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US11212951B2	Component mounting system A component mounting system includes: a mounting line in which multiple component mounting machines, each including a component supply device, are arranged in a predetermined direction; a mobile work device, moving along the predetermined direction, which at least replenishes each of the component mounting machines with the component supply device or recovers the component supply device from each of the component mounting machines, and a management device transmits a signal to the mobile work device via a communication path. The communication path is an optical wireless communication path provided along the predetermined direction.
US11212945B2	System airflow variable configuration A method for configuring the airflow direction through a chassis having electronic components installed therein. The method may include: powering on at least a first power supply unit installed within the chassis; determining an airflow direction of the first power supply unit may include one or more unidirectional fans; configuring the airflow direction through the chassis to be the airflow direction of the first power supply unit to create a first configured airflow direction; determining an airflow direction of a first fan tray installed within the chassis, the first fan tray may include one or more unidirectional fans; and conducting a conflict check between the first configured airflow direction and the airflow direction of the first fan tray to determine if the airflow directions are substantially the same.
US11212940B1	Passive thermal-control structure for speakers and associated apparatuses and methods The present document describes a passive thermal-control structure for speakers and associated apparatuses and methods. The architecture of the passive thermal-control structure is such that heat is transferred from electronic subsystems of the electronic speaker device to the passive thermal-control structure, which acts as an internal, structural frame of the electronic speaker device and provides both thermal mitigation and structural stability. The passive thermal-control structure conducts heat from the electronic subsystems to a housing of the electronic speaker device. The housing of the electronic speaker device may dissipate the heat to the ambient environment to prevent thermal runaway of the electronic subsystems, and the internal frame mitigates the temperature of the housing from exceeding ergonomic temperature limits.
US11212939B2	Board level shield for electrical assembly A board level shield includes shield walls forming a shield chamber sized and shaped to receive an electrical component mounted to a host circuit board. The shield walls provide electrical shielding entirely around the shield chamber for the electrical component. The shield walls extend between a top and a bottom configured to be mounted to the host circuit board and connected to a ground layer of the host circuit board. The board level shield includes a shield opening at the top bounded by the shield walls and sized and shaped to receive a thermal bridge to allow the thermal bridge to extend through the shield opening to interface with the electrical component. The board level shield includes shield fingers extending from the shield walls into the shield opening. The shield fingers are configured to engage the thermal bridge at separable mating interfaces to electrically connect the shield fingers to the thermal bridge.
US11212934B2	Server chassis A server chassis includes a casing, a first upper cover and a second upper cover. The casing includes a bottom plate and two partition plates respectively located on two opposite sides of the bottom plate so a receiving recess is formed. Each partition plate includes a first engaging groove and a second engaging groove. The first upper cover has two first engaging portions. The second upper cover has two second engaging portions. The first upper cover covers a part of the receiving recess by engaging the first engaging portion with the first engaging groove. The second upper covers another part of the receiving recess by engaging the second engaging portion with the second engaging groove. The first upper cover and the second upper cover can be detached from the first engaging grooves and the second engaging grooves in directions away from each other.
US11212931B2	Subsea installation A subsea installation. The subsea installation comprises a tank containing an insulation fluid or other fluid, a heat generating electric apparatus positioned at least partly within the tanks, and a pressure compensator being in fluid communication with the tank and being configured to compensate volume variations of the insulation fluid or the other fluid by performing an expansive and a contracting movement. The subsea installation comprises further means for heating the insulation fluid or the other fluid, said means for heating being configured to provide heating to the insulation fluid or the other fluid with the heat generating electric apparatus is in a non-operating state in order to reduce the volume variations of the insulation fluid or the other fluid.
US11212927B2	Extendable display screen structure An extendable display screen structure, wherein a hollow part is provided on at least one side of a main base and two guiding components are symmetrically provided in the main base along two sides of the hollow part; at least one driving component is provided in the main base, and the driving component is provided with a power source to drive the driving component to move along the guiding component; at least one side of a flexible screen is wound around an outer periphery of at least one rotating shaft, the rotating shaft is rotatably disposed on a side of the driving component and forms linkage, the driving component, in linkage with the rotating shaft, moves along the guiding component out of the main base, whereby the flexible screen can be gradually released from the outer periphery of the rotating shaft to be extended outwards, and on the contrary, the driving component, in linkage with the rotating shaft, gradually moves into the main base, whereby the rotating shaft retracts the flexible screen.
US11212920B2	Pressing member and machine with pressing member A pressing member includes a base, a first pressing portion, and a second pressing portion. The first pressing portion and the second pressing portion are arranged on a same surface of the base. The base is provided with a first hole. The first pressing portion includes a first contact surface facing away from the base. The first contact surface defines a second hole extending toward the base and communicating with the first hole to cooperatively define a channel. The second pressing portion includes a second contact surface facing away from the base. The second contact surface and the first contact surface are arranged on a same plane.
US11212919B2	Voltage regulator module A voltage regulator module includes a circuit board assembly, a magnetic core assembly and a molding compound layer. The circuit board assembly includes a printed circuit board and at least one switch element. The switch element is disposed on a first surface of the printed circuit board. Moreover, at least one first copper post, at least one second copper post, at least one third copper post and the magnetic core assembly are disposed on a second surface of the printed circuit board. The magnetic core assembly includes at least one opening. The at least one first copper post is penetrated through the corresponding opening, so that at least one inductor is defined by the at least one first copper post and the magnetic core assembly collaboratively. The molding compound layer encapsulates the printed circuit board and the magnetic core assembly in a double-sided molding manner.
US11212915B2	Stretchable mounting board A stretchable mounting board that includes a mounting electrode section electrically connected to stretchable wiring, and solder electrically connected to the mounting electrode section. The mounting electrode section has a first electrode layer on a side thereof facing the stretchable wiring and which includes bismuth and tin, and a second electrode layer on a side thereof facing the solder and which includes bismuth and tin. A concentration of the bismuth in the first electrode layer is lower than a concentration of the bismuth in the second electrode layer, and the concentration of the bismuth in the second electrode layer is constant along a thickness direction thereof.
US11212910B1	High frequency signal cross-layer transmission structure in multi-layer printed circuit board A high frequency signal cross-layer transmission structure in a multi-layer printed circuit board includes a bottom metal layer, a middle metal layer and a top metal layer. The bottom metal layer includes a bottom ground plane and a bottom conductive area. The middle metal layer includes a middle ground plane. The top metal layer includes a top ground plane and a top conductive area. The bottom ground plane defines and surrounds a bottom annular clearance area. The middle ground plane defines and surrounds a middle clearance area. The top ground plane defines and surrounds a top annular clearance area. The bottom annular clearance area surrounds at least one part of the bottom conductive area. The top annular clearance area surrounds at least one part of the top conductive area. A size-shape of the top annular clearance area is different from a size-shape of the middle clearance area.
US11212908B2	Semiconductor apparatus A semiconductor apparatus includes a metal body in which a through hole is formed, a socket that covers the metal body without closing the through hole, a connection terminal connected to the metal body and exposed to an outside of the socket, a control board having a metal pattern and a circuit pattern, and a semiconductor chip having a control terminal connected to the circuit pattern via the through hole without being in contact with the metal body, the connection terminal being connected to the metal pattern.
US11212907B2	Printed circuit board arrangement comprising an electrical component and a heat sink A circuit board assembly has a circuit board and an electrical component embedded in a cured plastic layer, as well as a heat sink for cooling the component. The component is placed with a first side on a surface of the circuit board facing the heat sink and in electrical contact with the circuit board, and is located in a window in the cured plastic layer. Moreover, the component is materially bonded to a surface of the heat sink facing the circuit board at a second side lying opposite the first side, in particular through soldering or sintering. The plastic layer is injected and cured between the surface of the circuit board and the surface of the heat sink. In the production process, the material is melted by the heat at the same time as the injection, such that the component is materially bonded to the heat sink.
US11212903B2	Apparatus and method for generating extreme ultraviolet radiation An apparatus for generating extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation includes a droplet generator configured to generate target droplets. An excitation laser is configured to heat the target droplets using excitation pulses to convert the target droplets to plasma. A deformable mirror is disposed in a path of the excitation laser. A controller is configured to adjust parameters of the excitation laser by controlling the deformable mirror based on a feedback parameter.
US11212895B2	Control method and system for a luminaire, and luminaire comprising such a control system A control method for a luminaire with a daylight sensor, comprising: obtaining a first value (α) representative for the angle of the sun with respect to the horizon; if the obtained first value is within a first predetermined range corresponding with a dusk or dawn range, performing the following steps: obtaining a second value (Ev) representative for a light level using the daylight sensor of the luminaire; and controlling the switching on or off of the luminaire when the obtained second value (Ev) fulfils a first predetermined criterion; registering over time, for at least one determined obtained second value, at least one corresponding obtained first value (α); and/or, for at least one determined first value, at least one corresponding obtained second value (Ev); adjusting the first predetermined criterion based on the registrations over time.
US11212894B2	System for distributing DC power to and controlling building devices A scalable DC power distribution and control system suitable for commercial buildings includes one or more power and control hubs. Each DC power and control power hub provides power and control for any suitable distributed DC loads such as light-fixtures. AC power from the electric utility is applied to the power and control hub and is converted to DC power for distribution to DC loads within the space using low-voltage cables.
US11212888B2	Variable hue task lamp with novel hue selection component A variable hue task lamp with novel hue selection component is disclosed herein. The color and intensity of a task lamp is adjusted using a wireless connection from a device such as a smart phone, tablet, or computing device based upon an optimization method using a sample text or scene. The user first optimizes hue by adjusting the background color of the sample text or picture on the device. The optimum hue is then communicated to the task light, which sets light emitting diode intensities to match the optimum choice. Presets further localize choices in color space, and a comparison to white verifies the benefits of the chosen hue.
US11212884B2	Cooking apparatus In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a cooking apparatus includes a casing, a cooking chamber formed inside the casing, a duct member formed outside the cooking chamber to extend from a first plate of the cooking chamber to a second plate forming an upper surface of the cooking chamber, a heater installed inside the duct member, and a fan installed inside the duct member and configured to blow air in the duct member, wherein the cooking chamber is formed to cook food using high-temperature air discharged into the cooking chamber through a first outlet part formed at the second plate.
US11212882B2	Information processing apparatus and information processing method for presentation of a cooking situation based on emotion of a user Provided is an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of changing a presentation of a cooking situation in accordance with a user emotion. An information processing apparatus including an emotion detection unit that detects an emotion of a user and a control unit that performs control such that a heating situation during cooking is displayed and output. The control unit changes display of the heating situation in accordance with a user emotion detected by the emotion detection unit.
US11212880B2	Induction cooking top The present disclosure relates to an induction cooking top comprising a system adapted to modify the control of the presence of the pan on the induction cooking top, upon a command by the user.
US11212877B2	Relaying device, method of relaying communication packet and voice communication system [Problem] To achieve a voice communication system which communicates between two networks that use partially overlapping address spaces.[Solution] According to the present invention, first and second networks are connected to one another by means of a gateway device provided with: a first protocol stack which manages transmission and reception addresses of communication packets in the first network; a second protocol stack which manages transmission and reception addresses of communication packets in the second network; and a call control unit which, upon reception of a communication packet from either network, determines the transfer destination network and transfer destination address of the packet on the basis of call destination information included in the packet.
US11212875B2	Telecommunications apparatuses and methods A method of allocating resources in a mobile telecommunications system, the resources being for a relay node to operate as a terminal-to-terminal relay for a device-to-device communication between a first terminal and a second terminal. The method includes: allocating first resources for the first terminal to communicate via the relay node for the device-to-device communication; allocating second resources for the second terminal to communicate via the relay node for the device-to-device communication; notifying the first terminal of the allocated first resources; notifying the second terminal of the allocated second resources; and the first and second terminals exchanging messages for the device-to-device communication via the relay node and using the first and second resources, respectively.
US11212870B2	Method and system for managing a private, decentralized, secure, IP-based peer-to-peer mesh overlay network Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and a system for creating and managing a private, decentralized, secure peer-to-peer IP based mesh overlay network. In one embodiment, the mesh network is created comprising at least one gateway node capable of controlling one or more resources connected to the at least one gateway node. A mesh network management server authenticates and provisions the gateway node with a license and firmware for adding to the mesh overlay network and grants ownership of the gateway node to an authorized user. The owner may request for addition or removal of the gateway node or the resources. Each gateway node in the mesh overlay network is configured to share network information of all other gateway nodes, thereby enabling every gateway node to synchronize all of the information of the network, thus creating and managing a mobility resilient, self-healing, plug and play network infrastructure for connecting applications, devices and services for the Internet of Everything (IoE).
US11212868B2	Wireless communication system, method, base station, user equipment and device A wireless communication system, a method, a base station, user equipment and a device. An electronic device for a user equipment in a wireless communication system, wherein the user equipment simultaneously performs wireless data connections with a first base station and a second base station over different carriers, the electronic device including: circuitry configured to, acquire a notification to release the wireless data connection between the user equipment and the first base station from the second base station, if a release triggering node judges that a release condition is satisfied; and release the wireless data connection with the first base station based on the notification, wherein the release triggering node is either the first base station or the second base station.
US11212866B2	Method and apparatus for providing cellular IoT service in mobile communication system Disclosed is a method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system, including identifying, by an access stratum (AS) layer of the terminal, release assistance information (RAI), transmitting, to a base station, a control message associated with a radio resource control (RRC) connection, the control message including the RAI identified by the AS layer of the terminal, and transmitting uplink data to the base station, wherein the RAI indicates that no further data transmission is required or a single downlink data transmission subsequent to the uplink data is required, and wherein the uplink data is transmitted to a user plane function (UPF) entity via the base station.
US11212863B2	Dual connection communication method in wireless network, apparatus, and system Example communication methods and apparatus in a wireless network are described. One example communication method includes establishing dual connections to a first access network device and a second access network device by a terminal device. A connection that is between the terminal device and the first access network device and that is included in the dual connections is a radio resource control (RRC) connection. The terminal device receives first configuration information sent by the first access network device. The first configuration information includes signaling radio bearer (SRB) configuration information of the second access network device and a trigger condition for using the SRB configuration information. When the trigger condition is met, the terminal device uses the SRB configuration information of the second access network device to establish an RRC connection to the second access network device.
US11212859B2	5G avoidance during LTE-based real-time communications A radio access network (RAN) configured to support real-time communications over a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) connection is described herein. When a request for a data transmission is received and a real-time communication session over the LTE connection is established, the RAN utilizes the LTE connection, not a New Radio (NR) connection, for the data transmission. When a request for a further real-time communication is received and there is an active data transmission session over the NR connection, the RAN performs at least one of ceasing to allocate traffic to the NR connection for downlink or reconfiguring the data transmission session to send data over the LTE connection.
US11212852B2	Identification of control information for sidelink management A method and apparatus for identification of control information for sidelink management in a wireless communication system is provide. A first wireless device (e.g., a first user equipment (UE)) receives control information including at least one identifier (ID) associated with a link, and determines one of in-sync indication or out-of-sync indication based on a receiving quality of the control information.
US11212851B2	Method and device for wireless communication Embodiments of this application disclose a method and a device for wireless communication. The method includes: obtaining access stratum context identifier information of a first terminal device, where the access stratum context identifier information of the first terminal device is used to identify access stratum context information of the first terminal device that is related to the first terminal device on a first access network device; and determining the first access network device according to the access stratum context identifier information of the first terminal device, so that a second access network device providing a network service to the first terminal device obtains the access stratum context information of the first terminal device from the first access network device. The method and the device in the embodiments of this application help reduce network overheads.
US11212848B2	Service carrier frequency selecting method and apparatus Embodiments of the disclosed technologies provide a carrier frequency selecting method and apparatus. The method comprises: determining, by UE, whether information of a service carrier frequency sent by a base station is received, wherein the service carrier frequency is the carrier frequency to carry traffic selected by the base station when a target cell carrying the UE is a multi-carrier cell; residing, by the UE, at a carrier frequency corresponding to the information for a service carrier frequency, if so; and, otherwise, residing, by the UE, at an original camped carrier frequency. With the embodiments of the disclosed technologies, the problem that a service carrier frequency selecting strategy in related techniques is to perform selection passively and lacks initiative is solved, and a technical basis for balancing loads on carrier frequencies carrying traffic is provided and further system efficiency is enhanced for an NB-IoT system, which is mainly to transmit small data.
US11212844B2	Method and apparatus for controlling network congestion in next generation mobile communication system The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present invention provides a method for random access by a terminal, the method comprising the steps of: transmitting a first message for random access to a base station; receiving, from the base station, a second message including information related to backoff of each beam transmitted by the base station; and storing information related to the backoff of each beam.
US11212843B2	Skipping uplink transmission allocated by RACH procedure Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for skipping an uplink transmission allocated by a RACH procedure. One apparatus includes a transceiver of a remote unit that receives a random access response message (“RAR”) comprising an RAR grant having an uplink resource allocation during a random access procedure (“RACH procedure”); a processor of the remote unit that determines an indication that skipping of a physical uplink shared channel (“PUSCH”) transmission is configured for the RACH procedure and that no uplink data is available; and the processor controls the transceiver to skip the PUSCH transmission of a transmission block without logical channel (“LCH”) data on the uplink resource allocation in response to the indication that skipping is configured for the RACH procedure and that no uplink data is available. A method or system may perform functions of the apparatus.
US11212841B2	Method for performing random access procedure and apparatus therefor The present invention relates to a method for performing a random access procedure in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) order, which indicates initiation of a random access procedure, from a base station; transmitting a random access preamble to the base station; and receiving a random access response message from the base station, wherein the step of receiving the random access response message comprises receiving downlink data together with the random access response message when the PDCCH order indicates downlink data transmission in Msg2.
US11212835B2	Method of transmitting information in unlicensed band, network device, and terminal A method of transmitting information in an unlicensed band, a network device and a terminal are provided. The method includes: when information needs to be transmitted with a transmission beam, listening to a channel of the unlicensed band with a reception beam of the node to obtain a channel listening result; and in a case that the channel listening result indicates that the channel is in an idle state, transmitting the information on the channel with the transmission beam.
US11212833B2	Scalable preamble design for random access Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. An example of a method in accordance with the present disclosure may include a UE identifying that the UE is configured to use a contention-based or uncoordinated (e.g., two-step) random access procedure including an uplink message and a downlink response, where the uplink message includes at least a preamble portion and a data portion. The UE may map an identifier of the UE into a block of source symbols, generate a codeword including a block of coded symbols from the block of source symbols, and generate a set of sequences, where each sequence is based at least in part on a value associated with a corresponding coded symbol of the block of coded symbols. The UE may transmit the generated set of sequences in a preamble portion of the uplink message.
US11212832B2	PDCCH initialization suitable for MTC devices The present disclosure concerns radio communication. More particularly, the present disclosure inter alia introduces techniques to allow low-complexity UEs 120a-j, e.g. Rel-3 MTC devices, to operate in a legacy LTE system with maintained, or improved, performance.
US11212830B2	Method and apparatus for reallocating PUCCH resource according to change of SPS operation in wireless communication system A user equipment (UE) receives, from a network, a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) configuration and a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource configuration. The PUCCH resource configuration may be included in the SPS configuration. When a change of an SPS operation is required, the user equipment transmits an SPS change request to the network and receives, from the network, an SPS resource grant activated according to the SPS change request. The user equipment changes allocation of a PUCCH resource allocated according to the PUCCH resource configuration, on the basis of the received SPS resource grant. For example, a timing at which or a period in which the PUCCH resource is allocated can be changed.
US11212829B2	Uplink processing techniques for reduced uplink timelines in wireless communications Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which uplink timelines may be reduced by initiating, at a user equipment (UE), uplink transmission processing prior to receipt of an uplink grant for an uplink communication. A UE may identify one or more uplink transmission parameters associated with a reduced uplink transmission timeline for an uplink communication, and use the uplink transmission parameters to initiate processing of the uplink communication prior to receiving an uplink grant from a base station. The uplink transmission parameters may allow for packet preparation at a higher layers (e.g., at a medium access control (MAC) layer or radio link control (RLC) layer) to be started or completed prior to receipt of the uplink grant.
US11212824B2	Method for transmitting data with terminal device in inactive state and terminal device Provided in the embodiments of the present application are a method for transmitting data, an access network device, a terminal device, and a network entity. The method comprises: a first access network device sends a physical downlink control channel to a terminal device, the physical downlink control channel comprising scheduling information of downlink data of the terminal device, the first access network device being any network access device in a first access network device set, the access network set comprising at least one access network device, the terminal device being able to move without switching within the range covered by the at least one access network device; and the first access network device sends the downlink data to the terminal device. In the embodiments of the present application, the terminal device is capable of receiving downlink data without recovering a high-level signalling connection, thereby improving system efficiency and reducing the power consumption of the terminal device.
US11212811B2	Method for determining users at the numerology edges in fifth generation cellular communications systems Disclosed is a method which aims to minimize the effects of inter-numerology interference between users that a base station in 5G and beyond cellular communications systems serves with multiple numerology structures by determining the users at the numerology edges optimally.
US11212809B2	Method for wireless communication and terminal device A method for wireless communication and a terminal device is provided. The method includes operations as follows. The terminal device receives configuration information sent by a network device. The configuration information is used to indicate a time-domain position of a first resource, the first resource is used to transmit a physical downlink control channel, the configuration information includes first configuration information and second configuration information, the first configuration information indicates at least one first time-domain unit, each first time-domain unit includes the first resource, the second configuration information indicates at least one second time-domain unit in the first time-domain unit indicated by the first configuration information, and each second time-domain unit includes a part or all of the first resource. The terminal device monitors the physical downlink control channel.
US11212806B2	NAN fine-grained availability schedule indications One or more wireless stations operate to configure direct communication with neighboring mobile stations, e.g., direct communication between the wireless stations without utilizing an intermediate access point. A wireless station may determine a further availability window schedule for a first time period, including specifying availability for particular channels at particular time slots at a first time slot increment. The wireless station may specify availability at a second time slot increment for a subset of the time slots specified at the first time slot increment. The second time slot increment may be less than the first slot time increment. The wireless station may negotiate, with a neighboring wireless station, a peer-to-peer communication schedule for the peer-to-peer communication application based on the further availability window schedule, including specifying a portion of the peer-to-peer schedule using the second time slot increment.
US11212804B2	Client station configured for operation based on persistent resource allocation information Methods and apparatus for communicating and utilizing persistent allocation of resources are described herein. A base station may allocate persistent resources to a client station, and may associate the client station or persistent resource allocation with a particular shared NACK channel. The base station may monitor the NACK channel for a NACK indicating a map error. The base station may monitor the resource allocation to implicitly determine a map error. The base station may resend one or more persistent resource allocation information elements in response to the NACK or implicit error determination. A client station having a persistent resource allocation may monitor persistent resource allocation information elements in map messages and/or may indicate failure to receive a persistent resource allocation information element in a NACK message on a shared NACK channel.
US11212802B2	Coexistence of interleaved and contiguous uplink transmissions A wireless communication system may allocate uplink resources to configure coexisting interleaved and contiguous uplink transmissions. Operation using different waveform types may address bandwidth occupancy requirements, power spectral density (PSD) limitations, etc. A carrier bandwidth may be split into regions allocated for interlaced resource allocations and contiguous resource allocations for frequency division multiplexing (FDM) based coexistence. To achieve coexistence of such waveform types, a base station may indicate a waveform type, a transmission carrier bandwidth or channel, and a resource block allocation (e.g., an interlace pattern, certain ranges within the carrier bandwidth, etc.) for uplink transmissions. In some cases, channel contention procedures (e.g., Listen Before Talk (LBT)) and power constraints (e.g., power spectral density (PSD) limitations) may be based on the waveform type associated with the uplink transmission. A base station may allocate frequency resources of an uplink TTI to multiple UEs, which may operate according to different waveform types.
US11212800B2	Method and apparatus for communication in wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data rate higher than that of the 4G system. A method by a terminal in a wireless communication system according to the present disclosure includes receiving a first message comprising first information indicating a number of symbols in an uplink pilot time slot (UpPTS) region, identifying at least one symbol for transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS) based on the first information, and transmitting the SRS.
US11212799B2	System and method for common and UE-specific frequency resource scheduling The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present disclosure provides a resource scheduling method, which includes: determining, by a UE, a resource allocation indicating way in DCI of a first type search space and a resource allocation indicating way in DCI of a second type search space, wherein the resource allocation indicating way comprises an allocation unit of a UE frequency resource and a bandwidth and a location of all frequency resources available for UE frequency resource allocation; in the first type search space and the second type search space, performing, by the UE, blind detection for PDCCH/EPDCCH on the bandwidth and the location of all the frequency resources available for the UE frequency resource allocation in the corresponding resource allocation indicating way according to the allocation unit of the UE frequency resource in the corresponding resource allocation indicating way, determining a bandwidth and a location of an uplink resource and/or a downlink resource actually allocated for the UE. According to the present disclosure, in a condition that the UE cannot support the entire system bandwidth, an uplink resource and a downlink resource allocated by a base station can still be appropriately determined.
US11212788B2	Efficient and consistent wireless downlink channel configuration A method of wireless communication including a base station transmitting a preamble including information indicating a sector identifier and an antenna port value. The base station further transmits a pilot sequence, wherein the pilot sequence and the location of the pilot sequence are based on the sector identifier and on the antenna port value. A base station configured to perform the method is also disclosed. A corresponding subscriber station configured to receive the preamble and pilot sequence is also disclosed, as well as a subscriber station method.
US11212787B2	Switch between sub PRB and normal PRB allocations for eMTC Enhanced Machine Type Communications (eMTC) is a wireless communication technology with reduced system bandwidth. To improve spectral efficiency, user equipment (UE) is configured to receive first downlink control information (DCI) from a base station. The first DCI indicates a resource block (RB) sized frequency allocation for the UE. Additionally, the UE is configured to receive second DCI from the base station. The second DCI indicates a sub RB sized frequency allocation for the UE. The UE is configured to transmit a plurality of uplink data transmissions to the base station in a variable frequency allocation such that the plurality of uplink data transmissions switches between using the RB sized frequency allocation and the sub RB sized frequency allocation. Thus, by using the sub RB sized frequency allocation, more UEs can be allocated to the same RB without lowering the data rate thereby improving total uplink capacity.
US11212781B2	Parameter configuration method, terminal device, network side device, and communications system A parameter configuration method, a terminal device, a network side device, and a communications system are disclosed. The method includes: determining, by a network side device, a first transmission parameter and a second transmission parameter for a terminal device when the network side device needs to allocate a first-type transmission resource and a second-type transmission resource to the terminal device, where the first transmission parameter and the second transmission parameter meet a preset correspondence; generating, by the network side device, control information, where the control information includes first information, and the first information is used to indicate the first transmission parameter; and sending, by the network side device, the control information.
US11212780B2	Enhancing handover performance using radio resource control diversity A base station for a mobile telecommunications system has circuitry, which is configured to communicate with at least one user equipment and at least another base station. The circuitry is further configured to configure a radio resource control message for radio resource control diversity, and transmit the configured radio resource control message to the user equipment or to receive a configured radio resource control message from the user equipment and the at least another base station.
US11212779B2	Ultra-low latency LTE downlink communications A data structure for managing user equipment communications in a wireless communication system is presented. In some examples, the data structure may include one or more resource element blocks into which a frequency bandwidth of a downlink channel is divided within a symbol that defines a transmission time interval in a downlink subframe. Furthermore, the data structure may include a control region and a data region within at least one resource element block of the one or more resource element blocks. Additionally, the data structure may include a downlink resource grant, located within the control region, for a user equipment served by the downlink channel. In an additional aspect, a network entity and method for generating the example data structure are provided.
US11212778B2	Facilitation of channel selection within a wireless network A more efficient network can be achieved using channel allocation strategies within a wireless network. A network device can receive several data points from a mobile device including resource request data, access condition data, and location data. Once the network device has received the aforementioned data points, the network device can identify channels that are conducive to a heightened quality of service for a resource being requested based on a signal attenuation associated with the channel. The network device can then facilitate a channel selection in response to an assessment of the data points and identifying a channel for the resource.
US11212777B2	Dynamic resource unit allocation for wireless local-area networks (WLANs) Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for dynamic resource unit allocation for wireless local-area networks (WLANs) include an apparatus of an access point (AP) including processing circuitry configured to determine a group of stations (STAs) and first RUs for uplink (UL) multi-user (MU) orthogonal frequency division multiple-access (OFDMA) transmissions. The processing circuitry is further configured to transmit a trigger frame (TF) including indications of the determined first RUs for the group of STAs to transmit trigger-based (TB) physical layer (PHY) protocol data unit (PPDUs) (TB PPDUs) in response to the TF. The processing circuitry may be further configured to in response to a STA not responding to the TF, determine the STA as being inactive, and reallocate to active STAs RUs of inactive STAs, and transmit a second TF to the group of STAs that are active.
US11212775B2	Method and device for sidelink communication in wireless communication system A method and apparatus for a sidelink of a wireless communication system are proposed. A transmission UE can contiguously or non-contiguously allocate radio resources through sidelink communication. A specific resource allocation method is selected in consideration of latency of sidelink data/packets or other factors. For example, a specific resource allocation method can be determined based on whether a plurality of contiguous subchannels is allocated to radio resources before a first time, which is determined based on latency of data/packets.
US11212773B2	Communication of sidelink transmission pattern to wireless wide area network (WWAN) Aspects of the disclosure relate to mechanisms for a user equipment for indicating resources having limited wireless wide area network (WWAN) transmission capability. In some examples, a user equipment indicates a sidelink transmission pattern to a WWAN, receives one or more uplink transmission grants for the WWAN based on at least the sidelink transmission pattern, and transmits at least one of first data to a second user equipment on a sidelink channel based on the sidelink transmission pattern or second data to the WWAN based on the one or more uplink transmission grants. In some examples, the user equipment transmits a sidelink transmission configuration to the WWAN, the sidelink transmission configuration including one or more sidelink transmission patterns. In some examples, the user equipment selects a sidelink transmission pattern from among the one or more sidelink transmission patterns based on expected sidelink transmissions.
US11212770B2	Techniques for configuring paging cycles Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station (BS) may determine a first type of paging cycle configuration. The BS may determine a second type of paging cycle configuration that is different from the first type of paging cycle configuration, wherein the second type of paging cycle configuration enables a plurality of different paging cycles. The BS may transmit to a user equipment, a paging cycle configuration message, wherein the paging cycle configuration message includes an indication of the second type of paging cycle configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11212769B1	Contextual aware electronic alert system A method may include receiving an indication that an electronic alert is to be transmitted to a user; obtaining contextual information associated with the user; determining a first time for presenting the electronic alert to the user based in part on the contextual information; transmitting the electronic alert to a computing device associated with the user at the first time; storing the electronic alert in a message feed data structure; receiving a request to view the electronic alert at a second time, the second time occurring after the first time; in response to the request, retrieving the electronic alert from the message feed data structure; and transmitting the electronic alert at the second time.
US11212767B2	Network registration of terminal, and methods and apparatuses for transmission of network selection parameter A network registration method is applied to a terminal and can includes that a signal parameter of a network position where the terminal is presently located is acquired, and the network position and the signal parameter are reported to a server, the network position and the signal parameter being configured to determine a network selection parameter. The method can further include that the network selection parameter is received from the server, and network registration is performed according to the network selection parameter.
US11212766B2	Data transmission methods, apparatuses, base stations and servers Data transmission methods, apparatuses, base stations, and servers are provided, and relate to the field of the Internet of things. A data transmission method includes determining a system time difference between a first base station and a second base station based on an actual transmission time length of a wireless frame; modifying a sending time of first data according to the system time difference, the sending time of the first data being determined according to a receiving time of second data at the first base station; and sending the first data from the second base station according to the modified sending time of the first data. The present disclosure can reduce the data transmission cost, and improves the reliability of data transmission.
US11212764B2	Timing accuracy control for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) sidelink transmission Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for determining that synchronization for sidelink communication is based on a synchronization source type, and identifying a priority level for a sidelink transmission. The described techniques also include selecting a modified timing error requirement for the sidelink transmission based at least in part on determining that the synchronization source type is the synchronization source for sidelink communications, and the identified priority level, and sending the sidelink transmission using the modified timing error requirement. In some examples, a sidelink device may identify an MCS for sending the sidelink transmission, and may select the modified timing error requirement for the sidelink transmission based on the MCS. In some examples, a sidelink device may identify a required range for a sidelink transmission, and may select the modified timing error required for the sidelink transmission based on the required range.
US11212759B2	Distributed antenna system and C-RAN system utilizing smart detection of surrounding environment In one example, a system comprises a central unit and a radiating point located remotely from the central unit and communicatively coupled to the central unit. The radiating point is configured to provide radio frequency signals to a coverage zone via one or more antennas. The system further comprises a radar sensor communicatively coupled to the radiating point and configured to capture image data in the coverage zone of the radiating point, wherein the radar sensor includes a plurality of transmitters and receivers coupled to an antenna array. One or more components of the system are configured to determine user detection data for users in the coverage zone based on the image data captured by the radar sensor and adjust the power consumption of the radiating point based on the user detection data.
US11212750B1	Method, device, and medium for spatial frequency reuse in wireless networks Methods, devices, and processor readable media for enabling a device operating within a wireless network to select an OBSS PD level that allows transmission of physical (PHY) layer protocol data units (PPDU) in minimum time and thereby enhancing the throughput of the network. An optimal OBSS PD level may be identified as the level that minimizes a linear combination of an estimated average contention time and an estimated average transmission time. The estimated contention time and estimated transmission time may be calculated based on data samples recorded at the given OBSS PD level. If insufficient data samples have been collected at the given OBSS PD level, then data samples from other OBSS PD levels may be used to estimate the average.
US11212748B2	Method of monitoring RAR, method of sending RAR, devices thereof and system A method of monitoring a Random Access Response (RAR), a method of sending a RAR, devices thereof and a system are provided. The method includes: sending a random access preamble to a base station; monitoring a RAR sent by the base station, at a time position of a downlink beam corresponding to the random access preamble. Since the RAR only needs to be monitored at the time position of the downlink beam corresponding to the random access preamble, the power consumption of the user terminal may be reduced.
US11212747B2	Power saving operations for communication systems Base stations and wireless devices may use cross-slot scheduling for each of a plurality of cells. Base stations and wireless devices may communicate regarding the cross-slot scheduling, including for example, one or more indications associated with cross-slot scheduling for one or more cells. A wireless device may determine cross-slot scheduling for one or more transmissions associated with the one or more cells. The wireless device may save power by switching to a power saving mode for at least one cell during one or more slots, based on the cross-slot scheduling.
