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US11260024B2	Polymeric compositions containing ambient-temperature stable biopharmaceuticals and methods for formulation thereof Biopharmaceuticals, such as vaccine agents and probiotics, are encapsulated in carbohydrate-glass particles and embedded in an amorphous polymer substrate to produce polymeric compositions containing ambient-temperature stable biopharmaceuticals for syringeless administration to patients such as via dissolvable films, micro-needle patches and similar medical delivery devices. The amorphous polymer substrate is soluble in both water and a volatile organic solvent, yet the carbohydrate-glass particles are insoluble in the volatile organic solvent.
US11260017B2	Volumizing and lengthening eyelash coating compositions The invention relates to an eyelash coating compositions comprising water, at least one polyelectrolytic compound, at least one film-forming agent, at least two waxes, and an emulsification system comprising low HLB emulsifier(s) (HLB value less than 8) and high HLB emulsifier(s) (HLB value greater than 16), as well as to methods of using such compositions.
US11260016B2	Oral care compositions and methods for the same Film forming compositions and methods for preventing stains and increasing shine and gloss of teeth. The film forming compositions may include a polymer, such as a hydrophobic polymer, and an orally acceptable solvent. The hydrophobic polymer may include an acrylate component and a hydrophobic group coupled with one another. The hydrophobic group may include an alkyl chain, a polyethylene glycol, a polypropylene, a polyester, a polyorthoester, a phospholipid, a long chain fatty acid, a vinyl chloride, fluorethylene, a siloxane, a urethane, an octylacrylamide, a butylaminoethyl, a styrene, and combinations thereof.
US11260015B2	Compositions and methods for improving skin appearance Injectable compositions and methods of treating skin can help improve hydration, elasticity and/or texture of the skin. The compositions can be based on crosslinked hyaluronic acid matrices made with low molecular weight hyaluronic acids.
US11260006B2	Cosmetic composition comprising an anionic surfactant, at least 3.5% by weight of a fatty acid and an antidandruff agent The invention relates to a cosmetic composition which comprises: (i) one or more anionic surfactants, (ii) at least 3.5% by weight of one or more fatty acids, relative to the total weight of the composition, and (iii) one or more antidandruff agents, the anionic surfactant(s)/fatty acid(s) weight ratio being from 0.5 to 3.5. The invention also relates to the use of said composition for washing and conditioning the hair.
US11260002B2	Oral care composition An oral care composition comprising: (a) arginine, in free or salt form; and (b) zinc oxide and zinc citrate. The oral care composition can reduce or inhibit biofilm formation in an oral cavity.
US11259996B2	Systems, devices, and methods of making and using PTFE dental plugs A method of using a dental filler is disclosed. The method may include securing a prosthetic to a dental implant, the prosthetic having an access channel therethrough. The method may also include filling a portion of the access channel by inserting a polytetrafluoroethylene dental plug into the access channel and compressing the polytetrafluoroethylene dental plug within the access channel.
US11259994B2	Orthodontic adhesives and methods of using same An orthodontic adhesive includes components capable of allowing easy debonding of an orthodontic device from a patient's tooth. The adhesive includes an engineered marine mussel protein. The adhesive may include at least one photocleavable moiety. The adhesive is applied in one or more individual layers. One of the components of the adhesive is capable of binding to a tooth and the other component may be capable of binding to an orthodontic device. A method of adhering an orthodontic device to a tooth includes applying a layer of an orthodontic adhesive to either the tooth or the orthodontic device or the tooth and the orthodontic device and affixing the orthodontic device to the tooth with the orthodontic adhesive situated between the tooth and the orthodontic device. The engineered marine mussel protein includes one or more catechol moieties or one or more derivatives of a catechol moiety.
US11259993B2	Flavored teething devices The present invention comprises a new material used to form semi-rigid shapes. The new material comprises a specific blend of materials and a method of making the blend pertaining to temperatures and conditions. Items made of or comprising the new material in accordance with the invention will exhibit both suitable rigidity and durability along with long-lasting flavor to be used in the construction of a number of items, including teething devices, drinking cups, drinking straws and other utensils. The material itself and the inventive devices may be used to flavor other foods. For example, a teething device made from the flavor infused material encourages the child to use the device for longer periods, thereby providing better relief than prior art teethers. Flavored straws may be employed to add, or provided to blend, the flavor of the straw with the flavor of the liquid pulled through the straw. The flavor character is expected to last a minimum of 6 months and typically at least to 2 years or more.
US11259986B1	Reduced friction massage surfaces and exercise equipment A reduced friction massage and exercise device, which includes a base frame and at least one anchoring arrangement for anchoring a first body part of a user. A reduced friction surface is mounted onto the base frame, and includes a plurality of ball transfer units arranged such that adjacent ball transfer units engage one another. The device further includes at least one cable column including a weight stack. Each of the motion transfer balls is adapted for omnidirectional rotation relative to a corresponding housing element and independently of other the motion transfer balls. The reduced friction surface is adapted to have a second body part of the user placed thereon during performing of a physical activity applying force to the second body part, while reducing friction between the second body part and the surface.
US11259984B2	Reciprocating rollator A rollator having a first side frame and a second side frame; the first side frame comprising a first side frame intervening structural portion; the second rolling side frame comprising a second side frame intervening structural portion; a central platform having a first platform side and a second platform side; and first and second track mechanisms respectively coupling the first and second side portions to the first and second platform sides of the central platform; the first and second track mechanisms permitting independent movement of said first and second side frames relative to said central platform.
US11259981B2	Exoskeleton for lower-limbs An underactuated exoskeleton for lower-limbs, for supporting the knee of a user, includes a first and a second coupling frame and a movement means associated with the first and with the second frame configured to confer to the second frame a roto-translation movement with respect to the first frame or vice versa. The exoskeleton further includes a junction means operatively interposed between the movement means and the first frame and/or the second frame configured to allow a relative rotation between the first and the second frame in a second plane, orthogonal to the first plane, a rotation of said second frame about said main axis of the leg and a relative translation between the first and the second frame in the second plane.
US11259980B2	Soft inflatable exosuit for knee rehabilitation A soft-inflatable exosuit for knee rehabilitation is fabricated in two different beam-like structures (I and O cross-section actuators) and mechanically characterized for their torque performance in knee-extension assistance. The fabrication procedure of both types of actuators is presented as well as their integration into a light-weight, low-cost and body-conforming interface. To detect the activation duration of the device during the gait cycle, a soft-silicone insole with embedded force-sensitive resistors (FSRs) is used. In evaluation studies, the soft inflatable exosuit device is tested for its ability to reduce muscle activity during the swing phase of the knee. Using sEMG (surface electromyography) sensors, the rectus femoris muscle group of a healthy individual is recorded while walking on a treadmill at a constant speed, with and without the soft device.
US11259976B2	Adjustable sling bars for subject lifting systems and methods for operating the same A sling bar assembly allows variable positioning of a sling on the sling bar assembly. Some sling bar assemblies include opposing sling bar members that are movable with respect to one another in a lateral direction. Some opposing sling bar members are repositionable between a locked position, in which movement of the sling members with respect to one another is restricted, and an unlocked position. Some sling bar assemblies include multiple sling hooks positioned on a sling bar member. Some sling bar assemblies include a biasing member that permits movement of a sling hook with respect to the sling bar assembly in the lateral direction.
US11259967B2	Absorbent composite An absorbent composite includes a porous base layer, a core layer, and a superabsorbent laminate layer. The core layer has a fluff pulp layer and superabsorbent polymer particles. The core layer is disposed on the base layer. The superabsorbent laminate layer is disposed on the core layer. The base layer, the core layer, and the superabsorbent laminate layer are compressed together and embossed under heat and pressure to form a plurality of embossed depressions. The embossed depressions are arranged across a major surface area of the superabsorbent laminate layer. The embossed depressions extend through the composite from the superabsorbent laminate layer and into the core layer and the base layer. A thin, soft, and pliable absorbent composite suitable for a variety of applications including wound care is thereby provided.
US11259966B2	Open wound dressing with protection against contact A wound dressing for a burn or open wound is formed of a foam material body with an open center area. The thickness of the foam body creates a zone for air circulation and prevents contact with the wound. This may have a mesh, gauze or other air permeable cover over the open center area.
US11259965B2	Combined corrective lens and lens shield A combined corrective lens engaged with a lens shield and method therefor is provided. The lens shield is formed of a first lens portion which is subsequently engaged with an independently formed projecting portion. One surface of the projecting portion is configured for grinding to a prescription lens. The combined lens can include light filtering medium or layers only in the projecting portion or in both the projecting portion and first lens portion since the components are formed in advance and joined.
US11259963B2	Method and apparatus for treatment of ocular tissue using combined modalities A method is provided for treating a targeted area of ocular tissue in a tissue-sparing manner comprising use of two or more therapeutic modalities, including thermal radiation source (such as an CW infrared fiber laser), operative in a wavelength range that has a high absorption in water, and photochemical collagen cross-linking (CXL), together with one or more specific system improvements, such as pen-operative feedback measurements for tailoring of the therapeutic modalities, an ocular tissue surface thermal control/cooling mechanism and a source of deuterated water/riboflavin solution in a delivery system targeting ocular tissue in the presence of the ultraviolet radiation. Additional methods of rapid cross-linking (RXL), are provided that enables cross-linking (CXL) therapy to be combined with thermal therapy.
US11259962B1	Systems and methods for patient alignment and treatment A system for supporting and aligning a patient during a color alteration procedure includes a laser system that delivers a laser in a first direction. A control computer may be adjacent the laser system for controlling the laser system. The control computer system may include a user interface in a first plane substantially perpendicular to the first direction. The system may include a patient support structure having a patient support surface extending in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction and configured to be adjustable to set a patient position or alignment relative to the laser system. Coarse adjustment hardware may be configured to cause automated and/or manual adjustments to the patient support surface in the first direction. Fine adjustment hardware may be configured to cause automated fine adjustments to the patient support surface in the first direction based on instructions received from the control computer.
US11259957B2	Rectocele guide A rectocele device having an inflatable balloon and extendable armature inside of the balloon as the balloon expands provides added stability when used to push on a rectocele. More specifically, a rectocele handle can include a rectocele paddle, which can extend in length, and balloon combination extending from the handle. The paddle, generally comprised by a piston and piston housing, can increase its length by way of a piston extending in and out of the piston housing. When the rectocele paddle and balloon combination is deployed in a vagina, to push on the rectocele, the balloon is inflated which causes the piston to extend from the piston housing with the balloon inflation. The piston and piston housing paddle provide stability for the inflated balloon.
US11259955B2	Apparatus and methods to convert dental, oral, orthodontic appliances, retainers, and dentures into a multifunctional oral appliance An apparatus and method to convert a dental, oral, orthodontic appliances, retainers, and dentures into a multifunctional oral appliance. The apparatus includes plurality of mechanical connectors and attachments made of plastic, ceramic, or metal, that convert any dental or oral appliances, into multipurpose, three dimensionally adjustable oral appliances for treating obstructive sleep apnea, snoring, temporomandibular joint and musculoskeletal disorders of the jaw, and for improving breathing from the mouth even when nasal passages are blocked.
US11259954B2	Condom catheters and methods of making and using the same Condom catheters and condom catheter systems containing a condom catheter are disclosed. The condom catheter systems utilize suction to attach a condom catheter to a patient's penis. Methods of making and using condom catheters are also disclosed.
US11259946B2	Luminal stenting A stent delivery system can include a core member, first and second restraints, and a stent engagement component. The core member can have a distal segment. The first and second restraints can be coupled to the core member distal segment and axially spaced apart from each other to provide an axial gap. The first and second restraints can each have an outer profile that tapers radially inwardly in directions away from the gap. The stent engagement component can be at least partially disposed in the axial gap between the first and second restraints such that the component is slidably and rotatably coupled to the core member distal segment.
US11259944B2	Stent deployment system with unwrapping deployment constraint A stent delivery system includes a self expanding stent positioned about a distal support segment of a catheter, which includes a proximal segment. A constraint has a wrapped configuration, which has a hollow elongated shape, and an unwrapped configuration, which is a continuous length of a strip. The stent is in contact with, and held in a compressed state by, the constraint in the wrapped configuration, and the stent is in an expanded state out of contact with the constraint in the unwrapped configuration. The constraint may move from the wrapped configuration toward the unwrapped configuration responsive to tension in a control line connected to one end of the strip.
US11259943B2	Anti-migration micropatterned stent coating An endoprosthesis has an expanded state and an unexpanded state, the endoprosthesis includes a stent, wherein the stent has a first end, a second end, an inner surface defining a lumen, an outer surface, and a thickness defined between the inner surface and the outer surface; and a stent end covering disposed at one of the first and second ends, the stent end covering including a polymeric coating that includes a base and a plurality of protrusions, the base including a first major surface facing the outer surface of the stent, the base further including a second major surface from which each of the plurality of protrusions extends outwardly, the first major surface opposing the second major surface, wherein the protrusions are arranged in a micropattern. Methods of making and using an endoprosthesis are provided.
US11259942B2	System for motor rehabilitation of a paretic limb in stroke patients A system or method for motor rehabilitation of a paretic limb including: a first plurality of sensors for registering brain neurosignals; a body-actuator; a hybrid brain machine interface for decoding brain neurosignals into movements of the body-actuator; a second plurality of EMG sensors couplable to the paretic limb for registering its EMG activity; a device for providing the patient with instructions relative to a series of exercises and/or tasks to be carried out with the paretic limb; wherein upon carrying out a series of training sessions, each session comprising at least a set of such instructions, the hybrid brain machine interface is configured to switch between controlling the movements of the body-actuator based on the decoded brain neurosignals and a hybrid control of the movements of the body-actuator, when a significant level of decodable EMG activity has been registered, the hybrid control being an EMG-gated brain control.
US11259941B2	Prosthetic feedback apparatus and method A prosthesis or an orthosis and method of operating the same. The prosthesis or orthosis comprising a moveable component, a motor operable to move the component, wherein the motor has at least one operating parameter, the application of which to the motor results in the component having at least one operating condition; and an electronic device operable to: determine at least one operating parameter of the motor and determine at least one instantaneous operating condition of the component from a predetermined operating profile of the motor and component and the determined at least one operating parameter of the motor, the predetermined operating profile of the motor and component being based on one or more operating parameter inputs to the motor and one or more resulting operating condition outputs of the component.
US11259938B2	Stabilized intervertebral spacer A spacer for separating bones of a joint, the spacer includes a first endplate configured to engage a first bone of the joint; a second endplate configured to engage a second bone of the joint; tissue engaging projections, wherein the tissue engaging projections are moveable from a retracted position to a deployed position; and an actuation subassembly that extends between the first endplate and the second endplate, wherein the actuation subassembly comprise a drive nut, a drive screw coupled to the drive nut, and a cam frame coupled to the drive screw, wherein the cam frame is disposed between the first endplate and the second endplate to engage the tissue engaging projections.
US11259936B2	Intravertebral implant system and methods of use A vertebral implant device is described comprising a wedge, a plate having an external surface configuration and one or more plate tine, a staple having one or more staple tine and a coupling device. The coupling devices is configured to couple the wedge, the plate and the staple whereby when the vertebral implant is secured in a vertebral body, the external surface configuration of the plate alters the relative orientation of a superior endplate surface plane and an inferior endplate surface plane of the vertebral body and alters the alignment of the spine. In some embodiments, plate tines and staple tine are configured to frictionally engage the vertebral body. In some embodiments, the coupling device is a screw and a nut. In some embodiments, interchangeable wedges are used to provide multiple implant device configurations.
US11259933B2	Expandable motion preservation spacer Embodiments are directed to an expandable spacer for insertion between two adjacent bony structures or two adjacent joint surfaces, and more particularly relate to an expandable spacer for insertion into the void remaining in the intervertebral space. Embodiments may include an expandable spacer comprising a first endplate; a second endplate spaced from the first endplate; and one or more bags disposed between the first endplate and the second endplate that couple the first endplate to the second endplate. The one or more bags may be configured to receive a filler material to expand the expandable spacer from an initial position having a first height to an expanded position having a second height, wherein the second height is greater than the first height.
US11259930B2	Particulate alloplastic bone replacement material, and method for producing a free-formed porous body Particulate alloplastic bone replacement material and methods have a multitude of particles, wherein the particles have a core and at least six pins extending from the core, wherein the pins each have at least one connecting element, and wherein the pins are deformable elastically such that, upon multiple particles being pressed together, the connecting elements of different particles interlock with and/or snap into each other and the particles that are interlocked with and/or snapped into each other form an open-pored body of particles that are interlocked with and/or snapped into each other.
US11259928B2	Hybrid heart valve function tester specifically designed for production evaluation of prosthetic heart valve products A multifunctional prosthetic heart valve tester having a circuit of fluid channels, wherein the circuit has a main loop of fluid channel capable of providing a first flow path for a testing fluid. There can be a first branch-off point on the main loop having a first branch channel branching off and fluidly connecting the main loop to a three-way connection. There is a second branch-off point on the main loop having a second branch channel branching off and fluidly connecting the main loop to the three-way connection. A third branch-off point is provided on the main loop having a third branch channel branching off and fluidly connecting the main loop to the three-way connection. There is linear motor and a steady-flow pump disposed on the circuit. Wherein selective shut off of certain channels and selective on/off of the linear motor/steady flow pump allows the device to test the prosthetic valve in the following modes: the steady forward flow mode, steady backward flow mode, pulsatile mode, and hybrid mode.
US11259926B2	Cardiac annuloplasty and pacing procedures, related devices and methods Devices and methods are disclosed for the treatment or repair of regurgitant cardiac valves, such as a mitral valve. An illustrative annuloplasty device can be placed in the coronary sinus to reshape the mitral valve and reduce mitral valve regurgitation. The disclosure also provides improved techniques for cardiac pacing.
US11259923B2	Methods and devices for delivery of a prosthetic valve A valve prosthesis and a system for delivering a valve prosthesis are described herein. The system can include a support frame, a valve anchor comprising an anchoring leg and a plurality of U-shaped members, and a suture coupled to the support frame and slidably coupled to the anchoring leg.
US11259922B2	Transcatheter atrio-ventricular valve prosthesis A transcatheter atrio-ventricular valve prosthesis for functional replacement of an atrio-ventricular valve in a connection channel, having a circumferential connection channel wall structure, between atrial and ventricular chambers of a heart, including an inner device to be disposed in the interior of the connection channel, the inner device having a circumferential support structure which is radially expandable and having a valve attached to the circumferential support structure, and an outer device to be disposed on the exterior of the connection channel, wherein the outer device at least partly extends around the inner device at a radial distance to the inner device, wherein the inner and outer devices form a securing mechanism for securing the circumferential connection channel wall structure therebetween.
US11259920B2	Adapter for prosthesis delivery device and methods of use Disclosed herein are embodiments of adapters that can be used to translate and/or rotate the position of a delivery system, such as for use with a replacement mitral valve. The adapters can allow for three-dimensional motion of the delivery system, thus allow for precise positioning and movement of the delivery system during use by an operator.
US11259916B2	Systems and methods for measuring ciliary muscle activity Systems and methods for non-invasively assessing ciliary muscle accommodative potential in phakic eyes may include receiving a plurality of signals generated by a plurality of bipolar electrodes during a ciliary muscle assessment procedure, each of the plurality of signals indicating an electrical field associated with a patient's ciliary muscle, and analyzing the signals to evaluate the patient's ciliary muscle accommodative potential.
US11259914B2	Molding or 3-D printing of a synthetic refractive corneal lenslet A method of forming and implanting a synthetic corneal lenslet in an eye of a patient includes the steps of: forming a synthetic lenslet from a collagen solution using a mold or a 3-D printer that are configured to form the synthetic lenslet into a predetermined shape for correcting a particular refractive error of the patient; forming a cavity for receiving the synthetic lenslet in the cornea of the eye of the patient; inserting the synthetic lenslet into the cavity of the eye; applying a photosensitizer into the cavity of the eye so that the photosensitizer permeates at least a portion of the tissue surrounding the cavity and at least a portion of the synthetic lenslet; and irradiating the cornea so as to activate cross-linkers in the synthetic lenslet and cross-linkers in the portion of the tissue surrounding the cavity, and thereby prevent an immune response.
US11259913B2	Breast implant with position marker A breast implant includes an outer shell made of a polymer and a filler material disposed within the outer shell. At least one opaque marking is disposed on the outer shell. The opaque marker is visible through the skin when a light emitter emits light through the chest tissue. This allows a user to determine if the breast implant is flipped or rotated based on the location of the opaque marker.
US11259907B2	Device for recording centric jaw relation and orientation jaw relation simultaneously The device for recording centric jaw relation and orientation jaw relation simultaneously is disclosed that provides an accurate and precise recording of centric jaw relation as well as orientation jaw relation recording and transfer. The device includes a central bar, a centric relation recorder, a dentulous adjustable fork or an edentulous fork, a semi-circular frame, a nasion pointer and an orbital pointer. The central bar is received by a plurality of clamping assemblies that adjustably position the nasion pointer, the adjustable fork or the edentulous fork and the centric relation recorder respectively. The device can be used in case of both, dentulous as well as edentulous subjects. The device can advantageously transfer the centric relation record to any semi-adjustable articulators or non-adjustable articulators.
US11259906B2	Case for dental treatment device A case for a dental treatment device includes a bottom panel having an inner surface and an outer surface. The inner surface of the bottom panel defines a first concave portion that corresponds to a shape of a bottom of the dental treatment device. The first concave portion forms a corresponding first convex portion of the outer surface of the bottom panel. The case also includes a top panel having an inner surface and an outer surface. The inner surface of the top panel defines a second concave portion that corresponds to a shape of a top of the dental treatment device. The second convex portion forms a corresponding second convex portion of the outer surface of the top panel.
US11259905B2	Systems and methods for spray application of glaze and other materials Disclosed herein are methods and systems for automatically spraying a glaze solution onto a dental prosthesis. The automated spray glazing system includes: a first spray gun; a controller, and a gripper configured to hold the dental prosthesis and to rotate the dental prosthesis about an axis. The controller is configured to rotate the gripper and spray a glaze solution from the first spray gun using a glazing profile based at least in part on a type of the dental prosthesis. The glazing profile is selected such that a cross-sectional thickness of a resulting-glazed material of the dental prosthesis has an average thickness range between 15 to 63 μm and a standard deviation of less than 6 μm when measured at locations in an upper half of the dental prosthesis.
US11259903B2	Passive fit of implant bridges and implant bars by means of a CAD/CAM tool for the model-free creation of implant-supported restorations The invention relates to a specimen part for creating a stress-free fit, a so-called passive fit, of implant-supported and/or abutment-supported bridges and bars by means of a CAD/CAM tool for the creation of restorations, and to a method for creating a restoration from a digital model of a patient's jaw provided with at least two implants and/or abutments. The model is determined by means of an intraoral scan. In order to improve the precision of restorations and to shorten the production process, provision is made that the specimen part per implant and/or abutment has a scannable structure, preferably at a defined distance and angle to the implant and/or abutment.
US11259897B1	Systems and methods for determining an orthodontic treatment Methods and systems for determining orthodontic treatment based on 3D digital model of subject's teeth. The method includes determining, for a given trajectory segment of the orthodontic treatment of a given tooth in which the given tooth is moved from a start position to an end position, whether the force required to move the given tooth from the start position to the end position causes an induced stress associated with at least one other of the plurality of subject's teeth. In response to the induced stress being outside of a predetermined threshold level, determining a counter force to be applied to the at least one other of the plurality of subject's teeth. The orthodontic treatment can be thus determined as including the force to be applied to the given tooth and the determined counter force to be applied to the at least one other of the plurality if subject's teeth.
US11259895B2	Endodontic instrument, in particular for reaming a root canal An instrument (10) having a working section (11) that terminates in an end zone (12) having a pointed tip. The end zone (12) has, on the one hand, a conical guiding section (13) which ends in a tip. This guiding section (13) has a tip angle of between 10° and 60° and, on the other hand, an angular cutting section (14) adjacent to the conical guiding section (13) which has three cutting edges (15). The angular cutting section (14) extends over a certain length and is located intermediate between the conical guiding section (13) and the working section (11). The angular cutting section (14) has a cross-section that progressively increases from the base of the conical guiding section (13) over at least a portion of its length.
US11259894B2	Tracking and guidance arrangement for a surgical robot system and related method A tracking and guidance arrangement for a surgical robot system and related method are provided. The arrangement includes a patient-interacting device including an instrument engaged a distal end of a guide arm and a fiducial marker coupled to maxillofacial anatomy of the patient. A detector is connected to an articulating arm and co-operable therewith to be positioned adjacent to the fiducial marker, with the detector being configured to interact with the fiducial marker. A controller device is configured to receive data from the detector relative to the interaction thereof with the fiducial marker, to determine a spatial relation between the fiducial marker and the detector based on the data, to determine a spatial relation of the instrument relative to the fiducial marker, and to direct the instrument to interact with the maxillofacial anatomy of the patient according to the determined spatial relations.
US11259892B2	Instrument for optical tissue interrogation A surgical system includes a light source, a sensor for detecting light, and a surgical device including an elongate shaft having a distal part positionable at a surgical working site within a body cavity. A first optical pathway transmits light from the light source to a distal part of the elongate shaft and onto tissue within the body cavity, and a second optical pathway receives light from tissue within the body cavity and transmits the received light to the sensor. A surgical drape, such as one covering a robotic manipulator arm housing components of the system, is positioned such that at least the first or second optical pathway includes an optically transmissive portion of the surgical drape.
US11259888B2	Systems and methods for selectively activating virtual guide geometries A surgical system includes a robotic device, an end effector mounted on the robotic device, and a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to generate a plurality of virtual geometries, each virtual geometry associated with a surgical task, track a position of the end effector, and determine whether the position of the end effector is at a location corresponding to a first virtual geometry of the plurality of virtual geometries. In response to a determination that the position of the end effector is at the location corresponding to the first virtual geometry, the processing circuit is configured to control the robotic device to facilitate completion of a first surgical task associated with the first virtual geometry.
US11259884B2	Robotic surgical stapler assembly configured to use stapler reload A robotic surgical assembly includes a drive assembly and a shaft assembly. The drive assembly is detachably mountable to a surgical robot and includes roll, pitch, and clamp/fire inputs configured to drivingly couple with respective outputs of the surgical robot. The shaft assembly is mounted to the drive assembly and configured to detachably couple with a stapler reload assembly that includes a reload roll shaft, a reload pitch shaft, and a reload clamp/fire shaft. The shaft assembly includes a roll shaft, a pitch shaft, and a clamp/fire shaft. The roll shaft is drivingly coupled with the roll input and configured to detachably couple to the reload roll shaft. The pitch shaft is drivingly coupled with the pitch input and configured to detachably couple to the reload pitch shaft. The clamp/fire shaft is drivingly coupled with the clamp/fire input and configured to detachably couple to the reload clamp/fire shaft.
US11259880B1	Guiding the trajectory of a second surgical device Systems and methods are provided for trajectory guidance during surgical procedures, for example, monitoring and identifying a desired trajectory of surgical access devices and implants for the purpose of preventing unintended injury to surrounding tissues, such as nerves, blood vessels, cartilage, or bone.
US11259876B2	Single-port surgical procedure using image guided articulated robot A robotic surgical system employing a treatment catheter (30) (e.g., a thermoablation catheter or a cyroablation catheter), and an articulated robot (40) including a the linkages for navigating the treatment catheter (30) within an anatomical region. The robotic surgical system further employs a robot controller (41) for controlling a navigation by the articulated robot (40) of the treatment catheter (30) along a intraoperative treatment path within the anatomical region relative to the anatomical structure derived from a planned treatment path within the anatomical region relative to the anatomical structure based on a registration between the articulated robot (40) and a preoperative image (21a) illustrative of the planned treatment path within the anatomical region relative to the anatomical structure.
US11259874B1	Three-dimensional selective bone matching A method of generating a custom three-dimensional model of a bone is disclosed. A 2D image of the bone is obtained and an orientation and scale of the 2D image are aligned to a pre-determined coordinate system. Based on the 2D image, a representative bone is identified from a library of representative bones that are aligned to the pre-determined coordinate system. Based on the 2D image, an ideal view of a 3D model of the representative bone is selected. Modifications may be made to the 3D model by using additional representative bones from the library. A custom three-dimensional model of the bone is thereby generated.
US11259868B2	Corrugated radiofrequency ablation catheter and apparatus thereof A corrugated radiofrequency ablation catheter and an apparatus thereof. The radiofrequency ablation catheter is provided with a strip-shaped connecting catheter (10). An electrode frame is provided at the front extremity of the connecting catheter (10). A control handle (20) is provided at the rear extremity of the connecting catheter (10). The electrode frame is a corrugated electrode frame consisting of one or more corrugations. One or more electrodes (2) respectively are distributed on the corrugations. Slidable, supporting, wall-attaching adjustment wires (6) are provided within one lumen of the connecting catheter (10) and the electrode frame. The supporting, wall-attaching adjustment wires (6) are divided into a flexible segment (61) away from the control handle and a rigid segment (62) in proximity to the control handle.
US11259865B2	Surgical methods The present invention relates to methods of removing a lesion from a patient. A method of removing a lesion from a patient includes positioning wire loops of a probe device relative to the lesion. The wire loops are simultaneously rotated and expanded to cut material from the lesion. Irrigation fluid is supplied, via the probe device, to irrigate the material cut from the lesion. The supplied irrigation fluid is aspirated, via the probe device, to facilitate removal of the material cut from the lesion.
US11259863B2	Monopolar electrosurgery blade and electrosurgery blade assembly Electrosurgery blades including electrosurgery blade assemblies having argon beam capability. The electrosurgery blade includes a thin conductive member having a lead sharp cutting end and an opposite noon-cutting end and a non-conductive coating covering the thin conductive member such that at least a portion of the lead cutting end and at least a portion of the opposite non-cutting end of the thin conductive member remain exposed. An electrosurgery blade assembly having argon beam capability includes the previously described electrosurgery blade, a non-conductive tube member having a hollow tubular shaped opening positioned on top of the electrosurgery blade, and a conductive hollow tubular member contained within at least a portion of the non-conductive tube member.
US11259862B2	Coaxial-driven tissue aspiration instrument system A coaxially-driven tissue aspiration instrument having a hand-supportable housing with a stationary tubing connector provided at the rear of the housing and receiving a length of flexible tubing connected to a vacuum source. A twin cannula assembly is coupled to a an electromagnetic cannula drive mechanism disposed within a guide tube structure mounted in the hand-supportable housing and powered by electrical power signals so as to periodically exert forces on the a front-loaded cannula base device slidably supported within the guide tube structure, and to which the inner cannula is releasably connected. The coaxially exerted forces cause the front-loaded cannula base device, and thus inner cannula, to reciprocate within the guide tube structure, while tissue is being aspirated along the inner cannula lumen, through the reciprocating front-loaded cannula base device, and through the stationary tubing connector, and along the flexible tubing towards the vacuum source.
US11259860B2	Systems and methods for providing sensory feedback with an ablation system A surgical system includes a power supply, a power stage coupled to the power supply for converting electric energy to a power signal, an audio output device, a sensor, and a controller coupled to the power supply, the power stage, and the audio output device. The controller is operably coupled to the sensor. The power stage is configured to transmit the power signal to a surgical instrument such as an electrosurgical instrument or a microwave instrument. The sensor may be disposed on the surgical instrument. The controller causes the audio output device to output sensory feedback during operation of the surgical generator based on sensor signals received from the sensor during a surgical procedure.
US11259855B2	Articulating tool for endoscopic placement of fasteners Various articulating tools for endoscopic placement of fasteners are disclosed. The tool can comprise a multi-angle articulating screwdriver. The tool can have an elongate shaft with an articulating driver head at a distal end. The tool can rotate the articulating driver head to drive fasteners, such as screws, to a surgical site. The articulating driver head can articulate with respect to a longitudinal axis of the elongate shaft to enable the fastener to be driven at various angle. The tool can be coupled to a powered handpiece power and can transmit torque from the handpiece to the driver head.
US11259852B2	Plate connection A bone fixation system includes a first plate including a plate body and a connection portion extending distally therefrom, the connection portion including a positioning tab at a distal end thereof, the connection portion including a first opening extending therethrough and a ramped part, and a second plate including a coupling aperture along a proximal portion thereof, the coupling aperture configured to receive the positioning tab therein, the coupling aperture including a ramped proximal face configured to abut against the ramped part of the second surface of the positioning tab when the positioning tab is inserted into the coupling aperture, the head portion including a second opening extending therethrough. A connection screw configured to extend through the first opening and the second opening to couple the first and second plates together. Tightening the screw translates the ramped proximal face along the ramped part, eliminating a connection gap therebetween.
US11259850B2	Femur fixation apparatus A femur fixation apparatus capable of firmly fixing in place an anti-rotation member, which includes an intramedullary nail, an anti-rotation pin configured to be inserted through the intramedullary nail, and an adjuster fitted in the intramedullary nail. The adjuster includes a rotation part and a sliding part. The rotation part is rotatably and threadedly engaged in the intramedullary nail and rotatably connected to the upper end of the sliding part. The sliding part is formed with a space through which the anti-rotation pin is inserted. An urging member extends from a side wall of the space into the space. When the rotation part is rotated in a predetermined direction relative to the intramedullary nail, then the adjuster moves downward, and the urging member presses downward and fixes in place the anti-rotation pin.
US11259843B2	External bone fixation system An external fixation assembly for bone fusion or separation is disclosed. The assembly includes a fracture fusion tube, with a bracket slidably engaged thereon. The assembly further includes a collet clamp connected to the bracket, with a ball collet rotatably seated within the clamp, the ball collet having an aperture for receiving a bone bin therethrough and perforations for a compression engagement with a bone pin. The assembly uses a single screw for threadably engaging the ball collet, the clamp and the bracket such that the position of the bone pin, ball collet and bracket are all fixed.
US11259842B2	Needle for transcutaneous analyte sensor delivery The present disclosure relates to a needle including a wall structure, a cutting edge and a blunt contour. The needle advantageously can be used to deliver a sensor (such as a glucose or other analyte sensor) through an outer skin layer and into a sensor depth in a less invasive way than prior art needles. The size of the cutting edge is balanced against a portion of the distal wall structure that has blunt contours. Thus, the needle is capable of cutting the more durable outer skin layer (first phase) and then progressively stretching open the cut for further advancement into the subcutaneous layer (second phase). When the needle is sufficiently advanced, it is retracted leaving the sensor in a desired position. Early testing has shown a reduction of “dip and recover” from glucose sensors delivered using the needle.
