurality of strands of the braided wire and the gap between the braided wire and the small-diameter cylindrical portion of the grommet are filled with the thermoplastic resin melted by heating.
US11177055B2	Leading/lagging cable referencing platform for monitoring the health of underground cable networks A system for detecting water trees in branching underground electrical cables includes a pulse generator configured to inject a pulse into a first underground cable that branches into a second underground cable and a third underground cable. The system includes a first sensor associated with the first cable, a second sensor associated with the second cable, and a third sensor associated with the third cable. The system includes a control device configured to obtain a first, second, and third signal associated with the first, second and third sensors, respectively. The control device determines a lead-lag relationship between the second and third signals and determines presence of a water tree within at least one of the second and third cable based on the lead-lag relationship. When presence of a water tree is determined, the control device generates a control action associated with repairing or replacing the second and/or third cable.
US11177050B2	Method for inhibiting occurrence of creeping electrical discharge A method for preventing occurrence of creeping electrical discharge at a resin surface, the method being characterized by including dispersing nanosized inorganic fine particles in a resin, thereby preventing occurrence of creeping electrical discharge at the surface of a cured product of the resin.
US11177049B2	Self-healing insulation fluid for repairing damaged fluid filled cables The disclosure describes a method of purifying a self-healing fluid (SHF) comprising a drying oil and dielectric fluid. The method comprises (a) filtering the SHF through an absorbent material; and (b) subsequently filtering the SHF through a micropore filter system.
US11177041B1	Method and system for cardiac risk assessment of a patient using historical and real-time data A method and system for assessing the risk of a cardiac event in a patient which utilizes real-time and historical data from Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems is described. A risk of a cardiac event is estimated, in real-time or near-real-time, for a patient who is currently in a hospital emergency department. Batch data for one or more past patients is extracted from EMRs into a machine learning model. Using the machine learning model, a risk level for one or more past patients is calculated. A real-time database is constructed from streams of real-time Health Level 7 (HL7) clinical data, wherein at least one stream of real-time HL7 clinical data is associated with the current patient, and a risk prediction is estimated by joining the calculated risk level for the patient in the machine learning model with the real-time HL7 clinical data from the patient.
US11177036B2	Inventory management through image and data integration In a computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a system, at least one processor obtains and decides a signal of decodable indicia to obtain information identifying an object made up of items. The processor obtains data comprising descriptive text characterizing the portion of the object, including quantitative inventory data related to the portion of the object. The processor displays the visual representation as a three dimensional image and the descriptive text, via an AR/VR device, generating a virtual projection in three dimensional space in a range of view of a user utilizing the device. The processor obtains a designation of a region in the visual representation and executes an action that changes a quantitative or a qualitative element of the descriptive text for an item represented by the region. The processor updates the descriptive text in the visual representation, to reflect the change.
US11177035B2	Systems and methods for matching, naming, and displaying medical images A method of matching medical images according to user-defined matches rules. In one embodiment, the matched medical images are displayed according user-defined display rules such that the matched medical images may be visually compared in manner that is suitable to the viewer's viewing preferences.
US11177030B2	Estimating flow, resistance or pressure from pressure or flow measurements and angiography Systems and related methods to estimate, for a liquid dynamic system, flow or resistance based on a model of an object and pressure measurements collected in-situ at said object. Alternatively, pressure flow measurements are collected and pressure or resistance is being estimated.
US11177029B2	Systems and techniques for monitoring subjects The present invention generally relates to systems and methods for monitoring and/or providing feedback for drugs or other pharmaceuticals taken by a subject. In one aspect, the present invention is directed to devices and methods for determining a species within the skin of a subject; and producing feedback to a subject based on the determination of the species. The feedback may be, for example, visual, audible, tactile, a change in temperature, etc. In some cases, information regarding the determination of the species may be transmitted to another entity, e.g., a health care provider, a computer, a relative, etc., which may then provide feedback to the subject in some fashion. In some cases, the feedback may be directly indicative of the species. However, the feedback may also be indirect in some embodiments.
US11177028B2	Extraction, representation, and cognitive interpretation of medically relevant evidence Techniques for cognitively interpreting comparative statements are provided. A corpus of documents associated with treatment of a first medical disorder is received. Relative efficacies for a plurality of therapies are determined by, for at least a first respective document in the corpus of documents, identifying and extracting, using one or more natural language processing techniques, a conclusion specified within natural language text of the respective document, where the conclusion includes a comparison between two or more therapies of the plurality of therapies, determining a sentiment of the extracted conclusion, with respect to at least one therapy of the plurality of therapies, and identifying one or more cohorts of patients that are associated with the conclusion. A knowledge graph is generated based on the relative efficacies.
US11177021B2	Apparatus and computerized method for predicting asphaltene precipitation based on aggregation thermodynamics The present invention includes a method for thermodynamic modeling of asphaltene precipitation comprising: calculating the Gibbs free energy for the transition between asphaltene molecules in solution into an imaginary crystalline asphaltene nanoaggregates or asphaltene nanocrystals; calculating the Gibbs free energy for the transition between asphaltene nanoaggregates or nanocrystals redissolving into colloidal asphaltene nanoaggregates using the computer: and predicting asphaltene solubility in a solvent, wherein the predicted asphaltene solubility is used to add a solvent to a liquid, semi-solid, or solid comprising asphaltenes to prevent, e.g., fouling of a wellbore, pipeline, downstream unit operations, to provide flow assurance for crude oil pipeline network, or for petroleum crude blending.
US11177018B2	Stable genes in comparative transcriptomics Various embodiments perform stable gene analysis of transcriptome sequencing data. In one embodiment, a plurality of datasets each including transcriptome sequencing data are received by a processor. Each of the plurality of datasets includes a plurality of genes and a respective ranking value for each of the plurality of genes. A plurality of rank normalized input datasets is generated based on assigning, for each of the plurality of datasets, a rank to each of the plurality of genes. One or more longest increasing subsequence (LIS) of ranks are identified between each pair of the plurality of rank normalized input datasets. A set of stable genes from the plurality of genes is identified based on each of the one or more LIS of ranks across the plurality of rank normalized input datasets.
US11177017B2	Method of deconvolution of mixed molecular information in a complex sample to identify organism(s) The present invention relates to methods to determine the identity of one or more organisms present in a sample (if these are already reported in a taxonomic database) or the identity of the closest related organism reported in a taxonomic database. The present invention does this by comparing a data set acquired by analyzing at least one component of the biological sample to a database, so as to match each component of the analyzed content of the sample to one or more taxon(s) and then collating the phylogenetic distance between each taxa and the taxon with the highest number of matches in the data set. A deconvolution function is then generated for the taxon with the highest number of matches, based on a correlation curve between the number of matches per taxon (Y axis) and the phylogenetic distance (X axis), the outcome of this function providing the identity of the organism or the closest known organism to it.
US11177013B1	Determine signal and noise characteristics centered at an optimized read voltage A memory device to estimate signal and noise characteristics of a group of memory cells in response to a command identifying the group of memory cells. For example, the memory device measures first signal and noise characteristics of the group of memory cells based on first test voltages, compute using the first signal and noise characteristics an optimized read voltage of the group of memory cells, and estimate, using the first signal and noise characteristics, second signal and noise characteristics of the group of memory cells, where the second signal and noise characteristics are based on second test voltages that are centered at the optimized read voltage of the group of memory cells.
US11177009B2	Multi-state programming of memory cells The present provision includes apparatuses, methods, and systems for multi-state programming of memory cells. An embodiment includes a memory having a plurality of memory cells, and circuitry configured to program a memory cell of the plurality of memory cells to one of a plurality of possible data states by applying a voltage pulse to the memory cell, determining the memory cell snaps back in response to the applied voltage pulse, turning off a current to the memory cell upon determining the memory cell snaps back, and applying a number of additional voltage pulses to the memory cell after turning off the current to the memory cell.
US11177007B2	Feedback for power management of a memory die using capacitive coupling A memory device may include a pin for receiving a direct current (DC) voltage indicating an operating configuration setting of the memory device and for communicating an alternating current (AC) voltage signal that provides feedback to a power management component. The memory device may determine that a supply voltage is outside of a target range, and may drive the AC signal onto the pin based on determining that the supply voltage is outside the range. The pin may be coupled with a capacitive component the passes the AC signal and blocks the DC signal. The power management component may receive the capacitively coupled AC signal and may maintain or adjust the supply voltage based on the received AC signal.
US11177006B2	Memory system with dynamic calibration using a trim management mechanism A system comprises a memory device comprising a plurality of memory cells; and a processing device coupled to the memory device, the processing device configured to iteratively: calibrate read levels based on associated read results, wherein the read levels are tracked via optimization target data that at least initially includes at least one read level in addition to a target trim; and remove a calibrated read level from the optimization target data when the calibrated read level satisfies a calibration condition.
US11177003B1	Systems and methods for runtime analog sanitation of memory A memory system performs analog sanitization of memory using a partial programming operation to overwrite existing data taking into account the relative voltage levels in the memory cells. By taking into account the relative voltage levels, the timing of a partial programming operation can be controlled to provide matched voltage levels in the memory cells so that conventional computer forensic techniques for data recovery are ineffective.
US11177002B1	Programming memory cells using encoded TLC-fine A storage device including control circuitry, communicatively coupled to a non-volatile memory, configured to receive a parity bit that has been stored using a data structure, and to receive a first subset of host data that includes block data relating to a set of memory cells. The control circuitry may be configured to perform a read operation to identify a second subset of host data that includes additional block data relating to the set of memory cells. The control circuitry may be configured to decode the second subset of host data using the parity bit. The control circuitry may be configured to perform a write operation to write the block data to at least one or more memory cells that are part of the set of memory cells.
US11176999B2	Semiconductor memory device According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes first to nth string units (n being a natural number of 3 or more), a plurality of layers of word lines, and (n−1) layers of select gate layers. The first to nth string units each includes a memory string. The memory string includes a plurality of memory cells and a plurality of select transistors connected in series in a first direction. The (n−1) layers of select gate layers include first to (2×(n−1))th select gates electrically isolated from each other. The first string unit is selected by the first to (n−1)th select gates. The kth string unit (k being not less than 1 and not more than n) is selected by the kth to (n+k−2)th select gates. The nth string unit is selected by the nth to (2×(n−1))th select gates.
US11176997B2	Memory cell A cell structure is disclosed. The cell structure includes a first unit comprising a first group of transistors and a first data latch, a second unit comprising a second group of transistors and a second data latch a read port unit comprising a plurality of p-type transistors, a search line and a complementary search line, the search line and the complementary search line function as input of the cell structure, and a master line, the master line functions as an output of the cell structure, the first unit is coupled to the second unit, both the first and the second units are coupled to the read port unit. According to some embodiments, the first data latch comprises a first and a second p-type transistors, a first and a second n-type transistors.
US11176989B2	Semiconductor memory device having page buffer high-voltage circuit A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of bit lines extending in a first direction, and arranged in a second direction intersecting with the first direction, a page buffer high-voltage circuit divided into a plurality of page buffer high-voltage regions arranged in the first direction, each of the plurality of page buffer high-voltage regions including a plurality of page buffer high-voltage elements, each page buffer high-voltage element coupled to one of the plurality of bit lines, and a contact pad unit including a plurality of contact pads, each contact pad coupled to one of the plurality of page buffer high-voltage elements. The contact pad unit is arranged, in the first direction, between two of the plurality of page buffer high-voltage regions.
US11176977B2	Apparatuses and methods for controlling word line discharge Apparatuses and methods for controlling the discharge of subword lines are described. The rate of discharge and/or the voltage level discharged to may be controlled. In some embodiments, a main word line may be driven to multiple low potentials to control a discharge of a subword line. In some embodiments, a first word driver line signal and/or a second word driver line signal may be reset to control a discharge of a subword line. In some embodiments, a combination of driving the main word line and the first word driver line signal and/or the second word driver line signal resetting may be used to control a discharge of the subword line.
US11176976B2	Systems for performing a read-modify-write operation A semiconductor memory device includes a read/write control circuit and an error correction circuit. The read/write control circuit generates an internal write signal after generating an internal read signal from one of a plurality of shifted signals which are generated by shifting a read-modify-write command according to a frequency of a clock signal. The error correction circuit corrects an error included in internal data by performing a logical operation of read data generated by the internal read signal and the internal data to generate write data. The internal read signal is enabled by a write set signal during the read-modify-write operation.
US11176974B2	Memory device with shared amplifier circuitry In some examples, a memory device may have at least a first and a second memory array. In some cases, a portion of the bit cells of the first memory array may be coupled to first PMOS-follower circuitry and to second PMOS-follower circuitry. A portions of the bit cells of the second memory array may also be coupled to the second PMOS-follower circuitry and to third PMOS-follower circuitry. Additionally, in some cases, the portion of bit cells of both the first memory array and the second memory array may be coupled to shared preamplifier circuitry.
US11176973B2	Apparatuses including input buffers and methods for operating input buffers Apparatuses including input buffers and methods for operating input buffers are described. An example input buffer includes a plurality of input buffer circuits, each receiving input data and activated by a respective clock signal. An input buffer circuit includes a decision feedback equalizer (DFB) having adjustable capacitances and reference capacitances to set a reference level of the input buffer circuit. The capacitance of the adjustable capacitances may be set by a code. The DFB provides a capacitance of the adjustable capacitances to a first sense node and further provides a capacitance of the reference capacitances to a second sense node to set the reference level of the input buffer circuit. The input buffer circuit provides output data based on the input data and the reference level set by the DFE.
US11176970B2	Routing for power signals including a redistribution layer Semiconductor devices and systems are disclosed. A semiconductor device includes a redistribution layer including a first polygonal structure for conveying a first power signal and including a first cutout region. The semiconductor device further includes a second polygonal structure for conveying a second power signal. Further, the semiconductor device includes an island polygon for conveying a third power signal and positioned within the first cutout region, wherein the island polygon does not touch the first polygonal structure.
US11176966B2	Systems and methods for generating and presenting virtual experiences Various embodiments facilitate the creation and presentation of a virtual experience. In one embodiment, the virtual experience is assembled from user model data corresponding to a three-dimensional representation of a user, user movement data corresponding to at least one movement characteristic of the user, user voice data corresponding to at least one vocal characteristic of the user, environment data corresponding to a three-dimensional representation of a location, and event data corresponding to a captured event at the location. The virtual experience is a virtual recreation of the captured event at the location, with the three-dimensional representation of the user, the vocal characteristic of the user, and the movement characteristic of the user inserted into the captured event.
US11176958B2	Loudness enhancement based on multiband range compression In some examples, loudness enhancement based on multiband range compression may include determining, based on variations in compression parameters that include compression thresholds and compression ratios, corresponding variations in loudness levels for a specified loudness standard. A learning model may be trained based on the variations in the compression parameters and the corresponding variations in the loudness levels. A specified loudness level for a device may be ascertained, for example, from a user of the device. The compression parameters for the specified loudness level may be determined based on the trained learning model. Further, sub-band compression of an input audio signal may be performed, based on the determined compression parameters, by processing the input audio signal using a perfect reconstruction filterbank.
US11176953B2	Efficient storage of multiple structured codebooks It is inter alia disclosed an apparatus comprising: a table comprising a plurality of sub vectors, wherein each entry of the table is a subvector and each subvector have vector components which are the same as vector components of one or more basis code vectors; and a further table wherein an entry of the further table comprises a first pointer pointing to a sub vector in the table and a second pointer pointing to a subvector in the table, wherein the first pointer and the second pointer are arranged in the further table such that when vector components of the sub vector pointed to by the first pointer are combined with vector components of the sub vector pointed to by the second pointer a basis code vector is formed.
US11176946B2	Method and apparatus for speech recognition A speech recognition method includes receiving a sentence generated through speech recognition, calculating a degree of suitability for each word in the sentence based on a relationship of each word with other words in the sentence, detecting a target word to be corrected among the words in the sentence based on the degree of suitability for each word, and replacing the target word with any one of candidate words corresponding to the target word.
US11176944B2	Transcription summary presentation A method to present a summary of a transcription may include obtaining, at a first device, audio directed to the first device from a second device during a communication session between the first device and the second device. Additionally, the method may include sending, from the first device, the audio to a transcription system. The method may include obtaining, at the first device, a transcription during the communication session from the transcription system based on the audio. Additionally, the method may include obtaining, at the first device, a summary of the transcription during the communication session. Additionally, the method may include presenting, on a display, both the summary and the transcription simultaneously during the communication session.
US11176943B2	Voice recognition device, voice recognition method, and computer program product According to an embodiment, a voice recognition device includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to: recognize a voice signal representing a voice uttered by an object speaker, to generate text and meta information representing information that is not included in the text and included in the voice signal; generate an object presentation vector including a plurality of parameters representing a feature of a presentation uttered by the object speaker; calculate a similarity between the object presentation vector and a reference presentation vector including a plurality of parameters representing a feature of a presentation uttered by a reference speaker; and output the text. The one or more processors are further configured to determine whether to output the meta information based on the similarity, and upon determining to output the meta information, add the meta information to the text and output the meta information.
US11176942B2	Multi-modal conversational agent platform A method includes receiving data characterizing an utterance of a query associated with a tenant; providing, to an automated speech recognition engine, the received data and a profile selected from a plurality of profiles based on the tenant, the profile configuring the automated speech recognition engine to process the received data; receiving, from the automated speech recognition engine, a text string characterizing the query; and processing, via an ensemble of natural language agents configured based on the tenant, the text string characterizing the query to determine a textual response to the query, the textual response including at least one word from a first lexicon associated with the tenant. Related systems, methods, apparatus, and computer readable mediums are also described.
US11176939B1	Systems, methods, and storage media for performing actions based on utterance of a command Systems and methods for recognizing and executing spoken commands using speech recognition. Exemplary implementations may: store actionable phrases; obtain audio information representing sound captured by a mobile client computing platform associated with a user; detect any spoken instances of a predetermined keyword present in the sound represented by the audio information; perform speech recognition on the sound represented by the audio information; identify an utterance of an individual actionable phrase in speech temporally adjacent to the spoken instance of the predetermined keyword that is present in the sound represented by the audio information; perform natural language processing to identify an individual command uttered temporally adjacent to the spoken instance of the predetermined keyword that is present in the sound represented by the audio information; and effectuate performance of instructions corresponding to the command.
US11176937B2	Electronic apparatus and control method thereof An electronic apparatus may include a microphone; a communication circuitry; a memory; and a processor configured to: identify whether information of an external apparatus that previously connected through the communication circuitry is stored in the memory based on a preset event of the electronic apparatus; based on identifying that the information of the external apparatus that previously connected through the communication circuitry is stored in the memory, perform connection with the external apparatus through the communication circuitry based on the information of the external apparatus; and based on identifying that the information of the external apparatus that previously connected through the communication circuitry is not stored in the memory, perform connection with the external apparatus by performing a search through the communication circuitry, based on a first voice command obtained through the microphone.
US11176936B2	Architecture for multi-domain natural language processing Features are disclosed for processing a user utterance with respect to multiple subject matters or domains, and for selecting a likely result from a particular domain with which to respond to the utterance or otherwise take action. A user utterance may be transcribed by an automatic speech recognition (“ASR”) module, and the results may be provided to a multi-domain natural language understanding (“NLU”) engine. The multi-domain NLU engine may process the transcription(s) in multiple individual domains rather than in a single domain. In some cases, the transcription(s) may be processed in multiple individual domains in parallel or substantially simultaneously. In addition, hints may be generated based on previous user interactions and other data. The ASR module, multi-domain NLU engine, and other components of a spoken language processing system may use the hints to more efficiently process input or more accurately generate output.
US11176934B1	Language switching on a speech interface device A speech interface device is configured to switch between languages, at the request of a user, in order to locally process utterances spoken in different languages, even in instances when a remote system is unavailable to, slower than, or otherwise less preferred than the speech interface device. For example, a user can request to set the language setting of the speech interface device to a second language, different from a first language to which the language setting of the device is currently set. Based on this user request, a local speech processing component of the device may load a language model(s) associated with the second language. The speech interface can also output voice prompts in the second language to manage the user's experience while a language update is in progress on the speech interface device.
US11176931B2	Conversational bookmarks A computer-implemented technique is described for enabling a user to create a conversational bookmark in the course of the user's interaction with a BOT. The bookmark designates a particular juncture in the user's interaction with the BOT. When the user later invokes the bookmark, the computer-implemented technique resumes the user's interaction with the BOT, starting at the particular juncture. The technique can accomplish the above functions in a BOT-independent manner (which does not involve changes to the BOT) or a BOT-dependent manner (which involves changes to the BOT). The technique can also be extended to a task of creating and activating bookmarks in the course of a conversation among two or more humans.
US11176930B1	Storing audio commands for time-delayed execution Systems including physical devices, such as button and switches, that receive audio when a user performs a specific interaction are described. The audio may correspond to a particular spoken command to be executed by a system in a time-delayed fashion. At a later time, when another interaction is performed with the physical device, the device may send the stored audio to a server for processing to determine a command associated with the audio. A device may store multiple audio data segments corresponding to multiple different commands, and each piece of audio data corresponding to a command may be associated with a specific physical operation of a device. If audio data is determined as corresponding to a multiple-input command, additional information needed to perform the multiple-input command may be audibly gathered from a user.
US11176929B1	Artificial intelligence (AI) language detection and translation system for scanning radio signals and rules-based transmission of alerts Apparatus and associated methods relate to a system including a portable hardware device having a radio antenna, the device being operably coupled to a network, where the device includes electronics for scanning ambient radio messages using the antenna, evaluating a message for sentiment (e.g., intent-to-harm) using at least one artificial intelligence technique, and upon determining the presence of intent-to-harm, transmitting an alert signal over the network to a target entity as determined by a set of alert transmission rules based at least in part on the content/context/metadata of the message. In an illustrative example, a portable pack may be preconfigured with automatic language translation and speech detection capabilities. The pack may scan ambient radio signals for specific words/phrases of interest (W/POI). Upon detecting dangerous/aggressive sentiment, an alert may be relayed to a higher command, advantageously providing decision-makers with invaluable, real-time intelligence to adapt to fast-changing developments on the battlefield.