US11212746B2	Big telematics data network communication fault identification method Apparatus, device, methods and system relating to a vehicular telemetry environment for the for identifying in real time unpredictable network communication faults based upon pre-processed raw telematics big data logs that may include GPS data and an indication of vehicle status data, and supplemental data that may further include location data and network data.
US11212745B2	Power management for remote antenna units in distributed antenna systems Power management for remote units in a wireless distribution system. Power can be managed for a remote unit configured to power modules and devices that may require more power to operate than power available to the remote unit. For example, the remote unit may be configured to include power-consuming remote unit modules to provide communication services. As another example, the remote unit may be configured to provide power through powered ports in the remote unit to power-consuming devices. Depending on the configuration of the remote unit, the power-consuming remote unit modules and/or power-consuming devices may demand more power than is available at the remote unit. In this instance, the power available at the remote unit can be distributed to the power-consuming modules and devices based on the priority of services desired to be provided by the remote unit.
US11212744B2	Cell selection reselection and camping Systems and methods for cell selection, reselection and camping are provided. A network node transmits cell broadcast information including a cell reservation indication and a cell reservation exception indication. A wireless device receives cell broadcast information and determines if the cell is reserved for selection. The cell can be selected, and camped on, in accordance with the wireless device being associated with the cell reservation exception indication.
US11212742B2	UPF selection method and device A UPF element selection method includes: judging, by a SMF element, whether a target RAN node is connected to a current UPF element; if not, determining that a user terminal is moved out of a current UPF service area; sending, by the SMF element, a resource acquisition request to a NRF, a resource response message including a UPF list, wherein the UPF list includes a UPF address, and a service application ID list supported by the UPF element; receiving, by the SMF element, the resource response message fed back by the NRF; judging, by the SMF element, whether a current service application ID carried by the user terminal belongs to the service application ID list supported by the UPF element; and if yes, accessing the user terminal to a target UPF element. A UPF element selection device using the UPF element selection method is provided.
US11212741B2	Wireless connectivity information for a mobile device In aspects of wireless connectivity information for a mobile device, a mobile device includes a connectivity module that determines that the mobile device is to wirelessly connect to a network. The connectivity module of the mobile device queries for a host device to provide wireless connectivity information, such as via a direct device-to-device query between the mobile device and the host device. The mobile device receives a query response from the host device, and the connectivity module obtains wireless connectivity information from the query response. The connectivity module utilizes the connectivity information to perform a focused scan for a network, such as a network identified in the query response. In response to detecting the network based on the focused scan, the connectivity module interacts with the network to establish a wireless connection between the mobile device and the network.
US11212739B2	Establishing tethering cells remotely According to an aspect, there is provided a terminal device comprising means for performing the following. The terminal device transmits a tethering request for setting up a tethering cell over at least one communications network to at least one tethering terminal device capable of setting up a tethering cell. Then, the terminal device performs tethering cell discovery for discovering tethering cells set up by any of said at least one tethering terminal device. In response to discovering a tethering cell provided by a tethering terminal device of said at least one tethering terminal device, the terminal device accesses the tethering cell.
US11212738B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting or receiving deregistration-related message in wireless communication system An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for transmitting or receiving a deregistration-related message to or from a user equipment (UE) by an access and mobility management function (AMF) in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a deregistration request message from a UE by a first AMF; and in response to the deregistration request message, transmitting a deregistration accept message to the UE by the first AMF, wherein the deregistration accept message includes a first 5G-globally unique temporary identifier (5G-GUTI) allocated by the first AMF.
US11212734B2	Mobile telecommunications system method, user equipment and base station for transmitting on demand system information A mobile telecommunications system method for transmitting on demand system information to a user equipment includes requesting system information, based on a specific radio resource control connection state, and to transmit system information to the user equipment, based on the system information request.
US11212729B2	Method and system for establishing connectionless mesh network route Disclosed are a method and system for establishing a route in a connectionless mesh network. The method comprises the following steps of: a sink device periodically broadcasting information to one or more surrounding devices of the sink device, wherein the information comprises information indicating the sink device as a sink, a MAC address of the sink device, and a signal strength between the sink device and an external router; a non-sink device periodically monitoring information broadcast by one or more surrounding devices of the non-sink device, and determining whether the information broadcast by the sink device is present; if so, the non-sink device selecting a sink device having a highest signal strength therewith as a next hop device, and the non-sink device periodically broadcasting information to the one or more surrounding devices of the non-sink device, wherein the information comprises a number of hops from the non-sink device to the sink device, a MAC address of the sink device, and the signal strength between the non-sink device and the sink device; if not, the non-sink device selecting a device having a highest signal strength therewith as the next hop device thereof, and the non-sink device periodically broadcasting information to the one or more surrounding devices of the non-sink device, wherein the information comprises the number of hops from the non-sink device to the sink device, a MAC address of the next hop device, and the signal strength between the non-sink device and the next hop device. The present invention may enable each device to find and maintain a route having the highest signal strength to a network sink.
US11212728B2	Behavior-based UAV detection for communication networks The identification of a user device as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) may cause the wireless communication network to implement certain operations. A user device communicating with a wireless communication network may be determined to be an UAV based on one or more behavior characteristics of the user device. Accordingly, a base station handover threshold for the UAV may be modified to prolong a communication duration of the UAV with a base station when a decrease in signal strength or an increase in signal interference of a signal provided by the base station occurs. The base station handover threshold is a threshold for determining when to handover communication between the UAV and the wireless communication network from the base station to an additional base station. The modification of base station handover threshold reduces a handover rate of the UAV between multiple base stations of the wireless communication network.
US11212726B2	Employing signal to interference-noise ratio in determining initiation of a user equipment handover event in a 5G or other next generation network Determining to initiate a user equipment handover event based on a signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio value is disclosed. The disclosed subject matter can employ the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio value in lieu of a reference signal receive power value. In an aspect, a handover based on the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio value can generally be determined faster and with greater reliability than basing the handover on the reference signal receive power value. In an aspect, some embodiments can substitute a determined uplink signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio value for a downlink signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio value. In some embodiments, a predicted signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio value can be determined based on historical channel characteristics, hysterical wireless network environment features, or other historical data. A predicted signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio value can be validated to a determined current signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio value, permitting a validated predicted value to be employed until a next validation event.
US11212723B2	Method, apparatus and computer program product for autonomous cell change by UE in network A method, an apparatus and a corresponding computer program product are proposed. Wherein one of the method according to one embodiment of the invention determines at least one cell in a network sharing context of at least one user equipment with at least one other cell within the network. Then creates at least one measurement configuration being used by the at least one user equipment, wherein the at least one measurement configuration indicates at least to the at least one user equipment that it can decide whether to perform cell change without transmitting back its measurement report to its serving cell. Then method further transmits the created at least one measurement configuration to the at least one user equipment.
US11212714B2	Method for supporting handover and corresponding base station and network node The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method for supporting handover and a corresponding base station and network node for performing the method is provided. The method includes forwarding data to a target base station, receiving a first end marker packet from a core network, and transmitting, for a quality of service, quality of service (QoS), flow for which the data forwarding has been completed, a second end marker packet to the target base station, the end marker packet containing a QoS flow identity (QFI). The methods of embodiments of the disclosure may reduce the packet transmission delay and improve the user experience.
US11212712B2	System and method for user equipment centric unified system access in virtual radio access network A network for facilitating wireless radio communication. The network includes a first access area, wherein the access area includes one or more transmission/receive points. At least one transmission/receive point includes a base station that supports wireless communication between a network and user equipment (UE), such as, a mobile device. The network includes a dedicated connection signature (DCS) that is assigned to a UE. The DCS provides for and is used by the UE to maintain active, unified access to the wireless network. More particularly, the DCS provides for active, contention free, and fast access for the UE to the network through transmission/receive points within the first access area, which is of significance to present and future UE centric virtual radio access networks having high densities of mobile and non-mobile users and with high populations of different types of traffic patterns and applications.
US11212711B2	Uplink interference-based monitoring of downlink signals by unmanned aerial vehicle An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) calculates an estimated uplink interference caused by the UAV at a neighboring cell based on a downlink signal received from the neighboring cell. Based on the estimated uplink interference, the UAV monitors downlink messages transmitted from the neighboring cell. If the uplink interference experienced by the neighboring cell exceeds an interference threshold, the neighboring cell transmits a downlink message, which includes an uplink interference indicator, to the UAV. Upon receipt of the uplink interference indicator, the UAV transmits a measurement report, including the uplink interference indicator, to the serving cell. In some cases, the serving cell transmits a handover command to the UAV based at least partially on the measurement report. The serving cell may also maintain a mobility history for the neighboring cell. The mobility history indicates a history of uplink interference problems and/or UAV handover availability for the neighboring cell.
US11212709B2	Resource allocation for configurable bandwidths Disclosed are methods, apparatus and systems for resource allocation when configurable bandwidths are available. One method includes performing a first transmission using a first set of resources in a first bandwidth, and subsequently performing a second transmission using a second set of resources in a second bandwidth, where the first bandwidth is greater than the second bandwidth, where the first and second set of resources are identified by a first and second value, respectively, and where a bit representation of the first value is a zero-padded version of a bit representation of the second value on either the most significant bit (MSB) or the least significant bit (LSB).
US11212705B2	Extra high throughput preamble Techniques for signaling new versions of a communication protocol differentiated from legacy versions of the communication protocol that are interoperable with stations implementing legacy versions of the communication protocol, that are compatible with future new versions of the communication protocol, and that do not overly complicate the receiver state machine have been disclosed.
US11212703B2	Method, apparatus and equipment for determining transport block size A method, an apparatus and an equipment for determining a transport block size are provided. The method for determining a transport block size includes: determining an initial transport block size; comparing the initial transport block size with a threshold to obtain a comparison result; quantizing the initial transport block size based on the comparison result to obtain a quantized initial transport block size; and determining a final transport block size based on the quantized initial transport block size.
US11212702B2	Signal processing apparatus and method The present technology relates to a signal processing apparatus and method which are able to suppress a reduction in reception sensitivity. A reception signal is compressed so as to have a predetermined signal level or lower, and transmission data transmitted from a transmitter side and included in the reception signal compressed so as to have the signal level or lower is decoded. For example, an approximate replica signal reproducing large amplitude changes of the reception signal is generated, and the approximate replica signal is subtracted from the reception signal to compress the reception signal so as to have the signal level or lower. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, a signal processing apparatus, a reception apparatus, a transmission/reception apparatus, a communication apparatus, an information processing apparatus, an electronic device, a computer, a program, a storage medium, a system, and so on.
US11212701B2	Systems, methods, and devices for ultra-reliable low latency communication quality-of-service guarantee A method for packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) protocol data unit (PDU) duplication and transport block (TB) repetition is provided. The method includes providing a radio access network (RAN) configuration having at least one of a PDCP PDU duplication configuration or a TB repetition configuration, performing at least one of PDCP PDU duplication or TB repetition based on one or more triggering events in the RAN configuration, where the PDCP PDU duplication includes providing at least one duplicated PDCP PDU to a radio link control (RLC) bearer.
US11212698B2	Communication method and communications device Example communication methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes that a first communications apparatus sends quality of service (QoS) flow information to a second communications apparatus, where a QoS flow indicated by the QoS flow information corresponds to at least one bearer type. The first communications apparatus receives a QoS flow list sent by the second communications apparatus based on the QoS flow information, where each QoS flow list is mapped to a radio bearer. The first communications apparatus sends a radio bearer identifier of the QoS flow list to the second communications apparatus. In the embodiments of this application, a base station itself determines a radio bearer or a DRB used to transmit the QoS flow.
US11212697B2	Adaptive quality of service for latency-sensitive applications Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment (UE) device to adaptively enhance the quality of service (QoS) configuration of a bearer of communications conducted over a cellular network between a UE application and a server. The UE may use various information, including a QoS profile associated with the application, to determine requested QoS parameters and/or whether the UE is permitted to request or access enhanced QoS functionality. The UE may then send a request to the cellular network indicating the requested QoS parameters, and the network may adjust the QoS configuration of the bearer in response. The UE and the network may perform routine QoS measurements and exchange information in order to adaptively maintain and optimize the QoS configuration. These techniques may tend to provide more appropriate QoS to the application, which may improve user experience.
US11212695B2	Configuration, activation and deactivation of packet duplication Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for determining a configuration for packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) duplication. Certain aspects provide a method for wireless communication. The method generally includes determining a PDCP duplication configuration corresponding to at least one of multi-connectivity (MC) or carrier-aggregation (CA) for communication of at least one bearer with a user-equipment (UE), wherein the determination is based on an indication corresponding to a link quality for the communication, and sending an indication of the determined configuration for the communication of the at least one bearer.
US11212692B2	Non-connection state measurement method, user equipment, and base station A non-connection state measurement method, UE, and a base station are provided. The measurement method according to this disclosure includes: acquiring measurement configuration information, where the measurement configuration information includes one or more frequencies; starting, by the UE in a non-connection state, to perform measurements in the one or more frequencies according to the measurement configuration information; and reporting, by the UE after the UE enters a connected state from the non-connection state, a measurement result obtained from the measurements.
US11212691B2	Indicating a subband interference level using sounding reference signal Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may perform a first interference measurement on a first subband of a plurality of subbands configured for the UE and a second interference measurement on a second subband of the plurality of subbands. The UE may identify a first interference level based at least in part on the first interference measurement and a second interference level based at least in part on the second interference measurement. The UE may transmit, to a base station, a first sounding reference signal (SRS) on the first subband and a second SRS on the second subband, wherein an SRS sequence of the first SRS indicates the first interference level, and wherein an SRS sequence of the second SRS indicates the second interference level. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11212690B2	Inter-frequency/inter-system measurement method, terminal device, and network device Disclosed in embodiments of the application are an inter-frequency/inter-system measurement method, a terminal device, and a network device. The method comprises: a terminal device sends, to a network device, auxiliary information for determining a target measurement gap mode; the terminal device receives indication information sent by the network device, the indication information being used for indicating the target measurement gap mode; and the terminal device performs inter-frequency/inter-system measurement according to the target measurement gap mode. In the method, terminal device and network device in the embodiments of the present application, the terminal device sends some auxiliary information to the network device, so that the network device can better understand the performance of the terminal device and then configures a proper measurement gap mode, which facilitates to improve the accuracy of a measurement report, thereby improving the performance of a system.
US11212686B2	Method and device for performing radio link monitoring by user equipment in wireless communication system The present invention discloses a method for performing radio link monitoring by a user equipment in a wireless communication system and device for supporting the same. Particularly, the present invention discloses a method for performing radio link monitoring by a user equipment when a base station supports at least one beam and device for supporting the same.
US11212685B2	Method and apparatus for measuring and transmitting CR by user equipment in wireless communication system One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method of measuring and transmitting a Channel occupancy Ratio (CR) by a user equipment in a wireless communication system, the method including measuring the CR evaluated as the number of subchannels related to a transmission of the UE in an interval in a predetermined size and performing the transmission based on the measured CR, wherein the interval in the predetermined size includes both a past time interval and a future time interval with reference to a timing at which the user equipment measures the number of the subchannels.
US11212683B1	Method for prioritized connection of a multi-core chipset to external access points and vehicle using the same A method for use aboard a motor vehicle or other mobile system having a multi-core communication chipset includes scanning a radio frequency spectrum to identify candidate access points (APs) operating in a frequency band of the communication chipset, e.g., 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. The method includes selecting one of the candidate APs as a first AP for connection to a primary station of the chipset. In response to a secondary station (STA-2) of the chipset being connected to an external AP on the same frequency band as the first AP, the method includes automatically disconnecting the secondary station (STA-2), then connecting the first AP to the primary station. Another candidate AP is connected to the secondary station as a second AP. The method may include simultaneously communicating with the first and second APs via the primary and secondary stations, respectively.
US11212682B2	Shared channel remapping in a multiple radio access technology co-existence scenario A user equipment, base station and methods are provided. The user equipment includes processing circuitry configured to obtain an indication of a resource mapping for a first radio access technology, RAT, that allows for co-existence with a second RAT within at least a portion of a transmission band, and determine communication resources based on the obtained resource mapping indication.
US11212680B2	PDCP count handling in RRC connection resume Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for resuming connections. In some example embodiments, there may be provided a method that includes receiving, at a user equipment, a radio resource control connection resume message; verifying, at the user equipment, an integrity of the received radio resource control connection resume message, wherein the user equipment verifies the integrity based on a predetermined value of a packet data convergence protocol hyper frame number; and resuming, by the user equipment, use of a suspended radio resource control connection, when the integrity verification of the received radio resource connection resume message is passed successfully. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also described.
US11212678B2	Cross access login controller Systems and methods here may be used for authorizing network access including using by a server computer with a processor and memory, for receiving, through the gateway support node, a request to access the first network associated with the gateway support node from a client device, wherein the request includes a client device identifier, sending a validation request of the client device identifier to the data storage server, receiving a validation response based on previously registered client device identifier information and previously registered credential information from a second network, from the data storage server and sending authorization approval to the gateway support node for the client device access request to the first network.
US11212673B2	Secure peer-to-peer communication over wireless mesh networks Techniques for secure team-based communication on existing wireless mesh networks are disclosed. In an example, a first network node receives a network encryption key from a headend system. The first network node receives a sub-group encryption key that is unique to a sub-group of nodes, a sub-group identifier, and a sub-group node list that lists the sub-group of nodes associated with the sub-group identifier. The first network node generates an application layer message for a second node of the sub-group of nodes at an application layer. The first network node encrypts the application layer message using the sub-group encryption key. The first network node generates a team packet that is addressed to a selected node and includes the encrypted application layer message and the sub-group identifier. The first network node encrypts the team packet using the network encryption key and transmits the encrypted team packet to the selected node.
US11212671B2	Method and system for securing communication links using enhanced authentication A method and system for securing CSI and DSI links using enhanced authentication and cloud tracking are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method comprises receiving at the receiving device an encrypted information signal from the transmitting device. The encrypted information signal includes a unique identifier of the transmitting device. The method further comprises testing whether a whitelist at the receiving device includes the unique identifier of the transmitting device. The encrypted information signal is decrypted producing a retrieved information signal only if the whitelist includes the unique identifier of the transmitting device; and otherwise terminating communication with the transmitting device.
US11212669B2	Method for handling of a prohibit timer to transmit a RRC message related to UE capability restriction in wireless communication system and a device therefor The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for handling of a prohibit timer to transmit a RRC message related to UE capability restriction in wireless communication system, the method comprising: transmitting a first UE Assistance Information message indicating temporary information related to UE capability, when the UE has overheating problem; starting a timer when the first UE Assistance Information message is transmitted; and transmitting a second UE Assistance Information message if temporary information related to UE capability in the second UE Assistance Information is changed from the temporary information related to UE capability in the first UE Assistance Information message while the timer is running. The UE is capable of communicating with at least one of another UE, a UE related to an autonomous driving vehicle, a base station, or a network.
US11212668B2	Device and method for providing UE radio capability to core network of mobile communication system The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates in a Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). According to various embodiments, a network node in a wireless communication system may include: receiving, from an application function (AF) via a network exposure function (NEF), user equipment (UE) radio capability information on UE radio capability identifier (ID) and at least one UE radio capability mapping to the UE radio capability ID; receiving, from an access and mobility management function (AMF), a request for information on at least one UE radio capability mapping to a specific UE radio capability ID; and transmitting, to the AMF, the information on at least one UE radio capability mapping to the specific UE radio capability ID.
US11212667B2	Method for transferring user equipment capability and apparatus for supporting same Disclosed are a method for transferring a user equipment (UE) capability and an apparatus for supporting the same. The method comprises the steps of: updating a version of the UE capability by the UE; determining, by the UE, whether the UE capability of the updated current version has been stored in a base station; and transmitting, by the UE, a version index indicating the current version to the base station when it is determined that the UE capability of the current version has been stored in the base station.
US11212666B2	Device of managing and scheduling sim card resource, communication terminal and system A device of managing and scheduling SIM card resource is provided, this device includes a card service transmitter, a card management interface, a card manager, a and a modem driver, the card service transmitter is configured to send various service instructions to the card management interface so as to transmit the various service instructions to a card manager through the card management interface; the card manager is configured to call a card physical interface to realize various service functions according to received various service instructions; the card physical interface is configured to perform an operation on the SIM card arranged on a non-modem side, and to call a modem virtual SIM card driver in a modem driver to load the SIM card arranged on the non-modem side into the modem.
US11212663B2	Establishing a roaming connection via a bootstrap server A method for establishing a roaming connection over a bootstrap server includes: transmitting, by a communication terminal, a registration request to a network access entity of a visited communication network, wherein the registration request comprises an identification of the communication terminal; forwarding, by the network access entity, the registration request to a bootstrap server of the visited communication network; transmitting, by the bootstrap server, network access data for accessing the visited communication network to the communication terminal based on the identification of the communication terminal, wherein the network access data indicates capabilities of the visited communication network; and establishing, by the communication terminal, the roaming connection via the visited communication network based on the network access data.
US11212660B2	MME interface for EN-DC node selection A computer device may include a memory storing instructions and processor configured to execute the instructions to receive a request for a connection to a Packet Data Network gateway (PGW) from a User Equipment (UE) device; obtain subscription type information for the UE device; and determine that the UE device is associated with a Fifth Generation (5G) subscription based on the obtained subscription type information. The processor may be further configured to obtain a list of available PGWs from a 5G Network Repository Function (NRF), in response to determining that the UE device is associated with the 5G subscription; select a PGW from the obtained list of available PGWs based on a selection rule; and send a create session request for the UE device to the selected PGW.
US11212659B1	Personnel tracking and emergency notification system A platform that utilizes QR codes, Radio Frequency Identification and/or Near Field Communication for geolocation in securing users safety and a MESH network to ensure emergency safety device performs under any network configuration cellular/wifi/bluetooth. The platform enables the dashboard and/or application programs executing thereon to effectively secure users of platform with audio/visual recordings of any such events which may endanger an associate working in a discrete location on their own. A user can also locate the associate in the case of an emergency. The platform also enables speech enabled summoning of the panic button. The platform plans to utilize ultra wide band technologies in addition to cellular/wifi/bluetooth channels. The platform is also available to emergency services based on the severity of an issue that may arise. The platform can also transmit single channel walkie talkie services to users of platform at the same location.
US11212658B2	Method for providing near filed communication device information for user and system therefor A communication field, more particularly to a method for providing near field communication device information for a user and a system therefor, where the method includes: when a near field communication device receives a command for reading a near field communication data exchange format file, writing the near field communication device information and a preset application identifier into the near field communication data exchange format file and sending the near field communication data exchange format file to a terminal; obtaining, by the terminal, an application identifier and the near field communication device information from the near field communication data exchange format file; initiating an application corresponding to the application identifier and storing the near field communication device information to a position readable by the application. The method provides a great convenience for a user to obtain the near field communication device information.
US11212655B2	Method for transmitting data in a transportation vehicle communication network, transportation vehicle communication network, participant, and transportation vehicle A method for transmitting data between at least two participants in a transportation vehicle communication network of a transportation vehicle. At least one participant of the transportation vehicle communication network is a transportation vehicle participant arranged in the transportation vehicle, and the transportation vehicle participant forms or provides a registration server of the transportation vehicle communication network. In a registration process, the at least one additional participant transmits information on a service category of at least one service provided by the additional participant and information on a service address to the registration server, and the registration server retrievably stores the participant-specific service category and the participant-specific service address.
US11212654B2	Coordinated driving through driver-to-driver V2X communication According to one or more aspects, a system for coordinated driving may include a vehicle communication system receiving a proposed driving maneuver from a tractor vehicle, an input device receiving a response to the proposed driving maneuver from an occupant of a trailer vehicle, and a route generation module generating a route corresponding to the proposed driving maneuver based on the response to the proposed driving maneuver. The tractor vehicle may be engaged in segment-by-segment coordinated driving with the trailer vehicle utilizing a cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) module.
US11212649B2	Determining a non-GNSS based position of a mobile device A method, apparatus and computer readable storage medium determine the position of a mobile device. Position data items are collected that indicate if the mobile device was located in a vicinity of a predetermined public transportation building when the respective position parameter was captured. Motion data items are also collected that represent a respective motion parameter captured by the mobile device within the vicinity of the predetermined public transportation building. Based on the positioning data item(s), the motion data item(s) and/or public transportation data, it is determined if the mobile device has left the vicinity of the predetermined public transportation building on board a public transportation vehicle and/or has arrived at the vicinity of the predetermined public transportation building on board a public transportation vehicle and, if so, the motion data item(s) are associated with a boarding or waiting and/or arrival area for passengers of the public transportation vehicle.
US11212645B2	Apparatus and method for assigning resources to persons within a facility A method of minimizing cross-contamination of pathogens between persons within a facility includes placing tags onto shared resources such as tables, desks, chairs, coffee makers, microwave ovens, sinks, bathroom stalls, etc. A mobile device senses the tags and approximates their locations, in embodiments relative to tagged anchor points. The mobile device can include any combination of tag-sensing and locating features, including a camera, LIDAR, GPS, sonic distance measurement, and accelerometers for inertial position sensing. In embodiments, the approximated tag locations can be verified and corrected as needed by using augmented reality to project the estimated tag locations onto the actual scene. The accurately determined tag locations are then used to assign resources to persons within the facility, whereby spatial distancing between persons and time intervals between usage of the same resource are maximized. A log of the resource assignments can be used to enhance contact tracing.
US11212643B1	Relative device localization Methods and systems to determine a change in a location of a device relative to an initial location of the device are provided. The method includes periodically receiving a parameter of the device and determining the change in the location of the device relative to an initial location of the device based on a change in the parameter over a period of time. In an example, the method includes determining a first trend in the parameter over a first period of time, determining a second trend in the parameter over a second period of time, and determining a change in the location of the device from a first location to a second location by comparing the first trend to the second trend.
US11212639B2	Information display method and apparatus One or more implementations shown in the present specification provide an information display method. An image capturing direction of an end-user device is determined. When the end-user device captures a first image, a geographic location of the end-user device is determined. Based on the geographic location and the image capturing direction of the end-user device and a geographic location of at least one point of interest (POI), a first POI that the end-user device points to when capturing the first image is determined. Using the geographic location of the end-user device as an origin of a coordinate system, a space model is established. Based on the space model, coordinates of a virtual camera is determined. Labeled data corresponding to the first POI are rendered onto the first image by using a second image simulated by the virtual camera.
US11212637B2	Complementary virtual audio generation An apparatus includes a processor configured to receive one or more media signals associated with a scene. The processor is also configured to identify a spatial location in the scene for each source of the one or more media signals. The processor is further configured to identify audio content for each media signal of the one or more media signals. The processor is also configured to determine one or more candidate spatial locations in the scene based on the identified spatial locations. The processor is further configured to generate audio to playback as virtual sounds that originate from the one or more candidate spatial locations.
US11212633B2	Immersive media with media device Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method, comprising: receiving, by a media processor including a processor, spherical audiovisual media content from a content delivery network; rendering, by the media processor, video for a point of view in the spherical audiovisual media content at a display device coupled to the media processor; receiving, from a remote control device coupled to the media processor, a control signal panning the point of view, resulting in a new field of view; and generating, by the media processor, audio signals from the spherical audiovisual media content corresponding to the new field of view, wherein the audio signals are adapted to audio reproduction equipment coupled to the media processor. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11212629B2	Updating playback device configuration information based on calibration data An example computing device is configured to perform functions including receiving calibration data corresponding respectively to a plurality of playback devices, where each playback device in the plurality of playback devices is located in a respective playback environment other than a first playback environment. The functions also include receiving playback device characteristic data respectively indicating at least one playback device characteristic for each playback device of the plurality of playback devices. The functions also include, based on at least the calibration data and the playback device characteristic data, determining updated playback device configuration information and transmitting data indicating the updated playback device configuration information to a given playback device located in the first environment.
US11212627B2	Hearing device and method for operating a hearing device A hearing device, such as a receiver-in-canal hearing aid, has a receiver unit with a receiver, and a control unit. The control unit is connected to the receiver unit via two activation lines to activate the receiver. In addition, a further component, such as a controllable ventilation element, is located in the receiver unit, and the further component is likewise activated via the activation lines by a control signal which is output by the control unit.
US11212625B2	Adaptive noise cancelling of bone conducted noise in the mechanical domain A noise cancelling system is described for a in a patient implantable hearing implant system. An implantable microphone senses a sound signal present at the microphone that includes a sound source component from a sound source external to the patient, and a noise component from internal bone conduction. At least one implantable noise sensing element is located near the microphone to sense the noise component. A filter is controlled by an adaptive algorithm responsive to transform the noise component and outputs a transducer control signal. A bone conduction transducer receives the transducer control signal and generates a corresponding mechanical vibration signal to the skull bone. The adaptive algorithm controls the filter so that the mechanical vibration signal of the bone conduction transducer offsets the noise component sensed by the at least one noise sensing element so as to minimize the noise component sensed by the implantable microphone.
US11212622B2	Piezoelectric assembly, electronic device and assembly process for piezoelectric assembly A piezoelectric assembly includes at least two piezoelectric components, a positive circuit board, and a negative circuit board. Each piezoelectric component includes a main body portion and a connecting portion. Respective first surfaces of the main body portion and the connecting portion are a positive electrode, and respective second surfaces of the main body portion and the connecting portion are a negative electrode. Main body portions of the at least two piezoelectric components are stacked, connecting portions of the at least two piezoelectric components are distributed in a staggered manner along a set edge. The positive circuit board is coupled to the first surface of the connecting portion, and the negative circuit board is coupled to the second surface of the connecting portion.
US11212620B2	Screen sounding device The present invention discloses a screen sounding device, including a screen, a frame and an electromagnetic driving module. The electromagnetic driving module includes an electromagnet, a magnetic conduction base and a magnetic conduction covering plate. The strength of the driving force can be controlled by changing the magnitude of the electric current flowing into the coil, which can provide a greater driving force to obtain a better sound effect. In addition, the driving module of the present invention has a simple structure and can be easily installed; the vibration amplitude of the screen is small, and the sounding device can be made thinner and smaller; compared with the traditional speaker and receiver, the structure such as the diaphragm is omitted, and the manufacturing cost is lower.
US11212613B2	Signal processing device and signal processing method The signal processing device is a signal processing device that collects a target sound output from an object to be a sound source, and includes a communication circuit that inputs image data produced by a camera and an acoustic signal output from a microphone array, and a control circuit that controls a sound collection direction of the acoustic signal in at least any one of a horizontal direction and a vertical direction relative to the microphone array based on at least any one of the image data and the acoustic signal.
US11212611B2	MEMS microphone and manufacturing method thereof A MEMS microphone and a manufacturing method thereof. The method comprises: sequentially forming a first isolation layer, a diaphragm, and a second isolation layer on a substrate; sequentially forming a first protective layer, a backplate electrode, and a second protective layer on the second isolation layer; forming a release hole penetrating through the first protective layer, the backplate electrode, and the second protective layer; forming an acoustic cavity penetrating through the substrate; releasing the diaphragm through the acoustic cavity and the release hole; and forming a groove on a surface of the first isolation layer, wherein the diaphragm conformally covers the surface of the first isolation layer, thereby forming a spring structure at a position of the groove.
US11212605B1	Microphone bracket for cosmetic port with no mesh An electronic device including a housing comprising one or more walls that define an interior cavity and that include a first wall having an audio opening extending through the first wall from an exterior surface of the housing to the interior cavity; a bracket disposed within the interior cavity and having first and second opposing surfaces, a first channel extending along the first surface and having a first end spaced apart from and surrounding the audio opening, and a second channel fluidly coupled to and extending perpendicular to the first channel through the second surface at a location laterally displaced from the audio opening; and a microphone disposed within the interior cavity and coupled to the second surface of the bracket over the second channel, wherein the bracket cooperates with the first wall to create an acoustic pathway that extends from the audio opening through the first wall, through the first channel and through the second channel to the microphone.
US11212604B2	Speaker quick mount structure and quick mount assembly A speaker fast mounting assembly and a method of use. The loudspeaker fast mounting assembly includes: a pressing edge; a locking and releasing assembly comprising a fixed support and a sliding and limiting piece, the fixed bracket is provided on the sliding and limiting piece of the locking position and the release position, the locking position and the release position is arranged between the channel, the sliding and limiting piece sliding fit in the channel; the pressing block, the pressing block is connected to the slide and on the limiting piece, the briquetting of the press with the pressure-side member of the fixture; the elastic member, the elastic member so that the block and the pressure-side member to maintain the pressing state; the unlocking member used for the sliding and limiting piece are balanced in order to make the sliding and limiting piece from the self-locking position.
US11212602B2	Screen sounding device The invention provides a screen sounding device, including a frame; a screen installed on the frame; and a driving device arranged between the frame and the screen for driving the screen to generate sound. The driving device includes a magnetic circuit system fixed on the screen and an electromagnet for driving the magnetic circuit system. The magnetic circuit system includes a connection covering plate fixed on the screen and a magnet fixed on a side of the connection covering plate away from one of the screen, and the magnet is arranged around the electromagnet. By virtue of the configuration, the driving force is greater and the sound performance is improved.
US11212600B2	Integrated dynamic bandwidth allocation method and apparatus in passive optical networks An integrated dynamic bandwidth allocation method and apparatus in a passive optical network (PON) are provided. The bandwidth allocation method performed by an optical line terminal (OLT) includes generating a service level agreement (SLA) table including an SLA required for calculation for bandwidth allocation corresponding to at least one service queue included in at least one optical network unit (ONU) connected to the OLT, calculating maximum allocatable bandwidths for respective predetermined cycles based on the generated SLA table, and, when a service queue requiring bandwidth allocation is present in the ONU, performing bandwidth allocation according to different bandwidth allocation methods based on a priority level of the service queue using the calculated maximum allocatable bandwidths.
US11212598B2	Apparatus and method for translating automatic meter reading signals to instantaneous meter readings A resource monitor for monitoring consumption of a resource includes: a commissioning processor, configured to pair with a client device via a Bluetooth link, and configured to receive WIFI network credentials from the client device, and configured to transmit the credentials to commission the resource monitor onto the WIFI network, and configured to initiate communications with a resource server over the internet cloud; and a meter reading processor, that receives meter identifiers from the resource server via the internet cloud for resource meters within radio range, and that tunes a meter receiver to narrowband frequency channels to detect and decode radio signals transmitted by resource meters to extract the meter identifiers along with corresponding meter readings, and that periodically transmits the meter identifiers along with the corresponding meter readings to the resource server over the internet cloud.