US11259839B2	Filtration device and system A fluid filtration device having an outer cylindrical surface with a first diameter having a longitudinal axis, and an inner cylindrical surface with an inner diameter substantially centered about the longitudinal axis, and a plurality of longitudinal holes substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis arranged between the outer cylindrical surface and the inner cylindrical surface.
US11259834B2	Brain aneurysm tool with a wire deflection mechanism A medical device for treating an aneurysm in a blood vessel includes a hollow shaft for insertion into the blood vessel, an exit port at a distal end of the shaft, a deflection element, and a position sensor. The hollow shaft encompasses a wire-insertion channel for leading a wire to be inserted into the aneurysm. The exit port is configured for exiting the wire from the wire-insertion channel and into the aneurysm. The deflection element is located adjacent to the exit port and configured to deflect the wire from the wire-insertion channel to the exit port. The position sensor, which is coupled to the distal end of the shaft, is configured to produce signals indicative of a position and orientation of the exit port in the blood vessel.
US11259833B2	Resection devices and related methods of deployment A medical/surgical device for performing tissue resection can include an endoscope with proximal and distal ends, defining working channels, and a snare assembly located in one of the working channels. The working channel may include a bend near the distal end and towards the outward radial wall of the endoscope. The snare assembly may include a snare loop and an actuation element imparted with the pre-formed angular bends and an actuation control handle. The bends of the actuation element and the working channel may be the same. The rotational manipulation of the actuation element may synchronize the pre-formed bend of the actuation element with the bend of the working channel to concentrically (or otherwise) align the deployed snare loop with the endoscope or endoscope attachments.
US11259831B2	Therapeutic ultrasound apparatus and method Various devices related to a therapeutic ultrasound device for use during a medical procedure to cauterize tissue are disclosed. The therapeutic ultrasound device can include an inner tube assembly and an outer tube assembly. The device can further include a tissue engagement assembly that is secured to the distal end of the inner tube and the distal end of the outer tube. The tissue engagement assembly includes a plurality of transducers configured to provide therapeutic ultrasound. The device can include a housing assembly that is secured to the proximal end of the inner tube and the proximal end of the outer tube. The housing assembly can include a handle configured to actuate the inner tube relative to the outer tube to engage and disengage the tissue engagement assembly.
US11259830B2	Methods for controlling temperature in ultrasonic device A generator, ultrasonic device, and method for controlling a temperature of an ultrasonic blade are disclosed. A control circuit coupled to a memory determines an actual resonant frequency of an ultrasonic electromechanical system comprising an ultrasonic transducer coupled to an ultrasonic blade by an ultrasonic waveguide. The actual resonant frequency is correlated to an actual temperature of the ultrasonic blade. The control circuit retrieves from the memory a reference resonant frequency of the ultrasonic electromechanical system. The reference resonant frequency is correlated to a reference temperature of the ultrasonic blade. The control circuit then infers the temperature of the ultrasonic blade based on the difference between the actual resonant frequency and the reference resonant frequency. The control circuit controls the temperature of the ultrasonic blade based on the inferred temperature
US11259826B2	Apparatus for removing a hook with a barb An apparatus for removing a hook embedded within a tissue is presented. The hook has a barb extending from a point section of the hook. The apparatus includes a clamping device configured to secure the hook. A probe is coupled to the clamping device. The probe has a tip portion configured to fit within a space between the barb and the point section of the hook to allow the hook to be removed from the tissue.
US11259825B2	Devices and methods for treatment of tissue Delivery systems, and methods using the same, having an ultrasound viewing window for improved imaging and a needle for ablation treatment of target tissues. In an embodiment, the target tissue is a fibroid within a female's uterus. In an embodiment, the delivery system includes a rigid shaft having a proximal end, a distal end, and an axial passage extending through the rigid shaft. In an embodiment, the axial passage is configured for removably receiving the ultrasound imaging insert having an ultrasound array disposed a distal portion.
US11259824B2	Clot retrieval device for removing occlusive clot from a blood vessel A method of removing clot from a vessel, including delivering a clot retrieval device across the clot, wherein the clot retrieval device includes an inner body having a collapsed delivery configuration and an expanded deployed configuration; and an outer body extending along a longitudinal axis and at least partially overlying the inner body. The outer body includes a first scaffolding section, a second scaffolding section hingedly connected distal of the first scaffolding section; the first and second scaffolding sections of the outer body being expandable to a radial extent which is greater than the radial extent of the inner body in the deployed configuration to define a clot reception space between the inner and outer bodies. The method also includes expanding the clot retrieval device; and urging, by the expanding of the first and second scaffolding sections, at least a portion of the clot therebetween.
US11259822B2	Device for retrieving a body from a tubular structure Some embodiments relate to a device for retrieving a body from within a tubular structure, the device having a proximal end and a distal end and comprising: a device body at the proximal end; a conduit extending away from the device body to the distal end and sized to be receivable in the tubular structure; at least one actuator operably associated with the device body; a first strand extending at least in part through the conduit; a second strand extending at least in part through the conduit; wherein the first and second strands are affixed at the distal end of the device, and wherein the second strand is wound around the first strand along at least a distal length of the first strand; wherein the at least one actuator is operable to cause the second strand to adopt an expanded state in which the second strand defines a trawl volume to catch the body for retrieval of the body from the tubular structure.
US11259821B2	Aspiration system with accelerated response An aspiration system exhibits an accelerated drop in negative pressure at the distal end of an aspiration catheter from the time of opening a valve. The system includes an aspiration pump in communication with a first chamber, and an aspiration catheter configured for placement into fluid communication with the first chamber by way of an elongate aspiration tube. A second chamber is provided between the aspiration tube and the catheter, and a valve is provided between the second chamber and the aspiration catheter. Upon opening of the valve with negative pressure at equilibrium in the first and second chambers, resistance to fluid flow between the second chamber and the distal end of the catheter is less than the resistance to fluid flow between the second chamber and the first chamber, causing a rapid aspiration into the second chamber.
US11259820B2	Methods and devices to ameliorate vascular obstruction Methods for removing blockages and preventing thromboembolic injuries, by advancing to a blockage a first tubular, endovascular device receiving irrigating fluid through a proximal opening, having a circumferential wall, lumen, at least one distal side hole oriented angularly to a distal opening; ejecting fluid from the side hole(s) to irrigate a blockage; introducing a second catheter for aspiration, comprising a circumferential wall having a proximal and distal opening, a flared, semi-permeable filter at the distal end for removal of emboli through the second lumen; advancing the second device to a blood vessel receiving blood from the blocked vessel, aspirating the blockage, axially rotating the first endovascular device having at least one half-loop to macerate an obstruction, capturing and removing emboli from the blockage through the second endovascular device which prevents emboli from causing further blockage of blood vessels. Variants of said method including a third rotatable device.
US11259817B2	Freeform tri-planar osteotomy guide and method Systems and methods for performing an osteotomy are presented. Examples include forming a fusion osteotomy at a metatarsocuneiform joint of the first ray of a human foot.
US11259816B2	Systems and methods for haptic control of a surgical tool A surgical system includes a surgical tool associated with a virtual haptic interaction point such that movement of the virtual haptic interaction point corresponds to movement of the surgical tool. The surgical system further includes a processing circuit to establish a virtual entry boundary and activate a haptic object, which constrains the surgical tool after the haptic interaction point crosses the virtual entry boundary.
US11259815B2	End effector instrument, end effector device, delivery device, and assembly box The present disclosure relates to an end effector instrument. The end effector instrument may include an end effector device. The end effector device may include a clip and a resilient portion including a connecting hole and a limiting convex. The end effector instrument may further include a delivery device including a sheath and a shaft. The sheath may include a passage that accommodates the shaft. A distal end of the shaft may include a connecting end. The sheath may include a limiting concave. The connecting end may extend into or exit from the connecting hole when the sheath is set outside the resilient portion: when the connecting end extends into the connecting hole, the resilient portion may expand outward, and the limiting convex may extend into the limiting concave; when the connecting end exits from the connecting hole, the resilient portion may rebound, and the limiting convex may exit from the limiting concave. The end effector device may be operated repeatedly, and the delivery device may be reused.
US11259811B2	Anastomotic device Illustrated and described is an anastomotic device for forming anastomoses, in particular of intestine anastomoses, with an introducer sheath for insertion into a body lumen, wherein a thrust bearing part is provided for the head section and within the head section an extendable and retractable knife and a retaining pin are arranged. According to the invention at least the actuating part and the head section of inter-connected fluid supply channel and at the head section at least one fluid outlet connected with the fluid supply channel are provided for producing a fluidic connection between the actuating part and the head section while inserting the head section into the body lumen and/or when pushing the introducer sheath into the body lumen, in which the fluidic connection is configured for discharging an inflation liquid into the body lumen.
US11259809B2	Blood vessel connectors and methods for blood vessel connection Various embodiments of the present disclosure include an apparatus comprising a clip which includes a first side including a first ring configured to pass over an end of a first vessel, the first ring configured to engage the first side with the first vessel, and a second side coupled to the first side, the second side including a second ring configured to pass over an end of a second vessel, the second ring being configured to engage the second side with the second vessel. The first and second sides, when in a closed position, are configured to maintain the first and second vessels in substantially end-to-end contact.
US11259808B2	Tool assemblies with a gap locking member A tool assembly includes an anvil and a cartridge assembly movable from an open position to a closed position, and a locking member movably supported on a distal portion of the cartridge assembly. The locking member is configured to move into a slot of the anvil as the anvil and cartridge assembly move toward the closed position to set a gap distance between the anvil and cartridge assembly.
US11259805B2	Surgical instrument comprising firing member supports A surgical instrument is disclosed comprising a shaft, an end effector rotatably coupled to the shaft about an articulation joint, and a firing system configured to be moved through the articulation joint and the end effector. The surgical instrument further comprises means configured to facilitate the movement of the firing system through the articulation joint and the end effector.
US11259801B2	Powered surgical instrument A surgical instrument including a housing, an endoscopic portion, a shaft portion and an end effector is disclosed. The endoscopic portion extends distally from the housing and defines a longitudinal axis. The shaft portion is selectively connectable to a distal end of the endoscopic portion. The end effector is selectively connectable to a distal end of the shaft portion.
US11259798B2	Medical devices having tissue grasping surfaces and features for manipulating surgical needles A medical device includes a clevis, a first jaw, and a second jaw. The first jaw includes a first proximal gripping portion and a first distal gripping portion, and the first proximal gripping portion includes a first needle alignment portion. The second jaw is coupled to the clevis and includes a second proximal gripping portion and a second distal gripping portion, and the second proximal gripping portion includes a second needle alignment portion. The first and second needle alignment portions are located opposite each other when in the closed orientation. The first and second needle alignment portions define a clamp path when in the closed orientation within which the curved portion of the needle is received when the second jaw is in the open orientation. The first and second needle alignment portions are configured to rotate the needle when moving to the closed orientation.
US11259797B2	System and method for increased operating room efficiency Systems, devices and methods to improve safety and efficiency in an operating room comprise providing a suture package that holds new suture needles and needle receptacles for storing used needles. The devices can be safely worn for the surgeon to self-dispense new suture needles in the near surgical field and to secure the used needles into a needle trap or a needle retainer located on his extremity, on his operative instruments or on the surgical drapes. The device may provide automated and/or simplified needle counting both during use and after removal from the surgical field. The device may be configured for ergonomic and efficient use so as to minimize the actions and motions of the surgeon to dispense and secure the needle.
US11259796B2	Bio paracentesis needle and method for manufacturing the same A bio paracentesis needle includes a tube-shaped body having a hollow portion through which a suture is inserted, an insertion portion formed at an end of the body to cut skin and insert the body, and at least one removal cut to an inside of the body to remove waste under the skin when the body is inserted. The insertion portion includes a first inclined edge having a diagonal surface inclined downward in a direction from a first end of the both to the hollow portion, a second inclined edge having a diagonal surface inclined upward from a second end of the body to the first inclined edge, the second end being positioned opposite the first end, and a third inclined edge has a diagonal surface inclined downward in a direction from an end of the first inclined edge to the second inclined edge.
US11259795B2	Method and apparatus for passing suture through tissue A suture passer comprising: a hollow tube, the hollow tube comprising a distal end, a proximal end, and a lumen extending from the distal end to the proximal end; and a clamping rod slidably received in the lumen of the hollow tube, the clamping rod comprising a distal end and a proximal end, the distal end being bifurcated into a first arm and a second arm, one of the first and second arms extending distally of the other of the first and second arms and including a clamping surface; wherein at least one of the first arm and the second arm comprises a friction-enhancing surface for facilitating manipulation of a suture via engagement of the suture with the friction-enhancing surface.
US11259793B2	Operative communication of light A surgical access assembly comprises a trocar and a surgical instrument. The trocar comprises a housing and an access tube extending distally from the housing. The housing comprises a hollow light emitter. The housing and the access tube define a lumen extending through the housing and the access tube. The hollow light emitter is configured to project light in the lumen. The surgical instrument comprises an end effector and a shaft extending proximally from the end effector. The shaft comprises an optical receiver positioned within reach of the light from the hollow light emitter. The shaft further comprises a light guide extending from the optical receiver along at least a portion of the shaft toward the end effector.
US11259790B2	Interface device between surgical instruments or laparoscopes and organs or viscera Described is a surgical device to retain and move an organ during surgical operations, which makes it possible to easily prepare the system for holding the organ and avoids the need both for a dedicated access trocar for exclusive use and the insertion of an operating member connected irreversibly to the surgical device. The surgical device minimises the risk of tearing and/or bleeding of the organ following the actions applied on the same organ during the surgical operation.
US11259788B2	Percutaneous catheter directed intravascular occlusion devices with retractable stabilizing wires A medical device is provided in which one or both ends of the device encourage the formation of tissue across substantially the entire area of the respective end that is exposed to the blood flow for reducing the risk of a thrombotic embolism. The medical device further includes stabilizing wires configured to engage tissue at a target site when the medical device is in an expanded configuration and to at least partially retract into the medical device when the medical device is in a collapsed configuration.
US11259785B2	Vagina probe with brush A sampling probe, having a housing, with a flange at housing's proximal end, and an internal step ring including a protruding follower tab toward housing's distal end. The sampling probe further includes a shaft inside the housing, with a brush at shaft's distal end and a handle at shaft's proximal end. The shaft includes a solid proximal section, and a spirally grooved distal section, engaging the housing's follower tab. A retracting compression spring is positioned on the spirally grooved distal section of the shaft inside the housing. With the sampling probe distally inserted in a vagina canal for a Pap smear, pushing the shaft handle distally, the brush at the end of the shaft protrudes out of the housing rotationally, taking a cell sample, followed by the retracting compression spring retracting the brush back into the housing when the shaft handle is released, completing the Pap smear.
US11259782B2	Medical imaging data processing apparatus and method A medical image processing apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to: obtain a medical imaging data set representative of at least part of at least one surface; render from the medical imaging data set at least one image of the at least part of the at least one surface, wherein the or each image is rendered using a respective lighting configuration; and determine a measure of lighting quality for the or each rendered image; wherein, for the or each rendered image, the determining of the measure of lighting quality comprises, for each of a plurality of locations on the at least part of the at least one surface, determine a correspondence between a curvature of the at least one surface at that location and a lighting value at that location, wherein the lighting value is obtained from the rendering of the image; and determine the measure of lighting quality based on the determined correspondences.
US11259778B2	All optical atrial ablation device A catheter system includes a catheter. The catheter includes a catheter tip and an ultrasound assembly at least partially positioned within the catheter tip. The ultrasound assembly includes a first optical fiber coupled to an optical-to-ultrasound transducer and a second optical fiber coupled to an ultrasound-to-optical transducer. The optical-to-ultrasound transducer is configured to generate an ultrasound signal in response to a pulsed optical signal. The ultrasound-to-optical transducer is configured to generate an optical signal in response to a received ultrasound signal.
US11259777B2	Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus and medical image processing method According to one embodiment, an ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes a storage and a control unit. The storage stores transmission/reception conditions for a first ultrasound probe among a plurality of ultrasound probes. Upon receipt of a second switching instruction to switch a second ultrasound probe to the first ultrasound probe after a first switching instruction to switch the first ultrasound probe to the second ultrasound probe, the control unit applies the transmission/reception conditions stored in the storage to the first ultrasound probe when the time between the first switching instruction and the second switching instruction is less than a predetermined time.
US11259771B2	Determining a target position of an X-ray device A computer-implemented method for determining a target position of an X-ray device encompasses acquiring image data describing an anatomical structure of a patient, for example, by means of a 3D scan, and registering the image data relative to a coordinate system of the patient, for example by means of a navigation system. Furthermore, a trajectory of an implant positioned within the anatomical structure relative to the patient coordinate system is acquired. A target position of an X-ray device for acquiring an X-ray image of at least part of the implant is determined based on the registered image and the acquired trajectory of the implant.
US11259770B2	Methods and systems for noise reduction in x-ray imaging Various methods and systems are provided for x-ray imaging. In one embodiment, a method for an x-ray imaging system comprises acquiring, with an x-ray detector, an image including a noise artifact caused by electromagnetic interference, inputting the image to a trained neural network model to obtain a corrected image with the noise artifact removed, and outputting the corrected image. In this way, row-correlated noise artifacts caused by electromagnetic interference at the x-ray detector are eliminated or cancelled in real time and image quality is improved.
US11259769B2	Image capture method and apparatus The present apparatus, system, and method relate to reliably capturing multiple x-ray images for later combination. An exposure shield blocks a portion of the x-rays emitted from a traditional emitter and collimator. The orientation of exposure shield may then be modified to block a second portion of x-rays while ensuring appropriate overlap of the captured images without intentionally moving the emitter or collimator and without the need for a patient to wear protective garb.
US11259759B2	X-ray mammography and/or breast tomosynthesis using a compression paddle An x-ray breast imaging system comprising a compression paddle in which the compression paddle comprises a front wall and a bottom wall. The front wall is configured to be adjacent and face a chest wall of a patient during imaging and the bottom wall configured to be adjacent a length of a top of a compressed breast. The bottom wall extends away from the patient's chest wall, wherein the bottom wall comprises a first portion and a second portion such that the second portion is between the front wall and the first portion. The first portion is generally non-coplanar to the second portion, wherein the compression paddle is movable along a craniocaudal axis. The x-ray breast imaging system also comprises a non-rigid jacket releasably secured to the compression paddle, the non-rigid jacket positioned between the compression paddle and the patient.
US11259756B2	Machine learning using clinical and simulated data Systems are provided for generating data representing electromagnetic states of a heart for medical, scientific, research, and/or engineering purposes. The systems generate the data based on source configurations such as dimensions of, and scar or fibrosis or pro-arrhythmic substrate location within, a heart and a computational model of the electromagnetic output of the heart. The systems may dynamically generate the source configurations to provide representative source configurations that may be found in a population. For each source configuration of the electromagnetic source, the systems run a simulation of the functioning of the heart to generate modeled electromagnetic output (e.g., an electromagnetic mesh for each simulation step with a voltage at each point of the electromagnetic mesh) for that source configuration. The systems may generate a cardiogram for each source configuration from the modeled electromagnetic output of that source configuration for use in predicting the source location of an arrhythmia.
US11259752B2	Method for adapting a medical system to patient motion during medical examination, and system therefor A method for adapting a medical system to an object movement during medical examination of the object and a medical system configured for carrying out the method. The medical system has a device for detecting and quantifying a motion of the object before or during an acquisition of diagnostic data. The system for detecting and quantifying a motion of the object is able to directly identify and qualify the occurrence of object motion and to automatically suggest an adaptation of the diagnostic data acquisition strategy/technique as a function of the object motion.
US11259750B2	Guidewire for imaging and measurement of pressure and other physiologic parameters A guidewire system includes an elongated wire configured for insertion into a luminal space, such as the vasculature, of a body. The wire is conductive and configured to conduct electrical signals. One or more sensors are coupled to a distal section of the wire and configured to send and receive the electrical signals via the wire. The wire through which the one or more sensors are coupled is the only wire through which the one or more sensors send and receive the electrical signals.
US11259741B2	Skin elasticity measurement A method of measuring a characteristic of a skin, including varying an air pressure in a chamber positioned adjacent to a skin, in which the chamber has an opening that exposes the skin to changes in the air pressure in the chamber. A plurality of measurements of surface profiles of the skin are made over a period of time as the surface profile of the skin varies in response to changes in the air pressure.
US11259736B2	Method and apparatus for verifying bradycardia/asystole episodes via detection of under-sensed events A system and method for detecting and verifying bradycardia/asystole episodes includes sensing an electrogram (EGM) signal. The EGM signal is compared to a primary threshold to sense events in the EGM signal, and at least one of a bradycardia or an asystole is detected based on the comparison. In response to detecting at least one of a bradycardia or an asystole, the EGM signal is compared to a secondary threshold to sense events under-sensed by the primary threshold. The validity of the bradycardia or the asystole is determined based on the detected under-sensed events.
US11259731B2	Telemetry integrated system A system for the integrated/functional detection of different measurements is described. The system comprises a part wearable by a driver of a vehicle and plurality of sensors integrated in the wearable part and configured to supply the following driver parameters: breathing parameters, heart parameters, perspiration parameters and of the pressure exerted on the vehicle driving wheel. The system also includes a processor for processing the driver parameters and correlating them to a driver psychophysical condition.
US11259728B2	System and methods for addressing psychological conditions of a patient through guided meditation Computing devices, methods and computer-readable mediums for providing guided meditation to patients based on results of a psychological test are provided herein. Contemplated computing devices can comprise a processor, a memory for storing a computer-readable medium comprising computer-readable instructions stored therein, wherein the instructions are executable by the processor to serve psychological tests to the patient through a virtual patient portal, transform results of the psychological tests into sets of psychological conditions of the patient, match predefined meditation paths to the patient and serve guided meditation tracks in the matched meditation paths to the patient through the virtual patient portal.
US11259727B2	Sterile bodily-fluid collection device and methods An apparatus includes a pre-sample reservoir, a diversion mechanism, and a flow metering mechanism. The diversion mechanism has an inlet port couplable to a lumen-defining device to receive bodily-fluids from a patient, a first outlet port fluidically couplable to the pre-sample reservoir, and a second outlet port fluidically couplable to a sample reservoir. The diversion mechanism defines a first fluid flow path and a second flow path that are configured to place the first outlet port and the second outlet port, respectively, in fluid communication with the inlet port. The flow metering mechanism is configured to meter a flow of a predetermined volume of bodily-fluid through the first fluid flow path into the pre-sample reservoir, to meter a flow of a second volume of bodily-fluid through the second fluid flow path into the sample reservoir, and to display a volumetric indicator associated with the predetermined volume and the second volume.
US11259726B2	Methods and systems for weighting calibration points and updating lag parameters Disclosed are analyte monitoring systems and methods for calibrating an analyte sensor using one or more reference measurements. These systems and methods may include using a conversion function and first sensor data to calculate a first sensor analyte level, weighting a first reference analyte measurement (RM1) and one or more previous reference analyte measurements according to a weighted average cost function, updating the conversion function using the weighted RM1 and the one or more weighted previous reference analyte measurements as calibration points, and using the updated conversion function and second sensor data to calculate a second sensor analyte level. In some aspects, the systems and methods may include updating one or more of lag parameters used to calculate the sensor analyte levels.
US11259725B2	Interconnect for on-body analyte monitoring device Disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing a compressible interconnect for allowing electrical communication between an electronics unit and an analyte sensor in an on-body analyte monitoring device. In other embodiments, systems and methods are provided for reducing the Z-height of an on-body analyte monitoring device by utilizing novel interconnects.
US11259716B2	Method and device for respiratory monitoring A respiration monitoring system has deformation transducers on a flexible substrate arranged to adhere to a patient's torso. A processor receives signals in channels from the transducers and processes them to eliminate, reduce or compensate for noise arising from patient motion artefacts, to provide an output representative of respiration. The transducers have a size and a mutual location on the substrate so that a first transducer can overlie at least part of the 10th rib and a second transducer can overlie at least part of the 11th rib or the abdomen, and the processor processes data from the first transducer as being primarily representative of rib distending respiration and from the second transducer as being primarily representative of either diaphragm respiration or patient motion artefacts.
US11259715B2	Monitoring and diagnostics systems and methods Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatuses, devices and systems for measuring vital signs in human and animals by interrogating electromagnetic signals reflected from tissues in a human or animal subject. Probes may transmit radio frequency electromagnetic waves into a living body and generate signals responsively to the waves that are scattered from within the body. Such embodiments may be suitable for wearable devices as well as for use by medical practitioners.
US11259712B2	Wearable reflectance-mode PPG sensor network having improved detected signal strength Embodiments of the invention are directed to a photoplethysmogram (PPG) structure that includes a wearable component and a network of PPG sensors physically coupled to the wearable component. Each PPG sensor of the network includes a housing, a first light source and a light detector. The first light source is positioned in or on the housing such that, when the housing is positioned on a surface, the housing positions an illuminating surface of the first light source at a predetermined first-light-source angle with respect to the surface.
US11259710B2	System and method for remote measurements of vital signs A remote photoplethysmography (RPPG) system includes an input interface to receive a sequence of measurements of intensities of different regions of a skin of a person indicative of vital signs of the person; a solver to solve an optimization problem to determine frequency coefficients of photoplethysmographic waveforms corresponding to the measured intensities at the different regions, wherein the solver determines the frequency coefficients to reduce a distance between intensities of the skin reconstructed from the frequency coefficients and the corresponding measured intensities of the skin while enforcing joint sparsity on the frequency coefficients; and an estimator to estimate the vital signs of the person from the determined frequency coefficients of photoplethysmographic waveforms.
US11259709B2	Apparatus for measuring a physiological parameter using a wearable sensor A wearable physiological sensor has a housing and a gas-permeable support structure carried by the housing, which contacts the skin of the subject. An air space is provided between the support structure and the housing. Movement of the support structure relative to the housing is sensed. This provides a sensor which is comfortable for the subject and provides good sensitivity in that motion being detected (e.g. an arterial pulse) only needs to impart kinetic energy to the support structure, with a relatively low inertia.
US11259705B2	Device and method for in vivo photoacoustic diagnosis and photothermal purging of infected blood A method of non-invasively detecting and purging bacterial cells using a modified photoacoustic in vivo flow cytometer device is described herein. In particular, a method of detecting bacterial cells by analyzing photoacoustic pulses emitted in response to laser pulses from a pulsed laser source and/or selectively destroying the detected bacterial cells using a non-linear photothermal response induced by a high-energy laser pulse is described herein.
US11259704B2	Device and method for in vivo flow cytometry using the detection of photoacoustic waves A photoacoustic flow cytometry (PAFC) device for the in vivo detection of cells circulating in blood or lymphatic vessels is described. Ultrasound transducers attached to the skin of an organism detect the photoacoustic ultrasound waves emitted by target objects in response to their illumination by at least one pulse of laser energy delivered using at least one wavelength. The wavelengths of the laser light pulse may be varied to optimize the absorption of the laser energy by the target object. Target objects detected by the device may be unlabelled biological cells or cell products, contrast agents, or biological cells labeled with one or more contrast agents.
US11259702B2	Fiber optic imaging probe having cladding mode pullback trigger, and control method therefor An optical coherence tomographic (OCT) system includes a sample arm, a reference arm and an OCT probe. The probe irradiates a bodily lumen and a fluid contained within the bodily lumen with light of a sample beam transmitted through a double-clad fiber (DCF). A first detector detects light of a reference beam and light reflected from the bodily lumen and propagated through the core of the DCF to generate OCT interference signals. Light backscattered by the bodily lumen and by the fluid contained in the bodily lumen is propagated through a cladding of the DCF and detected by a second detector to generate an intensity signal. A processor analyzes the intensity signal, and triggers a pullback of the probe and initiates recording of OCT images of the bodily lumen in response to the intensity the backscattered light reaching a predetermined threshold value.
US11259701B2	Remote comprehensive eye examination system An ophthalmic technician is present with a patient in an exam room to operate eye examination equipment and transmit patient information to remote location. At that remote location, a skilled technician is present to provide the necessary optical care, and may operate the phoropter from the remote location. Using video and/or teleconferencing equipment and a phoropter located in the patient examination room along with management software, the system works to determine the final optical prescription for the patient. That information, coupled with findings from other devices which are integrated with the management software, and that the patient uses locally, are reviewed by a remote-based optometrist or ophthalmologist.
US11259700B2	Ocular surface interferometry (OSI) for imaging, processing, and/or displaying an ocular tear film Ocular surface interferometry devices, systems, and methods are disclosed for imaging an ocular tear film. An imaging device can be focused on the lipid layer of the tear film to capture optical wave interference interactions of specularly reflected light from the tear film combined with a background signal(s) in a first image, wherein the specularly reflected light may be produced from various portions of the ocular tear film by obliquely illuminating various portions of the ocular tear film with a multi-wavelength light source, such as in a tiling pattern(s). The imaging device can also be focused on the lipid layer to capture a second image containing the background signal(s) present in the first image. The second image can be subtracted from the first image to reduce and/or eliminate the background signal(s) in the first image to produce a resulting image, which can used to measure a tear film layer thickness.
US11259691B2	Body-insertable apparatus, transmission method, and non-transitory computer readable medium A body-insertable apparatus includes an image sensor including a first pixel configured to receive light of a first wavelength band and to generate a first signal, a second pixel configured to receive light of a second wavelength band different from the first wavelength band and to generate a second signal, and a third pixel configured to receive a third wavelength band different from the first and second wavelength bands and to generate a third signal; and a processor comprising hardware, the processor being configured to allocate part of at least one of the first signal and the second signal to the third signal, when first light is received on the first and second pixels, the first light including at least one of the light of the first wavelength band and the light of the second wavelength band and excluding the light of the third wavelength band.
US11259689B2	Endoscope system, processor and endoscope An endoscope system includes an endoscope and a processor. The endoscope includes: an actuator including a coil configured to cause a movable lens and a magnet to move by application of a drive signal; a position sensor configured to output a position detection signal showing a position of the movable lens according to a magnetic flux of the magnet; and an endoscope memory storing correction information for correcting crosstalk onto the position detection signal by the magnetic flux of the coil. The processor includes a drive controller configured to correct the position detection signal based on the drive signal and the correction information and output the drive signal based on a target position and the corrected position detection signal, to the actuator.
US11259688B2	Devices for assisting manipulation of input mechanisms of medical instruments Devices for assisting manipulation of input mechanisms of medical instruments are disclosed. According to an aspect, a device includes a body defining an interior shaped to substantially surround and attach to the input mechanism of a medical instrument. The device also includes multiple protrusions attached to the body and each extending in one or more directions towards the medical instrument.
US11259681B2	Dishwasher with image-based diagnostics A dishwasher and method utilize an imaging system to perform various diagnostic operations within the dishwasher, including one or more of level sensing, filter cleaning, wash tub rinse down, foam detection, imaging system cleaning, and remote viewing. A controller may clean a filter by controllably-redirecting a controllably-movable sprayer to spray fluid onto the filter.
US11259673B2	Dirt suction guide device and cleaner comprising same Disclosed are a dirt suction guide device and a cleaner comprising the same. The disclosed cleaner comprises: a cleaner body for generating a suction force; a flexible hose connected to the cleaner body; an extension tube connected to the flexible hose; and a dirt suction guide device separately coupled to the extension tube, wherein the dirt suction guide device comprises a body, a movable portion, which is connected to one side of the body, and which is coupled to be able to slide with regard to the body, and a connecting portion, which is connected to the other side of the body, and which connects the body to the extension tube, and the body is hinge-coupled such that the same can selectively maintain and change an angle with regard to the extension tube.
US11259671B2	Low cost radio frequency identification (RFID) dispensing systems A radio frequency identification (RFID) dispenser that includes low cost electronic components that can read and write to the tag of a refill cartridge. In one embodiment, the reader utilizes a multi band pass filter to convert the radio frequency identification into a digital signal that is processed by a controller to perform a dispensing function representative to the code of the tag. In another embodiment, the controller utilizes an internal comparator to convert the radio frequency identification into a digital signal that is processed by a controller to perform a dispensing function representative to the code of the tag. The dispenser in both embodiments also includes a pair of transistors that write to the RFID tag of the refill cartridge. A dispenser according to the invention also includes the capability to read and/or write to tags upon cartridges employed by the dispenser, and augmenting the operation of the dispenser as a function thereof. Additionally, a dispenser of variable size is presented that is adaptable, through adjustable partitions or a telescoping cup, to receive and maintain cartridges of various sizes.
US11259666B2	Liquid pumping device comprising a gear pump for beverage dispenser A liquid pumping device (1) for beverage dispenser comprising: -a housing (2) with a liquid inlet (3) and a liquid outlet (4); -a gear pump (5) positioned in the housing with the liquid inlet communicating with the gear pump; wherein a flowmeter (6) is fluidly positioned in the housing (2) preferably between the gear pump (5) and the liquid outlet (4).
US11259664B2	Cooking appliance A cooking appliance is provided. The cooking appliance comprises a cooker body for receiving food and a lid for covering the cooker body. The cooking appliance has a front side for facilitating cooking operations and a rear side spaced apart from the front side. The cooker body comprises at least one latch slot disposed on an inclined rear side of the cooker body. The lid comprises at least one latch bar disposed on a periphery thereof and extending outwardly therefrom. When the lid is detached from the cooker body, the latch bar is operable to be inserted into the corresponding latch slot to secure the lid at the inclined rear side of the cooker body, allowing a user to secure the lid to the latch slot without reaching a rear side of the cooker body by hand, and to retrieve the food without accidentally contacting the lid.
US11259663B2	Containment unit for facilitating parcel delivery by unmanned aerial vehicles A containment unit that facilitates delivery of parcels using drones is provided. An example containment unit comprises an inner housing unit and an outer housing unit. The inner housing unit includes a first and second sidewall that are connected by an end piece and have a bottom opening in between. The inner housing unit is movable from a retracted position over a floor of the containment unit to an extended position, where a portion of the opening is extended beyond the floor. A parcel may be inserted into a volume of space within the inner housing unit from below through the opening and pulled into the containment unit by the end piece when the inner housing unit is retracted. The containment unit can be used as part of a drone delivery system that can also include an elevated delivery platform, a computer application, or any combination of these aspects.