US11176928B2	Efficient and low latency automated assistant control of smart devices Various implementations relate to techniques, for controlling smart devices, that are low latency and/or that provide computational efficiencies (client and/or server) and/or network efficiencies. Those implementations relate to generating and/or utilizing cache entries, of a cache that is stored locally at an assistant client device, in control of various smart devices (e.g., smart lights, smart thermostats, smart plugs, smart appliances, smart routers, etc.). Each of the cache entries includes a mapping of text to one or more corresponding semantic representations.
US11176924B2	Reduced miss rate in sound to text conversion using banach spaces A computer-implemented method includes: comparing features extracted from a first document that include a sound to features extracted from acoustic files related to the sound; designating the sound in a document of the plurality of documents as a true; designating the sound in the first document as a false negative; generating a first sound vector for the sound in the first document in response to the sound in the first document being designated a false negative; generating a sound vector for each of the documents designated as a true positive; creating a centroid vector for the sound vectors of the documents designated as a true positive; and redesignating the sound in the first document from a false negative to a true positive in response to the first sound vector and the centroid vector being a Banach space.
US11176922B2	System and method for integrating a home media system and other home systems A system and method for integrating a home media system and other home systems. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a system and method that flexibly and efficiently provide communication and/or resource sharing between a home media system and various other home systems.
US11176921B2	Silencer for clutch air booster A silencer for a clutch air booster may include an exhaust retainer including a disk-shaped bottom portion seated on the upper side of an outlet body of the clutch air booster and a retainer hole formed in the center of the bottom portion, a valve seated on the exhaust retainer to cover the retainer hole, a valve housing coupled to an outer side of the exhaust retainer and forming an inner space configured to accommodate the valve, and a rubber cap coupled to an outer side of the valve housing to cover an upper side of the valve housing.
US11176920B2	Apparatus for collecting sounds in wide area without loss of sounds, and use method therefor The present invention relates to a system and a method for collecting unspecific and various sounds, occurring in the field of crime prevention, guard, or the like, in a wide area by means of a microphone without any loss, and provides means for a system and a method for collection using a single microphone and for a system and a method for collection using multiple microphones.
US11176919B2	Acoustic filler including acoustically active beads and expandable filler Aspects are disclosed of a filler for occupying a volume. The filler includes an expandable filler positioned in the volume so that it occupies a percentage of the volume. The expandable filler can permanently expand from a first dimension to a second dimension upon the application of an expansion trigger. The filler also includes an acoustic filler made up of a plurality of acoustically active beads positioned with the expandable filler in the volume so that the acoustic filler can adsorb gas flowing into the volume. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US11176918B2	Piezoelectric element and musical instrument Provision of a piezoelectric element which uses a lightweight and flexible electret material and an electrode layer which is also lightweight, has high conductivity and good flexibility to easily receive electrical signals from an electret, and has good durability. Additionally, provision of a musical instrument provided with such a piezoelectric element. A piezoelectric element comprising an electrode layer (B) on at least one surface of an electret material (A) having pores inside, wherein a porosity of the electret material (A) is 20 to 80%, the electrode layer (B) contains 20 to 70 mass % of a carbon fine particle, and a thickness of the electrode layer (B) is 2 to 100 μm.
US11176913B2	Device and method for introducing different embouchures A device has a plurality of different mouthpieces that can be mounted on an elongate body. Each mounted mouthpiece is spaced from the central axis of the elongate body. In order to introduce different embouchures, a music student can blow into successive ones of the plurality of different mouthpieces. The student can hold the elongate body when using the device.
US11176908B1	Method for reducing a size of data required for recording a physical characteristic of an optical device A method for reducing a size of data required for recording a physical characteristic of an optical device is proposed. By performing variable-length coding on sub-pixel data pieces that respectively represent physical characteristics of multiple sub-pixels of the optical device based on a similarity in spatial trend of the physical characteristics of the sub-pixels, a plurality of pixel-index data pieces are generated, and a part of the sub-pixel data pieces can thus be removed to obtain reduced sub-pixel data pieces. The pixel-index data pieces and the reduced sub-pixel data pieces cooperatively replace the sub-pixel data pieces to serve as an index for finding the physical characteristics of the sub-pixels.
US11176906B2	System and method to identify a serial display interface malfunction and provide remediation A system includes a video generation circuit (102) to generate first graphics information, a display circuit (112) to display the graphics information, and a low voltage differential signaling (LVDS) (120) video interface to couple graphics information from the video generation circuit to the display circuit. The display circuit can determine that a first channel (204) of the LVDS video interface is corrupted. In response, the display circuit provides a remediation signal (205) to direct the video generation circuit (102) to operate in an alternative operating mode (208).
US11176904B2	Source driving circuit, driving method and display device for decreasing color shift in large viewing angle The present disclosure provides a source driving circuit, a driving method, and a display device. The source driving circuit includes a gamma generating circuit, a gamma regulating circuit, and a control circuit. The gamma regulating circuit is configured to determine, according to a plurality of gamma reference voltage pairs, a first output voltage, a second output voltage, a third output voltage, and a fourth output voltage corresponding to each of the gamma reference voltage pairs. Further, the control circuit is configured to perform driving and displaying with the first output voltage in a first image frame, with the second output voltage in a second image frame, with the third output voltage in a third image frame, and with the fourth output voltage in a fourth image frame.
US11176899B2	Device and method for driving display panel A display driver comprises image processing circuitry and drive circuitry. The image processing circuitry is configured to output display image data representing a display image comprising an effective area to be displayed in a display area of a display panel and an invalid area not to be displayed in the display area. The drive circuitry drives the display panel based on the display image data comprising effective pixel data associated with first pixels included in the effective area and invalid pixel data associated with second pixels included in the invalid area. Effective pixel data associated with first pixels located within a boundary area adjacent to the invalid area is set to first grayscale values. The invalid pixel data associated with second pixels located within an insert area defined in the invalid area is set to second grayscale values comprising a value different from the first grayscale values.
US11176898B2	Display panel and electronic apparatus A display panel and an electronic apparatus are provided. The display panel includes: a display area; and a first peripheral area located around the display area, a first gate driver being provided in the first peripheral area; wherein the display panel is further provided with a plurality of first driving signal lines and a plurality of second driving signal lines; the plurality of first driving signal lines are arranged in a different layer from a layer in which the plurality of second driving signal lines are located; and the m-th first driving signal line of the plurality of first driving signal lines and the k-th second driving signal line of the plurality of second driving signal lines are both electrically connected, in the first peripheral area, to an m-th output terminal of the first gate driver, where m is an integer greater than or equal to 1 and k is also an integer greater than or equal to 1.
US11176896B2	Multi-layer display device and method for driving the same A multi-layer display device and a method for driving the same are disclosed, in which an image of a front display panel may be displayed without being affected by an image of a rear display panel, and an image of a rear display panel may be displayed without being affected by an image of a front display panel. The multi-layer display device comprises a first display panel; and a second display panel arranged on a rear surface of the first display panel. The second display panel displays a second white image for a time period when the first display panel displays a first source image. The first display panel displays a first white image for a time period when the second display panel displays a second source image.
US11176893B2	DEMUX display panel and OLED display A demultiplexer (DEMUX) display panel comprising an array substrate, a plurality of DEMUX switches, and a second control signal generating circuit which is connected to a second control signal input terminal and is configured to generate a second control signal. The second control signal is sent to the DEMUX switch before scanning each row of the sub-pixels to make the DEMUX switch transmit a reset signal to the corresponding first data lines through both of the data signal output terminals.
US11176892B2	Display device A display device includes: a substrate including first and second display regions and first and second non-display regions; a plurality of first pixels in the first display region; a plurality of second pixels in the second display region; a plurality of first scan stage circuits in the first non-display region, the first scan stage circuits configured to provide a scan signal to the first pixels; a plurality of second scan stage circuits in the second non-display region, the second scan stage circuits configured to provide a scan signal to the second pixels; a plurality of dummy scan stage circuits in the second non-display region, the dummy scan stage circuits being between the second scan stage circuits; and a scan bridge line in the second non-display region, the scan bridge line connecting one second scan stage circuit among the second scan stage circuits and a dummy scan stage circuit adjacent thereto.
US11176891B1	GOA circuit and array substrate The present disclosure discloses a gate on array (GOA) circuit and an array substrate. The GOA circuit utilizes a dual gate TFT as a circuit switch. The bottom gate is connected to an external voltage for adjusting the threshold voltages of the TFTs. The stability of the GOA circuit is ensured. The GOA circuit only disposes 6 TFTs. the structure is simpler, and the narrower panel bezel is implemented.
US11176890B2	Method of operating a pixel circuit using direct charging and that performs light-emitting device compensation A display system includes a display panel comprising a plurality of pixel circuits, and a measurement and data processing unit that is external to the display panel. Each pixel circuit includes a light-emitting device having a first terminal connected to a first voltage supply and a second terminal opposite from the first terminal; a first transistor connected between a data voltage supply line from the measurement and data processing unit and the second terminal of the light emitting device; and a second transistor connected between the second terminal of the light-emitting device and a sample line to the measurement and data processing unit. The measurement and data processing unit samples a measured voltage at the second terminal of the light-emitting device through the sample line and outputs a data voltage to the light-emitting device based on the measured voltage to compensate variations in properties of the light-emitting device.
US11176888B2	Auto-zero applied buffer for display circuitry A system includes a pixel that emits light based on a signal provided to the pixel. The system may also include a buffer circuit having a differential pair stage, a cascade stage, and an output stage. The differential pair stage may receive a common mode voltage signal via a first switch in response to the first switch receiving a first signal that causes the first switch to close. The differential pair stage may couple a capacitor to the output stage via a second switch that operate based on a second signal, such that the capacitor reduces an offset provided by one or more circuit components in the differential pair stage, the cascade stage, the output stage, or any combination thereof. The differential pair stage may output the common mode voltage to the pixel via the output stage in response to the first signal being present.
US11176883B2	Organic light emitting diode display An organic light emitting diode (“OLED”) display includes a semiconductor layer on a substrate, first and second signal lines on the semiconductor layer, a shield layer on the first and second signal lines, a data line on the shield layer, and an OLED on the data line, where the transistor includes a driving transistor, a second transistor connected to the first signal line and the data line, and a third transistor including a gate electrode connected to the first signal line, a third electrode connected to a second electrode of the driving transistor, and a fourth electrode connected to a gate electrode of the driving transistor, the shield layer includes an overlapped portion overlapping at least a part of the connection portion and non-overlaps the second transistor, and the shield layer is separated from the first and second signal lines with a gap therebetween in a plan view.
US11176882B2	Display device and method for driving same An object of the disclosure is to achieve a current-driven display device able to compensate for a variation in threshold voltage of a drive transistor without causing a variation in luminance. A pixel circuit includes an organic EL element; a drive transistor; a first capacitor having a first electrode to be supplied with a reference voltage during a data writing period and a second electrode to be supplied with a data voltage-during a data writing period; a second capacitor having a first electrode connected to the first electrode of the first capacitor and a second electrode connected to a first conduction terminal of the drive transistor; and a short-circuit control transistor having a gate terminal to be supplied with a light emission control signal-, which becomes active during a light emission period, a first conduction terminal connected to the first electrode of the first capacitor, and a second conduction terminal connected to the second electrode of the first capacitor.
US11176881B2	Organic light emitting diode display device capable of performing low frequency driving, and method of operating the same A display device includes a display panel and a panel driver configured to drive the display panel. The panel driver receives input image data corresponding to first, second, and third colors at an input frame frequency, and detects whether the input image data represent a still or dynamic image. If the input image data represent the dynamic image, the panel driver drives the display panel at a first output frame frequency substantially the same as the input frame frequency. If the input image data represent the still image, the panel driver calculates a plurality of flicker indexes of the still image for at least two of the first, second, third colors, one or more combinations of the first, second, and third colors, and drives the display panel at a second output frame frequency that is determined based on the plurality of flicker indexes.
US11176879B2	Foldable display A foldable display comprises a flexible display panel including a first screen, a second screen, and a foldable boundary region positioned between the first screen and the second screen; a first drive IC connected to data lines of the first screen and connected to data lines of a first boundary region to drive pixels of the first screen and the first boundary region; and a second drive IC connected to data lines of the second screen and connected to data lines of a second boundary region to drive pixels of the second screen and the second boundary region, wherein channels of the first drive IC and channels of the second drive IC are driven and shutdown in accordance with status on whether the first and second screens are driven.
US11176877B2	Image display apparatus An image display apparatus is disclosed. The image display apparatus includes a panel configured to display an image, a backlight including a plurality of light sources configured to output light to the panel, a light source driver configured to drive the plurality of light sources, and a processor configured to control the light source driver, wherein the processor changes the turn on duty of a light source corresponding to a moving object area in an input image and changes the level of current flowing in the light source. Consequently, the definition and luminance of an image including a moving object may be improved.
US11176876B1	Display device A display device includes the following elements: a display panel including a first pixel emitting first-color light, a second pixel emitting second-color light, and a third pixel emitting third-color light; a controller generating generated image data based on input image data according to a driving frequency of the display panel, and generating output image data using the generated image data; and a data driver supplying data signals to the display panel based on the output image data. The input image data includes first, second, and third grayscales for the first, second, and third pixels, respectively. The generated image data includes first, second, and third generated grayscales for the first, second, and third pixels, respectively, with different ratios to the first, second, and third grayscales, respectively.
US11176875B2	Display apparatus and operating method thereof A display apparatus includes a display panel including a light-emitting device; a storage storing a target gamma value and a calibration matrix; a processor configured to obtain first modulation data from input data and calibrate the first modulation data via the calibration matrix, obtain second modulation data from the calibrated first modulation data, and generate a driving signal from the second modulation data; and a panel driver configured to drive the display panel by applying the driving signal to the light-emitting device, wherein the calibration matrix has a compensation coefficient for making a gamma curve corresponding to the driving signal to be the same as a target gamma curve corresponding to the target gamma value.
US11176871B2	Shift register unit and driving method thereof, gate driving circuit and display device A shift register unit, a driving method thereof, a gate driving circuit and a display device. The shift register unit includes a blanking input circuit, a display input circuit, an output circuit, a first control circuit and a second control circuit. The blanking input circuit inputs a blanking pull-up signal to a first node according to a blanking input signal; the display input circuit inputs a display pull-up signal to the first node in response to a display input signal; the output circuit outputs an composite output signal to an output terminal under the control of the first node; the first control circuit controls a level of a second node under the control of the first node; and the second control circuit controls the level of the second node in response to a blanking pull-down control signal.
US11176870B2	Display apparatus having gate driving circuit A display apparatus includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels respectively connected to a plurality of gate lines; a gate driving circuit including a plurality of driving stages configured to apply gate signals to the gate lines; a voltage generator configured to output a gate-on voltage through a voltage output terminal thereof; and a signal controller configured to sense a variation in current of the voltage output terminal to output a back bias control voltage corresponding to the sensed current variation, wherein each of the driving stages comprises a plurality of oxide thin film transistors and at least one of the oxide thin film transistors is a four-terminal transistor in which a threshold voltage thereof is controlled by the back bias control voltage.
US11176867B2	Chroma compensation method and apparatus, device, display device and storage medium Disclosed are a chroma compensation method and apparatus, a display device and a storage medium. The chroma compensation method includes: acquiring an initial color of a display sub-pixel in a target pixel unit under a target luminance, and a target color of the target pixel unit under the target luminance, the target pixel unit including: at least two display sub-pixels of different light colors; acquiring a complementary color gain of each of the display sub-pixels under the target luminance based on the target color and the initial color of each of the display sub-pixels; and compensating for chrominance of the target pixel unit based on the complementary color gain of each of the display sub-pixels under the target luminance.
US11176866B2	Image processing method based on peripheral reduction of contrast An object of the invention is to avoid or at least limit the aforementioned drawback by a specific processing of video images to display, notably on large size screens. For this purpose, a method for processing at least one image of a video sequence is described. The method includes defining at least two peripheral areas PL, PR in the at least one image, and reducing contrast of pixels in the defined peripheral area(s) having a local contrast RL and/or RD above a local contrast threshold Rth or reducing contrast of pixels in subregions 1, 2, . . . , i, . . . , N of these defined peripheral areas having a local contrast Ri, R′i above a local contrast threshold Ri-th.
US11176864B2	Method for driving a display panel, display drive circuit and display device A method for driving a display panel, a display drive circuit, a display device and a computer device are disclosed. After receiving an image to be displayed sent by a graphics processor, a data drive chip controls respective rows of sub-pixels containing a high-definition display area in a connected display panel to be scanned line by line according to a position of the high-definition display area in the image to be displayed, and at the same time, the data drive chip controls respective rows of sub-pixels containing only a low-definition display area in the display panel to be scanned per N rows simultaneously according to a position of the low-definition display area in the image to be displayed, where N is an even number greater than 1.
US11176862B2	Managing notifications on a curved display surface Systems and methods of managing notifications on a curved display surface of a mobile electronic communications device are provided, wherein the curved display surface includes a front screen area and lateral edge screen areas. A notification is obtained and a holding direction of the device is detected. If the holding direction does not allow display of the notification on the lateral edge screen areas, it is displayed on the front screen area. If the holding direction allows display of the notification on the lateral edge screen areas, it is displayed on an uncovered edge screen area facing the user if the user is in a known direction. Otherwise, the notification is displayed on all edge screen areas. If the one or more edge screens are partially covered, the notification is displayed on the edge screen area having the least coverage.
US11176855B2	Floating control device, operation method of floating control device and interactive display system A floating control device, an operation method of a floating control device, and an interactive display system are provided. The floating control device includes a motor, a rotating shaft, a rotating component, a plurality of distance sensors and a signal processing unit. The rotating shaft is connected to the motor. The motor drives the rotating component to rotate around the rotating shaft. The distance sensors are disposed on the rotating component. The signal processing unit is configured to receive a plurality of sensing signals from the distance sensors to obtain an operation signal.
US11176853B1	Kinetic sculpture system A kinetic sculpture system for powering one or more kinetic sculptures by an updraft to drive the one or more kinetic sculptures in a forward direction along a looped path. The kinetic sculpture system generally includes a pair of kinetic sculptures which are suspended over an updraft source by a hanging structure. Each of the kinetic sculptures includes a main body and a pair of wings pivotably attached to the main body. Each of the wings of each of the kinetic sculptures includes a front edge which is downwardly angled with respect to a rear edge such that the updraft from the updraft source catches upon the front edge to drive the kinetic sculptures forward along a looped path. In this manner, the kinetic sculptures may be driven along a fixed path around the updraft source without outside intervention.
US11176852B2	Mounting bracket systems for signs or banners The mounting bracket systems are used in pairs to support a banner on a vehicle. In a first embodiment, the system includes opposing masts having upper and lower extending tabs adapted for attaching a banner between the masts, an annular flange disposed around the mast, and a lower mast end inserted into a bushing attached to a vehicle by U-shaped mounting straps. In a second embodiment, the system includes opposing masts having upper and lower extending tabs adapted for attaching a banner between the masts. The bottom end of each mast is attached to a platform having an elongate U-shaped pocket insert having planar walls extending from the platform opposite the mast. The pocket inserts are adapted for insertion into stake pockets common to trucks and trailers that haul oversize loads. A clevis pin may be inserted through opposing walls of the pocket insert below the stake pocket.
US11176850B2	Method for separating label assembly A label assembly including a face sheet, a back sheet, and a layer of an adhesive positioned between the face sheet and the back sheet. A separation line divides the label assembly into at least two portions. The separation line is formed by a first tearable line of separation extending across the back sheet and a second tearable line of separation extending across the face sheet. The first tearable line of separation is offset with respect to the second tearable line of separation, and at least one of the first and second tearable lines of separation includes a non-linear portion directed toward and/or an angled portion extending at an angle to an other of the at least one of the first and second tearable lines of separation.
US11176849B2	Pumping heart simulator A pumping heart simulator is described. The pumping heart simulator can include an inflow pump, an outflow pump, and a control apparatus. The inflow pump can have a first magnetic motor that facilitates flow of fluid from a bottom portion of a fluid reservoir to three inlet valves of a heart via the inflow pump. The outflow pump can have a second magnetic motor that facilitates flow of fluid from two outlet valves of the heart to a top portion of the fluid reservoir via the outflow pump. The control apparatus can alternately activate the first magnetic motor and the second magnetic motor. Related apparatuses, systems, methods, techniques and articles are also described.
US11176848B1	Tissue-mimicking material for a multi-modality imaging phantom A multi-modality fatty tissue mimicking material for phantoms for use with thermoacoustic imaging, ultrasound imaging and magnetic resonance imaging, which includes: an aqueous mixture of a 3% to 18% thickening agent, a 1% to 30% protein powder, a 0.1% to 2% ionic salt, a 30% to 85% water, and a 0% to 60% oil by weight, wherein the oil percentage corresponds to the fat percentage in tissue, further wherein the ionic salt percentage corresponds to an imaginary part of complex permittivity in tissue, and further wherein the water, oil and protein powder percentages correspond to the real part of complex permittivity in tissue.
US11176847B2	Injector training device A training device for training a user on the operation of an auto-injector that dispenses a medicament. A needle guard is slidable from a first extended position relative to a housing prior to operation of the training device, to a retracted position during operation of the training device, and to a second extended position after operation of the training device. An actuation assembly controls the movement of the needle guard from the retracted position to the second extended position. A lock locks the needle guard in the second extended position. A safety is proximate a proximal end of the housing and prevents movement of the needle guard from the first extended position to the retracted position in a storage position. The needle guard is moveable into the retracted position with the safety in an armed position. The safety resets the lock upon returning the safety to the storage position.