US11212594B2	Server device and storage medium for use therewith Provided is a server device that is capable of making it easy to attach comments to videos while reflecting the individuality of various users. A center server, when a user terminal is connected, delivers video data according to a request by the user terminal. The center server also specifies a stamp selected by each user among a plurality of stamps that have been prepared in advance, and, on the basis of symbol data for managing symbols that are separately set for users in order to visually identify each user, specifies the symbol of the user who has selected the stamp. The center server, when a request is made for delivery the video data, provides the user terminal with information about the stamp and the symbol so that a comment icon in which the selected stamp and the symbol of the user are combined is attached to the video.
US11212590B2	Multiple core software forwarding Approaches for performing all DOCSIS downstream and upstream data forwarding functions using executable software. DOCSIS data forwarding functions may be performed by classifying one or more packets, of a plurality of received packets, to a particular DOCSIS system component, and then processing the one or more packets classified to the same DOCSIS system component on a single CPU core. The one or more packets may be forwarded between a sequence of one or more software stages. The software stages may each be configured to execute on separate logical cores or on a single logical core.
US11212589B2	Methods and systems for filtering media content Method and systems are disclosed for presenting media asset identifiers retrieved based on a user search criteria. User's input of a first information, a second information, and a third information is received. The system identifies an information type associated with each received information. If the first information and the third information are associated with the same information type, a first query is created that combines the first information and the third information to retrieve media asset identifiers according to information type instructions associated with the first information type. The second information is integrated into the first query. If the second information and the third information are associated with the same information type, a second query is created that combines that second information and the third information to retrieve media asset identifiers according to instructions associated with the second information type. The first information is integrated into the second query.
US11212583B2	Securing media content using interchangeable encryption key An embodiment of a system for securing media content includes a digital media device comprising a memory associated with a secure element. The memory contains a private key and storage for at least one group key. The private key is used to decrypt transmissions from a remote access control system that are encrypted by a corresponding public key. The digital media device further comprises logic configured to respond to a first message received from the remote access control system encrypted by the public key and including a first group key, the logic responding to the first message by decrypting the first group key and storing the first group key in the memory of the secure element. The digital media device further comprises logic configured to decrypt a content key with the first group key. The content key is used to encrypt media content stored on a medium accessible by the digital media device.
US11212581B2	Criteria verification to facilitate providing of highest cost per mile (CPM) overlays to client devices A processing device for generating a viewing data report is disclosed. The processing device may include a memory device and a processor. The memory device may store instructions. The processor may be operatively coupled to the memory device. The processor may execute the instructions to: determine first viewing data associated with a first ACR event; determine second viewing data associated with a second ACR event; determine that a data field of a plurality of data fields in the first viewing data is incomplete; derive new data for the data field using other data fields of the first viewing data; aggregate the first viewing data and the second viewing data into a single data model to obtain aggregated viewing data of viewing behavior of a first viewer and a second viewer; and create a viewing data report as a compilation of the aggregated viewing data.
US11212578B2	Visible indicator for importance of audio In one aspect, a device includes a processor, a video display accessible to the processor, and storage accessible to the processor and comprising instructions executable by the processor to present an indication on the video display of an importance of audio to video relative to effective user consumption.
US11212576B1	Seamless and automatic transmission of provisioning data Embodiments include a system, method, and a computer program product for installing operating data on a device. For example, the method may include searching a plurality of channels to locate a message on an active channel for the device, the message being transmitted on each of the plurality of channels; in response to locating the message, analyzing the message to determine a second channel from among the plurality of channels for downloading the operating data for the device, the second channel being different than the first channel; in response to determining the second channel, tuning the device to the second channel; downloading, via the second channel, the operating data for the device; and installing the operating data on the device.
US11212571B2	Aggregation and presentation of video content items with search service integration A video aggregation system for providing a user personalized video content from videos available on the Internet generates a selective feed by combining a first feed and a second feed. The video aggregation system receives a search request from an Internet service and transmits a search reply containing a separately resolvable link to a video content object from the selective feed.
US11212567B2	QR codes for guided service authorization A reception apparatus includes receiver and processing circuitry. The receiver circuitry receives a broadcast stream that includes a television service selected by a user. The processing circuitry receives a user selection of the television service included in the broadcast stream and determines whether the selected television service is a digital rights management (DRM) protected service. When the selected television service is determined to be the DRM protected service, the processing circuitry outputs a quick response (QR) code for display, monitors the received broadcast stream for a DRM license that is associated with the unique identifier of the reception apparatus, acquires the DRM license that is associated with the unique identifier of the reception apparatus from the received broadcast stream, and decrypts at least one media component of the selected television service using the acquired DRM license.
US11212562B1	Targeted video streaming post-production effects Visual effects such as bleach bypass, sepia tone conversion, cross processing, custom effects, and many others may be applied to video streams before they are displayed to viewers. In some examples, different visual effects may be applied to the same underlying video content, such as on a viewer-by-viewer basis or at other levels of granularity, thereby allowing certain particular visual effects to be targeted to particular viewers/devices. The visual effects may be applied by one or more of a content provider, a video streaming service, one or more viewers, or by other entities. The visual effects may be applied based at least in part on instructions from the provider, such as one or more tags, for example that may be issued via an interface provided by a video streaming service.
US11212559B2	Systems and methods for displaying and controlling a remotely executed application on a display of a vehicle Systems and methods for displaying and controlling a remotely executed application on a display of a vehicle are disclosed. A method may include: receiving, by one or more processors, one or more video signals from one or more video sources onboard the vehicle; receiving, by the one or more processors, at a client module, a video signal including an image or display of the application executing on a remote server through a network; combining, by the one or more processors, via a video router, the received one or more video signals from the one or more video sources onboard the vehicle and the video signal including the image or display of the application executing on the remote server; and selectively displaying, by the one or more processors, on a display of the vehicle, the video signal including the image or display of the application executing on the remote server.
US11212558B2	Three-dimensional data encoding method, three-dimensional data decoding method, three-dimensional data encoding device, and three-dimensional data decoding device A three-dimensional data encoding method includes encoding information of a current node included in an N-ary tree structure of three-dimensional points included in three-dimensional data, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 2. In the encoding, reference to information of a first node included in neighboring nodes spatially neighboring the current node is permitted, and reference to information of a second node included in the neighboring nodes is prohibited, the first node having a same parent node as the current node, the second node having a different parent node from the parent node of the current node.
US11212554B2	Method and apparatus for low-complexity bi-directional intra prediction in video encoding and decoding A method for video decoding is disclosed. A directional intra prediction mode is decoded for a block of a picture, the directional intra prediction mode having a direction. Based on the directional intra prediction mode, a first predictor and a second predictor for a sample in the current block are accessed, the first and second predictors being on a line at least approximating the direction. A sample value of the sample is predicted by interpolation using the first and second predictors, responsive to a difference between the second and first predictors, wherein the difference is scaled by at least a ratio that is based on a location of the sample in the block, and wherein a denominator of the ratio is a power of two regardless of the location of the sample. The sample of the block is reconstructed based on the predicted sample value.
US11212548B2	Apparatus, a method and a computer program for video coding and decoding A method for motion compensated prediction, the method comprising determining a residual signal for at least one sample; determining if said residual signal is representing residual for samples in more than one channel; and if affirmative, applying said residual signal for at least a first sample in a first channel for generating a first reconstructed sample; and applying said residual signal for at least a second sample in a second channel for generating a second reconstructed sample.
US11212547B2	Method for encoding and decoding motion information, and apparatus for encoding and decoding motion information A method of decoding motion information according to an embodiment includes: obtaining information indicating a disparity distance for determining a prediction motion vector of a current block; scaling the disparity distance corresponding to the obtained information, based on a comparison result between a base pixel unit and a smallest pixel unit indicatable by a motion vector of the current block; determining a prediction motion vector candidate changed by the scaled disparity distance from a base motion vector of the current block from among one or more prediction motion vector candidates as the prediction motion vector of the current block; and determining the motion vector of the current block by using the prediction motion vector.
US11212537B2	Side information for video data transmission Systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing efficient video compression are disclosed. A video processing system includes a transmitter sending a video stream over a wireless link to a receiver. The transmitter includes a processor and an encoder. The processor generates rendered blocks of pixels of a video frame, and when the processor predicts a compression level for a given region of the video frame is different from a compression level for immediately neighboring blocks, the processor generates side information. The side information identifies a location of the given region in the video frame and a type of content that causes the compression level differences. The processor sends the rendered video information and the side information as accompanying metadata to the encoder. The encoder updates encoding parameters based on the received side information, and compresses the rendered given region based on the updated encoding parameters.
US11212536B2	Negative region-of-interest video coding A method, system, and computer readable medium for encoding one or more input digital frames with obscured negative regions of interest. The method comprising, comparing frame data to mask data for one or more sections of an input digital frame to determine whether or not a given section of the input digital frame is to be obscured, setting one or more encoding parameters to values that result in corresponding obscured sections when decoded after encoding for each section of the frame that is to be obscured, encoding the one or more sections of the input digital frame to generate corresponding encoded frame data and storing or transmitting the encoded frame data.
US11212534B2	Methods and apparatus for intra coding a block having pixels assigned to groups Methods and apparatus are provided for intra coding a block having pixels assigned to groups. An apparatus includes a video encoder for encoding a block in a picture using intra prediction by dividing pixels within the block into at least a first group and a second group and encoding the pixels in the first group prior to encoding the pixels in the second group. A prediction for at least one of the pixels within the second group is obtained by evaluating the pixels within the first group and the second group.
US11212530B2	Method for slice, tile and brick signaling Methods and systems for decoding a picture. A method includes receiving a coded video stream including a picture partitioned into first sub-picture units, the first sub-picture units including one first sub-picture unit, and an additional first sub-picture unit including a first ordered second sub-picture unit, from among second sub-picture units of the additional first sub-picture unit, and a last ordered second sub-picture unit, from among the second sub-picture units of the additional first sub-picture unit. The method further including decoding the picture, the decoding including obtaining index values of the first ordered second sub-picture unit and the last ordered second sub-picture unit of the additional first sub-picture unit, without the coded video stream explicitly signaling any of the index values and a difference value between the index values of the first ordered second sub-picture unit and the last ordered second sub-picture unit to the at least one processor.
US11212529B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus and an image processing method are provided. The image processing apparatus includes: a division control unit that, on the basis of a first boundary dividing an image into a plurality of partial areas, further sets a second boundary and divides each of the partial areas into a plurality of slices; and an encoding unit that encodes the image on the basis of the first boundary and the second boundary, in which the division control unit sets the second boundary such that the plurality of slices included in the partial area has unequal numbers of lines, and the slice situated at the bottom among the plurality of slices included in the partial area is not a slice having the most lines in the partial area.
US11212525B2	Encoding device, decoding device, encoding method, and decoding method An encoding device 1 includes: a transformation unit 13 configured to calculate an orthogonal transform coefficient by performing an orthogonal transformation process on a residual image indicating a difference between the input image and a predicted image of the input image; a quantization unit 14 configured to generate a quantization coefficient by quantizing the orthogonal transform coefficient on the basis of a quantization parameter; an entropy encoding unit 24 configured to generate encoded data by encoding the quantization coefficient; an image decoding unit 10 configured to restore an orthogonal transform coefficient from the quantization coefficient on the basis of the quantization parameter and generate a reconstructed image by adding the predicted image to a residual image restored by performing inverse orthogonal transformation on the orthogonal transform coefficient; and a deblocking filtering unit 18 configured to perform a filtering process on the reconstructed image, wherein the deblocking filtering unit 18 controls a filtering strength depending on a luminance signal level of the reconstructed image and the quantization parameter.
US11212518B2	Method for accelerating coding and decoding of an HEVC video sequence Provided is a method for accelerating coding and decoding of an HEVC video sequence. The method includes following steps: an original video stream is decoded, a LCU and a PU1 are extracted, and the complexity of the PU1 is calculated; a block size division is performed; a quantization step QP1 of the original video stream is recorded; the decoded video stream is recoded, a quantization step QP2 of the recoded stream is set, and a CU2 of a previous frame of a frame to be coded and a CU3 of coded frames 1˜N−1 are extracted; a coding unit of a frame currently being coded is obtained; a final prediction unit mode is determined according to the PU1; a division mode of the coding unit of the frame currently being coded is determined according to a depth information category of the coding unit of the frame currently being coded.
US11212517B2	Icon-based home certification, in-home leakage testing, and antenna matching pad A method for determining the magnitude of leakage in a subscriber's premises CATV installation; a frequency multiplexer for coupling between an antenna and a receiver for the multiplexed frequencies; and, a method for a technician to certify a CATV subscriber's premises for the provision of CATV services are disclosed.
US11212516B2	Automated test system for testing remote control units Technologies are described herein for enabling the automated testing of remote control units by providing a suitable test station. The test station includes features that allow it to interact with the remote control units inputs, such as buttons and microphone, and outputs, such as IR and RF remote control codes, status LEDs, and audio output. The test station may be controlled by a controller that executes test scripts or other routines that exercise the functionality of the remote control unit as desired.
US11212515B2	Information processing device and information processing method There is provided an information processing device and an information processing method, capable of appropriately restricting viewing of content based on a result of sensing a real space. The information processing device includes a viewing restricting unit configured to restrict, on the basis of a predetermined condition, viewing of a part of content corresponding to a partial space of a real space among content of a free viewpoint generated based on a sensing result for the real space.
US11212513B2	Method for displaying a stereoscopic image on a display device A display device includes a plurality of pixels and an optical modulator. A method for displaying a stereoscopic image on the display device includes obtaining image data of the stereoscopic image corresponding to K views, for each sub-pixel in each of the pixels, determining location parameters of the sub-pixel according to a first coordinate value of the sub-pixel along a first direction, a first number of sub-pixels along the first direction in each pixel, a second coordinate value of the sub-pixel along a second direction, and a second number of sub-pixels along the second direction in each pixel, determining a corresponding view corresponding to the sub-pixel according to a pitch and a slant angle of the optical modulator, the location parameters, and a visual offset caused by the optical modulator, and assigning displaying data to the sub-pixel according to the corresponding view and the image data.
US11212502B2	Method of modifying an image on a computational device A method of modifying an image on a computational device and a system for implementing the method is disclosed. The method comprising the steps of: providing image data representative of at least a portion of a three-dimensional scene, the scene being visible to a human observer from a viewing point when fixating on a visual fixation point within the scene; displaying an image by rendering the image data on a display device; capturing user input by user input capturing means; modifying the image by: computationally isolating a fixation region within the image, the fixation region being defined by a subset of image data representing an image object within the image, wherein the image object is associated with the visual fixation point; spatially reconstructing the subset of image data to computationally expand the fixation region; spatially reconstructing remaining image data relative to the subset of image data to computationally compress a peripheral region of the image relative to the fixation region in a progressive fashion as a function of a distance from the fixation region, wherein the modification of the image is modulated by the user input such that a modified image is produced which synthetically emulates how the human observer would perceive the three-dimensional scene.
US11212500B2	Image capture apparatus, electronic apparatus, and recording medium suppressing chroma in white balance correction performed based on color temperature An image capture apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire image data of a subject; an identification unit configured to identify a color temperature of light from the subject on the basis of the image data acquired by the acquisition unit; an adjustment unit configured to adjust a white balance of the image data on the basis of the color temperature identified by the identification unit; and a suppression unit configured to suppress a chroma of the image data applied adjustment by the adjustment unit on the basis of the color temperature identified by the identification unit if image data of a specific light-emitting body is included in the image data.
US11212499B2	Electronic apparatus for correcting color temperature of captured image using reference color information corresponding to external object, and method for controlling electronic apparatus Disclosed is an electronic apparatus comprising: a camera module; a communication module; and a processor electrically connected to the camera module and the communication module, wherein the processor is capable of: obtaining an image of one or more external objects by using the camera module; recognizing at least one specified external object among the one or more external objects; transmitting image color information, corresponding to said at least one recognized specified external object, to an external electronic apparatus via the communication module; receiving attribute information on a light source for the image, determined using reference color information, corresponding to said at least one specified external object, and the image color information, from the external electronic apparatus; and correcting the color temperature of the image by using the attribute information received from the external electronic apparatus. Other various embodiments identified in the description are possible.
US11212498B2	Infrared crosstalk correction for hybrid RGB-IR sensors Techniques are provided for infrared (IR) crosstalk correction for hybrid Red-Green-Blue-IR (RGB-IR) sensors. A methodology implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes estimating illumination characteristics applied to a subject. The estimation is based on the subject image provided by a hybrid RGB-IR sensor, which comprises a plurality of pixels, each of the pixels associated with an R, G, B, or IR channel. The method further includes selecting a set of correction model parameters from a calibration database, the selection based on the estimated illumination characteristics, and generating a correction model based on the selected set of correction model parameters. The correction model provides correction weights for the RGB channels. The method further includes generating RGB correction values as a product of the correction weights and the IR channel and adjusting the RGB channels by the correction values to reduce IR crosstalk between the IR channel and the RGB channels.
US11212496B2	Geometry conversion and frame packing associated with 360-degree videos Conversion between different projection formats of a 360-degree video may be performed in a uniform way. The geometric characteristics of the different projection formats may be considered when applying 3D-to-2D and 2D-to-3D mapping. Parameters reflective of the geometric characteristics of the different projection formats may be determined and used in the mapping and/or conversion. The parameters may include a normal vector that is perpendicular to a projection plane, a reference point in the projection plane, and/or unit vectors defined in the projection plane. An architecture with consolidated modules for handling the various projection formats may be provided.
US11212493B2	Method and system for distributed camera network A method at an image capture apparatus, the method including receiving, at the image capture apparatus, a trigger to begin image capture; based on the trigger, starting image capture for a fixed duration; and providing image capture data to a processing service.
US11212489B2	Imaging device, imaging method, electronic apparatus, and onboard electronic apparatus The present disclosure relates to an imaging device, an imaging method, an electronic apparatus, and an onboard electronic apparatus for suppressing the flicker caused by light sources over a wide range of frequencies.With the present technology, multiple images are captured consecutively at uneven intervals in a single-frame period of a video before being blended. This removes the flicker efficiently. The uneven capture timing in the single-frame period is made the same for multiple frames. This makes it possible to prevent low-frequency flicker from getting higher in frequency. The present disclosure may be applied to onboard cameras, for example.
US11212487B2	Staying state display system and staying state display method Information having an appropriate content corresponding to an area in which a person stays can be presented to a user as information related to a staying state of the person in each area inside a facility. In a target area such as an office and a conference room, a processor of a facility management apparatus executes each process of seat occupancy detection, area determination, and screen control, obtains staying information related to the staying state of the person, and generates display information on which the staying information is reflected in accordance with a display item for each target area based on a video of a camera.
US11212482B2	Real time painting of a video stream Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for generating graphical representations within frames of a video stream in real time. The systems and methods receive a frame depicting a portion of a face, identify user input, identify positions on the portion of the face corresponding to the user input. The systems and methods generate a graphical representation of the user input linked to positions on the portion of the face and render the graphical representation within frames of the video stream in real time.
US11212481B2	Systems and methods for sharing capture settings for visual content capture An image capture device may capture visual content using a capture setting. A machine-readable optical code conveying the capture setting may be generated. The machine-readable optical code may convey the capture setting such that an image capture device capturing an image including the machine-readable optical code: (1) identifies the machine-readable optical code within the image; (2) determines the capture setting conveyed by the machine-readable optical code; and (3) stores the capture setting for use in visual content capture. A graphical user interface may enable a user to associate the machine-readable optical code with the visual content. The association of the machine-readable optical code with the visual content may cause subsequent presentation of the visual content to include presentation of the machine-readable optical code.
US11212476B2	Image sensor, imaging apparatus and live body imaging apparatus There is provided an image sensor including a pixel unit, the pixel unit including a photodiode, a first color filter and a second color filter each disposed in a different position on a plane above the photodiode, and a first on-chip lens disposed over the first color filter and a second on-chip lens disposed over the second color filter.
US11212474B2	Bidirectional TDI line image sensor The present disclosure provides a bidirectional TDI line image sensor. The bidirectional TDI line image sensor according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a pixel unit, which has N line sensors having M CCDs arranged in a line and being arranged in a scan direction, moves, in the scan direction, charges accumulated in the respective columns of the line sensors, and accumulates the same; and an output unit for parallelly receiving as inputs the charges accumulated in the pixel unit from the respective columns, performing analog-to-digital conversion on and storing the charges, and then sequentially outputting same.
US11212473B2	Photoelectric conversion device having pixels comprising different size counters An embodiment includes a plurality of pixels each including a light receiving unit that outputs a pulse in response to incidence of a photon, and a signal generation unit that generates a signal in accordance with the number of pulses output from the light receiving unit, wherein the plurality of pixels includes a first pixel in which an upper limit value of a signal generated by the signal generation unit is a first value and a second pixel in which an upper limit value of a signal generated by the signal generation unit is a second value that is smaller than the first value.
US11212472B2	Image sensor An image sensor including: a plurality of phase shift code generators, wherein each of the plurality of phase shift code generators outputs a phase shift code; a test data selection circuit for outputting test data corresponding to a test pattern; a counter for receiving the phase shift code from at least one of the plurality of phase shift code generators, receiving the test data from the test data selection circuit, latching a digital code corresponding to the test pattern using the phase shift code, and outputting the digital code; and a control logic for calculating a data pattern using the digital code and selecting one of the plurality of phase shift code generators in accordance with a result of a comparison between the data pattern and the test pattern.
US11212471B2	Solid-state image capturing element and electronic device Solid-state image capturing elements are disclosed. In one example, a solid-state image capturing element includes a noise-cancelling-signal generating circuit connected to a pixel power source. It executes a gain change and a polarity inversion on a first noise cancelling signal to output a second noise cancelling signal. The element also includes a DA converter that outputs a reference signal and converts a current of the second noise cancelling signal into a voltage to superpose the converted voltage on the reference signal; a comparator that receives inputs of the reference signal and a pixel signal and outputs an inversion signal according to the pixel signal and a gain setting; a counter that converts an inversion timing of the comparator into a digital value; and a gain controlling unit that outputs, when changing a gradient of the reference signal and an input capacity to execute a gain control on the comparator.
US11212467B2	Sample and hold switch driver circuitry with slope control A switch driver circuit includes a first transistor coupled between a voltage supply and a first output node. A second transistor is coupled between the first output node and a first discharge node. A first slope control circuit is coupled to the first discharge node to discharge the first discharge node at a first slope. A third transistor is coupled between the voltage supply and a second output node. A fourth transistor is coupled between the second output node and a second discharge node. A second slope control circuit coupled to the second discharge node to discharge the second discharge node at a second slope. The first and second slopes are mismatched.
US11212466B2	Multiple microbolometer selection for simultaneous readout Techniques are disclosed for facilitating multiple microbolometer selection for simultaneous readout. In one example, a device includes a plurality of microbolometers. The plurality of microbolometers includes a first set and a second set of serially-connected microbolometers. The device further includes a first plurality of switches configured to selectively short the plurality of microbolometers. The device further includes a second plurality of switches configured to selectively couple the plurality of microbolometers to ground. The device further includes a third plurality of switches configured to selectively provide a bias signal to the plurality of microbolometers. The device further includes a processing circuit configured to configure the first plurality, second plurality, and third plurality of switches to cause simultaneous read out of one microbolometer of the first set and one microbolometer of the second set. Related methods and systems are also provided.
US11212464B2	Method and system for generating at least one image of a real environment A method of generating at least one image of a real environment comprises providing at least one environment property related to at least part of the real environment, providing at least one virtual object property related to a virtual object, determining at least one imaging parameter according to the at least one provided virtual object property and the at least one provided environment property, and generating at least one image of the real environment representing information about light leaving the real environment according to the determined at least one imaging parameter, wherein the light leaving the real environment is measured by at least one camera.
US11212463B2	Method for visually representing scanning data Method for visually representing scanning data, which are composed of a multiplicity of individual measurement data. The individual measurement data in each case have at least one measurement value that is linked to a respective measurement direction, wherein the measurement directions are different from one another such that a predetermined scanning region with a predetermined scanning resolution is covered. The representation of the scanning data is effected by way of an image map with a number of map points that is dependent on a predetermined display resolution and by way of an assignment rule for assigning measurement value to map point, wherein the assignment is effected immediately on the basis of the respective measurement direction that is linked to the measurement value.
US11212461B2	Image pickup system, image pickup method, and computer readable storage medium for generating video signals having first and second dynamic ranges This image pickup system includes an image pickup unit that captures a subject to obtain a pixel signal, and a processing circuit that generates a first video signal having a first dynamic range from the pixel signal generated by the image pickup unit, and generates a second video signal having a second dynamic range correlated with the first dynamic range.
US11212460B2	Apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for flicker reduction in a multi-sensor environment Embodiments of the disclosure relate generally to flicker reduction in a multi-imager environment. Embodiments include methods, computer program products, and apparatuses configured for producing a near-field illumination using a near-field illuminator, the near-field illumination produced at a defined pulse train. A near-field image sensor may be exposed near the start of a near-field illumination pulse, and a far-field image sensor may be exposed between pulses of the near-field illumination. Some embodiments, additionally or alternatively, are configured for detecting an illuminator switch event, deactivating the near-field illuminator source, and producing, using a far-field illuminator source, a far-field illumination. Upon switching the illuminator source, some such embodiments are configured for exposing a far-field illuminator near the start of the far-field illumination pulse, and exposing a near-field image sensor near the start of the next available far-field illumination pulse. Such image capture may repeat until an image processing task such as barcode reading is successful.
US11212458B2	Display control apparatus, display control method, and storage medium A display control apparatus that controls a display of an image to a display device capable of displaying a high dynamic range image includes a determination unit and a control unit. The determination unit is configured to determine a region of interest a user is interested in. The control unit is configured to, on the basis of a relationship between a value of a maximum tone of display and a value of a maximum tone of the region of interest, control a display luminance of the display device such that, in a case where the image is displayed on the display device, a peak luminance of display of the region of interest is made equal to or greater than a peak luminance of a standard dynamic range display and equal to or less than a peak luminance of a high dynamic range display.
US11212452B2	Control apparatus, control method, and storage medium A control apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire optical information, a tilt control unit configured to tilt an image sensor relative to a plane orthogonal to an optical axis of an imaging optical system, and a calculation unit configured to calculate an image shift amount by a phase difference detection method based on a signal from the image sensor and to calculate a defocus amount based on the image shift amount and a conversion coefficient. The calculation unit changes at least one of a correction amount of the signal and the conversion coefficient based on the optical information and a tilt angle that is an angle formed by the image sensor and the plane.
US11212444B1	Image processing device Provided is an image processing apparatus including at least one processor configured to implement a feature point extractor that detects a plurality of feature points in a first image input from an image sensor; a first motion vector extractor that extracts local motion vectors of the plurality of feature points and select effective local motion vectors from among the local motion vectors by applying different algorithms according to zoom magnifications of the image sensor; a second motion vector extractor that extracts a global motion vector by using the effective local motion vectors; and an image stabilizer configured to correct shaking of the first image based on the global motion vector.
US11212436B2	Image processing and presentation An image presentation method includes obtaining a first image captured by a first image sensor and a second image captured by a second image sensor; size-processing the first image according to at least one of a target resolution, an aspect ratio of the first image, or an aspect ratio of the second image to generate a size-processed first image having the target resolution; and generating a presenting image at least by combining the size-processed first image and the second image. The presenting image has a preset resolution that is not less than a sum of the target resolution and a resolution of the second image.
US11212431B2	Methods and apparatus for remotely controlling a camera in an environment with communication latency Methods, apparatus, and systems are provided for remotely controlling a camera in an environment where there is a delay. A control device is provided for controlling a remotely located camera via a network. The control device comprises a monitor for viewing an image provided by the camera. A control signal is sent from the control device to the camera with a command for controlling at least one of a function, setting, or parameter of the camera. An image displayed on the monitor of the control device is modified in accordance with the command to provide an emulated image for display prior to execution of the command at the camera.
US11212429B2	Camera module for vehicular vision system A camera module for a vehicular vision system includes a front camera housing having a housing portion and a cylindrical lens barrel extending from the housing portion and accommodating a lens. An imager printed circuit board is attached at the front camera housing portion. With the imager printed circuit board attached at the front camera housing, the imager is optically aligned with an optical axis of the lens. A rear camera housing portion is mated with the housing portion of the front camera housing so as to encase the imager printed circuit board in the camera module. The housing portion of the front camera housing includes mounting structure configured to mount the camera module at a vehicle. The lens barrel includes a material having a lower coefficient of thermal expansion as compared to the material of the front camera housing.
US11212417B2	Image processing apparatus that processes image data including coded image A controller of an image processing apparatus performs one or both of an enlargement process and a conversion process when a coded image in which information is coded is included in the image data. The enlargement process is a process of pasting an enlarged coded image instead of the coded image on the image data. The conversion process is a process of pasting decoded information instead of the coded image.
US11212416B2	Secure digital media capture and analysis Systems and methods for generating certified images, annotations, and incident reports are disclosed. A media capture device can be used to capture a media asset and related metadata. The image and its metadata can then be certified upon capture so that it can be verified as authentic and unaltered after certification. The certified media asset can then be included in or as a part of an incident report, which may optionally align multiple media assets along a path based on location and time of capture. The report may itself be certified and synchronized with a cloud server system.
US11212415B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, storage medium, and image forming apparatus Disclosed is an image processing apparatus including: a derivation unit configured to derive a target luminance characteristic based on a viewing condition of an image and a print luminance characteristic predicted based a reflection characteristic corresponding to data thereon; a unit configured to generate print image data on an image by converting input image data by using a tone conversion characteristic that is set based on these characteristics, in which the derivation unit derives, in a case where a reproduction range of an illumination intensity in the print luminance characteristic is different, the target luminance characteristic so that a liner area of an output luminance in a case where the reproduction range is relatively large becomes large.
US11212411B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method and non-transitory recording medium An information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a non-transitory recording medium. The information processing apparatus receives an initialization instruction from an external apparatus, initializes second information among first information and the second information stored in a first memory in response to the initialization instruction, notifies the external apparatus of completion of initialization of the second information, and initializes the first information after the completion of initialization of the second information is notified to the external apparatus.
US11212410B2	Communication apparatus and control method therefor Provided is a communication apparatus including: a first communication portion configured to perform wireless communications with an external apparatus based on a Bluetooth Low Energy communication scheme; and a first determiner configured to determine whether an auto power-on function of powering on the communication apparatus under a predetermined condition even when the communication apparatus is in a powered-off state is set to be enabled, wherein, when the first determiner determines that the auto power-on function is set to be enabled, the first communication portion disconnects connection to the external apparatus, which has been established based on the Bluetooth Low Energy communication scheme, in response to a power-off instruction, and transmits advertising information that allows a response based on the Bluetooth Low Energy communication scheme to be received.
US11212409B2	Information processing device for registering and displaying a character string. and information processing method and storage medium thereof According to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, when no user operation has been performed for a set period, an information processing device is caused to transition to a sleep mode including stopping display on a display unit. However, the information processing device is controlled to not transition to the sleep mode until a slideshow currently being displayed on the display unit, ends, in a case where the slideshow has been started.
US11212408B2	Multimedia device, multimedia arrangement having the multimedia device, and method for transferring an optical code using the multimedia arrangement A multimedia device 2 is proposed having a display unit 6 for displaying at least one optical code 5, wherein the optical code 5 is configured to be acquired by a read device 3, wherein the multimedia device 2 comprises a coding unit 4, wherein the coding unit 4 is configured to code operating data of the multimedia device 2 as the optical code 5.
US11212403B2	Sheet post-processing apparatus for an image forming system that accounts for sheet binding processing time A sheet post-processing apparatus includes a control unit. When performing binding for binding a plurality of sheets a plurality of times continuously, the controller measures the processing time required for the binding during first binding and notifies an image forming apparatus of a post-processing time including the measured processing time.
US11212397B1	Image reading system, image forming system, and image reading method for dividing each area into blockchains Provided is an image reading system that can disperse and improve the image quality of a document. The document reading unit reads a document page by page and outputs it as image data. The area classification unit classifies the read image data into area data for each content. The blockchain creation unit creates a block in which identification information is added to the classified area data, and sequentially calculates and includes the previous hash value of the previous block, thereby creating the blockchain of the document. The image processing unit in information processing apparatus processes or deletes the area data for each received block. The block acquisition unit acquires a block processed by the information processing apparatus. The document output unit collectively reconstructs the block that is acquired into document data and outputs the document data.
US11212394B2	Low power system and method for DSL lines The transmit power level of a transceiver coupled to a digital subscriber line (DSL) line is reduced from a first transmit power level sufficient for the transceiver to transmit data on the DSL line at a first bit rate to a second transmit power level below the first transmit power level sufficient for the transceiver to transmit data on the DSL line at a second bit rate that is lower than the first bit rate. The reduction in transmit power is limited so that the change does not induce time-varying crosstalk sufficient to destabilize a nearby DSL line. While the transmit power level of the transceiver is reduced to the second transmit power level, the transceiver is suspended from transmitting data on the DSL line for repeated periods of time. Suspending the data transmission is controlled to avoid further time-varying crosstalk sufficient to destabilize the nearby DSL line.
US11212392B2	Methods and devices for using a uniform application program interface for validation and recovery A device may receive, from a source device, a request for a target device to perform an operation. The request includes parameters, source information that identifies the source device, and operation information that identifies an operation. The request invokes an API that selects, based on the source information and the operation information, validation rules. The API executes the validation rules to determine whether the parameters are valid for the operation. The API may determine, from executing the validation rules, that an issue is preventing the parameters from being valid for the operation. The API may select, based on the source information and the operation information, a recovery rule from among a plurality of recovery rules. The API may execute the recovery rule to remedy the issue and provide a response message indicating a result of executing the recovery rule.
US11212388B2	Server, home appliance, and method for providing information therein Disclosed is a method for providing information in a server. Said method for providing information in a server includes: a step for repeatedly receiving at preset intervals, data related to a plurality of sensors provided in an electronic device; a step for storing the data received at the preset intervals; a step for comparing data corresponding to a first period and data corresponding to a second period among the stored data, and thereby sensing a change in the performance of the electronic device; and a step for providing guidance information corresponding to the sensed change in performance to a user terminal device which corresponds to the electronic device.
US11212386B2	Presenting content during video call hold events Systems and methods are described herein for handling video calls placed on hold or otherwise parked by one or more parties within the video call. The systems and methods can determine a video call has been placed on hold (or otherwise set to be parked), and transfer the video call to a call park server (CPS). The systems and methods can then access a content server, retrieve one or more content items (e.g., video clips, interactive content or advertisements, and so on), and present the content items within the on hold video call.
US11212385B2	Media control devices, systems and methods Media control devices, methods and systems for communicating with mobile devices and headsets are disclosed. At least one control device may include a top surface, a bottom surface, circuitry for communicating with mobile devices and headsets, at least one button designed to be manipulated by users wearing gloves, a microphone for receiving audio input from the users, and a securement mechanism for securing the control device to the users' person, clothing and/or equipment.