US11259661B2	Snack containment and dispensing apparatus and use thereof The present invention is a snack containment and dispensing apparatus having a plurality of separate snack containment compartments, a preferably transparent lid having an opening therein, and a plunger or like means to index or rotate the lid such that access to a singular snack compartment is obtained one-at-a-time. By selectively accessing only one snack compartment at a time, the snacks in the other non-currently accessed snack compartments are rendered non-spillable. Moreover, by providing indexable access to a snack compartment, a user—typically a child—not only gains access to a snack contained therein but is also provided snack choice autonomy and entertainment thereby.
US11259652B2	Product management display system A merchandise display system can include a front rail, at least one divider configured to engage the front rail, the at least one divider including a barrier. The at least one divider may also include a divider wall, and a roller carriage extending along the divider wall. The roller carriage can be provided with a plurality of rollers, and the roller carriage can be configured to advance the product. Additionally, the roller carriage can be tilted such that the product is configured to move toward the barrier. The roller carriage can be formed of a first portion and a second portion, and the roller carriage can provided with a plurality of axles that are configured to receive the plurality of rollers such that the plurality of rollers are configured to rotate on the roller carriage. A method for forming a merchandise display system is also contemplated.
US11259651B2	Child accommodating apparatus with an armrest rotating mechanism The present application provides an armrest rotating mechanism suitable for being installed on an armrest tube and a frame. The armrest tube is rotatably connected to the frame. The armrest rotating mechanism includes an engagement device and an operation device. The engagement device is disposed between the armrest tube and the frame. Via the engagement device, the armrest tube can be positioned relative to the frame. The operation device is disposed on the armrest tube and connected with the engagement device. When the operation device is rotated, the engagement device is driven by the rotated operation device so as to disengage the armrest tube from the frame. Therefore, the armrest tube is adjustable relative to the frame and has a simple structure and utility convenience.
US11259647B2	Mattress with crowned panel Mattresses and improved fabric covers for providing mattresses that have smooth surfaces. Additionally, methods for manufacturing non-quilted mattress covers and for manufacturing mattresses employing non-quilted mattress covers. The systems and methods described herein include mattress panels that can be manufactured separate from the inner core construction, and laid over the inner core to be fastened in place as a sleeping surface for the mattress. Optionally, these mattress panels can include a layer of fire retardant material, that may be added as a layer of material or that may be incorporated into one or more of the layers, such as a filler layer, in the mattress panel.
US11259641B2	Synchronization of motion furniture with multiple actuators Aspects herein are directed to systems and methods for synchronization of actuators to reposition furniture units. Specifically, a master control box receives input to reposition a furniture unit from one position to another and communicates the input to a plurality of control boxes. Then, each of the plurality of control boxes assigns a virtual axis to each of a plurality of actuators attached to each associated control box. Furthermore, each of the plurality of control boxes assigns a transfer function to each of the plurality of actuators. The transfer function is used by the actuators to transform an output of the virtual axis to determine a target position. In this way, the plurality of actuators can reference the same virtual axis for synchronization purposes, but use different transfer functions to maintain complex relationships between the positions of each actuator. Based on the target position, the actuators reposition the furniture unit.
US11259639B2	Folding chair with detachable container Portable chairs including a detachable container. The container can be insulated for keeping beverages and food cold for an extended period. The folding chair preferably is designed and constructed for the demands of the outdoors. Various detachable, reconfigurable, and/or interchangeable features including the container, carrying straps, and cup holder. The container can be easily and conveniently attached and detached from the folding chair. The container can have exterior pockets which are welded and sealed to protect items contained within. The straps can have multiple different attachment points which allow multiple different carrying styles and reconfigurations including a backpack type carrying configuration, over-the-shoulder briefcase type carrying configuration, and across the body satchel type configuration, for example. The cupholder is interchangeable from each side of the folding chair and can be designed to accommodate various types of beverage containers including cups having a handle, a can, and a canteen, for example.
US11259636B1	Seat A seat has a supporting frame being rigid, two seat cushions disposed above the supporting frame, and two supporting members. The supporting frame has a main body and four side bodies fixedly mounted on two front ends and two rear ends of the main body. The supporting members are mounted on bottom surfaces of the seat cushions and are connected to the supporting frame. Each one of the supporting members has multiple supporting elements respectively located at a front half section and a rear half section of a corresponding one of the seat cushions. Each one of the supporting elements has a guiding rod mounted on the supporting frame and a main spring disposed around the guiding rod. The seat provides good support by the supporting frame and the supporting members and provides a cushioning performance by the main spring.
US11259634B1	Foldable drawer storage device A foldable drawer storage device consisting of: one drawer and one shell. The drawer can be folded flat or expanded into a box shape. The shell can be folded flat or expanded into standing position. Folded flat, the drawer and the shell take up small space and are easy to store. When the drawer and the shell are both expanded, the shell becomes the exterior box of the drawer, which allows the drawer to be pushed into the shell. The drawer can also be pulled out, revealing the entire storage space of the drawer.
US11259630B2	Height adjustable table/desk control mechanism Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward apparatuses, systems, and methods for controlling movement of a desk or table. The apparatuses, systems, and methods may include a housing arranged with the desk or table and a lever configured to initiate raising or lowering of the desk in response to a force applied by a user.
US11259625B2	Enhanced hair product application with concurrent styling Embodiments of hair care apparatus and methods are provided generally comprising a location to provision hair care product, an applicator and a manipulator configured to enable concurrent product application and hair manipulation, and may comprise a product heater, configured to heat product provisioned therein, or be configured for use with an external heating source such as a microwave oven, and provide application of heated product at temperatures both safe for hair health and enhanced absorption. Apparatus may comprise a source of pressure, such as a pump or piston, to generate hair product flow through an applicator, and may be configured to receive product in user fillable or prepackaged product cartridges usable in the apparatus, a product chamber within the apparatus or a removable product reservoir useable in the apparatus. An apparatus may further be configured to support a plurality of manipulators, active applicators and passive applicators.
US11259622B2	Interdental cleaner An interdental cleaner with a rod-like support which has a cleaning device in an axial end region. The cleaning device includes a cover on the support made of a soft-elastic plastic, and structuring is formed on the outside of the cover having a plurality of fingers protruding with radial components from the cover, which fingers are made of the same material as the cover and are connected as one piece thereto. The structuring additionally has a bristle edging with a plurality of bristle bundles protruding with radial components from the cover and/or individual bristles which are each formed from pre-produced bristles embedded in the cover and/or in the support.
US11259620B2	Accessory storage device The present invention generally relates to wearable jewelry and storage devices. Specifically, this invention relates to wearable jewelry having the ability to store materials, including cosmetic makeup materials lotions and perfumes.
US11259617B2	Device for dispensing and applying a product A device for dispensing and applying a cosmetic product, the device includes a product dispensing assembly, an applicator which is configured to be coupled within an upper chamber of the product dispensing assembly in a removable manner, and a cap which is configured to be removably engaged with the product dispensing assembly for covering the applicator and the product dispensing assembly when the device is not in use. The applicator comprises an applicator element which is in contact with an intermediate receiving surface of the dispensing head of the product dispensing assembly. At least a portion of the applicator is placed in contact with the product delivered through at least one outlet of the dispensing head when the product dispensing assembly is actuated. Preferably, the product at least partially impregnates the applicator element when the product contacts the applicator element.
US11259616B2	Cosmetic package including a liquid reservoir Cosmetic formula containers generally include a compartment to store and retain a plurality of applicators. In one aspect, the cosmetic formula container includes a container body configured to retain a portion of a cosmetic formula within a cavity and a neck configured to receive a cap for closure of the container body. The container body includes an indentation extending from the container body into the cavity to form a compartment. The compartment is generally open at a proximal end and closed at a distal end such that the cosmetic formula in the cavity does not flow into the compartment. In some aspects, the compartment has a profile configured to retain a plurality of applicators therein.
US11259614B1	Hair roller A hair roller for wrapping therearound a hair portion is a concave cylinder, which has a normally oval cross section at a top portion and a bottom portion thereof larger than a normally oval cross section at a middle portion thereof of an oval cylinder; an oval cylinder, which has at least one normally oval cross-section, or a concave oval cylinder. The hair roller is optionally provided with a hair-retaining structure formed on the roller body for grabbing the hair portion.
US11259609B2	Process for the selective decoration of a timepiece component A process for manufacturing a timepiece or jewellery component, the component being manufactured from a first material, the process including: obtaining the component, having undergone, at a very latest during the obtaining, a treatment directed toward combining the component with a chromic element, the chromic element including at least one pigment capable of reacting to an energy supply and a matrix for binding the pigment; placing the component in a machine capable of at least locally supplying energy to the component; using the energy supply machine in a predefined operating program at least locally to provide energy to the chromic element to bring about a reaction of its pigment; removing the component from the energy supply machine.
US11259608B2	Adaptive finger size ring The present application discloses an adaptive finger size ring. The adaptive finger size ring in the present application includes: a first ring body, a second ring body, and two elastic devices. There is a clamping position between the first ring body and the second ring body, and the clamping position is used to clamp a finger. One end of the elastic device is connected to the first ring body, the other end is connected to the second ring body, and the two elastic devices are respectively located on two sides of the clamping position. The elastic device, the first ring body, and the second ring body form an annular shape. The elastic device is telescopic and has a tendency to shorten in length, so that the first ring body and the second ring body are in close contact with skin of the finger. Thus, a swelling feeling caused due to poor blood flow when the ring is worn for a long time can be avoided, and wearing comfort is improved.
US11259607B2	Apparatus and methods for securing jewelry A hook comprising a body having a first coil on a first end and a second coil on a second end. The coils may be spirals curving in opposite directions. The body may be constructed of filament, such as metal wire, and may be hypoallergenic. The coils may be disposed on opposite ends of the body. An aperture may be disposed on the lower side of the body, and may be defined by a loop. A base may interface with the aperture, the interfacing base configured to interface on one side with the body and interface with a jewelry on the opposite side.
US11259604B2	Anti-pinch buckle assembly A buckle assembly includes a buckle member that is configured to removably connect to a reciprocal buckle member. A retaining guard couples to the buckle member. The retaining guard is configured to reduce a potential of pinching as the buckle member connects to and disconnects from the reciprocal buckle member by providing a barrier where the buckle member and reciprocal buckle member connect.
US11259599B2	Lacing system A lace-receiving assembly includes a substrate, a first sheet, and a lace guide. The substrate includes a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The first sheet includes a third surface and a fourth surface opposite the third surface. The third surface is bonded to the first surface to define a channel extending between the substrate and the first sheet. The lace guide is disposed within the channel.
US11259597B2	Shoe sole A shoe sole (100) comprising a bottom surface, the bottom surface having a front array (110) of ground engaging formations having a first height or depth, and a rear array (120) of ground engaging formations having a second height or depth, the rear array of ground engaging formations generally located at a heel portion of the sole, wherein the first height or depth is greater than the second height or depth.
US11259593B2	Sole structure with tiered plate assembly for an article of footwear A sole structure may have a tiered plate assembly including a first plate and a second plate. The first plate may extend from a forefoot region of the sole structure to a heel region of the sole structure. Stated differently, the first plate may be a full-length plate that extends the full length of the sole structure. The second plate may be joined with the first plate in a midfoot region of the sole structure and at a rear of a heel region of the sole structure, and may diverge from the first plate between the midfoot region and the rear of the heel region to define a first heel gap between the first plate and the second plate in the heel region. Heel cushioning units may be stacked in the heel region, with a first heel cushioning unit disposed in the first heel gap.
US11259589B2	Flex crown An adjustable three dimensional mannequin head is provided for fitting a variety of head gear including but not limited to wigs, hats, caps, helmets and similar items. The adjustable mannequin head consist of a plurality of parts that move in a synchronized manner to expand and contract the size of the adjustable mannequin head to allow fitting to size; wigs, hats, and similar items. The mannequin head consist of four quadrants that make up the crown of the head. These four quadrants are mechanically adjusted by a single screw, which when turned will either expand or contract the adjustable mannequin head based on the direction the screw is turned. The adjustable mannequin head provides matching and fitting head gear to individual heads.
US11259588B2	Athletic helmet Compressible conical springs with unsecured tabs are positioned between an outer helmet and an inner rigid liner to absorb and distribute impact forces to minimize concussion risks and other head injuries.
US11259580B2	Health monitoring garment and system A health monitoring garment is provided. The health monitoring garment includes an article of clothing comprising at least one compression section to provide a snug fit against a person wearing the article of clothing and a sensor island. The sensor island includes stretchable circuitry, two or more sensors, one or more power supplies, and optionally one or more wireless communication modules within a self-contained unit. At least one of the sensors comprises a stretchable sensor which may be a respiration sensor. The sensor unit may be provided independent of the health monitoring garment or as a complete system. The sensor island and compression section of the article of clothing also include fasteners of complementary geometries for reversible attachment and disengagement of the sensor island from the compression section.
US11259579B2	Face shield assembly and method A face shield and head covering combination is provided. The head covering comprises a body and an attachment element. The body defines a head opening configured to receive a user's head therethrough. The attachment element is coupled to the body and configured to couple to a face shield positionable on the user's face. The attachment element is configured to transition between a first position on the body and a second position on the body, wherein the second position is spaced from the first position.
US11259578B2	PPE with rotating assembly providing multiple face covers A personal protective device (PPE) including a face cover assembly and a bodysuit configured to be worn by a human user. The device protects users against airborne aerosol particles containing viruses or other infectious agents while enabling improved flexibility relative to prior art designs. The device includes a helmet-like” rotating face cover assembly that fits over the user's head and attaches to a collar on the biohazard bodysuit. This rotating face cover assembly has a plurality of different mask sides, each with differing geometries or other properties. The device enables a user to can rotate the cover and select a given mask side that best meets that user's needs. The different mask sides can accommodate different facial geometries, eyewear types, and use cases.
US11259567B2	Aerosol generation device An aerosol generation device may include a first housing comprising an opening at one side, an inner space for accommodating a cigarette inserted through the opening, and a heater disposed in the inner space; a second housing coupled to other side of the first housing and including a controller; a fastening portion configured to couple the first housing to the second housing; a battery coupled to the second housing; and a case coupled to the second housing for accommodating the second housing, the fastening portion, and the battery therein, wherein the fastening portion is prevented, by the case, from being exposed to outside.
US11259566B1	Fluid-based electronic cigarette system A fluid-based electronic cigarette system, including a first electronic cigarette that including at least a first housing with a first interfacing surface. In addition, the first electronic cigarette includes a first reservoir and a first mouthpiece. Also, the system includes a second electronic cigarette, which contains at least a second housing. The second housing has a second interfacing surface, a second reservoir, and a second mouthpiece. In addition, an assembled configuration is formed when the first interfacing surface removably connects to the second interfacing surface. In the assembled configuration, a unitary mouthpiece formed by the first mouthpiece and the second mouthpiece.
US11259563B2	Cigarettes and cigarette filters including activated carbon for removing nitric oxide Filters and cigarettes include an activated carbon sorbent capable of selectively removing nitric oxide from mainstream tobacco smoke. Methods for making cigarette filters and cigarettes using the activated carbon sorbent and methods for treating mainstream tobacco smoke produced by smoking a cigarette comprising the sorbent are also provided.
US11259559B2	Compaction apparatus and related methods A compaction apparatus for compacting a smokeable product in production of smoking articles includes: (a) a frame for removably receiving a cone pallet. The cone pallet includes a plurality of cavities. Each cavity holds a cone filled with a volume of the smokeable product. The apparatus further includes (b) a compaction mechanism including: (i) at least one pin alignable above an open upper end of a respective cone and movable from a retracted position, in which the pin is spaced apart from the smokeable product in the cone, toward an advanced position for inserting a lower portion of the pin into the volume of the smokeable product. The compaction mechanism further includes (ii) a vibratory drive coupled to the pin and operable to vibrate the pin when the lower portion of the pin is within the volume of the smokeable product for inducing settlement of the smokeable product.
US11259552B2	Chips formed by slicing with apple cell clean water jet scalpel and differential temperature combined with differential pressure puffing and processing technology The disclosure provides chips formed by slicing with an apple cell clean water jet scalpel and a processing technology. The processing technology comprises the following specific steps: harvesting fresh fruits, sorting, peeling, slicing, drying and packaging to obtain the apple crispy chip. According to the disclosure, the tangxin apple is peeled by adopting an ultrahigh pressure water jet flow cutting technology, cut into slices with a thickness of 5 mm and inoculated for 15 min in 30° C. and 30% Lactobacillus brevis fermentation broth. PPO is a terminal oxidase with Cu2+ as a prosthetic group, and Lactobacillus brevis and Lactobacillus plantarum are complexed with Cu2+, leading to rapid oxygen consumption to generate organic acid and CO2, quickly reduction of pH and creation of an approximate oxygen-free environment to effectively inhibit PPO activity while removing oxygen required in enzymatic browning, thereby effectively inhibiting browning.
US11259547B2	Composition and feed containing medium-chain fatty acids The present invention concerns a composition containing medium-chain fatty acids or salts or mono-, di-, triglycerides, esters or amide derivatives of medium-chain fatty acids. In a further aspect, the present invention concerns also a feed, supplemented with the composition, and a method for feeding animals, in particular calves, cattle and dairy cattle.
US11259545B2	Bacillus sp. strain with improved productivity of fermented soybean meal and method for producing fermented soybean meal using the same The present invention relates to a Bacillus amyloliquefaciens K2G strain, which is excellent in removal of anti-nutritional factors and in protease activity, and shows excellent antimicrobial activity against pathogens and reduced productivity of viscous substances, a method for producing a fermented soybean meal using the strain, a fermented soybean meal produced therefrom, and a feed composition including the same. The fermented soybean meal prepared by Bacillus amyloliquefaciens K2G strain according to the present invention has few anti-nutritional factors such as trypsin inhibitors, soybean oligosaccharides, and polysaccharides, a high content of crude proteins, and high protein solubility, and also consists of small-sized peptides digestible by livestock due to low-molecularization, thereby being effectively used as a high-quality vegetable protein feed having excellent absorption rate and feed efficiency.
US11259544B2	Methods of preparing a stratified frozen confection for hand consumption, and related confections The invention encompasses methods of preparing a stratified frozen confection for hand consumption and the related confection. The methods include filling an aliquot container defining a three dimensional shape with at least one open end with an amount of a frozen material, reducing the temperature of the frozen material within the scoop to about −12.2° C. (10° F.) or less; placing a first surface of the frozen material in contact with an interior surface of a first substrate, the first substrate having a length dimension an a width dimension; removing the frozen material from the aliquot container. The first surface of the frozen material is in contact with the interior surface of the first substrate and a second surface of the frozen material is positioned in a plane above the plane of the first substrate. Thereafter, the methods include manipulating the second surface of the frozen material to place at least one cavity in the second surface; disposing upon the second surface of the frozen material an amount of a filling to form a filling layer that has a first surface that is in contact with the second surface of the frozen material and a second surface; applying a second substrate to the second surface of the filling, the second substrate having a width dimension and a length dimension. Thus, a stratified frozen confection having at least two layers disposed between a first substrate and a second substrate is formed.
US11259543B2	Frozen confection sauce composition A novel frozen confection sauce composition comprising from 10 to 18 wt % vegetable fat that is solid at 4° C., from 24 to 32 wt % vegetable fat that is liquid at 4° C., from 5 to 10 wt % nut paste and from 30 to 40 wt % sugar. A novel frozen confection sauce composition for the reduction of sugar bloom.
US11259542B2	Apparatus for delivering frozen confection comprising particulate material An apparatus for delivering particulate material to a frozen confectionery material to provide a single serving to a consumer. The apparatus comprises a chamber for storing the particulate material, and a supply of frozen confectionery. The chamber has an open exit, wherein the chamber is adapted to be rotatable in use such that the open exit follows a pathway having both an upper region and a lower region, and arranged to pass through the lower region at a non-zero speed a plurality of times during a single serving. The open exit is sized to allow a portion of stored particulate material to fall out of the chamber via the open exit under gravity each time the open exit passes through the lower region of the pathway. The apparatus also is arranged to bring particulate material that has left the chamber into contact with the supply of frozen confectionery.
US11259540B2	Cocoa powder compositions A cocoa powder with improved dispersibility.
US11259539B2	Method for producing cheese-flavored substance The present invention relates to a method for producing a cheese-flavored substance, including adding a bacterial cell disrupted product obtained by disrupting lactic acid bacteria and an enzyme to a milk raw material to cause a reaction. The present invention can provide a method for producing a cheese-flavored substance which can safely and efficiently produce a cheese-flavored substance having a more natural cheese flavor at low-cost with simple operation.
US11259538B2	Process for the production of pasta filata cheese products Pasta filata cheese products of the Mozzarella type are suggested, obtainable or obtained by: (a) subjecting milk to bactofugation or filtration, obtaining a bactofugate or a bacterial concentrate and a treated milk; (b) sterilising and, optionally, standardising the bactofugate or the bacterial concentrate obtained in step (b); (c) blending the treated milk of step (a) with the sterilised bactofugate or the bacterial concentrate of step (b); (d) coagulating the blended product of step (c) while adding starter cultures and/or rennet; (e) separating the coagulated milk of step (d) into whey and curd; (f) processing the whey with fine curd particles contained therein obtained in step (e) into a stable suspension; (g) subjecting the curd obtained in step (e) to heat treatment, and (h) shaping the heat-treated product of step (g), wherein the suspension produced in step (f) is either added to the bactofugate or the bacterial concentrate obtained in step (a), or to the sterilised bactofugate or the bacterial concentrate obtained in step (b).
US11259537B2	Beverage product with free divalent cations protein aggregation and a method producing thereof The invention relates to a method of producing a shelf stable ready-to-drink beverage product, comprising the steps of: providing an ingredient composition comprising micellar caseins and whey protein, having a total protein concentration of 1.5-8 wt. %, and wherein the composition has a casein to whey protein ratio of 90/10-60/40, adding divalent cations to provide a concentration of 3-20 mM free divalent cations in the ingredient composition, and 0.025-0.3 wt % of a stabilizing system comprising hydrocolloids, and subsequently heat treating the ingredient composition at ultra high temperature (UHT) at 135-150° C. for 3-30 s to form agglomerated proteins comprising casein and beta-lactoglobulin from the whey protein, the agglomerates having a size of 5-30 microns mean diameter D(4,3) as measured by laser diffraction. The invention also relates to a shelf stable ready-to-drink beverage product comprising aggregated proteins comprising micellar caseins and whey protein aggregates, wherein the product has a pH of 6.6-7.2, 1.5-8.0 wt. % milk proteins, a casein to whey protein ratio of 90/10-60/40, and a concentration of 3-20 mM divalent cations, and the aggregates are of 5-30 microns mean diameter D(4,3) as measured by laser diffraction.
US11259533B2	Automatical in situ control of the confined environment of metabolically active produce A control system for controlling the storage of metabolically active produce in a defined confined environment. The control system comprises gas analyzing and pressure measurement means including a control unit for determining an adjusted gas medium composition of the confined environment for protecting the produce against metabolic degradation. An operating/actuating means for adapting the gas medium in the confined storage environment is based on the determined adjusted gas medium composition. The control unit is adapted for determining the adjusted gas medium composition based on a mathematical model of the system that determines a metabolic coefficient of the produce by combining measured changes of gas composition in the confined environment with dynamic pressure changes in the confined space. The value of the metabolic coefficient is used as input for a control algorithm to continuously adjust the gas composition in the confined space in response to the metabolic activity of the produce.
US11259526B2	Phosphate-solubilzing fungal strains The present disclosure provides novel fungal strains capable of solubilizing phosphate, as well as compositions and methods of using those strains to increase the amount/concentration of soluble phosphate in a medium that comprises insoluble phosphate.
US11259524B2	Microbiocidal oxadiazole derivatives Compounds of the formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, useful as a pesticides, especially as fungicides.
US11259519B2	Artificial licking branch An artificial licking branch comprising a unitary, portable, and handheld branch body of a polymeric material and a plurality of cantilevered branch members, each projecting outwardly away from the branch body and including an absorbent textile material patch disposed along a portion of the branch member length on each of the plurality of cantilevered branch members. The absorbent textile material is designed to absorb and store natural and synthetic preorbital deer scents or lures for the purpose of indicating deer presence to other deer and for improving hunters' scouting and hunting experience upon their being able to monitor the number and type of deer that physically interact with the artificial licking branch.
US11259516B2	Method and apparatus for capsular delivery to plants A method of controlling the growth of a plant is provided, the method including the steps of: (a) inserting a capsule containing an agent into an opening formed in a plant; and (b) closing the opening formed in the plant into which the capsule is inserted. The agent may be a chemical agent. The plant may be a woody plant, such as a woody weed or a woody cultivated plant. Also provided is a capsule containing an agent for insertion into a plant, and an apparatus for insertion of a capsule into a plant.
US11259513B1	Electric clip receiver for outriggers An Electric clip receiver that is attached to an outrigger. The electric clip receiver comprises of a housing that is configured to attach to either to a shock cord clip or to a fixed mount on a boat via a mounting bracket that is attached to the housing. An electric motor that has a gear that is powered by a battery source that is housed within the housing. a pulley that is attached to the housing and an outrigger line that is looped on the pulley that is configured to be connected to the outrigger. An outrigger release clip that is attached to the outrigger line at a specific location. A microchip that is programmed to control the electric motor's forward and reverse function that is housed within the housing. And, a switch that controls the microchip's control of the electric motor.
US11259510B2	Humanized T cell mediated immune responses in non-human animals Disclosed herein are non-human animals (e.g., rodents, e.g., mice or rats) genetically engineered to express a humanized T cell co-receptor (e.g., humanized CD4 and/or CD8 (e.g., CD8α and/or CD8β)), a human or humanized T cell receptor (TCR) comprising a variable domain encoded by at least one human TCR variable region gene segment and/or a human or humanized major histocompatibility complex that binds the humanized T cell co-receptor (e.g., human or humanized MHC II (e.g., MHC II α and/or MHC II β chains) and/or MHC I (e.g., MHC I α) respectively, and optionally human or humanized β 2 microglobulin). Also provided are embryos, tissues, and cells expressing the same. Methods for making a genetically engineered animal that expresses at least one humanized T cell co-receptor (e.g., humanized CD4 and/or CD8), at least one humanized MHC that associates with the humanized T cell co-receptor (e.g., humanized MHC II and/or MHC I, respectively) and/or the humanized TCR are also provided. Methods for using the genetically engineered animals that mount a substantially humanized T cell immune response for developing human therapeutics are also provided.
US11259506B2	Bird mister apparatus A bird mister apparatus for attracting and cooling birds includes a base plate, a housing, and a reservoir within a housing inside configured to hold liquid that can be sealed and unsealed. A spout has a spout aperture extending through to the housing inside. A pump is coupled within the housing inside and is in fluid communication with the spout aperture. An inlet tube is coupled to the pump and is in fluid communication with the pump. A CPU is coupled within the housing inside and is in operational communication with the pump. A battery is in operational communication with the CPU and the pump. A power switch is in operational communication with the CPU to activate and alternatively deactivate the pump. A hanger is coupled to the housing to support the apparatus on a tree branch, a fence, or an awning.
US11259505B2	Apparatus and method for washing shell eggs An apparatus for washing shell eggs includes a washing unit and an egg conveyor extending in a longitudinal direction, and having a transverse direction. The longitudinal and transverse directions define a conveyor plane. Spray nozzles are arranged in the washing unit above the conveyor plane so that in a first step the eggs can be subjected to a liquid jet from a first liquid spray nozzle spraying in a first spray direction, and in a second step the eggs can be subjected to a liquid jet from a second liquid spray nozzle spraying in a second spray direction. The first and second spray nozzles are arranged on opposite sides of the egg when seen in the transverse direction and at a distance above the conveyor plane so that the liquid sprayed in the first and second spray directions hits the egg from opposite sides in a downwards angle.
US11259503B1	Chicken feeder An apparatus for dispensing feed to chickens includes a container defining an interior volume configured to hold said feed, baffles connected to said container and projecting into said interior volume, and feeder holes located through said container. The baffles are configured to direct said feed toward said feeder holes.
US11259501B2	Warning system for animal farrowing operations A vibratory detector for detecting a vibratory signal from one or more feeders. A processor is in communication with the vibratory detector and configured for determining from at least one characteristic of the vibratory signal a possible action event, and for determining from a pattern of possible action events a likely action event. A warning device is in communication with the processor for providing an output in response to the likely action event. In an embodiment, the at least one characteristic of the vibratory signal can comprise the frequency or magnitude of the vibratory signal.
US11259498B2	Poultry growing robot A poultry barn robot for robotically preforming various poultry barn operation tasks that includes a chassis, a collection platform pivotally mounted to the chassis, and an conveyor connected to the chassis, wherein the conveyor includes conveyor system for conveying at least one of dead birds and manure cakes from a bedded floor of a poultry barn to the collection platform. The robot additionally includes at least one equipment cabinet mounted to the chassis, and at least one controller that is structured and operable to control: movement of the robot through the poultry barn; movement of the conveyor system; and movement of the collection platform between a Collection position and a Disposal position.
US11259497B2	Countertop cooking appliance A countertop cooking appliance is an apparatus that is used to manufacture food, particularly cheeses, with controlled heating, mixing, drainage, and pressure cycles. The apparatus is also configured to accept various cooking patterns for different foods based on different recipes. A perforated drainer is used to hold ingredients for mixing, completed cheese curds, and the finalized cheese product. A processing receptacle is a container that holds the perforated drainer and temporarily stores whey and process byproducts. A byproduct receptacle is a storage unit for whey and other liquid byproducts produced in the cheese development process. A fluid pump applies pressure to fluids collected in the processing receptacle, transferring them to the byproduct receptacle. A linear actuator provides mechanical power to one of several detachable food-interacting heads, which consequently chops, mixes, or otherwise agitates the contents of the perforated container.
US11259496B2	Pepper hybrid SVHH5137 and parents thereof The invention provides seeds and plants of pepper hybrid SVHH5137 and pepper line HHA-FD16-1393. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid SVHH5137 and pepper line HHA-FD16-1393 and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a pepper plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid pepper hybrid SVHH5137 and pepper line HHA-FD16-1393 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
US11259489B1	Soybean variety 5PYJK64 A novel soybean variety, designated 5PYJK64 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PYJK64, cells from soybean variety 5PYJK64, plants of soybean 5PYJK64, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PYJK64. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PYJK64 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PYJK64, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PYJK64, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PYJK64. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PYJK64 are further provided.
US11259488B2	Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis l.) with high carnosic acid denominated KI937 The present invention relates generally to a rosemary plant and, more specifically, to a proprietary clonal plant line KI937 that hyper-accumulates carnosic acid.
US11259485B1	Plants and seeds of corn variety CV480092 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV480092. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV480092, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV480092 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV480092 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV480092.
US11259482B2	Inbred corn line KW4FP1690 Inbred corn line, designated KW4FP1690, are disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred corn line KW4FP1690, to the plants and plant parts of inbred corn line KW4FP1690 and to methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing inbred corn line KW4FP1690 with itself or another corn line. The invention also relates to products produced from the seeds, plants, or parts thereof, of inbred corn line KW4FP1690 and/or of the hybrids produced using the inbred as a parent. The invention further relates to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other corn lines derived from inbred corn line KW4FP1690.
US11259479B2	Inbred corn line MDS3501 An inbred corn line, designated MDS3501, is disclosed. The disclosure relates to the seeds of inbred corn line MDS3501, to the plants of inbred corn line MDS3501 and to methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing the inbred line MDS3501 with itself or with another corn line. The disclosure further relates to methods for producing other inbred corn lines derived from the inbred MDS3501.
US11259478B2	Wheat variety 6PELS91B A wheat variety designated 6PELS91B, the plants and seeds of wheat variety 6PELS91B, methods for producing a wheat plant produced by crossing the variety 6PELS91B with another wheat plant, and hybrid wheat seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 6PELS91B with another wheat line or plant, and the creation of variants by backcrossing, mutagenesis or transformation of variety 6PELS91B are disclosed. Methods for producing other wheat varieties or breeding lines derived from wheat variety 6PELS91B and to wheat varieties or breeding lines produced by those methods are also provided.
US11259475B2	Soybean variety 5PHVN18 A novel soybean variety, designated 5PHVN18 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PHVN18, cells from soybean variety 5PHVN18, plants of soybean 5PHVN18, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PHVN18. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PHVN18 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PHVN18, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PHVN18, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PHVN18. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PHVN18 are further provided.
US11259474B2	Tomato hybrid SVTM1082 The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid SVTM1082 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid SVTM1082 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
US11259473B2	TMV resistant tobacco plant containing short N introduced fragment and method for breeding same A TMV resistant tobacco plant containing a short N introgressed segment and a method for breeding the same. A homozygous tobacco plant containing an N introgressed segment is hybridized with a tobacco plant of genotype nn to obtain an F1 progeny tobacco plant of genotype Nn. The F1 progeny tobacco plant is hybridized with the tobacco plant of genotype nn, to obtain population materials for screening to obtain the short N introgressed segment. TMV is inoculated at a seedling stage, and Nn genotype plants showing necrotic lesion are obtained by screening the population materials. The Nn genotype plants are genotyped using a molecular marker TN5.51 primer pair and an N gene-specific molecular marker N1N2 at the right end of the N introgressed segment. A plant found to be negative when tested by the TN5.51 primer pair and to be positive when tested by the N1N2 molecular marker is a plant comprising the short N introgressed segment. The size of non-target genomic components deleted from plants containing the short N introgressed segment is estimated using TN5.34 and TN5.20 and TN4.99 primer pairs. The obtained short N introgressed segment is applicable to germplasma innovation and breeding of TMV resistant tobacco. The invention is helps to reduce linkage drag with the N gene.
US11259469B2	Grinding device and grinding method wherein a grinding unit can operate on-board as well as off-board A grinding device and a grinding method for grinding at least one knife. The grinding device includes a frame with a knife holder and a grinding unit comprising a grinding head, a grinding head holder, and a grinding head drive assembly. The grinding unit can selectively be connected with the frame or can be disconnected from the frame and can be placed on a cutting assembly with knives to be ground. In both operating modes the grinding head drive assembly rotates the grinding head and moves the rotating grinding head with respect to the grinding head holder.
US11259468B2	Movable feed floor for a cotton harvester A method and apparatus for harvesting cotton including a cotton accumulator configured to accumulate cotton removed from cotton plants. A feeder system of a cotton harvester is configured to move independently of the cotton accumulator and along a longitudinal direction. A round module builder system is configured to move along the longitudinal direction toward the feeder system, wherein the round module builder includes a contact member adapted to contact the feeder system to establish a working gap between the feeder system and the round module builder. A wrap floor is moved toward and into contact with the feeder system, which is spring biased to maintain a substantially consistent gap between the between the feeder system and round module builder. Cotton is directed toward the round module builder and a directing mechanism directs a wrap for wrapping the directed cotton into a round module.