US11176845B2	Adaptive analysis of driver behavior An automated method of evaluating driver performance using adaptive models includes: receiving sensor data generated by a set of vehicle sensors associated with a vehicle; generating a set of predicted paths of the vehicle based at least partly on the received sensor data; retrieving map information from a map database, the map information including road links along the set of predicted paths of the vehicle; retrieving a set of evaluation curves associated with the road links, where inclusion in the set of evaluation curves is based on evaluation of dynamic models associated with the road links along the set of predicted paths; calculating mathematical differences between each evaluation curve and the received data and generating a driver score based on a calculated difference in area between the received data and each evaluation curve; and displaying a warning if at least one of the calculated mathematical differences exceeds a warning threshold.
US11176842B2	Information processing apparatus, method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium An information processing apparatus is configured to display, on a display device, in a first display form, a first query including a question and a plurality of choices that are answers to the question, obtain behavior information indicating a behavior of a user when the user answers the first query in the first display form, determine a first confidence level of the user for the first query in the first display form and a reliability of the first confidence level, when the reliability is less than a threshold value, display the first query on the display device in a second display form, and determine a second confidence level of the user for the first query based on a first answer of the user to the first query in the first display form and a second answer of the user to the first query in the second display form.
US11176839B2	Presentation recording evaluation and assessment system and method A method for evaluating and assessing a presentation for deviations, comprising receiving a first set of materials, wherein the first set of materials are associated with a presentation syllabus, receiving a recording of the presentation, creating an evaluated compilation of the presentation, wherein the evaluated compilation comprises an integration of the first set of materials with the recording of the presentation, assessing the evaluated compilation in relation to a predetermined set of requirements, wherein the predetermined set of requirements are based on audio and visual aspects of the recording of the presentation,indexing each instance where one of the predetermined set of requirements are triggered from the evaluated compilation, and generating a report based on the triggering of the predetermined set of requirements.
US11176838B2	Advisor system and method An automatic, autonomous, and aircraft-centric interference advisory method is executed entirely on a first aircraft operating on a movement area of a runway, the movement are including ramps, taxiways, and runways. The method includes a processor onboard the first aircraft computing a first movement projection for the first aircraft using first aircraft data received at the first aircraft; the processor computing additional second movement projections for multiple second aircraft operating on the movement area of the airport using second data regarding each of the multiple second aircraft; the processor detecting a threat to the first aircraft on approach to a defined intersection of the movement area from any of the multiple second aircraft based on a corresponding second movement projection within a configurable time limit of entry into the defined intersection by the first aircraft; and providing on the first aircraft, a threat advisory for a detected threat.
US11176834B2	Dynamic vertiport configuration A vertiport system dynamically updates configuration of a vertiport based on predicted usage of the vertiport during a given time frame. The vertiport system predicts vertiport usage using flight data and estimated passenger demands and determines a desired number of parking pads and a desired number of final approach and takeoff (FATO) pads for the vertiport during the time frame. Based on the desired number of parking pads and the desired number of FATO pads for the vertiport, the vertiport system determines an updated configuration of the vertiport. According to the updated configuration, the vertiport system updates the configuration of the vertiport for at least a portion of the time frame.
US11176832B2	Systems and methods to integrate real-time internet-connected aircraft data for cargo planning Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for fleet based aircraft flight planning using real-time intelligence. For example, a system may include a simulation engine configured to calculate flight modification parameters associated with an aircraft based on real-time flight data of the aircraft, real-time weather data along a flight path of the aircraft, and real-time planning data of the aircraft, and then transmit the flight modification parameters to a flight management system (FMS) of the aircraft.
US11176831B2	Restricting areas available to autonomous and teleoperated vehicles A vehicle policy server maintains a set of policies for constraining operations of one or more remote vehicles. The policies may specify areas, locations, or routes that specified vehicles are restricted from accessing based on a set of acquired information. An application programming interface (API) enables programmatic updates of the policies or related information. Policies may be enforced by transmitting control signals fully or in part to onboard vehicle computers or to a teleoperation support module providing remote support to the vehicles using human teleoperators and/or artificial intelligence agents. The control signals may directly control the vehicles or teleoperation, or may cause a navigation system to present known restrictions in a suitable fashion such as generating an augmented reality display or mapping overlays.
US11176830B2	Vehicle location tracking systems and methods A vehicle location tracking system comprises a plurality of transceivers, a coordinator, and a plurality of identification tags. The plurality of identification tags are coupled to a fleet of vehicles to be tracked. The transceivers measure the strength of a signal emitted by an identification tag coupled to a vehicle and communicate the measured signal strength to the coordinator. The indoor vehicle location tracking system estimates the location of the vehicle based on the measured signal strength.
US11176829B2	System and method for operating autonomously driving utility vehicles A system for operating an autonomously driving commercial vehicle in a restricted area, including: a vehicle interface module to provide an interface for the vehicle, wherein the restricted area has an entrance, an exit and at least one destination where an action is performable on the commercial vehicle; a driver interface module to provide a communication interface for a driver; and an operator interface module to provide a communication interface for an operator of the restricted area; in which the vehicle interface module, the driver interface module and the operator interface module are configured to exchange information with one another. Also described are a related management system, a method and a computer readable medium.
US11176828B2	Deriving an equivalent real-time engine control unit (ECU) speed of a vehicle A server device can obtain historical location data, concerning a vehicle, captured by a global positioning system (GPS) device of the vehicle and historical engine control unit (ECU) data concerning the vehicle captured by an ECU of the vehicle. The server device can process the historical location data and the historical ECU data to train a machine learning model to determine a relationship between the historical location data and the historical ECU data. The server device can receive location data and ECU data concerning the vehicle and update the machine learning model based on the location data and the ECU data. The server device can receive real-time location data concerning the vehicle and derive an equivalent real-time ECU speed using the machine learning model. The server device can generate a message regarding the equivalent real-time ECU speed of the vehicle and send the message to a remote device for display.
US11176827B2	Extendable blind spot sensors and methods of use Extendable blind spot sensors and methods of use are provided herein, which may include a blind spot sensor configured to monitor a blind spot of a vehicle and an extender in mechanical communication with the blind spot sensor. The extender is configured to move the blind spot sensor between a first position and a second position when a trailer is attached to the vehicle.
US11176825B1	Systems and methods for vehicle backup warning notification Vehicle backup warning notification systems and methods are disclosed herein. An example method can include determining a hazardous condition in an operating area around a vehicle based on user input of a first user at a first point in time, storing a warning message that indicates that the hazardous condition is present in the operating area, determining a second user driving the vehicle at a second point in time, determining that the stored warning message exists, and presenting the warning message for the second user driving the vehicle to notify the second user that the hazardous condition is present in the operating area.
US11176818B2	Cluster-based management of vehicle power consumption Cluster-based management of vehicle power consumption is provided. Electrical power consumption and processing power consumption of a vehicle is optimized by dynamically determining a cluster of vehicles for the vehicle to join based on input sensor data capturing functions, sensor data processing functions, communication functions, vehicle driving functions, and interior vehicle functions. In response to the vehicle joining the cluster of vehicles, an appropriate proportion of information the vehicle is to process is determined based on current input sensor data capturing functions, sensor data processing functions, and communication functions the vehicle is performing and current power consumption levels the vehicle is using, and current input sensor data capturing functions, sensor data processing functions, and communication functions other vehicles in the cluster of vehicles are performing and current power consumption levels the other vehicles in the cluster are using.
US11176817B2	Guiding signs system and information processing method thereof A guiding signs system may include a plurality of guiding signs for outputting information and an information processor to acquire marching needs and path sets of objects, wherein the marching need includes quantities of objects and the path sets include all passages from a starting point to an end point; the passages include nodes and roads in between, and each node has one or more guiding signs, wherein the information processor calculates each object's distribution in the path sets according to the marching needs, and determine each object's priority on each road according to each object's distribution in the path sets, each guiding sign is configured to output the information of each object's priority on each road.
US11176813B2	Path deviation detection analysis by pattern recognition on surfaces via machine learning An approach for analyzing and predicting a pattern of debris accumulation in area based on a deviation in mobility pattern. The approach includes receiving data from one or more sensors from an area and identifying objects based on the received data. The approach determines whether the received data is a first instance and stores the data. Based on the stored data, the approach analyzes, via machine learning, a mobility pattern associated with the retrieved data. Furthermore, the approach generates an actionable task list based on the analyzed data and instructs one or more computing devices based on the actionable task list.
US11176808B2	Interface actuator device and method of use An interface actuator device, an interface actuator system, and a system and method for remotely controlling an interface of a control panel are disclosed. The interface actuator device includes an actuator for controlling the interface of the control panel and an attachment mechanism for mounting the interface actuator device to the control panel. The system can further include a camera for capturing images of the interface and a mobile device for controlling the actuator and viewing the images from the camera.
US11176805B2	Apparatus, system and methods for providing security crisis locations and notifications The present invention provides a system and methods for notifying first responders of the general or specific location of a security crisis or threat in a building or public location, and the type of threat or crisis that has occurred, while notifying building occupants or others in the public location of the crisis and how to respond. The crisis notification system alarm system can provide critical information to the first responders, including location of crisis and whether the crisis location is changing, audio and video of the crisis arena, communications with designated occupants in the crisis arena, and other information. The crisis notification system can be scaled to allow the effective use in facilities of differing sizes and layouts. The system is also flexible, enabling the system to integrate with currently existing systems or to operate with new devices.
US11176804B1	Systems and methods for controlling addressable combined initiating device and notification appliance circuits Aspects of the present disclosure provide addressable detection and alarm systems and methods for controlling a combined circuit by a control panel. In an example, a combined circuit may include one or more addressable initiating devices and one or more non-addressable notification appliances communicatively coupled with paired wires in parallel. The control panel may receive, on the paired wires, an indication of an anomaly from an addressable initiating device and transmit, on the paired wires, the alarm signal to the one or more addressable initiating devices and the one or more non-addressable notification appliances, wherein a first state of the alarm signal activates the one or more non-addressable notification appliances and deactivates the one or more addressable initiating devices, and wherein a second state of the alarm signal deactivates the one or more non-addressable notification appliances and activates the one or more addressable initiating devices.
US11176802B1	Wearable health and treatment device A wearable device and systems and methods including the wearable device are provided. The wearable device includes a wearable strap, the wearable strap having a first cavity extending along a portion of the wearable strap; a deformable cartridge positioned substantially within the first cavity and configured to contain and selectively dispense a treatment substance; a body temperature capturing component, one side of the body temperature capturing component being in contact with a portion of a wearer's skin, and an opposing side of the body temperature capturing component being in contact with the deformable cartridge; and a set of buttons embedded in a portion of the wearable strap spaced away from the first cavity, the set of buttons being configured to initiate dispensing of the treatment substance from the deformable cartridge when actuated.
US11176799B2	Global positioning system equipped with hazard detector and a system for providing hazard alerts thereby A hazard detector system, comprising: hazard detectors communicatively connected to computing devices; a geolocation detector; an occupancy detector; a power source; an alert device; a secondary location detector; an interaction device. The hazard detectors may be configured to transmit information related to a plurality of hazardous environmental conditions to and from the computing devices. The alert device may provide a perceptible alert to individuals in proximity to the hazard detectors. The geolocation detector may be configured to identify a geographic location of the hazard detector. The interaction device may provide the individuals in proximity of the hazard detector the ability to provide additional information about the hazardous environmental conditions to the computing devices.
US11176798B2	Anomaly notification system and anomaly notification method Anomaly notification system that notifies of an anomaly of cared person in room includes sensor, sound collecting unit, first determination unit that determines whether a volume of the collected sound is more than or equal to a reference volume, second determination unit that determines whether a target sound is a predetermined activity sound generated by an activity of cared person, and third determination unit that determines whether an anomaly occurs in cared person, based on the activity amounts, which are measured before and after the target sound is collected, and notification unit.
US11176797B2	Electronic apparatus and method According to one embodiment, a method executed by an electronic apparatus including storage configured to store device information including first position information indicating a position of a device installed in a particular range and risk information associated with use of the device is provided. The method includes receiving second position information indicating a position of a user wearing an eyeglasses-type wearable terminal and working within the particular range, from the eyeglasses-type wearable terminal and estimating a status of the user, based at least in part on the first position information and the risk information included in the device information, and the second position information.
US11176785B1	Detection of dispensing errors in automated teller machines A system configured to display questions to a user regarding a transaction at an automated teller machine (ATM). The system is further configured to receive a signal from the user in response to a first question, indicating that the cash dispensed by the ATM does not match the cash the user requested. The system is also configured to receive a signal from the user in response to a second question, indicating that the received amount of cash did not match the requested amount of cash, the received denominations did not match the requested denominations, or both. The system is further configured to generate an error report that includes the information indicated by the signals, a report identifier, and a user identifier. The system generates a receipt for the user that includes the report identifier, and the system sends the report to a server for analysis.
US11176783B2	Apparatus for generating a virtual win regardless of the random process Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and apparatus for operating a gaming device having at least one winning event and at least one related award that is generated according to a set of rules associated with the game. The game is driven to present a predefined winning outcome and an award is generated as if the winning event and award were generated according to the rules. Also provided are rules and/or conditions for determining when to generate the predefined wining event, including rules that take into account player value to the casino and game volatility preference.
US11176782B2	Selectively modifying, processing, and blocking data representing machine-readable codes A device communicates with a scanner, such as a barcode scanner in a retail environment, and with a point-of-sale (POS) register. The device can process different types of machine-readable codes, such as scanned UPCs and unique barcodes associated with individual scratcher cards and/or other items. Data captured by the scanner passes through the device before reaching the POS register; such data may be selectively retransmitted (with or without modification) to the POS register and/or to a server or other device, or it may be blocked from reaching the POS register, server, and/or other device, depending on the current mode of operation. For example, the device can selectively relay some information (such as UPC data) to the POS register to process sales transactions, and/or can relay other information (such as unique barcode data) to server(s) to perform inventory tracking functions, while blocking such unique barcode data from reaching the POS register.
US11176779B2	Gaming machine and method with a bonus symbol array A gaming machine comprises a display and an electronic controller for playing a first game. The electronic controller is configured to randomly determine whether to display one or more bonus symbols in the first game, each bonus symbol being associated with a bonus value award. Where a trigger event occurs during the first game, such as the appearance of a predetermined order of bonus symbols, electronic controller is configured to display an array of the bonus symbols on the display or optionally on another display. Where bonus symbols appear in further plays of the first game or plays of a second game, the bonus symbols are added to the array and bonus symbols present on the array are sequentially transferred to a win meter, which increments by the amount of the associated bonus value award of each transferred bonus symbol.
US11176776B1	Game assembly A game assembly is configured to adjust an amount of money on a game token. The game assembly has a gameboard that uses a continuous path segregated into individually labeled areas. A random number generator randomly selects an integer between one and six. A token is placed on a first individually labeled area. A first instruction card is placed on the gameboard. The first instruction card designates a first play money amount to the token. A second instruction card is placed on the gameboard. Engaging the random number generator produces an integer that directs the token to move to a second individually labeled area. The integer links to instructions on the second instruction card for adjusting the first play money amount on the token.
US11176772B2	Apparatus and method for controlling image display device of slot machine apparatus An apparatus and method for controlling an image display device of a slot machine apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an image storage unit configured to store at least one piece of image content to be displayed on an image display device of a slot machine apparatus, a data storage unit configured to store image setting data for optimizing a function of the image display device according to the nature or mode of the image content, a control unit configured to output specific image content of the image storage unit to a designated image display device or any display region of the image display device through an image output unit and configured to control image setting of the image display device using the image setting data in order to optimize image quality according to the nature or mode of the image content, and a communication unit.
US11176770B2	Real-time processing and managing of product orders An intelligent shelf comprising: a top platform; an electronics module including: one or more sensors for sensing presence of content on the top platform; a wireless communication chip for enabling data communication over a network; a display screen for displaying dynamic messages based on the data communication and the sensing.
US11176764B2	Locking medication containers and methods of use thereof Methods and systems are described for a medication container that may be locked using a locking mechanism. In one exemplary method, a request from a user may be received by a medication provider for a medication. The medication may be placed in a medication container with a locking mechanism that is operable to lock and unlock the medication container. The medication container may be locked using the locking mechanism. The locked medication container with the medication within may be provided to the user. Subsequent to providing the locked medication container to the user, a request may be received from the user to access the medication in the medication container. A credential may be sent to the user that is usable, via the locking mechanism, to unlock the medication container. The user may then input the credential into the locking mechanism to unlock the medication container and access the medication therein.
US11176761B2	Automobile damage detection using thermal conductivity In one aspect, an example method includes (a) determining, via a thermal conductivity sensor of an automobile damage detection device, one or more thermal conductivities at one or more locations on an automobile; (b) transmitting, via a network interface of the automobile damage detection device, a request for anticipated thermal conductivity data from an automobile claims system, wherein the anticipated thermal conductivity data corresponds to anticipated thermal conductivities at the one or more locations on the automobile; (c) in response to transmitting the request, receiving, via the network interface from the automobile claims system, the anticipated thermal conductivity data; and (d) in response to receiving, from the automobile claims system, the anticipated thermal conductivity data, displaying, via a graphical user interface, a graphical representation of the determined one or more thermal conductivities and the anticipated thermal conductivity data.
US11176759B2	Computer-implemented method of displaying a subset of a digitally modeled assembly of objects A computer-implemented method of displaying a subset of a digitally modeled assembly (A) of objects (O1, O2, O3), the method comprising the steps of: a) generating and displaying a three-dimensional graphical representation of the assembly in a three-dimensional scene (3DSC); b) using a graphical tool (PT) for selecting one or more objects of said assembly from said three-dimensional graphical representation; c) determining a central point (CP) of the selected object or objects, and computing a distance of each object of the assembly from said central point; and d) modifying the displayed three-dimensional graphical representation of the assembly by hiding objects whose distance from the central point exceeds a threshold, or reducing their visibility. A computer program product, a non-transitory computer-readable data-storage medium and a Computer Aided Design system for carrying out such a method.
US11176755B1	Artificial reality augments and surfaces Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to providing an artificial reality environment with augments and surfaces. An “augment” is a virtual container in 3D space that can include presentation data, context, and logic. An artificial reality system can use augments as the fundamental building block for displaying 2D and 3D models in the artificial reality environment. For example, augments can represent people, places, and things in an artificial reality environment and can respond to a context such as a current display mode, time of day, a type of surface the augment is on, a relationship to other augments, etc. Augments can be on a “surface” that has a layout and properties that cause augments on that surface to display in different ways. Augments and other objects (real or virtual) can also interact, where these interactions can be controlled by rules for the objects evaluated based on information from the shell.
US11176751B2	Geospatial image surfacing and selection System, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for presenting images on a mobile device. Images are presented by monitoring the location and the orientation of the mobile device, requesting previously captured images corresponding to where the previously captured images were captured in relation to the location from a server, receiving the requested previously captured images from the server, selecting images from the requested previously captured images responsive to the location and the orientation of the mobile device, generating overlay images from the selected images including image icons associated with the selected images, presenting the overlay images on an optical assembly, receiving an image selection identifying one of the image icons in the presented overlay images, and display the selected image associated with the identified image icon on the viewing area of the optical assembly.
US11176750B2	Surgeon head-mounted display apparatuses An augmented reality surgical system includes a head mounted display (HMD) with a see-through display screen, a motion sensor, a camera, and computer equipment. The motion sensor outputs a head motion signal indicating measured movement of the HMD. The computer equipment computes the relative location and orientation of reference markers connected to the HMD and to the patient based on processing a video signal from the camera. The computer equipment generates a three dimensional anatomical model using patient data created by medical imaging equipment, and rotates and scales at least a portion of the three dimensional anatomical model based on the relative location and orientation of the reference markers, and further rotate at least a portion of the three dimensional anatomical model based on the head motion signal to track measured movement of the HMD. The rotated and scaled three dimensional anatomical model is displayed on the display screen.
US11176747B2	Information processing apparatus and information processing method There is provided an information processing apparatus that includes a spatial information acquisition unit that acquires information on a real object disposed in a real space, and a display control unit that, if a distance between a user and a virtual object is a first distance, exercises control such that a first display object is displayed by a display device as the virtual object on the basis of the real object and first processing, and that, if the distance between the user and the virtual object is a second distance that differs from the first distance, exercises control such that a second display object is displayed by the display device as the virtual object on the basis of the real object and second processing that differs from the first processing.
US11176746B2	Modulated display AR tracking systems and methods Modulated display AR tracking systems and methods include a display configured to transmit first image content, the image content comprising a first image content frame and a second image content frame and a device comprising an image sensor, a processor and a memory. The device identifies the first image content frame and the second image content frame by distinguishing at least one feature of the first image content frame. The device recognizes at least one tracking pattern embedded of the second image content frame and retrieves a graphical element based on the at least one tracking pattern of the second image content frame. The device displays augmented image content including the first image content frame and the graphical element.
US11176744B2	Mapping sensor data using a mixed-reality cloud Improved techniques for re-localizing Internet-of-Things (IOT) devices are disclosed herein. Sensor data digitally representing one or more condition(s) monitored by an IOT device is received. In response, a sensor readings map is accessed, where this map is associated with the IOT device. The map also digitally represents the IOT device's environment and includes data representative of a location of the IOT device within the environment. The map also includes data representative of the conditions monitored by the IOT device. Additionally, the map is updated by attaching the sensor data to the map. In some cases, a coverage map can also be computed. Both the sensors readings map and the coverage map can be automatically updated in response to the TOT device being re-localized.