US11212379B2	Electronic device including movable flexible display An electronic device may include an assembly that enables varying a visible portion of a display by extending and retracting a bendable portion of the display. The extending and retracting of the bendable display is facilitated by a first assembly on which a substantially planar visible portion of the display is disposed and a second assembly slidably attached to the first assembly. A space is defined by the first and second assemblies in which a bent portion of the display is housed. When the first assembly is extended (e.g., opened) with respect to the second assembly, at least a portion of the bent portion of the display is extended so as to be visible, and when the first assembly is closed (e.g., retracted) with respect to the second assembly, the extended bent portion of the display is retracted into the space between the first assembly and the second assembly, and is no longer visible. Various constructions of the first and second assemblies and corresponding structures are provided.
US11212377B2	Electronic device comprising camera device and method Various embodiments of the present invention relate to an electronic device for blocking light. The electronic device may comprise: a housing comprising a front plate, a rear plate facing in the opposite direction to the front plate, and a side member surrounding the space between the front plate and the rear plate; a touch screen arranged in the space and exposed through the front plate; and a camera assembly exposed through one selected from the front plate and the rear plate. The camera assembly may comprise: a camera lens facing a first part of the one selected from the front plate and the rear plate; a flash facing a second part of the one selected from the front plate and the rear plate; and an opaque layer arranged between the camera lens and the flash when seen from above the one selected from the front plate and the rear plate. The second part may be arranged adjacent to the first part. The camera lens and the flash may be arranged side by side with each other in a first direction. The opaque layer may comprise a first slit extending between the camera lens and the flash on the basis of a second direction that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction. Other embodiments are also possible.
US11212376B2	Method of transmitting a data signal in sync with a clock signal A method of transmitting a data signal in sync with a clock signal in a DTV receiver. The method includes performing demodulation processing and error correction processing on an input carrier wave and outputting signals resulting from these types of processing; acquiring a transport stream (TS) packet included in the signals; acquiring a variable-length packet included in the signals; and selecting either the TS packet or the variable-length packet and outputting the selected packet as the data signal, where to variable-length packet is either a type length value (TLV) packet or an Internet protocol (IP) packet.
US11212373B2	Methods and apparatus for classification of flow metadata with user space communication stacks Methods and apparatus for efficient data transfer within a user space network stack. Unlike prior art monolithic networking stacks, the exemplary networking stack architecture described hereinafter includes various components that span multiple domains (both in-kernel, and non-kernel). For example, unlike traditional “socket” based communication, disclosed embodiments can transfer data directly between the kernel and user space domains. Direct transfer reduces the per-byte and per-packet costs relative to socket based communication. A user space networking stack is disclosed that enables extensible, cross-platform-capable, user space control of the networking protocol stack functionality. The user space networking stack facilitates tighter integration between the protocol layers (including TLS) and the application or daemon. Exemplary systems can support multiple networking protocol stack instances (including an in-kernel traditional network stack).
US11212369B2	Distributed storage of state information and session recovery using state information A method for storing session state data of a session between a system having a plurality of nodes and a client device includes delivering a service to the client device during a session identified or otherwise specified by a session identifier. The service is delivered by a first of the plurality of nodes in the system. During the session, at least a second node in the system is selected on which session state data associated with the session is to be saved. The second node is selected based on the session identifier such that another node in the system is able to locate the session state data when stored on the second node from the session identifier without contacting a centralized mechanism that specifies where session state data is stored. The session state data is saved to the second node that is selected.
US11212368B2	Fire-and-forget offload mechanism for network-based services In various embodiments, a proxy application processes requests associated with a network-based service. In operation, the proxy application determines that a first request received from a client application indicates that a response to the first request can be offloaded from a server machine. Prior to transmitting the first request to the server machine, the proxy application transmits a response to the first request to the client application. The response indicates that the server machine has successfully processed the first request. Advantageously, upon receiving the response, the client application is able to initiate a second request irrespective of the server machine.
US11212361B2	Systems and methods for latency masking via prefix caching Systems and methods for latency masking via prefix caching, by providing a recorded output of launch of a network application to a client device from a point closer to client device, or with lower latency than output of the actual network application can be provided to the client device. The resulting user experience is that of instant or near-instant launch of the application, avoiding network delays communicating with the application server or processing delays from instantiation of virtual machines or other resources to provide the network application.
US11212356B2	Providing services at the edge of a network using selected virtual tunnel interfaces For traffic exiting a logical network through a particular VTI, some embodiments perform a service classification operation for different data messages to identify different VTIs that connect the edge forwarding element to a service node to provide services required by the data messages. Each data message, in some embodiments, is then forwarded to the identified VTI to receive the required service. The identified VTI does not perform a service classification operation. The service node then returns the serviced data message to the edge forwarding element. In some embodiments, the identified VTI is not configured to perform the service classification operation and is instead configured to mark all traffic directed to the edge forwarding element as having been serviced. The marked serviced data message is received at the edge forwarding element and forwarded to a destination of the data message through the particular VTI.
US11212352B2	Sharing system, method, and management server A car sharing system includes a first server configured to manage a first sharing service, a second server configured to manage a second sharing service, and a management server configured to manage virtual user IDs. When a user has performed utilization registration for the first sharing service only, the user makes, to the first server, utilization application for the second sharing service operated by another business operator, from a communication terminal. The first server which has received the utilization application transmits user information to the management server. When the management server receives the user information, the management server allocates the user information to a virtual user ID, and notifies the second server of allocation information. The second server provides the second sharing service using the virtual user ID to which the user information is allocated.
US11212349B1	Switching between network protocols for a data storage system In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes transmitting a first set of data from a data storage system to a computing device using a first network protocol. The method also includes analyzing network conditions of a network used by the computing device and the data storage system. The method further includes determining whether to use a second network protocol to transmit a second set of data to the computing device. The method further includes in response to determining that the second network protocol should be used to transmit the second set of data, transmitting the second set of data to the computing device using the second network protocol.
US11212345B2	Framework and methods to control exchange of ranging result A method and apparatus of a network entity in a wireless communication system supporting ranging capability. The method includes generating a medium access control (MAC) common part sublayer-data request primitive including a ranging enable indicator and a ranging request measurement and control IE (RRMC IE) with a reply-time request. The RRMC IE includes request fields for a reply time, a round-trip measurement, a time-of-flight, an angle of arrival (AOA) azimuth, an AoA elevation, a ranging control information, a reserved bit, an RRMC table length, and an RRMC table. The method further includes transmitting MAC Data including the RRMC IE to another network entity and receiving MAC Data including a ranging reply time instantaneous IE from the other network entity. A local value of a receive ranging counter is identified at the network entity.
US11212339B2	Method and apparatus for data quality framework module Various methods, apparatuses, and media for implementing a data quality framework (DQ rules) module are provided. A processor is configured to model data quality rules using a natural rule language (NRL) as constraints on a plurality of communication models. The processor generates protocol buffer definitions from the plurality of communication models to create a protocol buffer class. The protocol buffer class is utilized to create a message by a publication application. The message is to be transmitted over a publish-subscribe messaging bus to a server. The processor embeds the data quality rules within the protocol buffer class and determines a quality of the message by evaluating the data quality rules against the message.
US11212337B2	Measuring content consumption Techniques to measure consumption of content pages comprising a plurality of distinct content assets are disclosed. In various embodiments, content consumption signal data gathered by a plurality of clients, the content consumption signal data reflecting for at least a subset of content pages user engagement by content asset comprising the content page, is received. The received content consumption signal data and content attribute data associated with each respective content page are used to compute for each content page a content consumption metric reflecting an amount of content determined to have been consumed.
US11212331B1	Triggering changes to real-time special effects included in a live streaming video Method for triggering changes to real-time special effects included in a live streaming video starts with a processor transmitting in real-time a video stream captured by a camera via a network. The processor causes a live streaming interface that includes the video stream to be displayed on the plurality of client devices. The processor receives a trigger to apply one of a plurality of special effects to the video stream and determines a first special effect of the plurality of special effects is associated with the trigger. The processor applies in real-time the first special effect to the video stream to generate a video stream having the first special effect and transmits in real-time the video stream having the first special effect via the network. The processor causes the live streaming interface that includes the video stream having the first special effect to be displayed on the plurality of client devices. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11212330B2	Casting content based on device capabilities Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for casting content based on device capabilities. An apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to receive a request to cast content from a first device to a second device, determine capabilities for one or more second devices that are communicatively coupled to the first device over a data network, and select a second device of the one or more second devices to cast the content to based on the content to be casted and the capabilities of the second device.
US11212320B2	Location based sharing of a network access credential A network access credential can be shared among devices based on location information for a device. Location information can include timed fingerprint location information. In an aspect, location information can be associated with a location of user equipment. This location information can be correlated with network access credentials. Location information can be used to access a relevant network access credential. The relevant network access credential can be shared with other devices. In an embodiment, sharing a network access credential can be between mobile devices. In another embodiment, sharing a network access credential can be between a remote computing device and a mobile device. Sharing a credential can allow for access to a network without having to generate or input new credentials.
US11212318B2	Verifying service advertisements using attestation-based methods Technologies for attestation techniques, systems, and methods to confirm the integrity of a device for service discovery and more specifically, for proving trustworthiness of particular service devices and/or mDNS controller/network elements with respect to DNS/mDNS service discovery. Such attestation techniques may implement canary stamps (e.g., tokens or metadata elements containing or reflecting security measures taken at the device).
US11212317B2	Extending managed switching network to a virtualization layer in a computer Embodiments for extending managed switching network in a computing environment. Security policy and authentication functionality may be extended and implemented in a virtualization layer of a virtual switch locally installed on a computer of a user for network switching in a network.
US11212313B2	Detection of domain name impersonation A method for evaluating domain names includes storing a listing, for a plurality of non-ASCII Unicode characters, of corresponding ASCII characters that are visually similar to the non-ASCII Unicode characters. A record is received of one or more Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), each IDN containing at least one of the non-ASCII Unicode characters. The corresponding ASCII characters are substituted for the non-ASCII Unicode characters in the record in order to generate candidate ASCII domain names corresponding to the one or more IDNs. The candidate ASCII domain names are compared to one or more protected ASCII domain names. When a candidate ASCII domain name matches one of the protected ASCII domain names, a protective action is initiated with regard to the IDN corresponding to the candidate ASCII domain name.
US11212312B2	Systems and methods for polluting phishing campaign responses Techniques for polluting phishing campaign responses with content that includes fake sensitive information of a type that is being sought in phishing messages. Embodiments disclosed herein identify phishing messages that are designed to fraudulently obtain sensitive information. Rather than simply quarantining these phishing messages from users' accounts to prevent users from providing “real” sensitive information, embodiments disclosed herein analyze these phishing messages to determine what type(s) of information is being sought and then respond to these phishing messages with “fake” sensitive information of these type(s). For example, if a phishing message is seeking sensitive credit card and/or banking account information, some fake information of this type(s) may be generated and sent in response to the phishing message. In various implementations, a natural language processing (NLP) model may be used to analyze the phishing message and/or generate a response thereto.
US11212308B1	Methods and systems for identifying and classifying locations of networked devices Computerized methods and systems locate a first device connected to a first network. One or more logs, each generated at a corresponding second device connected to the first network, are received via a second network linked to the first network. Each log has network data having network information associated with the corresponding second device, and location data having location information indicative of a location of the corresponding second device. The network data is analyzed to identify network information in at least one log that matches received network information associated with the first device. Location information in the location data of the at least one log is used to determine a location associated with the first device. In some implementations, the network data in the at least one log and timestamps associated with the network data in the at least one log are used in order to classify the determined location.
US11212307B2	Server-supported malware detection and protection A processor-readable storage device storing instructions that cause a processor to perform operations including, subsequent to determining, at a first device based on a first file attribute associated with a file, that a classification for the file is unavailable at the first device, sending the first file attribute from the first device to a second device to determine whether the classification for the file is available at the second device. The operations include receiving a notification at the first device from the second device that the classification for the file is unavailable at the second device. The operations include, determining the classification for the file by performing, at the first device, an analysis of a second file attribute based on a trained file classification model. The operations include sending the classification from the first device to the second device and to a third device.
US11212306B2	Graph database analysis for network anomaly detection systems Graph database analysis for network anomaly detection systems, in which a data analysis device receives multiple log data entries including parameters associated with a computer network event in a computing network. The data analysis device extracts one or more parameters in real-time and generates a network event graph based on at least one of a first graph metric or a second graph metric. The first and second graph metrics are based on the one or more extracted parameters. The data analysis device detects, based on queries performed on the network event graph, at least one of an anomalous event associated with the computing network or a malicious event associated with the computing network.
US11212304B2	Data protection automatic optimization system and method A system includes a memory and at least one processor to continually analyze at least one of metrics, events, and conditions for indications of an attack in a computer network, determine a change in the at least one of metrics, events, and conditions in the computer network, detect the attack in the computer network based on the change in the at least one of metrics, events, and conditions in the computer network, analyze the at least one of metrics, events, and conditions in the computer network and determine that at least one hardware device has been infected, restrict access to the at least one hardware device that has been infected, and generate a copy of data that was created before the attack and associated with the at least one hardware device that has been infected.
US11212302B2	System and method for monitoring security of a computer network Methods and systems to identify the domain names that can potentially be used for delivering instructions to a bot, before bots on a computer network succeed in obtaining the instructions. The system maintains a device rating for each device that reflects a likelihood that the device is infected by malware. The system also maintains a domain-name rating for each device that reflects a likelihood that the domain name is malicious. When a device attempts to access a particular domain name, the domain-name rating of the domain name is updated in light of the device rating of the device, and/or update the device rating of the device in light of the domain-name rating.
US11212300B2	Secure incident investigation event capture A secure investigation platform in a sovereign cloud includes a request processing system that receives requests to investigate an incident. A control message processing system creates a workspace, within the sovereign cloud, so that an investigation can be conducted within that workspace. The control message processing system performs investigation tasks within the workspace. A secure log generation system captures information corresponding to the tasks and generates an event record based on the captured information.
US11212293B1	Conditionally providing network access to allow a network session to reach completion A computer program product and a networking device, such as a router or firewall, including a processor for executing the computer program product to cause the processor to perform various operations. The operations may include providing network access to a computing device, establishing a default rule to change the network access at a first time-of-day, and establishing a conditional rule that the network access will remain unchanged in response an ongoing network session at the first time-of-day that will reach completion before the second time-of-day. The operations may further include obtaining session progress data for the ongoing session, continue providing the network access until completing the session in response to determining that the ongoing session can reach completion before the second time-of-day, and changing the network access before the session reaches completion in response to determining that the ongoing session will not reach completion before the second time-of-day.
US11212292B2	Network access control authorization process chaining Systems and methods are provided for chaining network access control authorization processes. A method includes executing a first authorization process to generate a first authorization result for a user according to first authorization data obtained from a first authorization source corresponding to the first authorization process; executing a second authorization process to generate a second authorization result for the user according to second authorization data obtained from a second authorization source corresponding to the second authorization process and the first authorization data obtained by the first authorization process; and authorizing the user to access a network resource according to the first authorization result generated by the first authorization process and the second authorization result generated by the second authorization process.
US11212288B2	Detection and prevention of attempts to access sensitive information in real-time Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for thwarting attempts at the unauthorized access to the restricted resources within the target server in a multi-node system. Real-time detection of the user ID and thread ID associated with attempts to access the restricted resources within the target server in a multi-node system is achieved by analyzing causality, message queue, and event-driven patterns.
US11212281B2	Attacker detection via fingerprinting cookie mechanism Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for detecting cyber-attack. In an embodiment, a server receives a request to an application from a user device. The server determines that there is no cookie in the received request. The server then generates a new fingerprinting cookie and sends a verification request to the user device to verify the identity of a user. When the server receives the verification reply from the user device, the server determines that the verification reply is valid, marks the new cookie as a verified cookie, and transfers the request to the application for processing. The server can also unverify the verified cookie when the verified cookie is included in a malicious request. The server can determine that a request is malicious by analyzing functions the user wishes to perform using the request.
US11212279B1	MAC address theft detection in a distributed link layer switched network based on trust level comparison In one embodiment, a method comprises determining, by a link layer switch within a distributed link layer switched data network, a trust metric for a media access control (MAC) address used by a network device on a link layer connection provided by the link layer switch; receiving, by the link layer switch, a query originated by a second link layer switch in the distributed link layer switched data network, the query specifying the MAC address and a corresponding specified trust metric; and responding to the query, by the link layer switch, based on determining whether the specified trust metric indicates a higher trust level than the corresponding trust metric for the MAC address used by the network device on the link layer connection.
US11212273B1	Central cryptographic management for computer systems A system implemented on a server computer for managing digital certificates includes a certificate management agent module, a digital certificate processing module and a configuration module. The certificate management agent module processes requests to create a plurality of certificate management agents. Each of the certificate management agents is configured to manage a lifecycle of a digital certificate for a client electronic device. The digital certificate processing module processes requests from the certificate management agent module for digital certificates for the plurality of certificate management agents. The configuration module receives and processes configuration parameters for the certificate management agents and for the digital certificates.
US11212272B2	Secure password-based single sign-on A secure password-based single sign-on process enables a user to access a web application without the authorization credentials transmitted over a distributed computing network. A network directory service system utilizes an identity management system, outside of the client device, to execute a sign-on to a web-based resource in a Hyper-V container. The browser cookie from the sign-on process is returned to the client device in a sign-on script that the client-side browser uses to transition to the web portal or home page of the target web-based resource.
US11212271B2	Trusted login of user accounts Technologies related to trusted user account login are disclosed. In one implementation, a temporary trusted login token request for accessing a service page from an originating application is received. A temporary trusted login token based on the temporary trusted login token request is generated. The temporary trusted login token is sent to the originating application. A service page access request is received for accessing the service page generated based on the temporary trusted login token. The temporary trusted login token including the service authorization from the service page access request is identified. Whether the service page is included in the one or more service pages that are identified by the service authorization is determined, and trusted login to the service page from the originating application is allowed if the service page is included in the one or more service pages.
US11212267B1	Storing call session information in a telephony system In an example of this disclosure, a method may include storing, by a first database server, first call session information in a data structure in a memory of the first database server. The first call session information may correspond to a unique identifier that corresponds to a caller. The method may include replicating the first call session information stored in the data structure in the memory of the first database server to a data structure in a memory of a second database server.
US11212258B2	Extensible resource management for hybrid cloud-based media production An extensible resource manager (ERM) of a hybrid cloud-based media production system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a resource management software code. The hardware processor executes the resource management software code to communicate with a network orchestrator of the hybrid cloud-based media production system to identify multicast production media flow(s) for processing in a cloud-based virtual production environment, to identify cloud-based resource(s) for processing cloud production media flow(s) corresponding to the multicast production media flow(s), in the cloud-based virtual production environment, and to determine whether a license exists for the identified cloud-based resource(s). The hardware processor also executes the resource management software code to obtain the license when the license does not exist, and to provision, after obtaining the license or in response to determining that the license exists, the cloud-based virtual production environment with the identified cloud-based resource(s).
US11212254B2	Real time dynamic client access control A system and method for facilitating controlled access by a client device to one or more services provided by a server are disclosed. The client device's access to the services provided by the server may be dynamically controlled by a controller, which may generate instructions to an agent to effectuate the access control. The agent may be configured to control one or more access components associated with the server. The instructions generated by the controller may instruct the agent to cause the access control components to grant or remove the client device's access to the services provided by the server. In some implementations, the controller may generate such instructions based on a status of a session established between the controller and the client device.
US11212243B2	Method and system of obtaining contact information for a person or an entity A method of obtaining contact information for a person or an entity is disclosed. The method comprises detecting a name of the person or the entity in a frame from a screen of a device; determining a presence status for the detected name based on one or more connectivity status for the detected name in one or more communication applications and/or one or more databases, where the one or more communication applications operate on the device from which the frame originates and where the one or more databases are accessible on the device; displaying the presence status on the screen of the device.
US11212241B1	Simulation-based virtual advisor Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to providing virtual assistants. More specifically, various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and systems for providing a simulation-based virtual advisor. In some embodiments, the systems and methods combine and/or integrate the functionality of a conversational virtual agent (e.g., a virtual assistant) with the functionality of a simulation virtual agent, to provide users, customers, or members with targeted, user-specific information in response to questions or other intentions posed by the users via messages exchanged between the users and the agents.
US11212239B2	Method and system for pushing a new rack into operational mode in a datacenter A new rack equipped with at least one ToR switch is pushed into operational mode in a datacenter equipped with at least one operational datacenter switch. A script server fetches from a database information about a first networking configuration of the datacenter switch, and a minimal profile information of the rack. The script server devises a physical cabling plan between the ToR switch and the datacenter switch, reserves ports on the datacenter switch, computes and stores into the database enriched information of the rack, and provides cabling instructions relative to the physical cabling plan to a datacenter technician. The script server fills-in a configuration template, and causes a configuration builder to apply a first networking configuration of the ToR switch, applies a second networking configuration to the datacenter switch, pushes the rack into production, completes a second networking configuration of the ToR switch, and pushes the rack into operational mode.
US11212237B1	Sharing resources between client devices in a virtual workspace environment A system and method for sharing resources between client devices in a virtual computing environment. A method is disclosed that includes receiving a request from a first client device for a list of available resources that are locally connected to other client devices and that are unavailable to the first client device via an enterprise service within the virtual computing environment; providing the list of available resources to the first client device; receiving a selection of a resource included within the list of available resources from the first client device; providing a push notification to a second client device connected to the selected resource to establish a connection with the selected resource; and providing, to the first client device, access to the selected resource via the established connection.
US11212233B2	Packet-based communication An apparatus for use in a packet-based communication system, comprises an input and an output. The apparatus is configured to receive a stream of data packets, having an inter-packet spacing, and store the received data packets and information representing the inter-packet spacing in a buffer, wherein the data packets are no longer than a common maximum data-packet length. The apparatus is further configured to schedule, at intervals, all the contents of the buffer except for a constant amount, into a respective container of a sequence of containers and, if the container then contains an incomplete data packet, schedule the remainder of the incomplete packet into the container. The apparatus is further configured to send the sequence of containers, wherein the positions of the data packets within the containers depend on the received inter-packet spacing, and wherein the constant amount is equal to or greater than the common maximum data-packet length.
US11212226B2	Data processing method and apparatus, and device A data processing method includes obtaining, by a session management function (SMF) network element from an external network element, a media access control (MAC) address of a terminal device and an Internet Protocol (IP) address corresponding to the MAC address, and sending, by the SMF network element, the MAC address and the IP address to a first user plane function (UPF) network element, where the MAC address and the IP address are used to send an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) message, and the ARP message includes the MAC address and the IP address.
US11212224B1	Systems and methods for isolating network traffic of multiple users across networks of computing platforms System and method for isolating network traffic of multiple users across a network of a computing platform. For example, a method includes receiving data at a networking device of a computing platform. The networking device includes a plurality of routing tables. Each routing table of the plurality of routing tables is associated with a different user of multiple users of the computing platform. A user of the multiple users is identified based at least in part on the received data. In response to identifying the user of the multiple users based at least in part on the received data, a routing table of the plurality of routing tables is identified based at least in part on the identified user. A route from the identified routing table is determined based at least in part on the received data. The received data is sent across a network of the computing platform according to the determined route. The method is performed using one or more processors.
US11212219B1	In-band telemetry packet size optimization A method for optimizing telemetry packet for in-band telemetry includes receiving a telemetry packet at a network node in a communication pathway between a sending host sending data packets to a receiving host and determining telemetry data for the network node. The telemetry data includes latency information for data packet processing of the network node. The method includes adding metadata to the telemetry packet, where the metadata is added after a header and a telemetry packet header and after any metadata added by any upstream network nodes. The metadata includes the telemetry data and the metadata overwrites a portion of a payload of the telemetry packet. The method includes, in response to adding the metadata to the telemetry packet, transmitting the telemetry packet to a next destination.
US11212215B2	Routing optimizations in a network computing environment Systems, methods, and devices for improved routing operations in a network computing environment. A system includes a network topology comprising a spine node and a plurality of leaf nodes. The system is such that at least one of the plurality of leaf nodes is associated with one or more networking prefixes. The spine node stores a prefix table. The prefix table includes a listing of networking prefixes in the network topology. The prefix table includes an indication of at least one equal-cost multipath routing (ECMP) group associated with each of the networking prefixes in the network topology. The prefix table includes an indication of at least one leaf node of the plurality of leaf nodes associated with each of the networking prefixes in the network topology.
US11212213B2	Link management and routing in hybrid mesh networks A wireless network device may receive a broadcasted hello message. The wireless network device may determine, based on the broadcasted hello message, interfaces to communicate with neighbor devices. The wireless network device may determine costs for links of the interfaces. A highest cost link of the interfaces may be blocked and a lowest cost link of the interfaces may be unblocked. The wireless network device may transmit, in the network, an announce message that indicates the highest cost link as blocked and the lowest cost link as unblocked.
US11212212B2	Non-isolated topologies in computing network environments Example implementations relate to management of network topologies. A primary tree having multiple connection graphs is generated for each node in the network. Each connection graph has at least one ordered list of one or more network node connections and the generated connection graphs provide a full network fit for each node in the network. The connection graphs are stored in at least one network switch to be used for network switch functionality. Additional connection graphs are generated for one or more network nodes connections based at least on network link capacity and provide for sharing of one or more of network links between multiple network node connections. The additional connection graphs are stored in the at least one network switch to be used for subsequent network switch functionality.
US11212211B2	Systems and methods for automatically detecting routing peers Methods and systems are described for automatically detecting network routing peers and establishing route peering sessions. An illustrative method includes retrieving, at a network router, route peer configuration for the network router. The route peer configuration identifies one or more network interfaces for route peering but typically does not identify an address of peer routers. The method identifies, based on the route peer configuration, a network interface from a plurality of network interfaces of the network router for route peering and configures the network interface to participate in route peering. The method then detects a peer router on the network interface and initiates a peering session on the network interface with the peer router. Using the peering session, the method exchange route information with the peer router.
US11212208B2	Adaptive metric collection, storage, and alert thresholds Techniques for adaptive metric collection, metric storage, and alert thresholds are described. In an approach, a metric collector computer processes metrics as a collection of key/value pairs. The key/value pairs represent the dimensionality of the metrics and allows for semantic queries on the metrics based on keys. In an approach, a storage controller computer maintains a storage system with multiple storage tiers ranked by speed of access. The storage computer stores policy data that specifies the rules by which metric records are stored across the multiple storage tiers. Periodically, the storage computer moves database records to higher or lower tiers based on the policy data. In an approach, a metric collector in response to receiving a new metric, generates a predicted metric value based on previously recorded metric values and measures the deviation from the new metric value to determine whether an alert is appropriate.
US11212202B2	Network performance enhancement system A system to analyze and improve network traffic latency in networks including at least one IP Anycast network, based on first derivative graphs generated from directed acyclic graphs generated at periodic intervals for end user devices and network servers. The first derivative graphs are reduced to a best-performance path and applied to make application-specific data routing changes in the network.
US11212201B2	System and method for monitoring health status based on home Internet traffic patterns A health status monitoring method includes: (a) analyzing transport layer data for a dwelling to identify a plurality of occupant specific transport layer data items based on MAC address mapping, (b) establishing an Internet traffic pattern for the occupant for a period of time based on the identified plurality of occupant specific transport layer data items, (c) comparing the established Internet traffic pattern to a predetermined baseline Internet traffic pattern for the occupant and identifying a deviation from the predetermined baseline Internet traffic pattern based on the comparison, and (d) determining that a change in the health status is possible for the occupant based on the identifying of the deviation.
US11212196B2	Proportional quality of service based on client impact on an overload condition A distributed storage system monitors one or more system performance metrics and one or more client performance metrics related usage of the distributed storage system, including a read latency metric, a write latency metric, a total input/output (I/O) operations per second (IOPS) metric, a read IOPS metric, a write IOPS metric, an I/O size metric, a total bandwidth metric, a read bandwidth metric, a write bandwidth metric, a read/write ratio metric or statistical measures thereof over a period of time. When the distributed storage system is determined to be in an overload condition (e.g., when a system load value, calculated based on the performance metrics, exceeds a threshold), the distributed storage system independently throttles access to one or more components of the distributed storage system by one or more of multiple clients performing I/O operations to the distributed storage system based on their respective contribution to the overload condition.
US11212192B2	Communication protocols in integrated systems A system and methods comprise a touchscreen at a premises. The touchscreen includes a processor coupled to a security system at the premises. User interfaces are presented via the touchscreen. The user interfaces include a security interface that provides control of functions of the security system and access to data collected by the security system, and a network interface that provides access to network devices. A camera at the premises is coupled to the touchscreen via a plurality of interfaces. A security server at a remote location is coupled to the touchscreen via a plurality of channels and a plurality of protocols. The channels include a short message service (SMS) channel, a remote control channel, and an asynchronous event channel. The security server comprises a client interface through which remote client devices exchange data with the touchscreen and the security system.
US11212190B2	Communication apparatus and control method for the same Provided is a system with which devices participating in a particular network and devices that are not participating in the particular network can be easily distinguished from one another. A communication apparatus displays a list screen of devices existing in the surroundings of the communication apparatus. This list screen is displayed while identification information indicating whether or not the device is participating in the particular network is associated with the device.
US11212188B2	Communication network out-of-capacity predictions In one embodiment, a computing system may access data samples associated with an access point of a communication network. The data samples may be collected at an application level from client devices associated with the access point and aggregated into data points correlating a first network metric to a traffic-volume metric. The system may partition the data points into a first and second set of data points using a first network metric threshold. The system may determine trends of the traffic-volume metric with respect to the first network metric based on regression analysis on the first and second sets of data points. The system may predict, based on the trends of the traffic-volume metric with respect to the first network metric, an amount of time until a network-capacity metric of the access point meets a traffic-loss threshold. The network-capacity metric may be determined based on the traffic-volume metric.
US11212187B1	Network topology comprising n-hop local neighborhoods A communications network comprising of n-hop local neighborhoods. The network includes a plurality of communication nodes and a plurality of local neighborhoods wherein each local neighborhood includes a central node around which the local neighborhood is defined. The network also includes a subset of the plurality of nodes located within the local neighborhoods of each of the central nodes. Each of the subset of the plurality of nodes in a local neighborhood is not more than n hops away over currently existing links from the central node of the local neighborhood.
US11212182B2	Devices and method for operating a communication network A network management entity for a communication network includes: a processor configured to operate a logic subnetwork in the communication network, wherein the logic subnetwork is configured to enable a first communication device to communicate via the logic subnetwork and to provide the first communication device with further resources of the logic subnetwork; and a communication interface configured to receive a position signal indicating a position of a second mobile communication device. The processor is further configured to incorporate the second mobile communication device in the logic subnetwork to provide the logic subnetwork with at least one resource of the second mobile communication device if the position of the second mobile communication device is within a defined position range.
US11212179B2	Automatic configuration of a network switch in a multi-chassis link aggregation group Various embodiments set forth a method for automatically configuring a multi-chassis link aggregation group (MLAG), including receiving first system information associated with the MLAG, receiving a first discovery packet via a first uplink port associated with a first switch that is included in the MLAG, where the first discovery packet includes second system information associated with the MLAG, determining whether the first system information matches the second system information, where if the first system information matches the second system information, then concluding that the first uplink port is included in an inter peer link connecting the first switch to a second switch that also is included in the MLAG, and if the first system information does not match the second system information, then concluding that the first uplink port is not included in the inter peer link. Advantageously, the method avoids requiring a user to enter hundreds of commands manually.
US11212178B2	Control system, electronic device, and control method According to one embodiment, a control system includes a client terminal, a first server and a second server. The client terminal transmits an assignment request of an IP address including first identification information that uniquely identifies the client terminal and is set as a host name to the first server. The first server assigns an IP address to the client terminal in accordance with the request, and transmits the IP address and the host name to the second server. The second server transmits, when one or more items of second identification information include the first identification information set as the host name and when a setup process of the client terminal has not been performed, data for the process of the client terminal to the client terminal using the IP address.
US11212177B2	Hosted physical layer management or automated infrastructure management system having software only configuration and/or local hardware appliance One embodiment is directed to a “software only” hosted or cloud-based physical layer management (PLM) system. Another embodiment is directed to a hosted or cloud-based PLM system or Automated Infrastructure Management (AIM) system that uses a hardware appliance that is locally deployed in an enterprises network. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11212170B1	Service provider network application testing with standards references A service provider network including one or more network nodes such as an integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) node is described herein. The CI/CD node may determine whether a candidate application from a third-party application vendor satisfies one or more onboarding rules of the service provider network. The CI/CD node may identify a message from the candidate application by running one or more node traces based on a call identifier associated with the candidate application. A first portion of the message (e.g., alphanumeric symbols of the header) may be compared to a first string from a particular network standard (e.g., from a publicly available database) and/or a second portion of the message (e.g., a characteristic of the body) may be compared to a second string or a second onboarding rule (e.g., comprising a particular network operator standard) to detect a difference indicating noncompliance with the one or more onboarding rules.
US11212168B2	Apparatuses and methods for remote computing node initialization using a configuration template and resource pools A configuration management system is configured to receive a registration request message from a computing node that includes identifying information, and to select a node pool in response to detection of a match between the identifying information matching a qualification parameter assigned to the node pool. The configuration management system is further configured to select configuration information for the computing node based on an image configuration template associated with the node pool. At least part of the configuration information is selected from a predefined resource pool. The configuration management system is further configured to provide the configuration information to the computing node.
US11212166B2	Standardized remote access and set-up for electronic devices In one implementation, a system providing remote access set-up for electronic devices includes a mobile device and a profile server communicatively coupled to the mobile device via a network. The profile server includes a hardware processor, and a server memory storing a profile management software code and a profile information associated with a user of the mobile device. The hardware processor executes the profile management software code to receive, via the network, a platform ID of a configurable hardware platform communicatively coupled to the mobile device, and to determine, based on the platform ID, platform assets including a default configuration associated with the configurable hardware platform. The hardware processor further executes the profile management software code to determine, based on the profile information and the default configuration, a user specific configuration for the configurable hardware platform, and to transmit the user specific configuration to configure the configurable hardware platform.
US11212162B2	Bayesian-based event grouping Techniques for Bayesian-based event grouping are provided. One technique includes determining a group of alarm events from received alarm events; in response to the group of alarm events matching a group of historical alarm events, determining a first correlation, wherein the group of historical alarm events comprises correlated events associated with a same entity; and determining a root cause of the group of alarm events based on the first correlation.