US11259464B2	Locking linkage for folding agricultural implement An agricultural implement includes a first frame member and a second frame member pivotally connected to each other and an actuating assembly configured to rotate the second frame member. The actuating assembly includes a first link pivotally connected to the first frame member, a second link pivotally connected to the second frame member, and a third link attached to an actuator. Two of the first, second, and third links are pivotally connected by a connecting pin, which is received in a slot formed in the third one of the links. The actuating assembly is configured to prevent the pin from moving along the slot and to allow rotation of the second link relative to the third link, when the second frame member is arranged between a retracted position and an expanded position, and to allow the pin to move along the slot, when the second frame member is arranged in the expanded position.
US11259460B2	Center drive for sickle knife The cutter bar of a header including two sickle bars is driven by a center drive system including a rotary input drive member driven by a motor, first and second rotary members each driven by the drive member about a generally upstanding first rotational axis. Each of the rotary members has an eccentric drive system for driving a respective sickle bar. A flywheel is driven by the rotary input drive member for common rotation therewith and the first and second rotary members are driven by a common drive sprocket to rotate in the same direction about the first and second rotary axes.
US11259456B2	Applicator with multiple offset booms and method of controlling the same An agricultural product delivery applicator for delivering particulate product to a field. The applicator includes a supply compartment to hold the product, a pneumatic conveying system, a metering system, and a controller. The pneumatic conveying system includes first delivery line operably connected to an airflow source and to the supply compartment, and a second delivery line operably connected to the airflow source and to the supply compartment. The metering system includes a first metering device associated with the first delivery line and a second metering device associate with the second delivery line. The controller controls the air flow source, the first metering device to meter product to result in a first mixed flow of airflow and product for the first delivery line, and the second metering device to meter product with the airflow to result in a second mixed flow of airflow and product for the second delivery line.
US11259455B2	System and method for controlling the operation of a residue removal device of a seed-planting implement based on a residue characteristic of the field In one aspect, a system for controlling the operation of a residue removal device of a seed-planting implement may include a residue removal device configured to remove residue from a path of the seed-planting implement. The system may also include a sensor configured to capture data indicative of a residue characteristic associated with a portion of the field within a detection zone positioned forward of the residue removal device relative to a direction of travel of the seed-planting implement. Furthermore, the system may include a controller communicatively coupled to the sensor. As such, the controller may be configured to monitor the residue characteristic associated with the portion of the field within the detection zone based on data received from the sensor. Additionally, the controller may be further configured to control the operation of the residue removal device based on the monitored residue characteristic.
US11259453B2	Power winch equipment crane A power hoist equipment crane system to be used with a tractor roll bar, the system including a pivotable support bar configured to be substantially U-shaped having two side portions and a middle portion connecting the two side portions, a cable support member provided to the pivotable support bar and configured to support a cable from a hoist, and bracket assemblies provided respectively proximate each end of the pivotable support bar and configured to couple the pivotable support bar to the tractor roll bar in a pivoting arrangement, the bracket assemblies configured such that the pivotable support bar is pivotable between a substantially vertical stowed position when not in use, and a substantially horizontal use position in which the cable support member is positioned at a point spaced back from the tractor so as to be located over an implement that is attachable to the tractor.
US11266048B2	Electromagnetic wave absorber, article with electromagnetic wave absorber, and method for manufacturing electromagnetic wave absorber An electromagnetic wave absorber (1a) includes a resistive layer (10), an electrically conductive layer (20) and a dielectric layer (30). The electrically conductive layer (20) has a sheet resistance lower than a sheet resistance of the resistive layer (10). The dielectric layer (30) is disposed between the resistive layer (10) and the electrically conductive layer (20). The electromagnetic wave absorber (1a) has a first slit (15). The first slit (15) extends, in the resistive layer (10), from a first principal surface (10a) distal to the dielectric layer (30) toward the dielectric layer (30) in a direction perpendicular to the first principal surface (10a) and divides the resistive layer (10) into a plurality of first blocks (17). Each of the first blocks (17) has a minimum dimension (D1) of 2 mm or more at the first principal surface (10a).
US11266046B2	Heatsink for multiple memory modules A heatsink for a plurality of memory modules that can be connected to an electronic board, each memory module including two heat exchange surfaces, includes at least one envelope including a top surface, at least two outer tabs, configured to be in thermal contact with at least one heat exchange surface of at least one memory module, at least one contact surface, in thermal contact with the fluid cooling system of said electronic board, a plurality of inner tabs, each inner tab being interposed between two memory modules in order to make thermal contact with at least one exchange surface of each of the two memory modules, the envelope is detachably placed against the two exchange surfaces of each memory module, the envelope is mechanically detachably fastened to the board.
US11266042B2	Refrigeration system and refrigeration method for data center A refrigeration system and refrigeration method for a data center are disclosed. The refrigeration system includes: a first heat exchanger disposed on a back plate of an indoor cabinet of the data center, and a phase-change heat-exchange cooling tower disposed outdoor of the data center. The first heat exchanger and the phase-change heat-exchange cooling tower are communicated by a secondary refrigerant delivery pipeline. The phase-change heat-exchange cooling tower transfers heat carried in the secondary refrigerant into air and condenses the secondary refrigerant to a liquid again; the secondary refrigerant employs a phase-change heat-exchange working medium. An air pump is disposed in the phase-change heat-exchange cooling tower and on a by-pass of the secondary refrigerant delivery pipeline to pressurize the secondary refrigerant in gas-state delivered in the secondary refrigerant delivery pipeline to increase the condensing pressure for condensing the secondary refrigerant to a liquid again.
US11266040B2	Heat transport device A heat transport device is disclosed. The heat transport device includes a heat pipe and a heat spreader. The heat pipe, which is thermally connecting to a heating element, includes a heat receiving surface for receiving heat from the heating element, and a side surface intersecting with the heat receiving surface. The heat spreader, which is thermally connecting to the heat pipe, includes a first plate member having a first side surface thermally connecting to the side surface of the heat pipe, and a second plate member having a side surface thermally connecting to a second side surface of the first plate member opposite to the first side surface in contact with the heat pipe.
US11266037B2	Fan module with pivoting lever and efficient space utilization A fan module containing a fan is used to cool a computing device or system. The fan module is mounted within a chassis, and contains a housing, a locking body, and lever. The housing of the fan module contains a housing, a locking body, and lever. The housing of the fan module defines a hollow interior that houses the fan. The locking body is coupled to the housing and is moveable between a locked position and an unlocked position. When in the locked position, the locking body extends through a locking aperture in the floor of the chassis. When in the unlocked position, the locking body rises above the locking aperture in the floor of the chassis. Moving the lever from the first position to the second position causes the locking body to move from the locked position to the unlocked position.
US11266034B1	Interface system for functional module and functional module thereof An interface system for functional module and a functional module thereof are provided. The interface system for the functional module includes a main system and a plurality of functional modules. The main system has a mother board. Each of the functional modules has a circuit board, and at least one functional element disposed on the circuit board, and the functional element is an element having various functions and specifications. An expansion assembly is disposed between the mother board of the main system and the circuit board of any of the functional modules, and the expansion assembly is also disposed between the circuit boards of the functional modules. The main system is selectively and electrically connected to the functional modules through each of the expansion assemblies to be connected extendedly.
US11266028B2	Faux column intermediate distribution frame enclosure A vertical column assembly including an intermediate distribution frame enclosure with an internal structure. The vertical column assembly also includes side panels, door assemblies, and a top cover assembly. The internal structure is hidden by the side panels, the door assemblies, and the top cover assembly. The vertical column assembly encases the network equipment installed within the internal structure.
US11266027B2	Single-layer circuit board, multi-layer circuit board, and manufacturing methods therefor A single-layer circuit board, multi-layer circuit board, and manufacturing methods therefor. The method for manufacturing the single-layer circuit board comprises the following steps: drilling a hole on a substrate, the hole comprising a blind hole and/or a through hole; on a surface of the substrate, forming a photoresist layer having a circuit negative image; forming a conductive seed layer on the surface of the substrate and a hole wall of the hole; removing the photoresist layer, and forming a circuit pattern on the surface of the substrate, wherein forming a conductive seed layer comprises implanting a conductive material below the surface of the substrate and below the hole wall of the hole via ion implantation, and forming an ion implantation layer as at least part of the conductive seed layer.
US11266024B2	Wired circuit board and production method thereof An elongated wired circuit board including a plurality of wires arranged in parallel, wherein the plurality of wires each includes a first linear portion extending in a first linear direction, a second linear portion extending in a second linear direction, and a connection portion, the connection portion includes a first side, a second side, a third side, and a fourth side, length y1 and length S satisfy 0
US11266022B2	Anisotropic etching using photopolymerizable compound A method of etching an electrically conductive layer structure during manufacturing a component carrier is provided. The method includes carrying out a first etching of at least one exposed region of an electrically conductive layer structure by a first etching composition having a photo-hardenable compound to thereby form a recess in the electrically conductive layer structure, hardening the photo-hardenable compound by irradiation with photons selectively on an upper side wall portion of the recess to thereby cover the upper side wall portion with a photo-hardened compound, carrying out a second etching by a second etching composition selectively on a side wall portion and/or bottom portion of the recess being not covered with the photo-hardened compound, and subsequently removing the photo-hardened compound from the side wall portion. In addition, a component carrier is provided.
US11266021B2	Flexible display panel The present application provides a flexible display panel including a flexible substrate and a flexible circuit board electrically connected to the flexible substrate. Pins on the flexible substrate and the flexible circuit board are disposed to be inclined at a certain angle. When pitches of the pins on the flexible circuit board are changed due to expansion and contraction of the flexible circuit board itself, an accurate alignment of the pins on the flexible substrate and the flexible circuit board can be realized by adjusting the position of the flexible circuit board relative to the flexible substrate before connecting the flexible circuit board to the flexible substrate, thereby ensuring the quality of the flexible display panel and improving product yield of the display panel.
US11266019B2	Modular wiring system for actuators Exemplary embodiments are directed to modular wiring interface boards for an actuator, the interface boards including a body, electrical terminals configured to receive a signal from a field control device, electrical contacts configured to be placed in electrical communication with a backplane electrically communicating with an actuator, switching mechanisms, and a processor. Each of the switching mechanisms is positionable in a first position and a second position. The processor reconfigures a wiring configuration of the plurality of electrical terminals to accommodate different field control devices based on the positions of the plurality of switching mechanisms. Modular wiring systems for an actuator and methods of operating an actuator are also provided.
US11266018B2	Printed wiring board and method for manufacturing the same A printed wiring board includes a main substrate, a standing substrate, a first electrode portion, and a second electrode portion. The second electrode portion is connected to the first electrode portion with solder while a support portion is inserted in a slit. The first electrode portion is provided to reach the slit. The second electrode portion is disposed to span from a bottom surface to a height position higher than or equal to a midpoint between a top surface and the bottom surface.
US11266017B2	Support for light-emitting elements and lighting device A lighting device, a method of manufacturing a lighting device and a support are described. A support includes a layered structure of alternating conductors and insulating layers. The layered structure includes a mounting section and a body section adjacent the mounting section. The mounting section includes at least one mounting face that has an arrangement direction and at least three alternating contact sections along the arrangement direction. Each contact section is electrically coupled to one of the conductors and separated from a neighboring one of the contact sections by one of the insulating layers. The body section has a width that protrudes sidewards from the at least one mounting face and a length that extends substantially parallel to the arrangement direction.
US11266016B2	Resin multilayer substrate and electronic apparatus A resin multilayer substrate includes a multilayer body including resin layers and adhesive layers that are laminated, via conductors in the resin layers, and bonding portions in the adhesive layers. The bonding portion is connected to the via conductor. One of the resin layer and the adhesive layer is a gas high-permeable layer having a higher gas permeability than the other one. The bonding portion includes an organic substance, or has a higher void content rate per unit plane sectional area than the via conductor. At least a portion of each of the bonding portions contacts the gas high-permeable layers.
US11266014B2	LED lighting systems and method Embodiments of the invention include LED lighting systems and methods. For example, in some embodiments, an LED lighting system is included. The LED lighting system can include a flexible layered circuit structure that can include a top thermally conductive layer, a middle electrically insulating layer, a bottom thermally conductive layer, and a plurality of light emitting diodes mounted on the top layer. The LED lighting system can further include a housing substrate and a mounting structure. The mounting structure can be configured to suspend the layered circuit structure above the housing substrate with an air gap disposed in between the bottom thermally conductive layer of the flexible layered circuit structure and the housing substrate. The distance between the layered circuit structure and the support layer can be at least about 0.5 mm. Other embodiments are also included herein.
US11266013B2	Rigid-flex printed circuit board and method for manufacturing the same A rigid-flex printed circuit board includes an inner circuit substrate, two adhesive sheet layers formed on the inner circuit substrate, two shielding structures, and two outer circuit layers. The inner circuit substrate is divided into a flexible area, a first and second rigid area. Each shielding structure includes a copper layer, a metal seed layer formed on the copper layer, a flexible dielectric layer formed on the metal seed layer, and a backing adhesive sheet layer formed on the flexible medium layer. The backing adhesive sheet layer is pressed on the adhesive sheet layer and the inner circuit substrate located in the flexible area. Each outer circuit layer is formed on the copper layer, located in the first rigid area and the second rigid area and electrically connected to the inner circuit substrate.
US11266012B2	Circuit board, chip cooling housing, assembly and method for cooling a semiconductor chip A circuit board includes an electrically insulating part and an electrically conductive part. At least one semiconductor chip is embedded into the electrically insulating part in a part of the circuit board. Through openings in the part of the circuit board provide for passage of a cooling liquid. The through openings extend from a first surface of the circuit board to a second surface of the circuit board. The electrically conductive part includes a first outer conductive layer on the first surface and a second outer conductive layer on the second surface. The electrically conductive part also includes a first inner conductive layer which is electrically connected to the semiconductor chip. The first inner conductive layer is electrically insulated from the first outer conductive layer and from the second outer conductive layer by the electrically insulating part in the part of the circuit board.
US11266010B2	Multi-layer thin-film coatings for system-in-package assemblies in portable electronic devices A portable electronic device packaged into a System-in-Package assembly is disclosed. The portable electronic device can include a substrate and a plurality of components mounted on the substrate and included in one or more subsystems. Interference between subsystems or from external sources can be reduced or eliminated by disposing an insulating layer over the components, forming narrow trenches between subsystems, and depositing one or more layers of a multi-layer thin film stack on the insulating layer and filling the trenches. In some examples, the multi-layer thin film stack can include an adhesion layer, a shielding layer, a protection layer, and a cosmetic layer. In some examples, the multi-layer thin film stack can include multi-functional layers such as a protection and cosmetic layer.
US11266007B2	Linecard system using riser printed circuit boards (PCBS) A network device having improved thermal cooling is provided. The network device comprising a first printed circuit board (PCB) having a plurality of common connectors and one or more second PCBs, each second PCB coupled to the first PCB by a respective common connector of the plurality of common connectors. Each second PCB may include a set of ports, each port in the set of ports coupled to the respective common connector via the second PCB. The one or more second PCBs may be arranged vertically parallel on a front side of the first PCB such that each second PCB forms a 90 degree angle with the first PCB to allow air to flow in spaces defined between vertically adjacent second PCBs.
US11266006B2	Method and system for timing the injections of electron beams in a multi-energy x-ray cargo inspection system Embodiments of the disclosed system and method provide for generating a multiple-energy X-ray pulse. A beam of electrons is generated with an electron gun and modulated prior to injection into an accelerating structure to achieve at least a first and second specified beam current amplitude over the course of respective beam current temporal profiles. A radio frequency field is applied to the accelerating structure with a specified RF field amplitude and a specified RF temporal profile. The first and second specified beam current amplitudes are injected serially, each after a specified delay, in such a manner as to achieve at least two distinct energies of electrons accelerated within the accelerating structure during a course of a single RF-pulse. The beam of electrons is accelerated by the radio frequency field within the accelerating structure to produce accelerated electrons which impinge upon a target for generating Bremsstrahlung X-rays.
US11266005B2	Methods for treating superconducting cavities A system and method for treating a cavity comprises arranging a niobium structure in a coating chamber, the coating chamber being arranged inside a furnace, coating the niobium structure with tin thereby forming an Nb3Sn layer on the niobium structure, and doping the Nb3Sn layer with nitrogen, thereby forming a nitrogen doped Nb3Sn layer on the niobium structure.
US11266003B2	Method and apparatus for generating plasma using a patterned dielectric or electrode Exemplary devices and methods for generating plasma are provided, which may include a first electrode component with a first side portion and a second side portion, a second electrode component having a proximate front side portion and a proximate back side portion, a plasma producing region, a ground connector component into engagement with the second electrode component, a first dielectric segment for coating the second side portion of said first electrode component. An electric power receiver into engagement with the first electrode component, wherein the electric power, when applied, converts gas disposed in the plasma producing region, into plasma.
US11266002B2	System for monitoring a plasma An amplified optical beam is provided to a region that receives a target including target material, an interaction between the amplified optical beam and the target converting at least some of the target material from a first form to a second form to form a light-emitting plasma; first data comprising information related to the amplified optical beam is accessed; second data comprising information related to the light-emitting plasma is accessed; and an amount of the target material converted from the first form to the second form is determined. The determination is based on at least the first data and the second data, and the second form of the target material is less dense than the first form of the target material.
US11265998B2	Intelligent lighting control system multi-way schemes for switch bases A multi-way circuit having a plurality of base modules may be used in multi-way schemes for lighting control devices. The multi-way circuit may operate with a controller and the base modules of a lighting control system to provide a fully functional, multi-way toggle circuit, even when the switches installed in the base module are not paired or in their off modes. The multi-way toggle circuit can be defined as follows: if any button in the circuit is pressed (indicating a desire to change the load state), then the load toggles its state between on and off.
US11265988B2	LED fluorescent lamp emulator circuitry Circuitry 31 for a solid-state lighting arrangement 20 designed for as a replacement for a gas discharge lamp used in a lighting fixture having a ballast. The circuitry 31 unsafe flow of current through the solid-state lighting arrangement 20, under non-operational conditions and during installation of the lighting arrangement, so as to provide compatibility with safety standards for use with discharge lamps.
US11265986B2	LED controller, LED control device and LED control method An LED controller is used with a video source and at least one LED unit, and includes a control signal generator and a driver. The control signal generator performs pulse width modulation based on a first clock signal, a second clock signal and a data signal, which is generated by the video source, to generate at least one control signal. The first and second clock signals are independent of a vertical synchronization signal that is generated by the video source. The driver generates, based on the at least one control signal, at least one drive signal that is related to light emission of the at least one LED unit.
US11265978B2	Discharge lamp lighting control apparatus and lamp current supply method Realizing a constant-current control even in a stable state of a lamp without increasing a rated output of a power supply. In a stable state of the lamp in which a change value of a lamp voltage after a discharge lamp is turned on becomes less than a certain value, when the lamp voltage rises, a discharge lamp lighting control apparatus changes a current command value to perform a constant-current control. This change is a change from a first current command value at the time when the discharge lamp is turned on to a second current command value that is smaller than the former by a predetermined value. Using this second current command value, the constant-current control is performed. Even after that, the second current command value is changed to a smaller value every time the lamp voltage rises, and the constant-current control is performed using the second current command value.
US11265976B2	Microwave cooking device with a lambda quarter-wave trap A microwave cooking appliance includes a door which covers a loading opening of a cooking chamber when closed, and has a profiled trap structure to form with an electrically conductive door flange a lambda quarter-wave trap that frames the loading opening. The trap structure includes a metal choke profile with an open face opposite the door flange, inner and outer metal tongues protruding into the open face laterally on an inside and outside, respectively. The metal tongues are connected electrically to the choke profile and separated from one another by a microwave entry slot covered by a microwave-transparent cover. The choke profile is framed laterally on the outside by a parallel overlap region which protrudes from the door flange and has a cover surface facing the door flange at a distance and made of electrically conductive material and having a same shape as a door flange region it covers.
US11265970B2	Aerosol delivery device having a resonant transmitter An aerosol delivery device is provided that comprises a control body and an aerosol source member. The aerosol delivery device includes a resonant transformer comprising a resonant transmitter and a resonant receiver. The aerosol source member includes an inhalable substance medium at least a portion of which is positioned proximate the resonant transmitter. The resonant transmitter is configured to generate an oscillating magnetic field and induce an alternating voltage in the resonant receiver when exposed to the oscillating magnetic field, such that the alternating voltage causes the resonant receiver to generate heat and thereby vaporize components of the inhalable substance medium to produce an aerosol. In some implementations, the resonant receiver comprises part of the control body. In other implementations, the resonant receiver comprises part of the aerosol source member.
US11265969B2	Management device, terminal device, and non-transitory storage medium A management device including an acquirer configured to acquire response information indicating whether a call-destination terminal has accepted participation in group communication, and terminal operation information indicating whether the call-destination terminal is in a state capable of receiving the group communication, a processor configured to create communication result information including participation information on the call-destination terminal whether to participate in the group communication, and a transmitter configured to transmit the communication result information, wherein, in a case of non-participation where the call-destination terminal has not participated in the group communication, the processor is configured to create the participation information that makes it possible to identify at least two factors of the non-participation.
US11265963B2	Method and apparatus for suspending RRC connection, and computer storage medium A method and device for suspending an RRC connection are provided. The method comprises: the first node sends a first notification message to a second node, and negotiates with the second node about whether the RRC connection is required to be suspended, wherein the first notification message is used for notifying the second node that the first node determines that the RRC connection is required to be suspended; if a result of the negotiation between the first node and the second node is that the RRC connection is required to be suspended, the first node sends a first suspension command to a terminal device, the first suspension command being used for triggering the terminal device to suspend the RRC connection and enter an RRC inactive state.
US11265959B2	Method for indicating protocol data unit session status, terminal device, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium The method for indicating protocol data unit session status includes that: a terminal device indicates activation and/or deactivation of a protocol data unit session based on configuration signaling sent by a network device. A terminal device and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are also provided.
US11265952B2	Method and apparatus for supporting RLC UM mode operation in next generation mobile communication system The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car, a connected car, health care, digital education, a smart retail, security and safety services.
US11265949B2	Fast secondary cell recovery for ultra-reliable low-latency communication Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may provide, to a first cell, a beam failure indication associated with a beam of a secondary cell. The beam failure indication may be provided via a dedicated physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource. The user equipment may provide, based at least in part on providing the beam failure indication, a beam index report to a second cell. The beam index report may be provided to cause recovery of the secondary cell to be triggered. The beam index report may include information that identifies a preferred beam associated with the recovery of the secondary cell. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11265944B1	Simultaneous wireless data communication over fifth generation new radio (5GNR) and long term evolution (LTE) A wireless access node simultaneously serves wireless User Equipment (UE) over Fifth Generation New Radio (5GNR) and Long Term Evolution (LTE). A baseband unit splits user data into a 5GNR portion and an LTE portion per a dynamic 5GNR/LTE split. A 5GNR radio wirelessly transfers the 5GNR portion to the wireless UE. An LTE radio wirelessly transfers the LTE portion to the wireless UE. The baseband unit corrects LTE and 5GNR transmission errors and determines a 5GNR Block Error Rate (BLER) and an LTE BLER. The baseband unit modifies the dynamic 5GNR/LTE split based on the difference between the 5GNR BLER and the LTE BLER. The baseband unit splits additional user data into 5GNR and LTE portions per the modified 5GNR/LTE split.
US11265943B1	Use of fading as basis to control whether to use blind addition or rather threshold-based addition when configuring dual connectivity A method and system for controlling an operational mode of a first access node where the first access node provides a first cell and a second access node provides a second cell. An example method could include (i) determining a level of fading of the second cell, (ii) using the determined level of fading of the second cell as a basis to decide whether the first access node should operate in a blind-addition mode or rather a threshold-based-addition mode for adding a secondary connection in the second cell for a UE having a primary connection with the first access node in the first cell, and (iii) causing the first access node to operate in the decided mode.
US11265941B2	Method and device for wireless communication node The present disclosure discloses a method and a device in a node for wireless communications. A first node judges whether the first node is in coverage; and then transmits Q second-type radio signals; herein, the Q second-type radio signals respectively comprise Q pieces of first-type information; whether each of the Q second-type radio signals can be selected as a synchronization reference is related to its comprised first-type information; the Q pieces of first-type information are independently generated, or, whether the Q pieces of first-type information are independently generated is related to whether the first node is in coverage, Q being a positive integer greater than 1. The present disclosure improves transmission reliability of Sidelink.
US11265939B2	Communicating with unmanned aerial vehicles and air traffic control The present disclosure includes devices, systems, and methods for communicating with unmanned aerial vehicles. In one embodiment, the present disclosure includes a server including a communication interface, a memory, and an electronic processor communicatively connected to the memory. The electronic processor is configured to communicate with one or more unmanned aerial vehicles via the communication interface and a satellite network, communicate with the one or more unmanned aerial vehicles via the communication interface and a terrestrial network, and communicate with the one or more unmanned aerial vehicles via the communication interface and a combination of the satellite network and the terrestrial network.
US11265938B2	Devices and methods for communication in a wireless communication network An apparatus, a method, and a computer readable medium are provided. The apparatus is configured to transmit and/or receive control plane signaling related to the control of radio resources of a sidelink communication system to/from a user equipment (UE), wherein the control plane signaling is carried over a user plane, in particular through IP encapsulation, of a second communication system between the apparatus and the UE. Moreover, embodiments of the disclosure relate to a corresponding UE as well as corresponding methods.
US11265935B2	Resource assignment for general packet radio service tunneling protocol (GTP) entities in 5G A wireless cellular network system comprising MME configured to send a first create session request to SGW-C, the SGW-C configured to select SGW-U and transmit a first resource request to the selected SGW-U, and the SGW-U configured to, upon a receipt of the first resource request, allocate an IP address and TEIDs of the SGW-U, and transmit a resource message including the IP address and the TEIDs of the SGW-U to SGW-C. A method of SGW-C in a wireless communication system, the method comprising receiving, from MME, a first create session request, selecting SGW-U among a plurality of SGW-Us, wherein the selection is based on a location of a terminal, transmitting a first resource request to the selected SGW-U, receiving, from the selected SGW-U, a resource message including an IP address and TEID of the SGW-U, the IP address and TEIDs being allocated by the selected SGW-U.
US11265934B2	Audio communication system with a dongle An audio communication system is disclosed. The audio communication system comprises a speaker device having at least one speaker, a first wireless communication unit and a first connector part; a dongle having control functionality, a second wireless communication unit, and a second connector part, the dangle being configured to operate in a first mode being an audio communication system pairing mode and in a second mode being an audio communication system operating mode. The second connector part is in the audio communication system pairing mode configured to interconnect with the first connector part to enable pairing of the dongle and the speaker device. The second connector part is the audio communication system operating mode configured to interconnect with an external device, providing wireless communication between the speaker device and the external device.
US11265932B2	Narrowband selection for measurement reporting in random access A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided for wireless communication at a User Equipment (UE). The UE receives a second random access message from the base station after transmitting a first random access message. The second random access message comprises a random access response (RAR) that indicates a narrowband to be used for receiving a fourth random access message. The apparatus determines whether to perform a measurement of the narrowband for the fourth random access message based on an amount of time between receiving the second random access message and transmitting a third random access message. The base station may determine whether the report comprises a measurement of the first narrowband or the second narrowband based on an amount of time between the second random access message and the third random access message or based on an indication in the third random access message.
US11265931B2	Method and device for establishing connection A method and a device for establishing connection are provided. The method for establishing connection is applied to a mobility management functional entity and includes: acquiring path selection reference information when a user equipment UE accesses a wireless network; and selecting a session management functional entity and/or a user plane anchor for the user equipment based on the path selection reference information.
US11265929B2	Methods and architectures for secure ranging A secure ranging system can use a secure processing system to deliver one or more ranging keys to a ranging radio on a device, and the ranging radio can derive locally at the system ranging codes based on the ranging keys. A deterministic random number generator can derive the ranging codes using the ranging key and one or more session parameters, and each device (e.g. a cellular telephone and another device) can independently derive the ranging codes and derive them contemporaneously with their use in ranging operations.
US11265927B1	Media access control for multi-band communication in WLAN A communication device performs a backoff procedure to determine when a first channel in a first radio frequency (RF) band is idle in connection with reserving an aggregate communication channel, which includes a first frequency portion in the first RF band and a second frequency portion in a second RF band, for a frame exchange. In response to determining that the first channel is idle, the communication device transmits a first packet that reserves at least the first channel for a first particular time duration. In connection with determining that the first channel is idle, the communication device performs one or more energy level measurements in a second channel in the second RF band to determine whether the second channel is idle. The communication device transmits a second packet that reserves at least the second channel for a second particular time duration in connection with reserving the aggregate communication channel.
US11265922B2	Method for accessing wireless local area network, terminal device, and network device Provided are a method for accessing a wireless local area network, a terminal device, and a network device. The method comprises: a terminal device sends a system message request to a network device, the system message request being used for requesting the network device to send a system message to the terminal device, and the system message being information for accessing a wireless local area network by the terminal device; and the terminal device receives the system message sent by the network device. In the method for accessing a wireless local area network in an embodiment of the present invention, for a 5G communication system, part or all of traffic can be transferred to the WLAN or an unlicensed frequency band by adding system information, thereby saving licensed frequency band resources.
US11265919B2	RACH procedures in unlicensed spectrum Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for Random Access Channel (RACH) procedures in unlicensed spectrum. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may monitor for a random access response (RAR) or a reference signal (RS), e.g. in an RAR window. The WTRU may determine whether an RS has been received a threshold amount of times, e.g. if an RAR is not received. The WTRU may continue to monitor for an RAR or an RS, e.g. if the RS has not been received a threshold amount of times and the RAR window is not at a maximum RAR window size.
US11265916B2	Sidelink assisted cooperative listen-before-talk Systems and methods are disclosed herein that relate to the use of a Device-to-Device (D2D) sidelink, e.g., in a licensed spectrum, to assist with clear channel assessment in an unlicensed spectrum. In doing so, the hidden node problem and/or the exposed node problem can be mitigated. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a wireless device in a cellular communications network comprises performing a sidelink-assisted clear channel assessment (SLA-CCA) procedure to determine whether to transmit on an unlicensed channel. The SLA-CCA procedure is a Clear Channel Assessment (CCA) procedure that is assisted by information received by the wireless device from one or more other wireless devices over a D2D sidelink in a licensed spectrum. The method further comprises, upon determining to transmit on the unlicensed channel as a result of performing the SLA-CCA procedure, transmitting a transmission on the unlicensed channel.
US11265915B2	Methods and devices for adaptive scheduling request procedure A method performed by a User Equipment (UE) includes a Medium Access Control (MAC) entity triggering a first Scheduling Request (SR) procedure for a first logical channel, triggering a second SR procedure for a second logical channel, and in response to triggering the first SR procedure, initiating a Random Access (RA) procedure and canceling the first SR procedure without cancelling the second SR procedure.
US11265914B2	Method, apparatus, and system for channel access in unlicensed band Disclosed are a method, an apparatus, and a system for adjusting a contention window size for performing channel access. In detail, the method includes: receiving a plurality of hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) responses for downlink channel(s) of the specific cell; generating a random number N (N≥0) in a contention window size; and performing the downlink transmission in the specific cell after standing by for N slots while the specific cell is idle, wherein when a ratio of negative acknowledgement (NACK) among the plurality of HARQ-ACK responses is equal to or more than a reference value, the contention window size becomes larger than a previous value, and when the ratio of the NACK among the plurality of HARQ-ACK responses is less than the reference value, the contention window size is reset to a minimum value.
US11265911B2	Methods for performing multi-subframe scheduling in enhanced LAA A method which allows an evolved node B (eNB) to perform multi-subframe scheduling in enhanced license assisted access (eLAA) is provided. The eNB determining the subframes in a maximum channel occupancy time (MCOT) within which uplink transmission is performed. The eNB schedules resources for uplink transmission by user equipments (UEs) within the determined subframes. The UEs receive index values associated with a first subframe and a last subframe, in the determined subframes from the eNB. The first subframe and last subframe may be within a single, or multiple MCOTs. The UEs perform uplink transmission between the first subframe and the last subframe. The method allows forming a group with the plurality of UEs. A group identity, broadcast by the eNB, is received by the UEs. The method allows scheduling beams for performing uplink transmission by the UEs in 5th generation (5G) systems and scheduling multiple UEs while accounting spectral emissions.
US11265900B2	Partial band configuration for channel state information Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described that provide for the utilization of multiple partial bands used in the transmission of one or more channel state information (CSI) reference signals (CSI-RSs). The partial bands may be non-consecutive in the frequency domain, time domain, or a combination thereof and each of which may be precoder using a different precoder configuration. The time intervals, cycling granularity, and number of ports may vary between partial bands. Using RSs transmitted via the multiple partial bands, a user equipment (UE) may determine a channel state parameter for each partial band, which may be used for channel feedback.
US11265898B2	Scheduling method, device and system for transmitting resources A scheduling method, a device and a system for transmitting resources are provided. The method comprises: receiving candidate uplink data sending resources sent by a first base station, or receiving candidate downlink data receiving resources sent by the first base station; determining, from the candidate uplink data sending resources, and according to downlink transmission resources for a second base station, a transmission resource for sending uplink data to the first base station, or determining, from the candidate downlink data receiving resources, and according to uplink transmission resources for the second base station, a transmission resource for receiving downlink data from the first base station.
US11265890B2	Resource rate matching for remote interference management Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first base station (BS) may detect remote interference, with one or more uplink communications on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) associated with the first BS, caused by propagation of one or more reference signal (RS) communications, transmitted by a second BS, out of a coverage area of the second BS and into a coverage area of the first BS due to reflection of the one or more RS communications. The coverage area of the first BS and the coverage area of the second BS are non-overlapping coverage areas. The first BS may adjust, based at least in part on detecting the remote interference, one or more radio resource allocations of the PUSCH associated with the first BS. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11265888B2	Coexistence management in wireless communications A method may include determining a set of parameters of a first wireless network that includes a first radio configured to communicate according to a first communication protocol on a plurality of overlapping channels. The method may also include determining one or more operating parameters of a second radio based on the set of parameters of the first wireless network, the second radio included in a second wireless network, co-located with the first radio, and configured to communicate according to a second communication protocol on the plurality of overlapping channels. The method may also include operating the second radio in the second wireless network according to the one or more operating parameters.