US11176741B2	Techniques for generating stylized quad-meshes from tri-meshes In various embodiments, a stylization subsystem automatically modifies a three-dimensional (3D) object design. In operation, the stylization subsystem generates a simplified quad mesh based on an input triangle mesh that represents the 3D object design, a preferred orientation associated with at least a portion of the input triangle mesh, and mesh complexity constraint(s). The stylization subsystem then converts the simplified quad mesh to a simplified T-spline. Subsequently, the stylization subsystem creases one or more of edges included in the simplified T-spline to generate a stylized T-spline. Notably, the stylized T-spline represents a stylized design that is more convergent with the preferred orientation(s) than the 3D object design. Advantageously, relative to prior art approaches, the stylization subsystem can more efficiently modify the 3D object design to improve overall aesthetics and manufacturability.
US11176740B2	Methods and systems for rendering images Systems and methods are provided for rendering images. Permitted actions can be simulated. A fluoroscopic image can be rendered. The simulated permitted actions can be applied to the fluoroscopic image.
US11176736B2	Dynamically enabling tiling in 3D workloads Methods, systems and apparatuses may provide for technology that determines the size of a graphics primitive, renders pixels associated with the graphics primitive on a per tile basis if the size exceeds a threshold, and renders the pixels associated with the graphics primitive in a mesh order if the size does not exceed the threshold. In one example, the technology discards state data associated with the graphics primitive in response to a completion of rendering the pixels associated with the graphics primitive in the mesh order.
US11176735B2	Map data filtering for simulated-driving-environment generation According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method may include obtaining road data and general area data of a geographic area. The method may also include obtaining filtered road data according to a first degree of accuracy based on a first relationship between the road data and sensor information used by autonomous-vehicle software of an autonomous vehicle to navigate roadways. The method may also include obtaining filtered general area data according to a second degree of accuracy based on a second relationship between the sensor information used by the autonomous-vehicle software and the general area data. The method may also include generating a three-dimensional environmental representation representing the geographic area based on the filtered road data and the filtered general area data. The three-dimensional environmental representation may be for testing the autonomous-vehicle software.
US11176734B1	GPU hardware-based depth buffer direction tracking The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for graphics processing. An example method generally includes receiving, at a graphics processing unit (GPU), a plurality of commands corresponding to a plurality of draws across a frame, each of the plurality of commands indicating a depth test direction with respect to a low-resolution depth (LRZ) buffer for the corresponding draw. The method generally includes maintaining, at the GPU, a LRZ status buffer to store a corresponding depth test direction for a first command in time of the plurality of commands processed by the GPU. The method generally includes disabling, at the GPU, use of the LRZ buffer for depth testing for any of the plurality of commands remaining unprocessed after processing a command of the plurality of commands having a different depth test direction than the corresponding depth test direction stored in the LRZ status buffer.
US11176731B2	Field of view (FOV) throttling of virtual reality (VR) content in a head mounted display A method for reducing discomfort when viewing virtual reality (VR) content for use in head mounted displays (HMDs). The method includes accessing a model that identifies a plurality of learned patterns associated with the generation of corresponding baseline VR content that is likely to cause discomfort. The method includes processing a first application to generate data associated with simulated user interactions with first VR content of the first application. The method includes comparing the data to the model to identify a pattern in the data matching at least one of the learned patterns, such that the identified pattern is likely to cause discomfort. The method includes identifying a zone in the first application corresponding to identified pattern. The method includes applying a discomfort reduction filter effect within the zone for purposes of reducing potential discomfort in a user.
US11176727B2	Method and apparatus for acquiring a spatial map of auditory perception of a subject This method for acquiring a spatial map of auditory perception of a subject comprises a plurality of successive test sequences, each test sequence comprising steps of: a) calibration (1002) of the subject's position, by displaying instructions to the subject, using a head-mounted visual display system worn by the subject, in order to acquire a reference position of the subject, the subject's position being measured using a video motion capture system by measuring the spatial coordinates of a first optical marker worn by the subject, b) choosing (1004) spatial coordinates of a target location of a sound source, said target cation being located around the subject, c) emitting (1006) a predefined sound, using a sound source placed at said target location, d) in response to acquisition instructions generated by the subject using an acquisition interface, acquiring (1008) an estimated location of said sound source, by using the video motion capture system to measure the spatial coordinates of a second optical marker held and pointed by the subject towards a perceived location of the sound source.
US11176726B2	Techniques for displaying an animated calling card According to various exemplary embodiments, a communication request from a caller is received at a mobile device associated with a callee. A relationship between the caller and the callee is determined. Animation rule information is accessed, where the animation rule information describes a plurality of animation rules corresponding to a plurality of relationships. Thereafter, a display of an animation is generated via a user interface in the mobile device of the callee, based on a specific animation rule in the animation rule information that corresponds to the relationship between the caller and the callee.
US11176725B2	Image regularization and retargeting system Systems and methods for image retargeting are provided. Image data may be acquired that includes motion capture data indicative of motion of a plurality of markers disposed on a surface of a first subject. Each of the markers may be associated with a respective location on the first subject. A plurality of blendshapes may be calculated for the motion capture data based on a configuration of the markers. An error function may be identified for the plurality of blendshapes, and it may be determined that the plurality of blendshapes can be used to retarget a second subject based on the error function. The plurality of blendshapes may then be applied to a second subject to generate a new animation.
US11176722B2	Composing an animation scene in a computer-generated animation This disclosure is directed to a method of composing an animation scene in a computer-generated animation. The method includes receiving a user input requesting to perform an operation on at least one computer-generated asset in the animation scene. The method also includes determining, based on the user input, a type of operation and at least one attribute associated with the at least one computer-generated asset in the animation scene. The method further includes, in accordance with the determination of the type of operation and the at least one attribute, processing representations of one or more instances of the at least one computer-generated asset; and projecting the processed representations of the one or more instances of the at least one computer-generated asset onto the animation scene to perform the operation. The method further includes generating metadata associated with the manipulated representations of the one or more instances of the at least one computer-generated asset.
US11176707B2	Calibration apparatus and calibration method A calibration apparatus calibrates parameters of imaging apparatuses which are disposed at different positions and image a common three-dimensional space. The calibration apparatus includes: an obtaining circuit which obtains videos captured by the imaging apparatuses and each including frames; an extraction circuit which extracts feature points from the frames included in the videos, the feature points including first feature points extracted from first frames included in the videos and second feature points extracted from areas containing an image of a moving object in second frames included in the videos and different from the first frames; a matching circuit which performs matching using the feature points, the matching including matching between the first feature points and matching between the second feature points; and a calibration circuit which calculates parameters of the imaging apparatuses based on first matching results obtained through the matching by the matching circuit.
US11176706B2	Systems and methods for automated camera calibration A system and method for calibrating and re-calibrating an imaging device. The image device includes at least one varying intrinsic or extrinsic parameter value based on a view of 3D shapes and a 2D template therefor. The method and system are operable to receive a sequence of images from the imaging device, wherein a planar surface with known geometry is observable from the sequence of images; perform an initial estimation of a set of camera parameters for a given image frame; perform a parameter adjustment operation to minimize a dissimilarity between the template and the sequence of images; perform a parameter adjustment operation to maximize similarities in either the camera's coordinate system or the template's coordinate system; and update an adaptive world template to incorporate an additional stable point from the observed images to the template.
US11176704B2	Object pose estimation in visual data The pose of an object may be estimated based on fiducial points identified in a visual representation of the object. Each fiducial point may correspond with a component of the object, and may be associated with a first location in an image of the object and a second location in a 3D space. A 3D skeleton of the object may be determined by connecting the locations in the 3D space, and the object's pose may be determined based on the 3D skeleton.
US11176703B1	Assessing visibility of a target object with autonomous vehicle fleet A system uses a fleet of AVs to assess visibility of target objects. Each AV has a camera for capturing images of target objects. AVs provide the captured images, or visibility data derived from the captured images, to a remote system, which aggregates visibility data describing images captured across the fleet of AVs. The AVs also provide condition data describing conditions under which the images were captured, and the remote system aggregates the condition data. The remote system processes the aggregated visibility data and condition data to determine conditions under which a target object does not meet a visibility threshold.
US11176697B2	Method for controlling image appearance features in MRI systems, image appearance feature control user interface operating according to the said method and MRI system comprising said user interface Method for controlling image appearance features in MRI systems, image appearance feature control user interface operating according to the method and MRI system including the user interface. There is provided an automatic scan planning module including a memory in which a look up table or a database of examination kind specific settings of the MRI system is stored univocally associating a specific kind of examination with a factory pre-defined experimentally and empirically determined optimum combination of settings of the MRI system, the automatic scan planning module controlling a user interface displaying a list of alternative specific kinds of examinations and providing a selection organ for the user, for selecting one of the specific kinds of examinations. Upon input of the selection of the kind of examination, the automatic scan planning module configures the MRI system automatically with the image acquisition settings corresponding to the selected specific kind of examination.
US11176696B2	Point depth estimation from a set of 3D-registered images Embodiments provide 3D coordinates for points in a scene that are observed to be in the correct physical position in a series of images. A method may comprise obtaining a plurality of images including a base image having at least one annotated point corresponding to a point of an object shown in the base image, and a plurality of side images showing the object from different viewpoints than the base image, wherein the plurality of side images are given with the camera poses relative to the base image, extracting from at least some of the side images, image patches showing the annotated point, wherein a plurality of sets of image patches are extracted, wherein a set of image patches is extracted at a plurality of corresponding candidate depth values, classifying each set as having a corresponding candidate depth value that is correct or incorrect, and outputting a correct depth value.
US11176689B2	Data processing apparatus and data processing method A first comparator compares first input data with second input data, and provides one when the first input data is larger than the second input data and zero when the first input data is equal to or smaller than the second input data as a first comparison result. A data generator generates data based on the second input data. A second comparator compares the first input data with the generated data, and provide one when the first input data is larger than the generated data and zero when the first input data is equal to or smaller than the generated data as a second comparison result. A data initializer initializes third input data. An adder adds the first and second comparison results to the third input data initialized in advance, and to provide the added data as the current third input data.
US11176687B2	Method and apparatus for detecting moving target, and electronic equipment A method and apparatus for detecting a moving target, an electronic equipment and a storage medium. The method includes obtaining a first frame image and a second frame image which are adjacent, and a rotation matrix and a translation matrix between the first and second frame images, the first and second frame image include the same moving target; extracting first feature points from the first frame image; determining second feature points corresponding to the first feature points from the second frame image based on the second frame image and the first feature points; determining distances between the second feature points and corresponding polar lines based on the rotation matrix and the translation matrix; determining third feature points located on the moving target based on the distances; and detecting the moving target based on the third feature points.
US11176679B2	Person segmentations for background replacements In example implementations, a method is provided. The method may be executed by a processor. The method includes receiving an image. A person from a plurality of people within the image is identified. The person is segmented from the image. A background image of the image is replaced with a clean background image to remove the plurality of people from the image except the person that is identified.
US11176678B2	Method and apparatus for applying dynamic effect to image An image processing method including acquiring depth information on at least one of a first portion of a specific object included in a target image or a second portion in a region of the target image that excludes the specific object based on reference pattern information, the reference pattern information including first information on a shape of an object included in an image and second information on a relative position between at least two objects included in the image, and applying a dynamic effect to at least one of the first portion or the second portion based on the acquired depth information may be provided.
US11176676B2	Systems and methods for processing electronic images for computational detection methods Systems and methods are disclosed for receiving one or more electronic slide images associated with a tissue specimen, the tissue specimen being associated with a patient and/or medical case, partitioning a first slide image of the one or more electronic slide images into a plurality of tiles, detecting a plurality of tissue regions of the first slide image and/or plurality of tiles to generate a tissue mask, determining whether any of the plurality of tiles corresponds to non-tissue, removing any of the plurality of tiles that are determined to be non-tissue, determining a prediction, using a machine learning prediction model, for at least one label for the one or more electronic slide images, the machine learning prediction model having been generated by processing a plurality of training images, and outputting the prediction of the trained machine learning prediction model.
US11176673B2	Method and device for acquiring figure parameters of a user The present disclosure discloses a method and a device for acquiring figure parameters of a user. The method includes the following steps: acquiring a photo of the user; processing the photo to generate a profile of the user; taking a parameterized three-dimensional human body model with a projection profile consistent with the profile of the user as a target parameterized three-dimensional human body model; and taking figure parameters of the target parameterized three-dimensional human body model as figure parameters of the user.
US11176672B1	Machine learning method, machine learning device, and machine learning program A full-size training image is reduced by an image reduction unit (11) and input to an FCN (Fully Convolutional Neural Network) computation unit (13), and the FCN computation unit (13) performs calculation under a set filter coefficient and outputs a reduced label image. The reduced label image is enlarged to a full size by an image enlargement unit (14), the error calculation unit (15) calculates an error between the enlarged label image and a full-size ground truth based on a loss function, and the parameter update unit (16) updates a filter coefficient depending on the error. By repeating learning under the control of the learning control unit 17, it is possible to generate a learning model for performing optimal segmentation including an error generated at the time of image enlargement. Further, by including the image enlargement processing in the learning model, a full-size label image can be output, and the accuracy evaluation of the model can also be performed with high accuracy.
US11176665B2	Endoscopic image processing device and endoscopic image processing method An endoscopic image processing device includes one or more processors. The processors perform: detecting a region of interest for an observation image, the observation image being obtained by picking up an image of an object and being sequentially input to the processors, judging whether detection of the region of interest continues or not to acquire a judgment result, emphasizing with adding visual information for emphasizing a position of the region of interest to the observation image during a period during which the region of interest is detected. The processors cause an appearance of the visual information added to the observation image to differ between a case where the detection of the region of interest continues for a predetermined time period or more and a case where the detection of the region of interest discontinues in a time period shorter than the predetermined time period, based on the judgment result.
US11176655B2	System and method for determining 3D surface features and irregularities on an object This invention provides a system and method for determining the location and characteristics of certain surface features that comprises elevated or depressed regions with respect to a smooth surrounding surface on an object. A filter acts on a range image of the scene. A filter defines an annulus or other perimeter shape around each pixel in which a best-fit surface is established. A normal to the pixel allows derivation of local displacement height. The displacement height is used to establish a height deviation image of the object, with which bumps, dents or other height-displacement features can be determined. The bump filter can be used to locate regions on a surface with minimal irregularities by mapping such irregularities to a grid and then thresholding the grid to generate a cost function. Regions with a minimal cost are acceptable candidates for application of labels and other items in which a smooth surface is desirable.
US11176654B2	Quality assessment of a video A method for quality assessment of a video that includes M video frames. The method includes repeating a first iterative process M times and extracting a score distribution for a plurality of scores. An mth iteration of the first iterative process, where m ∈ [1,M], includes generating an mth frame-level feature set, generating a first recurrent output of a plurality of recurrent outputs based on a zeroth recurrent output of the plurality of recurrent outputs, and generating an mth recurrent output of the plurality of recurrent outputs based on an (m−1)th recurrent output of the plurality of recurrent outputs. The first recurrent output is generated by feeding a first frame-level feature set to a recurrent neural network. The mth recurrent output is generated by feeding the mth frame-level feature set to the recurrent neural network. The score distribution is extracted from an Mth recurrent output of the plurality of recurrent outputs.
US11176650B2	Data generation apparatus, data generation method, and data generation program A data generation apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image of an object to be inspected including a defect, and a region of the image that includes the defect; a correction unit configured to correct the region acquired by the acquisition unit by expanding an outer edge of the region so that the number of pixels included in the region is increased by a predetermined amount; and a generation unit configured to generate learning data by associating the region corrected by the correction unit with the image.
US11176649B1	System and method of identifying presence of digital ghosting artifacts in videos A system and method for identifying presence of digital ghosting artifacts in videos is disclosed. The method comprises estimating a blending parameter (α) for a current image using a previous image and a next image of a digital video stream. Successively, a blended image (B) is created by mixing contents of the previous image and the next image based on the estimated blending parameter (α). Thereafter, a first similarity is computed between the blended image (B) and a de-interlaced image (C), based on a Normalized Cross Correlation (NCC) between multiple blocks of the blended image (B) and the de-interlaced image (C). Successively, a second similarity is computed between the blended image (B) and the de-interlaced image (C), based on values of standard deviation of an absolute difference frame determined between the blended image (B) and the de-interlaced image (C). The de-interlaced image (C) is finally identified to comprise digital ghosting artifact based on values of the first similarity and the second similarity.
US11176644B2	Keystone corrections with quadrilateral objects An example method includes receiving by a processor of an image capturing device, an image of a quadrilateral object captured by a camera of the image capturing device. A homography matrix is calculated by the processor based on the image of the quadrilateral object and a known dimension of the quadrilateral object. The processor performs a keystone correction based on the homography matrix to convert a subsequent image captured by the camera into a corrected image.
US11176641B2	Skin map-aided skin smoothing of images using a bilateral filter Skin smoothing is applied to images using a bilateral filter and aided by a skin map. In one example a method includes receiving an image having pixels at an original resolution. The image is buffered. The image is downscaled from the original resolution to a lower resolution. A bilateral filter is applied to pixels of the downscaled image. The filtered pixels of the downscaled image are blended with pixels of the image having the original resolution, and the blended image is produced.
US11176635B2	Automatic programming of solder paste inspection system A system for measuring solder paste stencil aperture positions and sizes is provided. The system includes at least one camera configured to acquire images of the stencil and an alignment target. A motion system generates relative motion between the at least one camera and the stencil. A controller is coupled to and controls the motion system. The controller is configured to analyze the images to generate aperture information relative to the stencil. The aperture information is provided to automatically program a solder paste inspection system. Other features and benefits that characterize embodiments of the present invention will be apparent upon reading the following detailed description and review of the associated drawings.
US11176633B2	Image processing apparatus, method for controlling the same, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium This image processing apparatus accepts a request to execute predetermined image processing, acquires an image processing name indicating a name of the predetermined image processing from the accepted request, selects a plugin application corresponding to the acquired image processing name from one or more installed plugin applications, and instructs the selected plugin application to perform the predetermined image processing.
US11176631B1	GPU-based parallel indexing for concurrent spatial query Disclosed are various embodiments for GPU-based parallel indexing for concurrent spatial queries. A number of nodes in a tree to be partitioned is determined. The tree is then iteratively partitioned with the GPU. Nodes are created with the GPU. Finally, a point insertion is performed using the GPU.
US11176630B2	Dynamic UAV transport tasks Example implementations relate to a method of dynamically updating a transport task of a UAV. The method includes receiving, at a transport-provider computing system, an item provider request for transportation of a plurality of packages from a loading location at a given future time. The method also includes assigning, by the transport-provider computing system, a respective transport task to each of a plurality of UAVs, where the respective transport task comprises an instruction to deploy to the loading location to pick up one or more of the plurality of packages. Further, the method includes identifying, by the transport-provider system, a first package while or after a first UAV picks up the first package. Yet further, the method includes based on the identifying of the first package, providing, by the transport-provider system, a task update to the first UAV to update the respective transport task of the first UAV.
US11176629B2	System and method for monitoring logistical locations and transit entities using a canonical model A system and method utilizing a canonical model for monitoring fixed entities, transit entities, and/or moveable objects includes a circuit having one or more data collectors and a configuration database in communication with the circuit. The configuration database has a plurality of location asset designators (“LADs”) and modal asset designators (“MADs”) and/or sensor asset designators (“SADs”). The LADs each have a data structure that includes a type of fixed entities and a location of the fixed entities. The MADs each have a data structure that includes a transportation type for each of the transit entities. The SADs have a data structure that includes a sensor identity of a sensor associated with at least one of the moveable objects and a sensor location of the sensor. The circuit is configured to periodically receive information from the transit entities and update the MADs, SADs, and/or LADs of the canonical model.
US11176624B2	Privacy-preserving smart metering Embodiments of the present disclosure provide method, system and computer program product for privacy preserving smart metering. According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a plurality of customer-encrypted meter readings are received, each of the plurality of customer-encrypted meter readings being encrypted by a customer using a customer key, then a summation of customer keys is obtained, next the plurality of customer-encrypted meter readings are summed, and the summation of the plurality of customer-encrypted meter readings is decrypted based on the obtained summation of customer keys.
US11176621B1	Computer-implemented methods systems and articles of manufacture for addressing optical character recognition triggered import errors during preparation of electronic tax return A tax return preparation application generates a first interview screen displayed to a subject taxpayer and requests first input of an image or entry of pre-determined data. Intermediate computer storing electronic tax data of multiple taxpayers determines whether electronic tax data provided or derived based on first input includes a first set for certain fields of an electronic tax form. If so, certain fields are automatically populated and a second, larger set of electronic data is identified and imported from data store to populate additional fields. If not, tax return preparation application generates a second interview screen requesting second input. Additional fields are not populated with data imported from data store when second input confirms that electronic tax data does not include the first set, but may import from data store when second input makes modifications or corrections such that electronic tax data includes the first set.
US11176616B2	System to predict impact of existing risk relationship adjustments According to some embodiments, an existing risk relationship data store may contain electronic records, each electronic record including a risk relationship identifier and a risk relationship characteristic for an existing risk relationship between the enterprise and an entity. A prediction platform may receive electronic records associated with a set of existing risk relationships along with an indication of a future adjustment to a parameter associated with the set of existing risk relationships. The prediction platform may then automatically calculate a projected future impact to a key metric for the set of existing risk relationships based on the future adjustment to the parameter. A rendering platform may receive the projected future impact to the key metric and present an interactive graphical user interface, including an indication of projected future impact, to an administrator.