US11212160B2	Remote control of equipment A method for controlling selection of a communication method between an equipment control device belonging to a wide-area communication network and equipment belonging to a local communication network. The method includes the following steps relating to the control device: requesting the equipment to initiate a connection to the control device, the request being sent at the time of a routine connection of the equipment to the control device; determining whether the equipment can be reached by the control device using a direct method; and configuring the equipment if the equipment cannot be reached using a direct method.
US11212155B2	System and method for enhancing reception in wireless communication systems A method, an apparatus and a computer program product for enhancing reception of signals in a wireless communication system. A signal containing a frame including a plurality of symbols is received on an uplink communication channel. An angular position of at least one symbol in the plurality of symbols in a constellation of symbols is detected. The plurality of symbols include equalized symbols. An angular difference corresponding a phase error between the detected angular position of the symbol and an expected reference angular position in the constellation of symbols corresponding to an expected reference symbol corresponding to the received frame is determined. Using the determined phase error, a phase of the symbol is compensated.
US11212153B2	Base station, terminal apparatus, communication method and recording medium To appropriately select a beam used in communication in an environment in which massive-MIMO beamforming is performed, there is provided a base station including: a communication unit configured to form multiple beams and perform communication with a terminal apparatus; and a control unit configured to transmit, to the terminal apparatus, first identification information of a group that is used in communication with the terminal apparatus among the first identification information allocated to groups each of which includes multiple beams to be formed.
US11212145B2	Signal shaping device, shaping termination device, signal shaping method, and optical transmission method A signal shaping device includes: a generation unit to perform plural types of predetermined processes on blocks obtained by dividing plural sequences of bit strings by a predetermined length, and generate a plurality of candidate blocks that are candidates for a shaped block to be transmitted; a calculation unit to calculate, on a candidate-block-by-candidate-block basis, a weight of a one-dimensional modulation symbol when a plurality of bits included in the candidate block are converted into the one-dimensional modulation symbol; a selection unit to select, from among the candidate blocks, the shaped block on a basis of the weight; an addition unit to add, to the shaped block, selection information indicating a selection result; and a symbol mapping unit to generate a one-dimensional modulation signal by converting a plurality of bits included in the shaped block, into the one-dimensional modulation symbol.
US11212144B1	Methods and apparatus for decoding received uplink transmissions Methods and apparatus for decoding received uplink transmissions. In an embodiment, a method includes receiving a stream having data LLRs and second channel state information (CSI2) LLRs, and separating the data LLRs into a data stream and the CSI2 LLRs into a CSI2 stream based on configuration parameters. The method also includes decoding the data stream to generate decoded data, and decoding the CSI2 stream to generate decoded CSI2 information. An apparatus includes a first LLR preprocessor that receives a stream having data LLRs and second channel state information (CSI2) LLRs and separates the data LLRs into a data stream, and a second LLR preprocessor that receives the stream and separates the CSI2 LLRs into a CSI2 stream. The apparatus also includes a data decoder that decodes the data stream to generate decoded data, and a CSI2 decoder that decodes the CSI2 stream to generate decoded CSI2 information.
US11212142B2	Timing based arbitration methods and apparatuses for calibrating impedances of a semiconductor device Systems and apparatuses are provided for an arbiter circuit for timing based ZQ calibration. An example system includes a resistor and a plurality of chips. Each of the plurality of chips further includes a terminal coupled to the resistor and a calibration circuit. The calibration circuit determines whether the resistor is available based, at least in part, on timing information that is unique to a corresponding chip of the plurality of chip. The timing information of each chip of the plurality of chips has a fixed duration of time common to the plurality of chips.
US11212141B2	Methods and apparatus for a data transmission scheme for Narrow-Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT) Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for implementing a data transmission scheme for Narrow-Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT). A User Equipment (UE) combines pairs of antenna ports to generate at least first and second combined antennas ports. The UE receives reference signals transmitted in a narrow band region of a larger system bandwidth, and for each combined port, adds the references signals received on resource elements (REs) of each of the combined pair of antenna ports. The UE determines channel estimates for each combined antenna port based on the added reference signals for the combined port.
US11212137B2	Virtual provider edge cluster for use in an SDN architecture A sub-system is described which is operative to be used as a virtual Provider Edge (v PE) cluster of an SDN communication system. The sub-system comprises a plurality of network elements, wherein the v PE cluster further comprises one or more virtual routing engines for routing traffic to/from the plurality of network elements, the one or more virtual routing engines are configured to communicate with a managing entity and with a plurality of virtual forwarding engines, and wherein the managing entity is configured to manage operation of the one or more virtual routing engines and the plurality of virtual forwarding engines. According to another aspect, the sub-system comprises a plurality of network elements and a managing entity, wherein the network elements having each one or more ports to convey traffic therethrough, and wherein at least one of the ports associated with the sub-system is configured to serve a plurality of customers.
US11212134B2	Building automation system providing for integration of subsystems There is described a building automation system comprising a control center and an adapter for providing integration of subsystems. The adapter facilitates communications between the control center and a subsystem of the building automation system. A subsystem library of the control center receives an object model associated with the subsystem from the user interface. An extraction tool of the control center generates output information based on the object model. The control center is mapped to the adapter, so that a thing description may be communicated there between. The thing description includes a description of instances hosted by the adapter and representing the object model. An auto discovery component of the control center creates instances of the object model based on the thing description and addresses properties of the object model. The building automation system utilizes the instances and the addresses to manage the subsystem associated with the object model.
US11212131B2	Method for configuring, monitoring or supervising a home automation installation The present invention relates to a method for configuring home automation equipment, which comprises at least one It home automation device (D1, D2) likely to communicate with a central control unit (U) via at least one first local protocol (P1), the method comprising the following steps: receiving at least one configuration message relative to a location identifier (P1AD1, P1AD2) of at least one home automation device (D1, D2) according to the first local communication protocol (P1); obtaining a location identifier (P2AD1, P2AD2) of the at least one home automation device (D1, D2) according to a second target communication protocol (P2); recording (ECfU7) the correspondence between the location identifier (P1AD1, P1AD2) of the at least one home automation device (D1, D2) according to the first communication protocol and the location identifier (P2AD1, P2AD2) of the at least one home automation device (D1, D2) according to the second communication protocol (P2); recording (EcfU7) the at least one type (P2TD1, P2TD2) of the at least one home automation device (D1, D2) and/or the at least one definition of a function or a group of functions of the at least one home automation device (D1, D2) and/or the at least one definition of a status variable or a group of status variables of the at least one home automation device (D1, D2) and/or a function conversion rule. The present invention also relates to a method for controlling and monitoring said equipment.
US11212126B1	Complex computing network for improving establishment and broadcasting of audio communication among mobile computing devices and for providing rapid audio conversations Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for improving establishment and broadcasting of communication, including establishing rapid audio conversations. For example, a method comprises determining a first user accesses a mobile application on a first mobile device of the first user; determining a second user accesses the mobile application on a second mobile device of the second user; initiating an audio conversation, for a first period, between the first mobile device of the first user and the second mobile device of the second user; and upon termination of the first period, initiating a second audio conversation between the first mobile device of the first user and a third mobile device of the third user unless the first user extends the audio conversation with the second mobile device of the second user.
US11212125B2	Asset management with respect to a shared pool of configurable computing resources Disclosed aspects relate to asset management with respect to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. With respect to a set of assets which share a resource on a first compute node, a set of asset weight values is identified. The set of asset weight values indicates a set of utilization shares of the resource by the set of assets. A set of asset priority values is identified with respect to the set of assets on the first compute node. The set of asset priority values indicates a relative status arrangement for the set of assets. Using the set of asset weight values and the set of asset priority values, a determination is made to migrate a first asset of the set of assets from the first compute node to a second compute node. Accordingly, the first asset of the set of assets is migrated from the first compute node to the second compute node.
US11212123B2	Method of controlling display device, and display device using the method Provided is a display device including a display, a speaker, a communicator comprising communication circuitry configured to perform wireless communication, a memory configured to store one or more instructions, and a controller including at least one processor configured to execute at least one of the one or more instructions. Based on a wireless connection request for audio transmission being received from an external device while the display device is in a power-off state, the communicator is further configured to transmit, to the external device, a response indicating acceptance of the wireless connection request, and to operate to wake up the controller to a state requiring wireless connection.
US11212122B2	Power source equipment with powering over ethernet A power source device coupled to a power device includes an output port and a controller. When the output port is coupled to a connection cable, the controller is activated to generate a handshake signal, so as to communicate with the power device. When it is determined that the power device is able to be powered according to the handshake signal, the controller controls the power supply device to power the power device through the connection cable. When the connection cable is not coupled to the output port, the controller is deactivated and thus the handshake signal is not generated.
US11212121B2	Acoustic detector for solid medium with wireless transmission An example acoustic detector includes an acoustic transducer, an analog-to-digital converter, an encryption module, and a wireless communication interface. The acoustic transducer is to be coupled to a solid medium and is configured to generate an electrical signal in response to acoustic waves propagating through the solid medium. The analog-to-digital converter is coupled to the acoustic transducer to convert the electrical signal into digital acoustic data. The encryption module is coupled to encrypt the digital acoustic data to generate encrypted acoustic data and the wireless communication interface is coupled to transmit the encrypted acoustic data via one or more radio access technologies (RATs).
US11212119B2	Remote attestation of modular devices with multiple cryptoprocessors A methodology for requesting at least one signed security measurement from at least one module with a corresponding cryptoprocessor is provided. The methodology includes receiving the at least one signed security measurement from the at least one module with the corresponding cryptoprocessor; validating the at least one signed security measurement; generating a signed dossier including all validated signed security measurements in a secure enclave, the signed dossier being used by an external network device for remote attestation of the device.
US11212115B2	Information processing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium An information processing apparatus generates a public key pair in accordance with a certificate issuance request, generates a certificate signing request based on the public key pair and transmits an electronic certificate issuance request to an external apparatus. The information processing apparatus receives a response transmitted from the external apparatus as a response to the electronic certificate issuance request, obtains an electronic certificate included in the received response and causes an application to enable its use of the obtained electronic certificate.
US11212113B2	Systems and methods providing connection lease anti-theft features for virtual computing sessions A computing device may include a memory and a processor cooperating with the memory and configured to receive a connection request from a client device having a public/private encryption key pair associated therewith. The connection request may be based upon a connection lease and the public key for the client device, and the connection lease may be generated based upon an authenticated version of the public key for the client device. The processor may also be configured to verify that the authenticated version of the public key upon which the connection lease was generated matches the public key for the client device and authorize a connection with the client device and provide the client device with access to a virtual computing session via the connection.
US11212111B2	Method for synchronized signature with additive RSA key splitting using a sliding window The present invention relates to a method of secure generation by a client device and a server device of an RSA signature of a message to be signed with a private exponent component d of an RSA key (p, q, N, d, e), wherein said client device stores a client device private exponent component dA, a client value, and a client dynamic offset, and said server device stores a server device private exponent component dB, where dB=d−dA modulo phi(N), a server value, a server dynamic offset and a failure counter, comprising: a. receiving from the client device a client part of said RSA signature (HS1) of said message to be signed, after incrementing its client value (pvA) by a first predetermined step E, from the client device private exponent component and from an updated client dynamic offset function of said client dynamic offset and of said client value, b. setting said failure counter to a first default value, c. incrementing said server value (pvB) by a second predetermined step (E′), d. generating a server part of said RSA signature (HS2) of said message to be signed, from the server device private exponent component and from an updated server dynamic offset function of said server dynamic offset and of said server value, e. generating said RSA signature by combining said client part of said RSA signature (HS1) and said server part of said RSA signature (HS2), f. checking if the generation of the RSA signature was a failure and when it was a failure, incrementing said failure counter and g\ iteratively repeating above steps c\ to f\, until said RSA signature is successfully generated or said failure counter reaches a first predetermined threshold S.
US11212110B1	Quantum-safe blockchain vault system Arrangements of the present disclosure relate to a method for securing data located in a blockchain having a plurality of blocks. The method includes creating a pointer within a block of the plurality of blocks, the pointer pointing to a security vault located external to the blockchain. The method further includes copying the block, storing the copied block in the security vault using the pointer, and securing the security vault.
US11212107B2	Decentralized database optimizations Techniques for managing data stored within a database, such as a decentralized database are provided. Some techniques involve managing some data within a lower-trust database and some other data within a higher-trust database. A higher-trust database may be a decentralize database including a blockchain. A lower-trust database may store references to data within the blockchain, and optionally other data in association with those references. Disclosed techniques include WHERE clause query handling in databases with reference values, replacement of distinct data in a relational database with a distinct reference to that data, number line storing for secure indexing, APIs for databases, and consensus operations for private blockchain networks.
US11212106B2	Data protection using universal tagging A universal tag linked to the content of a data file for protecting the authenticity of the data file and/or the owner/creator of a digital file. The universal tag is linked to the content in the data file via one or more input keys/seeds that are used to generate the universal tag and rely on data associated with the content. Once generated, the universal tag is registered on a distributed ledger of at least on distributed trust computing network, which acts as a source of truth to validate the universal tag and, as such, validate (i) an authenticity of the data file, and/or (ii) the user associated with the data file (e.g., rightful possessor and/or creator of the digital file).
US11212104B2	Blockchain-based trustable guarantees Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus for processing blockchain-based guarantee information. One of the methods includes receiving a cyphertext of a digital document specifying a guarantee from a first computing device associated with a guarantor and one or more zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) related to one or more values associated with the guarantee; verifying that the one or more ZKPs are correct; storing the first cyphertext to a blockchain based on performing a consensus algorithm; receiving a first message from the first computing device associated with the guarantor, the first message including a request to cancel the guarantee; storing the request to cancel the guarantee in the blockchain; sending a second message to a second computing device associated with the beneficiary or a representative of the beneficiary; and receiving a third message from the second computing device associated with the beneficiary or the representative of the beneficiary.
US11212103B1	Continuous space-bounded non-malleable codes from stronger proofs-of-space Systems, methods, and apparatuses for protecting a secret on a device with limited memory, while still providing tamper resistance, are described. To achieve security, an encoding computer can apply a memory-hard function MHF to a secret S and determine a result Y, then determine a proof π for the result Y. Then, the encoding computer can send a codeword C comprising the secret S and the proof π to a decoding computer. The decoding computer can retrieve the codeword C from persistent memory and parse the secret S and the proof π. The decoding device can use transient memory decode the codeword C by verifying the proof π was generated with the secret S and the result Y. When the correctness of the result Y is verified, the decoding device can apply a cryptographic function to input data using the secret S then reset the transient memory.
US11212101B2	Token exchange with client generated token A client can be authenticated with an identity provider. The identity provider can generate an identity provider token after successful authentication. Prior to issuing a request to a service provider, the client can request a temporary (one time use) token from the identity provider. The request may include a client token to verify the client's identity. The identity provider can validate the client token using details saved in the identity provider token and issue the temporary token to the client. The client can provide the temporary token to a service provider in a request for service. The service provider can validate the temporary token with the identity provider. If the temporary token is valid (i.e., has not already been used), the service provider can respond to the request. The use of a temporary token and not sharing the identity provider token with the client can prevent security breaches.
US11212088B2	Private key generation method and system, and device Embodiments of this application provide a private key generation method and system, and a device. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, a first response message sent by a first network device, where the first response message includes at least a first sub-private key, and the first sub-private key is generated based on a first parameter set sent by a second network device; receiving, by the terminal device, a second response message sent by the second network device, where the second response message includes at least a second sub-private key, and the second sub-private key is generated based on a second parameter set sent by the first network device; and synthesizing, by the terminal device, a joint private key based on at least the first sub-private key and the second sub-private key.
US11212087B2	Management system, key generation device, in-vehicle computer, management method, and computer program Provided are a key generation device and an in-vehicle computer which is installed in a vehicle. The key generation device includes a vehicle interface, a key generation unit that generates first and second keys, a cryptographic processing unit that encrypts the first key with an initial key to generate first encrypted data and encrypts the second key with the first key to generate second encrypted data, an expected value calculation unit that calculates an expected value of stored data using the second key, and a verification unit that verifies a received measured value on the basis of the expected value, and the key generation device transmits the first and second encrypted data to the vehicle. The in-vehicle computer includes an interface unit, a cryptographic processing unit that decrypts the received first encrypted data, and decrypts the received second encrypted data, and a measured value calculation unit.
US11212085B2	Technologies for accelerated hierarchical key caching in edge systems Technologies for accelerated key caching in an edge hierarchy include multiple edge appliance devices organized in tiers. An edge appliance device receives a request for a key, such as a private key. The edge appliance device determines whether the key is included in a local key cache and, if not, requests the key from an edge appliance device included in an inner tier of the edge hierarchy. The edge appliance device may request the key from an edge appliance device included in a peer tier of the edge hierarchy. The edge appliance device may activate per-tenant accelerated logic to identify one or more keys in the key cache for eviction. The edge appliance device may activate per-tenant accelerated logic to identify one or more keys for pre-fetching. Those functions of the edge appliance device may be performed by an accelerator such as an FPGA. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11212084B2	System and a method for signing transactions using air-gapped private keys A system for signing transactions. The system includes a first module with a communication interface to a public network; and a controller to handle a transaction with a Blockchain network or a transaction server accessible at the public network. The system also includes a second module with a random number generator; and a secure controller to generate seed words and private keys. The system further includes a bridge module with a controller; and a switch to selectively connect the data interface of the bridge module to either the data interface of the first module or the data interface of the second module such that the data interface of the first module is never connected with the data interface of the second module.
US11212082B2	Ciphertext based quorum cryptosystem Methods are described for constructing a secret key by multiple participants from multiple ciphertexts such that any quorum combination of participants can decrypt their respective ciphertexts and so generate a fixed number of key fragments that can be combined by a recipient to generate the secret key. Worked examples are described showing how the encryption keys for the ciphertexts may be key wrapped using a key encapsulation mechanism for which ciphers that are resistant to attack by a quantum computer may be used. In these cases, a post-quantum quorum system is realised. Methods are described by which the quorum key fragment ciphertexts may be updated so that the original key fragments become invalid without necessitating any change to the secret key.
US11212081B2	Method for signing a new block in a decentralized blockchain consensus network A method for signing a new block of a blockchain of a distributed blockchain consensus network (DBCN), comprising a mining computing entity (MCE) and a node computing entity, includes the step of signing and/or encrypting of predefined MCE information by the MCE, using a secret key of a public key/secret key key pair of the MCE to obtain hidden information (HI). The new block is signed by the MCE using the secret key and block information comprising block height information to create a signature for the new block. In a case of at least one further signing of a different block with the respective same block height information by the MCE, reveal information is provided to reveal the HI to the DBCN by another node computing entity of the DBCN when the node computing entity has received two signatures comprising the same corresponding block height information.
US11212074B2	Data reception device and data transmission/reception device A data reception device that can improve communication quality when transmitting/receiving serial data is to be provided. There is provided the data reception device including a signal generation unit that generates, from serial data received, a first signal whose value is inverted at a rising timing of the serial data and a second signal whose value is inverted at a falling timing of the serial data, and a clock recovery unit that performs clock recovery using the first signal and the second signal generated by the signal generation unit.
US11212073B2	Clock data recovery convergence using signed timing injection A system for data and clock recovery includes a timing error detector, a phase detector, and a phase increment injector. The phase increment injector may be used to determine an increment to affect an output of the phase detector or a clocking element. A sign of the increment is determined from a sign or direction of an accumulated version of a clock and data recovery gradient value.
US11212067B2	Configurable bi-directional time division duplex (TDD) subframe structure Aspects of the present disclosure provide a configurable bi-directional time division duplex (TDD) subframe structure. The configurable subframe structure includes a downlink control portion, an uplink control portion, an uplink data portion and a downlink data portion. A current subframe for communication between a scheduling entity and a set of one or more subordinate entities is produced by determining a desired ratio of uplink information to downlink information for the current subframe and configuring the configurable subframe structure with the desired ratio.
US11212066B2	Transmitting NPUSCH and wireless device thereof The disclosure of the present specification provides a method for performing a narrowband physical uplink shared channel (NPUSCH) transmission. The method may comprise: determining a start position of the NPUSCH transmission; performing the NPUSCH transmission, if the start position of the NPUSCH transmission is determined as a first of two contiguous subframes; and postponing the NPUSCH transmission, if the start position of the NPUSCH transmission is determined as a second of the two contiguous subframes. The two contiguous subframes may be configured as a time division duplex (TDD) uplink subframe based on at least one of TDD configurations 1 and 4. The two contiguous subframes may be defined for a subcarrier spacing of 3.75 kHz.
US11212060B2	Method and apparatus for reconfiguring bandwidth part in sidelink communication An operation method of a first terminal in a communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting, to a base station, a configuration request message requesting configuration of a sidelink (SL) bandwidth part (BWP) used for sidelink communication between the first terminal and a second terminal. A configuration information message is received including configuration information of the SL BWP from the base station. The sidelink communication is performed with the second terminal using one or more SL BWPs indicated by the configuration information and in response to determining that reconfiguration of the one or more SL BWPs is necessary, a reconfiguration request message is transmitted to the base station.
US11212056B2	Data transmission method and apparatus Provided are a data transmission method or apparatus. The method includes determining time domain resource information of different carrier signals used for performing data transmission; and sending configuration information to a UE, where the configuration information is used by the UE for determining the time domain resource information of the different carrier signals used for performing the data transmission.
US11212051B2	Beam management for autonomous uplink with analog beams Beam-specific autonomous uplink (AUL) resources may be configured with an associated reference signal for beam management. For example, a base station may configure respective sets of AUL resources that are specific to one or more base station receive beams. These sets of beam-specific AUL resources may be configured to be associated (e.g., quasi co-located (QCL)) with a reference signal, such as a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS), a synchronization signal burst (SSB), or the like. The base station may periodically transmit the reference signals that are associated with the AUL resources. A user equipment (UE), upon detecting one or more of the reference signals, may identify which set of AUL resources are available for an AUL transmission of uplink data. In such cases, the UE may select a set of AUL resources based on a signal strength of the reference signal associated with that set of AUL resources.
US11212047B2	Receiver, transmitter and radio communication method Provided are a receiver, a transmitter and a radio communication method capable of using non-orthogonal multiple access while suppressing cost increase and processing delay. A mobile station 200A includes a target user control signal detector 230 and an interfering user control signal detector 240 which are configured to receive a control signal to be used to cancel a non-orthogonal signal by interference canceller. The control signal includes control information containing a radio resource block allocated to the non-orthogonal signal addressed to another mobile station. The mobile station 200A demodulates and cancels the radio signal addressed to the other mobile station on the basis of the control signal.
US11212046B2	User terminal and radio communication method A terminal in communication with a base station is disclosed including a transmitter that transmits uplink control information using an uplink control channel, and a processor that independently controls, based on information transmitted from the base station, application of intra-slot frequency hopping for the uplink control channel, and application of inter-slot frequency hopping for the uplink control channel. In other aspects, a base station in communication with a terminal and a radio communication method for a terminal in communication with a base station are also disclosed.
US11212039B2	Acknowledgment management techniques for uplink multi-user transmissions Acknowledgment management techniques for UL MU transmissions are described. In various embodiments, an AP may observe a limit with respect to a number of TIDs for which corresponding A-MPDUs are to be acknowledged in a given immediate/compressed multi-user (MU) block ACK (BA). In some embodiments, the AP may indicate such a TID limit in a broadcast transmission, such as a beacon or management frame. In various other embodiments, the AP may indicate such a TID limit in a response for a capability request, such as a Probe Response, or in a specific allocation frame, such as a trigger frame, for all STAs participating in UL MU transmissions. In various embodiments, a single TID limit may be indicated that is understood to apply to each STA. In some other embodiments, the AP may indicate a respective TID limit for each of multiple STAs. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11212036B2	Data communication method, device, and system Various embodiments provide a data communication method. Under the method, a transmit end maps each code block group CBG in N CBGs to each layer in a corresponding layer group based on a correspondence between the N CBGs and N layer groups. Each layer group includes at least one layer, and N is a positive integer. The transmit end then sends data to a receive end. T transport block corresponding to the data includes the N CBGs. In this way, a mapping relationship between a CBG and a layer group is established by grouping layers, so as to improve data reception quality, through interference cancellation, for transmission among different layer groups, and ensure adaptivity to a CBG-based retransmission feedback, thereby optimizing transmission performance of an entire communications system.
US11212035B2	Systems and methods for assessing Wi-Fi coverage for client devices in a multi-access point environment A communication interface receives data points including link quality and link usage measurements related to a mobile computing device associated with the wireless network during a sampling interval. A processing device weights each data point based on at least one metric included in the link quality measurement and associated with a link usage measurement. Each weighted data point is evaluated against one or more thresholds. A weighted data point is discarded based on a result of the threshold comparison or assigned to one of a plurality of link quality bins based on a consolidated measure of the link quality measurements. A coverage quality score is computed based on a ratio of a total count of weighted link quality measurements in at least one of the plurality of link quality bins to a total count of weighted link quality measurements in all of the link quality bins.
US11212028B2	System and methods for coherent optical extension A coherent passive optical network extender apparatus includes an extender transceiver for communication with an associated optical headend. The extender transceiver includes at least one receiving portion, at least one transmitting portion, and an extension processor. The apparatus further includes a signal adaptation unit configured to convert a downstream electrical transmission lane into a plurality of individual wavelengths. Each of the converted individual wavelengths are for transmission to one of an optical node and an end user. The apparatus further includes a plurality of transceivers, disposed within the signal adaptation unit, and configured to process and transmit the converted individual wavelengths as a bundle for retransmission to the respective end users.
US11212027B2	Optical path setting device, optical communication system, and optical path setting method This optical path setting device comprises: a transmission characteristic calculating means for calculating an inter-endpoint transmission characteristic that is a characteristic for transmission between endpoints of an optical path accommodating traffic in a plurality of optical communication systems; a required wavelength bandwidth determining means for determining a required wavelength bandwidth that is a wavelength bandwidth meeting an arrival performance of the optical path on the basis of the inter-endpoint transmission characteristic; and an accommodating wavelength band determining means for determining, as an accommodating wavelength band for accommodating the optical path, a common wavelength band that is a wavelength band where an optical path having the required wavelength bandwidth can be allocated, and that is common to the plurality of optical communication systems.
US11212026B2	Radio transmission device and transmission method A signal generator 10 generates an OOK (on-off keying) modulation signal by mapping a CAZAC (constant amplitude zero auto-correlation) sequence to N subcarriers (N being an integer that is greater than or equal to 2) arranged at a determined interval among M subcarriers (M being an integer that is greater than or equal to 3) that are adjacent in the frequency domain, carrying out inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) processing on the mapped CAZAC sequence, and carrying out Manchester coding on a time domain signal generated by the IFFT processing. A radio transmitter 107 transmits the OOK modulation signal.
US11212024B2	Technologies for high-precision timestamping of packets Technologies for high-precision timestamping of data packets is disclosed. Several sources of errors that may arise when timestamping the arrival or sending of data packets may be determined and corrected, including variable latencies, semi-static latencies, and fixed latencies. In the illustrative embodiment, a variable latency may arise due to a phase difference between a clock of a network interface card and a system clock. When a trigger pattern is detected, such as the start of a data packet, a trigger may be sent from a circuit synchronized to the clock of the network interface card to a circuit synchronized to the system clock. The phase difference between the edge of the clock on the network interface card and the edge of the clock of the system clock leads to an error in the timestamp value. Determining the phase difference allows for the error in the timestamp value to be corrected.
US11212023B2	Systems and methods for nodes communicating using a time-synchronized transport layer Systems and methods that provide for transmission of messages among nodes (e.g., acceleration components configurable to accelerate a service) using a time-synchronized transport layer (TSL) protocol are provided. An example method, in a network comprising at least a first node, a second node, and a third node, includes each of the at least the first node, the second node, and the third node synchronizing a respective clock to a common clock. The method further includes each of the at least the first node, the second node, and the third node scheduling data transmission in the network in a manner such that at a particular time in reference to the common clock each of the at least the first node, the second node, and the third node is scheduled to receive data from only one of the first node, the second node, or the third node.
US11212022B2	Radio sharing for multiple wireless subscriber identities The described technology is generally directed towards sharing a radio by multiple subscriber identities at a device. A time division multiplexing pattern at the device radio gives primary radio use to a first subscriber identity, while also providing time windows for radio use to a second subscriber identity. In response to a communication by the second subscriber identity, the time division multiplexing pattern can be changed to give the primary radio use to the second subscriber identity. Also, a radio resource control protocol can designate appropriate states for the different subscriber identities, designating the subscriber identity with primary radio use as connected, while the other subscriber identity is designated as inactive or idle.
US11212019B2	Techniques and apparatuses for signal quality measurements for narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT) devices Techniques described herein permit a narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) user equipment (UE) to combine narrowband reference signals (NRS) with other signals, which the NB-IoT UE already receives, to improve measurement accuracy. The UE may report whether the UE is capable of combining the NRS with another signal to determine a combined signal quality parameter, and may report the combined signal quality parameter to a base station.
US11212016B1	Distribution of inter/intra calibration signals for antenna beamforming signals An example method of calibrating signals in an antenna array includes generating a calibration signal at a first radio sub unit (RSU), transmitting the calibration signal through a transmission path of a radio front end (RFE) of the first RSU, and receiving the calibration signal in a coupling and distribution layer of the first RSU. The method further includes providing the calibration signal from the coupling and distribution layer of the first RSU directly to a coupling and distribution layer of a second RSU, and processing the calibration signal at the second RSU.
US11212013B2	Power delivery through an optical system In one embodiment, a method includes receiving power delivered over a data fiber cable at an optical transceiver installed at a network communications device and transmitting data and the power from the optical transceiver to the network communications device. The network communications device is powered by the power received from the optical transceiver. An apparatus is also disclosed herein.
US11212010B2	Optically-steered RF imaging receiver using photonic spatial beam processing An RF imaging receiver using photonic spatial beam processing is provided with an optical beam steerer that acts on the individual modulated optical signals to induce individual phase delays that produce a phase delay with a linear term, and possibly spherical or aspherical terms, across a two-dimensional wavefront of the composite optical signal to steer the composite optical signal and move the location of the spot on the optical detector array. The optical beam steerer may change the path length or a refractive index for each of the modulated optical signals to induce the requisite phase delays. The optical beam steerer may be implemented, for example, with a Risley prism or liquid crystal or MEMs spatial light modulator.
US11212005B1	Bidirectional optical communication system employing hollow-core fiber A bidirectional optical communication system employing one or more spans of hollow-core optical fiber. In at least some embodiments, the hollow-core optical fiber can be used to simultaneously transmit, in opposite directions, optical data signals having substantially the same carrier wavelength. In such embodiments, the spectral efficiency of the bidirectional optical communication system can advantageously be about two times higher than the spectral efficiency of a comparable conventional optical communication system employing only solid-core optical fibers. In some embodiments, the bidirectional optical communication system may have a solid-core optical fiber end-connected between two spans of hollow-core optical fiber. In some embodiments, the bidirectional optical communication system may use a hollow-core optical fiber for transmission of different WDM optical data signals in opposite directions.
US11212004B2	Optical/RF wireless hybrid communication system and a control method An optical/RF wireless hybrid communication system and a control method capable of solving the instability of link states of an RF wireless link and an optical wireless link is provided. According to an optical/RF wireless hybrid communication system and a control method of the present invention, when data is transmitted, the link is not limited to one of an RF wireless link and an optical wireless link, a link state is determined based on signal quality received in channels of both the RF wireless link and the optical wireless link, and a distribution of data to be transmitted in each link is determined based on a result thereof. For this reason, the link can be switched according to circumstances of the transmission state due to an external disturbance and the like.
US11212000B2	Temporospatial software-defined networking for NGSO satellite networks The disclosure provides for a system that includes a network controller. The network controller is configured to receive information from nodes of a network, where nodes include one node that is in motion relative to another node. The network controller is also configured to generate a table representing nodes, available storage at each node, and possible links in the network over a period of time based on the information, and determine a series of topologies of the network based on the table. Based on received client data including a data amount, the network controller is configured to determine flows for the topology. The network controller then is configured to generate a schedule of network configurations based on the flows, and send instructions to the nodes of the network for implementing the network configurations and transmitting client data.
US11211999B2	Satellite network virtual LAN usage A satellite telecommunication system includes a satellite and multiple computing devices. One computing device is in communication with the satellite and programmed to generate a virtual local area network (VLAN) packet with a VLAN tag and transmit the VLAN packet to the satellite. Another computing device is in communication with the satellite and programmed to receive the VLAN packet, determine VLAN tag information from the VLAN tag, and forward at least the original packet while preserving VLAN tag information associated with the VLAN tag.
US11211995B2	Allocating time-frequency blocks for a relay link and an access link A base station is provided with a communication unit for communicating with a mobile terminal via a relay link between the base station and a relay device and an access link between the relay device and the mobile terminal, and a selection unit for selecting an allocation pattern of an uplink of the relay link, a downlink of the relay link, an uplink of the access link, and a downlink of the access link to frequency-time blocks from a plurality of allocation patterns that are different in delay occurring between the base station and the mobile terminal.
US11211994B2	Angular sparse channel recovery using history measurements Compressive sensing (CS) channel recovery using history measurements. Both current and history measurements for AoAs estimation, and only use current measurement for coefficient estimation. The dominant angle of arrival (AoA) is estimated using history and current measurements. In Approach 1, the dominant AoA is invariant and the coefficients are uncorrelated. In Approach 2, the dominant AoA is invariant and the coefficients are fully correlated. The remaining AoAs are estimated. The coefficients corresponding to each estimated dominant AoA are estimated. And the channel is recovered.
US11211993B2	Communication apparatus, method and cellular network usable in a localization of a user equipment using a phase estimate Communication apparatus of a cellular communication network, wherein the apparatus is configured to receive a reference signal; and to estimate a phase estimate based on the received reference signal; and to provide a localization module with the phase estimate.
US11211985B2	Network operation The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Disclosed is a method of operating a telecommunication network where a User Equipment, UE, is in communication with a plurality of cells, including a serving cell and a plurality of non-serving cells, wherein the UE is operable to determine an indicator which is passed to the serving cell, such that the serving cell determines which of the plurality of cells are operable in either coherent joint transmission, JT, mode or non-coherent joint transmission, NCJT mode.
US11211984B2	Method for reporting channel state in wireless communication system and device therefor The present invention relates to a method for reporting a channel state for a narrowband-Internet of Things (NB-IoT) terminal in a wireless communication system, the method, according to one embodiment of the present invention, being executed by a NB-IoT terminal configured so as to operate in a single resource block (BR)-unit NB, and comprising the steps of: receiving, from a base station, a request for the reporting of aperiodic channel state information; according to the request, calculating a channel quality indicator of at least one NB corresponding to a resource for which channel state information is being measured; and transmitting the calculated channel quality indicator to the base station, wherein the channel quality indicator is calculated during a valid subframe interval comprising at least one subframe, wherein the valid subframe interval may exclude a subframe in which a synchronization signal is transmitted from the at least one NB, or a subframe in which the terminal monitors a different NB that is not the at least one NB.