US11265885B2	Indication method, base station, and enhanced mobile broadband user equipment Provided are an indication method, a base station, and enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) user equipment (UE). The indication method includes: transmitting a preemption indication message to eMBB UE; the preemption indication message is configured to indicate, to the eMBB UE, a previous scheduled transmission resource preempted by other services.
US11265879B2	Group component carrier based updates A method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for wireless communications for receiving, by a network entity from a user equipment (UE), a component carrier/bandwidth portion (CC/BWP) grouping capability message that indicates a capability of the UE to support CC/BWP group-based signaling; transmitting, by the network entity to the UE, a CC/BWP grouping indication that identifies at least one CC/BWP group based on the CC/BWP grouping capability message; transmitting, by the network entity to the UE, a CC/BWP configuration message that includes CC/BWP group configuration information that identifies a CC/BWP group configuration for the at least one CC/BWP group; communicating, by the network entity with the UE, on at least one CC/BWP of the at least one CC/BWP group based on one or more communication parameters configured according to the CC/BWP group configuration.
US11265875B2	Techniques for resource block allocation in wireless communications Aspects described herein relate to resource block allocation for time domain single-carrier waveform processing in new radio (NR). Specifically, in an aspect, a guard band may be allocated for a single-carrier waveform in a time or frequency domain. In another aspect, a resource block may be allocated for a time domain single-carrier waveform.
US11265873B2	Method for transmitting HE-LTF sequence and apparatus Embodiments of the present invention provide several long training sequences that are in a wireless local area network and that comply with 802.11 ax.
US11265862B2	Methods for transmitting and receiving control channel, base station, and user equipment Embodiments of the present invention provide methods for transmitting and receiving a control channel, a base station, and a user equipment, which relate to the communication field, and can solve a transmission problem of available changing transmission resources caused by introduction of an E-PDCCH. A method for configuring a control channel resource includes: determining, by a base station according to a system configuration and/or user configuration, resource elements REs included in an extended control channel element E-CCE, and transmitting an extended physical downlink control channel E-PDCCH to a user equipment, where the E-PDCCH is carried by the E-CCE; and receiving, by the user equipment, the E-PDCCH, and obtaining the REs included in the E-CCE, and receiving, over the REs included in the E-CCE, the E-PDCCH transmitted by the base station. The embodiments of the present invention are used for configuring and detecting a control channel resource.
US11265860B2	Method of transmitting and receiving downlink data channel and apparatus therefor A method of receiving a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) includes: receiving, in a first bandwidth part (BWP), a downlink control information (DCI) including (i) first information that indicates switching an active BWP from the first BWP to a second BWP, and (ii) second information related to scheduling at least one transport block (TB) for the PDSCH; and receiving, in the second BWP, the PDSCH based on the first information and the second information. Based on a number of TBs in a first group of TBs that can be scheduled through the second information being equal to one, and based on a number of TBs in a second group of TBs that can be scheduled for the second BWP being equal to two: among the second information related to scheduling the at least one TB, information related to a second TB among the second group of TBs is disabled.
US11265856B2	User terminal and radio communication method A terminal is disclosed including a processor that determines uplink control channel resource indexes based on configuration of an uplink bandwidth part (UL BWP) and determines a resource for an uplink control channel based on an uplink control channel resource index indicated from Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resource indicator field in downlink control information out of the uplink control channel resource indexes; and a transmitter that transmits the uplink control channel on the resource for the uplink control channel on an active UL BWP. In other aspects, a radio communication method for a terminal and a base station are also disclosed.
US11265853B2	Multiplexing of multiple uplink control information types on an uplink physical control channel in new radio Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for determining that a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource and a second PUCCH resource at least partially overlap, where the first PUCCH resource has a payload of a first size carrying a first uplink control information (UCI) in a first format, and the second PUCCH resource has a payload of a second size carrying a second UCI in a second format. Furthermore, the first UCI and the second UCI are multiplexed to form a combined payload to be carried by the first PUCCH resource in the first format or by the second PUCCH resource in the second format. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US11265847B2	Method for transmitting and receiving signals in wireless LAN system and apparatus therefor The application relates to a method for transmitting and receiving, by a station, signals in a wireless LAN system and, more specifically, to a method for, when a station in a wireless LAN system is assigned one or more channels which do not include a primary channel on the system, setting and updating a network allocation vector (NAV) value applied to the one or more allocated channels, a method for transmitting and receiving signals on the basis of the same, and an apparatus therefor.
US11265846B2	System and method for using communication resources A system and method for transmitting a signal are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the system and method are configured to perform: broadcasting at least one signal via a broadcast channel within a first cell using an anchor carrier, wherein the broadcast channel is associated with the anchor carrier, and wherein the at least one signal indicates information about a plurality of non-anchor carriers that are respectively used in a plurality of second cells.
US11265844B2	Paging method and apparatus The present disclosure provides a paging method and apparatus, pertaining to the technical field of communications. The method includes: acquiring first paging indication information and at least one piece of second paging indication information based on current paging details of each User Equipment (UE) and a UE identifier of the each UE, a bit of the first paging indication information being configured to indicate whether a paged UE is present in a UE group, and a bit of the second paging indication information being configured to indicate whether a UE in a UE group is paged; broadcasting the first paging indication information on a first paging time-domain resource, the first paging time-domain resource being a time-domain resource for an information synchronization; and broadcasting the at least one piece of second paging indication information on a second paging time-domain resource. According to the present disclosure, occupation of transmission resources is reduced by broadcasting paging indication information.
US11265841B2	Position estimation method and position estimation apparatus An object is to enable high-accuracy position estimation of a wireless terminal station by efficiently performing connection between a wireless base station and the wireless terminal station using multiple distributed antennas. A position estimation apparatus configured to estimate a position of a wireless terminal station between a wireless base station that can perform transmission and reception by switching between a plurality of distributed antennas arranged in a distributed manner via cables with known lengths, and the wireless terminal station configured to communicate with the wireless base station, includes: a means 1 for measuring a no-delay RTT or measuring a statistical processing RTT when the wireless base station exchanges a measurement signal and a response signal with the wireless terminal station in each of the distributed antennas and measures an RTT, which is a round trip time between the wireless base station and the wireless terminal station, a delay time having been removed from the no-delay RTT using a reception time of the measurement signal and a transmission time of the response signal, and the statistical processing RTT being measured using statistical processing for making the delay time constant using a plurality of instances of exchanging a measurement signal and a response signal; and means 2 for estimating the position of the wireless terminal station based on the no-delay RTT or the statistical processing RTT of each of the distributed antennas.
US11265839B2	Avoiding subscriber identity module invalidation Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) and/or cellular network to avoid invalidation of a subscriber identity module (SIM). A UE may initiate a connection with the network. The network may reject the connection attempt. The UE may selectively determine whether to invalidate the SIM, network, or both. The UE may consider various factors such as details of the connection rejection message, identity of the network, its relationship to the network (e.g., whether the network is a preferred network, etc.), a number of connection rejections received, time remaining on one or more timers, availability of other networks, etc.
US11265833B2	Techniques for reporting timing differences in multiple connectivity wireless communications Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to reporting difference in timing between cells using multiple connectivity in a wireless network. A first connection served by at least a first cell and a second connection served by at least a second cell to facilitate communicating with at least the first cell and at least the second cell are established. A reporting configuration specifying one or more parameters related to reporting a timing difference between cells is received. A timing difference between at least the first cell and at least the second cell is determined, and the timing difference is reported to at least the first cell over the first connection or to at least the second cell over the second connection. This can facilitate scheduling time aligned operations over the first and second cells, or related cell groups, in multiple connectivity.
US11265827B1	Conserving battery life during Bluetooth device localization Various embodiments herein disclose improving battery life while determining a location of a Bluetooth device. A corresponding method comprises receiving an identifier for a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) device to locate in an environment comprising a plurality of access points (APs). The method further comprises identifying a first AP of the plurality of APs communicating with the BLE device at a first power level. The method also comprises instructing, using the first AP, the BLE device to increase a transmission power level of the BLE device until a threshold number of APs of the plurality of APs, including the first AP, receive communications from the BLE device. The method additionally comprises receiving an RSSI value from each of the threshold number of APs based on the communications from the BLE device. The method also comprises computing a location of the BLE device in the environment based on the RSSI values.
US11265824B2	Uplink asynchronous non-orthogonal multiple access Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), frequency hopping, and power control. NOMA may be applied to asynchronous and/or grant-free transmissions. Transmissions from multiple WTRUs may be performed using the same resources, and may comprise information for correctly identifying and decoding the transmissions. The transmissions may comprise a built-in deterministic sequence to support timing acquisition at a receiver. The transmissions may be distinguished based on respective transmit power used for the transmissions. Such transmit power may be dynamically controlled by applying a randomly selected power offset. The power control may be performed autonomously by a WTRU.
US11265820B2	Method for controlling transmit power of wireless communications terminal, and wireless communications terminal A method for controlling a transmit power of a terminal, and a terminal, where the method and the terminal include, working states of a first antenna and a second antenna may be monitored, and then a transmit power of the first antenna or that of the second antenna may be controlled according to a preset correspondence. Therefore, according to the method and the terminal, a transmit power of an antenna in a working state in the first antenna and the second antenna may be accurately controlled. If the transmit power is less than a standard transmit power, a Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) can be reduced.
US11265816B2	Beam based uplink (UL) power control Independent power-control procedures per beam-pair link (BPL). In one embodiment, such a power-control procedure comprises: 1) an open-loop part based on the estimated DL path loss for the active and back-up (or “non-active”) BPLs in the UE and 2) a closed-loop part where the UL power-control adjustment commands are transmitted from the network and accumulated in the UE independently per active BPL. The UL transmit power is determined from the power-control procedure associated with the active BPL scheduled for transmission.
US11265815B2	Methods and apparatuses for power saving by detecting empty symbols Method and apparatus are provided for power saving by detecting empty symbols. In accordance with some implementation, a UE may determine that a data channel is not allocated to it by determining that there is no beam directed to it and there was no prior resource allocation to it. The UE upon such determination may enter sleep mode until the start of the next scheduling unit. This may result in reduction in power consumption compared to entering sleep mode after demodulating and decoding the control channel.
US11265814B2	Implementation method of low power consumption internet of things based on proxy apparatus A method for implementing a low power consumption IoT network based on a Wi-Fi proxy device. The network is used for low power consumption data exchange between a Wi-Fi IoT device having a long data period in a Wi-Fi IoT network and an internet server, via a Wi-Fi proxy IoT device and a Wi-Fi access point. A low power consumption Wi-Fi MAC layer link is provided between the proxy device and at least one Wi-Fi IoT device. The Wi-Fi IoT device only establishes a low power consumption Wi-Fi MAC layer link with the proxy device. The proxy device connects to the internet server via a Wi-Fi access point, and acts as a data receiving end to buffer data, from the internet server, that is sent to the Wi-Fi IoT device via the Wi-Fi MAC layer link.
US11265812B2	Communication state transitioning control Embodiments of the present disclosure describe devices, methods, computer-readable media and systems configurations for managing state transitions of communication circuitries in wireless networks. Embodiments manage radio resource control (RRC) state transitions and/or discontinuous reception (DRX) state transitions. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US11265808B2	Adaptive network slice selection Disclosed herein is a method and a function entity for selecting a core network slice (NS), for serving a wireless communication device (WCD) 530 in a core network 500 comprising at least one a Management Function (MF) entity 530 serving the WCD 530 and at least one Repository Function (RF) entity (NRF1, NRF2) serving a plurality of core NSs (NSI #1, NSI #2) each comprising a plurality of Network Function (NF) entities the method being performed by a Slice Selection Function (SSF) entity 510 operative in the core network 500, the method comprising: obtaining 612, 616 NSI running status information indicating NSI miming status for each NS to be monitored; receiving 622 a NSI selection request comprising NSI selection information indicating at least one of NS (NSI #1, NSI #2) for serving the WCD and selecting 624, based on the NSI selection information and the NSI running status information, a selected NS (NSI #2) for serving the WCD.
US11265805B2	Technique for time-sensitive networking over a radio access network A technique for Time-Sensitive Networking, TSN, over a radio access network, RAN, is described. As to a handling method aspect of the technique, system information is received from a radio base station of the RAN. The system information is implicative or indicative of support for TSN through the radio base station. Depending on the received system information, at least one TSN stream of the TSN through the radio base station is established or initiated to establish.
US11265798B2	Method and radio communication system for an industrial automation system A radio communication system for an industrial automation system includes at least one first communication device operated as a radio base station, and several second radio communication devices operated as radio subscriber stations, wherein the first communication device is arranged or movable on a vehicle, where the first communication device and the second communication devices can be assigned to a group of communication devices and can only be connected to one another in a wireless manner within the same group of communication devices, where the first communication device and the second communication devices detect within their assigned communication device group distances between the first communication device and the respective second communication device, on the basis of signal strength measurement values or position data and where, depending on the detected distances, the first communication device allocates radio resources for a radio communication with the respective second communication device.
US11265795B2	Small cell backhaul Apparatus and methods for providing small cell backhaul are disclosed. A network node that acts as a gateway for a local communication network to a main communication network through a bonded link with the main communication network also provides a wireless communication module with a backhaul communication link to the main communication network through its bonded link. A switch module in the network node switches communication traffic between the local communication network, the wireless communication module and the bonded link to the main communication network. The network node may power the wireless communication module utilizing remote power provided by the main communication network, the local communication network, and/or a local source of power. Apparatus and methods for providing a transparent bonded link through a network access multiplexer are also disclosed, including management of the bonded link and of nodes subtending from the bonded link.
US11265792B2	Aerial vehicle state transition Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for aerial vehicle state transition configuration. One apparatus (200) includes a receiver (212) that receives (902) a state transition configuration corresponding to an aerial vehicle from a base unit. The apparatus (200) includes a transmitter (210) that transmits (904) a state transition report to the base unit based on the state transition configuration.
US11265791B2	Reducing a data transmission delay of a terminal device in a handover process Disclosed are a handover method and a terminal device. The method includes that a first access network device triggers at least one of a terminal device or a second access network device to configure a second protocol stack; and before the first access network device triggers the at least one of the terminal device or the second access network device to maintain the sequence of the data packets of the terminal device by use of the second protocol stack, the first access network device sequentially processes data packets to be processed of the terminal device by use of a first protocol stack.
US11265790B2	Methods and network entities for handover A method performed by a serving network node for handover of a communication device to a target network node is provided. The method includes determining, based on content of an Information Centric Networking, ICN, request, a need for handover, and initiating, in response to the determining, a handover of the communication device to the target network node. A method performed by a network entity is also provided. A network node, network entity, computer programs and computer program products are also provided.
US11265786B2	Radio access network service mediated enhanced session records for artificial intelligence or machine learning A computer-implemented method of monitoring a radio access network (RAN) is provided. The method includes receiving access stratum data that is a function of cell trace records (CTRs) associated with wireless communication transported to or from one or more cells of the RAN, wherein the CTRs are obtained at a granularity sufficient to detect one or more events, the events defining a segment or occurring during a segment, wherein a segment is defined by the beginning, end, or any handovers of a call included in the wireless communication. The method further includes detecting in the access stratum data one or more state transitions as indicated by the events and outputting an enhanced session record (ESR) including information processed from the access stratum data associated with the respective one or more detected state transitions.
US11265783B2	Handover processing method, network device, terminal device, and computer storage medium Disclosed are a handover processing method, a network device, a terminal device, and a computer storage medium. The method comprises: when a first network device located in a first system network or a first core network is connected to a terminal device, the first network device establishes a candidate connection between the terminal device and a target system network or a target core network, wherein the candidate connection is used for handover to the target system network or the target core network when the terminal device meets a preset condition.
US11265780B2	Communication connection control procedure for supporting and conducting handover An apparatus for use by a communication element or function configured to communicate in a communication network comprising a plurality of communications cells, the apparatus comprising at least one processing circuitry, and at least one memory for storing instructions to be executed by the processing circuitry, wherein the at least one memory and the instructions are configured to, with the at least one processing circuitry, cause the apparatus at least: to execute a handover procedure for changing a communication connection from a source cell currently serving the communication element or function to a target cell; to determine beam information indicating a communication beam of the source cell serving the communication element or function at the time when the handover procedure is executed; and to cause sending the beam information to a communication network control element or function to which the communication element is connected after the handover procedure is ended.
US11265776B2	Master node, a secondary node and methods performed therein Embodiments herein relate e.g. to a method performed by a master node (QQ160) for handling communication of a wireless device (QQ110) in a wireless network. The master node (QQ160) transmits, to a secondary node, SN, a message before initiating a SN change procedure, which message indicates that an SN change is pending and as such the SN should not perform either a secondary cell group, SCG, reconfiguration or trigger any SN triggered procedures.
US11265774B2	Apparatus and mechanism to improve mobility robustness in wireless network Apparatus and methods are provided for handover robustness. In novel aspect, the UE receives a conditional handover (CHO) command from a source gNB containing a set of candidate cells with corresponding triggering conditions; detects a handover conditions for a target gNB belonging to the set of candidate cells; and performs HO procedure towards the target gNB. In one embodiment, the conditional HO command further configures a validity timer that controls a validity of handover conditions for the set of candidate cells. The validity timer is started upon receiving the conditional HO command, the validity timer is stopped upon detecting at least one events comprising a handover condition is met and a normal handover command is received, and the conditional HO command is set to be invalid upon the expiration of the validity timer.
US11265754B2	Bearer mapping on wireless backhaul using cellular radio access technologies Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A transmitting device may identify a first channel group comprising a first radio bearer and a second channel group comprising a set of second radio bearers. In some examples, the first channel group further comprising a one-to-one mapping between the first radio bearer and a first channel of a backhaul network and the second channel group comprising a many-to-one mapping between the set of second radio bearers and a second channel of the backhaul network. The transmitting device may transmit a first packet on the first channel of the first channel group of the backhaul network, the first packet comprising a mapping indicator set to a first value and a first identifier associated with the first channel of the first channel group.
US11265751B1	Dynamic air-interface reconfiguration based on inter-access-node data flow for dual-connectivity service When a user equipment device (UE) has dual connectivity including a first air-interface connection extending from a first access node to the UE and a second air-interface connection extending from a second access node to the UE, and where an inter-access-node interface extends between the first access node and the second access node, a method includes (i) detecting that a flow of downlink data over the inter-access-node interface from the first access node to the second access node, for transmission of the downlink data over the second air-interface connection to the UE, is threshold high and (ii) based at least on the detecting, increasing downlink bandwidth of the second air-interface connection. Increasing the downlink bandwidth of the second air-interface connection could involve, for instance, replacing a carrier of the connection with another carrier that has a wider downlink frequency bandwidth, among other possibilities.
US11265750B2	Network management method, device, system and computer readable storage medium The present disclosure provides a method for network management, device and system and a computer-readable storage medium, and belong to the technical field of communication. The method includes that: first measurement configuration information is sent to a target terminal device in a high-speed-railway dedicated network; first measurement report information from the target terminal device is received, the first measurement report information being obtained after the target terminal device performs cell measurement based on the first measurement configuration information and the first measurement report information including cell type information of a cell measured by the target terminal device; and a network management is executed on the target terminal device based on the cell type information. According to the present disclosure, functions of the high-speed-railway dedicated network are enriched, and the flexibility in the use of the high-speed-railway dedicated network is improved.
US11265748B2	Uplink clear channel assessment status as a new uplink control information for new radio-unlicensed Uplink clear channel assessment (CCA) status is disclosed as a new uplink control message for new radio (NR) unlicensed (NR-U) operations. When an opportunity for potential uplink transmissions arises for a user equipment (UE), the UE will perform a CCA procedure on available uplink resources. The UE reports the results of the CCA procedure to a serving base station via an uplink control message, such as an uplink control information (UCI), physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), or the like. The serving base station may then use the CCA results in scheduling uplink transmissions and reserving uplink resources.
US11265747B2	First network node, second network node, wireless device, and methods performed thereby Method, performed by a second network node (112), for handling a second configuration for second measurements to be performed by a wireless device (130). The second network node (112) determines (503) whether to configure the wireless device (130) with the second configuration. The second configuration is to configure the wireless device (130) with second measurement gaps to perform second measurements on a first or a second carrier. The determining (503) is based on at least one of: i) a first status of the first carrier, and ii) whether or not the wireless device (130) is configured with a first configuration by a first network node (111). The first configuration is to configure the wireless device (130) with first measurement gaps to perform first measurements on the first carrier. The second network node (112) also initiates (504) providing a first indication based on a first result of the determination.
US11265746B2	Configuring measurement reporting for new radio According to certain embodiments, a wireless device performs a method for measurement configuration and reporting. The wireless device is associated with a plurality of serving cells. The method comprises obtaining a plurality of measurement configurations from a network node. Each measurement configuration comprises a measurement identifier, a measurement object, and a report configuration. The method further comprises performing measurements on each serving cell of the plurality of serving cells according to at least one measurement configuration. When a measurement report associated with a measurement identifier is triggered, the method further comprises reporting results of the performed measurements for the plurality of serving cells to a network node according to the report configuration of the measurement configuration with the measurement identifier associated with the triggered event.
US11265744B2	Physical layer non-line-of-sight path discrimination based on polarization Disclosed are techniques for determining a line-of-sight (LOS) path between a transmitter and a wireless device in a wireless communications network. In an aspect, a wireless device receives, from the transmitter, a first reference signal transmitted on a first antenna port and a second reference signal transmitted on a second antenna port, the first reference signal having a first polarization and the second reference signal having a second polarization with known difference (e.g., perpendicular) to the first polarization, compares multi-path channels estimated from reception of the first reference signal and the second reference signal to multi-path channels expected from the first reference signal and the second reference signal when transmitted along the LOS path between the transmitter and the wireless device, and determines which path (if any) of the multi-path channels corresponds to the LOS path between the transmitter and the wireless device.
US11265743B2	Systems and methods for locating all synchronization signal blocks on a 5G NR channel Embodiments disclosed herein include systems and methods for locating all synchronization signal blocks on a 5G new radio channel. Such systems and methods can include measuring downlink signal energy over a bandwidth of the 5G new radio channel to identify a center frequency of a signal broadcast on the 5G new radio channel, processing the signal at the center frequency of the signal to identify a first of a plurality of synchronization signal blocks and global OFDM symbol boundaries for the wireless radio channel, and using the global OFDM symbol boundaries for all raster frequencies of the 5G new radio channel to identify remaining ones of the plurality of synchronization signal blocks.
US11265736B2	Method for configuring ANR, terminal device, base station, and core network device Provided are a method for configuring an ANR, a terminal device, a base station, and a core network device. The method includes: receiving measurement configuration information sent from a base station; measuring one or more attributes of a neighboring cell and a Cell Global Identifier (CGI) of the neighboring cell, according to the measurement configuration information; and sending a measurement report to the base station, wherein the measurement report is used for indicating the one or more attributes of the neighboring cell and the CGI.
US11265735B2	Transmission configuration method, transmission configuration determination method, base station and terminal A transmission configuration method includes: determining a candidate transmission configuration information set, where the determined candidate transmission configuration information set includes K types of transmission configuration information, and each of the K types of transmission configuration information is used for implementing transmission configuration of at least one of a signal or a channel, where K is greater than or equal to 1; selecting at least one type of transmission configuration information from the determined candidate transmission configuration information set; and transmitting the selected transmission configuration information to a terminal by using a signaling.
US11265731B1	Small cell telecommunications network design A method for establishing a small cell telecommunications network is provided. The method includes determining a plurality of sets of candidate locations, in which each set includes candidate locations for establishing small cell base transceiver stations to provide wireless network service. Each location in the set is determined by applying a gradient descent process to find a local optimal location. The evaluation criteria in the process can include, e.g., an estimated number of people expected to receive coverage, and/or the cost of operating the base transceiver stations. The plurality of sets are evaluated to determine a set of global optimal locations. The evaluation criteria can include, e.g., the expected revenue generated per unit time minus the cost of operating the base transceiver stations per unit time.
US11265727B2	Base station and communication method A base station includes: an allocating circuit that allocates, to a resource set which is monitored by a terminal belonging to a group, a first control signal which contains information indicating the configuration of a slot and a second control signal which does not contain the information indicating the configuration of a slot; and a transmitter that transmits the first control signal and the second control signal to a terminal. The number of symbols to which the first control signal is allocated is made equal to the smallest number of symbols to which the second control signal is allocated.
US11265723B2	Method and Device for Obtaining UE Security Capabilities A method and apparatus are provided for delivering user equipment (UE) new radio (NR) security capabilities and mobility management entity interworking. In the embodiments, adding the UE NR security capabilities in a new information element over a non-access stratum (NAS) is compatible with a legacy mobility management entity and eliminate any potential of bidding-down attack and is more advantageous and serves the security solution better. As long as the UE is connected to the long term evolution (LTE) and all UE security capabilities including LTE security capabilities have been replayed correctly and successfully in the NAS security mode command (SMC) message, the UE may not consider the absence of the UE NR security capabilities in the NAS SMC as a security vulnerability.
US11265720B2	Connection establishing system and method for mesh network A connection establishing system and method for a mesh network is provided, the mesh network includes a first transceiver and a second transceiver, the method includes performing a secure connection procedure including: transmitting, by the second transceiver, a secure connection request signal including a identifier to the first transceiver. The first transceiver encrypts the authentication message by using a public key corresponding to the identifier to generate a secure connection response signal and transmit the same to the second transceiver, the second transceiver decrypts the secure connection response signal by a private key to generate a decryption message and transmits an association request signal including the decryption message to the first transceiver. The first transceiver receives the association request signal, and determines whether the decryption message matches with the authentication message; if so, the first transceiver is allowed to establish a secure connection with the second transceiver.
US11265714B2	Systems and methods for subscriber certificate provisioning A system for provisioning a device is provided. The system includes a computer device. The computer device is programmed to receive, from a user equipment, a connection request via a layer two connection. The computer device is also programmed to accept the connection request. The computer device is further programmed to receive, from the user equipment, a certificate request via the layer two connection. Additionally, the computer device is programmed to determine a destination for the certificate request, and to route the certificate request to the destination.
US11265712B2	Efficient policy enforcement using network tokens for services—user-plane approach One aspect relates to initiating, by a device, a connection with an application server associated with one or more application services. A gateway derives an uplink network token and/or a downlink network token. The tokens are provisioned to the device and/or an application server over the user-plane. The tokens are included with uplink and/or downlink packets, respectively. Another aspect relates to receiving a data packet at a gateway. The gateway determines a requirement for a network token from the packet. The gateway derives the network token based on a device subscription profile maintained by a network. The network token may be sent with the packet to a destination address associated with the packet. A packet including a network token may be received at a gateway. The gateway may verify the network token and send the data packet to an application server or a device if the verifying is successful.
US11265707B2	Roll-over of identifiers and keys for unicast vehicle to vehicle communication links Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that improve privacy in wireless communications, such as communications by a user equipment (UE), which may in some cases be a vehicle UE. For example, various vehicle-to-everything (V2X) transmissions may be unencrypted, and a vehicle may be expected to periodically change one or more identifiers it uses for various communication services. Privacy may be enhanced, for example, via encryption key roll-over, as well as roll-over of one or more other identifiers associated with a UE that may potentially be used by an observer to track the UE. The UE may transmit a message that includes an updated lower layer identifier (e.g., a layer-2 (L2) identifier) to another UE in a V2X unicast communications link, which may trigger a change in identifiers of a set of identifiers and an updated security context. All or a portion of the message may be encrypted.
US11265705B2	Communication system, communication terminal, AMF entity, and communication method The present disclosure aims to provide a communication system capable of achieving advanced security in a 5G communication system. The communication system according to the present disclosure includes: a communication terminal (10); an Access and Mobility Management (AMF) entity (20) configured to execute Mobility Management (MM) processing regarding the communication terminal (10); and a Session Management Function (SMF) entity (30) configured to execute Session Management (SM) processing regarding the communication terminal (10), in which the communication terminal (10) sends an MM message used in the MM processing, a first security key having been applied to the MM message, between the communication terminal and the AMF entity (20), and sends an SM message used in the SM processing, a second security key having been applied to the SM message, between the communication terminal and the SMF entity (30) via the AMF entity (20).
US11265701B2	Apparatus and method for addressing road users in wireless communications Apparatuses, methods and computer programs for a first transportation vehicle and a second transportation vehicle. The method for the first transportation vehicle includes generating an environmental perception message based on a perception model of an environment of the first transportation vehicle, wherein the perception model includes detected objects; transmitting the environmental perception message to one or more transportation vehicles located in a vicinity of the first transportation vehicle; determining one or more second transportation vehicles among the detected objects; and transmitting one or more wireless messages to the one or more second transportation vehicles. The one or more second transportation vehicles are addressed as destination of the one or more wireless messages by referencing one or more objects of the detected objects corresponding to the one or more second transportation vehicles within the environmental perception message.
US11265700B2	Methods and systems for detecting and responding to paging channel attacks Methods for countering a shared paging channel hijack attack. In an example embodiment, a wireless device may monitor the shared paging channel during a paging occasion in a DRX cycle to detect a first IMSI-based paging message in the paging occasion, and continue monitoring for IMSI-based paging in subsequent radio subframes in the paging frame and radio subframes in subsequent radio frames within the DRX cycle to determine whether there are indications of a paging channel hijack attack. In an example embodiment, this monitoring may be to determine whether one or more subframes that are not the paging occasion receive IMSI-based paging messages, in response to which a threat probability may be increased. The wireless device may perform an operation (e.g., an actuation operation such as disabling monitoring of, and preventing connection attempts to, the base station, etc.) to protect against a shared paging channel hijack attack.
US11265695B2	MMS termination on different networks A mobile device, via a roaming platform, can switch IMSIs (e.g., Home IMSI-1, Roamer IMSI-2, etc.) depending on a location of the mobile device. Upon switching IMSIs, the roaming platform can forward the update location to an HLR of the home network and roaming network. If the MMSC on the home network receives an MMS message, the MMSC on the home network may query the HLR for a current location. From the query, if the message recipient is roaming, the MMSC on the home network may communicate with the MMSC on the roaming network to deliver the message. As a result, the roaming network can handle the routing of the message without a data session routed back through the home network.
US11265690B2	Ecosystem-based wireless network setup Various arrangements for configuring wireless network access for a first wireless device using a previously-configured second wireless device are presented. The first wireless device may output a temporary wireless network hotspot and advertise an identifier. A second wireless device may search for and identify the based on the advertised identifier. The second wireless device may connect with the temporary wireless network hotspot and provide wireless network credentials for a wireless network for which the second wireless device has previously been granted access. The may then establish a network connection with the wireless network based on the wireless network credentials transmitted by the second wireless device.
US11265689B1	Asset tracking systems and methods Asset tracking systems and methods include one or more tracking devices that select one or more hub devices with which to pair or connect based on a state quality value of the hub devices. The tracking device transmits sensor data to a paired or connected hub device, and the paired or connected hub device transmits the sensor data to a network server.
US11265688B2	Systems and methods for anomaly detection and survival analysis for physical assets Systems and methods are provided to predict failure probabilities and estimate remaining useful life in real time for physical assets such as systems or devices in a distributed fleet. Systems and methods generate models that can be used to create hazard functions based on sensor data, create survival functions based on hazard functions, and calculate variables (e.g., remaining life, time of failure) for one or more assets based on the survival functions.
US11265685B1	Complex computing network for establishing audio communication between users on a mobile application Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for connecting users and speakers via audio conversations on a mobile application. For example, a method comprises: providing speaker information associated with a speaker, wherein the speaker accesses a mobile application on a first mobile device of the speaker; determining a user accesses a mobile application on a second mobile device of the user; initiating an audio conversation between the speaker and the user; broadcasting, using the one or more computing device processors, on the mobile application, to a listener, a first audio conversation involving the speaker and the user, wherein the listener accesses the mobile application on a third mobile device of the listener.
US11265681B1	Electronic device capable of determining low power wide area network communication configuration and method thereof An electronic device is capable of determining a radio communications configuration. The electronic device includes a GPS module arranged for receiving an updated GPS coordinate. A controller is electronically coupled to the GPS module, and arranged for controlling the GPS module to receive the updated GPS coordinate and for determining the radio communications configuration based on the updated GPS coordinate received from the GPS module. A transmitter is electronically coupled to the controller and arranged for transmitting a message from the controller according to the determined radio communications configuration.
US11265680B2	Wireless device and methods for use in a paging network A wireless device includes a user interface that generates a pairing signal in response to an indication from a user to pair the wireless device to at least one remote device and generates a first location request signal in response to a second indication from a user to locate the at least one remote device. A short-range wireless transceiver communicates RF signals to pair the wireless device to the at least one remote device and that transmits a first RF paging signal to the at least one remote device in response to the location request signal.
US11265673B2	Client access to mobile location services A method of providing location services at a location server for a venue includes: receiving a request for location service, where the request for location service comprises at least one of a first identification of at least one mobile device or an identification of a target area; and sending a response, where the response comprises at least one of a second identification of at least one mobile device or an identification of a geographic area, where at least one of the first identification of at least one mobile device, the second identification of at least one mobile device, the identification of the target area, or the identification of the geographic area comprises a venue-specific identification.
US11265672B2	Method for processing an audio signal in accordance with a room impulse response, signal processing unit, audio encoder, audio decoder, and binaural renderer A method for processing an audio signal in accordance with a room impulse response is described. The audio signal is separately processed with an early part and a late reverberation of the room impulse response, and the processed early part of the audio signal and the reverberated signal are combined. A transition from the early part to the late reverberation in the room impulse response is reached when a correlation measure reaches a threshold, the threshold being set dependent on the correlation measure for a selected one of the early reflections in the early part of the room impulse response.
US11265664B2	Wireless hearing device for tracking activity and emergency events The present disclosure describes examples of systems and methods of wireless remote control of appliances and medical devices using a canal hearing device upon manual activation of a switch placed in the concha cavity behind the tragus. The manual activation of the switch may be by applying a force to the tragus by a finger of a user of the canal hearing device. In one embodiment the lateral end comprises one or more manually activated switches, a wireless antenna, and a battery cell. In some examples, the wireless electronics include low energy Bluetooth. The appliance may be any device with wireless capabilities, for example an electronic lock, a thermostat, an electronic lighting, a telephone, a kitchen appliance, a medical alert system, a television, a medical device, and a smart glass. The inconspicuous and secure wear of the hearing device allows for active lifestyle, including exercise, and more discrete communications.