US11176615B1	Generation of an insurance quote based on another insurance quote A computer-assisted method for generating one or more insurance quotes for a user is described herein. A computing device of an insurance provider may generate a first insurance quote for the user. The computing device may receive from a database information identifying contacts for the user. In response to determining that at least one of the contacts for the user is a customer of the insurance provider, an insurance quote for the customer may be accessed. The computing device may generate a second insurance quote for the user based on the insurance quote for the customer and the first insurance quote for the user. For example, the computing device may compare the insurance quote for the customer to the first insurance quote for the user. The first insurance quote may be adjusted to be within a predetermined amount of the insurance quote for the customer.
US11176613B2	Apparatus and methods for implementing changed monitoring conditions and/or requirements using dynamically-modifiable control logic The technology performs obligations fulfillment monitoring. An input data stream of data messages is received including transaction data and reference data, obligation control logic, and a set of obligation parameters associated with the obligation control logic. An event data processor processes the input data stream using a current version of the obligation control logic and the set of obligation parameters. Subsequently, the event processor receives information to implement and execute obligation control logic that is dynamically-modified and different from the current version of the obligation control logic. The event processor generates and outputs an obligation fulfillment message based on the dynamically-modified obligation logic and transmits to an interested entity.
US11176612B2	Uncertainty-flexibility matching engine for inter-temporal electric energy products Exemplary embodiments relate to a matching engine for the coordination of electric energy production and consumption, in particular in the presence of uncertainty. The engine provides matching based on uncertainty and flexibility in the electric supply and demand chains. The system can use quantified characterizations of uncertainty and flexibility provided by performance measurements of the elements in the chain.
US11176611B2	Dynamic information configuration and display A system, method, and non-transitory computer-readable information recording medium displays information to a user. Market data related to a plurality of tradeable objects is received from an exchange at a trading device. The display of market data related to each tradeable object is separately controlled. If the user is not paying attention to the market data of a particular tradeable object, then the dissemination of the market data for that tradeable object may be temporarily stopped until the user starts paying attention to that tradeable object.
US11176600B2	Method and system for building a product finder The principles set forth herein describe building a product finder. One aspect comprises receiving a request at a computing device to develop a product finder for a specified product category; receiving input at the computing device to configure the product finder, the input comprising data representing product information associated with the specified product category; developing, via a processor accessible by the computing device, the product finder based on an existing template, wherein developing the product finder based on the existing template reduces writing of computer code; and utilizing the input to customize the product finder. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
US11176599B2	System and method of auxiliary data access A method of providing access to auxiliary data for a provider subsystem includes: storing offer data corresponding to an item, the offer data including (i) primary data, and (ii) auxiliary data defining an adjustment between the primary data and corresponding published data stored at an external repository; storing the offer data in an auxiliary repository; in response to an order request from a client subsystem: obtaining an order identifier corresponding to the offer data; and updating the auxiliary repository to store the order identifier in association with the offer data; in response to obtaining the order identifier, generating a reporting message for transmission to a provider subsystem, the reporting message containing the primary data and omitting the auxiliary data; and subsequent to generating the reporting message, retrieving the offer data from the auxiliary repository, and sending at least the auxiliary data to the provider subsystem.
US11176597B2	Associating shoppers together A store having an automated checkout can automatically associate multiple shoppers with a single purchase. For example, a mother and her children can walk independently through the store and select items. Upon checkout, the items selected by the mother and children can all be charged to the mother's credit card in a single purchase. The system and method discussed herein can capture images of multiple shoppers from one or more video streams of a store area, can associate the multiple shoppers with one another from the captured images when the multiple shoppers appear together in a check-in area of the store, can track the movement of the multiple shoppers within the store from the captured images, can track items selected by the multiple shoppers from the captured images, and can initiate a transaction that charges the selected items to an account associated with one of the multiple shoppers.
US11176596B2	System and method for wireless communication to permit audience participation User equipment (UE) includes a short-range transceiver configured for communication with a plurality of wireless access points (APs) distributed throughout a venue. The individual UEs can communicate with the venue via the APs. The UEs can be configured to play interactive games with the venue, some of which may be displayed on the large screen in the venue and others that are displayed on the display of the UE. Data may be sent to the UEs individually or in groups. The data may be in the form of advertising, text messaging, images, video, multimedia, or the like. An array of UEs can receive portions of an overall image and function as individual pixels in a large display.
US11176593B1	Scoring recommendations and explanations with a probabilistic user model A data processing system generates recommendations for on-line shopping by scoring recommendations matching the customer's cart contents using by assessing and ranking each candidate recommendation by the expected incremental margin associated with the recommendation being issued (as compared to the expected margin associated with the recommendation not being issued) by taking into consideration historical associations, knowledge of the layout of the site, the complexity of the product being sold, the user's session behavior, the quality of the selling point messages, product life cycle, substitutability, demographics and/or other considerations relating to the customer purchase environment. In an illustrative implementation, scoring inputs for each candidate recommendation (such as relevance, exposure, clarity and/or pitch strength) are included in a probabilistic framework (such as a Bayesian network) to score the effectiveness of the candidate recommendation and/or associated selling point messages by comparing a recommendation outcome (e.g., purchase likelihood or expected margin resulting from a given recommendation) against a non-recommendation outcome (e.g., the purchase likelihood or expected margin if no recommendation is issued). In addition, a probabilistic framework may also be used to select a selling point message for inclusion with a selected candidate recommendation by assessing the relative strength of the selling point messages by factoring in a user profile match factor (e.g., the relative likelihood that the customer matches the various user case profiles).
US11176589B2	Dynamically generated machine learning models and visualization thereof Systems and methods provide real-time machine learning modeling, evaluation, and visualization. A computing system can receive input values for attributes of a new item listing. Concurrently, the system can analyze previous related item listings. The system can process the attributes and associated values of the new listing and previous listings to extract features and associated values. The system can apply the features of previous listings to machine learning algorithms to generate a machine learning model directed towards a target objective, such as maximizing a selling price or a selling probability for the new listing. The system can determine a likely outcome of the new listing by applying user-input values to the model and alternative outcomes by substituting one or more user-input values. If the alternative outcomes represent better results, then the system can present suggestions to revise the new listing to replace one or more user-input values with substitute values.
US11176588B2	Network-based inventory replenishment A network-based inventory replenishment application maintains and analyzes item transactions on a per-consumer basis. Specific item purchases are calculated as being in need of replenishment by a specific consumer on specific future dates or a specific range of future dates. The consumer is proactively informed and asked if such items should be ordered. The network-based inventory replenishment application engages the consumer for item replenishment and item order processing over a plurality of disparate communication channels.
US11176584B2	Cross-brand redemption in an exchange item marketplace network A method includes establishing an agreement between a first issuing server and a second issuing server regarding first exchange items to have an extended use corresponding to a second type of use. The method further includes storing, by a server, the agreement. The method further includes receiving, by the server, a request for use of a first exchange item from a merchant server regarding a transaction by a user computing device for a particular item. The method further includes determining, by the server, whether the merchant server is affiliated with the first or second issuing server. The method further includes, when the merchant server is affiliated with the second issuing server, interpreting, by the server, the agreement to determine extended use parameters. The method further includes processing, by the server and in accordance with the extended use parameters, use of the first exchange item for the particular item.
US11176581B2	System and process for displaying media content files in an unblockable manner There is provided a system and process of delivering online media content files to websites which are not capable of being blocked. The system and process provides a publisher with a sub-domain name that is pointed to an IP provided by an ad server and ask publisher to update his DNS records. Concurrently, the system delivers the user a script on the newly suggested sub domain that publisher inserts in HEAD tag of web pages where it is determined that the unblockable ads are to be displayed.
US11176577B2	Information providing system and server An information providing system includes: a power supply facility installed at a parking area of a shop; and a vehicle connectable to the power supply facility via a power cable. When the vehicle is connected to the power supply facility via the power cable, the power supply facility is configured to transmit information to the vehicle via the power cable. The information includes: a merchandise item list of merchandise items that can be offered by the shop to a user of the vehicle; and content information (movie, video, still image, music, speech, newspaper, magazine, electronic book, game, comics, and the like) that can be utilized by the user of the vehicle in the passenger compartment of the vehicle.
US11176573B2	Authenticating users for accurate online audience measurement Online entities oftentimes desire to ascertain information about their audience members. To determine information about audience members and their activities, online transactions including information about transactions performed by audience members are collected. One or more audience analysis processes are applied to the online transactions to determine the collection of online transactions performed by a given audience member. With an accurate assignment of online transaction to the audience member, the audience member and associated transactions may be classified as a legitimate or illegitimate.
US11176571B2	Methods and system for serving targeted advertisements to a consumer device A system and methods are disclosed that enable advertisers, publishers, and consumers to interact to provide well-targeted advertisement impressions, while preserving consumer privacy. Particularly, the system and methods enable accurate and reliable targeting of advertisements without the need for privacy-invasive tracking and collection of consumer information by advertisers or publishers. Instead, the consumer retains complete control of his or her own private information, even while that private information is used for programmatic targeting of advertisements. The system and methods disclosed herein advantageously utilize blockchain as a tool for arbitrating data, which accounts for and helps to eliminate fraud, costly arbitrage, and brand safety concerns by providing the programmatic advertising ecosystem with trust, permanence, transparency, and auditability.
US11176568B1	Machine learning digital promotion processing system based upon low-frequency and high-frequency data and related methods A digital promotion system may include a user device and a digital promotion processing server. The digital promotion processing server is configured to repeatedly obtain low-frequency purchase data associated with a given user for a first category of purchases, and repeatedly obtain high-frequency purchase data associated with the given user for a second category of purchases different than the first category of purchases. The high-frequency purchase data may represent a greater number of purchases made in a given time period relative to the low-frequency purchase data. The digital promotion processing server is also configured to use machine learning to generate a current loyalty indicator based upon the repeatedly-obtained low-frequency purchase data and based upon the repeatedly-obtained high-frequency purchase data, and generate a digital promotion based upon the current loyalty indicator and communicate the digital promotion to the user device.
US11176565B2	System and method for conducting semi-opaque sales with item bundles Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for semi-opaque sales with bundles of items. An example bundle can include hotel lodging and a bonus service, status, or item associated with that hotel. An system can identify a first bundle of a first base and bonus item, and a second bundle of a second base and bonus item. The system can present a semi-opaque offer comprising the first bundle, the second bundle, and a discount price, wherein the semi-opaque offer does not identify which of the first bundle and the second bundle will be sold at the discount price to the user upon acceptance of the semi-opaque offer, and wherein the discount price is a full price of the first base item. After receiving acceptance of the semi-opaque offer from the user, the system can disclose that the user has purchased the first bundle at the discount price.
US11176559B2	Cross channel interlinked resource deployment system Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for generating a cross channel cross linkage of channel devices associated with an entity for resource distribution. As such, the system allows for resource distribution across entity devices so that distribution may occur at any location. A resource distribution document may be scanned via a remote device associated with the entity. The system may process the resource distribution document via optical character recognition used for data pulling from the resource distribution document. The system may communicate for acquiring, authenticating, routing, switching, and authorizing the resource distribution. Upon approval of the resource distribution the system may provide the user with a unique identifier for input at a cross channel device for distribution of the resources.
US11176558B1	Systems and methods for electronic scheduling of payment transaction submissions over electronic networks A method for payment submission scheduling includes receiving, at an acquirer computing system, an authorization request submitted by a merchant computing system for a transaction, the merchant computing system being associated with a merchant, and the authorization request identifying account information for an account that is associated with a payment card network and an issuer processor; generating a submission schedule to submit the authorization request based on a dataset of historical processing results, the submission schedule identifying a time slot within which the submitted authorization request is to be transmitted to the issuer processor; and transmitting, by the acquirer computing system to an issuer processor, the authorization request, within the time slot identified by the submission schedule.
US11176555B1	Laser identification devices and methods Methods and systems for identification of objects using a laser. Data for an application including transactional data associated with a user is accessed from a computerized database in a system. Systems and methods operate to select objects from an electronic display. In an example, the systems and methods operate to select objects from an electronic display using a handheld laser identification device. In an example, an electronic display is in communication with a database that updates the display of objects displayed on the electronic display.
US11176554B2	Validation identity tokens for transactions A user initiates a transaction by providing identification data at an access device. Certain elements of a validation identity token, such validation keys, may be distributed among several remote server computers. After the elements are retrieved during the transaction, the validation identity token may be generated using the retrieved elements. The validation identity token may indicate whether the user is authenticated. No single entity can possess all elements utilized to generate the validation identity token, which mitigates risk of the validation identity token being compromised. In some embodiments, the validation identity token may be a chromatic identity token, which may indicate validity by color.
US11176551B2	Horological functions in commercial transactions using time cells A method and system for controlling a commercial transaction is presented. An article of manufacture has a time cell that is read by an electronic apparatus. In response to a determination of a state of the time cell by the electronic apparatus, usage of the article of manufacture in a commercial transaction is enabled or denied based on the determined state of the time cell. The expiration period of a time cell controls the time period during which the commercial transaction is enabled or is denied to be performed; an unexpired time cell may both enable or deny performance of a commercial transaction, and an expired time cell may also both enable or deny performance of a commercial transaction. The time cell may be used to restrict the usage period of a coupon, a promotional offer, a pre-paid service, or some other commercial transaction that involves an article of manufacture.
US11176546B2	Systems, methods and apparatuses for securely storing and providing payment information The systems, methods and apparatuses described herein provide a virtual integrated circuit card (ICC). In one aspect, a method of creating a virtual ICC may be provided. The method may comprise obtaining executable code configured to run on a user device to facilitate financial transactions, preparing a first encryption key usable by the executable code, receiving a second encryption key associated with the user device, forming a virtual ICC comprising the executable code and the first encryption key, and encrypting the virtual ICC with the second encryption key. In another aspect, a virtual ICC may be embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable medium. The virtual ICC may comprise executable code configured to run on a user device to facilitate financial transactions and a first encryption key usable by the executable code. The virtual ICC may be encrypted using a second encryption key associated with the user device.
US11176541B1	Smart card using natural language processing for originating contactless data transfer Apparatus and methods are provided for a smart card which enables users to initiate a transaction or money transfer using voice commands. The apparatus and methods may include a smart card. The smart card may be responsive to voice commands and support electronic communication with a payment network. The smart card may include a housing, a network interface controller including a wireless communication interface, a voice controller, an active near-field communication chip, a microprocessor, a battery and/or an activation button. The smart card may also include executable instructions stored in a non-transitory memory, that when run by the microprocessor, detect and capture a first audio message via the voice controller and perform speaker-dependent speech recognition on the captured audio message to identify whether or not an authorized user of the smart card generated the audio message.
US11176538B2	Multi-function smart tokenizing electronic payment device An embodiment includes a multi-function electronic device capable of generating a programmed magnetic field of alternating polarity based on a speed of a card swipe, and methods for constructing the device for the purpose of emulating a standard credit card. An apparatus is described to allow the device to emulate behavior of a credit card when used in electronic credit card readers. Additionally, methods are described to allow user control of the device for the purpose of authorizing or controlling use of the device in the application of credit, debit and cash transactions, including cryptocurrency and device-to-device transactions. Methods are also described for generating a limited-duration payment number when performing a transaction for the purpose of creating a limited-use payment number, which is limited in scope of use to a predetermined number of authorized transactions. Furthermore the device may interact with other similar devices in proximity for the purpose of funds or credit/debit transfers.
US11176537B2	Payment information processing method, apparatus, and user device A payment information processing method is disclosed. The method includes detecting a preset operation for a user interface; displaying a new window on the user interface, the new window including one or more payment application identifiers; selecting a payment application identifier in the new window; and displaying payment information corresponding to the selected payment application identifier on the user interface, thus implementing a convenient means of making a payment without interrupting a current operation of the user, and greatly improving the user experience.
US11176535B2	Linking payment to secure downloading of application data A communication node for delivering secure content in respect of a requested service to a target entity. The communication node has respective interfaces towards: at least one network for communicating with mobile terminals; a service-provider node providing the requested service; and an authorization node for effecting payments. After having completed a set-up phase and in response to a payment, the communication node enables forwarding of secure content, relating to at least one service requested by a user of a first mobile terminal to a target entity associated with the first mobile terminal. The set-up phase involves: identifying the at least one requested service from the first mobile terminal; linking in the service-provider node the at least one requested service to the first mobile terminal; and assigning a reference in the service-provider node to a payment to be made in respect of the at least one requested service.
US11176534B1	SDK for dynamic workflow rendering on mobile devices A first request to conduct a transaction via a mobile application is received from a user of the mobile application. In response to the receiving of the first request, a first portion of a transaction flow is rendered on a graphical user interface of the mobile application. A determination is made that the mobile application is unable to render a second portion of the transaction flow. In response to the determining, a second request is sent to a server to provide details for the second portion of the transaction flow. After the sending, computer programming code is received. The computer programming code corresponds to the details of the second portion of the transaction flow. Based on the received computer programming code, the second portion of the transaction flow is rendered for the mobile application on the mobile device.
US11176532B2	Electronic device, information processing apparatus, and POS terminal This electronic device has: a device body 10 that has a power switch 12; and a cover 20. The cover 20 has a cover body 21 that can be slid and removed, a switch window 24, a switch door 22, and a sliding member 23 that can slide from a first position located below to a second position located above. The device body 10 has a projection 10p. The sliding member 23 has a claw 23f. The lower end 22L of the switch door 22 comes into contact with the upper end 23U of the sliding member 23 when the door is closed, whereas contact with the upper end 23U ceases when the door is opened. A side surface 23fs of the claw 23f of the sliding member 23 comes into contact with a side surface 10ps of the projection 10p of the device body 10 when the sliding member 23 is at the first position, whereas contact with the side surface 10ps ceases when the sliding member is at the second position.
US11176531B1	Integration of payment processing platform with payment making platform for differentiated payment allocations using cryptocurrency Techniques for integrating a payment processing platform (PPP) and a payment making platform (PMP) for differentiated payment allocations using cryptocurrency is described. The PPP can receive a request to receive funds in cryptocurrency, wherein the funds are associated with transaction(s) conducted via point-of-sale (POS) software provided by the PPP. Based on the request, a cryptocurrency wallet account for the merchant can be accessed via the PMP. The PPP can associate a merchant account of the merchant with the cryptocurrency wallet account. The PPP can receive, via the POS software associated with the merchant, payment authorization request(s) associated with the transaction(s) and cause (i) a first portion of the funds to be deposited as cryptocurrency into the cryptocurrency wallet account and (ii) a second portion of the funds to be deposited as fiat currency into the merchant account.
US11176530B2	Payment terminal A payment terminal includes a magnetic card reader slot having a magnetic head, an IC card reader slot configured to be front of a user, and a first board with a touch area for a contactless payment arranged diagonally upward toward the user. The magnetic card reader slot is arranged toward the user obliquely upward with respect to a direction parallel to the plane. The magnetic card reader slot and the IC card reader slot are arranged, so that a swipe direction of the magnetic card into the magnetic card reader slot and an insertion direction of an IC card into the IC card reader slot are substantially perpendicular to each other. The magnetic card reader slot, the IC card reader slot, and the first board are arranged in this order from the plane in a height direction.
US11176525B2	Equipment to facilitate money transfers into bank accounts Systems and methods for transferring money to a bank account are provided. Transactional information, which includes information on a bank account that is to receive the money, may be transmitted to a host computer system from a point of sale device. The transaction information may be stored at the host computer system. At least some of the transaction information may be sent to an intermediary computer system that is configured to interact with a plurality of banking networks in different countries. The intermediary computer system may also determine which one of the banking networks is associated with the bank account that is to receive the money. A request may be transmitted from the intermediary computer network to a local banking network and includes information on the bank account that is to receive the money and an amount of money to deposit. The bank account may then be credited.
US11176524B1	Math based currency credit card Embodiments include a method of performing a math based currency (“MBC”) transaction. The method includes receiving, from a recipient computer system, information regarding an MBC backed credit card account, information regarding a recipient account and an amount of funds to be transferred to the recipient account from the MBC backed credit card account. The method further includes verifying, by the financial institution computer system, that the amount of funds that are available in the MBC backed credit card account. In various embodiments the method includes updating, by the financial institution computer system, an overlay ledger to increase the balance owed by a customer that holds the MBC backed credit card account.
US11176517B2	System and method for anomaly detection and deduplication of electronic data feeds A method includes receiving an electronic feed inventory file; creating a feed message including a batch of inventory messages based on the feed inventory file; placing the feed message in a message queue; performing validation one each of the inventory messages; generating a response to each of inventory messages that are invalidated; generating a first batch of response message including the responses to the inventory messages that are invalidated, the first batch of response message having the batch identification; publishing the first batch of response message to the message queue; updating a first database based on inventory messages that are validated; generating a responses to each of the inventory messages that are validated; generating a second batch of response message including the responses to the inventory messages that are validated, the second batch of response message having the batch identification; publishing the second batch of response message to the message queue; and updating a second database based on the first batch of response and second batch of response messages.
US11176513B1	Systems and computerized methods for optimizing item retrieval allocation efficiencies The present disclosure provides a computerized method for assigning items to pickers including: determining a priority of an ordered item; inserting the item into an ordered data structure based on the priority of the item; iteratively, for items in the ordered data structure: determining an item physical location corresponding to a first unassigned item in the ordered data structure; determining a plurality of picker physical locations corresponding to locations of user devices of pickers; calculating a plurality of distances between the item physical location and picker physical locations among the plurality of picker physical locations; assigning the first unassigned item by: identifying a closest picker corresponding to a shortest distance of the plurality of distances; selecting the identified picker; correlating the first unassigned item with the selected picker in a data structure; and sending information of the item and physical location to the user device of the picker.