US11211983B2	Resource allocation for beam sweep A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. In one example, a network node configured for performing dual beam sweep, the dual beam sweep including a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) beam sweep and a corresponding physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) beam sweep that are separated in time to each other. The network node is configured to, and/or including a radio interface and/or including processing circuitry configured to: configured to: indicate, in a PDCCH transmission within the PDCCH beam sweep, a time domain resource allocation for the corresponding PDSCH beam, the time domain resource allocation corresponding to an offset in time slots between the PDCCH beam and the corresponding PDSCH beam, the offset being one of a plurality of offsets that can be indicated for the corresponding PDSCH beam; and perform the dual beam sweep using at least in part the indication.
US11211982B1	Communication via a butler matrix and a lens Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first wireless communication device may select a lens, of a set of candidate lenses, and a butler matrix, of a set of candidate butler matrixes, to communicate a signal with a second wireless communication device, wherein the lens is spaced, from the butler matrix, at a distance that is at least a far field length of the lens for a frequency associated with the signal. The first wireless communication device may communicate, with the second wireless communication device, the signal via a beam of the butler matrix and the lens. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11211981B2	Control apparatus, method of controlling the same, and communication system A control apparatus operable to control a plurality of access points (APs) configured to be able to use joint beamforming (JB) includes a memory containing instructions, and at least one processor for executing the instructions. The executed instructions cause the control apparatus to obtain, from a station (STA) which is a communication partner, reception information on a received signal strength at the STA of signals transmitted from the plurality of Aps, and determine, based on the reception information, a communication parameter related to JB for communication with the STA. It is determined to use JB for communication with the STA in a case where there is one or more other received signal strengths for which a strength difference from a largest received signal strength among a plurality of received signal strengths of the plurality of APs included in the reception information is within a predetermined range.
US11211977B2	Codebook-based uplink transmission method in wireless communication system and device therefor Disclosed are a codebook-based uplink transmission method in a wireless communication system and a device therefor. Particularly, a method for a user equipment (UE) performing codebook-based uplink transmission in a wireless communication system includes the steps of: receiving from a base station downlink control information (DCI) for physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) scheduling including precoding information and the number of layers; determining a precoder on the basis of the precoding information and the number of layers; and transmitting a PUSCH to which the determined precoder is applied to the base station, wherein the DCI may further include an amplitude coefficient and a phase coefficient applied to the precoder.
US11211976B2	Methods related to radio-frequency front-end systems Methods related to radio frequency front end systems. In some embodiments, the method can include providing a first module configured to provide multi-input multi-output (MIMO) receive operations for a first plurality of mid bands and a first plurality of high bands. The first module can be further configured to provide transmit operations for the plurality of mid bands. The first module can include a first node. The method can include providing a second module configured to provide transmit and receive operations for a second plurality of mid bands and a second plurality of high bands. The second module can be a power amplifier integrated duplexer (PAiD) module. The second module can include a second node. The first module and the second module can be coupled by a signal path at the first node and the second node, respectively.
US11211973B2	Processing method and LED module based on power line transmission amplitude-modulated signal A processing method and LED module based on a power line transmission amplitude-modulated signal, which comprises a voltage processing module, a voltage regulator module, a control module, a constant current module, a signal comparison module, an oscillator and an LED, wherein an amplitude-modulated signal having a high and low level is input from a positive electrode terminal and then processed by the voltage processing module for input to the voltage regulator module, a power supply voltage is provided respectively for the LED and the control module under the effect of the voltage regulator module, and a reference voltage is provided for the signal comparison module; the amplitude-modulated signal is input to the signal comparison module, such that a control signal is obtained under the effect of the signal comparison module for input to the control module. In the invention, the LED emits light stably, and can be automatically produced.
US11211965B2	Electronic device and method for providing communication service Disclosed an apparatus and a method for simultaneously providing a voice service and a data service in an electronic device. The electronic device includes: an antenna for transmitting or receiving one or more signals of a first signal corresponding to a first communication network and a second signal corresponding to a second communication network; a first communication control module for processing the first signal; a second communication control module for processing the second signal; and a divider for distributing the one or more signals received through the antenna to the first communication control module and the second communication control module.
US11211964B1	Multi-rat dynamic transmit power boost using an antenna front end module An antenna front-end module, method, and information handling system are adapted to the application of a direct-current (DC) bias voltage in relation to an antenna and detect a connection status of the antenna based on a sensed DC voltage. When the connection status corresponds to the antenna being connected, a first transmit power level is configured. When the connection status corresponds to the antenna being disconnected, a second transmit power level is configured. A transmit power boost can be provided such that the first transmit power level is greater than the second transmit power level. The first transmit power level can correspond to a radiative transmission mode, and the second transmit power level can correspond to a conductive transmission mode.
US11211961B2	Foldable electronic device including antenna An electronic device including an antenna is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a first housing structure having a first side member, a second housing structure having a second side member, and a hinge structure connecting the first housing structure and the second housing structure to each other, and a transceiver electrically connected with the first side member and the second side member. The first side member includes a first conductive member, a second conducive member spaced apart from the first conductive member, and a first nonconductive member disposed between the first conductive member and the second conductive member, as a first antenna group, and a third conductive member disposed at an edge adjacent to the hinge structure of edges of the first side member to correspond to the first conductive member, a fourth conductive member facing the second conductive member and spaced apart from the third conductive member, and a second nonconductive member disposed between the third conductive member and the fourth conductive member as a second antenna group.
US11211960B2	PAM-4 DFE architectures with symbol-transition dependent DFE tap values Decision feedback equalization (DFE) is used to help reduce inter-symbol interference (ISI) from a data signal received via a band-limited (or otherwise non-ideal) channel. A first PAM-4 DFE architecture has low latency from the output of the samplers to the application of the first DFE tap feedback to the input signal. This is accomplished by not decoding the sampler outputs in order to generate the feedback signal for the first DFE tap. Rather, weighted versions of the raw sampler outputs are applied directly to the input signal without further analog or digital processing. Additional PAM-4 DFE architectures use the current symbol in addition to previous symbol(s) to determine the DFE feedback signal. Another architecture transmits PAM-4 signaling using non-uniform pre-emphasis. The non-uniform pre-emphasis allows a speculative DFE receiver to resolve the transmitted PAM-4 signals with fewer comparators/samplers.
US11211958B2	Radio-frequency circuit and communication device A radio-frequency circuit includes a first power amplifier that amplifies a first transmission signal and outputs the first transmission signal amplified; and a second power amplifier that amplifies a second transmission signal different in frequency from the first transmission signal, and outputs the second transmission signal amplified. At least one of the first power amplifier or the second power amplifier switches from ET mode to APT mode, when (1) both the first power amplifier and the second power amplifier are outputting amplified transmission signals and (2) output power of at least one of the first power amplifier or the second power amplifier is greater than a first threshold power.
US11211957B2	Wireless transmitter An Internet-of-things (IoT)/machine-to-machine (MTM) wireless transmitter is obtained that has a semiconductor device including variable-resistance elements each of which is nonvolatile and rewritable and is able to hold each internal state without electric energy, and a modulator for receiving information from the semiconductor device and transmitting the information as a wireless signal.
US11211950B2	Decoding device and decoding method According to one embodiment, a decoding device comprises a converter configured to convert read data to first likelihood information by using a first conversion table, a decoder which decodes the first likelihood information, a controller which outputs a decoding result of the decoder when the decoder succeeds decoding, and a creator module which creates a second conversion table based on the decoding result when the decoder fails decoding. When the second conversion table is created, at least a part of the decoding result is converted to second likelihood information by using the second conversion table the second likelihood information is decoded.
US11211949B2	Dynamic multi-stage decoding Methods and systems for decoding raw data may include determining a sequence of a plurality of read-level voltages based on previous decoding data and executing a multi-stage decoding operation to decode raw data read from the plurality of memory cells using the determined sequence of the plurality of read-level voltages. Decoded data is returned from the multi-stage decoding operation upon completion of the multi-stage decoding operation and the previous decoding data is updated based on results of the multi-stage decoding operation.
US11211947B2	Polar code encoding method and apparatus, polar code decoding method and apparatus, and device This application provides a polar code encoding and decoding method and apparatus and a device. An example method includes: sequentially configuring, by a sending device, information bits and first check bits on subchannels in a first subchannel set, and configuring frozen bits on subchannels in a second subchannel set, where the subchannels in the first subchannel set are sorted according to a natural order of serial numbers of the subchannels; and performing polarization encoding on bits on the subchannels to obtain an encoded sequence. In this way, encoding efficiency and decoding efficiency are improved.
US11211942B2	Circuits, systems, and methods for providing asynchronous sample rate conversion for an oversampling sigma delta analog to digital converter A variable output data rate converter circuit preferably meets performance requirements while keeping the circuit complexity low. In some embodiments, the converter circuit may include an oversampling sigma delta modulator circuit to quantize an analog input signal at an oversampled rate, and output an sigma delta modulated signal, a transposed polynomial decimator circuit to decimate the sigma delta modulated signal, and output a first decimated signal, and an integer decimator circuit to decimate the first decimated signal by an integer factor and output a second decimated signal having a desired output data rate. The transposed polynomial decimator circuit has a transposed polynomial filter circuit and a digital phase locked loop circuit, which tracks a ratio between a sampling rate of the first decimated signal and the oversampled rate, and outputs an intersample position parameter to the transposed polynomial filter circuit.
US11211938B2	Method and apparatus for generating output frequency locked to input frequency A digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) that generates an output frequency clock signal without drift and can be rapidly locked to an input or reference clock is described. A variable-modulus-fixed-increment form of DCO is configured to divide the frequency of a nominally fixed frequency oscillator. A constant is derived from the ratio of a fixed increment to the desired output frequency; this constant is multiplied by the frequency of the oscillator and the modulus adjusted to keep the ratio of the input clock and the output clock constant. The frequency of the oscillator is conveniently measured by counting the number of cycles between input cycles of a reference frequency. The oscillator must be greater in frequency than the expected output and is most accurate in cases where the reference frequency is low compared to the expected output frequency.
US11211936B1	Delay lock loop circuits and methods for operating same Digital delay lock circuits and methods for operating digital delay lock circuits are provided. A phase detector is configured to receive first and second clock signals and generate a digital signal indicating a relationship between a phase of the first clock signal and a phase of the second clock signal. A phase accumulator circuit is configured to receive the digital signal and generate a phase signal based on values of the digital signal over multiple clock cycles. A decoder is configured to receive the phase signal and generate a digital control word based on the phase signal. A delay element is configured to receive the digital control word. The delay element is further configured to change the relationship between the phase of the first clock signal and the phase of the second clock signal by modifying the phase of the second clock signal according to the digital control word.
US11211935B2	All-digital voltage monitor (ADVM) with single-cycle latency An all-digital voltage monitor (ADVM) generates a multi-bit output code that changes in proportion to a voltage being monitored, by leveraging the voltage impact on a gate delay. ADVM utilizes a simple delay chain, which receives a clock-cycle-long pulse every clock cycle, such that the monitored supply voltage is sampled for one full cycle every cycle. The outputs of all delay cells of the delay chain collectively represents a current voltage state as a digital thermometer code. In AVDM, a voltage droop event thus results in a decrease in the output code from a nominal value, while an overshoot results in an increase in the output code.
US11211934B2	Apparatus to improve lock time of a frequency locked loop An apparatus is provided which comprises: a frequency locked loop (FLL) comprising an oscillator including a plurality of delay stages, wherein an output of each delay stage is counted to determine a frequency of the FLL; and one or more circuitries coupled to the FLL to adjust a power supply to the FLL according to the determined frequency of the FLL.
US11211933B2	FPGA chip with distributed multifunctional layer structure An FPGA chip includes one functional unit, one pre-allocation manager, and wiring segments. The functional unit includes a first module CPE and a second module PLF. The pre-allocation manager may be connected by means of one of the wiring segments. By configuring one pre-allocation manager, data transmission directions of the wiring segments may be changed. The functional unit is connected to one pre-allocation manager by means of a conventional line. The first module CPE and the second module PLF which are adjacent in the same functional unit are connected by means of a cross-connection line. The second functional modules are interconnected by means of a conventional routing system. Different functional blocks can be connected to each other from any position of a circuit.
US11211927B2	Gate driver circuit, motor driver circuit, and hard disk apparatus A gate driver circuit drives a switching transistor. A variable current source generates a reference current configured to switch between a first current amount and a second current amount smaller than the first current amount. A current distribution circuit is configured to switch between a source enabled state in which a source current proportional to the reference current is sourced to a gate node of the switching transistor and a disabled state in which the source current is made equal to zero. A first transistor fixes the gate node of the switching transistor to a high voltage in an on-state of the first transistor. A second transistor fixes the gate node of the switching transistor to a low voltage in an on-state of the second transistor.
US11211926B2	Sensor devices and methods for transmitting sensor data, apparatus and method for controlling a sensor device, apparatuses and methods for decoding a sensor signal A sensor device includes an output driver configured to: adjust a first time interval of the output signal between a first signal edge of a first type and a first signal edge of a second type based on a first reference value; adjust a second time interval of the output signal between the first signal edge of the second type and a second signal edge of the first type based on a second reference value; adjust a third time interval of the output signal between the second signal edge of the first type and a second signal edge of the second type based on a first data value; and adjust a fourth time interval of the output signal between the second signal edge of the second type and a third signal edge of the first type based on a second data value.
US11211921B2	Differential analog input buffer A differential signal input buffer is disclosed. The differential signal input buffer may receive a differential signal that includes a first signal and a second signal and may be divided into a first section and a second section and. The first section may buffer and/or amplify the first signal based on a first level-shifted second signal. The second section may buffer and/or amplify the second signal based on a first level-shifted first signal. In some implementations, the first section may buffer and/or amplify the first signal based on a second level-shifted second signal. Further, in some implementations, the second section may buffer and/or amplify the second signal based on a second level-shifted first signal.
US11211910B1	Audio gain selection A device including one or more processors configured to, based on at least one of an external criterion or a signal-based criterion, output a first gain adjusted signal from a first gain adjuster or a second gain adjusted signal from a second gain adjuster as an input to an audio processing operation. The first gain adjusted signal corresponds to a first gain applied to an audio signal from a microphone and the second gain adjusted signal corresponding to a second gain applied to an audio signal from a microphone. The signal-based criterion is based on whether a first signal metric associated with the first gain adjusted signal or a second signal metric associated with the second gain adjusted signal is closer to a target metric.
US11211908B2	Power amplifier and demodulator A power amplifier includes an in-phase modulator configured to modulate an in-phase component of an input signal, a quadrature modulator configured to modulate a quadrature component of the input signal, and a processor configured to process the in-phase and quadrature components. The processor includes a clock configured to produce a clock signal, a pulse processor configured to remove non-essential information from the modulated in-phase and quadrature components, and a pulse converter configured to select an amplifier class and output a control signal based on the selected amplifier class. A switching network is also included and configured to actuate one or more switches based on the control signal to output an amplified signal.
US11211905B2	Semiconductor device and memory system According to one embodiment, in a first differential amplifier circuit of a semiconductor device, a first transistor receives an input signal at the gate. A second transistor forms a differential pair with the first transistor. The second transistor receives a reference signal at the gate. A third transistor is connected in series with the first transistor. A fourth transistor is connected in series with the second transistor. A fifth transistor is disposed on the output side. The fifth transistor forms a first current mirror circuit with the fourth transistor. A sixth transistor is connected to the drain of the second transistor in parallel with the fourth transistor. The sixth transistor forms a second current mirror circuit with the fifth transistor. A first discharge circuit is connected to the source of the sixth transistor.
US11211904B1	Switched-capacitor amplifier circuit A switched-capacitor amplifier circuit includes multiple switched-capacitor networks, an amplifier, and multiple reset circuits. The switched-capacitor networks are configured to receive respective input voltages during a sampling phase, and generate sampled voltages. During an amplification phase, the amplifier is coupled with the switched-capacitor networks, and is configured to receive the sampled voltages. The amplifier is further configured to generate output voltages. During the sampling phase, the amplifier is coupled with the reset circuits, and is further configured to receive divided voltages such that the amplifier is reset. The reset circuits are configured to receive and provide a common-mode voltage and the output voltages to the amplifier. The divided voltages are generated based on the common-mode voltage and the output voltages. Each reset circuit includes at least one of a resistor and a capacitor.
US11211903B1	Over charge protection method and voltage converter using the over charge protection method An over charge protection method applied to a voltage converter which can operate in a quaternary modulation mode (Q mode) or a ternary modulation mode (T mode). The over charge protection method comprises: (a) determining whether the voltage converter operates in the Q mode or the T mode; and (b) setting a current threshold of the voltage converter to a first over current threshold if the voltage converter operates in the T mode; and (c) setting the current threshold to a second over current threshold if the voltage converter operates in the Q mode, wherein the first current threshold is smaller than the second over current threshold.
US11211901B1	Integrating amplifier with improved noise rejection An amplifier comprises a first capacitor, a second capacitor, a third capacitor, a fourth capacitor, a first transistor, a second transistor, and an output node. The first capacitor is electrically connected between a first power supply node and a first node, the second capacitor is electrically connected between the first node and a second node, the third capacitor is electrically connected between a second power supply node and a third node, and the fourth capacitor is electrically connected between the third node and a fourth node. The first transistor has a gate node electrically connected to the second node, and the second transistor has a gate node electrically connected to the fourth node. The output node is selectively connected to the first transistor and the second transistor. The first node and the third node are configured to be selectively electrically connected to a voltage node and a common voltage node.
US11211892B2	Motor drive apparatus configured to determine cause of DC link voltage fluctuation A motor drive apparatus includes: a rectifier; an inverter; a DC link voltage detection unit; an input current detection unit configured to detect input current inputted to the rectifier; a DC link voltage comparison unit configured to compare a DC link voltage with a first voltage threshold value and with a second voltage threshold value; a current comparison unit configured to compare the input current with a current threshold value; and an abnormality detection unit configured, in a case that the DC link voltage is smaller than the first voltage threshold value or that the DC link voltage is greater than the second voltage threshold value, to determine that a first abnormality has occurred when the input current is smaller than the current threshold value and to determine that a second abnormality has occurred when the input current is equal to or greater than the current threshold value.
US11211889B2	Motor system A control unit distributes a motor voltage vector corresponding to an output request for a motor to a first and a second inverter voltage vectors associated with outputs from a first inverter and a second inverter, and determines whether a switching condition for three-phase-on mode is satisfied. Determining that the switching condition is satisfied, the control unit switches to three-phase-on mode in which every high-side switching element or every low-side switching element of one inverter is turned on and one end of a coil in each phase of the motor is brought into common connection, and the control unit drives the motor with an output from the other inverter. Herein, the switching condition for three-phase-on mode includes failure of one inverter and an inverter voltage vector of an output from one inverter being approximate to 0 when neither of the inverters fails.
US11211882B2	Thyristor starter A thyristor starter accelerates a synchronous machine from a stop state to a predetermined rotation speed by sequentially performing a first mode of performing commutation of an inverter by intermittently setting DC output current of a converter to zero and a second mode of performing commutation of the inverter by induced voltage of the synchronous machine. In the thyristor starter, during a first time period from start of performance of the second mode to arrival of the induced voltage of the synchronous machine at a first voltage value, a phase control angle of the inverter is changed such that a value thereof becomes larger as a rotation speed of the synchronous machine becomes higher.
US11211880B2	Power conversion device including an inverter and first and second current detectors A control device controls an inverter such that a detected value of an output current of an inverter follows a current command value. The control device is configured to calculate a current deviation between the current command value and the detected value of the output current of the inverter, and control switching of switching elements to allow the calculated current deviation to be equal to or less than a current deviation command value. The control device sets a current limiter for a load current, the current limiter being smaller than an over current level, a load current with a current limiter smaller than an overcurrent level. When the detected value of the load current is larger than the current limiter, the control device reduces the current deviation command value to be smaller than that applied when the load current is smaller than the current limiter.
US11211879B2	Capacitor size reduction and lifetime extension for cascaded H-bridge drives A power conversion system and controller configured to generate a real average DC current reference based on a DC bus voltage of a DC link circuit and a DC bus voltage setpoint, generate real and reactive ripple current references based on the DC bus voltage of the DC link circuit and a ripple angle of the DC link circuit, and generate rectifier switching control signals to operate rectifier switching devices based on the real average DC current reference and the real and reactive ripple current references.
US11211876B2	Voltage compensation device A voltage compensation device according to an embodiment includes a controller including first and second coordinate transformation circuits, and first and second arithmetic parts. The first coordinate transformation circuit generates first and second outputs that are mutually-orthogonal by performing a rotating coordinate transformation of the normal-phase components of a three phase AC. The first arithmetic part calculates a system voltage based on a DC component of the first output and generates a first compensation amount corresponding to a compensation voltage set to compensate a shift of the system voltage from a preset target voltage. The second coordinate transformation circuit generates third and fourth outputs that are mutually-orthogonal by performing a rotating coordinate transformation of reverse-phase components of the three-phase AC. The second arithmetic part generates second compensation amount of a reverse-phase component of the system voltage based on DC components of the third and fourth outputs.
US11211874B2	Flyback converter with no-load power control for reduced power consumption A flyback converter is provided with a secondary-side low-power-mode controller that detects whether a mobile device has been disconnected from the flyback converter. In response to this detection, the low-power-mode controller initiates a low-power mode of operation in which a primary-side controller is disabled to increase efficiency.
US11211862B2	Power converter with modular stages connected by floating terminals An apparatus for electric power conversion includes a converter having a regulating circuit and switching network. The regulating circuit has magnetic storage elements, and switches connected to the magnetic storage elements and controllable to switch between switching configurations. The regulating circuit maintains an average DC current through a magnetic storage element. The switching network includes charge storage elements connected to switches that are controllable to switch between plural switch configurations. In one configuration, the switches forms an arrangement of charge storage elements in which at least one charge storage element is charged using the magnetic storage element through the network input or output port. In another, the switches form an arrangement of charge storage elements in which an element discharges using the magnetic storage element through one of the input port and output port of the switching network.
US11211860B2	Modular tubular linear switched reluctance machine A tubular linear switched reluctance machine includes a segmented translator having a non-magnetic material body and ring segments of magnetic material axially separated from each other and provided on the body. The ring segments are distributed along the axial direction of the body. The machine also includes a stator arranged to electromagnetically interact with the segmented translator, wherein the stator has a plurality of coaxially arranged annular modules, and a respective annular non-magnetic spacer arranged between each pair of subsequently arranged modules.
US11211856B2	Resolver A resolver that ensures improvement in a detection sensitivity is provided. The resolver according to the present disclosure includes a rotor and a stator arranged to surround an outer peripheral surface of the rotor. The rotor includes a rotor core, the stator includes a stator core and a coil, the stator core includes a plurality of teeth disposed at intervals along a circumferential direction, the plurality of teeth project toward the outer peripheral surface side of the rotor, and the coil is wound around the plurality of teeth. A gap permeance between the rotor and the stator varies in association with a rotation around a rotation axis of the rotor. The rotor further includes a porous machinable film containing a magnetic metal, and the porous machinable film is disposed on a projecting portion on an outer peripheral surface of the rotor core.
US11211853B2	Electromagnetic motor or generator with two rotors, four stators and an integrated cooling system A permanent-magnet synchronous motor or generator with at least one rotor (2) and at least one stator (3, 8). The motor includes two rotors (2), four stators (3, 8) and a cooling system (7, 7a). The cooling system includes three cooling circuits (7, 7a), i.e. two outer circuits (7) which are each accommodated in a longitudinal outer wall of a casing (8), adjacent to an outermost stator (3, 8), for cooling said outermost stator (3, 8), and an intermediate circuit (7a) located between the two innermost stators (3, 8) in the motor for simultaneously cooling said two stators (3, 8), the central shaft (5) being common to the two rotors (2) which are connected to the central shaft (5) by mechanical means.
US11211851B2	System and method for providing safe limited force producing power in a motor A motor drive utilizes redundant current feedback to monitor force being produced by a motor and to provide safe limited force producing operation of the motor. A first set of current sensors provides a first current measurement, and a second set of current sensors provides a second current measurement. The two current measurements are provided to two diverse force producing calculations, where each force producing calculation provides a value of the force produced by the motor. The motor drive compares the output of the two algorithms to each other. If the output of the two force producing calculations is the same, within an acceptable band, the controller continues operating as commanded. If the output of the two force producing calculations differs beyond the acceptable band, then the controller may generate a fault message provided back to a central controller, stop operation of the motor, or a combination thereof.
US11211850B2	Motor A motor includes a stationary portion including an annular stator centered on a central axis extending in a vertical direction, and a rotating portion including a magnet radially opposite to the stator, and rotatable about the central axis. The stationary portion includes a circuit board axially below the magnet and an electronic component mounted on the circuit board, the circuit board includes a board hole passing therethrough in an axial direction. The electronic component includes a component body portion including at least a portion thereof in the board hole, a first terminal portion extending in a first direction from the component body portion, the first direction being not parallel to the axial direction, a second terminal portion extending downward from the first terminal portion, and a third terminal portion extending from the second terminal portion, and joined to the circuit board through solder.
US11211849B2	Electric machine with fluid cooled stator assembly In some examples, an electric machine system including an outer housing; a stator assembly within the outer housing; a corrugated ring located between the stator assembly and the outer housing, the corrugated ring defining a gap between the stator assembly and the outer housing; and a pump configured to transfer a fluid through the gap between the stator assembly and housing to remove heat from at least one of the stator assembly or outer housing.
US11211847B2	Hinge device provided with power generating device and capable of extracting energy from user's living activities to generate electric power A hinge device includes: a first and a second hinge components having a common reference axis; and a power generating device. The first and the second hinge components are engaged with each other, so as to be rotatable about the reference axis relative to each other, and so that one of the first and the second hinge components supports the other. The power generating device includes a housing and an input shaft, and generates electric power by rotation of the input shaft. The housing of the power generating device is fixed to the first hinge component, so that the input shaft of the power generating device is positioned on the reference axis. The input shaft of the power generating device is restrained to the second hinge component with respect to the direction of rotation about the reference axis, so that the input shaft of the power generating device rotates by as much as rotation of the second hinge component when the second hinge component rotates about the reference axis.
US11211846B2	Power tool A power tool includes a motor (8) having a stator (9), a rotor (10) and three terminals (81). The stator includes a tubular stator core (60) having six teeth (63), first and second electrically insulating members (61, 62) affixed to the stator core, and six coils (64) wound around the teeth such that three phases are defined. The three terminals are held by the first electrically insulating member and are respectively electrically connected to the three phases. All of the six coils may be formed by winding a single continuous winding wire (101) sequentially around each of the six teeth. All of the three terminals (81) may be disposed within a semicircular area of the stator core. At least a first crossover wire portion (102) of the winding wire may be disposed on the second electrically insulating member.
US11211845B2	Speed reduction apparatus and electromechanical device A speed reduction apparatus includes a motor and a speed reduction assembly. The motor includes a first rotating shaft and a second rotating shaft a second rotator and a first rotator, a stator, a first motor housing, a second motor, and a first bearing and a second bearing at a radial outer side of the first rotating shaft, the first bearing and the second bearing being axially located at the same side of the first rotator facing the first motor housing. The speed reduction assembly includes a first gear, third gears engaging with the first gear, and a second gear, an output shaft, the third gears turning the second gear to rotate, and the second gear driving the output shaft, and a bracket between the output shaft and the first rotating shaft, the first gear, the second gear and the third gears being located at an axial outer side of the first motor housing, and at least one of the first gear, the second gear and the third gears being located radial outer sides of the first bearing and the second bearing.
US11211843B2	Electric motor including a rotor An electric motor includes a rotor having a rotor shaft part and a first shaft part and a second shaft part. The rotor shaft is situated axially between the first and the second shaft parts. The first shaft part includes a first bearing seat and is connected to the rotor shaft part in a torsionally fixed manner, and the second shaft part includes a second bearing seat and is connected to the rotor shaft part in a torsionally fixed manner.
US11211842B2	Inner-rotor motor with urging structure An inner-rotor motor including: an armature assembly including a rotating shaft, an armature unit coupled to the rotating shaft and a pressing unit; a frame assembly including a frame housing the armature unit, a first bearing unit located on one side with respect to the armature unit in an axial direction, and a second bearing unit located on another side with respect to the armature unit in the axial direction; and an urging structure that urges the rotating shaft in a direction away from the second bearing unit and that presses the pressing unit toward the first bearing unit.
US11211841B2	Motor shell The present invention provides a motor shell, comprising a hollow metal shaft and a plastic shell, wherein the hollow metal shaft is fixedly connected to the plastic shell, and the connection between the hollow metal shaft and the plastic shell is one of injection molding connection, glue connection and interference connection. By using the motor shell according to the present invention, problems in the prior art such as low processing precision of the motor shaft, poor wiring structure, low structural strength, no limiting for the magnetic ring and tending to deform after loading are solved.
US11211840B2	Winding structure of motor stator A winding structure of motor stator includes a stator core, two insulation members, an upper cap, a lower cap, and a coil. The two insulation members are disposed on two winding grooves of the stator core respectively. The upper cap and the lower cap are disposed on a top end and a bottom end of the stator core respectively. The coil is wound on the upper cap, the two insulation members, and the lower cap. Stopping pieces facing each other are formed on two sides of each of the upper cap and the lower cap. Each of the stopping pieces is separated from the coil without contact.
US11211837B2	Actuator with individually computerized and networked electromagnetic poles A direct drive drive actuator includes a base structure and a driven structure that is journally supported and translatable relative to the base structure. The driven structure is disposed in a fixed spacial relationship to the base structure. A plurality of first pole arrays is disposed on the driven structure. A plurality of second pole arrays, corresponding in number to the plurality of first pole arrays is disposed on the base structure. An electrical power source is provided. A controller is coupled to the power source and the first plurality of pole arrays and the second plurality of pole arrays, wherein the controller is configured to selectively electrically energized windings of the first plurality of pole arrays and the second plurality of pole arrays such that an electro-magnetic force is formed between poles of the first plurality of pole arrays and poles of the second plurality of pole arrays. The driven structure is translatable relative to the base structure responsive to the electro-magnetic force.
US11211835B2	Power transmission controller, power reception controller, and method for controlling wireless power supply system There is provided a method for controlling a wireless power supply system including a wireless power transmitting device and a wireless power receiving device. The method includes: transmitting predetermined first information by non-encryption communication from a first device, which is one of the wireless power receiving device and the wireless power transmitting device, to a second device, which is the other of the wireless power receiving device and the wireless power transmitting device; transmitting the first information by encryption communication from the first device to the second device; and prohibiting, in the second device, a specific power supply mode when the first information received by the non-encryption communication does not match the first information received by the encryption communication.
US11211830B2	Anytime beaconing in a wireless power transmission system Systems and methods are described for operating a wireless power transmission system. The wireless power transmission system receives an encoded beacon signal delivered from and initiated by a wireless power receiver client configured to receive wireless power from the wireless power transmission system. The wireless power transmission system also delivers wireless power to the wireless power receiver client and simultaneously detects for additional encoded beacon signals delivered from and initiated by additional wireless power receiver clients.
US11211825B2	Wireless power transmission system, control method, and storage medium A wireless power transmission system includes a first antenna, a second antenna configured to perform wireless power transmission with the first antenna, and a movement unit configured to move a position of the second antenna relative to the first antenna in a predetermined moving direction, wherein the second antenna is shorter in length in the moving direction than the first antenna, wherein a distance between at least one end portion of the first antenna in the moving direction and the second antenna at a position where the second antenna faces the end portion is longer than a distance between an intermediate portion of the first antenna and the second antenna at a position where the second antenna faces the intermediate portion, and wherein the intermediate portion of the first antenna is a portion of the first antenna excluding both end portions of the first antenna.
US11211820B2	Wireless power transfer at chip scale An inductive wireless power transfer apparatus includes a source coil coupled to a power source such that current flows through the source coil when the source coil is excited by the power source. The apparatus further includes a first capacitor coupled in series to the source coil. The apparatus further includes an intermediate coil surrounding the source coil and positioned within an identical plane as the source coil, and a second capacitor coupled in series to the intermediate coil. The capacitances of the first capacitor and the second capacitor are set to tune out self-inductances of the source coil and the intermediate coil. In embodiments, the source coil is to inductively power the intermediate coil, which is to inductively power a load coil positioned a distance away from the intermediate coil.
US11211819B2	Charging device that focuses flux by flowing current through spirals in opposing radial directions Charging devices described herein include at least one coil having spirals through which current flows in opposing radial directions to focus flux. For instance, the flux for a coil may be focused in a shape of a toroid having first and second cross-sections that intersect the respective spirals of the coil at a plane in which the spirals are defined. Focusing the flux in this manner may facilitate wireless power transfer from the coil(s) to a chargeable wireless device.
US11211818B2	Power supply assembly A power supply assembly including a load supply converter system and energy saving transfer route both connected electrically to a load connection. The energy saving transfer route bypasses the load supply converter system, and includes a bypass switch system having a first bypass switch and second bypass switch connected in series. A control system of the power supply assembly is adapted to provide a system diagnostic operation including providing a diagnostic state for the bypass switch system by controlling the first bypass switch into a non-conducting state, and controlling the second bypass switch into a conducting state, generating a diagnostic voltage in an output of the load supply converter system, and detecting a short circuit incident if an electric current flowing through the bypass switch system exceeds a predetermined short circuit threshold value.
US11211816B1	Delta connected resonant turn off circuits A static transfer switch is provided for supplying power to a load alternately from two different power sources. Switching between the two power sources may occur within a fraction of one electrical cycle. In response to sensing degraded performance in the power source supplying the load, resonant turn off circuits connected directly to the main switches of two phases of the power source are actuated to commutate the respective main switches. The main switch of the third phase is commutated with one or more of the resonant turn off circuits through the delta side of a transformer connected to the three phases of the power source.
US11211812B2	Controller and battery management methods A controller for managing a battery pack includes: a detection terminal, for transmitting an enable signal when values of battery parameters for the battery pack satisfy a sleep condition, where the enable signal enables the detection circuit to detect whether the battery pack is connected to a load and whether the battery pack is connected to the charger; and a receiving terminal, for receiving a detection result transmitted by the detection circuit. The detection result indicates whether the battery pack is connected to at least one of the load and charger. The controller controls the battery pack to enter a sleep mode of the sleep modes based on the detection result. The controller also includes a control terminal, for transmitting a control signal to control an on/off state of a charging switch and/or a discharging switch. The control signal is generated by the controller based on the detection result.