US11265661B1	Hearing aid comprising a record and replay function A hearing aid comprises a) an input transducer; b) an output transducer; c) an input buffer connected to the input transducer configured to store audio data representing one or more time segments of an electric input signal; d) an own voice detector for providing an own voice control signal, and e) a combiner allowing to insert audio data from the input buffer in a forward audio signal path. The hearing aid further comprises f) an input controller configured to control storage of a time segment of the electric input signal in dependence of said own voice control signal; and g) an output controller configured to select audio data from said one or more time segments of the electric input signal currently stored in the input buffer for insertion in the forward path in dependence of an output control signal originating from the user.
US11265660B2	Speech intelligibility enhancing system A speech intelligibility enhancing system for difficult acoustical conditions is disclosed, the speech intelligibility enhancing system comprising at least one ear plug (201) for insertion in an ear canal (218) of a person, the at least one ear plug being arranged with an ear canal facing portion (401) and an environment facing portion (402), and the at least one ear plug comprising an acoustically attenuating path (214; 214, 213) comprising a vent (214) coupling said environment facing portion (402) with said ear canal facing portion (401); and an electroacoustic path (202, 204, 209; 202, 203, 204, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212) comprising a microphone (202) at said environment facing portion (402), a variable gain (204) and a loudspeaker (209) at said ear canal facing portion (401); wherein said acoustically attenuating path (214; 214, 213) is arranged with a transfer function from said environment facing portion (402) to said ear canal facing portion (401) having a low pass characteristic having a low pass cut¬off frequency and said low pass characteristic attenuating sound by a nominal attenuation (Go) for frequencies below said cut-off frequency.
US11265657B2	Piezoelectric MEMS microphone The invention provides a piezoelectric micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) microphone includes a base with a cavity and a piezoelectric diaphragm arranged on the base. The base has a ring base and a support column. The piezoelectric diaphragm includes a plurality of diaphragm sheets. Each diaphragm sheet has a fixing end connected with the support column and a free end suspended above the cavity. The widths of the diaphragm sheets are gradually increased from the fixing ends to the free ends. According to the piezoelectric MEMS microphone provided by the invention, under sound pressure, the free ends vibrate, wide free ends drive short fixing ends, and the diaphragm sheets close the fixing ends generate greater deformation to generate more charge. Therefore, the sensitivity can be further improved.
US11265651B2	Vibration output apparatus and computer-readable, non-transitory storage medium storing vibration output program A frequency compressor of a vibration output apparatus generates a compressed signal by converting frequency components of a mid-band signal into low-band frequency components of a low-band signal by increasing the total number of samples by a factor of n and thus compressing the frequency of amplitude information included in mid-band frequency components of the mid-band signal to 1/n. If the level of a low-band envelope signal is lower than a predetermined threshold level, a vibration signal generator generates a vibration signal by combining the compressed signal with the low-band signal consisting of the low-band frequency components of an acoustic signal. If the level of the low-band envelope signal is higher than the predetermined threshold level, the vibration signal generator generates a vibration signal by directly using the low-band signal. A vibration output unit outputs a vibration on the basis of the generated vibration signal.
US11265650B2	Method, client, and electronic device for processing audio signals The disclosure describes methods, clients, and electronic devices for processing audio signals. One method for processing audio signals comprises: receiving a first audio signal inputted from a first audio acquisition terminal and a second audio signal inputted from a second audio acquisition terminal, wherein the first audio acquisition terminal and the second audio acquisition terminal are located in different positions of a same location; determining a target audio signal and a reference audio signal from the first audio signal and the second audio signal; determining a filter coefficient corresponding to the target audio signal based on the reference audio signal; and eliminating, from the target audio signal, a crosstalk signal determined based on the filter coefficient and the reference audio signal. The effect that a speech path can output speech signals with less interference is achieved.
US11265648B2	Audio circuitry Audio circuitry, comprising: a speaker driver operable to drive a speaker based on a speaker signal; a current monitoring unit operable to monitor a speaker current flowing through the speaker and generate a monitor signal indicative of that current; and a microphone signal generator operable, when external sound is incident on the speaker, to generate a microphone signal representative of the external sound based on the monitor signal and the speaker signal.
US11265644B2	Hearing protection devices, speakers and noise exposure sensors therefore, and sensor housings and associated methods for the same A noise sensor is disposed adjacent a speaker within an ear cup of a hearing protection device. The speaker is disposed within a speaker housing and the noise sensor is disposed within a sensor housing, the sensor housing coupled to the speaker housing such that the noise sensor and speaker remain adjacent one another. The noise sensor includes at least a microphone operably coupled to a printed circuit board. The sensor housing defines an axial bore such that the noise sensor can receive acoustic signals via the axial bore. The sensor housing can be coupled to the speaker housing such that the noise sensor is sealed therebetween and receives acoustic signals via a distal end of the axial bore opposite the speaker. A calibration tool can be disposed to the axial bore via the distal end for airtight calibration of the noise sensor.
US11265641B2	Microelectromechanical systems vibration sensor A MEMS vibration sensor die can include a substrate having a top portion, a mounting surface, and an aperture extending at least partially through the substrate. The die can include a first electrode coupled to the top portion of the substrate and positioned over the aperture. The die can include a second electrode disposed between the substrate and the first electrode. The second electrode can be spaced apart from the first electrode. The die can include a proof mass that can have a first portion coupled to the first electrode or the second electrode. The proof mass can have a second end opposite the first portion. The second end can be recessed within the aperture relative to the mounting surface of the substrate. The proof mass can be suspended freely within the aperture. The proof mass can move the first electrode or the second electrode from which it is suspended in response to vibration.
US11265638B2	In-ear headphone A low-profile earbud is disclosed that sits securely within an ear of a user. The earbud includes a protruding portion that passes through a channel defined by the tragus and anti-tragus of the ear. In some embodiments, the protruding portion can take the form of a cable configured to supply power and transfer data to the earbud. In some embodiments, the protruding portion can provide additional space for electrical components and sensors supporting the earbud.
US11265634B1	Articulated vehicle speaker system An articulated vehicle speaker system includes a vehicle mount adapted to be mounted on a vehicle and a speaker assembly including front and back injection molded panels which, when joined together, define a speaker compartment at first and second ends of the panels to house a speaker unit and a central compartment which separates the speaker compartments. A pair of spaced, powered hinge assemblies are disposed within the central compartment and hingedly connect the speaker assembly to the vehicle mount to allow limited swinging movement of the speaker assembly between different positions on the vehicle. Each hinge assembly includes a bidirectional, electrically-powered actuator and transmission subassembly. Each subassembly including a rotary output shaft and a set of interconnected transmission elements coupled to the output shaft and to the speaker assembly to automatically swing the speaker assembly based on a command signal.
US11265629B2	Speaker box Provided is a speaker box, which includes a first damping member fixed to the housing and covering the sound outlet, and a second damping member fixed in the receiving space and fixed to the housing. The second damping member, the base and/or the cover define an extension cavity in communication with the front acoustic cavity. When the speaker produces sound, the extension cavity stabilizes frequency response variation caused by variation in the dynamic height of the air space. When the diaphragm of the speaker is at the lowest and highest positions of the air space, the variation in the final acoustic frequency response of the speaker box is always small, and the final acoustic frequency response of the speaker is also small. Thus, the intermodulation distortion of speakers in mobile devices or other thin devices can be reduced, and a sound quality of the speaker box can be improved.
US11265626B2	Apparatus and method for connecting wireless sensor An apparatus for connecting a wireless sensor may include a charging battery which is self-powered, a measurement sensor configured for performing wireless communication and receive power from the charging battery, and a vehicle controller configured to be connected to the measurement sensor through wireless communication and receive measured data.
US11265625B1	Automated self-contained hookah system with unobstrusive aquatic data recording A self-contained surface supplied air system preferably provided with backpack-wearable capability and automated setup functions for ease of use that is capable of recording valuable recreational and scientific data in an unobtrusive manner. The flotation tube process for the system can be automated to reduce setup time and electronically regulated to increase reliability and safety. The system allows recreational divers or their inherent equipment to be capable of recording valuable and reputable data in a manner that does not involve extra effort by the user. The disclosed system can use a miniature pH sensor design with automatic calibration for integration into the data recording device. In one embodiment, the novel hookah diving system comprises a portable body enclosing all necessary equipment and featuring automatic flotation tube inflation and deflation. An integrated data recording device collects physical data at points along the diver's tether preferably from the surface all the way to the depth of the diver.
US11265624B2	Hot video clip extraction method, user equipment, and server A system including a server, a first terminal and a second terminal, where the server is configured to: send video content to the first terminal and the second terminal, respectively, where the video content includes a first hot clip and a second hot clip; send a first tag of the first hot clip to the first terminal; and send a second tag of the second hot clip to the second terminal; the first terminal is configured to display the first tag on a play time axis of the video content, where the first tag is located in a first location of the play time axis; and the second terminal is configured to display the second tag on the play time axis of the video content, where the second tag is located in a second location of the play time axis.
US11265621B2	Video push method, device and computer-readable storage medium The present application discloses a video push method, comprising: obtaining keyword information, and filtrating electronic program information according to the keyword information to obtain a first push information; filtrating network video information according to the keyword information to obtain a second push Information; generating a push list according to the first push information and the second push information, and pushing videos according to the push list. The application also discloses a video push device and a computer-readable storage medium. The present application completes the effective filtration of video data from two different sources being of television and network, and further completes the intelligent push of the video data, and can provide users with rich and high quality video resources firstly according to the retrieved keyword information.
US11265612B2	Digital content and response processing system and method Systems and methods are provided for allowing responses to offers displayed with digital content. The responses may be provided on a receiver system via a conventional feedback through the same distribution channel through which the content and offer were provided, or through an alternative channel, with data being transmitted from an alternative channel device to a transacting entity. For time-shifted playback, content is identified and time-adapted offers may be provided, taking into account factors such as the content, the time of play back, the date of play back, and so forth. The alternate response channel may be more suitable for time-adapted offer responses then for contemporaneously transmitted offers.
US11265611B2	Campaign modification for content on demand asset insertion One embodiment herein includes a Content On Demand (COD) asset insertion system that is operable to process a plurality of asset campaigns from a plurality of asset managers, to process information from a remote COD content distributor about COD content selections by a plurality of Customer Premises Equipment (CPEs), to identify and qualify assets of the asset campaigns for insertion in the COD content selections, and to direct the remote COD content distributor to insert the qualified assets into the COD content selections. The embodiment also includes an analytics processor that is operable to collect information about the assets inserted in the COD content selections, to modify the asset campaigns based on the collected information, and to present the modified asset campaigns to the COD asset insertion decision system. The COD asset insertion decision system is further operable to re-qualify the assets based on the modified asset campaigns.
US11265608B2	System and method for presenting electronic media assets A method of presenting electronic media assets may include retrieving metadata for a plurality of electronic media assets over a computer network, determining if one or more media assets is a transactional media asset, adding the transactional media assets to a media asset list, determining if one or more media assets is a subscription media asset, adding the subscription media assets to the media asset list, determining if one or more media assets is a live event media asset, adding the live event media assets to the media asset list, determining if one or more media assets is a current linear media asset, adding the current linear media assets to the media asset list, determining if one or more media assets is a future linear media asset adding the future linear media assets to the media asset list, and presenting the media title list to the consumer.
US11265607B2	Systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing a broadcast integration platform with real-time interactive content synchronization Embodiments of the invention relate generally to the field of content distribution platforms, and more particularly, to systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing a broadcast integration platform with real-time interactive content synchronization. For example, according to one embodiment there is a method performed by a broadcast integration platform having at least a processor and a memory by which to synchronize interactive content with a broadcast transmission, in which the method includes: receiving a request from a user device for presentation of a broadcast transmission, wherein the user device is to receive the broadcast transmission via a local tuner; transmitting a source location for the broadcast transmission from the broadcast integration platform to the user device; transmitting to the user device in response to the received request: (i) a plurality of media content objects to be stored locally at the user device, (ii) a broadcast offset defining a time difference between a start time of the broadcast transmission and a current position for the broadcast transmission according to the source location, and (iii) time-point triggers for the media content objects specifying when during the presentation of the broadcast transmission each of the plurality of media content objects is to be presented at the user device concurrent with display of the broadcast transmission at the user device; instructing the user device to compute a local offset for the broadcast transmission by determining a latency delay between the current position for the broadcast transmission according to the broadcast offset and the local current position for the broadcast transmission according to the display of the broadcast transmission at the user device; synchronizing presentation of the media content objects with the display of the broadcast transmission at the user device by instructing the local tuner to temporally align the presentation of the media content objects with the display of the broadcast transmission based on the time-point triggers for the media content objects using the local offset; and instructing the user device to overlay the presentation of the media content objects over the display of the broadcast transmission at the user device at a time defined by each of the time-point triggers. Other related embodiments are disclosed.
US11265603B2	Information processing apparatus and method, display control apparatus and method, reproducing apparatus and method, and information processing system Provided are an information processing apparatus and method, a display control apparatus and method, a reproducing apparatus and method, and an information processing system that transmit a response of viewers acquired in a more natural way to a place where content is captured, enabling presentation in an easier-to-see way. The information processing apparatus receives motion information indicating motions of users watching video content and information indicating attributes of the users, and generates an excitement image by arranging information visually indicating a degree of excitement of each user determined on the basis of the motion information transmitted from a plurality of reproducing apparatuses at a position according to an attribute of each user.
US11265599B2	Re-encoding predicted picture frames in live video stream applications In various examples, a media stream may be received by a re-encode system that may leverage a recode engine to convert (e.g., at an interval, based on a request, etc.) an inter-frame associated with the media stream to an intra-frame. The intra-frame may be converted from the inter-frame using parameters or other information associated with and received with the media stream. The converted intra-frame may be merged into an updated segment of the media stream in place of the original inter-frame to enable storage of the updated segment—or a portion thereof—for later use.
US11265594B2	Data processing method and device, storage medium, electronic device The present disclosure belongs to the field of computer technology and relates to a data processing method and device, a computer-readable storage medium, and an electronic device. The method includes: determining an image frame of video data, and acquiring position information of a function area located in the image frame; acquiring coding information of the function area, and establishing a first mapping relationship between the coding information and the position information; and acquiring a time stamp of the image frame, and establishing a second mapping relationship between the time stamp and the first mapping relationship.
US11265592B2	Content comparison testing on linear media streams A method is disclosed to include receiving first viewership information for a media segment displayed on a first electronic device, the first viewership information including a first viewership event associated with the media segment, where media content includes at least the media segment. The method can include receiving second viewership information for an overlay content segment displayed on a second electronic device, the second viewership information comprising a second viewership event associated with the overlay content segment. The method can include determining that a first viewership level for the overlay content segment is greater than a second viewership level for the media segment in view of the first viewership event or the second viewership event. The method can include sending a display instruction to a content management device instructing the content management device to send the overlay content segment to the first electronic device and the second electronic device.
US11265585B2	Tiered digital content recording A digital content recording network controller device determines a first content of a set of content to be more likely to be requested by a user of a content access device than a second content of the set of content based on monitored behavior of the user. The device stores the first content in a first storage device of a tiered group of storage devices and stores the second content in a second storage device of the tiered group of storage devices wherein the content access device is located closer to the first storage device than the second storage device. This balances storage load with accessibility, resulting in a faster responding system that does not require as much storage.
US11265582B2	In-loop filter apparatus and method for video coding The disclosure relates to an in-loop filter apparatus for video coding, which is configured for processing a reconstructed frame corresponding to a current frame for generation of a filtered reconstructed frame, wherein the reconstructed frame comprises a plurality of pixels, each pixel being associated with a pixel value. The in-loop filter apparatus comprises a processing unit configured to: partition the reconstructed frame into a plurality of overlapping and/or non-overlapping 2D pixel blocks; generate for each 2D pixel block a 2D spectrum by applying a 2D transform to the 2D pixel block, wherein the 2D spectrum comprises a plurality of spectral components; generate for each 2D pixel block a filtered 2D spectrum by multiplying each spectral component with a respective gain coefficient, wherein the respective gain coefficient depends on the respective spectral component and/or one or more neighboring spectral components of the respective spectral component and one or more filtering parameters; generate for each 2D pixel block a filtered 2D pixel block by applying an inverse 2D transform to the filtered 2D spectrum; and generate the filtered reconstructed frame on the basis of the plurality of filtered 2D pixel blocks.
US11265581B2	Method and apparatus for video coding A method of video decoding can include determining a prediction mode of a current coding unit (CU), and determining values of a transform unit (TU) coded block flag (CBF) of a Cb transform block, denoted tu_cbf_cb, and a TU CBF of a Cr transform block, denoted tu_cbf_cr, determining a context index, denoted ctxIdx, based on the prediction mode of the current CU and the values of the tu_cbf_cb, and the tu_cbf_cr, and performing an arithmetic decoding process according to a context model indicated by the ctxIdx to determine a bin of a joint Cb Cr residual (JCCR) flag indicating whether residual samples for both Cb and Cr chroma components of the current CU are coded as a single transform block.
US11265580B2	Supplemental enhancement information messages for neural network based video post processing A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for video post-processing using supplemental enhancement information (SEI) messages by determining whether a structure of a neural network and one or more parameters associated with the neural network are defined for a decoder and requesting data corresponding to the structure of the neural network and the one or more parameters based on the determination using one or more SEI messages. The requested structure and parameter data is received, and post processing is performed on video data based on the received structure and parameter data.
US11265579B2	Systems, methods, and apparatuses for video processing Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described for processing video. Encoded video data may be determined from uncompressed video data. A chrominance component for a portion of the encoded video data may be determined that references another portion of the encoded video data. A luma component of the portion of the encoded video data may be determined to correspond with the luma component of the corresponding portion of the uncompressed video data.
US11265575B2	Image and video processing apparatuses and methods The invention relates to an image processing apparatus for compressing or decompressing a segment of an image. The segment includes a plurality of pixels, each pixel includes a pixel value and a pixel position defined by a first coordinate system. The pixel values of the plurality of pixels form a pixel value vector. The apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to compress and/or decompress the segment. Compressing the segment includes computing a plurality of expansion coefficients by expanding the pixel value vector into a plurality of basis vectors that are discrete approximations of solutions of a boundary value problem of the Helmholtz equation on the segment of the image in a second coordinate system rotated relative to the first coordinate system. Decompressing the segment includes computing the pixel value vector by forming a linear combination of the basis vectors using the plurality of expansion coefficients.
US11265574B2	Image encoding method and image decoding method According to one embodiment, an image encoding method includes selecting a motion reference block from an encoded pixel block to which an inter prediction is applied. The method includes selecting one or more available blocks from the motion reference block. The method includes selecting a selection block from the available blocks. The method includes generating a predicted image of the encoding target block using motion information of the selection block. The method includes encoding a prediction error between the predicted image and an original image. The method includes encoding selection information specifying the selection block by referring to a code table decided according to a number of the available blocks.
US11265566B2	Signaling of global motion relative to available reference frames A decoder includes circuitry configured to receive a bitstream, extract a header including a list of reference frames available for global motion compensation, determine, using the header, a global motion model for a current block, the global motion relative to a reference frame contained in the list of reference frames, and decode the current block using the global motion model. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US11265563B2	Optimization of downsampling occurring before encoding images during compression The disclosure lies in the field of coding image data, scalable in image resolution, such that one or more successive downsamplings are performed from a source signal of maximal image resolution to a minimal image resolution, in order to encode a base layer (L0) corresponding to this minimal resolution, the base layer (L0) serving as a reference for one or more enhancement layers (L1, L2) to be used for decoding at a terminal having a screen of higher image resolution than the minimal image resolution. From said successive downsamplings, the base layer (L0) and the one or more enhancement layers (L1, L2) are constructed, and then an encoded bit stream is prepared in order to be transmitted, comprising data of the base layer and of the enhancement layer or layers. In particular, the downsampling step comprises the application of an adaptive low-pass filter to the image data from the downsampling.
US11265562B2	Transmitting method and receiving method A transmitting method for transmitting encoded data obtained by hierarchically encoding a video image includes: generating an encoded stream that includes time information and the encoded data, the time information indicating a time at which decoding or displaying processing of the encoded data is performed, and transmitting the generated encoded stream, wherein the encoded data includes a plurality of sets each including a plurality of access units and the time information includes first time information which indicates a time at which the processing performed on a first access unit of the first set is performed and which is based on a reference clock, and second time information used to specify a time at which the processing performed on a second access unit of the second set is performed and which is based on the reference clock.
US11265559B2	High dynamic range image/video coding A disclosed configuration includes a system (or a computer implemented method or a non-transitory computer readable medium) for automatically preprocessing higher dynamic range image data into lower dynamic range image data through a data adaptive tuning process. By automatically preprocessing the higher dynamic range image data into the lower dynamic range image data through the data adaptive tuning process, an existing encoding process for encoding the standard dynamic range image data can be applied to the lower dynamic range image data while preserving metadata sufficient to recover image fidelity even in the high dynamic range. In one aspect, the system (or a computer implemented method or a non-transitory computer readable medium) provides for backwards compatibility between high dynamic range video services and existing standard dynamic range services. In one aspect, regrading is applied in a domain that is perceptually more uniform than the domain it is initially presented.
US11265551B2	Decoder-side motion vector derivation Improved systems and methods related to decoder-side motion vector derivation (DMVD), for example, in applying one or more constraints to motion information, such as a MV derived by DMVD, and/or a MV difference between an initial MV and an MV derived by DMVD. These techniques may be applied to any of the existing video codecs, such as HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding), and/or may be an efficient coding tool in any future video coding standards. In one example, the block size used for DMVD can be restricted. In another example, FRUC bilateral matching can be simplified by not searching outside reference blocks indicated by the original motion vector.
US11265543B2	Method, device, and recording medium storing bit stream, for encoding/decoding image The invention relates to a method for encoding/decoding an image. The image decoding method according to the invention comprises the steps of: obtaining diagonal partition information on a current block; determining a diagonal partition structure of the current block using the diagonal partition information; and diagonally partitioning the current block into a first and a second area based on the determined diagonal partition structure, the current block being a leaf node of a square or rectangular partition.
US11265542B2	Uniform tile split with remainder Method for decoding a picture, comprising: decoding information that the picture is partitioned into more than one segment based on one or more syntax elements in a bitstream; decoding information that the spatial segmentation is uniform based on the one or more syntax elements; determining a segment unit size based on the one or more syntax elements or based on a predefined segment unit size; decoding a first value indicating a segment width from one or more code words in the bitstream; decoding a second value indicating a segment height from the one or more code words; deriving segment column widths based on a picture width in number of segment units and the first value; deriving segment row heights based on a picture height in number of segment units and the second value; deriving a spatial location for a current block based on the derived segment column widths and the derived segment heights; and decoding the current block based on the derived spatial location.
US11265539B2	Encoding apparatus, encoding method, decoding apparatus, and decoding method There is provided an encoding apparatus, an encoding method, a decoding apparatus, and a decoding method that make it possible to improve the performance of a filter process. The encoding apparatus and the decoding apparatus perform classification of classifying, according to a reliability degree determined according to a frequency distribution of inclination directions indicating directions of inclination of pixel values of a plurality of pixels in a frequency distribution generation region including a pixel of interest of a decoded image, the pixel of interest into any of a plurality of classes, and performs a filter process of applying, to the decoded image, a prediction formula for performing product sum calculation of tap coefficients of the class of the pixel of interest obtained by the classification and pixels of the decoded image. The present technology can be applied, for example, to a case in which encoding and decoding of an image are performed.
US11265536B2	Method to extend the range of rice parameter for residual coding in transform skip mode A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for video coding. Video data comprising a reference frame and residual blocks is received. Transform coefficients associated with the residual blocks are identified. The video data corresponding to the one or more residual blocks is encoded based on an extended dynamic range associated with the transform coefficients.
US11265535B2	Method and apparatus for harmonizing multiple sign bit hiding and residual sign prediction The present invention relates to an improved apparatus and method for harmonizing both Sign Bit Hiding (SBH) and Residual Sign Prediction (RSP) techniques in video coding. In order to improve coding efficiency, a list of transform coefficients, to which RSP is to be applied is prepared in advance of selecting a coefficient to which SBH is applied. Thereby, the RSP list can be populated in such a manner that the highest coding efficiency may be expected. Subsequently, one or more coefficients for applying SBH are selected so as not to be included in the list.
US11265529B2	Method and apparatus for controlling image display A method of controlling image display includes: receiving an image capture instruction from a client device, wherein the image capture instruction includes a photographing direction, and the photographing direction is determined by the client device according to a relative position relationship between a position of the client device and a user-specified display position; controlling an image capture device to perform image capture according to the photographing direction, to obtain a depth image comprising a target object image; extracting the target object image from the depth image; and sending the target object image to the client device such that the client device displays the target object image at the display position.
US11265527B2	Methods and apparatus for providing a frame packing arrangement for panoramic con tent Apparatus and methods for providing a frame packing arrangement for the encoding/decoding of, for example, panoramic content. In one embodiment, an encoder apparatus is disclosed. In a variant, the encoder apparatus is configured to encode Segmented Sphere Projections (SSP) imaging data and/or Rotated Sphere Projections (RSP) imaging data into an extant imaging format. In another variant, a decoder apparatus is disclosed. In one embodiment, the decoder apparatus is configured to decode SSP imaging data and/or RSP imaging data from an extant imaging format. Computing devices, computer-readable storage apparatus, integrated circuits and methods for using the aforementioned encoder and decoder are also disclosed.
US11265526B2	Methods for automatic registration of 3D image data A method for automatic registration of 3D image data, captured by a 3D image capture system having an RGB camera and a depth camera, includes capturing 2D image data with the RGB camera at a first pose; capturing depth data with the depth camera at the first pose; performing an initial registration of the RGB camera to the depth camera; capturing 2D image data with the RGB camera at a second pose; capturing depth data at the second pose; and calculating an updated registration of the RGB camera to the depth camera.
US11265524B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium An apparatus configured to correct a captured image using a gloss component based on a virtual light source sets a light-source color of the virtual light source. The apparatus generates the gloss component on a subject in the captured image using the light-source color corrected according to a color tone of the captured image. The apparatus corrects the captured image by adding the generated gloss component to the captured image.
US11265520B2	Solid-state imaging device and information processing device To provide a solid-state imaging device capable of generating image data exposed by light of different wavelengths in a single imaging.There is provided a solid-state imaging device including: a plurality of lenses configured to condense light; a filter unit having a plurality of regions respectively irradiated by light passing through the plurality of lenses, the plurality of regions including transmission patterns configured to transmit different wavelength bands of the light; and an image sensor in which pixels configured to convert light transmitted through the filter unit into electric signals are arranged in a matrix, the image sensor being provided with color filters that correspond to the transmission patterns on a filter-unit side of the pixels.
US11265517B2	Image information collection system and vehicle An image information collection system is an image information collection system in which a server device collects image information from a vehicle via a telecommunications line. The vehicle includes: an imaging device configured to capture a surrounding image; and a control device configured to calculate an evaluation value of the surrounding image captured by the imaging device, the control device being configured to determine, based on the evaluation value thus calculated and a location where the surrounding image is captured, whether or not the surrounding image is transmitted to the server device as the image information, the control device being configured to transmit, to the server device, the surrounding image determined to be transmitted.
US11265515B2	Wireless communication apparatus, capsule endoscope system, and judgment method A wireless communication apparatus includes a phase detecting unit configured to detect a signal change point at which a signal decoded from a received wireless signal changes and detect a temporal position of the signal change point within one cycle defined by setting of a symbol rate as a phase, a vector generating unit configured to generate a vector which corresponds to the detected phase and which has a predetermined magnitude, a vector synthesizing unit configured to synthesize the generated vector in plurality to generate a synthesized vector, a calculating unit configured to calculate a parameter having a correspondence relationship with a magnitude of the generated synthesized vector, and a judging unit configured to judge whether or not a wireless signal is a specific wireless signal based on the calculated parameter.
US11265512B2	Door-knocking for teleconferencing A method for teleconferencing between a monitoring device and a user device includes establishing an audio channel connection between the user device and the monitoring device of a remote user; displaying an entry code on a display of the monitoring device; obtaining from a user of the monitoring device a verbal confirmation of the entry code; and, in response to receiving the entry code from the remote user, enabling a camera of the monitoring device. In response to the verbal confirmation, the entry code is sent to the remote user. Enabling the camera of the monitoring device establishes an audio-visual connection between the user device and the monitoring device.
US11265497B2	Signal processing apparatus and method, imaging element, and electronic apparatus The present disclosure relates to a signal processing apparatus and method, an imaging element, and an electronic apparatus capable of suppressing deterioration of subjective image quality. Driving of a shift register controlling transfer of pixel data of digital data obtained by A/D conversion is stopped in a part or the entirety of a period in which the A/D conversion is performed on a pixel output of an analog signal. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a signal processing apparatus, an imaging element, an imaging device, an image processing apparatus, an electronic apparatus, a signal processing method, a program, or the like.
US11265496B2	Image sensor including pixels mirror symmetric with each other An image sensor may include a plurality of first pixels arranged on a substrate along a first axis and a second axis, the plurality of first pixels connected to a first output line, a plurality of second pixels arranged on the substrate along the first axis and the second axis, the plurality of second pixels being mirror-symmetric to the plurality of first pixels along the first axis, and the plurality of second pixels connected to the first output line, a plurality of first color filters, and a plurality of second color filters.
US11265488B2	Image sensor and method of operating the same with resetting of a dummy reset array and reading of a dummy read array An image sensor includes an active pixel array, at least one dummy reset array, a dummy read array, and an image processor. The image processor sequentially resets respective rows of pixels included in the at least one dummy reset array in a period in which pixels of the active pixel array do not perform a reset operation, and sequentially reads respective rows of pixels included in the dummy read array in a period in which the pixels of the active pixel array do not perform a read operation.
US11265485B2	Measurement apparatus, movable apparatus, and vehicle A measurement apparatus (100) mountable on a movable apparatus (700) includes a first imaging device (130-1) configured to capture an image in a first image capture direction, the first image capture direction having a first angle with respect to a direction of travel of the movable apparatus (700), and a second imaging device (130-2) disposed next to the first imaging device (130-1) configured to capture an image in a second image capture direction, the second image capture direction having a second angle with respect to the direction of travel of the movable apparatus (700). The first imaging device (130-1) and the second imaging device (130-2) are disposed to overlap at least partially a first imaging range of the first imaging device (130-1) and a second imaging range of the second imaging device (130-2). At least one of the first image capture direction of the first imaging device (130-1) and the second image capture direction of the second imaging device (130-2) is set at a given angle with respect to a width dimension of the movable apparatus (700).
US11265484B1	Systems and methods for automatic exposure of images An example method includes capturing, by an image capture device, a first image having a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a plurality of channels, and the first image is captured in accordance with first exposure parameters. The method includes determining, by a controller of the image capture device, average pixel intensities for each of the plurality of channels. The method includes determining, by the controller, a weighted average of pixel intensities using the average pixel intensities. The method includes setting, by the controller, a gain that is proportional to a ratio of a desired average pixel intensity relative to the weighted average of pixel intensities. The method includes setting, by the controller, second exposure parameters for a second image based on the gain. The method includes capturing, by the image capture device, the second image in accordance with the second exposure parameters.
US11265483B2	Endoscopic image processing apparatus and endoscope system An endoscopic image processing apparatus includes a memory configured to store a threshold THn to determine a dark region in the near-point image inputted, a brightness correction circuit configured to perform brightness correction on the near-point image based on the threshold THn depending on timing of acquiring the near-point image and perform second brightness correction on the far-point image based on a threshold THf on the far-point image, and a light distribution state determination circuit configured to determine whether a light distribution state of a live image from an endoscope is a light distribution state of the near-point image. The brightness correction circuit, in the timing of acquiring the near-point image, performs the first brightness correction when the light distribution state determination circuit determines that the light distribution state of the live image is the light distribution state of the near-point image.
US11265482B2	Position detecting device of aperture module A position detecting device for detecting a position of a magnet configured to move over a first target point and a second target point in steps includes a first hall device configured to generate a first hall voltage, a second hall device configured to generate a second hall voltage, a subtractor configured to generate a subtraction voltage based on a difference between the first hall voltage and the second hall voltage, an adder configured to generate an addition voltage based on a combination of the first hall voltage and the second hall voltage, a divider configured to calculate a ratio of the subtraction voltage to the addition voltage, and a subtraction voltage changing unit configured to maintain the subtraction voltage at the first target point and the second target point and in a transition section between the first target point and the second target point to be constant.
US11265476B2	Imaging apparatus having two mount surfaces to mount accessories Preferable optical performance is ensured to improve image quality.The present technology includes: a housing having a mount part to which at least a first accessory and a second accessory are selectively attached; and an imaging element that photoelectrically converts captured light into an electrical signal, in which the mount part is formed with a first mount surface to which the first accessory is attached, and a second mount surface to which the second accessory is attached, and the first mount surface and the second mount surface are located on the same plane. Therefore, since the first accessory and the second accessory are selectively attached to the first mount surface and the second mount surface, which are located on the same plane, it is possible to ensure preferable optical performance and improve image quality.
US11265474B2	Zoom setting adjustment for digital cameras In general, techniques are described regarding generating, based on zoom settings, various sets of frames of image data (e.g., video data). Cameras comprising one or more camera processors configured to perform the techniques are also disclosed. The camera processor(s) receive a plurality of frames of image data. The camera processor(s) receive, via a user interface, a zoom setting for each of the plurality of frames. The camera processor(s) may generate a first set of frames according to the zoom settings. The camera processor(s) determine a second set of frames, where the second set of frames are different from the first set of frames. The second set of frames may comprise a second zoom that is different than a first zoom applied to the first set of frames.
US11265471B2	Gimbal control method, device, gimbal, system, and storage medium The present disclosure provides a gimbal control method, a device, a gimbal, a system, and a storage medium. The gimbal includes at least one axis of rotation. The method includes: determining a current first working mode of the gimbal; and if the gimbal satisfies a preset mode switching condition, controlling the gimbal to switch from the first working mode to a second working mode, and enabling the gimbal to maintain smooth and stable operation during the switching process, where in the first working mode, the axis of rotation is configured to enable the gimbal to face a first direction, and in the second working mode, the axis of rotation is configured to enable the gimbal to face a second direction. In this way, smooth transition of the gimbal can be maintained during mode switching, so that stability of image shooting during mode switching of the gimbal is improved.