US11176512B2	Concepts for locating assets utilizing light detection and ranging Various embodiments are directed to systems and methods for utilizing Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) sensors to facilitate loading and unloading of assets into receptacles. The LIDAR sensors may be configured to detect the location of various surfaces (e.g., asset surfaces) within a receptacle such that mapping data indicative of the location of the detected surfaces may be generated. This mapping data may facilitate a determination of a total volume of unoccupied space within the receptacle and/or the identification of an unoccupied volume sufficient to accommodate an item having defined dimensions. The mapping data may additionally be indicative of the location of asset identifiers disposed on one or more detected surfaces to facilitate locating a particular asset associated with a provided asset identifier.
US11176510B2	Cargo transport system for perishable products A cargo transport system includes a container for storing perishable products, and a control assembly for controlling an environment parameter. A sensor of the system is configured to measure the environment parameter. A detector of the system may be directly secured to the perishable products for measuring a product condition. A control module of the system is configured to receive signals from the sensor and the detector indicative of the measured environment parameter and product condition, process the signals, and send a command signal to the control assembly for adjusting the environment parameter.
US11176504B2	Identifying changes in health and status of assets from continuous image feeds in near real time A method for assessing an asset status is provided. The method may include identifying, by a processor, an asset within a plurality of tangible, deployed assets. The method may also include retrieving a plurality of images from at least one data repository, whereby the plurality of images are captured within a preconfigured distance of the identified asset. The method may further include determining a portion of the retrieved plurality of images depict the identified asset. The method may also include performing a plurality of image processing techniques on the determined portion. The method may further include creating an assessment of the asset status of the identified asset based on the performed plurality of image processing techniques, whereby the created assessment details whether the identified asset needs a repair or a replacement.
US11176501B2	Methods and systems to track relocation status The present disclosure provides generally for methods and systems relating to relocation management. More specifically, the methods and systems relate to monitoring and assessing the progress and status of a relocation. In some aspects, a move plan may be developed to perform a relocation, wherein the move plan may organize the logistics of the project. In some embodiments, a move plan may comprise move segments that may allow for more detailed logistics management and monitoring. In some implementations, a progress formula may be generated for a relocation based at least in part on the move plan, which may allow for a dynamic and accurate understanding of the progress and status of a relocation.
US11176499B2	Predicting outcomes from measures of group cooperation with applications in traffic alert and control Data is obtained specifying a measure of a data set to be analyzed by human experts and allotted time for analysis completion. Based on same, a schedule is created for a primary meeting of human experts, whose aim is to analyze the data. The meeting is evaluated to create rate estimates for hypothetical meeting partitions; and, if the primary meeting is not adhering to schedule and/or can be speeded up, the meeting partitions are simulated until a partitioning scheme is determined that can restore the meeting to schedule and/or speed it up. In another aspect, a model of focus of attention of each member of a group of individuals engaged in an activity requiring cooperation is dynamically updated, and a cooperation index is determined based on the model of focus of attention, an interaction graph, and at least one physiological parameter of at least one of the members.
US11176498B2	Lineage identification and tracking of resource inception, use, and current location Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for a lineage identification and tracking system. The system generates codes each resource instrument created, such as physical or paper resource instrument, with an index that can track the instrument via a qubit. The coded index is stored. During the life of the resource instrument a quantum optimizer may be utilized for lineage tracking of the instrument. Thus, generating an assigned traceability finger print for the life of the instrument generating a lineage tree. Thus, the invention identifies the instrument and that the instrument can only be at one place at one time, thus providing aid in detecting misappropriation of physical or paper resource instruments.
US11176495B1	Machine learning model ensemble for computing likelihood of an entity failing to meet a target parameter There is provided a method of generating a machine learning (ML) model ensemble for computing likelihood of an entity failing to meet a target parameter, comprising: training ML-sub-models that each output sub-values for an input of raw data elements, training a principal ML model that outputs a value of an entity parameter corresponding to the target parameter for an input of the sub-values, using a training dataset including for sample entities, the ML-sub-values and corresponding entity parameters, inputting raw data elements associated with the entity into the ML-sub-models to obtain respective sub-values, in iterations: computing simulated adjustments to the sub-values to generate adjusted sub-values that are inputted into the principal ML model to obtain simulated values for the entity parameter, and generating a risk classifier that generates a likelihood of the entity failing to meet the target parameter according to an analysis of the simulated values for the entity parameter.
US11176490B2	Accumulate across stages in machine learning object detection Apparatus, methods, systems, and instructions stored on computer-readable medium are presented for performing classification. A hardware engine may be configurable to implement multiple stages of a cascade classifier including a first stage and a second stage. The hardware engine may be configurable to (a) access a value indicative of whether to accumulate, and (b) responsive to the value indicative of whether to accumulate meeting a continue evaluation condition, (i) access a first numeric value obtained from evaluation of the first stage of the cascade classifier, (ii) accumulate the first numeric value with a second numeric value obtained from evaluation of the second stage of the cascade classifier to generate an accumulated value, and (iii) utilize the accumulated value to determine an outcome for the second stage of the cascade classifier.
US11176488B2	Online anomaly detection using pairwise agreement in heterogeneous model ensemble Techniques are provided for online anomaly detection using pairwise agreement in a heterogeneous model ensemble. An exemplary contextual model agreement network comprises nodes and transition edges between the nodes, where each node corresponds to a machine learning model and the transition edges between corresponding pairwise machine learning models encode a level of historical agreement between the pairwise machine learning models. In response to an availability of new data observations: features present in the data observations are extracted; a subset of the machine learning models is selected from the machine learning models based on the extracted features; the historical agreement between the selected machine learning models is compared with a current agreement of the selected machine learning models; and an anomaly is detected in the data observations based on the comparison. The contextual model agreement network is optionally updated based on new data observations.
US11176487B2	Gradient-based auto-tuning for machine learning and deep learning models Herein, horizontally scalable techniques efficiently configure machine learning algorithms for optimal accuracy and without informed inputs. In an embodiment, for each particular hyperparameter, and for each epoch, a computer processes the particular hyperparameter. An epoch explores one hyperparameter based on hyperparameter tuples. A respective score is calculated from each tuple. The tuple contains a distinct combination of values, each of which is contained in a value range of a distinct hyperparameter. All values of a tuple that belong to the particular hyperparameter are distinct. All values of a tuple that belong to other hyperparameters are held constant. The value range of the particular hyperparameter is narrowed based on an intersection point of a first line based on the scores and a second line based on the scores. A machine learning algorithm is optimally configured from repeatedly narrowed value ranges of hyperparameters. The configured algorithm is invoked to obtain a result.
US11176482B2	Training signal processing model for component replacement in signal processing system Embodiments of training signal processing models for component replacement in signal processing systems are disclosed. A device for training a third signal processing model via a machine learning method include a first calculating unit, a second calculating unit and a training unit. The first calculating unit calculates a first output from each first sample in a first sample set based on a first signal processing model. The second calculating unit calculates a second output from the first sample based on a second signal processing model. The training unit trains a third signal processing model by minimizing a first cost including a first error between the first output and a third output, so that the combination of the second signal processing model and the third signal processing model can simulate the behaviors of the first signal processing model on the first sample set. The third output is an output of the third signal processing model in response to an input including the second output.
US11176477B2	System and method for unsupervised domain adaptation via sliced-wasserstein distance Described is a system for unsupervised domain adaptation in an autonomous learning agent. The system adapts a learned model with a set of unlabeled data from a target domain, resulting in an adapted model. The learned model was previously trained to perform a task using a set of labeled data from a source domain. The set of labeled data has a first input data distribution, and the set of unlabeled target data has a second input data distribution that is distinct from the first input data distribution. The adapted model is implemented in the autonomous learning agent, causing the autonomous learning agent to perform the task in the target domain.
US11176475B1	Artificial intelligence system for training a classifier An artificial intelligence system for training a classifier has a database of training data and a modeling system for building a classification model based on the training data. The database has a binary classification for each entity and binary tokens indicating whether or not one or more indicators about the entity are true. The classification model is based on a tempered indication of the tokens. The tempered indication is a ratio of a weighted sum of the tokens for each entity divided by a tempering factor for each of the entities. The tempering factor is a function of the unweighted sum of the tokens for each entity. Thus, the tempering factor will reduce the tempered indication when large numbers of low weight tokens are present so that the model does not over predict the probability of an entity being in the classification.
US11176469B2	Model training methods, apparatuses, and systems A first training participant performs an iterative process until a predetermined condition is satisfied, where the iterative process includes: obtaining, using secret sharing matrix addition and based on the current sub-model of each training participant and a corresponding feature sample subset of each training participant, a current prediction value of the regression model for a feature sample set, where the corresponding feature sample subset of each training participant is obtained by performing vertical segmentation on the feature sample set; determining a prediction difference between the current prediction value and a label corresponding to the current prediction value; sending the prediction difference to each second training participant; and updating a current sub-model of the first training participant based on the current sub-model of the first training participant and a product of a corresponding feature sample subset of the first training participant and the prediction difference.
US11176464B1	Machine learning-based recommendation system for root cause analysis of service issues A machine learning-based recommendation system is provided for root cause analysis of service issues. An illustrative method of a machine learning system comprises extracting features from service issue investigation log sets corresponding to previously considered service issues; generating representations for the service issue investigation log sets based on the corresponding extracted features; and storing the representations in a knowledge base. In conjunction with obtaining an additional service issue investigation log set, the illustrative method generates a representation of the additional service issue investigation log set; identifies representations previously stored in the knowledge base as candidate service issues related to the additional service issue based on pairwise probabilities indicating whether the additional service issue is related to at least a subset of the previously considered service issues; and presents information characterizing the service issue investigation log sets corresponding to respective ones of the identified representations.
US11176461B1	System and method for managing routing of customer calls to agents A call management system of a call center retrieves from a customer database enterprise customer data associated with an identified customer in a customer call, which may include customer event data, attributions data, and activity event data. The customer database tracks prospects, leads, new business, and purchasers of an enterprise. The system retrieves customer demographic data associated with the identified customer. A predictive model is selected from a plurality of predictive models based on retrieved enterprise customer data. The selected predictive model, including a logistic regression model, and tree-based model, determines a value prediction signal for the identified customer, then classifies the identified customer into a first value group or a second value group. The system routes a customer call classified in the first value group to a first call queue assignment, and routes a customer call classified in the second value group to a second call queue assignment.
US11176460B2	Visual analysis framework for understanding missing links in bipartite networks Example implementations described herein involve an interface for calculating and displaying missing links for data represented as a bipartite network, along with novel methods for improving link prediction algorithms in the related art. Through example implementations described herein, the accuracy of link prediction algorithms can be improved upon, thereby providing the user with a more accurate understanding of the data in the bipartite network.
US11176458B2	Optimization of over-the-air file distribution for connected cars based upon a heuristic scheduling algorithm Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to the optimization of over-the-air (“OTA”) file distribution for connected cars based upon a heuristic scheduling algorithm. A schedule provided by the heuristic scheduling algorithm is designed to distribute OTA data flow to connected cars over the network (geographically) and over a scheduling time horizon (timely), and is capable of reducing the negative impact of OTA file updates on overall wireless network performance. This schedule is created based upon historical statistics associated with connected car driving patterns and simulations of connected car-specific OTA traffic over the network. By leveraging connected cars that connect to different cells at different times based upon driving patterns, the heuristic scheduling algorithm is effective in reducing OTA impact on the network.
US11176451B2	Capacitor based resistive processing unit with symmetric weight update Systems and methods for a capacitor based resistive processing unit with symmetrical weight updating include a first capacitor that stores a charge corresponding to a weight value. A readout circuit reads the charge stored in the first capacitor to apply a weight to an input value corresponding to an input signal using the weight value to produce an output. An update circuit updates the weight value stored in the first capacitor, including a second capacitor in communication with the first capacitor to transfer an amount of charge to the first capacitor according to an error of the output by changing a voltage difference across the first capacitor by a voltage change corresponding to the amount of charge, the voltage difference corresponding to the charge stored in the first capacitor.
US11176445B2	Canonical spiking neuron network for spatiotemporal associative memory Embodiments of the invention relate to canonical spiking neurons for spatiotemporal associative memory. An aspect of the invention provides a spatiotemporal associative memory including a plurality of electronic neurons having a layered neural net relationship with directional synaptic connectivity. The plurality of electronic neurons configured to detect the presence of a spatiotemporal pattern in a real-time data stream, and extract the spatiotemporal pattern. The plurality of electronic neurons are further configured to, based on learning rules, store the spatiotemporal pattern in the plurality of electronic neurons, and upon being presented with a version of the spatiotemporal pattern, retrieve the stored spatiotemporal pattern.
US11176438B2	Neural network system, application processor having the same, and method of operating the neural network system Provided are a neural network system, an application processor including the same, and a method of operating the neural network system. The neural network system includes an operation allocating manager configured to divide a request including a plurality of operations for neural network processing into a plurality of sub-requests each including at least one operation, allocate the plurality of sub-requests to dedicated hardware and one or more pieces of general-purpose hardware, and allocate memories for input and output for each of the plurality of sub-requests based on cost information indicating respective costs needed for hardware to access the memories; and a neural network device configured to execute the sub-requests by using the dedicated hardware and the one or more pieces of general-purpose hardware according to a result of the operation allocation. The operation allocating manager allocates different memories to at least two sub-requests of the plurality of sub-requests.
US11176436B2	Radio frequency communication device and a method for using thereof A radio frequency communication device comprising: a conductive loop being electrically connected to an integrated circuit arrangement; and a pair of opposing conductors extending away from the conductive loop and the integrated circuit arrangement; wherein at least a portion of the pair of opposing conductors or the conductive loop is frangible.
US11176433B2	Pipe connection decision device that detects wrong pipe connection, and image forming apparatus A pipe connection decision device includes a first material including a plurality of first pipes each having a connector receiver attached to one end, a second material including a plurality of second pipes each having a connector attached to one end, a plurality of light emitters respectively provided on the plurality of connector receivers, a plurality of light receivers respectively provided on the plurality of connectors, a storage device, a display device, and a control device. The control device causes the display device, upon deciding that the color of received light accords with an allocated color, with respect to all of the plurality of light receivers, to display a first message, and causes the display device, upon deciding that the color of received light discords with the allocated color, with respect to at least one of the plurality of light receivers, to display a second message.
US11176431B2	Classification based printing material set selection In some examples, classification based printing material set selection may include analyzing a preliminary rendering of print data. Classification based printing material set selection may further include generating raster data based at least in part on a further rendering of the print data, and generating further print data including the raster data.
US11176429B2	Counter rare training date for artificial intelligence A system for enhancing a classifier prediction in respect to underrepresented classes may be provided. A classifier system trained with training data to build a model is used for classifying unknown input data, and an evaluator engine adapted for a determination of an underrepresented class. Additionally, the system comprises an extractor engine adapted for an extraction of relating data from an additional source, and a similarity engine adapted for a selection of data sets out of the relating data wherein the similarity engine is also adapted for comparing features of the relating data and a representative data set for the underrepresented class. Finally, the system comprises a recursion unit adapted for triggering the evaluator engine, the extractor engine and the similarity engine treating selected data set as input data until the evaluator engine classifies the selected data set with a confidence level which is above a confidence threshold level.
US11176417B2	Method and system for producing digital image features A system for generating a set of digital image features, comprising at least one hardware processor adapted for: producing a plurality of input groups of features, each produced by extracting a plurality of features from one of a plurality of digital images; computing an output group of features by inputting the plurality of input groups of features into at least one prediction model trained to produce a model group of features in response to at least two groups of features, such that a model set of labels indicative of the model group of features is similar, according to at least one similarity test, to a target set of labels computed by applying at least one set operator to a plurality of input sets of labels each indicative of one of the at least two groups of features; and providing the output group of features to at least one other processor.
US11176416B2	Perception device A perception device includes: a first neural network that performs a common process associated with perception of an object and thus outputs results of the common process; a second neural network that receives an output of the first neural network and outputs results of a first perception process of perceiving the characteristics of the object with a first accuracy; and a third neural network that receives the output of the first neural network and intermediate data which is generated by the second neural network in the course of the first perception process and outputs results of a second perception process of perceiving the characteristics of the object with a second accuracy which is higher than the first accuracy.
US11176415B2	Assisted image annotation Image annotation includes: accessing initial object prediction information associated with an image, wherein the initial object prediction information includes a plurality of initial predictions associated with a plurality of objects in the image, including bounding box information associated with the plurality of objects; presenting the image and at least a portion of the initial object prediction information to be displayed; receiving adjusted object prediction information pertaining to at least some of the plurality of objects, wherein the adjusted object prediction information is obtained from a user input made via a user interface configured for a user to make annotation adjustments to at least some of the initial object prediction information; and outputting updated object prediction information, wherein the updated object prediction information is based at least in part on the adjusted object prediction information.
US11176414B1	Systems and methods for 3D image distification Systems and methods are described for Distification of 3D imagery. A computing device may obtain a three dimensional (3D) image that includes rules defining a 3D point cloud used to generate a two dimensional (2D) image matrix. The 2D image matrix may include 2D matrix point(s) mapped to the 3D image, where each 2D matrix point can be associated with a horizontal coordinate and a vertical coordinate. The computing device can generate an output feature vector that includes, for at least one of the 2D matrix points, the horizontal coordinate and the vertical coordinate of the 2D matrix point, and a depth coordinate of a 3D point in the 3D point cloud of the 3D image. The 3D point can have a nearest horizontal and vertical coordinate pair that corresponds to the horizontal and vertical coordinates of the at least one 2D matrix point.
US11176413B2	Apparatus, method, and program for training discriminator discriminating disease region, discriminator discriminating disease region, disease region discrimination apparatus, and disease region discrimination program A discriminator includes a common learning unit and a plurality of learning units that are connected to an output unit of the common learning unit. The discriminator is trained, using a plurality of data sets of a first image obtained by capturing an image of a subject that has developed a disease and an image data of a disease region in the first image, such that information indicating the disease region is output from a first learning unit in a case in which the first image is input to the common learning unit. In addition, the discriminator is trained, using a plurality of data sets of an image set obtained by registration between the first image and a second image whose type is different from the type of the first image, such that an estimated image of the second image is output from an output unit of a second learning unit.
US11176412B2	Systems and methods for encoding image features of high-resolution digital images of biological specimens An image analysis system for analyzing biological specimen images is disclosed. The system may include: a superpixel generator configured to obtain a biological specimen image and group pixels of the biological specimen image into a plurality of superpixels; a feature extractor configured to extract, from each superpixel in the plurality of superpixels, a feature vector comprising a plurality of image features; a clustering engine configured to assign the plurality of superpixels to a predefined number of clusters, each cluster being characterized by a centroid vector of feature vectors of superpixels assigned to the cluster; and a storage interface configured to store, for each superpixel in the plurality of superpixels, clustering information identifying the one cluster to which the superpixel is assigned. The system may also include a graph engine configured construct a graph based on the stored information, and use the graph to perform a graph-based image processing task.
US11176408B2	Tire image recognition method and tire image recognition device A method which includes obtaining a plurality of images of tires that differ from one another in either one of or both of a tire type and a tire condition, the obtained images being regarded as teacher images; converting the teacher images into a size of a predetermined number of pixels; learning by a convolutional neural network using data of the plurality of converted teacher images as learning images, and setting parameters of the convolutional neural network; obtaining a tire image of a recognition-target tire and converting the obtained tire image into a size identical to that of the teacher images; and inputting the converted tire image of the recognition-target tire to the convolutional neural network and determining either one of or both of the type and the condition of the recognition-target tire.
US11176407B1	Object detection in an image based on one or more oriented projection spaces A method and an image processing system for detecting an object in an image are described. A set of line segments are detected in the image. A subset of the line segments is identified based on a projection space orientation that defines a projection space. Each one of the line segments of the subset of line segments is projected into the projection space to obtain a set of projected line segments, where each projected line segment of the set of projected line segments is represented by a respective set of projection parameters. A determination is performed, in the projection space, based on the sets of projection parameters and a shape criterion that characterizes the object, of whether the image includes an instance of the object. In response to determining that the image includes the instance of the object, the instance of the object is output.
US11176403B1	Filtering detected objects from an object recognition index according to extracted features Objects detected in data may be filtered from an object recognition index. Data for object detection may be received. An object detection technique may be applied to the data to detect an object. If the object does not satisfy indexing criteria for the object recognition index, then the detected object may be excluded from the object recognition index.
US11176396B2	Detection of whether mobile computing device is pointing to visual code First and second confidence values are determined. The first confidence value corresponds to a likelihood that, from a position and an orientation of a mobile computing device, the mobile computing device is pointing to a visual code. The second confidence value corresponds to a likelihood that, from an image captured by the mobile computing device, the mobile computing device is pointing to the visual code. Whether the mobile computing device is pointing to the visual code is determined based on the first confidence value and the second confidence value.
US11176394B2	Face image processing method and device A face image processing method is provided. The face processing method comprising: extracting a plurality of features from a primary two-dimensional face image to generate a first feature vector; decomposing a three-dimensional face image into a plurality of base face images and a plurality of weighting factors corresponding to the base face images; generating a first two-dimensional code according to the first feature vector; and generating a second two-dimensional code according to the weighting factors.
US11176393B2	Living body recognition method, storage medium, and computer device A face liveness recognition method includes: obtaining a target image containing a facial image; extracting facial feature data of the facial image in the target image; performing face liveness recognition according to the facial feature data to obtain a first confidence level using a first recognition model, the first confidence level denoting a first probability of recognizing a live face; extracting background feature data from an extended facial image, the extended facial image being obtained by extending a region that covers the facial image; performing face liveness recognition according to the background feature data to obtain a second confidence level using a second recognition model, the second confidence level denoting a second probability of recognizing a live face; and according to the first confidence level and the second confidence level, obtaining a recognition result indicating that the target image is a live facial image.