US11211810B2	Devices for heating and charging energy storage devices at very low temperatures A heating circuit for an energy storage device having a core with an electrolyte, the energy storage device having inputs, characteristics of a capacitance across the electrolyte and the core, and internal surface capacitance between the inputs which can store electric field energy between internal electrodes of the energy storage device that are coupled to the inputs, the battery heating circuit including: a controller configured to switch between a positive input voltage and a negative input voltage provided to one of the inputs at a frequency sufficient to effectively short the internal surface capacitance of the energy storage device to generate heat and raise a temperature of the electrolyte, the controller being further configured to discontinue the switching when the temperature of the electrolyte and/or the energy storage device is above a predetermined temperature that is considered sufficient to increase a charging efficiency of the energy storage device.
US11211805B2	Methods, systems, and devices that estimate longevity of an implantable medical device Described herein are methods, devices, and systems that estimate a total amount of time it takes to discharge a battery of an IMD from initial to subsequent capacity levels, which total amount of time is indicative of a longevity of the IMD. In certain embodiments, a range of capacity levels for the battery is separated into N separate intervals. For each of the N intervals, an estimate of an amount of time it takes for the battery to discharge from a beginning to an end of the interval is determined, to thereby determine N amounts of time that are summed to estimate the total amount of time that it takes to discharge the battery from the initial to subsequent capacity levels. In other embodiments, an iterative equation is used to estimate the total amount of time takes it takes to discharge the battery from the initial to subsequent capacity levels.
US11211803B2	Method and apparatus for battery cell charge balancing A system and associated method are described for balancing an electrical parameter associated with stored electric power in a multi-cell battery. A cell charge balancing system determines a first plurality of the electrical parameters associated with respective ones of the plurality of cells, a plurality of first charge parameters associated with the cells, and a first quality index. A second plurality of the electrical parameters are determined, and second charge parameters are determined to determine a second quality index. The first and second quality indices are compared, and a cell charge balancing routine controls the balancing system based upon the first quality index when the first quality index is greater than the second quality index. The cell charge balancing routine controls the cell charge balancing system based upon the second quality index when the first quality index is less than the second quality index.
US11211801B2	Integrated mobile power unit for hydraulic fracturing A hydraulic fracturing system is disclosed as including a singular mobile platform of at least one mobile power unit (MPU) and at least one first switch gear that is configured to handle electric power from the MPU. The MPU is configured to generate voltage that matches the capabilities of an electrical bus from the at least one switch gear such that a combined electrical current generated as a result of the generated voltage and required load is provided to the electrical bus to the components of the hydraulic fracturing system. Further, the hydraulic fracturing system may include electrical fracturing equipment with at least one second switch gear to support the at least one first switch gear in handling electric power from the MPU. A datavan may be included in the system to control load shedding, load sharing, and power distribution for the electrical fracturing equipment comprising the at least one second switch gear.
US11211794B2	Smart outlet Various implementations described herein are directed to systems, apparatuses and methods for managing one or more loads connected to one or more power sources using one or more smart outlets. Apparatuses described herein may include smart outlets configured to communicate with one or more controllers and responsively connect and disconnect electrical loads connected thereto. Methods described herein may include signaling and/or controlling one or more loads from a group of loads to connect to or disconnect from one or more power sources.
US11211793B1	Smart load management apparatus and system for houses and buildings with solar system installations A solar system installed at a house or building, which may include solar panels and a solar inverter. When the solar system is installed at the house or building, the power load associated with the solar system might overload an electrical panel. This might force the owner of the house or building to spend thousands of dollars on an electrical panel upgrade. To avoid such an expensive upgrade, a smart load manager (SLM) is disclosed that can communicate with the solar inverter and can control it. The SLM can function as a real-time load shedding device, thereby avoiding the cost of a load center/panel upgrade, while enabling a safe and cost-effective solar system installation.
US11211792B2	Supplemental techniques for characterizing power quality events in an electrical system A method for characterizing power quality events in an electrical system includes deriving electrical measurement data for at least one first virtual meter in an electrical system from (a) electrical measurement data from or derived from energy-related signals captured by at least one first IED in the electrical system, and (b) electrical measurement data from or derived from energy-related signals captured by at least one second IED in the electrical system. In embodiments, the at least one first IED is installed at a first metering point in the electrical system, the at least one second IED is installed at a second metering point in the electrical system, and the at least one first virtual meter is derived or located at a third metering point in the electrical system. The derived electrical measurement data may be used to generate or update a dynamic tolerance curve associated with the third metering point.
US11211789B2	Capacitive power supply circuit A capacitive power supply circuit including, between first and second terminals of application of an AC input voltage, a distributed capacitive structure including a plurality of elementary capacitive units, each including a current limiter series-connected with a capacitor between first and second terminals of the unit and a voltage limiter connected in parallel with the capacitor, the elementary capacitive units being series-coupled by their first and second terminals.
US11211786B2	Smart module for a circuit breaker A communications and processing module is provided. The communications and processing module is electrically coupleable to a circuit breaker to provide the circuit breaker with additional capabilities. The communications and processing module includes a housing, at least one electrical contact positioned in the housing, an output lug positioned in the housing, wherein an electrical path is defined between the at least one electrical contact and the output lug, at least one sensor positioned in the housing and operable to sense at least one operating condition of the circuit breaker, and at least one communications interface positioned in the housing and communicatively coupled to the at least one sensor, the communications interface operable to receive data from the at least one sensor that is indicative of the at least one sensed operating condition to facilitate exporting the received data to a remote computing device.
US11211783B2	Circuit with critical operating condition warning, corresponding device and method A circuit includes processing circuitry is sensitive to a regulated voltage at the output node and to a temperature of the circuit. The processing circuit is configured to provide voltage and temperature sensing signals indicative of the regulated voltage at the output node and the temperature of the circuit. The processing circuitry is configured to assume i) a first state, as a result of the voltage sensing signal reaching a voltage threshold, ii) a second state, as a result of the temperature detection signal reaching a temperature threshold, or iii) a third state, as a result of both the voltage and the temperature sensing signals failing to reach the thresholds. The circuit comprises a warning output coupled to a warning signal generation network controlled by the processing circuitry.
US11211782B2	Circuit interrupting device for providing ground fault and open neutral protection in temporary power applications A temporary power delivery system includes a power source, a booth stringer, and a portable GFCI device. The GFCI device is receives current from the power source by a first terminal and delivers current to the booth stringer by a second terminal. An electronic processor of the GFCI device compares a combined magnitude of current flowing through first and second phase conductors of the GFCI device to a magnitude of current flowing through a neutral conductor of the GFCI. The electronic processor also compares a first voltage between the first phase conductor and neutral conductor to a second voltage between the second phase conductor and neutral conductor. A circuit breaker of the GFCI device is opened if a difference between the combined magnitude of phase conductor current and neutral conductor current exceeds a first threshold or a difference between the first voltage and second voltage exceeds a second threshold.
US11211781B2	Ground fault circuit interrupter using frequency recognition and measurement A wiring device including an interrupting device, a fault detection circuit, and a testing circuit. The interrupting device is electrically connecting one or more line terminals to one or more load terminals. The fault detection circuit is configured to detect a fault condition and generate a fault detection signal in response to detecting the fault condition. The fault detection signal being provided to the interrupting device to place the interrupting device in a tripped condition. The testing circuit is configured to determine a frequency of an input voltage at the one or more line terminals, filter the frequency of the input voltage, determine whether the filtered frequency is within a predetermined range, and when the filtered frequency is within the predetermined range, perform a test of the wiring device.
US11211779B2	Cable lead-through assembly, electrical assembly, an electrical cabinet and associated method A cable lead-through assembly (2) includes s frame (10) delimiting a cable reception space (20); and an in-frame sub-system (11) configured for securing cables (1) to the frame (10). The in-frame sub-system (11) includes at least two plates (32) intended for extending in said cable reception space (20), the plates (32) being configured for being coupled to the frame (10) and for forming between each other at least one cable's path for at least one cable (1); securing means (14) configured for securing the or each cable (1) to a corresponding plate (32); and a locking unit (16) coupled to the frame (10). The locking unit (16) has an at-rest configuration and an operational configuration. The locking unit (16) is configured for displacing the plates (32).
US11211777B2	Mounting device with fastener receiving structure A mounting device includes a panel portion, and a fastener receiving structure provided within a perimeter of the panel portion. The fastener receiving structure can include an aperture to receive an insertive fastener, and a flexure mechanism to enable at least a portion of the fastener receiving structure that includes the aperture to flex with insertion of the fastener in the aperture that attaches the panel portion against an underlying surface.
US11211774B2	Light emitting device, optical device, and information processing apparatus A light emitting device includes a wiring substrate, a light emitting element array that includes a first side surface and a second side surface facing each other, and a third side surface and a fourth side surface connecting the first side surface and the second side surface to each other and facing each other, the light emitting element array being provided on the wiring substrate, a driving element that is provided on the wiring substrate on the first side surface side and drives the light emitting element array, a first circuit element and a second circuit element that are provided on the wiring substrate on the second side surface side to be arranged in a direction along the second side surface, and a wiring member that is provided on the third side surface side and the fourth side surface side and extends from a top electrode of the light emitting element array toward an outside of the light emitting element array.
US11211773B2	Quantum cascade laser with monolithically integrated passive waveguide A photonic integrated circuit device includes a passive waveguide section formed over a substrate, a quantum cascade laser (QCL) gain section formed over the substrate and adjacent to the passive waveguide section, and a taper section disposed between and in contact with each of the passive waveguide section and the QCL gain section. In some embodiments, the passive waveguide section includes a passive waveguide core layer disposed between a first cladding layer and a second cladding layer. In some examples, the QCL gain section includes a QCL active region disposed between a first confinement layer and a second confinement layer, where the QCL active region has a lower index of refraction than each of the first and second confinement layers. In some embodiments, the taper section is configured to optically couple the QCL gain section to the passive waveguide section.
US11211772B2	Protection mechanism for light source The disclosure concerns a housing for a light source mounted on a substrate, the housing comprising: a barrel comprising a mounting for a diffuser; and a diffuser positioned in the mounting, wherein the barrel comprises first and second conducting columns and a fuse or conductive wire electrically coupling the first and second conducting columns. A portion of the fuse is mechanically fixed to the diffuser and/or the fuse being arranged to trap the diffuser in said mounting.
US11211771B2	Apparatus and method of high power nanosecond mode-locked solid state laser A mode-locked solid state laser apparatus including an optical film, a gain medium crystal, a Fabry-Perot element, a first mirror, a second mirror, a third mirror and an output coupler is disclosed. The optical film is configured to receive a pumping light having a first wavelength incident in a first direction. The gain medium crystal receives the pumping light passing the optical film, and generates an initial laser beam having a second wavelength, wherein the initial laser beam forms a first optical path starting at one end thereof from the gain medium crystal. The Fabry-Perot element is disposed on the other end of the first optical path opposite to the one end, and reflects the initial laser beam along a second optical path having one end thereof starting from the Fabry-Perot element. The first mirror is disposed on the other end of the second optical path opposite to the one end of the second optical path, and reflects the initial laser beam along a third optical path having one end thereof starting from the first mirror.
US11211768B2	Semiconductor optical integrated device A semiconductor optical integrated device according to the present invention includes a conductive substrate, a laser provided to the conductive substrate, a semi-insulating semiconductor layer provided on the conductive substrate, a photodiode provided on the semi-insulating semiconductor layer and a waveguide that is provided on the conductive substrate and guides output light of the laser to the photodiode, wherein an anode of the photodiode and a cathode of the photodiode are drawn from an upper surface side of the photodiode, and the waveguide and the photodiode are separated from each other by the semi-insulating semiconductor layer.
US11211763B2	High-gain single planar waveguide (PWG) amplifier laser system A system includes a master oscillator configured to generate a first optical beam and a beam controller configured to modify the first optical beam. The system also includes a PWG amplifier configured to receive the modified first optical beam and generate a second optical beam having a higher power than the first optical beam. The second optical beam has a power of at least about ten kilowatts. The PWG amplifier includes a single laser gain medium configured to generate the second optical beam. The system further includes a feedback loop configured to control the master oscillator, PWG amplifier, and beam controller. The feedback loop includes a laser controller. The laser controller may be configured to process wavefront information or power in bucket information associated with the second optical beam to control an adaptive optic or perform a back-propagation algorithm to provide wavefront correction at an output of the PWG amplifier.
US11211761B2	Laser beam steering device and system including the same A laser beam steering device and a system including the laser beam steering device are provided. The laser beam steering device includes a refractive index change layer having a refractive index that changes based on an electrical signal; at least one antenna pattern disposed above the refractive index change layer; a wavelength selection layer disposed under the refractive index change layer and configured to correspond to a wavelength of a laser beam incident onto the laser beam steering device; and a driver configured to apply the electrical signal to the refractive index change layer.
US11211760B2	Stutter step press-fit connector insertion process Aspects of the invention include a stutter step press-fit connector insertion process. A non-limiting example of a method includes applying a force to at least one press-fit pin for causing the press-fit pin to move in a direction of a through-hole of a printed circuit board, wherein a value of the force increases as the press-fit pin moves in the direction of the through-hole. In response to detecting contact between the press-fit pin and a surface profile of the through-hole, a first pause of the force is introduced for a pre-determined time interval, wherein the value of the force remains generally static during the pre-determined time interval. The force is reapplied to the press-fit pin upon completion of the time interval, wherein the value of the force increases during the reapplying until the press-fit pin is inserted into the through-hole.
US11211753B2	Point of sale cables Example implementations relate to point of sale cables. For example, a system may comprise a point of sale terminal coupled to a splitter via a registered jack (RJ) cable to provide electrical power to the splitter, a receipt printer coupled to receive electrical power from the splitter at a DIN connector input, and a cash drawer to receive electrical power from the splitter via an RJ connector input.
US11211752B2	Connector with grommet A connector with a grommet includes a housing, a grommet, and a sensing member. A panel hooking portion, a flange, and a locking projection are formed on an outside of the housing. The sensing member includes a part received in a receiving part of the grommet and senses a locked state of the locking projection. The housing is provided with a flexible arm. The flexible arm is provided with the locking projection. The sensing member moves between the locking surface of the locking projection and a wall of the receiving part. When the locking projection is locked to the panel, the sensing member is pushed out by the panel in an anti-locking direction by a thickness of the panel.
US11211751B1	Conductive contact having a peripheral seal An electrical contact and a connector assembly for housing the contact. The electrical contact has a first mating section, a transition section, a securing section. The first mating section extends in a plane which is substantially parallel to a plane of the securing section. The transition section extends in a plane which is substantially perpendicular to the plane of the first mounting section. The first mating section has a mating contact engaging portion and a seal receiving portion. A seal retention projection extends from the seal receiving portion. A peripheral seal is provided on the seal receiving portion of the first mating section of the electrical contact. The housing includes a contact receiving area and a connector mating area. A wall is provided between the contact receiving area and the connector mating area. The wall has a contact receiving opening which extends through the wall.
US11211750B2	Electrical connector assembly An electrical connector assembly includes a plug connector and a receptacle connector each equipped with a grounding bar. The plug connector includes an insulative plug housing with a mating tongue, and a plurality of stationary plug contacts retained in the plug housing. The plug contacts include a plurality of signal contacts and a plurality of grounding contacts. The grounding bar forms a set of first fingers, a set of second fingers and a set pf third fingers respectively located at different positions, to respectively contact the different three positions of the respective grounding contacts.
US11211748B2	Network port connector ejection system A network port connector ejection system includes a computing device connector that is connected to a network port connector. A retention device in the network port connector ejection system is configured to engage the network port connector to secure the network port connector to the computing device connector. A retention device release subsystem in the network port connector ejection system is coupled to the retention device and is configured to be actuated to release the retention device from engagement with the network port connector. A network port connector ejection subsystem in the network port connector ejection system is configured to engage the network port connector, while the retention device release subsystem is actuated to release the retention device from engagement with the network port connector, to disconnect the network port connector from the computing device connector.
US11211744B2	Electrical connector assembly A receptacle connector includes an insulative receptacle housing and a plurality of receptacle contacts retained in the receptacle housing. The plug connector includes an insulative plug housing and a plurality of plug connectors retained in the plug connector. The receptacle housing includes a rear wall extending along a lengthwise direction, and a pair of side walls extending from two opposite ends of the rear wall along the front-to-back direction perpendicular of the lengthwise direction, to commonly form a receiving space thereamong. The receiving space forms a front opening and an upper opening for communicating with an exterior. The receptacle contacts are retained in the rear wall and extend into the receiving space. The plug connector is adapted to be rearwardly inserted into the receiving space along the front-to-back direction via the front opening, or be downwardly and rotationally inserted into the receiving space via the upper opening.
US11211742B2	Cable connector The present disclosure provides a cable connector assembly that includes a differential pair cable having a pair of conductors secured to contact pads formed on a printed circuit board. A housing and cover are configured to be secured together and include a cavity for receiving the printed circuit board and the cable. A slug is formed around a portion of the cable and is in intimate contact with a shield layer of the cable. Upon assembly of the cover to the housing, the slug is disposed in the pocket with a projection formed on the plug that engages a shoulder in the pocket to maintain a rigid connection between the lug connector housing and the cable and limit the stress that can be transferred to the connection between the conductors of the cable and the printed circuit board.
US11211741B2	Removable terminal pin connector for an active electronics circuit board for use in an implantable medical device A hermetic feedthrough terminal pin connector for an active implantable medical device (AIMD) includes an electrical insulator hermetically sealed to an opening of an electrically conductive ferrule. A feedthrough terminal pin is hermetically sealed to and disposed through the insulator, the feedthrough terminal pin extending outwardly beyond the insulator on the inside of the casing of the AIMD. A circuit board is disposed on the inside of the casing of the AIMD. A terminal pin connector includes: an electrically conductive connector housing disposed on the circuit board, wherein the connector housing is electrically connected to at least one electrical circuit disposed on the circuit board; and at least one electrically conductive prong supported by the connector housing, the at least one prong contacting and compressed against the feedthrough terminal pin, the at least one prong making a removable electrical connection.
US11211739B2	Waterproof reversible USB receptacle and method for manufacturing the same A waterproof reversible USB receptacle and a method for manufacturing the waterproof reversible USB receptacle, including: an insulation case having a hollow portion; a stopper integrally formed in the hollow portion of the insulation case and including a blocking body, a through hole formed in the blocking body, and extension sheets formed by extending from the blocking body while being bent, the extension sheets being integrally formed in the insulation case; a connector sleeved in the insulation case and including a base portion stopped on the blocking body, and a connection tongue portion extending forward from the base portion and passing through the through hole of the stopper; and a waterproof adhesive coated on a rear portion of the insulation case. The extension sheets further extend to form fixing plates bent to be buckled to a rear end of the base portion after the connector is inserted.
US11211734B2	Electrical connector An electrical connector comprises an insulating body, a pair of first terminal members, a pair of second terminal members, and a fastening part. The insulating body comprises a mating groove. The pair of first terminal members is disposed in the mating groove. Each of the first terminal members comprises a plurality of first elastic contacting parts. The pair of second terminal members is disposed in the mating groove. The pair of first terminal members is disposed between the pair of second terminal members. Each of the second terminal members comprises a plurality of second elastic contacting parts. The second elastic contacting part abuts against the first elastic contacting portion correspondingly. The fastening part fastens the pair of first terminal members and the pair of second terminal members.
US11211732B2	Plug-in connector part with caulked contact elements and method for producing said plug-in connector part A plug-in connector part for plug-in connection to a mating plug-in connector part includes: a housing part which has at least one receiving opening and at least one electrical contact element disposed in the at least one receiving opening; and a staking element arranged on the housing part and which in a preassembled state of the connector part is movable along a staking direction to the housing part and by moving in the staking direction is brought into interaction with a staking section of the housing part so that, in an assembled state, the at least one electrical contact element is staked to the housing part.
US11211728B2	Midboard cable terminology assembly A cable termination assembly configured for mounting to an interior portion of a printed circuit board. The cable termination assembly has a frame shaped to receive a paddle card to which a plurality of cables are terminated. A lid, when closed, may force the paddle card into contact with an interposer, which in turn may be pressed into a printed circuit board on which the cable termination assembly is mounted. Electrical signals may pass between the cables and traces in the printed circuit board via the paddle card and interposer. The termination assembly may be mounted near a processor or other high speed component on the printed circuit board, enabling high speed signals to be coupled with low loss between a periphery of the printed circuit board, or even a location off the printed circuit board, and the high speed component.
US11211727B2	Connector-attached circuit body and bus bar module A connector-attached circuit body include a circuit body including a flexible substrate having a wiring pattern, and a connector attached to the circuit body and including a terminal and a housing that accommodates the terminal. The terminal is electrically connected to the wiring pattern and extends in a thickness direction of the circuit body.
US11211726B2	Connector and connecting method A connector includes a pushing member having a projection, and a contact having a projection accommodating portion of a recess shape, the projection includes a holding portion extending across the projection in a direction orthogonal to a projecting direction of the projection and holding a flexible conductor, when the projection is inserted into the projection accommodating portion of the contact together with the flexible conductor with a middle part of the flexible conductor being held by the holding portion of the projection, parts of the flexible conductor that are situated on opposite sides of and are adjoining the middle part of the flexible conductor are sandwiched between a lateral surface of the projection and an inner surface of the projection accommodating portion to contact the inner surface of the projection accommodating portion, whereby the contact is electrically connected to the flexible conductor.
US11211725B2	Multipolar connector A multipolar connector includes a first connector and a second connector. The first connector includes inner terminals arranged in columns and an insulating component holding the inner terminals. The second connector includes inner terminals arranged in columns and an insulating component holding the inner terminals. One of the first connector and second connector further includes an outer terminal connected to the ground potential and held by the insulating component. A shielding component extends from the outer terminal along a direction in which the columns of inner terminals extend and is held by the insulating component, and the shielding component is located between adjacent columns of inner terminals when the inner terminals of the first connector and second connector are in contact and engaged with each other. Compared with the related art, the multipolar connector of the present disclosure does not need to form the shielding component by separately insert-molding.
US11211720B2	High-frequency module and communication device A high-frequency module (1) includes a multilayer dielectric substrate (2), an RFIC (21), and an array antenna (13). The array antenna (13) includes a plurality of first patch antennas (11) having identical polarization directions with each other, and a plurality of second patch antennas (12) having identical polarization directions with each other, which are polarization directions positioned between two orthogonal polarizations of the first patch antenna (11). The first patch antenna (11) and the second patch antenna (12) simultaneously operate as a transmitting antenna or a receiving antenna.
US11211719B2	Antenna arrangement and method for beamforming An antenna arrangement (1) comprising a dual polarized antenna array (10) and a reconfigurable feed network (17) connected thereto is provided. The dual polarized antenna array (10) comprises a number of radiating antenna elements and the reconfigurable feed network (17) comprises switching means (20) for switching the feed network (17) between: a first mode providing single polarization beamforming, SPBF, in which first mode the feed network (17) is arranged such as to connect all antenna elements having a first polarization P1 to a first port, A, and all antenna elements having a second polarization P2 to a second port, B, and a second mode providing dual-polarization beamforming, DPBF, in which second mode the feed network (17) connects a part of all antenna elements having a first polarization P1 and a part of all antenna elements having a second polarization to the first port, A, and a remaining part of all antenna elements having the first polarization P1 and the remaining part of all antenna elements having the second polarization P2 to the second port, B. A method (30), computer program (42) and computer program product (41) are also provided.
US11211718B2	Radio frequency module and communication device An array antenna includes a plurality of first patch antennas configured to radiate a polarized wave in an X direction at a first operating frequency and configured to radiate a polarized wave in a Y direction at a second operating frequency higher than the first operating frequency, and a plurality of second patch antennas configured to radiate a polarized wave in the Y direction at the first operating frequency and configured to radiate a polarized wave in the X direction at the second operating frequency. When a distance between any one of the first patch antennas and another one of the first patch antennas closest to the any one first patch antenna is defined as D1, and a distance between any one of the first patch antennas and the second patch antenna closest to the any one first patch antenna is defined as D2, D1>D2 is satisfied.
US11211717B2	PCB antenna Provided is a PCB antenna, including a PCB substrate, first and second radiating portions, the first radiating portion includes a first radiator, second and third radiators extending therefrom to form a feeding groove, and first and second openings provided on the second and third radiators; the second radiating portion includes a fourth radiator and fifth and sixth radiators extending therefrom, a seventh radiator and eighth and ninth radiators extending therefrom, tenth and eleventh radiators symmetrically extending from the fourth radiator to the seventh radiator; the tenth and eleventh radiators extend towards the first radiating portion to form twelfth and thirteenth radiators, and form third and fourth slots with the second and third radiators; the fifth radiator extends to the feeding groove. The PCB antenna provided by the present invention can enhance the medium and high frequency resonance and provide antenna design in a frequency band of 5G-Sub6G.
US11211713B2	Antenna suitable to be integrated in a printed circuit board, printed circuit board provided with such an antenna Antenna suitable to be integrated in a printed circuit board, which is an electromagnetically coupled antenna that comprises: a body of dielectric material of a substantially planar design having a bottom side and top side; a bottom metallized layer on the bottom side of the body, which layer is provided with a slot; a top metallized layer on the top side of the body, which layer is provided with a T-shaped slot; wherein both the above slots, as well as the top and bottom metallized layer surrounding the slots, are provided on symmetrically opposite sides of the body; wherein electrically conductive strands are provided in the body, which strands extend substantially vertically from the bottom side to the top side, and electrically connect the bottom metallized layer with the top metallized layer; wherein the strands are disposed in such a way as to collectively form a row that delimits an inner volume of the body; wherein a feeding line of electrically conductive material is provided inside the body, the feeding line extending in a plane between the bottom side and the top side, wherein the feeding line has a distal section extending within the inner volume of the body delimited by the strands, which distal section has a curled shape in the plane in which it extends.
US11211712B1	Compact integrated GNSS-UHF antenna system A GNSS-UHF antenna, including a first PCB having four sets of radiating elements, a second PCB below the first PCB, a metal plate below the second PCB, which form a quadrifilar helical antenna for operating with right-hand circularly polarized GNSS signals and simultaneously form a monopole antenna for operating with linearly polarized UHF signals; for each set of radiating elements, a corresponding downward-extending conductor connected to the second PCB at a first end and connected to the set of radiating elements at a second end through an inductor; a first coaxial cable outputting GNSS signals; the first cable includes a partial loop between the second shield and the metal plate; and a second cable outputting the UHF and its braiding connected to the metal plate.
US11211711B2	Antenna dynamically matched with electromechanical resonators A RF transmitting device and method for transmitting digital information wherein the device is connected to or connectable with an antenna, the RF transmitting device having an RF source or transmitter, an electronic switch, a plurality electromechanical resonators each connected to the electronic switch. The electronic switch connects a selected one or selected ones of the electromechanical resonators between the RF source or transmitter and the antenna. Alternatively, the electronic switch connects a selected one or selected ones of the electromechanical resonators between different portions of the antenna. The electronic switch is controlled by a digital control unit for causing the electronic switch to couple RF energy produced by the RF source or transmitter to the antenna via the selected one or selected ones of the plurality of electromechanical resonators.
US11211707B1	Apparatus for broadband wavelength conversion of dual-polarization phase-encoded signal An apparatus and method for wavelength conversion of a signal, for example, a dual-polarization signal, is disclosed. The apparatus implements a single-loop counter-propagating wavelength conversion scheme which provides both up-conversion and down-conversion of the signal within the same loop. Nonlinear wavelength conversion devices in the loop provide both up-conversion and down-conversion of the polarization components of the signal within the loop depending on whether the polarization component travels through the nonlinear conversion device in a clockwise or a counter-clockwise direction. The wavelength-converted signal is available to be extracted from the wavelength-conversion loop. An all-optical wavelength-division multiplexing transponder based on the wavelength-conversion scheme is also disclosed.
US11211706B2	Wireless range extender Systems and methods are directed to configuring antenna systems. An antenna system may be coupled to a first communication unit and may be responsive to another communication unit. The first communication unit may alter its antenna system to accommodate various attributes of both units. The first communication unit may have a plurality of antennae which may be configured to be driven actively, deactivated completely, or tuned and driven in a parasitic mode. By configuring the antenna system, the range of the antenna system may be increased, the power to drive the antenna system may be decreased, and other various attributes of the communication system may be accommodated.
US11211703B2	Systems and methods for dynamic biasing of microwave amplifier A system for adjusting bias power provided to a radio-frequency amplifier to increase plurality of figures of merit based on sensed characteristics of the amplifier and/or characteristics of the input or output power.
US11211699B2	Antenna system and terminal The present disclosure provides an antenna system and a terminal. The antenna system includes a plurality of antennas; an isolation degree control module connected to the plurality of antennas, respectively; and a processor connected to the isolation degree control module. The processor is configured to determine, among the plurality of antennas, two target antennas needing optimization control of isolation degree, and control, according to the two target antennas and operating frequency bands respectively corresponding to the two target antennas, the isolation degree control module to perform the optimization control of isolation degree between the two target antennas.
US11211694B2	Near-field wireless device One example discloses a near-field wireless device, configured to be coupled to a host conductive structure, including: an electric near-field antenna, having a first conductive antenna surface coupled to a first feed point, and a second conductive antenna surface coupled to a second feed point; wherein the first and second conductive surfaces are separated by an air-gap; wherein the first and second conductive surfaces are configured to be substantially equidistant from the host conductive structure; and wherein the first and second conductive surfaces geometrically conform to the host conductive structure.
US11211691B2	Antenna structure and wireless communication device with same An antenna structure able to occupy a very small space in an electronic device includes a metal frame and at least one feed source. The metal frame is metallic, a protruding portion protrudes from a side of the metal frame. The side of the metal frame with the protruding portion defines a first gap and a second gap. The first gap and the second gap divide the metal frame into radiation portions. The at least one feed source is electrically connected to each of the at least two radiation portions and feeds a current to each of the at least two radiation portions.
US11211688B2	Hybrid and thinned millimeter-wave antenna solutions Apparatuses and systems for millimeter-wave antennas are described. An apparatus comprises a board assembly, and a first and second antenna disposed within the board assembly. A third antenna can comprise a semiconductor antenna attached to the board assembly. A parasitic layer can be gap-coupled to the first and second antenna. The first and second antenna can include a rectangular patch antenna and an annular ring antenna. Other aspects are described.
US11211681B2	Radio frequency power sensor having a non-directional coupler Disclosed is a capacitive non-directional coupler having a non-directional coupler printed circuit board (PCB) and a capacitive attenuator. The non-directional coupler PCB includes a coupler section configured to carry energy travelling on a main transmission line. The non-directional coupler PCB and the capacitive attenuator are configured as a capacitive voltage divider, and provide a sample of the energy on the main transmission line. Also disclosed is a method for measuring for measuring RF power using an RF power sensor having the capacitive non-directional coupler that includes with the non-directional coupler printed circuit board and the capacitive attenuator. Also disclosed is an RF power metering system that includes an RF power sensor having the capacitive non-directional coupler.
US11211675B2	Linear-to-circular polarizer antenna A linear-to-circular polarizer antenna is disclosed. In accordance with embodiments of the invention, the polarizer antenna includes an antenna operable to transmit and receive polarized signals and a linear-to-circular polarizer coupled to the antenna. The polarizer includes a plurality of cascaded elements, waveplates or anisotropic sheets, having biaxial permittivity. Each cascaded element has a principal axis rotated at different angles relative to an adjacent element about a z-axis of a 3-dimensional x, y, z coordinate system, and each element is composed of an artificial anisotropic dielectric. The polarizer further includes impedance matching layers disposed adjacent the cascaded elements.
US11211672B2	LDH separator and zinc secondary battery Provided is an LDH separator including a porous substrate and a layered double hydroxide (LDH) that fills up pores of the porous substrate. The LDH is composed of a plurality of hydroxide base layers containing Mg, Al, Ti, and OH group; and interlayers which are interposed between the plurality of hydroxide base layers and composed of anions and H2O.
US11211666B2	Vehicle battery pack and battery exchange system The vehicle battery pack exchange system herein described charges renters for the time use interval, the energy needed to recharge the battery pack, and the battery wear their use has caused. Data on battery wear accelerating stress parameters such as current, voltage, temperature, and state of charge is collected for battery packs rented to vehicle users. Wear rates are estimated from the collected data. Then either users are charged for the wear they cause or wear is limited to some predetermined wear rate and users are charged a predetermined battery wear fee per kWh delivered by the battery pack. In either embodiment drivers are displayed information to adapt their driving to battery wear rates. Renters are charged for battery pack usage time, energy supplied by the rental station, and battery wear providing battery owners a secure return on their investment. This system accommodates both short term and sustained long term rentals. Long term rental of a single battery pack for local use gives convenience and low costs while short term rentals provide unlimited range via swapping exhausted packs for recharged units during extended travel.
US11211665B2	Battery pack A battery pack includes a case, a first set of battery cells and a second set of battery cells received in the case, a circuit board, and a main power output interface. The first set of battery cells and the second set of battery cells can be connected in series or in parallel, and output two kinds of working voltage through the main power output interface. The battery pack further includes an extended power output interface and a switch provided between the first set of battery cells and the second set of battery cells. The battery pack can output a third voltage for an external device through the extended power output interface when the first set of battery cells and the second set of battery cells are connected in series through the switch. It's safe and reliable when charging the external device.
US11211664B2	Cordless power tool system This application relates to a power tool system including a plurality of power tools, a plurality of battery packs and at least one battery pack charger and method for operating the power tools with the battery packs. This application also relates to a method for charging the battery packs and a method for monitoring a state of charge of the battery pack. In one implementation, the system includes an existing battery pack designed to provide (output) a relatively low voltage, an existing power tool designed to operate at the relatively low voltage, a new battery pack designed to provide (output) the relatively low voltage and a relatively high voltage, and a new power tool designed to operate at the relatively high voltage.
US11211662B2	Power storage device A power storage unit includes an end surface located at one end of the power storage unit in a direction, an end surface located at the other end of the power storage unit in the direction, a side surface connecting the end surface and the end surface, and a side surface located opposite to the side surface. A terminal and a terminal are provided on a side surface side and are connected to an apparatus arranged on the side surface side, and the wire extends in a direction from the side surface toward the side surface and is connected to an apparatus provided on a side surface side.
US11211661B2	Rechargeable battery and rechargeable battery holster for light electric vehicles This disclosure describes a rechargeable battery for a light electric vehicle. More specifically, this disclosure describes a rechargeable battery and a rechargeable battery holster that may be used to removably couple the rechargeable battery to a light electric vehicle.