US11265469B1	System to mitigate image jitter by an actuator driven camera A device has a camera that is moveable by one or more actuators. During operation the camera moves. For example, the camera may move to follow a user as they move within the physical space. Mechanical limitations result in the camera movement exhibiting discontinuities, such as small jerks or steps from one orientation to another while panning. If the camera is acquiring video data while moving, the resulting video data may appear jittery and be unpleasant for a user to view. An offset is determined between an intended orientation of the camera at a specified time and an actual orientation of the camera at that time. A portion of raw image data acquired at the specified time is cropped using the offset to produce cropped image data that is free from jitter due to the movement discontinuities.
US11265468B2	Image stabilization apparatus, method of controlling the same, image capturing apparatus, and storage medium An image stabilization apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire an output of a shake detection device, a motion vector detection unit configured to detect a motion vector, an estimation unit configured to calculate an estimate of an offset value of the shake detection device using an observed offset value and an a priori offset estimate, the observed offset value being obtained using a difference between the output of the shake detection device and the motion vector; and a calculation unit configured to calculate a correction amount for correcting image blur using the output of the shake detection device and the estimate of the offset value, wherein the estimation unit is configured to calculate the estimate of the offset value according to operation for driving a movable lens.
US11265460B2	Electronic device, control device, and control method The present invention, in an aspect thereof, enables a human imaging subject to simultaneously and easily recognize his/her face and a line-of-sight guidance image on a display device. In an electronic device, an image capturing device is disposed in a peripheral region of a display screen of a display device. A control device performs a display process of displaying a line-of-sight guidance image on the display screen around an arrangement position of the image capturing device.
US11265459B2	Electronic device and control method therefor According to an aspect of an embodiment of the disclosure, an electronic device includes: a photographing device; a memory storing one or more instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory to capture a first image by using the photographing device, perform first adjustment on an exposure value based on the first image, when the first image does not satisfy a first condition, perform second adjustment on the exposure value based on a second image acquired by applying a mask having a high weight for a region of interest to the first image, when the second image does not satisfy a second condition, adjust at least one photographing setting value based on the adjusted exposure value, and capture, by using the photographing device, a third image based on the adjusted at least one photographing setting value.
US11265458B2	Apparatus, method for controlling the same, and storage medium computer-readably storing program When displaying a plurality of gain setting values on a setting screen, an apparatus performs control so as to display each of the gain setting values in a display style that makes identifiable a noise level generated as a result of amplification of a signal based on each of the gain setting values.
US11265452B2	Providing clipped volumetric image data and reducing a number of false positive identification in object detection A stereo camera, including an imaging sensor, and an optical apparatus comprising first and second apertures separated by an interocular distance and configured to focus first and second images on the imaging sensor in a side by side arrangement. An imaging system including the stereo camera, and at least one image processor, configured to receive first and second frames of image data from a stereo camera, and construct volumetric image data based on binocular disparity between the first and second frames.
US11265451B2	Camera module and mobile terminal Disclosed is a camera module capable of being detachably arranged on and operating with a host of a mobile terminal cooperatively and used in combination with the host. The camera module comprising a main board, a battery, a capturing assembly, and a housing. The main board defines a first mounting hole. The battery is stacked on the main board. The battery defines a second mounting hole corresponding to the first mounting hole. The capturing assembly includes a bracket and a camera. The camera is installed on the bracket, and the bracket is contained in a space defined by both the first and the second mounting holes. The camera is arranged through the first mounting hole. The incident surface of the camera is protruded out of the first mounting hole. The housing is arranged on the main board and the battery.
US11265448B2	Camera system, camera, lens, accessory, and accessory detection method of camera system Provided are a camera system, a camera, a lens, an accessory, and an accessory detection method of a camera system capable of simply and quickly detect presence or absence of an attachment of the accessory and a type of the accessory. Data for accessory detection is transmitted from the lens to the camera. In a case where the accessory is attached between the lens and the camera, the accessory relays the data for accessory detection. At the time of relaying the data for accessory detection, the accessory adds own accessory information to update the data for accessory detection. The camera detects the presence or absence of the attachment of the accessory and the number of attachments of the accessory based on the received data for accessory detection. Further, in a case where the attachment is detected, the camera acquires information on the attached accessory.
US11265445B1	Methods and system for checking ICC profile characteristics Color conversion attempt to reproduce an input CMYK combination on a print media using an output CMYK combination. In a 2-step process, ICC profiles are used for the color conversion. In some instances, a 1-step process may be used that avoids the use of the ICC profiles and provides a faster processing time. A color progression checker determines whether the 1-step process may be used for color conversions based on standard deviations of the colorants along paths within a three-dimensional look-up table for a destination ICC profile. If a certain number of standard deviations exceed 20%, then the 1-step process for color conversion may not be effective.
US11265439B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus is used in a post-payment system based on a customer's electronic money, and includes an image forming section, a communication section, and a controller. The image forming section performs a printing operation of forming an image on a sheet. The communication section performs communication so as to acquire settlement information including information that identifies the customer. The controller controls the image forming section and the communication section. As to the printing operation performed after acquisition of the settlement information, the controller settles a printing fee with a discount in a unit price per sheet in a situation where a printed sheet count is a predetermined number or more.
US11265436B2	Image forming apparatus and method for controlling an image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a display panel, a sheet conveying passage, a reading unit, a light source, a chassis, and a controller. The reading unit includes a light transmitting plate and a conveying image sensor. The conveying image sensor reads a conveyed sheet, which is a sheet to print on. The chassis has a cleaning hole in which to insert a cleaning rod for rubbing the light-transmitting plate. In a maintenance mode, the controller turns on the light source, and makes the display panel display a graph showing the pixel values of the pixels included in conveyed-and-read image data acquired by reading with the conveying image sensor.
US11265435B2	Information processing apparatus for re-executing processing for not successfully acquired, information processing system, and non-transitory computer readable medium An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire, from a read image, a predetermined item, and a value corresponding to the item, the read image being obtained by reading a document and being subjected, prior to acquisition of the item and the value, to preprocessing and character recognition. Further, the processor is configured to, in response to not successfully acquiring at least one of the item and the value, change a setting on the preprocessing or a setting on the character recognition in accordance with the acquisition or non-acquisition state of the item and the value, and then perform the preprocessing or the character recognition.
US11265434B2	Information processing device, control method, and recording medium with restriction function Provided is an information processing device connected to a device that executes a process in accordance with a function selected by a user among a plurality of functions, the information processing device includes a setter that sets a first function and a second function from the plurality of functions and a restrictor that restricts the first function, and the restrictor releases the restriction on the first function if the user selects the second function.
US11265433B2	Image forming apparatus and control method of image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a storage unit, an input unit, and an execution unit. The storage unit stores, for each application group, information indicating a range of values that can be set as parameters for executing a function. The input unit receives an input instructing execution of an application. When the application belonging to an application group executes a function, the execution unit executes the function with the parameters in the range.
US11265422B2	Techniques for benchmarking pairing strategies in a contact center system A method is provided. The method comprises associating a first pairing strategy to a first plurality of contacts during a first period of time, associating a second pairing strategy to a second plurality of contacts during a second period of time, associating a third pairing strategy to a third plurality of contacts during a third period of time, associating the first pairing strategy to a fourth plurality of contacts during a fourth period of time, associating the second pairing strategy to a fifth plurality of contacts during a fifth period of time, associating to a sixth plurality of contacts during a sixth period of time, determining a first performance measurement based on outcomes of the first, second, fourth, and fifth pluralities of contacts, determining a second performance measurement based on outcomes of the third and sixth pluralities of contacts, and outputting data that enables a comparison of the first and second performance measurements.
US11265417B1	AC/DC phone line detector An example AC/DC phone line detection system may include one or more of an electronic circuit that is floating with reference to ground, a first A/D converter coupled to the electronic circuit and configured to detect ringing voltages from DC voltages included in a telephone line, a second A/D converter coupled to the electronic circuit and configured to detect caller identification information from AC voltages included in the telephone line, and a processor configured to control signals detected by the first and second A/D convertors and output information about the signals to call taking equipment.
US11265414B2	Method and device for waking up voice recognition function in mobile terminal, and computer readable storage medium The present disclosure provides a method and device for waking up a voice recognition function in a mobile terminal. The method includes: receiving a trigger instruction of an input interface, and activating the input interface; acquiring a rotation angle of the mobile terminal in a first rotation direction with an x-axis as a rotation axis, in which the x-axis is a widthwise direction of a screen of the mobile terminal; and activating the voice recognition function when the rotation angle of the mobile terminal in the first rotation direction with the x-axis as the rotation axis is greater than or equal to a first trigger threshold.
US11265410B2	Self-organizing communications network nodes and systems A communications node includes an apparel item in the form of a shoulder belt that includes an open state, closed state, and main body. A first portion curvingly extends from the main body. A second portion angularly extends from the main body opposite the first portion. A primary fastener demountably couples the first and second portions together when in the closed state. An antenna element and communications device are positioned within the apparel item. An hub is affixed to the apparel item and configured to receive audio/video input. A battery is positioned adjacent to the apparel item. A control circuit is positioned within the apparel item and coupled to the antenna element, hub, communications device, and battery. The control circuit establishes a self-organizing WAN with a plurality of computing devices each directly, dynamically, and non-hierarchically connected to the WAN; and communicates with the computing devices using the self-organizing WAN.
US11265409B2	Cover glass and electronic device comprising same A cover window is provided that includes a glass substrate, an optical pattern layer stacked on a first area and a second area of the glass substrate, the optical pattern layer having a plurality of patterns formed in the second area, a color layer stacked on the optical pattern layer having the plurality of patterns formed therein; and a mirror layer stacked on the color layer such that the mirror layer and the color layer are separated from each other, wherein in the second area of the glass substrate, natural light exhibits a color of the color layer due to an optical reaction between the color layer and the mirror layer.
US11265407B2	Display screen and mobile terminal A display screen including a display panel, a cover plate and an exciter for generating vibration. The cover plate covers an upper surface of the display panel. The cover plate is provided with a first micropore array, and an area covered by the first micropore array forms a speaker area. The exciter for generating vibration is arranged under the display panel aligned with the speaker area.
US11265405B2	Mobile terminal A mobile terminal is provided, including a housing, a camera, and a drive structure disposed in the housing, and a frame of the housing is provided with a hole; and the drive structure includes a drive body, a gear group, and a guiding rack fixed in the housing, the camera is rotatably disposed on the housing and is connected to the drive body, and the drive body cooperates with the guiding rack through rotation by using the gear group, and drives the camera to rotatably enter and leave the hole.
US11265400B2	Multimode interconnection interface controller for converged network This invention discloses a multimode interconnection interface controller for a converged network, which comprises a SERDES element responsible for serial/parallel conversion, a LANE_TXCLK element responsible for generating a transmit clock, a SERDES initialization element responsible for link training and rate negotiation, and a PCS_EB coding element and an PCS_AF coding element responsible for physical layer coding of messages. The link training and rate negotiation are completed automatically via the shared SERDES initialization element. More universality and flexibility are provided for interconnection chip design by the PCS_EB coding element. The PCS_AF coding element is provided to reduce message penetration delay. The multimode interconnection interface controller is integrated in a single chip. Through flexible configuration, the single chip can meet transmission requirements of dedicated high speed networks and Ethernet networks. The multimode interconnection interface controller also supports interconnection of data center Ethernet and high performance computing high speed network.
US11265390B2	Systems and methods for detecting events based on updates to node profiles from electronic activities The present disclosure relates to methods, systems, and storage media for detecting events based on updates to node profiles from electronic activities. Exemplary implementations may access an electronic activity transmitted or received via an electronic account associated with a data source provider; generate a plurality of activity field-value pairs; maintain a plurality of node profiles; identify a first state of a first node profile of the plurality of node profiles; update the first node profile using the electronic activity; identify a second state of the first node profile subsequent to updating the first node profile using the electronic activity; detect a state change of the first node profile based on the first state and the second state; determine that the state change satisfies an event condition; and store an association between the first node profile and an event type corresponding to the event condition.
US11265382B2	Management of sensor data collected across sensor nodes Systems, methods, and software described herein manage data from spaceborne and airborne nodes. In one implementation, a control system may obtain sensor data from sensors of spaceborne or airborne nodes. Once obtained, the control system may process the sensor data to determine metadata associated with the sensor data. Once processed, the sensor data may be stored in one or more data stores, such that applications may access the data based at least in part on the metadata.
US11265380B1	Radio frequency waveguide system for mixed temperature environments A system of a machine includes a network of a plurality of nodes distributed throughout the machine, a controller, and a plurality of waveguides. Each of the nodes is operable to communicate through one or more radio frequencies, where the machine includes a cooler portion and a hotter portion. The controller is operable to communicate with the network of nodes using a higher frequency to communicate with one or more of the nodes in the cooler portion of the machine and a lower frequency to communicate with one or more of the nodes in the hotter portion of the machine. The waveguides are configured to guide transmission of the one or more radio frequencies between the controller and one or more of the nodes.
US11265374B2	Cloud disaster recovery Maintaining versions of data from a storage system includes detecting that a snapshot of the data has been performed at the storage device, transferring a previous version of the data to a cloud storage, and prohibiting deletion of the snapshot until the previous version of the data has been completely transferred to the cloud storage. The data may be a volume on the storage system. The cloud storage may be public cloud storage or part of a private network. The cloud storage may be accessible from any location via the World Wide Web. A connection between the storage device and the cloud storage may be provided by the Internet, a TCP/IP network, a dedicated connection, or a FICON connection. The snapshot may store a log entry in a log device corresponding to a particular point-in-time version of the data prior to data being written to the storage device.
US11265371B2	Content distribution using ad hoc mesh networks Aspects discussed herein relate to systems, apparatuses, and methods for providing content distribution via a breadth-first approach for peer-to-peer file sharing in a temporary ad hoc mesh network. For example, a peer-to-peer orchestrator may receive requests for the same asset from multiple mobile devices, determine which of the mobile devices are likely to travel along the same route at the same time, group them together and cause transmission of different asset parts of the requested asset to different mobile devices in the group. If the mobile devices in the group lose connection with the peer-to-peer orchestrator, they may form an ad hock mesh network and retrieve asset parts from one another. If the group reconnects with a peer-to-peer orchestrator, additional asset parts of the asset may be transmitted to the group and the process may repeat so that each mobile device may obtain each of the asset parts.
US11265367B2	System and method for signaling through data storage An application platform system and method. A data synchronization instance manages a reference state object for a data synchronization system (DSS) account. A first local state object is stored at a first application system. The first application system receives update notifications provided by the DSS. A second local state object is stored at a second application system. The second application system receives update notifications provided by the DSS. An application instruction of the first application system is transformed into a state update, and the first local state object is modified to include the state update. The state update is provided to the DSS via a local update notification. The reference state object is modified to include the state update. The state update is provided to the second application system via a reference update notification. The second local state object is modified to include the state update.
US11265366B2	Lifecycle management of custom resources in a cloud computing environment Example virtual appliances disclosed herein include processor circuitry to accept a resource definition of a custom resource to be executed in a cloud computing environment. Disclosed example virtual appliances also include a lifecycle manager to manage a lifecycle of the custom resource based on a state machine. Disclosed example virtual appliances further include a database to: (i) query the lifecycle manager for a set of operations available to execute in a current lifecycle state of the custom resource; (ii) update a catalog item for the custom resource to present the set of operations available to execute in the current lifecycle state of the custom resource, the catalog item created based on the resource definition of the custom resource; and (iii) in response to selection of a first operation in the set of operations, send a message to cause the processor circuitry to execute the first operation.
US11265364B2	Remote control authority and authentication The invention relates to systems and methods to enable a mobile device to be used as a remote control, in order to control one or more remotely controllable objects. In possible embodiments of the invention, proximity-based (or other) remote controls include control authorization to enable the transfer or sharing of control between different remote controls being implemented on different mobile devices, in order to permit different users to transfer or share control of a same remotely controllable object, for example. In other possible embodiments of the invention, a proximity-based (or other) remote control uses control authentication to enable the pairing of a remote control implemented on a device and a remotely controllable object, for example. Various embodiments of control authority and control authentication are possible and anticipated by the invention to address a wide range of practical remote control applications and provide many benefits to users.
US11265363B2	IOT interaction system Systems and methods for facilitating interactions with embedded devices are provided. In one embodiment, a method can include obtaining a first set of data indicative of at least a plurality of interactions between a user device and a plurality of embedded devices associated with a building, and one or more locations of the user device associated with each respective interaction. The method can include generating a second set of data for each embedded device based, at least in part, on the first set of data. Each second set of data can be indicative of at least a number of interactions between the user device and the respective embedded device for each location. The method can include determining a particular location of the user device. The method can include identifying one or more recommended embedded devices and providing information about at least one recommended embedded device to the user device.
US11265360B2	System for managing jointly accessible data A computer-implemented method for managing a secure data item that is jointly accessible by the first user and the second user. In the method a first system receives a data request comprising an instruction to transmit the secure data item to a second system. The first system identifies that the secure data item is jointly accessible by the first user and the second user, and in response transmits an authorisation request to the second user device. The authorisation request comprises a prompt for the second user to authorise the data request. The first system receives a grant message indicative of the second user granting the authorisation request and in response transmits the secure data item to the second system. The secure data item is prevented from being sent to the second system, if the grant message is not received.
US11265359B2	Managing concurrent streaming of media streams A system and method are provided for managing a concurrent streaming of a first media stream (031) and a second media stream (032). The media streams (031, 032) represent different recordings of an event. The concurrent streaming of the media streams (031, 032) is enabled by a resource having a resource limitation (080). To address this resource limitation, when it is determined that the resource limitation is exceeded by the concurrent streaming of the first media stream (031) streaming to a first streaming client (041) and the second media stream (032) streaming to a second streaming client (042), the first media stream (031) is selected for substituting the second media stream (032) in the streaming to the second streaming client (042). As a result of the substitution, the first and the second streaming client (041, 042) stream the same media stream rather than different media streams. This may have as advantage that the allocation of the resource is reduced, since the streaming of a same media stream to different streaming clients (041, 042) typically represents a lower resource allocation than the streaming of different media streams to different streaming clients.
US11265353B2	Automated service enrollment in a machine-to-machine communications network IoT service layer capabilities may be employed to automate and simplify the service enrollment process for IoT service subscribers/enrollees. These capabilities enable virtualization of a service subscriber and the physical IoT devices, applications, data and authorized users of the subscriber into a software profile that is representative of the subscriber. Once virtualized, a service subscriber may then delegate the complexities and burden of service enrollment to an automated IoT service enrollment software function.
US11265351B2	Dynamic policy creation based on user or system behavior A management system manages a plurality of information handling systems by creating custom policies for each information handling system based on information gathered from or about each information handling system indicating, e.g., the user's intent, use, request for usage, security posture, productivity needs, and/or behavior. The management system creates custom policies to avoid unnecessarily impacting a user's productivity.
US11265350B2	Cyber risk analysis and remediation using network monitored sensors and methods of use Systems and methods for cyber risk analysis and remediation using network monitored sensors are provided herein. An example system includes one or more data collecting devices deployed within a network that collect entity information and monitor network traffic of the network that is related to security information. The network includes computing systems that are subject to a cyber risk policy having breach parameters defining one or more events that are indicative of a cyber security breach. A cyber security risk assessment and management system is used to automatically detect occurrence of one or more of the events that are indicative of a cyber security breach, automatically determine the breach parameters that apply for the one or more events that occurred, and generates a remediation of cyber security parameters for the network.
US11265347B2	Automated testing of network security policies against a desired set of security controls Systems and methods for automated testing of network security controls are provided. According to one embodiment, information regarding multiple desired security controls for a protected network are received by a network device. Network traffic configured to validate an extent of conformance by the protected network with the desired security controls is generated by the network device. The generated network traffic is transmitted by the network device onto the protected network. An assessment is performed by the network device regarding how network security policies configured within the protected network process the generated network traffic.
US11265345B2	Server detection of leaked credentials over HTTP In some implementations, systems and methods for detecting leaked credentials in a request for a network resource are provided. A request to access a resource on a network is analyzed to determine if the request was transmitted using an unsecured protocol, and if so, determine whether the request includes authentication credentials. If the request includes authentication credentials, the authentication credentials are authenticated and in response to determining that the authentication credentials are authentic, the authentication credentials are disabled. One or more notifications may be transmitted to an owner of the disabled authentication credentials.
US11265344B2	Remedial actions based on user risk assessments In some implementations, a method includes receiving, for each of multiple users, user activity data describing actions taken by the user by use of a user device over a period of time, determining, for each user and based on the actions taken by the user over the period of time and user responsibility data that describe responsibilities of the user, a risk assessment representative of a security risk resulting from the actions taken by the user by use of the user device, and determining, by the data processing apparatus, for each user and based on the risk assessment determined for the user, whether to implement a user-specific remedial action directed to risk mitigation.
US11265342B2	Rest api scanning for security testing Methods and systems for securing an application programming interface (API) are presented. The method comprises: receiving API workflow data associated with an API testing tool and generating a scan configuration file using the API workflow data; crawling the collection of API requests by identifying and retrieving a link associated with the collection of API requests; and crawling the link to generate a crawled link response. The method also includes executing one or more vulnerability tests on the crawled link response including applying at least one passive detection rule to the crawled link response and fuzzing the link. The fuzzed link may be transmitted in a request to an application server following which scan data indicative of at least one vulnerability associated with a response from the application server may be generated. The scan data may be used to generate a vulnerability report.
US11265337B2	Systems and methods for traffic inspection via an embedded browser Described embodiments provide systems and methods for traffic inspection via embedded browsers. An application inspector module of an embedded browser executable on a client may intercept network traffic for an application. The network traffic may include packets exchanged between the application and the server via a channel. The application inspector module may identify a computing resource usage on the client in providing a user with access to the application via the embedded browser. The application inspector module may generate analytics data based on the intercepted network traffic and the computing resource usage. The application inspector module may maintain a user behavior profile based on the analytics data. The application inspector module may determine that a portion of the network traffic directed to the remote server contains sensitive information. Responsive to the determination, the application inspector module may block or remove the portion of the network traffic.
US11265336B2	Detecting anomalies in networks Anomalies can be identified within a network. For example, a system can automatically detect anomalous network-activity using a machine-learning model that can analyzing how network configurations change over time. The machine-learning model may detect anomalies by comparing current and anticipated rates of change and/or types of topological changes in the network.
US11265335B2	Method for threat control in a computer network security system A method comprising: monitoring events collected from a plurality of network nodes; detecting a first suspicious event among the monitored events by a detection mechanism; monitoring the behaviour of the first suspicious event and any related events; in case the monitored first suspicious event and/or a related event is detected to perform an activity triggering an IOC (indicator of compromise, generating a new IOC; monitoring new events when the activity ends; comparing the behaviour of the new events with the behaviour of the generated IOC; in case a matching behaviour is found, merging the new event with the first suspicious event and/or related events related to the generated IOC; and generating a security related decision on the basis of the IOC.
US11265333B2	Method of achieving synchronization management of account information of WEB interface in multi-system DAS A method of achieving synchronization management of account information of a World Wide Web (WEB) interface in a multi-system Distributed Antenna System (DAS) is provided, including: a security verification initialization of the WEB interface when a single system device in the multi-system DAS is started, a current user information synchronization of a WEB interface between systems in the multi-system DAS, and a key book synchronization of WEB account information between the systems in the multi-system DAS. With the adoption of the method, synchronization management of the account information of the WEB interface in the multi-system DAS may be achieved, so that a management mode is simplified, and management efficiency is improved, information of a current WEB user is synchronized, integration of WEB user statuses and automatic login of multiple systems are achieved.
US11265332B1	Managed network content monitoring and filtering system and method A system and method for content request monitoring and filtering for a plurality of managed devices in a managed network uses a smart PAC file that is uniquely associated with a particular user using a particular managed device and a DNS look up to perform both the logging/monitoring of the content request and the filtering without a hardware appliance or partial proxying.
US11265331B2	Bluetooth hub device mediating connections between mobile device and controlled device A multifunction printer connects to a controlled device via a proximity network link. The multifunction printer is connected as a master of the controlled device. The multifunction printer connects with a mobile device via a Bluetooth link, such that the mobile device is connected as a master of the multifunction printer. The mobile device is authenticated to determine credentials and access permissions relative to the controlled device. The mobile device's access to the controlled device is controlled from the multifunction printer via the Bluetooth link based on the credentials and access permissions.
US11265328B2	Private data exchange metrics sharing Providing access to metrics on a private data exchange is described. An example computer-implemented method can include providing a data exchange by a cloud computing service on behalf of an entity. The data exchange may comprise several data listings provided by one or more data providers. The data listings reference one or more data sets stored in a data storage platform associated with the cloud computing service. The method may also include granting access the data listings, gathering consumer information based queries provided to data associated with the data listings, generating a new share comprising the consumer information, and granting access of the new share to the data provider that provided the data listing.
US11265327B2	Systems and methods for connection management Methods and systems are described for managing connections between client devices and servers. A client device may establish a connection with a connection manager device. The client device may request to establish a connection with a server. The connection manager may determine whether a user of the client device has user privileges to access the server. The connection manager may determine whether the user is a member of a group that has privileges to access the server. The connection manager may retrieve user or group credentials for accessing the server. The connection manager may establish a connection with the server. The connection manager may coordinate communications between the client device and the server. The connection manager may record the communications between the client device and the server.
US11265323B2	Fictitious account generation on detection of account takeover conditions Methods and systems for fictitious account generation on detection of account takeover conditions are described. A login attempt may be detected and determined to indicate fraud, such as when the login attempt is accompanied by many failed login attempts or is from an untrusted or known malicious endpoint. A fictitious account may be generated, which may include falsified account data and may limit account functionality to prevent unauthorized and fraudulent use of the account. The computing device that performs the login attempt may be routed and permitted to log in to the fictitious account, where the service provider or another computing entity may then monitor activity and usage of the fictitious account by the potentially malicious party. The fictitious account may be maintained so that other actors using the account may access the account and their activity also monitored.
US11265321B2	Managing metadata for external content within a computing environment Technologies are described for managing metadata associated with external content. For example metadata can be obtained that describes content stored on external systems. The metadata can be obtained without locally storing the content items themselves. For example, the metadata can be retrieved from the external systems while the external content continues to be stored on the external systems. The metadata can also include indications of the actions that can be performed in relation to the external content. For example, actions can be obtained (e.g., locally determined and/or obtained from the external systems) and added to the metadata. The metadata can be stored and used locally. For example, the metadata can be used to locally perform the actions in relation to the external content. The metadata can also be used to locally initiate actions that are then carried out in the external systems.
US11265319B2	Method and system for associating a unique device identifier with a potential security threat A method and system for associating a unique device identifier with a potential security threat are described. In a method conducted at a remotely accessible server, a unique device identifier is received from a computing device. The unique device identifier is associated with a record and is usable in identifying the computing device. An interaction data element is received from the computing device. The received interaction data element is validated including confirming that the received interaction data element matches an expected interaction data element associated with the record. Based on determining that the received interaction data element is not valid, the record is updated to associate the unique device identifier with a potential security threat. The interaction data element is updated periodically according to a sequence. The expected interaction data element changes based on the sequence.
US11265316B2	Apparatus to automatically establish or modify mutual authentications amongst the components in a software defined networking (SDN) solution The disclosure provides an approach for establishing authentication between components in a network. Embodiments deploying a node of a monitoring appliance in response to a request and providing a token for accessing a network manager to the node of the monitoring appliance. Embodiments include generating, by the node of the monitoring appliance, a certificate of the node of the monitoring appliance and providing the certificate of the node of the monitoring appliance to the network manager with the token for accessing the network manager. Embodiments include adding, by the network manager, based on the token for accessing the network manager, the certificate of the node of the monitoring appliance to a first trust store and providing, by the network manager, a network manager certificate to the node of the monitoring appliance. Embodiments include adding, by the node of the monitoring appliance, the network manager certificate to a second trust store.
US11265314B1	Code scanning jump One or more embodiments of the present specification relate to a data processing method, apparatus, device, and system for code scanning jumps. An example method includes receiving scan data resulting from a client application having been used to scan an identification code, in which the identification code and the client application have been created under different platforms. A domain name is obtained from the scan data, and a target regular expression corresponding to the domain name is obtained from a regular expression library. A jump rule string corresponding to the identification code is determined based on the target regular expression and a resource path of the domain name of the identification code, and a jump address corresponding to the jump rule string is queried from a rule library that includes mapping relationships between jump rule strings and jump addresses.
US11265313B2	Authentication control device and authentication control method An authentication control device includes one or more memories, and one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories and the one or more processor configured to perform storing of a first authentication key received from a server device in the one or more memories, the first authentication key relating to a second authentication key stored in a terminal of a user, in communication between the authentication control device and the terminal in the state where the authentication control device is uncommunicable with the server device, in response to receiving, from the terminal, first information encoded in accordance with the second authentication key, perform decoding of the first information by the stored first authentication key, and execute an authentication process of the user in accordance with second information acquired by the decoding.
US11265312B2	Telecommunication system for the secure transmission of data therein and device associated therewith A telecommunication system of the type wherein a series of terminals are mutually connected through a server and of a data transmission network characterised in that the management and the control of data management within the network are furthermore provided, with a single device made up of a SOC (System on Chip) processor to which the required support peripherals are associated.
US11265311B1	User authentication systems and methods A method of authenticating a user of a multifunction device to a server, the method comprising associating a user-supplied image with user login credentials, using a server; receiving, at the server, an image uploaded from the multifunction device; and comparing the uploaded image to the user-supplied image, using the server, and, only if the uploaded image is identical to the user-supplied image, allowing the user of the multifunction device to authenticate to the server by providing additional login credentials to the server using the multifunction device.
US11265310B2	Isolating networks and credentials using on-demand port forwarding An allowed client server, that is authorized to access a resource server over a given port, receives a client request, from a client computing system, to access the resource server. The allowed client server authenticates and authorizes the request, using an authentication and authorization mechanism, and selects a port with which to communicate with the client computing system. The identity of that port is provided to the client computing system, and a port forwarding mechanism forwards traffic between the client computing system and the resource server, through the client-facing port and to the given port on the resource server.
US11265309B2	Workflow service back end integration Disclosed are various approaches for workflow service back end integration. In some examples, an event is detected. The event is associated with an enterprise. A workflow action to perform is identified based on event. A user account is identified using at least one of the workflow action and the event. A command to present the workflow action is transmitted to a client device. A user indication to perform the workflow action is identified. Authentication data for the network service is identified based on a single sign-on (SSO) token associated with the user account. The workflow action is automatically performed using the network service. An authentication with the network service is completed based on the authentication data.
US11265306B2	Account authentication method for cloud storage, and server A method of authenticating an account is provided. A resource access request requesting for accessing, by a first account, a target resource in a cloud storage system is received by a server from a first client, the first account logging in to the first client. In response to the resource access request, a first access right of the first account is determined by the server based on right configuration information corresponding to the target resource, the right configuration information indicating an association relationship between an account and an access right of the account to the target resource. The first account is allowed by the server to access the target resource through the first client based on the first access right indicating that the first account is allowed to access the target resource.
US11265304B2	Seamless authentication for an application development platform Various embodiments concern mechanisms for facilitating communication between network-accessible platforms for developing, hosting, or running hybrid applications that utilize resources hosted across multiple platforms. Hybrid applications cause messages or “calls” to be passed between the platforms that must be authenticated. For example, when a call is placed by a Heroku platform to a Force.com platform, the call must be authenticated for security purposes. If Heroku has not already been authenticated when the call is submitted, an authentication process is invoked. An event listener can be used to register details regarding the initial callout task, and then register or “fire” an event when the authentication process is successfully completed. Registration of the initial callout task completely separates the authentication process from the resource being invoked. Requests can be completed without requiring further user input using at least some of the details registered by the event listener.
US11265301B1	Distribution of security keys Technology is described for using a first key to secure communications over a network link between a server and a client. A second key may be identified. A first message may indicate the server may receive data from the client using the second key but not to transmit data to the client using the second key, and that the first key is valid for sending and receiving data between the server and the client. A second message may indicate that the client may send and receive data with the server using the second key, and that the client may receive data from the server using the first key but not transmit data to the server using the first key. A third message may indicate that the server may send and receive data with the client using the second key, and that the first key is invalid for sending and receiving data between the server and the client.
US11265299B2	Obscured retrieval sequence for information centric networking (ICN) encoded video streams A method is implemented by a network device operating as a content node for securely distributing a content object over an information centric networking (ICN) network. The method implements a unique obscured retrieval sequence. The method includes receiving an interest for a chunk of the content object from a client device, where the chunk is identified with an obscured chunk identifier, translating the obscured chunk identifier into a general chunk identifier for the content object, and sending the chunk of the content object to the client device.
US11265298B2	Method for end-to-end transmission of a piece of encrypted digital information, application of this method and object implementing this method A method for end-to-end transmission of a piece of encrypted digital information includes the following steps: selection, on the computer equipment of the transmitter, of a piece of digital information and a digital identifier of the recipient; temporary encryption of the piece of digital information by execution of a local encryption application on the computer equipment with the private key of the sender; decryption of the piece of information on the equipment of the sender and encryption of the piece of information with the public key of the recipient; transmission to the recipient, by the computer equipment, from the sender, of the piece of digital information encrypted with the public key of the sender, optionally by the intermediary of the transactional platform; and decryption by the computer equipment of the recipient of the piece of information with the public key of the sender.
US11265289B2	Distributed network address translation over network environments This disclosure describes techniques for implementing network address translation as a distributed service over the nodes of a logical network fabric, such as a software-defined network fabric. A method includes registering, by an edge node of a network, an IP address of a client device. The method further includes forwarding, by the edge node, the registered IP address to a control plane of the network. The method further includes checking, by the control plane, a network address translation policy. The method further includes recording, by the control plane, translations between the registered IP address and an allocated IP address in a translation table, each of the translations being related to the edge node. The method further includes returning, by the control plane, the translations between the registered IP address and the allocated IP address to the edge node.
US11265288B2	Using network configuration analysis to improve server grouping in migration Various embodiments manage the migration of servers. In one embodiment, a set of server-level dependency information is obtained for servers to be migrated from a source computing environment to a target computing environment. A set of network configuration data is obtained for a plurality of network devices associated with the servers. The set of server-level dependency information is updated to include one or more additional dependencies of at least one of the servers based on the set of network configuration data. Updating the set of server-level dependency information generates an updated set of dependency information. The servers are assigned to multiple migration groups based on the updated set of dependency information. The migration groups optimize cross-group dependencies among the migration groups.