US11176390B2	Cloud-controlled vehicle security system Incidents may be monitored using a camera in response to an activation of a trigger device. Trigger data may be received over a communication network in response to activation of a trigger device disposed within a first area of a vehicle. A camera disposed within a second area of the vehicle may be controlled over the communication network in response to receiving the trigger data, the controlling causing the camera to capture sensor information of a passenger of the vehicle. Passenger information of the passenger of the vehicle may be obtained in response to receiving the trigger data. An alert notification may be generated. The alert notification may comprise at least a portion of the sensor information of the passenger, and the alert notification may be capable of initiating one or more incident actions associated with the passenger.
US11176383B2	Hazard detection through computer vision Systems and methods for detecting a hazard in a facility include the use of one or more cameras coupled with a hazard detection server. The hazard detection server is adapted to analyze images from the cameras, determine probabilities of hazards being present in the images, and provide an alert to a manager or workers when the probabilities exceed a hazard threshold.
US11176379B2	Method of acquiring detection zone in image and method of determining zone usage A method of acquiring detection zone in image, comprises: sequentially acquiring a plurality of images associated with an image acquiring scene by a camera, computing a plurality of moving traces of a plurality of objects in the plurality of images by a computing device, performing a clustering procedure to the moving traces by the computing device to obtain a detection zone, and displaying the detection zone and another image by a display device, with said another image different from the plurality of images and associated with the image acquiring scene.
US11176378B2	Image processing device, image processing method,program, and recording medium An image receiving unit receives an input of an image set owned by a first user, an image analyzing unit analyzes each image included in the image set, a tag information setting unit sets tag information items to be assigned to each image based on an analyzing result of each image, and a tag information assigning unit assigns, as main tag information, the tag information, among the tag information items to be assigned to the image, for which a ratio of the number of times of appearances of the tag information to be assigned to the image to the total number of times of appearances of all the tag information items to be assigned to all the images included in the image set is equal to or greater than a first threshold value and is equal to or less than a second threshold value, to the image, for each image.
US11176375B2	Smart glasses lost object assistance An assembly includes a head mount such as smart glasses wearable on a head of a user. An imager is on the head mount and is configured to generate images of objects. A processor accesses the images responsive to a query and presents images of objects on a display of the head mount to assist the user in identifying, for example, where a lost object was last seen.
US11176372B2	Automatic crop health change detection and alerting system A method and system for crop health change monitoring is provided. The method includes acquiring a companion image of a crop growing within a field at a first point in time, acquiring a master image of the crop growing within the field at a second point in time, and computing, using a processor, vegetation indices using the master image and the companion image, determining, using the processor, regions of change within the master image using the vegetation indices and generating an alert indicative of a change in crop condition of the crop growing within the field, and communicating the alert indicative of the change in crop condition over a network to a computing device configured to receive the alert.
US11176367B1	Apparatuses, systems, and methods for mapping a surface of an eye via an event camera A disclosed computer-implemented method may include directing an illumination source, positioned at a predetermined position relative to an event camera positioned to receive light from the illumination source reflected by a portion of a cornea of a user during an illumination sequence, to illuminate the portion of the cornea of the user in accordance with the illumination sequence. The method may also include detecting, via the event camera, a set of events, each event in the set of events comprising a change in an intensity of light from the illumination source received by a pixel included in the event camera over a sampling period of the event camera. The method may further include determining a shape of the portion of the cornea of the user based on the predetermined position, the illumination sequence, and the set of events. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11176364B2	Computing system for extraction of textual elements from a document Described herein are various technologies pertaining to text extraction from a document. A computing device receives the document. The document comprises computer-readable text and a layout, wherein the layout defines positions of the computer-readable text within a two-dimensional area represented by the document. Responsive to receiving the document, the computing device identifies at least one textual element in the computer-readable text based upon spatial factors between portions of the computer-readable text and contextual relationships between the portions of the computer-readable text. The computing device then outputs the at least one textual element.
US11176362B1	System for character recognition in a digital image processing environment Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for character recognition in a digital image processing environment. The present invention is configured to electronically retrieve one or more documents from a document repository, wherein the one or more documents are in an image format; initiate one or more image super resolution algorithms on the one or more documents; generate, based on at least the one or more image super resolution algorithms, one or more high-resolution images associated with each of the one or more documents; initiate one or more image bottleneck ensembles (IBE) algorithms on the one or more high-resolution images; extract, using the one or more IBE algorithms, one or more features associated with the one or more high resolution images; and store the one or more features extracted from the one or more high resolution images in a feature repository.
US11176361B2	Handwriting detector, extractor, and language classifier Disclosed are methods for handwriting recognition. In some aspects, an image representing a page of a sample document is analyzed to identify a region having indications of handwriting. The region is analyzed to determine frequencies of a plurality of geometric features within the region. The frequencies may be compared to profiles or histograms of known language types, to determine if there are similarities between the frequencies in the sample document relative to those of the known language types. In some aspects, machine learning may be used to characterize the document as a particular language type based on the frequencies of the geometric features.
US11176355B2	Facial image processing method and apparatus, electronic device and computer readable storage medium A facial image processing method and apparatus, an electronic device and a computer readable storage medium. The facial image processing method comprises: acquiring an image to be processed; detecting whether a facial image exists in the image to be processed; in response to the detected facial image, carrying out a first processing on the facial image to obtain a first image; and obtaining depth information, and adding the depth information to the first image to obtain a processed image. According to the method, the image depth information can be added after the image is processed, such that the image has a stereoscopic impression and the user operation is simplified.
US11176354B2	Control method, electronic device and computer-readable storage medium Disclosed is a control method for an infrared light source assembly (10). The method is used for an electronic device (100), wherein the electronic device (100) comprises a camera (20). The infrared light source assembly (10) comprises at least two infrared light sources (12) having different illumination ranges. The control method comprises: (S32) controlling the camera (20) so that same collects a face image; (S34) processing the face image to acquire face position information; and (S36) starting, according to the face position information, an infrared light source (12) having an illumination range corresponding to that into which a face falls, and turning off other infrared light sources (12) or keeping some turned off. Further disclosed are an electronic device (100) and a computer-readable storage medium (800).
US11176353B2	Three-dimensional dataset and two-dimensional image localization The disclosure relates to corresponding apparatus, computer program and method for receiving three-dimensional, 3D, map-data, in which a plurality of locations within the 3D-map-data are association with respective 3D-data-capture-locations of a 3D-camera, and in which 3D-camera-timing-information is associated with each of the plurality of locations; receiving one or more two-dimensional, 2D, images from a 2D-camera, in which 2D-camera-timing-information is associated with each 2D-image, and in which each 2D-image is captured when a movement of the 3D-camera is less than a threshold level; identifying 3D-camera-timing-information associated with locations within the 3D-map-data that correspond to 3D-data-capture-locations with a movement level of the 3D-camera less than the threshold level; associating, in a combined dataset, each 2D-image with a corresponding location within the 3D-map-data by a data processing unit correlating the 2D-camera-timing-information with the identified 3D-camera-timing-information.
US11176349B1	Display screen and electronic device A display screen for an electronic device having an under-screen fingerprint collection component includes a substrate, and a color shifting layer arranged to the substrate The color shifting layer is made of a photochromic material. The color shifting layer covers at least a portion of the substrate corresponding to the under-screen fingerprint collection component.
US11176347B2	Fingerprint-on-display recognition Systems and methods described herein relate to fingerprint-on-display recognition. In particular, the systems and methods described herein may recognize a fingerprint when a finger of a user is placed on a display and authenticate the user based on the recognized fingerprint. Further, the embodiments described herein may utilize multiple colors and/or secondary factors to reduce erroneous authentications of the user. The approaches may improve the accuracy of fingerprint authentication by using the multiple colors and/or secondary factors.
US11176346B2	Enhanced under-display fingerprint sensing using angle-focused narrow field-of-view filters An apparatus for fingerprint sensing includes a light-emitting layer, an optical layer, a filter layer and a pixelated image sensor. The light-emitting layer is covered by a transparent layer, and can illuminate a surface touching the transparent layer and allows transmission of reflected light from the surface to the optical layer. The optical layer includes a plurality of optical elements. The filter layer includes a number of apertures and spatially processes the reflected light. The pixelated image sensor can sense the spatially processed light. At least one of the optical layer or the filter layer enables an angle-focused FOV filtering of the reflected light.
US11176345B2	Ultrasonic fingerprint sensor with a contact layer of non-uniform thickness An ultrasonic sensor includes a two-dimensional array of ultrasonic transducers, wherein the two-dimensional array of ultrasonic transducers is substantially flat, a contact layer having a non-uniform thickness overlying the two-dimensional array of ultrasonic transducers, and an array controller configured to control activation of ultrasonic transducers during an imaging operation. During the imaging operation, the array controller is configured to control a transmission frequency of activated ultrasonic transducers during the imaging operation, wherein a plurality of transmission frequencies are used during the imaging operation to account for an impact of an interference pattern caused by the non-uniform thickness of the contact layer, and is configured to capture at least one fingerprint image using the plurality of transmission frequencies.
US11176344B2	Biometric collection device A method performed by a biometric collection device, including: conveying a waiting signal to a user of the biometric collection device in response to the biometric collection device being waiting for at least one finger to be placed on the biometric collection device; capturing a flat fingerprint or a rolled finger print of the finger; and conveying a result signal to the user in response to the biometric collection device succeeding in or failing in capturing the flat fingerprint or the rolled finger print of the finger, wherein the waiting signal differs from the result signal in at least a length of lighting or a color.
US11176343B2	Quick response (QR) code based test data embedding and transmission In some examples, QR code based test data embedding and transmission may include obtaining, by a test data analyzer that is executed by at least one hardware processor, test data based on operation of a test device to measure a parameter associated with an optical fiber. Based on an analysis of the test data, a report that includes the test data may be generated. A quick response (QR) code generator that is executed by the at least one hardware processor may compress the report that includes the test data to generate a compressed report. The QR code generator may generate, based on an analysis of the compressed report, a QR code that includes the compressed report. A display generator that is executed by the at least one hardware processor may generate a display of the QR code that includes the compressed report.
US11176341B2	Stand that enables a mobile device to read barcodes in presentation mode A presentation stand for enabling a mobile device to read barcodes in presentation mode includes a cradle portion that is connected to the base portion. The cradle portion is configured to hold the mobile device in a position for reading a barcode. A shield portion is attached to the cradle portion and configured to modify a field of view of a camera of the mobile device. The shield portion is also configured to modify a field of illumination of an illumination source of the mobile device. The shield portion includes a camera optic system that is at least partially aligned with the camera of the mobile device when the mobile device is held in the cradle portion. The shield portion also includes an illumination optic system that is at least partially aligned with the illumination source of the mobile device when the mobile device is held in the cradle portion.
US11176340B2	System and method for configuring an ID reader using a mobile device A system and method for communicating at least one of updated configuration information and hardware setup recommendations to a user of an ID decoding vision system is provided. An image of an object containing one or more IDs is acquired with a mobile device. The ID associated with the object is decoded to derive information. Physical dimensions of the ID associated with the object are determined. Based on the information and the dimensions, configuration data can be transmitted to a remote server that automatically determines setup information for the vision system based upon the configuration data. The remote server thereby transmits at least one of (a) updated configuration information to the vision system and (b) hardware setup recommendations to a user of the vision system based upon the configuration data.
US11176336B2	Radio transponder and method for data transmission between a radio transponder reader and the radio transponder A radio transponder and method for data transfer between a radio transponder reading device and the radio transponder, wherein a control unit of the radio transponder controls a change in a load impedance via a control signal having a selected switching pulse frequency and a selected switching pulse quantity to produce a response signal, where the control unit codes multiple-valued at least ternary symbols into the control signal, and where symbol values are assigned to respective switching pulse sequences each having a unique combination of switching pulse frequency, switching pulse number and phase shift such that only combinations for which the quotient of switching pulse number and switching pulse frequency lies within a predefined value range are selected.
US11176335B2	Systems and methods for operating a tag Systems and methods for operating a Radio Frequency Identification (“RFID”) tag. The methods comprise: monitoring a level of Radio Frequency (“RF”) energy being received by the RFID tag; performing operations by a circuit of the RFID tag to compare the level of RF energy in a given frequency band to a first threshold value; and transitioning an operational mode of the RFID tag from a first operational mode in which a receiver is disabled to a second operational mode in which the receiver is enabled, when the level of RF energy exceeds the first threshold value. The RFID tag is able to communicate with a remote tag reader when the RFID tag is in the second operational mode and not when the RFID tag is in the first operational mode.
US11176333B2	Generation of sentence representation Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to generation of sentence representation. In an embodiment, a method is disclosed. According to the method, a sentence graph is generated from a sentence containing words, the sentence graph comprising nodes representing the words and edges connecting the nodes to indicate relationships between the words. Word representations for the plurality of words are determined based on the sentence graph by applying a graph convolution operation on respective sets of neighbor nodes for respective ones of the nodes, a set of neighbor nodes for a node having edges connected with the node. A sentence representation for the sentence is determined based on the word representations for use in a natural language processing task related to the sentence. In other embodiments, a system and a computer program product are disclosed.
US11176331B2	Contextual communication and service interface An example embodiment may involve obtaining an incident record relating to a user. The embodiment may also involve generating and providing, for display on a graphical user interface, a single window including a dialog region, an incident record region, and a suggestion region. The embodiment may also involve determining candidate messages by incorporating components of the incident record into predetermined message templates. The embodiment may also involve determining a scoring for the candidate messages based on a relevance to a conversation between the user and an agent. The embodiment may also involve based on the scoring, selecting one or more of the candidate messages to include in a set of suggested messages displayed in the suggestion region. The embodiment may also involve receiving input from the agent selecting one of the suggested messages, and then responsively displaying the selected suggested message as part of the conversation in the dialog region.
US11176330B2	Generating recommendation information Implementations of this disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for generating recommendation information. An example method includes matching text content from a text content library based on a plurality of predetermined scenario-related words; extracting keywords from the related text content, to generate a plurality of training samples; and for each training sample, providing a source sequence of a sequence pair corresponding to the training sample as an input to a recommendation information generation model, obtaining, from the recommendation information generation model, a predicted word, and adjusting a model parameter of the recommendation information generation model based on a comparison between the predicted word and a corresponding word in a target sequence of the sequence pair corresponding to the training sample, to train the recommendation information generation model.
US11176328B2	Non-factoid question-answering device A question answering device includes: a general word vector converter converting a question and an answer to semantic vectors in accordance with general context; a general sentence level CNN 214, in response to similarities of semantic vectors between words in question and answer and to strength of causality between the words, for weighting each semantic vector to calculate sentence level representations of the question and the answer; a general passage level CNN 218, in response to similarity between sentence level representations of question and answer, and to strength of relation of vectors in the sentence level representations viewed from causality, for weighting the sentence level representation to calculate a passage level representation for the question and answer passage; and a classifier determining whether or not an answer is a correct answer, based on the similarities between outputs from CNNs 214 and 218.
US11176327B2	Information processing device, learning method, and storage medium A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process includes learning distributed representations of words included in a word space of a first language using a learner for learning the distributed representations; classifying words included in a word space of a second language different from the first language into words common to words included in the word space of the first language and words not common to words included in the word space of the first language; and replacing distributed representations of the common words included in the word space of the second language with distributed representations of the words, corresponding to the common words, in the first language and adjusting a parameter of the learner.
US11176326B2	Cognitive analysis of criteria when ingesting data to build a knowledge graph Techniques for cognitive analysis of documents are provided. A document corresponding to a clinical trial is received. Criteria are identified for the clinical trial based on processing the electronic document using natural language processing (NLP) techniques, where the criteria specify attributes of individuals that are eligible for the trial. Further, the criteria are analyzed using NLP techniques to determine a respective confidence level for each respective criterion, where the confidence level indicates a degree of certainty that the criterion is applicable to the trial. A knowledge graph is generated based at least in part on the clinical trial, where the confidence level assigned to each criterion is included in the knowledge graph for subsequent use. Finally, one or more therapies in the knowledge graph are selected to be recommended, based on a patient profile and the confidence level assigned to each of the criteria.
US11176323B2	Natural language processing using an ontology-based concept embedding model A computer system generates a vector space model based on an ontology of concepts. One or more training examples are extracted for one or more concepts of a hierarchical ontology, wherein the one or more training examples for the one or more concepts are based on neighboring concepts in the hierarchical ontology. A plurality of vectors, each including one or more features, are initialized, wherein each vector corresponds to a concept of the one or more concepts. A vector space model is generated by iteratively modifying one or more vectors of the plurality of vectors to optimize a loss function. Natural language processing is performed using the vector space model. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and program product for generating a vector space model in substantially the same manner described above.
US11176321B2	Automated feedback in online language exercises Language models may be run with an input set of words in a given sentence. Each of the language models can predict a set of next candidate words to follow the input set or words. Based on the sets of next candidate words predicted by the language models and an actual next word, language guidance can be provided.
US11176310B2	Facilitating dynamic document layout by determining reading order using document content stream cues Disclosed systems and methods determine a reading order of an electronic document. In an example, a document processing application accesses a content stream that includes a first object with a first location within the electronic document, a second object with a second location within the electronic document, and a third object with a third location within the electronic document. The application computes a region that includes the first object and the second object by determining that the second object is adjacent to the first object in a first dimension, at least a portion of the first and second objects are aligned in a second dimension, and the boundaries of the region do not intersect or encompass the third object. Based on the objects in the region, the application determines that a reading order should include the first object and the second object and should exclude the third object.
US11176308B1	Extracting parasitic capacitance from circuit designs An integrated circuit includes a target wiring layer, a first adjacent wiring layer above the target wiring layer, and a second adjacent wiring layer below the target wiring layer. Each adjacent wiring layer including crossing wires orthogonal to the target wiring layer. Modify a putative design of the integrated circuit by selecting a target wire; identifying lateral neighbors of the target wire; defining regions of the target wire where the lateral neighbors are homogeneous in cross-section; for each region of the target wire, calculating a wire pattern for the crossing wires; identifying segments within above and below portions of the wire pattern; for each above and below segment pair, obtaining a per-unit-length capacitance from a reduced pattern database; extracting a total parasitic capacitance from the per-unit-length pattern capacitances; and in response to an assessment of the impact of the total parasitic capacitance on circuit performance, producing a modified design.
US11176294B2	Method of designing coils for transmitting or receiving power wirelessly Provided is a method of designing coils for transmitting or receiving power wirelessly. The method includes determining a length and a width of a core on which a first coil and second and third coils are disposed, and determining radii and a number of turns of the first to third coils, wherein each of the second and third coils overlaps one side of the first coil. The method further includes determining an operating frequency of the coils and a thickness of the core, determining an optimal thickness of a foil constituting the first to third coils by measuring AC resistances of the first to third coils, and determining an optimal width of the foil by measuring the AC resistances of the first to third coils, whereby an enhanced configuration of the coils is provided.
US11176290B1	Approximate physical simulation integrated debugging method and system based on digital twinning Disclosed is an approximate physical simulation integrated debugging method based on digital twinning, which includes the following steps of: a production line simulation model building step, a twinning step, a system debugging step, a hardware-in-the-loop debugging step, and a device-in-the-loop debugging step. The approximate physical simulation integrated debugging system based on digital twinning includes a production line simulation model building module, a twinning module, a system debugging module, a hardware-in-the-loop debugging module, and a device-in-the-loop debugging module. According to the approximate physical simulation integrated debugging method and system based on digital twinning, since a local component twin after being successfully debugged is replaced with an entity component, when a problem occurs after replacement, only the local component twin needs to be debugged and optimized again, thus saving time and reducing cost.
US11176289B2	Techniques for processing power system network information Techniques and apparatus for parameter error detection in a power system based on state estimation are described. In one embodiment, for example, an efficient process may be used to derive and compute only the necessary subset of the gain matrix and covariance matrix, thus avoiding the computation and storage of large dense matrices. The described efficient process can be applied either to single-scan or multiple-scan schemes. Other embodiments are described.
US11176285B2	Vehicle simulation device and method A vehicle simulation device and method, the device includes a user interface, a database, and a processing device. The user interface includes a scenario selection interface, a vehicle signal display interface, and a motion image display interface. The database stores external motion images and motion image description files associated with the external motion images. The motion image description file includes a plurality of time stamps and a plurality of vehicle operating parameters corresponding to each time stamp. The processing device is configured to load a corresponding external motion image to be displayed on the motion image display interface when the user selects a vehicle operation scenario, output the vehicle operating parameters corresponding to the time stamp according to the current time and the motion image description file of the displayed external motion image, and display the vehicle operating parameters on the vehicle signal display interface.
US11176284B2	Component configurator for generating variants of a component to be installed Disclosed here is a component configurator that generates variants of an aircraft component to be installed. The component configurator includes a detection unit that detects a characteristic of the component, and that determines an available free space for an installation of the component in an installation environment. The available free space is defined by a geometry of the component and/or is dependent on a moving space required by a user. The detection unit is configured to generate geometrically different variants of the component based on the free space available for the installation of the component in the installation environment. The disclosed subject matter further relates to a method for generating variants of an aircraft component to be installed, a program element as well as a computer readable medium on which a program element is stored.
US11176280B2	Secure circuit control to disable circuitry Techniques are disclosed in which a secure circuit controls a gating circuit to enable or disable other circuity of a device (e.g., one or more input sensors). For example, the gating circuit may be a power gating circuit and the secure circuit may be configured to disable power to an input sensor in certain situations. As another example, the gating circuit may be a clock gating circuit and the secure circuit may be configured to disable the clock to an input sensor. As yet another example, the gating circuit may be configured to gate a control bus and the secure circuit may be configured to disable control signals to an input sensor. In some embodiments, hardware resources included in or controlled by the secure circuit are not accessible by other elements of the device, other than by sending requests to a predetermined set of memory locations (e.g., a secure mailbox).