US11211660B2	Battery for an electric drive of a motor vehicle A battery for an electric drive of a motor vehicle, having a number of battery modules, which are arranged one above the other in the respective layers and accommodated in an assigned housing. The battery is optimized regarding production engineering aspects, and is also optimized regarding the requirements of tightness and accident properties, each of the layers of the battery modules arranged one above the other is accommodated in a respectively assigned, separate battery housing, which are arranged one above the other in a stack and connected to one another.
US11211659B2	Battery module comprising housing with connector A battery module includes: a lower housing in which a plurality of secondary battery cells are housed; an upper housing coupled to a cover of the lower housing to cover the plurality of secondary replaceable cells; a female connector detachably installed in at least one of the lower housing and the upper housing; and a wiring harness electrically connected to the connector and the plurality of secondary battery cells.The connector may include a body provided with a plurality of terminals, a bottom surface of the body may be spaced apart from an outer surface of the at least one housing such that a space may be defined between the outer surface of the at least one housing and the bottom surface, and both side surfaces of the body may be securely connected to the outer surface of the at least one housing.
US11211658B2	Battery housing comprising absorbent layer and insulation film The present invention relates to a housing for a battery. In the case of coolant leakage, the housing includes an absorbent layer disposed on a bottom portion and an insulating film covering a portion of the absorbent layer in order to improve operational safety.
US11211655B2	Vehicle enclosure for preventing access to high voltage components A vehicle assembly according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, an enclosure, a high voltage component housed inside the enclosure and a blocking member configured to restrict access to the high voltage component along a path that extends through the enclosure.
US11211653B2	Battery module and use of a propagation protection element A battery module comprising at least one battery cell (2), wherein the battery module (1) further comprises a propagation protection element (3) which is connected in a thermally conductive manner to the battery cell (2) and which is designed in such a way that, when a specific value for a temperature of the at least one battery cell (2) is exceeded, an endothermic process which is being executed within the propagation protection element (3) absorbs heat which is given off by the at least one battery cell (2).
US11211648B2	Power storage device cooling structure Defective assembling of a duct to a battery module is reduced. A distribution duct has a plurality of distribution paths supplying refrigerant to each of a plurality of ventilation paths. A distribution path and a ventilation path are connected by an insertion structure in which the distribution path is inserted into the ventilation path. A distribution path has an open outlet end surrounded by a coupling portion, and is connected to a ventilation path via a planar sealing structure in which a sealing material is held on the coupling portion in a compressed state.
US11211647B2	Onboard battery An onboard battery includes battery modules each containing battery cells, a housing case that houses the battery modules, and an air intake duct configured to send cooling air into the modules. Of the battery modules, at least two are disposed apart from each other in a vertical direction and at least two are disposed apart from each other in a front-rear direction. Cooling air is taken into the battery modules from rear via the air intake duct. Cooling air taken into the battery modules is emitted to an internal space of the housing case. A rear portion of the housing case is provided with an exhaust hole configured to let out cooling air emitted from the battery modules to the internal space. Of emission flows of cooling air emitted from the battery modules, the emission flow of cooling air from at least one of the modules disposed most forward is the largest.
US11211646B2	Battery module The present invention relates to a battery module consisting of battery cells and a cooling module comprising multiple tiers, the cooling module being designed to hold the battery cells, such as lithium-ion batteries. The cooling module consists of at least one first and one second side part, each side part having at least one flow channel, and of multiple substantially flat elements which extend along planes between the side parts. An internal area is formed between neighbouring flat elements, said internal areas being designed to hold the battery cells.
US11211645B2	Temperature detection circuit A temperature detection circuit is provided with a temperature measuring circuit, a computing circuit, a temperature monitoring circuit, and a diagnostic signal generation circuit. The temperature measuring circuit outputs, to a measurement node, a temperature measurement voltage corresponding to a temperature. The computing circuit, calculates the temperature on the basis of the temperature measurement voltage. In the cases where the temperature measurement voltage is within a predetermined abnormal voltage range, the temperature monitoring circuit validates an abnormality detection signal indicating a temperature abnormality. When fault diagnosis of the temperature monitoring circuit is carried out, the diagnostic signal generation circuit supplies a diagnostic signal to the measurement node, and changes the temperature measurement voltage.
US11211643B2	Methods and systems for dynamically controlling discharge ratio of a plurality of batteries packs Methods and systems are provided for an electronic device. One method includes storing a data structure at a memory device by a processor, where the data structure is configured to store a plurality of parameters used for determining a discharge ratio of a first battery pack and a second battery pack of a charging system of a device, the discharge ratio indicating a relative rate of discharge of the first battery pack and the second battery pack; detecting by the processor, a discharge condition associated with at least one of the first battery pack and the second battery pack; utilizing by the processor, the data structure for determining the discharge ratio; and controlling by the processor, based on the determined discharge ratio, a discharge rate of the first battery pack using a first voltage controller and a discharge rate of the second battery pack using a second voltage controller.
US11211640B2	Aqueous electrolyte solution, and aqueous lithium ion secondary battery Electrolysis of an aqueous electrolyte solution on a surface of an anode is suppressed when an aqueous lithium ion secondary battery is charged/discharged. In an aqueous electrolyte solution that is used for an aqueous lithium ion secondary battery, at least one metal cation selected from an aluminum ion, a titanium ion, a manganese ion, a zinc ion, a gallium ion, a yttrium ion, a zirconium ion, an indium ion, a lanthanum ion, a cerium ion, a neodymium ion, and a hafnium ion is contained so that its content is more than 0 mol and no more than 0.01 mol per kilogram of the aqueous electrolyte solution, in addition to a lithium ion and at least one imide based anion.
US11211632B2	Square section liquid metal batteries with grid device to suppress instabilities of fluids Square section liquid metal batteries (LMBs) with a grid device to suppress instabilities of fluids. The LMBs include a shell, negative current collector, negative material, metallic nets/plates, grid device, electrolyte, positive material, rectangular holes on partitions of grid device, and positive current collector. The positive material, electrolyte, and negative material are filled in the shell and automatically stratified from bottom to top according to the density from large to small. The negative current collector is linked with negative material, and the positive current collector is linked with positive material. The grid device is composed of partitions which cross each other and pass through the negative material, the electrolyte vertically in sequence, and extend inside the positive material. There are rectangular holes opened on the grid device, and the vertical height of each rectangular hole is larger than the biggest displacement of electrolyte during charging and discharging processes.
US11211631B2	Fuel cell system A fuel cell system that can prevent impurities from intensively collecting near inlets of fuel cells. The fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack formed by stacking fuel cells, each fuel cell having a power generation portion, a stack manifold with a fuel gas inlet communication hole disposed at an end of the fuel cell stack in the stacking direction of the fuel cells, a mixed gas supply channel communicating with the fuel gas inlet communication hole for supplying a mixed gas of a fuel gas and fuel off-gas to the fuel cell stack, a stirring mixer for swirling the mixed gas provided in the mixed gas supply channel, and a guide rib provided on the inner wall of the fuel gas inlet communication hole of the stack manifold, on the side opposite to the side of the power generation portions of the fuel cells.
US11211630B2	Housing for a fuel cell stack and method of producing same A housing is provided for a fuel cell stack. The housing includes two end plates, two opposite side walls, a lateral connecting wall, and at least one media exchange element. The two end plates are arranged at the two ends of the fuel cell stack. The two opposite side walls connect the end plates to each other. The lateral connecting wall connects the opposite side walls to each other. The at least one media exchange element has media connections. At least the two end plates are each designed as an extruded supporting structure. The media connections are not fed across the end plates.
US11211627B2	Electrochemical cell including cathode with main phase of perovskite oxide and second phase of SrSO4 and (Co, Fe)3O4 The electrochemical cell according to the present invention has an anode, a cathode, and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the anode and the cathode. The cathode includes a solid electrolyte layer-side region within 3 μm from a surface on the solid electrolyte layer side. The solid electrolyte layer-side region has a main phase that is configured by a perovskite oxide, and a second phase that is configured by SrSO4 and (Co, Fe)3O4. The perovskite oxide is expressed by the general formula ABO3 and contains at least one of Sr and La at the A site. The (Co, Fe)3O4 contained in the electrolyte layer-side region contains Co and Fe. An occupied surface area ratio of the second phase in a cross section of the solid electrolyte layer-side region is less than or equal to 10.5%.
US11211625B2	Molten carbonate fuel cell anode exhaust post-processing for carbon dioxide A fuel cell system includes a first fuel cell having a first anode and a first cathode, wherein the first anode is configured to output a first anode exhaust gas. The system further includes a first oxidizer configured to receive the first anode exhaust gas and air from a first air supply, to react the first anode exhaust gas and the air in a preferential oxidation reaction, and to output an oxidized gas. The system further includes a second fuel cell configured to act as an electrochemical hydrogen separator. The second fuel cell includes a second anode configured to receive the oxidized gas from the first oxidizer and to output a second anode exhaust gas, and a second cathode configured to output a hydrogen stream. The system further includes a condenser configured to receive the second anode exhaust gas and to separate water and CO2.
US11211621B2	Regeneration of molten carbonate fuel cells for deep CO2 capture Systems and methods are provided for operating molten carbonate fuel cells to allow for periodic regeneration of the fuel cells while performing elevated CO2 capture. In some aspects, periodic regeneration can be achieved by shifting the location within the fuel cells where the highest density of alternative ion transport is occurring. Such a shift can result in a new location having a highest density of alternative ion transport, while the previous location can primarily transport carbonate ions. Additionally or alternately, periodic regeneration can be performed by modifying the input flows to the fuel cell and/or relaxing the operating conditions of the fuel cell to reduce or minimize the amount of alternative ion transport.
US11211617B2	Fuel cell generator system Disclosed is a fuel cell filter including a body including therein an internal space in which a fluid flows, an inlet port provided in the body and configured to receive a fluid discharged from a fuel cell stack, a gas-water separating membrane disposed in the internal space and configured to block a liquid fluid included in a fluid absorbed in the inlet port from flowing upwards, a discharge port provided in the body and configured to externally discharge the liquid fluid blocked in the gas-water separating membrane, a water absorbent disposed in the internal space and configured to absorb water included in a gaseous fluid passing through the gas-water separating membrane, and a gas outlet port provided in the body and configured to externally discharge gas separated in the gas-water separating membrane.
US11211616B2	Modular electrochemical cell components, stacks, systems, and method of manufacture A method of manufacturing electrochemical cell stacks of different sizes or configurations is disclosed in which a first planar module having a first planar size and configuration is assembled from a first inventory of parts including planar modular parts having mating surfaces along connectable ends. The planar modular parts are connected in a co-planar configuration to form the first planar module having the first size and configuration. A second inventory of parts including planar modular parts in common with the first inventory is identified, and a second planar module having a different planar size or configuration than the first planar module is assembled from the second inventory. The first and second planar modules are assembled with other planar modules and component to form electrochemical stacks corresponding to the planar size and configuration of the respective first or second planar module.
US11211614B2	Lead/acid batteries Lead/acid batteries are provided that can include: a plurality of electrodes having a planar copper conductive core member bounded by a polymeric frame maintaining the conductive core member in the planar state.
US11211611B2	Solid state catholyte or electrolyte for battery using LiaMPbSc (M=Si, Ge, and/or Sn) The present invention provides an energy storage device comprising a cathode region or other element. The device has a major active region comprising a plurality of first active regions spatially disposed within the cathode region. The major active region expands or contracts from a first volume to a second volume during a period of a charge and discharge. The device has a catholyte material spatially confined within a spatial region of the cathode region and spatially disposed within spatial regions not occupied by the first active regions. In an example, the catholyte material comprises a lithium, germanium, phosphorous, and sulfur (“LGPS”) containing material configured in a polycrystalline state. The device has an oxygen species configured within the LGPS containing material, the oxygen species having a ratio to the sulfur species of 1:2 and less to form a LGPSO material. The device has a protective material formed overlying exposed regions of the cathode material to substantially maintain the sulfur species within the catholyte material. Also included is a novel dopant configuration of the LiaMPbSc (LMPS) [M=Si, Ge, and/or Sn] containing material.
US11211608B2	Bio-inspired polyflavin electrodes for energy storage devices The present disclosure provides the use of a biomolecule, flavin, appended to a polymerizable unit that can then be polymerized to form an electroactive active polymer. The polymer and the flavin unit are comprised of an organic material containing C, H, N, and O atoms. The electroactive functionality is related to the double bonds that are present in the flavin unit that are appended to a non-electroactive backbone. This appended unit is rendered insoluble in the electrolyte of the discussed secondary battery unit. Several different molecular structures are disclosed exhibiting efficacy as energy storage medium in energy storage devices. Compounds have also been synthesized from which these different energy storage molecular structures are produced.
US11211607B2	Bipolar electrode comprising a loaded carbon felt Bipolar electrodes comprising a carbon felt loaded with a polymer material and a nanocarbon material are described herein. The bipolar electrodes are useful in electrochemical cells. In particular, the loaded carbon felt can be used in bipolar electrodes of zinc-halide electrolyte batteries. Processes for manufacturing the loaded carbon felt are also described, involving contacting (e.g., dipping) a carbon felt in a mixture of solvent, polymer material and nanocarbon material.
US11211603B2	Silicon nanoparticle-containing hydrogen polysilsesquioxane calcined product-metal oxide complex and production method thereof, negative electrode active material for lithium ion battery, negative electrode for the lithium ion battery and lithium ion battery A silicon nanoparticle-containing hydrogen polysilsesquioxane sintered product-metal oxide complex comprising a silicon nanoparticle-containing hydrogen polysilsesquioxane sintered product and a metal oxide, wherein the silicon nanoparticle-containing hydrogen polysilsesquioxane sintered product contains 5 wt % to 95 wt % of silicon nanoparticles having a volume-based mean particle size of more than 10 nm but less than 500 nm, and a hydrogen polysilsesquioxane-derived silicon oxide structure that coats the silicon nanoparticles and is chemically bonded to the surfaces of the silicon nanoparticles. The silicon nanoparticle-containing hydrogen polysilsesquioxane sintered product is represented by the general formula SiOxHy (0.01
US11211601B2	Electrode, secondary battery, battery pack, and vehicle According to one embodiment, an electrode is provided. The electrode includes an active material-containing layer. The active material-containing layer includes an active material and a conductive agent. The active material contains primary particles of a niobium-titanium composite oxide. The conductive agent contains fibrous carbon. The primary particles have an average particle size of 0.3 μm or more and 2 μm or less. At least a part of a surface of the primary particles is coated with the fibrous carbon. A covering ratio of the primary particles by the fibrous carbon is 0.01% or more and 40% or less.
US11211595B2	Method for manufacturing negative electrode A method for manufacturing a negative electrode, the method including immersing a preliminary negative electrode in a pre-lithiation solution, the pre-lithiation solution including a lithium organic compound and a pre-lithiation solvent, taking the preliminary negative electrode out of the pre-lithiation solution and then removing pre-lithiation solvent present in the preliminary negative electrode, wherein the preliminary negative electrode includes a current collector and a preliminary negative electrode active material layer on the current collector, the preliminary negative electrode active material layer includes a negative electrode active material, and a standard reduction potential of the lithium organic compound is lower than a standard reduction potential of the negative electrode active material.
US11211593B2	Display apparatus, OLED display panel and method of manufacturing the same The present disclosure relates to the field of display technologies, and in particular, to an OLED display panel, a method of fabricating the same, and a display apparatus. The OLED display panel includes; a base substrate, a plurality of first electrodes located on the base substrate. The OLED display panel include a pixel defining frame, located on the base substrate and separating a plurality of the first electrodes. The pixel defining frame is configured to define a plurality of sub-pixel regions. The OLED display panel includes an organic functional layer located on each of the sub-pixel regions and the pixel defining frame. The organic functional layer has a hollow structure at a position corresponding to the pixel defining frame, and the hollow structure forms an insulation between two adjacent sub-pixel regions in the organic functional later. The OLED display panel includes a second electrode, located on the organic functional layer.
US11211589B2	Display panel with refractive film layers, manufacturing method thereof, and display apparatus with refractive film layers A display panel includes a substrate, a first electrode, a light-emitting layer, a second electrode, and one or more refractive film layers. The first electrode, the light-emitting layer, and the second electrode are sequentially disposed over the substrate. The substrate, the first electrode, and the one or more refractive film layers are configured to provide a stepwise graded refractive index along a transmission direction of lights emitted from the light-emitting layer and transmitted therethrough to thereby cause an improved outcoupling of the lights. The one or more refractive film layers may optionally include a first refractive film layer disposed on a surface of the substrate proximate to the first electrode, and may optionally include a second refractive film layer disposed on a surface of the substrate distal to the first electrode.
US11211586B2	Flexible display device including window substrate, and manufacturing method thereof A flexible display device includes a base substrate, a display panel disposed on the base substrate, and a first protective film disposed on one surface of the base substrate. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels and a plurality of signal lines connected to the plurality of pixels. The first protective film has one or more vacuum holes.
US11211585B2	Flexible substrate and flexible organic light emitting diode device A flexible substrate includes a first flexible thin film including a first region and a second region surrounding the first region; a second flexible thin film on the first thin film and in the first and second regions; and an intermediate blocking layer between the first and second thin films and in the first region.
US11211584B2	Electronic panel and method of manufacturing the same An electronic panel comprises a base substrate which comprises a front surface comprising a hole area and a display area surrounding the hole area and a rear surface and comprises a module hole located in the hole area and a plurality of recess patterns located in the hole area, a plurality of pixels, an encapsulation layer covering the pixels and comprising a first inorganic layer, a second inorganic layer, and an organic layer, and a protective pattern located in the hole area and spaced apart from the organic layer when viewed in a plan view. The recess patterns comprise a filled recess pattern filled with at least one of the organic layer or the protective pattern, and an exposed recess pattern exposed from the organic layer and the protective pattern.
US11211583B2	Encapsulation structure, display panel and display apparatus The encapsulation structure includes a first barrier layer and a second barrier layer, and the first barrier layer is located between an object to be encapsulated and the second barrier layer. The display panel includes the encapsulation structure mentioned in the above technical solution. The display apparatus includes the display panel mentioned in the above technical solution.
US11211580B2	Display device and method for manufacturing the same A display device includes an organic insulating layer, a first inorganic insulating layer, and a second inorganic insulating layer arranged in a first region and a second region, a plurality of pixels arranged in the first region, a protective film arranged in the second region and in contact with an upper surface of the second inorganic insulating layer in the second region, and a groove portion is provided in the organic insulating layer in the second region. A side surface and a bottom surface of the groove portion is covered by the first inorganic insulating layer and the second inorganic insulating layer. The protective film is overlapped with an upper surface of the organic insulating layer and an upper end portion and a part of the side surface of the groove portion.
US11211577B2	Organic light emitting diode device, manufacturing method thereof, display panel and display device An organic light emitting diode device, a manufacturing method thereof, a display panel and a display device are disclosed. The organic light emitting diode device comprises an anode, a hole transport layer, an organic light emitting layer, an electron transport layer and a cathode, sequentially disposed in lamination, wherein the hole transport layer comprises N sub-hole transport layers, where N≥2, and a (i+1)th sub-hole transport layer is disposed on a side of a ith sub-hole transport layer away from the anode, the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) energy level of a host material of the ith sub-hole transport layer being greater than the HOMO energy level of a host material of the (i+1)th sub-hole transport layer, where 1≤i≤N−1.
US11211574B2	Light emitting device and fabrication method thereof, and electronic apparatus A light emitting device and a fabrication method thereof and an electronic apparatus are disclosed. The light emitting device includes: a first electrode, a second electrode, an electroluminescent layer and a quantum dot light conversion layer; the second electrode is provided on the first electrode; the electroluminescent layer and the quantum dot light conversion layer are provided between the first electrode and the second electrode; and the quantum dot light conversion layer is provided at a light output side of the electroluminescent layer, and generates, under being excited by light from the electroluminescent layer, light having a same color as that of light from the electroluminescent layer and having a wavelength range narrower than that of the light from the electroluminescent layer.
US11211572B2	Mask plate and manufacturing method thereof, flexible substrate stripping apparatus and flexible substrate stripping method A mask plate and a manufacturing method thereof, a flexible substrate stripping apparatus and a flexible substrate stripping method are provided. The mask plate includes a laser-transmitting substrate and a patterned laser-shielding layer located on the laser transmitting substrate.
US11211569B2	Laser printable organic semiconductor compositions and applications thereof Organic semiconductor compositions (OSCs) compatible with laser printing techniques are described herein. In being compatible with laser printing techniques, the OSCs are in particulate form and generally comprise an organic semiconductor component and carrier. The organic semiconductor component can comprise any small molecule semiconductor or polymeric semiconductor not inconsistent with the laser printing methods.
US11211568B2	Compound for organic electroluminescence device using the same The present invention discloses an organic compound and an organic electroluminescence device using the organic compound as a material in the light emitting layer of the organic electroluminescence device. The organic compound may be for lowering a driving voltage, power consumption or increasing a current efficiency or 90% life time of the organic electroluminescence device. The same definition as described in the present invention.
US11211566B2	Organic light emitting device and display device including the same An organic light emitting device and a display device, the organic light emitting device including a first electrode; a hole transport region on the first electrode; an emission layer on the hole transport region; an electron transport region on the emission layer; and a second electrode on the electron transport region, wherein the hole transport region includes a compound represented by the following Formula 1:
US11211562B2	Method of synthesis for organic semiconducting polymers A method of forming a polymer, the method comprising combining 4-bromo-7-[5-bromo-4-(alkyl)thiophen-2-yl]-6-chloro-5-fluoro-2,1,3-benzothiadiazole, (3,3′-difluoro-[2,2′-bithiophene]-5,5′-diyl)bis(trimethylstannane), [4-(alkyl)-5-[5-(trimethylstannyl)thiophen-2-yl]thiophen-2-yl]trimethylstannane, tris(dibenzylideneacetone), and dipalladium P(o-tol)3 tris(2-methylphenyl)phosphane to form the polymer: In this polymer, W is selected from the group consisting of: S, Se, O, and N-Q. Additionally, Q is selected from the group consisting of: a straight-chain carbyl, silyl or hydrocarbyl, branched, cyclic alkyl with 1 to 30 atoms, and fused aromatic rings. Furthermore in this polymer, R1, and R4 are independently selected from the group consisting of: F, Cl, I, Br, CN, —NCO, —NCS, —OCN, —SCN, —OX, —SX, —NH2, —C(═O)X, —C(═O)—OX, —OX, —NHX, —NXX′, —C(═O)NHX, —C(═O)NXX′, —SO3X, —SO2X, —OH, —NO2, CF3, —SF5, a straight-chain or branched carbyl, silyl, or hydrocarbyl, a branched or cyclic alkyl with 1 to 30 atoms, a fused substituted aromatic ring, and a fused unsubstituted aromatic ring. This polymer can also have R2 and R3 are independently selected from F, Cl, Br and I. Additionally, in this polymer, the fused aromatic rings can be independently fused with groups consisting of: a straight-chain or branched carbyl, silyl, or hydrocarbyl, a branched or cyclic alkyl with 1 to 30 atoms, a fused substituted aromatic ring, and a fused unsubstituted aromatic ring. Lastly, in this polymer, h+j is between 0.2 to 0.6 and i+k is between 0.4 and 0.8.
US11211558B2	Deposition mask device and method of manufacturing deposition mask device A vapor deposition mask device includes a vapor deposition mask having an effective region in which a plurality of first through holes is disposed, and a frame attached to the vapor deposition mask. The vapor deposition mask device includes a plurality of joint portions that joins the vapor deposition mask and the frame to each other. The plurality of joint portions is arranged along the outer edge of the vapor deposition mask. A notch is formed at a position corresponding to between two adjacent joint portions in the outer edge of the vapor deposition mask.
US11211554B2	Electronic systems including magnetic regions A magnetic cell includes a free region between an intermediate oxide region (e.g., a tunnel barrier) and a secondary oxide region. Both oxide regions may be configured to induce magnetic anisotropy (“MA”) with the free region, enhancing the MA strength of the free region. A getter material proximate to the secondary oxide region is formulated and configured to remove oxygen from the secondary oxide region, reducing an oxygen concentration and an electrical resistance of the secondary oxide region. Thus, the secondary oxide region contributes only minimally to the electrical resistance of the cell core. Embodiments of the present disclosure therefore enable a high effective magnetoresistance, low resistance area product, and low programming voltage along with the enhanced MA strength. Methods of fabrication, memory arrays, memory systems, and electronic systems are also disclosed.
US11211553B2	Magnetoresistive devices and methods of fabricating such devices An integrated circuit (IC) device includes a logic portion including logic circuits in multiple vertically stacked metal layers interconnected by one or more via layers, and a memory portion with a plurality of magnetoresistive devices. Each magnetoresistive device is provided in a single metal layer of the multiple vertically stacked metal layers of the IC device.
US11211551B2	Current sensor package with continuous insulation A current sensor package, comprises a current path and a sensing device. The sensing device is spaced from the current path, and the sensing device is configured for sensing a magnetic field generated by a current flowing through the current path. Further, the sensing device comprises a sensor element. The sensing device is electrically connected to a conductive trace. An encapsulant extends continuously between the current path and the sensing device.
US11211547B2	Spin-orbit-torque type magnetization rotating element, spin-orbit-torque type magnetoresistance effect element, and magnetic memory A spin-orbit-torque type magnetization rotating element includes: a spin-orbit torque wiring extending in a first direction; and a first ferromagnetic layer laminated on the spin-orbit torque wiring, wherein the spin-orbit torque wiring includes a metal oxide whose electrical conductivity properties exhibit a metallic behavior with respect to temperature, and an oxygen concentration in a region on the first ferromagnetic layer side and an oxygen concentration in a region opposite to the first ferromagnetic layer are asymmetrical with respect to a center of the spin-orbit torque wiring in a thickness direction thereof.
US11211546B1	Parylene coating process for temperature sensitive components A method for applying a waterproof coating to a transducer component includes the steps of cleaning and promoting bonding on the transducer component by immersing the component in a mixture of isopropyl alcohol, deionized water, and siline. The component is then air dried and rinsed in pure isopropyl alcohol. After drying, the component is vacuum baked and subjected to a vacuum for twelve hours. A parylene coating is provided to the component surface. The parylene coating is abraded, and the surface is rinsed with pure isopropyl alcohol. After drying, polyurethane is provided on the abraded parylene surface. The polyurethane is cured to form a waterproof coating on the transducer component. In further embodiments, a second parylene coating can be provided outside the polyurethane.
US11211545B2	Vibration controller A vibration controller includes: a piezoelectric element fixed to an object of control; and a quasi-inductor circuit and a negative resistance circuit connected in series to the piezoelectric element.
US11211544B2	Actuator or sensor device based on an electroactive or photoactive polymer An actuator or sensor device comprises an electroactive polymer (EAP) arrangement which extends between fixed opposite ends. The electroactive polymer arrangement comprises a passive carrier layer and an active electroactive polymer layer, wherein at or adjacent the ends, the passive carrier layer and the active EAP layer are mounted with one over the other in a first order, and at a middle area between the ends, the carrier layer and the active EAP layer are mounted in an opposite order. This enables internal stresses and moments within the electroactive polymer arrangement to be used more effectively to contribute to displacement or actuation force.
US11211540B1	Thermoelectric generator sleeve A thermoelectric generator sleeve is adapted to be attached to a base of an electrical socket, which has one or more light bulbs (Incandescent, Fluorescent, LED, etc.). The heat created by the light bulbs is absorbed by the thermoelectric generator sleeve that allows the efficient conversion of heat energy into electrical energy by using thermoelectric generators. The aesthetically designed spatial configuration of the thermoelectric generators provides efficient thermal energy conversion and storage for the converted heat energy. Additional electronic circuitry to regulate the energy produced is holistically integrated into the thermoelectric generator sleeve to provide added functionality and safety.
US11211538B1	Thermal management system for electrically-powered devices Described herein are devices, systems and methods for utilizing fluid cooling to thermally manage electrically-powered devices. Embodiments incorporating features of the present disclosure can purge heated cooling fluid from the system immediately after it has been used to absorb heat from an electrically-powered device, so that other devices in the system do not receive cooling fluid from another device in the system. In some embodiments, cooling fluid can be made to directly impinge on or near an electrically-powered device.
US11211534B2	Display device and method of fabricating the same A display device includes: a pixel circuit disposed on a base layer; an insulating layer disposed on the base layer covering the pixel circuit; a first electrode disposed on the insulating layer; a second electrode disposed on the insulating layer, the second electrode being spaced apart from the first electrode in a first direction; a light-emitting element disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; a connection electrode connecting the first electrode and the light-emitting element and connecting the second electrode and the light-emitting element; a first auxiliary insulating layer disposed on the light-emitting element; and a second auxiliary insulating layer disposed on the first auxiliary insulating layer. The second auxiliary insulating layer includes a first insulating portion overlapped with the first auxiliary insulating layer, and a second insulating portion disposed outwardly from the first insulating portion and not overlapping the first auxiliary insulating layer.
US11211532B2	Light emitting device A light emitting device includes a mounting board, light sources, a light diffuser, a wavelength conversion layer, and scatter reflection portions. Each of the light sources has an upper face on which a light reflecting layer is disposed. The light diffuser is arranged above the plurality of light sources. The wavelength conversion layer is located at least between the light sources and the light diffuser. The wavelength conversion layer is configured to absorb at least a portion of light from the light sources and to emit light having a wavelength which is different from a wavelength of the light from the light sources. The scatter reflection portions are arranged on a surface of the wavelength conversion layer that is closer to the light diffuser. Each of the scatter reflection portions is arranged above at least a portion of the upper face of a corresponding one of the light sources.
US11211530B2	Light source and illumination device including the light source A light source and an illumination device including the light source are provided. By adjusting peak wavelengths, peak intensities and color coordinates of blue light, red light and green light in the illumination light emitted by the light source to preset ranges, the illumination light emitted by the light source has a specific spectral distribution. In another embodiment, a specific light color is achieved by a specific phosphor ratio. Not only the color theory is considered for the evaluation of the lighting effect, but also the influence of the spectrum on the actual lighting effect is considered. At the same time, the influence of the luminescent material on the spectrum is considered. Thus, a light source having a high comfort, a high preference, a high color rendering index, and a high color gamut index is obtained, and the light source has a similar effect to the sunlight.
US11211520B2	Fluidic assembly using tunable suspension flow Embodiments are related to systems and methods for fluidic assembly, and more particularly to systems and methods for increasing the efficiency of fluidic assembly.
US11211517B2	Pressurized heated rolling press for manufacture and method of use A system for connecting photovoltaic cells is disclosed. The system comprises a flexible component feeder source for feeding the photovoltaic cells to a process that couples them together; a vacuum conveyor for receiving at a first location the coupled photovoltaic cells and including openings through which a vacuum is applied to hold the coupled photovoltaic cells in place; a moving belt above the vacuum conveyor at a second location, where the vacuum conveyor and the moving belt are driven in a predetermined relation to one another for conveying the coupled photovoltaic cells from the first location to the second location; a vacuum source for applying a vacuum through the openings to cause the moving belt to apply a pressure to an upper surface of the coupled photovoltaic cells to compress the coupled photovoltaic cells; and a curing source at the second location for curing the compressed coupled photovoltaic cells.
US11211510B2	Multijunction solar cell with bonded transparent conductive interlayer Methods and apparatuses for creating solar cell assemblies with bonded interlayers are disclosed. In summary, the present invention describes an apparatus and method for making a solar cell assembly with transparent conductive bonding interlayers. An apparatus in accordance with the present invention comprises a substrate, a first solar cell, coupled to a first side of the substrate, wherein the first solar cell comprises a first Transparent Conductive Coating (TCC) layer coupled to a first polarity electrode of the first solar cell, and a second solar cell, the second solar cell being bonded to the first solar cell by bonding the first TCC layer to the second solar cell.
US11211508B2	Thin-film solar module with improved shunt resistance A thin-film solar module with a substrate and a layer structure applied thereon. The layer structure has a rear electrode layer, a front electrode layer, and an absorber layer arranged between the rear electrode layer and the front electrode layer. The absorber layer has doping of a first conductor type, while the front electrode layer has doping of a second conductor type. Serially connected solar cells are formed in the layer structure by patterning zones having a first patterning trench subdividing the rear electrode layer, a second patterning trench subdividing the absorber layer, and a third patterning trench subdividing the front electrode layer.
US11211501B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device with favorable electrical characteristics is provided. A highly reliable semiconductor device is provided. A semiconductor device with stable electrical characteristics is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, a semiconductor layer, and a first conductive layer. The semiconductor layer, the second insulating layer, and the first conductive layer are stacked in this order over the first insulating layer. The first insulating layer has a stacked-layer structure in which a first insulating film, a second insulating film, and a third insulating film are stacked in this order. The second insulating layer includes an oxide. The third insulating film includes a part in contact with the semiconductor layer. The first insulating film includes silicon and nitrogen. The second insulating film includes silicon, nitrogen, and oxygen. The third insulating film includes silicon and oxygen. The semiconductor layer includes indium and oxygen.
US11211493B2	Apparatus and method of modulating threshold voltage for fin field effect transistor (FinFET) and nanosheet FET Apparatus and method are provided. The apparatus includes at least one field effect transistor (FET), wherein the at least one FET comprises at least one gate overlaying at least one non-linear fin, wherein the non-linear fin is formed via modulating a mandrel by producing cut-outs in the mandrel via optical proximity correction (OPC). The method includes receiving a semiconductor wafer, forming source and drain areas for each of at least one FET on the semiconductor wafer; and forming at least one gate overlaying at least one non-linear fin in each of the at least one FET, wherein the non-linear fin is formed via modulating a mandrel by producing cut-outs in the mandrel via OPC.
US11211491B2	Semiconductor memory structure having drain stressor, source stressor and buried gate and method of manufacturing the same The present disclosure provides a semiconductor memory structure and a method for preparing the semiconductor memory structure. The semiconductor memory structure includes a substrate, a gate structure, a drain stressor and a source stressor. The gate structure is disposed in the substrate. Each of the source stressor and the drain stressor includes a strained part disposed in the substrate.
US11211489B2	Low resistance field-effect transistors and methods of manufacturing the same Low resistance field-effect transistors and methods of manufacturing the same are disclosed herein. An example field-effect transistor disclosed herein includes a substrate and a stack above the substrate. The stack includes an insulator and a gate electrode. The example field-effect transistor includes a semiconductor material layer in a cavity in the stack. In the example field-effect transistor, a region of the semiconductor material layer proximate to the insulator is doped with a material of the insulator.

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