US11265287B2	Packet sending method and device A packet sending method includes obtaining, by a client device, an Internet Protocol (IP) anycast address of the anycast server cluster and an IP unicast address of the target server, generating, by the client device, an IP detection packet, where the IP detection packet is used to detect whether the target server is reachable based on the IP anycast address, and the IP detection packet includes the IP anycast address and the IP unicast address of the target server, and instructs the target server to replace the IP unicast address of the target server with the IP anycast address, and sending, by the client device, the IP detection packet to the target server.
US11265280B2	Content enhancement services Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for a content enhancement service are provided. In one embodiment, a method may include identifying at least one key term associated with an item of content provided by a content provider subsystem, generating an issue interface including an issue action element that is associated with the at least one identified key term, and incorporating the issue interface into an online presentation that includes the item of content, where the incorporated issue interface enables selection of the issue action element by a user consuming the item of content via the online presentation while the online presentation is presented to the user, and where selection of the issue action element is operative to automatically carry out an action that is associated with the at least one identified key term while the online presentation is presented to the user.
US11265278B2	Apparatus of processing dialog based message object and method thereof Provided are an apparatus of processing a dialog based message object and a method thereof, in which the apparatus of processing a dialog based message object and the method thereof include a memory and a processor electrically connected to the memory. The processor creates a dialog in which at least one user participates, provides the dialog with a message thread including an existing message object spontaneously created by the at least one user, receives an unspecified or specified message object from one of the at least one user and additionally inserts the received unspecified or specified message object into the message thread, detects whether a corresponding specified user reads the specified message object in the message thread to count the number of unread specified message objects, and provides the corresponding specified user with the number of unread specified message objects.
US11265275B2	Electronic device and method for image control thereof An electronic device can include a display, a communication interface comprising communication circuitry, and a processor comprising processing circuitry. The processor can be configured to receive a plurality of images comprising a first image and a second image in a first order from an external electronic device using the communication circuitry of the communication interface, arrange the first image and the second image in a second order based on first property information corresponding to the first image and second property information corresponding to the second image, and arrange and display the first image and the second image in the second order through the display.
US11265269B2	Networking system having multiple components with multiple loci of control Each switch unit in a networking system shares its local state information among other switch units in the networking system, collectively referred to as the shared forwarding state. Each switch unit creates a respective set of output queues that correspond to ports on other switch unites based on the shared forwarding state. A received packet on an ingress switch unit operating in accordance with a first routing protocol instance can be enqueued on an output queue in the ingress switch; the packet is subsequently processed by the egress switch unit, operating in accordance with a second routing protocol instance that corresponds to the output queue.
US11265265B2	Data communications system and method This application provides a data communications system and method. The system includes a first chassis and a second chassis. The first chassis includes a first high-performance switching module and a first low-performance switching module. The second chassis includes a second high-performance switching module and a second low-performance switching module. The first high-performance switching module is connected to the second low-performance switching module. The first low-performance switching module is connected to the second high-performance switching module. The first high-performance switching module is configured to connect to a third low-performance switching module in a third chassis that is to be added to the communications system. The second high-performance switching module is configured to connect to a fourth low-performance switching module in the third chassis that is to be added to the communications system. During capacity expansion, there is no need to change cables between deployed chassis.
US11265264B2	Systems and methods for controlling process priority for efficient resource allocation Methods and systems for controlling process priority for one or more work units having one or more processes. The method includes monitoring a combination of a throughput value and a response time value for each work unit, detecting a change in load level for each work unit based on a correlation between the throughput value and the response time value to adjust a priority level associated with the work unit, and reallocating one or more resources to the work unit when the priority level exceeds a predetermined threshold value.
US11265255B1	Secure communication routing for remote devices A security system that provides for obfuscating the sending entities, receiving entities, and/or routings (e.g., host entities that are routing the communication and the path through which the communication is sent) without the need to encrypt the foregoing. The packets for a communication may include a datagram packet portion, an IP packet portion, and a routing packet portion and may be signed with a signature using a pre-shared key (e.g., a wheat signature or a chaff signature). Therefore, the actual datagram packet, IP packet, and/or routing packet may have the actual information or may have imitation information. Only the systems that have the pre-shared key are able to determine what are the wheat packets and what are the chaff packets such that the correct sending entity, receiving entity, and/or hosts routing the communication are able to determine the correct entities and/or the routing.
US11265254B1	Systems and methods for determining a policy that allocates traffic associated with a network protocol type to a network slice A network device may receive, from a user equipment, a dataset identifying: applications utilized by the user equipment, network protocol types associated with the applications, and network addresses associated with the applications. The network device may segregate the dataset based on the network protocol types and to generate a segregated dataset. The network device may determine, based on the segregated dataset, a policy that causes particular application traffic associated with a particular network protocol type to be allocated to a particular network slice of the network. The network device may cause the policy to be provided to the user equipment to cause the user equipment to allocate the particular application traffic associated with the particular network protocol type to the particular network slice of the network.
US11265250B2	Targeted rate limiting of tenant systems in online services This disclosure involves applying rate limits to violating tenant computing devices causing resource consumption violations at system components identified via violation evaluation processes. A system identifies a resource consumption violation with respect to a computing system hosting an online service. The system retrieves log data identifying tenant systems that accessed the memory resource during a particular time period in which the resource consumption violation impacted performance of the online service. The system determines, from the log data, that a violator tenant system accessing the online service caused the resource consumption violation. The system enforces a rate limit against the violator tenant system rather than other tenant systems identified in the log data.
US11265249B2	Method for using authenticated requests to select network routes The present invention enables the selection of network routes based on a combination of traditional route table entries, identity policy information, and trust level information determined dynamically for each network session. This enables a network operator to apply different policies to network entities presenting differing identity credentials. It also allows network operators to block access to networks and network resources when identity credentials are not provided or are unauthorized.
US11265248B2	System log messages hostname address selection by multihomed hosts A method, system, device, or apparatus for selecting an IP address for a message. The method, system, device, or apparatus is used when there are two or more IP addresses for a multihomed device. The method determines an IP address reachable from a destination for the message. The message is generated using the reachable IP address as the hostname of the multihomed device. The generated message is transferred to the destination.
US11265246B2	Auto-configuration of routes between neighbor devices In some embodiments, a method inserts, by a first computing device, a first value for a capability in a first message that is used in a process to automatically exchange capability values with a second computing device. The first value for the capability indicates the first computing device requires a default route to reach the second computing device as a next hop for sending a packet to a destination. The first computing device sends the first message to the second computing device; and receives a second value for the capability in a second message from the second computing device. The second value indicating the second computing device will send the default route to reach the second computing device. When the default route is received from the second computing device, the first computing device stores the default route from the second computing device in a route table.
US11265241B2	Path detection method and apparatus A path detection method and apparatus for forwarding at least two layers of labels includes generating, by a first network device, a first request packet used for path detection, where the first request packet includes a label stack and a time to live (TTL), and an initial quantity of layers of the label stack matches an initial value of the TTL, and sending the first request packet, where the first request packet instructs a second network device to send a first response packet to the first network device when the TTL is 0 after being reduced by 1, and the first response packet reaches the first network device through an internet protocol route.
US11265239B1	Extended network node provisioning in software defined access fabric networks Techniques for extended network configuration conversion and reconfiguration are described. A network controller proceeds through a set of extended network nodes in an extended network and reconfigures ports in at the various nodes from a first configuration to a second configuration while preventing network traffic looping and maintaining data and management traffic connection to the nodes during the reconfiguration.
US11265237B2	System and method for detecting dropped aggregated traffic metadata packets A method includes receiving summary messages summarizing respective aggregated traffic metadata packets output from the at least one traffic management device and an engine. Each summary message identifies an origination pair having a traffic management device and an aggregation engine and a sequence number. The method further includes tracking per subinterval of a series of sub-intervals, highest and lowest sequence numbers and a count of summary messages received for each unique origination pair from the beginning of the subinterval. The method further includes accumulating, per interval, accumulated highest and lowest sequence numbers and an accumulated count of summary messages for each unique origination pair from the beginning of the interval and for all previous subintervals for tracking dropped aggregated traffic metadata packets for the interval. The method further includes estimating a number of dropped aggregated traffic metadata packets for the interval based on the accumulated highest and lowest sequence numbers and the count of summary messages.
US11265234B2	System and method for transmitting data and ordering asynchronous data A computer-implemented system includes an electromechanical device configured to be manipulated by a patient while performing an exercise session, and a processor in communication with the electromechanical device. The processor is configured to receive data, generate a map packet, and transmit the map packet. The processor is configured to use the data to generate continuity packets, where each of the continuity packets includes a contiguous portion of the data, and transmit the continuity packets. The processor is configured to use the map packet and the continuity packets to cause an output file to be generated.
US11265231B2	Real-time ranking of monitored entities The disclosed technology includes ranking entities in real-time to show the relative importance of those entities. The ranking is based on attributes of the entities that vary in real-time. An example of an entity is a process (e.g., an executing computer program) and the associated attributes can include the process' current CPU memory consumption. While the process runs, its CPU and memory consumption vary in real-time.
US11265225B2	Systems and methods for prediction of anomalies There is provided a method for adapting components of a network, comprising: providing graphs each indicative of a respective sequential snapshot of a dynamic graph obtained over a historical time interval, wherein nodes of the graphs denote entities, and edges of the graphs denote interactions between the entities over a network, computing community graphs according to the graphs, computing meta-community graphs according to the community graphs, analyzing dynamics of the community graphs to detect changes between two temporally adjacent community graphs, analyzing dynamics of the meta-community graphs to detect changes between two temporally adjacent meta-community graphs, identifying at least one entity corresponding to node(s) of the dynamic graph according to a predicted likelihood of performing an anomalous action during a future time interval, and generating instructions for adapting component(s) of the network for ensuring availability of network resources for interactions between entities during the future time interval.
US11265220B1	Auto switching for enterprise federated network slice A method in which an enterprise switches its devices to various federated network slices across operators based on cost, time, quality, and/or availability parameters defined in flexible rules managed by the enterprise. The method includes obtaining, by a controller of an enterprise, one or more parameters of a device served by a network slice of a core network. The method further includes, based on the one or more parameters of the device and one or more rules, determining, by the controller, whether a triggering event associated with a slice reselection occurred and based on the triggering event and the one or more rules, selecting, by the controller, a federated network slice from among a plurality of network slices provided by a plurality of core networks. The method further includes the controller causing the device to switch from the network slice to the federated network slice.
US11265215B2	System and method of strategy driven optimization of computer resource configurations in a cloud environment A computer-implemented method of optimizing a computer resource configuration in a cloud environment to provision an information technology service includes determining performance objectives for a provisioned information technology service. Constraints for the provisioned information technology service based on the determined performance objectives are determined. A desired computer resource configuration to achieve the determined performance objectives for the provisioned information technology service and to meet the determined constraints for the provisioned information technology service is determined. Then a computer resource configuration is compared with the desired resource configuration to determine configuration actions wherein the configuration actions comprise transitioning a computer resource in the computer resource configuration to a new computer resource configuration. Available computer resources in the cloud environment are configured as well as the computer resource configuration in the cloud environment to realize the determined configuration actions. A current performance of the configured available computer resources in the cloud environment is evaluated as well as a current performance of the configured computer resource configuration in the cloud environment compared to the performance objective. Then, the method determines if the desired computer resource configuration has been achieved based on the evaluated current performance of the configured available computer resources in the cloud environment and the evaluated current performance of the configured computer resource configuration in the cloud environment. Then a history is generated of performance using the evaluated current performance of the configured available computer resources in the cloud environment and the evaluated current performance of the configured computer resource configuration in the cloud environment. A new desired computer resource configuration to achieve the determined performance objectives is then determined using the generated history of performance.
US11265213B2	Active network management methods for ensuring live voice quality Active management of a data network facilitates the high-quality live broadcast of captured digital audio from multiple client devices present in a venue. In various aspects, the system includes a network hub. The network hub transmits and receives data from a plurality of the client devices which may be personal mobile devices. A network manager component manages communications of the client devices with the network hub. The network manager uses measured dynamic network parameters and determines conditions for maintaining audio quality according to configurable rules. The dynamic network parameters may include device qualification(s), live measured audio quality of service metrics, and unwanted data packets. In various aspects, dynamic authentication and de-authentication of client devices as well as data transmission throttling of client devices are techniques utilized for active network management. The network manager maintains audio quality for the client device configured or selected to broadcast over the public address system.
US11265210B2	Network slice configuration method, apparatus, and system This application provides a network slice configuration method, apparatus, and system, and pertains to the field of wireless communications technologies. The method includes: after receiving a management request of a network slice, obtaining or determining, by a network slice manager, network resource information corresponding to a subnet included in the network slice, and then sending, in a form of a subnet management request to a subnet manager, the network resource information corresponding to the subnet, so that the subnet manager configures the corresponding subnet based on the network resource information corresponding to the subnet. In this application, network slice configuration efficiency can be improved.
US11265209B2	System and method for dynamic and extensible management of device nodes A device management system that receives a first service request message for a remote device node, the request including an address identifier and a connection profile identifier. The system retrieves from a database protocol configuration information associated with the service request. The system connects to the remote device using the protocol configuration information and iterates through device packs and identifies a device type and support for in-band and out-of band application protocols for the remote device. The system retrieves and stores the retrieved device type and in-band and out-of band application protocols. The system further receives a second service request message that includes a device identifier of the remote device and iteratively connect to the remote device associated with the device identifier using each of the in-band and out-of band application protocols and retrieves an inventory of management operations associated with each application protocol.
US11265206B1	Dynamic updates of incident status information Described herein are systems, methods, and software to enhance the management of responses to incidents in an information technology (IT) environment. In one example, a management system identifies an incident in an IT environment, identifies an initial status for the incident for an analyst of the IT environment, and provides the initial status for display to the analyst. The management system further monitors state information for the incident in the IT environment, identifies a second status of the incident based on the monitored state, and provides the second status for display to the analyst.
US11265204B1	Using a programmable resource dependency mathematical model to perform root cause analysis A controller device manages a plurality of network devices. The controller device includes a memory configured to store a dependency model representing dependencies between resources provided by the network devices and a programmed merge strategy, and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to: determine the resources provided by the network devices; determine relationships between the resources according to the programmed merge strategy; construct the dependency model using the determined relationships; determine that at least one of the resources has experienced a failure; and perform a root cause analysis using the dependency mathematical model to determine a root cause of the failure of the at least one of the resources.
US11265203B2	System and method for processing alerts indicative of conditions of a computing infrastructure Systems and methods for processing alerts indicative of conditions of nodes of a computing infrastructure are herein disclosed as comprising, in an implementation, generating a node hierarchy comprising nodes associated with a service model, wherein relationships between the nodes are based on impact rules, identifying alerts related to the node hierarchy, wherein the alerts are indicative of impairments affecting at least a portion of the node hierarchy, and performing impact calculation for nodes of the node hierarchy based on the identified alerts. In an implementation, the impact values may be calculated in parallel for nodes indicated for processing. In an implementation, the nodes associated with the service model represent infrastructure or applicative resources and comprise nodes included in the service model and nodes related to, but not included in, the service model.
US11265202B2	Integrated automated application deployment The current document is directed to an integrated cloud-management facility, or subsystem, that incorporates an automated-application-deployment-facility integrator that incorporates one or more automated-application-deployment facilities into the cloud-management facility. The automated-application-deployment-facility integrator allows users of the cloud-management facility to access one or more automated-application-deployment facilities within the context of the cloud-management facility. The automated-application-deployment-facility integrator provides to system managers and administrators, through the cloud-management facility, a wider range of functionalities and capabilities than is provided by a cloud-management facility that includes only a single automated-application-deployment facility, or subsystem.
US11265201B2	Correction of specific intermodulation products in a concurrent multi-band system Systems and methods are disclosed herein for selectively compensating for a specific Intermodulation Distortion (IMO) product(s) of an arbitrary order in a transmitter system. In some embodiments, a method of compensating for one or more specific IMO products in a concurrent multi-band transmitter system comprises generating an IMO correction signal for a specific IMO product as a function of two or more frequency band input signals for two or more frequency bands of a concurrent multi-band signal, the IMO product being an arbitrary order IMD product. The method further comprises frequency translating the IMD correction signal to a desired frequency that corresponds to a Radio Frequency (RF) location of the specific IMO product and, after frequency translating the IMO correction signal to the desired frequency, utilizing the IMO correction signal to compensate for the specific IMO product.
US11265195B2	Method for transmitting uplink control channel and user equipment for performing same A disclosure of the present specification provides a method for transmitting an uplink control channel by a user equipment (UE). The method may comprise the steps of: determining first uplink control information and second uplink control information different from the first uplink control information; determining the size of a first transmission time interval (TTI) for transmitting a first uplink control channel, on the basis of the size of the first uplink control information; determining the size of a second TTI for transmitting a second uplink control channel, on the basis of the size of the second uplink control information; transmitting the first uplink control channel including the first uplink control information according to the size of the first TTI; and transmitting the second uplink control channel including the second uplink control information according to the size of the second TTI.
US11265194B2	Method and device in wireless communication system that supports broadcast signals A method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station used for wireless communication systems that support broadcast signals. The UE receives a first radio signal on a first time-frequency resource. The first radio signal comprises a first RS sequence, RSs in the first RS sequence are mapped from lower frequency to higher frequency in frequency domain, the first time-frequency resource belongs to a first frequency domain resource. The first frequency domain resource comprises K frequency domain sub-resource(s). (A) Position(s) of the K frequency domain sub-resource(s) in the first frequency domain resource is(are) unfixed, RSs of the first RS sequence in a given frequency domain sub-resource are not related to a position of the given frequency domain sub-resource in the first frequency domain resource. Therefore, the UE is able to correctly receive RSs even without knowing the position of frequency domain resources in the system bandwidth.
US11265189B2	Modular device and data management system and gateway for a communications network A gateway provides duplex-directional, multimedia ad hoc mesh networking, peer-to-peer direct communications, power optimization, dynamic configuration, and data management, while operating within various devices and network topologies. A multitasking virtual machine monitor for mobile networked devices, that is capable of functional expandability and portability to various operating environments, interoperability with a variety of operating systems, the Gateway Control System (GCS) performs functional capabilities in both a local and a networked topology using local and remote hardware and software. Software within the GCS is partitioned into sequentially, autonomous code, referred to herein as “modules,” each module being configured to communicate with hardware and other gateway modules. Collectively, all gateway modules are referred to herein as the gateway stack (GS). Each member of the GS can be turned on or off, downloaded from a remote site, and dynamically configured.
US11265186B2	Redundancy administrating method for virtual private network and network switching apparatus with the same method implemented therein At least two egress provider edge (PE) routers of a service provider core network of a virtual private network are set as an anycast transport node. The same logical IP address and the same interior label are allocated to the egress PE routers. The same service label is allocated to virtual private networks, or private routes of virtual private networks, serviced by the two egress PE routers constituting the anycast transport node.
US11265185B2	Communication system, receiving device, transmission interval change method, and computer program A communication system includes: a receiving device configured to receive data, and repeatedly set a time range; and a transmitting device configured to repeatedly transmit data to the receiving device at a first time interval, and change a transmission interval at which data is transmitted to the receiving device to a second time interval, which is different from the first time interval, if the number of pieces of data received by the receiving device within the time range is 2 or more.
US11265183B1	Asynchronous meeting management for collaboration solutions A method for conducting and managing collaboration sessions as asynchronous meetings that are just as effective as live (or synchronous) meetings. Specifically, the disclosed method enables asynchronous meetings where participants may join meetings and engage with content, and contribute at different points in time. The disclosed method engages around content and interaction, and summarizes results into a meaningful form. Accordingly, the disclosed method addresses a limitation of conducting meetings today, which require all participants to attend, focus, and contribute at the same time.
US11265180B2	Concurrent cluster nodes self start Techniques for concurrent node startup are provided. A first startup instruction is received by a first node of a plurality of nodes, and the first node enters an initial startup state. The first node further transmits a first ping to the plurality of nodes, and determines, based on the first ping, that none of the plurality of nodes are in an active state or in a secondary startup state. Upon determining that no additional pings have been received, the first node enters the secondary startup state. Finally, the first node enters the active state, where the first node enters the active state as an initial node in a new cluster.
US11265177B2	Blockchain consensus node selection Techniques are described selecting consensus nodes in a blockchain. A voting process is performed by a plurality of shareholder nodes to generate a voting result for each shareholder node. The voting process comprises each shareholder node voting for a plurality of expected nodes, and the expected nodes and the plurality of shareholder nodes comprise a group of nodes associated with a blockchain. A shareholder node is a node that owns at least one share. A voting result is verified for each shareholder node. After the voting process, a number of shares owned by each node of the group of nodes id determined based on the voting result. A plurality of consensus nodes are selected from shareholder nodes based on the number of shares owned by each of the shareholder nodes.
US11265175B2	Apparatus and method for providing authentication, non-repudiation, governed access and twin resolution for data utilizing a data control signature A non-transitory computer readable storage medium has instructions executed by a processor to receive an original collection of symbols. A single use coding function is applied to the original collection of symbols to form a new collection of symbols. Encryption keys associated with a user are formed. The new collection of symbols is encrypted to form a recoded encrypted symbol file stored at a network accessible memory location. A distributed ledger entry with a data control signature is formed using the single use coding function encrypted with a private key. The distributed ledger entry is written to a distributed ledger.The distributed ledger entry is accessed. The recoded encrypted symbol file is read from the network accessible memory location. The data control signature and a symmetric key are used to convert the recoded encrypted symbol file to the original collection of symbols.
US11265174B2	Method, apparatus, and device for processing blockchain data A method for processing blockchain data is applied to a terminal device provided with a trusted execution environment and includes: acquiring, from a blockchain, data to be verified of a target service, the data to be verified including circulation data generated during execution of the target service and recorded in the blockchain; determining, based on the target service, a relevant third-party authority for verifying authenticity of the data to be verified, and acquiring benchmark circulation data generated during the execution of the target service and recorded in the third-party authority; transferring the data to be verified and the benchmark circulation data to the trusted execution environment through a first trusted application on the terminal device; and determining whether the data to be verified meets a verification rule, and outputting a verification result of the data to be verified.
US11265169B1	Methods and systems for exchanging confidential information via a blockchain A method for securely verifying information pertaining to a target includes generating a request transaction indicating at least (i) a request to verify information pertaining to the target, and (ii) an address, on a blockchain, of a third party to which the request is directed. The method also includes providing the request transaction to a smart contract deployed on the blockchain. Further, the method includes detecting an indication that reply transaction corresponding to the request transaction has been received via the smart contract, and retrieving the reply transaction via the smart contract to determine whether the third party has verified the information.
US11265158B2	Method for providing end-to-end security over signaling plane in mission critical data communication system 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). Embodiments herein provide method and system for end-to-end security over signaling plane in a mission critical data (MCData) communication system. The proposed method includes various ways of securing MCData data payload transmitted over signaling plane using short data service (SDS). The proposed method allows usage of multiple security keys to encrypt the MCData SDS message as per the requirements. Various Keys such as, signaling plane key or media plane key or a dedicated MCData data payload signaling key can be used independently or in a combination thereof to achieve the desired security context. The proposed method allows protection of all the application level components with the signaling plane security context.
US11265156B2	Secrets management using key agreement A client system may generate a new key pair for a secrets management process. The client may generate a shared secret using the private key of the new key pair and a public key of a secrets management server. Using the shared secret, the client may derive an encryption key and encrypt a data payload for subsequent decryption by the secrets management server. Upon encryption of the data payload, the client may erase the private key. Subsequently, the client or an associated client may call the secrets management server for decryption of the data payload. The secrets management server may derive the encryption key using the public key associated with the encrypted payload and the private key of the secrets management server and use the encryption key to decrypt the data payload for use by the client or an associated client.
US11265153B2	Verifying a result using encrypted data provider data on a public storage medium The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for verifying encrypted data provider data on a public storage medium. One example method includes receiving a verification request to verify encrypted data provider data stored on a public storage medium. Public storage medium entries relevant to the verification request are identified and retrieved. A homomorphic cryptosystem is used to homomorphically calculate a first encrypted target function result based on encrypted data provider data. The homomorphic cryptosystem and a verifying entity cryptosystem are used to re-encrypt the first encrypted target function result to generate a second encrypted target function result that is encrypted under the verifying entity cryptosystem and not encrypted under the homomorphic cryptosystem. The second encrypted target function result is provided to the verifying entity, to enable the verifying entity to decrypt the second encrypted target function result and verify a target function result.
US11265152B2	Enrolment of pre-authorized device Disclosed herein is a data storage device. A data port transmits data between a host computer system and the data storage device. A non-volatile storage medium stores encrypted user content data and a cryptography engine connected between the data port and the storage medium uses a cryptographic key to decrypt the encrypted user content data. The access controller receives from a manager device a public key. The public key is associated with a private key stored on a device to be authorized. The controller determines a user key that provides access to the cryptographic key; encrypts the user key based on the public key and such that the user key is decryptable based on the private key stored on the device to be authorized; and stores, on the data store, authorization data indicative of the encrypted user key.
US11265148B1	Blockchain anonymous tokenization system Various arrangements relate to a method performed by a processor of a computing system. An example method includes hashing a first salted value to generate a first hashed salted value. The first salted value includes a first salt value and a value. A first tuple is generated. The first tuple includes the first hashed salted value and a first token. The first token is associated with the value. A first BAT message is generated. The first BAT message includes the first salt value. The first BAT message is associated with the first tuple. A second salted value is hashed to generate a second hashed salted value. The second salted value includes a second salt value and a value. A second tuple is generated. The second tuple includes the second hashed salted value and a second token. The second token is associated with the value. A second BAT message is generated.
US11265147B2	Secure document management According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising at least one processing core, at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured to, with the at least one processing core, cause the apparatus at least to obtain a document, segmented into a first number of segments (510), obtain the first number of outputs of a cryptographic operation, such that for each output, a random value and a document segment are employed to generate an input to the cryptographic operation (520), build a Merkle tree based on the outputs of the cryptographic operation (530), and store a top hash of the Merkle tree in a block chain (540).
US11265146B2	Electronic apparatus managing data based on block chain and method for managing data An electronic apparatus for managing data based on a block chain and a method therefor are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a communication interface, a memory, and a processor to receive a request for accessing data from an authenticated user, generate first block information regarding the request by including information on the request and at least one second block information related to the request from among a plurality of second block information stored in the memory, transmit the generated first block information to at least one of a plurality of external apparatuses constituting a block chain, and update the plurality of second block information stored in the memory based on the generated first block information. The plurality of second block information includes information on a block regarding a latest access history by category among a plurality of blocks included in block chain data shared by the plurality of external apparatuses.
US11265141B2	Data processing device and data processing method The present technology relates to a data processing apparatus and a data processing method that can reduce errors of time arising from accuracy of time information.The data processing apparatus generates signaling including time information having accuracy of time according to a frame length of a physical layer frame and processes the signaling so as to be included into a preamble of the physical layer frame to make it possible to reduce errors of time arising from time information. The present technology can be applied, for example, to a transmitter compatible with a broadcasting method of ATSC3.0 and so forth.
US11265139B2	Method for transmitting GPS information of optical communication device An optical communication device including a GPS receiver receiving and outputting a GPS signal from a satellite; a main controller configured to generate and output synchronization data based on the GPS signal; and an optical transceiver configured to generate an optical signal by superposing input payload data and the synchronization data, and to output the optical signal, wherein a first communication channel corresponding to the payload data and a second communication channel corresponding to the synchronization data are different communication channels. According to embodiments, GPS information for synchronization together with payload data, which is information to be transmitted, may be efficiently transmitted between optical communication devices located in remote locations without separate wavelength allocation and connection of an optical cable, by using an auxiliary management and control channel (AMCC).
US11265135B2	Method and system for slicing assigning for load shedding to minimize power consumption where gNB is controlled for slice assignments for enterprise users Systems and methods of adaptive bandwidth (BW) management are provided by a control unit of distribution and central units to monitor power and traffic loads at a plurality of nodes in a network; a BW management unit communicating with the control unit to reassign a set of network slices with a set of smaller bandwidth parts (BWPs); the BW management unit configured to define a smaller BWP from a slice mapping for the slice reassignment during a AC power outage, the slicing mapping includes network slices tied to smaller BWPs in the network; and the BW management unit configured to adapt BW for users at the node by reassigning of at least one network slice with a defined smaller BWP at the node in response to a condition determined by the BW management unit, the condition of at least one of a AC power outage, and reduced traffic load at the node.
US11265133B2	Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and communication method Provided is a terminal apparatus capable of efficiently performing uplink and/or downlink communication. A coding unit (1071) configured to divide a transport block into multiple CBs and code each of the multiple CBs, a transmitter (107) configured to transmit the transport block by using a PUSCH, and a receiver (105) configured to receive a first HARQ-ACK are included, wherein each of the multiple CBs is included in any one of multiple CBGs, the first HARQ-ACK includes a second HARQ-ACK for each of the multiple CBGs or a third HARQ-ACK for the transport block, in a case that a signal waveform applied to the PUSCH is OFDM, whether the first HARQ-ACK includes the second HARQ-ACK or the third HARQ-ACK is given based on higher layer signaling, and in a case that a signal waveform applied to the PUSCH is DFT-s-OFDM, the first HARQ-ACK includes the third HARQ-ACK.
US11265130B2	Techniques for shared radio frequency spectrum channel configuration Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station (BS), information identifying a core resource set (CORESET) for one or more shared radio frequency spectrum channels. The CORESET may be configured into a plurality of resource blocks based at least in part on a resource block granularity associated with the one or more shared radio frequency spectrum channels. The UE may communicate with the BS using the CORESET. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11265127B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting DMRS Embodiments of this application disclose a method and an apparatus for transmitting a DMRS, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method and the apparatus are applicable to an NR system. The method for transmitting a DMRS may include: determining a time-frequency resource used to carry a DMRS; and then sending the DMRS by using the time-frequency resource.
US11265124B2	Sounding reference transmission A method, wireless device (100) and network node (200) for performing sounding reference signal, SRS, transmission According to one aspect a method includes receiving a definition of one or more SRS resource sets to be configured, comprising at least one SRS transmission setting. The method further includes receiving an indication of a selected SRS resource set to use for a SRS transmission, from the one or more configured SRS resource sets and determining a precoding configuration for the SRS transmission based on the selected SRS resource set and the at least one SRS transmission setting. The method also includes transmitting a SRS according to the determined precoding configuration.
US11265122B2	Multi-transmit receive point demodulation reference signal port identification Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may receive a downlink control information (DCI) that includes a transmission configuration indication (TCI) state, may determine that the TCI state specifies a quantity of two or more quasi-co-location (QCL) relationships may identify, based at least in part on the determining, a multi-transmit receive point (TRP) demodulation reference signal (DMRS) port group configuration included in a multi-TRP DMRS port group configuration data structure, and may perform, based at least in part on the multi-TRP DMRS port group configuration, a channel estimation for a downlink of a wireless communication link between the UE and the TR. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11265118B2	Spectrum analyzer integrated in a point-to-point outdoor unit A fully functional spectrum analyzer is integrated into an outdoor communications unit of a point-to-point communication system. The spectrum analyzer of the outdoor unit provides for remote spectral diagnostics for network planning and wideband operation and is operable to capture signals outside of the signal bandwidth. With the spectrum analyzer integrated into the outdoor unit, accessing spectral diagnostic information is conducted without having to disrupt the normal operation of the communications network.
US11265113B2	Methods and apparatus for multi-carrier communication systems with automatic repeat request (ARQ) Hybrid ARQ is employed in a multi-carrier communication system for retransmission of erroneous packets by taking advantage of time/frequency/space diversity and by combining ARQ functions at physical layer and MAC layers, making the multi-carrier system more robust in a high packet-error environment.
US11265111B2	Consecutive data packet feedback Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for consecutive data packet feedback. One method includes receiving a first set of consecutive data packets. The method includes transmitting feedback corresponding to the first set of consecutive data packets, wherein the feedback comprises: an error indication in response each data packet in the first set of consecutive data packets failing to be received correctly; a non-error indication in response to at least one data packet in the first set of consecutive data packets being received correctly; a counter value that indicates a consecutive number of data packet failures; or some combination thereof.
US11265107B2	Base station apparatus, terminal apparatus, communication method, and integrated circuit with cyclic redundancy check parity bits attachment Channel encoding is provided that includes applying turbo coding with a coding rate of 1/5 to an input bit sequence, applying a subblock interleaver to each of first to fifth code bit sequences to which the turbo coding is applied, applying bit collection to the first to fifth code bit sequences output from the subblock interleaver, the bit collection outputting the first code bit sequence in order, outputting the second code bit sequence and the fourth code bit sequence alternately on a bit-by-bit basis after the first code bit sequence, and outputting the second code bit sequence and the fifth code bit sequence alternately on a bit-by-bit basis.
US11265103B2	Transmission apparatus and method, in particular for use in a low throughput network A transmission apparatus, in particular for use in a Low Throughput Network, comprises an FEC encoder configured to encode payload data into FEC code words each having a predetermined code word length, and a frame forming section configured to form a frame having a predetermined frame length. A frame comprises a first frame portion having a first predetermined length of an integer multiple of the predetermined code word length and a second frame portion having a second predetermined length shorter than the predetermined code word length. The frame forming section is configured to include an FEC code word and a predetermined number of repetitions of said FEC code word into the first frame portion of a frame and to include a selected number of bits of said FEC code word into the second frame portion of said frame.
US11265096B2	High accuracy time stamping for multi-lane ports In a transceiver, the accuracy of a packet time stamp can be improved by compensating for errors introduced by processing of the packet. A received packet can be received via multiple lanes. A packet time stamp can be measured using a start of frame delimiter (SFD). A last arriving lane can be used to provide a recovered clock signal. A phase offset between the recovered clock signal and the system clock of the transceiver can be used to adjust the time stamp. A position of the SFD within a data block can be used to adjust the time stamp. A position of the data block within a combined group of data blocks can be used to adjust the time stamp. Also, a serializer-deserializer delay associated with the last arriving lane can be used to adjust the time stamp.
US11265095B2	Broadcast response system A broadcast response system provides, e.g., a radio broadcast listener with the ability to obtain media content such as music or speech while listening to the radio. The user can respond to items in the radio broadcast such as advertisements, fund raising drives, or interactive listener polls during the broadcast. Data such as song title and artist, author or publisher and the IP address for the location where the digital version of the content is stored, can be transmitted using, e.g., the RBDS/RDS data stream. A reference number representing song title and artist, author or publisher and the IP address for the location where the digital version of the content is stored can also be employed for ease of implementation. This reference number can reside in a lookup table to be accessed by broadcast response server.

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