US11176277B2	Automatic generating analytics from blockchain data A blockchain of transactions may be referenced for various purposes and may be later accessed by interested parties for ledger verification and information retrieval. One example method of operation may include identifying a number of data parameters to extract from a blockchain based on a request for analytic data, creating one or more queries based on the data parameters, executing the one or more queries and retrieving the data parameters from the blockchain, identifying one or more permissions of a user account associated with the request for analytic data, and populating an interface with analytic figures based on the data parameters retrieved from the blockchain.
US11176276B1	Systems and methods for managing endpoint security states using passive data integrity attestations The disclosed computer-implemented method for managing endpoint security states using passive data integrity attestations may include (i) receiving passively collected network data from an endpoint device of a computing environment, (ii) determining a security state of the endpoint device using the passively collected network data from the endpoint device, (iii) determining that the security state of the endpoint device is below a threshold, and (iv) in response to determining that the security state of the endpoint device is below a threshold, performing a security action to protect the computing environment against malicious actions. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11176272B2	Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus to privatize consumer data Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus to privatize consumer data are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a consumer data acquirer to collect original data corresponding to (a) confidential information associated with consumers and (b) behavior information associated with the consumers, and a data obfuscator. The data obfuscator is to determine a degree to which the original data is to be obfuscated and a type of obfuscation to be applied to the original data based on the original data, generate obfuscation adjustments of the original data based on the degree and the type, and generate an obfuscation model based on the obfuscation adjustments.
US11176270B2	Apparatus and method for improving data security An information handling system with improved data security has a signal detector circuit to receive a signal interrupt from a plurality of signal interrupt sources, and an authentication timer circuit that starts measuring a configured time duration based upon the received signal interrupt. A scrambler module initiates data scrambling upon completion of the configured time duration.
US11176265B2	Data-centric interactive data security system Current data archiving and storage solutions seek to store data in the most accessible manner possible, often foregoing security for sake of user convenience. The technology, system, and methods proposed in this document seek to protect data in a highly resilient, secure manner, suitable for extremely long-term periods of time without loss of data integrity. The proposed solution includes methods for storing digital data, validating the integrity of the data on both sides of the transmission, encryption with keys that only the user has access to, splitting files into obfuscated slices for increased security, and determining the most effective storage location according to a novel cost metric. Data is reduced to ephemeral “ghost” files that remain faithful copies of the original data files, capable of being perceived by a user device, but never resident upon the device.
US11176262B2	Secure cloaking of data In a method for providing secure data storage, a user interface is provided to a user, and a user selection of a plurality of cloaking sequences is received via the user interface. The cloaking sequences include at least a first and second cloaking sequence. The method also includes cloaking data (e.g., one or more files). Cloaking the data includes retrieving a first hidden sequence associated with the first cloaking sequence, and retrieving a second hidden sequence associated with the second cloaking sequence. The second hidden sequence includes an ordered sequence of bit sets each including one or more bits. Cloaking the data also includes using the first hidden sequence to identify offset positions within the data, and using the ordered sequence of bit sets to perform one or more operations on the data at the identified offset positions. The method further includes storing the cloaked data in a database.
US11176260B2	Print job initiation based upon direction of user movement According to examples, a printer may include a processor and a memory on which is stored machine readable instructions that may cause the processor to access an instruction to print a print job of a user and determine whether the user is moving toward the printer. In response to a determination that the user is moving toward the printer, the instructions may cause the processor to initiate printing of the print job.
US11176258B2	Content delivery system and method of delivering A content delivery system (100) comprises a trusted holder of profile data (200) arranged to store information concerning a conscious entity, a content delivery requirement entity (210), a content intermediary entity (226); and a source of content (232). The trusted holder of profile data (200) is arranged to issue (230) profile reference data to the content delivery requirement entity in response to a request (222) therefrom, and to communicate (224) the profile reference data and at least part of the stored information concerning the conscious entity to the content intermediary entity (226), the request for content provision (222) being capable of identifying the conscious entity to the trusted holder of profile data. The content intermediary entity (226) is arranged to source, when in use, relevant content from the source of content (232) using the at least part of the stored information concerning the conscious entity.
US11176252B2	Intrusion prevention device, intrusion prevention method, and intrusion prevention program An intrusion prevention device includes a reception unit, a monitoring unit, and a determination unit. The reception unit receives, from a control target device, a notification indicating a state of the control target device. The monitoring unit receives a control command transmitted from a control device to the control target device. The determination unit determines whether to permit or block passage of the control command received by the monitoring unit in accordance with the state of the control target device received by the reception unit.
US11176251B1	Determining malware via symbolic function hash analysis A device for classifying malware including a processor, and a storage device storing a plurality of previously classified symfunc hash values and malware detection logic which attempts to classify malicious code by utilizing binary disassembler logic processed by the processor. Binary disassembler logic can be configured to receive a suspicious binary object and disassemble the binary object into disassembled code data, while symbolic analyzer logic can be configured to receive the disassembled code data and generate symbolic representation data. Generation logic can be configured to receive the symbolic representation data and generate at least one symfunc hash value based on the symbolic representation data. Finally, classification logic can be configured to receive at least one symfunc hash value, compare the symfunc hash value against previously classified symfunc hash values, and determine if the binary object comprises malicious code based on the associated symfunc hash value. The reporting logic can issue an alert reporting the malicious code or initiate the execution of a pre-determined action.
US11176247B2	System and method for container assessment using sandboxing An example method for a software container includes instantiating the following in a sandbox of a computing device: an operating system, a Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) virtual machine within a kernel of the operating system, and a software container. The kernel monitors runtime behavior events of the software container, with the monitoring at least partially performed by the BPF virtual machine. Based on the monitoring, a respective risk score is assigned to each of the runtime behavior events that is potentially malicious, with each risk score indicating a likelihood that a corresponding behavior event is malicious. An overall risk score is assigned to the software container that indicates a likelihood that the software container is malicious based on the respective risk scores.
US11176245B2	Protecting workloads in Kubernetes Aspects of the invention include obtaining, via a processor, an original docker image from a customer, encrypting a disk image using content from the original docker image and encrypting a bootloader. A re-packaged image is created using the encrypted disk image and the secure encrypted bootloader. The re-packaged image is deployed by inserting the re-package image into a pod container and by means of using a mutating webhook, granting elevated privileges to said container and creating a secured Kubernetes pod for protecting workloads, wherein the secured Kubernetes pod has at least one virtual machine containing the pod container.
US11176242B2	Intelligent pop-up blocker A pop-up blocker application detects and remediates malicious pop-up loops. The pop-up blocker application intercepts a call from a web page for initiating a pop-up browser window in a web browser. The pop-up blocker application updates a count of pop-up initiating calls associated with the web page occurring within a pre-defined time window. The updated count is compared to a threshold to determine whether the count meets a threshold indicative of a malicious pop-up loop. Responsive to the count meeting the threshold, the pop-up blocker applications takes a remedial action, such as navigating away from the web page.
US11176238B2	Credential for a service In some examples, a mobile device registers an account of a first service with an account control service, the account control service separate from the first service. In response to the mobile device being authorized with respect to the account control service, the mobile device searches for a target device that is within a communication range of the mobile device. The mobile device transmits, to the target device found in the search, a credential of the account of the first service being accessed by the target device over a network.
US11176236B2	Secure access to resources According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising a memory configured to store a user key, a token relating to a resource, the token comprising the user key in encrypted form, and management data received in the apparatus from a server, and at least one processing core configured to participate in an access interaction with the resource, the access interaction being based at least partly on the token and the user key and the access interaction comprising first sending the management data to the resource and then completing the access interaction to access the resource.
US11176235B2	Permission control method and related product Disclosed are a permission control method and a related product, relating to the technical field of mobile terminals. The method comprises: a mobile terminal (200) using a processor (110) to notify, where it is determined that an operation requested by a user is of a pre-set operation type, more than one biological identification module of the mobile terminal to acquire N pieces of biological information about the user; and then, the processor (110) matching the N pieces of biological information with a pre-set biological information template, and if the N pieces of biological information all successfully match the pre-set biological information template, executing the operation requested by the user.
US11176231B2	Identifying and authenticating users based on passive factors determined from sensor data The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that authenticates and/or identifies a user of an electronic device based on passive factors, which do not require conscious user actions. During operation of the system, in response to detecting a trigger event, the system collects sensor data from one or more sensors in the electronic device. Next, the system extracts a feature vector from the sensor data. The system then analyzes the feature vector to authenticate and/or identify the user, wherein the feature vector is analyzed using a model trained with sensor data previously obtained from the electronic device while the user was operating the electronic device.
US11176228B2	Application interface display method, apparatus, and terminal, and storage medium Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for providing application interfaces. For example, a terminal device includes a display screen and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry displays, via the display screen, a fake interface for a specific application in response to a state change of the specific application. The fake interface displays non-privacy content that has no association with the specific application. Then, the processing circuitry detect an operation on the fake interface, and displays, via the display screen, an application interface of the specific application with privacy content when the operation on the fake interface satisfies a pre-defined requirement.
US11176227B2	Customizable firmware based on access attributes Embodiments include validating a user for performing a service procedure for a system and customizing the system for the user for the service procedure. An example computer-implemented method includes validating authorization of the user based on authentication data from a tag uniquely identifying the user. The method further includes receiving attribute data for the user from the tag. The method further includes generating and/or adapting a set of service procedure instructions that are customized for the user based on the attribute data. The method further includes displaying the set of service procedure instructions that are customized for the user.
US11176223B1	Page rendering by an intermediary system that uses a truncated library An intermediary system identifies a portion of the library that is used to load a page, generates a hint file based on just the portion of the library that is used to load the page, and retrieves the hint file each time the page is loaded in the future. For example, the intermediary system may determine a portion of the library that is used to load the page when a page is first requested. Once the intermediary system determines the portion of the library that is used to load the page, the hint file is generated based on the portion. Each subsequent time that the intermediary system receives a request to load the same page, the intermediary system may retrieve the hint file to determine how to load the page.
US11176220B2	System and method for website hosting Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with website hosting are described. In one embodiment, a method includes maintaining a plurality of unpublished website versions that are available to assign as a live version of a website. The example method may also include selecting an unpublished website version from the plurality of unpublished website versions based upon an attribute of a request for the live version of the website satisfying a rule specifying that the unpublished website version is to be used as the live version of the website. The example method may also include reassigning the live version of the website from a current website version to the unpublished website version for the request. The example method may also include transmitting the unpublished website version as the live version of the website to the remote device over the network.
US11176215B2	Navigational notifications based on filtered interests In an approach to calculating, filtering and presenting items, one or more computer processors identify a location of a user. The one or more computer processors determine one or more items that are relevant to the user. The one or more computer processors determine whether the user is within a threshold distance of the one or more items. The one or more computer processors calculate one or more weights for each of the one or more items. The one or more computer processors identify a device to present the one or more items. The one or more computer processors present the one or more weighted items based on the capabilities of the identified device.
US11176213B2	Systems and methods for identifying electronic content using video graphs Systems and methods are provided for identifying and recommending electronic content to consumers. In accordance with an implementation, one or more elements of electronic content are identified based on video graph data. In an exemplary method, information associated with a first element of video content is received, and corresponding video graph data is obtained. One or more second elements of video content that are similar to the first element of video content are identified based on the obtained video graph data. A subset the first and second elements of video content is subsequently identified for delivery to the user.
US11176208B2	Search functionality of a data intake and query system Disclosed is a technique that can be performed in a distributed computer network. The technique can include a data index and query system that receives a search query, defines a search scheme for applying the search query on distributed data storage systems including an internal data storage system of the data index and query system and an external data storage system. The internal data storage system stores data as time-indexed events including respective segments of raw machine data. The data index and query system can transfer a portion of the search scheme to a search service, which can return search results obtained by application of the search scheme to the distributed data storage systems including the internal data storage system and the external data storage system. Lastly, the search results or data indicative of the search results can be output on a display device to the user.
US11176207B2	Method and electronic device for classifying content An electronic device that classifies and stores content is disclosed. In an electronic device, an electronic device is provided which comprises: a memory; a display; a memory; and a processor which is set to associate a first portion of the content displayed on the display with first color information in accordance with input from a user and to store the associated first portion in the memory.
US11176203B2	Interactive representation of multi-dimensional datasets Systems, methods, and data processing tools for processing a multi-dimensional dataset are disclosed. The method includes generating a data object linked to the multi-dimensional dataset. The data object includes a plurality of dimension controls, where each dimension control corresponds to a dimension of the multi-dimensional dataset, and each dimension control is an interactive axis extending radially from a central point. The method further includes displaying the data object in a first configuration, receiving user input manipulating at least one dimension control to change the configuration of the data object from the first configuration to a second configuration, and processing the input to determine an operation associated with the user input. Moreover, the method includes processing the linked multi-dimensional dataset in accordance with the determined operation to generate a display object depicting a dataset corresponding to the second configuration of the data object, and displaying the display object.
US11176201B2	Techniques for managing data in a cache memory of a question answering system A technique for caching evidence for answering questions in a cache memory of a data processing system (that is configured to answer questions) includes receiving a first question. The first question is analyzed to identify a first set of characteristics of the first question. A first set of evidence for answering the first question is loaded into the cache memory. A second question is received. The second question is analyzed to identify a second set of characteristics of the second question. A portion of the first set of evidence, whose expected usage in answering the second question is below a determined threshold, is unloaded from the cache memory.
US11176200B2	Fast component enumeration in graphs with implicit edges A method and system for graphical enumeration. The method includes creating an ordered set of vertices for a graph such that each vertex is associated with a corresponding index, and wherein each vertex in the ordered set of vertices includes information. A plurality of keys is created for defining the information. A plurality of lists of vertices is created, each of which is associated with a corresponding key such that vertices in a corresponding list include information associated with the corresponding key. For a first list of vertices, a least valued index is determined from a group of associated vertices based on vertices in the first list and vertices pointed to by the vertices in the first list. Also, all associated vertices are pointed to a root vertex associated with the least valued index.
US11176198B2	System and method for pre-indexing filtering and correction of documents in search systems Embodiments as disclosed herein provide a search system with an pre-indexing filter that provides both a sophisticated and contextually tailored approach to filtering documents and a corrector that is adapted to alter a document that has been designated to be filtered out from the indexing process and determine if the altered document should be indexed. The alteration of the document may be tied to the attributes, rules or thresholds used to initially filter the document from the indexing process. The filtering criteria can thus be tailored to a specific context such that both the initial filtering and the alteration process may be better suited for application in that context.
US11176197B2	Methods of storing media files and returning file data for media files and media file systems A media file system, apparatus, computer program product and method for storing a media file in a media file system. An exemplary method includes obtaining a predetermined number of frames and determining a set of portions for storing the media file, each portion having an identifier that is indicative of a multiple of the predetermined number of frames. Further, for each portion of the set of portions, associating with the portion the segment of the media file containing the frame indicated by the identifier of the portion, and associating each of the remaining segments of the media file with a portion of the set of portions. Moreover, storing the media file in the media file system as the set of determined portions, each portion comprising its associated segments of the media file.
US11176196B2	Unified pipeline for media metadata convergence In some implementations, a computing device may perform a method for providing a unified pipeline for media metadata to converge disparate schemas and data structures into a global unified graph. The method includes receiving media metadata from disparate media sources that may each have a different metadata schema that defines the structure and attributes of the metadata provided by each media source. The computing device may compare media metadata received from the different media sources to determine that metadata received from the different media sources correspond to similar, or the same, media entities (e.g., songs, movies, books, etc.). The metadata for the similar media entities may then be combined into a global unified graph that may include metadata attributes and/or values of the metadata received from the various media sources.
US11176195B2	Inserting information into playing content Example methods and systems for inserting information into playing content are described. In some example embodiments, the methods and systems may identify at a playback device, content by comparing a fingerprint of the real-time content to reference fingerprints, each of the reference fingerprints corresponding to different media, identify, at the playback device, a break in the real-time content playing via the playback device based on the identification of the real-time content, select an information segment to present during the break based on information captured by a location determination component, and insert the information segment into the real-time content playing via the playback device upon an occurrence of the break.
US11176192B2	Method and apparatus for recalling image file, control method and apparatus for recalling image file, and mobile terminal Disclosed are a method and apparatus for recalling an image file, a control method and apparatus for recalling an image file, and a mobile terminal. The method for recalling an image file includes the following steps: receiving a notification message sent from a server for prompting that a target image file is recalled; determining whether the target image file is open according to the notification message; and if it is determined that the target image file is open, obtaining a replacement image file and displaying the replacement image file on the target image file layer.
US11176191B2	Search result image selection techniques Techniques for prioritizing images associated with an item to display an appropriate image based on a query are described herein. For example, an attention score for an item attribute in an image of an item may be generated based at least in part on a model that uses one or more images of the item. The item attribute for the item associated with a query may be obtained. A plurality of items may be determined based at least in part on the item attribute being associated with the plurality of items where an individual item of the plurality of items includes a plurality of images of the item. The plurality of images of the individual item may be ranked based at least in part on corresponding attention scores associated with each image of the plurality of images.
US11176184B2	Information retrieval A method of retrieving information relating to an entity, the method including, in at least one electronic processing device, performing a search by: determining a respective search template for the entity, the search template being indicative of a sequence of query instructions; performing a sequence of queries in accordance with the sequence of query instructions of the respective search template, each query being a query of a data source performed in accordance with a respective query instruction and being performed at least in part using at least one of: an identity of the respective entity; and, a result of a previous query performed in accordance with a previous query instruction in the sequence of query instructions; determining a result for at least some of the sequence of queries; and, determining information relating to the entity using the results.
US11176183B2	System and method to configure a flow algorithm automatically by using a primary element data sheet in multivariable smart line transmitters An apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium provide for configuring a flow algorithm automatically by using a primary element data sheet in multivariable smart line transmitters. The apparatus includes a memory and at least one processor operably connected to the memory. The at least one processor receives a datasheet and an algorithm related to a device in an industrial process and control system, extracts parameters from the datasheet, maps parameters to algorithm items related to the algorithm, generates a template based on the algorithm items and the mapped parameters, and downloads the template to the device.
US11176182B2	Applying approximate measure values from dissimilar maps A method including: receiving a base map that is divided into geographical base regions, each of the geographical base regions having a measure of a first parameter; receiving a plurality of secondary maps that are each divided into a plurality of geographical regions, each of the geographical regions having a measure of a secondary parameter; determining a total overlap percentage for each of the secondary maps relative to the base map, the total overlap percentage for one of the secondary maps being an average of overlap percentages of each of the geographical regions of the one of the secondary maps with the geographical base regions of the base map; receiving a selection of one of the secondary maps; and applying the secondary parameter of the selected secondary map to each of the geographical base regions of the base map.
US11176181B2	Inferring geographic locations for entities appearing in search queries A server system associates one or more locations with a query by identifying the query, selecting a set of documents responsive to the query, and assigning weights to respective documents in the set of documents based, at least in part, on historical data of user clicks selecting search result links in search results produced for historical queries substantially the same as the identified query. Websites hosting the selected documents are identified, and, for each website, location-specific information for one or more locations is retrieved, including a location-specific score that corresponds to the likelihood that the respective location corresponds to a respective website. For each respective location for which location-specific information was retrieved, aggregating the location-specific scores, as weighted by the document weights, to compute an aggregated likelihood that the respective location is associated with the query. A specific location is assigned to the query when predefined criteria are satisfied.
US11176180B1	Systems and methods for address matching A system and method may allow for improved accuracy for address matching. The system may receive an address input and preprocess the address input. The address input may be standardized to create a standardized address input. The standardized address input may be compared to a stored address. The system may calculate a first address matching score based on the comparison. The system may reinvestigate the standardization of the address input and calculate a second address matching score based on a second comparison. The system may compare the first address matching score to the second address matching score to improve accuracy in address matching.
US11176179B2	Assigning a new problem record based on a similarity to previous problem records Aspects of the invention include receiving a new problem record. A corpus of existing problem records that were previously assigned to problem record owners and grouped into documents based on their assigned problem record owners is accessed. Each document in the corpus has an assigned problem record owner. A document in the corpus that is most similar to the new problem record is identified. The identifying includes comparing text in the new problem record to text in the documents. The new problem record is assigned to the problem record owner that is assigned to the identified document.
US11176174B2	Systems and methods for database replication Methods and systems for database replication include establishing a plurality of Java database connectivity (JDBC) database connections to a first database. One or more replication operations are received from a second database defining the data changes to be replicated. In addition, one or more replication rules are received defining the replication procedure. Each replication rule specifies an algorithm for determining a discrete database connection for each respective replication operation. The discrete database connection for each respective replication operation is determined by applying the algorithm specified by the one or more replication rules to each respective replication operation. Moreover, each respective replication operation is performed at the first database on the respective determined discrete database connection.
US11176172B2	Methods and apparatus for automatic database failover in a master-replica replication configuration Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture for automatic database failover in a master-replica replication configuration are disclosed. An example node within a database system having a plurality of nodes, includes an agent to select a first database operated at one of the plurality of nodes to function as a master database in a master-replica replication configuration. The agent is to cause the selected database to be configured as the master database. The agent is to configure a first reverse proxy of the node. The first reverse proxy is to receive a query from a load balancer and forward the query to the master database based on the configuration.
US11176166B2	Ability to move application spaces between two separate independent high availability (HA) environments In embodiments, the ability to have two separate Db2 Mirror pair environments, each providing HA, which have the capability to switch application spaces between the Db2 Mirror pairs, is presented. At least one IASP is registered to a first node of a first pair of nodes at a first HA mirroring environment at a first location. The at least one IASP is replicated to a second HA mirroring environment, the second HA mirroring environment including a second pair of nodes at a second location, the second location different than the first location. The at least one IASP is registered with one node of the pair of nodes of the second mirroring environment, the at least one IASP is switched offline at the first pair of nodes of the first mirroring environment, and subsequently switched online at the second pair of nodes of the second mirroring environment.

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